MEONSTOKE HUNDRED 



MEONSTOKE 



it to Robert Waleraund. 16 The latter died seised of 

 the manor in 1272, his heir being his nephew, Robert 

 Waleraund, son of his younger brother William. 17 

 Meonstoke, however, was for some time held in dower 

 by Maud widow of Robert Waleraund, the uncle, 18 

 and never seems to have been delivered over to 

 Robert Waleraund, the nephew, who died without 

 issue about the end of the thirteenth century. His 

 heir was his brother John, who died seised of the 

 manor at the beginning of the reign of Edward II." 

 By an inquisition taken after his death the following 

 were returned as his heirs : (i) His cousin, John de 

 Eddeworth, second son of his aunt Alice, who was the 

 eldest surviving sister of his father William ; (2) his 

 cousin Alice de Everingham, second daughter of his 

 aunt Cecily, who was his father's second surviving 

 sister ; (3) his cousin's son Bevis de Knoville, son of 

 Joan, who was the eldest daughter of his aunt Cecily; 

 (4) his cousin's son Alan de Plunkenet, son of 

 Alan de Plunkenet, who was the eldest son of his 

 aunt Alice ; (5) his cousin's daughter Maud de Croupes 

 alias Bret, eldest daughter of Cecily, who was 

 the third daughter of his aunt Cecily ; and (6) 

 her younger sister Cecily wife of Peter de Hulyon. 

 The question as to the succession was finally de- 

 cided in favour of Alan de Plunkenet, 10 who died 

 before 1325, in which year the king assigned to his 

 widow Sybil the third part of the manor of Meon- 

 stoke of the yearly value of 10 io/." Joan de 

 Bohun of Kilpeck, sister and heir of Alan, without 

 licence, quitclaimed the manor to Nicholas de Useflete, 

 who had obtained a lease of it some years before," 

 and the manor escheated to the king, who, however, 

 in 1328 pardoned Nicholas, and restored the manor 

 to him.** Joan de Bohun died without issue in 1327, 

 her heir being her cousin's son Richard de la Bere, 

 grandson of Richard de la Bere, brother and heir of 

 her father, Alan de Plunkenet," to whom Thomas de 

 Useflete, parson of the church of Meonstoke, some 

 four years later, quitclaimed two-thirds of the manor 

 and the reversion of the remaining third after the 

 death of Sybil, wife of Henry de Pembrigge.* 5 

 Richard de la Bere, while lord of the manor, alien- 

 ated parts of it at various times without licence,** 

 finally granting a life-interest in the whole manor to 

 Robert de Hoe and Lucy his wife, who in 1 347 

 obtained licence to retain it for that term in return 

 for the payment of I mark." Robert and Lucy were 

 still living in 1353, in which year they acquired other 



premises in Meonstoke, 18 and while still in posses- 

 sion obtained licence from William de Edendon, 

 bishop of Winchester, to celebrate mass in the 

 oratory of their dwelling-house in the parish of 

 Meonstoke. 131 Some time afterwards the manor 

 seems to have escheated to the king, who granted 

 it to trustees to the use of the celebrated Alice 

 Ferrers,* 9 from which circumstance it was com- 

 monly called the manor of Meonstoke Perrers. In 

 1376 the Good Parliament sentenced Alice to banish- 

 ment and forfeiture, but in the following year the 

 Bad Parliament reversed this sentence, 30 and she 

 regained her possessions. However, in the first 

 Parliament of Richard II she was brought before 

 the lords at the request of the commons, and the 

 sentence against her was confirmed. 31 Meonstoke 

 accordingly escheated to the crown, and for two years 

 was in the hands of stewards, Thomas Illeston being 

 appointed in 1 3 78,** and John Barell the following 

 year." On 14 December, 1379, the sentence against 

 Alice was revoked, and on 

 15 March, 1380, the manor 

 was granted in fee-simple to 

 her husband, William de Wind- 

 sor," who in the following 

 June obtained licence from the 

 king to sell it to William of 

 Wykeham, bishop of Win- 

 chester,* 5 by whom it was 

 granted to Winchester College 

 in 1385." The manor still 

 forms part of the possessions 

 of the college. 



MEONSTOKE FERR4ND 

 was in origin the land worth 

 loos, granted by Henry III from 

 Meonstoke to his Gascon cross-bowman Ferrand." 

 He was seised of it as late as 1233, when he obtained 

 licence to lease it for six years.* 3 His successor is 

 unknown, but in 1280 Sir Peter Ferrand, most prob- 

 ably his grandson, was holding I oo/. worth of land in 

 Meonstoke.* 9 He continued seised of it until 1305, 

 in which year he sold it to John de Drokensford, 

 bishop of Bath and Wells (1309-29),' who died in 

 1329 seised of loot, rents coming from certain free 

 tenants in the vill of Meonstoke, his heir being his 

 brother Philip, aged forty and more. 41 The date of 

 the death of the latter is uncertain, 4 * but his son and 

 heir Philip 4 * died in 1355, leaving a son and heir 



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18 Chart. R. 52 Hen. Ill, m. 12. 

 W Inq. p.m. I Edw. I, No. 6. 



18 la 1280 Maud was summoned to 

 show by what warrant she took the fines 

 of the assize of bread and beer in Meon- 

 itoke (Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 

 771). In the same year she proved her 

 right to pillory, tumbril, and a free market 

 every Monday in the manor which she 

 was holding in dower of the inheritance 

 of Robert Waleraund, who was still in the 

 king's ward (Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I). 



19 Inq. p.m. 2 Edw. II, No. 80. 



10 Ibid. In 1362 Sir Lawrence de St. 

 Martin and Miles son of Sir Miles de 

 Stapleton brought an action to recover 

 the manor of Meonstoke Waleraund from 

 its owner, Thomas de la Bere, basing 

 their claim on their descent from Walter 

 Waleraund, uncle and heir of John Wale- 

 raund, no mention of whom was made in 

 the various inquisitions taken after John's 

 death, but failed to make good their claim 

 (De Bane. R. Mich. 36 Edw. Ill, m. 81). 



81 Close, 19 Edw. II, m. 27. 



M Inq. p.m. 2 Edw. Ill (2nd No.), No. 



95- 



88 Pat. 2 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 17. 



84 Inq. p.m. i Edw. Ill (ut Nos.), No. 

 8 1 ; Pat. 2 Edw. Ill, m. 19. 



85 Pat. 5 Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. 12 ; Inq. 

 p.m. 5 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), No. 20. Sybil 

 was widow of Alan de Plunkenet. 



26 Pat. 21 Edw. Ill, pt. 3, m. 32. 



V Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), No. 

 62* ; Pat. 21 Edw. Ill, pt, 3, m. 25. 



88 Inq. a.q.d. file 307, No. 6. 



"> Egerton MS. 2033, fol. 57. 



M Pat. 46 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 23 ; Close, 

 47 Edw. Ill, m. 38. 



80 Par!. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 374. 



81 Ibid, iii, I2i. 



83 Pat. I Ric. II, pt. 3, m. 9. 



83 Close, 2 Ric. II, m. 30. 



84 Pat. 3 Ric. II, pt. 3, m. 5. 



85 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 4 Ric. 

 II. 



35 Pat. 8 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 4. 



255 



"" Ibid. 9 Hen. Ill, m. 7; 1 1 Hen. Ill, 

 m. I i Teita de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 232. 

 88 Pat. 17 Hen. Ill, m. 6. 

 8 Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I. 



40 Kirby, Annals of Winchester Coll. 20. 

 In the same year he purchased one toft, 

 17 acres of land, and the third part of 

 one mill in Meonstoke from Simon de 

 Bolyngton and Maud his wife (Feet of F. 

 Hants, Mich. 34 Edw. I). 



41 Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. Ill (ist Nos.), No. 

 41. 



48 It must have been after 1337, how- 

 ever, for in that year he obtained licence 

 from the king to enfeoff Philip his son 

 and heir of a moiety of a carucate of land 

 in Meonstoke (Pat. n Edw. Ill, pt. 3, 

 m. 26). 



48 While he was lord of Meonstoke 

 Ferrand he alienated 16 messuages, 5 

 cottages, 14 virgates, I5j acres, and 181. 

 rents in Meonstoke to Henry Sturmy of 

 Elvetham without the royal licence (Inq. 

 a.q.d. file 301, No. 13). 



