BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED OTTERBOURNE 



parish, however, 617 J acres, is given up to permanent 

 grass. 1 



Otterbourne Common, which covers the top of 

 Otterbourne Hill, was inclosed under the general 

 Inclosure Act by the award of 24 June, 1837. 



Among place-names mentioned in extant records 

 are Millands or Millhouse * and Aldermoore and 

 Bjyton Mead * (rviii cent.). 



Lands in OTTSRBOURXE as parcel 

 MANORS of the district of Chilcomb were granted 

 by King Edgar to the church at Win- 

 chester about 978,* and were confirmed to the church 

 by King Ethelred in 984.' In the reign of King 

 Edward the Confessor Cheping held Otterbourne of 

 the bishopric of Winchester, and 'could not with- 

 draw himself from the church.' * 



At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor 

 had been alienated from the church, and belonged to 

 Ralph de Mortimer," whose descendants held half a 

 fee in Otterbourne as late as the fifteenth century.' 

 In 1212-13 Richard Ferebraz alienated I virgate of 

 land in Otterbourne with appurtenances to Henry de 

 Capella." This virgate evidently became parcel of 

 the manor of Otterbourne, and passed from Henry de 

 Capella to his son Bartholomew in 1x48." In 1253 

 the king licensed Bartholomew de Capella to inclose 

 his wood of Otterbourne, called Pare, which was 

 within the royal forest of Ashley. 11 Bartholomew 

 died seised of the manor of Otterbourne in 1258, 

 held of Sir Brian de Brampton in chief of the fee 

 of Roger de Mortimer." Joan de Capella his 

 daughter and heir was a minor only one and a half 

 years old, and the guardianship of the lands of Bartho- 

 lomew, granted in 1259 to Eubold de Montibus, 

 probably included Otterbourne. 14 She seems to have 

 married John de Bohun, for in 1279 John and Joan 

 quitclaimed the manor of Otterbourne from them- 

 selves and the heirs of Joan to Simon the draper, 

 sometimes called Simon de Winton, to hold of them 

 by the annual payment of a pair of gilt spurs." 

 In 1 280 Simon was summoned to show cause why he 

 amerced his men at his court of Otterbourne 

 against their will." From Simon the manor passed 

 to his grandson, Richard de Winton, son and heir of 

 Richard de Winton," who was holding the same in 

 1316." 



There is no inquisition on the death of Richard, 

 but the manor evidently passed to his son or kins- 

 man, John de Winton," who died seised of it in 

 1361." His brother and heir, Richard de Winton, 

 conveyed the manor for life in 1378 to Hugh Craan 

 or Crane of Winchester and his wife Isabel." How- 

 ever there seems to have been some flaw in the 

 transaction, since two years later Hugh Crane 

 petitioned against Richard de Winton and Agnes his 



wife that they had with certain others schemed to 

 dispossess him and his wife of the manor, and had 

 forged a recognizance of the statute of merchants for 

 550 purporting to have been made in 1348 during 

 the life of John de Winton, and had caused a cer- 

 tificate to be delivered in Chancery for obtaining 

 execution in respect of the manor and other lands 

 belonging at that date to John de Winton. 11 How- 

 ever, Hugh Crane was evidently successful in his peti- 

 tion, and in 1386 Thomas de Winton, son and heir 

 of Richard, who had died in 1383," released to 

 Hugh Crane all right in the manor. 1 * Richard de 

 Winton's wife Agnes survived her husband, and seems 

 to have married (2) Nicholas Bros 1 * and (3) Richard 

 Caas ; and after the death of Hugh Crane she and 

 her husband Richard Caas made claim to a third pan 

 of the manor of Otterbourne against Isabel the widow 

 of Hugh. The suit was begun in 1404 and lasted 

 until 1405. Agnes claimed the third in dower by 

 donation of Richard de Winton, but Isabel main- 

 tained that Agnes had no right to dower in the same 

 since Richard de Winton had not been seised of the 

 manor until after his marriage to Agnes, and this 

 seems to have been the case, since his brother John 

 had held it until 1361." 



The result of the suit is not given, but unquestion- 

 ably the right lay with Isabel. Except for this third, 

 which Isabel evidently had in dower for her life, 

 Otterbourne had been sold by 

 Hugh Crane to William of 

 Wykeham in 1 386." Within 

 the next few years William of 

 Wykeham granted the manor 

 to his great-nephew William 

 Perot, who took the name of 

 Wykeham." William Wyke- 

 ham had been admitted to 

 New College in 1387, but 

 probably owing to ill-health 

 had left the same year." In 

 1396 he married Alice Uve- 

 dale, the daughter of John 



Uvedale of Titsey (co. Surrey), sheriff of Hants from 

 1388 to 1399 and a great personal friend of the 

 founder." On the death of William Wykeham and Alice 

 his wife at an early age without issue Otterbourne passed 

 in tail male to his second brother Thomas, to whom 

 reversion had been granted in 1400." Thomas Wyke- 

 ham, who was knighted early in the century, had also 

 been at New College, admitted in 1390 and leaving 

 in 1394." Surviving both his brothers he became 

 William of Wykeham's sole heir-at-law on his death 

 in 1403. Several years before his death, which 



WYKEHAM. -irgnt 

 MM ctntnxs ifkli te- 

 fwfen tkrei rota 



occurred in 1443 or 1444 

 of Otterbourne on 



manor 



n he evidently settled the 

 his eldest son William, 



* Statistics from Bd. of Agric, (1905). 



9 Cnin. Inq. p.m. (Scr. z), ccccii, No. 

 119. 



4 Chan. Ear. Dec. R. 1819, No. 4. 



5 Kemble, CoJtx Difl. Hi, 153. 

 Ibid. 103. 



I l'.C.H. H**tt, i, 489* Ibid. 



* I'tJi Inq. p.m. 11 Ric. II, No. 34, and 

 3 Hen. VI, No. 3*. 



10 Feet of F. Hants, 14 John. 



11 Sxttrft* t rut. Fnium (Rec, Com.), 

 ii, 31. 



" Hia. MSS. Com. Rep. riii, 163. 

 15 Inq. p.m. Hen. Ill, file 20, No. 19. 

 M Kxctrfa t ret. Putium (Rec. Com.), 

 ii, 296. 



Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 7 Bdw. I. 



" Assize R. Mich. 8 Edw. I, rot. 9. 



17 Richard died in 1296 in the lifetime 

 of Simon, learing a ion and heir Richard 

 aged fourteen. (Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, No. 

 21). 



FnJ. Aids, ii, 309. 



"Feet of F. Hants, 1 6 Edw. Ill, No. 

 Id. 



"Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. 2 (ist 

 Nos.), No. 78. 



u Pat. 4 Ric. II, pt, I, m. 10 4. 



** Ibid ; Pat, 4 Ric. II, pt. i, m. ij./. 



a I'iJe manor of Soberton in the hun- 

 dred of Meonstoke* 



441 



M Close, 10 Ric II, m. 50 J. 

 ^fidtmtaoT of Soberton. 

 11 De Bane. R. East, $ Hen. IV, m. 

 446 d, and East, 6 Hen. IV, m. 417. 



* Hist. MSS. Cam. Ref. riii, App. 

 263. Documents belonging to Magdalen 

 College, Oxford. Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 

 10 Ric. II. 



"ffnr. MSS. Com. Kef. riii, App. 

 263. 



* K.irbr, A<aul> of ffi*. Coll. 93. 



* See Sumy Artk. Coll. iii, 83. 



Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 3 Hen. VL 

 *> Kirby, AntU oftTn. CM. 93. 

 " Inq. p.m. 22 Hen. VI, No. 16. 



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