A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



After this date there is apparently no further 

 mention of these lands in Hambledon. The only 

 explanation of this seems to be that they may have 

 become amalgamated with some other manor in the 

 hands of the St. Johns, possibly Warnford. 



DENMEAD in Hambledon was in the hands of 

 the bishop of Winchester in 1 3 1 6, 40 and it is always 

 mentioned under Hambledon on the Ecclesiastical 

 Commission Court Rolls as paying suit at the bishop's 

 court of Hambledon. It was evidently leased by 

 the bishops to various tenants during the thirteenth 

 century. 41 



It is first called a manor in 1449 when William 

 Wayte " died seised of it, and held it of the bishop of 

 Winchester, leaving a son and 

 heir Edward, then aged five. 4 * 

 From Edward it passed to his 

 son Simon, who died in 1518, 

 leaving a brother and heir 

 William. 44 



On the death of the latter 

 in 1561 his extensive lands in 

 Hampshire and the Isle of 

 Wight were divided among 

 his six daughters, Eleanor the 

 wife of Richard Bruning, Mary 

 the wife of William Cresweller, 

 Honor who had married her 



WAYTE. Argent a 

 cheveron gules between 

 three hunting horns sable. 



cousin William Wayte, Margaret the wife of Henry 

 Perkins, Elizabeth who had married Richard Norton, 

 and Susan who had married William Wollascot. 45 



Eleanor Bruning died in 1593, leaving one-sixth 

 of the manor to her son and heir Francis, charged 

 with an annuity to her son, William Bruning, and 

 with a jointure settled on 

 Ellen wife of her son Richard, 

 the daughter and heiress of 

 Anthony Uvedale. 46 



Christine Bruning, most 

 probably the widow of Francis 

 Bruning, gave this sixth part 

 to Humphrey Sandford and 

 Thomas Wollascot in i6o4. 47 

 In 1610 their share of the 

 manor came back into the pos- 

 session of the Brunings, 48 and 

 though presumably only a sixth 

 part it is subsequently described 

 as the manor of Denmead ; and in 1612 Richard 

 Bruning died seised of it, leaving it to his son Anthony 

 with a jointure settled on Mary, Anthony's wife. 49 



Anthony was still holding the manor in 1652, and 

 conveyed it in that year to Richard Love and John 

 Bold, probably trustees. 60 Richard Bruning was in 

 possession of the manor in 1718 and settled it at that 

 date on George Parker. 61 



The Wollascots were still holding their share of 



BRUNING. Gules five 

 bends Vfavy the upper 

 argent the Itnver or. 



the manor of Denmead in 1613, for in that year 

 William Wollascot junior and his wife Anne and their 

 son William conveyed property described as the manor 

 to Otho Gayer and George Parker," evidently as a 

 settlement, for in 1618 William Wollascot senior died 

 seised of lands and tenements in Denmead in right 

 of his wife Susan, daughter and co-heiress of William 

 Wayte, and the lands descended to his son and heir 

 William Wollascot junior. 63 William Wollascot and 

 Anne settled their share of the manor of Denmead 

 and the so-called manor of Glidden on their son 

 Edward in 1621," his brother William apparently 

 having died ; 66 and in 1656 Edward Wollascot and 

 his wife Anne conveyed them to Thomas Battles- 

 worth. 56 The parts of Denmead and Glidden which 

 passed into the hands of the Perkins family with the 

 marriage of Margaret Wayte and Henry Perkins 

 evidently remained to them for some time ; for in 

 1671 Richard Perkins and Francis Perkins made a 

 settlement of the so-called manors of Denmead and 

 Glidden." 



In 1703 Anne Perkins (one of the Perkins of Been- 

 ham, Berkshire, who had married her cousin, Francis 

 Perkins of Ufton, the great- 

 grandson of Henry Perkins and 

 Margaret) 68 together with 

 Frances and Margaret, her 

 sisters-in-law, granted her share 

 in the manors to her cousin 

 Thomas Perkins. 69 A few 

 months later Thomas Perkins 

 and his wife Sarah conveyed 

 the manors to George Norris 

 and Richard Heverden, prob- 

 ably as a settlement. 60 



William du Card and his 

 wife Elizabeth, possibly a 

 daughter of Thomas Perkins, and Sarah were holding 

 Denmead and Glidden in right of Elizabeth in 1713, 

 and conveyed them in that year to Robert Heart. 61 



William Smith and his wife Jane were holding the 

 manor of Denmead " in right of Jane in 1 744 * and 

 conveyed it in that year to Thomas d'Oyley, probably 

 as a settlement. 64 Twenty-five years later William 

 and Jane sold the manor to Thomas Bernard, 66 who 

 in his turn conveyed it to Thomas Martin and 

 William Hatch. 66 



In 1831 Henry Kennett and his wife Fanny were 

 holding the manors of Denmead and Glidden with 

 courts leet, courts baron, and view of frankpledge, 

 and settled them in that year on William Higgins. 67 

 After this date there seems to be no further mention 

 of the manors. Denmead is now a tithing in the 

 parish of Hambledon, the whole of which is in the 

 hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are 

 apparently lords of the manor. The tithing is now 

 called Barn Green. 



PERKINS. Or a fesse 

 'dancetty between six billets 

 sable er mined argent. 



40 Feud. Aid:, ii, 319. 



41 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 56 Hen. III. 



43 His father, Richard, had held tene- 

 ments in Denmead in 1397 (Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. 21 Ric. II No. 8u and b). 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. 26 Hen. VI, No. 9. 



44 Ibid. 10 Hen. VIII (Ser. 2], vol. 33, 

 No. 83. 



Ibid. 3 Eliz. (Ser. 2), No. 181 ; ibid. 

 W. and L. 3 Eliz. vol. 8, No. 9. 

 46 Ibid. 35 Eliz. pt. I, No. 25. 

 <7 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 2 Jas. I. 

 Ibid. East. 8 Jas. I. 



49 Inq. p.m. 10 Jas. I, vol. 332, No. 169. 



60 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 4 Com- 

 monwealth. 



" Ibid. Hants, Mich. 5 Geo. I. 



M Ibid. Div. Cos. Trin. 1 1 Ja. I. 



68 Inq. p. m. 16 Jas. I, vol. 372, 

 No. 154. 



64 Feet of F. Hants, East. 19 Jas. i. 



65 Blore, Rutland, 61. 



66 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 8 Chas. I. 

 '7 Ibid. Div. Cos. Hil. 23-4 Chas. II. 

 A. M. Sharp, Hist, of Ufton Court. 

 * Feet of F. Hants, Hil. I Anne. 



240 



Ibid. Trin. 2 Anne. 



61 Ibid. East. 12 Anne. 



83 Denmead seems to have become one 

 manor again by this date, as the extent 

 given is larger than in any previous fine. 



68 Perhaps a daughter of William du 

 Card and Elizabeth, as the manor evi- 

 dently descended in the female line. 



64 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. iS&ig 

 Geo. II. 



65 Ibid. Hants, Mich. 12 Geo. III. 



66 Ibid. 1 6 Geo. III. 



6 ? Ibid. East. 2 & 3 Will. IV. 



