THE HUNDRED OF HAMBLEDON 



CONTAINING THE PARISH OF 



HAMBLEDON, with the tithings of DENMEAD, CHIDDEN, GLIDDEN, and ERVILL'S EXTON * 



At the time of the Domesday Survey Hambledoi was not entered as a 

 hundred. It was assessed at two hides, which were included in Meonstoke 

 Hundred ; one hide being among the lands 

 of William de Perci,* and the other among 

 those of Earl Roger. 8 



In 1316 Hambledon, with Chidden, 

 Glidden, and Denmead, was included in East 

 Meon Hundred, which was held by the 

 bishop of Winchester.* 



Hambledon seems first to have been 

 formed into a separate hundred in the 

 reign of Edward III, 6 when it contained the 

 tithings of Chidden, Glidden, and Den- 

 mead, and was owned by the bishop ot 

 Winchester. 6 



In this reign a tax of a fifteenth and 

 a tenth levied on the country produced 

 5 6s. %d. from the hundred of Hamble- 

 don, 7 and similar taxes levied in the reigns 

 of Henry VIII, 8 Elizabeth, 9 and James 10 

 produced exactly the same amount. 



In 1422 the whole of the modern tithings, Chidden, Glidden, Denmead, 

 and Ervill's Exton or Leigh, were included in the hundred. 11 The hundred 

 of Hambledon has always been in the hands of the bishop. 18 



HAMBLEDON 



V/etorra ffistory of Hampshire 



1 The extent of the hundred as giver in the Population Returns of 1 8 3 1 . 



I V.C.H. Hants, i, 487. ' Ibid, i, 478. 

 6 Lay Subs. R. Hants, Edw. Ill, ^y. ' Ibid. 



9 Ibid. 32 Hen. VIII, ^f. ' Ibid, i Eliz. ^. 



II Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 159, 483 (3) f. 



11 Ibid. 3 & 4 Phil, and Mary, 159, 475 f (7) Jf ; ibid. 18 & 19 Chas. I, 155, 748, f 



1 Feud. Aids, ii, 319. 



7 Ibid. 



10 Ibid. 21 Jas. 



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