A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



been a kinsman of William Beket, and it is possible 

 that William, being an ecclesiastic, conveyed the office 

 of warden of the gaol with all its appurtenances to 

 him. In 1367 John son of Valentine Bekct granted 

 the manor of Woodcote to John Marshall and Agatha 

 his wife, to hold to them and their issue by the same 

 service." In the inquisition ad quod damnum which 

 was taken on this occasion, mention was made of the 

 fact that holders of the manor were to repair the 

 buildings of the gaol and get irons for the prisoners 

 from the proceeds of Woodcote. John, however, 

 neglected his duties and allowed the prison to fall into 

 such bad repair that many prisoners escaped. Hence 

 he was brought before the king's justices in 1372 and 

 was fined I ecu. for the escape of each prisoner and 

 js. 6d. for the bad state of the gaol, 48 but was still 

 allowed to keep the manor, of which he died seised in 

 1 39 1, leaving a son and heir Edmund, aged thirty- 

 four. 49 Edmund died seised of the manor in 1427, 

 and on his death Woodcote passed to his daughter 

 Joan, the wife of John Frampton. 40 Five years later 

 John Frampton and Joan his wife settled the manor, 

 4_r. 6d. rent and the rent of one pound of pepper and 

 two pounds of wax, upon John Thornes and his heirs." 

 John Thornes conveyed the manor to trustees in 1453 

 for purpose of settlement on Elizabeth his daughter 

 and her husband John Quydhampton. 6 * The latter 

 died seised of the manor in 1490, his heirs being his 

 four daughters, Margaret wife of Edward Cowdrey, 

 Anne wife of John Conewey, Elizabeth wife of Thomas 

 Morley, and Iseult Quydhampton. 63 The manor was 

 probably sold by the four co-heirs, as in 1505 it was 

 settled upon William Tisted and Maud his wife and 

 the heirs of William." Six years later William died 

 seised of the manor, his heir being his brother Thomas, 

 aged forty and more. 55 On the death of Thomas 

 Tisted without issue a few years later the manor was 

 divided among his four sisters Amy, Christian, 

 Thomazin, and Iseult, or their descendants. 66 In 1535 

 Henry VIII by letters patent granted the office of 

 constable of Winchester Castle to Thomas Uvedale, 

 but no mention is made of the manor of Woodcote in 

 the grant. 57 It is possible that he had bought up the 

 four moieties of the manor previous to this date, but 

 there seems to be no record of the purchase. 573 He 

 was, however, seised of the manor in 1548, in which 

 year it was settled on himself and his wife and their 

 heirs on his marriage with Elizabeth Ringwood. 58 

 Their son Anthony Uvedale died seised of the manor 

 in 1597, his heir being his daughter Eleanor, the 

 wife of Richard Bruning. 59 Two years later the bishop 



UVEDALE. Argent a 

 cross moline gules. 



of Winchester wrote to Secretary Cecil ^ that he had 

 committed a certain priest, Edward Kenyon, to Win- 

 chester gaol ' in as strict manner as he could devise.' 

 He had, however, ' been rather daily feasted as a guest 

 than safely kept as a traitor, and 

 had been suffered most wilfully 

 to escape upon the very day that 

 he had expected to be pro- 

 duced.' 61 An examination was 

 held by order of the bishop, 

 the results of which he sent to 

 Cecil in 1599, adding that ' the 

 manor of Woodcot in Hamp- 

 shire was given to the ancestors 

 of one Anthony Uvedale, a re- 

 cusant lately dead, for the safe 

 keeping of the gaol ' ; and that 



he ' fearing the danger of the law and loath that the 

 prisoners for recusancy should come into any man's 

 keeping but at his own appointing, conveyed the 

 inheritance of the gaol with the aforesaid manor 

 to Anthony Brewning his daughter's son, a child 

 of seven years of age, his father and mother being 

 both recusants ' ; and, therefore, ' no man has the 

 keeping of the gaol but such as will favour recu- 

 sants.' However, the child was a ward for the 

 tenure, and hence both he and the manor were at 

 Cecil's dispensation until he should come of age, ' if 

 this and such other wilful escapes and releasing of 

 prisoners do not endanger the inheritance and reduce 

 it back into the queen's hands.' In 1608 Richard 

 Bruning, father of Anthony, had forfeited the manor 

 and the custody of the gaol because of recusancy. 6 * 

 On Richard's death the manor descended to Anthony, 

 and there is a reference to his tenure of the manor in 

 a fine of 162^.^ The tenure of the manor was 



changed from socage in chief to knight's service in 

 capite in 1628 in order to enable Anthony and his 

 wife Mary to dispose of the manor more easily, 64 and 

 in the same year Anthony held Winchester Gaol and 

 the manor of Woodcote by the service of the fortieth 

 part of a knight's fee. 65 In February, 1651, it was 

 stated that until Anthony cleared himself before the 

 committee for compounding his rents were to be 

 stayed. 66 However, he was twice dealing with the 

 manor in 1652," and was succeeded by his son Charles 

 Bruning who was holding Woodcote in i66$. 6a Before 

 1677 the manor passed by purchase into the family of 

 Venables, 69 with whom it remained 70 until the death 

 of Catharine Venables in 1789, when it descended 

 to her kinsman, Edward Hooper of Hum Court, 



47 Inq. a.q.d. File 355, No. z. Abbreti. 

 Rot. Orig, (Rcc. Com.), ii, 290. Feet of 

 F. Hants, Mich. 41 Edw. III. 



48 Coram Rege R. Trin. 45 Edw. III. 



49 Inq. p.m. 15 Ric. II ( ist No>.), No. 

 42. 



50 Ibid. 6 Hen. VI, No. 16. 



" Feet of F. Hants, East. 10 Hen. VI. 

 In 1456, after Joan Frampton's death 

 without issue, her cousins, the three 

 daughters and coheirs of Walter Marshall, 

 sued Nicholas Upton, William Husey, and 

 John Thornes and Agnes his wife for the 

 manor, but the case was dismissed owing 

 to the death of William Husey (De Bane 

 R. Hil. 34 Hen. VI, m. 311). 



58 Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. IV, 1st Nos. No. 

 36. 



43 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vi, No. 33. 



64 De Bane. R. East. 21 Hen. VII, 



m. 430. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxvi, 

 No. 13. 



45 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxvi, No. 1 3. 



66 Berry, Hants Gen. 29. 



6 ? Pat. 27 Hen. VIII, pt. 2, m. 8. 



" a Nicholas Tichborne bought up the 

 four moieties of the manor of West Tisted 

 of which Thomas Tisted had also died 

 seised. By a fine of 1519 Thomas 

 Shalden and Margaret his wife, who was 

 a descendant of one of the four Tisted 

 sisters, dealt with the fourth part of the 

 manors of Woodcote and West Tisted 

 (Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 1 1 Hen. VIII). 



63 Memo. R. L.T.R. Hil. i Eliz. m. 81. 



69 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclviii, No. 

 41. 



S.P. Dom. Eliz. ccbtxiii, 23. 



61 This was natural, since the Bruning 

 family was always strictly recusant. 



4 8 



" Pat. 6 Jas. I, pt. 3, m. 19. 

 68 Feet of F. Div. Cos. East. I 

 Chas. I. 



84 S.P. Dom., Chas. I, civ, 20. 



65 Pat. 4 Chas. I, pt. 5. 



66 Cal. of Committee for Compounding, i, 

 380. 



6 ? Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 1652. 



68 Subs. R. 15 Chas. II, bdle. 26, No. 

 247. 



69 In Woodcote House there is a rain- 

 water head of 1677 with the Venables 

 initials. 



'" Feet of F. Div. Cos. East. I Jas. II. 

 In Bishop's Sutton Church are buried Jane 

 wife of James Venables of Woodcote 

 (1727), their youngest daughter Philippa 

 (1776), their eldest daughter Jane, wife of 

 Henry Collins (1779), and their second 

 daughter Catharine (1789). 



