THE HUNDRED OF MAINSBRIDGE 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



NORTH BADDESLEY 

 BOTLEY 



CHILWORTH 

 HAMBLE LE RICE 

 SOUTH STONEHAM 1 



HOUND WITH NETLEY 

 NORTH STONEHAM 



At the time of the Domesday Survey Mainsbridge Hundred covered a 

 much larger area than it does at present, for in addition to the above parishes 

 it also contained Shirley in Millbrook, Redbridge, Boyatt, and Woolston. 

 Hound, although nominally belonging to Warnford in King's Somborne 

 Hundred, paid geld in Mainsbridge, with the men in the adjoining vill 

 of ' Letelie ' or Netley. 2 At this period the total assessment of the hundred 

 was 25 hides, showing a decrease of 7 on the assessment of the hundred 

 made before the Conquest. 

 Mainsbridge was a royal 

 hundred and until the fif- 

 teenth century remained, so 

 far as is known, entirely 

 in the hands of the crown. 

 In 1280 an inquiry was 

 made into the right of the 

 men of the abbot of Netley 

 to freedom from doing suit 

 at the king's hundred court. 

 It was proved that the abbot 

 had received a grant from 

 Henry III releasing his vil- 

 leins in the tithings of 

 Hound, Shotteshal (Sat- 

 chell), and Sholing in 

 Hound, from all service 

 at the shire and hundred 

 courts, and from payment 



of all scot and geld, and tolls, 3 a privilege which the tenants of the 

 abbey seem to have always claimed from this date. In 1467 John Davy 

 was granted the hundred court with all its issues and profits for life : 

 return for an annual rental of 40*. 8</. payable to the king. 4 



The hundred court was customarily held under an ash-tree 

 Swaythling in South Stoneham at Martintide. 6 



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1 This list is taken from the Population Return 0/1831. 

 1 Plac. de quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 763. 

 6 Parl. Surv. (Aug. Off.), No. 7. 



462 



' V.C.H. Hants, i, 481. 



4 Cal. of Pat. 1461-67, p. 337. 



