A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



licence to acquire in Chark and Titchfield in exchange 

 for the manor of Melbourne in Derbyshire 86 



The rent was still paid to the De Beauchamp family 

 in 1 302, but eight years later Richard de Beauchamp 

 granted it, together with a messuage and a carucate of 

 land in Titchfield and Chark, to William son of John 

 de Masseworth. 57 From John de Masseworth (son of 

 John) it passed in 1356 to Thomas de Overton, 68 

 who died in 1361, and two years later it was con- 

 veyed to his niece Isabel and her husband, Thomas 

 de Warrener. 59 



The under-tenants of this manor in the twelfth 

 century were members of the family of Bruton 

 probably the Hamo Brito and Gilbertus le Bret who 

 alienated lands in Chark to Quarr Abbey. 60 In 1292 

 William Bruton died seised of nine virgates of land in 

 Chark held in socage paying los. rent to Richard de 

 Beauchamp. 61 About the middle of the thirteenth 

 century Richard Bruton was holding a moiety of 

 Chark, while in 1316 William Bruton was returned 

 as holding the vill of Chark, 6 ' which, however, from 

 this date disappears from the assessments of the Feudal 

 Aids. It was probably included in the one-third of 

 a knight's fee in Warde held by him in 1 346, M and 

 mentioned below in the descent of Lee Bruton, and 

 it may be suggested, therefore, that it passed at some 

 time before the year 1428 to Thomas Wayte. 6 * It 

 was certainly settled on John Wayte and his heirs in 

 I453- 65 The subsequent history of the manor is the 

 same as that of Lee (q.v.). 



At the time of the Dissolution the abbey of Quarr 

 held a farm in Chark valued at 12 21. 6J., 66 which 

 was probably part of the grant made to the abbey by 

 the Bruton family about the thirteenth century, when 

 the monks received permission to have their boat free 

 of toll along the seaboard of Chark or Lee, and to 

 send their men to grind their corn at Chark. 67 



At the time of the Domesday Survey CROFTON 

 was held by Count Alan of Brittany as it had been by 

 Ulward, ' who could betake himself where he would 

 with this land.' M It is probable that Crofton formed 

 part of the possessions of Edwin earl of Mercia, the 

 whole of which were granted to Alan of Brittany for 

 his services at the Conquest, and afterwards formed 

 the honor of Richmond, of which Crofton was held 

 certainly as late as I355- 6 * Some time during the 

 twelfth century the manor seems to have been granted 

 to the Furneaux family, with whom it remained until 

 1 33 1, "but shortly after that date it apparently passed, 

 probably through some family connexion, to Maurice 

 le Brune, who died seised of the manor then termed 

 'a liberty called Crofton,' belonging to the manor of 

 Rowner, in 1355-6, leaving a son and heir William, 

 who was holding the same in 1358-9." 



Of the subtenants of the Furneaux Geoffrey Talbot 



was seised of the manor in the reign of John, 71 and 

 was succeeded by his son Lawrence, 75 who married a 

 certain Benedicta, and their daughter Alice became 

 the wife of Henry of Glastonbury, who was in 

 possession of the property in 131 6. 74 After the 

 death of Henry the manor was settled on Alice with 

 reversion to her son Henry, on whose death without 

 heirs it passed to John son of John le Venour, as son 

 and heir of Eva sister of Geoffrey Talbot. He re- 

 leased his right to Benedicta widow of Lawrence and 

 Elias de Cherleton, her second husband. 75 In May, 

 1331, licence was granted to Elias and Benedicta to 

 alienate the manor in mortmain to the abbot and 

 convent of Titchfield on condition that they should 

 find a chaplain to celebrate divine service daily in 

 the chapel of St. Edmund, Crofton, for the soul of 

 Edward II and for the souls of Elias and Benedicta 

 after their deaths ; the abbot undertook to regrant 

 the manor to the grantors for life.' 6 By a charter 

 given four years later the abbot received a grant of 

 free warren in his demesne lands in Crofton. 77 In 

 1537 the last abbot of Titchfield surrendered the 

 manor with his other possessions to the king, and it 

 was granted the same year to Thomas Wriothesley. 78 

 From this date Crofton follows the descent of the 

 manor of Titchfield (q.v.). 



Mention is made in Domesday of a mill at Crofton 

 worth i zs. 6d., but there is no further trace of its 

 history. 



There were two manors in FUNTLET" (Funtelei, 

 xi cent.; Funceley, xiii cent.; Funtelegh, xiv cent.) 

 at the time of the Domesday Survey. Of these, one 79 

 held before the Conquest by Ulward under Earl 

 Godwin had passed in 1086 into the hands of 

 Count Alan of Brittany, 80 whose descendants, except 

 for one short period, held the overlordship until 

 1279, when the honor of Richmond was in the 

 hands of Peter of Savoy. 81 The history of the over- 

 lordship for the next two centuries is obscure, but in 

 1305 a dispute arose between the king and Henry 

 of Glastonbury as to the custody of the heir. 81 The 

 matter was settled in favour of the king, who granted 

 the lordship to his daughter Mary, nun of Ambres- 

 bury. 8 * On her death the overlordship was possibly 

 granted or restored to Henry of Glastonbury, and 

 given by him with the manor of Crofton to the abbot 

 and convent of Titchfield, as in 1338 the manor of 

 Funtley was granted to the latter to be held as of their 

 manor of Crofton. 84 



The first undertenant of the manor of Funtley 

 Parva of whom there is record was Nicholas Fostebire, 

 who held one messuage and half a hide of land 

 there 85 in 1269-70. The manor appears to have 

 been granted to the family of St. Martin later in the 

 century, as in 1303-4 William de Pageham was 



66 Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. I, No. 21. 



'? Pat. 4 Edw. II, pt. I, m. 9. 



58 Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. Ill (znd 

 No.), No. 10. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 37 Edw. Ill (znd 

 No.), No. 1 6. 



60 Pafers and Prae. Hantt Field Club, 

 iii (i), 3. 



fil Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. I, No. 14. 



ra Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 235 ; 

 Feud, Aids, ii, 308. 



88 Ibid. 336. 



Ibid. 356. 



65 Feet of F. Southants, Mich. 32 Hen. 

 VI, file 33, No. 38. 



66 Dugdale, Man. v, 320. 



47 Papers and Proc. Hantt Field Club, 

 ii (3), 242. 



<* V.C.H. Hants, i, 4763, 476*. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 29 Edw. Ill (ist 

 Nos.), No. 38. 



7 Add. MS. 33284, fol. 59 ; Tata dt 

 Nevill (Rec. Com.), 233 ; Chan. Inq. 

 a.q.d. 5 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), No. 123. 



7 1 Ibid. 32 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), No. 53. 



7" Add. MS. 33284,50!. 59. 



7" Tata de Ncvill (Rec. Com.), 233. 



? 4 Feud. Aids, ii, 308. 



"Add. MS. 33284, fol. 17*5 Feet of F. 

 Hants, Trin. I Edw. III. 



226 



" Pat. 5 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 5. 

 11 Ibid. 3 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 13. 

 ? 8 Ibid. 29 Hen. VIII, pt. I, m. 4. 



79 Afterwards known as the manor of 

 Funtley Parva, and after the thirteenth 

 century as the manor of Funtley Pageham. 



80 V.C.H. Hants, i, 476. 



81 Plac. de Quo ffarr. (Rec. Com.), 

 772 ; Pat. 33 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



811 Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. I, No. 268. 

 88 Cal. of Pat. 1301-7, p. 325. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. Ill 

 (2nd Nos.), No. 35. 



85 Feet of F. Hants, 54 Hen. Ill, 

 No. 592. 



