A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



holder," who was Gilbert de Popham, a successor 

 of Thurstan the clerk.* Gilbert de Popham did 

 homage for the lands of his mother Agnes in 1225 

 and died 4 November, 1251, leaving a son and heir 

 Robert, aged twenty-five, 9 " who witnessed a charter to 

 Hyde Abbey in 1277-8.' Robert was succeeded by 

 John de Popham, probably his son, who was holding 

 the manor in 1284, and did suit of court for one 

 half of it to William de Braiboeuf at Cranborne." 

 He received a grant of free warren in Popham in 

 1305." In 1309 he brought a suit against Hugh le 

 Frankelyn for usurping common of pasture in Pop- 

 ham. 13 He was still living in 1316," and in the 

 previous year his holding in 

 the parish was assessed at four 

 hides," but it seems likely 

 that he died about this date, 

 for in 1317 William de la 

 Beere conveyed a messuage, 

 four carucates of land, 200 

 acres of pasture, twenty acres 

 of wood, and loos, rent in 

 Pophim to Robert de Popham 

 and his wife Alice, 16 and in 

 1346 Robert de Popham was 

 said to hold there half a knight's 

 fee which had belonged to John 



de Popham." In 1360 Henry, brother and heir of 

 Laurence de Popham, and probably son of Robert de 

 Popham, did homage to the abbot of Hyde for four 

 parts of a knight's fee in Popham. 18 This Henry was 

 also sheriff of Hampshire, and in 1378, and again in 

 1 40 1 , obtained a royal confirmation of his predecessors' 

 charters from the Empress Maud and from Henry II." 

 He died in December, 1417, leaving a son and heir 

 Stephen, aged twenty-five,* who nevertheless did not 

 formally enter into possession of his father's lands till 

 January, 1422-3." He had been knighted before 

 his death in 1445, and had enfeoffed Sir John Lisle 

 and others of his lands in trust for his four daughters." 

 The trustees conveyed Popham in 1464 to one of 

 these daughters, Elizabeth, then wife of John Baran- 

 tyne." Their son John Barantyne succeeded to the 

 manor, which was valued at ten marks at his death in 

 1485." He left an infant son William, who was 

 knighted before 1529, when Elizabeth wife of Robert 

 Drury quitclaimed all her rights in the manor to 

 him. 24 In 1552 Francis Barantyne of Haseley, in 

 Oxfordshire, eldest son of Sir William Barantyne, 16 

 sold the manor to Peter Temple, Thomas Lee, and 



POPHAM. Argent a 

 chief gules 'with Fivo hart? 

 heads or therein. 



Thomas Wattys," who conveyed it in the following 

 year to Hugh Hunt of Kingsclere, in whose family 

 it remained for nearly two centuries. James Hunt, 

 probably son or grandson of Hugh, died at Pop- 

 ham in 1605, and his son John inherited the ir.anor 29 

 and was succeeded by a son James in i625. 3 

 Another James Hunt was in possession in i693. 31 

 In 1715 James, son and heir of James Hunt, con- 

 veyed the manor to John Bowen in order to bar the 

 entail," and in 1739 it was apparently purchased 

 outright by Matthew Bowen, 33 from whom it 

 descended in moieties to two co-heiresses, Anne 

 Bowen and Louisa wife of Thomas Threlkeld. The 

 latter was in possession of her moiety in 1756," while 

 the former seems to have conveyed her moiety to 

 John fourth duke of Bedford, or his widow, 

 Gertrude," who in 1791 joined with Louisa Threl- 

 keld, then a widow, and William Threlkeld her heir, 

 in a settlement of the whole manor. 3 * It is said to 

 have been purchased by Alexander first Baron Ash- 

 burton, and is now in the possession of the present 

 Lord Ashburton. 



The church of ST. KATHARINE 

 CHURCH was built by Lord Ashburton in 1875-8 

 on a new site, and contains no relic of 

 the old church, which stood at the back of the manor 

 farm, except a few glazed floor tiles in the vestry. 

 The font is modern, its predecessor haying been sent 

 to North Waltham church. 



In the bell turret is a single small bell. 



The plate is a modern set, of chalice, paten, and 

 flagon, given in 1878 by Lord Ashburton. 



The register for 1628-1795 is preserved, but there 

 is a gap between 1734 and 1774. 



The parish of Popham was 

 ADyOWSON originally served by a chantry chapel 

 attached to Micheldever and en- 

 dowed with certain lands. By Bishop Woodlock's 

 ordination of Micheldever vicarage in 1308 it was 

 arranged that the house and lands assigned of old to 

 the chantry chapel of Popham should form part of the 

 vicar's portion." The vicar failed to perform the 

 requisite number of services, so that Henry Popham 

 and other inhabitants of ' the hamlet of Popham 

 within the parish of Micheldever ' impleaded th 

 vicar before the commissary as to the provision of a 

 chaplain to hold service daily and to perform sacra- 

 ments except burial, and to dwell continually in a 

 house at Popham ordained of old for that purpose. 

 The vicar acknowledged the obligation and promised 



Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 232*. 



Cf. Round, Rise of the Pophams,' 

 Ancestor, vii, 59. Thurstan's son Richard 

 was sheriff in 1159, and his brother 

 William succeeded him in 1189. Per- 

 haps he was succeeded at Popham by 

 Warner de Popham and his wife Agnes 

 who, with their heir Gerbertus (possibly a 

 misreading for Herbertus), quitclaimed to 

 John abbot of Hyde (1181-1222) the 

 custody of woods on the bounds of Dum- 

 mer ; Harl. 1761, fol. 150. It may be 

 noted that Warner ' the huntsman ' had 

 the custody of the heir of William son of 

 Thurstan. An Agnes de Popham (wife of 

 Robert de Popham) was holding four-fifths 

 of a knight's fee in Popham late in the 

 reign of Henry III. Testa de Nevill (Rec. 

 Com.), 239. 



*> Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. Ill, zii. 

 10 Cott. Domit. A. xiv, 43. 



11 Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), file 38, No. 6. 

 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 137. 

 18 Abbre-u. Rot. Orig.(Rec. Com.), i, 1 53. 

 " Feud. Aids, ii, 306. 



15 Harl. 1761, No. 138. 



16 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 1 1 Edw. II, 

 26. 



*' Feud. Aids, ii, 329. 



18 Harl. 1761, fol. 174. 



19 Cal. Pat. 1 377-8 1, p. 1 10; ibid. 1399- 

 1401, p. 420. 



20 Inq. p.m. 6 Hen. V, 36. 



21 Harl. 1761, fol. 161*. 



"* Inq. p.m. 24 Hen. VI, No. 1 8. 



Ibid. 14 Edw. IV. 36. Stephen 

 Popham left two daughters Elizabeth at 

 his death ; one was then married to John 

 Wadham, and the other was a child of six 

 years. It was probably the second who 

 inherited Popham. 



Ibid. (Ser. 2), vol. 2, No. 22. 



398 



25 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 2 1 Hen. VII I. 



26 Visitations of Suss. (ed. Sir T. 

 Phillipps), i. 



1 Feet of F. Hil. 6 Edw. VI. 



28 Close, 7 Edw. VI, pt. 3, m. ;g. 



29 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), yol. 289, No. 94. 



80 Ibid. 701.414, No. 58. 



81 Recov. R. Trin. 5 Will, and Mary, 

 m. 57. 



88 Close, 2 Geo. I, pt. II, No. 14 j 

 Recov. R. Trin. i Geo. I, 50. 



88 Ibid. Hil. 13 Geo. II, m. 169. 



" Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 30 Geo. II. 



** Anne Bowen parted with her moiety 

 in 1765. It was acquired by Richard 

 Woodhouse and John Griffith, who were 

 perhaps agents in the sale to the Bedfords. 

 Feet, of F. Hants, Mich. 6 Ceo. III. 



86 Ibid. Hil. 31 Geo. III. ; Recor. R. 

 Hil. 31 Geo. Ill, 207. 



s '< Harl. 1761, No. 117. 



