FINCHDEAN HUNDRED 



BURITON 



with a square bowl carried on a round central shaft and 

 four shafts at the angles, the moulded bases of which 

 are worked in one stone. 



In the vestry is a seventeenth-century communion 

 table with baluster legs and movable top, but with 

 this exception there are no old wood fittings in the 

 church, and there are no remains of ancient glass. 

 There are five bells, the treble and tenor by Mears, 

 1864, and the other three by Richard Phelps of 

 London, 1715, cast after the fire in the tower. 



The church plate comprises a cup and cover paten 

 of 1669, a standing paten of 1702 with the Hanbury 

 arms in a lozenge, and a flagon given in 1 740. 



The first volume of the registers begins in 1678, 

 and is continued to 1812. 



There was a church in MAPLE- 

 ADrOlVSON D URHAM (afterwards Buriton) at the 

 time of the Domesday Survey ; 143 by 

 1291 the church with a chapel, probably the chapel 

 of Petersfield, was worth 46 1 3*. i^d. annually, 1 " 

 and by the reign of Henry VIII the rectory of 

 Buriton was worth yearly .336 8/." 6 



William, earl of Gloucester, when lord of the 

 manor of Mapledurham, granted the church with the 

 chapel of Petersfield in free alms to the church of 

 St. Mary of Nuneaton (co. Warwick)," 6 and his gift 

 was confirmed by Henry 1 1 14 ' and Pope Alexander III. 148 

 The abbey seems to have conveyed the advowson to 

 the bishop of Winchester, for in 1331 the chancellor, 

 John, bishop of Winchester, obtained licence from the 

 king to alienate in mortmain to the prior and convent 

 of St. Swithun, Winchester, the advowson of the 

 church of Mapledurham, with the chapel of Petersfield 

 in his diocese. 149 The abbot and convent at the same 

 time obtained licence from the king to appropriate the 

 advowson, on the condition of paying over and above 

 the sum which they already paid to the hospital of 

 St. Mary Magdalen without Winchester, the yearly 

 sum of 25 19^. 4</., for the support of the sick poor 

 there, which the bishop had been wont to pay at his 

 exchequer at Wolvesey, out of his alms. The appro- 

 priation, however, never took place ; the abbot and 

 convent may have thought the annual payment too 

 great. In 1337 the church of Mapledurham was 

 described as of the bishop's patronage, 160 and the 

 bishop has presented the rector up to the present 

 day, 151 with but few exceptions. 15 * 



In 1265 Walter de Lichelad, rector of the church 

 of Mapledurham, and the abbot and convent of 

 Dureford, were parties to a deed concerning tithes in 

 the parish of Mapledurham. 1 " The rector of the 



church granted for himself that the abbot and convent 

 should be quit for ever from the payment of tithes 

 from the possessions which they had hitherto acquired, 

 saving, however, to the rector and his successors the 

 tithes of all gardens excepting the old garden, which 

 was within the hey of the monastery of Dureford, 

 from which the abbot and convent had not been 

 accustomed to pay any tithes. Henceforward the 

 abbot and convent were to pay every year to the 

 rector and his successors, instead of tithes, in the nave 

 of Petersfield Church (in majori ecclesia de Peteres- 

 feld), 3O/. a year, at Michaelmas and at Easter in 

 equal portions. This deed was confirmed by John 

 bishop of Winchester. Towards the end of the reign 

 of Charles II, Richard Cowper, lord of the manor of 

 Ditcham, had a long dispute with Dr. Barker, rector 

 of Buriton, concerning the latter's right to tithes from 

 the beech-woods of Ditcham Park, in the course of 

 which controversy Richard ' used threatings, lam- 

 pooned and made scandalous and reflecting verses 

 which did very much disquiet and discompose 

 Dr. Barker.' 1M The case was tried before Lord Chief 

 Justice North, who decided in favour of Dr. Barker, 

 but in spite of this judgement, some twelve years 

 later, Richard Cowper, son and heir of Richard, to 

 whom his father had conveyed Ditcham Park on his 

 marriage, refused to pay tithes of beech-wood to 

 Charles Layfield, rector of Buriton. 155 



At the time of the Domesday Survey there was a 

 chapel in Sunworth, 156 but it must soon have fallen 

 into decay, for there seems to be no mention of it in 

 later documents. It is interesting to note, however, 

 that ' Chappie Garden ' and ' Chappie Furlong ' arc 

 given as names of lands owned by John Cowper of 

 Ditcham, in idig. 157 



The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 

 1848, and restored in 1 88 1. 



Bishop Laney's Gift. The Rev. 

 CHARITIES Benjamin Laney, formerly rector of 

 Buriton, and subsequently bishop of 

 Ely, in his lifetime gave 130 to be placed out at 

 interest, or in the purchase of land, the profits thereof 

 to be applied in apprenticing of poor children of the 

 parish of Buriton and the borough of Petersfield. In 

 1 690 the gift was laid out in the purchase of 1 9 acres 

 or thereabouts of land in the parish of Bramshott. 

 The land is let at 20 a year for a term of twenty- 

 one years. Two apprentices are selected yearly from 

 Buriton and Petersfield. 



Tithing of Weston. Goodyer's Charity ; see under 

 Petersfield. 



" V.CM. Hantt, i, 4513. 



1M Popt Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 

 211 b, 



* Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 22. 



l Dugdale, Mm. (znd ed.), i, 519. 



"7 Ibid. 



148 Ibid. 520. In Alexander'! bull they 

 are called the church of I'eterstield and 

 the chapel of Mapledurham. 



"' Pat. 5 Edw. Ill, pt. 3, m. 22. 



160 Pat. 10 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 3. 



151 Wyktham's Register (Hants. Rec. 

 Soc.), i, 47, 58, 134, 152, 171, and 210 ; 

 Inst. Bk. (P.R.O.). 



lsa Queen Elizabeth presented during 

 the vacancy of the bishopric (Add. MS. 

 33284, fol. 447) ; Chas. II presented in 

 1660, St. John's College, Cambridge, in 



1688, and the bishop of London in 1829 

 (Inst. Bks. P.R.O.). 



" Cott. MS. Vesp. E. Ktiii, fol. 24 d. 



" Vide Exch. Dep. 5 Will. & Mary, 

 Mich. No. 30. 



" Ibid. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 4784. 



ls ~ Chan. Inq. p. m. (Ser. 2), cccljciriii, 

 No. 126. 



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