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His son and heir, Richard Wallop, who was sheriff 

 of Hampshire in 1502, succeeded him, surviving him 

 seventeen years." Sir John Wallop owned Farleigh 

 Mortimer in the reign of Edward VI. 1 ' Farleigh 

 Wallop was favoured by a visit 

 from Queen Elizabeth, who 

 visited the first Sir Henry 

 Wallop there in the September 

 of 1591." He had been 

 knighted by Elizabeth in 1 569, 

 and she had no servant more 

 honest. After years of service 

 in Ireland, after the loss of 

 his second son, shot by Irish 

 rebels, and when he himself 

 was old and ill, he prayed 

 to be relieved of his task, 

 but died the day before his successor arrived. 

 Sir Henry's views on free trade are of interest, for 

 being at one time commissioner for restraining the 

 transport of grain from Surrey, he disagreed with his 

 fellow commissioners in declaring that markets should 

 be free for all men, as ' yt ys most reasonable that one 

 contrye shoulde helpe an other with soche comodytes as 

 they are able to spare.' During his descendant's lifetime 

 in 1667 the manor house of Farleigh Wallop was de- 

 stroyed by fire and the family muniments perished. 18 

 His son Sir Henry Wallop was granted free warren in 

 the manor then known as Farleigh Wallop by James I." 

 The favour of royalty, however, was withdrawn from 

 Sir Robert Wallop, who succeeded his father in 1642. 

 He took the side of the Parliament in the Civil War, 

 and sat in judgement upon Charles I." He was one 

 of the few regicides who escaped the death sentence 

 only to undergo a worse ordeal. For his sentence of 

 perpetual imprisonment in the Tower involved also 

 the cruel degradation of being taken once a year to 

 and under the gallows, there to stand with ropes 

 about his neck." He made sorrowful petitions to the 

 king, but never regained his liberty and died in 

 the Tower in 1667, aged 66." He had married 

 the Lady Anne, a daughter of Henry Wriothesley, 

 earl of Southampton, and a sister of Thomas Wriothes- 

 ley, the lord treasurer." In 1661 Charles II granted 

 to Thomas, high treasurer of England and earl of 

 Southampton, the manor of Farleigh Wallop and other 

 property, all of which had been confiscated upon the 

 attainder of Sir Robert Wallop, and he conveyed the 

 sime to the Lady Anne and her son and the family of 

 Robert Wallop." 



The son of Robert Wallop succeeeded to his father's 

 estates," since which time the Wallop family have 

 held the manor,* 6 the earl of Portsmouth being the 

 present owner. 



FARLEIGH HOUSE was burnt in 1667 and not 

 rebuilt till 1731 by Viscount Lymington. It is a 

 large rectangular building fronting to the north, in 

 flint and stone, the masonry being of excellent quality. 

 In the middle of the north front is a projecting 

 porch, over which is a large shield of many quarter- 

 ings giving the alliances of the Wallops. There is a 

 central entrance hall from which the series of ground- 

 floor rooms open, and in the middle of the south or 



FARLEIGH 

 WALLOP 



garden front, which commands a beautiful view, is a 

 stone-faced bay of two stories. This looks on to a 

 rectangular garden which with the sloping field to the 

 south covers the site of the old house, whose founda- 

 tions still exist in part. It probably had a central court- 

 yard, with a terraced garden to the south, and there are 

 traces of what looks like a round bastion at the south- 

 west angle. To the west of the house is an eighteenth- 

 century well-house with a large wheel, and to the 

 east a low range of offices into which two large early 

 seventeenth-century mullioned and transomed windows 

 are built ; they are of very good workmanship and 

 doubtless formed part of the old house. 



Farther to the east are the stables, a long two-story 

 range standing north and south, substantial flint-faced 

 buildings of eighteenth-century date, having the 

 Wallop arms on a cartouche over one door, and the 

 same quartering three bends wavy and a chief over 

 another. 



The walled kitchen garden lies to the south-east, 

 and in its centre at the intersection of four paths is 

 the base of a cross which is perhaps of thirteenth- 

 century date, with part of an oblong shaft set 

 in it. 



The church of ST. JOHN, F4R- 

 CHURCH LEIGH WALLOP, is a cruciform 

 building of flint and stone with a west 

 tower. It was entirely rebuilt in the middle of the 

 eighteenth century, in a very dull Gothic style, and 

 the west tower dates from 1873. The east window 

 of the chancel, and those in the north transept, are 

 of three lights with arched heads and tracery, all the 

 rest being square-headed, with three cinquefoiled 

 lights. The interior is absolutely uninteresting as far 

 as the fittings are concerned, the only woodwork of 

 any merit being the altar rails with their twisted 

 balusters of eighteenth-century date. There are a 

 large number of floor slabs to members of the Wallop 

 family, and two large mural monuments of eighteenth- 

 century date in the south transept. On the south 

 side of the chancel is an altar tomb of sixteenth-cen- 

 tury date with quatrefoiled panels, in one of which is 

 the Wallop coat : on the tomb is a Purbeck marble 

 slab with indents of the brass figures of a man and 

 his wife, with what may have been a figure of the 

 Trinity over, and four shields at the angles. At the 

 west end of the nave is the indent of another late 

 brass on a broken slab, the remainder of which is in 

 the chancel floor within the altar rails. 



The octagonal stone font is modern, and replaces 

 one of wood. 



There are three bells by Mears and Stainbank, 

 1872. 



For plate see Cliddesden. 



The register was included with that of Cliddesden 

 until 1813. 



The descent of the advowson of 

 ADrOlTSON Farleigh Wallop has always followed 

 that of the manor. There was a 

 church in the parish in the reign of Edward I " the 

 advowson of which in 1279 was granted with the 

 manor to Robert de Mortimer by Henry de Farley. 1 * 

 This Robert and Joyce his wife brought suits against 



15 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), xvii, 13. 



16 W. and L. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. VI 

 (Ser. 2), vi, 51. 



*7 Stevens, Hht. of St. Mary Bourne, 

 164. This Sir Henry Wallop was on of 

 Sir Oliver Wallop. 



18 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



19 Pat. 14 Jas. I, pt. 25, m. 8. 



20 Stevens, Hist, of St. Mary Bourne, 

 170. al Ibid. 173. 



M Ibid. 174-5. * Ibid. 169, 170. 



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



3 6 5 



K Stevens, Hiit. of St. Mary Bourne, 1 76. 



M Recov. R. Trin. I Geo. I, rot. 83. 

 Recov. R. East. 13 Geo. II, 316 ; ibid. 

 Mich. 4 Geo. Ill, rot. 52. 



V PofeNich. Tax. (Rcc. Com.), 2120. 



88 Abkrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 199. 



