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Rev. John Trenchard Bromfield

Born 10 Jan 1710 in Boldre, Hampshire, England

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Son of John Bromfield and Ann (Trenchard) Bromfield

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Husband of Anne (Clutterbuck) Bromfield — married 8 Feb 1752 in Eastington And Alkerton, Gloucestershire, England

Descendants

Father of Harriett (Bromfield) Spry

Died before 5 Aug 1774 before age 64 in Warmwell, Dorset, England

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Biography

Reference: PROB 11/1001/51 Description: Will of Reverend John Trenchard Bromfield, Clerk of Warmwell , Dorset Date: 05 September 1774 Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record Closure status: Open Document, Open Description (1)

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Rectors Lytchett Maltravers, Dorset Rectors of the Parish 1313–1977 Rectors of St Mary's 1313–1977, as transcribed by local historian Shirley Percivel in 1982:

1313 Jordon Sarol Will Mautravers 1316 William de Cabrithaley Thomas de Bocklande 1324 James le Brut 1326 William de Astyngton 1332 Hugh Filiol 1340 Richard de Pourstock 1342 John de Stoke 1348 Peter Fitzwaryn 1361 Henry Tingwyke Walter Rickener 1362 John de Sonnyings 1390 Thomas Claydon Robert Fynor 1392 John White 1398 Stephen Pope 1430 Thomas Talpathyn 1470 John Wheler & John Campion 1485 Robert Grenelode 1504 John Hoper 1518 John Vesey LLD 1583 James Turbervile & William Lyllington 1587 William Burges 1615 Swithin Cleves 1658 Thomas Rowe 1662 Samuel Conant DD 1719 William Leigh DD 1752 John Trenchard Bromfield LLD 1753 John Leach BA 1792 George Trenchard LLD 1808 John Wickens 1810 Henry Luke Dillon BA 1832 Christopher Fleet MA 1841 Howell James MA 1850 William Mortimer Heath MA 1917 James Alexander Renton Swaby 1939 Arthur Phillips FRCO 1943 George Heaslett BA 1950 James Nicholas Mahon MA (4)

The Bromfields, like the Sprys were churchmen, and like the Sprys, were of manorial background. They came from Hampshire, around the Parish of Boldre. In the parish boundary was the manor of Heywood, about which is written: “There is no mention of HEYWOOD in the Domesday Survey, but in December 1361 Nicholas de Pershute died seised of lands in Heywood, 22 acres of pasture land with appurtenances which passed to his son Nicholas, and ten years later Edmund de Kendal, kt., died seised of four messuages and 6 acres of land in Heywood. At the Dissolution the manor of Heywood appears among the lands of the dissolved priory of Breamore, though there is no evidence to show how it came into the possession of this house. The priory, including the manor of Heywood, was granted to Henry Marquess of Winchester and Gertrude his wife in 1536, but reverted to the Crown on the execution of the former in 1538, followed by the attainder of his wife in 1539. It was then allotted to Anne of Cleves as part of her dower, but again came into the king's hands on the dissolution of her marriage in 1540, and was granted in 1544 to Thomas Hobson, who the same year obtained licence to alienate it to John Mill and Richard his son. It remained in the latter family (vide Pilley) until the death of Richard Mill without issue in 1613. His wife Mary, who survived him, married as her second husband Thomas Wroughton, and in 1617 they jointly conveyed the manor to George Wroughton. In 1630 it passed by fine to John Kempe, and was carried by the marriage of Frances daughter and co-heir of Thomas Kempe (possibly brother of John) to Henry Bromfield of Chawcroft, verderer of the New Forest, bow-bearer to Charles II, who died seised of it in 1682. From him it passed in succession to his son and grandson, both named Henry. The estate remained in this family until 1773, when it was sold by the Rev. John Trenchard Bromfield to Mr. Edward Morant, whose son John was owner in 1869. Mr. Edward J. H. E. Morant, J.P., is the present lord of the manor.” The Bromfield family had held Heywood, therefore, for three generations. Where had they been before then? Perhaps Warwickshire. Wherever they had been, they had been manorial, as their wives come from some of the best families in England. Of John himself, we know he went to Winchester College: The Statutes. 75

In the year 1703 Warden Traffles got the system of King's Letters abolished as regards New College by his own personal exertions, of which he left a journal. But it continued in force at Winchester until 1726, when Secretary Holles was induced to recall a letter which had been given to a boy named John Trenchard Bromfield, upon the faith of a representation by the Electors that their oath obliged them to elect the most worthy candidates 3

Appendix, XII.

Afterwards Duke of Newcastle, and Prime blinister.

This is the King's letter :-- 'G.R. 'Trusty and well beloved we greet you well. Having been informed of the hopeful parts of John Trenchard Bromfield, and humble suit having been made unto Us on his behalf, 'We have thought fit hereby to recommend him to you in a most effectual manner, telling and requiring you to elect and admit the said John Trenchard Bromfield a child of that our College of Winchester at the next election. So not doubting of your compliance herein, we bid you heartily farewell. 'Given at our Court at St. James' the twenty-ninth day of April, in the twelfth year of our reign, A.D. I726. ' By His Majesty's Command, HOLLES NE'WCASTLE. Wardens Trigg and Dobson on receiving the above letter waited on the King at St. James' with the following remonstrance :-- ' May it please your Majesty- 'We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Wardens of New College in the University of Oxford and of the College near Winchester, on behalf of ourselves and others the electors of those your Majesty's College, beg leave to acknowledge with great humility the receipt of your Majesty's most gracious letter willing and requiring us to choose at the election nov depending John Trenchard Bromfield into a child's place in your Majesty's said College of Winchester. 'We beg leave most humbly to assure your Majesty that this signification of your royal pleasure was received with a respect becoming the most dutiful of your Majesty's subjects: and at the same time, do most humbly and most earnestly beseech your Majesty to take into your princely consideration the case of your petitioners, who by the Statute of our Founder, William of Wyke- ham (confirmed to us by so many grants and charters of your Majesty's royal progenitors) are constituted sole electors of the two Colleges; and that we are bound by a solemn oath, yearly taken before we enter upon the duty of Electors, not to be swayed by fear or favour, interest or reward. 'We do confess that in the reign of King Charles the Second and King James letters mandatory, have from time to time taken place in our elections, to the great grief of our predecessors ; but that at length upon a humble representation made to King William, his Majesty was pleased to return this most gracious answer "God forbid that I should hinder any of my Colleges from...”(the rest is missing).

He then studied at Oxford: Bromfield, John Trenchard, s. John, of Bolder, Hants, arm. Merton Coll., matric. 28 March, 1729, aged 19; B.A. 1732, M.A. 1736. He was actually buried at Durweston Dorset, though he died at Bramwell. 1774 5th August; John Trenchard BROMFIELD; affidavit made http://www.opcdorset.org/DurwestonFiles/durwestonBurials1731-1812.htm If we go back to the original purchaser of Heywood, Henry Bromfield, we find that he was prominent enough to make it into Wikipedia: Henry Bromfield(c. 1610 – 19 February 1683) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. He was a verderer of theNew Forest. Bromfield was the son of Arthur Bromfield and his wife Lucy Quinby and was of Chawcroft,Hampshire. In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lymington in the Convention Parliament. He was a verderer of the New Forest, and bow bearer to King Charles II Bromfield married Frances Kempe, daughter of Thomas Kempe. who brought him the property of Haywood, Hampshire” “Verderers are officials in Britain who deal with Common land in certain former royal hunting areas which are the property of The Crown. Origins Verderers were originally part of the ancient judicial and administrative hierarchy of the vast areas of English forests and Royal Forests set aside by William the Conqueror for hunting. The title Verderer comes from the Norman word ‘vert’ meaning green and referring to woodland. These forests were divided into provinces each having a Chief Justice who travelled around on circuit dealing with the more serious offences. Verderers investigated and recorded minor offences and dealt with the day to day forest administration. New Forest Verderers The New Forest Verderers still hold their courts at the Verderers’ Hall in Lyndhurst, Hampshire built around the manor house of the Royal Manor of Lyndhurst in 1388 now known as Queen’s House.” “In Old English law, a Bowbearer was an under-officer of the forest who looked after all manner of trespass on vert or venison, and who attached, or caused to be attached, the offenders, in the feudal Court of Attachment.”