A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



arc the following six water-mills in the parish : Park 

 Mill in Headley Park, formerly a corn-mill, used for 

 electric light and pumping ; Headley Mill to the west 

 of the village, on the River Wey, used for corn ; Lower 

 Stanford Mill, formerly a corn-mill, but now disused; 

 Upper Stanford Mill, used for electric light, formerly 

 for paper-making ; Barford Upper Mill, used for corn, 

 and Barford Lower Mill, now disused, formerly used 

 for flock, and previous to that for paper. 



Broxhead Common, Headley Common, and Wish- 

 anger Common lie within the parish. The first of 

 these originally formed part of Woolmer Forest, and 

 is situated in the north-west of the parish. Wishanger 

 and Headley Commons lie respectively in the north- 

 east and south-east corners. It was an important day 

 for Headley when Parliament sanctioned the inclosure 

 of the forest land. 4 Some idea of the extent of the waste 

 prior to that time may be gained from the fact that 

 although large portions in this and adjoining parishes 

 were disafforested and brought under cultivation by 

 the Act no less than 8,000 acres are still held by 

 the crown as a royal forest. There seems to be no 

 doubt that Headley Park, the seat of Mr. C. W. 

 McAndrew, was once part of the forest, and the same 

 may be said of Eveley, the seat of Major-General 

 W. V. Brownlow, C.B. The surveyor of the reign 

 of Edward VI made the following return concerning 

 the woods and wastes of ' Hethle ' : ' Wood of Hethle 

 and waste being in the wood contain 240 acres, lying 

 in length on the east of Graueshote, in length between 

 Kyngswodd Bottom on the south and Graueshot and 

 Shirley Dene on the north, and on the west abutting 

 on Brokesbottom, and on the east abutting on 

 Les Merke Okes, of which the wood contains 140 

 acres and the waste 100 acres. There is another 

 waste containing 100 acres, lying on the east of 

 Hetheleshyll and north-west even to Graueshott. 

 There is also another waste called Eveley Marshe and 

 Pryor's lose. There is another waste called Lacyes 

 marshe lying on the west of Stanford. Another waste 

 lies at the west of Erthpytlane.' 4 



A permanent military camp has been made at 

 Bordon in the west of the parish. The soil and sub- 

 soil are sandy, the chief crops being barley and wheat. 

 The manufacture of paper was once carried on in this 

 parish, 6 Stanford Upper Mill and Barford Lower 

 Mill being as before stated used for this purpose. In 

 the time of the paper-tax, when paper had to be 

 stored at a distance from the mill, the paper from 

 Bramshott was stored and perhaps taxed in a building 

 in Headley parish. 



Amongst place-names may be mentioned ' Hearon 

 (now Hearn), Bareland, 7 Wassellane, Wassheford (now 

 Washford), Lynsted, Golland's Cross, Fulmore Oke, 

 Bevelleshedge, and Oldsmith Corner ' 8 (sixteenth cen- 

 tury). 



In the time of the Confessor Earl 



MANORS Godwine held land at HEADLEY 



assessed at 3 hides. At the time of the 



Domesday Survey the same land, assessed at 5 hides, 



was held by Count Eustace of Boulogne. 9 It was 



reckoned a part of Bishop's Sutton, and consequently 

 followed the descent of that manor (q.v.). 



BROXHEAD (Brocheseve, xi cent.; Brockesheved, 

 xii cent. ; Brokkeshefd and Broxhed, xiv cent. ; 

 Brocas Head, xvii cent.) was held of Edward the 

 Confessor by Spirites as an alod. At the time of the 

 Domesday Survey it was placed under Neatham hun- 

 dred, and was held of the Conqueror by Nigel the 

 Physician. 10 In the latter part of the thirteenth cen- 

 tury the manor was held of Baldwin de Calne by 

 Hugh de Vaches and Margery his wife and Roger 

 Launcelevy and Joan his wife by the annual payment 

 of 40;." In 1281 Roger and Joan granted lands in 

 Broxhead to William son of Sampson to hold of them 

 and the heirs of Joan at fee-farm by the annual pay- 

 ment of a mark of silver. 1 * In 1295 Herbert de 

 Calne died seised of 40^. rent in the vill of Broxhead 

 which he held of Sir Hugh Despenser. 13 His heir 

 was his son Herbert who it seems died young and was 

 succeeded by his aunt Euphemia, sister of his father 

 Herbert de Calne. Euphemia left a daughter and 

 sole heir Margery who married John de Roches. 14 

 The latter was succeeded by 

 his son and heir Sir John de 

 Roches, who in 1333 settled 

 the manor by fine on himself 

 and Joan his wife and their 

 heirs. 14 Five years later the 

 manor was settled on John and 

 Joan in tail-male with contin- 

 gent remainder in fee-tail suc- 

 cessively to their daughters 

 Alice, the wife of Henry 

 Romyn, and Mary, the wife 

 of John de Borhunte. 16 Henry 

 and Alice died without issue 

 while Joan de Roches was holding the manor, and 

 thus on her death in 1361 " it passed to Mary the 

 widow of John de Borhunte, who shortly after her 

 mother's death became the wife of Sir Bernard 

 Brocas. 18 Sir Bernard died in 

 1 395, after Mary's death, hav- 

 ing married Katharine relict 

 of Sir Hugh Tyrrell, at whose 

 death in 1398 the property is 

 described as a tenement called 

 ' Brokkesheved ' in the parish 

 of Headley. Sir Bernard Bro- 

 cas, aged forty-three or more, 

 was found to be the son and 

 heir of her late husband Sir 

 Bernard. 19 The younger Sir 

 Bernard was executed for trea- 

 son on the accession of Henry IV, but by means of 

 settlements in trust * the greater part of his property, 

 including Broxhead, escaped forfeiture and remained in 

 the possession of the Brocas family till 1 506," when, 

 on the death of William Brocas, his property was 

 divided between his daughters Anne and Edith." 

 Anne married George Warham in 1514, but died 

 without issue, leaving her sister Edith, wife of Ralph 



ROCHES. Sable 

 leopards argent. 



BROCAS. Sable a leo- 

 pard rampant or. 



4 Date of authorizing Act, 9 March, 

 1849; date of award, 24 Feb. 1859; 

 (Par!. Accts. and P. Ixxi, 485). 



' Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 136, No. I. 



Exch. Dep. 23 Geo. II, Mich. 3. 



7 Close, 43 Eliz. pt. 1 1. 



Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 136, No. I. 



y.C.H. Hants, i, 477. 



10 Ibid, i, 501*. 



11 Abbre-v. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 278. 

 la Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 9 Edw. I. 

 18 Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. I, No. 15. 



11 Montagu Burrows, The Family of 

 Brocas of Beaurepaire, 323-4. 



15 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 7 Edw. III. 



16 Ibid. Trin. 12 Edw. III. 



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17 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, No. 49. 



18 The Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire, 

 323. 19 Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, No. 8. 



w Close, I Ric. II, m. 8. 



21 Inq. p.m. i Hen. IV, pt. I, No. 17 j 

 7 Hen. V I, No. 5 3, and 34 Hen. VI, No. 9. 



2a Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 961, 

 No. 9. 



