

COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



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by her first marriage, during whose minority William 

 Sander was granted an annuity of 4 issuing from 

 the manor of Horton, with wardship and marriage 

 of the said John. 56 This John Mynne was holding 

 the manor in 1564 ; 57 he died in I 595, M leaving a son 

 and heir William, 59 whose son John succeeded his 

 father in i6i8. M John married Alice daughter of 

 William Hale and settled various lands and tenements 

 on her, among them the manor-house of Horton ; 61 

 but in order to pay his debts he with the consent of 

 William Hale sold these estates 61 to George Mynne 

 of Woodcote (1626). George Mynne left two 

 daughters, co-heiresses ; M Elizabeth married Richard 

 Evelyn 6i and Anne married Sir John Lewknor. On 

 the division of the estate the manor of Horton fell to 

 the share of Elizabeth, 66 who, having survived her 

 husband and children, left the manor to Charles 

 Calvert, 67 fourth Lord Baltimore, a great-grandson 

 of Anne, daughter of George Mynne of Hertingford- 

 bury, a connexion of her family. 68 



His grandson Charles, the sixth Lord Baltimore, 

 died in 1751, and his son 

 and heir Frederick, Lord Bal- 

 timore, who left the country 

 after a celebrated trial in 1 768, 

 sold the estates. 69 During the 

 next twenty years Horton 

 Manor changed hands several 

 times, and was finally bought 

 by Mr. Trotter, an upholsterer 

 in Soho ; 70 his son James, high 

 sheriff in 1798, succeeded him 

 in 1 79O. 71 He was succeeded 

 by his son John, M.P. for 

 West Surrey 1841-7, from 

 whom it passed to William S. 

 Trotter. The estate has been recently bought by the 

 London County Council for asylums. 



The old manor-house of Horton was a large 

 building surrounded by a moat. It was in the low 

 ground north of Epsom. The Mynnes seem to have 

 lived at Woodcote, for Richard Evelyn married their 

 heiress there in 1648," and he is said to have rebuilt 

 the house at Woodcote." 



Later, when Woodcote Park had been separated 

 from Horton, Mr. John Trotter, owner of Horton, 

 built a new mansion, called it Horton Place, and 

 inclosed land around it for a park. 74 



The manor of BRETTGRAVE (Bruttegrave, 

 Bertesgrave, Brottesgrave, Bryddesgreve, xiv and xv 

 cent.) belonged to the abbey of Chertsey as parcel of 

 their manor of Epsom. 75 It was held of the Abbot of 

 Chertsey in the reign of Henry III by John de 



TROTTIR of Horton. 

 Argtnt a crescent gulet 

 and a chief indented a- 

 zure with three pierced 

 molets argent therein. 



Tichemarsh. 76 Later in the century it was in the > v 

 tenure of Reginald de Imworth, who died before 

 1287, leaving a son John, then a minor. 77 In a 

 suit brought in 1346 by the Abbot of Chertsey 

 against Nicholas de Tonstall, Joan his wife, and 

 Thomas de Saye, this John was said to have granted 

 the manor in fee to Henry Gerard, chaplain, and 

 John his illegitimate son, who were holding in the 

 reign of Edward II by services due. 78 After the death 

 of John son of Henry, John the then abbot entered 

 upon the manor as an escheat, 79 and continued his 

 seisin until forcibly and unlawfully disseised by Joan 

 and her first husband, Henry de Saye, who carried 

 off his crops, impounded the beasts from his ploughs, 

 and otherwise persecuted him, until by a writing he 

 released his right in the manor. As the release was 

 obtained by force, and without the consent of the 

 convent, it was not held valid by the jurors, and the 

 abbot recovered seisin of the manor with damages. In 

 the same year the abbot and convent received licence 

 to grant the manor to Guy de Bryan the younger to be 

 held of the king in chief by the rent of 8/. ^d. ;" they 

 probably reserved to themselves a rent of I ^s. ^d. from 

 the manor, as this is afterwards stated to belong to 

 their manor of Horton, 81 and this may have led to 

 Brettgrave being considered a parcel of the manor of 

 Horton, which was denied by the jurors in an inqui- 

 sition taken in 151 7.** Guy de Bryan had licence 

 to have Mass celebrated in his chapel in Brettgrave 

 in Epsom in I348, 8 * but in the same year enfeoffed 

 John Gogh and other clerks of the manor, 64 probably 

 in trust for Henry, Earl of Lancaster, who in 1350 

 received a grant of free warren in his demesne lands 

 of Brettgrave. 85 Henry was created Duke of Lancaster 

 in 1352, and died seised of the manor in 136 1. 66 

 He left no son, and his eldest 

 daughter Maud, wife of the 

 Duke of Bavaria, dying the 

 following year, 87 the estates 

 passed to her only sister Blanche, 

 wife of John of Gaunt, Earl 

 of Richmond, 98 created Duke 

 of Lancaster in 1362, father 

 of Henry IV. 89 The manor 

 thus became part of the Duchy 

 of Lancaster, leases of it being 

 granted by successive kings. 90 

 Ultimately the fee-simple seems 

 to have been acquired by 



William Merston, whose father John Merston (vide 

 Horton) had held the lease of it. 91 William died in 

 January 1511 12. 91 It descended through his daugh- 

 ter Joan, wife of Nicholas Mynne, to John Mynne, the 



DUCHY or LANCAS- 

 TIB. England -with a 

 label azure. 



M L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xvi, 1056 (68). 



*7 Recov. R. East. Eliz. rot. 614. 



59 Chan. Inq. p.m. ccli, 158. 



59 Chan. Inq. p.m. ccclxxi, 105 ; W. 

 and L. Inq. xxviii, 163. 



*> Ibid. ; Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. II 

 Jai. I ; Recov. R. Mich. 21 Jas. I, rot. 

 65. 



B.M. Add. Chart. 36438. 



61 Ibid. 36439. 



M Feet of F. Surr. HiL 2 Chat. I. 



M Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 16515 

 ibid. Trin. 15 Chat. II. 



65 Berry, County Gen. Surr. 79. 



66 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 612. 

 7 Recov. R. HiL I Geo. II, rot. 40. 



68 O.E.C. Peerage, i, 296 (George 

 Mynne of Woodcote's daughter Anne 



married Sir John Lewknor, not Lord 

 Baltimore). 



D. Enr. HiL 9 Geo. Ill (1769). 



70 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 614. 



7 1 Brayley, Surr. iv, 351. 



T 2 Evelyn's Diary, 16 Aug. 1648. 

 7 Burke, fait. ofSeati, i, 131. 

 7* Brayley, Surr. iv, 351. 

 7* Col. Pat. 1345-8, p. 155. 



7 Ibid. 



77 Cal. Clou, 1279-88, p. 490. 



7 8 Cal. Pat. 1345-8, p. 155. 



7" Cal. Clote, 1279-88, p. 490. 



80 Inq. a.q.d. ccclxxxi, 1 1 ; Feet of 

 F. Surr. Trin. 21 Edw. Ill ; Cal. Pat. 

 '345-8 P- ZI 7 i Add. MS. 6167, foL 

 141. 



81 See Chart. R. i-zo Hen. VI, no. 26. 



275 



82 Exch. Inq. p.m. mlxxii, 3. Locally 

 its boundaries make it a long way off 

 Horton, but near Woodcote. 



83 Winton Epia. Reg. Edington, pt ii, 

 \6b. 



84 Cal. Pat. 1348-50, p. 206. 



86 Chart. R. Z4 Edw. Ill, pt i, no. 3. 

 86 Cal. Incj. p.m. (Rec. Com.), ii, 236 ^ 

 Add. MS. 6167, foL 151 d. 



>7 Cal. Itu). p.m. (Rec. Com.), ii, 247. 



88 Add. MS. 6167, foL 151 d. 



89 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 8. 



90 Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xvi, 102 

 (pt iii) ; xviii, 135 d, 136 d; Cal. Pat. 

 1422-29, p. 455. 



91 Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xxi,. 

 1(44. 



M Exch. Inq. p.m. mlxxii, 3. 



