A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



From East Stoke westwards firm white sands stretch 

 to Sinah Common, whence a steam ferry carries 

 the traveller to Portsea. The common, on which 

 golf links have been laid out, is a mass of golden gorse 

 in spring, and affords a fine view both of the Hamp- 

 shire coast and the distant hills of the Isle of Wight. 

 The magnificent sands and the outlook over the 

 English Channel have caused the hamlet of West 

 Town to grow into a seaside resort with a parade 

 along the south beach. The church stands to the 

 north of the West Town, and at some distance north 

 of the church is the manor house, a pretty red brick 

 building of eighteenth-century date in well wooded 

 grounds, in the occupation of the vicar, the Rev. 

 C. H. Clarke. This part of the parish is the most 

 picturesque in the island, and from the abundance 

 of trees has the great additional advantage of being 

 sheltered from the gales which sweep across the island 

 in winter. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey 

 M4NOR the abbey of Jumieges near Caen held 

 about half the island of H4TLING in 

 demesne with the overlordship of the rest by the gift 

 of William I, but their possession was disputed by 

 the monks of St. Swithun, who based their claim on 

 a grant of Queen Emma.* 6 She is said to have given 

 this manor to the Priory in 1043 with eight others 

 as a thank-offering for having passed safely through 

 the ordeal of fire," and the monks stated that she 

 gave them one-half of the manor and the reversion 

 of the other half at the death of Ulward White to 

 whom she gave it for life and that Ulward died in the 

 time of William I, who thereupon granted the manor 

 to the abbey of Jumieges.* 8 In a cartulary of 

 St. Swithun there occurs a charter purporting to be 

 a bequest of the Lady Elgifu * 9 of five hides at Hayling 

 to the Old Minster together with the reversion of five 

 hides, which she had bequeathed to one Wulfward 

 the White, evidently identical with Ulward White, 

 for life, and stating that the Priory, at Wulfward's 

 request, had farmed their moiety to him. 80 Hayling 

 was evidently part of the queen's dower, as Ulward 

 himself held it of Queen Edith before the Conquest." 

 The abbey of Jumieges, however, having once ob- 

 tained a grant of so rich a manor, refused to give it 

 up, and though William I himself confirmed Queen 

 Emma's gift to the priory," Henry I regranted Hayling 

 to Jumieges. 83 Early in the twelfth century Bishop 

 Henry de Blois and the monks of Winchester re- 

 nounced their right to the manor in favour of 

 Jumieges Abbey at the prayer of Pope Innocent and 

 in consideration of the poverty of that church, and 

 in 1150 Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, bore 

 witness to this concession. 34 During the whole of 

 Stephen's reign the abbey seems to have lost power 

 over its English possessions, to judge from the man- 



date of Henry II to the officers throughout England 

 to restore to the abbot and monks all their fugitives 

 who escaped after the death of Henry I ** and from 

 his confirmatory charters to them. 36 He confirmed 

 to the abbot and monks free warren in Hayling as 

 they had had it under Henry I, 87 and allowed them 

 to carry all things from the demesne of the church 

 freely to all the ports of England and Normandy; 38 

 hence it seems that the produce of the island was 

 exported to the Norman abbey, and, from the accounts 

 of the manor rendered when the priory of Hayling, 

 founded in the island by the abbey of Jumieges, was 

 in the hands of Edward I by reason of the war with 

 France, it appears that the profits of the manor at 

 that date were considerable. They included $s. for 

 100 doves, 49*. for 114 cheeses, and l$s. c)J. for 

 21 gallons of butter. 39 In 1414, after the general 

 dissolution of the alien priories in England, Henry V 

 granted Hayling to the priory of Sheen in Surrey. 40 

 The prior seems, thenceforward, to have leased the 

 site of the manor reserving all jurisdiction. 41 Sheen 

 Priory surrendered in 1539 and Henry VIII granted 

 Hayling manor and the site of Hayling Priory in 

 1541 to Holy Trinity College, Arundel, in exchange 

 for the manor of Bury. 4 * In 

 1548 the lands of the college 

 were bestowed on Henry, earl 

 of Arundel, 43 who settled them 

 on his daughter Joan wife of 

 John Lord Lumley. She died 

 without issue and her husband, 

 who survived her, conveyed 

 all the Arundel estates to his 

 nephew Philip, duke of Nor- 

 folk, in February, 1579-80. 

 He was attainted in 1589, 

 but the Arundel estates, and 



Hayling with them, were restored to his son Thomas 

 in 1604." It remained part of the property of the 

 successive dukes of Norfolk till 1825 when William 

 Padwick, a distinguished lawyer, purchased it under 

 an Act of Parliament from Bernard Edward the then 

 duke. 45 The new lord brought several suits relating 

 to the liberties of the manor against his tenants, 

 the most important being one concerning the oyster 

 fisheries. 46 After his death the greater part of the 

 manor was enfranchised, the remainder being pur- 

 chased in 1871 by Mr. J. C. Park, whose son, 

 Mr. C. J. Park, the present owner, inherited it in 

 1887." 



Besides a court baron the lord of Hayling held 

 view of frankpledge twice yearly, which was attended 

 by tithingmen from Northney, Mengham, and West 

 Town. 48 In 1553 Queen Mary granted the earl of 

 Arundel return of writs and pleas of the .crown in 

 this manor as in Alton hundred. 49 Wreck of sea 



FITZALAN, Earl of 

 Arundel. Gulct a lion 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 47 30. 



" Historia Major Winton. (Anglia Sacra, 

 i, 235). But the authenticity of this 

 account is questionable. 



88 Cal. Doc. Franct,i, 526. 



39 Queen Emma was also known as 

 Elgifu. 



80 Add. MS. 15350; see Kemble, Codex 

 Dip!. No. 1337. 



81 V.C.H. Hants, i, 4730. 



" According to the Priory's cartulary ; 

 Add. MS. 29436, fol. lib. 



*" Cartae Antiq. EE. 8. One clause in 

 the charter, evidently directed against the 



Priory, forbids anyone to take away or 

 diminish anything of it. 



84 Cal. Doc. France, \, 55, 56. 



85 Ibid. 55. 



86 Cartae Antiq. EE. 8. 

 1 Cal. Doc. France, i, 55. 

 88 Cartae Antiq. EE. 9. 



" The account is given in full in Long- 

 croft, Bosmere Hundred, 208. 



40 See foundation charter of Sheen. 

 Dugdale, Mon. vi, 31. 



41 Mins. Accts. 31-2 Hen. VIII, Surr. 

 bdle. 146, m. 45. 



130 



. and P. H,n. fill, xvi, 1056 

 (69). 



48 Ibid, xi* (2), 800 (35). 



44 Pat. 2 Jas. I, pt. 17, m. 37. 



45 Local and Pers. Acts, 6 Geo. IV, 

 cap. 57. 



46 Southampton County Paper, Sat. 9 Mar. 

 1850. For full details of these suits see 

 Add. MS. 24788. 



Ex inform. Mr. C. J. Park, lord of 

 the manor. 



48 Court R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 205, No. 

 S 6. 



49 Pat. I Mary, pt. 2, m. 5. 



