A HISTORY OF SURREY 



the dissolution of Chertsey Monastery. Probably the 

 mesne lordship lapsed before the Dissolution, as the de 

 Burstows of Horley, who are known to have held 

 the manor of Lodge in that place in the I5th 

 century and afterwards, held at an earlier date a 

 considerable amount of land there direct of the 

 abbot, who was lord of Horley Manor. In 1336, 

 for instance, William de Burstow held land called 

 Spiresland of the abbot, and died leaving a son John. 105 

 In 1339 John de Burstow made an exchange of lands 

 with the abbot by which the former received lands 

 called Mutheslond, Blakemores and Joyneres, to be 

 held of the abbot for a rent of//. $J. m In 1417 

 Robert de Burstow is referred to as holding a messuage 

 called Muthesland. 107 



In 1471 John Bury died seised of the manor of 

 ' Loge ' in Horley, held, 'as has been said, of John 

 Codyngton, then lord of the manor of Lodge in Bur- 

 stow, and of 50 acres of land called Blakemores and 

 Joyneres and a toft and 20 acres called Speryslond 

 held of the Abbot of Chertsey. 108 He had been en- 

 feoffed of the manor to the use of himself and his 

 heirs, in 1458, by Robert de Burstow of Horley, Vis- 

 count Beaumont and Sir Ralph Boteley, the two latter 

 being probably trustees. 109 He left two daughters and 

 co-heirs, Elizabeth and Alice. 110 Possibly Elizabeth 

 married Robert Cornwaleys, as, according to Manning, 

 courts were held in 1501 by Robert Cornwaleys and 

 Elizabeth his wife, and in 1510 by Elizabeth, when 

 a widow, for the manor of Burstow Lodge. 111 This 

 may be Lodge in Horley, which was sometimes called 

 Burstow Lodge, from the chief holding being in 

 Burstow. Robert and Elizabeth certainly held other 

 land in Horley in the right of Elizabeth, 11 ' while 

 there is no trace of them in Burstow. In 1526 the 

 manor, again called Burstow Lodge but evidently in 

 Horley, was held by John Mounteney and Agnes in 

 the right of Agnes, 113 possibly the heiress of Elizabeth 

 Cornwaleys. It seems to have passed back to the 

 family of Burstow or Bristowe soon after, as, in 1546, 

 Robert Bristowe died seised of it. 114 On the death of 

 his grandson, in 1563, this manor was divided, as 

 was that of Horley (q.v.) among four co-heirs. 114 

 The part belonging to the Jordans descended with 

 the main manor of Horley (q.v.), and doubtless be- 

 came united with it. John Woodman and Margaret 

 conveyed their quarter to John Cowper in 1 564, 116 from 

 whom it passed, three years later, to Peter Bonwick. 11 ' 

 Henry Bonwick, his son, held a fourth in 1607."' 

 In 1574 Thomas Francke and Anna widow of George 

 Taylor conveyed a fourth part of Lodge to John 

 Woodman, 119 but the latter, on his death in 1587, 

 was seised of no part of this manor. 110 This part must 

 have passed previously to John Kerrell, who presumably 

 had also obtained the quarter belonging to Agnes 

 daughter and heir of Thomas Twyner, 1 ' 1 as in 1 6 1 8 

 John Kerrell and Henry Bonwick held the ' manor 

 of Lodge.' "' 



According to Manning Bonwick afterwards ob- 

 tained the whole manor, and died in 1663, leaving it 

 to his cousin John Shove, who died in 1 700 having de- 

 vised to his son Henry Shove." 3 The latter died in 1 7 5 2 

 seised of ' the manor or reputed manor of Lodge in 

 Horley,' which he bequeathed to his wife for life with 

 remainder to his godson John Shove, eldest son of 

 John Shove, and his heirs. 1 ' 4 The latter conveyed 

 in 1769 to John Yeoman, whose grandson in 1791 

 sold to William Bryant ; the property then passed suc- 

 cessively to Henry Byne, Spiller and Adams who 

 held in 1 8c>4. m After that date it frequently changed 

 hands ; it was at one time owned by the Rev. H. des 

 Voeux, who sold to George Birch before 1845, and his 

 family held until after l878." 6 



The family of atte Holyland, who were seised of 

 lands in Nutfield (q.v.), also held land in Horley in 

 the 1 4th century. 1 * 7 In the early 1 7th century and 

 until 1760 land called Holylands in Horley was the 

 property of the Needier family, 118 the last of whom, 

 Henry Needier, was a musician of some renown. 1 " 

 The name Holyland is still preserved in Horley. 



In 1334 Alleyn de Warewyk and Emma his wife 

 granted to the priory of Reigate the reversion of an 

 estate consisting of a messuage, a mill, 155 acres of 

 land, 9 acres of meadow and 9 acres of wood in Hor- 

 ley and Burstow. 130 At the time of the Dissolution 

 the estate appears still to have been called by the 

 name Allen of Warwick, the tenant being Thomas 

 Michell. 131 



The church of ST. B4RTHOLO- 

 CHURCH MEW stands at the end of a narrow 

 lane leading off the main road to Brigh- 

 ton, and close to the River Mole. The churchyard, 

 which is narrow on the north side, where its boundary 

 is partly composed of the actual wall of the old Six 

 Bells Inn (the windows of which look into the church- 

 yard in a very unconventional fashion), has been 

 considerably extended towards the south and east of 

 late years. It is bordered by tall elms to the south, 

 and there are public paths, stone flagged, through it, 

 the whole bearing a well-tended appearance. In the 

 more ancient parts are numerous quaint wooden ' bed- 

 heads,' one with a most elaborate scrolled top, some 

 large old railed tombs and many ancient headstones, 

 one of which, with stone posts and a slab between, is 

 a curious example of local taste, being evidently derived 

 from the wooden ' bed-head.' Most of these are of 

 1 7th and 18th-century dates. At the western end 

 of the churchyard are two fine yew trees. 



Although there is no mention of a church in 

 Domesday there is practical certainty of the exist- 

 ence of one on this site by the middle of the I2th 

 century, but it was probably of timber, like the exist- 

 ing tower at the end of the north aisle ; at any rate 

 no stones bearing the tooling of that period are 

 observable, but, owing to the walls being plastered 

 externally in the older parts, this must not be taken 



105 Lansd. MS. 434, fol. 84. 



" Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. xxv, fol. 365. 



w Ibid. fol. 357*. 



108 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. IV, no. 42. 



109 Ib id. no Ibid. 



111 Manning and Bray, Hist. ofSurr. ii, 



at* 



"" Feet of F. Surr. n Hen. VII, no. 8. 



118 Ibid. Mich. 18 Hen. VIII. 



114 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxvii, 



115 Ibid, cxxiv, 189 ; cxl, 176. 



116 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 6 & 7 Eliz. 

 W Ibid. Mich. 9 & 10 Eliz. 



"* Ibid. Mich. 5 Jas. I. 



119 Ibid. Hit. 1 6 Eliz. 



120 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxvi, 

 70. 



lu Ibid, cxcvii, 69. 

 122 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 16 Jas. I. 

 128 Manning and Bray, Hist, or Surr. ii, 

 198. 



204 



114 P.C.C. 140 Butterworth. 



125 See note 123. 



126 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. (ed. Walford), 

 iv, 64 ; Dir.ofSurr. 1845. 



"7 Feet of F. Surr. 8 Edw. II, 128. 



128 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), cccci, 

 92. 



129 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



130 Pat. 8 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 24. 



181 MS. list of Priory lands inspected 

 by editor. 



