A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



cousin Joan, the wife of Sir John Sandys and daughter 

 of Agnes, who was sister of Sir William Fifhide, 

 father of William-." From this date the manor was 

 sometimes called the manor of Fifhides or Gathering- 

 ton Fifhide, after the family who had held it. M 

 Catherington remained in the possession of the Sandys 

 family until 12 November, 1602," when William, 

 Lord Sandys, sold it for 750 to his principal 

 tenant, Humphrey Brett. 38 The latter, in order 

 apparently to put a stop to the dispute with the earl 

 of Worcester concerning the common of pasture in 

 East Heath, sold it to the earl nine years later. 39 The 

 descent of the manor has from this time been identical 

 with that of the manor of Chalton (q.v.). It is now 

 represented by the farm of Five Heads, a short distance 

 north of Horndean, on the road between Horndean 

 an! the village of Catherington. 



In early times there was a windmill within the 

 manor of Catherington Fifhide. It occurs in fines 

 conveying the manor in the fourteenth century, 40 and 

 in an extent of the manor taken in 1361," but no 

 trace of it now remains, and it seems to have early 

 fallen into disuse, for there is no mention of a mill in 

 the fine conveying the manor to the earl of Worcester 

 in 1611." 



HINTON DAUB-NAT (Henton xiii cent. ; Henton 

 Daubeneye and Henton Daubenay xiv cent. ; Hen- 

 ton Dawebedney xv cent. ; Henton Dawbney and 

 Henton Dowbney xvi cent.) was in early times ten 

 poundsworth of land in the parish of Catherington, 

 held by a Norman, Ralph de Cumbray by name. 43 

 On his death it fell as escheat of the Normans to 

 Henry III, who granted it to Juliana Daubnay, to 

 hold to her and her husband William and their heirs 

 by the service of half a knight's fee. 4 ' The manor 

 remained with the family of Daubnay until on the 

 death of Ellis Daubnay, in I383, 45 it passed to his 

 daughter and heir Elizabeth wife of Andrew Wauton, 46 

 to whom in the following year the escheator of 

 Hampshire was ordered to deliver up the manor, 

 together with all the profits therefrom since the death 

 of Ellis. 47 Three years later Andrew was murdered 



by his servants Robert Blake, chaplain, and John 

 Balle, at the instigation of Elizabeth. The latter 

 was sentenced to be burned for the crime, and the 

 manor, which was then worth twelve marks a year, 

 was taken into the hands of the king, 48 who granted it 

 in 1394 to his servants John Luffwyk, yeoman of the 

 chamber, and William Gold. 49 In 1396, some ten 

 years before his death, John conveyed the manor to 

 trustees, 00 who finally disposed of it in 1415 to Henry 

 Kesewyk, 51 on whose death a few years later William 

 Wayte, the escheator of Hampshire, took it into the 

 hands of the king, having ascertained by an inquisi- 

 tion taken in 1420 that it had been purchased with- 

 out royal licence. 51 Henry's trustees, Robert Thur- 

 berne and William Park, denied this, and accordingly 

 the manor was restored to them, William Wayte 

 being fined l 3/. \J." For some little time after this 

 the manor was held as a free tenement by William 

 Chamberlayn, 54 who was most probably the second 

 husband of the widow of Henry Kesewyk, but by 

 1447 it had descended to Henry son and heir of Henry 

 Kesewyk, who in that year released all right in it to 

 William Port and Joan his wife." The prior and 

 convent of St. Swithun, Winchester, gained possession 

 of the manor some years afterwards, 56 and continued 

 seised of it until the dissolution, 57 when it became 

 the property of the crown. In 1574 Elizabeth 

 granted a messuage and lands called ' Whethames,' 

 and two closes called ' Cockcrofts,' parcels of the 

 manor, to Robert earl of Leicester, 58 who some time 

 afterwards sold them to Robert Paddon and Arthur 

 Swayne. 5 * The rest of the manor was in 1590 

 granted to Robert Paddon and John Molesworth, 60 

 the latter of whom conveyed his moiety to Arthur 

 Swayne. 61 While Robert Paddon and Arthur Swayne 

 were lords of the manor of Hinton Daubnay, there 

 occurred a dispute with Edward earl of Worcester 

 concerning the right to common lands called Wood- 

 crofts and a wood called The Lye Wood. 61 In 1604 

 Robert Paddon, William Pytt, and William Hokrofte 

 alias Haycrofte, 6 * of New Sarum, conveyed the manor 

 to Sir Nicholas Hyde, 64 who had married Margaret the 



85 Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, No. 17. 



86 Thus in 1431 Walter Sandys was 

 said to be holding half of one knight's fee 

 called ' Fyfehydes in Kateryngton ' (Feud. 

 Aids, ii, 362). Again, in I59i,thename 

 of the manor is given as ' Kathrington ' 

 alias 'Kathrington Fyfhed ' (Exch. Bills 

 and Answs. Eliz. Hants, No. 81, m. 2). 

 It is described as the manor of Cathering- 

 ton alias Fiveheads in 1736 (Recov. R. 

 Mich. 10 Geo. II, m. l), and as the 

 manor of Five Heads in 1774 (Recov. R. 

 East. 14 Geo. Ill, m. 181). 



87 Feud. Aids, ii, 358 and 362 ; Inq. 

 p. m. 20 Hen. VI, No. 35, and 24 

 Hen. VI, No. 40 ; Feet of F. Hants, East. 

 9 Hen. VII ; De Bane. R. East. 9 

 Hen. VII, m. 21 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 (ser. 2) xi, No. no ; Exch. Dep. 34 and 

 35 Eliz. Mich. No. 8. 



88 Close, 45 Eliz. pt. 5. 



89 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 9 Jas. I. 



40 Ibid. Trin. 30 Edw. I, and Mich. 

 15 Edw. II. 



41 Inq. p. m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. i, No. 88. 

 n Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 9 Jas. I. 



Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I. 



44 Ibid. Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 223. 



46 Feud. Aids, ii, 3 1 8 j Inq. p.m. 

 6 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.) No. 32. : Abbrrv. 

 Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 96 ; Feud. 



Aids, ii, 335 ; Inq. p.m. 26 Edw. Ill, 

 (2nd Nos.), No. 43. 



46 Inq. p.m. 7 Ric. II, No. 31. In 

 1373 the reversion of the manor, after 

 the death of Ellis, was granted to Sir 

 Gilbert Giffard and Elizabeth his wife 

 and the heirs of Elizabeth. (Feet of F. 

 Hants, Mich. 47 Edw. Ill; Inq. p.m. 

 47 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), No. 46). After 

 Gilbert's death Elizabeth married as her 

 second husband Andrew Wauton. 



4 ? Close, 8 Ric. II, m. t,od. 



48 Coram Rege R. East. 1 1 Ric. II. 



48 Pat. 1 8 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 27. 



60 Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. IV, No. 25. 



61 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 3 Hen. V. 



62 Memo. R. L.T.R. Trin. 9 Hen. V, 

 m. 13. It was also ascertained by this 

 inquisition that the manor was held of 

 the king in capite by the service of find- 

 ing for him one hobbler (habellarius a 

 light horseman riding a hobby) whenever 

 he crossed into Scotland in time of war. 

 This statement was denied by Robert 

 Thurberne and William Park. 



53 Memo. R. L.T.R. Trin. 9 Hen. V, 

 m. 13. 



44 Feud. Aids, ii, 358 and 362. 



55 Close, 25 Hen. VI, m. 22 ; Pat. 

 29 Hen. VI, m. 35 d. 



66 It seems probable that they were 



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already seised of it in 1474, as in that 

 year Richard Smyth, late of 'Henton 

 Dawebedney,' husbandman, was pardoned 

 for not appearing to answer Robert West- 

 gate, prior of the cathedral church of St. 

 Swithun, Winchester, touching a debt of 

 40 (Pat. 14 Edw. IV, pt. I, m. 25). 



6 ' Mins. Accts. Hants, 32 and 33 Hen. 

 VIII, No. 109, m. 49. 



58 Pat. 1 6 Eliz. pt. 8, m. 27. 



59 Exch. Bills and Answs. Eliz. Hants, 

 No. 8 1, m. 3. 



60 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 8, m. 9, 10, ii. 



61 Exch. Bills and Answs. Eliz. Hants, 

 No. 8 1, m. 3. 



6a Special Com. 33 Eliz. No. 2039 ; 

 Exch. Bills and Answs. Eliz. Hants, 

 No. 81. Many witnesses declared that 

 Woodcrofts was often called 'the king's 

 purlieu of the manor of Henton Dawb- 

 ney.' One witness, John Goodwyn by 

 name, asserted that he had always main- 

 tained Woodcrofts as a purlieu, often 

 coursing his greyhounds out of it and 

 killing deer within the Forest of East 

 Bere. 



68 In 1603 Robert Paddon conveyed 

 the manor to William Holcrofte and 

 William Pytt (Close, 45 Eliz. pt. 6), and 

 again in 1604 (Feet of F. Hants, East. 

 2 Jas. I). 4 Close, 2 Jas. I. 



