BISHOP'S WALTHAM HUNDRED 



FAWLEY 



are generally spoken of as ' Bitterne with Fawley.' ' 

 It is probable that the bishop's tenant at Fawley did 

 suit of court at Bitterne. In 1546 John Skullard 

 -was tenant at Fawley Manor, 8 which remained in the 

 hands of that family until 1 68 1. 9 In 1705 the manor 

 was conveyed to Edward Peachey, 10 and a family 

 settlement concerning Fawley Manor was made by 

 William and Erlysman Peachy in 1765." In 1801 

 the manor was conveyed by John and Philip Lockton, 

 and spinsters Catherine, Elizabeth, Harriet, and Sophia 

 Lockton, to Mr. Robert Drummond of Cadlands. 11 

 Fawley thus became annexed to the neighbouring 

 manor of Cadlands (q.v.), and separate courts for 

 Fawley ceased to be held. Mr. Drummond owns by 

 far the greater part of the land, but there are a few 

 copyholders who still pay in their quit-rents to 

 Bitterne Manor. 13 Except for this, the rights of the 

 bishops of Winchester over Fawley seem to have 

 entirely lapsed. There is, however, one rather 

 curious trace of them. The tradition runs that King 

 John and the bishop of Winchester were once riding 

 together in the New Forest when the king laughingly 

 told the bishop that he might have ' as much land as 

 he could crawl round." The bishop, who was stout, 

 had a machine made wherewith to support himself, 

 and so managed to ' crawl ' round a considerable piece. 

 This was the Bishop's Ditch or Purlieu, near the 

 present Beaulieu Road station. When the London 

 and South-Western Railway Company built their line 

 over it, all the copyholders in Fawley were com- 

 pensated, and certain rights of common over the 

 dyke still remain to them. 14 



In the thirteenth century Roger de Scures was lord 

 of the manor of C4DL4NDS, which was attached to 

 the lordship of the Isle of Wight. 15 In 1241 Evade 

 Clinton, his daughter and heiress, granted the manor 

 to Isaac abbot of Titchfield, to be held by him in 

 frankalmoign of herself and her heirs, 16 Reginald 

 d'Albemarle being lord of the Isle of Wight at the 

 time. 17 During the time that Isabella de Fortibus, 

 countess of Devon and Albemarle, was lady of the 

 island (1256-1292-3) she sold the over-lordship of 

 the manor to Edward I. 18 The manor remained in 

 the hands of Titchfield Abbey until the dissolution 

 of the monasteries. 19 In 1537 John Salisbury, 

 suffragan bishop of Thetford and commendatory and 

 abbot of Titchfield Monastery, surrendered the pos- 

 sessions of the abbey, including the manor of Cad- 

 lands, to Henry VIII, 10 who granted it in December 

 of the same year to Thomas Wriothesley, first earl of 

 Southampton. 81 In 1 546 Wriothesley gave the manor 

 to Thomas Pace, who held it jointly with his wife 



LONG* of Draycott 

 Cerne. Sable crustily 

 and a lion argent. 



Elizabeth until his death in 1560." Alice, his 

 daughter and heir, married George Powlett, 83 and 

 their son, William Powlett, sold Cadlands in 1608 to 

 Sir Walter Longe of Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire." The 

 Longes held it until 1626 or 

 1627, when Sir Walter Longe 

 sold it to Nicholas Pescod. 85 

 In 1641 Pescod granted a 

 ninety-nine years' lease of the 

 manor lands to Peter Car- 

 donell, a Norman merchant 

 from Caen, 86 and also married 

 his daughter and heir Mary to 

 Adam Cardonell, probably a 

 son of Peter. In the hands 

 of these Cardonells the manor 

 fell into two moieties, one in- 

 herited, the other originated 



by sale. Mary the granddaughter of Adam and 

 Mary Cardonell and by her brother's death sole 

 heir of her father, Adam Cardonell the younger 

 married William, Lord Talbot, baron of Hensol, son 

 of Charles Talbot, the chancellor of George II." 

 In 1741 a moiety of Cadland Manor was settled 

 upon her and Lord Talbot and their children. 18 In 

 1772, however (ten years before Lord Talbot's death), 

 this moiety was in the hands of Mary and Catherine, 

 holding in their own right as the wives respectively 

 of Joseph Small and Joseph 

 Gibbs. 19 They quitclaimed 

 to the Hon. Robert Drum- 

 mond, a younger son of 

 William Drummond, fourth 

 Viscount Strathallan. His de- 

 scendant Mr. A. C. Drum- 

 mond is the present lord of 

 the manor, and resides at 

 Cadlands. 



The other moiety appa- 

 rently carried no manorial 

 rights with it, but consisted 

 simply of the Rollstone Farm estate, which Adam 

 de Cardonell and Mary his wife (daughter of Nicholas 

 Pescod) conveyed to William Stanley of Paultons in 

 1657.* In 1693 the Stanleys were in possession of 

 ' a moiety of the manor of Cadlands,' 31 and there are 

 subsequent references to this moiety in the eigh- 

 teenth century. 38 Mr. Cyril Hans Sloane Stanley 

 of Paultons Park, Romsey, is owner of Rollstone 

 Farm at the present day. 



The first trace of HOLBURT Manor is in 1312, 

 when Roger Bernerall and Gilbert de Shupton 



DRUMMOND. Or three 

 bars 'wavy gulei. 



1 Add. MSS. 29436 ; Eccl. Com. 

 Court R. 



Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 3 8 Hen. VIII. 

 It is practically certain that the applica- 

 tion of this reference to Folley Manor in 

 Bramshott parish, Alton Hundred, is a 

 mistake ; V.C.H. Hants, ii, 494. 



9 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 2, 

 No. 192 i Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 8, 

 Chas. I ; Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 172, 

 No. 8; Recov. R. Mich. 33 Chas. II, 

 rot. 271. 



10 Close, Trin. 4 Anne; Recov. R. Trin. 

 4 Anne, rot. 82. 



Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 6 Geo. III. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 41 Geo. III. 



18 Bitterne passed from the bishop of 

 Winchester to the hands of the Eccl. 

 Com. in 1869. 



14 Chiefly shooting rabbits and wild 

 fowl, and cutting turf. 



Sir F. Madden, Coll. for Cadlands, 

 Add. MSS. 33284. 



16 Feet of F. Hants, 25 Hen. Ill, No. 

 258. 1? Add MSS. 33284. 



18 Ibid. ; G. E. C. Peerage. 



19 Testa de Nev. (Rec. Com.), 241*. ; 

 Feud. Aids, ii, 322, 340, 354 ; Abbrev. 

 Plac. (Rec. Com.), 2093 and b ; V.C.H. 

 Hants, ii, 184; Cal. of Pat. 1345-8, p. 

 461. 



Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 29 Hen. 

 VIII. 



al L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii, g. 1311 

 (40) ; Mins. Accts. Relig. Ho. 135, m. 

 68. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), pt. 2, No. 

 73- 



293 



88 Ibid. pt. I, No. 133. 



84 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Mich. 6 Jas. I ; 

 Com. Pleas, Deeds Enr. Mich. 6 Jas. I, 

 m. 14. 



45 W. and L. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 

 13, No. 44 ; Recov. R. Hil. 19 Jas. I, rot. 

 94 ; Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 19 Jas. I ; 

 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. z Chas. I. 



26 Pat. 1 5 Chas. II, pt. 7, m. 20. 



^ Great Governing Families of England, 

 \, 264 ; Edmondson, Baronagium Geneal. 



'ii, 33, vi, 53, 82. 



88 Close, 15 Geo. II, pt. 12, m. I and 

 2 5 Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 15 Geo. II. 



89 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 12 Geo. III. 



80 Close, 9 Chas. II, pt. 29, m. 26. 



81 Recov. R. 5 Will, and Mary, rot. 204. 

 88 Recov. R. Hil. 18 Geo. II, rot. 53 j 



Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 21 Geo. III. 



