A HISTORY OF SURREY 



John Northwood. 37 Gatton was evidently assigned to 

 the latter, for her husband was holding the manor in 

 1327,** and her son Sir Robert Northwood, kt., was 

 holding in I344, 39 and was summoned to do 

 homage for it in I345- 40 He died in 1360, leaving 

 a son and heir Thomas." The latter's sisters 

 and co-heirs, Agnes Northwood and Joan wife 

 of John de Levedale, conveyed the manor to 

 Richard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, in 1364," and 

 Gatton was among the lands seized by the Crown on 

 the attainder and execution of his son Richard in 

 1 397." His son Thomas, Earl of Arundel, was restored 

 to his father's lands in 1399,"* and so probably to 

 Gatton, although no record mentions his tenure of it. 

 At his death in 1415 his lands were divided among 

 his three sisters and co-heirs, the eldest of whom, 

 Elizabeth, married Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Nor- 

 folk. Her great-grandson, John, Duke of Norfolk, 

 probably granted Gatton about 1446" to his retainer 

 John Timperley, 45 who in 1449 had licence to 

 inclose the manor. 46 



John Timperley conveyed the manor 47 to feoffees 

 to the use of Roger Copley and his wife Anne and 

 their heirs. 48 Roger Copley, son of the former Roger 

 and Anne, in May 1537 en- 

 tailed it on his son Thomas ; 

 after his death, which took 

 place in 1548," his widow 

 Elizabeth nominated the bur- 

 gesses, and Thomas Copley re- 

 presented Gatton in 1554, 

 1557-8, and 1562-3." Un- 

 der Queen Mary he was com- 

 mitted to the custody of the 

 Serjeant at Arms for indiscreet 

 words in favour of the Lady 

 Elizabeth in Parliament. 51 He 

 had scruples about the oath of supremacy, left England 

 without licence in 1569 and became a leader among 

 the English fugitives, was created Baron Copley 

 of Gatton by the King of Spain, and died in Flanders 

 in 1584." His son and heir William Copley 

 settled the manor on his younger son William in 1615, 

 but the latter died in 1623 in his lifetime, leaving two 

 infant daughters, Mary and Anne." His estate had 

 been sequestered for his recusancy c. 1 6 1 1 , and an 

 annuity of j 1 60 from it granted to Sir William Lane, 

 who had evidently procured the sequestration.* 4 



Corny. Urgent a 

 mill-rind cross table. 



Captain Henry Lane, son of Sir William, petitioned 

 for a lease of Gatton Manor in 1630." Apparently 

 he was unsuccessful, for in 1632 William Copley the 

 elder was pardoned his recusancy and permitted to 

 hold Gatton for twenty-one years for an annual rent 

 to the Crown. 56 Meanwhile his granddaughters 

 Mary and Anne had been left under the guardianship 

 of Sir Richard Weston, who married them to his two 

 sons John and George, in spite of the protests of their 

 grandfather. 67 Their estates were again sequestered 

 for their recusancy, c. 1650.** John Weston's moiety 

 was purchased from the Treason Trustees by John 

 Carrill in l653. M Finally, a partition of the lands 

 of William Copley the younger assigned Gatton to 

 John and Mary Weston, 60 who joined with John Car- 

 rill and others in a sale to Thomas Turgis in 1654." 

 He died in 1 66 1 6 * leaving a son Thomas, who in 1 669 

 obtained a release of the manor from Richard Weston. 63 

 By his will 64 dated 1703 he bequeathed it to his 

 kinsman William, eldest son of George Newland of 

 Smithficld. He left it to his brother Dr. George 

 Newland for life, with remainder to the sons 

 of his own daughters in tail male. The estate was 

 sold after his death to James Colebrooke, 65 who was 

 created baronet in 1759. His two daughters, Mary 

 wife of John Aubrey and Emma wife of Charles, Earl 

 of Tankerville, sold Gatton to their uncle Sir George 

 Colebrocke, bart., from whom it was purchased in 

 1774 by Sir William Mayne, afterwards Baron New- 

 haven of Ireland. 66 It was then successively purchased 

 by a Mr. Percy and a Mr. Graham. 67 Mary and 

 George Graham sold to Robert Ladbrooke of Portland 

 Place in 1789.** He sold the manor to John Petrie 

 in February I796, 69 and it was purchased in 1808 

 by Mark Wood, later Sir Mark Wood, bart. 70 After 

 his death it was purchased by trustees for John, fifth 

 Baron Monson. 71 It was sold in 1 88 8 by the seventh 

 Lord Monson, created Viscount Oxenbridge in 1886, 

 to Mr. J. Colman, since created Sir J. Colman, bart., 

 the present owner. 



A house of considerable importance was attached to 

 Gatton Manor in I22O, 7 ' and a deer-park existed in 

 1278." The custody of the park was entrusted to 

 John Berwick, a clerk of the king, from 1301 on- 

 wards during the minority of the heirs of Hamon de 

 Gatton. 74 The hall was divided between the sisters 

 of Thomas de Northwood in 1362." Possibly John 

 Timperley wished to enlarge the park in 1449 when 



87 Plac. Abbrev. (Rec. Com.), 318. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 Edw. Ill (ist 

 DOS.), no. 35. 



89 Chan. Mic. Inq. file 151 (18 Edw. 

 Ill, 2nd not.), no. 95. 



> Cal. Close, 1343-6, p. 528. 



41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 72. 



41 Close, 37 Edw. Ill, m. 38-40 ; Feet 

 of F. Surr. 38 Edw. Ill, 39. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, 137, m. 

 I If. 



4to Cal. Pat. 1399-1401, p. 134. 



44 It was at this date that he granted 

 Flanchford in Reigate. 



45 He was M.P. for Reigate in 1453 

 and 1460. 



46 Chart. R. 27-39 Hen. VI, no. 41. 



47 It is strange that as late as 1468-9 

 Gatton is included in lands granted by 

 the Duke of Norfolk to Thomas Hoc and 

 others, apparently trustees, who seem to 

 have granted these lands to a certain John 

 Charlys in exchange for a manor in Suf- 



folk (Feet of F. Div. Co. 8 Edw. IV, 64; 

 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 137, no. 4). 

 Whether this inclusion is an error or not 

 it is difficult to say, but in 1518 Roger 

 Copley received a quitclaim from Michael 

 Denys and bis wife Margery (Feet of F. 

 Surr. Mich. 10 Hen. VIII) which may 

 represent Charlys' interest* 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 10 Hen. VIII ; 

 Berry, Surr. Gen. 85. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), Ixxxix, 139. 



40 Ret. of Memb. of Par I. i, 391, 394, 

 398, 406. 



" Cal. S.P. Dam. 1580-1625, p. 66. 



** Diet. Nat. Biog. xii, 189 ; Cal. S.P. 

 Dom. 1580-1625, p. 66. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccv, 159. 



M Cal. S.P. Dom. 1611-18, p. 31. 



* Ibid. 1629-31, p. 427. 



66 Pat. 8 Chas. I, pt. iv, no. 2. 



67 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1638-9, p. 41 ; Cal. 

 of Com. for Compounding i, 252. 



Ibid. 



69 Ibid, iii, 2171. 



198 



60 Title deeds quoted by Manning and 

 Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 231. 



61 Close, 1654, pt. xl, no. 10. 



62 Title deeds quoted by Manning and 

 Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 231. 



68 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 21 Chas. II. 



M Quoted by Manning and Bray, loc. 

 cit. 



85 Private Act, 24 Geo. Ill, cap. 39. 



** Title deeds quoted by Manning and 

 Bray, loc. cit 



67 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 310. 



68 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 29 Geo. 

 Ill, m. 264. 



Ibid. Hil. 36 Geo. Ill, m. 298, 308. 

 Petrie immediately mortgaged it to Lad- 

 brooke. 



70 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 132. 



71 Brayley, loc. cit. 



"" Curia Regis R. 78, m. 10. 

 78 Cal. Pat. 1272-81, p. 294. 

 74 Ibid. 1292-1301, p. 597. 

 7* Close, 37 Edw. Ill, m. 38 d. 



