MEONSTOKE HUNDRED 



SOBERTON 



POYNINGS. Barry or 

 and vert vjith a button 

 gules. 



lands in Soberton and Flexland, to John Newport of 

 Soberton." 4 From this time its history has been iden- 

 tical with that of the chief manor of Soberton ( q.v. 

 lupra) . 



The Fawconers also in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and 

 seventeenth centuries, possessed a manor of SOBER- 

 TON, 1 " the early history of which is uncertain unless it 

 is identical with that owned by the de Wintons in the 

 thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It seems to have 

 been finally purchased by Thomas Lewis, lord of the 

 chief manor of Soberton, prob- 

 ably in 1714, since in that 

 year Anne Goldsmith, widow, 

 and William Goldsmith sold 

 him a manor of Soberton for 

 4.00."* In a recovery roll 

 of 1791, by which Humphrey 

 Minchin dealt with his pro- 

 perty in Soberton, it appears as 

 the manor of Faulkner's Pleck 

 or Pluk, 1 " but this name seems 

 to have now disappeared. 



In the reign of Edward the 

 Confessor the manor of E4ST 



HOE (Hou, xi cent. ; Hoo, xiii cent. ; Hooe, xvi 

 cent.) was held by Ulward of King Edward, but 

 at the time of the Domesday Survey it was one 

 of the possessions of Hugh de 

 Port, who did not, however, 

 keep it in his own hands, but 

 farmed it out. 1 * 8 The manor 

 continued with the heirs of 

 the Ports, passing by inherit- 

 ance to the Poynings family," 9 

 until Thomas de Poynings con- 

 firmed the grant made by 

 Bernard Brocas to Southwick 

 Priory in I385. 130 It was held 

 of the Ports and the Poynings 

 by the Mohuns, 131 and of the 

 Mohuns in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries 

 by a family who took the surname of Hoe. In 

 1167 the manor was held of the Mohuns by 

 Robert de Hoe. 13 * Some time later William de 

 Hoe was lord of the manor, 1 ' 3 and his son and 

 heir, Roger, in 1280 was holding half a knight's 

 fee in East Hoe of John de Mohun. 134 Roger's 

 daughter and heir married Sir Hugh des Roches, and 

 brought the manor into the family of des Roches. 135 Sir 



ROCHES. 



leopards or. 



BOARHUNT. Argent 

 afesse between six mart- 

 lets gules. 



Hugh des Roches was succeeded by his son and heir 

 John, who in 1300 granted half the manor for life to 

 Roger Launcelevee and Joan his wife in exchange for 

 those tenements in Broxhead which Roger de Hoe, 

 grandfather of John, once 

 held." 6 Two years after- 

 wards John confirmed that 

 half of the manor to Roger 

 and Joan for a rent of one 

 rose annually at the feast of 

 St. John the Baptist. 137 Evi- 

 dently Roger and Joan both 

 died before John, since at 

 the time of his death in 1311 

 he was seised of the whole 

 manor, which he held, ac- 

 cording to the inquisition, 

 of Richard de Boarhunt for 



half a knight's fee. 138 His son and heir John 

 settled the manor a few years later upon himself and 

 his wife Joan, in tail-male. 139 John died before 1 346, 

 in which year his widow Joan 

 was in possession. 1 *" On the 

 death of Joan in 1361 it passed 

 to her daughter and heir Mary 

 widow of John de Boarhunt. 141 

 Mary married, as her second 

 husband, Sir Bernard Brocas, 

 and hence, in the autumn of 

 1361, the manor was settled 

 on Mary and Bernard and 

 their issue, with contingent 

 remainder to the right heirs 

 of Bernard. 14 * In 1363 Ber- 

 nard obtained a grant of free warren in the demesne 

 lands of his manor of East Hoe. 143 Twenty- 

 two years later he granted the manor to the prior 

 and convent of Southwick for celebrating divine 

 service daily for the good estate of the king, the said 

 Bernard, and Katherine his wife while living, and for 

 their souls after death, and for the souls of the late 

 king, Mary the late wife of Bernard, and the parents 

 and ancestors of Bernard and Mary. 144 The manor 

 continued to be the property of the prior and convent 

 until the Dissolution, 1 " when it was granted by 

 Henry VIII to Thomas Knight. 14 * It continued in 

 the family of Knight until l6ig, 147 when Andrew 

 Knight and his mother, Joan Knight, widow, sold it 

 to William Browne, senior, of Hoe, and William 



BROCAS. Sable 

 leopard rampant or. 



Feet of F. Hants, East. 1 8 Hen. VII. 



1>s In 1477 Richard Newport held a 

 messuage and a virgate of land called 

 Kyrkebrygge in the parish of Soberton of 

 William Fawconer by the rent of 6d. (Inq. 

 p.m. 17 Edw. IV, No. 35). In 1564 and 

 1567 William Fawconer dealt with the 

 manor of Soberton by fine (Feet of F. 

 Hants, Trin. 6 Eliz. and Div. Cos. Hil. 9 

 Eliz.) ; again, in 1635 William Fawconer 

 conveyed it to John Trahearn (Feet of F. 

 Hants, East. II Chas. I). 



126 Feet of F. Hants, Mich, i Geo. I. 



"' Recov. R. Hil. 31 Geo. Ill, rot. 57. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 48 la. 



129 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 230 ; 

 Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. Ill, No. 67. 



18 Add. MS. 33280, fol. 280. 



181 At the beginning of the thirteenth 

 century Reginald de Mohun held the manor 

 of Robert de St. John (Testa de Ne-uill, 230); 

 it occurs in a list of knights' fees belonging 



to John de Mohun, who died in 1 279 (Inq. 

 p.m. 7 Edw. I, No. 13) ; Joan de Mohun 

 granted licence to alienate the manor 

 ' which is held of us ' to Southwick Priory 

 in 1385 (Add. MS. 33280, fol. 280). 



189 PipeR. 13 Hen. II. 



18 Add. MS. 33285, fol. 175. 



184 Inq. p.m. 7 Edw. I, No. 13. 



us Montagu Burrows, The Family of 

 Brocas of Beaurepairc, 323. 



188 Ibid. 339 (being a transcript of No. 

 2 1 2 of the Brocas deeds). 



18 7 Feet of F. Hants, 30 Edw. I, No. 

 238. 



38 Inq. a.q.d. file 92, No. 3 ; Inq. p.m. 

 5 Edw. II, No. 44. In the inquisition on 

 his death, the manor was said to owe suit 

 to the king's hundred-court of Meonstoke 

 every three weeks. 



189 Add. MS. 3328o,fol. 286; contingent 

 remainders were to John de Boarhunt and 

 Mary his wife in tee-tail, to Henry Bouyn 



263 



and Alice his wife in fee-tail, and finally to 

 the right heirs of John des Roches. 



^ Feud. Aids, ii, 336. 



141 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, No. 49. 



" a Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 35 Edw. III. 



148 Chart. R. 37 Edw. Ill, m. 1 1. 



144 Inq. a.q.d. 7 Ric. II, No. i 37 ; Feet 

 of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 7 Ric. II ; Pat. 8 Ric. 

 II, pt. i,m. 36; Add. MS. 33280, fol. 280. 

 Some time after this the prior and convent 

 granted the manor to Bernard for life by 

 the annual payment of 2 los, q.d. (Add. 

 MS. 33280, fol. 280). 



145 Feud. Aids, ii, 358 ; Chart. R. 24 

 Hen. VI, No. 17. 



146 Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 33. 



14 7 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 994, No. 

 3; Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Eliz. pt.2 (Ser. 2), No. 

 74 ; Memo. R. L.T.R. Hil. 5 Eliz. rot. 19 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 165, No. 170; 

 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 10 Jas. I ; W. and 

 L. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 57, No. 38. 



