POLITICAL HISTORY 



The Marquis of Northampton, William Parr, was lieutenant in 

 1551-2' and in 1553.' 



At the beginning of Queen Mary's reign, during Wyatt's insurrec- 

 tion, Lord William Howard was exercising the functions of lord 

 lieutenant in Surrey and Sussex, in command of the local forces, but 

 under a special commission and not by that title. In 1557, on May 3 

 and 4, Lord Montague wrote to Mr. More of Loseley, and sent a 

 warrant, addressed to him and to others, for the arraying of soldiers 

 within his lordship's ' rules and offices.' He was exercising the functions 

 of a lord lieutenant though no record of his appointment seems to be 

 known. 3 



The Earl of Arundel was lord lieutenant in the last year of Queen 

 Mary, from March, 1558/10 the queen's death in November. He was 

 reappointed by Elizabeth from November, 1558, to April, 1559. Lord 

 Howard of Effingham, Lord William Howard as he had been, was 

 appointed from May i, 1559, till his death in January, 1573. His son 

 Charles, subsequently Earl of Nottingham, succeeded him immediately 

 in 1573. He was reappointed in January, 1585, but probably had been 

 continually in office from year to year. His latter appointment was for 

 Surrey, Sussex and the city of Chichester. 



The history of every county under the Tudors is largely concerned 

 with the progress of ecclesiastical changes and with the disturbances 

 arising from them. The dissolution of the religious houses affected the 

 county seriously, as it affected the rest of England, including as it ulti- 

 mately did the suppression of charitable as well as of religious founda- 

 tions and also that of certain chapels. The social effects of the substitu- 

 tion of lay owners, anxious to make the most of their newly acquired 

 property before some counter revolution should deprive them of it again, 

 in the place of ecclesiastical corporations, probably slow to move and 

 averse to new adventures in farming, were likely enough more provoca- 

 tive of immediate discontent than really injurious in the long run to the 

 prosperity of the tenants. 



The leading men who administered the affairs of the county 

 naturally had their share of the spoils. Sir Anthony Browne, father to 

 the first Lord Montague, received the sites of Newark Priory and of 

 St. Mary Overie, where his son built Montague House, and some of 

 the Chertsey estates. William Fitz William, Earl of Southampton, got 

 Waverley, and left it also to Sir Anthony, who was his half-brother. Lord 

 William Howard had the site of Reigate Priory and some of the 

 Chertsey lands. Sir Thomas Cawarden had the college at Lingfield, Sir 

 Christopher More got half the manor of Westbury and the advowson of 

 Compton, which had belonged to a monastery in Sussex. The succes- 

 sive recipients of Sheen, the Dukes of Somerset and of Suffolk, being 

 both attainted, the monastery came back to the Crown. Hence its 



1 Warrant Book. * Loseley MSS. July n, 1553, i. 3. Ibid. May 3-4, 1557, x. I. 



* He wrote to the Surrey justices announcing his appointment on March 25, 1558. See Loseley 

 MSS. date cited, xii. 19. 



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