FINCHDEAN HUNDRED 



John, seventh Lord Dormer, who died in 1785, 

 and Charles, eighth Lord Dormer." 1 The last 

 named sold the manor in 1789 to Jervoise Clarke- 

 Jervoise, 11 ' whose great-grandson, Lieut.-Colonel Sir 

 Henry Clarke-Jervoise, bart., 115 is the present lord of 

 the manor. 



At a short distance south-west of Idsworth church 

 is the site of the old Idsworth House, but nothing 

 remains of the building except some garden walls. 



WELLSITORTH (Walesworthe, Welesworth, xiii 

 cent. ; Waleswith, xv cent. ; Wallysworth, xvi cent.). 

 In the reign of Henry II the manor was held by 

 William de Say, and on his death passed to his 

 daughter and co-heir Maud wife of William de 

 Bocland, who was holding it by right of inheritance 

 towards the end of the twelfth century. 11 * On her 

 death without issue it passed to her heir Geoffrey 

 Fitz-Picrs, the husband of her sister Beatrice, 115 

 who was created earl of Essex for his service to 

 King John on the day of his coronation. On 

 Geoffrey's death in 1213 the manor passed to his 

 son and heir Geoffrey, who assumed the name of 

 Mandeville. 116 He did not hold it long, however, for 

 he was slain in a tournament in London, 23 February, 

 1216, and his estates passed to his brother William de 

 Mandeville, earl of Essex, who gave it within a few 

 years to Sir Geoffrey de Lucy for saving his life in 

 a tournament at Lincoln. 117 Geoffrey de Lucy in his 

 turn sold it to Peter des Roches, bishop of Winches- 

 ter, 118 who soon afterwards granted it in free alms to 

 the abbey of Titchfield which he had founded in 

 I233. 119 Henry III confirmed Wellsworth to Titch- 

 field, and granted in addition that the abbot and the 

 canons should have thol and theam, infangenthef and 

 utfangenthef, and many other privileges in Wellsworth, 

 and also that the lands of Wellsworth, which were 

 within the bounds of the royal forest, should be fot 

 ever quit from waste, regard, view of foresters, etc. 110 

 In 1280 the abbot of Titchfield being summoned to 

 show by what warrant he claimed to have pillory and 

 the assize of bread and beer in Wellsworth, produced 

 the charter of Henry III and the case was dismissed. 1 ' 1 

 Again he produced the charter in the same year when 

 he was summoned to show why he should not permit 

 his villeins of Wellsworth to make suit at the king's 

 hundred-court of Portsdown, 1 " and the case was 

 decided in his favour. In 1 294 Edward I by charter 



CHALTON 



granted to the abbot and convent free warren in 

 Wellsworth, 1 " and this grant was confirmed by Henry 

 VI in I4-Z4. 1 " In the reign of Edward II, William 

 de Cleydon, the deputy of Lord Hugh le Despenser, 

 the justiciar of the forest ' citra Trentam ' ordered the 

 warden of the forest of Bere to allow the abbot and 

 convent of Titchfield and their men of Wellsworth to 

 have common of pasture in the said forest for all their 

 animals except goats from a place called ' Meslyng- 

 forth ' even to ' Rolokescastel,' according to charters 

 of the kings of England. 1 * 4 The abbot and convent of 

 Titchfield held Wellsworth until the dissolution," 4 

 when it was granted by the king to Thomas Wrioth- 

 esley, earl of Southampton. 117 The manor remained 

 the property of the earls of Southampton "* until 

 about the middle of the seventeenth century, when it 

 was bought up by Richard Norton, 1 " after which it 

 followed the descent of the manor of Southwick, 1 * 1 

 in the hundred of Portsdown (q. v.). 



The Romyns also had a tenement in fPELLS- 

 fPORTH, which followed the descent of the manor 

 of Idsworth, passing with it to the Banesters. It was 

 probably in origin the two messuages, 18 acres of 

 land and I acre of wood in Chalton, granted to 

 Henry Romyn and Joan his wife by Richard Baldwin 

 of Wellsworth and Agnes his wife in I345. 1 * 1 Henry 

 Romyn died in 1349 se ' se d f the following tene- 

 ments in Wellsworth : A messuage, 105 acres of 

 land worth 261. ^d. per annum, a dovecote worth 

 6/. 8</. per annum, and I "]s. $d. rents of free tenants 

 and others held of John Romyn by money-rent and 

 suit of court. 1 " His son and heir was Edmund, aged 

 six, who probably died while under age, when the 

 tenement reverted to John Romyn the overlord. It 

 seems only to be called a manor in one document 

 the inquisition taken after the death of Edward 

 Banester in 1606 when it is described as situated 

 in the vill of Idsworth, and of the annual value 

 of IO/. 1M It has continued to form part of the 

 Idsworth estates, and is at the present day repre- 

 sented by the farm of Little Wellsworth. 



The church of ST. MICHAEL, 

 CHURCHES CH4LTON, has a chancel 32 ft. long 

 by 1 8 ft. 3 in. wide, a nave 46 ft. by 

 2 1 ft. 8 in., with a north porch, a south transept 

 1 2 ft. 8 in. north to south by 1 2 ft. 2 in., and a west 

 tower. 



ul Recov. R. Bait. 13 Geo. Ill, rot. 



262. 



111 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 29 Geo. III. 



118 Hi grandfather, the Rev. Samuel 

 Jervoise Clarke-Jervoise, was created a 

 baronet 13 Nov. 1813 (vide Berry, Hants 

 Gen. 341). 



' Harl. MS. 6602, fol. 26. 



Ibid. " Ibid. 



"7 Ibid. IM Ibid. 



119 Ibid. 3. In 1239 a fine was levied 

 between Richard de Lucy and Geoffrey 

 de Lucy, the lord of the manor, whom 

 Isaac, abbot of Titchfield, called to war- 

 rant and who warranted to him, where- 

 by the following arrangement was made : 

 (i) Richard quitclaimed from himself 

 and his heirs to Geoffrey and his heirs 

 and the abbot and his successors all right 

 which he had in the manor. (2) Geoffrey 

 warranted to the abbot and his succes- 

 sors the manor in free alms against all 

 men. (3) The abbot granted for himself 

 and his successors to Geoffrey and his 



heirs that he and his heirs should present 

 to the abbot and his successors one fitting 

 clerk ' in canonicum ' to celebrate mass 

 for the souls of Geoffrey, his ancestors, 

 and successors. On the death of a canon 

 another was to be appointed by Geoffrey 

 and his heirs, and thus from clerk to clerk 

 successively for ever. (4) The abbot 

 received Geoffrey, Richard, and Geoffrey's 

 son and heir John into all the orisons of 

 the church. The concord was made in 

 the presence of John, who agreed that his 

 inheritance should be alienated to the 

 abbot and his successors to hold in free 

 alms (Feet of F. Hants, Mil. 23 Hen. III). 



120 Dugdale, Man. vi, 931. This char- 

 ter was confirmed by Edw. I and Edw. II 

 (Pat. II Edw. II.pt. I, m. 15; Harl. MS. 

 6602, fol. 17). 



121 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com), 763. 



122 Ibid. 765. The king's representative 

 said that Henry III had been seised of the 

 suit of the villeins even after the granting 

 of the charter, but the case was finally 



107 



decided by a jury of knights who swore 

 that Henry III had never been seised of 

 the suit of the villeins after the charter. 



128 Chart. R. 22 Edw. I, No. 13. 



1M Pat. 3 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 13. 



124 Harl. MS. 6602, fol. 25. 



12 Testa de Ne-uill (Rec Com.), 234 ; 

 Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 213; Feud. 

 Aids, ii, 320 ; Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 

 29 Hen. VIII ; Dugdale, Man. vi, 935 



127 Pat. 29 Hen. VIII, pt. I, m. 4 and 5, 

 and 38 Hen. VIII, pt. 4, m. 5. 



128 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), xcii, No. 78, 

 and cxcvi, No. 46 ; W. and L. Inq. p.m. 

 (Ser. 2), bdle. 71, No. 120. 



Vtdc Ct. of Wards. Misc. Bks. 

 656. 



180 Recov. R. Mil. 20 Geo. II, rot. 265 

 and 1 6 Geo. Ill, Trin. rot. 164-5. 



181 Feet ofF. Hants, Trin. 19 Edw. Ill 



182 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, istpt. 

 No. 19. 



188 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxcii, No. 

 177. 



