A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



WINCHESTER COLLEGE. 

 Argent two cheveront 

 table between three roses 

 gules. 



Cleves M and Catherine Howard, 94 and on the death of 

 the latter Henry VIII granted the manor of Mounds- 

 mere, in part exchange for the manor of Harmonds- 

 worth and others, to the college of St. Mary, Win- 

 chester. 95 With the college 

 it long remained, and was used 

 for a hospital in the times of 

 plague. 96 In 1906 Mounds- 

 mere was sold by the college 

 to Mr. Wilfrid Buckley, who 

 is the present owner. 



The crown held a rent 

 from Moundsmere which was 

 granted by James I to his 

 queen, Anne, 97 and by Charles 

 II to Lord Hawley and others 

 in trust for John Lindsay, 

 who had undertaken to defray 

 25,384 2s. iJ. due from the 

 crown to London city. 98 A fine between Sarah Rolle 

 and William Parker respecting the same rent occurs 

 in the reign of George I. 9 * 



The name of Oades occurs frequently in the 

 records of Moundsmere, where that family owned land 

 in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 100 In 

 1639 an order was made against one James Oades of 

 Preston Candover since he had in August, 1637, 

 ' rhymed profanely on the Lord's prayer,' and had 

 been accused of blaspheming the Scriptures. His 

 punishment was a public submission in his parish 

 church and in Winchester Cathedral, and a fine of 



The family of Inkepenne held land in Preston 

 Candover of the Knights Hospitallers. 10 ' John de 

 Inkepenne held land there 

 in the fourteenth century. 103 

 Owing to the minority of his 

 heir, who died in wardship, 

 the house and the carucate of 

 land held of the bishop of 

 Winchester and his four vir- 

 gates held of the Knights 

 Hospitallers came into the 

 royal hands 104 until the ma- 

 jority of his other son Robert. 

 Robert Inkepenne and his son 

 Robert died seised of land in 

 Candover in 1405 and 1406. 10! 



The name of Richard son of Robert Inkepenne occurs 

 in 1407 ; 106 in 1410 Robert Inkepenne died seised 

 of land in Preston Candover, 107 which in 1440 

 another Robert Inkepenne held. 108 In 1510 John 



INKKFENNX. Gules 

 two gimcl bars or and 

 a chief indented ermine. 



Inkepenne held land 109 of Katherine More. 110 The 

 name of William Inkepenne occurs in 1518.'" 



The name of C4NTERTON often appears in the 

 church rate-book. 1 " In the reign of Charles I Sir 

 Richard Norton leased a tenement called Canterton 

 in Preston Candover to Edward Elkins, husband- 

 man," 3 for jlo yearly rent. Canterton is now in- 

 cluded in Preston House estate. 114 



For several centuries a small portion of land in 

 Preston Candover followed the fortunes of the manor 

 of Woodcott. 115 It was evidently included in the 

 two and a half virgates held by Miles the Porter in 

 Bermondspit Hundred at the time of the Survey. 11 * 

 With Woodcott a hide of land in Candover was 

 granted to Matthew de Wallop for the service of 

 keeping the king's gaol at Winchester and mewing 

 the royal hawks. 117 The lords of Woodcott and 

 warders of Winchester gaol held this land worth I is. 

 in Candover, "* from the thirteenth until the six- 

 teenth century ; Warin son of Geoffrey held it 

 119 and it is last mentioned in the reign 

 I, 1>0 when it was held by Anthony 



1227, 



in 



of Charles 



Bruning. 



Of the old church of OUR LAD1 

 CHURCH the chancel only remains, though the 

 limits of the old nave are preserved by 

 blocks of stone marking the position of its western 

 angles. It was burnt down in 1883, a new church 

 being built in the middle of the village to take its. 

 place. It had no aisles, but on the north side an 

 eighteenth-century building which contained the pew 

 of the Guidott family, and on the west gable of the 

 nave was a wooden bell-turret. 



The chancel dates from <-. 1 1 go, having a north 

 window of that date, a small pointed light with a 

 wide internal splay and semicircular rear-arch. The east 

 window is of doubtful date, a wide single light which 

 was probably divided into two by tracery, which is 

 now lost. In the south wall is a blocked doorway, 

 built of old material re-used, and a square-headed 

 window of two trefoiled lights, of late fifteenth-century 

 date. The west wall is modern, there having been 

 no chancel arch in the old church, and in it is a 

 round-headed doorway, also made up of old material, 

 some of it of twelfth-century date. On the gable 

 above it is a wooden bell-cote with a small modern 

 bell. In the floor is a slab with the brass of Katherine 

 Dabridgecourt, 1607, the figure, inscription plate, and 

 one shield of arms being preserved. The new church 

 is built of red brick and stone, and has a chancel with 

 north vestries, nave with north aisle, and a tower and 

 spire at the north-west. No part of the old church 



L.andP. Hen. mi, xiv (2), 154. 



94 Ibid, xvi, p. 716. Augmentation Bk. 

 ccxxxv, fol. 26. 



* Pat. R. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 8, m. 

 18. 



** The college also owned the firit cut 

 of grass in a portion of common meadow 

 called Wildmoor in the parish of Rother- 

 wick. It went with the farm of Mounds- 

 mere (Er inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson). 

 This is referred to in the grant of 

 Henry VIII as ' the custom of the hay at 

 Rotherwick.' 



" Pat. 1 1 Jas. I, pt. 1 3, m. 4. 



98 Pat. 26 Chas. II, pt. 4, m. 5. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 4 Gco. I. 



lw> Ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson. 



101 Cal. S.P. Dam. 1639-40, p. 458. 



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



41 i ibid. 7 Hen. IV, No. 48 ; ibid. 12 

 Hen. IV, No. 44. 



* Feet of F. Hants. Mich. 27 Edw. Ill; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. I, No. 

 123. 



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

 41. 



105 Ibid. 7 Hen. IV, No. 48 ; ibid. 

 8 Hen. IV, No. 95. 



106 Feet of F. Hants, East. 9 Hen. IV. 

 W Chan.Inq. p.m. 1 2 Hen. IV, No. 44. 

 108 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 19 Hen.VI. 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Hen. VIII, 



vol. 25, No. 15. 



110 Vide Purefoy's manor. 



111 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 10 

 Hen. VIII. 



lla Ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson. In 

 1753 the rate-book gives John Savage for 



376 



1 Carter's lands.' Carter's land is identified 

 with Canterton by the Rev. Sumner 

 Wilson. Other mentions occur. 



lu Ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson. 

 Canterton included lands in Downsfield, 

 Delmandowne, Longdownfield, Blackdel- 

 firld, and the field called Wedlands and 

 others. 



114 Ex inform. Rev. Sumner Wilson. 



116 Vide Bishop's Sutton Hundred. 



" V.C.H. Hants, i, 503. 



"' Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 126 ; Testa 



de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 237. 



51. at the ti 

 vey. 



"8 Worth 51. 



me of the Sur- 



"'Pat. II Hen. Ill, m. 8; Close, 

 II Hen. Ill, m. 20. 



180 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. i z 

 Chas. I ; Pat. 4 Chas. I, pt. 5, m. 18. 



