A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Upton Grey, but before the eleventh century this hundred had been merged 

 into that of Bermondspit. 



The returns of the Feudal Aid for 1316 include Hoddington (Hodegeton), 

 Upton, Weston Corbett, Herriard (Hereby rde), Dummer, Nutley, Ellisfield, 

 (Hulsefelde), Farleigh,Candover, within the hundred of Bermondspit. 7 'South- 

 warneborough ' appears in the hundred in 1346." Since this date there 

 has been very little variation in the extent of the hundred. The lay subsidies 

 of the reigns of Henry VIII ' and Elizabeth 10 show that the hundred still con- 

 tained the same parishes as in the fourteenth century. 



Bermondspit being a royal hundred came under the Parliamentary Survey 

 of the crown property in the time of the Commonwealth. According to 

 the returns of this Survey the hundred still contained the same parishes, 

 Weston Corbett only being unmentioned. It appears that the courts-leet 

 and law-day sheriffs turn courts for the hundred were held about Hocktide 

 and St. Martin's Day, the parish of Nutley being the place in which the court 

 was usually held. 11 



The parishes included since the returns of 1 83 1 within Bermondspit Hun- 

 dred are Bentworth, Bradley, Dummer, Ellisfield, Farleigh Wallop, Herriard, 

 Lasham, Nutley, Popham, Preston Candover, Upton Grey, Weston Corbett, 

 and Weston Patrick. With the hundred of Hoddington (Hodeketone) and others 

 Bermondspit belonged to the royal manor of Basingstoke. Edward I appears 

 to have had cause of complaint in that due payment had not been rendered 

 from the hundred, and John de St. John, powerful in Bermondspit as elsewhere, 

 did not permit the king's bailiffs to make distraint for the debt in his fee. 12 

 The same king is found calling a tenant in Bermondspit to account, since the 

 villeins of the prior of Southwick had failed to render suit at the hundred of 

 Bermondspit, as was their duty. The prior put the onus of the offence upon 

 William de Valence, who had hindered the suit due to the king. 18 Likewise 

 also Edmund earl of Cornwall was summoned to see that his men of Dum- 

 mer rendered suit at the royal hundred of Bermondspit. 14 



7 FeuJ. Aids, ii, 313. "Ibid. 330. 'Lay Subs. 37 Hen. VIII, 



10 Ibid. 3 1 Eliz. & and 39Eliz. Jf . " Parl. Surv. Hants, I. " Hundr. R. z, 3 Edw. I. 



13 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 768. " Ibid. 772. 



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