BERMONDSPIT HUNDRED 



assisted the Parliament with money. 16 When he re- 

 turned home after Basing House had fallen, he found 

 ,his house a ruin and his land wasted. By way of 

 compensation the Parliament gave him a small farm 

 in Preston Candover from the forfeited property of 

 a recusant, Francis Perkins, the owner of another 

 manor in Preston Candover." Later, however, Mr. 

 Perkins offering a larger amount than that paid by 

 Mr. Long, was allowed by the Parliamentary Com- 

 mittee to buy back the estate for his son. Against 

 this decision George Long petitioned in vain. 18 



The Longs, however, recovered their property 

 later, and either this George Long or a son of the 

 same name sold the manor in 1677 to William 

 Soper, 19 in whose family it remained until the reign 

 of George II, when, in 1739, Patience Soper, one 

 of three daughters,* and evidently heiress of John 

 Soper, of Preston Candover, brought the manor to 

 her husband, William Guidott.' 1 William Guidott, 

 the famous builder of Preston House, died in 1745, 

 and on the death of Patience in 1 749 Preston Can- 

 dover passed to their kinsman and heir William 

 Woodroffe, who took the name of Guidott." 



In 1783 William Woodroffe Guidott sold the estate 

 for 9,000 to John Blackburne, a merchant of London, 

 and John Slade, in equal shares, and in 1789 John 

 Blackburne bought Slade's moiety." By his will 

 dated 1792 he left his manor and lands to his son 

 John." He died in debt, and in 1829 an order was 

 made for the sale of his estate to defray his liabilities." 

 Mr. Rumbold purchased the manor and sold it later 

 to H. King, who was succeeded by his son J. H. King. 

 The latter sold the estate in 1877 to Lord Temple- 

 more, from whom it was purchased by Mr. H. J. Hope 

 at the end of the nineteenth century." Mr. Hope 

 died in 1905 ; his widow Mrs. Hope is now lady of 

 the manor. 



The earliest reference to the manor of STEVEN- 

 BURT or NORWOODS it apparently on a Pipe Roll 

 of 1 1 66 when the name of 'Candeura Stephani ' 

 appears." Probably from this Stephen, who owned 

 Candover, the manor known in the thirteenth century 



PRESTON 

 CANDOVER 



as ' la Stevenbury ' took its name. Robert de Watte- 

 ville, lord of the manor of la Stevenbury in the thir- 

 teenth century, granted a chantry therein to the priory 

 of Southwick.' 8 Nothing more is known of this manor 

 until the name of Horwoods occurs in connexion with 

 it in the reign of Edward II, when Thomas de Cailly 

 held rent in Preston Candover which he received from 

 William de Horwode," who held the manor of 

 Stevenbury or Horwoods as member of the manor of 

 Bradfield in Berkshire, first of the De Somerys and 

 then of the Langfords and the Staffbrds, lords of 

 Bradfield.' 



In 1322 the same William de Horwood held 

 this manor, which consisted of 2 carucates of land," 

 and died seised of it in I 349." His son Thomas had 

 died in the king's service at Calais two years before, 

 and he left, as heir, his grandson, also named William, 

 aged seven." The manor variously called Stevenbury 

 or Preston Candover manor remained in the Horwood 

 family, the holders in tail male from 1422 being 

 William Horwood, who left a son William," and John 

 Horwood and his wife Katherine, 35 whose son John 

 married Elizabeth, and died in the reign of Edward IV.* 6 

 The last John Horwood left a daughter Alianora, as 

 heiress, but a posthumous son was born who became 

 heir." He, however, died while still a minor in 1495, 

 when the manor of Preston Candover went to his uncle 

 Hugh Horwood. 1 * The last of the male line of Horwood 

 died five years later, leaving as his heirs his four sisters, 

 Joan wife of Richard Savage, Katherine wife of John 

 Frith, Alice wife of Thomas Lende, and Christine 

 wife of Ingilram Prior.* 9 Of these Alice Lende and 

 Catherine Frith (then Catherine Peter by her second 

 marriage) died in the reign of Henry VIII each seised 

 of a third part of the manor of Horwood in Preston 

 Candover. 40 Another third part appears to have been 

 sold by John Prior to Richard More in the reign of 

 Philip and Mary," and Sir William and Lady Eliza- 

 beth Warham in Elizabeth's reign held a fifth part 

 of Horwoods manor. Dame Elizabeth Warham had 

 evidently been previously married to More, by whom 

 the scattered portions of Horwoods manor must have 



18 S.P. Dom. Interreg. G. 253. 

 i" Ibid. Ibid. 



19 Feet of F. Hants, East. 29 Chas. II. 

 *> Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 10 Geo. II, 



rot. I. 



21 Ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson ; 

 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 1 3 Geo. II. 



M Ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson ; 

 Recov. R. Eat. 12 Geo. Ill, rot. 38. 

 The Guidotts were originally Florentines, 

 and settled in England in the time of 

 Henry VIII. In 1746 Mr. Guidott's 

 place at Candover was one of the famous 

 country seats of England ; Woodward, Hist, 

 of Hants, ii, 300. 



The Soper family was well known in 

 Hampshire. William Soper was mayor 

 of Southampton in the fifteenth century, 

 and another William Soper and Anna his 

 wife received licence to eat flesh in Lent, 

 1 66 1 (Ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson). 



* Close, 24. Geo. Ill, pt. 22, m. 3 ; 

 ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson. 



2 <Com. Pleas Recov. R. Mich. 

 40 Geo. Ill, m. 33. The estate of John 

 Blackburne comprised Preston Candover 

 manor and mansion house, with Lower 

 and Middle farms, and Upper or Home 

 farm and mansion house called Sopers, 

 together with the manor or reputed manor 

 or farm of Horwoods and a farm in Ax- 



ford in Nutley parish. ' Sopers,' formerly 

 the residence of the Soper family, even- 

 tually passed to the Lainsons, and now 

 belongs to the Hopes of Preston House. 

 The old house has long been pulled 

 down ; the site of the wrought-iron gates 

 is still shown, and of the avenue before 

 the house only a few elmt remain (ex 

 inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson) ; Com. 

 Pleas Recov. R. Mich. 40 Geo. Ill, m. 33. 



35 Ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson. 



* Ibid. 



W Fife R. Soe. 13 Hen. II, 188. 



Add. MS. 33280. 



29 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Edw. II, No. 63. 

 Thomas de Cailly was one of three who 

 held rent in Preston Candover, which had 

 before belonged to Robert de Tatteshale. 

 His share was 1 71. 1 1 J. His heir, accord- 

 ing lo his inquisition, was some kinsman 

 unknown. In 1360, however, a certain rent 

 in Preston Candover was in the hands of 

 the king owing to the minority of Thomas 

 de Cailly ; Mins. Accts. 34 Edw. Ill, 

 bdle. 1 1 9, No. 7. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Edw. II, No. 72 ; 

 ibid. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. 65 ; ibid. 10 

 Hen. V, No. II ; ibid. 14 Edw. IV, No. 

 28 ; ibid. 1 1 Hen. VII, No. 60 ; ibid. 1 6 

 Hen. VII, vol. i4,No. 129 ; ibid. 18 Hen. 

 VIII (Ser. 2), vol. 45, No. 115. 



373 



81 Ibid. 1 6 Edw. II, No. 72. 



82 Ibid. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. i, No. 65. 



88 Ibid. The manor at this time in- 

 cluded a manor-house and garden, 300 acres 

 of arable land, 10 several acres of pasture, 

 and 300 acres of wood, with rent of free 

 and villein tenants, arrentcd at 331. \d. 

 yearly. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Hen. V, No. n. 



85 Ibid. 14 Edw. IV, No. 28 ; ibid. 1 1 

 Hen. VII, vol. n, No. 60. 



88 Ibid, 

 w Ibid. 



88 Ibid. II Hen. VII (Ser. 2), vol. n, 

 No. 60. 



89 Ibid. 16 Hen. VII, vol. 14, No. 129. 

 40 Ibid. 1 8 Hen. VIII (Ser. 2), vol. 14, 



No. 1 1 5 ; Exch. Inq. 1 9 Hen.VIII (Ser. 2), 

 file 981 (i). Alice Lende or Leynde died 4 

 April,i523 or 1524. She appears, according 

 to an inquisition of 1 8 Henry VIII, to have 

 been seised of the reversion of a third of 

 Horwoods manor which Edith Horwood 

 held for life. Edith Horwood died in 

 December 1525. The heir of Alice Lende 

 was her descendant, William Somer, aged 

 eight. The heir of the other sister, Cathe- 

 rine Peter, was the son of her first marri- 

 age, Henry Frith. 



tt Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 3 & 4 Phil. 

 and Mary. 



