. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . ultedchamber with a window in its north wall, and enteredfrom the living-room ; it doubtless served as a store-room. The upper room has a fireplace with anarched head in the east wall, and close to it on thesouth a small opening commanding a view of thechapel. In the south wall is a cinquefoiled window,and in the north-west angle a garderobe, close to thedoor from the stairhead. A recess at the stairhead,corbelled over above, may have contained a press orchest, and the western gable is crowned by an em-battled chimney shaft. The wooden joists ca
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . ultedchamber with a window in its north wall, and enteredfrom the living-room ; it doubtless served as a store-room. The upper room has a fireplace with anarched head in the east wall, and close to it on thesouth a small opening commanding a view of thechapel. In the south wall is a cinquefoiled window,and in the north-west angle a garderobe, close to thedoor from the stairhead. A recess at the stairhead,corbelled over above, may have contained a press orchest, and the western gable is crowned by an em-battled chimney shaft. The wooden joists carryingthe floor of the upper chamber are all ancient butone. Close to the chapel on the north is a modern farm-house, and to the north-west the broken lines of theground suggest the existence of remains of ruinedbuildings beneath the surface. In a 16th-century survey of Godsfield the fairechappell was described as adjoining a convenientdwelling house for a gentleman builded oftymber with viij or nyne good lodging chambers watered with a well of. excellent good water with garden, orchard,barnes, stables and all other outhousing ofall sortes sufficient. There was a chapel at Godsfield asearly as 1338, and for its service theHospitallers provided a chaplain at theyearly stipend of 4 marks without He would seem to have beendistinct from the professed chaplain JohnCoufFen, who was at this time in residencewith the preceptor William de Multon. M Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 40 & 41Eliz. See also Close R. 39 Eliz. pt. ix,m. 9. 24 Pat. 5 Jas. I, pt. iii, no. 23. 25 Complete Peerage, viii, 160. 26 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 5 Jas. I ;Recov. R. Mich. 9 Chas. I, rot. 22. « Feet of F. Hants, East. 10 Chas. I;Close, 10 Chas. I, pt. iv, no. %. 28 Recov. R. Hil. 5 Will, and Mary, ; and Mich. 21 Geo. II, rot. 348. 29 Ibid. Trin. 18 Geo. Ill, rot. 275. ,0 Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerage,83 ; Collins, Peerage, vii, 560. w Hants N. and Q. vii, III. 42 Rentals and Surv. (
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