BISHOP'S SUTTON HUNDRED 



Pexall, her sole heir. Edith's son and heir Sir Richard 

 Pexall died in I 571, leaving four daughters and heirs, 

 Ellen, Margery, Anne, and Barbara. Ellen married 

 John Jobson ; Margery married firstly Oliver Beckett 

 and secondly Francis Cotton ; Anne married Bernard 

 Brocas, who was descended from the Sir Bernard 

 Brocas who was executed in the reign of Henry IV, 

 and Barbara married Anthony Brydges. One-third 

 of the manor of Broxhead was divided equally among 

 the four sisters. The remaining two-thirds remained 

 in the possession of Sir Richard's widow, Bame Elinor, 

 to hold for the term of her life if she remained single, 

 with remainder to Pexall Brocas the son and heir of 

 Anne and Bernard Brocas.* 3 Shortly after their 

 father's death, Ellen Jobson and Barbara Brydges 

 parted with their twelfths of the manor, the former 

 to Bame Elinor and her second husband Sir John 

 Savage, and the latter to Anne and Bernard Brocas. 24 

 Margery Cotton died in 1581, seised of one-twelfth 

 of the manor, her heir being her son John Beckett, 

 under age, 25 and her husband Francis died thirty years 

 afterwards, also seised of a portion of the manor. 26 

 Anne Brocas, who only survived her husband Bernard 

 two years, died seised of a portion of the manor in 

 1591, her heir being her son, Sir Pexall Brocas." 

 Sir Pexall died in 1630 possessed of ten-twelfths 

 of the manor. His heir was his son Thomas, aged 

 thirty-nine and more,' 8 who in 1633 succeeded in 

 securing the remaining twelfths of the manor. 83 Six 

 years later he and his son Robert sold the manor of 

 Broxhead and a free fishery and a free warren to 

 Edward Knight, 30 of whom the site of the manor was 

 purchased in 1641 by Stephen Lee. 31 Mr. Montagu 

 Burrows, in the Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire, p. 341, 

 states that after the Restoration 

 the younger sons of the last- 

 mentioned Thomas Brocas were 

 possessed of an estate for life in 

 the manor, but gives no autho- 

 rity for this statement, and it is 

 difficult to ascertain the true 

 history of Broxhead at this 

 period. It is probable that the 

 site of the manor remained in 

 possession of the Lee family for 

 over a hundred and fifty years, 

 as Charles Lee and Mary his 

 wife dealt with it by recovery in 

 l8o8. 32 In 1827 the manor of 



Broxhead, or Brocashead, Slayford Farm 33 (modern 

 Sleaford Farm), and Groom's Farm, in the parishes of 

 Headley and Kingsley, were the property of the Hon. 

 Henry Legge, 31 who owned large estates in the neigh- 

 bourhood. From him it passed into the Sherborne 

 family, Lord Sherborne having married Mary Legge, 

 the only daughter of Henry Lord Stawell, who was the 



BUTTON, Lord Sher- 

 borne. Quarterly argent 

 and gules, the gules fretty 

 or, a crescent for differ- 

 ence. 



HEABLEY 



son of Henry Bilson Legge. Lord Sherborne left the 

 manor to his third son, Ralph Button, from whom it 

 passed to his grandson Henry Button of Hinton 

 House, Hinton Ampner. There is no longer a manor 

 of Broxhead, the lordship having been divided a few 

 years ago. The part on the east side of the road from 

 Lindford to Sleaford was sold by Henry Button to 

 the late judge, Sir R. S. Wright, and on his death in 

 1904 passed by purchase to Mr. C. W. McAndrew, 

 of Headley Park. The remainder on the west side of 

 the road was sold to Mr. Ulick Burke, lord of the 

 manor of Woodcote, who sold it to Sir Bavid Barbour, 

 who in his turn sold it to the military authorities as 

 an appendage to Bordon Camp.* 5 



WISHANGER (Wissangra, Wishangla, Wishang, 

 and Wishangra, xii cent. ; Wisehanger and West- 

 hangre, xiii cent ; Wilhangre 

 and Wychangre, xiv cent. ; 

 Wicchanger, xv cent.) was 

 held in 1167 by Gerard. 36 

 The overlord seems to have 

 been the bishop of Winchester, 

 for Richard of Ilchester, bishop 

 of Winchester, granted to the 

 abbey of St. Mary of Waver- 

 ley I hide of his land of 

 Wishanger, which lay towards 

 the forest, and the land of 

 the monks themselves, which 

 was called Bochenfield." This 

 grant was subsequently con- 

 firmed by Richard, John, Stephen, Edward II, and 

 Edward III. 58 



In 1290 William de la Charite surrendered his 

 right in a messuage and z carucates of land in Wish- 

 anger to Richard atte Rudde of Petersfield, and 

 Margaret his wife. 89 A year 

 later Richard and Margaret 

 granted a messuage, 1 60 acres 

 of land, 22 acres of meadow, 

 8 acres of wood, 1 80 acres of 

 pasture, and rents in Wishanger 

 to John of Pontoise, bishop of 

 Winchester, to hold to him 

 and his heirs. 40 



In 1 346 John de Thudden 

 was holding in Wishanger the 

 fourth part of a fee which had 

 belonged to John de Wor- 

 stede." It is probable that 

 this John de Thudden left 

 three daughters and heirs, one 

 of whom married Richard Se- 

 man, another John Trop, and 



the third Richard Esteney. 41 In 1389 Richard Seman 

 acquired one-third of the manor from John Trop and 



HOLT. Argent a bend 

 engrailed sable -with three 

 fleurs-de-lis argent there- 

 on. 



POUNDE or DRAYTON. 

 Urgent a fesse gules be- 

 tween fwo dragons' heads 

 sable cut off at the neck 

 in the chief and a cross 

 formy Jitchy sable in 

 the foot "with three molets 

 argent on the fesse. 



28 The Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire, 

 208-9. Ibid. 212. 



25 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc. No. 54. 



48 W. and L. Inq. p.m. bdle. 55, 

 No. 127. 



"7 Ibid. bdle. 56, Nos. 123 and 147. 



28 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxiii, No. 

 126. 



29 The Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire. 



80 Feet of F. Hants, East. 15 Chas. I. 



81 Ibid. Trin. 17 Chas. I. 



82 Recov. R. Hil. 48 Geo. Ill, rot. 286. 



83 The Hon. Henry Legge purchased it 

 from William Clear, yeoman, in 1757. 



84 Close, 1827, pt. 27, m. 1-39. 



86 From information supplied by the 

 Rev. W. H. Laverty, rector of Headley, 

 and Mr. Ulick Burke of Woodcote. 



86 Pipe R. 13 Hen. II. 



8 ? Dugdale, Man. v, 242. 



88 Cart. Antiq. S. 20 ; Chart. R. 7 

 John, m. 4; Pat 15 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, 

 m. 6. 



89 Abbre-v. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 223. 



40 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 19 Edw. I. 



41 Feud. Aids, ii, 32$. 



42 This theory is supported by the facts 

 that in 1399 Richard Esteney paid rent 



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for land in Thedden Grange to the lord of 

 Alton (P.C.H. Hants, ii, 479), and that 

 rent for lands appertaining to the manor 

 of Thedden wai paid by William Estone 

 and Richard Esteney in 1454 and 1459 

 respectively (Selborne Chart. Ser. 2, 42). 

 It is also worthy of note that the Semans 

 were a family living in Thedden. The 

 names Saeman de Theddene, Robert Sea- 

 man, Peter son of Seman de Theddene, 

 John Seman, and Richard Seman all occur 

 in the Selborne Charters as connected 

 with that manor in the thirteenth cen- 

 tury. 



