REIGATE HUNDRED 



BURSTOW. Gults three 

 falcons clou argent. 



knight's fee ' in Wimbledune ' of the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury. 8 This entry seems to refer to the service 

 rendered for the manor of Burstow, which was held 

 of the archbishop as of his manor of Wimbledon.' 

 In 1 247 a John de Burstow was lord of the manor, 10 

 though whether this is the John mentioned above 

 or the son of the same name who, according to 

 Bysshe, succeeded his father, is not evident. In 

 1255 a settlement was made between John de 

 Burstow and Peter de Burstow, possibly a younger 

 brother, by which John was to hold the manor, pay- 

 ing an annual rent of 4 marks to Peter, John and his 

 heirs to be quit of payment 

 on Peter's death." From the 

 account of this family given 

 by Bysshe it appears that the 

 second John married Joan 

 Burnevalle and had a son 

 Roger," who married Matilda 

 Chastillon and was succeeded 

 by his son John, who served in 

 the French wars under the 

 Black Prince and won great 

 distinction. 1 * The next re- 

 cords of the manor, in 1350 



and 1358, show it to have been held at that time 

 by Richard de Burstow," whose name, however, does 

 not appear in Bysshe's pedigree, and whose relationship 

 to John de Burstow is not apparent. 



In 1 366 the reversion of the manor was conveyed 

 by Richard de Burstow to Sir Nicholas de Loveyne. 1 * 

 Margaret daughter of Nicholas Loveyne married 

 Sir Philip St. Clere, and they held the manor in the 

 right of Margaret, who was her father's heir. 16 When 

 Sir Philip St. Clere died in 1408, very shortly after 

 his wife, he was holding the manor of Burstow 

 'of the Archbishop of Canterbury by paying 6 

 yearly at his manor of Wimbledon.' " John St. Clere, 

 son and heir of Philip, died in 1418, and was suc- 

 ceeded by his brother Thomas. 19 In 1424-5 Thomas 

 St. Clere, whose children were then all minors, 

 granted the manor to William Cheyne, kt., John 

 Aston, and Geoffrey Motte, in trust for himself and his 

 heirs, ' in order to defraud the king and other lords of 

 those fees (i.e. the manor of Burstow and others) of 

 the custody thereof and the marriages of the heirs.' " 

 Aston's share was afterwards conveyed to John Hall,* 

 while Geoffrey Motte remitted his to the other 

 trustees." Thomas St. Clere died in 1435, leaving 

 three daughters and no sons." The second daughter, 



BURSTOW 



Eleanor, inherited the manor of Burstow ; she married 

 John Gage, who was seised of it at his death in 1475, 

 when, his wife having predeceased him, their son 



ST. CLERE. Azure the 

 tun in splendour or. 



GAGE. Party saltire- 

 voise azure and argent a 

 saltire gules. 



William became lord of the manor. 13 John Gage, 

 who was the son and heir of William and who was 

 afterwards knighted, succeeded to the manor at the 

 death of his mother Agnes, on whom it had been 

 settled by her husband." The manor descended 

 from Sir John to his son Sir Edward Gage, who as 

 Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1557-8, was concerned 

 in the Marian persecutions. He died in 1568.** 

 His son John married Margaret daughter of Sir 

 Thomas Copley, of the noted recusant family, and 

 died without issue, his heir being his nephew 

 John Gage, who in 1614 con- 

 veyed the manor to Sir Edward 

 Culpepper " of Wakehurst." 

 He died in 1630, when his 

 eldest surviving son, Sir Wil- 

 liam Culpepper, created a 

 baronet in 1628,** inherited 

 the manor." Another son 

 Edward seems to have held 

 some share in the manor, set- 

 tled on him doubtless on his 

 marriage with Mary Belling- 

 ham ; so in 1638 he was appa- 

 rently lord of the manor, 31 but it certainly reverted 

 afterwards to the elder branch, and in 1696 Sir 

 William Culpepper, fourth baronet, sold it to Sir 

 Richard Raines, 31 LL.D., judge of the Prerogative 

 Court of Canterbury. 



Henry Raines, son of Richard, inherited the 

 manor at his father's death, 3 * and in 1733 conveyed 

 it to Joseph Kirke," to whom Raines's widow Susan 

 quitclaimed her right in 1745." Kirke, by will 



COLPIPPER. Argent 

 a bend engrailed gules. 



*RedBk.ofExck. (Rolls Ser.), 473. 

 y\de infra j Feud. Aids, v, izi. 



10 Cat. of Chart. 1226-57, p. 326. 

 "Feet of F. Surr. 39 Hen. Ill, 



no. 12. 



11 Bysshe, Notat its N. Uptonem. De 

 Studio Military 67. 



u Ibid. But ice account of Smallfield 

 below. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. Ill, no. 

 91 ; ibid. 32 Edw. Ill, no. 40. 



Feet of F. Div. Co. 40 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 25. Richard died after 1379; see 

 under Redhall Manor below. 



M Wrottesley, Fed. from the Plea Rolls, 

 376, 434 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 2 Hen. 

 IV, no. 20. 



*7 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. IV, no. 44. 



Ibid. ; Chan. Inq. p.m. I Hen. VI, 

 no. 30. 



Close, 3 Hen. VI, no. 22 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 17 Hen. VI, no. 56. 



Feet of F. Div. Co. 6 Hen. VI, 

 no. 72 ; Close, 8 Hen. VI, m. 15. 



Close, 7 Hen. VI, m. 8. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Hen. VI, no. 56. 



"Ibid. 1 5 Edw. IV.no. 26. 



94 Ibid. (Ser. 2), xiii, 103, 106; Feet 

 of F. Surr. Hil. 19 Hen. VIII. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clii, 144. 



w Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 2 Jas. I. 



^ Berry, Sussex Gen. 136. 



98 G.E.C. Baronetage, ii, 60. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclv, 80. 



80 Berry, Sussex Gen. 136; Feet of F. 

 Div. Co. East. 6 Chas. I ; Trin. 22 

 Chas. I ; Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 

 2458 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 18 & 19 

 Chas. II. 



81 Rccov. R. Mich. 14 Chas. I. rot. 16. 

 " Ibid. East. I Will, and Mary, 



rot. 95 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 2 

 Will, and Mary ; Close, 8 Will. Ill, pt. i, 

 no. 33 ; Sussex Arch. Coll. x, 154. The 



I 7 7 



pedigree of the Culpeppers of Wakehurst 

 given in G.E.C. Baronetage states that 

 Sir William, first baronet, died in 1651, 

 confusing him with Sir William Culpepper 

 of Aylesford ; an article in the Sussex Arch. 

 Coll. x, 1 54, however, gives the date of his 

 death as 1678, and this statement is borne 

 out by the fact that the document referred 

 to in note 30 of 18 & 19 Chas. II refers 

 to a Sir William Culpepper, baronet, then 

 living. G.E.C. (op. cit. ii, 60) also says that 

 the next Sir William, the fourth baronet, 

 did not succeed his grandfather Sir Edward, 

 younger son of the first Sir William, until 

 1700 (?). It appears, however, that he 

 must have succeeded to the title as early 

 as 1694, when he sold Wakehurst. 



M Manning and Bray,///if.o/'Srr.ii,28o. 



M Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 3 & 4 

 Geo. II, m. 5 d. ; Recov. R. Trin. 7 

 Geo. II, rot. 229. 



" Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 19 Geo. II. 



2 3 



