BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



HOUGHTON 



WEBBI of Odstock. 

 Gules a cross betzvcenfour 

 falcons dose or. 



by purchase or inheritance does not appear. In 



i 569 William Webbe and Catherine his wife, daughter 



and heir of John Tourney of Motcombe and Payne's 



Place near Shaftesbury (co. 



Dorset), 4 ' dealt with the manor 



of North Houghton by fine." 



From them it descended to 



their son Sir William Webbe, 44 



who died seised of the manor 



in 1623, leaving as his heir 



his daughter Rachel, wife of 



Sir John Croke of Chilton 



(co. Bucks.). 4 * Their son 



Charles Croke left an only 



daughter Catherine, who mar- 

 ried John Lisle of Moyle's 



Court," and probably brought 



the manor to her husband. The later history of 

 this manor has not been ascertained, 

 i In 1485 Richard III granted the manor or lordship 

 of North Houghton, formerly belonging to Michael 

 Skilling, deceased, to John Pole 

 and Richard Pole and their 

 heirs and assigns, 4 ' and judging 

 from this, it is clear that the 

 estate in North Houghton, 

 which was in the possession 

 of John Brinkhale in 1428, 

 passed before long to some 

 member of the Skilling family. 

 In spite of the royal grant, how- 

 ever, Alice Skilling, daughter 

 of Michael Skilling, and Robert 

 Pistar, son and heir of William 

 Pistar and Rebecca his wife, 

 daughter of William Skilling, 48 

 dealt by fine with a fourth part of the 

 1 5 1 7 49 and 1 546 M respectively, and William Skilling 

 was in possession of the whole in 1585." From 

 the latter it passed to George Hunt, who sold it 

 together with a free fishery in the Test to William 

 Symons in I592. 58 Thirty years later it passed by 

 purchase from William to Richard Oviatt of Highwood 

 (co. Hants), 6 * who died seised of the same in 1634." 

 By his will dated 26 January, 1632, he left the 

 manor to his daughter Catherine 55 wife of Thomas 

 Urrey of Gatcombe 56 in fee-tail. The subsequent 

 history of this estate has not been discovered. 



DENECOURT (Dennecourt, xiv cent. ; Houghton 

 Dencourte, xvi cent.). 



In the reign of Henry III Richard de Dene was 

 holding half a knight's fee in Houghton of the ancient 

 feoffment of Robert de Punchard, who held of William 

 de Beauchamp, who held of the king." In 1316 

 William de Dene, apparently a descendant of Richard, 



LISLE of Moyle's 

 Court. Azure a chief 

 or 'with three lions azure 

 therein. 



manor n 



was still holding this half-fee, 58 which by this time had 

 evidently come to be known as the manor of Dene- 

 court in Houghton, but he must have parted with it 

 soon afterwards, for in 1325 it was settled on Thomas 

 de Weston and Margaret his wife, 59 who were already 

 owners of the manor of Marshcourt in King's Som- 

 borne. 60 Sir Thomas de Weston died seised of the 

 manor in 1354, leaving as his heirs his daughters 

 Eleanor and Isabel, and his granddaughters Eleanor 

 and Isabel, the daughters of his deceased daughter 

 Margaret wife of John Louvaine. 61 One moiety was 

 assigned to the elder granddaughter Eleanor, who 

 married Sir William Bourchier in 1365," but what 

 became of the other moiety at this time it seems im- 

 possible to ascertain. It does not seem to have been 

 assigned to the other granddaughter Isabel who died 

 without issue in I3S9, 6S for, if so, on her death it 

 would naturally have passed to her sister Eleanor as 

 her heir, and Eleanor, at her death in 1397, was only 

 seised of one moiety." By 1428, however, it had 

 evidently passed to a certain John Puttoun, " but in , 

 what manner does not appear. Eleanor's moiety on , 

 the other hand passed to John Roger of Bryanston, the 

 purchaser of North Houghton in 1422,"* and con- 

 sequently John Roger and John Puttoun are given as 

 the joint owners of Denecourt in 1428." John 

 Puttoun's moiety was evidently bought up by John 

 Roger or his successors, 68 and after this the manor of 

 Houghton Denecourt, as it was afterwards called, 

 followed the same descent as the first-named manor of 

 North Houghton (q.v.). 



HOUGHTON EDINGTON (Edingtons, xvi 

 cent.). 



There was also another estate in Houghton 

 parcel of the honour of Gloucester 69 which, in the 

 reign of Henry III, was held by John de Waleys and 

 Robert le Dene of Geoffrey de Lauriton who held of 

 Robert de Mesy." In 1316 Walter de Waleys was 

 holding the moiety formerly held by John de Waleys, 71 

 and it is probable that by this time Thomas de Rous 

 had succeeded Robert le Dene in possession of the 

 other moiety, 7 * although this is not expressly stated. 

 By 1323, however, the whole seems to have been in 

 the possession of Thomas de Byvedon and Joan his 

 wife, who in that year conveyed seven messuages, two 

 carucates of land, 26 acres of meadow, 50^. rents, and 

 half a knight's fee in North Houghton, Stockbridge, 

 and Longstock to Walter de Stapleton bishop of Exeter 

 and his brother Richard, 73 probably for purposes of set- 

 tlement. In 1341 the same estate, described in this 

 case as three messuages, two carucates of land, 34 acres of 

 meadow, and 8 rent in North Houghton, Longstock, 

 and Stockbridge, was settled on William de Edington, or 

 Edendon, afterwards bishop of Winchester (i 346-66), 

 by John de Cologne of London, 74 and remained in his 



4a Hutchins, Dors, iii, 298. 



43 Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. II Eliz. 



44 Hutchins, Dors, iii, 298. 



45 Chan. Inq. p.m. cccclxxix, No. III. 

 48 Berry, Hants Gen. 174. 



*l Pat. 2 Ric. Ill, pt. 2, m. 16. 

 43 Berry, Hants Gen. 262. 

 Feet of F. Hants, East. 9 Hen. VIII. 

 * Ibid. Mich. 38 Hen. VIII. 

 81 Ibid. Diy. Cos. East. 27 Eliz. 

 w Ibid. Hants, East. 34 Eliz. 

 " Ibid. Hants, Mich. 19 Jas. I. 

 54 Chan. Inq. p.m. IO Chas. I (Ser. 2), 

 pt. I, No. 108. 

 " Ibid. 



56 Berry, Hants Gen. 357. 



V Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 234, 

 238*. 



58 Feud. Aids, ii, 310. 



" Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 19 Edw. II. 



o Ibid. East. 4 Edw. II. 



61 Winton Efis. Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 619, 620. 



M Banks, Dormant and Extinct Peerage, 

 i, 367. 



Ibid. 



w Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, No. 10. 



65 Feud. Aids, ii, 351. 



66 Close, i Hen. VI, m. 21 d. 



6 7 Feud. Aids, ii, 351. 



415 



8 William Webbe and Catherine his 

 wife dealt with the whole manor by fine 

 in 1569 (Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. II 

 Eliz.). 



69 The earls of Stafford held a knight's 

 fee in Houghton by Stockbridge as a parcel 

 of the honour of Gloucester as late as the 

 fifteenth century (Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, 

 pt. i, No. 27 ; 22 Ric. II, No. 46 ; 4 

 Hen. IV, No. 41). 



"> Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 234*. 



'* Feud. Aids, ii, 310. 



1* Ibid. 324. 



1* Feet of F. Hants, East. 16 Edw. II. 



? 4 Ibid. Hants, Trin. 15 Edw. III. 



