BOSMERE HUNDRED 



HAYLING ISLAND 



HOWARD, Duke of 

 Norfolk. Gules a bind 

 between six crosslets Jitchy 

 argent -with a scutcheon 

 or upon the bend charged 

 with a demi-lion in a tret- 

 sure of Scotland pierced 

 through the mouth with 

 an arrow all gules. 



was granted to Henry, earl of Arundel, in 1548, but 

 the tenants of East Stoke had already had that pri- 

 vilege throughout the island under the charter of 

 Henry III to William Fal- 

 coner. 50 Hence in 1634 

 when a butt and a hogshead 

 of wine were cast up by the 

 sea the earl of Arundel's tenant 

 claimed the one and the tenant 

 of East Stoke the other." 



EAST STOKE, the land 

 including the south-eastern 

 corner of the island, was given 

 by Edwy to his faithful ser- 

 vant Ethelsig and his heirs in 

 956.*' It appears to have 

 been identical with the 5 hides 

 in Hayling, held by Ulward 

 before the Conquest. They 

 were granted by William I to 

 Earl Roger of Shrewsbury, 

 who bestowed them on the 



abbey of St. Martin, Troarn. 4 * The gift was con- 

 firmed by Henry I and Henry II. 44 The Norman 

 monks reserved their land in Hayling in 1260 

 when exchanging their English possessions for the 

 Norman property of Bruton Abbey in Somerset, 44 

 probably owing to the convenience of the situa- 

 tion of the island, for' it appears from a licence 

 granted by King John that ' cheeses and bacons ' 

 were exported from their English demesnes for their 

 own consumption.** In the following year, however, 

 the abbot of Troarn conveyed the land to John 

 Falconer of Wade to hold at the yearly rent of id." 

 William Falconer, John's predecessor in Wade (q.v.), 

 had already obtained a few acres in Hayling, 18 and was 

 granted wreck of sea in the whole hundred of Bos- 

 mere, both within and without Hayling Island." For 

 some time the successive lords of Limborne and Wade 

 retained lands and rents in East Stoke, North Stoke, and 

 Westney in Hayling. In 1316 the tenants of John 

 and Joan Botiler of Limborne, in the island of 

 Hayling, accused them of exacting excessive services, 

 at the same time stating that their land was ancient 

 demesne of the crown, producing in evidence an 

 extract from the Domesday Survey of zj hides held 

 by Earl Harold before the Conquest. Joan proved 

 that the land was that which was held by the 

 abbot of Troarn, and therefore was not ancient 

 demesne. 80 The descent of East Stoke is coincident 

 with that of Limborne (q.v.) until the death of 

 Anthony Pound, when East Stoke evidently became 

 the portion of his daughter Honor, who married 

 Henry, earl of Sussex." In 1596 Sir Robert Rat- 

 cliffe, earl of Sussex, and son and heir of Earl Henry, 

 conveyed East Stoke to Jonah Latelais, whose son 

 Harison Latelais sold the ' manor or lordship of North- 



stocke, Eastocke, and Westhaye (evidently Westney), 6 ' 

 with a house called Kent in Westhay,' to Thomas 

 Peckham of London. 63 From Thomas Peckham it 

 ultimately descended to Peck- 

 ham Williams, 64 who be- 

 queathed it to John Williams, 

 and he vested it in trustees 

 for sale. 64 It was purchased 

 by Elizabeth Poole Penfold, 

 at whose death in lS^.z K the 

 estates passed to her great- 

 nephew, John Leigh Holiest, 

 who took the name of Wil- 

 liams. 67 In 1845 he conveyed 

 East Stoke to Thomas Harris 

 of Donnington, 68 from whom 

 it was purchased by Mr. Lynch 

 White of Streatham in 1870. 

 he sold the estate 



RATCLIFFI, Earl of 

 Sussex. Urgent a bend 

 engrailed table. 



From 1890 onwards 

 in building plots, the largest 

 portion being bought in 1902 by Mr. Frank Pearce 

 of Portsmouth. 69 



In 1086, z hides in Hayling, which had been 

 held by Edward the Confessor by a certain Leman, 

 and later seized by Earl Harold, were held by the 

 king himself. 70 They seem to have been annexed to 

 the honour of Gloucester, for towards the end of the 

 thirteenth century Ralph de Anvers held 2 hides of 

 land in Hayling of that honour." The later history 

 of this fee is uncertain, it seems probable, from the 

 claim by Joan Botiler's tenants to hold in ancient 

 demesne, that at any rate a portion of it was at some 

 time alienated to the owners of East Stoke. 



The church of OUR LADY, 

 CHURCHES SOUTH HATLING, lies to the west 

 of the road from the manor house 

 to West Town. It has a chancel 41 ft. by 19 ft., 

 with a north vestry, central tower 1 8 ft. 7 in. square 

 (24 ft. 3 in. square over all), with nave and aisles 

 54ft. 10 in. long by 41 ft. 6 in. wide, the aisles being 

 prolonged to overlap the tower on the north and 

 south. Over the south door of the nave is a wooden 

 porch. 



The whole building is set out as one design, and 

 was probably in course of construction from the 

 second quarter of the thirteenth century to the end 

 of the third quarter, the chancel being the earliest 

 part. The treatment of the tower is a very interesting 

 modification of the cruciform plan, its walls being 

 only zft. loin, thick, and its western supports re- 

 duced to a minimum, so that the space it covers is 

 treated as the east bay of the nave rather than the 

 base of a central tower, and the transepts to which it 

 opens on north and south are merely eastern chapels 

 of the same width as the aisles. The arches opening 

 from the aisles to these eastern chapels die into the 

 walls, so that there is no loss of width in the aisle, 

 their existence being only due to the constructional 



M Chart. R. 51 Hen. Ill, m. n. 



Cal. S.P. Dom. 1634-5, P- 5*1. 



M Kemble, Codex Difl. 1193. The 

 boundaries of the five * mansae ' given 

 to Ethelsig were as follows : First out to 

 the old inclosure for horses, thence to the 

 lea, from the lea on to ' Ceanninga Mare,' 

 from ' Ceanninga Metre ' out on sea. 



68 V.C.H. Hants, \, 478*. 



5 Cal. Doc. France, i, 67. 



65 Bruton Cartul. (Somers. Rec. Soc.), 

 310. 



58 Ibid. 326. 



" Feet of F. Hants, 46 Hen. Ill, 

 No. 36. 



" Ibid. 34 Hen. Ill, No. 2. 



59 Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 95. 



60 Plac. Abbre-v. (Rec. Com.), 325. 



61 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mil. 3 Eliz. 



" Cf. Parl. Writs (Rec. Com.), ii (z), 

 344, where the hamlets of Northstratton 

 and Westney are given as under the 

 lordship of John Bot'ur in 1315. 



> Close, 6 Chas. I, pt. ii, m. 12. 

 M For an account of the family see 

 Dallaway's Sun. i, viii. 



85 Act of Parl. 42 Geo. Ill, cap. 



53- 



66 Gent. Mag. (New Ser.), rvii, 675. 



" Ibid, xviii, 196. 



98 Longcroft, Borne re Hand. 193. 



69 Information kindly supplied by Mr. 

 H. F. Trigg of Hayling. 



70 F.C.H. Hants, 1,451*. 



n Testa de ffevill (Rec. Com.), 134. 



