A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Ellisfield occurs, for Robert Wallop, regicide, forfeited, 

 with the manor of Farleigh Wallop, a farm called 

 ' Dyer's Farm,' with lands in Ellisfield and Nutley, 35 

 which with Farleigh Wallop evidently descended to 

 his son, as for upwards of two hundred years the 

 Wallops have held lands in this parish st 



Besides the manor held by the Fyfhides there was, 

 in early times, a second manor held by the prior of 

 Southwick. Before 1284 Bartholomew Pecche had 

 granted, together with part of the advowson, a house, 

 a carucate of land, woodland, and rent to the priory." 

 According to the taxation of 1 29 1 a manor, 'apud Elles- 

 welde,' was taxed at 15*. lid 1 . 38 In the reign of Ed- 

 ward II the prior appears as joint lord of Ellisfield,"and, 

 moreover, in the same reign free warren was granted 

 to the prior and convent in their demesne lands in 

 Ellisfield by royal charter, 40 which was later confirmed 

 by Richard II." In 1346 the prior was said to hold 

 two parts of a knight's fee," and in 1337 and 1348 

 held with John de Roches one fee of Edmund and 

 Hugh de St. John. 43 



In 1428 the prior was still holding his two parts of 

 a fee in Ellisfield, but later than this there is no 

 mention of the priory's land. 



In 1218 Maud de Munfichet appears to have 

 granted to Beatrice de Bovill, William de Bremlessete, 

 and Robert de Chinham 22 acres in Ellisfield. 44 The 

 name Chinham then spelt Chunham occurs again in 

 1272, when Herbert Pecche died seised of 60 acres of 

 land in Ellisfield, which he held of William de Chun- 

 ham." He left an heir in his son Bartholomew, who 

 was probably that Bartholomew Pecche who made the 

 grant of land and advowson in Ellisfield to Southwick 

 Priory. 46 In 1284 John de Foxle, John de St. John, 

 and Michael de Chillham (another variation probably 

 of Chinham) were guardians of the lands and heir of 

 Bartholomew Pecche." In 1327 part of rents in 

 Ellisfield and Bromleigh which were granted by Sir 

 John Pecche to his mother Dame Joan was due from 

 the prior 4S of Southwick. 



Connected also with the priory as early landowners 

 in Ellisfield were the family of De Roches, who prob- 

 ably acquired their lands and the advowson through 

 the marriage of Geoffrey de Roches with Emma, 

 daughter of Walter Fitz Roger, and heiress of her 

 brother. 4 ' 



In 1329 John de Roches held a knight's fee in 

 Ellisfield of John de St. John, described as worth 

 6 I4/., 50 and eight years later the name of John de 

 Roches occurs with that of the prior of Southwick as 

 joint holder of a knight's fee worth lo, il it being 

 held of Hugh de St. John, and in 1348 they held the 

 fee of Edmund de St. John." Nothing more is 

 known of the De Roches property, which no doubt 

 passed to Sir Bernard Brocas with the advowson on 

 his marriage with Mary de Roches at the end of the 

 fourteenth century. 



Property in Ellisfield was also held under the Sifre- 

 wasts by the prioress of Wintney. Avis, the prioress, 

 in the reign of Henry III, held ^ a carucate by grant 

 of Richard de Sifrewast, 53 of whom also Lucy, the 

 prioress, held 3 carucates later in the same reign." In 

 the reign of Edward III the nuns of Wintney held 

 I oo acres of pasture of Roger Sifrewast." After the 

 dissolution of Wintney Priory the land in this parish, 

 including what is now Merritt's Farm, held with 

 Herriard Grange, was allotted to Sir William Paulet, 6 * 

 and remained with Lord Bolton's family till 1851, 

 when it was sold to F. J. E. Jervoise. 



The church of ST. MARTIN has a 

 CHURCH chancel, nave, south porch, and west 

 tower. The tower was built in 1884, 

 and the rest of the church underwent a most unsym- 

 pathetic 'restoration' in 1870, which obliterated 

 nearly everything of interest. The chancel seems to 

 have been lengthened at this time, and ie lighted by 

 modern lancets on north and south, and a modern 

 three-light east window, on either side of which are 

 plain corbels for images, re-used, and at the south-east 

 is a length of moulded string-course, which is old 

 work. Parts of the nave walls probably date from the 

 first quarter of the twelfth century, the label and tall 

 semicircular rear arch of a south doorway of this 

 date being left in the wall above the present south door- 

 way, which is plain work of fourteenth-century date, 

 and opens to a brick porch now used as a vestry, its 

 outer arch being built up. The chancel is of the 

 same width as the nave, separated from it by a modern 

 chancel arch, and was probably built round a smaller 

 chancel, contemporary with the nave, at some time in 

 the thirteenth century. At the north-east of the nave 

 is a lancet window, which may be in part of this date, 

 the wall at this point being cut back to give more room 

 for a former altar here. 



Externally the nave walls show some early-looking 

 flint masonry, and there is some trace of the former 

 existence of a north doorway, a modern window now 

 taking its place. A blocked lancet window or 

 thirteenth-century date shows on the outer face of the 

 south wall of the chancel, and a few quoin stones mark 

 the line of the former east wall, partly hidden by 

 modern buttresses. 



The tower has a curious vane shaped like a pine- 

 apple, which was once on the tower of Long Ditton 

 church, whence it was taken and set up over the 

 stables of Cawley Priory, finally coming to Ellisfield. 



In the tower are five bells, without any inscription, 

 but with an unusual number of lines on the crown, 

 shoulder and sound bow ; they are said to be Spanish. 



The plate consists of two communion cups and a 

 paten, with a pewter almsdish. 



The first book of registers begins in 1668 and 

 goes to 1812, the second being the printed marriage 

 register 1756-1812. 



85 Pat. 13 Chas. II, pt. 20, m. 10. 



86 Ex inform. Rev. Botry Pigott. 



8 ? De Banco R. No. 60, i z J. Mich. 

 13 Edw. I. 



38 Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 213. 

 89 Nomina Villarum. 



40 Chart. R. 14 Edw. II, m. 8, No. 32. 



41 Maddon, 33280. 



4a Feud. Aids, ii, 330. 

 48 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. Ill, No. 

 49 ; ibid. 21 Edw. Ill, No. 57. 



44 Feet of F. Hants, East. 3 Hen. III. 



45 Chan. Inq. p.m. 57 Hen. Ill, No. 4. 



46 De Banco, No. 60, 12 d. ; Mich. 13 

 Edw. I. 



4 7 Ibid. 



48 Burrows, Family of Brocas, 398 ; Feet 

 of F. Hants, Trin. 3 Edw. III. 



49 Burrows, Family of Brocas, 323. In 

 1227 Henry son of Roger and Alice, 

 daughter of Roger, evidently relatives of 

 the wife of Geoffrey de Roches, recognized 

 the right of Emma and Geoffrey in a 

 carucate of land at Ellisfield (Feet of F. 

 Hants, 12 Hen. III). 



50 Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Edw. Ill, No. 67. 



362 



41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. Ill, No. 



49- 



> Ibid. 21 Edw. Ill, No. 57. 



6S Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 33 Hen. III. 



"Ibid. East. 40 Hen. III. 



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

 No-36. In 1337 the prioress and convent 

 granted to Sir Thomas Coudray 6 marks 

 rent from their lands in Ellisfield and 

 Herriard for the foundation of a chantry 

 in the chapel of Shirbourne Coudray. 



M Ex Inform. Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise ; 

 L. and P. Hen. fill, xi, 385(3). 



