190 BAXSTEAD COMMONS. 



to the throne for 270 years till 1543, when Henry 

 VIII., having previously annexed it to the Honour 

 of Hampton Court, granted it to Sir Nicholas Carewe. 

 On Carewe's subsequent attainder it reverted to the 

 Crown, but Queen Mary regranted it to his son. In 

 1762 another Sir Nicholas Carewe sold it to Rowland 

 Frye, from whom it passed through other hands by 

 purchase, till in 1832 it was bought by Mr. Thomas 

 Alcock, whose representatives, in 1873, sold it to Sir 

 John Hartopp. 



The first general survey of the Manor was in 1325. 

 It is still to be found in the charters of the British 

 Museum. There was another survey of the parish in 

 1598, in which the common lands are described as 

 extending over 1,300 acres. The Court Rolls com- 

 mence in 1379, and continue in unbroken succession, 

 and in perfect order, till IS 76. The history of the de- 

 pendent Manors can be traced with equal precision 

 from the earliest times, and, indeed, they form an 

 interesting study from an historical and archaeological 

 standpoint, as bearing upon the subject of the creation 

 of Manors. All the land in three of them was ulti- 

 mately concentrated in the hands of the Earl of 

 Egmont, who held them at the time of the commence- 

 ment of the suit hereafter described, with the exception 

 of Tadworth Park, which was the demesne land of the 

 Manor of South Tadworth, and which was bought, a 

 few years ago, by Sir Charles Russell, Q.C. There was 

 also another Manor, that of Chaldon, not in the Parish, 

 but dependent on the Manor of Banstead. This, at the 



