FAWLEY HUNDRED 



In 1841 Headbourne Worthy parish was included in the hundred of 

 Fawley, 6 and still remains so. Medsted and Wield, on the other hand, had 

 become separated from Fawley and attached to Bishop's Button Hundred ;' 

 Privett was included in East Meon, 7 and West Meon and Exton in Meonstoke 

 Hundred. 8 



In the reign of Edward III a tax of a fifteenth and a tenth levied on the 

 country produced 28 from the hundred of Fawley, 9 a similar tax levied in 

 1558 produced 28 8j. id'., 10 and in 1623 the same amount. 11 



The hundred of Fawley was held by the prior and convent of 

 St. Swithun, and by a charter of 1284, confirmed in the following year 



INDEX MAP 

 ....i HUNDRED or 



FAWI.EY 



...or., LIBERTY 

 "AJLRESFORD 



by King John, the bishop of Winchester gave up for himself and his successors 

 all claim to the hundred. 1 * The bishop nevertheless seems sometimes to have 

 held the hundred court, 13 and after the Dissolution it evidently passed into 

 his possession. 



5 Population Returns for 1841, p. 283. Ibid. 272. ' Ibid 278 



8 Ibid. 275. 'Lay Subs. R. Edw. Ill V#- " Ibid. \ Eliz. A. 



11 Ibid. 21 Jas. I, iJf Chart. R. 13 Edw. I, No. 98. 



13 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 5 Edw. IV, 159, 465 (2), bdle. 80, No. i ; V.C.H, Hants, ii, 108, 



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