COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



PRIORY or ST. MARY 

 OVERY. Argent a crott 

 indented gules -with a to- 

 nenge gules in the quar- 

 ter. 



RECTORT MANOR, alias SOUTHMERFIELD, 

 alias C4NONS. The Prior and canons of St. Mary 

 Overy were possessed, as early 

 as the 1 2th century, of a con- 

 siderable amount of land in 

 Southmerfield in Banstead. In 

 1 1 94 Mabel de Mowbray, 

 after the death of Nigel, claim- 

 ed against the prior two caru- 

 cates of land in Southmerfield, 

 as well as the advowson of 

 the church, as having been 

 given her by her father as her 

 marriage portion. 1 ' 8 The prior 

 said that no lord had previously 

 intermeddled with the church 

 there, but she was finally al- 

 lowed to hold three parts of the land for life ; the 

 rest she quitclaimed to the prior. 17 * In the first year 

 of King John's reign Sewel son of Robert of South- 

 merfield quitclaimed to the prior and his successors 

 two virgates in Southmerfield, with the house be- 

 longing, which he had previously demised to the 

 prior for a term of four years. 180 



In 1269"" John de Burgh, then lord of Banstead, 

 released the prior and his successors from the customary 

 rent, services, and suit at court by which the priory 

 lands in Banstead Manor were held. A rental of the 

 priory in the reign of Edward I shows that its lands 

 in Banstead amounted to nearly two hundred acres.' 6 * 

 Of these, 1 7 acres were held of the gift of John de 

 Burgh, 1 6 of the fee of John de Bures for the rent of 

 2j. and a rose, and 7 acres of the fee of Robert 

 Walton for the rent of 1 2</. 183 The land belonging to 

 the Waltons lay in Southmerfield. 184 In 1317-18 

 Juliana widow of Robert de Walton received licence 

 to have divine service celebrated at a portable altar in 

 her houses of Holeghe (in Coulsdon) and Southmer- 

 field. 185 



In 1524 the rectory, with 

 the house in Southmerfield, 

 was demised to William Colt- 

 son and Richard Moys and 

 Elizabeth, together with the 

 priory's manor of North Tad- 

 worth. 186 In 1549, after the 

 surrender of the priory, these 

 lands were granted to Robert 

 son and heir of Richard Moys 

 and Thomas Walsingham, the 

 latter releasing his share soon 

 after. 187 The deed of 1 549 re- 

 fers to the lands as the manors 

 of North Tadworth and Southmerfield and the rectory 

 and church of Banstead. They passed successively to 



MOYS ot' Canons. 

 Ermine a pale between 

 two roses gules with a 

 Calvary croit or on the 

 fait. 



Philip, John, and Henry Moys, and finally to the 

 five sisters and co-heirs of Henry. 1 * 8 In 1 66 1 the de- 

 scendants of four of these sisters conveyed four-fifths 

 of the rectory to Francis Beard. 189 According to 

 Manning this portion passed from Beard in 1663 to 

 Frances Moys widow of John Moys, and she, out of 

 her share of the impropriation, endowed the vicarage 

 with an annuity of J ^2O. 190 By 1702 Henry Read 

 held four-fifths of the rectory, 191 and he still held in 

 I724. 191 In 1726 he and Lydia his wife, with Chris- 

 topher Buckle, levied a fine of four-fifths of the manor 

 of Southmerfield and of the rectory and advow- 

 son. 19 * This was probably part of a conveyance of the 

 rectory from the Reads to Buckle, as he afterwards 

 held both this and the advowson (q.v.). The remain- 

 ing fifths of the rectory and advowson, the portion of 

 Henry Moys's sister Katherine Lambert, passed to her 

 daughter and heir Joyce, 194 who, with her husband, 

 John Bushell, conveyed in 1663 to trustees of Richard 

 Parr and Elizabeth his wife, widow of Henry Moys. 195 

 Parr and his trustees sold in 1 668 to Robert Wayth. 19 * 

 In 1732 Edward Fulham, son and heir of Anne 

 daughter and eventually heir of Robert Wayth, sold 

 his fifth to Christopher Buckle. 197 After this time 

 the entire rectory descended with the advowson, and 

 the Earl of Egmont is the present impropriator of the 

 great tithes with the exception of those in South 

 Tadworth, which apparently passed out of the hands 

 of the owner of the rectory in 1551 ."* 



The house in Southmerfield, acquired in 1 1 99- 1200 

 by the prior and convent, 199 evidently became the site 

 of the rectory manor, as in 1203 record is found of 

 the prior's house in Southmerfield, where his bailiff 

 collected or paid rent. 100 After the Dissolution, this 

 house, called the capital messuage of the rectory, was 

 known by the name of Canons or Southmerfield. 801 

 It descended with the rectory. Land called Canon's 

 Hatch belonging to the priory is mentioned in the late 

 1 3th century. 208 A farm, Canhatch, was afterwards 

 held by the Moys family with the church lands. 801 



GARRATTS HALL* (Gerardes, Garades) re- 

 presents a tenement held of the manor of Banstead, 

 apparently according to the custom of borough Eng- 

 lish. It preserves the name of a family settled in 

 Banstead in the 1 5th century. Their estate passed to 

 the Calcokes of Chipstead, and descended from Richard 

 Calcoke to his youngest son Alan, who joined with 

 his mother in conveying it to Jeffery Lambert of 

 Woodmansterne in 1534. From this latter it passed 

 to the youngest son of his nineteen children, Samuel, 

 and after Samuel's death it descended to his son John, 

 born in 1638, who left one daughter, Elizabeth, the 

 wife of Sir Robert Wilmot, Lord Mayor of London. 

 John Lambert rebuilt the mansion-house and con- 

 veyed the property to his nephew Thomas, a 



W Rolls in the King's Court (Pipe R. 

 Soc.), xiv, 42. See account of the manor. 



J " Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 7 Ric. I, 

 file I ; Trin. 9 Ric. I, file I. 



18 Cott. MS. Nero C. iii, foU 197. 



"1 Harl. Chart. 47 E, 35. 



18a Cott. MS. Faust. A. viii, fol. 156. 



188 Ibid. ; Cott. Chart, xvi, 45. 



1S4 Feet of F. Surr. 9 Ric. I, file I. 



186 Reg. of Sandalc and Asseriui (Hants 

 Rec. Soc.), 83. 



18 * Mins. Accts. Surr. bdle. 146, no. 59. 



1B 7 Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt. xi, m. 17 ; Com. 

 Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 5 Edw. VI, m. 2. 



188 See North Tadworth. 

 89 Feet of F. Surr. East, 13 Chas. II. 



190 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 590. 



191 Feet of F. Surr. East I Anne ; Recov. 

 R. East. 1 Anne, rot. 17. 



192 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 1 Geo. I. 



193 Ibid. Hil. 1 2 Geo. I. 



184 Close, 20 Chas. II, pt. xiv, m. 35. 



195 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1663. 



198 Close, 20 Chas. II, pt, xiv, m. 35 ; 

 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 20 Chas. II. 



19 7 Close, 6 Geo. II, pt. xii, no. 12 ; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 6 Geo. II, rot. 155. 



259 



198 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 5 Edw. VI, 

 m. 2. 



199 Cott. MS. Nero C. iii, fol. 197. 

 800 Campb. Chart, xvi, 2. 



901 Close, 20 Chas. II, pt. xiv, m. 35. 



m Cott, MS. Faust. A. viii, fol. 156. 



8113 See note 201. Canhatch is the 

 name of a gate from which the farm was 

 familiarly known. It is properly Canon 

 Farm. 



9083 The account of this estate and those 

 following in this parish have been kindly 

 supplied by Col. F. A. H. Lambert. 



