A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



being particularly fine, and there are a large number 

 of portraits, including an early panel picture, belong- 

 ing to a class of royal and other portraits of which 

 there is a good series in the library of the Society 

 of Antiquaries. 



SOUTHROPE (Sudtrop, Suthorp, Sudetrope, 

 Suderope, xiii cent.) was held of the crown. 18 An 

 inquisition taken in the reign of Henry III shows 

 that Richard le Malle was granted the hamlet ot 

 Southrope by Henry II for the serjeanty of keeping 

 the king's falcons." In 1221, however, Maude de 

 Heryerd and her husband Richard de Sifrewast paid 

 a fine when they entered upon the land of Richard 

 de Heryerd in Southrope.* During the reign of 

 Henry III the lady of Herriard was summoned to 

 show by what warrant she held the hamlet, which the 

 king appeared to regard as his property." Her title 

 must have been found good, as Fulk de Coudray held 

 Southrope with the manor of Herriard in 1251," the 

 hamlet evidently having formed part of the grant to 

 Fulk from Maud de Heryerd. Thence onwards the 

 hamlet follows the descent of the manor. 53 



The De Heryerd family were benefactors of 

 Wintney Priory. A charter of Edward I confirmed a 

 charter of Richard son of Richard de Heryerd, which 

 in its turn confirmed the gift of Richard Makerel to 

 the nuns of Wintney of I J virgates of land in South- 

 rope, afterwards known as JflNTNET HERRIARD 

 GRANGE, which had been granted to John and 

 Thomas Makerel by his father Richard de Heryerd.' 4 

 Maud de Heryerd also had alienated rent to the 

 nuns. 35 King Henry III attempted to obtain a vir- 

 gate in Southrope from the prioress as part of the 

 royal manor of Odiham alienated without licence.* 6 

 Richard de Sifrewast was called to warrant the 

 prioress's right, which he did. 37 However, the matter 

 ended well for the nuns, as Edward I made them a 

 grant in free alms of a virgate of land and 5 marks 

 rent, ' which the king lately demanded against them.' 38 

 In 1428 the grants made to Wintney represented 

 half a knight's fee in Herriard." At the Dissolution 

 all lands in Wintney Herriard which had belonged 

 to the priory were granted to Sir William Paulet, 

 first marquis of Winchester, comptroller of the house- 

 hold of Henry VIII, and brother of the Richard 

 Paulet who married Elizabeth Coudray. 40 The 

 Paulets held the manor of Herriard Wintney 41 un- 

 til 1851, when Lord Bolton sold it with the advowson 

 to F. J. E. Jervoise, grandfather of the present owner 

 of Herriard. 4 ' 



In 1337 the prioress and convent of Wintney 

 enfeoffed Sir Thomas Coudray of rent from their land 

 in Herriard and Ellisfield for the endowment of a 

 chantry chapel in Sherborne Coudray for the benefit 

 of the souls of Sir Thomas and his ancestors. 4 ' From 

 ' the outgoing ' of the manor of Herriard Wintney 

 Richard Paulet paid 4 to the chantry priest at the 

 Vyne in the reign of Edward VI. 44 



The church of OUR LADY is a very 

 CHURCH valuable example, built about the year 

 1 200, of excellent style and detail, pre- 

 serving, in spite of decay and repair, much of its 

 original character. It has a chancel 26 ft. by 1 6 ft. 6 in., 

 with modern north vestry, a nave 47 ft. 4 in. by 

 20 ft. 2 in., with a modern north aisle and a modern 

 west tower. 



The east window of the chancel is a fifteenth- 

 century insertion of three cinquefoiled lights with 

 tracery, probably replacing a group of three lancets. 

 The side walls preserve the original arrangement of 

 three lancets, a pair coupled in the eastern part of 

 the wall, and a single light farther west. 44 Externally 

 these are quite plain, but have an edge roll at the 

 inner angle, and a moulded string at the sill level. 

 At the north-east of the chancel was a small vestry, 

 part of the original design, which is now destroyed, 

 but traces of its roof-line and door are yet to be seen. 

 In a drawing of 1828 in the possession of Mr. F. H. T. 

 Jervoise this doorway is shown complete under the 

 second lancet on the north. Below the east window, 

 and now hidden by the altar table, are two large 

 square locker recesses, of original date, rebated for 

 doors, and under the first window in the south wall 

 is a round-headed piscina recess with a modern bowl, 

 and a square locker to the west of it. Their nearness 

 to the floor shows that the levels have been raised in 

 modern times. Near the south-west angle of the 

 chancel is a square-headed low side window of four- 

 teenth-century date, the lower part blocked up ; it 

 now contains a few pieces of old glass, including a 

 pretty fifteenth-century figure of St. Margaret in white 

 and gold glass, formerly in the tracery of the east 

 window of the chancel, above the south main light. 



The chancel arch, which before the repairs of 

 18767 had spread dangerously and was cracked and 

 distorted, is a very fine feature, 14 ft. Sin. in span, 

 with three moulded orders and a dog-tooth label. 

 In the jambs are short engaged shafts with foliate 

 capitals, the two belonging to the inner order and 

 the south capital of the outer order being ancient, all 

 the rest, with the bases and much of the stonework 

 of the arch and jambs, dating from 1876. The nave 

 had in the first instance three lancets on each side, 

 with doorways between the second and third. The 

 north wall has been destroyed by the addition of the 

 aisle and its place taken by an arcade of three bays with 

 octagonal shafts and capitals, but in the south wall 

 two of the original lancets remain, the place of the 

 third, the eastern of the three, being taken by a three- 

 light fifteenth-century window, inserted to give more 

 light to the south nave altar. Another window of 

 this kind now takes the place of the south doorway, 

 having been put here in 1876; before that date it 

 was at the north-east of the nave in a corresponding 

 portion to the other. The original south doorway 

 has completely disappeared; it had a brick porch over 



88 Exccrft, e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 72 ; 

 Chan. Inq. 36 Hen. Ill, No. 4111. 



Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), 30 Hen. Ill, 

 No. 14. 



80 Excerpt, e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 72. 

 According to the Pipe Roll of the twelfth 

 century, ' Robertus filius presbiteri dc 

 Suthrop reddere compotum debet dimi- 

 duum marcum sed mortuus est'; Pipe R. 

 HHen. 11 (Pipe R. Soc.), 179. A grant 

 of a virgate of land in Southrope was made 



to Geoffrey and William de Langelegh by 

 Richard de Sifrewast and Maud his wife j 

 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 15 Hen. III. 



81 Abbre-v. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 120. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Hen. Ill, 423. 



88 This hamlet, although in Herriard 

 parish, lies within the hundred of Odiham. 



84 Dugdale, Man. Angl. v, 722. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), 30 Hen. Ill, 

 14. 



86 Cur. Reg. R. No. 168, m. 8. 



3 68 



8 ? Ibid. 



88 Cal. of Pat. 1272-81, p. 463. 



89 Feud. Aids, ii, 344. 



40 . and P. Hen. VIII. xi, 385 (3). 



41 Pat. 21 Eliz. pt. 7, m. 45 ; Recov. R. 

 Mich. 44 Geo. Ill, rot. 47. 



42 Ex inform. Mr. F. H. T. Jervoise. 

 49 Pat. II Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. 14. 



44 Chant. Cert. Hants, 54, No. 6. 



45 Only the east jamb of that on the 

 south is old. 



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