A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



finely Umbered. The great room of the house is 

 called the Old Playhouse. The stream running 

 through the south of the park is artificially widened 

 tor the greater part of its course. 



Wanstead Farm, which represents what is left of the 

 so-called manor of Wanstead, lies to the north-east of 

 the park, Lye Heath and Lye Heath Farm to the east ' 

 Belney Farm, Great Belney Copse, and Little Belney 

 Copse mark the site of the manor of Belanney, and 

 New ands Farm in the east represents the manor of 

 Wewlands. In the south-eastern extremity of the 

 parish is a part of Purbrook Heath. The schools, 

 which stand immediately opposite the church, were' 

 built about 1 845, and are supported by Mr. Alexander 

 1 histlethwayte. 



The soil is clay and loam ; the subsoil chalk. The 

 chief crops are wheat and other cereals. The area is 

 3,866 acres of land and 17 acres of water, the pro- 

 portions of land in the parish being as follows 

 1,502 J acres of arable land, 1,790 acres of permanent 

 grass, and 724^ acres of woodland.' 



The following place-names occur in 1538 

 Steynynge, Drawlegges, Pontein Lee, Amery Croft, 

 Cockesdell, Stapull Crosse," Offwell (which still sur- 

 v,ves in OffWell Farm), Little Russhams, Halecroft, 

 Beeters, Plashet and Astele Mesd, 4 and in 177? 

 Shorts Meads and Edwards Me;d." 



rw,, Tlle earliest mention of SOUTH- 



MANORS WICK seems to be in the year ,,33 

 when Henry I founded a priory of 

 Aimin canons at Portchester,' assigning to them by 

 the foundation charter the manor of Candover a 

 hide of land in Applestead, 

 and a hide of land in South- 

 wick.' 



The priory was removed 

 from Portchester to Southwick 

 between 1145 an d 1153, and 

 this land with the addition of 

 other lands acquired by grant 

 of Richard de Boarhunt and 

 Gilbert de Boarhunt during 

 the thirteenth and fourteenth 

 centuries evidently became 

 the manor of Southwick, 8 

 which remained in the hands 



SODTHWICK PJUOIT. 



Argent a chief tablt -with 

 fwo roses argent therein. 



of the prior and convent until the time of the 

 Dissolution. 9 



After the Dissolution the site of the priory church 

 of Southwick was granted to John White, 10 servant to 

 Sir Thomas Wriothesley," in 1538, and eight years 

 later the manor and church of Southwick were gran ted 

 to Sir Thomas Wriothesley that he might alienate 

 them to John White. 11 On the death of John White 





SOUTHWICK, THB CHURCH FROM THE SOUTH 



1 There was evidently a church in 

 Wanstead as early as the fifteenth century 

 (vide Advowson). 



'Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). 



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

 1 13,01. 21. 



Pat. 30 Hen. VIII, pt. 6, m. 17. 



' Rec. R. Trin. 16 Geo. Ill, m. 

 84-90. 



V.C.H. Hants, ii, 164. 



7 Cited in the inspection and confirma- 

 tion charter of Edw. Ill (Chart. R. 27 

 Edw. Ill, m. 9, No. 19). 



8 In 1381 the priory manor of South- 

 wick consisted of 193 acres of land, 41 of 

 pasture, and 22 of meadow ; Add. MS. 

 32280, fol. 506. 



Feud. Aids, ii, 3195 Chart. R. 14 



Edw. II, m. 8, No. 32 ; Dugdale, Man. 

 vi, 244. Among the various tenants who 

 held land in the manor of the prior 

 and convent was Richard de Boarhunt in 

 1285 (Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. I, No. 59), and 

 four years later he granted fifty acres of 

 land and the site of a mill in Southwick 

 to the prior and convent in exchange for 

 a mill and fifteen acre of land (Pat. 18 

 Edw. I, m. 45). In 1323 Gilbert de 

 Boarhunt was granted licence to alienate 

 fifteen acres of land in mortmain to 

 Southwick Priory (Pat. 17 Edw. II, pt. i, 

 m. 6). John le Hunte and his wife 

 Juliana held two mills and an acre of 

 land in Southwick in 1343 (Inq. p.m. 17 

 Edw. Ill (znd No..), No. 27), and Bernard 

 Brocas held five acres of land in Southwick 



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from the convent in 1383 (ibid. 7 Ri c . H 

 No. 137). In 1388 and again in 1395 

 Michael Spencer, a grocer of London, and 

 his wife Margaret conveyed half the lands, 

 tenements, and rent which they held in 

 Southwick to William Weston of London 

 and Alice his wife (Feet of F. Hants, East. 

 12 Ric. II). Thomas Turner held thirty 

 acres of land in Southwick in 1467 ; from 

 him they passed to William Smith (ibid 

 Trin. 7 Edw. IV). i 



^ 10 Pat. 30 Hen. VIII, pt. 6, m. 



11 f.C.H. Hants, ii, 168. 



" Pat. 38 Hen. VIII, pt. 4, m . ,7. 

 In this grant common of pasture for 200 

 sheep annually is granted on the commons 

 of Portsdown in Southwick. 



