TITCHFIELD HUNDRED 



TITCHFIELD 



Though the name of QUOB (Quabbe, xiii-xvii 

 cents.) now survives only in Quob Farm and Copse, 

 there were formerly two separate estates of that name, 

 one of which belonged to the lords of the manor of 

 North Fareham in the thirteenth century, and of 

 which the following mention is made. In the reign 

 of Edward I Emma de Roches granted her son Hugh 

 'the land of Quabbe in the parish of Titchfield.' I3e 

 In 1571 Sir Richard Pexall, descendant of Hugh, died 

 seised of land and tenements in ' Quabbe ' " 7 and his 

 grandson Sir Pexall Brocas was holding the same in 

 l6lo. 138 In 1635 the property, then called for the 

 first time a manor, was in the possession of Thomas 

 Brocas, 139 and certainly as late as 1762 the lords of 

 North Fareham received l yearly as lords' rent from 

 ' Quabbe ' Farm, 140 which had evidently become merged 

 in the manor of North Fareham. 



The second holding that bore the name was first 

 mentioned in 1311, when Richard de Beauchamp 

 held one tenement called ' La Quabbe ' with two 

 gardens, 6 acres of arable land, 5 acres of meadow, 

 3 acres of wood, 20 acres of pasture, and an assize 

 rent of 39^. zJ. property which Oliver de Beauchamp 

 his ancestor had licence to acquire in Titchfield in 

 exchange for the manor of Melbourne in Derby, 

 granted to King John. It was held by the service of 

 doing suit at the court of the king at Titchfield and 

 by a rent of 1 6J. yearly. Richard apparently held it 

 only for the life of William de Masseworth, but his 

 co-heiresses put in a claim for the property, which 

 was disallowed, and the escheator was ordered to 

 deliver up the land to William, 111 and on his death, 

 in 1335, the estate passed to his brother Walter, who 

 held it by the service of doing guard at Portchester for 

 30 days. 10 In 1361 Thomas de Overton died seised 

 of the manor of ' Quabbe,' 14S which had probably (like 

 the second Titchfield manor) been included in the 

 carucate of land, 6 acres of meadow, 12 acres of 

 wood and rent in Titchfield and Chark acquired by 

 him in 1 356 by purchase from John de Masseworth. 144 

 William, brother and heir of Thomas, appears to have 

 died shortly after his brother, and the estate passed in 

 1363 to his daughter Isabel and her husband Thomas 

 le Warrener, 145 who three years later acquired the one- 

 third part of the manor which Agnes, widow of William, 

 was holding in dower. 146 During the next seventy years 

 the estate appears to have been broken up, since there 

 is no further mention of the manor as such, while in 

 1426 Thomas Warrener was possessed of only one 

 toft and 2 virgates of land called Quabland in the vill 

 of Titchfield 'which he held jointly with Isabel 

 Overton, formerly his wife.' 147 It is probable that 



WAYTE. Argent a 



cheveron gules between 

 three hunting horns table. 



this property as well as the rest of the Overton estate 

 gradually became merged in Titchfield proper. 



SEGENWORTH (Sugion, xi cent. ; Suggenwerch, 

 xiii cent. ; Sokyngworth, xiv cent. ; Sechingworth, 

 Siginworth, xvi cent.) was one of the lordships granted 

 to Hugh de Port by William I, and at the time of 

 Domesday Herebald held it from him as Ulric had 

 held it under King Edward. 148 At the end of the 

 thirteenth century William 

 de Stratton was holding one 

 knight's fee of Robert de 

 St. John, 119 descendant of the 

 De Ports ; but by the middle 

 of the fourteenth century it 

 had passed to the family of 

 Wayte, and was then in the 

 hands of William Wayte." 

 In the fifteenth century it was 

 held by Margaret Wayte, wife 

 of another William Wayte, 1 ' 1 

 and through her it descended 

 to John Wayte, probably a 



grandson, who leased the manor in 1528-9 to Arthur 

 Plantagenet Viscount Lisle, his kinsman. 16 ' From 

 this date the descent of the manor is the same as 

 that of Lee Britten (q.v.). 



At the time of Domesday STUBB1NGTON 

 (Stulbinton, Stubynton, Stobington, xiii cent.), 

 which under King Edward formed part of 

 the possessions of Earl Godwin, was held by the 

 De Port family, 163 from whom it passed to the 

 St. Johns, descendants of the De Ports, early in the 

 thirteenth century, and in whose possession the over- 

 lordship remained until 1 309, when it was granted by 

 John de St. John, lord of Basing, to the abbot and 

 convent of Titchfield." 4 



From an early date Stubbington was held under 

 the St. Johns by Reginald de Mohun and his succes- 

 sors, who before the end of the thirteenth century 

 had granted it to John de Rayny, 155 whose grandson, 

 William de Rayny, about 1293 granted all his lands 

 in Stubbington to the abbey of Titchfield, 166 which, 

 during the following century, acquired other lands in 

 Stubbington by various grants. 167 This grant was 

 confirmed by royal charter in 1320, and mention is 

 made in the same deed that the abbot was freed from 

 all suits and services due to him from such land. 168 A 

 grant of free warren was made to the abbot in I293. 169 

 It continued to be noted separately among the pos- 

 sessions of the abbey until 1 428, leo from which date it 

 disappears from the Titchfield records, and was 

 probably included in Titchfield itself. 



6 Add. Chart. 15692. 



18 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Eliz. No. 137 



"" Feet of F. Southants (Div. Cos.), 

 Hil. 8 Jas. I. 



> Feet of F. Hants, Mich. II Chan. I. 



140 From documents in the possession 

 of the lord of the manor. 



"1 Close, 5 Edw. II, m. 25 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. II, No. 47. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, No. 28. 



118 Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. 

 1, No. 17. The vill and manor of 

 ' Quabbe ' was held at this date of the king 

 in chief by the serjeanty of finding one 

 man for 40 days in time of war in Scot- 

 land. The profits of the court were 

 worth 6d. per annum. 



144 Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 Nos.), No. 10. 



" s Feet of F. Hants, East. 37 Edw. 

 Ill, file 26, No. 60. 



146 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 40 Edw. 

 III. 



"7 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. VI, No. 

 41. Possibly the Overtons made gifts to 

 the abbey and convent of Titchfield, as 

 the latter held tenements and rent in 

 'Qwobe' at the Dissolution. Mins. Accts. 

 30 & 31 Hen. VIII, m. 135. 



14 r.C.H. Hants, i, 480 a and k. 



149 Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 230. 



150 feet of F. Hants, Mich. 1 3 Edw. 

 Ill ; Feud. Aids, ii, 336. 



151 Ibid. 356. 



153 Close, 20 Hen, VIII, No. 397, m. 

 20 and 25. 



* r.C.H. Hants, i, 480*. In 1202 

 Wales de Possebroc granted to Wiburga 



229 



his wife 50 virgates of land in Stubbing- 

 ton from the fee of the bishop of Av- 

 ranches ; Feet of F. 4 John, No. 32. 



154 Dugdale, Afon. vii, 934-5. 



155 Testa de Nevill (Rcc. Com.), 230. 

 166 Dugdale, Man. vii, 934. 



16 ' In 1285 John de Fareham was 

 granted licence to alienate 10 acres in 

 Stubbington to the abbot and convent of 

 Titchfield, and five years later 30 acres in 

 addition; Cal. of Pat. 1281-92, pp. 157, 

 336. 



In 1346 the abbot acquired 2 acres of 

 land in Chark from John de Chark and 

 Alice his wife ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 

 Edw. Ill (and Nos.), No. 57. 



158 Dugdale, M.on. vii, 9345. 



159 Ibid. 931. 



160 Feud. Aids, ii, 308, 336, 356. 



