THE HUNDRED OF COPTHORNE 1 



ASHTEAD 

 BANSTEAD 

 CHESSINGTON 

 CUDDINGTON 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



EPSOM 

 EWELL 

 FETCHAM 

 HEADLEY 



LETHERHEAD 

 MICKLEHAM 

 NEWDIGATE (part of) 

 WALTON ON THE HILL 



This hundred has undergone some change in its area since io86, 2 when 

 it included part of Weybridge, the rest being entered under its later 

 hundred of Elmbridge, and also West Betchworth, which is now in Wotton 

 Hundred. ' Mideham,' the identification of which is uncertain, was in 

 Copthorne. 3 Newdigate is not named in Domesday, and Chessington was 

 included in the hundred of Kingston. 



Copthorne was a royal hundred, and remained in the hands of the Crown, 

 though leased for 21 years to Thomas Jenkins in 1617.* In a subsidy roll of 



the 1 4th century it was said to 



be worth 47 1 5 s - b\d~> and 

 with Effingham Hundred it was 

 assessed for ship - money at 

 136 i6j. 4</. in 1636." 



The honour of Wallingford 

 extended into the hundred at 

 Chessington, 6 and in 1300 the 

 Earl of Cornwall was said to 

 have 4-r. from a view taken here 

 at Easter, and pertaining to the 

 honour. 7 The Abbot and con- 

 vent of Chertsey 8 had view of 

 frankpledge in Horton in Ep- 

 som, and Robert Darcy received 

 a similar grant from Edward III 

 for his lands in Letherhead.' 

 John D'Abernon had view of 

 frankpledge at Fetcham in i 279 

 and in the same year present- 

 ment was made that his father 

 William D'Abernon had with- 

 drawn his suit at the hundred 

 court for land in Headley. 11 The grant in 1547 to John Rychbill of the 

 land of the Abbot of Boxley in Chessington included view of frankpledge. 13 



1 This list is taken from the Pop. Ret. of 1 8 3 1 . 



3 Ibid. 325. 4 Pat. 15 Jas. I, pt. xxxi. 



' Plac. tie Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 741. 



8 Chart. 1-20 Hen. VI, no. 26. 



10 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747. 



" Pat. 38 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, m. 8. 



1 V.C.H. Surr. i, 308, 319, 320-1. 

 6 Ibid. 442. 



1 Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. I, no. 44. 

 9 Ibid. 2 Edw. Ill, no. 20. 

 11 Assize R. 876, m. 47. 



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