BERMONDSPIT HUNDRED 



tered coat, (l) Argent a fesse gules, and a cheveron 

 gules in the chief, (2) Argent a crescent in a border 

 invecked sable, (3) Blank, but should contain party or 

 and gules, a fesse between three leopards' heads 

 counter-coloured, (4) Argent a fesse between three 

 hawks' hoods gules, which is the quartered shield of 

 Kirton of Thorpe Mandeville in Northants. In the 

 same window are three shields encircled by garters, of 

 the first half of the sixteenth century. The first is 

 quarterly : (i) Quarterly l and 4, azure a cross or 

 between four falcons close argent, Wriothesley, 2, 

 argent a pale indented gules in a border azure bezanty, 

 Lensell, 3, argent fretty gules with a border engrailed 

 sable and a quarter gules and therein a lion passant 

 or, Dunstervile ; (2) Argent a cheveron between three 

 crows sable, with the difference of a crescent, Croton ; 



(3) Or a lion parted fessewise sable and gules, Luftoft ; 



(4) Sable a cheveron or between three crosslets fitchy 

 argent, Peckham. This is the quartered shield of 

 Thomas Wriothesley, K.G., first earl of Southampton. 

 The second shield has a blank coat impaling azure 

 three hour-glasses or, with below His quojut fincm, and 

 the third has the royal arms with a crown over the 

 garter. In the east window are two shields, the one 

 of England with a label of three points, in a wreath 

 ensigned with a royal crown ; on the wreath are the 

 three feathers of Wales twice, and the rose once. 

 This is presumably for Henry VIII as Prince ofWales. 

 The second shield, which is in a frame of the same 

 design and date as that first described in the south- 

 east window, is quarterly of 8 and differenced with 

 a crescent : (i) Argent three cheverons gules and a 

 label azure ; (2) Barry argent and gules a lion or 

 crowned gules ; (3) Argent two bars sable, a chief 

 argent three scutcheons sable ; (4) Or a pheon azure ; 



(5) Blank ; (6) Quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle 

 sable ; (7) Azure a cheveron between three molets or; 

 (8) Argent three lions gules. This is a Barrington 

 shield. 



There are three bells, the treble by Ellis and 

 Henry Knight, 1674, and the second and tenor, of 

 1603, by John Wallis of Salisbury, the former inscribed 

 " Feare God,' and the latter with nothing but the 

 initials A. W. ; on the shoulder of the second bell is 

 cut A. C. 1713. 



The plate consists of a silver cup and paten of 

 1689, and a plated flagon, paten, and almsdish. 



The first book of the registers contains all entries 

 from 1538 to 1728, and is the parchment copy 

 made in 1598. The second has the burials in 

 woollen 16781793, the third the marriages 1732- 

 1754, the fourth the baptisms and burials 1728-1813, 

 and the fifth is the marriage register 17551811. 

 There is also a sheet with marriages for 1812. 



SOUTH 

 WARNBOROUGH 



'Upon the High Altar of St. 

 Guthlac, Croyland,' did Alan de 

 Craon, for himself and Muriel his 

 wife, grant the church of South Warnborough to be 

 subject to the church of St. James's, Freston, cell of 

 St. Guthlac." This was some time in the twelfth 

 century, and the advowson remained with Crowland w 

 until the Dissolution, when in 1 544 it was granted to 

 Thomas White, lord of the manor, 89 who was patron 

 as late as I562. 30 



Probably it was his next descendant who allowed 

 the right to lapse, and King James I presented 

 Richard Blundell to the living about i6i8. 31 The 

 Whites recovered the patronage, however, before 

 1633," but Thomas White, through trustees, sold the 

 advowson in 1636 to the college of St. John's, 

 Oxford, with whom the patronage still remains.* 5 



During the Pedwardyn ownership a pension of 4 

 was ordained to be paid to the prior and the church 

 of Freston from the church of Warnborough. 84 

 The collection of the rent was a source of trouble 

 to the priors, one rector, William de Whytyngtone, 

 having to be sued for arrears amounting to 12, and 

 another, Richard Gardner, for .50." On another 

 occasion Crowland had to sue the executors of the late 

 rector, Richard de Barton, not for the pension this 

 time, but for repairs needed both in the chancel 

 and church buildings, the default amounting to 

 23 13*. 84* At the Dissolution the pension was 

 granted to Thomas White," and passed to his 

 successors, Richard Bishop 38 and Robert Graham," and 

 is to-day paid to the lords of the manor. 40 



It is supposed to have been paid for an amount of 

 land, part of the kitchen garden at the rectory, 

 which was evidently in early times a common. 41 



A chantry chapel was established in St. Mary's 

 church, South Warnborough, in 1268, by Henry 

 de Longchamp, 4 * who endowed it with lands in 

 South Warnborough, among them ' three acres of the 

 land of Broming.' If Henry de Longchamp and 

 his heirs failed to provide a chaplain the bishops of 

 Winchester were to present in their stead. 



It appears from a list of benefactors 

 CHARITIES in the parish that Sir Thomas White, 

 knt., who died in 1566, gave 100 to 

 the sick and needy ; that Stephen White, esq., gave 

 50 to the honest and industrious ; and that Thomas 

 Newland, esq., who died in 1 768, gave ^50 to the aged 

 and infirm. These sums were represented by 200 

 stock. In 1831 Mary Ann Warren, by her will, 

 bequeathed 100 stock income to be given away to 

 fourteen of the most aged poor. This sum of stock 

 and that belonging to Sir T. White's and other 

 'charities' are now represented by 327 14*. 



V Pedwardyn Chartulary, Add. MSS. 

 32101. This charter was confirmed by 

 both Maurice and Guy de Craon. De- 

 spite this grant of the lord of the manor, 

 later lords, Roger Pedwardyn, and after- 

 wards his son Roger, tried to obtain the 

 advowson, bringing a suit against the 

 abbot of Crowland (De Banco, Mich. 12 

 Edw. II, m. 29 </.). The abbot however 

 won his case. (De Banco, Trin. 20 

 Edw. Ill, m. 55</.) 



88 Egerton MSS. 2301 and 2304 ; 

 fty/iebam'! Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 

 15 5 ibid, ii, 580 and 591 ; (ffmton 

 Efts. Rtg. Sendale) (Hants Rec. Soc.), 140. 

 With one exception, when Sir Robert 



Pedwardyn appears to have presented 

 between 1404 and 1447 (Egerton MSS. 

 2034). Once the prior and monks of 

 Freston seem to have made an unlucky 

 choice of a cleric for South Warnborough, 

 for the lords of the manor had occasion 

 to complain of the conduct of the two 

 monks ordained for the service of their 

 church, they having been found guilty of 

 permitting their parishioners to die un- 

 shrivcn and babes unbaptized, and more- 

 over had committed deeds * unfit to 

 mention.' 



M Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 134*. 



80 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 6 & 7 

 Eliz. m. 27. 



81 

 M 



m. 7 

 88 

 84 

 85 



580, 

 * 



Reg. 



MS. 



Pat. 1 6 Jas. I, pt. 5, m. 20. 



Com. Pleas Recov. R. East. 8 Chas. I, 



i Close, 9 Chas. I, pt. 9, No. 6. 



Ex inform. St. John's College, Oxon. 



Chartulary of Pedwardyn family. 



ffykekam'i Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.) ii, 



591. 



Egerton MSS. 2032 ; Winton Epi. 



Sendale, fol. 79. 



Pat. 35 Hen. VIII. pt. 9, m. 34*. 



Close, 12 Chas. I, pt. 3, m. 24. 



Ibid. 3 Anne, pt. 10, m. 15. 



Ex inform. Mrs. Harrison Wayne. 



Ibid. 



Chart, of Pedwardyn family, Add. 



32101. 



