A HISTORY OF SURREY 



church stood in the park ; it is now the bailiff's 

 house. The new house called Banstead Wood was 

 built by the Hon. Francis Baring in 1884-90, and is 

 now owned together with the park by Mr. Charles 

 Carton."" 



At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor of 

 BURGH or GREAT BURGH (Berge, xi cent. ; 

 Bergh, Burgh, Barewe, Berewe, xiii cent. ; West 

 Bergh, Great Bergh, xiv. cent. ; Borowe, Westborowe, 

 Westburgh, xvii cent. ; Burrowe, Westburgh, 

 Tviii cent.) was held of Odo of Bayeux by his vassal 

 Hugh de Port for z hides. 80 Before the Conquest 

 three freemen had held it and could seek what lord 

 they pleased, the assessment then being for 5 hides. 81 

 The three manors were held as one in io86. e * The 

 holders of Burgh during the izth century do not 

 appear. Possibly the Mowbrays had it with Ban- 

 stead, and enfeoffed one of the family of de Bures, as, 

 between the years 1216 and 1243, John de Bures 

 held a knight's fee in Burgh or Barewe of Hubert de 

 Burgh as of the honour of Mowbray. 8 * In 1276 

 John de Bures died seised of the whole land of Burgh 

 which he held for the service of one knight's fee and 

 for which he paid izs. castle ward to Rochester. 81 

 His son John succeeded him. In 1325 an extent of 

 the manor of Banstead included a messuage and a 

 carucate of land at Burgh held by de Bures for the 

 service and rent above mentioned and, in addition, 

 for an annual rent of zs. and suit at the court of 

 Banstead. 86 His son inherited in I332, 86 dying in 

 1345, when the extent of the tenement at Burgh 

 included a capital messuage and a garden newly 

 planted. 87 The next John de Bures seems to have 

 become involved in debt to Robert Boteler. In 

 1 3467 the king pardoned the latter for acquiring 

 for life without licence land of John de Bures at 

 Burgh consisting of a messuage, 240 acres of land, 

 3 2 acres of wood, and 1 2/. rent, 88 and, by an extent 

 for debt taken on de Bures' lands in 1357, Boteler 

 was found to hold a part of those in Burgh. 89 The 

 reversion, after the death of Boteler, was granted 

 by de Bures, called John de Bures of Surrey, kt., to 

 John de Bures of London, citizen and fishmonger. 90 

 The grant was made before 1362, in which year, 

 .Boteler being dead, de Bures of London entered the 

 premises without licence, but was permitted to retain 

 them," the licence being extended to his heirs in 

 1368-9." In 1384 his son 9 * conveyed the manor 

 by means of trustees to Thomas Hayton, 94 who in 

 1428 was said to hold the 'half-fee in Berewe which 

 Robert Boteler formerly held of the king in the said 

 vill,' M and in 1432 he died seised of 'the manor of 

 Westbergh.' Agnes, then wife of John Exham or 



Hexham, was his daughter and heir. 9 * She seems to 

 have afterwards married Thomas Sayer, as in 1450 

 they conveyed lands in Westbergh, held in the right 

 of Agnes, and identical in extent with those men- 

 tioned in 1346, to Richard Ford and Mercy his 

 wife, William Sander and Joan his wife, and John 

 Collard." Mercy and Joan were daughters of 

 Agnes by her first husband, Thomas Carew. 98 These 

 parties released the property in 1466 to Henry 

 Merland and others. 99 



Richard son and heir of Henry Merland died in 

 1 506, having left the lands to his wife Elizabeth for 

 life with remainder to his brother Nicholas. 100 

 Nicholas survived and died seised of the manor in 

 1 5 24, Edward being his son and heir. 101 Edward 

 married Frances Leigh, and in 1543 settled the 

 manor on her with remainder to their sons. 10 ' After 

 his death his widow married Robert Moys ; her son 

 William 'Merland inherited at her death in 1596, her 

 elder sons Arthur and Matthew having predeceased 

 her. 101 In 1614 Merland, with other members of 

 his family, conveyed to Christopher Buckle, 104 whose 

 family continued to hold this manor with others in 

 Burgh until the middle of the I9th century. 104 

 Christopher Buckle, 1684-1759, built Nork House, 

 where his son, Admiral Matthew Buckle, died. The 

 property descended in the direct line until the 

 death without issue, in 1 8 1 6, of Christopher Buckle, 

 the fifth of that name to hold Burgh, 106 when it 

 passed to his sister, wife of Captain Crowe. 10 ' A 

 year later it went to the Rev. William Buckle, a 

 cousin, representing the younger branch of the family, 

 and he held until his death in l832. 108 His son, the 

 Rev. William Lewis Buckle, held this manor, with 

 others in Banstead and with the church, until 1 847, 



vVWW 



BUCKLK. Sable a 

 che-veron between three 

 chaplets argent. 



PERCKVAL, Earl of 

 Egmont. Argent a chief 

 indented gules ivith three 

 crosses formy or therein. 



when it became the property of the Earl of Egmont. 109 

 From his successor, the fourth earl, it passed (about 

 1900) to Mr. F. E. Colman, and Mrs. Colman now 

 holds it. Dr. Burton, author of the Iter Surrieme, in 



"* Information from Col. F. A. H. 

 Lambert. 



80 V.C.H. Surr. i, 304* and note 7. 

 >l Ibid. 8a Ibid. 



83 Testa di Nevill (Rec. Com.), 220, 

 221 k. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Ed w. I, no. 1 9. 



85 Add. Chart. 16532. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (lt no.), 

 no. 54 ; Cal. if Close, 1330-3, p. 475. 



W Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. Ill (ist 

 no>.), no. 54 ; Abbrtv. Rot. Orig. (Rec. 

 Com.), ii, 173. 



88 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), u, 

 191 ; Cal. of Pat. 1345-8, p. 354. 



89 Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (lit 

 nos.), no. 55. 



90 Inq. a.q.d. cccxlii, 3 ; ccclxv, 4. 

 > Ibid. 



93 Inq. a.q.d. ccclxv, 4 ; Abbrev. Rot. 

 Orig. (Rec. Com.) ii, 305. 



98 Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Ric. II, no. 14. 



94 Chnn. Inq. p.m. 13 Ric. II, no. 14 ; 

 Inq. a.q.d. ccccviii, iz ; Cal. of Pat. 1388- 

 92, p. 99. 



95 Feud. Aids, v, 125. 



96 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Hen. VI, no. 19. 

 W Feet of F. Surr. 28 Hen. VI, no. 33. 



98 Berry, Surr. Gen. 4. 



99 Cal. of Pat. 1461-7, p. 518 ; Feet 

 of F. Surr. 6 Edw. IV, no. 13. 



100 Exch. Inq. p.m. mlxv, 7. 



101 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xliii, 85. 

 l Recov. R. Hil. 34 Hen. VIII, rot. 



100 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlvii, 



95- 



108 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlvii, 95. 

 " Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 12 Jas. I. 



104 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 1653; 

 32-33 Chas. II ; Recov. R. Trin. 12 

 Anne, rot. 149 ; Hil. 4 Geo. Ill, rot. 

 144 ; Hit 58 Geo. Ill, rot. 160. 



106 There were six of the name of 

 Christopher,but the third died, v. p. in 1 706. 



107 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv. 



"* Com. Pleas D. Enr. HiL 58 

 Geo. Ill, m. 60; Recov. R. Hil. 58 

 Geo. Ill, rot. 160 ; Visit of Surr. (HarL 

 Soc. xliii) ; Berry, Surr. Gen. iS, 19, 20. 



109 Parish Reg. of Banitead (Par. Reg. 

 Soc.), i, yi. 



