A HISTORY OF SURREY 



but it is not mentioned in connexion with the manor 

 after this date. 



Another estate in Chessington, probably part of 

 the original manor, was acquired by Merton Priory, 18 

 whose lands in the i6th century are entered in the 

 monastic accounts under the name of the manor of 

 CHESSINGTON-4T-HOKE. 



In 1521 the manor was leased by the Prior of 

 Merton to Thomas Rogers for a term of 21 years at 

 a rental of $ o/. 6d., chargeable with 2cu. 6J. in 

 fee-farm rent due to the king," and this lease was 

 renewed to Richard Rogers on the same terms in 

 1 52 5 m and in 1536." The manor was surrendered 

 to tie Crown with the rest of the possessions of the 

 priory in 1538, and in 1552 was held at farm by 

 Richard Hewer for the.sum quoted above." 



George Rigley made a request to purchase this 

 manor in 15534," but nothing appears to have re- 

 sulted, and in 1557 it was granted to William Rigges 

 and Peter Gearing.* 4 



Rigges and Gearing may have been trustees for 

 Nicholas Saunders of Ewell, who was holding the 

 manor in 1590, at which date he mortgaged it to 

 Thomas Fletcher of London." In 1601 Nicholas 

 Saunders conveyed the manor to Benedict Haynes, 

 gentleman,* 6 son of William Haynes and Alice his 

 wife, 27 and in 1610 1 1 it was held by William 

 Haynes, brother of Benedict, who settled it upon 

 himself and Anne his wife in that year.* 8 William 

 died in 1611, his son and heir William being then 

 aged 1 3 years. The latter died two years later, 

 leaving Matthew his brother and heir, aged 12 

 years.* 9 Matthew died in 1617, and the estate was 

 divided among his four sisters, Alice, Jane, Ann, and 

 Thomasine.* Thomasine married John Evelyn, 

 and in 1622 conveyed her fourth part of the manor 

 to Robert Hatton," serjeant-at-law, of Thames 

 Ditton, 3 ' who had married Alice, and who in 1628 

 acquired the remaining fourth parts from Ann (wife 

 of Thomas Samwell) and Jane Haynes.* 3 Robert 

 and Alice had a son Sir Richard Hatton, who 

 married Anne daughter of Sir Kenelme Jennour of 

 Great Dunmow, Essex, bart. 34 Their son Sir Robert 

 Hatton, afterwards Sheriff of Surrey, was holding the 

 manor in 1 679," and, dying without issue, was suc- 

 ceeded by his nephew, Robert Hatton, a serjeant-at- 

 law.* 8 The latter died in 1 70 1 ," and was succeeded 

 by his son Thomas Hatton, 18 who in 1 742 conveyed 

 this manor to Edward Northey of Epsom.* 8 William 

 Northey, son of Edward, sold in 1797 to Joseph 

 Smith Gosse, a distiller of Battersea, 40 who died in 

 1 8 1 2, 4 ' and was succeeded by his son Henry Gosse, 

 who held the manor in 1813." His granddaughter 



married Mr. John Maude, and they are now lords of 

 the manor. 



Appurtenant to the prior's manor were certain 

 woe .Is called Lynell Coppice (18 acres), Fusgrove 

 Coppice (7 acres), Beatrice Hill Coppice (2 acres 

 7 roods), and 'Le Hedgerowe' in Alderfield (l acre), 

 which in 1552 were held on a lease granted by the 

 prior to John Garroway ; 43 also a wood called Gos- 

 borough Hill Wood, leased in 1537 to William 

 Saunders, with liberty to fell the timber, on condition 

 of leaving thirty ' slanders ' (trees left for increase) on 

 every acre. 44 In the accounts of the manor for 1544 

 there is reckoned 4 1 3/. ^d. from eighty old oaks 

 called ' Storbedd Okes,' suitable for firewood, situated 

 on that parcel of the manor called Epsom Common. 43 



In a dispute which arose in the 1 6th century with 

 regard to certain lands called ' Maulthayes ' in Ches- 

 sington, it was declared to be the custom of this 

 manor that the youngest son should inherit. 46 



FREAM, formerly FREREN. Land in Chessing- 

 ton was held of Edward the Confessor by Magno 

 Suert, and in 1086 (when it was assessed for I hide, 

 though in the time of King Edward it had been 

 assessed for 5) was included among the estates of 

 Miles Crispin, who appears to have claimed it without 

 warrant in right of his father-in-law Wigod of Walling- 

 ford, as the jurors declared that Wigod was not holding 

 it when William I came into England. 47 



This land descended with the honour of Walling- 

 ford, and in 1279 was in the possession of Edmund 

 Earl of Cornwall. 



In 1300 the tenant of the earl in Chessington was 

 Rowland Huscarl, 48 and later it was held of the 

 honour of Wallingford by Ro- 

 ger Apperle. 49 Before 1428 

 it seems to have been granted 

 to the Abbot of Boxley, co. 

 Kent, who in that year was 

 assessed for half a knight's fee 

 formerly held by Roger Ap- 

 perle. 40 As early as 1189 the 

 abbot had held land in Ches- 

 sington granted by Robert de 

 Chessington and confirmed in 

 that year by Richard I" and 

 subsequently by other kings." 

 In 1291 the possessions of in. 

 the monastery in Boxley were 



taxed at l 4*., and in 1329 the abbot was pardoned 

 for acquiring a rent of 1 3/. 2</. there from Clement le 

 Taillour and Nicholas son of Osbert atte Wodehall." 



The possessions of Boxley in Chessington are not 

 described as a manor until 1535, when they are 



BOXLEY ABBIY. Ar- 

 gent a bend indented 

 gulei and a quarur gulet 

 with a croaier or there- 



19 Eudo de Maiden, who granted the 

 advowson to Merton, and who wai evi- 

 dently an early sub-tenant of the manor, 

 may have granted land) also to the priory. 



> 9 Mint Accts. 19-30 Hen. VIII, no. 

 115. 



80 A. C. Heales, Record* of Merton 

 Priory, 338. 



Harl. MSS. 606, fol. 125. 



88 Misc. Bks. (Exch. K.R.), vol. 168, 

 p. 210. 



83 Partic. for Gts. 2225. 



J1 Pat. 4 & 5 Philip and Mary, pt. vii, 

 m. 34. 



85 Close, 32 Eliz. pt. xvi. 



M Feet of F. Sum East. 43 Eliz. 



" Close, 40 Eliz. pt. v. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxxiv, 

 168. 



89 Ibid, cccxxxiv, 55. 



80 Ibid, ccclxi, 101. 



81 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 20 Chas. I. 

 88 Le Neve, Knights, 3 1 7. 



88 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 3 Chas. I. 

 84 Le Neve, Knighti, 317. 



86 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 30-31 Chas. I ; 

 Lilt of Skcriffi, P.R.O. 138. 



86 Manning and Bray, Mitt, of Surr. ii, 

 685 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 36 Chas. II. 



" Chan. Enr. Decrees, 1901, no. 4, 

 pt. ii. Ibid. 



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

 685. Ibid. 



41 Gent. Mag. Ixxxii (i), 604. 



264 



48 Recov. R. Hil. 53 Geo. Ill, no. 7. 

 48 Harl. MSS. 606, fol. 125. 



44 Harl. Chart. 112, C 28. 



45 Mins. Accts. 36-7 Hen. VIII, no. 

 44, m. 65 d. 



16 Ct. of Req. bdles. 39, no. 2, 124, 

 no. 54. 



4 ? V.C.H. Surr. i, 325*. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. I, no. 44. 

 The family of Huscarl also held under the 

 honour of Wallingford in Bcddington. 



48 Feud. Aids, v, 122. 



stl Ibid. 



61 Cart. Antiq. Q. 8. 



68 Cal. of Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 354. 



53 Pat. 3 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 32 ; Inq. 

 p.m. 3 Edw. Ill (znd nos.), no. 134. 



