A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



The Diary of the Late George Bubb DoJdington, Baron of 

 Mclcombe Regis, and other works, and is described as 

 an ' ornament of Wadham College, Oxford.' ** His 

 son and heir Wadham Wyndham died without issue 

 in 1843, and on his death Corhampton passed to his 

 sister and heir Caroline Frances, who had married 

 John Campbell. Their son John Henry assumed the 

 surname and arms of Wyndham on succeeding to the 

 estates of his maternal ancestors. On his death 

 without issue in 1868 Corhampton passed to his 

 second sister " Mrs. Thornton-Wyndham, and on her 

 death a year later, to his third sister Mrs. King- 

 Wyndham, who died without male issue in I'Sgo. 

 The manor then passed to the present holder, Mrs. 

 Caroline Mary Pleydell Bouverie-Campbell- Wyndham 

 the daughter of Mr. Richard Hetley of the Close, 

 Salisbury, by Caroline Letitia, the eldest sister of 

 John Henry Campbeil-Wyndham, who succeeded 

 under the will of Wadham Wyndham because neither 

 Mrs. Thornton-Wyndham nor Mrs. King- Wyndham 

 left a son. 



The sub-manor of CORHAMPTON was in 

 origin the third part of the two knight's fees 

 granted to Adam de Corhampton by his uncle 

 Nicholas de Corhampton. 48 The grant is given in 

 great detail, and special mention is made of the 

 third part of the mill and the third part of the 

 fishery there. Adam gave his uncle thirty marks, 

 and moreover granted for himself and his heirs 

 that they would give nothing of the said tenements 

 in religionem, nor alienate them in any way whereby 

 Nicholas and his heirs should lose their service from 

 the tenements. Shortly afterwards Adam sold this 

 third part to Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester, 

 for sixty marks of silver." The latter soon after- 

 wards granted this land in free alms to the abbey of 

 Titchfield, which he had founded in 1231, together 

 with his wood called ' Cherlewood,' which he had 

 purchased from Jordan de Walterville. 50 William 

 de Clare in his confirmation of the grant calls 

 the land ' the third part of the manor of Cor- 

 hampton.' M In return for this confirmation he 

 received ^10 and the third part of the mill of Cor- 

 hampton, which henceforward belonged to the chief 

 manor. 4 * The abbey continued to hold this third 

 part, which developed into a separate manor," until its 

 dissolution in 1537," when the king granted it to 

 Thomas Wriothesley," who was created earl of 

 Southampton three days before the coronation of 

 King Edward VI. During his lifetime a certain 

 Isabel alias Alice Collen alias Collins held the manor 

 at farm for the annual payment of 4.."* The earl 

 died seised of the manor in 1550, leaving a son and 

 heir Henry, aged three, 67 and under his will the 



manor of Corhampton was left to King Edward VI 

 to hold during the minority of his son, ' for a remem- 

 brance of my duty towards my sovereign lord, and for 

 the great benefits that I have received of his most 

 noble father of famous memory, the late King 

 Henry VIII.' K Henry, second earl of Southampton, 

 died seised of the manor in 1581, his heir being his 

 son Henry, aged eight, 69 who, seventeen years later, 

 conveyed it to William Fisher, William Petty, and 

 Henry Collins in trust for Nicholas Collins and Clara 

 his wife during their lives, with remainder to their 

 eldest son William and his issue and their second son 

 Henry successively. 60 Nicholas Collins died seised of 

 the manor in 1 60 1, his heir being his son William, 

 who was aged twenty-two in i6ii. 61 Some time 

 between 1655 and 1669, in a dispute between this 

 William and Henry Chroucher, lord of the main 

 manor of Corhampton, concerning 'the long meadow 

 near the vicarage-house,' 6> the following statement 

 was made concerning the manor of Corhampton : 

 ' The manor after it was divided lay all in common 

 fields, and about a hundred years since was by joint 

 consent divided equally and many exchanges made of 

 each other's lands for convenience to each parties, and 

 was then inclosed with quick-set hedges and hath so 

 continued to this time.' William Collins died 

 without issue in 1669, aged eighty years, and the 

 manor passed to ' his brother's daughter who was 

 married to one Mr. Collins of 

 Sussex.' 64 The manor con- 

 tinued in this family of Collins 

 for about a hundred years. In 

 1750 there was a dispute be- 

 tween Henry Collins and 

 Henry Wyndham, lord of the 

 chief manor of Corhampton, as 

 to who was really lord of the 

 manor of Corhampton. 65 In 

 October of that year, to end 

 disputes, they agreed that 

 ' they and their heirs, tenants, 

 and assigns should futurely hold 

 and enjoy the same lands, 

 woods, commons, rights, and privileges as their 

 ancestors or predecessors respectively had formerly 

 done. And 'twas furthermore particularly agreed 

 that all timber-trees and other trees growing and to 

 be growing on the commons or waste-grounds should 

 be the joint property of them the said Henry Collins 

 and Henry Wyndham and their respective heirs and 

 assigns, and should not be cut, sold, or converted with- 

 out each party's consent, and also that all estrays 

 should be equally shared and divided between them.' 

 As a confirmation of this agreement the two lords 



COLLINS. Gules a bend 

 or in a border ermine with 

 three martlett assure on 

 the bend. 



46 Gent. Mag. 1819, i, 485. 

 4 ' His eldest sister, Mrs. Hetley, died 

 in iSii). 



48 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 17 Hen. 

 Ill ; MS. fenei the lady of the 

 manor. 



49 MS. penes the lady of the manor. 

 * Ibid. 



41 MS. penes the lady of the manor. 



a Ibid. 



8 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 213 ; 

 Chart. R. 22 Edw. I, No. 13. Pat. 18 

 Edw. II, pt. i, m. 23 and 24 ; Feud. Aids, 

 ii, 336 and 358 ; Add. MS. 33285, fol. 

 187; Pat. 3 Hen. VI, m. 1 3. 



54 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 29 Hen. 

 VIII. 



65 Pat. 29 Hen. VIII, pt. I, m. 32. 



68 MS. penes the lady of the manor 

 (being the roll of the second court of 

 Thomas Wriothesley, 15 June, 30 Hen. 

 VIII). This indenture does not seem 

 to be extant, but another indenture where- 

 by Wriothesley farmed out the parsonage 

 of Corhampton for fifty-six years to 

 ' Isabel Collen of Cornehampton, widow, 

 and Robert Collen her son, of Exton, 

 husbandman, by the annual payment of 

 7 6s. 8i/., is in possession of the lady of 

 the manor. It is also interesting to note 

 that as far back as 1372 a certain John 



248 



'Collan' was holder of the rectory of 

 Corhampton. 



*? W. and L. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 5, 

 No. 103. 



" Ibid. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 196, 

 No. 46. 



60 MS. penes thelady of the manor. Feet 

 of F. Hants, Trin. 40 Eliz. and Hil. 41 

 Eliz. 



61 Chan. Misc. Inq. p.m. 9 Jas. I (Ser. 

 2), pt. II, No. 6. 



64 MS. penes the lady of the manor. 

 Ibid. 



84 Stowe MS. 845, fol. 96. 



65 MS. penes the lady of the manor. 



