A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



one member, and by the same Act, to save it from 

 total disfranchisement, the parliamentary borough was 

 extended so as to include Sheet Tithing, the whole of 

 Buriton, Froxfield, and Liss parishes, the Hampshire 

 part of Steep parish and the tithings of Langrish, 

 Ramsdean, and Oxenbourn in East Meon parish. The 

 town continued to return one member until 1885, 

 when the representation was merged in that of the 

 county. It is interesting to note the rather remark- 

 able Parliamentary connexion between the Jolliffes 

 and Petersfield, members of the family sitting for the 

 borough with but few gaps from 1734 until 1880. 



As has been shown above, William de Clare in 1255 

 received a grant of two yearly fairs at his manor of 

 Petersfield, viz. on the eve, the feast, and the morrow 

 of St. Peter and St. Paul (28, 29, and 30 June), and on 

 the eve, the feast, and the morrow of St. Andrew 

 (29 and 30 November and I December). 6 * They 

 were both held until 1902, when the summer fair, 

 which was then held on 10 July, was abolished. The 

 autumn fair, which is now held on 6 October (on the 

 Heath), is for both business and pleasure, a large 

 amount of stock of every description being brought 

 to it. The market, which was formerly held every 

 Saturday, 53 is now held on alternate Wednesdays in the 

 market square, and is well attended, a good trade 

 being done in corn, live stock, and farm produce. 

 The market rights were purchased by the Urban 

 District Council from Lord Hylton in 1902 for 

 1,000. 



PETERSFIELD is not mentioned 

 MANORS in the Domesday Survey by name, 

 but it is most probably included in 

 the entry under Mapledurham in Finchdean hun- 

 dred. 54 Hence the history of the manor of Peters- 

 field is identical with that of Mapledurham (q.v.) 

 until 1484, when Henry second duke of Bucking- 

 ham, having entered into a conspiracy to dethrone 

 Richard III, was beheaded at Shrewsbury. His pos- 

 sessions thereupon passed into the hands of the king, 

 who, on 23 May, 1484, granted the manor of Peters- 

 field to trustees to hold for seven years for the payment 

 of the duke's debts. 55 On 28 February, 1485, the 

 king granted the reversion of the manor, on the 

 expiration of this term of seven years, to his kinsman 

 John duke of Norfolk and the heirs male of his body. 6 ' 

 The duke did not live to enjoy this gift, however, for 

 on 22 August, 1485, he was slain at Bosworth while 

 leading the van of Richard's army. 67 On 7 November, 

 1485, he was attainted by Act of Parliament and all 

 his honours were forfeited to Henry VII, who restored 

 Petersfield to Edward son and heir of Henry duke of 

 Buckingham, whom he had reinstated in I486. 68 

 The descent of Petersfield is identical with that of 



Mapledurham from this date until the time of 

 Edward Gibbon, the father of the historian, who 

 sold it in 1739 to John Jolliffe, M.P. for Petersfield. 53 

 William George Hylton Jolliffe, great-grandson of the 

 latter, was raised to the peerage as Lord Hylton in 



JOLLIFFI. Argent a 

 file vert -with three right 

 hands or thereon. 



HYLTON. Argent two 

 tars azure. 



1866. His grandson, Hylton George, Lord Hylton, 

 is the present lord of the manor. 



SHEET (Sithe, Shite, and Schyte, xiii cent. ; 

 Shete, xv cent. ; Shett, xvi cent.) formerly formed 

 part of the great manor of Mapledurham, and was 

 granted by Aumary, earl of Gloucester, son of 

 Aumary, count of Evreux, to Eustace de Greinville, 

 to hold to him and his heirs of the grantor and his 

 heirs by the service of the third part of a knight's 

 fee. The tenement of Richard the miller with the 

 mill and the suit and multure of the men of the 

 manor of Mapledurham and Petersfield was included 

 in the grant, as also the annual payment of two 

 cart-loads of brushwood and one sufficient tree at 

 the Feast of St. John the Baptist from the wood 

 for the maintenance of the mill. 60 The overlordship 

 was changed in 1 2 10, in which year Aumary conveyed 

 to Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester, all the fee 

 which Eustace held of his gift in Mapledurham, to 

 hold to the bishop and his successors in free alms. 61 

 In 1237 Eustace granted to the prior and canons of 

 Selborne in free alms all the land which he had by 

 the gift of his lord Aumary, earl of Gloucester, in 

 the manor of Mapledurham with the mill, saving to 

 the bishop the service of the third part of the knight's 

 fee, 6 * and his gift was confirmed by Peter des Roches 

 in the same year. 63 After the death of Eustace, his 

 widow Joan received as her dowry the third part of 

 fourteen marks' rent from the tenement in Sheet, but 

 this rent she quitclaimed to John prior of Selborne 

 and his successors in 1251 on her marriage with 

 Stephen Symeon. 64 In 1281 Prior Richard and the 

 convent of Selborne farmed out tj Abbot John and 

 the convent of Dureford all their lands and tenements 

 at Sheet for a rent of fourteen marks. 65 From this 



M Chart. R. 39 Hen. Ill, m. 3. 



58 Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, pt. I, No. 27 ; 

 22 Ric. II, No. 46 ; 4 Hen. IV, No. 41. 

 The weekly market of Saturday was 

 changed to the fortnightly Wednesday, 

 c. 1850. 



M V.C.H. Hants, i, 451. Evidently 

 from the entry the name of Mapledurham 

 was applied to a much larger extent of 

 land in 1086 than in later times. For in- 

 stance, it was assessed at 13 hides, there 

 were no fewer than three mills in the 

 place, the woodland alone could support 

 thirty swine from the pannage, and the 

 whole was valued at 25 a year. 



55 Pat. 2 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 22. 



Ibid. 



W G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vi, 46. 



48 Ibid, ii, 64. 



*' The Hampshire Repository, ii, 205 j 

 Close, 13 Geo. II, pt. 17, m. 36, &c. 

 The Jolliffe family came originally from 

 Leek (co. Staffs.). John Jolliffe settled in 

 Petersfield in 1730, on his marriage with 

 Catherine, only daughter and eventually 

 heiress of Robert Michell, whose second 

 wife, Jane, was the only daughter and 

 heiress of Arthur Bold (Deeds penes Lord 

 Hylton), whose family had owned pro- 

 perty in Petersfield since the sixteenth 

 century or even earlier. (William Bold 

 died in 1582 seised of a messuage called 

 The Gate House, and many other mes- 

 suages and lands in Buriton, Petersfield, 



116 



and Nursted, which he had purchased 

 from Thomas Dering and others. His 

 heir was his son William, aged seventeen, 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. [Ser. 2], ccii, No. 186.) 

 80 Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 (Ser. ii), 63. 



61 Ibid. In 1226 Peter confirmed to 

 Eustace all the lands and tenements which 

 Aumary gave him in his manor of Maple- 

 durham (ibid. 64). 



62 Ibid. 65. ' Ibid. 



M Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 35 Hen. 

 III. 



" Selborne Chart. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 (Ser. ii), 67. This grant was confirmed by 

 the king in the same year (Pat. 9 Edw. I, 

 m. 7). 



