In 1428 the Depedene (modern name Dibden) land was held by Thomas Depeden whose daughter and heir Agnes married Edmund Brudenell. Thomas also held land at Shaldeflete [Shalfleet] and Chestell [Chessell] on the Isle of Wight. These lands descended to Agnes' grandson John Waller who mentioned them in his will in 1525.
In 1428 and again in 1437, Thomas Depeden was named collector of a tax in Hampshire:
1428 April 6. Westminster. Commission ... to levy and collect within the county ... the subsidies which the commonalities of the realm, in the parliament held at Westminster in the quinzaine of St. Michael last past, granted to the king with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, for the defense of the realm; --to wit 6s. 8d. from moveables from all inhabitants, being householders of every parish (provided that there be 10 inhabitant householders in it) in the said county of which the church is not assessed or, before the said quinzaine of St. Michael, was assessed below the sum of 10 marks per year, all cities and buroughs excepted ... Be it remembered that the undermentioned persons are appointed to levy and collect the subsidies aforesaid in the counties named, in terms as above [p. 214]:-- ... John atte Bergh, Richard Tystede, William Waspayl, Robert Peny, John Haket, Thomas Depeden; Southampton. [Calendar of Fine Rolls, Vol. XV, Henry VI,1422-1430, p. 218] http://www.archive.org/stream/calendaroffine15greauoft#page/218/mode/2up
1437 May 27. Westminster. Commission in like terms to the following, to levy and collect such fifteen and tenth in the counties, cities and boroughs named, excepting the sums named for distribution: ... John Haynowe, Robert Frye of Appuldercombe, Thomas Depeden, Richard Seman, John Kebyll, Thomas Deye of Ringewode, Thomas Tygare of Est Mene, William Austyn of Basyngstoke, John Perot of Overton; in the county of Southampton; excepting 140l. 13s. 2d. to be distributed by the abbot of Hyde, and by Thomas Uvedale and William Ryngebourn, knights coming to Parliament. [[Calendar of Fine Rolls, Vol. XVI, Henry VI,1430-1437, p. 353] http://www.archive.org/stream/calendaroffinero16greauoft#page/352/mode/2up
The entries in Feudal Aids documenting the ownership of Dibden and other lands held by people of surname Depeden are transcribed below [Inquisitions and Assessments relating to Feudal Aids; with other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office. A.D. 1284-1431, Vol. II, London: Mackie and Co., 1900]"
"Index
Depdene Depeden Depdeen Dupeden John de 160
of Shaldeflet 367
Nicholas 327 334 349
Richard de 318
Thomas 349, 352, 354
160 Essex A.D. 1346
Hundredum de AUNGRE.
Johannes de Depeden tenet quartam partem un. f. in ALTALEMFAR (sic) quam. Henricus Auger quondam tenuit.
318 HANTS. A.D. 1316
Hamletti
Villa de DUPEDEN
Ricardus de Dupeden, Ricardus atte Hangre, et Johannes Notte
327
HANTS. A.D. 1346
Hundredo de RUDBRIGG.
Nicholaus Dupeden, Walterus Nhot, Ricardus filius Ricardi atte Hangre, tenent
in DUPEDEN di. f.
334
HANTS. A.D. 1346
Hundredo de SUTTON EPISCOPI.
Inquisicio capta coram Henrico Sturmy et Roberto de Sancto Manyfeo, collectoribus rationabilis auxilii domino regi concessi ad primogenitum filium suum militem faciendum per commissionem domini regis assignatis, apud Wyntoniam die Lune proximo post festum Sancti Gregorii, Pape anno regni regis Edwardi tercii post conquestum Anglie vicesimo primo, per sacramentum
Henrici Seyntcler, Philippi Danvers, Thome Everard, de Durle, Thome Everard, de Waltham, Philippi de Moenes, Alexandri Saucer, Johannis Romyn, Henrici de Henton, Willelmi Bruton, Ricardi Beneyt, Roberti Helyoun, et Nicholai Dupeden, qui dicunt, super sacramentum suum, quod in
349 HANTS. A.D. 1428
Hundredum de REDBRUG.
Johannes Roger, junior, et Thomas Depdene tenent di f.m. quod Nicholaus Depdene, Walterus Notte, et Ricardus Hanger quondam tenuerunt in DEPDEN
352 HANTS. A.D. 1428
[INSULA VECTA.]
Inquisicio capta apud Newport, in insula Vecta, in comitatu Southampton, die Sabbati proximo post festum Translacionis Sancti Ricardi, Episcopi, anno regni regis Henrici sexti post conquestum sexto, coram Johanne Haket et Thoma Depedene, commissionariis domini regis, virtute literaruin patencium dicti domini regis eisdem directarum, per sacramentum Roberti Drew, Galfridi Borard, Johannis Payn, Thome Legge, Willelmi Colman, Willelmi Borougham, Willelmi Wenyot, Johannis Baylly, de Preston, Willelmi atte Well, Nicholai Dore, Willelmi Dore et Johannis Macy, qui omnes jurati, et pro domino rege onerati, dicunt super sacramentum suum quod:--
354 HANTS. A.D. 1428.
Thomas Depdene tenet ij partes f.m. in SHALDEFLETE et CHESTELL, quod Johannes Spershet quondam tenuit.
367
HANTS. A.D. 1431.
Thomas Depdeen de Shaldeflet, gentilman, seisitus fuit, ut de libero tenemento, dicto die Veneris, de iij. partibus j.f.m. in SHALDEFLET et CHESTHULL in insula predicta
TABLE OF MATERIALS USED IN VOLUME II.
HAMPSHIRE.
306-323 LTR Misc Rolls Bdle 2 No 7
323-326 Subsidy Rolls Box 173 No 17
326-328 Subsidy Rolls Box 173 No 1H
328-341 Subsidy Rolls P ox 173 No 19
342 Misc Books Exch QR Vol 4
343 Subsidy Rolls Box 173 No 76
343-347 Subsidy Rolls Box 173 No 78
347-352 Subsidy Rolls Box 178 No 79
352-355 Subsidy Rolls Box 173 No 75
355-359 Subsidy Rolls Box 173 No 77
359-375 Subsidy Rolls Box 173 No 84"
The history of Dibden is also summarized in the VCH series in the following entry:
"DIBDEN LIBERTY Depedene (xi cent.); Dupeden (xiv cent.); Debden (xvi cent.). At the Great Survey and throughout the middle ages Dibden was included in Redbridge Hundred. (fn. 1) ... DIBDEN was held by Ode of the king in 1086. In the time of the Confessor, of whom it had been held by Chetel, it was assessed at 5 hides, but three of these had been taken into the New Forest and only one paid geld in 1086. There were a salt-pan and a fishery in the manor. (fn. 9) The overlordship belonged in the 12th century to Reynold de St. Valery, (fn. 10) who died in 1166, and his son Bernard de St. Valery, who was killed at the siege of Acon in 1190, (fn. 11) is doubtless to be identified with the Bernard who was lord of Dibden in 1167. (fn. 12) Descending with his granddaughters to Robert Count of Dreux, it fell, with the rest of the honour of St. Valery, into the hands of the Crown, when it was given to Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of the Romans, the younger brother of Henry III, (fn. 13) whose son Edmund Earl of Cornwall died in 1300 seised of a fee there which belonged to the honour of St. Valery, the king being his heir. (fn. 14) Dibden was thereafter held of the Crown as of the honour of St. Valery, (fn. 15) and afterwards as of the honour of Wallingford, (fn. 16) to which the less important lordship had doubtless been attached by the Earl of Cornwall. It was thus held in the reign of Henry VII of Arthur Prince of Wales. (fn. 17) ... The demesne of Dibden was early split up into three parts (fn. 18) which seem at first to have been looked upon as one manor divided and later as three manors. By a lost charter, confirmed by Henry II, Reynold de St. Valery gave a third of the manor to Edmund and Osbert de Dibden at a yearly rent of 33s. 4d. (fn. 19) Edmund's name occurs constantly in the Pipe Rolls of Henry II. (fn. 20) Nicholas de Dibden held a third of a fee of Edmund Earl of Cornwall in 1300, (fn. 21) and Richard de Dibden was one of the three holders named in the Nomina Villarum of 1316. (fn. 22) He died shortly afterwards seised of one-third of the manor and leaving a son and heir Nicholas, aged eighteen months, (fn. 23) to whose mother Joan the custody of the estate was ordered to be delivered in June 1316. (fn. 24) Nicholas de Dibden was holding in 1346 (fn. 25) and Thomas de Dibden in 1428. (fn. 26) It was presumably this last who closed the male line of the Dibdens, for Agnes daughter and heir of Thomas de Dibden married Edmund Brudenell, who died about 1469. (fn. 27) The only child of this marriage was a daughter Alice, who inherited her mother's property and became the wife of Richard Waller of Groombridge (co. Kent)."
Footnotes:
1 V.C.H. Hants, i, 513; Feud. Aids, ii, 318, 327, 349
18 Known in the 15th century as Dibden's Fee, Hanger's Fee and Poleyn's Fee (Ct. R. portf. 212, no. 3, 9).
19 Cited Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, no. 30.
20 Pipe R. 11 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc), 41; 12 Hen. II, 102; 13 Hen. II, 182; 14 Hen. II, 178; 22 Hen. II, 195; 24 Hen. II, 111.
21 Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. I, no. 44.
22 Feud. Aids, ii, 318.
23 Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II, no. 30.
24 Cal. Close, 1313-18, p. 295.
25 Feud. Aids, ii, 327.
26 Ibid. 349.
27 Lipscomb, Hist. of Bucks. ii, 447
[The liberty of Dibden, A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 655-658.] http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56904]