A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Sir William Uvedale, 4 who probably held it till his 

 death in 1652. It then follows the descent of the 

 manor (q.v.). A court of the borough is held every 

 ye.ir, at which a constable, town crier, tithing-man, 

 and hayward are appointed, the constable being 

 provided with a truncheon and handcuffs. The 

 bounds of the borough are beaten from time to time, 

 and all people selling goods are liable to market tolls 

 within the borough. 



At the time of the Domesday Book 

 M4NOR WICKH4M, which had been held under 

 Edward the Confessor as two manors by 

 four brothers, was held by Hugh de Port, 5 being 

 one of the many lordships granted to the De Port 

 family by William I. The overlordship, follow- 

 ing the descent of the rest of the De Port barony, 

 passed in succession to the families of St. John, 

 Philibert, and Paulet ; William Paulet, marquis of 

 Winchester, holding it in 1 6 1 6, after which the rights 

 of the overlord probably lapsed. 6 It was held under 

 the De Ports by the family of Scures. In 1268 Roger 

 de Scures received a grant of free warren, a market 

 and fair in his manor of Wickham,' and in 1287 

 Matthew de Scures was lord of Wickham. 8 Later in 

 the same century Eva de Scures, granddaughter and 

 heir of Matthew, held this manor as one knight's 

 fee, 9 and, having no children, was succeeded by 

 Sir John de Scures, probably a cousin, warden of the 

 castle of Winchester, who died in 1353.' His son 

 John held the manor until his death in 1381, when his 

 sister Sybil, who had married John Uvedale, became 

 his heir, and thus brought Wickham to a family with 

 whom it remained for 350 

 years." John and Sybil Uve- 

 dale had two sons, William 

 and John, each of whom suc- 

 ceeded to the family property 

 in turn. From John Uvedale 

 the estates passed, some time 

 between 1445 and 1461, to 

 his son Sir Thomas, a man of 

 considerable importance in the 

 fifteenth century, who died in 

 1484, leaving Wickham, then 

 worth ,\\, to his son Wil- 

 liam, whose estates escheated to the crown on his 

 attainder in 1484 for his hostility to the government 

 of Richard III. He received a free pardon in 1485," 

 and was succeeded in 1 5 24 by a son William, who, 

 before his death in 1528, conveyed the estate to 

 trustees for the use of his wife Dorothy for life, 13 and 

 directed that a small annual allowance should be made 

 to his son and heir Arthur, who appears to have been 

 of weak intellect. The duty of keeping the estate in 

 repair was entrusted to his uncle Thomas and his 

 brother John. 14 Arthur succeeded on his mother's 

 death in I53O, 15 and his son and heir William 

 died in 1569, leaving a son aged nine years, after- 

 wards Sir William Uvedale. He died in 1616, and 



UVEDALE. Argent a 

 cross moline gules. 



the borough, manor, and advowson of Wickham, worth 

 40 per annum, passed, under a settlement made by 

 fine in 1607, to his wife Mary, daughter of Sir 

 Richard Norton, for life." She survived him many 

 years, and on her death, before 1634, the estates 



GARNIIR. Assurt a 

 sword bcndwisc point 

 downwards between a 

 Jleur de Us or and a 

 branch of oak or all 

 within a border battled 

 or. 



CARPENTER. Party 

 indented or and azure 

 an eagle and in the chief 

 two roundels counter- 

 coloured. 



passed to her son William." During his life, 

 possibly owing to his adherence to the royal cause, his 

 property became much reduced, some estates being 

 sold and others vested in trustees for the payment of 

 his debts. By his will he left the manor to his 

 second wife, Victoria, daughter of Henry Gary 

 Viscount Falkland, for life, whose son William, dying 

 before 1663, left two sisters co-heirs of the estates. 18 

 The elder, Victoria, married Sir Richard Corbett, and 

 on her death, before 1683, her interest in the manor 

 passed to her son Sir Uvedale Corbett. 19 The younger 

 sister, Elizabeth, married secondly Edward earl of Car- 

 lisle. She was the last representative of the elder branch 

 of the family of Uvedale, and shortly after her death, 

 in 1696, her property was divided between her son 

 Charles earl of Carlisle and Sir Uvedale Corbett her 

 nephew. 10 The Wickham property apparently went 

 to the Corbetts, and in 1721" Sir Richard Corbett 

 was holding Wickham, but in 1724 it was purchased 

 by Jonathan Rashleigh, M.P. for Fowey, Cornwall," 

 and in 1 764 sold by Philip Rashleigh to George 

 Gamier, sheriff of Hampshire in I j66,' 3 from whom 

 it passed to his son William Gamier, whose nephew 

 Mr. John Carpenter-Gamier, of Rookesbury Park, is 

 the present lord of the manor. 



The church of ST. NICHOLAS has 

 CHURCH a chancel 22 ft. 8 in. by 16 ft., with 

 south chapel and organ chamber, north 

 transept 23 ft. by 18 ft., south transept 34 ft. by 

 1 8 ft. 4 in., nave 59ft. by 20 ft., and west tower. 

 In spite of a severe 'restoration' in 1862-3, tne 

 church retains some ancient features, the north-east 

 angle of the nave and the north doorway of the 

 chancel showing twelfth-century masonry, and the 

 west doorway of the tower is also re-used twelfth- 

 century work. 



4 Feet of F. Southants, Hil. 2 Cha. I 

 (Div. Cos.). 



* V.C.H. Hants, i, 4800. 



Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 230 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. III. (ist Nos.), 

 No. 12 ; ibid. (Ser. 2), vol. 18, No. 

 24 ; Exch. Inq. p.m. 23 Hen. VIII. 

 (Ser. z), file 983, No. 3 ; W. & L. 

 Inq. p.m. 14 Jas. I (Ser. 2), bdle. 24, 

 No. 123. 



7 Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 124. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 16 Edw. I, 

 No. 1 60. 



* Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 230. 



10 Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. III. (ist 

 Nos.), No. 12. 



11 Surrey Arcb. Coll. in, 83. 



la Col. of Pat. 1476-85, pp. 504, 523. 

 18 Surrey Arch. Coll. iii, 99, 171. 



14 Ibid. no. 



15 Exch. Inq. p.m. 23 Hen. VIII 

 (Ser. 2), file 983, No. 3. 



234 



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

 Hil. 5 Jas. I. ; W. & L. Inq. p.m. 14 

 Jas. I (Ser. 2), bdle. 24, No. 123. 



V Surrey Arch. Coll. iii, 122. 



18 Ibid. 130, 131. 



19 Ibid. 132. 

 80 Ibid. 



21 Recov. R. Mich. 8 Geo. I, rot. 

 198. 



M Ibid. Trin. 12 Geo. Ill, rot. 339. 

 88 Surrey Arch. Coll. iii, 133. 



