John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne

is probable, since the entries in the parish registers both of Hursley and Otterbourne begin to be in Latin. Cranbury had passed from Dean Young to his brother

h esteemed by fishermen. In the early years of Charles II. a canal was dug, beside the Itchen, for the conveyance of coal from Southampton. It was one of the first formed in England, and for two hundred years was constantly used by barges. The irrigation of the meadow

tains were to be fed from the Itchen, and a magnificent palace was actually begun, the bricks for it being dug from a clay pit at Otterbourne, which has ever since borne the name of Dell Copse, and became noted for the growth of daffodils. The king lodged at Southampton to inspect the work, and there is a tradition (derived from Dean Re

ing was completed. It was known as "the King's House" and was used

he river, near which was a hamlet called Highbridge, just on the boundary between Twyford and Otterbourne. Here was an endowed Roman Catholic chapel, a mere brick building, at the back of a cottage, only distinguished by a little cross on the roof. T

Augustin Thomas was a man of some property, comprising a house and two or three fields, which were known as "Thomas's Bargain," till one was used as a site for the Vicarage. Several surnames still extant in the parish a

ize, the other bare, were appropriated to Cranbury, and might well have been filled by the children of Sir Charles and Dame James his wife-Jacoba in her marriage register at Hursley-for they had no less than seventeen children, of whom only five died in infancy, a small proportion in those days of infant mortality. The period of alteration is fixed

ll its tracery, and was an expanse of plain glass with only a little remains of a cusp at the top of the arch. The bells were in one of the true Hampshire weather-boarded square towers, of which very few still exist in their pi

for them in Hursley Church, with an inscription on a tablet now in the tower, pu

h, near Lymington, where his effigy appears, an upright figure cut off at the knees, and in addition to the sword in his

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mmander in the guards, and was much wounded

m. He departed this life on the 1

rances, one of the daughters of Sir Char

ously is found as suing for the price of property sold to Charles II. for the site of the King's house at Winchester), lived with Sir Isaac Newton, was very beautiful, and much admired by Lord Halifax for her wit and gaiety. It was even reported that she was privately married to him, but this of course was mere scandal, and she became the wife of Jonathan Conduitt, educated at Trinity College, a friend and pupil of Newton, who had for many years assisted in the harder work of Master of the Mint, and wrote an essay on the gold and silver coinage of the realm. He was member of Parliament for

. The dial is divided into nine circles, the outermost divided into minutes, next, the hours, then a circle marked "Watch slow, Watch fast," another with the names of places shown when the hour coincides with our noonday, such as Samarcand and Alep

onduitt, as granted in 1717. Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules, on a fesse wavy

ent between six acorns or. Impaling a

gs, lying fesse ways or. Thereon

us obras." "Each one is son of h

om which Jonathan Conduitt may have been descended. Probably he could

ardians sold Cranbury to Thomas Lee Dummer, Esquire, fr

on of Viscount Lymington, afterw