MAINSBRIDGE HUNDRED 



sold her share in the estate to the children of her 

 sister," 8 and Eastleigh then became the property of 

 William Weston, son of Joan by her first marriage, 

 and subsequently, on his death without issue, of his 

 sister Margaret, wife of Thomas Welles. 159 She, on 

 her death in I 5 1 3, 160 left her son John Welles as heir, 

 and from him Eastleigh passed to his son Thomas, 161 

 and in 1553 to his grandson Gilbert Welles. 1 " Gil- 

 bert 16S died in I 598,"" and was succeeded by his son 

 Thomas, and afterwards in 1631, by his grandson Gil- 

 bert, 185 whose lands were confiscated for recusancy dur- 

 ing the life of his sons Charles and Swithun, the family 

 of Welles being notoriously recusant and royalist. 164 

 Their lands were, however, subsequently restored, and 

 Eastleigh came into the possession of Thomas Welles 

 and his son Henry successively. In 1734 Henry, 

 Charles, and Alexander Welles sold Eastleigh manor 

 with two water-mills, court leet and court baron, free 

 warren and fishery, to James Ryder, 16 ' and before the 

 end of the eighteenth century the whole estate had 

 passed into the possession of Walter Smythe, who 

 purchased the manor with the attached farm and 

 mills from Peter Rorke and John Prujean in I779- 168 

 Two years later he mortgaged Eastleigh to Thomas 

 Bennett for 2,ooo. 169 



From this date no further trace of Eastleigh is to 

 be found, and it is probable that it was incorporated 

 with the adjoining manor of Barton Peverel ; Iro for 

 Mr. Tankerville Chamberlayne, lord of that manor, 

 holds Eastleigh farm and Great Eastleigh House with 

 it, although no rights are attached to either. Any 

 rights that formerly existed must have fallen into 

 abeyance in the early part of the nineteenth century. 

 In 1124 Henry I founded in PORTSWOOD the 

 priory of St. Denys, and in the foundation charter 

 granted to it a parcel of land between Portswood and 

 the River Itchen which formerly paid 1 is. 6d. yearly 

 to the king. 171 In 1 189 the priory received a further 

 grant from Richard I, of Kingsland, and a wood 

 called Portswood which gives the name to the sur- 

 rounding district, 171 and in 1305 Elias Starie granted 

 to the monks 25*. rent from land in Portswood. 173 

 These lands and rents were held by the prior until 

 the Reformation, 174 when the value of the ' manor ' of 

 St. Denys with its grange is given as 13 6s. %J. m 

 In 1538 the site of the priory and the adjoining 

 grange, with about 374 acres of land and 90 acres of 

 wood, were granted by the king to Francis Dawtrey. 176 



SOUTH 

 STONEHAM 



A manor of Portswood mentioned in a list of his 

 property made at his death in 1569 is probably iden- 

 tical with this priory manor. 17 ' This had been pre- 

 viously settled on his wife Elizabeth for her life, 

 with reversion on her death to Richard Knight. 179 

 John Knight, son of Richard, was seised in 1615, and 

 Portswood was apparently in the same hands in 1658, 

 when a map of the manor gives John Knight as the 

 owner. This map shows the demesne lands to comprise 

 the priory site and buildings, a conduit, paddock and 

 orchard, and to the south-east of the church a weir 

 for the taking of fish from the Itchen, which supplied 

 the ancient convent. 179 The Morgans were in 

 possession of Portswood manor in 1689 18 and 1693, 

 and it descended under the will of Richard Morgan 

 to Thomas Wood, who was seised in I776. lsl From 

 Thomas Wood, junr., who held the manor in l8l2, 18> 

 it has passed by many conveyances to Mr. T. A. 

 Skelton. 18 * He sold the site of the priory to 

 Mr. W. H. Baigent in 1878, and it has recently 

 been disposed of for building purposes. 



At the present time it appears that there are 

 no manorial rights here, nor can record of any 

 be found. No courts are now held, as the Portswood 

 always attended the Southampton court 

 time of Richard II, being within the 



men 



have 



since the 

 borough. 

 In the 



thirteenth century record is found con- 

 cerning land in SHAMBLEHURST in South 

 Stoneham. In 1219, I carucate of land in that 

 place was granted by a certain John son of Peter to 

 the prior of St. Denys, near Southampton, who was 

 to hold the same by payment of a rent of I Ib. of 

 cummin. 181 At this same period half a carucate of 

 land was held by Svelfus son of Walter, who in 1219 

 conveyed it to Matthew de Wellop. 184 



Thirteen years later a certain Matthew Turpin 

 and Anne his wife held the same amount of land 

 here. 186 



John Biset held the manor at his death in 

 1241, and on the division of his estates among his 

 three co-heiresses Margaret his daughter, wife of 

 Richard de Rivers, obtained possession of this manor, 187 

 which was held of Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, 

 who purchased from John de Rivers in 1 3 1 7 all his 

 rights in Townhill and Shamblehurst. 188 



No mention of Shamblehurst is to be found among 

 the lands of the De Veres after 1317, and since at the 



I* 8 Close, 14 Hen. VI, m. 6. The 

 Basset family were to receive in recom- 

 pense from the heirs of Thomas Welles 

 /4 yearly rent in perpetuity. 



9 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 4 Edw. IV. 



i Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 27, 

 No. 62 ; She had married as her second 

 husband Appisley. 



ll Ibid. 16a Ibid. 



168 He appears to have leased out the 

 manor during his lifetime to Robert and 

 William Leyse. 



i Chan. Inq. p.m. 41 Eliz. pt. 2, 

 (Scr. l), No. 36, Feet of F. Div. Coi. 

 Trin. ii Jas. I. 



"5 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Chas. I, pt. 2, 

 (Ser. 2), No. 121. 



1M Cal. of Com. for Compounding, pp. 184, 

 3138, 3287. The value of Charles Welles' 

 land in Eastleigh was 45 per annum. 

 His grandmother Isabel, and his mother 

 Mary, who had married Sir William Court- 

 ney, both held certain lands in Eastleigh 

 for life in dower. 



W Feet of F. Hants, East. 7 Geo. II. 



I' 8 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. 19 

 Geo. Ill, m. 228 ; ibid. Hil. 21 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 73. 



"9 Ibid. m. 156. 



17 In 1831 Barton and 'Eastley' formed 

 a tithing of the parish of South Stoneham ; 

 Pop. Ret. 



"1 V.C.H. Hants, ii, 160, Dugdale,Mon. 

 vi, 213. 



17 B.M. Add. MS. 15314, fol. 99*, 

 100 ; V.C.N. Hants, ii, 160* ; Pipe R. 

 13 Hen. II. 



l" 8 Pat. 33 Edw. I, m. 24. 



17 4 Occasional leases of land in Ports- 

 wood by the prior are found ; see Anct. 

 D. (P.R.O.), B. 29, 36. 



175 Dugdale, Man. vi, 213. 



!" 6 Pat. 30 Hen. VIII, pt. 6, m. 4. 



177 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), vol. 152, 

 No. 140. 



178 Ibid. 



179 Hants Field Club Proc.vol. 3, pt. 2. It 

 was one of the customarv duties for the men 



of Portswood manor to keep this king's 

 weir in repair. 



l< Recov. R. Trin. I Will, and Mary 

 rot. 72, 



181 Feet of F. Vill Southampton, Trin. 

 16 Geo. III. 



181 Recov. R. East. 52 Geo. Ill, rot. 



399- 



188 Hana Field Club Proc. vol. iii, 



pt. 2. 



1M Feet of F. Hants, 3 Hen. Ill, No. 

 1 6. This grant was confirmed forty years 

 later by Walter of Shamblehurst, on 

 condition that he received from the prior 

 for his life a daily allowance of one white 

 loaf and two ordinary loaves, and one 

 gallon of beer, with a cart-load of wood 

 yearly. Feet of F. Hants, 33 Hen. Ill, 

 No. 53. 



18 Ibid. 5 Hen. Ill, No. 27. 



186 Cal. of Pat. 1231-4, p. 127. 



18 " Excerpta t Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 358. 



l 88 B.M. Add. Chart. 55, D. 28. 



487 



