A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Malemayns, ' tenant in chief.' " The reason why 

 he is called tenant-in-chief may be explained by a 

 possible minority of the Warblington heir and also 

 by the fact that in 1289-90, when the Earl of Glou- 

 cester married Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, 

 he surrendered all his lands to his royal father-in-law. 

 He received a grant back of most of them, but not all, 

 the same year. The king clearly reserved some 

 manors in his own hands till his daughter's son should 

 be of age ; when the earl died in 1295 Ockley does 

 not appear in his Inquisitio as part of his lands. When, 

 however, the son of his royal marriage, the young earl, 

 was killed at Bannockburn, 1314, Ockley was one of his 

 fees," together with several other Surrey manors which 

 are not mentioned in connexion with his father. 

 Edward I is said to have presented the manor 

 by patent 15 to Nicholas Malemayns. No such 

 entry is in the Patent Rolls, but in a Charter Roll of 

 20 January 1 296 it appears that Nicholas Malemayns 

 surrendered Ockley to the Crown, and that the king, 

 after holding it for some time, re-granted it to him 

 and his heirs by his wife Alice. In 1 300 a grant 

 was made to Nicholas Malemayns of the assize of 

 bread and ale and view of frankpledge in his manor 

 of Ockley, as his ancestors had them, 16 and in 1 302 he 

 received a grant of free warren, a weekly market on 

 Tuesdays, and a fair on the feast of St. Margaret (the 

 patron saint of the church)." Nicholas died at an 

 unknown date. Another Nicholas died in 1350. 

 This Nicholas Malemayns married Alice and left 

 three daughters : Beatrice, who married Otho de 

 Graunson ; Catherine, who married Sir Henry 

 Newdigate ; Parnel, who married Sir Thomas 

 Sentomer. The manor was divided between them. 

 When Sir Otho de Graunson died in 1359, seised of 

 one-third of the manor, it was said to be held of the 

 manor of Tandridge, in spite of Nicholas Male- 

 mayns having been called tenant-in-chief. The 

 succession to the various parts is very uncertain ; 

 but Beatrice the widow of Sir Otho de Graunson, the 

 Newdigates, the descendants of Sir Thomas Sen- 

 tomer, and in 1450 Richard Wakehurst, presented to 

 the living. The heirs of the Graunsons do not appear 

 again ; but they may be represented by Margaret, 

 wife of John de Gaston (or Garton), who in 1368 

 conveyed one-ninth of the manor to William Newdi- 

 gate. 18 The Newdigates continued to present to the 

 living at intervals till 1407. Meanwhile Parnel 

 Malemayns and Sir Thomas Sentomer had two daugh- 

 ters, Alice and Elizabeth. The latter disappears ; Alice 

 married Sir William Hoo. His son Thomas granted 

 Ockley to his brother John and John Glemham. 

 Glemham, the survivor, or his heir, enfeoffed Sir 

 Thomas Hoo, Lord Hoo and Hastings, who died 148 1. 

 He left four daughters, but by a previous arrangement 

 the manor passed to Richard Culpepper. Whether 

 he represented any of the other branches or not is 

 unknown. Probably the rights of the others, much 



CULPEPPER. Argent 

 a bend engrailed gules. 



broken up, had been conveyed to the Hoos, 19 or for- 

 gotten. 



Ockley remained in the possession of the Cul- 

 pepper family until the time of Charles I, when it 

 was sold to George Duncombe, 

 of Weston, 10 who held his 

 first court in 1638. He died 

 in 1646, and was succeeded by 

 his grandson George, son of 

 his elder son John, deceased. 

 This George held his first 

 court in 1 648, but on his death 

 soon afterwards, childless, the 

 estate went to his uncle George 

 of Shalford, who held his first 

 court in 1654. He in his life- 

 time conveyed it to his second 



son, Francis, who held his first court 22 March 

 1658-9. Francis was created a baronet in 1662. 

 He died before his father, in 1670; his widow 

 Hester and her second husband, Thomas Smyth, 

 held a court October 1671. Sir William Duncombe, 

 her son, succeeded 1 in 1675, and in 1694 sold the 

 manor to Edward Bax of Capel. Bax retained the 

 manor-house and a little land round it, which was 

 now separated from the manor, and in 1695 sold the 

 manor to John Evershed, of an old yeoman family, 

 which appears, in different holdings, in the rolls and 

 parish books." 



John Evershed received from Queen Anne a grant 

 of three fairs yearly at Stonestead Causeway, 6 Octo- 

 ber, 10 May, and 3 June." Evershed in 1717 con- 

 veyed to John Young," who in the same year released 

 to Thomas Moore or More. 14 Thomas More held 

 courts till 1734. His nephew William 26 held courts 

 till 1 745, and died in 1 746. He left the manor in trust 

 for Frederick son of Lord North of Guildford (who 

 held courts 1746-9), but the estate was sold under 

 a private Act in 1751 to Frank Nicholls, Ph.D., 

 who had some lively controversy with the tenants on 

 the subject of heriots." Dr. Nicholls died in 1778, 

 and was succeeded by his son John. He sold in 1784 

 to Lee Steere of Jays in Wotton, who died before 

 the conveyance was completed, leaving his interest 

 in the estate to his grandson Lee Steere Witts, who 

 took the name of Steere. His great-great-grandson 

 (Mr. H. C. Lee Steere) is the present owner. 18 



Ockley Court, the residence of Mrs. Calvert, 

 widow of Colonel Calvert, is the old manor-house of 

 Ockley. In 1 744 Nathaniel, son of Edward Bax, sold 

 it to Mr. Thomas Tash, who died in 1770. His son 

 William married a Miss Calvert, and having no children 

 left the property to his wife. She left it to her relative 

 (? nephew) Charles Calvert of Kneller Hall, Middle- 

 sex, M.P. for Southwark. He died in 1833. His son 

 Charles William succeeded, and was followed by his 

 brother Colonel A. M. Calvert. His son Mr. W. A. 

 Calvert lived recently at Broomells in Capel. 



w Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 33. 



14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68. 

 Ockley is here said to be held by Thomas 

 de Warblington, of whom Malemayns was 

 evidently holding as sub-tenant. 



15 Inq. Misc. Chan, file 329, 20 Edw. 

 IV, no. 103. 



16 Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 535. 

 " Charter R. 30 Edw. I, no. 15. 



18 Feet of F. Surr. 42 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 14. 



19 See Inq. of 20 Edw. IV.no. 103, for 

 descent to Lord Hoo. 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 13 Chas. I. 



M From Ct. R. See History of the Bax 

 family and Edward Ban's account book 

 furnished by Mr. A. R. Bax. 



aa Rot. Orig. 2 Anne, pt. i, m. I. 



*> Feet of F. Surr. East. 3 Geo. I. 



M Ibid. Mich. 4 Geo. I. 



85 Manning and Bray, Surr, ii, 163. 



" Ibid. 



152 



*7 On the usual point, whether the 

 tenant holding more than one copyhold 

 owed a separate heriot on each or one for 

 the whole. 



28 Mr. Richard Symmes, whose MSS. 

 (B.M. Add. MSS.no. 6167) were used by 

 Manning and Bray, was steward of the 

 manor 1662-82, and Mr. Bray was 

 steward under Dr. Nicholls up to 1788. 

 All the existing Court Rolls have been 

 examined. 



