A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



not surprising, therefore, that Bishop William of 

 Edendon was rector of Cheriton at one time. 45 



From 1 606 to 1 6 1 8 the rectory was held by John 

 bishop of Oxford, who in the former year was fined 

 \d. for neglecting to pay suit at the bishop's court of 

 Cheriton. 46 On his death in 1618 the king claimed 

 the next presentation by promise of the late rector, 

 and 'jure prerogative nostre regie seu alio quocumque 

 legal! modo pro hac vice spectandum.' " 



The king then granted the rectory and church of 

 Cheriton together with the chapels of Tichborne and 

 Kilmeston to Richard Meredith. 



From 1 644 to 1 646 the curious situation is presented 

 of the rectory being held by two incumbents, the ap- 

 pointments having been made by the bishop and 

 Parliament respectively. In 1646 a petition was pre- 

 sented by Heritage Harford asking Parliament 'to 

 confirm him in the rectory of Cheriton, to which he 

 had been appointed by the Committee for Sequestra- 

 tion in 1644, but which had been granted by the 

 bishop of Winchester, a delinquent, to Hugh Haswell, 

 prebend of Winchester, also a delinquent.' The latter 

 presented a counter petition stating that he was of an 

 ancient family, that he had been brought up to learn- 

 ing in the university of Oxford, that he was Fellow of 

 All Souls and had been Proctor of the University, 

 that he had been presented to the parsonage of Cod- 

 ford, Wilts, which he enjoyed till the trouble of these 

 times and the reducing of that part of Wilts, under the 

 king's power, that the living of Cheriton which lay 

 more under the authority of Parliament being vacant 

 he resigned his university appointments and was 

 appointed thereto in 1 644 by the bishop, who he con- 



ceived had full power to make the appointment, and 

 that he had never been guilty of delinquency. He 

 appealed to Parliament to oust the respondent. 48 A 

 day was appointed for hearing the case, but Parlia- 

 ment being ' too much occupied ' to consider the 

 matter in question, and there being no further record 

 of the dispute, it may be assumed that it was settled 

 privately in favour of the bishop, who certainly con- 

 tinued to present. 



Except for this short period the advowson, until the 

 last few years, has always belonged to the bishopric of 

 Winchester. At the present day the living is a rectory 

 with the chapelry of Tichborne annexed in the gift of 

 the crown ; the chapels of Kilmeston and Beauworth 

 were also annexed to Cheriton until 1879, when they 

 were separated by an Order in Council dated 4 Feb- 

 ruary, 1879, and they now form a distinct ecclesi- 

 astical parish, and the patronage of the joint living 

 belongs to the crown. 



In 1718 the Rev. Morgan Jones, 

 CHARITIES rector, by a codicil to his will, left 

 100 to be laid out in land, the 

 annual rent to be for ever paid towards the schooling 

 of the children of the poor of the parish. A piece of 

 land called Northpits in the parish of Chawton was 

 purchased containing about four acres, producing 10 

 a year or thereabouts. 



In 1828 Elizabeth Goodrich, by will proved this 

 date, directed her trustees to purchase sufficient stock 

 to produce 20 a. year, interest to be applied for the 

 benefit of the poor of the parish. The legacy (after 

 payment of duty) is represented by 600 consols 

 with the official trustees. 



CHILCOMB 



Ciltecumbe (xi cent.) ; Chiltecumbe (xiv cent.). 



The parish of Chilcomb, chiefly divided into down 

 and arable land, lies on the eastern outskirts of Win- 

 chester and contains 2,667 acres of the sweep of chalk 

 down country which rises south and east of the city. 

 Of the whole parish 947^- acres are arable land, 1 , 1 3 1 f 

 are pasture land, and 3 acres only are woodland. 

 Owing to the growth of the city over the north-west 

 corner of the parish on the estate called Highclift" 

 and on Magdalen Hill after the year 1 88 1, Chilcomb 

 was in 1894 divided into two civil parishes, Chilcomb 

 Within being this north-west part, included in the 

 municipal borough of Winchester, and Chilcomb 

 Without the rest of the parish ' with the addition in 

 the same year of the rural parts of Milland, St. John, 

 St. Peter Cheesehill, and Winnall. 1 In November, 

 1900, part of Chilcomb Without was annexed to 

 Chilcomb Within. 3 Chilcomb Within is necessarily 

 the most populous corner of the parish, forming quite 

 a suburb to Winchester, with its new red-brick 

 houses and shops, and with the recent laying-out of 

 the ' Highcliff Park Estate ' off the Petersfield Road 

 the houses are extending east to the borders of Chil- 

 comb Without. Owing to the increase of population 

 and the distance of the old parish church in the 

 narrow valley away over the downs, the new church 

 of All Saints was erected and completed in 1891, the 



modern rectory was built near by in 1892, and the 

 schools, given by the bishop of Guildford, in the 

 next year. While thus Chilcomb Within has be- 

 come a modernized suburb, Chilcomb village, or as it 

 is locally called Upper Chilcomb, the nucleus of 

 Chilcomb Without, remains unchanged, a calm old- 

 world village. 



About half a mile or so from Highcliff a lane 

 branching south from the main road to Petersfield, 

 which cuts across the parish, climbing the down-land, 

 leads through thick luxuriant hedges to the low-lying 

 village. As the lane approaches the village it joins 

 with another lane which comes from the south-west 

 from Winchester and then curves slightly west past 

 the picturesque outbuildings of Chilcomb Farm 

 which, lying to the left, mark the beginning of the 

 village. A few yards beyond the farm the lane forks 

 south and south-west, the two branches curving to 

 meet again some yards further on. In the north of 

 the island so formed by the two lanes are two or three 

 groups of low thatched and timbered cottages, some 

 lying back behind typical cottage gardens, while the 

 old rectory, now a private residence known as 

 ' St. Kilda,' stands in a wide garden almost in the 

 middle. South of the island the lane rises steeply 

 southwards to the small church of St. Andrew, which 

 lies to the left with a background of high down and 



" Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 87, 48 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vi, noa, " Local Govt. Bd. Order, No. 31853, 



No. 7. "7<*> 13 ! Sept. 1894. 



4 7 Pat. 16 Jas. I, pt 12, No. 14. * Local Govt. Act, 56 & 57 Vic. cap. 8 Ibid. No. 1604, Nov. 1900. 



73, sect. 36. 



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