FINCHDEAN HUNDRED 



hundred, 6 while in 1316 it was included in Finchdean.' Wellsworth, which 

 is situated in Idsworth chapelry, was also included in Portsdown Hundred 

 in the reign of Edward I, when the abbot of Titchfield was forced to allow 

 his villeins of Wellsworth to do suit at the hundred of the king at Ports- 

 down, 7 and it was not until the beginning of the seventeenth century that 

 it was transferred to Finchdean. 8 In 1431 the fourth part of a knight's fee 

 in ' Oldestoke ' was included in Finchdean, 9 but this place does not appear 

 under the hundred in subsequent subsidy rolls. 



The hundred originally belonged to the crown, 10 and was granted either 

 in the twelfth or thirteenth century to William de Albini, earl of Arundel. 11 

 It was appendant to the earldom of Arundel for a considerable time, 12 finally 

 passing to Henry V on the death of Thomas, earl of Arundel, in 1415." 

 The hundred then remained with the crown for nearly two hundred years, 

 Elizabeth at length in 1600 granting it by letters patent to Henry Best 

 and Robert Holland, who conveyed it the next day to Robert Paddon 

 and his heirs. 1 * In 1604 Robert sold it for 150 to Nicholas Hyde, 

 lord of the manor of Hinton Daubnay, 15 since which date it has followed 

 the descent of that manor (q.v.). 18 As late as 1651 a hundred court with 

 view of frankpledge was held twice a year for the hundred at Hock- 

 tide and Martinmas. 17 



* Hundred R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 223. 



* Feud. Aids, ii, 318. 



7 Plac. de Qua Warr. (Rec. Com.), Edw. I, 765. 



8 Vide Portsdown Hundred. 



9 Feud. Aids, ii, 362. 



10 Hundred R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 223 ; Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 772. 



11 The hundred roll is very illegible, the only words decipherable being ' Dicunt quod hundredum de 

 F regis. Et ipse dominus rex dedit dictum hundredum Wilhelmo de . . .' Subsequent docu- 

 ments make it clear that it was William de Albini to whom the hund-ed was granted. There were three of 

 that name, however one who died temp. Hen. II, the second who died circ. 6 Hen. Ill, and the third who 

 died 1 8 Hen. Ill and it is not clear to which of the three it was granted. 



" Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, Nos. 8a and 83 ; Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I. (The hundred is the hundred of 

 John Fitz-Alan de Arundel by annual payment of 2O/. to the king, and is worth 4O/. per annum. Isabel de 

 Mortimer holds the hundred nomine dotis, because John is under age and in the king's ward.) 



13 Vide Close, 2 Jas. I, pt. 15. 



14 Ibid. 



" Add. MS. 33278, fol. 146 ; Close, 2 Jas. I, pt. 15. 



16 In a survey of 165 i (Parl. Surv. Hants, 1650-2, No. 1 1) the hundred is described as late parcel of the 

 possessions of Charles Stuart, late king of England, but a mistake seems to have been made by the commis- 

 sioners, for Sir Nicholas Hyde was seised of it at his death in 1633, and his descendant Arthur Hyde dealt 

 with it by recovery in 1690 (Recov. R. East. 2 Will, and Mary, rot. 5). 



17 Parl. Surv. Hants, 1650-2, No. u. 



