BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



STOKE CHARITY 



son Richard. 18 In his will he desired to be buried in 

 Oldstoke church ' before the altar of St. Thomas,' and 

 his monument still stands in its original site against 

 the north wall of the Hampton chapel. Richard 

 Waller, his grandson, came of age in 1536 and held 

 the manor of 'Old Stoke Charity' until his death, 

 7 September, 155 1, 19 according to his inquisition, 

 although the parish register states that he was buried 

 4 September, 1552, possibly following the date given 

 on his mutilated brass in Stoke Charity church. 

 William Waller his eldest son succeeded his father 

 when a minor only fourteen years old. He seems to 

 have involved himself in many pecuniary difficulties, 

 and as a result his estates were nearly all mortgaged at 

 the time of his death to his brother John Waller of 

 Compton Monceaux and others. Thus in 1575 he 

 leased the manor of ' Ouldestokecherytie otherwise 

 Stokecherytie ' to Nicholas Saunders for a term of years, 

 and in 1617 made lease of the manor to his brother 

 John for ninety-nine years as security for 2,000 spent 

 by John in payment of his debts. William's co-heirs 

 were his daughters, Charity the wife of Thomas 

 Phelipps and Susan wife of Sir Richard Tichborne. 

 Charity inherited the reversion in fee of the manor 

 and on the death of her uncle John in 1618 she 

 received the rents and profits from the manor during 

 the remainder of the lease made by her late father. 

 Moreover, if she should discharge and acquit his execu- 

 tors and estate of all bonds and encumbrances entered 

 into between him and his late brother her uncle for- 

 gave and remitted the above-mentioned debt of 

 2,000.* Thomas Phelipps, created baronet in 

 1619-20," held the manor by 

 right of his wife until his death 

 in 1626." Dame Charity sur- 

 vived him and before 26 May, 

 1627, she had married Sir 

 William Ogle, the guardian of 

 her eldest son Thomas. The 

 latter never held the manor of 

 Stoke Charity, as he was slain 

 while fighting for the Royalist 

 cause in March, 1644-5, just 

 seven months before his 

 mother's death. Her royalist 

 husband Sir William Ogle held 

 Winchester Castle against the 



Parliament from 1643 until Cromwell besieged 

 the city and castle and forced him to surrender in 

 October, 1645. Cromwell gave Dame Charity 

 special permission to leave the castle and seek safety, 

 but worn out by her long and troubled life she 

 died when only a few miles away from Winchester. 

 Her body was taken to Stoke Charity, where a tablet 

 in the south wall at the west end of the north aisle of 

 the church commemorates her death on 5 October, 

 1645. Her only surviving son and heir Sir James 

 Phelipps, third baronet, succeeded to his mother's estates 

 before the December of that year. In his petition to the 

 Parliamentary Commissioners, dated 20 December, 



PHELIPPS of Harrington 

 and Stoke Charity. Ar- 

 gent a cheveron between 

 three rot ft gulet. 



1645, begging that he may compound for delinquency, 

 he states that ' by compulsion he joined, as Captain, Sir 

 William Ogle, who married his mother and held a 

 garrison for the king,' but he himself surrendered to 

 Sir William Waller before the castle was besieged. He 

 also notes that ' his mother's estate has now come to 

 him.' His fine, set at 700 in 1646, was finally 

 reduced to 646 in May 1649.** In the October of 

 1652 he died," and was buried in Stoke Charity 

 church under the altar tomb at the west end of the 

 north aisle. His wife Elizabeth, who survived him 

 until 1693, was his first cousin, since she was third 

 daughter of his aunt Susan, Lady Tichborne, and Sir 

 Richard. 16 Their only surviving son and heir James, 

 fourth baronet, baptized in 1650, married in 1674 to 

 Marina Michell, 16 held the manor until his death in 

 Ireland in 1690. His only son James had died in 

 infancy and was buried at Stoke Charity in 1675, so 

 that his nearest relative was his sister Elizabeth Phelipps 

 of Winchester, to whom he left his real estate by will 

 dated l688. 17 She married George Colney of Test- 

 wood (co. Hants), with whom it remained until 1726, 

 in which year he sold it to Dame Lydia Mews, the 

 widow of Sir Peter Mews. 88 The latter sold the manor 

 two years later to William 

 Heathcote of Hursley,* 9 and 

 from this time it remained 

 with the Heathcotes until 

 1890, in which year it was 

 sold to the present owner, 

 Mr. Henry John Elwes, J.P., 

 of Colesborne Park, Glouces- 

 tershire. 



Within the manor Martin 

 de Roches held two virgates 

 of John de Windsor on his 

 death in 1276-7.* His son 

 and heir, John de Roches, died 



in 1 3 1 1 " leaving a son and heir, John. Joan the widow 

 of John held the lands until her death in September, 

 1362, when they passed to her daughter Mary, widow 

 of John de Boarhunt. Mary married as her second 

 husband Bernard Brocas, who survived her and held 

 her lands in Stoke Charity, extended at one messuage 

 and 72 acres held of John de Hampton for un- 

 known service." On 24 June, 1383, Bernard 

 Brocas obtained licence to use this said messuage 

 and 72 acres together with 6 marks of rent from 

 the manor of Hannington to form a chantry in the 

 church of ' Clyware ' (Clewer, co. Berks.) for the sake 

 of his own soul and that of his present wife Catherine, 

 and for that of his late wife Mary." 



The church of ST. MICHAEL is a 

 CHURCH building of more than common interest, 

 not only on account of its fine series of 

 monuments, but also for its architectural details and 

 the difficulties they offer to anyone studying the 

 history of the church. 



The plan, though irregular in setting out, is com- 

 paratively simple, consisting of a chancel with a large 



ELWES. Or a feae 

 azure -with a bend gules 

 over all. 



Exch. Inq. p.m. 18 Hen. VIII (Ser. 

 2), file 979, No. i. 



19 Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. VI (Ser. 2), ncvii, 

 No. 98. 



Will of John Waller of Compton 

 Monceaux, 1618. P.C.C 106, Meade. 



21 G.E.C. Complete Baronetage. 



M Inq. p.m. 3 Chas. I (Ser. 2), pt. i, 

 No. 130. 



38 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, i, 

 105 d. 



44 Parish Register. 



" Tablet in Stoke Charity church. 



x Parish Register. 



"" Will of Sir James Phelipps, fourth 

 baronet, 1690; P.C.C. 113, Dyke. 



28 Vide Close, z Geo. II, pt. 9, 

 No. 4. 



449 



Ibid. 



M Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. I, file 17 

 No. g. 



Ibid. 5 Edw. II, No. 44. The lands 

 in Oldstoke are not mentioned in the 

 inquisition. 



i" Ibid. 7 Ric. II, No. 137. 



Ibid. 



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