Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . aple Durwell, near Basingstoke! A clear account of the exact relations of the HampshireMapledurhams is given in the Victojia County History ofHampshire. They are situate in the parish of Buritonin the hundred of Finchdean. From an original manorof Mapledurham, dating from before the conquest, weredivided a chief manor of Mapledurham, formerly held bythe Gibbons, and now by the Bonham-Carter family, andthe manor of West Mapledurham which Bishop Bilsonpurchased : it is now held by a memb
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . aple Durwell, near Basingstoke! A clear account of the exact relations of the HampshireMapledurhams is given in the Victojia County History ofHampshire. They are situate in the parish of Buritonin the hundred of Finchdean. From an original manorof Mapledurham, dating from before the conquest, weredivided a chief manor of Mapledurham, formerly held bythe Gibbons, and now by the Bonham-Carter family, andthe manor of West Mapledurham which Bishop Bilsonpurchased : it is now held by a member of the Leggefamily. Then there is Weston, a tithing in the parish of SIR THOMAS BILSON Buriton, which is believed to have been roughly co-extensivewith the manor of West Mapledurham, and likewise belongsto Mr. Legge. The old manor-house of West Mapledurhamwas pulled down in 1829, and there is no tradition of anyother old house in the district. The present Farm Houseof Weston was built in 1776.^ Sir Thomas Bilsons father, Thomas, Bishop of Winchesteri2Q7_i5i5^ purchased the manor of West Mapledurham in. ryr- Mapledurham House. 1605 from the widow and sons of the recusant Henry the death of the Bishop in 1616, the manor descendedto the eldest son Thomas aged twenty-four and more andon the latters death in 1649 to the second son Leonard. The manor-house was a house with a history. Duringthe occupation of the Shelleys it had been a centre wherePapists foregathered during the latter part of the sixteenthcentury. There in 1586 the recusant Edward Jones useddaily to consociate withal and heard mass every were priests holes which must have been a greatjoy to the Bilson boys : there is a hollow place in theparlour by the livery cupboard where two men may well ^ Information from Capt. P. Seward. 8 JOHN GOODYER lie together, which has many times deceived the searchers;and elsewhere under a little table is a vault, with a grateof iron for a light into the garden, as
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