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��witnessed a conveyance of land in Bramley. 9 * John Wintershull was lord in 1340." In 1362 John vested the manor in trustees for himself, his son John and his heirs, and other children and their heirs in succession. 98 John the younger made his will in 1396, mentioning his children, Thomas, John, and Joan. 9 *" John had a son Robert," whose son Thomas died seised of the manor in 1 476-7. 100 Robert, son of Thomas, petitioned for the manorial records to be de- livered to him by Elizabeth Wintershull. 101 Robert died in I487, 10 * leaving a son Robert, then eight yean old, 103 who died in 1549, and was succeeded by his son John. John, son of John Wintershull, 104 made proof of his age in 1565, but died in I57I. 104 He left an infant son William, who afterwards, in 1 60 1, conveyed Selhurst or Wintershull to George Austen, 106 probably for the purpose of a settlement, as Austen was not in possession a few years later.

William Wintershull was probably a recusant. He was connected with the Lumleys, recusants, to whom he let the manor-house ; and he ultimately conveyed the reversion of the manor to trustees for their benefit. Henry Lumley parted with his interest, and by a series of conveyances the manor passed to George Chandler, who in 1655 conveyed one moiety in possession and one in reversion to his brother Richard. 107 Richard Chandler held a court in 1663. Thomas Chandler his son held a court in 1667, and made a conveyance of the manor in 1671 I08 to John Child, who held a court in 1672. His grandson Charles Child is said to have sold the manor after 1723 to Mr. Barrett, father of George Barrett, the owner in i8o8, 109 and it is now in the possession of Mr. George W. Barrett.

HAM was held by Henry de Guldeford, when he died in 1312 13, of the Prior and convent of Sandle- ford. 110 Ham was connected with the manor and park of Ashurst (see Witley). The keeper of these was accountable for rent of land called ' Hamme,' circa I369-7I. 111 The rent occurs again in 1374 5,"' and in 1439-40 Walter Bedall, keeper of Ashurst Manor and park, took proceedings against Sir Henry Hussey for usurping the profits of Ham. 118

Ashurst and Frydynghurst seem to be the same estate. The Windsor family bought land in them, and the Fordes from them. 114 Thomas Mellersh was dealing with Hamland in 1574,"' and is said to have owned Nore and Ham Manor, 11 * and to have bought the latter from Forde, of Harting, Sussex. 1 "

NORE, which with Ham is called a manor, was acquired by George Austen of Shalford, by marriage with Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Mellersh of Nore. The Mellersh family had held it for some time. George Austen died holding the capital messuage of Nore in 1611, together with Hameland and Unstead Manors. 118 It is still the

��property of the family, and the residence of Colonel Godwin Austen, owner of Shalford Park.

Rushett Farm was called Marhoks before the Durgats held it in the 1 6th century, 119 and was afterwards in the possession of Joshua Mellersh. 1 " Birtley House was perhaps originally Berkeley, for in 1 604 Brian Annesley held ' Burtley,' otherwise Burke- ley. 111 It was held by Henry Foisted, to whose fam.ly it had passed from Thomas Elliott of Yateley. Ralph de Fay, when lord of Bramley, had granted lot. rent from the tenement of William 'of Berkele in Bromlegh ' to the priory of Amesbury. 1 " ' Bromley House in Bromley Street ' was the residence of Dame Joan Pole in l^8. m The house was afterwards claimed by Lawrence Stoughton, to whom it de- scended by various enfeoffments from Drew, brother and heir of Charles Barentyne, son of Dame Joan." 4 The church of the HOLrTRlNlTT, CHURCH originally a chapel attached to Shalford, has been grievously injured by several restorations and enlargements. It stands towards the north of the village street, near the corner at the cross roads. The site is level, and the churchyard is prettily planted with trees and shrubs, there being a fine old yew on the north side. It is built of Bargate stone rubble, with dressings of hard chalk in the older parts and of Bath stone in the new. The squat spire is shingled, and the chancel has been re-roofed in slates with very inharmonious effect.

Until 1850 the plan was cruciform, and consisted of a nave, about 57 ft. by 21 ft., chancel 31 ft. 6 in. by 21 ft., south transept (or Ludlow chapel) about 1 7 ft. square, and low tower and spire on the north forming a north transept of about the same dimen- sions. At the west end was a porch, within which was a plain doorway of mid- 12th-century date, to which period the nave seems to have belonged. The head of this doorway, with zigzag moulding, has been rebuilt on modern jambs. The chancel and tower, which still remain, were evidently added in about 1210, and the south transept, roofed, with its gable parallel to that of the chancel, in about the middle of the 1 3th century. Both tower and chancel have been much modernized within, but externally, save for the slated roof of the chancel and some modern outbuildings and buttresses, they have been little altered. The chancel has a slight inclination to the north on plan.

There are three long lancets in the east wall ; the middle one slightly higher, and three in each of the side walls, worked in hard chalk, their internal splays radiating round the head, without scoinson arches a mark of early date in the period. Under the eastern- most lancet on the south side of the chancel is a piscina with a pointed arch, upon the apex of which a fleur-de-lys is carved in relief an ornament of not

��Add. Chart. (B.M.), 14839.

op. cit. ii, 86.
 * " Ct. R. quoted by Manning and Bray,

98 Deed quoted by Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 86.


 * Ibid.


 * > See Frenches in Worplesdon.

100 Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. IV, no. 48.

101 Early Chan. Proc. Ixvii, 239. It appears from the petition that Robert the elder had two tons named Thomas, and that Elizabeth was widow of the younger Thomas.

1M Will. P.C.C. proved 23 NOT. 1487.

��IM Eich. Inq. p.m. 3 & 4 Hen. VII, 1059, no. 2.

104 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), lixxv, 53 j ljuumc, 133.

l< " Ibid. 15 Eliz. clxv, 176.

"*> Feet of F. Surr. East, i Jat. I ; Hil. I Jas. I.

W Feet of F. Surr. East. 1655.

l*> Ibid. Mich. 1671.

ltw Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 87.

110 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 4].

111 Mins. Accts. bdle. 1010, no. 5. 111 Ibid. bdle. loio, no. 6, 7.

" Pat. 17 Hen. VI, pt i, m. 134

85

��Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 34 Hen. VIIIj Mich. 3 Edw. VI ; Mich. 2*3 Eliz.

"' Ibid. Trin. 16 Eliz.

u * Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 87.

u ' Private inform.

11H Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccicvii, 90.

"' Misc. Bks. (Exch. L.T.R.), 168.

l *> Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccUii, $*.

111 Ibid, cccvi, 149.

" Maitland, Bracton't Nett Bit. 553.

l" Star Chamb. Proc. Edw. VI, i, 8,

" Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 170, no. 91.

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