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uncertain. 16 However, John Philpot, who was sheriffof 

 Hampshire in 1460, died seised of the manor in 1484." 

 By his will dated 24 November, 1484, he left the 

 manor to trustees for a term of years, directing them 

 to build a chapel to the honour of the Holy Trinity 

 and the Virgin Mary in the 

 east end of the parish church 

 of Compton, where he and 

 his wife Elizabeth should be 

 buried in a tomb with a stone 

 portraiture of himself and his 

 wife and his seventeen chil- 

 dren. 18 At the end of the 

 term it passed to his son and 

 heir John, sheriff of Hamp- 

 shire in 1501, who died 

 seised in I 502, leaving a son 

 and heir Peter aged fourteen 



and more. 19 Peter, who was knighted some thirty 

 years later, sheriff of Hampshire in 1 524 and again in 

 1535, died seised of the manor in 1540, when it 

 passed to his son and heir Thomas,* who remained in 

 possession >l until his death in 1586." Sir George 

 Philpot son of Thomas dealt with the manor by fine 

 in 1606," and died seised in 1624, his heir being his 

 son John." The latter died some ten years later, 

 and Compton Wasseling then passed to his son and 

 heir George," who sold it in 1640 to Sir Benjamin 

 Tichborne. 1 * The manor remained in the Tichborne 

 family for about eighty years, 

 Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, 

 bart. dealing with it by fine 

 as late as 1717." It next 

 passed to Sir Robert Worsley, 

 bart. and Henry Worsley sons 

 of Sir Robert Worsley, bart., 

 of Appuldurcomb, who sold 

 it in 1722 to William Heath- 

 cote of Hursley," with whose 

 descendants it remained until 

 1890,"' in which year the 

 trustees of the late Sir William 



Heathcote, bart. sold the whole of the Compton estate. 

 The greater part of it was purchased by Mr. Edward 

 Eames of Silkstead Priors. 30 The manor as such has 

 long ceased to exist, the whole of the copyholds having 

 been enfranchised many years ago. 



The church of ALL SAINTS is a 

 CHURCH small twelfth-century building of chancel 

 2 1 ft. 6 in. by 14 ft. 6 in., and nave 

 40 ft. 6 in. by 1 9 ft., which has been enlarged in 

 1 904-5 by the process of building a large nave and 

 chancel against it on the south side, turning the old 

 church into a north chapel and aisle. This has been 

 done with all due regard to the old building, and has 



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involved as little destruction of old work as was possi- 

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The old nave retains its two original north win- 

 dows, plain round-headed lights set high in the wall, the 

 western of its southern pair of windows, its north door- 

 way of two orders with zigzag ornament on the arch and 

 the abaci of the jamb shafts, which have capitals of 

 advanced detail, c. \ 1 60, and high in the west wall a 

 round-headed light like those on the north. Below 

 it is a two-light fifteenth-century window with a 

 transom, and in the north wall, below the eastern of 

 the two original windows and a little further to the 

 east, is a small cinquefoiled fifteenth-century light, 

 probably connected with the former existence of a 

 north nave altar. 



The chancel possesses no twelfth-century features, 

 though its plan and dimensions make it probable that 

 its walls are in part of that date. Its east window, 

 c. 1320, is of three lights, the middle one trefoiled 

 and the others uncusped, and in the north wall are 

 two thirteenth-century lancets, the western at a much 

 lower level than the other. In the south wall were 

 formerly a sixteenth-century window of two uncusped 

 lights, and a wide thirteenth-century lancet, the 

 former of which is now in the south wall and the 

 latter in the north of the new chancel. A south 

 doorway from the old chancel is now set, blocked up, 

 in a corresponding position, in the new. 



The chancel arch, c. 1 300, springs from responds 

 with very slender triple shafts, and has an arch of two 

 orders, the outer with a quirked hollow chamfer, and 

 the inner with a plain chamfer. 



The new nave has in its south wall a piscina with 

 a stone shelf, a square-headed fifteenth-century win- 

 dow of two cinquefoiled lights, and a twelfth-century 

 doorway with a line of zigzag on the label, all 

 having been moved from the corresponding wall of 

 the old nave. 



On the west end of the old nave roof is a small 

 wooden bell-turret. 



The fittings of the church are for the most part 

 modern, but some seventeenth-century balusters are 

 worked up in the square pulpit, and a fifteenth-cen- 

 tury bench end in the seat at the north-west of the 

 new chancel. The north door is also old, and in the 

 north porch is a relic of the old order of things, now 

 happily past, in the shape of a blue china bowl which 

 did duty at baptisms till within modern times. 



In the east splay of the north-east window of the 

 old chancel is painted the figure of a bishop holding 

 a crosier in his right hand, wearing a cope fastened 

 by a quatrefoiled morse. He stands under a tre- 

 foiled canopy of thirteenth-century style, and on the 

 right is his name s' THEOPH . . uus. In this window 

 are a few pieces of old glass. 



16 The only evidence seems to be an 

 early Chancery proceeding wherein John 

 Philpot complains to the bishop of Lin- 

 coln chancellor of England that John 

 Kent of Winchester had refused to make 

 estate in the manor of Compton to him 

 (Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 53, No. 78). 

 The date of this document, however, might 

 be cither 1403 (while Henry Beaufort 

 was chancellor), 1475 (during the chan- 

 cellorship of Thomas Rotherham), or 

 1483 (during the chancellorship of John 

 Russell). 



17 Inq. p.m. 2 Ric, III, No. 26. 

 " P.C.C. Will. 17 Logge. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z),xvi, No. loo; 

 xvii, No. 102. *> Ibid. Iriv, No. 152. 



81 In 1563 he had a dispute with 

 Francis Kempe of Compton Wasseling, 

 the latter asserting that Mary wife of 

 Thomas had ' procured him by sundrie 

 synister meanes and wayes to marie and 

 take to wiffe her daughter Eleanor, and 

 besides sundry fair offers and faithful 

 promises had promised to procure him a 

 lease of the manor.' Thomas denied this 

 statement, and declared that on their 

 marriage he had settled lands of the yearly 

 value of zo upon Francis and Eleanor 

 (Chan. Proc. [Ser. 2], bdlc. 137, No. 2). 



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M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxiii, No. 

 84. 



28 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 4 Jas. I. 



w Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccii, No. 

 129. ** Ibid, ccccxcvi, No. 129. 



26 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 16 Chas. I. 



" Ibid. Hil. 3 Geo. I. In that year 

 he conveyed it to Thomas Pengelly. 



* Ibid. Trin. 8 Ceo. I ; Close, 9 Geo. 

 I, pt. ii, No. 17. 



29 Recov. R. Hil. 16 Geo. II, rot. 243 ; 

 Mich. 31 Geo. Ill, rot. 334; Trin. 6 

 Geo. IV, rot. 141. 



80 Information supplied by Mr. Edward 

 Eames. 



