A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



Cranborne by a rent of 6s. 8</., suit at Cranborne court 

 and an animal as heriot. 145 In 1243 Adam de Sutton 

 granted lands in Sutton to Andrew of Winchester,' 46 

 and in 1247 Geoffrey son of Alexander and Olympia 

 his wife settled a virgate of land in Sutton on Robert 



M'CREAGH. Or a 

 tattled fesse between three 

 stars in the chief and a 

 lion in the foot all gules 

 with a s'word lying in 

 the fesse having its hilt 

 and pontel or. 



THORNHILL. Gules 

 ttvo gimel bars argent 

 and a chief argent <with 

 a 'voided lozenge sable 

 therein, a crossletfor dif- 

 ference. 



de Sutton. 147 By the beginning of the fourteenth 

 century Robert had been succeeded by Richard de 

 Sutton, senr., who in 1315 settled half a messuage and 

 lands in Sutton Scotney and other places on Richard 

 de Sutton, junr., 148 no doubt his son. Further settle- 

 ments of lands in Sutton Scotney and Cranborne 

 were made on Peter de Sutton and Alice his wife in 

 1330 and 1 3 4 1 .'** Peter seems to have been succeeded 

 in a great part of the premises by John de Sutton, who 

 was seised in fee-tail of 3 messuages, lands, and 

 2O/. rent in Sutton Scotney and other places. The 

 property seems to have been entailed upon his son 

 Thomas, but in spite of this on the death of John 

 another son Alan succeeded, 150 who was seised of a close 

 called ' Wythygers ' and other lands in Cranborne 

 held of the manor of Cranborne in 1442, and in that 

 year sued William Godale, bailiff of Thomas Thame, 

 who was at that time lord of the manor of Cranborne, 

 for seizing six horses in lieu of rent. 1 " On his death- 

 bed Alan repented of his action in ousting Thomas, 

 and delivered up the deeds showing that the estates 

 were entailed on him to his wife Ellen, charging her 

 solemnly to give them to his brother. However Ellen 

 gave them instead to her daughter Alice, ' whom she 

 loved better than Thomas,' and about 1460 she and 

 her husband Robert Sherrard were summoned by 

 Thomas for refusing to give them up. 141 



The church of the HOLT TRIN1TT 

 CHURCH consists of chancel, nave with north aisle 

 and south porch, and west tower. The 

 north aisle is a modern addition, but the plan of the 

 chancel and the nave, without the aisle, appears to date 

 from the early years of the thirteenth century. 



The church was burnt in 1714, the nave being more 

 damaged than the rest of the building, but several of 

 the old features survived the fire, and the walls are in 

 large measure ancient. 



The chancel has a three-light east window of 

 fifteenth-century design with modern tracery, and 

 two lancets in the north and south walls, the heads of 

 which are trefoiled internally, but uncusped on the 

 outside ; the cusping is probably a later addition. 



At the eastern angles of the chancel are spreading 

 plinths of thirteenth-century character, and the chancel 

 arch is an interesting piece of thirteenth-century work, 

 with a pointed arch of two rounded orders, and pretty 

 foliate capitals, that of the south respond showing 

 traces of Romansque feeling in its detail. The bases 

 are modern. The nave has two windows on the south 

 side, the eastern of which is of the fifteenth century, 

 though much patched and renewed, with three cinque- 

 foiled lights and tracery over. The other is a single 

 cinquefoiled light with little if any old masonry. 

 Between the windows is the south doorway, with a 

 semicircular head of two orders of the rounded section 

 which occurs in the chancel arch, and doubtless of the 

 same date ; it has a modern label. On the jambs are 

 three incised sundials ; the doorway now opens to a 

 modern wooden porch. 



The tower is of three stages with an embattled 

 parapet and a stair at the south-east. It dates from 

 the early part of the sixteenth century, and has two- 

 light belfry windows of plain character, and a west 

 window of three cinquefoiled lights with tracery, be- 

 neath which is a west doorway of two hollow-cham- 

 fered orders. A window in which a fifteenth-century 

 cinquefoiled head is re-used has been in modern times 

 inserted near the south-west angle of the ground stage, 

 which is screened off from the nave and used as a vestry. 

 The font is modern, as are all the fittings of the 

 church; the nave roof is dated 1714, the year of the fire. 



There are five bells, the third, fourth, and tenor by 

 James Wells of Aldbourne, 1802, the other two being 

 blank and probably by the same founder. 



The plate is a fine set, silver-gilt, given by Thomas 

 Newry, rector, in 1717, and bearing the London hall- 

 mark for 1716. It consists of chalice with cover 

 paten, flagon, and almsdish. There is also a silver- 

 gilt bowl of 1815 for use at baptisms, given in 1 8 1 6 

 by Honora wife of the Hon. Augustus George Legge, 

 rector. 



The first book of the registers contains all entries 

 from 1570 to 1718, and a list of burials in woollen 

 1678-1717, together with a record of 595 births be- 

 tween 1683 and 1767, and the names of fourteen 

 persons touched for the king's evil, 1684-1713. 

 The second book contains all entries 1718-62, the 

 third baptisms and burials 1763-1812, and the fourth 

 is the printed marriage register 17541812. 



Between 1655 and 1672 the registers are very 

 imperfect, and there is a note of explanation that ' the 

 registrar deputed for the purpose had not what was due 

 to him for it.' 



There was a church in Wonston 

 at the time of the Domesday Sur- 

 vey li3 the advowson of which be- 

 longed to the bishop of Winchester. 164 In 1333 John 



us Vide de Bane. R. Hil. 20 Hen. VI, 

 rot. 314. 



146 Feet of F. Hants, 17 Hen. III. 



"7 Ibid. East. 31 Hen. III. 



" 8 Ibid. Mich. 9 Edw. II. 



149 In 13303 messuage and lands were set- 

 tled on Peter and Alice in fee-tail with 

 contingent remainder in fee-tail succes- 

 sively to John son of Hugh de Sutton, 



Alan son of Richard de Sutton, junr. and 



Joan daughter of Alan de Sutton, senr. 

 Feet of F. Hants, Trin. 4 Edw. III). In 

 1 341 3 messuages and land were settled on 

 Peter de Sutton in fee-tail with contingent 

 remainder in tail-male successively to 

 Alan son of Richard de Sutton and Robert 

 son of Hugh de Sutton (Feet of F. Hants, 

 East 15 Edw. III). 



460 



ia> Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 28, No. 



112. 



l De Bane. R. Hil. 20 Hen. VI, m. 

 314. 



"'Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 2 8, No. 112. 



159 V.C.H. Hants, I, 467* 



* Pat. 26 Hen. Ill, m. 1 3 ; Chart. R. 

 12 Edw. I, m. 5 ; Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 

 87 j Pat. 5 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 23. 



