PORTSDOWN HUNDRED 



PORTSMOUTH 



cottages, and, half-hidden by the trees of overgrown 

 gardens, dilapidated plastered and thatched farm- 

 buildings. On the left of the road stands the stone 

 church of St. James, built as a district chapel to 

 Portsea in i84i, 50< and facing it is the Baptist church. 

 The village still retains its rural character, though the 

 streets of Fratton and Eastney are fast extending to it. 



MILTON manor was granted with Warblington, of 

 which it was a member, 505 to Matthew son of Herbert 

 by King John. 506 Peter son of Matthew alienated 

 Milton, where he apparently had three tenants in 

 villeinage, together with the tenants and pasture land 

 there to William Falconer of Hurstbourne Priory to 

 hold by the service of rendering a pair of gloves 

 yearly at Easter. 507 The overlordship of Milton thus 

 remained with the lords of Warblington, but the 

 descendants of William Falconer and his wife Emma 

 were the actual tenants for more than three centuries. 

 In 1388 John Falconer obtained a confirmation of 

 the original grant by Peter son of Matthew, 508 while 

 in 1635 John Falconer was in possession of it 

 together with the manor of Emsworth, another 

 member of Warblington. 509 Both Emsworth and 

 Milton were purchased by Richard Cotton of War- 

 blington, with the history of which manor theirs is 

 thenceforward coincident. It appears that Peter son 

 of Matthew did not grant all his lands at Milton to 

 William Falconer with the manor, for in 1494 the 

 lord of Warblington held, in addition to the rent due 

 from John Falconer, certain rents from tenants-at-will 

 and the profits of the woods, besides fishing and 

 fowling. 510 The common lands belonging to Milton 

 and the neighbouring hamlet of Eastney were inclosed 

 under an Act of 1 8 1 o, at which time also the common 

 field known as the Velder or Welder was inclosed." 1 



EdSTNEF is a fast-growing suburb of Southsea 

 lying to the south of Milton. The farm at the head 

 of Eastney creek or fleet probably represents Eastney 

 manor-house. Like Milton, Eastney was originally 

 a member of Warblington manor. 611 Herbert son of 

 Matthew, who received a royal grant of Warbling- 

 ton, with its hamlet of Eastney, in 1231, had free 

 warren granted to him in Portsea in I239. 51 * Some 

 years later he was returned as holding four hides in 

 Eastney. M3a His brother and heir, Peter son of 

 Matthew, was said to have permitted his tenant at 

 Eastney to exercise manorial rights in the hamlet. 514 

 This tenant, Philip son of Peter of Eastney, added to 

 his holding there an acre of land which he purchased 

 from Ralph Lumpe and his wife Cecily. 516 The land 

 was doubtless a part of the farm known latterly as 

 Lumpstead. 616 The manor of Eastney was settled on 

 Philip, evidently son and heir of Philip of Eastney, 

 and his wife Alice in I3o8. 617 Four years later, 

 Eleanor widow of Matthew son of John, late lord of 

 Warblington, sued Philip and Alice for dower from 

 Eastney, and it having been found that Philip of 



Eastney had usurped the lordship there 618 the lands 

 were seized by the king's escheator. 619 Philip then came 

 into Chancery and proved that he and his ancestors 

 had held the hamlet in demesne, and that Matthew 

 son of John had had no right therein save the wardship 

 of himself during his minority, and the lands were 

 restored to him in 1 3 1 4. 6 * Two years later Alice of 

 Eastney was holding the manor in accordance with 

 the settlement of 1308 ; 5Jl she married as her second 

 husband Sir Robert Norton, to whom Gilbert son and 

 heir of Philip of Eastney quitclaimed the manor for 

 life, receiving in return during the life of Alice a robe 

 of an esquire's suit at Christmas, 40*. yearly, and 

 maintenance for himself, his horse, and his groom 

 so often as he was entitled to stay with his step- 

 father. After the death of Alice the yearly allowance 

 was to be increased to ^id. 5 " Eastney suffered with 

 Portsmouth from French attacks during the Hundred 

 Years' War. 6 " In 1339, Sir Robert Norton evidently 

 being dead, the manor was settled on Gilbert of East- 

 ney and his wife Joan. 524 At about this date Gilbert 

 obtained licence for the celebration of divine service 

 within his house in Portsea parish. 585 The right of 

 his grandson, Gilbert son of Philip, to a certain 

 messuage and lands in Milton was disputed by John 

 Beek and his wife Maud in 1391, but unsuccessfully, 

 as the premises had been included in the settlement 

 of Eastney manor on Philip and Alice of Eastney in 

 1308."' Between 1391 and 1458 Eastney appears 

 to have escheated to the overlords, for in 1458 Alice 

 wife of Richard earl of Salisbury, then lady of Warb- 

 lington, bestowed it on her son John Neville and his 

 wife Isabel and their heirs. 5 " During the minority 

 of George Neville, duke of Bedford, the young son 

 and heir of John and Isabel, the latter's second hus- 

 band, Sir William Norrys, knight, had the custody of 

 the manor. 5 ' 8 Upon the death of George Neville in 

 1461 his lands were divided among his five sisters or 

 their heirs, Eastney evidently being assigned to his 

 third sister, Lucy, then wife 

 of Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, 589 

 whose son, Sir Anthony 

 Browne, was in possession of 

 the manor at his death in 

 I548. 530 His son, Anthony 

 Viscount Montagu, sold it to 

 George Cotton of Warblington 

 in l567; M1 thus the manor 

 was again united to Warbling- 

 ton, from which it has not 

 since been separated. 



FRATTON (Frodintone or 

 Froditonxi-xiiicent. ;Froding- 

 ton xiv-xvii cent.) is a consider- 

 able district to the east of Landport and the north of 

 Southsea. Its main thoroughfare, the Fratton Road, 

 is the route of the electric trams from North End to 



BROWNE, Viscount 

 Montagu. Sable three 

 lions passant bendiuise be- 

 tvjeen double cotises argent. 



604 Sumner, Comfectus of the Dioc. of 

 Winchester (1854), 20. 



505 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. II, 49. 



506 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 237. 

 W Cal. Fat. 1334-8, p. 565. 



o Ibid. 



509 Recov. R. Mich. 1 1 Chas. I, m. 46. 



510 Exch. T.R. Misc. Bk. 150, fol. 

 83-99. 



611 The award is dated 13 Aug. 1813. 



51a Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 139. 



413 Cal. Chart. R. i, 242. 



3a j esta j e Ncvill (Rec. Com.}, 234. 



" 4 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, 124. 

 15 Feet of F. Hants, 9 Edw. I, 22. 



616 Ralph and Cecily Lumpe acquired 

 for life in 1284 a messuage and eighty 

 acres of land, together with a water-mill, 

 in Eastney ; Feet of F. Hants, iz 

 Edw. I, 56. 



"7 Ibid. 2 Edw. II, 17 ; he it called 

 Philip son of Philip of Eastney in 1314. 



618 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, 1 24. 



iu Abbrev. Rot. Or/g-.(Rec.Com.), i, 201. 



520 Cal. Close, 1313-18, p. 52. 



521 FeuJ. Aids, ii_ 320. 



195 



Cal. Close, 1323-7, p. 354. 



* Ibid. 1337-9, P- 5*8 i 1339-41, PP. 

 108 and 267. 



" Feet of F. Hants, 13 Edw. Ill, 60. 



* M Egerton MS. 2033, fol. 61. 



M De Banco R. East. 14 Ric. II, 

 m. 75. 



W Feet of F. Div. Cos. 36 Hen. VI, 90. 



51 Cal. Pat. 1476-83, p. 63. 



M9 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 2, 

 No. 84. 



580 Ibid. vol. 89, No. 132. 



581 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 9 Eliz. 



