EAST MEON HUNDRED 



EAST MEON 



and 169 acres of land for 2,000 to George Clark, 

 described sometimes as a carrier and sometimes as an 

 inn-keeper of Petersfield, in lj6^. ub Whatever his 

 profession he was a prosperous man, and during the 

 fifteen years preceding his death bought up much 

 landed property in the neighbourhood of Petersfield. 

 Thus in 1755 he purchased Tilmore Farm from 

 Richard Baker, 1 " in 1763 he bought Bell Farm from 

 John Rogers and Mary his wife," 7 while in 1764 

 Henry Smith conveyed to him the messuage or 

 tenement and farm-house on a moor called Buckmoor." 8 

 On his death in 1768 it was found that by a will 

 dated two years earlier he had left all his property 

 to be divided equally among his three young grand- 

 sons, William, Richard, and George Clark Rout, the 

 sons of Mary and James Rout, and had completely 

 passed over the claims of his wife Elizabeth, his sons 

 Richard, Thomas, and George, and his daughters 

 Anne, Rose, and Elizabeth. 1 " They appealed against 

 it, but all to no purpose, for by a decree in the Court 

 of Chancery it was ordered that the will should be 

 established, and the trusts performed and carried into 

 execution. The three grandchildren described as 

 William Rout of Romsey, maltster, Richard Rout of 

 East Wellow, yeoman, and George Clark Rout of 

 Romsey, brewer, came of age in 1774, 1776, and 

 1777 respectively. Even while minors they had 

 borrowed largely, and in 1778 were very deeply in 

 debt. All the property which they had inherited 

 from their grandfather the manor of Rothercombe, 

 the farms called Tankerdells, Tilmore and Buckmoor, 

 Causeway Meads and Bell Farm was put up for sale 

 by public auction and was sold in 1778 to the highest 

 bidder, William Jolliffe of Petersfield," since which 

 time it has followed the descent of the manor of 

 Langrish (q.v.). 



PEAK or PEAK 1TGALL (Peek xiv cent. ; Peke, 

 Peake Tygoll, and Peeke Tigoll xvi cent. ; Peake 

 Tigall and Peake Farme xvii cent.). Three and a half 

 miles north-west of the village of East Meon lies the 

 tithing of Peak, and a little to the south of the tithing 

 lies Tigwell Farm. The tithing and farm probably 

 represent the site of the manor of Peak or Peak 

 Tygall. It was in the possession of the family of 

 Tygehall or Tygall for generations, 1 " and was hence 

 called the manor of Peak Tygall. In 1505 William 

 Tygall and Joan his wife sold the manor and 

 3 messuages, 10 tofts, 400 acres of land, 20 acres of 

 meadow, 1 20 acres of pasture, 60 acres of wood, and 

 2O/. rent and the rent of a pound of pepper in Peak, 

 East Meon, and Meonstoke to Sir William Warham, 

 archbishop of Canterbury, for jzoo, 1M on whose death 



TYGALL. Ermine a 



chrveron sable "with three 

 hone-shoes or thereon. 



in 1532 the manor passed to his nephew William, 

 being settled on him and his wife Elizabeth in tail- 

 male in I552. 1 ' 3 In 1560 the manor was settled on. 

 William to hold for the term 

 of his life, with remainder to 

 Francis Morres and Anne his 

 wife and their issue, with con- 

 tingent remainder to the right 

 heirs of William. 1 " William 

 had died before 1588, for in 

 that year William Wright was 

 seised of the reversion of the 

 manor of Peak Tygall, imme- 

 diately expectant and depend- 

 ing upon the estate for life 

 of Dame Elizabeth Warham, 

 widow, late the wife of Sir 



William Warham, knt. deceased, and sold it to 

 William Neale of Warnford for 630. m For about a 

 century the manor remained in the family of Neale, 1 * 6 

 passing from them in 1676, when it was purchased by 

 Thomas Bonham, William Morgan, and Lawrence 

 Cooke. 1 " Three years afterwards it was settled upon 

 Lawrence and his heirs. It descended to his grandson 

 and heir Lawrence Cooke of Steep, yeoman, on whose 

 bankruptcy in 1735 it was sold to John Bouverie the 

 !ord of the manor of Warnford. 118 Peak followed the 

 descent of Warnford 1>9 until about the middle of the 

 eighteenth century, when it seems to have again fallen 

 into yeomen's hands. 130 It has changed hands at 

 various times since then, 131 and is now owned by 

 Colonel Le Roy-Lewis, forming part of the Westbury 

 estate. 



BERELEIGH (Burley xiv cent. ; Bereley xvi and 

 xvii cent). The manor of Bereleigh was a sub-manor 

 dependent upon the manor of East Meon, and in 

 early times was held by a family called ' de Burlee.' 

 In 1369 John de Burlee and Agatha his wife quit- 

 claimed to William de Wykeham, bishop of Win- 

 chester, his heirs and assigns, the following tenements 

 which they held of him as of his bishopric : I mes- 

 suage, I mill, 205 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 

 60 acres of pasture, 50 acres of wood, and 4O/. 6J. 

 rent in East Meon and Dray ton and the rents and 

 services of Richard Tygenore, Richard Hethere, 

 Reginald Tygall, John Southonore, and John 

 Knollere for the tenements which they held of them. 13 * 

 The right of the bishop to these tenements was con- 

 firmed in 1382 when Clarice wife of William Fisher 

 and sister of Agatha gave up all her claims to them."* 

 There seems to be no record of the history of this 

 estate until 1569, in which year the manor of 



115 Deeds fenes Lord Hylton. 



116 In 1713 Richard Baker purchased it 

 from John Heather. 



11 ? Mary had inherited it from her 

 cousin William Cox. 



118 Thii farm had been in the Smith 

 family for about two centuries. 



118 Deeds penes Lord Hylton. 



120 Deeds penes Lord Hylton ; see also 

 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 17 Geo. Ill ; 

 Div. Cos. East. 18 Geo. Ill ; and Div. Cos. 

 Mich. 19 Geo. III. 



121 See The Gen. (New Ser.), ii, 108, 

 for a pedigree of the Tygalls. There is 

 but scant documentary evidence as to the 

 connexion of the Tygalls with the manor. 

 In 1326 a messuage, a carucate of land, 

 20 acres of land and 261, 8t/. rent in 

 'La Stock' and 'Peek' were settled 



upon Thomas de Tygall and Maud his 

 wife (Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 19 Edw. II). 

 Again in 1333 Thomas de Tygall granted 

 a messuage, 3 virgates of land and 4 acres 

 of wood in Westbury and West Tisted to 

 Thomas de la Stoke to hold for the term 

 of his life by the rent of a rose, with re- 

 version to Thomas de Tygall and his heirs 

 (Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 6 Edw. III.) 



124 De Bane. R. Trin. 20 Hen. VII, 

 m. 437 ; and Mich. 21 Hen. VII, m. 2. 



14S Com. Pleas. Com. R. 5 and 6 

 Edw. VI, m. 2. 



1IM Notes of F. Hants, East. 2 Eliz. 



145 Close, 30 Eliz. pt. 5 ; Add. MS. 



33278, fol. 122. 



148 W. and L. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 

 32, No. 129; Recov. R. Mich. 16 

 Chas II, rot. 102. 



71 



"7 Feet of F.Div. Cos. Trin. 27 Chas. II ; 

 Close, 28 Geo. II, pt. 12, m. 1012. 



148 Close, 28 Geo. II, pt. 12, m. 10-12. 



12 Ibid. 



wa In 1764 John Waight and Mary hit 

 wife quitclaimed the manor to John Noss 

 (Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 4 Geo. III). 



181 In 1787 Richard Woolls and Anne 

 his wife, Thomas Hall and Sarah his wife, 

 and William Harris and Jenny his wife 

 quitclaimed the manor to Thomas Bon- 

 ham (Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 27 Geo. III). 

 In 1820 it was owned by Mr. Michael 

 Hoy (MS. penet Mrs. Vinn of Dray- 

 ton). 



Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 43 Edw. III. 

 This grant was confirmed by Ric. II in 

 1390 (Pat. 13 Ric. II, pt. 3, m. l). 



I** Close, 6 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 5 d. 



