BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



MILLBROOK 



to Redbridge including all bays, channels, &c., and in 

 consequence of this award the inhabitants exercised 

 every branch of admiralty power as far as Redbridge. 

 In 1610 Sir Thomas West of Testwood prosecuted 

 some licensed fishermen for fishing below Redbridge, 

 but he was forced to withdraw his action. Again in 

 1658 the court-leet presented that the fishing between 

 Southampton and Redbridge had been usurped by 

 Thomas Knollys and others to the hurt of the place. 68 



According to an inquisition of the reign of Edward 

 III the bridge was rebuilt by Noel, a rich merchant, 

 for the use of the people living in the neighbourhood. 69 

 Owing to its position half in the hundred of Buddles- 

 gate and the land of the prior and convent of St. 

 Swithun, and half in the hundred of Redbridge and 

 the manor of Testwood, 70 it was no one's business to 

 repair it, and so when it fell into bad repair it became 

 the custom for the king to grant pontage for varying 

 terrris of years to the men of Redbridge. This was 

 done as early as 1276, when the king granted them 

 pontage for five years, charging them to apply it, by 

 view of the prior of St. Denis, to the repair of the 

 bridge and to no other purpose." In 1362 the 

 jurors presented that a certain Robert Tots and 

 Alexander de Compton who lived near the bridge in 

 the land of the prior and convent had just absconded 

 with all the money that they had collected for some 

 time past from travellers and merchants for the repair 

 of the bridge," and the king accordingly granted 

 pontage for five years to the inhabitants of the place. 73 



Towards the end of the fourteenth century it 

 became the custom for a warden to be appointed to 

 take the pontage. 74 The custom seems to have been 

 discontinued, however, in the sixteenth century, for the 

 money for repairing the bridge in 1581 was raised by 

 voluntary contributions among the clergy and laity of 

 the county. 75 



In the reign of Charles I timber for the repair of 

 the fortifications at Portsmouth was sent by boat down 

 the Test from the New Forest to Redbridge, 76 and 

 there is an interesting remark in a letter written by 

 Kenrick Edisbury to Secretary Coke in 1632 to the 

 effect that Captain Pett would take the order about 

 sending ships to fetch the timber from Redbridge, but 

 that in the writer's opinion 'long ships fit for that service 

 will hardly be gotten because they are Flemish bottoms 

 too long to turn the narrow creeks near Redbridge.' 77 



The tower is the only ancient part 

 CHURCHES of the church of ST. NICHOLAS, 

 MILLBROOK, plain fifteenth-century 

 work of three stages. The rest of the church was 

 rebuilt in pseudo-Gothic style in 1824, and has a 

 chancel with nave and shallow transepts, slate-roofed 

 and plaster ceiled, fitted with deal pews and galleries. 

 The font, of the same style, stands at the west of the 

 chancel, and the whole building, no longer in regular 

 use, is damp, dusty, and neglected. 



There is one bell in the tower by Clement Tosier, 

 1701. 



The church of the HOLT TRINITY, MILL- 

 BROOK, built in 1873-80 in Early English style 

 from the designs of Mr. Woodyear, consists of a 

 chancel with aisles, nave aisles, and a tower of Swan- 

 age stone. The spire is 1 50 ft. high, and contains 

 four bells, three of which were hung in 1897 as part 

 of the Diamond Jubilee Memorial. 



The plate is modern, consisting of one silver chalice, 

 two silver patens, and one glass silver-mounted cruet. 



The earliest parish register contains mixed entries 

 from 1633 to 1679. The second book contains 

 baptisms from 1683 to 1695, marriages from 1689 

 to 1692, and burials from 1699 to 1703. The 

 third contains mixed entries from 1695 to 1701, the 

 fourth baptisms and burials from 1754 to 1786, the 

 fifth mixed entries from 1780 to 1787, the sixth 

 mixed entries from 1784 to 1802, the seventh 

 baptisms and burials from 1803 to 1812, and the 

 eighth and ninth marriages only from 1754 to 1792 

 and from 1792 to 1812. 



The church of ST. J4MES, SHIRLET, built in 

 1836, is of white brick in Transition style, and con- 

 sists of a chancel nave and pinnacled western tower, 

 which contains three bells and a clock. 



The register dates from 1836. 



There was originally a church at Old Shirley, sup- 

 posed to have been pulled down about 1609, and its 

 materials used to enlarge Millbrook church. 78 



CHRIST CHURCH, FREEM4NTLE, built in 

 1866 in the Geometrical Gothic style, consists of a 

 chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, and a high tower, with 

 pinnacles and spire, added in 1874, and containing a 

 clock. 



The register dates from 1865. 



The advowson of the church of 

 4D7OWSONS Millbrook has from its earliest ex- 

 istence belonged to the bishop of 

 Winchester. 79 The living is at the present time a 

 rectory, net yearly value with residence 200. 



There was a church in Shirley (Old Shirley) 

 at the time of the Domesday Survey, 80 the ad- 

 vowson of which belonged to the lords of the 

 manor of Shirley until 1233, in which year 

 Nicholas de Shirley granted it in free alms to the 

 prior of St. Denis and his successors. 81 The church 

 was subsequently appropriated to the priory, the 

 appropriation being confirmed by Bishop Orlton in 

 I334. 8 * The prior and convent presented the vicars 

 until the Dissolution, when the advowson of the 

 vicarage and the rectory of Shirley fell into the hands 

 of the king. 63 They remained the property of the 

 crown until I 549, in which year Edward VI granted 

 the rectory and tithes to Nicholas Prideaux. 8 * 



Soon afterwards the advowson and rectory fell into 

 the hands of the Pagett family, James Pagett and 

 Bridget his wife dealing with them by fine in I 574, M 

 probably for purposes of settlement. Twenty-one 

 years later James Pagett and Barbara his wife sold the 

 advowson and the rectory to Thomas Lambert, 86 with 



68 Davies, op. cit. 222. 

 89 Inq. p.m. 32 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), 

 No. 97. 



70 Ibid. 



71 Pat. 4 Edw. I, m. 34. 



74 Inq. p.m. 32 Edw. Ill (2nd Nos.), 

 No. 97. 



" 8 Pat. 32 Edw. Ill, pt I, m. 22. The 

 following were some of the charges 

 authorized by the grant : Pipe of wine 

 %J., cartload of wool id., cartload of salted 



hide id., cartload of tanned hide id., 20 

 sheep %J., 20 pig j</., cartload of iron, 

 steel, or lead id., cartload of oil or honey 

 id., cartload of fish id., cartload of corn 

 id., cartload of timber id. 



1* Pat. 4 Ric. II, pt, 2, m. 15 ; 15, 

 Ric. II, pt. I, m. 7 ; 2 Hen. IV, pt I, m. 

 9 and 7, and pt 2, m. 24. 



" 5 Acts of P.O. 1581, p. 188. 



76 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1631-3, p. 372. 



" l Ibid. p. 409. 



431 



" 8 White's Dir. 1859. 



7 Chart R. 1 2 Edw. I, m. 5 ; Wyke- 

 ham's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 124, 144, 

 158, 200, 228 ; Inst Bks. (P.R.O.). 



8 V.C.H. Hants, i, 489. 



81 Feet of F. Hants, Mil. 25 Hen. III. 



<*> V.C.H. Hants, ii, 162. 



88 Ibid. 163. 



84 Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt. 5, m. 1 8. 



Feet of F. Div. Cos. Hil. 16 Eliz. 



86 Ibid. Trin. 37 Eliz. 



