MEONSTOKE HUNDRED 



CORHAMPTON 



In the early part of the fourteenth century the 

 Turville family seem to have parted with their 

 property, which fell into two moieties. In 1326, by 

 fine, two messuages, 24 acres of land, and 1 8/. rent in 

 Lomer and Lomer Turville were settled on Thomas 

 Mareis and Florence his wife," who already held 

 Lomer and Preshaw (q. v. supra), and as late as 134.6 

 Thomas Mareis was holding in Lomer a portion of 

 the tenth part of a knight's fee which had belonged 

 to David Turville. 1 ' 1 The other moiety passed to 

 John de Basing, who in 1329 was holding one fee in 

 Lomer of John de St. John. 1 " He died before 1343, 

 in which year John de Basing, son and heir of Sir 

 John de Basing, renounced his claim to all the lands 

 which his mother Joan was holding in Lomer 

 Turville. 1 * 3 In 1346 Joan, widow of Sir John de 

 Basing, was still holding the remainder of the tenth 

 part of the knight's fee which had belonged to David 

 Turville in Lomer. 1 " By 1392, however, the whole 

 of Lomer Turville had become merged in the manors 

 of Lomer and Preshaw, forming part of the property 

 which was then held by Joan de Haywode and 

 Margaret de Mareis for life, of the inheritance of 

 Thomas le Warenner and John Hampton. 115 Although 

 it no longer had any existence as a separate manor, 

 the name was for some time preserved. Thus in the 

 Ministers' Accounts for 1539 mention is made of a 

 rent of los. from one toft and 22 acres called 

 Lomers Turvill,' lately in the tenure of John 

 Papworth and William atte Noke, and now held by 

 Alexander Seward by copy of court roll. 188 



By 1381 the abbot and convent of Titchfield had a 

 considerable amount of property in LOMER belonging 

 to their church of Lomer which had been granted to 

 them by successive lords of Lomer. 1 " At the Dis- 

 solution this property was most probably included in 

 the grant of the sub-manor of Corhampton and the 

 advowson of the church of Lomer to Thomas 

 Wriothesley. 



PRESHAW (Presshawe, Presthawe, and Preishawe, 

 xiv cent.) was probably included in the entry under 

 Lomer in Domesday Book, 188 and seems to have been 

 held of Hyde Abbey for the same service and by the 

 same tenants as Lomer. 189 At the time of the dis- 

 solution of the abbey it was worth 8 8s. 8J. by the 

 year, which sum was made up as follows: _l 4_f. rents 

 of assize, 130 i l8/. rents of customary tenants, 131 and 

 5 6s. 8</. farm of the site of the manor. 13 * Preshaw 

 was granted with Lomer to Sir William Paulet, Lord 

 St. John, in 1542, and followed the descent of Lomer 

 until 1 707, in which year Sir Hugh Stewkley, bart., 

 sold it to Robert Kirby. lss The latter, by will dated 



23 August, 1721, left it to his cousins, John Waight, 

 John Binsted, and Peter Newlyn, in trust, to dispose 

 of it for the payment of his debts and various legacies 

 to his brother-in-law Augustin Fisher, his nephews 

 Henry and John Fisher, and his nieces Mary the 

 wife of George Graham, Frances the wife of Joseph 

 Freeman, and Katherine the wife of John Smith." 4 

 John Long purchased the manor from them in 1728 

 for 7,600. 13i He died unmarried on 23 November, 

 1742, having by will devised Preshaw to his brother 

 Walter for life, with remainder to John the eldest son 

 of Walter by his second wife Philippa Blackall. 136 

 The manor remained in the 

 Long family until 1898,'" 

 when Mr. Walter Long sold 

 it to Baron de Bush, who sold 

 it on I March, 1901, to Cap- 

 tain Reginald Harry Chol- 

 mondeley, the present lord of 

 the manor. 1 * 8 



Preshaw House, set in a 

 beautifully-timbered park on 

 the southern slope of Mill- 

 barrow Down, is a picturesque 

 gabled house of at least three 

 dates, though owing to careful 

 copying of the older work by 



the later builders, this is not very noticeable at first 

 sight. Tradition points to an early occupation of the 

 site, but there are no architectural features in the 

 existing building which can claim a more remote date 

 than 163040. The principal front is to the north, 

 and has five gables, the two towards the east being 

 early eighteenth-century additions, following the design 

 of the other three. These latter formed the north 

 front of the seventeenth-century house, which had a 

 central block between projecting wings, after the 

 mediaeval fashion, with a gabled porch over the main 

 entrance at the north end of the central block, and is 

 so shown in a coloured drawing of 1720, a copy of 

 which is preserved in the house. It is of two stories 

 with an attic, built of flint masonry with red-brick 

 dressings, and having Ionic pilasters at the angles and 

 centres of the projecting wings, while the central block 

 is divided into three divisions by the same means, and 

 the stories are marked by moulded brick strings with 

 dentil courses beneath them. The windows in the 

 gables have cut brick labels, and the gable copings, 

 also of brick, are plainly recessed, and less effective 

 than the other details of the building. The roofs are 

 red-tiled and the chimney-stacks simply treated, adding 

 little to the architectural effect. The windows have 



LONG of Preshaw. 



Sable alien argentbefween 

 four trosslets or and nvo 

 jlaunchei or -with three 



crosslets sable in each. 



la Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 20 Edw. II. 



1M Feud. Aids, ii, 336. 



lw Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. Ill, No. 67; Close, 

 3 Edw. Ill, m. 4 ; a settlement of this 

 property wa made on the occasion of his 

 marriage two years later (Feet of F. Hants, 

 5 Edw. III). John de Salesbury, parson 

 of the church of Warnford, was summoned 

 some time between 1333 and 1345 to 

 answer John de Basing * de parco Jracto ' 

 (Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 124). 



" Close, 17 Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. z^d. 



lu Feud. Aids, ii, 336. 



las Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, pt. I, No. 

 143. 



146 Mins. Accts. Hants, 30 & 31 Hen. 

 VIII, m. 36. 



W Add. MS. 33284, fol. 160. 



128 V.C.H. Hants, i, 471. 



1M Pat. 12 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 26 ; Inq. 

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



180 Viz. 21. from the ' Eight Acres ' in the 

 tenure of the college of St. Elizabeth by 

 Winchester ; $s. from a toft, a messuage, 

 and 30 acres in the tenure of Corpus Christ! 

 College, Oxford ; zj. from a toft and 4 

 acres in the tenure of the same ; 8s. from a 

 messuage, 40 acres, and a copse of 4 acres 

 in the tenure of Thomas Cleverly ; 21. 

 and a red rose from a capital messuage 

 and 30 acres in the tenure of William 

 Lomer ; 51. from a messuage and 1 1 acres 

 formerly in the tenure of Nicholas Parson 

 and Joan his wife, daughter of John 

 Lomer, lately in the tenure of Richard 

 Osborne and Rose hit wife, daughter of 

 John Lomer, and now in the tenure of 



251 



Richard Purdewe and Margaret hit wife, 

 daughter of John Lomer. 



ul Viz. 1 21. from 4 tofts and 28 acres 

 called Pilates, Webbes, Martens, and 

 Florens, held by copy of court roll ; I os. from 

 a toft and 22 acres called Lomers Turvill 

 held by copy of court roll; 161. from 

 lands and tenements in Warnford and 

 Bere, held by copy of court roll. 



183 Mins. Accts. Hants, 30 & 31 Hen. 

 VIII, m. 36. 



188 Deeds penes Mr. A. R. Maiden. 



U4 Chan. Enr. Decree, rot. 1936, No. 2. 



186 Close, 2 Geo. II, pt. 9, No. II. 



184 Burke, Commoners, iv, 73. 



"7 Berry, Hants Gen. 23 5 Recov. R. 

 Hants, East. 9 Geo. Ill, rot. 55. 



188 Information furnished by Captain 

 Reginald Harry Cholmondeley. 



