A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



SOMERSET, Duke of 

 Beaufort. France quar- 

 tered 'with England with- 

 in a border gobony argent 

 and azure. 



Clarke-Jervoise, who in 1789 bought up the neigh- 

 bouring manor of Idsworth (q.v.). His son, the Rev. 

 Samuel Jervoise Clarke-Jervoise, was created a baronet 

 1 3 November, 1 8 1 3. M Lieut.- 

 Colonel Sir Henry Clarke-Jer- 

 voise, bart., grandson of the 

 latter, is the present lord of the 

 manor. 



IDSWORTH is not men- 

 tioned in Domesday Book, and 

 at the time of the Survey 

 was probably included in the 

 manor of Chalton, then held 

 by Earl Roger of Shrews- 

 bury. 8 * It is probable that it 

 was separated from Chalton 

 when, on the rebellion of 

 Robert de Belesme, third earl 

 of Shrewsbury, in 1102, his 



lands were forfeited to the crown. 8 * Then, when 

 Henry I granted Chalton, as part of the honour of 

 Leicester, to Robert de Beaumont, that part of 

 Chalton which was afterwards known as Idsworth 

 was evidently detached from 

 the main manor, and was 

 afterwards held by a certain 

 Norman, William de Ferrers, 

 directly of the king. 85 In 

 1 204, King John ordered the 

 sheriff of Hampshire to deliver 

 up to Henry Hoese the land 

 of Idsworth which had be- 

 longed to William de Ferrers, 

 together with the stock of 

 that land and seed to sow 

 it. The corn, however, he 

 was to retain to the king's 



use. 86 Henry held the manor for about eigh- 

 teen years of the gift of King John. 87 In 1222, 

 however, King Henry III granted it to one of his 

 crossbowmen, Brito by name, to support him in the 

 royal service, and Henry Hoese was ordered to 

 surrender it to him. 88 This he did not do immedi- 

 ately, whereupon the sheriff of Hampshire was 

 ordered to force Henry to give up the manor to Brito 

 with all the profits therefrom since the king's grant to 

 Brito. 89 Brito held it till 1226, when the king 

 ordered the sheriff to cause Reynold de Bernevall to 

 have full seisin of the land of Idsworth, saving, 

 however, to Brito all his chattels found in that land. 90 

 Brito died less than a year afterwards, and the sheriff 

 was commanded to give up to his widow Edelina all 

 the corn, which he had caused to be sown in Idsworth, 



JIRVOISE. Sable a 

 cheveron between three 

 eaglet close argent. 



in order to support her and her sons. 81 The manor 

 was next granted to the king's messenger William 

 Blome, who held it for nearly thirty years. 9 ' On his 

 death the king granted the reversion of the manor, 

 valued at 16 a year, after the death of William's 

 widow Aids, to his yeoman Herman de Budbergh, as 

 a reward for his services. In the grant it was specially 

 stipulated that Herman and his heirs should not 

 alienate the land to any but the king without his 

 special consent." Herman, some time afterwards, 

 granted the manor to Queen Eleanor, who, in her 

 turn, with the consent of her husband, granted it in 

 free alms to Tarrant Nunnery (co. Dors.), 94 a house 

 to which she was so great a benefactress that it was 

 sometimes styled in records ' Locus benedictus reginae ' 

 or ' Locus reginae super Tarent.' * 5 Her gift was 

 confirmed by Henry III in layi, 86 and by Edward I 

 in 1280." In 1281 Iseult the abbess of Tarrant 

 granted the manor of Idsworth to Henry de Bonynges 

 and Isabel his wife to hold of the abbess and her 

 successors for the rent of a penny at Christmas and by 

 suit at the hundred court of Wollesthorn every three 

 weeks. 98 From this time the abbess and her successors 

 were overlords of the manor of Idsworth, 99 and as 

 late as 1606 the manor was said to be held of Sir 

 John Portman as of the site of his abbey of Tarrant. 100 

 From Henry de Bonynges and Isabel his wife the 

 manor passed to John Romyn, who was holding it in 

 I3l6, 101 and remained in the family of Romyn until 

 I4I9, 1M when John Romyn died without issue, his 

 heir being his distant kinsman Thomas de Winters- 

 hull, 103 lord of the manor of Wintershull in Bramley 

 (co. Surr.). 104 He died without issue in October, 

 1420, leaving two sisters and co-heirs, Joan the wife 

 of William Catton, and Agnes 

 the wife of William Basset, 104 

 who, in 143 1, released all right 

 in the manor to Nicholas 

 Banester and Isabel his wife, 10 * 

 the widow of the John Romyn 

 who died in 141 9- 10 ' The 

 manor remained in the family 

 of Banester for over two cen- 

 turies, 108 passing at length into 

 the family of Dormer by the 

 marriage of Mary daughter of 

 Edward Banester with Robert 

 Dormer, third son of Sir 

 Robert Dormer first Lord 



Dormer of Wyng. 109 Their grandson, Charles, fifth 

 Lord Dormer of Wyng, was seised of it in 1723," 

 and it was held successively by the Rev. Charles 

 Dormer, sixth Lord Dormer, who died in 1761, 



DORMER OF WYNG. 

 Azure ten billets or and 

 a chief or with three 

 martlets axure therein. 



m Burke, Peerage, 88 1. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 478^. 



w G. E. C. Complete Peerage, vii, 135. 



otRot. Lift. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, yb ; 

 Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I. The land 

 he held in Idsworth was of the annual 

 value of 1 8. M Ibid. 



! Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 136*. 



m Rot. Lilt. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 487*. 



89 Ibid, i, 488*. 



Ibid, ii, 95. 



"Ibid, ii, 189. 



91 Ibid, ii, 174; Pat. 14 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



Chart. R. 41 Hen. Ill, m. 6. 



91 Chart. R. 55 Hen. Ill, m. 10. 



95 Dugdale, Mon. v, 619. 



"Chart. R. 55 Hen. Ill, m. 10. 



V Chart. R. 8 Edw. I, m. 4. 



"Feet of F. Hants, East. 9 Edw. I ; 

 Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I. This must 

 really have been a confirmation of a pre- 

 ceding grant, for Henry was seised of the 

 manor in 1275 (De Bane. R. No. II, 

 m. 22). 



99 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), viii, No. 69. 



100 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccrcii, No. 



'77- 



101 Feud. Aids, ii, 318. 



1M Close, 1 8 Edw. II, m. I d. ; Cal. of 

 Close, 1323-27, p. 520; Inq. p.m. 35 

 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, No. 82 ; Close, 2 Hen. 

 IV, pt. 2, m. 2. 



I" 3 Inq. p.m. 8 Hen. V, No. 92. This 

 Thomas was the son of Thomas de 



106 



Wintenhull, son of Thomas de Winters- 

 hull, son of Walter de Wintershull and 

 Juliana his wife, sister of John Romyn, 

 father of John Romyn, father of John 

 Romyn, father of Richard Romyn, 

 father of John Romyn. 



104 Manning and Bray, Surrey, ii, 84. 



104 De Bane. R. Mich. 3 Hen. VI, m. 

 123. 



"* Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 9 Hen. VI. 



10 7 Berry, Hants Gen., 81. 



lot feud. Aids, ii, 362 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 (Ser. 2), viii, No. 69 ; ccxcii, No. 177 ; 

 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 14 Chas. II ; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 14 Chas. II, rot. 24. 



109 Burke, Peerage, 510. 



110 Recov. R. Trin. 9 Geo. I, rot. 53. 



