PORTSDOWN HUNDRED 



BOARHUNT 



The soil of the parish is clay and loam, subsoil 

 chalk and clay ; the area is 2,538 acres, of which 

 1,033 acres are arable land, 377$ permanent grass, 

 and 457 woodland.' 



The following place-names occur in 1538 : Crage- 

 land, Aishe Land, and Langislond ; ' and in 1775 

 Mitchell Land. 4 



Boarhunt had at least three manors, 

 MANORS all of which can be traced in Domesday 

 with a fourth holding in addition. 

 These were subsequently known as Boarhunt, East 

 Boarhunt, and West Boarhunt. Domesday assigns 

 in addition to the monks of St. Swithun's, Win- 

 chester, a holding of half a hide. 



The principal manor was WEST BO4RHUNT, 

 which Earl Roger held at the time of the Domesday 

 Survey ; three freemen had held it of King Edward 

 as an alod. A knight held one hide of this manor 

 where he had one plough.* 



The over-lordship of Boarhunt passed from Earl 

 Roger to his son Robert de Belesme, earl of Shrews- 

 bury and Arundel ; ' and after his forfeiture to the 

 earls of Arundel, for in 1273 one-third of the manor 

 of Boarhunt was held in dower by Maud de Verdun, 

 late the wife of John Fitz Alan, senior ; and two 

 thirds were held by John de Mareschall as guardian 

 of the heirs of John Fitz Alan, junior.' 



In the reign of Henry III Westburhunte" appears 

 among the fees of the earl of Arundel, being then 

 held of him by the prior of Southwick as half a fee 

 of the old feoffment ; * it remained in the hands of 

 this priory until the Dissolution. 10 After the Disso- 

 lution the manor of West Boarhunt was granted to 

 Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton," in order 

 that he might alienate it to Ralph Henslowe. Thomas 

 Henslowe, Ralph's grandson, died seised of the manor 

 in 1617, leaving a son Thomas aged eleven. 12 After 

 this date, however, there seems to be no mention of 

 West Boarhunt until 1691, when Henry Lacy and 

 his wife Catherine were holding half the manor and 

 advowson, though whether by right of inheritance or 

 by purchase it seems impossible to discover, and con- 

 veyed them in that year to Richard Caryll, evidently 

 for the purpose of a settlement. 11 



Three years later Richard Caryll, Henry Lacy, and 

 Catherine sold the manor to Richard Norton for 

 660 ; '* and from this time it evidently follows the 

 descent of the manor of Boarhunt (q. v.). 



The manor of BOARHUNT was held by Hugh 

 de Port in 1086 ; at the time of the Survey he 

 held one hide in Boarhunt and Tezelin held it 

 of him ; Lefsi and Merman had held it of King 



BOARHUNT. Argent 

 a fuse between six mart- 

 lets gules. 



Edward as an alod. In the time of King Edward 

 the Confessor, as well as in 1086, it paid geld for 

 one hide. There was enough demesne land for one 

 plough and a mill worth $!. ; the whole manor 

 being worth zo/.' 4 In the reign of Henry III it 

 was held of his heir Robert de St. John as ' Bor- 

 hunte ' by Herbert de Boarhunt, who owed him the 

 service of two knights' fees." These were held by 

 Thomas de Boarhunt at his death in 1 262." 



The family which took the name of Boarhunt 

 were holding lands in the parish early in the thir- 

 teenth century, 15 and by the beginning of the four- 

 teenth century were in posses- 

 sion of the manor, which on 

 the murder of Sir Herbert 

 Boarhunt in 1312 was divided 

 between his two sons Richard 

 and Henry. One part, known 

 as the manor of Boarhunt, the 

 manor proper, remained with 

 Richard the elder, and the 

 other part, subsequently known 

 as Boarhunt Herbelyn (q.v.), 

 passed to Henry the younger. 19 

 Sir Richard de Boarhunt set- 

 tled the manor on his son 



Thomas for the term of his own life in 1305," 

 and in 1314 on him jointly with Margaret his wife 

 in fee.' 1 Thomas held the manor in 131 6," and 

 died seised of it in 1339." 



His widow, Margaret, married William Danvers as 

 her second husband," and held the manor until her 

 d.ath, which took place before 1359, when the 

 manor passed to her son John de Boarhunt and his 

 wife Mary des Roches.' 5 



John died seised of it in 1359, l eav > n g an on 'y 

 son John, aged fourteen, who probably died soon 

 afterwards, since in 1363 the reversion of the manor 

 after the death of Mary, widow of John, now wife 

 of Bernard de Brocas, is said to have belonged to 

 John son of Herbert de Boarhunt, a cousin of her 

 former husband, and to have been made over by 

 him to Valentine atte Mede of Bramdean." Bernard 

 Brocas and Mary conveyed their estate in Boar- 

 hunt to William of Wykeham, then archdeacon of 

 Lincoln, in 1365"; and two years later Valentine 

 atte Mede also granted to William of Wykeham, 

 bishop of Winchester, all his right in the manor of 

 Boarhunt, now sometimes known as Boarhunt 

 Herberd." 



Finally in 1369 the king confirmed the manor of 

 Boarhunt Herberd to William of Wykeham, together 



J Statistics of the Board of Agriculture, 



Mins. Acct. 29-30 Hen. VIII, R.I 13. 

 m. 37. 



Recov. R. Trin. 16 Geo. Ill, m. 

 84-90. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 477 (a). 



8 G. E. C. Complete Peerage, i, 138-9 ; 

 vii, 135. 



' Inq. p.m. 47 Hen. Ill, No. 29. 



8 In 1262 Basilla the wife of Hugh 

 Loe quitclaimed her dowry of West Boar- 

 hunt to her sons Clement and Siward 

 Boarhunt (Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 4 John). 



9 Tata de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 231. 



10 Feud. Aids, ii, 319. The Sandfords 

 must have held land for a short time from 

 the convent of Southw ick, for licence was 

 granted to Richard de Sandford in 1327 



to grant to Lawrence de Pageham the 

 reversion of a messuage and land in West 

 Boarhunt after the death of the tenant 

 for life. Joan, wife of Thomas de Sand- 

 ford (Cal. of Pat. 1327-30, p. 132) and 

 Lawrence de Pageham paid Richard de 

 Sandford 20*. for acquiring the same. 

 (Abbrev. Rot. Orig. [Rec. Com.], ii, 14). 



11 Pat. 37 Hen. VIII, pt. 8, m. 28. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Jas. I, vol. 361. 

 No. 138. 



" Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 3 Will, and 

 Mary. " Ibid. Hants, Hil. 6 Will. III. 



15 V.C.H. Hants, i, 483. 



18 Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 230. 



^ Burrows, Brocas Family of Beaurepaire, 

 336. 



18 Thus in 1250 Adam de Lammere 

 and Alice his wife granted a messuage and 



land in Boarhunt to Thomas de Boarhunt 

 and his heirs. (Feet of F. Hants, East. 

 35 Hen. III). 



19 Montagu Burrows, The Brocas Family, 



33- 



2 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 33 Edw. I. 



Ibid. 7 Edw. II. 



M Feud. Aids, ii, 319. 



m Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. Ill (ist Nos.), 



No. 22. 



34 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 1 8 Edw. Ill ; 

 Feud. Aids, ii, 335. 



25 Burrows, Brocas Family, 336. 



38 Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), 

 No. 103. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 37 Edw. 

 III. 



Ibid. Hil. 39 Edw. III. 



Close, 4 t Edw. III. m. 3. 



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