A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



(Norfolk), and Westhall (Suffolk), 10 and the sheriff of 

 Southampton was ordered to free the men holding in 

 that part of Titchfield formerly granted to Hubert de 

 Burgh, but now retained in the king's hands, from 

 suit at shire and hundred courts." In 1232 Henry 

 granted the manor to Peter des Roches, bishop of 

 Winchester, for the part endowment of the Premon- 

 stratensian abbey which he was about to found there," 

 and from this date until the Dissolution the manor 

 remained with the abbot and convent of Titchfield. 

 Free warren in their demesne lands of Titchfield 

 was granted to the abbey by Edward I in 1294" 

 and afterwards confirmed by Henry VI," who also 

 granted many liberties and immunities to the abbey 

 and convent in consideration of the many services 

 rendered by them to himself and his queen on the 

 occasion of their marriage in the abbey of St. Mary, 

 Titchfield. One of the most important of these 

 liberties was the right to hold an annual fair to last 

 for five days." John Sampson, bishop of Thetford, 

 the last abbot of Titchfield, surrendered the possessions 

 of the abbey to the king in I537, 16 and in the same 

 year the estates were granted to Thomas Wriothesley" 

 (created earl of Southampton 

 in 1 547), for the services 

 which he had rendered at the 

 dissolution of the monasteries, 

 subject to a pension of .20 to 

 the late abbot. 18 Shortly after- 

 wards he was knighted by the 

 king, and on his death in 1550 

 he was succeeded by his son 

 Henry, 19 who during his life- 

 time entertained both Ed- 

 ward VI and Elizabeth at 

 Titchfield. Henry his son, 

 third earl of Southampton, 

 attainted in 1 60 1 for his 



complicity in the plots of the earl of Essex, was 

 condemned to imprisonment for life* and the con- 

 fiscation of his estates; but on the accession of 

 James I he was released, restored to his posses- 

 sions and the earldom of Southampton. 11 He 

 died abroad in 1624, and the property passed to 

 his son Thomas, who, leaving no heirs male, was 

 succeeded by his eldest daughter Elizabeth, who 

 married Edward Noel, first earl of Gainsborough." 

 Their only son died without issue, and the Titchfield 

 estate ultimately passed to their two granddaughters 

 and co-heiresses Elizabeth, who married William Henry 

 Bentinck first duke of Portland, and Rachel wife of 

 the second duke of Beaufort. The third duke of 

 Beaufort acquired both moieties of the property in 

 1711," and the fifth duke sold the manor to Peter 

 Delmd in 1741." On the failure of male heirs to the 

 Delmi family in 1894 the estate passed to the descen- 

 dants of two co-heiresses : Elizabeth wife of the 



WRIOTHESLEY, Earl 

 of Southampton. Axurt 

 a crost or bet t ween Jour 

 falcoiu dost argent. 



Rev. C. Delm<5 Radcliffe, and Julia married to Captain 

 James Arthur Murray, R.N., the present joint-owneri 

 being their respective sons, Colonel Emilius Charles 

 Delm<5 Radcliffe, and George Delmd Murray." 



Mention is made in Domesday of one mill in Titch- 

 field worth zos.," but it does not appear to have been 



DELME. Or an anchor 

 sable berwecn two lions 

 passant gulfs. 



RADCLIFFE. Argent 

 a crosslet gules between 

 three bends engrailed 

 sable a label and a quarter 

 table tvitb a crosslet or 

 in the quarter. 



included in the grant of Titchfield to the abbot, as in 

 1307 Simon and John Whorstede received licence to 

 alienate in mortmain to the chapel of St. Elizabeth, 

 Winchester, a rent of tot. issuing out of the mill of 

 Titchfield." In 1272 two mills and certain lands in 

 Titchfield were granted to Henry, abbot of Titchfield, 

 by Philip de Molyns for a rent of 3 $!. 4</.* 8 How- 

 ever, before 1330, John de Molyns released this rent, 

 since his release was confirmed by letters patent in that 

 year." 



There was a market at Titchfield in 1086, and 

 though it was said to be injurious to a neighbouring 

 market it was still existing in 1535, when Richard 

 Towris reports to Lord Lisle that the clerk of the 

 market was keeping his court at Titchfield and had 

 commanded that no man should sell wheat above 8/. 

 a quarter on pain of imprisonment and forfeiture. 

 There is no record of its history after this date. 30 In 

 1424 the abbot received permission by charter to in- 

 close and make a park of 60 acres of land, 10 acres of 

 pasture, and 50 acres of wood in Titchfield. There 

 is an interesting reference to this park in the State 

 Papers for the year 1635, when notification was made 

 to the Lords of the Admiralty that the officers of the 

 Navy had contracted for timber from the wood of 

 the earl of Southampton at the rate of 22/. the load, 

 and that ' they had had assurance the whole kingdom 

 could not better I,ooo trees agreed for there.' They 

 also added that the ministers of the earl ' had ac- 

 quainted them with the prejudice sustained by the 

 Earl in having his timber so long restrained from sale, 

 since ready money for the disengagement of his debts 

 was the principle motive occasioning his felling there- 

 of.' That the timber grown in this park was highly 



10 Cal. of Close, 1227-31, p. 132. 



11 Ibid. 179. 



la Cal. of Chart. R. i, 168. Evidently 

 the manor was at thii time farmed out 

 for a term of years to Geoffrey de Lucy, 

 warden of Portchester Castle and Forest, 

 and in the charter he was acquitted of 16 

 due from the farm of the manor. 



" Chart. R. 22 Edw. I, No. 87. 



14 Cal. of Pat. 1422-9, p. 260. 



Chart. R. 25 & 26 Hen. VI, No. 27. 



M Feet of F. Hants and Berks. Mich. 

 29 Hen. VIII. 



W Pat. 29 Hen. VIII, pt. i,m. 4. 



18 There is a letter from Sir Humphrey 

 Forster to Wriothesley asking his favour 

 for John Sampson, late abbot of Titchfield, 

 and stating that if he would obtain for him 

 the benefice of Horsted, Sussex, valued at 

 ,13 61. 8</. and pay the firstfruits he 

 thought the abbot would release him from 

 the pension ; L. and P. Hen. yilJ, xiii, 



('), 38"- 



19 W. & L. Inq. 4 Edw. VI (Ser. 2), v, 

 No. 103. 



*> Diet. Nat. Biog. liii, 143. 



224 



al Pat. I Jas. I, pt 2. 



M Papers and Proc. Hants Field Club, 



' (3)7 33'- 



*> Feet of F. Southants, Trin. loAnne. 



14 Ibid. Hil. 15 Geo. II. 



u Papers and Proc. Hants Field Club, 



' (3). 33'- 



*> V.C.H. Hants, i, 456*. 



27 Cal. of Pat. 1307-13, p. 20. 



88 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 56 Hen. III. 



Pat. 4 Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. 38. 



Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 24 ; L. and 

 P. Hen. yill, ix, 467. 



