BISHOP'S WALTHAM HUNDRED 



market was transferred thither, where it was held 

 alternate weeks with Fareham. 



Queen Elizabeth's grant to the bishop in 1602 

 included the right to hold two fairs in Bishop's 

 Waltham, one on the vigil of St. Philip and St. James, 

 and the other on the first Tuesday in Lent. By 1792 

 there were four annual fairs, viz. : the second Friday 

 in May, the thirtieth day of July, the first Friday 

 after Old Michaelmas, and the tenth day of October. 40 

 The last-named appears to have lapsed before the 

 year 1848," and by 1888 all had ceased with the 

 exception of a small pleasure fair which is still held 

 annually in August. 



Of the three mills mentioned in the account of 

 Waltham in Domesday Book," two are in the present 

 parish of Waltham, 43 viz. : Abbey Mill on the palace 

 pond, 44 and Waltham Mill on the Fareham road. 

 The former was rebuilt in 1862 after a fire. On a 

 court roll of Queen Anne's reign mention is made 

 of ' one mill called a paper mill in the tithing of 

 Curdridge.' 46 This was the 'Frog Mill' on the 

 Hamble River, just below Durley Mill. Having long 

 been disused, it was pulled down some twelve or 

 fifteen years ago, with the exception of a small portion 

 now used as a barn. 



There is no indication that the so-called manor of 

 FAIRTHORNE" (Fayerthorne, Fayrethorne, xvi 

 cent.) was ever anything more than an estate included 

 in Bishop's Waltham manor. The land is possibly to 

 be first traced in the ' one messuage and one carucate 

 of land in Hulle ' acquired in 1 296 by William de la 

 Hulle and Agnes his wife, 47 but the name Hulle or 

 Hill is so common in Hampshire that this identi- 

 fication cannot be more than conjectural. In 1332 

 William de Overton and Joan his wife held ' one 

 messuage and one carucate in Hulle and Titchfield,' ta 

 and in the following year this same tenement is 

 described as lying ' in Southwaltham and Hulle near 

 Botley,' 49 which clearly iden- 

 tifies it with the Hulle or 

 Fairthorne of later times. 

 From this date the descent of 

 the property can be fairly 

 traced. In 1361 Thomas de 

 Overton, son of the above 

 William de Overton, died 

 seised of 140 acres of land in 

 Hulle. 60 His heir was his son 

 William, presumably the father 

 of that Isabella whose mar- 

 riage with Sir William Tanke 51 

 brought the Hulle property 

 into the hands of the Tankes. 

 by name in 1393 and 1394 



TANKE. Argent a 

 text T gules and three 

 wreaths vert in the chief. 



Hull is not mentioned 

 among the lands ' in 



BISHOP'S 

 WALTHAM 



Waltham ' held by Robert Tanke and Elizabeth his 

 wife, 5 * but a Robert Tanke was holding the ' Manor of 

 Hylle beside Botley 'in 143 1. 53 This date is notice- 

 able as the first occasion on which the term manor is 

 applied to the tenement. In 1 504 William Tanke 

 died seised of ' lands in Bishop's Waltham held by the 

 bishop of Winchester.' M He left two daughters, the 

 elder of whom, Joan, became in turn the wife of 

 Richard Ryman and Edward Bartlett, 65 and under a 

 settlement of 1542 Joan and her second husband were 

 to hold the manor during their lives, with reversion 

 to the children of Joan by her first husband. 54 

 Joan died in 1561," and Humphrey Ryman her 

 elder son in I568. 58 John, the son and heir of 

 Humphrey, succeeded to the property on the death 

 of his uncle William Ryman, who had only had a life 

 interest in it. John Ryman was still holding in 

 1573" and I579, 60 but in 1600 Francis Serle was in 

 possession." The Series seem to have been closely 

 connected (probably by marriage) with the Bartlett 

 and Ryman family, for the name appears on family 

 settlements of the years 1542 " and 1576, and John 

 Serle and Francis Serle apparently acted as successive 

 trustees of the manor. 64 The descent of Fairthorne is 

 very obscure in the seventeenth century, but by 1684 

 the manor was in the hands of Wriothesley Baptist 

 Noel, descendant of Thomas first earl of South- 

 ampton, who acquired the 

 manor of Titchfield after 

 the Dissolution. Wriothesley's 

 daughter Elizabeth married 

 Henry first duke of Portland, 

 and the Portlands were hold- 

 ing Fairthorne with their 

 Titchfield property in 1 734 * 5 

 and in 1 762.' When they 

 parted with it is uncertain. 9 ' 

 The next known fact con- 

 cerning Fairthorne is that 

 about the year 1806 William 

 Cobbett ' purchased Fairthorne 



Farm of about 300 acres, and around it he planted 

 a broad belt of trees.' ra On the site of Cobbett's 

 summer-house, as it was called, the present house was 

 built about fifty years ago. It is now the residence 

 and property of Mr. R. A. Burrell, who purchased 

 it from Sir Thomas Freke in 1878. 



ST. PETER'S CHURCH, BI- 

 CHURCHES SHOP'S WALTHAM, has a chancel, 

 nave of four bays with aisles and south 

 porch, south-west tower, and at the west end of the 

 north aisle a vestry with gallery over. There is also 

 a large gallery in the west bay of the nave. The 

 repairs and alterations of the last three centuries have 



BENTINCK, Duke of 

 Portland. Axureacroa 

 moline argent. 



40 Part. Blui Bks. Market Rights and 

 Tolls, i, 168. 



41 Kelly, Directory, 1 848. 

 4a y.C.H. Hants, i, 460. 



48 For the third mill see Durley Parish, 

 note i. 



44 There were originally two ponds, the 

 mill standing between them. The lower 

 pond was dammed up when the new road 

 to Winchester was constructed. 



45 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 106, No 7. 

 48 The name Fairthorne is not applied 



to this manor until the reign of Eliz. 

 (Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 18 Eliz.), after 

 which the place is called Fairthorne alias 

 Hulle or Hill, up to the nineteenth cen- 



tury, when the name Fairthorne completely 

 supersedes that of Hill. 



*1 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 25 Edw. I. 



Ibid. East. 6 Edw. III. 



4 Ibid. East. 7 Edw. III. 



60 Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, 

 No. 17. 



61 Berry, Hants Genealogies, 234. 



M Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 17 Ric. II ; 

 ibid. Trin. 1 8 Ric. II. 



68 Early Chan. Proc.bdle. 12, No. 22. 



54 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 18, 

 No. 4. 



66 Chan. Inq. p.m.(Ser. 2), pt. i, No. i 5. 



M Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 34 Hen. VIII. 



^ Exch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 1002, No. 10. 



279 



68 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), No. 141. 



59 Recov. R. East. 1 5 Eliz. rot. 147. 



60 Ibid. 21 Eliz. rot. 105. 



81 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Mich. 42 & 

 43 Eliz. m. 22. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 34 Hen. VIII. 



63 Ibid. Mich. 1 8 Eliz. 



84 The name Serle in connexion with 

 the tithing of Curdridge appears on the 

 Waltham Ct. R. as late as 1703. 



65 Recov. R. Trin. 8 Geo. II. 



66 Ibid. 2 Geo. III. 



7 The duke of Portland sold Botley 

 in 1775. 



68 William Cobbett, Rural Rides, Introd. 

 p. xxxiv. 



