A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



John, 44 who seems to have died without issue before 

 1357, in which year Maurice le Bruyn and Margaret 

 his wife sold twenty-two messuages, one mill, lands, 

 rents, and the third part of a mill in Meonstoke and 

 Droxford to William de Edendon, bishop of Win- 

 chester. 45 William of Wykeham purchased Meonstoke 

 Ferrand from the executors of his predecessor, 46 and 

 granted it to Winchester College, 47 since which time 

 it has become merged in Meonstoke Ferrers. 



MEONSTOKE TOUR was in origin the 40*. worth 

 of land granted by Henry III from his manor of 

 Meonstoke to Geoffrey Peverel. 48 In 1240, how- 

 ever, it was again in the hands of the king, who in 

 that year granted it to his serjeant Henry de la 

 Tour. 4 ' On the death of Henry it passed to his 

 brother and heir Hugh, 60 who died seised of a free 

 tenement in Meonstoke in 1283, leaving a son and 

 heir Thomas aged twenty-six." The latter died ten 

 years later leaving a son and heir Thomas, aged five, 51 

 who died without issue, his heir being a minor, Hugh 

 de la Tour, son of William de la Tour." It is doubt- 

 ful, however, whether Hugh succeeded to his inherit- 

 ance, for in 13163 certain Thomas de la Tour was 

 holding lands in Meonstoke." He was succeeded by 

 William de la Tour, who died in 1350 seised of six 

 messuages and six virgates of land in Meonstoke, 

 leaving as his heir a daughter Alice, wife of John de 

 Roches, aged forty and more." From them Meonstoke 

 Tour passed by sale to William de Edendon, bishop 

 of Winchester, who was seised of it in 1353." Its 

 subsequent history is identical with that of Meonstoke 

 Ferrand (q-v.). 



Other lands in the parish known as COST4RDS" 

 and WESTONS M were bought up by the agents of 

 William of Wykeham in 1388," and granted by 

 them to Winchester College three years later. 60 



In an assize roll of 1280 it is stated that Walter de 

 Cumbe, parson of Meonstoke, had the fines of the 

 assize of bread and beer from his tenements in the 

 vill of Meonstoke and did not permit his men to be 

 on the king's assize. 61 This points to the existence 

 of a M4NOR OF THE RECTORT which still 

 survives. 



The lord of the manor of Meonstoke Waleraund 

 had free warren, assize of bread and beer, pillory, 

 tumbril, a market every Monday, and an annual fair in 

 Meonstoke. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey there was 

 one mill in Meonstoke worth icu. 62 In later times 

 there were two, one appurtenant to the manor of 

 Meonstoke Waleraund M and the other to Meonstoke 

 Ferrand. 64 The last mention of the latter is in 1357, 

 and it seems to have fallen into decay before 1385, for 

 there is no mention of it in the grant of Meonstoke 

 Ferrand to Winchester College in that year. 65 The 



mill-race west of the village still marks the site of the 

 other mill, which gradually fell into disuse, no doubt, 

 owing to the close proximity of Corhampton Mill. 



The church of ST. ANDREW, 

 CHURCH MEONSTOKE, has a chancel 316. 

 I o in. by 1 6 ft. (16 ft. 3 in. at the 

 west end), nave 52 ft. 9 in. by 18 ft. 7 in. with 

 north aisle 8 ft. 2 in. wide and south aisle 8 ft. 4 in., 

 north and south porches, and west tower 1 1 ft. 2 in. 

 square, all measurements being internal. 



The main fabric of the church dates from the 

 thirteenth century, with no trace of earlier work, but 

 the tower is a later addition. The details of the 

 clearstory windows in the nave point to c. 1260, and 

 the chancel may be some thirty years older than this. 

 It has an early fifteenth-century east window of three 

 cinquefoiled lights with tracery, flanked by tall niches 

 for images, with cinquefoiled crocketed canopies and 

 embattled cornices over ; below the southern niche is 

 a trefoiled recess fitted with a modern drain. The 

 chancel was originally lighted on the north and south 

 by three lancets, but the middle window on either side 

 has been built up. Between the second and third 

 windows on both sides is a fourteenth-century tomb- 

 recess under a segmental arch, in each of which a 

 marble coffin lid, also of fourteenth-century date, has 

 been placed. A thirteenth-century string runs at the 

 level of the window sills within the chancel. The 

 wooden fittings are modern, and there is a coved 

 plaster ceiling with a moulded eighteenth-century 

 cornice. 



The chancel arch is, in spite of considerable repairs, 

 a very pretty piece of thirteenth-century detail, of two 

 moulded orders, with a label and three shafts in each 

 respond with moulded capitals and bases. The arch 

 is semicircular with a good deal of modern stonework 

 at the crown, and the capitals and upper parts of the 

 shafts are new. The outer order of the arch towards 

 the chancel is of plainer detail than that towards the 

 nave, and has a rather unusual section. 



The nave is of four bays, the arcades having pointed 

 arches of two chamfered orders, with columns alter- 

 nately round and octagonal, the responds in each case 

 being half-octagonal, and moulded capitals and 

 bases. Over the arches are circular clearstory windows 

 inclosing quatrefoils, with an outer rebate for the 

 glazing; they are now unglazed, as the roof runs in 

 one span over nave and aisles. Marks of a former 

 steep-pitched nave roof are to be seen on the east 

 wall of the tower, and below the roof-line is part of a 

 circular window in the former west gable of the 

 nave as it was before the addition of the tower. 

 Its lower half has been destroyed by the head of a 

 small arched opening to the second stage of the 

 tower, now glazed, but originally open to the nave. 



44 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), file 14, 

 No. 2. 



Feet of F. Hints, East. 31 Edw. III. 

 la the fine the premises were quitclaimed 

 from Maurice and Margaret and the heirs 

 of Margaret. It is therefore probable 

 that Margaret was the sister and heir of 

 John. 



46 Kirby, Ann. of Winchester Coll. 20. 



V Pat. 4 Ric. II, pt. 2, m. 30 ; 8 Ric. 

 II, pt. 2, m. 4. 



48 Chart. R. 24 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



48 Ibid. 



Testa de Nrvill (Rec. Com.), 232. 



sl Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. I, No. 23. 



M Ibid. 21 Edw. II, No. n. 



Pat. 31 Edw. I, m. 29. The king 

 granted the custody of lands in Meonstoke 

 during the minority of Hugh to Thomas 

 de Columbrigg. 64 Feud. Aids, ii, 307. 



Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. Ill, No. 18. 



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



7 Costards was purchased from William 

 Costard and Agnes his wife, and consisted 

 of 21. rent, the moiety of three messuages, 

 8o acres of land and pasture for two 

 horses, ten bulls, fifteen pigs, 140 sheep, 

 and a moiety of a moiety of a virgate of 

 land (Feet of F. Trin. 12 Ric. II). 



88 Westons was in 1387 granted to 

 William Weston, citizen and grocer of 

 London, and Alice his wife by Nicholas 



2 5 6 



Spencer, citizen and grocer of London, 

 and Margaret his wife (Pat. 10 Ric. II, 

 m. 10), and consisted of the moiety of a 

 messuage, a virgate of land, and pasture 

 for two horses, ten bulls, fifteen pigs, and 

 140 sheep, and a moiety of a moiety of a 

 virgate of land (Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 

 1 1 Ric. II). 



" Feet of F. Hants, Hil. II Ric. II ani 

 Trin. 12 Ric. II. 



60 Pat. 15 Ric. II.pt. 2, m. 9. 



61 Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I. 

 V.C.H.Hant!,\, 452(7. 



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



w Feet of F. Hants, East. 3 1 Edw. III. 



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



