A HISTORY OF SURREY 



that it seems probable that on that account it was 

 forfeited to the Crown. It was granted with Shiere to 

 John, Lord Audley, and forfeited by his son James 

 after the insurrection at Blackheath." It was then 

 farmed by a certain William Cokys, 80 and in October 

 i Jl i, Henry VIII granted it with other lands in 

 Ewhurst to Thomas Salter, Sewer of the Chamber, to 

 hold for the annual rent of a red rose.* 1 The manor 

 seems, however, to have been restored to John, Lord 

 Audley, for he conveyed it in 1532 to Thomas Wolley 

 the younger." In 1 549 Ambrose Wolley sold the 

 manor to Robert Whitfeld,* 8 who held it till 1576, 

 when he sold it to Nicholas Dendy "and his son John, 

 w\io were also holding Breach." Nicholas died at 

 Rwhurst in October 1 5 87 and was succeeded by John 

 Dendy, 16 who conveyed the manor to Edward Dendy 

 in 1621." In 1640 Henry Ockley and his wife 

 Beatrice were in possession, and sold the reversion to 

 John Clifton of Worplesdon.* 8 



In 1 648 these three conveyed it to Richard Evelyn 

 of Baynards.' 9 John Dendy was farming it at the 

 time of the Commonwealth. 10 It descended from 

 Richard Evelyn to his daughter Ann, wife of William 

 Montague, who conveyed it to William Freeman in 

 1674." In 1680 William Montague, junior, 'seised 

 in fee in reversion," surrendered all his rights to 

 William Freeman. The latter in 1700 granted 

 a lease for a year to Sir Richard Onslow ' to test 

 the possession,' and his son, Thomas Onslow, after- 

 wards the second Lord Onslow, mortgaged the pro- 

 perty in 1714," as owner. It continued in Lord 

 Onslow's family till about 1863, when it was bought 



ONSLOW, Earl Onslow. 

 Azure a Jesse gules be 

 noeen fix Cornish choughs. 



SCARLETT, Lord Abin- 

 ger. Cheeky or and gules 

 a lion ermine and a quar- 

 ter azure with a castle 

 argent therein. 



by the late William Lord Abinger, in whose heir it 

 now remains. 



It seems possible that the manor of BdTNdRDS, 

 which lies on the boundary between Ewhurst and 

 Cranleigh, was originally a part of Pollingfold (q.v.), 

 and never a separate manor, though so called, for 

 tenants of the Baynards estate appear in the court 

 rolls of Pollingfold (extant between 1772 and 1883). 

 In 1447 William Sydney the younger obtained a 

 licence to impark 800 acres of land appertaining to 



his ' manor ' of Baynards." According to a monu- 

 mental inscription in Cranleigh Church, quoted by 

 Aubrey in the I7th century, William Sydney died 

 in 1449.'' He was succeeded by a son William, 

 whose widow Elizabeth obtained the custody of his 

 lands during the minority of his daughters Elizabeth 

 and Anne." Baynards Manor appears to have 

 been the portion of Anne, who married William 

 (afterwards Sir William) Uvedale.* 6 According to 

 his will * 7 a rent was to be paid to his eldest son and 

 the residue of the profits divided between his younger 

 son John and his brother Thomas. The manor was 

 conveyed to Reginald Bray or his brother John. Ed- 

 mund Lord Bray, son of the latter, sold it in 1535 to 

 his brother Sir Edward Bray. Sir Edward Bray died 

 in 1558. His son Sir Edward mortgaged Baynards, 



2 November 1580, to John 

 Reade of Sterborough, 58 to 

 whom he sold Pollingfold 



3 December, a month later. 

 On 29 October 1587 John 

 Reade released his rights in 

 Baynards to George More of 

 Loseley, afterwards knighted, 

 and a fine was levied in 1588 

 confirming the conveyance. 

 Baynards was bought by More 

 with his wife's money, she 

 being a wealthy heiress.' 9 He 

 probably rebuilt the house 

 with the great hall, which 



now exists, for his home while his father Sir William 

 was alive. 40 In 1604, after the death of the latter, 

 Sir George, his wife Constantia, and his son Sir Robert, 

 conveyed Baynards to Sir Francis Woolley of Pirford, 

 Sir George More's nephew, for a sum of money and 

 the manor of Witley in exchange. 



On 6 March 4 James (1607) Sir Francis Woolley 

 sold Baynards for 4,400 to Edward Bayninge, 

 gentleman, of London. He presumably died, leaving 

 an heir Andrew Bayninge, who sold it i 5 February 

 1608-9 to I saac Woder of Plumstead in Kent. 

 Woder, who also had acquired Knowle in Cranleigh, 

 described as ' a manor in Surrey and Sussex,' in the 

 same year, sold Baynards 28 February 160910 to 

 Robert Jossey. His son James Jossey alias Hay 

 mortgaged his property, and was clearly in considerable 

 difficulties, for on 23 January 1628-9 his mot her 

 Margaret surrendered to him all her jointure, Polling- 

 fold Manor, Coneyhurst Hill, and two rooms over 

 ' the great dining chamber ' at Baynards. The mort- 

 gage changed hands, and finally Richard Gurnard, 

 citizen and clothworker, conveyed his rights under it 

 to Richard Evelyn, father of the diarist, i 3 November 

 1629. On 30 August 1630 Jossey released all his 

 rights in Baynards and Pollingfold to Richard Evelyn, 

 and in 1631 a lessee of Mrs. Jossey's jointure sur- 

 rendered his lease to Evelyn. 41 



MORI of Loseley. A- 

 seure a cross argent with 

 Jive martlea sable there- 

 on. 



Pat. 7 Edw. IV, pt, i, m. 6. 

 *> Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), rviii, 51. 

 L. and P. Hen. VIII, i, 1916. 

 Feet of F. SUIT. East. 23 Hen. VIII. 

 Ibid. Mich. 3 Edw. VI. 

 Ibid. Mich. 18 & 19 Eliz. 

 Ibid. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccix, 118. 

 7 Feet of F. Surr. HiL 18 Jas. I ; Re- 

 COT. R. East. 19 Jas. I, rot. 59. 

 18 Deed of Lord Onslow. 



** Ibid.; Close, 22 Chas. I, pt. ii, no. 5. 



80 Surr. Arch. Coll. xvii, 88. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. East. 26 Chas. II. 

 * Deeds of Lord Onslow. 



"Chart. R. 25 & 26 Hen. VI, no. 12. 



81 Antiq. of Surr. (ed. 1718), iv, 85. 



85 Cal. Pat. 14.61-7, p. 273. 



"Till 1487 it was held in dower by 

 Elizabeth their mother, who had remar- 

 ried Sir Thomas Uvedale. See Cal. Inj. 

 p.m. Hen. Vll, i, 170, 171. 



9 8 



7 See Surr. Arch. Coll. iii, 171. 



88 Cf. Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 22 Eliz. ; 

 a conveyance to Sir Thomas Cotton, 

 probably for the purposes of the mort- 

 gage. 



89 Settlement at Loseley. 



40 John Evelyn in his letter to Aubrey 

 prefixed to Aubrey's Hist, and Antiq. of 

 Surr. says that More built the house. 

 Some of it, however, is probably older. 



41 Deeds of Lord Onslow. 





