A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



BEAULIEU ABBEY. 

 Gules a crazier enfiled 

 with a royal crown or 

 and a border sable billetty 

 or. 



obtained licence of the king to ' grant land in Holebury 

 to the abbey of King's Beaulieu.' 33 Holbury remained 

 in the hands of the abbots of Beaulieu until the 

 dissolution of that monastery in 1538." Four years 

 later Henry VIII granted it 

 to Robert Whyte in exchange 

 for a manor and lands in 

 Middlesex. 35 Holbury was 

 to be held as one-twentieth 

 of a knight's fee for a rent 

 of \\s. d\d. There is no 

 mention of Whyte heirs in 

 the grant, and some time 

 between this date and 1560 

 the manor fell into the hands 

 of Thomas Pace.* 6 From the 

 death of Thomas Pace onwards, 

 Holbury Manor followed the 

 same descent as Cadlands (q.v.), 

 being last spoken of as a 



whole manor when Nicholas Pescod granted a lease 

 of the site to Adam de Cardonell. 37 As in the case 

 of Cadlands, one moiety passed to Lady Mary 

 Tulbot, 88 and thence in 1772 to the Hon. Robert 

 Drummond. 39 Whatever lands were signified in the 

 conveyance of this moiety would be included in the 

 Cadlands estate. The other moiety was in the pos- 

 session of William Stanley of Paultons in 1693,' and 

 his descendant, Mr. Cyril Hans Sloane Stanley, is the 

 present owner of Holbury Farm. 



Domesday Book records two tenements in LANG- 

 LET held by the king's thegns ; of these the smaller 

 was held by Cola the huntsman, 41 the larger by Hugh 

 de St. Quintin." In 1372 John Baron of South 

 Langley 43 and Julia his wife were seised of a messuage 

 and land in South Langley." Thence the tenement 

 passed indirectly to Richard 

 Goolde and his wife Joan in 

 1413." This Joan afterwards 

 became the wife of Wil- 

 liam Soper, and on being left 

 for the second time a widow 

 conveyed her holding to John 

 Ludlowe in 1482.** In 1500 

 the right of the Ludlowes to 

 hold the manor (here so called 

 for the first time) was fiercely 

 disputed in the Court of Chan- 

 cery by one William Fletcher. 47 

 The Ludlowes, however, evi- 

 dently made good their claim, for in 1609 Sir 

 Edward Ludlowe sold the manor of Langley to Sir 

 Walter Longe. This united the manor of Langley 

 to the manors of Cadlands and Holbury, all three 



LUDLOWE. Argent a 

 cheveron between three 

 bears' heads raved sable. 



following the same descent henceforward. Langley, 

 like the other two, fell into two moieties in the 

 seventeenth century. Of these, one went to the 

 Drummonds in I772, 48 and coalesced with Cadlands. 

 The other, as in the case of Holbury, is first 

 mentioned in 1693, among the possessions of William 

 Stanley of Paultons. 49 This latter moiety is repre- 

 sented by the ownership of Langley Farm by 

 Mr. Cyril Hans Sloane Stanley at the present day. 



HARDLEY was, assessed in Domesday at a hide and 

 3 virgates attached to the New Forest. 50 After this 

 there is no further trace of it until the fourteenth 

 century, when William Chippe held lands there. 51 

 In the sixteenth century the estate assumed the title 

 of a manor in the hands of William Buckett, who 

 held it from at least 1531 to 1579." After this it 

 changed hands rapidly M until finally conveyed to 

 Richard Pittis, attorney of the King's Bench in 

 I628. 54 There is no further trace of Hardley as a 

 separate manor, but a moiety of lands there is men- 

 tioned among the possessions of the Stanleys of Paul- 

 tons in 1693," I745, 56 and 1781." The land now 

 forms part of the property of Mr. Drummond of 

 Cadlands. During the tenure by one Thomas Tracie 

 in the sixteenth century of a lease of Hardley Farm 

 from William Buckett, an amusing incident occurred. 58 

 Peter Kembridge and a man named Oglander wishing 

 to rob Tracie of some of his possessions, arrested him, 

 Oglander impersonating the sheriff's bailiff. Carried 

 by force to an alehouse at Dibden, Tracie, who 

 describes himself as ' a poor plain simple creature,' 

 was compelled ' to seal and deliver certain writings, 

 but to what effect he himself knoweth not.' Trade's 

 wife meanwhile followed her husband, and ' made 

 moan ' for him outside the chamber. On gaining his 

 freedom, Tracie appealed to the Court of Chancery. 



Domesday records a manor of ST4NSWOOD in 

 Fawley, reduced by the encroachments of the New 

 Forest from two hides to one. It was then worth 

 7, and was included in the sources of the king's ferm 

 which he had from the Isle of Wight. 59 There is no 

 subsequent trace of any separate manor of Stanswood, 

 which probably at an early date became merged in 

 one of the neighbouring manors of Cadlands, Holbury, 

 or Langley. Appurtenances in Stanswood belonging 

 to Cadlands manor are mentioned in the inquisition 

 on Thomas Pace's death, taken in 1 5 do, 60 and in 

 several subsequent extents of Cadlands before it fell 

 into two moieties. 61 Land in Stanswood belonging 

 to the Stanleys of Paultons is also mentioned in those 

 documents of I693, 6 " I74S, 63 and 1781," which deal 

 with their possession of the moieties of the three 

 manors. The land now forms part of Mr. A. C. 

 Drummond's estate. A mill in Stanswood is men- 



83 Inq. a.q.d. 1312, No. 88. 



84 Chart. R. m. 3, No. 6; Pat. 33 Hen. 

 VIII, pt. 8. 



84 Pat. 34 Hen. VIII, pt. 8, m. 15. 

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



73- 



37 Pat. 15 Chas. II, pt. 7, No. 20. 



88 Close, 1 5 Geo. II, pt. 1 2, Nos. I 

 and 2. 



88 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 12 Geo. IV. 



40 Recov. R. East. 5 Will, and Mary, 

 rot. 204. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 509*. 



48 Ibid. 5100. 



43 Usually so called to distinguish it 

 from neighbouring Langleys. 



44 Chan. Inq. p.m. 45 Edw. Ill, No. 19. 



Feet of F. Hants, Mich. I Hen. V. 

 Cal. of Pat. 1476-85, p. 317 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 5, No. 71. 



47 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 202, No. 24. 



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



49 Recov. R. East. 5 Will, and Mary, 

 rot. 204. 



' M V.C.H. Hants, i, 513*. 



51 Close, 1323-7, p. 212. 



Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 177, 

 No. 47 j Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 20 and 

 21 Eliz. ; Feet of F. Hants, East. 21 Eliz. 



68 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 27 and 28 

 Eliz. ; Ibid. East. 1 1 Jas. I. 



54 Ibid. Mich. 4 Jas. I. 



85 Recov. R. East. 5 Will, and Mary, 

 rot. 204. 



294 



M Recov. R. Hil. 18 Geo. II, rot. 53. 



57 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. 21 

 Geo. III. 



68 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 40, 

 No. 32; bdle. 177, No. 47; bdle. 180, 

 No. 43. 



9 V.C.H. Hants, i, 4543. 



60 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), pt. 2, 

 No. 73. 



61 Com. Pleas, Indentures Enr. Mich. 

 6 Jas. I, m. 14 ; W. and L. Inq. p.m. 

 (Ser. 2), bdle. 13, No. 44; Feet of 

 F. Hants, Hil. 2 Chas. II. 



62 Recov. R. East. 5 Will, and Mary, 

 rot. 204. 



83 Recov. R. Hil. 18 Geo. II, rot. 53. 



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



