A HISTORY OF SURREY 



by him to Robert Bristowe in I54-I. 3 * On the death 

 of Bristowe's grandson Robert, John, half-brother to 

 the latter, received the mill as his share of the inheri- 

 tance which was divided up among co-heirs. 33 John 

 Bristowe, in 1586, alienated to John Kerrell and 

 Nicholas his son the mill and its appurtenances, which 

 included land called Mill Eye, the mill-house, and all 

 watercourses, ponds, ways and passages belonging to 

 the mill and all its profits and commodities." 



In 1259 Roger de Stomnihole and Isabel his wife 

 granted a messuage and a virgate of land in Horley to 

 John de Bures." The land was in that part of Hor- 

 ley adjacent to Hartswood, as a deed relating to the 

 latter place refers to a wood of John de Bures close 

 by," and Stumblehole in Leigh, held of Banstead, is 

 also near. Another 13th-century deed records a 

 grant of land in Horley,' made to William, son of 

 Roger del Mahone by John de Bures." It is probable 

 that the family of de Bures held, for at least another 

 century, land in Horley, afterwards known as the 

 manor of BURES, or BEE RES. In 1 3 14 land called 

 Burilondin Horley is mentioned. 58 In 1358 an extent 

 for debt, taken on the lands of John son of John de 

 Bures, states that he held in Horley a messuage with 

 3</. per annum beyond reprises, 80 acres of land 

 worth zo/., 2 5 acres of wood worth 4*. ^d., and I/, "jd. 

 from rent of free tenants there.* 9 



In 1487 John Holgrave, baron of the King's 

 Exchequer, died seised of the manor of Bures in 

 Horley which he devised to his son Thomas. 40 The 

 latter died in 1505, and was succeeded in the lordship 

 of the manor by Robert his son. 41 In 1544 the 

 manor was held by Richard Broke and Elizabeth his 

 wife in the right of Elizabeth, 4 ' daughter and heiress 

 of Thomas or Robert Holgrave ; 4S they conveyed it in 

 that year to Richard Bray and his wife Joan. 44 In 

 1581 Sir John Bray, their son, granted the reversion of 

 the manor, after the death of Joan his mother, to John 

 Skinner of Reigate, who died in 1584, hia nephew 

 Richard Elyott of Albury being one of his heirs. 45 

 The latter was seised of the manor at his death in 

 1608 ; w his grandson Richard died unmarried in l6l2. 47 

 Thomas Elyott, brother of the elder Richard, 48 held 

 in 1613." By deeds of 1617 and 1620 Thomas 

 Elyott, Rachel Elyott widow of Richard, and her 

 remaining children conveyed the manor to Sir 

 William Garway. 60 In 1622 Garway sold to Nicholas 

 Charrington 'the manor of Beres alias Buryes and 



that capital messuage and farm called Beres ... all 

 of which premises are, or lately were, in the tenure 

 of Nicholas Charrington and his assigns or farmers." sl 

 The manor has since remained in the Charrington 

 family ; Mr. E. S. Charrington holds it at present. 5 ' 



Occasional reference is found to a manor or farm 

 called DUXHURSTin Horley and Charlwood." Peter 

 de Duxhurst was one of those whose lands were 

 reclaimed by the Abbot of Chertsey M on the grounds 

 that they were held of the tenement which Gilbert 

 atte Mathe had held of the abbot's predecessors in 

 villeinage ; the abbot granted them back to Duxhurst, 

 to be held of the abbey. 55 In 1604 Sir John Holm- 

 den settled the manor to the use of himself and his 

 heirs. 58 Giles Fraunces died seised of the manor or 

 farm of Duxhurst and certain lands belonging in 

 Horley and Charlwood in 1616." 



A survey of the manor, taken much later, mentions 

 the site of the manor-house with courtyard, barn, 

 stable, and garden and lands. 58 It was afterwards 

 acquired with the manor of Horley, by the governors 

 of Christ's Hospital. 59 It is now used as Lady Henry 

 Somerset's Home for Female Inebriates. 



The priory of Merton, which had certain lands 

 and tenements in Horley from which rent and ser- 

 vices were due, included a wood called L4NGSHOTT 

 among its possessions at an early date. 60 By a deed 

 without date the prior granted Robert son of Walter 

 of Horley 4 acres of land at Langshott to be held for 

 the annual rent of 2/, 61 and Roger Salaman died in 

 1343 seised of land in Horley held of Merton. 61a 



At the Dissolution the possessions of the priory 

 included a farm called ' Landshott ' in Horley and 

 Home." John Cooper farmed it of the priory, by an 

 indenture of 1525, by which it was leased to him for 

 thirty years. 63 In 1538-9 the lands were granted 

 by the king to Richard Gylmyn for thirty years. 64 

 In 1550 William Sakevyle conveyed to Thomas 

 Yngles and Katherine and their heirs ' all those lands, 

 meadows, pastures, woods, &c., called Langshott alias 

 Landshott, and Fryers landes alias Pryern in Horley.' M 



In 1669 the land was held as a ' manor ' by Richard 

 Evelyn and Elizabeth in the right of Elizabeth, 6 * 

 the daughter of George Minne. 6 ' It seems to have 

 passed soon after to the family of Barnes ; William 

 Barnes of Horley married Sarah Bridges and she, 

 after her husband's death, devised Langshott to her 

 nephew Alexander Bridges, 68 who held in I733, 69 and 



8J L. and P. Hm.VIU, xvi, g. 1056 (4). 

 88 Vide Horlejr ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 

 2), cxl, 176 ; clxxxiii, 54. 

 M Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. i, m. 5. 

 84 Feet of F. Surr. 44 Hen. Ill, no. 2. 

 Add. Chart. 24586. W Ibid. 24588. 



88 Lansd. MS. 435, fol. 27. 



89 Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (lit 

 nos.), no. 55. Earlier inquisitions on this 

 family contain references which must 

 mean this manor (Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 

 Edw. Ill [ist nos.], no. 174 ; 19 

 Edw. Ill [ist nos.], no. 54). After men- 

 tioning land in Banstead, and a tenement 

 called Stumblehole in Leigh, the in- 

 quisitions continue, ' and there are there : 

 assize rent per annum 472. zJ. due from 

 two free tenants at Banstead, 9 at La Legh, 

 5 at Sandon and I customary at La 

 Legh.' Bures is adjacent to Stumblehole. 

 Probably the manor-house now in Horley 

 parish, which is not mentioned in the 

 earlier inquisitions, had been built before 

 1358, causing the manor in the two much 



intermixed parishes to be spoken of as in 

 Horley. The family of Bures continued 

 in Banstead (q.v.), but perhaps through 

 debt sold the Leigh and Horley lands. 



P.C.C. 4 Milles. 



41 Exch. Inq. p.m. file 1065, no, 6. 



Feet, of F. Surr. Mich. 35 Hen. VIII. 



"> Burke, Family Rec., 108. Ibid. 



45 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 23 & 24 Eliz.; 

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



46 Ibid.cccxi,n6. 4 ? Eerry,Surr.Gen. 25. 



48 Harl. MS. 1561, fol. lib, &c. ; Berry, 

 Surr. Gen. 25. 



49 Recov. R. East. II Jas. I, rot. 23. 



60 Berry, Surr. Gen. 5 ; Visit, of Surr. 

 (Harl. Soc. xliii), 25 ; Surr. Arch. Coll. 

 vi, 316 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. n Jas. I ; 

 Mich. 1 5 Jas. I ; East. 1 8 Jas. I ; Recov. 

 R. East. 1 8 Jas. I, rot. 48. 



61 Close, 20 Jas. I, pt. xxiv, no. 4. 

 M Feet of F. Surr. East. 13 Geo. I; 



Hil. 7 Geo. Ill ; Manning and Bray, Hist, 

 of Surr. ii, 195 ; Brayley, Hist, of Surr. 

 (ed. E. Walford, 1878), iv, 64. 



202 



58 The present house is in Horley. 



M Vide Horley Manor. 



"Lansd. MS. 435, fol. 35*. 



58 Com. Pleai D. Enr. East. 2 Jas. I, 

 m. 14. 



*7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxi, 98. 



48 Harl. MS. 2192, fol. 23. 



69 Brayley, Hiit. of Surr. loc. cit. 



M Cott. MS. Cleop. C. vii, foL 88A, 103. 



Ibid. foL 93. 



1* Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. Ill, no. 45. 



' Dugdale, M on. Angl. vi, 248. 



68 Mint Accts. 33-4 Hen. VIII, no. 

 169. 



"Ibid. 36-7 Hen. VIII, no. 187. 



85 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 3 Edw. VI, 

 m. 15. Prior's land was quite separate 

 from Langshott. 



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



'7 Misc. Gen. and Her. (Ser. 2), ir, 

 125 ; v, 209 ; Betham, Baronetage, iii, 

 161, &c. Monument at Epsom. 



68 Burke, Landed Gentry. 



69 Recov. R. Hil. 7 Geo. II, rot. 216. 



