PORTSDOWN HUNDRED 



given one moiety of Farlington to his father William, 

 and the other to his uncle Roger, sons of Walter de 

 Scures, and that he, Roger, ought therefore to have 

 the whole manor, as heir of his father and uncle. 4 

 Unfortunately it seems impossible to find the termina- 

 tion to this suit. 



In 1248 Roger de Merlay granted one and a half 

 carucates of land and js. rent in Farlington to William 

 son of Alan Stake and his wife Ellen, for which and 

 for another tenement J William rendered yearly a pair 

 of gilt spurs or 6J. at the feast of St. Michael. 6 



Roger tie Merlay also gave 20 worth of land in 

 Farlington a" a dower to his daughter Alice or Agnes 

 on her marriage with Nicholas son of Thomas de 

 Gimises in 1250,' and by 1286 she was evidently in 

 possession of the manorial lands, which she sought to 

 regain from the king's hands for her default against 

 Hugh de Turbevill." Agnes evidently gained her suit, 

 and the lands passed fro.Ti her to her son John, who 

 alienated them to John d>i Berewyk in 1290.' John 

 de Berewyk died seised of the manor in 1312. His 

 heir was Roger Husee, his gi-at-nephew ; but Roger 

 de Upton, servant of John dt Berewyk, claimed to 

 possess a charter granting the mVnor to him and his 

 wife and their son John, and since Roger Husee made 

 no claim after his uncle's death, he took possession of 

 the manor, which he held in 131 6.' John son of 

 Roger de Upton succeeded his father, and conveyed 

 the manor to Hugh le Despenser in 1320." 



After the death of Hugh le Despenser in 1327, 

 and the forfeiture of his lands, the king granted the 

 manor of Farlington, worth 20 a year," to Alice 

 late wife of Edmund earl of Arundel, for the support 

 of herself and her children until other provision was 

 made for her. 13 Alice only held the manor for a 

 short time, for by 1330 it had come into the king's 

 hands, and was granted to John Montgomerie and his 

 wife Rose for life." On the death of John Mont- 

 gomerie in 1347,** the manor passed, in the next 

 year, to the prior and convent of Southwick " in 



FARLINGTON 



accordance with a grant made to them in 1 346 in 

 consideration of the losses which they had sustained 

 through the invasion of the king's enemies. 17 The 

 manor remained in the possession of the prior and 

 convent until the Dissolution, 18 when it was granted, 

 in 1540, to William Pound of Beaumonds, 19 whose 

 father William, son of Sir John Pound and Elizabeth 

 Holt, had held lands in Farlington of the prior and 

 convent of Southwick, and had left the same to his 

 younger son on his death in 1525.* William died 

 seised of the manor in 1558, and was succeeded by his 

 son Thomas, then aged twenty. 21 



In 1663 the Pounds were still holding the manor, 

 for in that year Henry Pound conveyed it to John 

 Wolfe," and again in 1684 to Nathaniel Hunt,** 

 evidently as settlements. Henry Pound must have 

 sold the manor about 1684 to Thomas Smith, and it 

 remained in his family until 1 769, when it was sold 

 by the trustees to Peter Taylor." In 1 8 1 5 the manor 

 was sold by the trustees of the Taylors' estates to Lord 

 Keith by a private Act of Parliament." Lord Keith 

 sold the estate to Mr. John Walker in 1818, from 

 whose trustees it was purchased by Mr. John Deverell 

 in 1857." At Mr. John Deverell's death in 1880 

 the manor passed to his son, Mr. William Deverell, 

 the present owner." At the time of the Dissolution 

 lot. was returned for the farm of a fishing in the 

 manor of Farlington.' 8 



In 1316 Thomas de Sandford and John Beaumond 

 were holding lands in Drayton in Farlington K ; and 

 the lands of the latter may possibly have been the 

 tithing of BE4UMONDS (Bemonds, Bermonds) 

 reputed a manor in the sixteenth century. 



There seems to be no separate record, however, of 

 the property until the year 1511, when Elizabeth 

 Pound died seised of part of the manor of Beau- 

 monds in 1511, being sscceeded by her son and heir 

 William, then aged thirty-seven. 30 From this date 

 the descent of Beaumonds follows that of the manor 

 of Farlington (q.v.). 



4 Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 29. Geof- 

 frey Puleyn was holding one carucate of 

 land in Farlington in 1244, and conveyed it 

 in that year to William son of Alan Stake 

 nd his wife Elena (Feet of F. 29 Hen. 

 Ill, No. 297). This land was probably 

 Stakes or Frendstaple in Farlington. 



6 Also possibly Stakes or Frendstaple. 



Feet of F. Hants, 33 Hen. Ill, No. 



344- 



7 Inq. p.m. 35 Hen. Ill," No. 53. 

 Thomas de Gimisea, with the consent of 

 his son Nicholas and his wife, granted to 

 Richard son of Andrew Stake and Rich- 

 ard son of Alan Stake all common 

 belonging to the free tenement which they 

 held of him in Farlington in 1255 (Anct. 

 D. P.R.O. A. 8635). 



8 Col. of Close, 1279-88, p. 4.35. 



' Feet of F. Hants, 1 9 Edw. I, No. 1 8 1 . 

 The prior of the Hospital of St. John of 

 Jerusalem evidently held some land in 

 Farlington from the king at this time, for 

 in 1 290 a commission was issued touching 

 John of Gimises and others who had in- 

 truded on the prior's lands in Farlington, 

 expelled his servants and driven away 

 his oxen. Col. of Pat. 1281-92, p. 

 403. 



10 Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, No. 43 ; feud. 

 Aids, ii, 320. 



11 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 14 Edw. II. 



12 Note that this amount corresponds 

 to the value of the dower given by 



Roger de Merlay to Agnes his daughter 

 in 1250. 



18 Cal.ofPat. 1327-30, p. 30. A certain 

 William de Stotevill held a messuage and 

 some land in Farlington ; and in 1328 an 

 order was issued to Alice countess of 

 Arundel not to meddle with this estate, 

 which the king had lately granted to her 

 with the manor of Farlington for the 

 maintenance of herself and her boys, as 

 the king learnt by inquisition that Hugh 

 le Despenser unjustly disseised William 

 de Stotevill of these possessions, and 

 William never remitted his right to Hugh ; 

 Cal. of Close, 1327-30, p. 254. 



14 Cal. of Pat. 1330-4, p. 240. 



16 Inq. p.m. 2 Edw. Ill, No. 21. 



18 Cal. of Clue, 1346-9, p. 348. 



"Ibid. 1345-8, P-'S3- 



18 Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII, R. 

 113, m. 28. The Husees were holding 

 lands in Farlington in the beginning of 

 the 1 5th century, evidently as tenants of 

 the prior and convent ; for in 1403 John 

 Husee enfeoffed Richard Stake and his 

 wife Mary of lands in Farlington (Anct. 

 D. P.R.O. A. 8938), and they in their turn 

 granted the lands to Thomas Snokcshulle 

 (ibid. A. 8682). The lands of Thomas 

 Snokeshulle, who was the son and heir of 

 Alice daughter of the late John Stake of 

 Frendstaple, descended by right to his son 

 Henry, and were by him granted to 

 Robert Snokeshulle his brother, Agnes 



149 



the wife of Robert, and Alice their 

 daughter (ibid. A. 6245). Robert 

 Snokeshulle's lands seem to have passed to 

 his daughter and heir, Alice the wife of 

 William Johnson (ibid. A. 9486, 9100), 

 who conveyed them by fine to John Gun- 

 ter and John Holt (Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 

 31 Hen. VI). From John Holt the 

 lands descended to his heirs the Pounds, 

 his granddaughter Elizabeth having married 

 Sir John Pound ; Berry, Hants Genealogies, 

 194. 



18 Pat. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. 5, m. 36. 



Exch. Inq. p.m. 16-17 Hen. VIII, 

 file 978, No. 23. 



31 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1-2 Eliz. vol. 119, 

 No. 146. Thomas Pound granted the rever- 

 sion of part of the manor of Farlington 

 to his niece Ann, daughter of his sister 

 Catherine and wife of George Britten, in 

 1579 j Berry, Hants Genealogies, 194; Add. 

 MS. 33278, fol. 121. 



M Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 15 

 Chas. II. 



Ibid. Trin. 36 Chas. II. 



Add. MS. 32282, fol. 158-9. 



86 Information supplied by Mr. Deverell. 



* Ibid. 



*> Ibid. 



Mins. Accts. 29-30 Hen. VIII, R. 

 113, m. 28. 



Feud. Aids, ii, 320. 



M Esch. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. VIII, file 

 963, No. 4. 



