A HISTORY OF SURREY 



manor to Peter Atwood for life, 67 and, subsequently, 

 to Thomas Stowes. 88 In founding the abbey of 

 St. Mary Graces near the Tower of London in 1376 

 the king endowed it with the reversion of this 

 moiety of Gomshall. Hence it obtained the name 

 of Gomshall Towerhill. 83 



In 1539, after the dissolution of the abbey, the 

 king granted Gomshall Towerhill to Sir Edward 

 Walsingham, 90 who conveyed it to Sir Edward Bray 

 in I55O. 91 In 1589 it was granted as 'concealed 

 lands' to Walter Coppinger and others. 91 It was, 

 however, restored to its former owners, for Sir Edward 

 Bray conveyed it to trustees for the use of his wife 

 Mary for life, with final reversion to his grandson and 

 heir Edward in tail male," and since that time it has 

 remained, with Shiere Vachery, in the Bray family. 



Towerhill is an old and picturesque farmhouse 

 close to the station. 



In 1086, when Gomshall was royal demesne, the 

 villeins there were exempt from the sheriff's jurisdic- 

 tion. 94 Both Netley and Towerhill had court baron. 95 

 Eleanor Countess of Ormond had view of frankpledge 

 in Gomshall Towerhill. 96 In 1281 William Braose 

 was granted free warren there. 97 



SUTTON was in 1086 in Wotton Hundred. It 

 is a hamlet now chiefly in Shere parish, but with a 

 few cottages in Abinger parish and Wotton Hundred. 



It is apparently the land in Wotton called ' Sudtone ' 

 which the Bishop of Bayeux had rated in his manor 

 of Bramley. 98 It was subsequently associated with 

 Holehurst or Holdhurst, in Cranleigh, a parish non- 

 existent in 1086 (Holdhurst Manor extends beyond 

 Cranleigh parish), and Sutton was called Holdhurst at 

 Down, or the manor of Downe, to distinguish it from 

 the rest of Holdhurst in the Weald. 99 It may once 

 have been held with the rest of Holdhurst (see under 

 Cranleigh), but Richard Hill died holding Downe in 

 1551, and his son Edmund Hill was in possession 

 in 1554.' He was alive in 1582, and Richard 

 Hill his son, who married Elizabeth daughter of the 

 first Sir Richard Onslow of the family in Surrey, was 

 in possession c. 1586.*' Richard conveyed it in 

 1595 to Ralph Hill. 10 ' He conveyed it to Edward 

 Allford, who sold it to William Leigh of Abinger and 

 Thames Ditton in i6o9. 103 From this family it was 

 conveyed, c. 1620, to Oliver Huntley, who sold it 

 in the following year to Richard Holman. The latter 

 conveyed it to Henry Hilton in l636. lM The Hus- 

 sey family seem to have acquired an interest in Sutton 

 as early as 1 646, when Sir William Smyth, bart., and 

 his wife Mary, whose interests were possibly derived 



from Henry Hilton, transferred their rights in one- 

 third of the manor to Peter Hussey. 105 Thomas Hus- 

 sey of London, who is said to have acquired the whole 

 manor, was buried at Shere in 1655. He left a son 

 Peter, who was visited at Sutton by John Evelyn, 

 August 1 68 1 . 106 He died 1 684, and his son Peter (who 

 died in I/24 107 ) left a daughter Mary, who in 1720 

 married Edward Bugden. Before 1728 Sutton was 

 sold to Edward Pike Heath. His niece Frances 

 married the Hon. Henry Knight, and they sold it to 

 Mr. Edmund Shallet between 1750 and 1 76 1. 10 * 

 Mr. Shallet was sheriff of the county in 1758. His 

 daughter married Caleb Lomax. For the later descent 

 see under Wotton. 



There was a house at Sutton of considerable size, 

 which was pulled down by Mr. Edmund Shallet 

 Lomax, son of Mr. Shallet's daughter and heir, when 

 he built Netley (see above), but the remains of the 

 walled garden and some other fragments are con- 

 spicuous upon the left-hand side of the road leading 

 from Gomshall station towards Holmbury St. Mary. 



There was a second WESTON Manor, to be dis- 

 tinguished from that in Albury, near the parsonage 

 house of Albury, but lying in a detached part of 

 Shere parish, and called Weston in Shere. In 

 the Weston genealogy taken, it is said, from the 

 College of Arms, 109 a Thomas de Weston, living c. 

 1305, and his son Thomas are described as lords of 

 the manor of ' Weston in Shire.' It would seem 

 that the family must have been early divided, for 

 others are described as of ' Weston in Albury.' " 

 William Weston held it of the abbey of Netley at 

 his death in I483. 1 " Edmund Pope, a descendant, no 

 doubt, of Joan wife of Thomas Pope, 1 " sold it in 1 540 

 to John Risbridger of Albury, 113 whose son John sold 

 it the same year to Thomas Baker. 114 



In 1621 it formed part of the portion of Mary 

 daughter of George Hyer on her marriage with Robert 

 Boothby. 115 In 1 709 William Boothby conveyed it to 

 George Wheeler. 116 Dr. William Shaw purchased a 

 moiety from Bridges Baldwin and his wife Frances in 

 1746."' Dr. Shaw's son sold the manor in 1804 to 

 the Hon. Robert Clive, a younger son of the first 

 Lord Clive (who died in 1833), who improved the 

 house. 118 The house was at one time the residence 

 of Elias Ashmole the antiquary. The manor seems 

 to be non-existent, and the house is pulled down. 



In the Domesday Survey two mills are mentioned 

 at Shere. 119 In the 1 3th century there was still a 

 water-mill there. 120 It formed part of the rents 

 granted to Richard, Earl of Ulster, being held by 



8 ~ Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 

 288. 



88 Pat. R. 12 Ric. II, pt. i, m. I. 



Dugdale, Mm. v, 718 ; Cal. Pat. 

 1385-9, p. 539. 



"> L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 1354 



(5)- 



91 Chan. Inq. p.m. ccilvii, 72. 

 " Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. vii, m. 31. 

 93 Chan. Proc. (Eliz.), Bb xiv, 54. 

 " y.C.. Surr. i, 2 9 8a. 



95 The Court Rolls for 1481 and 1504 

 re at the Public Record Office ; Gen. 

 Ser. cciv, 50, 51. 



96 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 

 159. 



" Chart. 9 Edw. I, no. 24. 

 "3 V.C.H. Surr. i, 305*. 

 99 See Harl. Chart. 78 G. 535 79 F. 

 3 8a, b; 75 H. 41. 



100 Misc. Bks. (L.T.R.), vol. 168, 

 fol. 69. 



Harl. Chart. 78 G. 53. 



1M Ibid. 79 F. 380, A. 



108 Ibid. 75 H. 41 ; see under Abinger. 

 These transactions had only to do with 

 Sutton alias Holdhurst alias Holhurst at 

 Down in Shere, Abinger, and Ewhurst, 

 not with Holdhurst in Cranleigh (q.v.). 



I" Feet of F. Surr. East. 18 Jas. I; 

 Mich. 19 Jas. I ; Trin. 12 Chas. I. 



106 Ibid. Mil. 21 Chas. I. It is said, 

 however, that it was Thomas Hussey 

 who purchased the whole manor ; Man- 

 ning and Bray, op. cit. i, 497. 



106 Diary, 30 Aug. 1681. 



10 7 For Hussey pedigree see the parish 

 registers and monuments in Shere Church. 



108 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 

 497-8. 



116 



109 Printed in Brayley, op. cit. ii, 8 1, &c. 



110 Ibid. 



"1 Cal. Inj.fM.Hen. VU, i, 162. 



lla See under Wetton in Albury. 



118 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 32 Hen. 

 VIII. 



"< Add. Chart. (B.M.), 28236. 



lu Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 20 Jas. 

 I ; Close, 19 Jas. I, pt. xiii, no. 7. 



" 6 Ibid. Surr. Mich. 8 Anne. 



"7 Recov. R. Mich. 20 Geo. II, m. 38. 

 Dr. Shaw is said to have obtained the 

 manor from a niece of a former pro- 

 prietor ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of 

 Surr. ii, 127. 



118 Ibid, ii, 1 88 ; Brayley, op. cit. v, 

 1 60. 



9 V.C.H. Surr. i, 2 9 8. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, 

 no. 500. 



