A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Ann Horatia his wife conveyed the manor to George 

 Henry earl of Euston, his cousin and George Seymour 

 his brother, evidently as a settlement. 



After this date there seems to be no further record 

 concerning Butvillens, which probably became merged 

 in the main manor of Hambledon. Butvillens or 

 Bittles is now a tithing in Hambledon parish. 



GLIDDEN (Gluddon, xv cent.) is a tithing in 

 Hambledon parish lying about two miles east of the 

 village. It is mentioned with Hambledon as paying 

 suit at the bishop's court. 98 A messuage, land, and 

 tenements in Glidden were granted to Thomas 

 Wriothesley earl of Southampton in 1543," and from 

 this date the descent of Glidden becomes the same as 

 that of the manor of Denmead in the parish of 

 Hambledon (q.v.). The whole of Hambledon parish, 

 inclusive of the tithing of Glidden, is in the possession 

 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners at the present 

 day. 



The tithing of CHIDDEN lies about two miles 

 north-east of Hambledon ; it owed suit at the bishop's 

 court of Hambledon. 



As early as 956 King Eadwig granted land in 

 Chidden in the parish of Hambledon to Ethelgeard a 

 thegn. 100 After this date there is no mention of 

 Chidden until the year 1284, when William de Col- 

 riche and Eleanor his wife granted 20 acres of land 

 and 1 2s. 6J. rent in Chidden to Thomas de Cole- 

 more. 101 



Henry VIII granted lands, tenements, and rent in 

 Chidden in 1543 to Thomas Wriothesley, earl of 

 Southampton, 10 ' together with numerous lands and 

 manors in Hampshire. 



RUSHMERE is a tithing in the parish. The 

 earliest mention of it seems to be in 1510, when Sir 

 John Pounde died seised of the so-called manor of 

 Rushmere held of the bishop of Winchester ; Ios his 

 widow Elizabeth died soon afterwards and the manor 

 passed to their son and heir William. 104 Anthony 

 Pound, William's son, 105 died in possession of Rush- 

 mere in 1547, when it was entailed on his son 

 Richard and his wife Elizabeth daughter of William 

 Wayte of Wymering and their heirs. 106 It then 

 passed to Honor, Richard Pounde's sister and the wife 

 of Henry earl of Sussex, 107 who died seised of it 

 in I593, 108 leaving a son and heir Robert. This 

 Robert, earl of Sussex, sold it to Jonas Latclays in 

 1 60 1, 109 who in 1609 sold it to Nicholas Foster. 11 * 

 After this there seems to be no further mention of 

 Rushmere until the year 1765, when it was in the 

 hands of Thomas Godwin." 1 



At the present day Rushmere as a tithing in Ham- 

 bledon is in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Com- 

 missioners. 



The manor of PUTTE, which is possibly repre- 

 sented at the present day by the tithing of Pithills 

 in Hambledon, follows the descent of Wymering 

 manor (q.v.) from 1448 until 1561 ; after which 

 date it is lost sight of. 



The church of ST. PETER AND 



CHURCHES ST. PAUL, HAMBLEDON, is a fine 



and very interesting building, which 



has developed its rather complicated plan from a 



small pre-Conquest nave and chancel, of which a 

 good part still remains. The nave measured 37ft. 

 by 1 8 ft. 6 in. internally, and the chancel was 146. 

 3 in. wide, and probably about 1 6 ft. long, the walls 

 being 2 ft. 7 in. thick. In the latter part of the 

 twelfth century north and south aisles were added to 

 the nave, and in the thirteenth century the church 

 was greatly enlarged eastwards, out of all proportion 

 to the old nave, the plan of which, however, was 

 retained, so that it has now become little more than a 

 vestibule to the present nave, which occupies the site 

 of the old chancel. The thirteenth-century enlarge- 

 ments are evidently of several dates, and their develop- 

 ment is rather difficult to follow, obscured as they are 

 by later work. The pre-Conquest chancel was ap- 

 parently not altered in the twelfth century, but the 

 first part of the thirteenth-century enlargements con- 

 tinued its lines eastwards as far as the west end of the 

 present chancel, a total length of 41 ft. from the old 

 chancel arch. Later in the century an entirely new 

 chancel was built to the east, 38 ft. by 19 ft., and 

 transept chapels flanking the east bays of the pro- 

 longation of the old chancel seem to have formed 

 part of this scheme. Whether the first enlargement 

 of the chancel included aisles or not, it probably 

 developed them before the building of the second 

 chancel and transept chapels, and the difference in 

 the arcades suggests that the work was not continuous. 

 The arches at the east end of the old nave and aisles 

 are also of late thirteenth-century date, and show that 

 the aisles must have attained their present width by 

 that time, unless the arches have been widened at a 

 later time, a fact difficult to verify. A twelfth- 

 century light at the west end of the south aisle appears 

 to be in its original position, and suggests a width 

 some 2 ft. 6 in. less than at present for the twelfth- 

 century aisle ; that in the north aisle is central with 

 the present width, but may have been moved outwards 

 when the tower stair was built, to escape blocking. 

 A west tower was added to the nave in the thirteenth 

 century, as a window in the south wall on the ground 

 stage shows ; its upper part was rebuilt in 1794, an< ^ 

 the axis of the tower is to the south of that of the 

 nave and of the thirteenth-century arch which opens 

 from nave to tower, so that its present plan seems to 

 be the result of a rebuilding. The south wall of the 

 south aisle of the old nave seems to have been 

 entirely rebuilt, on the old lines, in the fifteenth 

 century, and a south porch and south-west chamber, 

 both of two stories, added. The chancel has an east 

 window of three lancet lights under a pointed arch, 

 the tracery being modern, and there are three pairs 

 of lancet lights in the north and south walls, of the 

 same character, with a plain south doorway between 

 the second and third on the south side. The western 

 pair of windows are at a lower level than the rest. 

 At the south-east of the chancel is a trefoiled piscina 

 with a projecting drain, but all other fittings are 

 modern, and the walls have been heightened and a 

 new roof put on. The chancel arch is of two 

 chamfered orders, with a small half-octagonal shaft 

 and capital to the inner order, and on either side of 

 it are squints from the aisles. 



8 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 



" Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 10, tn. zi. 



100 Birch, Cart. Sax.iii, 166. 



"1 Feet of F. Hants, 13 Edw. I, No. 



122. 



1M Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 10, m. 21. 



10 Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Hen. VIII (Ser. 

 2), vol. 25, No. 19. 



1M Ibid. (Ser. 2), vol. 26, No. 35. 



105 Berry, Hants Gen. 194. 



106 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Edw. VI (Ser. 

 ^), vol. 3, No. 55. 



242 



l"7 Berry, Hants Gen. 194. 



108 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 241, 

 No. 109. 



109 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 44 Eliz. 



110 Ibid. Mich. 7 Jas. I. 



111 Recov. R. Hil. 5 Geo. Ill, rot. 59. 



