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discovered that after the time of William de Fsritate, 

 the manor was held by Henry de la Charite, from 

 whose tenure the name charity appears certainly to 

 have been derived. Subsequently, Mr. Radcliffe has 

 found that it passed into the possession of John de 

 Wyndesore in the time of Edward I. He appears to 

 have had a son named Geoffrey de Wyndesore, whose 

 daughter Alicia de Wyndesore married John Everard, 

 who sold the estate to Thomas de Alneton in 1330. 

 This Thomas de Alneton sold it in 1334 to John de 

 Hampton, and the earliest monuments in the church 

 are those relating to the Hampton family. At the 

 time ot the meeting of the club I mentioned the legal 

 process which was probably of a friendly nature, 

 between John Everard and Thomas de Alneton in 

 1334, and which appears to have been only the 

 necessary legal proceedings for making a valid 

 transfer of the manor and estate from one to the other. 

 Since receiving the additional information from the 

 Rev. A. C. Radcliffe, through Mr. B. W. Green- 

 field, I have also come across some other reterences 

 to additional information which it may be desirable to 

 place on record. The Brocas family held at one 

 time some lands in Stoke Charity, and I find the 

 following documents relating to this manor are 

 mentioned in " The History of the family of Brocas 

 of Beaurepaire," by Professor Montagu Burrows. 



(1) 56 Hen. III. A quit claim by John and Petro- 

 nilla de Wyndesore to Martin de Roche for roos. rent 

 in Eleddestoke "ad totam vitam Alicie de la 

 Charite . . . pro warantia in dotis pred. Alicie 

 in eadem villa." 



From this it appears probable that Henry de la 

 Charite left a daughter named Alice, for whom it was 

 necessary to make a provision. Possibly Petronilla 

 de Wyndesore may also have been a de la Charite. 



(2) 31 Edw. III. Lease by Johanna de Roche, 

 widow of Sir John de Roche of her dower lands in 

 Eldstoke for her life to Thomas de Hampton for 403. 



(3) 20 Henry VII. Agreement made by William 

 Brocas with the Abbot and convent of Hyde to grant 

 a lease for 31 years of Brocas mede, in Oldstoke, 

 under a bond ot ^40. 



(4) 21 Henry VII. Grant of the above or another 

 meadow from the same to the same for 21 years, for 

 the sum of 203. per annum. 



(5) 34 Henry VIII. Exemplification under the 

 Royal seal of a plea of trespass committed by Richard 

 Waller, Peter Sone, yeoman, and Richard Drelker, 

 all late ef Oldstoke, on Richard Pexsall's land at 

 Oldstoke, called Brocas mede. 



(6) 35 Henry VIII. Award of Sir William Paulet 

 Lord St. John, and Edward Griffin, concerning the 

 right to Brocas mede in Oldstoke, disputed between 

 Richard Pexsall and Richard Waller. 



These references will be useful in collecting materials 

 for the history of the parish, which, undoubtedly, has 



got its name Charity from the i3th century owners ot 

 that name. With Alicie de la Charite, mentioned in 

 1272, the family apparently disappeared, but the 

 name survived in the name of the parish. 



T. W. SHORE. 



WEATHER REPORT FOR THE WEEK. 

 From the meteorological register made at the Ordnance 

 Survey Office, Southampton, under the direction of Col. Sir 

 Chas. Wilson, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S , R.E. Lat. 50 

 54' so"N. ; long. i 24' o" W. ; height above sea, 84 feet. 

 Observers Sergt. T. Chambers, R.E., and Mr. J. T. Cook. 



* Black bulb in vacuo. 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, November 29, 1890. 



THE REV. W. L. W. EYRE'S " HISTORY OF 



SWARRATON AND NORTHINGTON." 

 To the Editor of the Hampshire Independent. 



Sir, In your last issue I find a notice of " A brief his- 

 tory of the parishes of Svvarraton and Northington." The 

 question is asked, possibly with a view to some reply 

 being forthcoming, " Was nothing saved of the Nor- 

 man church or chapel of Northington (dating from about 

 the year 1150) with its handsome Norman doorway ? " 

 Nothing beyond the broken capital of a pillar of which 

 an illustration is given. " Are there no monuments of 

 antiquity in the churchyards ? " The reply has to be 

 made, nothing ; even the capital referred to has passed 

 between the ruthless jaws of the steam crushing 

 machine. After the stone had been saved for some 

 months with the idea of permanent preservation the 

 carelessness of the workman who had it in charge 

 forgot all about it ; thus it has irrecoverably gone. 



