MEONSTOKE HUNDRED 



CORHAMPTON 



then sold some beech-trees standing on waste-land 

 in Corhampton to farmer Richard Matthews of 

 Corhampton for six guineas, which they divided 

 equally between them. Henry Collins by will left 

 the manor and rectory to Edward Homer and Wil- 

 liam Horner. The latter, who survived his brother, 

 in his turn devised them to Richard Richards 66 some 

 time before 1768." Richard by will directed that 

 the manor and rectory should be sold, and the pur- 

 chase money divided among his three sons, Henry 

 Richards of Burton (co. Dorset), Richard Richards of 

 Bishop's Waltham, and William Richards of Win- 

 chester College, and his daughter Elizabeth, wife of 

 Thomas Jonas of Bishop's Waltham. 68 The property 

 was sold in 1777, the purchaser being Henry Wynd- 

 ham, lord of the chief manor of Corhampton. 6 * From 

 this time the two manors have merged. 



CLEVERLY (Claverlegh, xiii cent. ; Claverley and 

 Claverle, xiv cent. ; Cleverlys, xviii cent.). Frank- 

 lin Farm in the extreme west of the parish and 

 Cleverly Wood on the borders of the parishes of 

 Bishop's Waltham and Corhampton mark the site of 

 the tenement, consisting of a messuage and a carucate 

 of land, which the family of Cleverly held of the 

 abbot and convent of Titchfield, as of their manor of 

 Corhampton, by the rent of half a pound of cummin 

 at Michaelmas, and suit of court every three weeks. 70 

 A Thurstan Cleverly is mentioned as early as 1233." 

 and the name of Cleverly frequently occurs in the 

 court rolls of Corhampton. In a court roll of 1372 

 it appears that at the court held at Michaelmas 

 of that year Philip Cleverly did homage for lands 

 held of the abbey in Cleverly, and claimed right of 

 way to the pasture of Cleverdown." In 1413 John 

 the son of Philip had a dispute with the abbot of 

 Titchfield, concerning the relief." John Cleverly 

 in 1538 was holding a free tenement of Thomas 

 Wriothesley as of his manor of Corhampton by the 

 rent of a pound of cummin. 74 He was succeeded by 

 his son and heir Thomas, who in the reign of Eliza- 

 beth petitioned Sir Nicholas Bacon to force his step- 

 mother Elizabeth to restore a messuage at Cleverly 

 and 112 acres of arable land and 10 acres of wood in 

 Lomer, Corhampton, and Bishop's Waltham, which 

 she had held since his father's death. 75 Towards the 

 end of Elizabeth's reign this holding seems to have 

 passed into the hands of William Fisher. 76 It 

 remained in the Fisher family until 1741, in which 

 year Forbes Fisher sold it to Henry Collins, lord of 

 the sub-manor of Corhampton. 77 It was included in 



the sale of the sub-manor to Henry Wyndham in 

 1777, under the description of a 'messuage and 

 tenement called Cleverleys alias Franklins and fifteen 

 closes of arable land and pasture land containing 1 60 

 acres belonging to it situated in Corhampton,' 78 since 

 which time it has formed part of the manor of 

 Corhampton. 



In 1 294 the abbot and convent of Titchfield 

 obtained a grant of free warren in their demesne 

 lands of Corhampton, 79 and this grant was confirmed 

 in I424- 80 A free warren and park are also mentioned 

 in the grant of the chief manor to Thomas Hanbury 

 in i6n. 81 



There were two mills worth twenty-two shillings 

 in Corhampton at the time of the Domesday Survey, 8 * 

 one of which seems to have soon fallen into decay, 

 and after the reign of Henry III only one is 

 mentioned. One-third of the mill ' which is before 

 the church of the vill ' was included in the grant 

 of the third part of the manor of Corhampton to 

 Titchfield Abbey, 83 but was given up to William de 

 Clare in return for his confirmation of the grant of 

 the third part of the manor to the abbey. 84 The 

 mill was usually farmed out at forty shillings a year, but 

 it was very often out of repair, and there are frequent 

 references to expenses incurred in repairing it. 85 The 

 present water-mill of Corhampton probably marks 

 the site of this mill, for it certainly stands ' before the 

 church of the vill.' There was also a several fishery in 

 Corhampton which is mentioned as early as the reign 

 of Henry III. 86 The River Meon still affords good 

 trout-fishing. 



King Ethelred the son of King Edgar and Queen 

 Estrilda granted LOMER (Lammere, xi cent. ; 

 Lomere, xiv cent. ; Lowmer, xvi cent.), with 

 three hides and a church, to Hyde Abbey. 87 In the 

 reign of Edward the Confessor the abbot granted it 

 to a certain Alward to hold for the term of his life 

 in return for an annual payment of six sestiers of 

 wine, 88 and at the time of the Survey it was held by 

 Ruald of the abbey, no doubt for a like payment. 8 * 

 The manor continued to be held until the end of the 

 fourteenth century by various tenants of the abbey 

 by an annual payment in wine. 90 In the reign of 

 Henry III Geoffrey de Lomer held the manor of the 

 abbey. 91 Geoffrey was succeeded by his son and heir 

 Robert de Lomer.* 1 John de Lomer was holding in 

 1 3 1 6," while Ellis de Lomer was at one time lord of 

 Lomer * 4 most probably at the end of the thirteenth 

 century. In 1317 a messuage, one carucate of land 



M Vide Close, 18 Geo. Ill, pt. 16, No. 

 1 6. 



67 In that year Richard mortgaged them 

 to Henry Shales of Stonydean (Feet of F. 

 Hants, Trin. 8 Geo. III). 



68 Close, 18 Geo. Ill, pt. 16, No. 16. 



69 Ibid. Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 18 

 Geo. III. The price paid was 12,500. 

 In the deed of sale the property was de- 

 scribed as follows : 'The manor of Cor- 

 hampton, a farmhouse built upon Black- 

 land Field and 150 acres, a farm called 

 Steens and 107 acres, a messuage called 

 Bittoms and eighty acres, Common Down 

 and Cow Common called Little Dean, the 

 rectory and parsonage of Corhampton, and 

 a messuage called Cleverleys alias Frank- 

 lins, and fifteen closes of arable and pasture 

 land containing 160 acres belonging to it." 

 From this description it would appear that 

 the manor lay in the west of the parish. 

 At the present day there is a Staines Cot- 



tage in about the centre of the parish, a 

 little to the north of the road to Bishop's 

 Waltham. Franklin Lane and Franklin 

 Farm are in the extreme west of the 

 parish, while a little to the south is Cleverly 

 Wood, partly in Bishop's Waltham parish 

 and partly in Corhampton parish. Dean 

 and Dean Lane are now in Bishop's 

 Waltham parish. 



7 MS. penes the lady of the manor. 



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

 III. 



7' MS. pines the lady of the manor. 



T Ibid. 74 Jbjd. 



7* Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), vol. 37, No. 19. 



7 6 MS. fines the lady of the manor. 



77 Close, 18 Geo. Ill, pt. 16, No. 16. 



78 Ibid. 



79 Chart. R. 22 Edw. I, m. 3. 



80 Pat. 3 Hen. VI, m. 13. 



81 Ibid. 9 Jas. I, pt. 18, No. II. 



82 V.C.H. Hants, i, 48 1 a. 



249 



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

 III. 



84 MS. penes the lady of the manor. 



85 Add. Chart. 27679, 28000, and 

 28003. 



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

 Ill ; Add. Chart. 28003. 



87 Dugdale, Mon. ii, 428. 



88 y.C.H. Hants, i, 471. 89 Ibid. 



90 Pat. 12 Ric. I, pt. I, m. 26. By an 

 inquisition taken in i 392 it was ascertained 

 that a messuage and lands in Lomer, 

 Preshaw, Exton, and Warnford were held 

 of the abbot and convent for the service 

 of one pipe of Gascon wine, 21. rent, and 

 suit every three weeks at the hundred 

 courts of ' Grenefcld ' and Meonstoke (Inq. 

 p.m. 16 Ric. II, pt. I, No. 143). 



91 Feet of F. Hants, East. 6 Hen. III. 



92 Add. MS. 33284, fol. 165. 

 98 Feud. Aids, ii, 308. 



94 Add. MS. 33284, fol. 160. 



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