BUDDLESGATE HUNDRED 



WONSTON 



Stratford, bishop of Winchester, obtained licence to 

 appropriate the church, then valued at ^40, to the 

 prior and convent of St. Swithun. Out of that sum 

 2$ igs. 4</. was to be paid yearly to the hospital of 

 St. Mary according to the prescription of Henry 

 Woodlock, bishop of Winchester, and a perpetual vicar 

 was to be appointed. 1 " The appropriation, however, 

 was never carried into effect, 156 probably owing to the 

 fact that, immediately after the licence, Stratford was 

 succeeded in the episcopacy by Adam Orlton. The 

 living is at the present day in the gift of the bishop 

 of Winchester and is a rectory, net income 580 with 

 20 acres of glebe and residence built from the proceeds 

 of the sale of the old rectory house and glebe. 



Dependent on the parish church of Wonston was 

 the chapel of Sutton Scotney, 15 ' probably representing 

 one of the two churches of Sutton Scotney mentioned 

 in Domesday Book. 158 It was probably desecrated 

 early in the seventeenth century, as in 1639 Robert Har- 

 ward, who was at this time lord of the manor of Sutton 

 Scotney, and Ambrose Beach were referred to the 

 bishop of Winchester to inquire as to who was 

 answerable for the profanation of the chapel and to 

 report thereon to the Court of High Commission. 159 

 In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there was 

 also a chapel in Cranborne. Thus in March, 1 397-8, 

 John Frere and John Kyngestone were licensed to 

 confess penitents and administer the Eucharist in the 

 hamlet of Cranborne at the impending season of Easter, 

 saving the rights of the parish church of Wonston. 160 

 Again,in March, 140 1 -2, William of Wykeham granted 

 licence to John Kyngestone, chaplain, to perform 

 divine service in the chapel of Cranborne and to 

 administer the sacraments to his servants and tenants, 



John Pyperwhyt and Joan his wife, during his good 

 pleasure. 161 



In 1710 Thomas Sayer by will 

 CHARITIES gave 30 for the benefit of the poor. 

 In 1779 John Wickham by will 

 gave $ yearly towards educating poor children of the 

 parish. In satisfaction of the legacy, a sum of 

 166 I3/. \d. Old South Sea annuities was purchased, 

 subsequently augmented by investment of accumu- 

 lations of income. By a scheme of the Charity Com- 

 missioners of 22 March, 1867, the two charities were 

 merged, and the income applied towards the mainten- 

 ance of the parochial school. The present endow- 

 ment consists of .278 \\i. loJ. consols with the 

 Official Trustees of Charitable Funds. 



In 1863 the Hou. Honora Legge, widow, by will 

 proved this date, left 100 consols (part of a sum of 

 400 consols directed to be transferred to the Official 

 Trustees of Charitable Funds) the dividends to be applied 

 by the officiating minister as a marriage portion for 

 the daughter of a resident labourer under the age of 

 twenty-five years, she and her husband to be members 

 of the Church of England, or, failing a suitable person, 

 to a deserving labourer having the most children 

 dependent upon him, or to two of the oldest and poorest 

 residents, widows in preference. See also parish of 

 Hinton Ampner (hundred of Fawley) and parish of 

 Bramdean (hundred of Bishop's Sutton). 



In 1898 Mrs. Honora Augusta Cowper Coles, by a 

 codicil to her will proved this date, bequeathed 120 

 2 los. per cent. Bank Annuities to the officiating 

 minister of Wonston, the income to be employed in 

 providing warm winter clothing for respectable poor 

 women of the parish. 



154 Pat. 7 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 12; Cat. 

 Pap. Letters, ii, 381. 



158 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 17. 



W Chart. R. 12 Edw. I, m. 5 ; Egerton 

 MS. 2034, fol. 176. 



IM V.C.H. Hann, I, 488*. 504* 



169 Cal. ofS.P.Dom. 1639, p. 283. 

 160 JVykcham'i Reg, (Hants Rec. Soc.), ii, 

 480. 1" Ibid. 537. 



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