Catalogue description CHALE

This collection of deeds relate to the build up of a considerable estate by the Goddeton family, based on the Doomsday manor of Goddeton, now Gotten Farm, in the parish of Chale. The estate also included Corfe, formerly called Westmore, in the parishes of Chale, Kingston and Shorwell, a messuage at East Appleford in the parish of Godshill, but adjoining Gotten, 16 acres of land in Fairlee in the parish of Whippingham. Thomas, the last of the Goddetons, died in about 1429, when the estate descended to his grandson, Thomas Jolliffe. On the death of Thomas Jolliffe, junior, about 1480, the estate descended in moietees to his two daughters, Alice, wife of Thomas Oglander of Nunwell, and Joan, wife of Henry Taylor. Sir John Oglander sold his half share of Gotten to the tenant, William Newnham, in 1628.