BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



WONSTON 



Mannyngfords, Byrdes, and Barkelettes, parcel of the 

 customary lands of the manor of Sutton Scotney. 49 

 He died seised of the manor of Sutton Scotney in 1 597, 

 leaving a son and heir John aged twenty-two. 50 

 Licence to the latter to enter into possession of the 

 manor of Sutton Scotney was enrolled in the patent 

 roll of 1602," but within two years he died and the 

 manor descended to his son and heir John," who 

 alienated it in 1606 to Thomas Warburton." Nine 

 years later Thomas Warburton and Anne his wife sold 

 the manor to Robert Harward, 64 who was still holding 

 in l6zz," and apparently also in 1639.* The sub- 

 sequent history of the manor is difficult to trace owing 

 to the many changes of ownership during the eigh- 

 teenth and nineteenth centuries. A certain William 

 Smith dealt with the manor by recovery in 1 740,*' 

 and his descendants seem to have retained it for a 

 considerable period, Thomas Assheton Smith being 

 lord of the manor in 1 799, M but it is not known 

 when they parted with it. They seem however to 

 have been succeeded in the lordship by Richard Meyler, 

 who was killed by a fall from his horse. Benjamin 

 Hey wood Bright was lord of the manor in 1841, and 

 on his death Sutton Scotney passed to Henry Bright, 

 who was in possession in 1852.*' Edward Burtenshaw 

 Sugden first Lord St. Leonards, Lord Chancellor of 

 Great Britain, purchased Sutton Scotney in l868, M 

 and on his death seven years later it descended to his 

 second son the Hon. and Rev. Frank Sugden, on whose 

 death in 1886 it passed to his nephew Edward Burten- 

 shaw Sugden second Lord St. Leonards. 61 The latter 

 sold the manor to Mr. Percy Tarbutt. 



Evidently the overlordship of the half of Sutton 

 that belonged to Odo of Winchester at the time of 

 the Domesday Survey passed like Norton Valery 

 (q.v.) to the family of St. Valery, 6 * and from them to 

 Richard earl of Cornwall and so to the crown. 

 Like Norton Valery also the actual possession of the 

 manor passed to the college of St. Elizabeth near 

 Winchester in 131 3," was granted with Norton in 

 1544 to Thomas Wriothesley K and was sold by him 

 the same year to John Twyne, together with 

 Norton. 66 John Twyne by his will dated 23 April, 

 1554, left the hamlet of Sutton Scotney, formerly 

 belonging to the house of St. Elizabeth, to his son 

 Nicholas in fee-tail. 67 There is no inquisition on the 

 death of Nicholas, and it is probable that on his death 

 the hamlet reverted to John Twyne son and heir of his 

 brother Richard, and became merged in the other 

 manor of Sutton Scotney, the original portion of 

 Richard. 68 



The manor of NORTON or NORTON ST. 



ST. VALIRY. Or two 

 lions pauant gules. 



V ALERT was held by Odo of Winchester at the time 

 of the Domesday Survey. Fulchi had held it in the 

 time of King Edward and could betake himself 

 whither he would. Then it was assessed at five hides, 

 but by the time of the Survey at only two hides one 

 virgate. 69 Possibly on the death of Odo the manor 

 was granted to Roger de Ivrey and became part of 

 the barony of Ivrey. 70 Hence when this barony was 

 granted to Guy de St. Valery by Henry I, Norton 

 passed into the St. Valery family, and when the 

 honour escheated to the crown in the reign of 

 Henry III the overlordship 

 of the manor remained with 

 the honour, passing to Richard 

 earl of Cornwall by grant of 

 Henry III, and after him to 

 his son Edmund, and on his 

 death in 1300 to the king as 

 his cousin and heir. 71 



The family of St. Valery 

 were in actual possession of the 

 manor in the early part of 

 the thirteenth century. Thus 

 in 1214 John granted Thomas 

 de St. Valery full seisin of the manor which had 

 belonged to Henry his brother." 



By 1231 Thomas had been succeeded by Henry 

 de St. Valery, probably his son, who in that year 

 engaged in a dispute with the abbess of Bertocurt or 

 Bertancourt (Somme, France) concerning customs in 

 Sutton and Norton. 73 In the beginning of the four- 

 teenth century Richard de St. Valery alienated the 

 manor to Walter de Langton, bishop of Coventry 

 and Lichfield, who received pardon for acquiring the 

 manor from Richard in 1 307." Three years later 

 the king had evidently seized the manor from the 

 hands of the bishop and granted it for life to Robert 

 Fitz Pain, one of the stewards of the royal household, 

 with a special condition that if the king should 

 resume the manor Robert should receive compensa- 

 tion." In September, 1312, the manor of Kingsbury 

 with other property in Somerset was granted to 

 Robert, since the king had restored the manor of 

 Norton to the bishop. 76 Shortly afterwards the 

 bishop conveyed the manor to trustees, Robert de 

 Harewedon and William de Staunford, 77 who in 

 February, 1313, received licence to alienate the same 

 to the provost and chaplains of the chapel of 

 St. Elizabeth near Winchester. 78 Two months later 

 the provost and chaplains were pardoned the service 

 of a sore sparrow-hawk for the manor of Norton 

 St. Valery, 79 and in May the king confirmed it to 



"Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 106, No. 



>7- 



50 Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Eliz. pt 2, 

 (Scr. 2), No. 1 8. 



51 Pat. 44 Eliz. pt. 16, m. 9-12. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxiv, 

 No. 23. 



58 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 4 Jas. I. 



"Ibid. Hil. 13 Jas. I. 



55 Ibid. Trin. 20 Jas. I. 



56 Cat. ofS.P. Dam. 1639, p. 283. 



W Recov. R. Trin. 1 3 de 14 Geo. II, 

 rot. 221. 



58 Information furnished by Mr. Spencer 

 Clarke of Whitchurch. 



s Ibid. 



TO Ibid. 



61 Burke, Peerage. 



M Cf. Rat. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.}, i, 161, 



where full seisin is granted to Thomas de 

 St. Valery in the lands in Sutton which 

 had belonged to Henry his brother. 



63 Cf. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 

 234*, where Hugh de Foresta is said to 

 hold one fee in Sutton of the earl of 

 Poitou (one of the titles of Richard earl 

 of Cornwall) of the honor of Wallingford 

 (St Valery). 



" Feud. Aids, ii, 326, 348. 



64 Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt 9, m. 5-7. 

 M L. and P. Hen. VIII, icix (l), p. 



641. 



67 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ci, No. 

 107. 



68 John Twyne son and heir of Richard 

 certainly succeeded to the rent of the 

 fourth part of I acre of underwood and 

 51. from the manor of Norton Valery and 



457 



the annual share of a meadow called 

 Myllmead (Chan. Inq. p.m. [Ser. 2], 

 cclxxxiv, No. 23), left to Nicholas by his 

 father John (Exch. Inq. p.m. [Ser. 2], file 

 999, No. 25), and it is probable that he 

 succeeded to the hamlet of Sutton Scotney 

 also. 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 504. 



" Lipscombe, Hist, of Bucks, i, 367. 



71 Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. I, No. 44. 



" a Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 161. 



'Close, 15 Hen. Ill, m. igJ. and 

 t< 



7< Pat 35 Edw. I, m. 30. 



W Pat 3 Edw. II, m. 21. 



7 Pat. 6 Edw. II, m. 17. 



T! Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 8 Edw. II. 



? 9 Pat 6 Edw. II, pt I, m. I. 



1* Pat pt. 2, m. 15. 



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