A HISTORY OF SURREY 



In late years it has been a good deal injured by 

 the insertion of modern windows in place of the 

 ancient mullioned openings filled with lead lights, 

 but it still retains its arched doorway and a projecting 

 gable, carried on a moulded bressummer and brackets 

 and having a foliated barge-board. 6 



W1LDWOQD? now represented by 

 MANORS Great and Little Wildwood Farms and 

 Wildwood Copse and Moat, was formerly 

 possessed by the lords of Albury and Stoke D'Aber- 

 non, the D'Abernons and their successors. 8 In the 

 1 3th century the D'Abernon family had land in 

 Alfold, 9 and in a deed of 1313 John D'Abernon's 

 wood called ' le Wylwode ' is mentioned. This was 

 probably the wood of 40 acres of oaks, possibly the 



ALFOLD : OLD HOUSE 



' Wealden ' Wood named in the inquisition on the 

 Albury Manor. 10 In 1391 Elizabeth Grey, lady of 

 Stoke D'Abernon, widow of Sir William Croyser, 



granted the soil and wood of Wildwood except 

 the moat, grange, and manorial rights " to John, 

 Duke of Lancaster, and others." The descent of 

 Wildwood followed that of Albury till 1626, when 

 Sir Edward Randyll alienated it to Elizabeth Ons- 

 low, widow, and Sir Richard Onslow, 13 from whom 

 it seems to have passed to the Duncombes of Wes- 

 ton." With Weston it descended to Nathaniel 

 Sturt, who is said to have sold it in 1736 to either 

 Richard or Francis Dorrington, from whom it was 

 purchased by Henry Page. He bequeathed it to his 

 cousin Richard Skeet of Effingham, whose son Richard 

 succeeded him as owner." 



MARKWICK and MONKSNHOOK were among 

 the possessions of Waverley Abbey, 16 but Markwick 

 only was assessed as the property of 

 the abbey in 1534-5." The ' manors 

 of Markwick and Monken hook ' were 

 included within the grant of the site of 

 the abbey to Sir William Fitz William, 

 at whose death they appear under the 

 name of the manor of Alfold, 18 and de- 

 scended to Anthony, second Viscount 

 Montagu, 19 who alienated the estate circa 

 1623," evidently to agents in a sale to 

 Simon Carrill of Tangley, for it appears 

 afterwards in the possession of the three 

 daughters of John Carrill," and de- 

 scended with that part of his estate 

 which was assigned to Henry Ludlow 

 and his wife Margaret." Giles son 

 of Thomas Strangways sold them in 

 1784 to Thomas Boehm, the owner 

 in 1808." The Earl of Onslow is now 

 lord of the manor. 



It was said in the 1 7th century that 

 the lord of Markwick had both court 

 baron and court leet, while the lord of 

 Monkenhook had court baron." The 

 courts were held at Rickhurst and Hook 

 Street. 



The reputed manor of STDNET alias 

 HEDGECOURT or RICKHURST lies 

 partly in Dunsfold. The family of Syd- 

 ney can be traced in the surrounding 

 parishes from the 1 4th century, while 

 John at Sydney witnessed a deed con- 

 cerning lands in Alfold in 1313." In 

 1413 the lord of the manor of Shalford 

 Bradestan is said to have granted Rick- 

 hurst and other land in Alfold to 

 William Sydney and his wife Agnes. 16 



In 1595-6 Richard Ireland died possessed r/f a 

 house called ' Sydneys,' which was held of the lord of 



6 Resembling one in a house at Sham- 

 ley Green and another in the rear of 

 West Horsley Place, Surrey. 



* Formerly an outlying part of Albury 

 parish. 



8 See the account of Stoke D'Abernon. 



9 Surr. Arch. Coll. xviii, 222. 



10 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Edw. Ill, no. 53. 



11 The manorial rights probably apper- 

 tained to Albury Manor, for Wildwood 

 itself never seems to have been a separate 

 manor. 



11 Close, 14 Ric. II, m. 8 d. 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 2 Chas. I. 



14 See Albury. 



15 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 7. 



16 In 1346 the Abbot of Waverley 

 proved his claim to view of frankpledge 

 in his ' manor of Bramley.' Cal. Pat. 

 1345-8, p. 220. This may possibly refer 

 to Markwick and Monkenhook, which 

 appear to be the only lands in or near 

 Bramley held by the abbey. In a bill of 

 sale in 1 784 they include land in Dunsfold 

 and Bramley. 



V Yalor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 34. 

 Probably it included Monkenhook. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixx, 29. 



19 See V.C.H. Surr. ii, 624. 



80 Recov. R. East. 20 Jas. I, m. 51 and 

 14. 

 al Feet of F. Surr. HiL 23-4 Chas. II ; 



78 



Hil. 25-6 Chas. II ; Hil. 26-7 Chas. II ; 

 Mich. 30 Chas. II. Symmes, writing 

 later in the same century, says that their 

 uncle, Simon Carrill, was the purchaser ; 

 Add. MS. 6167, fol. 135. 



M Exch. Spec. Com. 6485. See under 

 Bramley. 



58 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 70 ; and 

 Bill of Sale, in which the manor includes 

 GrarVham and Burningfold, that is probably 

 some land of the latter. 



Add. MS. (B.M.) 6167, fol. 135. 



"Add. Chart 5585. See also Cal. 

 Feet of F. Surr. ; Surr. Arch. Coll. 

 passim. 



46 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 64. 





