REIGATE HUNDRED 



HORLEY 



hanced by tile-hanging of diamond pattern covering 

 the upper stories ; and the same kind of tiling 

 occurs upon the walls of a large old house on the 

 opposite side of the road. 



Heaverswood Common was inclosed by an Award of 

 2 1 September 1858, parts of Earlswood Common which 

 extended into Horley by an Award of 15 July i886. 4 

 Horley Common and Thundersfield Common have been 

 inclosed since the first issue of the Ordnance Maps. 



Christ Church, Salford, was built as a chapel of 

 ease for the northern part of the parish in 1881, and 

 enlarged in 1892. 



There is a Baptist chapel built in 1 88 1, a Primitive 

 Methodist chapel, and a meeting-place of the Ply- 

 mouth Brethren. 



There is a Cottage Hospital for the district. 



In the parish are the Reigate Borough Isolation 

 Hospital, at White Bushes, built in 1900, and the 

 Reigate District Isolation Hospital, built in 1885. 



Duxhurst has been acquired by Lady Henry 

 Somerset as a Home for Female Inebriates, and ad- 

 ditional houses built for the same purpose. 



Horley National Schools were established in 1834. 

 In 1872 a School Board was formed, and the schools 

 passed under it. In 1905 they were rebuilt by the 

 county authority. 



In 1876 a school was built at Salford, and enlarged 

 in 1886. 



In 1884 a girls' school was built in Albert Road, 

 and in 1890 an infants' school was added. 



In 1 896 a National School was built at Sidlow Bridge. 



HORLET is not mentioned in Domes- 



M4NORS day, unless it be the nameless land then 



in Tandridge Hundred held by Chert- 



sey Abbey. 8 Thundersfield on the borders of Horley 



and Home was granted to Chertsey by Athelstan in 



93 3," and was confirmed to the abbey by Edgar in 



967,' when the amount of land named 30 mansac 



must have extended into Horley, 9 the earliest references 



to which show that it was in the possession of the abbey. 



In 1263 the Abbot of Chertsey acquired lands in 

 Horley which he annexed to his manor of Horley ; * 

 John de Rutherwyk also, who was abbot from 130710 

 1 346, obtained several tenements which he attached 

 to his lordship. 10 He also reclaimed divers lands and 

 tenements there formerly held in villeinage but oc- 

 cupied for a long time since by freeholders, being 

 alienated from tenant to tenant by charter. 

 The abbot, on behalf of the monastery, ordered 

 these tenants to come into court and surrender 

 their holdings ; then, a fine having been paid, he 

 gave them back to the tenants, to be held in future of 

 the abbot himself for a fixed annual rent." 



The Abbot and convent of Chertsey continued to 

 hold the manor until in 1537 the abbot surrendered his 

 lands, including Horley, to the king." Later in the 

 same year Henry VIII granted this manor to Sir 



Nicholas Carew in tail male." On the disgrace and 

 death of Carew in 1 5 3 8-9, his lands reverted to the 

 Crown, and though the attainder was afterwards re- 

 versed his son Sir Francis Carew " did not inherit 

 Horley. In July 1539 the king granted the manor to 

 Sir Robert Southwell, 14 who alienated it in 1544 to 

 Robert Bristowe. 16 The latter died in 1545, and his 

 son and grandson succeeded to the property in turn. 17 

 Robert the grandson died a minor in 1563, his heirs 

 being his aunts on his father's side, Joan Jordan, 

 Margaret Woodman and Anne Taylor, and his cousin 

 Thomas Twyner, son of Agnes, another aunt who had 

 died before this date. 18 Each of these heirs received a 

 fourth part of Horley. George Taylor and Anne con- 

 veyed their share to the Woodmans in 1 564, 19 and when 

 John Woodman, who survived his wife Margaret, died 

 in 1 5 8 7,he was therefore seised of a fourth of the manor 

 in the right of his wife, and of another fourth in his 

 own demesne as of fee. 10 Their son Richard alienated 

 both parts to Matthew Carew in 1 590," andin the same 

 year Henry Jordan, presumably the son of Joan and 

 Thomas Jordan, conveyed the 

 reversion of this fourth of the 

 manor to Carew also." In 

 1598 Carew obtained the re- 

 maining fourth from Thomas 

 Vonge and Agnes, and the 

 heirs of Agnes," the latter be- 

 ing the daughter and heir of 

 Thomas Twyner, who had died 

 in 1582." Carew, Doctor of 

 Law and Master in Chancery, 

 conveyed to James Cromer 

 in 1 6oo, ts and two years later 

 it passed from the latter to the 

 Mayor and Commonalty of 

 London as Governors of 

 Christ's Hospital, 16 and they 

 have remained lords of the 

 manor till the present day. 



An early 13th-century deed records that Robert 

 son of Walter de Horley granted the mill at Horley 

 to Alfred son of Robert for the rent of a silver mark, 

 together with a meadow and plough-land close by, to 

 be held for the rent of \6d." Alice, daughter of 

 ' Alfred of Horley Mill,' afterwards received a grant of 

 the mill and lands.' 8 



In 1309 William de Newdigate, by deed dated at 

 Horley Mill, granted to Thomas atte Mulle, evidently 

 the miller, a messuage, with garden, croft, &c., which 

 Thomas and his heirs were to hold of Newdigate and 

 his heirs for 200 years at the rent of 1 2</." In 1317 

 William de Newdigate alienated to Chertsey Monas- 

 tery the water-mill called Newdigate's Mill or Horley 

 Mill, together with the lid. rent due from Thomas 

 atte Mulle. 80 It passed with the manor to Sir Robert 

 Southwell after the Dissolution," and was alienated 



CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. 

 Argent a cross gules -with 

 a sword gules upright in 

 the quarter (which art 

 the arms of the city of 

 London) with a chief 

 azure having a Tudor 

 mi between two fleurs 

 di Us or therein. 



1 Blue Bk. Incl. Awards. 



s V.C.H. Surr. i, 307 and note. 



8 Kemble, Cod. Difl. no. 363. 



7 Ibid. no. 532. 



8 Part of what was lately Thunderifield 

 Common is in Horley parish. 



9 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. xxv, fol. 73. 

 "Ibid. fol. 3534,361*, 363,364. 

 "Ibid. foL 354 ; Lansd. MS. 435, fol. 



29-38. 



12 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 

 Hen. VIII. 



18 L. and P. Hen. fill, xii (z), g. 1 1 Co (3). 



" Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 17. 



L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (l), g. 1354 

 (46). 



" Ibid, xix (l), g. 80 (64) ; Feet of F. 

 Surr. Hil. 35 Hen. VIII. 



17 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxii, 85 ; 

 cxxiv, 189. 



18 Ibid, cxl, 176 ; clxxxiii, 54. 



19 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 6 & 7 Eliz. ; 

 Pat. 6 Eliz. pt. vii, m. 32. 



40 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxvi, 70. 

 v Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. xiv, m. 42 ; Feet of 

 F. Surr. Trin. 32 Eliz. 



201 



m Pat. 32 Eliz. pt xxi, m. 12. 



88 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 40 Eliz. 



44 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxcvii, 69. 



Feet of F. Surr. HiL 42 Elir. 



85 Ibid. East. 44 Eliz. 



Add. Chart. 24587. 



M Ibid. 24589. 



29 Lansd. MS. 435, fol. 48*. 



M Ibid. fol. 48 ; Cal.Pat. 1317-21, p. 

 319. 



" L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xiv (l), g. 1354 

 (46). 



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