A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



exchange for which they held the manor of Maple- 

 durham. 46 But it was ultimately decided in favour of 

 the earl, as the manor of Mapledurham occurs in the 

 list of the manors held by the prior of St. Swithun in 

 1 290,*' and the earl was seised of the Isle of Portland 

 and its members at his death in I295- 48 Evidently 

 the manor of the prior and convent remained in a 

 dependent position upon the chief manor of Maple- 

 durham, and the tenants of the prior paid rent to the 

 lord of the chief manor of Mapledurham. Thus for 

 the year ending Michaelmas, 1448, the farmer of the 

 chief manor accounted for 5/. 8/, the price of 34 hens 

 collected from divers tenants of the prior of St. 

 Swithun, and loJ. the price of zoo eggs collected from 

 the same tenants. 49 The manor remained the property 

 of the prior and convent until the dissolution, 50 when 

 Henry VIII granted it to Nicholas Dering of Liss," 

 who died seised of it in 1557 leaving it in dower to 

 his wife Anne a with reversion to his son and heir 

 Thomas aged twenty-one. 53 Anne Dering held a 

 court at Mapledurham as late as April, i jgi, 51 but she 

 must have died shortly afterwards, for Thomas Han- 

 bury, to whom Thomas Dering and Winifred his wife 

 had given their reversionary interest in the manor in 

 1581," held his first court there on 20 September, 

 1 59 1. 5 * Six years later Thomas purchased the chief 

 manor of Mapledurham, 47 when the two manors were 

 merged, and the subsequent history is given under the 

 heading of the chief manor (q.v.) 



The manor of WEST M4PLEDURH4M was 

 parcel of the honour of Gloucester. It is mentioned 

 in the Testa tie Nevill, which states that Ralph de la 

 Falaise and Robert ' Mercator ' held three parts of a 

 fee in Mapledurham of the old enfeoffment of the 

 earl of Gloucester. 68 The one messuage and one 

 carucate of land which Ralph de la Falaise had 

 held was settled upon Peter de la Falaise (probably 

 son of Ralph) and Alice his wife and their issue 

 in 1271, no doubt on the occasion of their mar- 

 riage. 69 Peter de la Falaise probably died before 

 1289, for in that year Alice quitclaimed to Richard 

 Bruton and his heirs a messuage, 84 acres of land, 

 6 acres of wood, 5 acres of meadow and 1 Js. 5^. 

 rent in Mapledurham. 60 This part of the manor 

 continued in the Bruton family until I327, 61 when 

 Alice Bruton quitclaimed it to Henry le Markaunt 

 and Iseult his wife. 63 This Henry le Markaunt was 

 the descendant of the Robert Mercator mentioned in 

 the Testa de Nevill, and already probably held by right 

 of inheritance a part of the manor. 63 The family of 



SHELLEY. Sable a 

 fesse engrailed between 

 three shells or. 



Markaunt continued in possession of the whole manor 

 till the beginning of the fifteenth century, 64 when Joan 

 the daughter and heir of Sir Robert Markaunt died, 

 leaving as her heir her kinsman William Levechild of 

 Sheet next Petersfield. 65 From William it passed to 

 John Roger of Bryanston (co. Dorset), 66 and continued 

 in the family of Roger until 1533, when Sir John 

 Roger conveyed it by fine to trustees for purchase 

 by Sir William Shelley, justice of the Common Pleas, 67 

 who died seised of the manor in 1 548. By his will 

 dated 6 November, 1548, he left the manor of Maple- 

 durham and all lands in 

 Hampshire which he had pur- 

 chased of Sir John Roger to 

 his son Thomas a recusant in 

 tail male. 6 * By an inquisition 

 taken at Winchester 2 Octo- 

 ber, 1570, it "was ascertained 

 that Thomas Shelley, late of 

 Mapledurham, had been a 

 fugitive in foreign parts be- 

 yond the seas since I Decem- 

 ber, 1558, and was then living 

 in Louvain, and that before 

 his departure he had granted 



a twelve years' lease of all his lands and tenements in 

 Mapledurham to Thomas Goldforde and John Jervys. 6 * 

 He died seised of the manor in 1577, his heir being 

 his son Henry, aged thirty-eight, 70 whose name occurs 

 five years later in a list of the prisoners for religion in 

 the custody of Anthony Thorpe ' keeper of the 

 Whyte Lyon in Southwarke.' " At this time the 

 manor house was the refuge of numerous priests, who 

 were always sure to find a welcome, a place to say 

 their mass, and if necessary a secure hiding-place ; 

 and there are many references to it in the correspon- 

 dence of the time. Thus Edward Jones, a recusant, 

 writes as follows in June, 1586 : 'At length old 

 Mr. Titchborne, being then prisoner in the White 

 Lion, in Southwark . . . sent for me and placed me 

 with this Shelley's brother, being prisoner too, where 

 I waited on him and his wife, and was reconciled 

 there in my mistress' chamber by one Wrenche, who 

 died in London two years agone ; but being alive 

 went down with my mistress unto her house named 

 Mapledurham, near unto Petersfield, where he did 

 say mass every day once, whither resorted certain 

 priests more. . . . There I daily consociate withal 

 and heard mass every day.' 7> Again, an informer, 

 writing under the name of Ben Beard, gives the 



"Add. MS. 29436, fol. 53. 'Salvo 

 nobis et succcssoribus jure nostro in insula 

 de Portlande, ct maneriis de Portlande, 

 de Wyke et de Helewell et burgo de 

 Waymue pro quibus dicti prior et con- 

 ventus tenent manerium de Mapeldurham 

 cum pertinentiis in escambium.' 



' Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 213. 



* Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, No. 107. 



49 Mins. Accts. bdle. 1117, No. 8. 



60 Chart. R. 29 Edw. I, m. 12; Feud. 

 Aids, ii, 319 ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), vi, 

 App. i, p. vii. 



" Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. 8, m. 20. 



w Anne wa summoned in 1560 to 

 show by what title she held the manor, 

 and stated that her husband had settled it 

 upon her to hold for the term of her life 

 (Memo. R. L.T.R. Mich. 3 Eliz. m. 18). 



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



101. 



54 Add. R. 27663. 



65 Add. MS. 33278, fol. 161 ; Close, 23 

 Eliz. pt. 8 ; Notes of F. Hants, Hil. 23 

 Eliz. 



56 Add. R. 27663. 



d ' Recov. R. Hil. 39 Eliz. m. 3. 



68 Testa de Ne-vitt (Rec. Com.), 234*. 

 Ralph had obtained his part from William 

 de la Falaise in 1 248 in exchange for lands 

 in Rowner (Salzmann, Sun. Fines, 120). 



Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 55 Hen. III. 



60 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 17 Edw. I. 



61 Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. I, No. 21 ; and 8 

 Edw. II, No. 68. 



63 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. I Edw. II. 



63 Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, No. 68. In 

 subsequent lists of knights' fees Richard 

 Bruton's name occurs as holding land in 

 Mapledurham of the earls of Stafford, but 

 his name was probably copied from an 

 earlier return. 



64 Add. Chart. 28022, 28023 i I n 1- P- m - 

 10 Ric. II, No. 38 ; 16 Ric. II, pt. I, 

 No. 27, and 22 Ric. II, No. 46 ; Anct. D. 

 (P.R.O.) B. 2543 ; Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, 

 No. 41. 



65 Close, 1 3 Hen. IV, m. 2. 



66 Close, I Hen. VI, m. 21 ; Feet of F. 

 Hants, Hil. 4 Hen. VI. 



W Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 25 Hen. VIII. 



63 P.C.C. 25 Populwell. In 1563 the 

 manor was settled upon Thomas and Mary 

 his wife for the term of their lives, with 

 reversion to their son and heir Henry, with 

 contingent remainder to the heirs of Sir 

 William Shelley deceased (Recov. R. 

 East. 5 Eliz. m. 119). 



69 Exch. Spec. Com. 12 Eliz. No. 2015. 



7 Inq. p.m. 20 Eliz. pt. 2, (Ser. 2), No. 



5'- 



" Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vii, 637*1. 

 Harl. M.S. 360, fol. 22. 



