A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



his coming of age, a market every Thursday and a 

 yearly fair on the eve and feast of St. Michael, unless 

 such market and fair were to the damage of neigh- 

 bouring markets and fairs." Again in 1229 the king 

 informed the verderers of his forest of Portchester 

 that he had given orders to Robert de Waleton, the 

 steward of the earl of Chester, to allow them to 

 enter the wood of his lordship of Chalton which was 

 in the forest, as they had been accustomed to do 

 before the perambulation of the forest was made. 211 

 In 1 246 Simon de Montfort granted the manor to 

 Hereward Marsh and Rainetta his wife, to hold to 

 them of himself and his heirs during the life of 

 Rainetta, with immediate reversion to Simon if 

 Rainetta died before her husband. 23 This evidently 

 happened, as the earl was seised of the manor in 

 1265, when he was defeated and slain at Evesham. 

 Hence Chalton escheated to Henry III, who gave it 

 to his youngest son Edmund Plantagenet, 84 created 

 earl of Leicester and steward of England 26 Octo- 

 ber, 1 265, and earl of Lancaster 30 June, lz6j* & 

 Edmund in his turn gave the manor to Hamon 

 le Strange 86 before 1272, in which year Hamon 

 obtained a grant of free warren in Chalton." 



The manor was held of the earls of Lancaster 

 and Leicester from the time of Edmund's grant 

 to Hamon until in I 3 50" it became part of the 

 duchy of Lancaster,* 9 when Henry Plantagenet 

 earl of Lancaster and Leicester was created duke of 

 Lancaster, 30 and was merged in the crown " when 

 Henry Plantagenet, duke of Lancaster, ascended the 

 throne as Henry V. 32 Hamon 

 le Strange, while in the Holy 

 Land, granted the manor to 

 his brother Robert, who held 

 a court there, and remained 

 in possession till Hamon's 

 death, when he was ejected 

 by the sheriff of Hampshire, 33 

 Edmund the king's brother 

 being appointed at will to 

 the custody of the manor. 34 

 An inquisition was held early 

 in 1275 to discover what 

 right Robert had to the manor," and in July of 

 the same year the sheriff of Hampshire was ordered 

 to cause Robert to have such seisin of the manor as 

 he had before it was taken into the king's hands. 36 

 Robert was not seised of Chalton long, for in 



LE STRANGF. Gules 

 two lions f assant argent. 



September, 1276, the king ordered the sheriff to 

 cause Eleanor widow of Robert to have 30 yearly 

 of land in the manor of Chalton, until dower should 

 be assigned to her. 37 Robert's heir was still a minor 

 in 1281, for in that year John de Aese, vicomte de 

 Tartase, obtained a grant of the manor of Chalton, 

 extended at ^o, 38 to hold during the minority of 

 Robert's heir. 39 John son of Robert died seised of 

 the manor in 1289, his heir being his brother Fulk, 4l> 

 to whom Edward I in 1294 granted licence, since he 

 was going on the king's service to Gascony, to sell, 

 cut down, and carry away timber to the value of 

 40 out of his wood of Chalton, which was within 

 the metes of the forest of Portchester, in those places 

 where it would be to the least damage of the forest. 41 

 Fulk served his king well in Gascony, and obtained 

 as a reward quittance from a debt of 24 which his 

 uncle Hamon had owed at the time of his death for 

 ' many defaults of the time when he was sheriff.' " 

 He died seised of the manor in 1324, leaving a son 

 and heir John. 43 While John was lord of the manor 

 of Chalton, Richard de Hangleton, who was lord of 

 the neighbouring manor of Catherington, encroached 

 upon Chalton manor, and disseised him of 300 acres 

 of wood in Chalton and two pieces of land in 

 Catherington. By an indenture dated at Winchester 

 on the Wednesday after the feast of St. James the 

 Apostle, 1334, it was agreed that Richard should 

 surrender the said wood and lands to John for ever, 

 and should only claim reasonable ' housbote ' and 

 ' heybote ' for the tenement which he inherited in 

 Catherington, to be taken in the part of the wood 

 called ' Estrenche ' by view of John's bailiffs, together 

 with common for his beasts in the said wood. 44 John 

 held the manor until his death in 1 349, 45 when it 

 passed to his son and heir Fulk, aged nineteen, 46 who 

 died the same year, leaving as his heir his brother 

 John, aged seventeen. 47 The latter died before 

 1361, for in that year Ankarette wife of John le 

 Strange died seised of the manor, held in dower, 

 leaving a son and heir, John, aged seven, 48 whose 

 wardship was granted to Richard earl of Arundel. 4 ' 

 John died on 3 August, 1375, before he reached 

 the age of twenty-one years, 60 and left the 

 manor in dower to Isabel his wife, with rever- 

 sion to his only daughter Elizabeth. The latter 

 became the wife of Thomas Mowbray, earl of 

 Nottingham, but died without issue in 1383. Isabel, 

 who had married William Ufford, earl of Suffolk, 



Close, 8 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



"Ibid. 13 Hen. Ill, m. IJ. 



58 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 40 Hen. 

 III. 



M Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I, No. 52. 



25 G. E. C. Complete Peerage, v, 46. 



M Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I. No. 52. 



V Chart. R. 56 Hen. Ill, m. 6. 



28 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. I, No. 17 ; and 

 17 Edw. II, No. 73. 



"Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, No. I2Z ; 

 Close, 35 Edw. Ill, m. 17 ; Inq. p.m. 

 49 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, No. 8. 



80 G. E. C. Complete Peerage, v, 7. 



81 Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. V, No. 48 ; 7 Hen. 

 V, No. 68 ; 27 Hen. VI, No. 36; and 

 5 Edw. IV, No. zi. 



M G. E. C. Complete Peerage, v, IO. 

 88 Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I, No. 52 ; Anct. 

 Deeds (P.R.O.), B 3463. 



84 Pat. 3 Edw. I, m. 30. 



85 Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I, No. 52. 



86 Close, 3 Edw. I, m. 7. 



' Ibid. 4 Edw. I, m. 4. 



88 A year before it had been valued at 

 50 a year (Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I). 

 ' 89 Pat. 9 Edw. I, m. 15. 



40 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. I, No. 17. In 

 the inquisition the following extent was 

 given of the manor: A capital messuage, 

 250 acres of arable land, pasture for 300 

 sheep called ' Estdone,' a windmill, a 

 wood the herbage of which is common 

 containing 40 acres, a wood in the forest 

 containing zoo acres worth 55. per annum 

 and not more 'propter dangerium fores- 

 tariorum,' rents of freemen 3 31. 3</., 

 with stallage and furze, fifty-two cus- 

 tomary tenants who hold thirty-six vir- 

 gates and pay ^21 131. 4j<, rents of 

 hens I*. 6d., rents of sheep at shearing 2J., 

 pannage of pigs 135. 4</., services of cus- 

 tomary tenants 3 141. ioj<, and fines 

 of lands and profits of courts with redemp- 

 tion of villeins 2. The total value of 

 the manor per annum was 38 45. ivd,, 



IO4 



and it was held by the gervice of three 

 fees. 



41 Pat. 22 Edw. I, m. 1 3. 



Close, 8 Edw. II, m. 12. 



48 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. II, No. 73. In 

 the inquisition the manor is said to be 

 held of the earl of Leicester by the ser- 

 vice of one knight's fee and the service 

 of paying to the same earl every Easter a 

 pair of gilt spurs. 



44 Anct. Deeds (P.R.O.), B 3481. 



46 Enrolled Accts. P. 2 Edw. Ill, No. 

 31 ; Chart R, 7 Edw. Ill, m. 41 ; Feud. 

 Aids, ii, 335 ; Close, 21 Edw. Ill, pt. I, 

 m. 24</. ; and Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 

 21 Edw. III. 



46 Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. I, No. 

 78. 



Ibid. 79. 



48 Ibid. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, No. 66. 



49 Bankes, Dormant and Extinct Peerage, 

 ii, 552. 



40 Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, No. 8. 



