A HISTORY OF SURREY 



JOLLIFFB, Lord Hyl- 

 ton. Argent a pile vert 

 with three right hands 

 or thereon. 



was created Baron Hylton and held the manor until 

 1876. His heir the second baron died in 1899, and 

 his son the present Lord Hyl- 

 ton is lord of the manor. 38 



William Jolliffe, after his 

 purchase in 1788, built what 

 was called the Great House, 

 west of Merstham Street. This 

 was pulled down in 1834 and 

 the remains sold to Lord Mon- 

 son for building Gallon Park. 

 The present Merstham House 

 is what was called the Cottage, 

 built by the Rev. W. J. Jolliffe, 

 father of the first Baron Hylton, 

 and subsequently enlarged. 89 



There are three grants of free warren to the Abbots 

 of Christchurch in their demesne lands at Merstham, 

 ihe earliest from Henry II, and the two others 

 bearing the dates 1316 and 1364.* The prior had a 

 prison " at Merstham, and kept a stricl walch over his 

 rights there. In 1 335 in a case depending on a writ of 

 right, granted at the petition of John Passelew, the 

 suitors had assumed to themselves ihe righl of giving 

 an award before ihe process had been begun by ihe 

 prior's bailiffs, lo whom ihe writ was addressed, and 

 the prior wrote indignantly that this was done ' in 

 prejudice of us and infringement of our position which 

 is not to be patiently borne.' " On another occasion 

 a special representalive was sent to the court as the 

 abbot understood thai ' cenain mailers of high im- 

 port ' were impending." 



A mill worlh 30*'. at Merslham is menlioned in 

 Domesday,* 4 and in the conveyance to Thomas Copley 

 Iwo waler-mills and Iwo horse-mills are spoken of." 

 One waler-mill also went with the moiety of the 

 manor which was owned by Henry and Jane Hoare 

 in I7O5- 46 



In 1 348 Alexander Hanekyn was granted licence to 

 alienate some 28 acres of meadow, woodland, &c., lo 

 ihe Prior of Christchurch for ihe suslenance of seven 

 chaplains to celebrate divine service daily in the chapel 

 of St. Thomas the Martyr, to pray for the souls of 

 Edward II and his ancestors. 47 



At ihe beginning of the 141)1 cenlury the repuled 

 manor o{4LBURF(A\debury, Aldbury, xiv-xvi cenls.) 

 was held of ihe Prior of Christchurch by Sir Edmund 

 de Passelew or Passelee, together with his son John, 

 for service of 161. a year and suit of court every ihree 

 weeks at Merstham. Sir Edmund also held 40 acres 

 of land in Merstham parish jointly with his second 

 wife Margaret. John de Passelew inherited the 

 manor al his father's death about I 327," and in 1339 

 he conveyed all his right in il to Richard de Burton, 49 

 transferring to him an annual rent of 20 marks from 



John le French, who held the tenement of Albury on 

 a seven years' lease from the preceding year, 1338.*' 

 It seems that either this lease was renewed or else 

 John le French acquired the manor in fee, for we 

 find laler that Nicholas le French granted the manor 

 for eight years at a renl of 50*. lo Fulk Harwode, 

 who in 1365-8 conveyed his right to Nicholas de 

 Lovayne." Il does nol appear who next succeeded 

 as lord of ihe manor, but Manning and Bray, quoting 

 the Court Rolls of Merslham, say that Albury was held 

 by John Timperley, 5 ' who in the reign of Henry VI 

 was granted licence to impark 40 acres of wood, 

 100 of land, 80 of pasture, and 30 of meadow in 

 Merstham, with ' pales and ditches.' At the same 

 time Timperley received a grant of ' waif and stray/ 

 of free warren in all his lands in Merslham, 63 wilh 

 ihe furlher privilege lhal he should nol be ' pul on 

 assizes, juries, &c." M 



Quoling the same Court Rolls, Manning and Bray 

 say that Timperley conveyed the manor of Albury to 

 John Elingbridge, who setlled il upon his second wife 

 Anne, ihe daughter of John Prophet and widow of 

 Ralph St. Leger." This John died in 1473, and was 

 succeeded by his grandson Thomas, who died in 1 507 

 leaving one daughter, Anne. A son John was born to 

 him posthumously, bul died in the same year. 56 Anne, 

 who then became heiress of the estales, afterwards mar- 

 ried her guardian, John Dannett," knighled in 1529, 

 who marshalled a musler of ihirly-eighl men from 

 Merstham, reviewed in I539. 68 Albury remained in 

 the possession of the Dannetls until 1 5 79, when it 

 was sold by Leonard Dannetl and Chrisliana his wife 

 lo John Soulhcole, one of the judges of the Queen's 

 Bench. 58 Southcote died in April 1585, and Albury 

 was sellled upon his son John and his wife Magdalen, 

 one of ihe daughters of Sir Edward Waldegrave. 60 

 Apparenlly the estale was sequeslered by ihe Crown 

 under Charles I, for two-thirds of it, with several 

 other eslates, were regranted in 1633-4 to John 

 Southcote and Edward his son, recusants, at a yearly 

 rent of ^loo. 61 John Soulhcole lived unlil January 

 16378, ihe manor having been sellled in ihe pre- 

 ceding December on his grandson John, 6 * and it 

 remained ihe properly oflhis family 63 unlil 1727, 

 when il was sold lo Paul Docminique. 64 Il evenlually 

 became the property of William Jolliffe and was 

 united lo the manor of Merstham (q.v.), Lord Hylton 

 being the presenl owner. 



The site of the old manor-house is marked by a 

 moated inclosure. 



According to Manning and Bray, who quote deeds 

 in ihe regisler of the Dean and Chapler of Canter- 

 bury, the reputed manor of 4LDERSTEj4D was 

 held by the Passelew family aboul 1287." In the 

 1 3th cenlury it was in the possession of Sir Robert 



88 G.E.C. Peerage. 



89 Information, Lord Hylton. 



40 Stowe MS. 924, p. 212 ; Chart. R. 

 10 Edw. II, m. 24, no. 60 ; 38 Edw. II, 

 ni. 8, no. 1 5. 



41 Cat. Pat. 1301-7, p. 172. 



4S Lit. Cant. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 102. 



Ibid, ii, 272. V.C.H. Surr. i, 300. 



45 Pat. 10 Eliz. pt. vi, m. 40. 



46 Recov. R. Trin. 4 Anne, rot. 103. 

 <7 Cal. Pat. 1345-8, p. 447. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 

 no. 35 ; Add. MS. 6167 fol. 20. 



"Add. MS. 6167, fol. 245 ; Cal. 

 Close, 1339-41, P. 33 8 - 



'"Ibid. 



"Close, 39 Edw. Ill, m. 26 and 25. 



"Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. 

 ii, 258. 



58 Fishery and free warren in Albury 

 was owned by the family of Medley in the 

 1 6th century. See Feet of F. Surr. 

 5 Edw. VI. 



"Chart. R. 27-39 Hen - VI > no - 4 1 - 



65 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxi, 118. 

 The rental of 1522 gives Albury as Dan- 

 net's, late Illingbridge, formerly Corve. 



68 Aubrey, Antiq. of Surr. iv, 233-4, 

 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 1066, no. 3. 



6 ? Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 



2l6 



259. He held in 1522 (Rental, Surr. Arch. 

 Coll. xx, 92). 



<><>L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 294. 



69 Recov. R. Hil. 22 Eliz. rot. 534; 

 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 22 & 23 Eliz.; 

 Hil. 22 Eliz. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccvi, 25. 



61 Pat. 9 Chas. I, pt. xvi, no. 2. 



62 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxvii, 

 181. 



68 Recov. R. Hil. 1652, rot. 98; Feet 

 of F. Surr. Hil. 1652 ; East. 1687. 



M Close, I Geo. II, pt i, no. 18 ; Feet 

 of F. Surr. Mich, i Geo. III. 



66 Manningand Biay,Hist.ofSurr.'ri, 257., 



