A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



of Otterbourne. 36 



probably on his marriage, and in 1440 William 

 himself settled the manor on his younger brother 

 Thomas and Agnes his wife." Nevertheless Sir 

 Thomas seems to have lived at Otterbourne until his 

 death, as there is an entry on the Compotus Roll 

 of Winchester College for 1444 marking a land 

 transaction made between Warden Thurburn and 

 Sir Thomas, and noting t)d. for wine brought and 

 sent to the latter at Otterbourne. 34 William his 

 eldest son died in 1457 leaving a daughter and heir 

 Margaret, who on the death of her uncle Thomas 

 without issue became possessed 

 This Margaret married Wil- 

 liam Fiennes, Lord Saye and 

 Sele, who sold the manor to 

 William Waynflete, bishop of 

 Winchester, in HjS. 57 



In 1464 Lord Saye and Sele 

 publicly declared his sale to the 

 bishop by his own declaration 

 and that of Thomas Danvers 

 his attorney, probably before 

 the bishop granted the manor 

 to Magdalen College, Oxford. 58 

 In 1535 Magdalen College 

 was seised of the manor, which 

 was charged with an annual 

 payment of 4 to the chamber- 

 lain of Winchester and a fee of 



a noble to the bailiff.' 9 The president and fellows 

 of the college are still lords of the manor. The 

 court of the manor was held at the old moated manor- 

 house by the president of Magdalen on progress until 

 the early half of the nineteenth century. 



BOY ATT (Soviet, Boneta, Bometa xii, xiii, and xiv 

 cents.) in Otterbourne was held by Godric in the time 

 of Edward the Confessor and was then assessed at two 

 hides. At the time of the Domesday Survey it was 

 held of the king by Herbrand, and was assessed only 

 at half a hide.'" In 1167 William son of Martin 

 rendered account of half a mark for Boyatt. 41 Between 

 that date and 1189 it was granted to Waverley Abbey, 

 since at the later date the farm or grange of ' Bomata ' 

 was confirmed to the abbey by Richard I, 4J while 

 King John made a similar confirmation in 1206." In 

 1219 Adam abbot of Waverley granted one messuage, 

 1 1 acres of land, and two of meadow in Boyatt, to 

 Nicholas Malherbe to be held of the abbot and his 

 successors for an annual rent of izd. u Nine years 

 later the abbot granted him common of pasture in his 

 foreign pasture, namely outside his wood, and arable 

 land, while Nicholas quitclaimed to the abbot all 

 right in the common of pasture in the arable land of 

 the abbot in Boyatt." Boyatt continued in the 



MAGDALEN COLLEGE, 

 OXFORD. Lozengy sable 

 and ermine a chief table 

 with three garden lilies 

 therein which are the 

 arms of William Wayn- 

 flete. 



possession of Waverley until the sixteenth century, and 

 in 1535 its rents had risen to ^13 i9>s. o\d., while 

 its perquisites of court were worth 6s. 8J. 4<i Hence 

 by this time the messuage and 1 1 acres of former times 

 had come to be considered as a manor, and after the sup- 

 pression of Waverley it was granted in 1537 as 'The 

 Manor of Roviat ' (sic) to Sir William Fitzwilliam, 

 together with the site of the late monastery and most 

 of its possessions. 4 ' Sir William, who was Comptroller 

 of the King's Household, 48 was created earl of South- 

 ampton in 1537." In 1539, as lord admiral, he con- 

 ducted Anne of Cleves to England. His letters to 

 the king and Cromwell give an account of the 

 voyage, of the numerous delays caused by contrary 

 winds ' which blew as all would have gone asunder,' M 

 and give some picture of Anne herself with her dis- 

 taste for court ceremony, and yet her princesslike 

 manner. 51 The earl died in 1542," and Boyatt 

 passed by virtue of a settlement made in 1538 to his 

 widow Mabel, with contingent remainder to his half 

 brother Sir Anthony Browne, 

 Master of the Horse. 6 * The 

 latter died in 1 548," two 

 years before the widow, 55 

 and the reversion passed to his 

 son Anthony, who in 1554 

 was created Viscount Mon- 

 tague. 5 * In Elizabeth's reign 

 he was very active in furnish- 

 ing horse and men against the 

 Spanish Armada," and won 

 the queen's friendship, although 

 he favoured the old religion. 58 

 Unlike the other estates which 

 had passed into the Browne 

 family on the death of the first earl of Southampton, 

 Boyatt was alienated during the lifetime of this first 

 Lord Montague, who obtained 

 licence to convey to Gilbert 

 Welles in 1566," and made 

 conveyance by fine and re- 

 covery within the next few 

 months. 60 Gilbert Welles was 

 the first recusant member of a 

 family whose endurance for 

 the sake of their religion was 

 to be well tried within the 

 next century. It was reported 

 in March, 1594, that two 

 Jesuits were harbouring with 

 him, and he was ordered by 



the council ' with divers other recusants of Hamp- 

 shire to confine himself to Ely.' 61 In May of 

 the same year Grafton, 'a learned Jesuit,' was 



BROWN!, Viscount 

 Montague. Satle three 

 lions passant bendluhe 

 between double cotises 

 argent. 



WILLES. Satle a 

 cheveron ermine between 

 three martlets argent. 



M Close, 1 8 Hen. VI, m. 9. 



Kirby, Annals of Win. Coll. 182, 184. 



" See S.P. Dom. Eliz. xc, No. 5. Sir 

 Richard Fiennes here claims his right 

 and sole right to the privilege of Founder's 

 kin through hit descent from Margaret, 

 since ' it is clear from many evidence, 

 that Thomas de Wykeham, sonne to Sir 

 Thomas de Wykeham, left no male issues,' 

 and he quotes a recovery made by one 

 of his ancestors who made good his 

 claim to the manor of Gerbston because 

 Thomas de Wykeham had died without 

 heirs. 



" Hist. AfSS. Com. Ref. viii, App. 

 163. 



" Close, 4 Edw. VI, m. 1 3 d. 26. 

 89 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 285. 

 4 V.C.H. Hants, i, 500*. 



41 Pipe R. (Pipe R. Soc.), xii, 178. 



42 Dugdale, Man. v, 242 ; Cart. Antiq. 

 S. No. 20. 



*> Chart. R. 7 John, m. 4. 



44 Feet of F. Hants, 3 Hen. Ill, No. 

 61. 



45 Ibid. 12 Hen. Ill, No. 160. 



46 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 35. 



*1 Pat. 28 Hen. VIII, pt, 2, m. 9 and 

 10. 



48 Ibid. 



49 See Diet. Nat. Biog. 



50 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (2), 693. 



442 



51 Ibid. 677. 



58 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



48 Eich. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. VI (Ser. 2), 

 file 994, No. 2. 



64 Ibid. 



55 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



M Cal. S.P. Dom. 1547-80, p. 63. 



"Ibid. 1581-90, p. 510. 



68 Ibid. 1591-4, p. 97. Elizabeth 

 visited him at Cowdray Park (Sussex), 

 and was entertained there for six days in 

 1591. 



49 Pat, 8 Eliz. pt. 4, m. 1 5. 



Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 8 & 9 

 Eliz. ; Recov. R. East. 9 Eliz. rot. 148. 

 61 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1591-4, p. 463. 



