A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



to 1792 ; and the third the baptisms 1667 to 1792, 

 and marriages 1683 to 1753. The fourth has baptisms 

 and burials 1793 to 1813 ; and the fifth marriages 

 1754 to 1812. 



There was a church at Upton in 

 ADrOWSON 1086, and in the reign of Henry I 

 it was granted by Henry de Port to 

 the priory of West Sherborne, and this gift was con- 

 firmed by his son John de Port." In 1294 the 

 church of Upton paid 9 marks yearly to the priory.* 9 

 There was a chantry attached to the church as early 

 as i 344," and issues of two acres of land to the yearly 

 value of SJ. were granted to the churchwardens to 

 maintain a light there for ever.* 



After the suppression of the alien houses the priory 

 of Sherborne was given by Edward IV to the hospital 



of St. Julian in Southampton. The latter had, how- 

 ever, been given by Edward III to Queen's College, 

 Oxford, and hence the endowments of the priory 

 were transferred to that college, which is the present 

 patron of the vicarage of Upton." 



John Limbrey by his will dated 24 

 CHARITY April, 1801, bequeathed to the rector, 

 churchwardens, and overseers, 500, 

 to be invested, and income distributed for the 

 use and benefit of such persons of the parish j 

 not receiving parochial relief as they should deem 

 most proper. The legacy, with some interest there- 

 on, was invested in the purchase of 858 lew. consols 

 (with the official trustees). The annual dividend, 

 amounting to zl gt., was in 1905 distributed in 

 money among thirty-three persons. 



WESTON CORBETT 



The parish of Weston Corbett, covering only 513 

 acres, is immediately north-east of Herriard and north- 

 west of Weston Patrick. It now forms a part of the 

 parish of St. Lawrence Weston Patrick and consists of 

 a stretch of meadow and arable land sandwiched be- 

 tween the south-eastern boundary of Herriard Park and 

 the main road which forms the north-western boundary 

 of Weston Patrick, and continues north-east to Upton 

 Grey. This road, running between Weston Corbett 

 and Weston Patrick, separates the two villages, Weston 

 Patrick with its church, schools, and picturesque 

 cottages lying on the south side of the road, while 

 Weston House, the two farms, and the two cottages 

 comprised in Weston Corbett, lie on the north side, 

 and seem to be part of Weston Patrick. There is no 

 church or school in the village, which is thus depen- 

 dent on Weston Patrick. 



Weston House lies east of the narrow lane that leads 

 north uphill from the main road, while on the oppo- 

 site side are the one or two cottages of the village and 

 the Manor Farm. North of the farm the lane curves 

 downhill to the west, and then turning sharply north 

 and north-west goes off in two branches across the 

 west of the parish towards Tunworth. 



The soil of the parish is chalk with a subsoil of chalk 

 producing crops of wheat, barley, and roots. The 

 actual proportion of the arable land, pasture, and 

 woodland in the parish is difficult to gauge since the 

 return for Weston Patrick and Weston Corbett is 

 made together, as 69 5 f acres of arable land, with 

 299^ acres of permanent grass, and 457 acres of 

 woodland. Certainly little of the woodland is in 

 Weston Corbett since, except for a thin belt of copse 

 running along about half a mile of the western 

 boundary, an extension of Herriard Park, there are 

 no woods in the parish. 



WESTON CORBETT is not men- 



MANOR tioned in the Domesday Survey, but in 



1224 it was held of the crown by 



Thomas Corbett from whom the manor derived its 



CORBETT. Or a car- 

 beau table. 



Thomas Corbett, who belonged to the great 

 house of the lords of Caus, had evidently granted his 

 land of Weston to Robert son of Madoc for life, and 

 in 1224 recovered seisin of it, 

 but Henry III commanded 

 that a dowry of lands in Wes- 

 ton should be assigned to the 

 wife of Robert, son of Madoc, 

 ' for the love he bore her, in 

 that she had been foster-mother 

 to his niece, the daughter of 

 Llewellyn Prince of Wales." 



How Weston Corbett passed 

 from the Corbetts is not 

 known, but at some time 

 during the fourteenth century 



it became the property of another great family 

 connected with the Welsh Marches, that of De 

 Breuse, lords of Gower. 



William de Breuse, who died about 1325, held 

 the manor. 3 He appears to 

 have alienated this property 

 temporarily to John de Laudi- 

 mor, who in 1304 held de- 

 mesne lands in Weston Cor- 

 bett, and was granted free 

 warren there by Edward I, 4 

 and in 1316 was described as 

 holding the vill of Weston 

 Corbett of the king. 6 



On the death of William 

 de Breuse the manor descended 

 in moieties to his daughter 

 Olive, wife of John de Mowbray, and his grandson 

 John de Bohun, son of his daughter Joan. 6 



John de Mowbray, whose wardship and marriage 

 had been granted to William de Breuse in order that 

 he might marry his daughter, had the misfortune to 

 become embroiled in a dispute with the Despensers, 

 whereby he incurred the wrath of Edward II. He 

 was captured after the battle of Boroughbridge, 



DE BREUSE. Azure 

 crustily and a lion or. 



V Dugdale, Man. Angl. vii, 1014. 

 r.C.H. Hants, ii, 227. 

 29 Cal. of Pat. 1343-5, pp. Ill, 

 223. 



80 Chant. Cert. 52, No. 5. 



81 V.C.H. Hants, ii, 228. 



1 Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), ii, 24*. 

 3 Ibid. ; also i6A, i-jb. 



' De Banco R. 292, m. 25 d. Mich. 6 

 Edw. III. Wherein John de Bohun and 

 John de Mowbray, grandsons of William 

 de Breuse, are said to hold the manor, 

 which had belonged to this William, their 

 grandfather. 



4 Chart. R. 32 Edw. I, No. 103. 



5 Feud. Aids, ii, 313. He wa evidently 



3 86 



a Welshman as his name 'de Laudimor* 

 indicates, and had received land in Wales 

 from William de Breuse (Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 13 Edw. II, No. 32). 



Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. II, No. 89 ; 

 De Banco R. No. 292, m. 25 d.; Dugdale, 

 Baronage, i, 417. 



