REIGATE HUNDRED 



CHARLWOOD 



JORDAN. Sable an 

 eagle bendtuite between 

 rtvo cotiset argent and a 

 chief or with three oak- 

 leaves vert therein. 



' by crafty meanes," occupied the manor and took the 

 profits to their own use ; the defendants maintained 

 that Reginald Cobham had disposed of the manor to 

 them by various sales and mortgages." The result 

 of the suit is not apparent. It is probable that 

 John Jordan, whose actual claim is not stated, 

 eventually acquired the whole manor, as it was in his 

 family by the latter half of the 1 6th century. 40 

 Edmund Jordan, his descendant in direct line, 41 

 held the manor in 162 5, when 

 he acquired also the manor of 

 Charlwood (q.v.) and that of 

 Shiremark (q.v.). The manors 

 followed the same descent un- 

 til 1 806," when John Sharp, 

 whose grandmother Philippa 

 was the sister and co-heir of 

 the last of the Jordans," sold 

 all his manors in Charlwood 

 except that of Gatwick to 

 Thomas Kerr." Reference is 

 made in 1785 to a capital 

 messuage called Gatwicks with 

 houses, &c., belonging, then 

 in possession, as was the 



manor itself, of the second John Sharp." Accord- 

 ing to Manning a new manor - house, called 

 Timberham House from its vicinity to Timberham 

 Bridge, was erected by this owner, the site of the old 

 manor-house being in the east of the parish. Brayley, 

 writing in 1841, mentions 'Gatwick house' as having 

 been recently sold by John Sharp to Alexander 

 Fraser, 46 who occupied it as late as 1859. The 

 Gatwick Race Course Company bought the Gatwick 

 estate and the manor-house in 1890 from Mr. John 

 King Farlow of Egham. They do not appear to have 

 bought the manorial rights, and it seems as if these 

 had fallen into abeyance." 



The family of Sander, from whom the manor of 

 SENDERS PLACE took its name, was established 

 at Charlwood as early as the l^-th century. A court 

 roll of 1388 records that Stephen Sander was called 

 upon to answer for a plea of trespass,* 8 and a reference 

 is found in 1434 to Thomas Sander of Charlwood," 

 apparently his son. 40 In 1446 land called Sloghter- 

 wyk in Charlwood was granted to Thomas Sander 

 and William his son by Richard son of Thomas 

 Cokeman," and about the same time they received 



a grant of 4 acres from Thomas White." In 1565 

 Sir Thomas Sander, kt. died seised of ' the manor 

 of Charlwood called Sander's manor,' held as of the 

 manor of Charlwood by fealty and rent of 15*. \\d:* 

 Edmund his son and heir succeeded to the property, 

 which passed successively to Edmund's son Thomas 

 and grandson Edmund." The latter died without 

 issue in 1662, having devised all his 'lands and tene- 

 ments in Charlwood ' to his sister Elizabeth Brad- 

 shaw," from whom they evidently passed to Sir Wil- 

 liam Throckmorton, son of her aunt Dorothy, 56 as in 

 a conveyance of this property in 1673 from Sir 

 Andrew King to Francis Lord Aungier, it was stated 

 that Sir Andrew had obtained it from Throckmorton." 

 The deed of 1673 describes the property as 'the site 

 and the remaining part of the late capital messuage 

 . . . called Charlwood Place, with all fields, &c. called 

 the Great Parke, the Little Parke, the Knowe, the 

 Great Godfreyes, the Lesser Godfreyes, the Greater 

 Biggie Hawe, the Lesser Biggie Hawe, Bush Field, 

 the Granthams, the Skewles mead and Lyons Riddles 

 Mead,' containing altogether about 300 acres. Ac- 

 cording to Manning the estate afterwards passed, with 

 the church, to the family of Wise. This family held 

 these lands in 1 828, by which time, apparently, a new 

 house had been built, as reference is made to ' all that 

 capital messuage, and site and late remaining part of 

 the late capital messuage called Charlwood Place." 



Land called HOKE or LA HOKE existed in 

 Charlwood at an early date, as the name Walter atte 

 Hoke, or Walter de la Hok, occurs as that of a wit- 

 ness to deeds in the early 141)1 century, 49 and in 1333 

 Walter atte Hoke contributed to the lay subsidy for 

 Surrey. 60 In 1335 the custody of a messuage and 45 

 acres at la Hoke, possibly in Charlwood, was granted 

 to Thomas de Flaynsford." In the late I 5th century 

 the family of Lechford held at least a portion of the 

 lands afterwards called the ' manor of Hook. ' In 

 1546 the 'manor of Howke,' then in the possession 

 of Henry Lechford, was sold by him to Henry Am- 

 cotts ; 6S he retained, however, a parcel of ground in 

 Hook called Backworth and Littleworth. In 1614 

 William Hewett died seised of the manor, which was 

 held of the manor of Charlwood by suit at court and 

 yearly rent of 1 1/. \od. M According to Manning, 

 William Hewett son of the above William conveyed it 

 in 1627 to Symonds, from whom it afterwards passed 

 to the family of Jordan. 65 It descended with the 



> Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII, Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 



no. ji. 188. 



40 Recov. R. Hil. 30 Eiiz. 



41 Pita, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 113. 

 These arms quartered with Codington, 

 Berwick, Hussey, Nesficld and Husscy, 

 stand at the head of the pedigree of Jor- 

 dan (Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 120 and izo/>) ; 

 but the chief was ' taken away ' by St. 

 George Clarenceux (Harl. MS. 1433, fol. 

 6y/>), and in 1628 a new coat Azure a 

 lion between nine crostlets or was granted by 

 Segar Garter to Edmund Jordan of Gat- 

 wick. 



Vide Charlwood, Feet of F. Surr. 

 Trin. i Will, and Mary; Recov. R. Mich. 

 5 Gco. II, rot. 124; Com. Pleas D. 

 Enr. Mich. 5 Gco. II, m. 9 ; Feet of F. 

 Surr. Mich. 27 Geo. II ; P.C.C. 357 

 Trevor; Recov. R. East. 2; Geo. Ill, 

 rot. 259 ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 26 

 Geo. Ill, m. 113, 114; Recov. R. Hil. 

 45 Geo. Ill, rot. 197. 



48 Berry, Surr. Gen. 28, 29. 



45 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 26 Gco. Ill, 

 m. 113, 114. 



46 Brayley, Tofog. Hist, of Surr. iv, 264. 

 ^ Information from Mr. G. H. Verrall, 



secretary to the company. 



48 Ct. R. bdle. 204, no. 67. 



49 Cal. Pat. 1429-36, p. 381. 

 * Berry, Surr. Gen. 40. 



"Stoane Chart, xxxii, fol. 30. The 

 name 'Sloghterwyk 1 occurs as that of a 

 witness to deeds in the early I4th century, 

 see Add. Chart. 18588-91. A MS. in 

 private hands contains a list of inscriptions 

 taken down 15 December 1622 : Thomas 

 Sander and his wife Johanna (in the 

 church porch, no date) ; Johanna Sander, 

 1470 ; Margaret wife of John Sander, d. 

 1477 ; Richard Sander, d. 1480 ; Wil- 

 liam Sander, d. 1481 (husband of Johanna 

 above) ; Agnes (wife of Richard above), 

 d. 148; ; James Sander, third son of 

 Richard Sander, d. 1510; Nicholas 



I8 S 



Saunder (d. 1553) and Alice his wife, 

 father and mother of Sir Thomas Saunders,, 

 King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer. 



"Feet of F. Surr. 24 Hen. VI. no. 17. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxli, 25. 



M Feet of F. Surr.Trin. 43 Eliz. ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcii, 129. 



" P.C.C. 28 Land. 



66 Berry, Surr. Gen. 40, 41 ; Le Neve, 

 Knights (Harl. Soc. viii). 



7 Close, 25 Chas. II, pt. iv, no. 6. 



58 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 9 Geo. IV, 

 m. 4. 



"Add. Chart. 18588, 18590-1,18600. 



60 Subs. R. Surr. bdle. 1 84, no. 4, xv" 



ftx*. 



61 Add. Chart. 24596. 



11 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 100 ; no. 

 79 ; Close, 38 Hen. VIII, pt. i, no. 63. 



Close, 38 Hen. VIII, pt. i, no. 63 ; 

 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich, i Edw. VI. 



64 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxliv, 66. 



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

 188. 



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