A HISTORY OF SURREY 



On 10 September 1616 Elizabeth Onslow, widow, 

 and her son Thomas Onslow made a settlement of 

 ' all and every the manors of Cranley alias Cranleigh, 

 Knowle, Holehurst, and Utworth in the parishes and 

 hamlets of Bramley, Shalford, Wonersh, Guildford, 

 Hascombe, and Cranley,' on the intended marriage of 

 Thomas with Mary daughter of Sir Samuel Lennard. 

 Thomas died the following December, perhaps before 

 the marriage could take place. Richard his brother 

 succeeded him. 89 This shows that Holdhurst in Cran- 

 leigh was united in the hands of the Onslows, and that 

 Sutton in Shere (q.v.) was not then considered part of 

 it. The manors are described as ' late of Sir Richard 

 Onslow, Thomas' grandfather,' who died in 1571. 



Holdhurst continued in the Onslow family till 

 1818, when it was alienated to Thomas Puttock.' 

 In 1823 Mr. Walter Hanham bought it. About 

 1839 it came into the possession of Mr. John Brad- 

 shaw, 31 and in 1878 the present owner, Sir George 

 Francis Bonham, bart., H.M. representative at Berne, 

 bought it from Mr. Bradshaw's heir. 



The early history of KNOWLE Manor (Knolle, 

 xiii to xviii cent.) is somewhat obscure." Robert, 

 William, and Henry at Knowle witnessed deeds at 

 Cranleigh in 1303 4.** Peter at Knowle granted a 

 house and lands in Shere to Bartholomew of Shere in 

 1308-9," and a few years afterwards Bartholomew re- 

 leased land in Shere to Henry at Knowle and his wife 

 Cassandra. 35 In 1336 Henry and Cassandra granted 

 Cravenhurst out in farm. 36 Walter at Knowle wit- 

 nessed deeds at Cranleigh in 1360, 1404, and 141 1.'* 7 



In 1481-2 the trustees of Thomas Slyfield of 

 Great Bookham conveyed Knowle to Robert Hard- 

 ing, afterwards master of the Goldsmiths' Company.* 8 

 He bequeathed it to his nephew Thomas Harding. 3 ' 

 Robert Harding left two crofts and a cottage towards 

 the maintenance of the aisle called Our Lady Aisle in 

 Cranleigh Church. 40 In 1 549 William Harding of 

 London, mercer, died seised of Knowle, which he had 

 bequeathed to his daughter Catherine," with whom 

 it went in marriage to Richard Onslow." The 

 manor henceforward remained in the Onslow family. 

 At one time they resided there," and Arthur Onslow, 

 the Speaker, took from it his title of Viscount Cranley, 

 since merged in the earldom of Onslow. It was for 

 sale with the rest of the Onslow estates in Cranleigh 

 in 1815, and passed ultimately with Holdhurst to Mr. 

 Hanham and Mr. Bradshaw and to Sir George F. 

 Bonham, bart. 



REDINGHURST (Redinghers, xiii cent. ; Riding- 



BYSSHE. Oracheveron 

 between three rotes gules. 



hersh, xiv cent.). This manor was originally a member 

 of Utworth. A deed of the latter end of the 1 3th 

 century records the quitclaim to Robert of Reding- 

 hurst of the service which he owed to Thomas of 

 Utworth for Redinghurst, except one penny yearly.* 4 

 In 1331 John son of Robert of Redinghurst was 

 enfeoffed of his father's lands in Cranleigh. 45 His son 

 John was still living in September 1364," and seems 

 to have been succeeded by 

 Walter Redinghurst. *' In 

 1494 the manor was conveyed 

 by the trustees of John Red- 

 inghurst to John Bysshe of 

 Burstow, 48 whose grandson 

 William settled it on his son 

 John in I544- 49 John Bysshe 

 bequeathed it to his wife 

 Mary. 60 In 1635 it was the 

 property of Edward Bysshe." 

 His son, Sir Edward, Garter 

 and Clarencieux King of Arms, 



was dealing with it in i654, 51 and later conveyed it 

 to John Hill. 53 



William Chennell and his wife Mary conveyed it 

 to Henry Chennell in 1780." It passed soon after 

 to Mrs. Ayling, and from her to Henry Streater Gill, 

 who sold it to Mr. Evershed, owner in 1804." 



UTWORTH Manor, which extends into Wonersh 

 and Dunsfold parishes, 56 was held of Bramley. In 

 1234 John de Fay, lord of Bramley, granted the 

 Abbess of Fontevraud 2 marks rent from Utworth 

 in exchange for an annuity due to her." Other rents 

 were due from the manor to Beatrice, mother of John 

 de Fay. 58 Roger de Clare confirmed the grant of a 

 rent from Walter of Utworth to the Abbess ofWher- 

 well towards the support of a chaplain in the chapel 

 of the Garden of St. Mary." Walter son of Elias of 

 Utworth laid claim to Chilworth Church in I224, 60 

 and was probably the Walter of Utworth who con- 

 veyed the manor to his son Thomas in return for a 

 life annuity in I247-8. 61 There is a late 13th-cen- 

 tury agreement between Edmund and Lawrence of 

 Utworth as to land in Bramley. 61 They seem to have 

 been succeeded by Thomas of Utworth, who witnessed 

 many charters at Cranleigh. 63 In 1394-5 Walter 

 Utworth witnessed a grant to John Redinghurst. 64 

 William Utworth was living in 1 462." In 1580 Wil- 

 liam Morgan, who is said to have been a descendant 

 of William Utworth's granddaughter Catherine, held 

 the manor, 66 which he settled on his son John, after- 



Com. Pleas D. Enr. 14 Ja. I, m. 13. 



Ct. R. 



81 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. T, 172. 



83 Manning and Bray (Hist, of Surr. i, 

 536) state that Robert at Knoll possessed 

 it temp. Edw. I, and that a settlement was 

 made on his son William in 131516. 



88 Add. Chart. 5939, 7613. 



" Feet of F. Surr. 2 Edw. II, 28. 



85 Ibid. 7 Edw. II, 6. 



86 Add. Chart. 17304. 



8 " Ibid. 7631, 7616, 17337. 



88 Close, 21 Edw. IV, m. 9 ; Manning 

 and Bray, op. cit. i, 537. 



' Surr. Arch. Coll. vi, 38. 



< Ibid. 41. He died Feb. 1503-4. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxviii, 78. 



Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 3 Eliz. 



Hist. MSS. Com. Ref. xiv, App. pt. 

 ix, 476. 



Add. Chart. 7606. 



Ibid. 7610. 



Close, 38 Edw. Ill, m. 7 d. 



7 Add. Chart. 7603. 



48 It was granted him by the trustees of 

 a certain John Redinghurst, deed. ; Add. 

 Chart. 7626, 7597, 7638, 7622 ; Man- 

 ning and Bray (op. cit. i, 540) state that 

 Joan, one of the daughters and co-heirs of 

 John Redinghurst, married John Bysshe. 



Add. Chart. 7641. 



40 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxlviii, 23. 



u Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 1 Chat. I. 



" Ibid. Mich. 1654 ; Trin. 1655. 



48 Ibid. East. 13 Chat. II. 



44 Ibid. East 20 Geo. III. 



46 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 

 540. 



46 Lease in 1821 of part of the waste of 

 Utworth manor near Dunsfold Church. 



Feet of F. Surr. 19 Hen. Ill, 16. 

 Thomas of Utworth bought a release 



88 



from this rent in 1260-1 ; Feet of F. 

 Surr. 45 Hen. Ill, 24. 



48 Ibid. 25 Hen. Ill, 20. 



69 See Arlington ; Chartulary of Wher- 

 well Abbey; Egerton, MS. 2104, A. foL 

 1 05 b. 



60 Maitland, Bracton't Note Bk. 928. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. 3 2 Hen. Ill, 28 and 37. 



s Ibid. 12 Edw. I, 17. This Edmund 

 was juror in a perambulation of Windsor 

 Forest in 1300. Select Pleas of the Forest 

 (Selden Soc., xiii}, 117. 



88 Add. Chart. 7609, 7610, 7623, 7631. 



4 Ibid. 7604. 



85 Cal. Pat. 1461-7, p. 2OI. 



88 According to fiiit. of Surr. (Harl. Soc. 

 xliii, 23), Catherine daughter of William 

 Utworth married John Gunter, and their 

 daughter Catherine married Henry Mor- 

 gan. They had a grandson William Mor- 

 gan. 



