THE HUNDRED OF BOSMERE 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



HAYLING ISLAND, INCLUDING 

 NORTH AND SOUTH HAYLING 



WARBLINGTON WITH 

 EMSWORTH CHAPELRY ' 



In the Domesday Survey the hundred of Bosmere, or Boseburg as it is 

 there called, 8 included Hayling, as yet undivided, Brockhampton, a tithing 



of Havant, Havant itself, which does not 

 appear to have been quit of suit at the 

 hundred court till later, and Newtimber, 

 a tithing of Warblington. Warblington 

 is assessed under Westbourne in Sussex, 

 but was most probably included in Bos- 

 mere Hundred. The total assessment before 

 the Conquest was fifty-seven hides and a 

 half, which by 1086 had decreased to 

 thirty-four. Havant had become a separate 

 liberty before the thirteenth century,' and 

 the manor of Hayling in South Hayling 

 became quit of suit at the hundred court 

 under a grant from Queen Mary to Henry 

 earl of Arundel, in 1553.* The hundred 

 was thus diminished to one parish, viz. 

 Warblington, and it seems probable that, 

 owing to its small extent, the sheriff held 

 one tourn for the hundreds of Portsdown 

 and Bosmere. 5 This assumption is strength- 

 ened by the fact that in 1465 the tithingman of Farlington 'in the 

 hundreds of Portsdown and Bosmere' made presentment at the sheriffs 

 tourn at ' Grenefeld ' of the obstruction of a footpath from Hambledon to 

 Havant. 6 Bosmere Hundred was in the hands of the king, and appears to 

 have been farmed occasionally. 7 



' The extent of the hundred as given in the Population Return of 1831. 

 Boseburgh is the usual form of the name before the fifteenth century 



3 Chart. R. 12 Edw. I, m. 5 ; Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 771. 



4 Pat. I Mary, pt. ii, m. 5 Hence, in 1587, separate certificates of musters were returned for < the hundreds 

 of Havant, Bosmere, and Hayling.' Cal. S.P. Don. 1581-90, p. 438. 



M- I.' n wj C ^TV/ h" d t} f , SheHff , Accounted separately for the two hundreds (Mem. R. Excheq. LTR 

 A 4 7 ? IP R , eC rda '' m ' I6 >- Ic is als ^rthy of notice that the profits of Bosmere at one time 



exceeded those of Portsdown, the one being 59,. SJ. and the other tos ^ 

 ' Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A 6568. 



' I !5 q ' J a ' q 'r^r fil \ 2 c ' EV' J WherC thC jUr rS dedde that il would not be to d ki "g's damage to farm 

 the hundreds of Titchfield, Portsdown, and Bosmere. 



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