NEWTON VALENCE
Newenton, Niwenton, Nyweton (xii and xiii cent.)
The parish of Newton Valence, covering about
2,258 acres, lies to the south-east of Selborne. From
Selborne the village can be reached by a hilly road
leading from Gracious Street round Selborne Hill.
Where the road branches at The Nap to left and right
the uphill road to the left leads into the village, while
the road to the right leads down to the main Alton
road and to the Pelham estate, which with the 147
acres of the parish included in the Rotherfield estate
covers the whole of that end of the parish. As the
road branches upwards to the village the modern
school (fn. 1) stands well back from the road on the left.
Fronting on the street are several picturesque cottages,
from the backs of which, over a foreground of field
and meadow, can be seen Colemore and Priors Dean,
while away in the distance on the left stretch the
Sussex Downs. Further along the street broadens
out, and in the left-hand corner is a pond almost
hidden by overhanging trees. Beyond this is a gate
opening up the path which leads both to the church
of St. Mary and the manor house, for the manor
house stands on the right almost behind the church.
Beyond this gate on a green bank the village stocks
were originally fixed between two ash trees in front
of the back wall of the manor house farm stables, and
remained there and in use within the memory of one
of the oldest inhabitants of the village. Only one
ash tree remains of the four that originally grew on
this bank, and this is not one of those on which the
stocks were fixed. Filling up the right-hand corner
is the big pond, which is one of the most beautiful
features of the village, with its wide circle of clear
water, nearly dried up in summer, and its background
of sturdy rushes. The vicarage stands on high ground
where Selborne Common meets the border line of
Newton Valence. Between the common and the
house stands a splendid avenue of Scotch firs planted
down among vegetation of very different character.
In the old-world garden is another avenue of exceptionally tall yew trees. There are also traces of two
fishponds, now filled up, and a sundial, the pedestal
of which is supposed to be formed of a pillar of old
London Bridge. On a window on the east side of
the house is the date 1755, but the back of the house
is much older, as is shown by the beams in some of
the rooms and traces of an old archway in one. There
is a fine oak staircase probably dating from the seventeenth century. Pelham, the residence of Miss Lempriere, at the other end of the parish, is a picturesque
house of the Tudor style, built in 1782, when
Admiral Thomas Dumaresq, who commanded the
Repulse under Rodney in the 'Battle of the Saints,'
bought the land called Pelham, or Pilgrim's Place,
with his prize money and built the house. It is
surrounded by an outer circle of well-wooded country—Mary Land Copse, Newton Common on the west,
Kitcombe Wood on the north, Ina Wood Copse on
the east, and Plash Wood in East Tisted parish on
the south. In the grounds stands a beautiful tulip
tree, one of the largest in England. Kitcombe House,
which is part of the Pelham estate, lies to the north,
while Headmoor, (fn. 2) including Potter's Land, Brewers
and Hill Land, lies north-west beyond Newton Common. Close by Newton Wood Farm, south of the
common, is a field in which was a messuage with two
barns and two granaries and a wind grist or corn
mill, called 'Cowdries Colpyn' in 1798, (fn. 3) now known
as Golpyn. Windmill Field is west of Golpyn, and it
was there probably in a big hollow still left in the
ground (fn. 4) that the windmill stood. Close by is a
copse called 'The Devil's Pleasure,' and a field called
'Dripping Pan Field.'
Noar Hill Farm, Hammond's Farm, and Lower
House Farm are in Noar Manor. Noar Hill rises to
a height of nearly 700 ft., and is almost surrounded by
two thickly-wooded Hangers—Noar Hill Hanger and
High Wood Hanger. Some of the most beautiful
views in the whole district can be obtained from
Noar Hill, especially towards the south-east. Empshott with its quaint church spire stretches in front;
further away to the right is Hawkley, and to the left
Greatham. Beyond Greatham to the left are Long-moor and Bordon Camps, and in the obscure distance
over the group of intervening hills are Hindhead and
Black Down.
Pelham
Although there are no rivers in Newton Valence,
Noar Hill is the watershed between the Rother, which
after becoming part of the Avon flows into the
English Channel, and the Oakhanger Stream, which
becomes a branch of the Wey and flows into the
Thames and on to the North Sea. The springs of
the Rother are south of Noar Hill in the lower chalk,
while the Oakhanger Stream has its source in the
north at the outcrop of the upper greensand from
beneath the chalk.
The parish lies entirely on chalk formation (fn. 5) with
a subsoil of clay and gravel. The chief crops are
wheat, oats, and barley, and hence the village population consists almost entirely of agriculturists. Of
the whole parish 1,015¾ acres are arable land, 495½
are pasture, and 264½ are woods and plantations. (fn. 6)
An Inclosure Act for the parish of Newton Valence
was passed in May, 1848. (fn. 7)
MANORS
In the time of Edward the Confessor
Bricteric held the manor of NEWTON
VALENCE of the king, but at the time
of the Domesday Survey it was held by Turstin son
of Rolf. (fn. 8) The fief of Turstin was granted to the
Ballons, from whom it passed through the Newmarches
to Ralph Russell of Kingston Russell as co-heir. (fn. 9) Ralph
Russell was holding in 1275, (fn. 10) but after this date the
rights of overlordship seem to have lapsed.
In 1249 the manor was held by Robert de Pont
de l'Arche, and was then of the annual value of
£53 5s. 10¾d., including the dower which belonged to
Constance widow of Robert. The demesne was worth
£17 13s. 4d. yearly, the freemen paid £4 9s. 10¾d.
and 1 lb. of pepper, while their services were worth
2s. 2d. The villeins paid £8 5s. 3d. in rent, their services were worth £8 11s. 11½d., their tallage 53s. 4d.,
and for pannage they paid 23s. 4d. The issues
of the meadow were worth 40s., while the pasture of
the whole meadow was worth 50s. The perquisites
of the manor amounted to 36s. 8d., and the issues of
the garden of the manor to £4. (fn. 11) In the same year
the manor of Newton Valence, among the other lands
which had belonged to Robert de Pont de l'Arche,
saving the dower of Constance, was granted by the
king to William de Valence and his heirs 'to hold
until the king restore them to the right heirs,' with a
promise that if the restoration were made William
and his heirs should not be disseised without an
equivalent exchange. (fn. 12) In 1252 the king inspected
and confirmed a charter given by William de Pont de
l'Arche, brother and heir of the late Robert, by which
he surrendered all his right in the inheritance of his
brother to William de Valence. (fn. 13) In 1251 the king
granted to William de Valence that his wood of
Newton, of which he had made a park 'enclosed with
ditch and hedge, within the metes of the king's forest
of "Suthamptonsire,"' should be quit for ever of
view of foresters, verderers, &c. (fn. 14) But in the next
year an inquiry was made as to the encroachments
made on the king in Hampshire by William de
Valence. His bailiffs had withdrawn the suit due
every three weeks from Newton manor to the
hundred of Selborne and had refused ingress into the
said manor to the foresters of the bailiwick of
Woolmer and other bailiffs of the said county. (fn. 15) The
same charge was brought against
him in the hundred roll of
1275, where he is also said to
have a gallows, assize of bread
and ale, and all other liberties,
and to hold view of frankpledge in Newton, though by
what warrant is not known. (fn. 16)
In 1280, in answer to a writ
of quo warranto, William de
Valence pleaded that Henry III
granted that his men and tenants of Newton should be quit
of suit at the shire and hundred court, and that no sheriff or bailiff should
enter the manor of Newton for view of frankpledge. (fn. 17) In 1316 Aymer de Valence son of William seems to have held Newton in chief, since no
overlord is mentioned, (fn. 18) and in 1324 the manor is
said to have been held 'by the earl of Pembroke of
the king in whose hands it now is on the death of the
earl.' (fn. 19) On his death in 1323 Aymer de Valence
left no issue, and his estates (fn. 20) were divided between
the only two of his sisters, Isabel and Elizabeth, who
had left any surviving heirs. (fn. 21) The manor of Newton
fell to the son of his second sister Isabel, who had
married John de Hastings, second Baron Abergavenny,
and had herself died in 1305. (fn. 22) Her son John de
Hastings died in 1324 before he could enter into his
possessions, and the manor passed into the king's
hands as guardian of the young Laurence de Hastings,
son and heir of John. (fn. 23) An enrolment of the purparty of Laurence, made in 1325, states the value of
the manor of Newton Valence at £24 1s. 1d. (fn. 24) The
custody of the manor during the minority of Lawrence
son and heir of John de Hastings was granted in
1331 to the bishop of Worcester. In 1339, when
Laurence was of age, (fn. 25) he entered into the title and
estates of his great-uncle, (fn. 26) and in the same year
procured licence to enfeoff Thomas West of the
manor of Newton, said to be held in chief with the
knights' fees, advowsons of churches, liberties, warrens,
and all other appurtenances. (fn. 27) From 1339 to the
middle of the sixteenth century the manor of Newton
Valence, like those of Oakhanger and Hawkley, passed
through the West family from father to son (fn. 28) until, in
the reign of Henry VIII, the long chain of descent
was broken. Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, conveyed the manor by fine in 1550 to Nicholas Dering,
who had married Elizabeth daughter of his half-sister
Dorothy. (fn. 29) Nicholas Dering died seised of the manor
in 1557, leaving a son and heir Thomas Dering, (fn. 30)
who within the next year evidently conveyed the
manor of Newton to John Pescod, who died seised
of it in 1558. (fn. 31) Thomas Pescod, who had succeeded
his father Richard the son of John in 1571, granted
the manor to his brother John Pescod of Roxwell, (fn. 32)
who inherited at his brother's death in 1582. (fn. 33) In
1586 John Pescod leased the manor to Henry
Campion, (fn. 34) and in 1590, on the death of John Pescod,
Nicholas Pescod his brother and heir granted the
reversion in fee to Campion, Thomas West, the
eldest son of Leonard West, half-brother of Thomas
Lord De La Warr, (fn. 35) who evidently had some residuary
right in the manor, giving his consent. (fn. 36) Henry
Campion conveyed the manor by fine in 1605 to
Abraham Campion, (fn. 37) who in 1611 died seised of it,
leaving a son and heir Henry. (fn. 38) In 1622 Henry
Campion settled the manor on himself and his wife,
the daughter of Thomas Edney. An indenture of 1653
shows that Henry's son Richard was then holding the
manor, and was still holding it in 1698, when he and
his grandson Richard (fn. 39) alienated it by fine and
recovery to Dr. John Nicholas, warden of Winchester
College. (fn. 40) On the marriage of Edward, son of
Dr. John Nicholas, to 'Madame Anne Rachell
Newsham' in 1711, the reversion of the manor was
settled on him and his wife and their heirs male. (fn. 41)
Their son William married Harriet, the daughter of
Henry Boyle of Edgcott (Bucks.), in 1742, and
settled the manor on himself and his wife in the
same year. (fn. 42) Harriet died before her husband,
leaving one son, Robert Boyle Nicholas, and two
daughters, Harriet who died unmarried before her
father, and Charlotte who afterwards married
Dr. Joseph Warton in 1773. (fn. 43) William Nicholas
died about 1762 or 1763, leaving the whole manor
vested in his son Robert, with a legacy of £2,000 to
Charlotte when she should come of age in 1764. (fn. 44)
Robert Boyle Nicholas held the manor until his
death in 1780. He was Captain of H.M.S. Thunderer,
of 74 guns, 'in which he was, with the rest of his
crew, unfortunately lost in a hurricane off the island
of Hispania' (fn. 45) in the October of that year. By his
will, dated 1776, he bequeathed the manor to his
sister Charlotte, wife of Dr. Joseph Warton, with
reversion to 'her second and third sons and every
other son in tail male taking the surname of Nicholas.'
In failure of such to her daughters and their heirs
male, failing such to their daughters, and failing such
to William Nicholas his eldest brother and his right
heirs. (fn. 46) Harriet Warton, the only child and daughter
of Charlotte, married Robert Newton Lee, and on
her mother's death in 1809 inherited the manor.
In the meantime, ever since the end of the seventeenth century, the various owners of the manor
seem to have unscrupulously bargained away parcels
of the demesne lands. (fn. 47) They seem to have seldom
been resident at Newton Valence, and so manorial
right gradually lapsed and became meaningless. Thus
in 1826, after the Newton estate had been sold to
Sir John Cope, Robert Newton Lee, in a letter to
William Dumaresq of Pelham, stated that a Mr. Beaufoy
had been in treaty for it, but 'declined the purchase
when no copy of court rolls could be found or any
other documents which had tended to prove it a
manor by suit or service.' Hence it had not been
sold to Sir John Cope as a manor. (fn. 48)
Valence. Burelly argent and azure an orle of martlets gules.
Henry Chawner, a London goldsmith, bought the
manor property about the end
of the eighteenth century of
the trustees of Robert Boyle
Nicholas, (fn. 49) converted the old
house into kitchen apartments,
and added a villa in the 'Grecian style.' On his death in
1851 his son Edward Chawner came into the property
and held it until his death in
1868, when it fell to his son,
the present owner, Captain
Edward Chawner of the 77th
Regiment, who served in part
of the Crimean campaign of 1854 and 1855.
Chawner. Sable a cheveron between three cherubs or.
NOAR.
Whether the manor of Oures, Owres,
Noare, or Nowers, known as Noar in modern days,
was in existence before the thirteenth century is uncertain. In 1275 it is first mentioned in a hundred roll
and said to be held by the abbot of Hyde in chief and in
free alms, though from what time his tenure dated was
unknown. (fn. 50) It continued in the possession of Hyde
Abbey to the sixteenth century. (fn. 51) At the time of the
dissolution Oures, as parcel of the possessions of Hyde,
passed into the king's hand and is entered in the
Ministers' Accounts from 1539 to 1542. (fn. 52) The king,
in the latter year, granted the manor to Nicholas
Dering, (fn. 53) and in the next year gave licence to Dering
to alienate the same to John Pescod to hold by service
of relief to the king. (fn. 54) John Pescod died seised of the
manor held in chief for the hundredth part of a
knight's fee in 1558, leaving his son Richard as his
heir. (fn. 55) Richard Pescod, who seems to have had great
debts and small means, sold it to Richard Norton in
1560. (fn. 56) The latter died in 1592 seised of the manor
of Oures which formed part of the jointure of his wife
Katherine, (fn. 57) who was holding the manor in 1602. (fn. 58)
By 1610 Richard Norton, the son of Katherine, was
holding the manor, and made a settlement by fine in
that year entailing it on his heirs male by his wife
Anne. (fn. 59) From this time the manor followed the
same descent as the manor of East Tisted (q.v.),
passing from the Nortons to the Paulets and from the
Paulets to the Scotts. However, not all the manor of
Oures passed from the Paulets to the Scotts in 1808.
'The farm and lands called the Manor farm part of
the manor of Noar alias Temple Noar alias Ower
alias Temple Sothington (fn. 60) held by copy of court roll
of the said manor according to the custom of the manor,'
remained in the hands of the marquis of Winchester
until purchased by James Winter Scott in 1860. (fn. 61)
The customs of the manor still hold good, and a
court baron is held by the steward for the admission
of a copyhold tenant. The fine on entry is paid
accordingly, and the heriot is commuted by a fine of
about 15s. (fn. 62) However, most of the copyholds are
being enfranchised. A perambulation of the bounds
of the parish made in 1735 and entered on the court
rolls gives many interesting place-names that still
survive. The perambulation starts from Hatch Gate
near Gallows Hill or Gallers Hill, turns down Bottom
Lane, then also called Westcroft Lane, passing by
'Fatting Leaze Land Gate' to Selborne; thence
skirting round to the south to Hale Coppice, to Tile
Croft, and into Goley or Goleigh Hill Lane, then east
to Empshott Common Field round by Noar Hill
Farm again into Galley Lane. (fn. 63)
CHURCH
The church of ST. MARY stands in
the park in the south-east of the parish.
A shady road branching to the left from
the village street leads to the lych gate, which is the
first sign of the church still hidden from view by the
large yew tree on the left side of the path inside the
churchyard. Under the tree a demarcation in the
ground is all that remains to show the spot where
once stood a tombstone to Colonel Phayre, one of
Charles I's regicides. He is said to have lived
at Cobden's farm-house at Empshott, but to have been
buried at Newton Valence. Although many people
remember the tombstone with the name clearly inscribed upon it, it has now curiously enough disappeared. Either it was accidentally removed during
the restoration of the church in 1872, or a snowstorm
caused it to fall and then it was carried away, but no
one knows where or how. A pathway of old tombstones, with the inscriptions worn away and undecipherable, leads to the church porch. The church
is a small building consisting of nave and chancel of
equal width, and with no structural division, 19 ft.
2 in. wide by 48 ft. 6 in. long; a north chapel 9 ft.
4 in. by 16 ft. 9 in. at the west of the nave, a west
tower, and a small vestry on the south of the chancel.
Its plan, as first built c. 1220, was a simple rectangle,
the present nave and chancel. The north chapel was
added at the end of the same century, and the south
vestry is modern. The tower is obscured with ivy
and plastering, and its date not easy to determine,
but it is probably an addition to the original plan.
The material of the building is the local whitish limestone, used as ashlar for dressings and uncoursed rubble
for the walling, and the roofs are tiled. The masonry
details are plain but well designed.
The chancel has a triplet of lancets in the east wall,
and two lancets in the north and south walls. A roll
string runs at the level of the sills inside, and stops on
the south side over the head of the priest's doorway,
west of the second lancet on this side. On the north
it continues westward, ending under the first window
of the nave. All windows in the north and south
walls have flat sills inside, with chamfered rear arches,
and on the outside all have a chamfer and a reveal for
a frame. The priest's doorway has a segmental inner
arch, and pointed outer arch of two chamfered orders;
it now opens to a vestry, but was at first external, and
two sundials are cut on its east jamb. The nave has
on the north side one original lancet, the rest of the
north wall being occupied by the arch leading to the
north chapel; while on the south side are three lancet
windows with a doorway to the west of them, but of
these only the first lancet from the east is ancient, the
other two, with the doorway, being entirely modern.
The west wall of the nave was rebuilt in 1812. The
north chapel, 9 ft. 4 in. by 16 ft. 9 in. long, contains
nothing ancient beyond a piscina in its east wall, of
late thirteenth-century date, with engaged shafts and
moulded capitals and arch, and a stone shelf in the
recess over the drain. There are lancet windows in
the east and west walls, and in the north wall a two-light window with a quatrefoil over, all of which are
modern. The arch to the nave is of two chamfered
orders, and though apparently modern springs at the
east from a moulded half-octagonal corbel of the end
of the thirteenth century, and at the west from a
respond and moulded half capital of similar but not
identical detail, which is either retooled or modern.
The west tower, 10 ft. 10 in. by 11 ft. 9 in., opens
to the nave by a continuous arch of two chamfered
orders, probably of fifteenth-century date. On the
ground stage is a blocked west doorway, which has an
outer arch with the fifteenth-century double ogee
moulding, and in the north and south walls are small
lancets. A few feet above them are other small
lancets, narrower than those below, and at this level
are similar windows in the east and west walls.
These four windows point to the former existence of
a floor or gallery in the tower about halfway between
the present first floor and the ground level. At a higher
level in the west wall is another lancet lighting the
present floor, and in the belfry stage are four plain
arched openings without mouldings or tracery, filled
with wooden luffers. These, with a plain parapet at
the top of the tower, are built with brick dressings,
and date (fn. 64) from a reconstruction in 1812, when a
'cupola' of wood on the tower was taken down.
Externally the tower is plastered with cement, and the
lower part overgrown with ivy, and the date of this
part is difficult to determine, the stonework of the
small lancets being for the most part either modern or
retooled.
All the woodwork of the roofs is modern, that of
the chancel being of different design from that of the
nave, and divided from it by an arched truss, resting
on stone corbels with short shafts. The wood fittings
are also modern. In the south wall of the chancel is
a pretty trefoiled piscina with moulded arch and
label, and a stone shelf. It is contemporary with the
chancel, but its drain, in the form of a shaft with leaf
capital, half buried in the wall, looks like an older
pillar piscina of c. 1200 re-used. In 1812 a screen
between nave and chancel was taken down. It was
evidently in the nature of a framed partition, as its
destroyers were in doubt whether it could be taken
away without weakening the roof.
The font is modern, but in the churchyard, west of
the south doorway, is an ancient circular bowl with
lead lining, which may be of the thirteenth century;
and outside the blocked west doorway of the tower is
a dilapidated panelled shaft and bowl, the latter set
upside down on the shaft, belonging to a second
superseded font, not older than the end of the
eighteenth century.
There is no ancient glass or wall painting. On
the north wall of the chancel is a small brass plate in
memory of Francis, son of Robert Johnson, who died
in 1616 aged 2½ years. There are five bells, the
treble being of the fourteenth century, and specially
interesting from having an English inscription, as the
use of English on bells was very rare at the time.
It reads, 'Hal Mari ful of gras,' in Gothic capitals,
with a round stop between each word on which
is the figure of a cock. On the waist are the
founder's initials, W. K. The second has 'Henri
Knight made mee 1620,' and the third 'Let your
hope be in the Lord, 1623, E. K.' The initials
are those of Ellis Knight the founder. The fourth
bell was cast by Taylor of Loughborough in 1871,
and the tenor recast by John Warner & Sons of
London, 1880.
The church plate consists of a chalice, paten, and
alms-dish of plain silver, hall marked and dated 1725,
and inscribed 'The gift of James Glyd gentleman, of
the parish of Newton.'
The first book of the parish registers begins in
1538, and contains a rather irregular transcript of
births, weddings, and burials to 1667. Then comes
a transcript of the births, weddings, and burials between 1543 and 1548. Following this is a continuation
of the registers from 1667 to 1740; then another transcript from 1627 to 1670, and from 1686 to 1695. The
second book of burials and baptisms dates from 1740
to 1811, and that of weddings from 1754 to 1812.
The Hawkley parish register of births, weddings, and
burials entered in one book from 1640 to 1797 is also
kept with those of Newton Valence, since the two
parishes were originally united, and the vicar of Newton and his curate between them served the two
churches.
There is also a diary of Richard Yalden, vicar of
Newton Valence from 1761 to 1785. It is styled 'A
journal of weather and other occurrences from February 10, 1775.' This book is a diverting mixture of
parish accounts and private accounts, public events and
personal experiences, vestry meetings and dinner parties.
ADVOWSON
The church existed at the time of
the Domesday Survey, and was held
by Turstin son of Rolf who held the
manor. (fn. 65) It then passed with the manor to Robert
de Pont de l'Arche, and was granted by him to
William de Valence. (fn. 66) In 1324 it was stated to be
in the king's hands 'by reason of the lands late belonging to Aymer de Valence tenant in chief being
in his hands.' (fn. 67) With the conveyance by Laurence
de Hastings of the manor of Newton (q.v.) to Thomas
West, the church as appendant to the manor went to
him also, but in 1364 the king granted licence to
William de Edington to obtain the church from
Thomas West, and to grant the same to the newly-founded monastery of Edington. (fn. 68) Hence the church
was appropriated to that house with reservation of a
portion for one perpetual vicar and of an annual rent
of 5s. to the bishop, to the prior and chapter of the
cathedral church of Winchester, and 12d. to the
archdeacon. (fn. 69) The monastery held the church until
the dissolution. (fn. 70) In 1535 the king leased the advowson of the church of Newton Valence with the chapel
annexed (fn. 71) 'to Henry Goldsmith for the term of
30 years,' (fn. 72) but the perquisites and tithes under the
title of the 'rectory and church of Newton,' or 'the
rectory and church within Newton Valence,' were
held by the crown until 1544, when the king sold
them to Edward Elkington and Humphrey Metcalf. (fn. 73)
However, at the expiration of the lease of the advowson to Henry Goldsmith the rectory and advowson
were evidently granted to the owner of the manor,
since in 1578 Thomas Pescod was holding both, and
granted the whole to his brother John, (fn. 74) whose heir
Nicholas in 1588 granted the advowson to Henry
Campion, to whom the manor passed at the same time, (fn. 75)
and the rectorial tithes to William Wright of Kingsey
(Oxon). (fn. 76) In 1602 the queen leased the rectory with
the full complement of tithes and premises to John
Duffield for a term of twenty-one years, with a special
clause that John Duffield was to keep the chancel of
Newton Valence church in repair, with all the houses
and buildings adjoining. (fn. 77) In 1604, however, the
rectorial tithes were confirmed again to William
Wright, and later in the same year the advowson also
was granted to him. Henry Fleetwood sold the advowson and rectory to Sir William Bowyer, who sold
the same in 1614 to his second son Robert, who regranted the same to his mother, Lady Mary Bowyer,
afterwards Lady Mary Ley, under indenture to be
revoked if the said Robert returned safely from foreign
parts. (fn. 78) Lady Mary Ley died seised in 1620, and
the rectory and advowson evidently passed back to her
son Robert, who was holding the same in 1624, and
was forced in that year to make good his claim against
Henry Fleetwood, from whom his father, Sir William,
had bought the rectory. (fn. 79) In the depositions made
on behalf of the defendant Sir William was said to
have paid the plaintiff £700 for the same, and was
liable for the repair of the chancel of the church of
Newton, and the chapel of Hawkley, and the tithe
barn of Hawkley. (fn. 80) From Sir William Bowyer the
advowson seems to have passed to the Glyd family,
one of whom, Michael Glyd, was vicar from 1628 to
1662, and his son Richard from 1662 to 1697. (fn. 81)
James Glyd was patron from 1718 to 1761, (fn. 82) in
which year he presented Richard Yalden to the vicarage. From 1785 to 1837 Edmund White was both
patron and vicar. (fn. 83) In 1838 Edward Auriel was
patron, (fn. 84) and presented his kinsman Edmund Auriel. (fn. 85)
He sold it to Thomas Snow, who was vicar from 1842
to 1855. (fn. 86) From the Snow family the patronage
passed by sale to the family of Mrs. A. N. C.
Maclachlan, who is patron at the present day.
CHARITIES
(i) Henry Knight of Faringdon, by
will dated 1858, left £200 lands (held
by the official trustees of charitable
funds) for bread and fuel for the poor of Newton
Valence. (fn. 87)
(ii) Michael Glyd, vicar of Newton Valence, according
to his memorial inscription in Newton Valence church,
by will dated 1735 left £50 to purchase land, the
income of which should be distributed at the discretion
of the vicar on St. Thomas's Day to the poor of the
parish not receiving alms. The gift money was, however, evidently lost or squandered, since nothing but
the memorial inscription remains to mark its existence.