A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



but as recently as the winter of 1903-4, after a very 

 heavy rainfall during the summer and autumn, there 

 was a swiftly-flowing stream covering the village street 

 and flooding floors and cellars. Bramdean Lodge, the 

 residence of Mr. Charles A. Linzee, lies to the north- 

 west of the road from Bramdean Common, close to 

 the schools. On the common is a small iron chapel of 

 ease erected in 1883. Much of the land in Bramdean 

 is a flinty loam on a subsoil of chalk well adapted for 

 the growth of barley. Along the valley in which the 

 , village is situated the upper soil rests on a subsoil of 

 gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, and 

 turnips. The parish contains 7 14^ acres of arable land, 

 305 J acres of permanent grass, and 1 68 acres of woods 

 and plantations. 1 Among place-names in Bramdean 

 found in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are the 

 following : ' Torte Acre, La Breche, Vineshawede, 

 Sendrie londe, Setacres, Setesgrovesforlonge, Gritheth- 

 horne, La Wogelonde, Hankeneweie, Eustrecumbe, and 

 Schepehusezorne.' ' A wood called ' Imbele ' and a 

 messuage and land called ' Jenettes lond ' occur in 

 inquisitions taken in the fifteenth century. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey 

 MANORS Miles the porter held BRAMDEAN of 

 the king. Two freemen had held it, as 

 three manors, in the time of King Edward. 3 The 

 service by which Miles held must have been that of 

 keeping the gate of the king's gaol of Winchester. 

 This service and the personal character of the early 

 owners seem to have determined the history of the 

 manor. 



In 1199 Henry de Bramdean, then owner of 

 Bramdean, lodged his claim to the service of being 

 porter of the gaol of Winchester, as his inheritance 

 from his father, except one hundred shillingsworth of 

 land which William de Hoe held of the grant of 

 King Richard. 4 Documentary evidence between 1086 

 and 1 198 is wanting, but the subsequent history would 

 make it seem probable that the Bramdean family, 

 being engrossed in pursuits which soon landed it in 

 the grip of money-lenders, 5 neglected the service 

 which they owed to the king of keeping his gaol in 

 the city. As it was a matter of necessity that this 

 service should be put in the hands of a responsible 

 and local man, Richard I granted the one hundred 

 shillingsworth of land before referred to to the less 

 important personage who really performed the duty. 

 The subsequent history of this land is shown under 

 the heading of Woodcote (q.v.). For a time, 

 however, there seems to have been some doubt as to 



the service, for in the Testa de NeviH it is said that 

 Henry de Bramdean held Bramdean 'per custodiam 

 gaole Winton quam dicit ad se pertinere.' ' 



From the year 1224 onwards Hugh de Bramdean 

 was alienating his manorial lands piece by piece,' and 

 finally in 1236 granted his capital messuage and 

 60 acres of land, together with 140 acres in Bramdean, 

 24/. quit-rent, Bramdean Wood, and the advowson 

 of the church of Bramdean, 8 to the priory of Sel- 

 borne in frankalmoign for the annual rent of 4/. 

 and a covenant by the prior to give every year to 

 Hugh and Maud his wife six loads of wheat and 

 three of barley and 4 marks of silver, and to their son 

 and heir Bartholomew 6 quarters of wheat and I of 

 barley and 2 marks of silver. 9 The prior com- 

 pounded with Alan Fitz-Warin, 10 John de Blake- 

 down," and Nicholas his brother, for their interests 

 in the manor for 100," but some fifteen or 

 twenty years later Alan and John extorted 43 marks 

 and jloo respectively for a final surrender of 

 their claims." Other premises in Bramdean which 

 had been alienated by Hugh de Bramdean were 

 bought up by the prior and convent as opportunity 

 arose. Soon after 1260 Amice de la Cnolle released 

 to the prior of Selborne all her right and claim in 

 the wardship and marriage of John son and heir of 

 Andrew de Caen, and in all his lands and tenements 

 in Bramdean. 14 In 1289 Richard son and heir of 

 Henry de la Putte granted lands in Bramdean to the 

 priory." Margery the widow of Walter Launcel in 

 1293 released to the priory the land which her father 

 had given to her, 16 and some time afterwards her son 

 Walter Launcel " made a further grant of 3 2 acres 

 of land and 5 acres of wood. In 1302 the prior 

 and convent of Selborne were pardoned for acquiring 

 the lands in Bramdean from Richard de la Putte and 

 Walter Launcel contrary to the statute of Mortmain. 18 

 By this time the priory was in possession of nearly, if 

 not all, the lands in Bramdean formerly held by Hugh 

 de Bramdean, 19 and the manor remained in its pos- 

 session till the end of the fifteenth century. The 

 affairs of the priory having become much involved, 

 Bishop Waynflete, on 2 September, 1484, appointed 

 Richard, prior of Newplace, and two others, to hold 

 an inquiry as to annexing the priory to Magdalen 

 College, Oxford, which the bishop had lately founded. 10 

 The decree of annexation was pronounced on 1 1 Sep- 

 tember, 1484, and in 1486 the manor of Bramdean 

 was transferred with the other possessions of the 

 priory to the college" and remains with them to the 



1 Statistics from the Board of Agri- 

 culture (1905). 



'Selkorna Chart. (Hants. Rec. Soc.), 

 (Ser. 2), pp. 44-62. 



8 P. C. H. Hants, i, 503. 



4 Fine R. I John, m. 19. ; Rot. Cur. 

 Reg. i John, m. 16. 



6 Selborne Chan. (Hants. Rec. Soc.) ; 

 (Ser. 2), 46, 47, and 5 1 ; Chart. R. 1 5 

 Hen. III. 



8 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 237. 



1 Selborne Chart. (Hants. Rec. Soc.), 

 passim. 



8 Two years before Hugh de Bramdean 

 had leased to Alan Fitz-Warin the 140 

 acres, 24*. rent, wood and advowson for 

 the term of forty years to secure the um 

 of 40 marks advanced to pay off the Jew 

 of Cambridge. Selborne Chart. (Hants. 

 Rec. Soc.) (Ser. 2), 46. 



Feet of F. Hants. 20 Hen. Ill ; 

 Selborne Chart. (Hants. Rec. Soc.), (Ser. 2), 



47 and 48. This grant was confirmed by 

 Bartholomew in 1 240 ; Selborne Chart. 

 (Hants Rec. Soc.) (Ser. 2), 49. 



10 See footnote 8 above. 



11 John de Blakedown was the owner 

 of 45 acres in Bramdean, which he had 

 obtained by fine from Parnel, widow of 

 William de Caen, in 1236 (Feet of F. 

 Hants, East. 20 Hen. III). They formed 

 her dowry from the free tenement in 

 Bramdean, granted to her late husband 

 by Matthew de Wallop, who had obtained 

 it in his turn from Hugh de Bramdean 

 early in the reign of Henry III ; Selborne 

 Chart. (Hants. Rec. Soc.), (Ser. 2), 44. 

 The rest of William de Caen's property 

 in Bramdean passed to Andrew de Caen. 



u Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.l, 

 (Ser. 2), 48. 



18 Ibid. 52 and 53. 



14 Ibid. 56. See footnote 1 1 above. 

 These lands and tenements formed part 



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of the premises originally granted by 

 Hugh de Bramdean to Matthew de 

 Wallop. 



15 Ibid. 60. These lands he had in- 

 herited from his father, to whom in 1254 

 Bartholomew de Bramdean had granted 

 all the lands and tenements in Bramdean, 

 which his sister Alice had once held ; Ibid 

 54- 



16 Ibid. She was the daughter of 

 Henry de la Putte. 



17 He had inherited lands in Bramdean 

 from his father, who between 1260 and 

 1270 had obtained a grant of a croft 

 called La Breche and other premises from 

 Andrew de Caen ; Ibid. 57. 



18 Inq. a.q.d. 30 Edw. I, No. 124: 

 Pat. 30 Edw. I, No. 22. 



19 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 215. 

 *>r. C.H.Hants, \\, 179. 

 41 Ibid, ii, 55. 



