A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Henry VIII granted it in 1537 to Sir Nicholas 

 Carew, K.G., in tail male;" but in 1539, in con- 

 sequence of his attainder, the manor returned to the 

 Crown, and the next year was annexed to the honour 

 of Hampton Court.* 1 Queen Mary, however, granted 

 it in 1576 to Francis Carew (afterwards knighted)," 

 eldest son of Nicholas," and his heirs male, with 

 reversion to the queen and her successors." In 1589 

 the reversion (Francis Carew being unmarried) ** was 

 granted to Edward Darcy, groom of the Privy 

 Chamber " and son of Carew's sister Mary,* 8 who held 

 the manor after the death of Sir Francis in 1 6 1 1 and 

 died seised in 1612, having settled it on his wife 

 Mary with remainder to his second son Christopher 

 and contingent remainder to his eldest son Robert.* 



Robert died in 1 6 1 8 " seised of the reversion of the 

 manor after the death of Mary widow of Edward, 

 from which it appears that Christopher, who was 

 alive in 1623," must have quitclaimed to Robert. 

 Robert's widow and son Edward levied a fine of the 

 manor in 1632." The rent of the manor (40) 

 was settled on Queen Anne by James I,* 4 and on 

 Queen Catherine by Charles 11." Edward Darcy 

 sold the manor to Mrs. Anne Mynne, widow of 

 George Mynne of Horton Manor,* 6 and daughter 

 of Sir Robert Parkhurst, and she left it by will to 

 her daughter Elizabeth wife of Richard Evelyn, brother 

 to John Evelyn the diarist. He resided at Woodcote. 

 Courts of the manor were held in his name in 

 1667 and 1668." Elizabeth survived him and held 

 courts as lady of the manor until 1 69 1 ; * 8 she, at her 

 death in 1692, devised the estate to Christopher 

 Buckle of Banstead and his son Christopher as trustees 

 for her sister Ann for her life, with remainder first 

 to her nephew John Lewknor and then to John 

 Parkhurst of Catesby, co. Northants." The trustees 

 held the courts of the manor until 1706," when 

 John Parkhurst succeeded to the estate ; his grand- 

 son John was holding it in 1725." This John 

 devised the manor to Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, bart., 

 and another trustee for his wife Ricarda during her 

 lifetime, after her death to be sold and the proceeds 

 divided between his two younger sons. 4 ' He died in 

 1765, and in 1770 the manor was sold to Sir Joseph 

 Mawbey, bart.," who was succeeded by his son John 

 in 1798. John had no male heir, and was followed 

 first by his daughter Emily and then by Ann, in right 

 of whom her husband, John Ivett Briscoe, 44 held the 

 manor till past the middle of the I gth century. It 

 was afterwards held by his trustees, and then went to 

 Charles Vernon Strange, who held it in 1874. From 

 him it passed to James Stuart Strange, who died in 1 908 

 leaving three daughters. 



Two mills were in existence at the time of Domes- 

 day," but only one is afterwards mentioned in the 

 records of the manor. 46 Charles II granted Elizabeth 

 Evelyn, then lady of the manor, the right to hold a 

 weekly market and two fairs at Epsom ; the grant 

 was renewed by James II, together with a grant to 

 hold a court of pie-powder at each of the fairs. 47 



Epsom Court, the old manor-house, was not sold 

 with the property in 1770, but by a family arrange- 

 ment descended to the Rev. John Parkhurst, eldest 

 son of John and Ricarda Parkhurst (see above), and 

 the great tithes and theadvowson went with it. It is 

 now a farm-house. 



The manor of HORTON in this parish belonged 

 to the Abbot and convent of Chertsey, but there 

 seem to be no early records relating to it, 49 unless the 

 lands granted by Richard de Horton in 1338 (vldt 

 lufra) formed part of it. 



According to a charter of the early i;th century, 

 the Abbot and convent of Chertsey owned the hamlet 

 or township of Horton, co. Surrey, with 168 acres of 

 land, 60 acres of pasture lying in common fields 

 of Horton and in two fields called West Crofts and 

 Sampsones, 3 acres of wood called Burnet Grove, 

 1 3/. SJ. rent of free tenants there, and 1 21. ^d. rent 

 proceeding from the manor of Brettgrave and the lands 

 of Adam Whitlokke in Ewell and 100 acres furze and 

 heath in ' Ebbesham Common ' opposite the township 

 of Horton ; also another small parcel of land containing 

 i rood in ' Ebbesham ' near the parish church, par- 

 cel of a tenement called Rankyns, with court and 

 view of frankpledge there, 'wayf and strayf' fines, &c. 

 These lands together made the manor of Horton. 49 



In 1440 the abbot granted it to John Merston, 

 the king's esquire, and his wife Rose, and their heirs, 

 to hold of the king by payment of 3^. yearly for all 

 service. Free warren in all the demesne lands of 

 Horton was also granted by the king to John and Rose, 

 and licence to inclose loo acres of land for a park. 50 



After the death of Rose, who survived her husband, 

 the manor passed to William 

 Merston and his wife Anne ; " 

 he died in 1495, leaving a son 

 William,** who inherited on 

 his mother's death. He died 

 in January 1511-12, leaving 

 Horton to his wife Beatrice 

 for her life, with remainder to 

 his daughter Joan and her 

 heirs. 53 Joan married first 

 Nicholas Mynne, 64 secondly 

 William Sander of Ewell, 65 and 

 died in 1 540 leaving a son John 



MYNNE. Sable afesse 

 dancetty paly argent and 

 gulet of six pieces. 



L. and P. Hen. Vlll t zii (z), 1150 



<jfc 



Ibid, xv, 498. 



88 Shaw, Knights of Engl. ii, 77. 



41 Pat I Mary, pt viii, m. 35. 



55 See Pat. 31 Eliz. pt v, m. 16. 



26 Berry, County Gen. Surr. 5. 



J < Pat. 31 Eliz. pt v, m. 16 ; Hat. 

 MSS. Com. Rep. v, App. 266. 



88 Berry, County Gtn. Surr. $ ; Tht 

 Genealogist (New Ser.), xvi, 243. 



39 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxxviii, 

 157, and W. and L. do. xviii, 85. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxii, 

 151, and W. and L. do. xxvi, 202. 



81 See. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), ccclxxii, 

 151. 



sa Christopher was knighted 29 Sept. 

 1623 ; Shaw, Knights, ii, 182. 

 88 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 8 Chas. I. 

 * 4 Pat. 1 1 Jas. I, pt xiii, no. 4. 

 5 Pat. 17 Chas. II, pt. ix, no. i. 

 85 Feet of F. Surr. East 1659. 



87 Ct R., quoted by Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit. ii, 6 1 1. 



88 Ibid. 



89 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 611. 



40 Ct R. quoted by Manning, op. cit. 

 ii, fin. 



41 Recov. R. East. II Geo. I, rot 193. 

 4S Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 612. 



* Feet of F. Surr. HiL II Geo. III. 

 44 Recov. R. East. 3 Geo. IV, rot 

 47- 



2 74 



V.C.H. Surr. i, 308* 



48 Recov. R. Trin. 4 Jas. II, rot 178. 



47 Pat. I Jas. II, pt vii, no. 1 9. 



48 Conveyances of land in Horton occur 

 in Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 13 Hen. Ill, no. 

 30, 31 ; Trin. 23 Hen. Ill ; 10 Edw. I ; 

 2$ Edw. I ; B.M. Sloane Chart xxxii, 

 29. 



49 Chart R. 1-20 Hen. VI, no. 26. 

 Ibid. 



61 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Hen. VII, no. 



37- 



6S Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 521. 



58 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxvi, 27, 

 and Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), mlxxvii, 3. 



84 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 6iz. 



55 Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc, xliii), 18. 



