King Henry 7 coming into the Isle of Wight in the fourteenth year of his reign, honoured Dame
Joanna Bowerman then lady of the manor of Brook with a visit; and in acknowledgment of his entertainment,
not only left behind him a drinking-horn as a present, but gave her a warrant for a fat buck of
the season, to be yearly delivered out of his forest of Carisbrooke during her life: this warrant is dated at
Brook in August, the fourteenth year of Henry VII, and is now in the possession of the family of
Bowerman



general survey, and had been part of the possessions of Earl Tosti it had been rated
at three hides, but then only at one: it contained six carucates of land, and was valued
£7. by annum. It was soon after in the possession of Sir Ralph of Mascarell who
gave the tithes of his demesnes at Brook to the abbey of Lyra this grant is con-