A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



held of William de Ste. Mere-Eglise, and which 

 extended from ' the east road leading to the mill 

 of the town of Portsmouth, to the sea.* 85 In 

 1320 the prior and convent received a grant of 

 free warren in their demesne lands of Stubbington 

 next Portsea, 484 a privilege which was confirmed to 

 them by Richard II and Henry VI.* 85 It appears 

 that the prior had manorial rights over Stubbington, 

 together with reliefs, heriots, fisheries, and fowling, 

 and these rights were reserved while the demesne 

 lands were leased out from time to time. Thus 

 Thomas Carpenter had a lease of the lands in 

 January, l$z$-6. tee The manor was surrendered 

 with the other possessions of the priory in April, 

 I538. 487 In January, 1539-40, the manor was 

 settled on Anne of Cleves in part satisfaction of her 

 dower, and in the following January it was granted 

 to her successor, Catherine Howard, who was be- 

 headed in February, I54I-2. 488 In July, 1543, the 

 king granted the manor to the 

 warden, scholars, and clerks of 

 St. Mary's College, Winches- 

 ter, 489 a foundation to which 

 it still belongs, while under 

 them, as under the priory of 

 Southwick, the demesne lands 

 have been leased to various 

 tenants from time to time. 490 



A cross road leads from the 

 highway to London past Stub- 

 bington House to COPNOR 

 (Copenore, xi-xii cent. ; Co- 

 penhever and Coppenore, xiii 

 cent. ; Cupenore, xiv cent. ; 



Copenore, xv cent.). Here there is a small hamlet 

 still known as ' Copnor Village,' though it is now 

 practically a part of Landport, for a broad road lined on 

 either side with modern red-brick houses leads from 

 New Road East, the terminus of the tramway, through 

 Copnor to Little Gatcombe, and new roads are being 

 laid out in all directions. To the west of the road 

 Copnor Manor Farm stands surrounded by thatched 

 barns, and facing it is Manor House, the residence of 

 Miss Russell. To the north, further from Landport, 

 are large brick-kilns surrounded by waste land, with 

 here and there a scanty crop of vegetables ; and to the 

 east are flat marsh-lands, stretching out towards Great 

 Salterns. The saltings, which are on the north side 

 of a creek known as Great Salterns Lake, represent a 

 very ancient industry in the island, for in 1086 the 

 saltings of Copnor were assessed at 8</. 49V By the 

 seventeenth century, however, the salt-works had been 

 separated from the manor, for in November, 1629, 

 the king granted the land known as Copnor or the 

 Salt Pit in Portsea to Sir Edward Sidenham, with 

 power to make salt there. 491 Nevertheless he appears 

 only to have had a moiety of the profits. 493 In 1662 

 a dispute arose between the owners of the salt-works 

 and the lord of Copnor manor as to a fish-pond which 



WINCHESTER COLLEGE. 

 Argent tvjo cbe-verons 

 table between three roses 

 gules. 



the former claimed as part of the salt-works, but the 

 latter considered as waste belonging to the manor. 494 



The manor of Copnor was among the possessions 

 of Earl Godwin, and was held of him by Tovi. 

 After the Conquest it was held by Robert son of 

 Gerold, the tenant under him being a certain 

 Heldred. Of the successors of Heldred nothing is 

 known until the thirteenth century, when the lords 

 of Portsea (q.v.) also held the manor of Copnor. 495 

 Andrew of Portsea then held both the manors, and 

 from that time the two manors have been held 

 by the same lords. The manorial rights attached to 

 Copnor were more extensive than those pertaining to 

 Portsea, for the lord held view of frankpledge as well 

 as court-baron for his tenants there. 496 In addition 

 to this privilege he had rights of fishery at Milton 

 Fleet and Burfield Fleet, besides the whole of the 

 fishing at 'Mileresde Fleet' and 'Midomstonores Fleet,' 

 and fowling at ' Setore ' and other places within the 

 lordship. 497 



South of Copnor lie KINGSTON and BUCK- 

 LAND, two adjacent suburbs of Portsmouth. 

 Buckland was held of Earl Godwin by Alward before 

 the Conquest, and in 1086 was among the lands held 

 of Hugh de Port by Heldred. 498 Kingston contains 

 the church of St. Mary, Portsea. It was evidently a 

 hamlet of some importance at the time of the settle- 

 ment of Portsmouth, probably owing to its proximity 

 to the church, and was at first included in the liberty 

 of the borough, for in 1198 the farm of Portsmouth 

 and Kingston was accounted for as .14 2/. 7<zV" 

 and in 12012 the rents of assize of Portsmouth and 

 Kingston together amounted to 4 is. J^J. m> The 

 chief tenant there was Richard de Landa, who in 

 1225 held a carucate of land in Kingston under a 

 charter of King John. 501 Apparently it was separated 

 from the borough at this date, for 35/. \d. was 

 deducted from the farm of the town for the lands in 

 Kingston which Richard de Landa held in farm. 50 * 

 This carucate formed a part of the portion which 

 Richard gave his daughter Joan on her marriage with 

 Robert de Audley. 603 The road from Copnor to 

 Milton crosses the railway line near Kingston 

 cemetery. From the level-crossing a rough roadway 

 leads almost due east to a picturesque farm-house 

 which lies beyond a broad willow-fringed sheet of 

 water known as Baffin's Pond, while a wide curving 

 road leads past the grim stone walls of the borough 

 gaol, which has recently replaced a much smaller 

 building in the High Street. On the same side of 

 the road are the warmer- toned brick walls of the 

 union workhouse, facing which stands the hospital for 

 infectious diseases, while beyond, over stretches of flat 

 waste land, the gabled roofs of the borough asylum 

 appear among the trees, and in the far distance the 

 woods of Hayling Island can be seen across the blue 

 waters of Langstone Harbour. The road leads on to 

 the picturesque village of Milton, which consists of 

 one street. On either side are old weather-beaten 



488 Cal. Doc. France, 304. Another re- 

 ference to lands held by the prior of 

 Southwick in Stubbington in 1276 is 

 difficult to identify owing to the fact that 

 the prior also had lands at Stubbington in 

 Crofton, then a part of Titchfield ; Cal. 

 Close, 1172-9, p. 355 ; Cal.Pat. 1377-81, 

 p. 78. 



" Chart. R. 14 Edw. Ill, No. 32. 



484 Ibid. 15-17 Ric. II, 34 ; 21-4 

 HE.I. VI, 17. 



485 Mint. Accts. (Hants), 29-30 Hen. 

 VIII, R. 113, m. 32. 



4 See y.C.H. Hants, ii, 168. 



<* L. and P. Hen. VIII, xv, 20 (2) 5 

 ibid. 716. 



489 Ibid, xviii (i), 981 (46). 



480 Exch. Dep. Mich. 4 jas. I, 24. 



l V.C.H. Hants, i, 488. 



492 Pat. 5 Chas. I, pt. 4, m. 5. 



49 Exch. Dep. Hil. iJ-i4Chas.il, 14. 



494 Ibid. 



194 



495 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 231. 



496 Close, 40 Eliz.pt. 15 ; Extractsfrom 

 Portsmouth Rec. 667. 



? Ibid. 



498 V.C.H. Hants, i, 482. 



49 Pipe R. 9 Ric. I. 



500 Rot. Cancel!. 3 Jobn (Rec. Com.), 

 243. 



501 Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), ii, 606. 

 *> Chart. R. 14 Hen. Ill, pt. i, m. 14. 

 MS Ibid. 14 Hen. Ill, pt. 2, m. 15. 



