A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



as well as his own." Sir Henry left his Hampshire 

 estates to be divided between his widow and his thir- 

 teen children. Marwell remained in the possession 

 of the Mildmays until 1858, when it was sold to 

 Mr. J. E. Robinson of Pontefract, who transferred 

 the manorial rights to Mr. Bradley, the present 

 owner." 



There are occasional references to the bishop of 

 Winchester's PARK of HARWELL. In 1280 an 

 order was issued to William de Hamilton, guardian 

 of the bishopric of Winchester, for the immediate 

 deliverance of five oaks from the park of Marwell 

 granted by Nicholas late bishop of Winchester to 

 the sacristan of St. Swithun's Priory, for the works of 

 the priory." In the Ministers' Accounts for the manor 

 of Twyford for the year 1322 the following occurs : 

 ' 39*. 6d. for animals pastured in the park of Marwell 

 till Trinity.' K In the sixteenth century a complaint 

 was entered by William bishop of Winchester that 

 Aumary St. Amnnd with others hunted in his park at 

 Marwell where he had free warren. 17 A park existed 

 down to the middle of the seventeenth century, for 

 in the court rolls for 1651 reference is made to the 

 ' park of the President and Scholars of Corpus Christi 

 College, Oxford, called the Coney Park.' 28 



At the time of the Domesday Survey there were 

 two mills in Owslebury, 29 and among the appurten- 

 ances belonging to the manors of Twyford and 

 Marwell in 1625 and 1626 were two mills, a free 

 fishery, view of frankpledge, and rights of free warren. 

 At the present day there is only one mill. 



BRAMBRIDGE, a hamlet in the civil parishes of 

 Twyford and Owslebury, became part of the newly- 

 formed ecclesiastical parish of Golden Common in 

 1843. 



Upon the foundation of Corpus Christi College, 

 Oxford, in i5i5-i6,Brambridge,as part of Owslebury 

 parish, probably passed into the possession of the 

 college under the endowment by Bishop Fox, for in 

 1535 Corpus Christi College was receiving an annual 

 rent of 2^s. from land here. 31 In 1609-10 Bram- 

 bridge was granted to John Peirson together with the 

 lands belonging to the recusants Ursula Uvedale, 

 Richard Bruning, and Thomas Welles."' Charles I 

 granted Brambridge to Gilbert Welles in 1636," and 

 his widow married Sir William Courtenay, who was a 

 recusant and compounded for his Brambridge estates 

 in 1648." Brambridge remained in the Welles family 

 until towards the end of the eighteenth century, when 

 in accordance with the will of Henry Welles (2 August, 

 1762) it passed to his cousin Walter Smythe, second 

 son of Sir John Smythe, bart., of Acton Burnell, 

 Shropshire w (see under Boyattin Otterbourne). Walter 

 Smythe's eldest daughter was the famous Mrs. Fitz- 

 herbert, wife of George IV, who spent the early years 

 of her life, before and after her education in France, 

 at Brambridge until her marriage to Edward Weld 



JL 



of Lulworth Castle, Dorset. She is also said to have 

 lived at Golden Common, in a cottage which still 

 exists, during her first widowhood. 353 During the 

 nineteenth century Brambridge House (see under 

 Twyford) was the residence of the Fairbairns family. 

 It is now occupied by Major Cecil du P. Powney. 



The earliest mention of BATBRIDGE (Baberigge, 

 Babbrigge, Barbridge, xiv cent.), a hamlet in Owsle- 

 bury parish, seems to be in a grant made in 1324 by 

 Henry bishop of Winchester of a messuage and half a 

 virgate of land in Baybridge, near Owslebury, to 

 William son of William de Overton, in confirmation 

 of a grant made to him by John late bishop of Win- 

 chester of the land formerly held by Henry le 

 Carter. 36 In 1377 the abbot and convent of Titch- 

 field were holding land in Baybridge. 37 



In 1441 Thomas Sands died seised of lands in 

 Baybridge held under lease from the bishop of Win- 

 chester, leaving an infant heir, 

 William, aged three. 38 The 

 Sands continued to hold the 

 reputed manor 39 of Baybridge 

 until l6io, 40 when Sir Wil- 

 liam Sands sold it to Thomas 

 Ridley, LL.D. 41 Nine years 

 later, in 1619, the Ridleys 

 were still holding Baybridge," 

 but after this date no mention 

 has been found of it until the 

 year 1802, when Sir Henry 

 Paulet St. John Mildmay, John 

 Clerk of Worthy, and George William Ricketts of 

 Lainston were holding it in right of their wives Jane, 

 Ann, and Letitia, 43 the daughters and co-heirs of 

 Carew Mildmay of Shawford House. 44 It must there- 

 fore have been acquired by the Mildmay family in 

 addition to their manor of Marwell (q.v.). After 

 1802 it evidently became amalgamated with the 

 Marwell estate and followed its descent (q.v.). 



The capital messuage of LONGWOOD FARM, 

 originally part of the possessions of the bishopric of 

 Winchester, was granted to Edward Vaughan and 

 Thomas Ellys in 1589." Eight years later Longwood 

 was in the possession of Richard Garth, who died 

 seised of it in 1 597." In 1648 Longwood Warren 

 and Lodge were sold by the Trustees for the Sale of 

 Bishops' Lands to Thomas Hussey and his heirs. 47 



Longwood House is now the property of the earl 

 of Northesk and the residence of Lord Aberdare. It 

 stands in the north-east of the parish in wide grounds 

 which extend north-east into the neighbouring parish 

 of Tichborne. When Duthy wrote in the early 

 part of the nineteenth century this house was known 

 as Rosehill. About the beginning of the eighteenth 

 century General (afterwards Lord) Carpenter, the 

 ancestor of the earls of Tyrconnel, lived at Rosehill, 

 then called Longwood, which is thus its original name. 



SANDS. Argent a 

 ragged cross sable. 



38 Debrett, Illustrated Baronetage, 557. 

 M Information supplied by Colonel 

 Mildmay. 



25 Cal. of Close, 1279-88, p. u. 



26 Mins. Accts. bdle. 1142, No. 13. 



V Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 68, No. 

 127. 



ffi Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 84, No. 23. 



* V.C.H. Hunts, \, 4603. 



Feet of F. Hants, Mich. I Chas. I j 

 ibid. Hil. 2 Chas. I. 



81 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 245. 



84 Pat. 6 Jas. I, pt. 3, m. 19. 



88 Ibid. 1 1 Chas. I, pt. 2, m. 23. 



84 Cal. of Com. for Comf. iii, 1841-2. 



85 Recov. R. Trin. 19 Geo. Ill, m. 1 56; 

 Hil. 21 Geo. Ill, m. 73. 



85a Wilkins, Mrs. Fitaherbert and 

 George IV, i, 7, 16 & 17. 



86 Cal. of Pat. 1321-4, p. 400. 



8? Inq. p.m. 5 1 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), 

 No. 42. 



88 Inq. p.m. 20 Hen. VI, No. 35. 



89 So-called for the first time in 1493 

 (De Banco R. East. 9 Hen. VII, m. 21). 



40 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, re- 



334 



ceived 491. rent from Baybridge in 1535 

 as well as rents from Owslebury of the 

 gift of Bishop For (vide Marwell 

 Manor). Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 

 245. 



41 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 1 1 Jas. I. 



4a Ibid. Trin. 17 Jas. I. 



48 Ibid. 42 Geo. III. 



44 Berry, Hants Gen. 228-9. 



45 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 23, m. 25-31. 



46 Chan. Inq. p.m. 40 Eliz. vol. 255, 

 No. 169. 



47 Close, 24 Chas. I, pt. 2, m. 23. 



