REIGATE HUNDRED 



CHIPSTEAD 



the Crown. In 1337, however, Hugh de Audley, the 

 second husband of MargarerMe Clare, was created Earl 

 of Gloucester. 9 Chipstead appears to have fallen to 

 the share of Margaret, for her grandson Hugh, Earl of 

 Stafford, the son of her only 

 daughter Margaret, died seised 

 of the manor in 1386, when 

 his son Thomas succeeded to 

 his title and estates. 10 This 

 Thomas married Anne the 

 daughter of Thomas of Wood- 

 stock, Duke of Gloucester, and 

 she, after his death, became 

 the wife of his brother and 

 heir, Edmund Stafford. Their 

 son Humphrey, who was 

 created Duke of Buckingham," 

 in 1458 conveyed the manor 

 for the purpose of settling it 

 son John, Earl of Wiltshire." 



STAFFORD. Oracheve- 



ron gules. 



to 



William Catesby 

 upon his youngest 



After his father's 



death John held the manor jointly with his wife Con- 

 stance, who survived him for two years. 13 Edward 

 Stafford, the second Earl of Wiltshire, who at his 

 mother's death in 1474-5 was only five years old, died 

 without children in 1499, and Henry the younger 

 son of his cousin the second Duke of Buckingham 

 then became Earl of Wiltshire." Chipstead, how- 

 ever, passed into the possession of Henry's eldest 

 brother Edward, 14 who had at that time succeeded to 

 the dukedom. In I 521, when the duke was attainted 

 and beheaded, Chipstead with the rest of his lands 

 was forfeited to the king, 16 who in 1528 granted it 

 to Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners." Lord Berners, 

 the translator of Froissart's Chronicles, has left several 

 records of a varied experience ; in 1518, while envoy 

 in Spain, he wrote home accounts of the court sports 

 and entertainments there, and in the following year 

 he sent a description to the Privy Council of the Field 

 of the Cloth of Gold. In 1520 he became deputy 

 of Calais, where he did much in superintending the 

 fortifications. At the time of the grant of Chipstead 

 he was, and had been for many years, heavily indebted 

 to the Crown, and it seems possible that the king took 

 the manor back into his own hands when Lord Ber- 

 ners became seriously ill in 1532-3." It is perhaps 

 more likely that Lord Berners never actually entered 

 into possession, as besides the original grant, which 

 may not have been immediately acted on, there is a bill 

 to the same purport dated 1532, but unsigned." In 

 any case, there is no mention of Chipstead in his will, 

 drawn up a few days before his death, although the 

 reversion of two or three other manors was bequeathed 



to the king in payment of the debt. 10 From 1 542 to 

 1547 John Ledes and Ann his wife held courts 

 at Chipstead." In 1558 Thomas Matson and Ann 

 his wife conveyed the manor of Chipstead to Thomas 

 Copley in mortgage ; " another document of the 

 same year a few weeks earlier conveying it to Thomas 

 Percy and Reginald Heygate is probably part of the 

 same transaction. 13 In the following year Matson 

 conveyed it to William Frank," and he, while re- 

 taining the ownership of Chipstead Court," sold the 

 manor in 15623 to John Turner of the Inner 

 Temple in trust for Sir Richard Sackville, 16 whose 

 wife Winifred surviving him held it until her death 

 in 1586." In 1571 her son Thomas Sackville, Lord 

 Buckhurst, sold the reversion to John Skinner of 

 Reigate, 1 * who, however, never owned the manor in 

 fee, as he died in 1 5 84, two years before the death of 

 Winifred, then Marchioness of Winchester. 19 The 

 manor was settled after his death upon his wife Alice 

 and her sons, should she have any, with remainder to 

 her brother William Pointz, and after him to his son 

 John. 50 In 1613 John Pointz sold Chipstead to 

 John Huntley, 31 who with his wife Margaret con- 

 veyed it two years later to Sir Henry Burton.* 1 

 According to Manning and Bray it then became part 

 of the estates of the Owfields of Upper Gatton, Samuel 

 Owfield holding his court there in 163 5." He died 

 in 1645. His son William, who died in 1664, con- 

 veyed it in turn to his father-in-law, Maurice Thomp- 

 son, whose son Sir John held his first court there in 

 1 68 1." By him it was sold to Paul Docminique, 55 

 and henceforth it apparently followed the same de- 

 scent as Merstham, becoming the property of Rachel 

 Tattersall and her husband John, 36 and later that of 

 William Jolliffe, with whose descendants it has re- 

 mained up to the present day, Lord Hylton being 

 now lord of the manor (vide Merstham). 



For a short period the manor of Chipstead seems 

 to have been held in subfee from the Clares by the 

 Dammartins. In 1230 it was quitclaimed to Mar- 

 gery widow of Odo de Dammartin as part of her 

 dower by Roger de Clare and his wife Alice, daughter 

 of Odo, formerly wife of John de Wauton. 37 In 

 1248 Alice Dammartin conveyed the manor of Chip- 

 stead to Thomas de Warblington,* 8 who probably 

 afterwards surrendered it, for in an undated document 

 Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 

 granted the manor of Chipstead to Nicholas de Leuk- 

 enore to hold as two knights' fees. 38 This grant must 

 have been made by Richard, who became Earl of 

 Gloucester in 1230 and who died in 1262, as he was 

 the only Richard de Clare who bore the title." 



G.E.C. Peerage, Gloucester. 



"Ibid. Stafford j Cat. Pat. 1385-9, 

 P . 365. 



11 G.E.C. Peerage, Buckingham. 



a Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 36 Hen. 

 VI ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 38*39 Hen. VI, 

 no. 59 ; 13 Edw. IV, no. 13. 



u Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 5 Edw. IV, no. 44. 



14 G.E.C. Peerage, Wiltshire. 



ls Mins. Accts. Harl. MS. 1667. 



16 G.E.C. Peerage, Buckingham. 



"Pat. 19 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 18 ; 

 L. and P. Htn. VIII, iv, 3991 (15). 



18 Diet. Nat. Biog. Sir John Bourchier ; 

 and see in West Horsley. 



"L. and P. Hen. VIII, v, 858. 



M P.C.C. 10 Hogan. 



31 Court Rolls fenei Lord Hylton. They 

 were patrons of the living in 1552. 



"Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii ; 

 Feet of F. Surr. East. 4 & 5 PhiL and 

 Mary. 



Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 & 5 Phil, 

 and Mary. 



Feet of F. Surr. Hil. I Eliz. 



as Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), ccxlii, 33. 



48 Close, 8 Eliz. pt. i. 



"Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 13 Eliz. ; 

 G.E.C. Peerage, Winchester. 



* Ibid. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), cciv, 123 j 

 G.E.C. Peerage, Winchester. 



80 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. xvi, m. 36. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 1 Jas. I. 

 "Ibid. Trin. 13 Jas. I. 



21 Oct. II Chas. I j Court Roll fenet 

 Lord Hylton. The two Owfields were 

 both M. P. for Gatton. For deaths see Com. 



Journ. 3 Sept. 164;, and return of election 

 of Sir Nicholas Carew vice W. Owfield, 

 deceased 1664. 



84 19 May 1 68 1 ; ibid. The courti 

 from 1663 to 1 68 1 were all held by Ed- 

 ward Thurland, 'Seneschal.' He con- 

 tinued as 'Seneschal' after 1681, but the 

 lord's name appears again. 



86 Close, 3 Anne, pt. i, no. 14. 



86 P.C.C. 96 Ducie. 



8 ~ Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 15 & 16 

 Hen. Ill, no. 89. The Testa de Nevill 

 (Rec. Com.), 219, 22o4 gives Alice Dam- 

 martin holding a knight's fee in Chipstead 

 of the honour of Clare. 



88 Feet of F. Surr. East. 32 Hen. Ill, 

 50. 



89 Add. Chart. 20039. S Effingham, 



"> G.E.C. Peerage. 



