A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



In 1750 it was purchased by John White," and by 

 him conveyed to Nathaniel Middleton, sheriff of 

 Hampshire in 1 800. Middleton sold Townhill in 

 1 799 to William Cator alias Gater, 53 and it remained 

 in his family until sold by Mr. Caleb William Gater 

 of Salisbury to Lord Swaythling, who now holds it." 



Another manor bearing the name MAINSBRIDGE 

 alias SWArTHLlNG was held by the De Lisles of 

 Hyde Abbey " by doing suit at the abbot's court of 

 Stoneham. The earliest mention which can be 

 found of the ownership of 

 the manor by the De Lisles 

 occurs in I 304 in an inquisi- 

 tion taken on the death of 

 John son of William de Lisle. 56 

 The De Lisle family held it 

 in a direct line from father to 

 son " until the death of John 

 de Lisle in 1471." By his 

 will dated 1468 he left his 

 manor of Throckleston and 

 Mainsbridge to his son Nicho- 

 las." Nicholas by his will 

 dated 1496 directed that after 



his death the issues from Swaythling, probably identical 

 with Mainsbridge, were to be set aside for three years 

 for the payment of legacies made in his will. 60 It 

 appears to have then passed to the Philpotts, Elizabeth 

 sister of Nicholas having married John Philpott. 61 

 Thomas his son, who was 

 seised in 1556, died in 

 1587, 63 and the estates of the 

 De Lisles which had descended 

 to him passed to his son 

 George, afterwards created a 

 knight, 61 who died in 1624. 

 His son John, who inherited 

 the estates, was also knighted, 

 and became a staunch royalist. 61 

 His son Sir George Philpott 

 took an important part in 

 the Civil Wars of the reign 

 of Charles I and was a noted 

 leaving no male issue, and his 



DE LISLE. Gules a 



che-veron between three 

 hurdock lea-vet or. 



PHILPOTT. Azure 

 bend ermine. 



recusant. He died 

 two daughters had 



previously become nuns at Pontoise. 66 



In 1691 a fourth part of the manor of Swaythling 

 was in the hands of Charles Holt and Anne his 

 wife, 67 evidently one of four co-heiresses, and was 

 sold in that year for ,4,680 to Humphrey Wyrley and 

 Charles Jennens. 68 



The remaining three-fourths of the manor M was 

 conveyed by the co-heiresses, Ann Clobery widow, 

 Ann wife of Sir Charles Holt, bart., Susan wife of Sir 

 Thomas Trollope, and Maria Noel widow, to Edmund 

 Dummer in 1712, but was held by Dummer 

 Andrews for life until 1773.' Edmund's daughter, 

 who had married Dennis Bond, son of her stepfather, 

 inherited on the death of Dummer Andrews, and in 

 1821 this manor with Pollack was sold to John 

 Fleming." 



All manorial rights have been lost, and in the 

 schedule of the Fleming estates, of 1 843," Swaythling 

 is referred to as a farm, and Sheppard's Farm is 

 reputed to be the site of the manor-house. 



POLLACK" formed part of the Hampton Park 

 Estate, which was recently purchased from the 

 Flemings by Mr. H. K. Grierson. His title deeds 

 however shew no trace of manorial rights. 



The manor of BITTERNS was granted to the 

 bishop of Winchester by Edward I in 1284," and 

 later in the same year permission was given for the 

 men in the bishop's manor of Bitterne to answer at 

 his hundred court at Waltham, instead of at that of 

 Sweynston, as had formerly been their custom. 75 



From this time until the middle of the sixteenth 

 century Bitterne remained a 

 possession of the See of Win- 

 chester. 



In 1552 Bitterne with other 

 manors was surrendered by the 

 bishop, John Poynet, in ex- 

 change for other property, 

 chiefly churches and their 

 advowsons, in Hampshire. 76 

 Three months later these lands 

 were granted to William earl 

 of Wiltshire, Lord High Trea- 

 surer, 77 but they were restored 

 by Queen Mary to the See of 

 Winchester, 78 and Bitterne was 

 held by the successive bishops until 1869, when, on 

 the resignation of Bishop Sumner, it was vested in the 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who at the present time 

 are lords of the manor. 79 



At the beginning of the nineteenth century 

 Nathaniel Middleton of Townhill, sheriff of Hamp- 

 shire, purchased a part of Bitterne manor, which he 

 called Midanbury ; it now belongs to his descendant 

 Mr. H. B. Middleton of Dorchester. 80 



In 1330 certain lands in Swaythling, worth 20 a 



SEE OF WINCHESTER. 

 Gules Saint Peter's keys 

 crossed "with Saint Paul's 

 sivord. 



M Feet of F. Hants, East, 23 Geo. II. 

 " Ibid. Trin. 39 Geo. III. 

 H Information supplied by Lord 

 Swaythling. 



66 It seems probable that this manor 

 under the name of Swaythling formed part 

 of the grant to Hyde Abbey, by Alfred the 

 thegn in 94.1. Birch, Cart. Sax. ii, 328. 



60 Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Edw. I, No. 60. 



6 7 Free warren in Mainsbridge manor, 

 among others, was granted to John de Lisle 

 in 1 306, Chart. R. 34 Edw. I, m. 99, and 

 confirmed to his descendant John de Lisle 

 in 1390. Cal. of Pat. 1388-92, p. 282. In 

 1339 Bartholomew de Lisle was exempt 

 from the provision of defence for Hamp- 

 shire, the guardianship of the Isle of 

 Wight having already been committed to 

 him. Cal. of Close, 1339-41, p. 117. 



68 Chan. Inq. p.m. n Edw. IV, 

 No. 59. 



P.C.C. Will 3, Wattyj. 



611 Ibid. 7, Adeane. 



61 P.C.C. Will 3, Wattys. 



62 Recov. R. East. 2 & 3 Phil, and Mary, 

 rot. 10 and 1 1 ; Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 18 

 & 19 Eliz. In 1563 Thos. Philpott had 

 to apply for a writ against William 

 Gibbons and Henry Palmer, who had 

 seized his manors of Barton and Swaythling 

 on the strength of certain ' evidences and 

 other writings concerning the said prem- 

 ises, which had casually come to their 

 hands and possession.' Chan. Proc. (Ser. 

 ii), bdle. 146, No. 4. 



63 Chan. Inq, p.m. 29 Eliz. (Ser. 2), 

 No. 84. 



61 Ibid. (Ser. 2), vol. 402, No. 129. 



5 Ibid. 17 Chas. I (Ser. 2), pt. 2, No. 

 129. 



66 Herald and Genealogist, iii, 412. 



< Feet of F. Div. Cos. East. 2 Will, 

 and Mary 



Ibid. 



484 



68 It is possible that the other J part be- 

 came the manor of Pollack, so called, 

 which appears at this date and descends 

 with Swaythling until purchased by Mr. 

 H. K. Grierson (q.v.). 



< Recov. R. Mich. 1 1 Geo. I, rot. 45 ; 

 ibid. East. 13 Geo. Ill, rot. 281. 



'! Feet of F. Hants, Hil. I & 2 

 Geo. IV. 



? l Fleming Estates Act, 1854. 



? 8 See Swaythling. 



? 4 Chart. R. 12 Edw. I, m. 5, No. 



3 1 - 



" 5 Cal. of Pat. 1281-92, p. 122. 



" 6 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. 6, m. 26. 



<7 Ibid. pt. 4, m. 39. 



" 8 Ibid. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary, pt. 7, m. 

 19. 



7* Information supplied by the Ecclesi- 

 astical Commissioners. 



80 Information supplied by Mr. H. B. 

 Middleton. 



