A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



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in 1632 leaving one son Robert, an infant, and three 

 daughters, Amphyllis, Anne, and Ellen, who became 

 co-heirs." Amphyllis married Thomas Chaffin of 

 Chettle (co. Dorset), 19 and it is probable that Ellen 

 married John Lowe of Shaftesbnry (co. Dorset), for 

 in 1655 Amphyllis Chaffin, widow, John Lowe and 

 Ellen his wife, and others, were dealing with the 

 manor of Houghton and the other manors originally 

 belonging to Robert White. 10 Houghton was evi- 

 dently soon afterwards settled on John Lowe and 

 Ellen, for Lawrence Lowe, probably their son and 

 heir, dealt with it by recovery in 1679, no doubt on 

 the occasion of his marriage with Lucy daughter of 

 Thomas Pile of Baverstock (co. Wilts.)." He seems 

 to have left no issue, for in 1689 his widow Lucy, 

 in conjunction with Thomas Chaffin, Edward Lowe, 

 clerk, and Robert Hyde, released all right in the 

 manor to Thomas Freke," 

 who, on his death without 

 issue in 1698, left his estates 

 to Thomas Pile and Elizabeth 

 wife of Thomas Freke of 

 Hannington (co. Wilts.) for 

 life with reversion to George 

 Pitt of Stratfield Saye, 13 who 

 had married Lucy, Lawrence 

 Lowe's widow." In this way 

 Houghton came into the pos- 

 session of the Pitt family, with 

 whom it remained for a con- 

 siderable period.** The sub- 

 sequent history of the manor is uncertain, but it 

 eventually came into the possession of the Rev. 

 Richard Townsend, rector of Ickford (co. Bucks.). 

 He sold it about 1860 to Mr. Charles Warner, on 

 whose death it passed to Mr. Frederick Warner of 

 Winchester. 



There were four mills worth jos. in the manor of 

 Houghton Drayton at the time of the Domesday 

 Survey. 16 The present Houghton mill in the south 

 of the parish probably marks the site of one, while 

 another i> possibly represented by Horsebridge mill, 

 which although quite near the village of Houghton is 

 locally situated in King's Somborne parish. The 

 latter mill was certainly held of the prior and con- 

 rent of St. Swithun, as appears from the inquisition 

 taken in 1482 on the death of Sir Thomas Myl- 

 bourne, who died seised of a toft, lands, and the site 

 of a mill in Houghton, Horsebridge, and Forton in 

 the parish of Alverstoke, leaving a son and heir 

 Henry." 



There seem to have been four estates in Houghton 

 besides the manor of Houghton Drayton. Thus at 

 the time of the Domesday Survey Hugh de Port held 

 2^ hides in Houghton which were held of him by 

 a certain Heldered and which together with part of 

 Awbridge in the parish of Michelmersh had been 

 given to Hugh as one manor, as parcel of the for- 



PITT. Sable a fan 

 cheeky argent and azure 

 between three bezants* 



feited possessions of Earl Godwin. 18 Turstin the 

 Chamberlain also held lands in Houghton, which 

 Algar and Edward had held of King Edward. 89 

 Besides Hugh de Port and Turstin the Chamberlain, 

 Anschitil son of Osmund and Turold were also hold- 

 ing lands in Houghton, 3 * the former of the king in 

 chief and the latter of Roger earl of Shrewsbury. 

 Anschitil's estate had formed part of the possessions 

 of Earl Godwin, while Turold's lands in Houghton 

 had been held by Osmund of King Edward." 



The Port estate, which was afterwards called the 

 manor of NORTH HOUGHTON, was held of the 

 Ports and their heirs by the family of Portsea in the 

 twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries. In the 

 latter part of the twelfth century Baldwin of Portsea 

 and Adeliza his wife granted I virgate in Houghton 

 and pasture for one hundred sheep, six oxen, five swine, 

 and one boar to the church of St. Denis in free alms, 

 and their gift was confirmed by their overlord Adam 

 de Port.* 1 Andrew of Portsea, probably great- 

 nephew of Baldwin and Adeliza,* 1 * was holding half a 

 knight's fee in Houghton in the reign of Henry III 

 of Robert de St. John, who held in chief. 33 In 

 1316 the same tenement seems to have been held by 

 Thomas de Brykevile or Brinkhale and Richard 

 of Portsea ; " and two years later Richard of Portsea, 

 to whom Edward I had granted free warren in his 

 demesne lands of Houghton in 1303," died seised of 

 I messuage and I carucate of land in the vill of 

 North Houghton held of John de St. John by service 

 of half a knight's fee and suit at the hundred court 

 of Somborne. 38 His heir was his sister Alice Loveratz, 

 aged fifty, 57 but she seems soon afterwards to have 

 alienated her part of the vill to Richard de Ranville and 

 Lucy his wife, who in 1323 dealt by fine with I 

 messuage, I carucate of land, 10 acres of meadow, 

 and 6o/. rent in North Hough- 

 ton near Stockbridge. 38 In 

 1 346 Richard de Ranville was 

 still holding the half-fee which 

 had belonged to Richard of 

 Portsea in Houghton, 3 ' but by 

 1428 it had come into the 

 possession of John Roger, junr. 

 of Bryanston (co. Dorset). 40 

 By this date also the tene- 

 ment which had belonged to 

 Thomas Brinkhale at the be- 

 ginning of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury had descended to John 

 Brinkhale." To each of these 



holdings was afterwards given the name of the manor 

 of North Houghton, so that for centuries there were 

 two manors of the same name in the parish, each 

 with a distinct history of its own. 



The estate which John Roger had purchased came 

 into the possession of the Webbes of Odstock (co. 

 Wilts.) and Great Cranford (co. Dorset), but whether 



ROGER of Bryanston. 

 Argent a pierced molet 

 sable and a chief or ii-sth 

 afeur-de-lis gules therein. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), 14 Cha. I, 

 pt. I, No. 199. 



ls Hutchin, Dors, iii, 565. 



80 Recov. R. Mich. 1655, rot 3 ; ibid. 

 East. 1656, rot. 109. 



11 Close, 31 Chas. II, pt. 10, No. 18 ; 

 RCCOT. R. Mich. 31 Chas. II, rot. 36. 



Feet of F. Div. Cos. Trin. i Will. 

 and Mar/. * Hutchins, Dors, iv, 89. 



M Berry, Hants Gen. 101. 



u Ibid. ; Recov. R. Trin. 16 & 17 

 Ceo. II, rot. 205. 



* r.C.H. Hants, i, 462*. 



*l Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), viii, No. 77. 

 y.CM. Hants, i, 480*. 



* Ibid. 494*. 



80 Ibid. 477^, 5034. 



Ibid. 



Add. MS. 15314, fol. 85. 



8to See under Portsea. Possibly North 

 Houghton followed the same descent as 

 Portsea between the death of Baldwin and 

 the succession of Andrew of Portsea to 

 the property. 



414 



88 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 230. 

 s< Feud. Aids (Rec. Com.), ii, 310. 

 86 Chart. R. 31 Edw. I, m. 3. 

 86 Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. II, No. 44. 

 *i Ibid. 



88 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 17 Edw. II. 

 They conveyed the premises to Walter de 

 Stapleton, bishop of Exeter, and his bro- 

 ther Richard, probably as trustees. 



89 Feud. Aids (Rec. Com.), ii, 324. 

 <0 Ibid. ii, 351. 



41 Ibid. 



