BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



NURSLING 



of the male line with the death of Thomas Knollys, 

 it passed to Sir Richard Mill, bart., who had married 

 Margaret daughter of Robert Knollys." Sir Richard 

 died in 1760, and four of his sons in succession in- 

 herited the baronetcy and the estates. 88 Sir Charles 



KNOI.LYS. Gules a 



cheveron argent "with 

 thrte reset gules thereon 

 and a quarter ermine. 



MILL. Six pieces ar- 

 gent and table ivith three 

 bears sable having golden 

 muzzles and chains. 



Mill, the ninth baronet, died on 10 July, 1792, 

 leaving two children, Charles and Mary, the former 

 of whom, Sir Charles, the tenth and last baronet, 

 died on 25 February, 1835, leaving the estate to 

 Mr. John Barker, his sister's son, 39 who assumed the 

 arms and name of Mill, and was afterwards made a 

 baronet. The manor remained with Sir John Barker- 

 Mill until his death without issue in 1860, when it 

 passed to his widow Jane, who died in 1884.* On 

 her death it passed to the present owner, Mrs. Vaud- 

 rey, third cousin of Sir John Barker-Mill," who 

 has recently taken the name of Mrs. Barker-Mill." 



There is seemingly no trace of the existence of the 

 manor of NURSLING BE4UFO before the twelfth 

 century, when in 1 170 Godfrey de ' Notscilling ' ren- 

 dered account of half a mark for land, which was 

 possibly the nucleus of the later manor. 43 



In 1236 Edmund Fitz William gave up all his right 

 in a virgate of land in Nursling to Walter de Bruge, 

 receiving in return from him an acre of meadow lying 

 between his meadow and that of Cecily de Nursling, 

 and ten acres on the Down." The Bruge family 

 were still settled at Nursling in 1255, in which year 

 Edmund de Bruge granted one mill, with appur- 

 tenances in Nursling, to Adam de Bruge, to hold of 

 him and his heirs for the rent of one penny at Easter, 

 with reversion, in default of heirs to Adam, to 

 Edmund and his heirs." There is little or nothing 

 to connect these last entries with the next mention of 

 the ' tenement of Nursling,' which comes in 1276. 

 In that year Gilbert de Teya, and Maud his wife, 

 made a final agreement concerning a right of way 

 claimed by John de la Haleford, son of Edmund de 

 la Haleford, as pertaining to his tenements of 

 Nursling and Eling. 46 The tenements are said to 



belong to John by hereditary right, though with the 

 scant evidence at present obtainable it can only be a 

 hypothetical suggestion that he was connected with 

 the Edmund Fitz William to whom the grant was 

 made in 1236, and who may have been his father, 

 Edmund de la Haleford. The manor remained in 

 the hands of the Haleford family until about the 

 beginning of the reign of Edward III, when Margery 

 daughter of Edmund de la Haleford, nun of 

 Wherwell, released the manor to Richard de Beaufo 

 (de Bello Fago) and Olimpyas his wife, sister of the 

 said Margery. 47 Richard de Beaufo, who had become 

 Sir Richard by 1335, settled a moiety of the manor 

 on his son John on his marriage with Ellen the 

 daughter of Sir Gilbert de Ellisfield, 48 and a further 

 settlement was made after the death of Sir Richard 

 in I344- 49 



The manor seems next to have passed to a 

 certain Edmund Forster of Southampton, probably 

 by purchase, although there seems to be no record of 

 the sale, and in 1435, on the occasion of the 

 marriage of his daughter Joan with Peter Marmion 

 of Thame (co. Oxon.), the manor was settled on 

 him for life with remainder to Joan and Peter 

 in tail. 50 



They died, according to some accounts, without 

 issue, and thereupon Edmund settled the manor upon 

 his daughter Christine and her husband, Thomas 

 Hargrove, lord of the manor of Hargrove, in Stal- 

 bridge (co. Dorset), 51 in tail. 5 * Towards the end of 

 the reign of Henry VI, however, a certain Robert 

 Marmion came forward alleging that he was son and 

 heir of Peter "and Joan, and therefore entitled to the 

 manor, and it seems to have been awarded to him by 

 a decree of the Court of Chancery. 63 He granted it to 

 Peter Marmion, jun., and Peter John Marmion, jun., 64 

 who in 1481 and 1482 respectively released all right 

 in the manor to Sir William Stoner, 55 who thereupon 

 entered into possession. By this time Thomas and 

 Christine Hargrove had died leaving three daughters 

 and co-heirs, Elizabeth wife of John Wells (co. 

 Oxon.), Joan wife of Thomas Dormer of Nursling, 

 and Alice wife of Walter Coker of Stourpaine (co. 

 Dorset), 46 who did not submit to the loss of their 

 inheritance without a struggle. 



In 1492 Thomas Dormer and John Wells and 

 certain yeomen servants to Sir Robert Cheyne, ac- 

 companied by ' divers riotous persons arrayed in 

 manner of war,' marched to the manor and ' in 

 riotous wise put out James Marks, then being 

 tenant and servant unto Sir William,' command- 

 ing him to ' avoid the possession of the manor 

 within four weeks after Michaelmas next or else 

 it should cost him his life and goods," and assert- 

 ing that ' if they might meet Sir William it 

 should cost him his life.' 47 Again, in 1494, Sir 



his son Robert, who died of an accidental 

 wound in 1701. He was succeeded by 

 his son Henry, who died at Nursling 

 1 7467. His son was the Thomas 

 Knollys who died in 1751. 



8 ~ G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, i, 133. 



88 Gent. Mag. (1760), xxx, 249 5(1770), 

 143; (1780), 347; G.E.C. Complete 

 Baronetage, i, 133 ; Recov. R. Hil. 26 

 Geo. Ill, rot. 301. They were Sir Richard 

 Mill, bart., who died in 1770, Sir John 

 Hoby Mill, bart., who died in 1780, the 

 Rev. Sir Henry Mill, bart., rector of Wool- 

 beding, who died in 1782, and the Rev. 

 Sir Charles Mill, who died in 1792. 



89 Proc. Hants Field Club, iii, pt, 2, 126. 



< Ibid. 



41 Her grandfather was first cousin of 

 Sir John Barker-Mill. 



Ex inform. Mrs. Barker-Mill. 



Fife R. (Pipe R. Soc.), XT, 125. 



Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 20 Hen. 

 III. 



Ibid. 40 Hen. III. 



* Cal. of Close, 1272-9, p. 351. 



Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C. 141, un- 

 dated. 



"Ibid. C. 3513; Feet of F. Hants, 

 Hil. 9 Edw. III. 



Feet of F. Hants, Hil. 18 Edw. III. 



435 



5 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 26, No. 74. 

 51 Hutchins, Dorset, iii, 677. 

 M De Bane. R. East. 17 Hen. VII, m. 

 315 d. 



Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 26, No. 



74- 



M De Bane. R. East. 17 Hen. VII, m. 



** Close, 21 Edw. IV, m. 3 ; 22 Edw. 

 IV, m. 27. 



M Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 235, No. 47; 

 Hutchins, Dorset, \, 310 ; iii, 677 ; Gen. 

 (New Ser.), ii, 297. 



? Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII, No. 

 45- 



