WOTTON HUNDRED 



ABINGER 



\/ 



NIVILL. Gules a sal- 

 tire argent with a rose 

 gules thereon. 



his heirs. His widow Anne was holding part of 

 Paddington in dower at her death in 1384 ; she left 

 a son and heir John, who was then fifteen years of 

 age. 65 John married Philippa, daughter of the Earl 

 of March, 64 but had no issue ; and after his death in 

 1590 Philippa became the wife of Richard, Earl of 

 Arundel, and held Paddington in dower. 65 After the 

 death of Richard, 66 who held the manor for life, the 

 trustees enfeoffed by John de Hastings the elder re- 

 leased the manor to William de Beauchamp, his 

 kinsman, on condition of his assuming the title of Earl 

 of Pembroke, 67 from which title it took the name of 

 Paddington Pembroke. After the death of William 

 his wife Joan held Padding- 

 ton in dower, 68 and at her 

 death it passed to the family 

 of Nevill by the marriage of 

 Edward Nevill with Elizabeth 

 daughter of Richard Beau- 

 champ, the son of William and 

 Joan. 69 Edward Nevill died 

 seised in I476, 70 leaving George 

 Nevill his son and heir, then 

 aged thirty-six. Probably the 

 manor remained in the hands 

 of the Nevills from this 

 time until it passed to the Evelyns, since George 

 Nevill, lord of Abergavenny, was holding it in the time 

 of Elizabeth, 71 and it formed part of the possessions of 

 the Edward Nevill who died in 1623." Six years later 

 Henry Nevill, lord of Abergavenny, conveyed the 

 manor to Richard Evelyn," from whom it descended 

 with Wotton to the present owner. 



The manor of PADDINGTON BK.AT, which 

 still retains a separate identity, may perhaps be 

 identified with the three hides which were held of 

 Paddington Manor by a certain Hugh, a homager, 

 in 1086. Later they seem to have been held in 

 demesne by William and Eva de Cantlow, who, in 

 1250, sub-enfeoffed Adam de Gurdon of the ' manor ' 

 of Paddington." Adam de Gurdon died in 1305," 

 leaving a daughter and heir Joan, aged ' 40 and 

 more.' No record of Joan's death has been found, 

 but in 1 3 37 Agnes de Gurdon, presumably a kins- 

 woman, died seised, leaving as her heir Thomas son 

 of Thomas de Syndlesham. 76 He was followed by 

 his son Thomas, "who died in 1361, and his kinsman 

 Robert de Lenham is named as his heir in the in- 

 quisition taken after his death. 78 There is, however, 

 record of a conveyance by Thomas de Syndlesham 

 of his share in the manor during his lifetime to one 

 John Kingesfold, who afterwards alienated to William 

 Rykhill. 79 The next lord of whom there is record, 

 after William Rykhill, is a certain Robert White, 

 who was holding about 1475.* His daughter Alice, 

 by her marriage with Sir John Yonge, brought her 

 share in Paddington to his family, and it was inherited 



BRAY. Argent a ckeve- 

 ron between three eagles' 

 legs torn of at tile thigh 

 sable. 



by her son John Yonge, who in 1492 conveyed it to 

 John Leigh. 81 



After the death of John Leigh in I524 81 his 

 nephew and heir of the same name ceded his Surrey 

 property to the king in return for lands in other 

 counties ; "* and the king soon after granted Padding- 

 ton to Sir William Roche, 84 from whom it ultimately 

 passed to the family of Bray, 

 and thus obtained its name of 

 Paddington Bray. In 1556 

 Owen Bray alienated to Owen 

 Elrington, 84 with whom he 

 was connected by marriage. 86 

 Edward Elrington alienated 

 the manor in two moieties as 

 in the case of Abinger, and 

 here also one moiety passed to 

 William Morgan. 87 John Mor- 

 gan, the son of William, sold 

 his share inPaddington to Sir 

 Christopher Parkins, 88 whose 

 widow Anne transferred it to 



Richard Evelyn in i624. 89 The other moiety passed 

 with the second moiety of Abinger to the Evelyn 

 family through the hands of Richard Browne, Richard 

 Hill, and Oliph Leigh. 



Some land in Paddington belonged to the mon- 

 astery of St. Mary Graces on Tower Hill, 90 and was 

 after the Dissolution granted to John Leigh under 

 the title of ' Paddington Manor.' 91 It seems pos- 

 sible that this land was identical with the hide of 

 land in Gomshall which was said in 1086 to be in 

 the hundred of Wotton. 91 



There was a water-mill at Paddington which is 

 first mentioned in Domesday as worth 6s., and again 

 in the inquisition taken after the death of Adam 

 de Gurdon as worth lo/. 3^. Possibly it stood on the 

 site of the existing mill on the Tillingbourne just 

 above Abinger Hammer. 



The church of ST. JAMES con- 

 CHURCHES sists of a chancel 29 ft. 7 in. long and 

 1 8 ft. wide, a large north chapel with 

 arcade of three bays 38 ft. 4 in. long and 17 ft. gin. 

 wide, a south vestry and organ bay, a nave 47 ft. 9 in. 

 long and 1 8 ft. wide, a south porch and western bell- 

 turret. The roofs are covered with Horsham slates. 



The present nave is that of an early 12th-century 

 church which had a chancel smaller than the present 

 one. About 1220 this chancel was rebuilt and made 

 equal in width to the nave, and a north chapel was 

 added at the same time or very soon after. From 

 that date the building remained little altered to 

 modern times, when a south vestry and organ bay were 

 added and a south porch built (1857). The bell-turret 

 is old, but of uncertain date. The east window of 

 the chancel consists of three modern lancets. Below 

 the sill is a moulded string-course with bosses which 



* a Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill, no. 70. 

 Ibid. 7 Ric. II, no. 67. 

 61 Placita in Cancellaria, 270. 

 65 Cloie, 21 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 6, 7. 

 65 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, no. 2. 

 6 ? Cal. Pat. 1399-1401, p. 444. He 

 never was Earl of Pembroke. 



68 Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Hen. VI, no. 35. 



' Ibid. 12 Hen. IV, no. 34. 



7 Ibid. 1 6 Edw. IV, no. 66. 



"' Exch. Dep. Trin. 28 Eliz. no. 14. 



7' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclix, 157. 



' doie, 5 Chii. I, pt. xxvi, no. II. 



' 4 Feet of F. Surr. 34 Hen. Ill, 10. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. I, no. 25. 



1* Chan. Inq. p.m. II Edw. Ill (lit 

 nos.), no. 3;. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 part, ist nos.), no. 137. 



Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill (pt. 2, 

 lit nos.), no. 37. 



' De Banco R. no. 574, m. 379 d. 



90 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 52, no. 44. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. 5 Hen. VII, no. 25. 



w Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xl, 12. 



L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix ( i ), g. go (20). 



133 



"Ibid, xix (2), g. 166(53). 



84 Pat. 3 & 4 Phil, and Mary, pt. vi. 

 m. II. 



*>L. and P. Hen. fill, xvii, 1154) 

 Harl. Sac. Publ. xliii, 178. 



W Pat. 21 Eliz. pt vi ; Feet of F. Surr. 

 Hil. 22 Eliz. 



88 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 5 Jas. I. 



' Ibid. East. 22 Jas. I. 



90 Partic. for Grants (Aug. Off.), 708. 



M Ibid. 



M r.C.H. Surr. i, 298*. 



