90 MINTEHNE. 



5 Edward VI., 1552, the Manor was granted to the "Warden and 

 Scholars of Winchester College and their successors, to be held of 

 the King in Chief by Knight's service, value <13 6s. 8d. 



The property mainly continued in possession of Winchester 

 College till 1864, when, after much negotiation and many diffi- 

 culties, the copyhold was enfranchised by Edward St. Vincent, 9th 

 Baron Digby, the present owner. 



The Lessees of this Manor for several generations were the 

 family of the Churchills. Roger de Curcille came over with the 

 Conqueror. To pass on from the llth to the 16th or 17th century, 

 we have Roger Churchill, of Catherston, Dorset, marrying Jane, 

 widow of Nicholas Meggs, and daughter of William Peverel, of 

 Bradford. 



They had a son Matthew, who married Alice Gould, daughter of 

 James Gould, of Dorchester. 



Their son Jasper (also called of Bradford, which seems to imply 

 possession of some land at Bradford Peverel) married Elizabeth 

 Chaplet, of Herringstone. 



Their son and heir, John Churchill, styled of Wootton Glan- 

 ville, studied law at the Middle Temple, and added to his estate. 

 We find him at Minterne. In 1642 he had a lease of Minterne 

 from the College of Winchester (Hutchings iv., 471, note). He 

 died in 1652 at the age of 73. 



He was grandfather to the famous Duke of Maryborough. He 

 married Sarah Winston, daughter of Sir Henry Winston, of 

 Standish Court, in the County of Gloucester. 



He was married a second time. His second wife, Mary Allen, 

 erected the monument to his memory in Minterne Church. He 

 left a son called Winston. 



This Winston Churchill was born at Wootton Glanville, and at 

 16 years of age matriculated at St. John's, Oxford (8th April, 

 1636) ; on the death of his father he left Oxford without taking his 

 degree. 



He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Drake, of Ashe, in 

 the County of Devon. 



