A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



them in free alms quit of every service. 80 The 

 manor remained with the college until the Dissolu- 

 tion, 81 when it fell into the hands of the king, who 

 granted it in 1544 to Sir Thomas Wriothesley Lord 

 Wriothesley to hold of him and his successors by rent 

 of 2 1 3/. 4</. 8 * In the same year Wriothesley ob- 

 tained licence to alienate the manor to John Twyne, 

 yeoman, and his sons William and Nicholas. 63 John 

 Twyne, by will dated 23 April, 1554, left the manor 

 to his son William Twyne the elder in fee-tail, and 

 died shortly afterwards. 8 * On the death of William 

 in I559 85 the manor passed to his son and heir 

 Thomas, 86 who held the manor until 1566, when he 

 died leaving a widow Barbara and two infant daugh- 

 ters named Margery and Anne. 87 Barbara married 

 William St. John of Farley Chamberlayne, 'a man 

 of great countenaunce and credyt,' as her second 

 husband, 88 and in 1582 the two daughters Margery 

 and Anne with their respective husbands William 

 Skilling and William Fisher gave up their moieties 

 of the manor to William and Barbara. 8 ' John Twyne, 

 who died in 1554, had by will left to his widow 

 Agnes two quarters of wheat and two quarters of malt 

 yearly during her widowhood, and the depasturing 

 and feeding of two kine with grass and fodder upon 

 the lands of his manor of Norton while she remained 

 unmarried. 90 She remained a widow for seven years, 

 at the end of that time marrying John Kent of 

 Catherington, blacksmith, but no payment was ever 

 made to her, and in 1591 her husband ' having no- 

 thinge ells to relive himself withall being utterly waste 

 and consumed by means of his marriage with the 

 foresaid Agnes,' sued William St. John and Barbara 

 his wife for 200 which had been awarded to Agnes 

 in lieu of the annual payments by Sir William Kings- 

 mill and Sir Oliver Wallop just before the death of 

 William Twyne, 91 but most probably without success. 

 In 1609 William St. John died during his wife's 

 lifetime, leaving the reversion of the manor after the 

 death of Barbara, according to a settlement of the 

 year 1600, to his son and heir Henry and Ursula his 

 wife, daughter of Hugh Stewkley, 91 to whom Payne 

 Fisher, probably son and heir of William Fisher and 

 Anne his wife, quitclaimed a moiety of the manor in 

 idig. 93 Henry died seised of the manor in 1621 

 leaving a son and heir John M aged seven, who 

 five years later, in conjunction with Sir Thomas 

 Stewkley his maternal uncle and most probably his 

 guardian, conveyed it to Dr. Nicholas Love, 95 head 

 master of Winchester College in 1 60 1, warden 1613, 

 canon of Winchester 1610, and chaplain to James I. 

 On his death in 1630 the manor passed to his son 

 and heir Nicholas, 96 who early in 1644 obtained from 

 the Parliament a grant of the office of one of the six 



clerks in Hampshire, and is said to have made 20,000 

 out of the post. 97 He is best remembered, however, as 

 oneof the judges of Charles I, being present in Westmin- 

 ster Hall when sentence was delivered. On his own 

 showing he advised that 'conference might bee had 

 before any further proceeding,' and consequently 

 refused to sign the death-warrant, whereupon he ' was 

 violently opposed By Oliver Cromwell, Ireton and 

 others, and clamorously reviled as an obstructer of that 

 black designe.' 9b At the Restoration Love escaped to 

 the Continent, and he was absolutely excepted in the 

 Act of Indemnity, December, 1 660. In October of the 

 some year Edward Penruddock, who had paid 1 0,000 

 for the place of clerk in Chancery, and had only held 

 it three years, having been ousted by Nicholas Love 

 in 1 644, petitioned for a lease of Norton Farm in the 

 parish of Wonston, 99 while at the same time Dr. Joseph 

 Rhodes, chaplain to the king, who had been sequestered 

 for loyalty and conformity for many years, and whose 

 brother Richard Rhodes had spent 3,000 or 4,000, 

 his whole fortune, in the royal cause, prayed for a free 

 grant of Norton Farm near Winchester, late the 

 estate of Nicholas Love. 100 



Norton Farm is now the property of Mr. G. 

 Hampton of London. 



Lands in CR4N 'BORNE (Cramburnan, x cent. ; 

 Gramborne, xi cent. ; Cramburn, xv cent, et seq.) 

 were granted by Edward the Elder to Hyde Abbey 

 as part of the hundred and manor of Micheldever. 

 The boundaries of Cranborne are given, and would 

 seem to extend beyond the bounds of the later manor, 

 although it is difficult to identify any of the boundaries 

 except that they begin 'at the stream of Micheldever 

 that runneth before the church field of Wonston' 

 meaning the River Test."" At the time of the 

 Domesday Survey Cranborne was held by Hugh de 

 Port of the abbey of Hyde, whereas in the days of 

 Edward the Confessor a freeman had held it of the 

 abbey, and could not withdraw himself from the ab- 

 bot's jurisdiction. 101 The St. Johns in the thirteenth 

 and fourteenth centuries, and the Paulets in the 

 fifteenth century, as the heirs of Hugh de Port, 103 held 

 knights' fees in Cranborne of Hyde Abbey and the 

 abbot of the king. 104 



The Brayboef family held of the St. Johns in the 

 twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Hence in 1215 

 King John commanded the sheriff of Hants to give 

 seisin to Elias the mayor of Winchester (Elije Majori 

 Wint) of the land in Cranborne which had belonged 

 by his gift to Henry de Brayboef. 105 In the reign of 

 Henry III Robert de Brayboef, who was seemingly a 

 son of Henry and a minor in 1215, held one fee in 

 Cranborne ' de veteri feoffamento ' of Robert de 

 St. John, and he of the abbot of Hyde, and the abbot 



80 Pat. 6 Edw. II, pt. 2, m. II. 



81 Feud. Aids, ii, 326, 34.8. 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (i), 278 (74); 

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

 rent was still paid to the crown in 1667, 

 in which year Charles II granted it by 

 letters patent to his kinsman George, 

 duke of Albemarle (Pat. 19 Chas. II, 

 pt. 8, No. 1 9). 



md P. Hen. VUI, xix (i), p. 



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



88 L. 

 6 4 I. 



" Chan. 

 107. 

 85 He 



hanged himself according to 

 Ct. of Requests, bdle. 49, No. 34. 



86 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 999, 

 No. 25. 



8 ? Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 1005, 

 No. 5. 



88 Ct. of Requests, bdle. 49, No. 34. 



89 Feet of F. Hants, East. 24 Eliz. and 

 Mich. 24 & 25 Eliz. In 1589 William 

 Fisher and Anne his wife again quit- 

 claimed their moiety of the manor to 

 William St. John (Feet of F. Hants, East. 

 31 Eliz). 



90 Ct. of Requests, bdle. 49, No. 34. 



91 Ibid. 



M W. and L. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdlf. 5, 

 No. 185. 



98 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 17 Jas. I. 



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

 32, No. 40. 



w Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 2 Chas. I. 



45 8 



He was the third son of John Love of 

 Basing Park in the parish of Froxfield. 



96 Berry, Hants Gen. 267. 



9 < Cat. ofS.P. Dam. 1660, p. 343. 



98 Hist. MSS. Com. Ref. vii, 119. 



99 Cal. ofS.P. Don. 1660, p. 343. 

 1M Ibid. 



101 Birch, Cart. Sax. ii, 245-6 ; Liber 

 de Hyda (Rolls Ser.), 89. 



1M V.C.H. Hants, i, 470. 



108 See Norton in Selborne. 



lw Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 232 ; 

 Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. I, No. 1353 Edw. Ill, 

 No. 67 ; 1 1 Edw. Ill, No. 49 ; 17 Edw. IV, 

 No. 31. 



105 Rot. Lit. Claia. (Rec. Com.), i, 



