GODALMING HUNDRED 



COMPTON 



attic stories have a considerable projection, and the 

 whole of the three upper stories are of timber framing, 

 the corbelled corner-posts being cut out of solid butts. 

 The doors have flat arched heads ; and the date of the 

 whole house appears to be about the second quarter 

 of the 1 6th century. Several of the other cottages in 

 the village are highly picturesque, and many date back 

 at least to the 1 6th century. They are of timber con- 

 struction, with tile-hanging over the upper stories, and 

 high pitched tiled roofs, those of a farm-house at 

 Compton being hipped over the wings of the front in 

 a somewhat unusual manner. Some good chimneys 

 occur. The coffee tavern is ancient and picturesque. 

 Not far from it the manor pound still survives. There 

 is a nursery garden in connexion with the Guildford 

 Hardy Plant Nursery. 



Foisted Manor is a modern house, but behind it 

 stands the old manor-house, a small 16th-century 

 timber-framed building. 



Eastbury Manor, .Monk's Hatch, Brook House, 

 Sunny Down, now occupied as a school, and Prior's 

 Wood Lodge are modern houses. 



The original manor of COMPTON, 

 MANORS which afterwards divided to form Comp- 

 ton Westbury and Eastbury, was held 

 by Brixi in the time of Edward the Confessor. 1 At 

 the time of the Domesday Survey it was held of the 

 king by Walter son of Other, founder of the De 

 Windsor family, of whose manor of Stanwell it con- 

 tinued to be held 'until 1 541, when Lord Windsor 

 exchanged the overlordship with the king for other 

 lands in Surrey and Sussex.* The tenants of Comp- 

 ton held it by knight's service, which was rendered 

 after the division by the lord of Eastbury only. 4 



No record of the under-tenants can be found until 

 1201 when Cecily of Compton was holding a knight's 

 fee and a half in Surrey, which evidently included 

 the manor of Compton. 4 John de Gatesden held 

 half a knight's fee of William de Windsor in Comp- 

 ton, circa 1212.' He or another John granted a life- 

 interest in Compton Manor to Nicholas Malemeins 

 for a yearly rent of io/. in 1249.' In 1260 a settle- 

 ment 8 of Compton was made on John de Gatesden 

 and his wife Hawise de Nevill, daughter of Robert de 

 Courtenay, and widow of John de Nevill. 83 Hawise 

 survived her husband, who died shortly before 1262,' 

 leaving a young daughter, probably Margaret, the wife 

 first of Sir John de Camoys, whom she deserted for 

 Sir William Paynele or Pagenal, whom she ultimately 

 married. 10 Margaret owed money to the Crown in 

 1294," whence perhaps a part of Compton, since 

 knovyn as COMPTON WESTBURT, was granted to 

 Henry of Guildford for life only with reversion to 



the grantors and to the heirs of Margaret. He was 

 a tenant among several in 129 1. 11 



In 1303 Henry of Guildford received a grant of 

 free warren in his demesne lands of Compton, 13 and 

 in 1308 obtained a release of land in Compton from 

 Sir William Paynel and Margaret daughter of John de 

 Gatesden. 14 Henry of Guildford was the chief bene- 

 factor of Dureford Abbey in Sussex, to which he 

 bequeathed a large sum of money for the maintenance 

 of two chaplains. 1 * After his death his heir, John 

 the Marshal of Guildford, held Westbury, 16 and re- 

 ceived from the Abbot of Dureford a corrody of bread 

 and ale, a yearly pension, and a messuage within the 

 abbey, and four ' Paris candles whereof sixteen make 

 the pound ' nightly. 17 The abbey bought many lands 

 for the support of Henry of Guildford's chaplains, and 

 amongst them in I 330 the manor of Westbury, then 

 in the possession of John of Brideford. 18 The abbot 

 retained the court and customary dues of Westbury, 

 but leased the land to a tenant, who undertook to 

 supply the abbot's officers with 'horsemeate and 

 manesmeate ' when they held their yearly court at 

 Compton." In 1532 one William Wynter obtained 

 such a lease of the land for fifty-six years, but at the 

 time of the Dissolution it was taken into the king's 

 hands, together with the abbey's other possessions. 10 

 In October 1537 the king granted all the possessions 

 of Dureford Abbey in Compton to Sir William Fitz 

 William, K.G., whom he created Earl of Southampton 

 in that same year.' 1 He held his first court 8 June 

 1541. He died in 1542 without heirs male," so 

 that as Westbury had been granted to him in tail 

 male, it then reverted to the king, by whom it was sold 

 in 1 545 to Sir Christopher More," who in January 

 1535 had a lease of it in perpetuity from the abbot." 

 After this grant the history of the manor was coin- 

 cident with that of the Mores' manor of Loseley 



(q.v.)- 



Mr. James More-Molyneux of Loseley sold a small 

 part, including the manor-house, to Mr. George Best, 

 owner of Eastbury, shortly before 1 842. The manor- 

 house is now the cottage of the gardener of Eastbury 

 Manor. 



COMPTON E4STBURY, the eastern moiety of 

 the original manor of Compton, was not included in the 

 grant to Henry of Guildford," but was held by Sir Wil- 

 liam Paynel in right of Margaret, daughter of John de 

 Gatesden." John Paynel, William's brother, succeeded 

 to the manor, which he granted to John of Brideford," 

 who retained it when he sold Compton Westbury to 

 Dureford. 18 John of Brideford obtained a release 

 from Eva St. John, widow, formerly second wife of 

 Sir William Paynel," of her right to dower in East- 



1 y.C.H. Surr. i, 322*. 

 1 Titta de Nevill (Rcc. Com.), 220 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. io Ric. II, no. 46 ; 

 ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 46 ; Col. Inj. p.m. 

 Hen. VII, i, 19. 



-Deeds of Purchase and Exchange, 

 H p. VIII, C. 22. 



Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 57. 

 Red Bk. ofExch. (Rolls Ser.), i, 148. 

 Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 220. 

 Feet of F. Surr. 33 Hen. Ill, i. 

 Ibid. 44 Hen. Ill, 4. 

 1 Cott. MS. viii, 22 (12 Aug. 1253). 

 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. ii, 384. 

 10 Exch. K.R. Proc. bdle. 14?, file 301. 

 A see the story quoted by Camdcn, Brit. 

 1 1 72 (ed. Gibson), from Rolls of ParL 30 

 Jdw. I, of John de Camoys' conveyance 



of his wife Margaret to William Pagenal. 

 There was, however, another Margaret, 

 daughter of another John de Gatesden 

 ' the younger,' who died in 1258 leaving a 

 widow Margery ; Excerpta e Rot. Fin. ii, 

 316, 326 ; Cal. Chan. Inj. p.m. Hen. Ill, 



454- 



Ibid. " Ibid. 



11 Chart. R. 31 Edw. I, no. 29. 



" Feet of F. Surr. 2 Edw. II, 26. 



" Dugdale, Men. vii, 936 ; Cal. Pat. 

 1317-21, p. 246. 



" Part. Writ, (Rec. Com.), ii (3), 338 



(13)- 



" Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xxiii, fol. 1060. 



18 Cal. Pat. 1327-30, p. 505. He was 

 one of the executors of Henry of Guild- 

 ford. 



'7 



"Decrees of Ct. of Aug. .35 Hen. 

 VIII, xiv, 12. 



Dugdale, Man. vii, 936 ; Valor Eecl. 

 (Rec. Com.), i, 321. 



L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (z), 1008 



('9)- 



m Diet. Nat. Biog. xix, 232. 



* Panic, for Grants (Aug. Off.), Hen. 

 VIII, 411. 



84 Close, 37 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, no. 26. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 57 5 

 ibid, io Edw. II, no. 61. 



* Parl. Wriu. (Rec. Com.), ii (3), 

 338 (13). 



W De Banco R. Trin. 12 Edw. II, m. 

 234. 



88 Inq. a.q.d. ccix, 21. 



M Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 646. 



