A HISTORY OF SURREY 



wards knighted by Queen Anne, died in 1732-3 ; his 

 eldest son Freeman died unmarried in 1734, when 

 lit se;ond son John inherited the property.* 9 John 

 died in 1750 while 'on his travels in Turkey.' 18 

 His sisters, Anne wife of John Hervey and Elizabeth 

 Bouverie, 30 held the manor in 1 75 2," when according 

 to Manning the manor was limited to the Herveys. 

 Christopher, last surviving son of John Hervey and 

 Anne, died without issue in I786, 3 ' having devised 

 the manor to his aunt, Elizabeth Bouverie, who in 

 turn devised the manor and mansion-house at 

 Betchworth to a distant cousin, the Hon. William 

 Henry Bouverie, 3 * who belonged to the elder branch 

 of this family, and whose son Charles succeeded to the 

 manor in 1 8o6. 34 It was still in the latter's possession 

 in 1816," but was sold in the following year, accord- 

 ing to Brayley, to the Rt. Hon. Henry Goulburn," 

 in whose family it has since remained, Major Henry 

 Goulburn, grandson of the above-menticned Henry, 

 being present lord of the manor." 



John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, seems to have 

 had free warren in his demesne lands at Betchworth, 88 

 as three times during the early i/fth century he made 

 complaint of the trespasses committed in his free 

 warren there.** The Domesday Survey records the 

 existence of a mill at Betchworth which was valued 

 at icu. 40 In 1287-8 William de Aguillon granted 

 to Ralph de Hengham and his heirs a mill which 

 was to be held for the annual rent of one rose. 41 No 

 further trace of this mill is apparent ; it is possible 

 that it was situated on the land called Aglonds (vide 

 Aglonds More), of which mention occurs in the I5th 

 century, and to which de Aguillon possibly gave his 

 name. 



The manor-house of East Betchworth was built by 

 Sir Ralph Freeman in the reign of Charles I. It was 

 called Betchworth Place, and therefore probably 

 superseded an older manor-house on another site. 

 It is a fine 17th-century mansion of red brick, and 

 contains some antiquities brought from Italy by 

 Mr. John Hervey in the i8th century. 



In 1409 a conveyance was made by Stephen 

 Hervey and his wife Agnes to William Asshurst, junior, 

 of a messuage, 20 acres of land, and zoJ. rent in East 

 Betchworth." This probably represents the reputed 

 manor of LE MORE, of which John son of William 

 Asshurst died seised, together with land called Aglonds, 

 in 1 507, his father having held the lands before him." 

 In 1499 Le More, afterwards known as Aglonds More, 

 or More Place, had been settled on Agnes wife of 

 John Asshurst, the reversion being to his brother and 

 heir William. 44 Agnes apparently married John 

 Skinner, senior, as her second husband, as in 1 5 1 2 the 



manor was stated to belong to John Skinner and Agnes 

 for the life of Agnes, 46 and seems to have been conveyed 

 from the trustees of Agnes's marriage settlement to Sir 

 Henry Wyatt and Sir John Leigh and John Skinner 

 for 200 marks of silver. 46 The next record of Aglonds 

 More shows that in 1547 John Woodman of Colley 

 died seised of the manor, which he held of the Earl of 

 Arundel as of the manor of Colley. 47 He left as heir his 

 son Richard, who married Julia Huntley of Woodman- 

 Sterne, 48 and was in turn succeeded by his son and 

 grandson, both called William. 49 The grandson mar- 

 ried Winifred Balam, and was succeeded by his second 

 son Richard. 50 In 1650 a warrant was issued for the 

 Council of State and Admiralty Committee to appre- 

 hend Richard Woodman, described as of More Place 

 in the parish of Betchworth, on the grounds that he 

 and John White, a weaver, had harboured a stranger 

 from Germany, supposed to be a Papist, who was 

 also to be arrested and brought with the other two 

 before the Council. Search was to be made for arms 

 and ammunition, and all books and papers were to be 

 seized." In 1706-7 Richard Woodman, probably 

 the son of the man referred to above, was holding the 

 manor," and in 1739 a conveyance was made to the 

 trustees of John Bouverie, then a minor, 53 who also 

 held the manor of East Betchworth (q.v.). Bouverie's 

 sister Elizabeth held both manors in 1752," after her 

 brother's death, and Aglonds More has since that 

 time descended with the manor of East Betchworth, 65 

 Major Goulburn being now lord of the manor. More 

 Place has been occupied for fifty years by Mr. J. R. 

 Corbett, well known as a breeder of Jersey cattle. 



The house was one of the old timber-framed houses 

 with very massive oak beams, probably dating from the 

 time of Henry VI. On the north side was a lofty hall, 

 broken up as far back as the 1 7th century into rooms. 

 The tie-beams of the hall roof are still visible in the 

 attics. At the same date probably the house had a 

 southern side built on to it. The timbers in the 

 ceilings of this are Spanish chestnut. There is a good 

 Jacobean mantelpiece. The octagonal turret to the 

 south was added more recently. 



At the beginning of the 1 3th century BROCKH4M 

 was in the possession of the de Warenne family, as 

 between the years 1219 and 1225 William de War- 

 enne enfeoffed Thomas son of Ralph Niger of the 

 land of Brockham, to be held for the rent of 6o/. 

 sterling, together with a virgate of land in East Betch- 

 worth, lately in the tenure of Adam son of John le 

 Brabazun, for which a rent of 40^. or a pair of gloves 

 furred with grey was to be given yearly." The manor 

 was held of the heirs of the Earl of Warenne and 

 Surrey as late as 1609 for the same annual payment 



88 Wotton, English Bar, iv, 1 50 ; Gent. 

 Mig. 1733, p. 461 LanJ. Mag. 1734, 

 p. 'J66. 



" 9 Gent. Mag. 1750, p. 525. 



80 Wotton, English Bar, iv, 150. 



81 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 26 Geo. II. 

 M Manning and Bray, Hist, if Surr. i, 



206. 



"P.C.C. 635 Walpole (will of Eliz. 

 Bouverie). 



M Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr, ii, 

 206. 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 57 Geo. III. 



86 E. W. Brayley, Tofog. Hist of Surr. 

 iv, 250. 



87 Burke, Landed Gentry. 



88 Cal. Pat. 1301-7, p. 95; 1307-13, 

 p. 531 ; 1 321-4, p. 448. 



Ibid. 



V.C.H. Surr. i, 321. 



41 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 1 5 Edw. I. 



Ibid. East. 10 Hen. IV. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xx, 24. 



"Ibid, 



Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 3 Hen. VIII ; 

 East. 4 Hen. VIII. 



Feet of F. Surr. East. 4 Hen. VIII 

 (See Asshurst in Mickleham). 



47 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxvii, 



48 Ibid. ; Surr. Arch. Coll. vii, 330 ; 

 Harl. Sac. Full, xliii, 108. 



Harl. Soc. Publ. xliii, 108. 

 M Ibid. 



" Cal. S.P. Dam. 1650, p. 530. Thomas 

 Woodman, of Betchworth, gentleman, was 



168 



a suspected person in 1655 j B.M. Add. 

 MS. 34013. 



M Recov. R. East. 5 Anne, rot. 159. 



48 Close, 13 Geo. II, pt. xix, no. 16. 

 The deed states that the conveyance 

 was from Anthony Wibard ; he was 

 probably a trustee for Woodman, as 

 according to Manning the transfer in 

 1739 was from Woodman himself, and 

 there is moreover no evidence of a sale 

 from Woodman to Wibard between the 

 years 1707 and 1739. 



" Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 26 

 Geo. II. 



* s Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 209; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 57 Geo. III. 



M Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 209 (quoting from deed in private hands). 



