A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



The fortifications of Portsmouth were extended in 

 the eighteenth century to surround Portsea, but were 

 so formed that the borough and its suburb were two 

 walled towns adjacent to each other. The Portsea 

 lines were complete in iSog. 429 



Long before the town of Portsea had come into 

 existence there was a manor of that name in the island, 

 a large portion of which was demesne land of the 

 manor. The manor or court-house has long since 

 disappeared. 430 



PORTSEA MANOR is not distinctly mentioned 

 in the Domesday survey of Hampshire. From the 

 fact that it was held by later tenants of the fee of 

 the successors of Hugh de Port it may be concluded 

 that in 1086 it was then considered as part of Hugh's 

 possessions in Buckland (q.v.). The actual tenants in 

 the twelfth century took their name from the manor. 

 Baldwin of Portsea gave a virgate of land in Portes- 

 wald (Portswood) to the abbey of Quarr in the Isle 

 of Wight. 431 This Baldwin in 1 1 66 was holding two 

 knights' fees of John de Port and forfeited half a mark in 

 1167-8 on the non-appearance of an alleged murderer 

 for whom he had become bail. 43 ' It was he who in 

 1 1 70 granted the church of Portsea to Southwick. 

 He had also granted a virgate in Fratton with his 

 two tenants William and Ernulf and their children, 

 and firebote and hedgebote in Portswood, to the 

 monks of Sherborne for the 

 welfare of the souls of Henry 

 de Port and his wife Hawise, 

 and of his own soul and those 

 of his wife Adelis and his 

 parents. To this gift the over- 

 lord, John de Port, son of 

 Henry, gave his consent. 43 * 

 Baldwin of Portsea evidently 

 died childless, for he was suc- 

 ceeded by his brother Payne 

 before 1 1 89. The latter con- 

 firmed his brother's gift to 

 Quarr Abbey, and exchanged 

 his demesne lands at ' Leuchestoche ' with the monks 

 for half a virgate at Copnor. 434 Payne of Portsea had a 

 son Adam, who may possibly have been identical with 

 the Adam of Portsea who was justice in assize for 

 Hampshire in I2l8, 435 and accounted for the fifteenth 

 levied in the county in I226. 436 In 1230 Adam of 

 Portsea witnessed a charter in conjunction with his 

 eldest son Andrew and the whole borough-moot of 

 Portsmouth 437 ; Andrew was still living six years 

 later, 433 and was probably the father or grandfather of 

 Richard of Portsea, who came into prominence at the 

 latter end of the thirteenth century. In March, 



D POUT. Barry 

 i azure and argent a saltirt 

 gules. 



1302-3, he obtained a grant of free warren in his 

 demesne lands of Portsea. 43 ' In 1310 he was one of 

 those appointed to arrange a loan of victuals to the 

 king for his expedition to Scotland, 440 and in 1315 

 was a commissioner of array. 441 



At his death, which took place before 21 December, 

 1318, he was said to hold the manor of Portsea of 

 Sir John de St. John (a descendant of Hugh de Port), 

 by service of a knight's fee. 44 ' His sister and heir, 

 Alice Loveraz, was then aged 50. In 1322 she con- 

 veyed the manor, together with the reversion of the 

 dower in it held by Scolastica, her brother's widow, 

 to Robert Halsted in exchange for an annuity of 100 

 marks for life. 443 Halsted immediately obtained a 

 renewal of the grant of free warren in the demesne 

 lands," 4 but apparently failed to pay the annuity. 445 

 Consequently the manor reverted to Alice Loveraz, 

 who nevertheless settled the remainder of it at her 

 death on Robert Halsted and his wife Nichola in tail 

 male, with contingent remainders to Nicholas son of 

 Ralph de Crophull and his wife Margery, and to the 

 right heirs of Robert. 446 Evidently Robert and 

 Nichola died without male issue, for in 1 346 Nicholas 

 Crophull was in possession of the manor. 447 From 

 him and his wife it passed, presumably by deed of 

 gift, 448 to Sir Richard Willoughby, 449 who conveyed it 

 first to William Willoughby, clerk, and other trustees, 44 * 

 and later to John Edindon, to whom Nicholas and 

 Margery de Crophull made quitclaim. 451 Edindon's 

 trustees granted it in June, 1373, to the abbey of 

 Titchfield to find a lamp to burn every day before 

 the high altar at high mass. 451 During the abbot's 

 possession a dispute arose between him and the 

 lord of Chalton manor as to the bounds of Portsea 

 Sewood ; it was, therefore, agreed that trenches should 

 be made between the woods of the two lords, i.e. 

 from the way called ' Strogetway ' to a certain pasture 

 called Stubbs. 453 



In 1537 the manor was surrendered to the crown 

 together with the other possessions of Titchfield 

 Abbey,' 54 and with them was immediately granted to 

 Thomas Wriothesley, afterwards earl of Southamp- 

 ton, 455 whose political influence was thus strengthened 

 in Portsmouth, for two years later he wrote to 

 Cromwell, ' For Portsmouth 1 intend John Chadreton 

 to be one (burgess), and for his fellow and for the 

 burgess of Midhurst I will furnish honest men.' <M 

 The earl was succeeded at Portsea by his son Henry, 457 

 whose eldest son Henry sold it in 1598 to Robert 

 Bold of Idsworth, 458 who was mayor of Portsmouth 

 in l6l3. 459 He died in December, 1 626," having 

 settled Portsea on his son William in tail male with 

 contingent remainder to William's brother Henry. 



418 The New Portsmouth Guide, 1865. 



480 Extracts from the Portsmouth Rec. 665. 



481 Add. Chart. 15687. The abbot paid 

 a*, rent to the town of Portsmouth in 

 14.69 ; East, Portsmouth Records, 493. 



Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.j, 208 ; 



Pipe R. 14 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.}, xiv, 183. 



4 Hitt. MSS. Com. Rep. iv. App. 453. 



484 Add. Chart. 15687. For this charter 

 the abbey gave him 201. and a fowl, and 

 another fowl to his son Adam. 



485 Cal. Pat. 1216-25, p. 147. 



436 Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 147. 



417 Chart. R. 14 Hen. Ill, pt. 2, m. 5. 

 488 Feet of F. Hants, 20 Hen. Ill, 189. 

 Chart. R. 3 1 Edw. I, m. 96. 

 440 Cal. Close, 1307-13, p. 264. 



Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 350. 



442 Chan. Inq. p. m. 12 Edw. II, 44. 



s Feet of F. Hants, 16 Edw. II, 32. 



444 Chart. R. 15 Edw. II, m. 5. 



4 Orig. R. i Edw. Ill, 36. 



Feet of F. Hants, 2 Edw. Ill, 10. 



447 Feud. Aids, ii, 335. 



448 In East's Extracts from the Portsmouth 

 Rec. p. 663, is quoted a memorandum from 

 a Court Book of Portsea stating that 

 Nicholas and Margery gave the manor to 

 'Richard Willey.' It appears that the 

 whole transaction was a gift to Titchfield 

 Abbey, not by Willoughby or Edindon, 

 but by the Crophulls. 



449 Chan. Inq. p.m. 26 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), 28. 



4io Feet of F. Hants, 29 Edw. Ill, 4. 



192 



4 " Ibid. 30 Edw. Ill, 8, 9. 



461 Chan. Inq. p.m. 47 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), 36. The abbot and convent paid 

 ,80 for licence to receive the grant ; 

 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.) ii, 328. 



468 Extracts from the Portsmouth Rec. 665. 

 464 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 29 Hen. 



VIII. 



455 L. and P. Hen. yill, xii, 1311 (40). 

 458 Ibid, xiv (i), 520. 



457 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 92, 

 No. 78. 



458 Close, 40 Elii. pts. 14 and 15 (no 

 rrembranes marked). 



469 Extracts from Portsmouth Rec. 157, 



3'3- 



160 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 426, 

 No. 90. 



