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de Tisted is described as his widow." Robert's heir 

 was a minor in 1323, and apparently died before he 

 came of age, for the manor of West Tisted had been 

 divided before 1337 between Alice and Agatha," who 

 were the daughters and coheirs of John le Hood 

 of West Tisted. 46 It is possible that this John le 

 Hood was the younger brother of Robert de Tisted, for 

 it seems to have been the rule for the heir to assume 

 the surname of Tisted on succeeding to his property. 

 Alice and Agatha, the daughters of John le Hood, and 

 probably the nieces of Robert de Tisted, married re- 

 spectively Richard de Tich- 

 borne and his brother Walter 

 de Tichborne, the sons of 

 Sir John Tichborne, 47 who in 

 1337 were seised of the manor 

 in right of their wives. 48 In 

 1342 it was settled between 

 them that if Walter and Agatha 

 died without issue, the moiety 

 of the manor which they held 

 should revert on their deaths 

 to the right heirs of Agatha. 49 

 Walter de Tichborne in I 345 

 acknowledged that he owed jioo to his elder 

 brother Roger de Tichborne of Tichborne. As 

 he had not paid the debt in 1346, Roger chose 

 to hold half of Walter's land as a free tenement 

 until he had recovered his too. Walter's pro- 

 perty at West Tisted was accordingly valued, and 

 half of it was delivered over to Roger. 50 Walter de 

 Tichborne and Agatha died without issue, evidently 

 before 1364, for in that year Alice, as Agatha's right 

 heir, was holding both moieties of the manor, and 

 was described as the 'lady of West Tisted.' 61 On her 

 death the manor descended to her son Richard Tisted, 61 

 by whose son Richard it was held in 1 428." On his 

 death the manor descended to his son and heir William 

 Tisted. 54 William's son William Tisted died in 1 5 1 1 

 seised of the manor of West Tisted, leaving a brother 

 and heir, Thomas Tisted, aged forty and more. 65 

 Thomas died without issue, and on his death the 

 manor was divided among his four sisters and heirs, 

 Amy, Christian, Thomazin, and Iseult. 66 Before the 

 end of the reign of Henry VIII, Nicholas Tichborne 57 

 had bought up the different parts into which the 

 manor had been divided from these sisters and their 

 descendants. 58 On Nicholas's death the manor passed 

 to his son and heir Nicholas Tichborne, who died 

 seised of it in I555. 59 From that date the manor has 



WEST TISTED 



remained in the family of Tichborne, 60 the present 

 lord of the manor being Sir Henry Alfred Joseph 

 Doughty-Tichborne, bart. 



MERRTF1ELD (Mirefeld xiii cent. ; Merifeld 

 xvi cent.) was, as has been shown above, in origin 

 half a carucate of land in West Tisted granted by 

 Adam de Limesi in 1 242 to the prior of Newark in 

 frankalmoign. Shortly after this grant the prior 

 and convent of Merton granted licence to the 

 prior and convent of Newark to build a chapel 

 in their territory of Merryfield, which was within 

 the parish of Sutton and Ropley, and to hold 

 service there as long as it was not to the prejudice of 

 the mother church. 61 Merryfield continued the pro- 

 perty of the prior and convent until the dissolution, 

 the following entry being made in the Ministers' 

 Accounts for 1545, under the heading of ' the lands 

 and possessions of Newark ' : Manor of ' Merifeld ' 

 with all lands and tenements in West Tisted and 

 Ropley, and 9 from the rents both of free and 

 customary tenants there. 61 Henry VIII granted the 

 manor by letters patent in 1532 to John Wingfield, 63 

 who held it but for a short time, the king three years 

 later granting it to Henry Tichborne, lord of the 

 manor of West Tisted. 64 From this time it has re- 

 mained in the family of Tichborne, 66 Merryfield Farm, 

 situated in the north of the parish on the borders of 

 Ropley, being still the property of Sir Henry Alfred 

 Joseph Doughty-Tichborne, bart. 



The church of ST. MAR.YMAGDA- 

 CHURCH LENE, WEST TISTED, is a small 

 building with modern chancel and north 

 vestry, and an aisleless nave with south porch and 

 west bell-turret. The interior measurements of the 

 original nave were 41 ft. by 1 5 ft., but it has been 

 lengthened 10 ft. eastwards at the building of the 

 chancel, and there is no structural division between 

 the two. It probably dates from the early years of 

 the twelfth century, the blocked north doorway and 

 part of a small window west of the south doorway 

 being of this time, the window being only 5 in. wide. 



The north doorway has a plain round outer arch 

 with a hollow-chamfered string at the springing, and 

 the walls are 3 ft. thick, of flint rubble with sandstone 

 ashlar dressings. The western angles have been re- 

 built, and the south wall leans outward ; its original 

 masonry being much patched, and a large buttress 

 added at the south-east angle. The main entrance 

 to the church is by the south door, which has a plain 

 pointed arch of one order with a continuous chamfer, 



44 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. II, No. 112. 



45 Ibid. 1 1 Edw. Ill, No. 49. 



46 Berry, Hants Gin. 29. 



4 ? Ibid. The Richard de Tichborne 

 who married Alice le Hood seems some- 

 times to have been called Richard de 

 Tisted. For instance, in 1346 it was 

 stated that Richard de Tisted and his co- 

 parceners were holding West Tisted (Feud. 

 Aids, ii, 334). This Richard de Tisted 

 cannot very well have been the son and 

 heir of Richard de Tichborne and Alice, 

 for Richard de Tichborne was living in 

 1357 and Alice in 1365 (Selborne Chart, 

 93-4)- 



48 Inq. p.m. ii Edw. Ill, No. 49. 



49 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 16 Edw. III. 



50 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (ist Nos.), 

 No. 58. 



51 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 94. 

 511 Ibid. Pat. 13 Ric. II, pt. 3, m. 29 d. 

 53 Feud. Aids, ii, 359. In 1430 Richard 



son of Richard confirmed a grant of a 

 right of way made to Selborne Priory by 

 his grandmother Alice (Selborne Chart. 

 no). 64 Berry, Hants Gen. 29. 



55 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxvi, No. 13. 



M Berry, Hants Gen. 29. 



57 This Nicholas was the great-great- 

 great-grandson of Roger Tichborne, the 

 elder brother of the Richard and Walter 

 Tichborne who had once owned the 

 manor. 



58 Feet of F.Hants, Mich. loHen.VIII; 

 Mich, ii Hen. VIII ; East. 22 Hen. VIII; 

 and Mich. 24 Hen. VIII. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cvi, No. 58. 



"> Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 4 Eliz. Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxli, No. 12. Feet of F. 

 Hants, Mich. 1 1 Chas. I. Special Com. 

 Double cos. 24 Chas. I, No. 6051. Cal. 

 of Com. for Comf. iv, 1532. Recov. R. 

 Mich. II Chas. I, rot. ((5, and Mich. 18 

 Geo. Ill, rot. 467. 



61 



81 Cott. xxi, 25. The Latin is 'Eus- 

 tachius prior Mereton et eiusdem loci 

 conventus salutem. Noveritis nos con- 

 cessisse dilectis nobis in Christo domino 

 Thome priori de Novo Loco et sacro eius 

 conventui quod in territorio suo quod est 

 in parochia nostra de Suttun et Roppelegh 

 cappellam construant. 1 The prior and 

 convent of Merton held the advowson of 

 the church of Bishop's Sutton with the 

 chapel of Ropley annexed. This fact 

 seems to explain the 'nostra,' the parish 

 being the ecclesiastical one in which the 

 territory of Merryfield was included. 



M Mins. Accts. Surrey, 36-7 Hen. VIII, 

 No. 187, m. 46. 



Pat. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. 8, m. 36. 



64 Ibid. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. i. 



65 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), pt. I, No. 69. 

 Recov. R. Mich. 1654, rot. 227; East. 

 4 Geo. I, rot. 203, and Hil. 46 Geo. Ill, 

 rot. 330. 



