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A MEMOIR OF THE MANOR OF HATCHAM IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY.
By WILLIAM HENRY HART, Esq., F.S.A.
READ AT THE GENERAL MEETING HELD IN LAMBETH PALACE 31ST OCTOBER, 1856.
Hatcham is thus described in Domesday Survey:—
"In Brixistan Hundredo.
"Episcopus Lisoiensis tenet de Episcopo Hacheham. Brixi tenuit de Rege Edwardo. Tunc et modo se defendit pro iij hidis. Terra est iij carrucatarum. Ibi sunt ix villani, et ij bordarii, cum iij carrucatis, et ibi vj acræ prati. Silva iij porcis. Tempore Regis Edwardi et postea et modo valet xl solidos."
This gives as the first owner of the manor Brixi, from whom Brixi's stone, afterwards corrupted into Brixton, not far from Hatcham took its name.
At the time of the survey, Hatcham was held by the Bishop of Lisieux under Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, but on the disgrace of the latter it reverted to the crown, and afterwards came to form part of the Barony of Maminot, under the following circumstances:—
Gilbert de Maminot, one of William the Conqueror's chief captains and favourites, was one of those eight barons whom John de Fienes associated with himself for guarding Dover Castle. For that service considerable lands were given by the king to John de Fienes, who divided them between himself and the other barons, and bound each of them, by the tenure of their lands, to maintain a certain number of soldiers continually for the defence of the castle.
