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XIV.—Charters of the Manor of Meonstoke
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
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The Winchester College manor of Meonstoke is an agglomeration of the principal manor of the parish, known at one time as Meonstoke Perrers, after the mistress of Edward III., with another manor in the same parish, formerly known as Meonstoke Ferraunt, and some freeholds, all of which were the gift of William of Wykeham to his college near the end of the fourteenth century. The tenure is copyhold of inheritance, and the descent is to the youngest, which was probably the prevailing custom of the Meon Valley at that time. There is, however, another little manor in the same parish, the manor of Meonstoke Parsonage, in which the tenure is copyhold for lives without power of renewal, and the tenements are chattels real passing to the legal personal representative. The consolidation was doubtless by the college steward for convenience of management. The statute Quia Emptores did not prevent it, and it was an easy thing to include the freeholds.
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page 286 note a Bere, the name of the district known as Bere Forest.
page 286 note b Cornhampton, now Corhampton.
page 286 note c Midlington, a place midway between the villages of Soberton and Droxford.
page 287 note a Now Shudley, in the parish of Meonstoke.
page 287 note b i.e. whenever the grantee shall be at mercy in the court baron the penalty shall not exceed one pint of wine or eight pence.
page 288 note a By Statute 47 Edward III. a piece of plain cloth was to measure 26 yards and be 6 quarters wide. By Wykeham's Statutes for Winchester College (1400) the gown cloth for the warden, fellows, and masters was to be 42s. the piece, and 3s. 4d. was allowed for fur to trim a gown.
page 288 note b Dictionary of National Biography, xlv. 12.
page 288 note c Rot. Parl. iii. 5, 12, 13, 14.
page 288 note d Additional Charter, No. 38,810, Culworth Series.
page 289 note a Droxford.
page 289 note b A hamlet in the adjoining parish of Hambledon, now Chidden.
page 290 note a Dictionary of National Biography, lxiii. 228.
page 292 note a Archaeologia, iii. 24.
page 292 note b Dictionary of National Biography, lxiii. 226.
page 292 note c Ibid.
page 293 note a Kimpton, near Andover.
page 293 note b Probably Shoddesden, in the parish of Kimpton, near Andover.
page 293 note c Now Fyfield, near Andover.
page 293 note d At the settlement between Wykeham and the executors of his predecessor (Wykeham's Register, 64A) the executors admitted a liability of 700 marks over and above the sum actually paid under this head.