BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



HURSLEY 



Abbey, whose north transept was destroyed for the 

 purpose. A set of very beautiful early fourteenth- 

 century bosses from a vault are built into the work. 



Tenements in LONGMOOR, which is now the 

 name of a farm on the western borders of Cranbury 

 Park, were included in 1551 and in later grants among 

 the appurtenances of the manor of Merdon. 63 



The hamlets of STAN DON (Staundone, xiv cent. ; 

 Stonden, xvi cent.) and PITT (Putte, xiv cent.) 

 were given among the bishop's possessions in 1 3 1 6 as 

 the ' villa de Staundone ' and the ' villa de Putte,' and 

 were evidently quite important hamlets. 5 * Tene- 

 ments in both were also given among the appurtenant 

 tenements of Merdon manor in i 5 5 1 ." A messuage 

 and lands in Pitt were held by Sir John Philpott, lord 

 of the manor of Compton, on his death in l5O2, M and 

 remained in the Philpott family until 1623, when Sir 

 George Philpott held the same on his death. 67 



Hursley parsonage - house and the tenement of 

 SHARLAND (Shorling, xv cent, et seq.) belonged 

 in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to the college 

 of St. Elizabeth near Winchester as appropriators of 

 the church of Hursley.' 8 At the Dissolution they 

 were granted as ' the parsonage of Hursley and a 

 tenement and pasture called Shorlinge in Hursley ' to 

 Thomas Wriothesley, Lord Southampton." 



In 1562 F ranees Kempe and Thomas Wilmot brought 

 a Chancery suit against John Forster concerning a lease 

 of the parsonage and 'the manor or tenement of Shor- 

 ling.' They petitioned that Thomas Runcorne, 

 warden of the late college of St. Elizabeth, and the 

 chaplains of the same being lawfully seised of the 

 house and tenement about 1539, leased the same with 

 the consent of the bishop of Winchester for a term of 

 forty-one or forty-two years to John Wilmot. In 1558 

 John Wilmot bequeathed the same to his wife Joan 

 for her life and after her death to his son Edward 

 Wilmot. In later days the parsonage-house and 

 the great tithes were purchased by the Heathcote 

 family. 



AMPFIELD (Annfelde, xiv cent. ; Anfield xvi and 

 xvii cent.), civil parish, was created out of Hursley 

 parish in 1894. Before this time it was a hamlet of 

 Hursley, appurtenant to the manor of Merdon. In 

 1316 it was given among the bishop of Winchester's 

 possessions. 60 In 1551, when, after John Poynet had 

 surrendered the manor of Merdon among others to 

 Edward VI, the king granted the manor to Sir Philip 

 Hoby, lands and tenements in ' Anfield ' were given 

 among the appurtenances together with those in 

 PUCKNALL (Pukenhale, xiv cent. ; Puckinhall, 

 xvi cent.) ; HILTINGBURT and HAtVSTEAD 

 (Horstead Field, xiv cent.). 61 The latter are now 

 included in Ampfield parish ; Pucknall Farm is in the 

 north-west, Hiltingbury Common in the south-east, 

 and Hawstead in the east. 



The church of ALL SAINTS, 

 CHURCHES HURSLEr, has a chancel with north 

 and south chapels, a nave with north and 

 south aisles, and a western tower, all except the tower 

 being modern, and rebuilt by John Keble during his 

 long incumbency, 1 836-66. The work is of fourteenth- 



KIBLI. Argent a 

 cheveron engrailed gulet 

 and a chief axure -with 

 three molets or therein. 



century style, but rather lifeless ; the church owes its 

 picturesque effect rather to its situation than its archi- 

 tecture. The tower is of three stages, faced with 

 chequer work of flint and stone, the two lower stages 

 being old, and apparently of fifteenth-century date. 

 There is a pointed west door- 

 way under a square head, with 

 what may be a consecration 

 cross on its south jamb, and 

 above the doorway is a square- 

 headed window of three cin- 

 quefoiled lights. The belfry 

 stage is modern, and from it 

 rises a stone spire. 



Two brasses are preserved 

 from the old church, one of 

 John Bowland, 1470, and 

 another of Anne Horswell, 

 1559, with a quaint inscrip- 

 tion in English. In the 

 tower is a large monument to Mrs. Elizabeth Connell, 



There are six bells : the first by Mears & Stain- 

 bank, 1880 ; second and thirdly W. Taylor, Oxford, 

 1835 ; the fourth bears the inscription ' Prayse God, 

 I W, 1616' ; the fifth 'O Give thanks to God I W, 

 1616,' both by John Wallis of Salisbury ; the sixth is 

 by Robert Cor of Aldbourne, 1713. 



The plate is a silver-gilt set dating from 1 841, con- 

 sisting of a chalice, two patens, a large flagon, and an 

 almsdish. 



The first five books of registers, containing mixed 

 entries, run as follows : 1600-39, 1640-53, 1653- 

 66, 1665-1706, 1706-53. The sixth and seventh 

 books contain baptisms and burials, 1755-82, and the 

 eighth the same, 1783-1820. The ninth and tenth 

 contain marriages, 17541813. 



The church of ST. MARK, AMPFIELD, was 

 built in 1838-40 by Sir W. Heathcote, bart., of blue 

 brick and stone. It consists of chancel, nave, north 

 transept, south aisle, porch and open octagonal western 

 turret with spire, containing two bells. The register 

 dates from 1841. 



The church of Hursley was in the 

 ADPOWSONS gift of the bishop of Winchester until 

 the beginning of the fourteenth cen- 

 tury when John de Pontoise founded the college of St. 

 Elizabeth, Winchester. 61 This foundation led to the 

 ordination of the vicarage of Hursley, the rectory of 

 which was given by the bishop to the college. 63 The 

 grant of the appropriation of the church, which had 

 been made without the licence of Edward I, was con- 

 firmed to Richard de Bourne, the provost, and the 

 chaplains and clerks by Edward II in l^oj. 6 * Bishop 

 Edendon, when ratifying to the college the gift of 

 Hursley Church, 66 contrived to secure for himself and 

 his successors the rectory-house. 66 The possession of 

 the rectory was, however, restored to the provost and 

 chaplains by William of Wykeham in 1372, when the 

 college undertook to pay an additional annual pension 

 of 1 3/. ifd. to the bishop. 67 The provost and chap- 

 lains presented the vicars until the Dissolution, when 



53 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. 6, m. 324. 



54 Feud. Aids, ii, 309. 



58 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. 6, m. 3, 4. 



56 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xvi, No. 100. 



5 ~ Ibid, ccccii, No. 129. 



58 See infra under ' Advowson.' 



59 Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 7. 



60 Feud. Aids, ii, 309. 



61 Pat 5 Edw. VI, pt. 6, m. 3. 

 68 V.C.H. Hants, i, 212. 



63 Ibid. 



64 Pat. i Edw. II, pt. 2, m. 9. 



65 Egerton MS. 2033, foL 19. 



Wykeham' s Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), ii, 



'75- 



6 ' Ibid. The church seems to have been 

 already burdened by one annual pension of 

 135. 4</. to the bishop (ibid, ii, 106). 



