A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



on the mother-church of Chalton. Hence a dispute 

 concerning the advowson arose in 1275 between 

 Henry de Bonynges, lord of the manor of Idsworth, 

 who claimed it as an appurtenance of Idsworth manor, 

 and the prioress of Nuneaton, who made good her 

 right as patron of Chalton church, and therefore of 

 the appendant chapel.'" The rectors of Chalton were 

 bound from very early times to find a chaplain at the 

 chapel of St. Peter Idsworth 153 to say mass on Sundays, 

 Wednesdays, and Fridays, and on double feasts 

 throughout the year, and to administer the sacraments 

 and other rites (except the burial of the dead) for the 

 inhabitants of the hamlets of Idsworth and Dene 

 (Horndean, or perhaps Finchdean).' 44 Sir William 

 Haughe, rector of the church of Chalton, discontinued 

 this practice in 1394, and accordingly proceedings 

 were taken against him in the Court of Arches by 

 Richard Romyn, lord of Idsworth manor, and the 

 rest of the inhabitants of the two villages before 

 Thomas Stowe and Adam Uske, who decided that 

 the rector was liable by custom to find a chaplain to 



minister in Idsworth Chapel. This sentence was 

 published by the bishop of Winchester on I May, 

 1398, and confirmed by the prior and chapter of 

 Winchester on 3 June following. 1 " 



In early times there was a chapel in Wellsworth. 

 It is included in a list of churches and chapels in 

 Hampshire made while Wykeham was bishop, wa 

 then not assessed proffer exilitatem, but was burdened 

 with a pension of 8/. <)\d. to Southwick Priory."* 



Stanstead College, which was 

 CHARITIES founded by Mr. Charles Dixon, of 

 Stanstead Park (Suss.), by deed 1852, 

 for the support and benefit of decayed merchants of 

 London, Liverpool, or Bristol, being members of the 

 Church of England, is situated in this parish. The 

 college is regulated by schemes of the Charity Com- 

 missioners, dated 24 December, 1875, and 8 May, 

 1877. The official trustees hold the trust funds, 

 which consist of 2,098 iSs. id. bank stock, 9,000 

 colonial securities, and 4,000 Indian railway securi- 

 ties, producing an annual income of 588 161. IO</. 



CLANFIELD 



Clenefeld and Clanefeud (xiii cent.) ; Clanefclde 

 (xiv cent.), and Clanffield (xvii cent.). 



Clanfield is a small parish with an area of 1,404 acres, 

 ihut in on the north and east by great chains of downs, 

 being bounded on the north by Tegdown Hill, Oxen- 

 bourn Down, and Hilhampton Down, and on the east 

 by Holt Down, Chalton Down, and Windmill Hill. 

 The main road from Petersfield to Portsmouth runs 

 through the east of the parish, keeping parallel with 

 the line of downs which forms its eastern boundary. 

 The village itself, dominated by Windmill Hill, 

 which, capped by its windmill, towers to the east, is 

 grouped round the cross-roads in the extreme west of 

 the parish, and consists of a collection of half-timbered 



thatched farm-houses and cottages which, though some- 

 what out of repair, are of picturesque appearance. A 

 little road which runs north past the New Inn has 

 the thatched post office on one side and the village 

 police-station on the other. The church of St. James, 

 with a widely spreading yew in the churchyard, stands 

 to the south of the cross-roads. Near it is the village 

 well, with its dilapidated thatched roof. The school 

 stand to the south of the village at the junction of 

 South Lane with the road leading to Hambledon. 

 There is a small Wesleyan chapel in the parish. 



The parish contains 989 J acres of arable land, and 

 248 acres of permanent grass. 1 The soil is light and 

 dry, the subsoil chalk. The chief crops are wheat, 



158 De Dane. R. No. n, m. 22. 

 153 Its dedication has since been changed 

 to that of St. Hubert 



VIEW IN CLANFIELD VILLAGE 



1" Wykebam', Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 ii, 481. 

 Ibid. 



110 



JM Ibid, j, 371. 



1 Statistics from Board of Agriculture 



