A HISTORY OF SURREY 



bury in 1321.* He was assessed in Compton for 

 a subsidy in 1332, but died very shortly after. 

 Eastbury passed to William Cook of Brideford and 

 William Wreyford. In 1333 William Cook granted 

 a lease fcr eight years of a moiety of a third part 

 of the (origin.il undivided ?) manor of Compton to 

 Richard de Windsor the overlord ; 3I and in the same 

 year William Wreyford conveyed a moiety of Eastbury, 

 together with the reversion of the dower of Rose 

 widow of John of Brideford, and a messuage and rent 

 which the Abbot of Dureford held during the life of 

 Joan wife of Robert Gerneys, to Richard atte Welle." 

 In 1343, the lease being just expired, Richard de 

 Windsor brought a suit ** against Richard atte Welle 

 and William Cook of Brideford concerning one- 

 third of the -manor, Richard atte Welle appearing 

 as William's bailiff. The action was probably col- 

 lusive to settle the title. The result is not on 

 record, but Windsor apparently lost ; for William 

 Cook of Brideford in 1343 granted by deed to 

 Richard atte Welle and Sybil his wife all his rights in 

 Eastbury.* 4 Further, in 1349 Richard atte Welle, by 

 deed dated at Compton, enfeoffed John de Shackleford, 

 john de Walton, and Richard Pruwet, of his manor 

 in the parish of Compton and in Tunshamstede 

 or Unstead in Shalford, with certain reservations, 35 

 in trust for his wife Sybil and his children and 

 his brother, with reversion. Sybil afterwards married 

 William Seward and had a daughter Maud, wife of 

 Thomas Swanton. 



In 1387 William Seward and his wife Sybil were 

 holding the whole of Eastbury for the life of Sybil,* 6 

 as the inquisition of Miles de Windsor says, but the 

 trial referred to says that Richard atte Welle son of 

 Sybil's former husband had granted it to William 

 Seward for life with remainder to Richard's heirs. 

 This Richard died without heirs. 



In 1397 William Wallyng and his wife Isabella 

 claimed the manor from William Seward after Sybil's 

 death. Isabella was daughter of Christina, sister of 

 Richard atte Welle the elder. They were successful ; 

 but meanwhile, William Seward had probably con- 

 veyed to John Guvynes, who is said to be have held the 

 manor in 1398." In 1398 William and Isabella 

 Wallyng acknowledged the right of one Elias Beare to 

 the manor, but the proceedings did not terminate till 

 I4IO. 38 Clemence Wallyng daughter of Isabella 

 married a Thomas Beare. 



The Seward family afterwards claimed again, and in 

 1422 the manor was restored to Maud, widow of 

 Thomas Swanton and daughter of the above Sybil, 

 wife of Richard atte Welle and afterwards of William 

 Seward." 



In 1428 Maud Brocas was charged for a quarter 

 part of a knight's fee in Compton which Richard 

 atte Welle formerly held of Richard Windsor. She 

 was possibly Maud Swanton remarried to a Brocas, 

 whence the manor came into this family. 40 Thomas 

 Brocas, who represented Guild- 

 ford in Parliament, had been 

 a tenant in Compton in 1398. 



Arnold Brocas, who was 

 knight of the shire for Surrey 

 in 1441-2, was in possession 

 of Eastbury in 145 1 " and was 

 succeeded by Benedict Brocas, 

 who was holding it in 1485," 

 and is said to have died in 

 1488. His son and heir 

 Richard was holding Eastbury 

 in i 504," when he was at law 

 with William Lussher, lessee of Westbury. In 1515 he 

 made a grant to Gilbert Stoughton. 44 The grant did 

 not alienate Compton from the Brocas family. One 



BROCAS. Sable a In- 

 pard rampant or. 



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COMPTON : THE COFFEE TAVERN 



80 Feet of F. Surr. 14 Edw. II, 28. 



81 Auize R. 1431, m. 65 d. 



M Feet of F. SUIT. 14 Edw. Ill, 25. 

 88 Assize R. 1431, m. 65 d. 

 84 Referred to in 1397, Coram Rege R. 

 Mich. 21 Ric. II, m. 70 4c. 85 Ibid. 



86 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, no. 46. 



7 Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no. 52. 



88 Feet of F. Surr. 1 1 Hen. IV, 82. 



89 Coram Rege R. 645, m. 59. 



40 She was known as Maud Brocas in 

 1427, when she was said to be holding 

 the manor of Eastbury of Richard Wind- 

 sor. Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Hen. VI, 46. 



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41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Hen. VI, n o. 

 II. 



41 Cal. oflnj. p.m. Hen. Vll, i, 19. t 



48 Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 20 He.n. 

 VII, m. 155. 



44 Com. Pleas D. Enr. 

 VIII. 



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. East. 20 He.n. 

 ir. HiU 6 Hen 1 . 



