West Bere Forest, Longstock, and King's Somborne
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Hampshire, England 
When: 1575.
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The surname "de la Bere" and the locality name "La Bere Forest" were in use, as early as 1283, in this area of Hampshire, and the "Beare" spelling was in use by the early 1600s, for the forest.
Colonel Charles Edward Banks, another renowned genealogist, believed he found Augustine Bearse, as Augustine Beare of Longstock on the King's Somborne subsidy roll, in 1628 (Banks genealogical collection: Hampshire lay subsidies 1623-1628), which is why he listed immigrant Augustine Bearce as being from Longstock, in his Topographical dictionary of 2885 English emigrants to New England, 1620-1650.
Southampton is just to the South of this map.