A HISTORY OF SURREY 



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BlAUCHAMP 



HATCH, fair. 



CHIPSTEAD COURT, also called a manor, was 

 retained by William Frank when he sold the manor 

 in i 563 (vide supra), and held by him at his death in 

 1595, when his son Robert succeeded him." In 

 1639 Ferdinand Heybourn died seised of this estate, 

 leaving as heirs his elder brother John's three daugh- 

 ters Elizabeth wife of George Morton, Hester wife of 

 Henry Burley, and Mary wife of Francis Mascall." 

 It must have been reunited to the manor, for as Court 

 Lodge Farm it was bought from the Tattersall trustees 

 by William Jolliffe in 1788. 



BE4UCH4MPS.ln the I4th century the family 

 of Beauchamp of Hatch in Somerset held property in 

 Chipstead, which also after- 

 wards came to be called the 

 manor of Chipstead. A 

 mention of this estate occurs 

 in 1301, when John de Beau- 

 champ complained that, during 

 his absence in Scotland, Tho- 

 mas de Wotton and several 

 others had cut his corn at 

 Chipstead and driven away 

 200 sheep." The property 

 was apparently at this time in 

 the tenure of his mother 

 Cecilia, daughter of William de Vivonia, who, surviving 

 her husband nearly thirty years, did not die until 

 1321." For some years before her death she was 

 involved in a dispute with William Inge concerning 

 her manor of Woodmansterne, which seems to have 

 also concerned her estate in Chipstead, for Inge 

 obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands 

 in Woodemansterne, Chipstead, and Ewell in 1314. 

 Cecilia, however, must have won her cause here as at 

 Woodmansterne, for the ownership eventually re- 

 mained with the Beauchamps. 44 



Her son and grandson, both named John, succeeded 

 her in turn, the latter dying childless in 1361. The 

 property was then divided between his sister Cecilia 

 wife of Sir Richard Turberville, and his nephew John 

 Meriet, the only son of Eleanor Beauchamp.' 6 Cecilia 

 granted her half of the estate at farm to Peter atte 

 Wode, his wife Laurencia and their son Peter, in 

 survivorship, and Peter atte Wode accounted for the 

 manor of Chipstead in 1 364- 47 Some years later, 

 in 1381-2, Peter and his son both being dead, Cecilia 

 Turberville quitclaimed the manor to Hugh Queche 

 of London, mercer, Laurencia's son by her second hus- 

 band. 48 In 13878 there is a conveyance of Chip- 

 stead from Hugh Queche to John Gardyner, 49 prob- 

 ably for the purpose of settlement upon Hugh's 

 daughter Joan Norton, who at his death in 1402 



inherited his estates. 50 Joan's daughter carried the 

 property to the Colcok (or Caldecote) family by mar- 

 riage," and Richard Colcok settled Chipstead upon 

 his eldest daughter Joan and her husband John Skinner, 

 of Reigate, who died about 1472." The property 

 then descended to their son Richard Skinner, who 

 settled it upon his son William with remainder first to 

 William's brother Michael, and after him to their 

 eldest sister Anne, sometimes called Agnes. William 

 and Michael both died childless, and about eighteen 

 months later Anne with her husband Bartholomew 

 Chaloner brought a suit against her sister Elizabeth 

 the wife of John Scott, who, they complained, had 

 taken possession of the premises, disregarding the 

 elder sister's right. 53 The dispute was settled by 

 dividing the estate, and in 1505-6 the moiety of 

 Chipstead Manor was settled upon Anne and her 

 second husband Roger Leigh and their children, with 

 remainder to her two sons by her first husband, 

 Henry and William Chaloner,* 4 while in 151314 

 John Scott the elder settled half of the manor of 

 Chipstead upon his son and heir, also John Scott." The 

 latter John Scott died in 15 58," and was succeeded 

 in turn by Richard Scott and his son Thomas, both 

 of whom died within a couple of years, and Edward 

 Scott, Richard's brother, inherited the property," which 

 he held apparently in 1571, when he presented to the 

 living. It is not possible to trace it further. A house 

 called Noke, near the church, may have been the same. 



A fair was held in Chipstead in the reign of Ed- 

 ward I, and is again referred to in 15 84. 58 A court 

 leet and view of frankpledge are said to have belonged 

 to the manor in the i6th century, 59 but according to 

 Brayley no such court was held there, and conse- 

 quently the constable for Chipstead, who is now ap- 

 pointed at the quarter sessions, used to be chosen at 

 the sheriff's tourn for the hundred of Tandridge. 60 



In 675 Frithwald, subregulus of Surrey, gave 5 hides 

 of land in Chipstead to the abbey of Chertsey, 61 

 and this seems to have been the property which was 

 afterwards known as the manor of PURBRIGHT 

 (Purybrith, Pirifrith, xiii cent.). In 933 a similar 

 grant from Athelstan to the abbey speaks of the vill 

 of Chipstead. 6 * In 967 Edgar confirmed a gift of 

 10 hides, 63 while under Edward the extent is again 

 estimated at 5 hides. 64 These variations appear to 

 be different estimates of the value of the same land, 

 as in Domesday the Abbot of Chertsey is said to hold 

 Chipstead, which, though assessed at 5 hides under 

 King Edward, was rated at I hide only at the time 

 of the Survey." It was then held at farm of the abbot. 



The abbey remained overlord of the manor M and 

 received from the rector of Chipstead all the tithes 



n Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlii, 33. 



"Ibid, dxxx, 198. 



w Cal. Pat. 1301-7, p. 79. 



"G.E.C. Peerage, Beauchamp of So- 

 merset ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. II, 

 no. 38. 



<& Rot. Par!. (Rec. Com.), i, 3043, 

 3223 ; Chart. R. 8 Edw. II, m. 22. no. 53. 



<6 G.E.C. Peerage, Beauchamp of So- 

 merset ; Add. Chart, 23729. No mention 

 of the second half of the estate is extant, 

 but it is possible that it was quitclaimed 

 to Cecilia, and became the property of 

 Hugh Queche with the rest. 



4 ' Mins. Accts. bdlc. 1092, no. 3. 



<s Close, 5 Ric. II, m. 24 d. 



Ibid. II Ric. II, pt. i, m. 45 d. 



50 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 25 ; 

 Feet of F. Div. Co. 4 Hen. IV, no. 65. 



41 Manning and Bray, op, cit. quoting 

 Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian, no. 425, 

 foL 104. 



" Harl. MS. 897, fol. 140. 



68 Star Chamb. Proc. bdle. 19, no. 86. 

 This is dated reign of Henry VIII, but 

 internal evidence proves that it must 

 have occurred before 1505. In the Visi- 

 tation (Harl. 1561, fol. 50) Bartholomew 

 is sailed Thomas Chalnner. 



" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 21 Hen. VII. 



" Ibid. Hil. 5 Hen. VIII. 



H Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxxi, 148. 



" Ibid, cxxxi, 191. 



192 



18 Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 740 5 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cciv, 123. 



* 9 Ibid, cxlv, II ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 

 13 Eliz. ; Close, 8 Eliz. pt. i. 



60 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 299. 



61 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64 ; Kemble, 

 Cod. Difl. v, 19. But see notes on Chert- 

 sey for the doubtful character of the al- 

 leged earliest Chertsey charters. 



M Ibid, ii, 193. 



Ibid, iii, 6 ; Birch, Cart. Sax. iii, 

 469. 



Kemble, Cod. Dip!, iv, 151. 



s V.C.H. Surr. i, 310. 



68 Testa de Ncvill (Rec. Com.), 22oi, 

 mi; Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. I, 

 no. 25. 



