A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



farm with its scattered outbuildings, several very 

 picturesque half-timbered cottages grouped round the 

 village green with its tall pine trees, and the modern 

 church of St. James with the village school lying im- 

 mediately west, make up the rest of the village. Behind 

 the manor-house is a field called the ' Church Lytton', 

 the site of a former church or chapel and graveyard. 

 It was here that the great hoard of silver pennies of 

 William the Conqueror, known as the Beaworth 

 Hoard, was discovered. 



The soil of the parish is chalk and clay with 

 subsoil chalk, producing the ordinary green crops, and 

 wheat and oats on the 443^ acres of arable land. 

 Dur Wood in the south of the parish is the largest 

 stretch of woodland, of which there are altogether 

 292^ acres, while 467^ acres are permanent grass. 



The following place-names occur : Hillonds and 

 Hooke Close, 10 Hornswood Coppice, St. Cross Mill, 

 Brown Down, Milbarrowe Down, Weely, Nibden 

 Bottom, Rackdowne, the Rakes, the Parke Reade, 

 Homedown, Northall, and Cowleys." 



From a charter of Ethelred about 

 MANORS 984 it is found that amongst the lands 

 given to Winchester Cathedral there 

 were at Easton four hides, at Avington five hides, at 

 Ovington five hides, at Kilmeston five hides, and at 

 ' Tichebourne ' twenty-five hides. 18 It is noticeable 

 that the lands at Tichborne are of far greater extent 

 than those elsewhere ; and it is quite possible that 

 CHERITON, which is not mentioned in the Domes- 

 day Survey, was included in these twenty-five hides. 

 Probably a new church was built, within the bounds 

 of Tichborne, and the inclosure in which it stood 

 acquired the name of Cheriton, which has since 

 distinguished the whole district. In 1284 the king 

 surrendered any rights which he had in Cheriton to 

 the bishop of Winchester, 13 who was holding the 

 vill in 1316;" and from this time the lordship of 

 the manor remained vested in the bishop. 14 



At various dates from 1280 to the middle of the 

 seventeenth century lands in Cheriton were leased to 

 different tenants, the most important being the 

 Inkepennes, who held estates here from 1353 to 



J597- 16 



Philip le Wayte " and his wife Isabel conveyed two 



messuages and lands in Cheriton to John Inkepenne 

 in I353, 18 who died possessed of land in Cheriton 

 in 1361," leaving a son John, who at the time of 

 his death in 13 74 held nine virgates of land there, 

 his heir being his brother Robert, then aged forty- 

 one, ! ' J who died in 1405 seised of land in Cheriton, 

 which he left to his wife Margery and his son Richard. 



INKEPENNZ. Gules Fwo 

 gimel ban or and a chief 

 indented trmine. 



The former survived him, and married John Beneyt 

 as her second husband ; " three years later John 

 Beneyt and Margery gave up their land in Cheriton 

 to Margery's son, Richard Inkepenne. 28 In 1441 

 Robert Inkepenne (probably son of this Richard), 

 who came of age in 14 io, 23 and his wife Elizabeth 

 held land in Cheriton, which was granted to them by 

 Richard Umfray and John Bukke, probably trustee for a 

 settlement, 84 and this Robert, together with John Tich- 

 borne, represented the tithing of Cheriton at the 

 bishop's manor court in 146 5." He was followed 

 by his son John Inkepenne, 

 who died in 1514, leaving 

 as his heir his son Richard, 

 then aged three weeks, 26 who 

 was a free suitor at the bishop's 

 court in 1574." In 1597 

 Adrian, William, and Francis 

 Inkepenne, Richard's sons, con- 

 veyed their lands in Cheriton, 

 described for the first time as 

 the manor of Cheriton, to 

 Edmund Anderson, Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Bench. 88 In 1651 

 Robert Reynold was holding 



the manor on a lease from the bishop, 89 but this is 

 the last record of land in Cheriton being held by 

 under-tenants of the see of Winchester. 



The Ecclesiastical Commissioners took over Cheri- 

 ton in 1 869 from the bishop, and they are lords of 

 the manor at the present day. 



There was a water-mill at Cheriton first mentioned 

 in 1408, when it was conveyed by fine from John 

 Beneyt and Margery his wife to Richard Inkepenne, 3 " 

 and William Inkepenne was in possession in 151 8. 3 ' 

 At a court held at Cheriton in 1606 an order was 

 issued for the water stream ' from John Hobbsmead ' 

 until the mill to be cleansed every man against his 

 land ' under penalty of 3^. \d., while an entry at the 

 same court records that ' Thomas Hart is a common 

 miller and took toll to excess. Fined 8</.' 3> In 

 1631 Benjamin Tichborne died possessed of a water- 

 mill at Cheriton, but after this date no further record 

 of it can be found. 33 



The following entries in the ministers' accounts 

 for the year 1323 give some idea of the annual work- 

 ing expenses of the manor. Iron and steel bought for 

 four ploughs, 3/. ; in payment of smith nothing, be- 

 cause he gives iron as his customary service ; two 

 horse-shoes bought, lod. ; two ploughs, izd. ; bind- 

 ing same with iron, 4^. ; mending ploughs, ^d. ; 

 wages of herdsman, 4*. ; tyres for cart, \d. ; wages of 



10 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 158030, bdle. 115, 

 No. 7. 



11 Close, 24 ChiS. I, pt. 8, m. 41-2, 

 No. 5. 



12 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 158878, bdle. 143, 

 No. 5. 



18 Chart. R. 12 Edw. I, No. 77. 



14 Ftud. Aids, ii, 320. 



Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 5 Edw. III. 



le Stephen le Fraunkclyn of Cheriton 

 and his wife Alice held a messuage and 

 19^ acres of land in Cheriton in 1280, 

 which they granted to Richard le Wayte 

 of Cheriton (Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 9 

 Edw. I). In the same year Walter de 

 Warener and Alice his wife held 17$ 

 acres of land which they conveyed to 

 William le Brayboeuf. 



V In 1313 Robert le Wayte called 'of 



Cheriton ' entered a complaint concerning 

 lands in Enedhelle and Hamele (Cal. of 

 Pat. 1313-17, p. 60). 



18 Feet of F. Hants, 27 Edw. III. Four 

 years later the bishop of Winchester, who 

 was also rector of Cheriton at that time, 

 received seisin from William de Overton 

 of three messuages and land in Cheriton 

 and other places (Abbrev. Rot. Orig. [Rec. 

 Com.], ii, 246.) 



19 Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, No. 123. 



20 Ibid. 48 Edw. Ill, No. 41. 



"Ibid. 7 Hen. IV, No. 48. In 1406 

 dower was assigned to Margery in the 

 Cheriton lands in spite of her late hus- 

 band's forfeiture (Inq. p.m. 8 Hen. IV, 

 No. 51). 



*> Feet of F. Hants, East. 9 Hen. IV. 



23 Inq. p.m. 12 Hen. IV, No. 50. 



3 I2 



24 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 19 Hen. VI. 



25 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 159465, bdle. 80. 

 28 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 25, No. 



15. William Inkepenne granted land in 

 Cheriton and Alresford to Thomas Inke- 

 penne and others in 1518 (Feet of F. 

 Hants, Mich. 16 Hen. VIII, No. 27). 

 They were probably brothers and not in 

 the direct line. 



"7 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 158960, bdle. 87, 

 No. 6. 



28 Feet of F. Hants, East. 40 Eliz. 



29 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. 155760, bdle. 99, 

 No 8. 



80 Feet of F. Hants, East. 9 Hen. IV. 



81 Ibid. Hants, Mich, io Hen. VIII. 



82 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 87, No. 12. 

 88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Chas. I (Ser. 2), 



pt. I, No. 69. 



