A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Norfolk." Thomas the eighth Duke of Norfolk was 

 attainted in 1546, and although he was restored on 

 the accession of Queen Mary, his moiety of the 

 honour was retained by the Crown, and after this the 

 manor was held of the Crown in chief. 



At the beginning of the I3th century the manor 

 was held in sub-fee by Henry de Mara, who, dying 

 before 1 260, left a daughter or granddaughter 

 Matilda." In 1 260 Peter son of Peter de Montfort 

 forcibly took possession, ejecting Walter de la Hyde 

 and his wife Joan from a moiety of the same, which 

 Walter and Joan held by virtue of the wardship of 

 Matilda. Possibly Peter the younger was already at 

 this date the husband of Matilda. 14 In 1286 Peter 

 settled the manor on his son John and the heirs of 

 John by his wife Alice de la Plaunche I6 : this John 

 obtained a grant of free warren in 1292." He 

 leased the manor to his brother William, and died in 

 1 296, before the lease had expired, so that at his death 

 the manor was in the hands of Robert Winchelsey, 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, and the co-executors of 

 William's wil' ." His son John was five years old when 

 he succeeded t > the property : he joined in the murder 

 ol Piers de G.iveston, but was pardoned and summoned 

 to Parlia.nent, 1313." The following year he was 

 killed at Bannockburn, and, leaving no issue, was 

 succeeded by his brother Peter, who was in holy 

 orders, but who obtained a dispensation, and was 

 knighted.* Peter's only son Guy married Margaret 

 daughter of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick," 

 a marriage arranged to put an end to many suits 

 which were constantly taking place between the two 

 families, who were related, and whose estates in many 

 places adjoined." Peter settled the manor of Ashtead 

 on Guy and Margaret in tail, with reversion to the 

 Earl of Warwick. Guy died before his father, and 

 his .widow took the veil at Shouldham, co. Norfolk," 

 upon which the earl entered into possession, and 

 obtained in 1352 a grant of free warren. 2 * He died 

 in 1369, and his son Thomas Beauchamp conveyed 

 the estates to Sir Baldwin Freville and Sir Thomas 

 Boteler, heirs of Peter de Montfort.* 5 Freville was 

 son of Peter's sister Elizabeth, who had married Sir 

 Baldwin Freville, and Sir Thomas Boteler was 

 husband of Joan granddaughter of Maud, the other 

 sister, who had married Bartholomew de Sudeley. 16 

 These two made a partition of the Montfort estates, and 

 the manor of Ashtead fell to the share of Sir Baldwin 

 Freville (1382)." He was twice married, and left a 

 son, who died in 1400, leaving a son * 8 (two years old) 

 and three daughters. The son died a minor and with- 



out issue, and the Freville estates were divided among 

 the daughters,* 9 Ashtead remaining ultimately with 

 Joyce wife of Sir Roger Aston. 30 Their son Robert 



FREVILH. Or a cross 

 paty gules. 



ASTON. Party cheve- 

 ronwise sable and argent. 



held a court as lord of the manor in 1442," and died 

 seised of the manor 1 464-5 3 * ; he was succeeded by his 

 son John, who died in 1483," and whose son, John 

 Aston," was made a Knight of the Bath on the 

 marriageof Arthur, Prince of Wales, 1501." Hedied 

 in 1522, leaving a son and heir Edward, 36 who granted 

 the site of the manor to Thomas Frank and his wife 

 Agnes for their lives, for a yearly payment of 

 23 marks : in this grant mention is made of the 

 commons and warrens as belonging to the site. 3 ' In 

 1 543 Aston granted to the king in exchange for 

 other lands the manor of Ashtead : he discharged 

 the king of all rents except 1 3/. 4//. yearly payable 

 to the Duke of Norfolk as chief lord. 38 



The following year the king granted the reversion 

 of the manor for 2 1 years after the death of Thomas 

 Frank and his wife to William Tanner of Nonsuch, 

 rendering yearly 15 gs. 4</. 39 In the same year the 

 manor was augmented by the purchase of lands in 

 Ashtead from Nicholas Leigh, ' the king's servant.' * 



Philip and Mary (1556) granted to Anne widow 

 of Edward, Duke of Somerset, in full satisfaction 

 of her dower, the reversion of the site of the 

 manor, and also the manor itself, which by an 

 error is described as ' parcel of the lands and posses- 

 sions lately purchased of the Abbot of Bermond- 

 sey.' 41 In 1563 Elizabeth granted to Henry, Earl 

 of Arundel, for the sum of 725 8/., the rever- 

 sion of the site and manor to hold by the service of 

 one-fortieth of a knight's fee. 4 * His son died before 

 him, without issue, and he divided his estates 

 between his two daughters Joan wife of John. 

 Lord Lumley, and Mary wife of Th mas Howard, 

 Duke of Norfolk. He settled Ashtead on him- 

 self, with remainder to the Duke of Norfolk, 43 but 

 the duke being attainted and beheaded in 1572" 



19 See grant I $42, also Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 15 Hen. VIII (Ser. 2), xl, 96. 



14 Coratn Rege R. 1 1, m. I4d ; Abbrev. 

 Plac. (Rec. Com.), 152. Matilda is here 

 given as the daughter and heir of Henry 

 de Mara, but according to the pedigree 

 given in De Banco R. 926, m. 427, she 

 was the daughter of Matthew son of Henry. 



16 That they were subsequently married 

 is shown by the above-mentioned pedigree. 

 De Banco R. 926, m. 427. 



16 County Placita, Surr. portf. no. 42, 

 43 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 14 Edw. I, no. 32. 



V Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 428. 



13 Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, no. 59. 



18 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 349. 



Ibid. Ibid. 



88 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 626. 



83 Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages 

 (1883), 31. 



84 Chart. R. 26 Edw. Ill, m. 10. 



83 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 626. 

 Peter died in 1367, not 1358 as Manning 

 and Bray say. 



86 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 349. De Mara 

 Chantry, Surr. Arch. Coll. xix. 



8 7 Dugdale, Baronage, i, 103. William 

 de Beauchamp, brother of Thomas, evi- 

 dently had a life interest in the manor 

 (ibid.) which probably took effect after the 

 lease of three years made to Thomas by 

 his trustees in 1372. Close, 46 Edw. Ill, 

 m. 15 (tii). 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Hen. IV, no. 46. 



89 See Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 

 13 Hen. VI, no 63. 



80 See Mins. Accts. bdle. 1010, no. 4. 



81 See Ct. R. portf. 204, no. 30, for a 

 court held by him. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. IV, no. 24. 



24. 6 



88 The date of his death a given as 

 1485 in an inquisition taken in 1512. 

 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 1069, no. 4. 



81 Ct. R. portf. 204, no. 31. 



86 Shaw, Knights, \, 145. 



86 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xl, 96. 



8 ' See Pat. 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, 

 pt. viii, m. 22. 



88 Pat. 34 Hen. VIII, pt. xii, m. 15 j 

 Deeds of Purchase and Exch. (Aug. Of}'.), 

 c. 49 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 35 Hen. 

 VIII ; Mins. Accts. 34, 35 Hen. VIII. 



" L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (i), 648 ; 

 see also Pat 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, 

 pt. viii, m. 22. 



40 Pat. 38 Hen. VIII, pt. xxviii, m. 29. 



41 Pat. 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, pt. viii, 

 m. 22. 48 Pat. 5 Eliz. pt. i, m. 46. 



43 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 628. 



44 G.E.C. Pierage, vi, 53. 



