REIGATE HUNDRED 



NUTFIELD 



quitclaimed to Monchensey and his heirs the 16 

 rent in Nutfield and all right which the abbot or his 

 successors might have in the manor. 15 



Denise survived her husband Warin de Monchensey 

 and her son William and, in 1288, after the death of 

 the latter, was granted the custody of her son's lands 

 during the minority of Denise, daughter and heir of 

 William." In 1290 Joan, half-sister of William de 

 Monchensey," and William de Valence, Earl of Pem- 

 broke, her husband, protested against the right of the 

 younger Denise to inherit her father's lands on the 

 plea of illegitimacy, which was, however, disallowed. 18 

 In 1290 Denise was married to Hugh de Vere," and 

 in 1 304 after the death of her grandmother, Denise 

 de Monchensey, inherited the manor of Nutfield.* 

 Denise the granddaughter died in 1314 and, her 

 husband being already dead, the manor passed to 

 her cousin Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, 

 son of Joan Countess of Pembroke.' 1 He died ten 

 years later, but in the inquisition made on his lands 

 at the time of his death there is no mention of 

 Nutfield, though it is not evident when he parted 

 with it. He held in 1316." In 1325-6 it was 

 held by John de Cobham," to whom it had been 

 demised by Sir Ralph de Cobham, 14 presumably his 

 brother. 



The latter seems to have been a younger brother 

 of Stephen de Cobham of Rundale, but this is not 

 certain.** He died before 1329, in which year, in 

 a suit concerning the manor, John de Cobham, senior, 

 stated that he held the manor for life, calling to 

 warrant John, son and heir of Sir Ralph, then a 

 minor. 16 At the same time 

 Mary, widow of Sir Ralph 

 and wife of Thomas Earl of 

 Norfolk, Marshal of England, 

 claimed to hold a third as 

 dower." In 1359, probably 

 after the death of John de Cob- 

 ham, senior, the manor was 

 held by Sir John de Cobham, 

 son and heir of Ralph and Mary, 

 usually referred to as the son of 

 the Countess Marshal. 18 He 

 alienated the manor to Fulcon 

 Horwode in that year. This 



was apparently a grant for life only,* 9 as Sir John de 

 Cobham, who served in the French wars under the Black 

 Prince, conveyed the reversion of his lands to the Crown 



COBHAM. Gaits a 



cheveron or w;M three 

 ttart sable thereon. 



in 1 359, 30 ' by reason,' as was stated in 1 377, when the 

 matter came before Parliament, ' of the great love and 

 good affection he bore towards the prince, eldest son 

 of the said King' (Edward III). 31 Sir John surrendered 

 his lands by giving the king a gold ring for livery of 

 seisin, a procedure which Parliament, in 1377, stated 

 to be legal and valid without any document, especially 

 when such a surrender was made to the king himself. 31 

 The manor of Nutfield was among those so conveyed, 33 

 but though the king had re-granted the manor to 

 Cobham for life, 34 it was seized into the king's hands 

 in 1363, as it was found that the alienation to Fulcon 

 de Horwode in 1359 ^ad been made without royal 

 licence, 35 and early in 1364 the manor was granted 

 by the Crown to Sir Nicholas Lovayne, 36 to whom 

 Horwode quitclaimed all right in 1365." In 1367 

 William Strete presented to the church as lord of 

 Nutfield. 38 It is probable that Strete obtained the 

 manor in consequence of a debt incurred by Lovayne. 

 In 1372 and for several years afterwards the manor 

 was in the hands of trustees, who had been enfeoffed 

 by consent both of Lovayne and of Strete, apparently 

 for the purpose of raising the sum of .550 due to 

 Strete from Lovayne. 39 In 1375 Strete acknowledged 

 the payment of 275," but soon after, possibly in 

 payment of the remainder of the debt, Strete seems 

 to have obtained full possession of the manor, as he 

 held it in 1377, though it was still in the hands of 

 trustees. 41 An inquisition taken in that year on the 

 death of Sir John de Cobham, recording the grant of 

 his lands to the Crown, states that William Strete held 

 the manor of Nutfield. 41 In 1380 trustees quitclaimed 

 the manor of Nutfield to Sir Nicholas Carew and his 

 son Nicholas ; 4S possibly this was also a mortgage. 

 William Strete by his will, 1 3 8 3, desired that his manor 

 of Nutfield should be sold for 900, but that if the 

 purchaser were Nicholas Carew the price should be 

 800." Edmund Strete, kinsman and heir of Wil- 

 liam, quitclaimed all his right to the Carews in 1 384." 

 Sir Nicholas the father died in 1 3 go. 46 His son in 

 1432 settled the manor on himself and Mercy his 

 wife and their issue ; " it seems, about this period, to 

 have been frequently in the hands of trustees. 48 The 

 manor passed to his son and grandson ; the latter died 

 in 1466 and left a son, also called Nicholas, 49 who 

 died soon after. The major part of his lands, includ- 

 ing Beddington, then passed to his uncle, James 

 Carew. 50 



The manor of Nutfield was, however, divided 



"Feet of F. Surr. 31 Hen. Ill, no. 

 309. 



" Cal. Pat. 1281-92, p. 292. 

 W See note 14 ; G.E.C. Peerage, &c. 



18 Roll, ofParl. i, 38*. 



19 Cal. Pat. 1280-92, p. 376. 



*> Akbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 252; 

 Abbrev. Rat. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 133. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. Edw. II, file 34, 

 no. 7. 



Harl. MS. 6281. 



* Close, 19 Edw. II, m. 4. 



M De Banco R. 275, m. 39 d. 



44 Banks, Dormant & Ext. Bar. i, 270 ; 

 Dugdale, Bar. ; G.E.C. Peerage, Sec. 



*De Banco R. 275, m. 39 d. 



"Ibid. Most pedigrees (G.E.C., Dug- 

 dale, &c.), state that Ralph de Cobham 

 probably lived till after 1338, when Thoma 

 Earl of Norfolk died ; and that Cobham 

 then married the latter's widow. It is 

 clear, however, from the above that Cob- 



ham died before 1329, and that Mary 

 was his widow when she became the wife 

 of Thomas, Earl of Norfolk. 



88 Add. Chart. 23615, 23619-205 

 G.E.C. Peerage, &c. 



"Add. Chart. 23619-20. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. i Ric. II, no. 146^. 

 "Rolls of Part, iii, 8a. 



81 Ibid. 



88 Add. Chart. 23621 ; Ech. Enr. 

 Accts. Surr. It SUM. bdle. 5, no. 14 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. i Ric. II, no. 1466. 



84 See note* 30 and 32. 



* Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 

 275 ; Esch. Enr. Accts. Surr. and Suss, 

 bdle. ;, no. 14. 



M Cal. Rot. Pat. (Rec. Com.), 176*; 

 Esch. Enr. Accti. Surr. and Suss. bdle. 5, 

 no. 15. 



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



M Egenon MS. 2030, fol. 97 ; Winton 

 Epis. Reg. Wykeham, i, foL 64. 



223 



89 Add. Chart. 23622 ; Close, 45 Edw 

 III, m. II. 



40 Add. Chart. 23623. 



41 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Ric. II, no. 146,'; ; 

 Add. Chart. 23624-8. 



49 Chan. Inq. p.m. i Ric. II, no. 146*. 



48 Add. Chart. 23267-8. 



44 Coll. To fog. tt Gen. iii, 100. 



"Add. Chart. 23629. 



46 Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Ric. II, file 63, 

 no. 10. 



4 ? Close, 10 Hen. VI, m. 4 ; Feet of F. 

 Surr. 10 Hen. VI, no. 14. 



48 Ibid. ; Close, 6 Hen. V, m. 6, 13. 

 Add. Chart. 23632, 23633, 23635. Ni- 

 cholas Carew died in the year of settlement, 

 1432. (Monumental inscription at Bed- 

 dington.) 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. IV, file 21, 

 no. 40. 



"Cal. of Inf. Hen. Vll, \ 362. 



