. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . in the hundred of Kings Somborne, and was then, as itremained, in the hands of Hyde Abbey. Little Ann, though severed fromthe rest of the Wherwell manors, is still included in this hundred ; it istreated, however, as in that of Andover with its parish of Abbotts The abbey was thus paramount in the hundred. By a grant of KingJohn it was quit for ever of all shires and hundreds, suits of shires andhundreds, aids of sheriffs, reeves and bailiffs and plaints and exactions to This comprehensive charter, which included also th
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . in the hundred of Kings Somborne, and was then, as itremained, in the hands of Hyde Abbey. Little Ann, though severed fromthe rest of the Wherwell manors, is still included in this hundred ; it istreated, however, as in that of Andover with its parish of Abbotts The abbey was thus paramount in the hundred. By a grant of KingJohn it was quit for ever of all shires and hundreds, suits of shires andhundreds, aids of sheriffs, reeves and bailiffs and plaints and exactions to This comprehensive charter, which included also the grant ofa fair at Wherwell, was more than once confirmed. Harewood Forest, to-day one of the largest tracts of woodland in this partof the shire, lies wholly within the hundred. It belonged to the community lPop. Ret. (1831). Hants, i, 475. 3 In the Nomina Villarum of 1316 the vill of Ashey, in the Isle of Wight, which belonged toWherwell Abbey, was included in Wherwell Hundred {Feud. Aids, ii, 312).*Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 4OO WHERWELL HUNDRED at Wherwell, and in 1378 the abbess, Cecily de Lavyngtone, receivedconfirmation of a reputed charter of King Alfred, giving the wood to hermonastery, which in Alfreds day had, unfortunately, still a century to waitfor its It was doubtless on the strength of this same charterthat thirty years previously the then abbess had petitioned the king againsthis forest servants. Alfred son of Osgar, late Earl of Devon, she said, hadfounded the abbey and given Harewood to the abbess and her nuns. Thewood had ever been found to be without any forest and had been heldpeaceably without interference ; but now the ministers of Chute Forest,asserting the wood to be royal demesne, had attached it to the forest and put theirofficers therein, preventing the abbess from hunting and taking her petition was scarcely well founded, for in 1296 the abbess then in officehad been licensed to fell and to sell 60 acres
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