HAMBLEDON HUNDRED 



HAMBLEDON 



was dependent upon the parish church of Hambledon 

 until the Reformation, but tradition also points to a 

 spot on the downs near Denmead Mill as the site of 

 this chapel, and it is stated that in the last century a 

 number of graves were found there. Other places in 

 this parish are Anmore, 14 half a mile east, once in 

 Catherington parish ; Apless, if miles west ; Broad- 

 way, I miles east; Bunker's Hill, \ a mile south- 

 west ; Bunn's Lane, ^\ miles west ; Crabbick, I mile 

 west ; Eastland Gate, 2 miles east ; Ervill's, I \ miles 

 west ; Furze Hill, I mile south-east ; Piper's Hill, 

 if miles south-east ; Soake, I mile east ; and World's 

 End, if miles west. 



The soil of the parish varies from a light clay in 

 the north and north-east to a stiff clay in the south. 

 The chief crops are wheat, barley, and oats. 



The land is divided as follows : 4,392 acres of 

 arable land, 2,993 of permanent grass, and 1,101 of 

 woods and plantations." The following place-names 

 occur in Hambledon parish : Bullpyrke Meadow ; 16 

 in 1452, ' Scutescroft ' ; l7 in 1556, 'Appullons' in 

 Denmead; 18 in 1702, 'Furze Field' and ' Brith- 

 lands' in the tithing of Chidden; 19 in 1712, 

 ' Westhookes ' near Anthill Heath, ' Keepmore ' and 

 ' Inholmes ' in the tithing of Denmead." 



West End Down in Hambledon parish was inclosed 

 on 24 January, 1861 ;" Anthill Common on 7 Sep- 

 tember, 1870," and Chidden Down 14 December, 

 1871* 



John Nyren (1764-1837), a writer on cricket, was 

 born at Hambledon. He was the son of Richard 

 Nyren, founder of the famous Hambledon Cricket 

 Club. 



Charles II on his way from Somerset to Shoreham, 

 whence he escaped to Fecamp, passed the night of 

 13 October, 1651, at Hambledon, at the house of a 

 brother-in-law of Colonel Gunter (at that time the 

 king's guide). ' The master of the house, who had 

 been all day long playing the good fellow at an ale- 

 house in the town, came in at supper, and declared 

 that the king looked like " some round-headed rogue's 

 son," but was soon appeased. Afterwards, in the 

 time of entertaining his guests, he did by chance let 

 fall an oath ; for which Mr. Jackson (the name by 

 which the king went) took occasion modestly to 

 reprove him.'" The house at that time belonged 

 to one of the Symonds family ; it is now used as 

 a gardener's cottage. 



The main manor of HAMBLEDON, 

 MANORS which must have escheated to the crown 

 under Henry I, was granted to the bishop 

 of Winchester by King John in 1199"; and remained 

 in his hands until 1650, at which date the manor, 

 together with the manor farm, view of frankpledge, 

 court leet and court baron, was sold to George Wither 

 for .3,796 i8/. i\d. M Hambledon was restored to 

 the bishopric at the Restoration, and remained in its 

 possession until 1869, when the lands of the see of 

 Winchester were taken over by the Ecclesiastical 



ooo 



CAMOYS. 

 chief gules 

 bezants. 



Argent a 

 with three 



Commissioners, who are lords 01 the manor of 

 Hambledon at the present time. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey there was a 

 mill in Hambledon," and in 

 the reign of Edward I there 

 was a mill in the bishop's 

 manor.* 8 



In 1612 a market was 

 granted to Thomas bishop of 

 Winchester, to be held on 

 Tuesday in each week ; and 

 two fairs, one at the feast of 

 the Purification of the Blessed 

 Virgin Mary, and the other at 

 the feast of St. Matthew." 

 There is no trace of these, 

 however, at the present day. 



Besides the bishop's manor of Hambledon there 

 were evidently some lands in the parish which were 

 held under the overlordship of the De Ports and 

 St. Johns successively. At the 

 time of the Domesday Survey 

 William de Perci was holding 

 this land in right of his wife, 30 

 Emma de Port, 31 who probably 

 obtained it by grant of Hugh 

 de Port. 3 ' 



His heir, Alan de Perci, held 

 a knight's fee in Hambledon of 

 John de Port in 1 1 66, and 

 William de Perci held the same 

 of Robert de St. John under 

 Henry III. 35 Ralph de Punda 

 was holding this knight's fee in Hambledon of William 

 de Perci under Robert de St. John in the thirteenth 

 century. 84 In 1259 Ralph de Camoys was holding 

 half a knight's fee in Ham- 

 bledon as the under-tenant 

 of Robert de St. John **; and 

 1329 Ralph de Camoys, 



ST. PHILIBERT. 

 argent and azure* 



Bendy 



ST. JOHN. 



chief gules 

 molets or. 



Argent a 

 ivitb Kvo 



his grandson, was holding a 



whole fee there worth 40^. of 



John de St. John. 36 In 1 349 



an order was issued that the 



knight's fee in Hambledon 



which Ralph de Camoys was 



holding should be delivered 



up to John de St. Philibert 



and Margaret his wife, eldest 



sister and heir of Edmund de 



St. John, tenant in chief, who had died a minor in the 



king's wardship. 87 



Maurice de Brun, Aymer de Valence, and John de 

 Boarhunt were also holding lands in Hambledon in 

 1347 from Edmund de St. John, 38 and in 1349 an 

 order was issued to deliver this land to Elizabeth 

 late the wife of Edmund de St. John as her dower, 

 with reversion to Luke de Poynings and his wife 

 Isabel, sister and heir of Edmund de St. John. 39 



14 For its history sec Catherington 

 parish. 



15 Statistics from the Bd. of Agric. 

 (1905). 



i Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 159, 493 f (3) V- 

 V Ibid. 31 Hen. VI, 159,483!. 

 Ibid. 3 & 4 Phil. & Mary, j|. 

 19 Ibid. I Anne, 155, 811 i} 6 . 

 Ibid. n Anne, i 3 . 



21 Par!. Accts. and Pafs. vol. 71, 485- 



5*3- 



M Ibid. * Ibid. 



a4 Boscobcl Tracts. 



as Chart. R. i John, m. 29. 



96 Close, 1650, pt. 3, m. 19. 



V V.C.H. Hants, \, 487. 



38 Mins. Accts. 1J$*, ^ and a ij 



99 Pat. II Jas. I, pt. 6, m. 17, No. 29. 



80 V.C.H. Hants, i, 487. 



239 



. ofExch. 206. 

 89 Ibid. 

 Ibid. 



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



85 Inq. p.m. 43 Hen. Ill, No. 28. 



86 Ibid. 3 Edw. Ill (ist Nos.), No. 67. 

 "7 Cal. of Close, 1349-54, p. 20. 



88 Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. Ill (ist Nos.) 

 No. 57. 



39 Cal. of Close, 1349-54, p. 16. 



