THE HUNDRED OF TITCHFIELD 



ROWNER 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



TITCHFIELD 



WICKHAM 



The hundred at the time of Domesday included Titchfield, Faccombe, 

 Meon, Bromwich, Bentley, Crofton, Funtley, Wickham, Segenworth, Hook, 

 Stubbington, and Rowner, and it was assessed at 46 hides.* It belonged to 

 the crown and appears to have been farmed occasionally, its value in 1266 

 being 58^. \d.? though by the reign of Richard II it was reduced to 

 30J.* By the beginning of the fourteenth century the area of the hundred 

 had been materially reduced. First the abbot of Titchfield withdrew his 

 suit in respect of his manor of Swanwick in Titchfield parish, and 

 being called upon in 1279 to show by what warrant he claimed to do 

 so, pleaded successfully the charter of Henry III, granting to Titchfield 

 Abbey freedom from service at the courts of the shires and hundreds.' 

 Earlier in the same century 

 Peter des Roches transferred 

 the suit of Bromwich manor 

 to Fareham ; in 1 279 Wil- 

 liam de Valence, being sum- 

 moned for neglecting to pay 

 the suit due from his manor 

 of Hook, pleaded that Hook 

 was a member of his manor 

 of Newton Valence, which 

 was exempted from suit at 

 the courts of the shire and 

 hundred, and his claim was 

 allowed. 8 In the same year 

 John of Brittany withdrew 

 his suit in respect of his 

 manors of Crofton, Lee 

 Markes, and Funtley, and as 

 he did not appear the sheriff 

 was ordered to distrain upon 

 his land. 7 These withdrawals 

 had reduced the hundred in 



the time of Edward I to Wickham, Rowner, Stubbington, and Segenworth. 

 By 1316 Prallingworth and Bonewood had been added and Faccombe and 

 Bentley had been transferred to the hundreds of Pastrow and Thorngate respec- 

 tively, while the king had recovered his suits of Funtley and Crofton. 8 In 

 1651 the hundred consisted of the tithings of Rowner, West Hook, Chark, 

 Wickham, Great Funtley, Little Funtley, and Stubbington,* all of which are 

 in the hundred of Titchfield to-day, with the exception of Prallingworth. 



1 According to the Pop. Ret. 1831. ' V.C.H. Hants, i, 45 66. * Chan. Inq. a.q.d. file 2, No. 31. 



4 Add. MS. 33284, fol. 106. * Cal. of Close, 1227-31, p. 179 ; Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 765. 

 ' Ibid. 765 ; Assize R. 788. ' Plac. dt Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 772 ; Coram Rege R. No. 70. 



8 Feud. Aids, ii, 308, 309, 311. 9 Parl. Surv. 1651. 



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