A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



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Joan his wife," and in 1391 another third from 

 Richard Esteney and Isabel his wife," and probably 

 by the latter date had the whole of the manor in his 

 possession. From him it passed to Richard Holt, 

 who was holding it in 1428." 

 Richard Holt's heir was his 

 son Richard, who died seised 

 of the manor held of William 

 bishop of Winchester in 1458, 

 leaving two daughters, Chris- 

 tine aged fourteen, and Eliza- 

 beth aged ten. 46 Wishanger 

 was assigned to Elizabeth, who 

 married Sir John Pounde, and 

 had a son and heir William 

 Pounde." On William's death 

 the manor passed to his son 

 and heir Anthony Pounde. 

 Anthony's son and heir Rich- 

 ard died without issue, and 

 on his death his property was divided between 

 his two sisters Honora and Mary, 48 Wishanger 

 being assigned to the latter. She married her cousin 

 Edward White, the son of John White and Katharine 

 Pounde, 49 who was Anthony Pounde's sister. In 1580 

 Edward White died seised of the manor 

 of Wishanger, which he held by courtesy 

 after the death of his wife Mary." His 

 heir was his son John, aged eighteen, 

 who some time afterwards was described 

 as holding a capital messuage called ' Wys- 

 slehange,' and four tenements with ap- 

 purtenances in 'Hetheley', abutting on 

 ' Dokenfeld Water.' " 



In 1593 Jane Lambart acquired the manor 

 from John White and Frances his wife. 6 * She 

 seems to have married subsequently Gerard 

 Fleetwood, for Gerard was seised of it in 

 right of Jane his wife in 1 60 1 , M when he 

 sold it for 400 to Sir Hercules Paulet, who 

 was still holding it in 1619." From him it 

 seems to have passed to a certain William 

 Home of Southampton, merchant, who by 

 his will, dated 1668, provided for the pay- 

 ment of various annuities out of the pro- 

 ceeds of the sale of the estate. Wishanger 

 appears to have been sold to or taken over 

 by John Speed, his brother-in-law, and re- 

 mained in the Speed family, also of South- 

 ampton, till 1797, about which date only it 

 was released from the payment of the various 

 annuities by which it was burdened. In 

 that year John Silvester and Harriet his wife 

 (n6e Speed) sold it to Sir Thomas Miller 

 of Froyle." The estate remained in the 

 Miller family till 1868, when the executors 

 of Sir Charles Hayes Miller sold it to John 

 Rouse Phillips. On his death sixteen years 

 later his executors sold it to Joseph Whitaker 

 of Palermo, Sicily, on whose death a year 

 later it passed to his son, Mr. A. Ingham 



Whitaker, 56 of Grayshott Hall, Haslemere, its present 

 owner. Wishanger Manor, as shown in an old map 

 in the possession of Mr. A. Ingham Whitaker, was 

 apparently a very small manor, and in the deeds as far 

 back as 1700, and for some time after, it is spoken of 

 as ' My farm and manor or reputed manor of Wish- 

 anger.' The manorial rights have long since lapsed, 

 and the manor is now represented by Wishanger 

 Manor Farm, which stands on the southern boundary 

 of Wishanger Common. 



The church of ALL S4INTS, HEAD- 

 CHURCH LET, is situated on the west side of the 

 heath, the ground falling away to the east 

 and west. The walls are of rubble composed of local 

 sandstone and ironstone with ashlar dressings of sand- 

 stone, and the roofs are covered with red tiles. The 

 church consists of a chancel with a north vestry, a nave 

 with a south porch, and a north-west tower. The 

 chancel and nave were rebuilt in 1859, and retain no 

 ancient fittings. The west window of the nave is a 

 three-light fifteenth-century window, reset, and in the 

 south porch, which is of wood on a stone base, some of 

 the old timbers remain. The nave roof is of the sixteenth 

 century, of a wide span, 276., with moulded wall 

 plates, tie beams, king posts and struts, the rafters 



HEADLEY CHURCH 



Hall 



Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 12 Ric. II. 

 Ibid. Mich. 14 Ric. II. 

 Feud. Aids, ii, 348. 

 Inq. p.m. 36 Hen. VI, No. 31. 

 Stowe MS. 845, fol. 128. 

 Berry, Hants Gen. 294. 

 ' In the windows of Mr. Norton's 

 of Southwick are the arms of 



Whyte empaling Pounde with quarter- 

 ings, as in the church, and under them 

 this rhyme : "To thank God we be most 

 bounde, John Whyte and Katharine 

 Pounde " ' (Stowe MS. 845, fol. 128, dated 

 1703). 



50 Inq. p.m. 26 Eliz. (Ser. 2), No. 

 118. 



54 



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



sa Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 35 Eliz. 



M Ibid. Trin. 43 Eliz. 



54 Recov. R. East. 17 Jas. I, rot. 49. 



45 Cal. Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 38 Geo. 

 III. 



68 Information received from. Mr. A. 

 Ingham Whitaker. 



