REIGATE HUNDRED 



BETCHWORTH 



of 6oi. a It passed from Thomas Niger to Giles 

 Niger or le Neyr. 58 Apparently Thomas Niger left a 

 widow, Agnes, who married John son of Adrian, as 

 in 12423 John Adrian and Agnes his wife were 

 holding a third of the manor as Agnes's dower. 59 At 

 the same date William de Fakeham, who had evidently 

 been enfeoffed by Giles le Neyr, granted the other 

 two-thirds to John Adrian, a right of dower being 

 however reserved to Julia wife of Giles le Neyr. 60 

 Three years afterwards Giles le Neyr quitclaimed all 

 right in the manor to Adrian. 61 Confirmation of 

 this transfer was made to Adrian and his heirs by 

 John son of William de Warenne in I254. 61 John 



ADRIAN. Argent tvjo 

 bar: 'wavy gules and a 

 chief cheeky or and azure. 



FROWVK. Azure a 

 cheveron between three 

 leopards heads or. 



grandson of John Adrian seems to have married 

 Margaret daughter of Henry Frowyk, and in 1348 

 a settlement was made by which the manor, failing 

 other heirs, was to revert to Henry Frowyk and his 

 heirs." John Adrian held the manor until after 1356, 

 in which year he received licence from the bishop to 

 celebrate mass in his house at Brockham. 65 He appar- 

 ently died without issue, as by 1377 the manor had 

 come into the possession of Henry de Frowyk, who 

 shortly before his death in 1378 made a settlement 

 by which the reversion was granted to Henry son of 

 Thomas de Frowyk in fee.* 6 This second Henry 

 was evidently the grandson of the first, whose son 

 Thomas predeceased his father. 67 Henry the grand- 

 son died in 1386, leaving two sons, the elder of 

 whom, Thomas, continued the senior branch of the 

 family, holding Oldford in Middlesex, land in Hert- 

 fordshire, and then or later South Mimms, while from 

 the younger descended the Frowyks of Gunnersbury. 68 

 The manor of Brockham remained in the elder 

 branch of the family, as the will of the elder son 

 Thomas, proved in 1448, states that the manors of 

 Oldford and Brockham were to remain in the hands 

 of feoffees for a year, his debts being paid from 

 the issues therefrom, after which Brockham was to 



remain to his wife Elizabeth for her life, reverting 

 to his son Henry and his issue. 69 Henry was succeeded 

 by his son Thomas, and the latter by his son Henry, 

 who married Ann Knolles and died in 1527, leaving 

 as sole heir his daughter Elizabeth, wife of John 

 Coningsby, who was holding it with her husband in 

 1530.' In 1547 Elizabeth settled an annuity of 

 27 on Mary, widow of her brother Thomas, who 

 had predeceased his father. 71 Elizabeth Coningsby 

 married William Dodd as her second husband, but at 

 her death she was succeeded in the lordship of Brock- 

 ham by Henry Coningsby, her son by her first husband, 

 who was knighted in 1 5 85." Sir Henry died in 

 1 5 90 and was succeeded by his eldest son Ralph, 7 * 

 who held until 1 606, in which year he joined with 

 his brothers Philip and Henry in conveying the 

 manor to Thomas Wight, 76 who died seised of it in 

 1 609. His son, Gabriel Wight, succeeded him,' 7 and 

 the manor remained in this family, passing from father 

 to son, until the end of the 1 8th century. 78 In 1793 

 Henry Wight, the last surviving son of William 

 Wight, died without issue. 79 He devised his Surrey 

 estate to his sister, Lady Elizabeth Harington, for her 

 life. After her death one-half was to remain succes- 

 sively to Elizabeth White, a kinswoman, and to John 

 Wight of Brabceuf (Arlington), q.v., for their lives, 

 remainder to right heirs of testator. The other half 

 was devised to William Martin and his heirs or, failing 

 them, was to descend with the first half. The where- 

 abouts of Martin being unknown, advertisement for 

 him was to be made in the London Gazette.*" This 

 was done 91 after the death, in 1 794, of Elizabeth 

 Harington, who had married the Rev. John Chaundler 

 as her second husband e> and had held Brockham after 

 her brother's death. 85 John Wight inherited a 

 moiety in 1 794, and, according to Manning, the other 

 moiety was claimed shortly afterwards by the two 

 daughters of William Martin, Elizabeth and Sarah 

 wife of William Hibbet, and they, with John Wight, 

 held the manor in iSoS. 84 

 Elizabeth appears to have given 

 up her share soon after, as in 

 1809 William Hibbet and 

 Sarah were in full possession of 

 a moiety of the manor, the 

 other moiety being still held 

 by John Wight. 85 The entire 

 manor afterwards became the 

 property by purchase of Henry 

 T. Hope of Deepdene, who 

 held it in 1844." In 1878, 



O/\O 



HOPI or DtrpniNi. 

 Azure a cheveron or 

 between three bezants. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccix, 189. 



" Feet of F. SUIT. 27 Hen. Ill, no. 1 1 . 



" Ibid. Ibid. 



Ibid. 30 Hen. Ill, no. 32. 



M Add. Chart. 24551, 24552. 



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

 209. 



' Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 22 Edw. III. 



65 Egcrton MS. 2033, fol. 47 ; Manning 

 and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 209. 



M Ibid, quoting from private deeds. 



6 ?F. C. Can, 'South Mimms, 1 Lend, 

 ind Midd. Arch. Soc. 70 5 Harl. MS. 1546, 

 fol. 57*. 



68 F. C. Ca. 'South Mimms,' Land. 

 end Midd. Arch. Soc. 70 ; Harl. MS. 

 1546, fol. 57* ; Manning and Bray, Hist, 

 of Surr. ii, 209 ; Chauncey, Hist, of Herts. 



"Will of Thomas Frowyk, P.C.C. Bk. 

 Rowse, 13. 



7F. C. Cass, 'South Mimms,' Land, 

 and Midd. Arch. Soc. 70 ; Rccov. R. Hil. 

 22 Hen. VIII; P.C.C. Porch, 18 (will 

 of H. Frowyk, 1527). Manning lays 

 that by 1515 the manor of Brockham had 

 patted to the younger branch of the family, 

 that is, to the Frowyks of Gunnersbury, 

 and that Elizabeth Coningsby wai the 

 heiress of this branch. This, however, 

 from the relationships mentioned in the 

 wills, etc. referred to above, would seem to 

 be impossible. 



7 1 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. I Edw. VI ; 

 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 209. 



? a Berry, Hern. Gen. 163; Harl. Sof. 

 Publ. xxii, 45 ; Shaw, Knights of Engl. 

 ii, 83. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxiii, 51. 



7* Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 39 Eliz. ; Mich. 

 44 & 45 Eliz. 



169 



7* Ibid. East. 4 Ja. I. 



T Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2.), cccix, i8a 



"Ibid. 



' Visit, if Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 81 

 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 14 Chas. II ; Man- 

 ning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 21 1 ; Re- 

 cov. R. East. 6 Geo. Ill ; Baker, Hist, 

 ef Northants, ii, 23. 



' Baker, loc. cit 



T.C.C. Dodwell, 534. 



**Lond.Gaz. 1795,1796. 



m Scc note 80. 



88 Feet ofF. Surr. Trin. 34 Geo. III. 



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

 XII. 



86 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 49 Geo. Ill ; 

 Rov. R. Trin. 49 Geo. Ill, rot. 305, 



'7- 



E. W. Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 

 251. 



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