A HISTORY OF SURREY 



ford made Shalford a favourite country retreat, and 

 that this accounts for there being several houses of 

 some pretension. Among others, near to the mill, is 

 one which as it does not face the road is easily over- 

 looked. It has a gable of stone with very ornamental 

 brick dressings, and this and the other gables, which 

 are curved and pedimental, bear a close resemblance 

 to the early examples of brickwork in Godalming, 

 Guildford, Farnham, &c., and both inside and out it 

 has many points in common with the old manor- 

 house of Slyfield, in Great Bookham parish. 



This house, called Old House, but formerly Mill 

 House, has some good mullioned windows with lead 

 glazing, in square and diamond panes, and a good 

 door-head. It is panelled in nearly all the rooms, and 

 there is a particularly fine 1 staircase, very like that at 

 Slyfield, with rusticated newels, and instead of balus- 

 ters pierced arabesque scroll-work cut out of the solid. 



As a relic of the past, the stocks and whipping-post, 

 shaded by the yew tree under the churchyard wall, 

 are of interest. 



The manor of SHALFORD or EAST 

 MANORS SHALFORD 9 was held jointly by two 

 brothers in the time of Edward the 

 Confessor. 10 In 1087 it was held by Robert (possibly 

 de Wateville) of Richard de 

 Tonbridge." The latter was 

 the ancestor of the de Clares, 

 and the manor continued to 

 be held of the honour of 

 Clare." It is probable that 

 the de Watevilles were the 

 under-tenants until the reign 

 of Henry II, when Robert de 

 Wateville is said to have sold 

 the manor to Robert de Dun- 

 stanville. 13 Walter de Dun- 

 stanville gave the manor with 

 his sister Alice in marriage, but repossessed himself 

 of it, whereupon Gilbert Bassett, son of Alice, ob- 

 tained a confirmation of his rights from King John." 

 Richard de Camvill and his wife Eustacea (daughter 

 and heiress of Gilbert Bassett) are said to have had 

 the custody of Shalford during the minority of the 

 heir of Walter de Dunstanville." Richard's daughter 

 Idonea married William Longesp6e son of the Earl of 

 Salisbury," and with him seems to have retained the 

 manor " in spite of continued suits by a certain 

 Sibyl. 18 Finally, William Longesp6e granted the manor 

 to John son of Geoffrey, Earl of Essex." His son 

 John died seised of it, leaving a brother and heir 

 Richard," whose widow Emma, afterwards wife of 



CLARE. Or three ehe- 

 uerons gules. 



Robert de Montalt, 11 held it in dower." She conveyed 

 her right in it to Hugh le Despenser the younger, to 

 whom Idonea Crumbwell, one of the heirs of Isabel 



LoNGEspf K. Azure six 

 lioncels or. 



DESPCNS&R. Argent 

 quartered 'with gules 

 fretty or with a bend 

 sable over all. 



sister and co-heir of Richard son of John,** also released 

 her claim in that moiety of the manor which should 

 have descended to her at the death of Emma de 

 Montalt," this conveyance being forced on her 

 against her will.* 4 Robert, Lord Clifford, the other co- 

 heir of Isabel,* 6 made no quitclaim to the Despensers. 

 Therefore when, at the forfeiture of the latter's estates, 

 Shalford was taken into the king's hands," this 

 moiety remained with Robert Clifford and became 

 the manor of Shalford Clifford.' 8 



SHALFORD CLIFFORD was settled by Robert, 

 Lord Clifford, on his youngest son Thomas for life.' 9 

 In 1373 Sir Roger Clifford, kt., second son, but ulti- 

 mately heir, of Robert, conveyed the reversion at his 

 brother's death to his own son Thomas and his 

 wife Elizabeth, 30 who survived her husband." 

 Their grandson and heir, Thomas, Lord Clifford, 

 was killed at St. Albans in 1455, leaving a son 

 and heir John, Lord Clifford, who was killed at 



CLIFTORD, Earl of 

 Cumberland. Cheeky or 

 and azure afesse gules. 



BROWNE, Viscount 

 Montagu. Sable three 

 lions passant bendivays 

 bet-ween double catises 

 argent. 



8 In contra-diitinction to the rectory 

 manor of West Shalford ; Early Chan. 

 Proc. liii, 119. 



10 V.C.H. Surr. i, 3190. They are said 

 to have lived ' in Una curia.' 



" Ibid. 



14 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, 50 ; ibid. 18 

 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 50 ; ibid. (Ser. 2), 

 x, 164. 



u Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 59. 

 Quoting 'Plac. de Banco, East. 14 Hen. Ill, 

 in pell, scacc. reg. reman, rot. 19,' but this 

 reference cannot be verified. 



14 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), i, 41. 



" Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 47. 



Rot. Lit. Pat. (Rec. Com.), i, 178* j 

 Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), ii, 123, 138. 



*7 Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 2 1 9. 



18 She is said to have been the second 

 wife of Walter de Dunstanville. She 

 appears first as Sibyl wife of Ingram de 

 Pratellis and afterwards as Sibyl Ferrars ; 

 Close, 10 Hen. Ill, m. 5 ; ibid. 12 Hen. 

 Ill, m. 13 d, 3 d. 



19 Deed then in possession of Sir John 

 Nicholas quoted by Symmea ; Add. MS. 

 6167, fol. 370. 



20 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. I, no. 47. 

 M Pat. 29 Edw. I, m. 32. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), no. 61. 



83 Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 50. 

 Feet of F. Surr. 17 Edw. II; Cal. Pat. 



34 Cal. of Pat. 1330-4, p. 440. Ap- 

 parently restitution was not made to 

 Idonea. 



108 



* Pat. 7 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 27 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 50. Robert 

 was brother and heir of Roger son of 

 Isabel ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill 

 (2nd nos.), no. 61. Roger forfeited his land: 

 before his death in 1 344, and with them 

 the reversion of Shalford 5 Pat 1 5 Edw. II, 

 m. 7. 



W Esch. Accts. 5-8 Edw. Ill, ii, 54, m. 

 II ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), no. 61. 



48 The temporary custody of the other 

 half was granted to William Hatton j 

 Esch. Accts. 5-8 Edw. Ill, ii, 54, m. n. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 50. 



80 Feet of F. Surr. 2 Ric. II, 1 5. The 

 conveyance was not complete till 1379. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 3 Hen. VI, no. 42. 



