A HISTORY OF SURREY 



CHJRLrTOOD seems to have been 

 MANORS held from an early period by the Prior and 

 convent of Christchurch, Canterbury, as 

 member of the manor of Merstham (q.v.).' In 1231 

 the Prior of Christchurch or Holy Trinity, Canterbury, 

 received licence to send letters to his freemen of 

 ' Cherlewud,' desiring them to render him aid to get 

 quit of the debts with which he was burdened." 

 A ten-years' lease of the manor of Merstham and its 

 member of Charlwood, made in 1 396 by the prior, 

 records many particulars concerning the ' live and 

 dead stock ' existing at both places (vide Merstham), 

 and mentions, among other things, that the 'dig- 

 ging of iron at Cherlwood ' was to remain the 

 right of the prior and con- 

 vent." The prior surrendered 

 his possessions in July 1539," 

 and in the following month 

 Henry VIII granted Merstham 

 and Charlwood to Sir Robert 

 Southwell and his heirs." In 

 1542 the manor of Charl- 

 wood was quitclaimed to South- 

 well by Henry de la Hay, 14 

 who was possibly the lessee of 

 the prior. This deed marks 

 the separation of Charlwood, 

 henceforth held as a separate 

 manor, from the manor of 

 Merstham, their subsequent 



descent being entirely distinct. In 1547 Sir Robert 

 Southwell and Margaret his wife alienated the manor 

 of Charlwood to Henry Lechford, 16 whose family 

 had held land in Charlwood as early as the reign 

 of Edward III." He died seised of the manor 

 in 1567 and was succeeded by his son Richard, 18 

 who was afterwards knighted. 

 It descended in 1611 to the 

 latter's grandson Richard, his 

 son Henry being already dead. 19 

 The second Sir Richard Lech- 

 ford conveyed the manor in 

 1625 to Edmund Jordan,' 

 who was already seised of the 

 manors of Gatwick and Shire- 

 mark in Charlwood, and was 

 also possessed either then or 

 soon afterwards of the manor 

 of Hook (q.v.). These manors 

 remained in the Jordan family, 

 passing from father to son, until 



CONVENT or CHRIST- 

 CHURCH, CANTERBURY. 

 Azure a cross argent 

 with the monogram X 

 table thereon. 



LECHFORD. Sable a 

 cheveron between three 

 leopards 1 heads argent. 



the death 

 issue of Thomas Jordan in 1750." His sisters 



without 

 and 



co-heirs, Elizabeth Beaumont and Philippa Sharp, 

 divided his inheritance, the manors in Charlwood 

 becoming the property of the latter, who held them 

 with her husband John Sharp until her death without 

 issue in 1759." Her husband continued to hold the 

 manors, and by will of 1770, having disinherited his 

 eldest son by a former marriage, entailed them on 

 John and James, sons of William Jennyngs Sharp, his 

 second son." On his death in 1771" his eldest 

 grandson, John Sharp, succeeded and held the property 

 intact until i8o6,* 4 when he sold the manors of 

 Charlwood, Hook, and Shiremark to Thomas Kerr.** 

 They afterwards passed to James Woodbridge, from 

 whom they were purchased by Michael Clayton 

 before 1841." He died without issue in 1847, when 

 the estate apparently passed to the family of his 

 younger brother Richard,* 8 whose grandson, Major 

 Edward Clayton, afterwards held the manor. The 

 present lord is Mr. G. S. Clayton, brother of the 

 last owner.** 



Grants of free warren in their demesne lands of 

 Charlwood were made to the Prior and convent 

 of Christchurch during the reigns of Edward II and 

 Edward III.* In 1592 mention is made of a fair 

 which was held annually on the feast of St. James, 

 the profits of which belonged to the lord of the 

 manor. 81 It seems, however, to have long been dis- 

 continued. 



In 1241 Richard de Warwick and Juliana his wife 

 and Joan her sister quitclaimed a messuage, 4 acres 

 of meadow, and 1 8 acres of land in Charlwood to 

 John de Gatwick and his heirs." This land was 

 probably part of that which was afterwards known as 

 the manor of GATWICK and which was held by the 

 de Gatwicks until the 1 4th century. It is probable 

 that a John de Gatwick who held during the reign of 

 Edward II married Joan de Ifeld, and that their 

 daughter and heir Elizabeth married Thomas de 

 Cobham. 53 In 1363 the manor of Gatwick was 

 granted to William son of Elizabeth, daughter of 

 John de Gatwick, by the vicars of Charlwood and 

 Horley and by William Jordan ; it was stated that 

 the latter parties held the manor of the gift and 

 feoffinent of Thomas de Cobham. 34 In 1396 

 Reginald de Cobham, son of William, held the 

 manor," of which he suffered a temporary forfeiture 

 for debt. 36 In the reign of Henry VII Gatwick was 

 held by Joan widow of Reginald Cobham, son and 

 heir of John," and presumably grandson of the first 

 Reginald.* 8 Joan Cobham after her husband's death 

 brought a suit against John Jordan, John Lechford, 

 Richard Sanders, and others on the grounds that they, 



10 Cal. Pat. 1225-32, p. 429; Chart. 

 R. 10 Edw. II, no. 24; 38 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 15 ; Ct. R. bdle. 204, no. 66, 67, 68 ; 

 Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, m. 28 ; Pat. 

 31 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 6. 



11 Cal. Pat. 1225-32, p. 429. 



la Manning and Bray, Hut, of Surr. ii, 

 255 (quoting from a 'long roll marked 

 85 in Lambeth Palace '). 



Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, no. 28. 



" Ibid. pt. i, m. 6. 



15 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 34 Hen. 

 VIII. 



16 Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. viii, m. 15. 



" Feet of F. Surr. 31, 37 Edw. Ill; 

 Ct. R. bdle. 204, no. 67, 68 ; Early Chan. 

 Proc. bdle. 100, no. 79 ; Star Chamb. 

 Proc. Hen. VII, no. 31; bdle. 17, 

 no. 85. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sen 2), cxlv, 13. 



19 Ibid, cccxxv, 195. 



50 Close, I Chas. I, pt. zviii, no. 18. 



51 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. I Will, and 

 Mary ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 

 5 Geo. II, m. 9 ; Recov. R, Mich. 

 5 Geo. II, rot. 124 ; Berry, Surr. Gen. 

 28, 29. 



ffl Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 27 Geo. II ; 

 Surr. Arch. Coll, xi, 22 ; Berry, Surr. 

 Gen. 29, and monument in Charlwood 

 Church. 



P.C.C. 357, Trevor. * Ibid. 



85 Recov. R. East. 25 Geo. Ill, rot 

 259 ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. HiL 26 

 Geo. Ill, m. 113-14; Recov. R. HiL 

 45 Geo. Ill, rot. 197. 



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

 189. 



184 



* Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 264. 

 88 Burke, Landed Gentry. 



* Ibid. 



80 Chart. R. 10 Edw. II, m. 24 ; 3$ 

 Edw. Ill, no. 15. 



81 Pat. 34 Eliz. pt iv, m. 21. 



8 Feet of F. Surr. East 25 Hen. III. 



88 Wrottesley, Fed. from the Plea A 

 244 ; Feet of F. Surr. 4 Edw. Ill, no. 41 ; 

 Close, 7 Ric. II, m. 20 d. 



84 Close, 7 Ric. II, m. 20 d. 



8& Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Ric. II, no. 63 ; 

 Wrottesley, Fed. from the Plea R. 244. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Ric. II, no. 63 ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1401-5, p. 162. 



*> Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII, 

 no. 31. 



88 Surr. Arch. Coll. ; Feet of F. Surr. 

 9 Hen. V, no. 50. 



