A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



arrangement was made that the prior should pay a 

 mark every year into the royal exchequer until the 

 debt of 276 14;. 3</. was paid in full. However, 

 the prior of Newark pleaded that the prior of Sel- 

 borne also was holding property in West Tisted 

 which had belonged to Roger de Limesi and should 

 also help in the payment of his debts. The pos- 

 sessions of both the priors in West Tisted were valued 

 in 1266, and it was ascertained that those of the prior 

 of Newark were worth ^4 a year, while those of the 

 prior of Selborne were only worth 8s. a year. It 

 was accordingly arranged that the latter should pay 

 is. i\d. every year to the prior of Newark towards 

 the payment of Roger de Limesi's debts. 83 It is 

 clear, therefore, that all the lands which belonged 

 to the Limesis in West Tisted were divided before 

 1250 between the priories of Selborne and Newark. 

 Hence there is no mention of the family of Limesi 

 in connexion with West Tisted after that date. 



The Limesis, however, had held but a small portion 

 of the vill of West Tisted. The main part of it was 

 held by the Tisteds. Early in the twelfth century 

 Hugh de Tisted held three knights' fees, and he was 

 succeeded by his son Richard de Tisted, who was 

 holding one and a half knight's fees in 1 1 66." The 

 latter's son, Hugh de Tisted, was holding land in 

 West Tisted in 1203." The Tisteds probably held 

 their property of the bishop of Winchester, and when 

 Herbert bishop of Salisbury became overlord of West 

 Tisted, he seems to have dispossessed them, and 

 granted their lands to a certain Ralph de Winesham. 86 



Shortly after confirming this grant, King John, know- 

 ing that Ralph's title was defective, confiscated his 

 lands in West Tisted, and did not release them to him 

 until he had paid 20 marks.' 7 On the death of Ralph 

 de Winesham, West Tisted passed to a certain Roger 

 de Winesham. When, however, Peter des Roches 

 recovered the overlordship of West Tisted against 

 Richard, bishop of Salisbury, Joan le Hood, who was 

 most probably the daughter and heir of the Hugh de 

 Tisted who was holding West Tisted in 1203, pressed 

 her claim against Roger de Winesham. In 1235 an 

 assize of mort d'ancestor was summoned between 

 Roger de Winesham and Robert le Hood and Joan 

 his wife, and Roger was forced to give up West Tisted 

 to Robert and Joan and the heirs of Joan. 88 In 1238 



Joan, who was by this time a widow, granted to the 

 prior and canons of Selborne in frankalmoign certain 

 lands in the vill of West Tisted called Trendelcrofte 

 and Rykemannesdone. 89 In 1240 she conveyed West 

 Tisted to Ralph de Camois, possibly for purposes of 

 settlement, and in return Ralph granted it to her to 

 hold for the term of her life of himself and his heirs 

 by the annual payment of a pair of gilt spurs or dd. at 

 Easter. 80 In the following year Joan surrendered her 

 life-interest in West Tisted to Ralph in exchange for 

 the manor of Wotton (co. Surr.). 31 Ralph de Camois 

 died in 1259 seised of one and a half knight's fees in 

 West Tisted which he held of the bishop elect of 

 Winchester. 8 ' His heir was his son Ralph, aged forty 

 and more. This latter Ralph in 1261 claimed the 

 advowson of the church of West Tisted by virtue of 

 his lordship of the manor. 83 He was not, however, 

 seised of the manor at his death in 1276," although 

 he must have had some interest in it, since four years 

 later John de Camois, son and heir of Sir Ralph de 

 Camois, granted to Richard de Crofton, in return for 

 his service, 10 annual rent paid by Geoffrey de la 

 Flode and Alice his wife from the manor of West 

 Tisted. 35 Geoffrey de la Flode is called ' lord of the 

 vill' in 1 28 1, 36 and his wife Alice le Hood, who was 

 probably the daughter and heir of Robert le Hood 

 and Joan his wife, and on whom West Tisted had 

 probably been settled by the transactions of 1240 and 

 1241, is described as the 'lady of West Tisted ' in 

 1284.*' In the same year Richard de Crofton, who 

 was called the son and heir of Robert de Crofton, re- 

 leased to the prior and canons of Selborne all his right 

 in the advowson of the church of West Tisted, 38 and 

 at some date between 1284 and 1293 he succeeded 

 Alice le Hood in the lordship of West Tisted. 39 This 

 Richard was probably the son and heir of Alice by 

 her first husband Robert de Crofton, and the manor 

 descended to him as his right and inheritance after his 

 mother's death. 40 Shortly after succeeding to his in- 

 heritance he seems to have assumed the surname of 

 Tisted, as after 1 293 there is no further mention of 

 Richard de Crofton, but a certain Richard de Tisted 

 was witness to charters in 1301, 1305, 1307, 1308, 

 and 1312." Richard died about 1313," and was 

 succeeded by Robert de Tisted, probably his son.** 

 Robert died before 1323, for in that year Femmota 



38 Harl. MS. 44, H. 42. Selborne Chart 

 ^Hants Rec. Soc.), 59. 



Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Sen), 206. 



25 Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.}, 42. 



w Chart. R. 5 John, m. 1 9. 



V Rot. de oblatii et fnibu:, 311. While 

 Ralph was holding West Tisted he granted 

 a virgate in the vill to Henry le Sauvage 

 {Selborne Chart. 3). Henry released his 

 right in it to Peter des Roches, who granted 

 it in 1236 to the prior and canons of 

 Selborne to hold by the service of giving 

 every year a pound of cummin to Henry 

 and his heirs (ibid. 16). Henry, however, 

 gave up all right to this rent in 1238 

 (ibid. 24). Some time after, Henry's 

 widow Cecilia granted the lands which she 

 held in West Tisted as her dowry to the 

 same priory (ibid. 33 and 48). In this 

 way the priory acquired a part of the land 

 in West Tisted which had once been held 

 by Hugh de Tisted. 



83 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 20 Hen. III. 

 The fact that the manor was settled on 

 the heirs of Joan seems to support the 

 theory that Joan was the daughter and 

 heir of Hugh de Tisted. This assize was 



no doubt held by order of the bishop, who 

 two years before had acknowledged the 

 manor to be the right of Robert and Joan, 

 and had granted it to them to hold to them 

 and the heirs of Joan of him and his suc- 

 cessors and the church of Winchester 

 (Feet of F. Hants, East. 17 Hen. III). 



*> Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 23. 

 This grant was confirmed by Peter, bishop 

 of Winchester, in the same year. Later 

 confirmations of this grant were made in 

 1261 and 1284 by lords of the manor of 

 West Tisted (ibid. 54 and 71). 



80 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 25 Hen. III. 



81 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 2 5 Hen. III. 

 8a Inq. p.m. 43 Hen. Ill, No. 28. 



While Ralph was lord of West Tisted he 

 confirmed the grant of land in West Tis- 

 ted made by a certain Philip de Rammesye 

 to the priory of Newark (Harl. MS. 

 47, G. 7). By this time both Selborne 

 and Newark had considerable possessions 

 in West Tisted. Selborne's property 

 amounted to half a knight's fee, and com- 

 prised the gifts of Adam de Limesi, Henry 

 le Sauvage and Cecilia his wife, and Joan 

 le Hood (Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. Ill, No. 49), 



60 



while Newark held 2 hides granted by 

 Adam de Limesi and Philip de Rammesye 

 (Feud. Aids, ii, 334 and 359). As Newark 

 was a considerable distance from West 

 Tisted, the prior probably let his property 

 there to Selborne Priory. The fact that 

 in 1463 the prior and canons of Newark 

 were seised of a customary annual rent of 

 i6J. from the prior and canons of Sel- 

 borne lends support to this theory (Selborne 

 Chart. 117). 



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

 54- 



84 Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. I, No. i. 



85 De Bane. R. East. 8 Edw. I. 



86 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 70. 

 8 ? Ibid. 71. os Ibid. 89 Ibid. 76. 



40 The name of Robert de Crofton' s 

 wife was Alice (Feet of F. Hants, East. 

 47 Hen. III). 



41 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 79, 

 81, 82, 83, and 85. 



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

 85, and Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), 



i, 222. 



43 Feud Aid;, ii, 3 1 5, and Selborne Chart. 

 (Hants Rec. Soc). 



