A HISTORY OF SURREY 



1674 to Ambrose Holbech and Lawrence Lord," 

 probably as trustees to sell to Richard Gwynn, cloth- 

 worker of London, whose niece and heiress Susan 

 Clifton had a daughter Trehane, who married Sir 

 William Chappie, justice of the King's Bench. His 

 daughter Grace married Sir Fletcher Norton, first 

 Lord Grantley," who thus obtained another third of 

 this manor. 



John Carrill's third daughter married Henry Lud- 

 low, and their share of the estate was known as WEST 

 BRAMLEY Henry Ludlow, by will in 1 724 (proved 

 P.C. Cant. 15 October 1730), devised the manors 

 of West Bramley, Markwick, Monkenhook, and 

 Shoelands in Puttenham to his daughter Elizabeth. 

 She became insane, and on her death her next heirs 

 were found to be her father's first cousin's sons Cap- 

 tain Harcourt Masters and Mr. Giles Strangways. By 

 a deed of partition in 1750 West Bramley fell to 

 Captain Harcourt Masters. He sold West Bramley 

 to William Hammond, who was already tenant of 

 the manor-house. 79 William Hammond sold it to 

 John Shurlock and Richard Elliott. John Shurlock's 

 grandson John conveyed his interest to Thomas 

 Smyth, nephew of Richard Elliott, who thus owned 

 the whole of West Bramley. 80 He sold it to William 

 Lord Grantley, 81 who already owned the rest of the 

 original manor, with which it has since descended. 



William de Breus and William Wintershull with 

 their wives, lords of the divided manor of Bramley in 

 the time of Edward I, made good their claim to view 

 of frankpledge, assize of bread and ale and liberties of 

 pillory and cucking-stool according to a charter of 

 Henry III. sla The lord of Bramley used also to hold 

 pleas for merchants attending Shalford fair, and to 

 take the stakes set up in his fee. 81 



View of frankpledge was held by William, 

 grandson of Walter Wintershull, on Wednesday in 

 Whitsun week. 8 ' He also had a rent called 'work- 

 silver ' from his free tenants in Bramley. 84 The view 

 of frankpledge was sold with the manor to William 

 Harding in 1 542. 



Of the liberties peculiar to the de Breus' half of the 

 manor of Bramley free warren was granted to Walter 

 de Gedding in 1304..** Among items given in the 

 account of Robert the Tailor, ' bedell ' of Sir Thomas 

 de Breus in 1354 and the following years, are a rent 

 called ' Toppingselver ' from Clandon and ' Work- 

 selver ' from various tenants. 84 



THORNCOMBE STREET or M4RSH4LS was 

 that land of 'Torncumba' of which Stephen de 

 Turnham the king's marshal was enfeoffed by William 

 and Roger de Paceys, and which he was holding in 

 1205 in accordance with a charter of Ralph de Fay." 

 It probably returned to the de Fay family through 



Beatrice daughter and co-heiress of Stephen de Turn- 

 ham and wife of Ralph de Fay. 87 It afterwards formed 

 part of lands granted to John of Wintershull by Maud 

 de Fay. 88 No documentary evidence concerning 

 Thorncombe during the next three centuries has 

 been found. 



In 1 502 John Mellersh recovered the manor of 

 Thorncombe, &c., from Robert Marshall. 88 * 



In 1505 John Onley and others acquired the manor 

 of Thorncombe alias Marshall from John Aprye, 

 Robert Marshall and Elizabeth his wife being called 

 to warrant. 89 



In 1510 Onley conveyed to William Lusher. 90 

 George Lusher settled it on his son William on his 

 marriage (1564-5); and subsequently, in 1593, his 

 son's first wife being dead, was trying to recover pos- 

 session against John Comber, to whom William had 

 conveyed it in 15 83," presumably on a second mar- 

 riage with a daughter of Comber. In 1596 Comber 

 and William Lusher were able to convey it to Henry 

 Mellersh, at whose death it seems to have been split 

 up into fifths, which descended respectively to Martha 

 wife of Robert Roydon, Anne wife of John Wight, 

 Eleanor wife of William Skynner, James and Chris- 

 topher Hobson, and Margaret wife of John Scales, 91 * 

 which last sold her fifth to Francis Aungier in 

 1 604" 



The portions of the manor often reappear, and 

 ' Marshall or Marshalls ' kept its name as a farm. It 

 was owned by Budds and Balchins, and conveyed by 

 George Chandler's trustees to Mr. Richard Gates, in 

 1839. He sold it to Mr. Fisher in 1849, and it is 

 now, as Thorncombe, the property of Captain Fisher- 

 Rowe. 



The manor of WINTERSHULL seems to have been 

 separated from Bramley Manor soon after the death 

 of Ralph de Fay the younger, for in 1227 a royal 

 confirmation was made to 

 Henry Wintershull of ' all the 

 land of Wintersell and all ser- 

 vice of the land saving the 

 king's service only,' which he 

 had of the gift of John de 

 Fay. 9 * Ralph de Fay's widow, 

 Beatrice, had also granted land 

 in Bramley to Henry Winter- 

 shull. 933 The manor remain- 

 ed in the Wintershull family, 

 though not in that branch 

 which held Bramley half- 

 manor. It was held of Bramley by the service of 

 a knife for cutting bread yearly." In 1279 J onn 

 Wintershull proved his claim to view of frankpledge 

 in the manor. 94 In 1327-8 Francis Wintershull 



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WlNTIRSHUtL. Or tv>0 



bars gules and a label sable. 



7' Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 26 & 17 

 Chaa. II. 



7 Close, 30 Chas. II, pt. vi, no. 30. 

 77 Diet. Nat. Sing, xli, 211 ; x, 62. 

 f Feet of F. Surr. East. 31 Chas. II. 

 7 Close, 25 Geo. II, pt. i, no. 5. 



80 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 83, 

 112 ; Brayley, op. cit. v, 121. 



81 Braylejr, op. cit. v, 120. 



8la Plac. de Quo tVarr. (Rec. Com.), 743. 

 81 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, no. 69. 

 88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. Ill (pt. 2, 

 lit nos.), no. 82. 



Feet of F. Surr. HiL 33 Hen. VIII. 



84 Chart. R. 33 Edw. I, no. 98. 



" Mint. Accts. bdle. 1010, no. 23. 



86 Cal. Roc. Chart. (Rec. Com.), i, 160. 

 Stephen was confirmed at the same time in 

 the possession of lands which had been his 

 father-in-law's, Ralph de Broc. 



8 7 Sec the account of Arlington. 



88 Deed quoted by Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit. ii, 8;. The rent due from the 

 tenement of Geoffrey *de Torcumba' in 

 Bramley had been granted by John de 

 Fay to the Prioresi of Amesbury ; Curia 

 Regis R. 1 08, m. 9. 



*> De Banco R. East. 17 Hen. VII, m. 

 146 d. [Recovery]. It is probably from this 

 family that it took the name of Marshals. 



89 De Banco R. HiL 20 Hen. VU, m. 

 360. 



8 4 



Ct. R. of Selhurst Manor. Feast of 

 St. Edmund, 2 Hen. VIII. 



91 Chan. Proc. Eliz. LI, i, 34. 



911 Feet of F. Surr. East. 5 Jas. I; East. 

 7 Jas. I. Henry Mellersh's will (1597) 

 names his four daughters, of whom one is 

 Martha, who married Robert Roydon, but 

 the other names are not those of these 

 co-heiresses. His only ton died young, 

 and there were only four daughters. 



"Ibid. HiL i Jas. I. 



* Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), i, 48. 



9ta Maitland, Braaon's Note Bk. 679. 



94 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Unix, 133. 



"Plac. de Qua Warr. (Rec. Com.), 

 747- 



