A HISTORY OF SURREY 



died in 1627, and bequeathed all his lands, with the and her husband sold the manors in 1744 with 

 exception of one-half of Shoelands, to Wolley Leigh." Bury Farm to Brigadier-General James Edward Ogle- 



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Francis Leigh having died without children in 1637, 

 Wolley should have succeeded to all the manors. But 

 some rearrangement of trusts must have been made. 

 Sir Francis Leigh the father was still alive, and it is 

 he who held a court in 1643." Sir Francis died 

 1645, and Wolley Leigh very soon after him. In 

 1645 the estate was conveyed by Thomas Leigh, 

 Wolley's half-brother, or son, to William Leigh, 

 another half-brother, 16 whose widow, Lydia Leigh, 

 was lady of the manor as early as 1661, and held 

 courts up to 1711, when she was buried at Puttenham. 

 In 1728 Jasper Jones and his wife Frances were in 

 possession of the two manors." Frances was only 

 daughter and heir of Francis Leigh of the Middle 

 Temple, son of the said William and Lydia. She 



PUTTENHAM 



thorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia.* 8 He 

 sold the manors in 1761 to Thomas Parker,* 9 wha 

 rebuilt the Manor House, since called the Priory ;. 

 but parts of an older house of Elizabethan or 

 Jacobean date, including a shaped gable of Bargate 

 stone and brick, remain at the back. In 1775 he 

 sold the whole property. Admiral Cornish bought 

 the Manor House and some other property, and after 

 his death in 1 8 1 6 it was sold to his wife's nephew 

 Richard Sumner, who died in 1870. His son Mr. 

 Morton Cornish Sumner owned it, and died before 

 1 880. His widow died recently, and the owner now 

 is Mr. Ferdinand F. Smallpeice. The manors were 

 bought by Mr. Nathaniel Snell, from whom they 

 were bought by Mr. E. B. Long with Hampton 

 Lodge in 1 799. He was 

 succeeded by Mr. H. L. 

 Long and by Mr. Mow- 

 bray Howard of Hamp- 

 ton Lodge, vide infra. 

 Mr. F. F. Smallpeice has 

 since bought the manors. 

 P UTTE N HAM 

 PRIORY or PRIOR 

 was the moiety of the 

 original manor of Putten- 

 ham which Maud de Fay, 

 one of the sisters of John 

 de Fay, inherited. She 

 granted it in 1248 to the 

 Priory of Newark by 

 Guildford. 30 In 1279 the 

 prior claimed assize of 

 bread and ale and view 

 of frankpledge in his 

 manor of Puttenham." 



At the time of the sur- 

 render of the priory in 

 1538 the farm of the 

 manor of Puttenham was 

 6." The king thus 

 being in possession of the 

 manor as part of the 

 lands late of Newark 

 Priory, granted it to 

 Edward Elrington and 

 Humphrey Metcalfe in 

 exchange for other lands 

 in various counties. 33 On 

 the sites of Puttenham 

 and other manors granted 

 at the same time there 

 grew two hundred oaks 

 and elms, 'part timber 

 and most part usually 

 croppyd and shrude of 

 sixty and eighty years 

 Sgrowthe,' of which a great 

 many were reserved ' by 



38 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxxviii, half-brother Thomas, but this is incor 

 125. Bridget wife of William Mintcrne rect. 

 was also to have a life interest in half of 

 Shoelands. 



34 Surr. Arch. Coll. vii, pt. i, p. in. 



"' Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 17, 



, . . , , 

 think that it was Francis son of Wolley's 



36 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 21 Chas. I ; 

 Recov. R. East. 24 Chas. I. 



*> Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 2 Ceo. II. 

 28 Close, 19 Geo. II, pt. i, no. 26. 

 38 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 2 Geo. III. 



54 



80 Feet of F. Surr. 32 Hen. Ill, 35. 



81 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rcc. Com.), 

 747- 



82 Dugdale, Man. vi, 384. 



88 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (i), 441 

 (16). 



