GODALMING HUNDRED 



COMPTON 



LUSSHER. Gules three 

 martlets or and a chief 

 or 'with three molets a- 

 sure therein. 



consideration had been a perpetual payment to the 

 Black Friars of Guildford for masses for Richard, 

 and perhaps this was not paid. At any rate the next 

 holder to be found is Lawrence Rasterne who 

 married Anne daughter of 

 Thomas Purvoch and Joan 

 Brocas. 45 Their son was Wil- 

 liam Rasterne, 46 who died I 562. 

 His only survivingchild Martha 

 married John Lussher. She 

 was involved in an action in 

 the Court of Requests 15745 

 with her mother's second hus- 

 band William Grey. 47 John 

 Lussher died before October 

 1603, when Martha his widow 

 held a court. 48 Her son John 

 Lussher mortgaged the manor 

 to Richard Carrill 10 Novem- 

 ber i63o, 49 and in December 1631 Lussher and Carrill 

 conveyed the manor to trustees for John Kempsall of 

 St. Clement Danes. 60 John Kempsall had a son 

 Edward, married again and had a son John, and died 

 1659." Edward the elder son had only an annuity 

 out of the manor, which had been leased to a 

 Dr. Tichborne and settled on the elder John's second 

 wife and her children." John the younger sold to 

 Dr. Edward Fulham in 1662, who in 1667 further 

 secured himself against the claim of John's mother 

 and her second husband Thomas Weston.** 



The estate remained in the Fulham family, for the 

 Rev. Edward Fulham held it at his death in 1832." 

 It was purchased by Charles Devon," who sold the 

 manor and manor-house to George Best, who resided 

 there c. 1848. Mr. Best died 1870. His widow 

 died 1873, when the manor was sold to Colonel 

 McC. Hagart, C.B. His sister, Mrs. Ellice, is now 

 owner. 



DOWN PLACQ, the manor which includes the 

 northern part of Compton parish, was a part of the 

 main manor of Compton at the time of the Domesday 

 Survey. Gregory de la Dune held half a knight's 

 fee there of William de Windsor c. I2I2. 66 It was 

 held with Compton of the manor of Stanwell until 

 the sale of the overlordship by Lord Windsor to 

 Henry VIII." 



In 1386 Elizabeth Stonhurst was holding the 

 manor of Miles Windsor, 68 and a few years later she 

 paid poll tax for herself and four servants in Compton 

 in i 38 1. 69 She is probably identical with Elizabeth 

 de Doune who appears in the Godalming Hundred 

 Rolls, the Arlington and the Catteshull courts, 



Courf: 



1382-5, as holding land in Compton, Arlington, 

 and Cherfold in Chiddingfold ; perhaps Downland in 

 Chiddingfold was so named from her holding it. 

 Down was subsequently in the hands of Robert 

 Hull. 60 In 1427 Margery Knollis was in posses- 

 sion, 61 but by 1451 it had again changed hands 

 and was held by George Daniell. 61 William Brocas 

 in 1452 held Me Doune ' in Arlington. 63 That this 

 was part of Down in Compton appears likely from 

 his son holding the manor of Down in 1485. If so, 

 it had been confiscated before by Edward IV and 

 given to his brother-in-law 

 Sir Thomas St. Leger, who 

 held it towards the end of the 

 1 5th century. He was the 

 chief tnstigalor of the rising in 

 Surrey in I483- 64 After his 

 attainder and execution Down 

 Place was forfeit to the king, 

 who granted it to his servant 

 William Mistelbroke in tail 

 male, 66 but William Brocas was 

 holding Down soon afterwards, 

 see above. 66 The attainder of 



ST. LEGER. Azure 

 fretty argent a chief or. 



Sir Thomas St. Leger having been reversed at the 

 accession of Henry VII, 67 his heiress Anne, wife of 

 George Lord Roos, entered upon the manor, 68 but 

 seems to have alienated it, for under Henry VIII 

 William FitzWilliam, Earl of Southampton, was in 

 possession, and settled it on his wife, Mabel, and his 

 heirs by her. He died in 1542 without issue, and 

 the manor descended, in accordance with the terms 

 of the settlement, to his half-brother Sir Anthony 

 Browne, kt., father to the first Lord Montague. 69 



Down Place under Guildown was among lands 

 granted in 1592 to William Tipper, a fishing grantee. 70 

 However, the rightful owners 

 succeeded in recovering their 

 lands, for in 1610 Anthony 

 Viscount Montague, a descen- 

 dant of Sir Anthony Browne, 

 sold the manor to Richard 

 Coldham. 71 From him it de- 

 scended to his son Richard." 

 In 1668 Richard Coldham 

 and George Coldham the 

 younger were dealing with it. 7 * 

 Richard Coldham conveyed 

 it in 1688 to the trustees 

 of the estates of Gerard Gore, deceased, 74 whose 

 daughter Sarah married Sir Edward Tumor, Speaker 

 of the House of Commons in 1661." Arthur 



COLDHAM. Azure a 

 molet argent pierced 



fcv- 



the th 



V; 



4t Catteshull Manor R. 12 June 23 

 Hen. VIII, and brass of Thomas and 

 Joan Purvoch in Godalming Church. 

 They had a son Thomas who married 

 Jane. The wife of the father or the son 

 might be Joan Brocas. 

 ** Ct. of Req. bdle. 39, no. 91, 17 Eliz. 

 * Ibid. Ct. R. 



V Close, 7 Chas. I, pt. xxvi, no. 28. 

 Ibid. pt. xxv, no. 33. 

 P.C.C. will proved 27 Jan. 1659. 

 2 Close, 1 1 Chas. I, pt. xxv, no. 2$. 

 ' Feet of F. Surr. East. 14 Chas. II ; 

 . Trin. 19 Chas. II. 

 * Coll. To fog. et Gen. i, 17. 

 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. v, 22 j. 

 Testa de Neiiill (Rec. Com.), 220. 

 /'" Deeds of Purchase and Exchange 

 (Aug. Off.), Hen. VIII, C. 22. 



58 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, 46. 



"Exch. Lay Subs. bdle. 184, no. 29, 

 m. I. 



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

 Robert Hull and his wife Elisora (?) ap- 

 pear in the protracted lawsuit of 1398- 

 1410 owing homage to Eastbury. The 

 question arises whether 'Elisora' could 

 have been ' Elizabeth ' Stonhurst. 



Ibid. 6 Hen. VI, 46. She also held 

 Cherfold, vide supra, Catteshull R. 7 

 Hen. VI. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Hen. VI, no. 

 n. 



68 Godalming Hund. R. 1452. 



M V.C.H. Surr. i, 365 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. V.O. Ric. Ill, no. 18. 



M Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 529. 



M Cal. oflnj. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 19. 



19 



" Rolls of Part. (Rec. Com.), vi, 



*73- 



<* Feet of F. Surr. East. 4-5 Hen. VI;II. 



69 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxix, i 43. 



7 That is, one of a class of professio nal 

 informants who made it their business to 

 report to the Crown questionable titles o. 

 landowners. In many cases the lands 

 were thereupon resumed by the Crown, 

 and regranted to the informants, and the 

 original owner had to pay highly in order 

 to recover them ; Pat. R. 34 Eliz. pt. 

 vii. 



n Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 8 Jas. I ; 

 Recov. R. Mich. 9 Jas. I. 



7Add. MS. (B.M.), 6171. 



7 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 20 Chat. II. 



7 Close, 4 Jas. II, pt. i, no. 17. 



' 5 Diet. Nat. Biog. Ivii, 373. 



