A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



are painted over a still earlier version of the same 

 thing. 



The plate consists of a large communion cup and 

 cover paten of 1570 ; another cup and paten and 

 flagon ; and a pewter flagon and almsdish. 



The first book of registers runs from 1540 to 1741, 

 and the second from 1740 to 1812. There is also a 

 marriage register 17601812. 



There was a church at Dummer 

 ADVOWSON in io86, 81 and it is probable that the 

 advowson always formed part of the 

 Dummer estate. In 1198 Geoffrey son of Ralph 

 Dummer was parson of the church, and a half-hide 

 of land in Dummer was given to him by his brother 

 Robert, to be held in free alms by his successors.* 3 

 Two generations later a dispute arose between Sir 

 John Dummer and his cousin, John Dummer of 

 Aston, joint-holders of the manor, respecting the 

 advowson of the church, and it was ultimately agreed 

 in 1275 that the heirs of each should present alter- 

 nately. 84 This arrangement continued until the two 

 moieties of the manors were acquired by the Millingate 

 family in the sixteenth century, after which the his- 

 tories of the manor and advowson are identical. 



Charity of John Millingate for the 

 CHARITIES poor. In 1607 John Millingate, by 

 deed, charged his close, called Leed- 

 gar's Close, in this parish, and nine acres of arable 

 land lying in the open fields (inclosed in 1742) with 

 2O/. yearly for the poor. In 1905 half-crowns were 

 given to eight recipients. Charity of John Millingate 

 for school and charity of John Henshaw thereto 



0759)" 



In 1710 Michael Terry, by will, devised his 



manor of Popham in Dummer and other lands in 

 the open fields with 2O/. for the poor at Michael- 

 mas, which sum is distributed in half-crowns to eight 

 recipients. 



John Marriott, by will (date unknown), gave to the 

 parish 20, for the raising of an annuity of 2O/., 

 to be employed for the buying of three Bibles for 

 three poor children. The Bibles are duly distributed. 



Adams gave 86 I4/. lod. consols (with the 

 official trustees), dividends to be applied in aid of 

 funds of provident club, etc., by scheme of Charity 

 Commissioners of 31 July, 1891. The annual divi- 

 dends amounting to 2 3*. ^d. are distributed in 

 coal. 



ELLISFIELD 



Esewelle, Domesday ; Ulesfeld, Hulsefelde (xiii 

 cent.) ; Essefeld, Elsefeud (xiii cent.) ; Elsefeld (xii, 

 xiii, xiv cent.). 



The 2,349 acres comprising the parish of Ellisfield 

 are part of the high sweep of country that rises south- 

 west of Basingstoke and reaches its greatest height at 

 Farleigh Wallop. Ellisfield, lying south-east of Far- 

 leigh, is practically in itself a hill, the ground rising 

 to over 640 ft. above the ordnance datum almost in 

 the centre of the parish between the two outlying 

 groups which compose the village, the church and 

 manor farm, which lie together towards the north- 

 west, and the Fox Inn, and the various farms which 

 are grouped together in the south-east. Although 

 the parish is intersected by lanes and narrow roads, 

 there is no main road running through it, the most 

 important being that which enters the south-east 

 corner, about a mile from Herriard Station, and runs a 

 generally north-westerly course through the parish to 

 Farlington and Cliddesden. This road mounts uphill, 

 past Bushy Leaze Copse and College Farm, the Fox 

 Inn, and Cooper's and Merritt's Farms and their out- 

 buildings, then curves west past Widmore House, 

 now known as Ellisfield Manor, the residence of Mr. 

 Harry Hoare. At this point, the highest in the 

 parish, the road divides, one branch running 

 north-east, the other northward downhill to the 

 church and manor farm, which both lie west of 

 the road, the farmhouse, a square white stone house 

 with a dark tiled roof, being immediately south- 

 west of the church. Forming a foreground for the 

 church and farmhouse, as the road approaches from 

 the south-east, is the farm pond. On the opposite 

 side of the road are two low flint cottages. 



The chief charm of Ellisfield is not in its scattered 

 village, but in the wonderful sweeps of woodland 

 country that rise on every side. Every lane seems to 

 run between or through copses carpeted in early 

 spring by masses of primroses and wild anemones, and 

 inhabited by rabbits and pheasants, which start up 

 everywhere. Of the cluster of copses lying north of 

 the parish the chief are Kingsmore Copse, Allwood 

 Copse, Whinkney Copse, and Fryingdown Copse, 

 while in the east are Park Field Copse, Smart's Copse, 

 and Withy Copse, south of the manor farm and in 

 the south-east, Great Reid's Copse, Warwick's Row 

 Copse, Berry Down Copse, and Highwood. These 

 cover the best part of the 562 acres of woodland in 

 the parish. Crops of wheat, oats, and roots are pro- 

 duced on the 766 acres of arable land lying on the 

 chalk soil and subsoil of the parish, 483^ acres are 

 given up to permanent grass, and 562 to woods and 

 plantations. 



In the time of Edward the Confessor 

 MANOR Auti had held ELLISFIELD as an alod, 

 but at the date of the Conqueror's Survey 

 it formed part of the great possessions of the bishop of 

 Bayeux, of whom it was held by Hugh de Port, 1 with 

 whose descendants the overlordship remained, passing 

 to the St. Johns in the thirteenth century.* The 

 family of Sifrewast held as mesne lords under the 

 St. Johns except in 1386, when half of the manor 

 was held directly of the St. Johns and the other half 

 partly of Bernard Brocas and partly of John Brem- 

 shott. Richard de Sifrewast, 3 holding of Robert de 

 St. John, was lord of Ellisfield in 1255, and owed 

 suit at the courts of Basing and Sherborne. Of his 

 grandson Roger Sifrewast 4 Ellisfield was held in 



M y.C.H. Hants, i, 482*. 



88 Feet of F. Hants, 10 Ric. I, No. 8. 



" Ibid. Trin. 3 Edw. I. 



85 See article on ' Schools,' V.C.H. Hants, 



ii, 398. * V.C.H. Hants, i, 48611. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Eart. 40 Edw. III. 



360 



Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 33 Hen. III. 

 4 Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, 164, 

 No. 36. 



