A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



1734, after which it is the same as that of Brom- 

 wich (q.v.). 116 



A chapel appears to have been opened in Hook 

 in the fourteenth century, without the authority 

 of the bishop, and the archdeacon was therefore sent 

 to admonish those responsible. As, however, ser- 

 vices continued to be held, the offenders were sum- 

 moned to appear before the bishop in Winchester 

 Cathedral. They did not appear, and sentence of 

 excommunication was passed upon them in l^jg. 1 " 

 In what way the dispute was finally settled does not 

 appear, but the chapel was still existing at West 

 Hook in 1 570-1. 118 



LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT (Ly, La Lige, xiii cent. ; 

 Lye xv cent.) is not mentioned by name in the 

 Domesday Survey, but was probably included at that 

 date in the fee held by Count Alan of Brittany in 

 Funtley and Crofton, which subsequently became part 

 of the honour of Richmond. 119 In 1 302 Richard Bruton 

 died seised of land in Lee held of Isolda le Brun as of 

 the honour of Richmond ' in manu ipsius Isolde existent 

 ibidem.' 110 The overlordship had probably passed to 

 her husband William with the liberty of Crofton, 'by 

 commission ' of John of Brittany. 181 There seems to 

 be no further documentary evidence as to the descent 

 of the overlordship, but it was probably for some time 

 at least included in Crofton liberty. 



Of the subtenants Roger Markes seems to have 

 held one carucate of land, subsequently known as the 

 manor of LEE M4RKES, about the middle of the 

 thirteenth century, 1 " and in 1327 Edmund Markes, 

 probably son of Roger, paid 2/. subsidy, presumably 

 assessed on the same estate. 1 * 1 Thirty years later 

 William Markes was holding land in Lee of Thomas 

 Warrener, which was to pass to the abbot and 

 convent of Titchfield on the death of William, and 

 in this way it came into the hands of Thomas 

 Wriothesley at the Dissolution. 



In 1236 Gilbert de Bret (alias Brut) died seised of 

 the manor of ' Ly ' (which subsequently became known 

 as Lee Britten or Bruton), being I carucate, by the 

 service of a third of a knight's fee of the honour of 

 Richmond, and some years later this was held by the 

 guardian of the heir of John le Bret from Peter of 

 Savoy as of the honour of Richmond. 124 The manor 

 seems to have passed from John to Richard Bruton, 

 who held a moiety of Lee and Chark as one-third of 

 a knight's fee by the serjeanty of crossing the sea with 

 the king, and who was succeeded by his son Richard. 

 The latter died in 1 302, leaving a son William, a 

 minor, who was holding in 1327 and probably in 

 1 346 if, as seems likely, Warde was a local name for 

 the Bruton estates in Lee and Chark. 1 * 5 From William 

 the manor passed to his son John, and from Alice 



daughter of John to her son Thomas, who died with- 

 out heirs at the end of the fourteenth century. He 

 appears to have alienated it to Thomas Wayte, as in 

 1310 the latter was sued by John Wallop, who claimed 

 the manor as descendant of Alice sifter of William 

 Bruton. John's claim was allowed, 1 " but the rever- , 

 sion was apparently granted to Thomas Wayte, as in ! 

 1428 he was holding one-third of a knight's fee in 

 Warde jointly with the abbot of Titchfield. 1 " The 

 history of the manor for the next hundred years is 

 obscure, but in 1528 John Wayte, a descendant 

 of Thomas, leased the manor of Lee to Arthur 

 Plantagenet. 1>7a In 1530 John Wayte conveyed 

 the manor to Sir Richard Lyster, from whom it 

 probably passed to his father-in-law, Sir Thomas 

 Wriothesley, some time within the next ten years, 

 for in 1 540 a dispute was tried before the Privy 

 Council between Wriothesley and one Walter Chand- 

 ler, Walter having complained that Sir Thomas 

 had withheld the manor of Lee from him without 

 paying for it. The council, however, decided that 

 the charge was wholly unfounded, and Chandler was 

 ordered to make apology and restitution. 1 * 8 From 

 this date the descent of both manors is the same as 

 that of Titchfield (q.v.). 



At the time of Domesday MEON belonged to the 

 bishop of Winchester, having been held previously by 

 a certain Toui who rented one-half of the king and 

 held the other by grant from the earl of Hereford, 1 " 

 on whose death the whole appears to have been 

 granted by the king to the bishop. No further 

 mention of Meon is found until 1510, when Thomas 

 Uvedale granted to Henry Uvedale his heir lands 

 and rent in Meon. 130 The property then follows the 

 history of Bromwich (q.v.) until 1550, when Thomas 

 Wriothesley earl of Southampton died seised of the 

 same, then for the first time called the manor of 

 Meon. 131 After this date there is no further reference 

 to the so-called manor, which probably became 

 merged in that of Bromwich. 



POSBROOK (Passebroc or Postbrook xiii cent.) 

 is not mentioned in Domesday Book, and very little 

 is known of its early history. It appears to have been 

 held by members of the Passebroc family in the early 

 part of the thirteenth century, 13 * and in 1243-4 it 

 was acquired either by purchase or grant from a 

 certain William de Setteville by Isaac abbot of Titch- 

 field. 13 * A grant of free warren in Posbrook was 

 made to the abbey in the reign of Edward I, 13 * and 

 the manor remained in the possession of the monastery 

 until the Dissolution in 1 5 38,"* when it was granted 

 to Thomas Wriothesley as part of the abbey estates, 

 and from this date the descent of the manor is the 

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



116 Private information. 



"7 Wykebam's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 ii, 281. 118 Pat. 3 Eliz. pt. 3, m. 26. 



ll Lee was held of the honour in the 

 thirteenth century. Testa de Nevill 

 (Rec. Com.), 241, 233*, 235 ; Inq. p.m. 

 21 Edw. I, No. 14 ; Plac. de Qua Warr. 

 (Rec. Com.), 772, 811, &c. 



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



l Cat. of Close, 1279-88, p. 81. 



lja It was held by the serjeanty of cross- 

 ing the Channel with the king or as else- 

 where expressed (Red Bk. of the Exch. 

 460) crossing to Brittany ; Testa de Ne-vill 

 (Rec. Com.), 233, 235, 241*. This is of 

 interest, as Henry II crossed from Stokes 

 Bay (see Alverstoke). 



128 Lay Subs. R. 1J. 



M* Cal. of Ina. Hen. Ill, p. I ; Testa 

 de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 233*. Peter died 

 in 1268. The Brito or Bruton family 

 had probably been here for some time. 

 There are two undated deeds in the pos- 

 session of the lord of the manor of Row- 

 ner, one being a grant by Hamo Brito 

 de Leya to St. Mary's Abbey of Quarr 

 (founded 1133) and the other a similar 

 deed by Gilbertas le Bret. Both are 

 probably of an early date. Papers and 

 Proc. Hants Field Club, iii (i), 3. 



1! Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 235 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. I, No. 14 ; ibid. 

 30 Edw. I, No. 21 ; Lay Subs. R. ip ; 

 Feud. Aids, ii, 336. 



228 



1M Wrottesley, Pedigrees from the Plea 

 Rolls, 269. 



"7 Feud. Aids, ii, 356. 



7a Close, 20 Hen. VIII, No. 397, m. 



35- 



188 Aca of the P.O. vii, 101-2. 

 " V.C.H. Hants, i, 462*. 



180 Feet of F. Southants, Trin. 2 Hen. 

 VIII. 



181 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. VI (Ser. 

 2), No. 103. 



133 Feet of F. Hants, 4 John, No. 

 3*- 



188 Ibid. 28 Hen. Ill, No. 292. 



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



185 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 29 

 Hen. VIII. 



