WOTTON HUNDRED 



ABINGER 



tenay, and Mr. Walsh there ; left at 7 ; paid for 

 dinner and wine, 4*. 6J.' " 



The house called Pasture Wood, built fifteen years 

 since, is the seat of Mr. F. J. Mirrielees. Feldemore 

 is the seat of Mr. Edwin Waterhouse. High Ashes 

 is the seat of Lord Justice Vaughan-Williams ; it 

 was a small farm-house, which he has improved. 



The schools (National) were built in 1863, and 

 the school at Abinger Hammer in 1873. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey 

 MANORS 4BINGER was held by William Fitz 

 Ansculf, who also held the honour of 

 Dudley. In the time of King Edward a huscarle 

 had held it of the king." From Fitz Ansculf the 

 overlordship evidently passed with Dudley through 

 the Pagenels to the Somery family, who held it at 

 least as late as the 1 3th century. The lord of 

 Abinger owed suit to their court at Bradfield. 14 



Early in the 1 3th century Gilbert de Abingworth 

 (Abinger) held one knight's fee in Surrey ; ls his name 

 is also found in a list of the jurors in a suit concerning 

 land in Tilings. 17 Possibly he was connected with 

 the family of Jarpenvill, who appear about this time 

 in the history of Abinger. Geoffrey de Jarpenvill 

 shortly afterwards held a knight's fee in Abinger; 18 

 and in 1273 David de Jarpenvill was holding Abinger 

 Manor." At David's death, 1293, the manor, which 

 should have passed to his daughters, fell into the 

 hands of his brother Thomas, who in 1295 settled it 

 on himself, with remainder to his son Roger and Nora 

 his wife." Evidently Roger succeeded his father 

 before 1316, for about that date he was concerned in 

 a dispute touching the church of Abinger," and in 

 1322 he was holding the manor." Ten years later 

 he made a settlement on his son Thomas and Avice 

 his wife, daughter of William de Latimer. The 

 effect of this settlement, however, was nullified by a 

 suit brought against Thomas de Jarpenvill in 1 348 

 by Margaret wife of Henry de la Marlere, and 

 Margery wife of William de Harpesbourne,the daugh- 

 ters of Joan daughter of David de Jarpenvill, who had 

 married Geoffrey Fitz Waryn. 15 Also in 1360 Sir 

 John de Aylesbury, knight, the great-grandson of 

 Margaret, another daughter of David de Jarpenvill, 

 asserted his claim against Thomas and Avice." The 

 plaintiffs apparently succeeded in ousting Thomas de 

 Jarpenvill, for some years later Hugh son of Margaret 

 de la Marlere released his right in Abinger Manor to 

 Sir John de Aylesbury, 14 a course which was also 

 followed by Margery Franklin, formerly the wife of 

 William de Harpesbourne.* 6 Sir John de Aylesbury, 

 who filled the office of high sheriff for the county of 

 Buckingham," died in 1409 seised of the manor of 



Abinger,* 8 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who 

 held until his death in 141 8. John son and heir of 

 Thomas, who was a minor at the time of his father's 

 death, died in 1422,' leaving Hugh his son and heir, 

 an infant, who survived his father only about a year." 

 The heirs of Hugh were his father's two sisters, Isabel 

 wife of Sir Thomas Chaworth, knight, and Eleanor 

 Aylesbury. Evidently in some ensuing division of 

 the property " Abinger fell to the share of Eleanor, 

 and through her marriage with Sir Humphrey Stafford 

 passed into his family.'* Eleanor's son Humphrey, 



AYLISBURV. Azure 

 a cross argent. 



STAFFORD. Or a che- 

 veron gulel. 



who had been one of the leaders in Lord Level's 

 Worcestershire rising, was attainted and executed at 

 Tyburn in 1486 ;" his lands, including the manor of 

 Abinger, were granted to Sir John Guldeford, knight," 

 who, however, does not seem to have retained them 

 long, for in 1511 another grant was made, to Sir 

 Richard Jermigan.* 6 Before 1546, however, Abinger 

 passed again into the possession of the Staffords ; in 

 that year Humphrey, presumably the son of that 

 Humphrey who was attainted under Henry VII, 

 having been restored to his father's lands died in 

 possession," leaving Humphrey his son and heir, 

 whose death took place two years later. 38 In 1551 Sir 

 William Stafford and his wife Dorothy, and Sir Hum- 

 phrey Stafford (presumably son and heir of the last- 

 named Humphrey) and his wife Elizabeth sold the 

 manor to Thomas and Edward Elrington. Thomas 

 Elrington held a court in 1563." In 1578 and 

 1580 Thomas and Edward alienated in two moieties* 

 to Richard Brown of Cranleigh, trustee for Richard 

 Hill, and William Morgan of Chilworth. Hill and 

 Morgan held a court as joint lords in 1586, and in 

 1589 William Morgan settled his moiety on his son 

 John, 41 who settled it on his daughter Anne on her 

 marriage with Edward Randyll of Chilworth 1602." 

 He was knighted, and in 1622 conveyed his moiety 

 to Richard Evelyn. 43 The other moiety, which was 

 sold in 1580 by the Elringtons to Richard Browne 44 

 in trust for Edmund Hill of Sutton in Shiere, was 

 conveyed by his son Richard in 1595 to Sir Oliph 



18 Inform kindly supplied by Lieut.- 

 Col. T. H. Lcwin of Parkhurst. 



" y..C.H.Surr. i, jzza. 



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



" Red Bk. of Exch. (Roll. Ser.), ii, 

 560. 



" Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.), i, 140. 



18 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 220. 



19 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Edw. I, no. 1 5. 

 80 Feet of F. SUIT. 23 Edw. I, no. 44. 

 11 Egerton MSS. 2031, fol. 46. 



B Feet, of F. Surr. 6 Edw. Ill, no. 13. 



" Parl. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 191. 



14 De Banco R. 421, m. 265 d. 



" Close, 30 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 9 d. 



"Close, i Ric. II, m. i6d. Man- 

 ning and Bray (Surr. ii, 137) jay that 

 Thomas de Jarpenvill conveyed the manor 



to Sir John Aylesbury by charter, 44 Edw. 

 III. This may have been by way of an 

 agreement after the suit. 



Cal.Pat. 1381-5, p. 481. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Hen. IV, no. 9. 



Ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 35. 



80 Ibid. 10 Hen. V, no. 3. 



81 Ibid. 2 Hen. VI, no. II. 

 Fine R. 2 Hen. VI, m. I. 



88 Although no actual record of this 

 marriage has been found, the circumstan- 

 tial evidence seems fairly conclusive i 

 Humphrey Stafford left a widow Eleanor, 

 and her son Humphrey inherited Abinger j 

 Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. II. 



84 See Bacon, Hist, of Hen. Vll (ed. 



'878), 333- 



Pat. 2 Hen. VII, pt. i, m. 18. 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, i, 214. 

 *l Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 1093, 

 no. I. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxvii, 77. 



89 Feet of F. SUIT. East. 5 Edw. VI. 



40 Pat. 21 Eliz. pt. vi ; Feet of F. SUIT. 

 Hil. 22 Eliz. 



41 A settlement on John's marriage 

 with Anne Lumsford, widow, daughter of 

 John Love of Winchelsea ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxi, 85. 



4 " Ibid, ccccxxxvii, 72. 



48 Deeds in possession of the late Mr. 

 W. J. Evelyn. Despite the inquisitions of 

 1603 George Evelyn was then possessed 

 of only the other moiety. 



44 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 22 Eliz. ; 

 Trin. 23 Eliz. 



