A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



time the perquisites of the court only amounted to 9</. 4 

 After the surrender of Hyde Abbey the manor was 

 seized by the crown and sold in 1 544 to Edmund 

 Clerke, one of the clerks of the Privy Seal, and his 

 wife Margaret, 6 from whom it was purchased in I 546 

 by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton. 6 

 Its descent has since been coincident with that of 

 Micheldever manor. The last earl of Southampton 

 made Stratton Park one of his chief seats, and his son- 

 in-law, Lord Russell, pulled down part of the hamlet 

 and added it to his deer park. 7 



BURCOT'S FARM., which lies on the road from 

 East Stratton to Northington, is evidently identical 

 with ' Burcote,' which Edward the Elder granted to the 

 New Minster c. 900. At that time there were 4$ 

 hides attached to the holding. 8 Perhaps, therefore, it 

 was at Burcot that Waleran the Huntsman held his 

 4^ hides of the abbey's demesne lands in 1086.' In 

 1 1 99 Adam of Burcot held I hide in Burcot, the 

 service from which was in dispute between Roger de 

 Seures and Walter de Audeli and the abbot of Hyde. 10 

 Adam's nephews and heirs John of Burcot and Adam 

 of Repling held respectively zj virgates and I \ virgates 

 of land in Burcot. In 1 249 Hamo de Basing assured 

 them in their tenure of these lands, for which they owed 

 him certain rent." Nicholas of Burcot in 1277 granted 

 to the abbey of Hyde an annual rent of I \d. from the 

 master and brothers of St. John, Winchester, to hold 

 for a yearly rent of a rose to John (tic) of Burcot," 

 and finally released all his claims to the abbot. 13 

 Before 1373 Burcot had passed to John Hampton in 

 marriage with a certain Thomasine. At that date he 

 brought a suit against Sir William Cobham and his 

 wife Alice and others for disseisin of two-thirds of a 

 messuage and certain lands in Northington, Swarraton, 



and Totford. It was decided that the tenement in 

 question was Burcot, ' quedam mansio infra villam de 

 Northampton,' and that John Hampton and his wife 

 had been unjustly dispossessed of it, in consequence of 

 which they recovered seisin against Sir William 

 Cobham." The later descent of the farm is un- 

 known. 



The church of ALL SAINTS was 

 CHURCH begun in 1 8 7 3 to take the place of the old 

 church in the park, now removed, by the 

 earl of Northbrook and the Hon. Francis Baring. It is 

 in fifteenth-century style, from designs by T. G. Jackson, 

 in chalk faced with flint with Chilmark stone dress- 

 ings, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle with 

 arcade of four bays, vestry, organ chamber, south 

 porch, and tower on the north, finished with a 

 spire. 



There is a modern ring of bells. 



The plate consists of a communion cup and paten, 

 silver-gilt, of 1 709, and a silver paten, flagon, and alms- 

 dish. 



The registers are incorporated with those of Michel- 

 dever from I 540 down to 1813, but the following 

 registers of earlier date are kept here : a book of 

 baptisms, marriages, and burials 17191809, a burial 

 book 1719-28, and a marriage book for 1760-1812. 

 Till 1888 all burials took place in Micheldever 

 churchyard. 



The church of All Saints is a 

 ADfOWSON chapel attached to Micheldever and 

 in the same gift. There was a sepa- 

 rate chapel here at the time of the appropriation of 

 Micheldever church to Hyde Abbey." 



An iron building is used as a Primitive Methodist 

 chapel. 



4 Mini. Accts. (Hants), 30-1 Hen. 

 VIII, R. 135, m. if>d. 



i L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (l), 132. 



Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 38 Hen. 

 VIII. 



' Value of the inheritance of Wriothcs- 



ley, duke of Bedford, 1730, penes Lord 

 Northbrook. 



8 Kemble, Codex Dipt. 336. . It must, 

 however, be noted that this charter is of 

 very doubtful authenticity. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 469*. 



10 Feet of F. Hants, i John, 6. 



"Ibid. 33 Hen. 111,37. 



la It seems, therefore, that Nicholas 

 was holding the tenement of John of 

 Burcot for the rent of a rose 



13 Harl. 1761, No. 99. 



14 Assize R. 1476, m. n. 

 16 Harl. 1761, ibl. 117. 



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