116 BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM. 
At the Cemetery we enter that part of the Borough known as 
Brockley. The district bearing this name is partly in Lewisham 
and partly in Deptford, and has been so from time immemorial. 
Although it is styled a ‘‘ manor,” no record exists of the holding of 
any Manor Court, and the inhabitants of the Lewisham portion 
appear to have attended the Court of that Manor. The Manor of 
Bankers claimed jurisdiction over a large portion of the area, and 
the owners of Brockley paid quit rent of 4s. 8d. yearly to the Lord 
of that Manor. In the reign of Henry II, Brockley was held by 
Wakelin de Maminot, by whom it was granted to Michael de 
Turnham, who, however, sold it to Juliana, wife of Wakelin, to 
found a religious house. Meanwhile the Premonstratensians had 
settled at Ottham, in Sussex, and to them Brockley was given as a 
more convenient spot. Whether they ever removed to Brockley is 
doubtful, since Begham, in Sussex, was shortly afterwards conferred 
upon them, and there they built their Abbey, and dwelt until the 
days of Henry VIII. 
King John, in 1208, confirmed them in their possessions of 
** Brokele,”’ and they continued to hold the property until 1526, 
when, with other small religious houses, the Abbey was suppressed. 
Brockley was then settled by Cardinal Wolseley on his new College 
at Oxford, but on his attainder in 1529, it came with his other 
estates to the Crown. 
The portions in Deptford were then separated from those in 
Lewisham, and ultimately descended to the Wickhams, Drakes, 
and Tyrwhitt-Drakes, after whom some of the roads are named. 
The Lewisham portion (284 acres of land and 120 acres of wood) 
was granted away by the Crown, and came in 1579 into the hands 
of Brian Annesley, of Lee, who purchased it for £800 from Sir 
Roger Manwood, Baron of the Exchequer. In Annesley’s will it is 
styled ‘‘ Forest Place, now called Brockley Farm House in the 
hamlet of Brockley, in the parish of Lewisham,” and he left it to his 
second daughter, Lady Christian, wife of Lord Sandys. It after- 
wards came to her younger sister, Cordelia, who married Sir 
William Harvey (Baron Kidbrook), and was sold by them to 
Edward Montague, who was created Baron Montague, of 
Boughton, in 1621. The trustees of his great grandson, John, 
Duke of Montague, sold Brockley in 1717, to James Craggs, Esq., 
senior, Postmaster General. At his death in 1721, his property 
passed to his three daughters, and, eventually, through the second 
daughter, Elizabeth, to Edward Eliot, of St. Germans, who was 
created Baron Eliot in 1784, and whose descendants were advanced 
in the peerage as Earls of St. Germans. 
On the maps of the country round Lewisham in the 18th century 
(Rocque’s, 1745, and others), Brockley appears as consisting of the 
house now known as Brockley Hall, a few houses opposite to this, 
and a little further down Brockley Road—about the junction with 
Stondon Park—was Brockley Farmhouse, the buildings of which 
extended northwards. A lane ran nearly on the site of Crofton 
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