Popham / Popeham

There is an entry for Popham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5543/popham/] [accessed 16 July 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 3, 1908) notes: "The parish of Popham was originally served by a chantry chapel attached to Micheldever and endowed with certain lands. By Bishop Woodlock's ordination of Micheldever vicarage in 1308 it was arranged that the nouse and lands assigned of old to the chantry chapel of Popham should form part of the vicar's portion. [...] The vicar failed to perform the requisite number of services, so that Henry Popham and other inhabitants of 'the hamlet of Popham within the parish of Micheldever' impleaded the vicar before the commissary as to the provision of a chaplain to hold service daily and to perform sacraments except burial, and to dwell continually in a house at Popham ordained of old for that purpose." Though not stated directly in the VCH entry it is safe to assume that baptism was one of the sacaraments covered at Popham church / chapel, and tha there was a font in it.