COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



the park pales. The place, however, existed in name 

 only. There was no ecclesiastical parish ; the land 

 was taxed with Ewell, but separately rated, with its 

 own overseers. 



The present house, known as Nonsuch Park, is the 

 property of Captain W. R. G. Farmer. It is not on 

 the site of the palace, but is on the confines of the 

 old Little Park, in which the palace stood. It was 

 built for Mr. Samuel Farmer by Sir Jeffrey Wyatt- 

 ville, in supposed 16th-century style, early in the 

 I9th century (1802-6). 



In the last fifty years, as railways extended, houses 

 have grown up near the site of Worcester Park 

 and have received the name of Cuddington. Worcester 

 Court is the residence of Mrs. Hanney, and Home- 

 steads that of Mr. C. A. Harris, C.B., C.M.G. In 

 1894 a church was built at Worcester Park, which 

 is now the parish church, though certainly upon a 

 vejy different site from the original one. There is 

 also a Primitive Methodist chapel. 



In Cuddington is the Joint Isolation Hospital for 

 the Sutton, Carshalton, Letherhead, and Epsom 

 District Councils. 



Cuddington and Nonsuch Park were, according to 

 Leland, the site of pits for obtaining fire-clay. Sub- 

 sequently Nonsuch pottery and tiles were known, but 

 they were in reality made in Ewell. la There used 

 to be gunpowder works on the Hoggsmill Stream, 

 called generally the Maiden Mills or the Long Ditton 

 Mills, but they were actually in Cuddington parish.' 



There are no schools peculiar to Cuddington. 

 Cheam and Cuddington (National) School for Boys 

 was built in 1826, and that for girls and infants in 

 1869. But they are the original Cheam schools. 



The earliest mention of CUDD1NG- 

 MJNOR TON is in connexion with Chertsey 

 Monastery, the alleged first endowment 

 of which in 675 by Frithwald, subregulus of Surrey, 

 and Bishop Erkenwald included thirty dwellings at 

 Ewell cum ' Cotinton.' ' The confirmation of this 

 charter by Athelstan in 933* mentions the village of 

 'Cudintone'; and Edward the Confessor in 1062 

 confirmed to the monastery six dwellings at ' Cudin- 

 tone.' * No further mention of Chertsey in connexion 

 with Cuddington occurs after this date, however," and 

 in the Domesday Survey it is declared to have been 

 held in the time of Edward the Confessor by 

 Earl Leofwine, the younger brother of Harold.' At 

 the date of the Survey (1086) it was held by Ilbert 

 de Laci, lord of Pontefract, of Odo of Bayeux, 8 and 

 on the forfeiture of his estates for high treason by 

 Robert son of Ilbert, was bestowed by Henry I on 

 Hugh de Laval.' 



In 1203 Guy de Laval forfeited his English estates 

 for joining with the French king against John, 10 who 

 in the same year granted Cuddington to William de 



CODINGTON. Gules a 

 cross or fretty gules. 



St. Michael, who was to render to Roger de Lacy, 

 Constable of Chester (who had claimed the estates of 

 Guy as his right by inheritance), the same farm which 

 he, William, had been wont to render to Guy." 

 Laurence de St. Michael was holding land in Surrey 

 in 1233," and in 1236-7 he appears as party to a 

 fine concerning lands in Cuddington." He or his 

 son died in 1283, leaving a widow Margaret, four 

 sons Laurence, William, Thomas, and John and 

 four daughters. 14 It was probably the eldest son 

 Laurence who in 1289 sought to replevy his land in 

 Cuddington which had been taken into the king's 

 hands for default." In 1331, 

 1332, and 1333 courts were 

 held in the name of Thomas 

 de St. Michael, 16 who in 1333 

 settled the manor upon him- 

 self for life, and after his death 

 upon Laurence son of John 

 de St. Michael and Joan his 

 wife and their heirs. 17 In 

 1337 the manor was held by 

 Laurence, 18 who appears indif- 

 ferently in records of this period 

 under the name of Codington 

 (Cuddington) or St. Michael, the latter, however, 

 occurring but rarely after this date. 



In 1355 courts were held in the name of Sir Simon 

 de Codington (Sheriff of Surrey in 1353 and 1362) 

 and Katherine his wife. 19 Sir Simon married, 

 secondly, Idonea, and died before 1378, in which 

 year the manor was settled by trustees on Ralph son 

 of Simon (Sheriff of Surrey in 1400) and Anne his 

 wife.'" 



In 1470 the manor was surrendered to John 

 Codington by his mother Margaret widow of 

 Thomas Codington. 11 The manor was finally sold 

 in 1538 by Richard Codington and Elizabeth his 

 wife to Henry VIII," who annexed it to the honour 

 of Hampton Court, and commenced there the erec- 

 tion of the magnificent palace of Nonsuch. 



In 1 547 a messuage and lands in the manor of 

 Nonsuch alias Cuddington were granted by Edward VI 

 to Sir Thomas Cawarden (who was Sheriff of Surrey 

 in 1547) to hold for 21 years for a rent of 5 5*. 8J. 

 In 1550 Cawarden was appointed Keeper of the 

 King's House of Nonsuch, 'called the Banketyng 

 House within the Park there.' M The Banqueting 

 House was a separate building from the Palace, 

 which was not completed until later. In 1556 

 the reversion of Cawarden's lease, with the ad- 

 ditions of the capital mansion of Nonsuch or Non- 

 such Place, with appurtenances in Nonsuch, Ewell, 

 Cuddington, and Cheam, and all that park called the 

 Little Park of Nonsuch, was bestowed on Henry, 

 twelfth Earl of Arundel," Lord Chamberlain to 



ta y.C.H. Surr. ii, 182, 193-4. 



Ibid. 317. 



" Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64. But see in 

 Chcrtsey for the authenticity of thete early 

 charters. 



4 Kemble, Cod. Difl. ccclxiii ; Birch, 

 Cart. Sax. ii, 397. 



' Kemble, Cod. Difl. dcccxii. 



6 A possible upp oiition it that Ulwin 

 who in 1086 held I hide of 'Codintone ' 

 may have been the tame Ulwin who held 

 Byfleet of Chertsey, and this may have 

 been the Chertiey holding in Cuddington. 



^ V.C.H. Surr. i, 304,1. 



8 Ibid. ; Engl. Hist. Rev. xiv, 430. 



9 Engl. Hist. Rev. xiv, 419. 



10 Rot. dt Liberate (Rec. Com.), 44. 



11 Ibid. ; Dugdale, Baronage, i, 100. 

 " Col. Close, 1131-4, p. 250. 



18 Feet of F. Surr. 21 Hen. Ill, file IO. 

 14 R. R. Sharpe, Cal. of London Wills, i, 

 67 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. Edw. I, file 33, no. 1 1. 

 16 Cal. Close, 1288-96, p. 52. 

 16 Ct. R. portf. 204, no. 44. 

 '? Feet of F. 6 Edw. HI, no. 105. 

 18 Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. Ill, no. 39. 



267 



19 Ct. R. portf. 204, no. 44. 



*> Close, 51 Edw. Ill, m. 6 d. 



n AncL Deeds, P.R.O. B. 1159. 



M Pat. 30 Hen. VIII, pt. Hi, m. 31 j 

 Treas. Roll of Accts. pt. i, m. 1 1 d ; Feet 

 of F. Surr. Mich. 30 Hen. VIII j L. and 

 P. Hen. VIII, xiii (i), g. 1519 (10) ; KV, 

 498 (36). 



93 Original patent at Loseley. 



14 Pat. 3 & 4 Philip and Mary, pt. iii, 

 m. 36 ; Orig. R. 3 & 4 Philip and Mary, 

 pt. iv, no. 71. Cawarden died in 1559. 

 His lease expired in 1568. 



