[HANTS.] 2 POST OFFICE the north, Lymington in the south-west, Odiham in the time of the Cresar8, namely-the Regni on the coast, the north-east; Petersfield, Ringwood, in the south-west; Belgians in the mid dill, and the Attrebates on the north. in the south-west, Southampton in the south, In the year 43 of the common era, and in the reign of the Winchester in the midland, and the Isle of Wight in the Emperor Claudius, the Belgians were overco1ue, and the south. Winchester, Portsmouth, and Southampton have Romans became masters. These made towns and roads, separate jurisdictions. There are 39 Hundreds, three Venta Belgarum, now Winchester, was a chief place, with separate jurisdictions, and 11 Liberties. The Hundreds bany roads leading from it. Clausentum was near are Alton, Andover, Bishop's Button, Barton Stacy, Southampton. Silchester was a great station, and is Basingstoke, :Sermondspit, Bonntisborough, Buddlesgate, supposed to have been Callefa of the' Romans, and to Bishop's Waltham, Bosmere, Crondall, Chutely, Christ• have beeo called by the Welsb Caer Segont There were church, Eat Meon, Evlngar, Fareham, Finch Dean, other Roman towns ~nd camps uot so well marked. Fawley, Fordingbridge, Hambledon, Holdshott, King's Andareon seems to have been at And over. There are Sombourn, , Mansbridge, Mainsborough, Mit- camps at Tuksbury Hill, Egbury, Ladle Hill, Beacon Hill, cheldever, Meon Stoke, East and North , , , Sombourn, Mount, Haydon Odiham, Overton, Pastrow, , Redbridge, Ring- Hill, Godshill, and Castlefield. Some of these wer7, wood, Selborne, Thorngate, Titchfield, and . The perhaps, Welsh, Danish, or English. In the 6th century, Liberties are Alresford, Alverstoke, Bentley, Beaulieu, the Romans having left, and the Welsh being in power, Breamore, Dibdin, Gosport, Havant, Lymington, Eastand some of the English chiefs landed. Porta founded West Medina, S<>ke, and Westover. The Unions for regis- Portsmouth. In 519, Cerdic, of the blood of Woden, trations and poor-law are 25-Havant, Portsea, Alver- began the kingdom of the West Saxom~, the kings of which stoke, Fareham, Whtht, Lymington, Christchurcb, were very powerful, and tnany of them BretwaldEt, and Ringwood, Fordingbridg~, New Forest, Southampten, afterwards became kings of En~land. The Isle ofWi~ht Stoneham, Romsey, Stockbridge, Winche~~ter, Droxford, formed a small kingdom under Wessex and Sussex. The Catherington, Petersfield, .Alresford, .Alton, Hartley- Meanwara, too, had a commonwealth by themselves in Wintney, Basingstoke, Whitchurch, Andover, and Kings· Meon, Mainsbridge, and Ma1nborougb. Winchester was clere. The nnmber of townships or parishes is about 271. the capital of Wessex, and for a long time the capital of There are ~2 market towns, be11ides other towns. Win- . In the 9th and lOth cen~nries the Danes chester is calied a city. The chief towns are Portsmouth, wasted . Winchester, in civil wars, was Portsea, and Gosport, with above 70,000 people; South- frequently attacked. In the Parliamentary war, l!everal nmpton, with 35,000; Winchest«!r, with 13,00(); New- battles and sieges took place in Hampshire. There are port, with 8,000; Andover, Christchurch, Lymington, many Roman, monastic and cru~tellated antiquities, !lome ,Petersfield, Ryde,. Basingstoke, Farebam, Ventnor. or which are Jn good presenatioo. Hampshire is the H:Jmpshirc was first peopled by the lberiads or birth-place of tbe poets Young, Warton, Dibdiu, and £uskardians! afterwards by the Celtic Welsh, called Watts; of Bishop Wickbam, Sir William Petty, J on as ~egontiags, who were driven out by the Belgians, of Hanway, Sir James Lancaster, and Pococke. whpm three tribes seem to have held Hampshire in the ·

JY.[AGJ:STRA.TES OF THE COUNTY.

LORD LIEUTENANT,

• THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUESS OF WINCHESTER, S T, MARY'S, ANDOVE:P,.

Those, marked thus • are Deputy Lieutenants of the County.

A :LT OX DIVISIOX. DASINGSTOEB DIVISION. IJurningbam Henry, esq. Froyle, Alton Rycroft Sir Richard, hart. Manydown, Basingstoke •cole Robert, esq. Holy borne lodge, Alton *Beaeh Colonel William, Oakley ball, Basingstoke Coulthard James Battin, esq. Bentworth, Alton Beaufoy Charles, esq. Upton Grey, Odiham •Knight Edward, es~. Chawton house, .Alton *Blunt Edward Waiter, esq. Kempshot house, Basingstoke Lempriere Rear ,Adml, Geo. Oury, Newton Valence, Alton Brown Capt. Henry, Bylands, Hartford bridge *Scott James Wiuter, esq, Rotberfield park, Alton Beach Wm, Wither Bramston, esq. Oakley bali,Basin~stok~ *Scott James, esq. Sheppertoo, Middlesex Chute Willia.m Lyde WigfZett, esq. the Vine, B:u~ingstoke Spink Major-General John, x..H *Jervoise Franci8JerYoise Ellis, e~q. Herrlard llo.Basingstoke Thresher Frederick Rich~rd, esq. Bentley, Farobam Portal Wyndbam Speneer,esq. Malshanger ho. Basingstoke Wood John, esq. Tbedden grange, .Alton Rumbold Charles Edmund, esq. H.P. Preston Candover, And over road Al'lDOVEB DIVISIOJr. Sclater Wm. Lutley~ esq. Hoddington house, Odiham •Pollen Sit John WalterLbart. Reddenbam house, Andover Terry Stepben1 esq. 2 Crescent, Southampton Best Rev. Thomatl, Red 1tice house, Andover Waddilove Edward, esq. North hall, Preston Candover Best Thomas, esq. Red Rice house, Andover Coles Rev. John, Silchester, Basingstoke *Oole11 Hen. Beaumoot• esq. x.P. Middleton house, Andover Wither Rev. Lovelace Bigg, Tangier park, Basingstoke Etwall Ralpb, esq, Andover Etwall WilUam, esq. Longstock down, Stockbridge DROXI'OKD DIVISION. Fellowes Henry, esq Barfoot Peter,esq. Midlington ho. Dro:xford, Bp's. Walth&.m Blunt Rev. Waiter, Wallop house, Andover Butler Thomas, esq. Bury lodge, Hambledon, Horndean Dodson Rev. Christopher, Penton Mewsey, Andovfr Gale Charles J ames, esq. Curdridge ho. Botley, Southamptn Rando1pb Rev. Ch:rl'lt:'s, Kimpton rectory, Andover 1 Goodlad Richd. Red fern, esq. Hill pl.Droxford,Bp'e.Walthm