BISHOP'S WALTHAM HUNDRED 



other parishes now in Bishop's Waltham Hundred which are mentioned in 

 Domesday, Droxford was in Droxford Hundred ; 6 Fawley, with the manors 

 of Langley, Hardley, Stone, and Stanswood, was in Redbridge Hundred; * and 

 Woolston (in St. Mary Extra) was in Mainsbridge Hundred. 7 There is no 

 mention of Exbury in Domesday, but ' Gatingeorde ' in Redbridge Hundred 

 has been conjecturally identified with Gatewood in the parish of Exbury. 8 



A court held at Bishop's Waltham in 1236 had jurisdiction over the 

 following tithings : Durley, Bursledon, Mincingfield, Curdridge, ' How ' 

 (presumably West Hoe), Wintershill, Upham, Woodcott, and Ash ton ; 9 

 showing that at this date Waltham manor (still co-extensive with the 

 hundred) included what were later the separate parishes of Upham, Durley, 

 Bursledon, and Bishop's Waltham. 



An attempt to enlarge the jurisdiction of Bishop's Waltham Hundred 

 was made in 1284, when it was granted to the bishop that the men of his 

 manors of Bitterne, Fawley, Ower, and Stoneham should henceforth attend 

 the hundred court of Waltham instead of that of Sweyneston in the Isle of 

 Wight. 10 The change was probably proposed with a view to convenience, 

 but apparently even Bishop's Waltham was found to be too distant, for the 

 inhabitants of the above places invariably attended a separate court at 

 Bitterne. 11 Though Fawley is duly entered as a part of Bishop's Waltham 

 Hundred in 13 16, 12 there is no evidence that the inhabitants of Fawley ever 

 actually attended the hundred court at Waltham. 



The entries of 1316 also show that Holbury, Hardley, Butsash, and 

 Langley (all in Fawley parish) were attached to the New Forest Hundred at 

 this date, as were also Exbury and Leap. 13 Droxford, however, had become 

 a part of Bishop's Waltham Hundred, 14 the incorporation being exemplified 

 on a court roll of the year 1337," on which the tithings of Droxford, 

 Swanmore, Shedfield, and Midlington are added to those already noticed in 

 the year i 236. 



In 1551 Bishop Poynet surrendered the hundred of Bishop's Waltham 

 to Paulet the Lord Treasurer. 16 It was granted by the crown the following 

 month to the earl of Wiltshire, 17 and restored to the bishopric by Queen 

 Mary in I557- 18 



The court rolls continue through the sixteenth, seventeenth, and 

 eighteenth centuries, the parishes practically included in the jurisdiction, of 

 the hundred being apparently Bishop's Waltham, Upham, Durley, Bursledon, 

 and Droxford. 19 The parish of St. Mary Extra never appears on the 

 Waltham court rolls, the reason being that practically all the land was 

 included in the manor of Bitterne. Fawley and Exbury are also absent, but 

 some time between 1785 (the last court roll extant) 20 and 1831 all these 

 three outlying parishes must have been formally incorporated into the 

 hundred of Bishop's Waltham. 



5 r.C.H. Hants, \, 466. Ibid. 454, 467, 509, 513. ' Ibid. 501. 



8 Ibid. 513. Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 77, No. 6. 10 Cal. of Pat. 1281-92, p. 122. 



11 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 73, No. 35 ; bdle. 74, No. I. 



" Feud. Aids (Rec. Com.), ii, 307. " Ibid. H, 317. " Ibid, ii, 307. 



15 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 73, No. 35 ; cf. bdle. 77, No. 6, and bdle. 88, No. 7. 



16 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. 6, m. 20. " Ibid. pt. 4, m. 39. 



18 Pat. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary, pt. 7, m. 20. 



19 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 89, No. 7 ; bdle. 78, No. 24 ; bdle. 102, No. 2 ; bdle. 105, No. C. 

 80 Ibid. bdle. 107, No. 9. 



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