A HISTORY OF SURREY 



LLOYD. Quarterly or 

 and azure four harts 

 countercoloured. 



Henry VIII and Lord High Steward of the House- 

 hold to Mary and Elizabeth. The Earl of Arundel 

 died in 1580," having bequeathed all his manors and 

 lands to his son-in-law Lord Lumley, upon whom he 

 had already settled Nonsuch. Lord Lumley died in 

 1609, and was succeeded by his nephew, Splandian 

 Lloyd. 16 Thelatterdyingwith- 

 out issue was succeeded by his 

 brother Henry Lloyd," whose 

 grandson of the same name 

 died in 1704. Robert Lum- 

 ley Lloyd, son of Henry, was 

 rector of St. Paul's, Covent 

 Garden, and chaplain to the 

 Duke of Bedford, whose pat- 

 ronage he acknowledged by 

 bequeathing to him all his 

 possessions in Surrey, includ- 

 ing this estate.' 8 In 1755 the 



manor, rectory, and advowson of the vicarage were 

 sold by the duke to Edward Northey of Epsom," 

 who died in 1772, leaving this estate to his son 

 William Northey. 30 The latter died in 1 808," 

 and was succeeded by his cousin William Northey, 

 on whose death the estate passed to his brother, 

 Rev. Edward Northey, Canon of Windsor." Edward 

 Richard Northey, son of the latter, was holding the 

 manor in 1821," and his son, Rev. E. W. Northey, 

 M.A., of Epsom, is lord of the manor at the present 

 day. 



NONSUCH. The whole of the former village of 

 Cuddington, with its mansion and church, were 

 swept away by Henry VIII to make room for the 

 palace afterwards known as Nonsuch, and its two 

 parks the Great Park or Worcester Park (containing 

 91 1 acres), and the Little Park (containing 67 1 acres). 

 The palace was never completed by Henry VIII, but 

 had already attained sufficient splendour to evoke from 

 Leland the lines 



' Hanc quia non habeat similem, laudare Britanni 

 Saepe solent, nullique parent cognomine dicunt.' 



During the next reign Sir Thomas Cawarden, 

 Keeper of the Banqueting House, in accordance with 

 a royal mandate entertained there ' at the Quenes 

 Majestie's House,' the French ambassador, M. de 

 Noailles, and his wife." 



In 1556 the reversion of Cawarden's lease was 

 granted to the Earl of Arundel, with the additional 

 grant of the Little Park and the palace (vide supra) which 

 he is said to have completed." He in 1559 entertained 

 there Queen Elizabeth, when, we are told, ' her grace 

 had as gret chere every nyght and bankets ; but ye 

 sonday at nyght my lord of Arundell made her a 

 grete bankett at ys coste as ever was sene, for soper, 

 bankete, and maske, w' drums and flutes, and all ye 

 mysyke yt cold be, tyll mydnyght ; and as for chere, 



has not bene sene nor heard. On Monday was a 

 great supper made for her, but before night she stood 

 at her standing in the further park, and there she saw 

 a course. At nyght was a play of the Chylderyn of 

 Powlles and theyr mysyke master Sebastian Phelyps 

 and Mr. Haywode ; and after, a grete banket, w' 

 drumes and flutes and the goodly bankets and dishes 

 as costely as ever was sene, and gyldyd. . . . My 

 Lord of Arundell gayfe to ye Quene grace a cubard 

 of plate.' 36 Queen Elizabeth paid frequent subsequent 

 visits to Nonsuch, and in 1590-2 purchased the 

 palace and park of John, Lord Lumley, heir of the 

 Earl of Arundel, in exchange for lands to the value of 



534-" 



In 1599 Mr. Roland White wrote to Robert 

 Sydney : ' Her Majestic is returned again to None- 

 such, which of all other places she likes best ' ; and it 

 was on the occasion of this visit that the Earl of 

 Essex, having returned from Ireland without the 

 queen's permission, burst into her bedchamber at 

 ten o'clock in the morning, and though received 

 kindly at the time, was committed four days later to 

 the custody of the Lord Keeper. 38 



Lord Lumley was appointed Keeper of the Palace 

 and Little Park by James I, who was frequently resi- 

 dent there for hunting and racing, which probably 

 took place on Banstead Downs (vide Banstead). 



On I December 1606 the Earl of Worcester was 

 appointed Keeper of the Great Park at Nonsuch, 

 whence no doubt it acquired the name Worcester 

 Park, and the lodge in it the name of Worcester 

 House." 



The estate formed part of the jointure of Queen 

 Henrietta Maria, and was visited by Charles I in 

 1625, 1629, 1630, and 1632. During the Common- 

 wealth the palace was at first leased to Algernon 

 Sidney for .150 per annum. The Government soon 

 afterwards assigned the whole place to Lilburne's 

 regiment, then in Scotland, as security for the men's 

 pay. A letter is extant from Colonel Robert Lil- 

 burne to General Lambert, in which he offers on 

 behalf of the regiment to sell Nonsuch to him. The 

 men, it was thought, would be willing to accept izs. 

 in the for their debentures. 40 Certainly the Little 

 Park and Palace were purchased by Major-General 

 Lambert," and in 1654-6 the Great Park and Wor- 

 cester House were purchased by Colonel Thomas 

 Pride," who died in 1658 at Worcester House, the 

 house in the Great Park. 



At the Restoration Nonsuch House and Parks were 

 restored to Queen Henrietta Maria. In 1663 the 

 reversion of part of the estate (under the name of 

 Nonsuch Great Park or Worcester Park, land called 

 the Great Park Meadow, and the mansion-house called 

 Worcester House) was leased by Charles II for a term 

 of 99 years to Sir Robert Long, his late companion 

 in exile, and at this date Chancellor of the Exchequer ; 



85 Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 8 Eliz. ; 

 Hil. 13 Eliz. ; Will P.C.C. I Arundell. 



26 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxi, 109 ; 

 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, V, 178. 



7 Feet of F. Surr. East 4 Chas. 1 1 

 Recov. R. East. 4 Chas. I, no. 33. 



98 Close, 29 Geo. II, pt. iii, no. II ; 

 34 Geo. II, pt. iv, no. 9. 



Ibid. ; Recov. R. Mich. I Geo. Ill, 

 rot. 147. 



Will P.C.C. 403 Bargrave. 



81 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 471. 



88 Burke, Landed Gentry, 1906. 



88 Recov. R. Mich. 2 Geo. IV, rot. 

 1 60 ; ibid. HiL 3 & 4 Geo. IV, rot. 

 219. 



84 A. J. Kempe, ThcLoseley MSS. 157. 



85 Camden, Brit. (ed. Gibson), 158. 



84 Gent. Mag. (New Ser.), viii, 139 

 (from the MS. life of the Earl of Arun- 

 del). 



W A. J. Kempe, The Loseley MSS. 

 147 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 34 Eliz. 



88 Strickland, Lives of the Queens of 

 Engl. iv, 717. 



19 Pat. 4 Jas. I, pt. xxiv. Lord Lumley 



268 



had had a lease of the Great Park Lodge j 

 Shrewsbury Letters, iii, 207. Lumley died 

 in 1609, and Worcester's keepership must 

 have co-existed with his lease and lasted 

 beyond it, to allow the name Worcester 

 Park to remain. The lodge is called the 

 Earl of Worcester's house in 1642. B.M. 

 Thomason Tracts, E. 127 (39). 



40 Firth, Cramviell's Army, 206 ; Letters 

 /ram Officers in Scotland (Bannatyne Club), 



59- 



41 Gent. Mag. (New Ser.), viii, 143. 

 48 Commons 1 Journ. viii, 73, 



