A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Winchester's park at Bishopstoke. 17 At the sale of the 

 bishops' lands Stoke Park was sold to Dr. Cox and 

 Malachy Dewdney for 221 \%s. 4</. w 



At the time of the Domesday Survey there was a 

 mill in Bishopstoke worth lo/. 19 In 1523 Nicholas 

 Poule was miller and chief toll collector in Bishop- 

 stoke," and in 1594-6 Thomas Carpenter, miller of 

 Bishopstoke, claimed to have a right of way by the 

 bridge called Cutbridge, ' in order to repair the weirs 

 by the water-course.' " In the following year Francis 

 Serle and his heirs were enfeoffed of one toft, one corn 

 mill, and one fulling mill in the tithing of Bishop- 

 stoke/'* ' The waste soil near the mill ' is spoken of 

 in 1 648 ** ; at the present day there is a (water) corn- 

 mill in the parish. In 1709 Robert Smith was 

 holding a fishery in Bishopstoke.' 4 



The church of ST. MART, 



CHURCHES BISHOPSTOKE, now disused, was 



rebuilt in 1825 in the lifeless Gothic 



of the time, with a west tower. No part of the older 



church remains. 



The modern church, also dedicated in honour of 

 St. Mary, was built in 1891 of shaped flints with 

 quoins and dressings of Bath stone, and consists of a 

 chancel with vestries and an organ chamber on the 

 north, and a nave and south aisle with baptistery at 

 the west end. 



There are three bells, the treble of 1600 by John 

 Wallis of Salisbury, inscribed ' Seeke the Lord ' ; the 

 second of 1598 by R.B., an unknown founder, bear- 

 ing ' Geve thanks to God ' ; and the tenor, also by 

 Wallis, 1589, with ' In God is my hope.' 



The plate includes a communion cup and paten of 

 1749, a flagon and almsdish of the same date, and a 

 paten of 1706. 



The first book of registers runs from 165010 1700, 

 and the second from 1700 to 1 78 1, the marriages 

 ceasing in 1753. The third book contains baptisms 

 and burials 1781-1812, and the fourth marriages 

 1754-1812. 



The church of ST. THOMAS, FAIR OAK, built 

 in 1863, is of brick with stone dressings, in Early 

 English style, consisting of apsidal chancel and nave, 

 and turret containing one bell. The register dates 

 from 1871. 



At the time of the Domesday 

 ADPOWSONS Survey there was a church at 

 Bishopstoke." In the fourteenth 

 century the church rendered a pension of 40^. annually 

 to Hamble Priory ; this pension was afterwards 

 received by Winchester College, to which the priory 

 was given by William of Wykeham in 1 39 1.* 6 



The advowson of Bishopstoke has always been in 

 the hands of the bishops of Winchester " ; except for a 

 time in the fourteenth century, when John bishop of 

 Winchester alienated it in mortmain to the four 

 chaplains celebrating divine service daily in the chapel 

 of St. Stephen and St. Lawrence at Marwell, in lieu 

 of the sum of money which they used to receive in 

 alms from the bishop's exchequer at Wolvesey.' 8 In 

 1291 the church of Bishopstoke was assessed at 8, 

 but by 1535 the value had risen to 1 4 4_r. 8</. 80 



In 1558-9 the rectorial tithes of the church of 

 St. Mary at Bishopstoke were granted to the notorious 

 ' fishing grantees ' William Tipper and Robert Dawe." 

 The living is now a rectory in the gift of the bishop 

 of Winchester. 



The living of St. Thomas, Fair Oak, is a vicarage, 

 with residence, also in the gift of the bishop of 

 Winchester. 



In 1632 Richard Dummer charged 

 CHARITIES a close called ' Five Acres ' with the 

 payment of 40^. annually for the use 

 of the poor at Michaelmas and Lady Day. In 1653 

 Thomas Dummer charged certain copyhold land with 

 40*. a year for the poor at Easter and Christmas. The 

 annuities are duly paid out of a close known as the 

 Poor Close. 



In 1630 Mrs. Joan Bassett by her will left 20, 

 interest to be distributed amongst the poor sort of the 

 inhabitants at Easter for ever, now represented by 

 zo 9/. 8</. consols with the official trustees. 



In 1834 Henry Twynam by deed charged four 

 acres of copyhold land at Stoke Common with the 

 annual payment of 40^. to be applied on 2 1 December 

 in every year in the distribution of fuel and clothes 

 among the poor on the west side of the parish. The 

 donor, by the same deed, granted to trustees a mes- 

 suage, garden, and orchard situated at Fair Oak, the net 

 rents to be applied in the same manner for the benefit 

 of the poor on the east side of the parish. The 

 annuity is duly paid, and the messuage and premises 

 now consist of five cottages, known as Everett's, which 

 are let to weekly tenants, producing 26 a year. 



In 1 846 George Twynam, by a codicil to his will, 

 bequeathed 2,00, income to be applied in the distri- 

 bution of bread or fuel amongst poor residents of the 

 parish. The legacy was invested in ^208 1 3/. con- 

 sols, held by the official trustees. By an order made 

 in 1896 under the Local Government Act, 1894, the 

 parish councils of Fair Oak and Bishopstoke have 

 elected representatives on the governing body, by whom 

 the income of the several charities is applied in the 

 distribution of coal and other articles in kind. 



"Pat. 33 Edw. I, m. 17 d. and 8 

 Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. 7 d. 



18 Cat. Top. et Gen. i, 286. 



19 V.C.H. Hants, i, 460. 



*> Eccl. Com. Ct. R, 159510 (i), bdlc. 

 84, No. 15. 



"Moid. bdle. 83, No. 17. 



"Ibid. 159507 (2), bdle. 73, No. 



34- 



Ibid. 155760, bdle. 99, No. 8. 



"'Ibid. 158878, bdle. 143, No. 5. 



to V.C.H. Hants, i, 460. 



28 ffykebam's Register (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 1,77; 'if 608. In 1398 twenty years' 



arrears of this pension was owing to the 

 warden of Winchester College. 



W Ibid, i, 77 ; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



88 Cat. of Pat. 1330-4, p. 165. 



M Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 210. 



80 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 6. 



81 Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. 5, m. 31. 



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