A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



arable land, 6 acres of meadow, wood worth J/. a 

 year, pasture worth l a year, 2 8/. "]\d. rents of 

 assize and ^s. pleas and perquisites of court in Soberton 

 in 1296, leaving a son and heir Richard, aged four- 

 teen. 46 Richard de Winton was holding the manor 

 in 1 3 1 6." He was succeeded by Sir John de Winton, 

 probably his son, who died seised of the manor of 

 Soberton in 1361, his heir being his brother Richard, 

 aged forty. 48 Richard became involved in financial 

 difficulties, owing Hugh Craan, citizen and merchant 

 of Winchester, no less than ,100 in I377- 49 In 

 1383 he raised 200 on the manors of Soberton and 

 Lainston, 50 but apparently this was not enough to 

 satisfy his creditors, and nine months later he was 

 ordered to be imprisoned and his property valued in 

 order that his debts might be paid." He died, 

 however, the same year and immediately afterwards 

 his widow Agnes married Nicholas Brus." Nicholas 

 and Agnes dealt with the manor by fine in 1384..** 

 The history of this manor cannot be traced further, 

 unless it is identical with that called the manor of 

 Longspiers in later times or that held by the Faw- 

 coner family in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seven- 

 teenth centuries (q.v. infra). 



Herbert the Chamberlain seems to have granted a 

 portion of his manor of Soberton to his daughter on 

 the occasion of her marriage with Robert de Venuz. 64 

 At the beginning of the thirteenth century this 

 portion, which was then called the manor of FLEX- 

 LAND (Flexland Cobham xiv cent. ; Englefield alias 

 Inglefield xvi cent.), was held by Robert de Venuz 

 grandson of Robert de Venuz by the service of acting 

 as marshal in the king's household. 65 Robert the 

 grandson must have died before 1219, for in that 

 year his widow Constance quitclaimed to her son 

 John the third part of loos, rents in Soberton, which 

 she was holding in dower, in exchange for 601. rents 

 in Worldham and Draycote. 56 John de Venuz died 

 without issue and was succeeded by his brother 

 Thomas, 563 whose daughter Agnes in 1249 granted 

 one carucate of land in Flexland and Soberton to 

 William de Cobham, 5 ' to be held by the rent of a 

 pair of white gloves or I d. at Easter. 58 In the same 



year William purchased 5 acres of land and I id. rent 

 in Flexland from William le Waleys and Beatrice his 

 wife. 59 In 1281 his daughter Joan de Heigham 6 " 

 quitclaimed the manor of Flexland to Agnes de 

 Cobham to hold for life by the rent of a chaplet of 

 roses. 61 Philip de Hoyville and Mary his wife, who 

 was probably Joan's sister, at the same time brought 

 forward their claim to the manor, 61 and seem to have 

 been successful in establishing their right, for Mary 

 de Hoyville, who was by this time a widow, was 

 holding land in the parish in I3I6. 63 Nine years 

 later she granted the reversion of two-thirds of a 

 messuage, 2 \ caruc-ites of land, and a pound of pepper 

 in Flexland and Soberton, after the death of Thomas 

 de Hoyville, to Roger son of Roger de Englefield, 64 

 who some twenty years afterwards obtained licence 

 from William de Edendon, bishop of Winchester, to 

 celebrate mass in the oratory of his dwelling-house of 

 Flexland. 65 He died in 1361 seised of 20 acres in 

 Flexland held of the king, a messuage, a carucate of 

 land, rents of assize and pleas and perquisites of court 

 in Flexland Cobham, held of Sir Maurice le Bruyn M 

 as of his manor of Russell Flexland for zs. a year, and 

 a cottage and an acre of land in Flexland Cobham 

 held of the abbot of Beaulieu by the rent of a quar- 

 ter of a pound of pepper. 67 Sir Maurice le Bruyn 

 granted the custody of his lands in Flexland Cobham 

 by the name of 'the third part of the manor of 

 Flexland Cobham ' " to Geoffrey Dene of Chidden 

 to hold during the minority of the son and heir 

 Roger. Constance widow of Roger, notwithstanding 

 this grant, forcibly ejected Geoffrey and was prose- 

 cuted by him for so doing in 1364..*' This seems to 

 be the last mention of the manor of Flexland Cobham, 

 its name being afterwards changed to Englefield alias 

 Inglefield. Its history for some time after this is 

 obscure, 70 the next mention of it being in 1544, when 

 it was purchased by Walter Bonham and Alice his 

 wife from William Dale. 71 Its subsequent history is 

 identical with that of the manor of Soberton 

 originally belonging to the abbot and convent of 

 Beaulieu (q.v. supra). It is represented at the present 

 day by Ingoldfield Farm in the centre of the parish. 



48 Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I. No. 21 ; in 

 the inquisition it was stated that the lands 

 were held of Simon de Winton by the 

 service of one clove annually at the feast 

 of St. Michael and one pair of gauntlets 

 or id. annually at Easter to the heirs of 

 John de Windsor. 



4 ? Feud. Aids, ii, 307. 



48 Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. 2. 

 (1st Nos.), No. 78. 



49 Ibid. 7 Ric. II, No. 107. 



> Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 6 Ric. II. 



sl Inq. p.m. 7 Ric. II, No. 107 ; the 

 property in Soberton was valued as follows: 

 capital messuage 6d. ; rents of freemen 

 and villeins 3 6s. 8</.; water-mill 135. ^.; 

 6 acres of meadow 61.; 4 acres of arable 

 land ii. ; pasture for sheep ios.; 10 acres 

 of underwood, 2 acres of which can be sold 

 yearly for is. 



63 In the same year the manor was 

 settled on them for life with reversion to 

 Richard, son and heir of Richard de Winton 

 and Agnes for life, with remainder to Agnes 

 and her heirs and assigns (Close, 7 Ric. II, 

 m. 3 1 d.). 



43 They conveyed it to Thomas Wolvele 

 and John King, chaplain (Feet of F. Hants, 

 Hil. 7 Ric. II.) 



54 y.C.H. Hants, i, 425. 



56 Testa de Ne-uill (Rec. Com.), 235. 



56 Feet of F. Hants, 3 Hen. III. 



664 The Herald and Genealogist, v, 321. 



" William de Cobham already at the 

 beginning of the thirteenth century was 

 holding the fourth part of a knight's fee 

 in Flexland de veteri feoffamento of Robert 

 de Pont de 1'Arche, who in his turn held 

 of John de Venuz (Testa de Ne-vill, 233), 

 but this portion afterwards fell into the 

 hands of the abbot and convent of Titch- 

 field (Harl. MS. 6602, fol. 59). 



Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 33 Hen. III. 



68 Ibid. 



60 Coll. Top. et Gen. vii, 336. 



61 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 9 Edw. I. 



62 Ibid. ' Philippus de Hoyvile pro se et 

 Maria uxore eius apponit clamum suum.' 



68 Feud. Aids, ii, 307. 



84 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 19 Edw. II. 

 The family of Hoyville was probably so 

 named from a small place in Normandy, and 

 had a permanent footing at St. Swithun's, 

 Winchester, from early times (Obedientiary 

 Rolls of St. Sivithun's, 248). Roger son of 

 Roger de Englefield was probably a kinsman 

 of Mary de Hoyville, for in an almoner's 

 roll of St. Swithun's of 1352 Philip de 

 Englefield is called brother of Thomas de 

 Hoyville. On the same roll there is also 



26o 



mention of a Roger de Englefield (ibid. 

 253). Philip de Hoyville, probably 

 identical with Philip de Englefield, rented 

 three tenements in Kingsgate Street, 

 Winchester, from St. Swithun's (ibid. 

 408, 410), to this day called Hoyvil's 

 Garden. The site is on the west side of 

 the street, not far from Culver's Close. 



64 Egerton MS. 2033 (Register of 

 Edendon, bishop of Winchester, 1346-66), 

 fol. 57. 



66 Sir Maurice le Bruyn was at this 

 time lord of the manor of Russell Flexland 

 in right of his wife Margaret (q.v. infra}. 



"I Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. i, No. 65. 



48 It was roughly the third part of the 

 premises owned by Mary de Hoyville, 

 which are described in 1325 as one mes- 

 suage, 2j carucates of land, and a pound 

 of pepper (Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 

 19 Edw. II). 



69 De Bane. R. East. 37 Edw. Ill, m. 

 228. 



?0 It may have become merged with 

 the manor of Russell Flexland (q.v. infra), 

 or it may possibly be identical with the 

 manor of Soberton purchased by the abbot 

 of Beaulieu from Richard Bulgy towards the 

 end of the reign of Edw. III. 



Feet of F. Hants, East. 36 Hen. VIII. 



