26 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
Manors, and undertook to annul any Charter that might hereafter 
come to light which favoured his claims. The original deed, dated 
at Westminster, 27th April, 1222, is preserved amongst the 
archives of East Flanders. . 
And so at last the Abbot was secure in his possession. 
Henry III gave him a further Charter of Confirmation in 1229, and 
‘during his long reign, so far as we can tell, nothing occurred to 
disturb his tenure. 
Evidence of the insecurity of the Abbot of Ghent’s tenure is, 
incidentally, to be found in the very large amount of subinfeudation, 
which took place within the Manor of Lewisham, and as the making 
of these subsidiary manors was prohibited by the statute Quza 
Emptores in 1291, we may safely assume that those in Lewisham 
were in existence before that date. They consist of the Manors of 
Bankers, Brockley, Catford, Bellingham, Shrafholt and Sydenham, 
which between them cover at least three-quarters of the total area. 
Bankers. —The family of Bonquer, or Banquel became 
possessed of land in Lewisham in the reign of Henry III, about the 
year 1260, by purchase from the Doget ‘family, and this seems to 
have originated the manor since called by their name, corrupted to 
Bankers and Bankhurst. The manor is entirely in Lewisham, and 
comprises nearly all that portion between Loampit Hill and 
Stanstead Road, the parish boundary on the north and west and 
the river Ravensbourne on the east, from Lewisham Bridge to 
Catford. The Banquels in 1261 purchased 
SHRAFHOLT from the Castillon family. This Manor is partly in 
Lewisham and partly in Bromley, comprising part of Southend, 
Bromley Hill and part of Plaistow. 
In addition to the above, the Banquels became Lords of the 
Manor of Lee in the reign of Edward III, and the Manor of Lee is 
held to include not only the whole of the old parish of that name, 
but also that part of Lewisham comprising Mount Pleasant, 
Rosenthal, St. Swithun’s (Hither Green), and the Park Hospital. 
Brockey belonged to the Maminots in the time of Henry II, 
and formed part of the endowment of Begham Abbey. It is 
doubtful whether the Lewisham portion was esteemed a Manor, 
nearly the whole area being within the Manor of Bankers, but 
certain estates in Lewisham paid quit rents to the Lord of the 
Manor of Brockley. 
CATFORD includes the St. German’s estate in the Brownhill and 
adjoining roads, and that in the Stanstead Road. It belonged to 
the Abel family in the time of Edward I, and subsequently to the 
College of St. Lawrence Pountney, in London. 
BELLINGHAM seems to have included the greater part of the 
land between Catford and Southend. It became part of the 
endowment of the Cistercian Abbey of Stratford Langthorne in 
Essex. 
SYDENHAM, in medieval times, was the district now known as 
Lower Sydenham and Perry Hill. it is doubtful whether this was 
