BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED STOKE CHARITY 



One of the nine churches men- 

 JDPOWSONS tioned in Domesday Book as pertain- 

 ing to the manor of Chilcomb was 

 probably the church of Sparsholt.' 3 The advowson 

 from early times belonged to the prioress and con- 

 vent of Wintney," and it is just possible that it 

 was granted to them by a member of the Coldrey 

 family, for the Coldreys were benefactors to this 

 priory, 45 and as has been shown above owned property 

 in the parish. 



After the Dissolution the living remained in the 

 gift of the crown, 45 notwithstanding Queen Mary's 

 grant to the bishop of Winchester in 1558," and 

 under the Tudors was leased out with the rectory to 

 various persons. 48 It is at the present time a vicarage, 

 net yearly value 177 with residence in the gift of 

 the Lord Chancellor. 



The rectory of Sparsholt was at an early date ap- 

 propriated to the priory of Wintney." Anne, prior- 

 ess of Wintney, in 1534, granted a forty years' lease 

 of it to William Abbott. 6 " Notwithstanding this, 

 Henry VIII, in 1539, granted the rectory for life to 

 his servant John Cook, 51 and his gift was confirmed by 

 Queen Mary, who in 1553 granted it to him during 

 her good pleasure without account or payment." 

 However, William Abbott was reinstated in 1561, in 

 which year Queen Elizabeth granted to him the 

 rectory and advowson to hold for twenty-one years 

 at a rent of 10." Nine years later Elizabeth granted 

 the reversion of the rectory and advowson after the 

 expiration of the lease to Robert Jones," who sold all 

 his interest in the premises to Walter Sandys, 45 on 

 whom Elizabeth settled them in 1587 with re- 

 mainder to his wife Mabel with remainder to 

 his son William for life. 66 Walter Sandys was the 



farmer of the rectory in 1591," notwithstanding 

 Elizabeth's grant to Henry Best and John Welles 

 earlier in the year, 68 and died seised of the same in 

 1610." After the death of Sir William Sandys in 

 I628 60 the rectory and advowson reverted to the 

 crown in accordance with the settlement of 1587. 

 The advowson, as has been shown, remained with 

 the crown, but the rectory was afterwards granted to 

 the Heathcote family and remained with them for a 

 considerable period, 61 Sir William Heathcote, bart., 

 finally alienating it to the Ecclesiastical Commis- 

 sioners. 



The church of Lainston, as has been shown, pro- 

 bably owed its origin to the jealousy between the de 

 Caritate and Sparsholt families. 6 * The advowson has 

 followed the descent of the manor 63 with but few 

 exceptions. 64 The living is at the present day a 

 rectory, of the yearly value of about 54 in the gift 

 of Mr. Samuel Bostock. 



The question of tithes was dealt with by the Court 

 of Exchequer in I59I. 65 



The Parliamentary Returns of 

 CHARITIES Charities for the poor, dated 1786, 

 mention that Richard Bricknell, 

 Sims, and Wade gave 5 each for the poor. These 

 sums have been invested in the purchase oi6 1 5/. $4. 

 consols. 



In 1875 the Rev. Edward Stewart by his will left 

 .50, the income to be applied for the benefit of the 

 poor, invested in 52 ig/. ^d, consols. 



The same testator left another sum of 50, in- 

 vested in ^53 o/. \od. consols. The dividends are 

 applied in the distribution of clothing in pursuance of 

 the trusts declared by deed, dated 22 December, 

 1875. 



STOKE CHARITY 



Stockes (xi cent.) ; Eledderstoke (xiii cent.) ; Ould- 

 stoke (xv cent.) ; Ouldestokecherytie (xvi and xvii 

 cents.). 



Stoke Charity is a small parish of only 1,841 acres, 

 three of which are water supplied by the Test, a 

 tributary of which forms the northern boundary line 

 between Stoke Charity and Hunton. The village 

 lies in the north close to the river, and from here the 

 parish is one long southward sweep of rolling country, 

 rising to its highest point at Waller's Ash and con- 

 tinuing onwards to Kings Worthy parish. 



The road from Wonston, the parish which lies due 

 west, runs downhill into Stoke Charity village, and 

 passing by some farm buildings on the left becomes 

 the uphill village street. On either side are thatched 



and half-timbered cottages grouped most thickly at 

 the top of the hill where the road branches to Hunton, 

 Micheldever and Winchester. The village school, 

 built in 1815, is at the corner formed by the branch- 

 ing of the roads to Micheldever and Winchester, and 

 on the right higher up the branch to Micheldever is 

 the rectory. This is in part a sixteenth-century tim- 

 ber building to which in the latter part of the seven- 

 teenth century additions were made, including a 

 very good panelled entrance hall with a carved 

 cornice. In a field opposite the rectory is the 

 church of St. Michael, and in the meadow called 

 ' Pretty Meadow ' north-west of the church, the six- 

 teenth-century manor house originally stood. To the 

 left of the site of the manor house is a large fish-pond 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 463*. 



44 Wykeham'i Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 i, 82, 108, 134, 364 ; Egerton MS. 2031, 

 fol. 103 ; 2034, foL 88. 



V.C.H. Hants, ii, 149. 



4 Inst, Bks. (P.R.O.). 



Pat. 5 & 6 PhiL and Mary, pt. 4, 

 m. 6. 



Tide infra. 



Wykeham'i Reg. (Hants. Rec. Soc.), 

 i, 364. 



50 Pat. 3 Eliz. pt. 2, m. 10. 



" L. and P. Hen. fill, xiv (i), p. 594. 



M Pat. i Mary, pt. 9, m. 14. 



53 Pat. 3 Eliz. pt, 2, m. 10. 



44 Ibid. 12 Eliz. pt. 5, m. 16-17. 



56 Ibid. 29 Eliz. pt. 2, m. 10-11. 



"Ibid. 



"Excb, Dep. Mich. 33 & 34 Eliz. 

 No. 9. 



68 Pat, 33 Eliz. pt, 3, m. 7-14. 



W. and L. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), bdle. 

 12, No. 96. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclviii, 

 No. 141. 



61 Recov. R. Hil. 16 Geo. II, rot. 243; 

 Mich. 31 Geo. Ill, rot. 334; Trin. 6 

 Geo. IV rot, 141. 



447 



Cur. Reg. R. No. 65, m. \d. 



Wykcbam's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.}, 

 i, J. Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 140 ; 2033, 

 fol. 22 ; and 2034, fol. 48. Inst. Bks. 

 (P.R.O.J. 



64 Philip Aubyn, citizen of Winchester, 

 presented in 1316, 1317, and 1318 (ffin- 

 KmEfis.Reg. [Hants Rec. Soc.], 138, 157, 

 and 346), but whether as lord of the manor 

 is uncertain. A certain Charles Bulkeley 

 presented between 1531 and 1535 (Eger- 

 ton MS. 2034, foL 167). 



64 Exch. Dcp. Mich. 33 & 34 Eliz. 

 No. 9. 



