

COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



Bishop Willis's Visitation of 1725 mentions 'about 

 50 Presbyterians,' an unusual instance in rural Surrey 

 of the continuance of a large body of Nonconformity 

 between those dates. 



The village is supplied with gas by the Epsom and 

 Ewell Gas Company, and with water by the Sutton 

 Water Company. 



The Chelsea and Kensington Workhouse Schools 

 are in the parish. 



In 1 8 1 1 a National School was established on the 

 strength of Mr. White's and Mr. Brumfield's bene- 

 factions. Mr. Calverley gave a further benefaction, 

 which became available in 1 860. The schools at present 

 existing were built in 1 86 1, one for boys and girls, and 

 the other for infants. The former was enlarged in 

 1893. They still continue Church of England Schools. 



Kingswood Liberty is a completely detached part 

 of Ewell parish, bounded on the west and north by 

 Banstead, on the east by Chipstead and Gatton, on 

 the south by Reigate. It measures less than 3 miles 

 from north to south, and is under a mile broad, of a 

 fairly regular form. It contains 1,821 acres. It 

 lies upon the chalk hills, but the chalk is here in 

 general crowned with a deposit of brick-earth and of 

 clay with flints. 



Kingswood is traversed by the old Brighton road 

 which came up Reigate Hill and went to Sutton. It 

 has now a railway station on the Tattenham Corner 

 branch of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, 

 opened as far as Kingswood in 1899. The neigh- 

 bourhood which used to be singularly sequestered and 

 rural is fast becoming residential, especially since 

 the opening of the railway. But the majority of 

 the new houses are in the part of Banstead included 

 in the ecclesiastical parish of Kingswood, not in the 

 old portion of Ewell. 



In 1838 an ecclesiastical district was formed from 

 Kingswood with a portion of Banstead, and a new 

 church, St. Andrew's, was built in 1 848 by the late 

 Mr. Thomas Alcock. The old church is used as a 

 parish room. The church is endowed with a glebe of 

 31 acres. There is also a Methodist chapel, built 

 by the late Mr. H. Fowker. 



Kingswood Warren, built about 1850 by Mr. 

 H. Alcock, M.P., is the fine seat of Mr. Henry 

 C. O. Bonsor, J.P. 



Lower Kingswood School was built in 1893 and 

 enlarged in 1903. Tadworth and Kingswood School 

 (in Banstead parish) was built in 1875. Both are 

 County Council Schools. 



The manor of EWELL is named in 

 MANORS Domesday as part of the royal demesne, 7 

 and as such William I secured it as the 

 alleged heir of Edward the Confessor. 8 Henry II 

 granted it to the Prior and canons of Merton in 

 frankalmoign and as free from aids and customs as it 

 had been when Crown property. 9 This grant was 

 augmented by one from Richard I of 101 acres of 

 land, without impeachment of assart and quit of all 



aids and escheats, See. 10 Henry III granted to the 

 prior the right of free warren in his manor of Ewell, 11 

 this grant being confirmed by Edward I. u 



Richard tenth Earl of Arundel, who was executed 

 as a traitor in 1398, held the manor of the Prior and 

 convent of Merton at the time of his death." 



With the manor of Ewell Henry II had granted to 

 the convent of Merton, as parcels of the same manor, 

 two pieces of land called Fifhide" and Selswood 

 (Shelwood). 15 In the reign of Henry III the prior 

 claimed that the men on these lands were his villeins 

 and owed him villeins' service ; this the men denied, 

 affirming that they owed him only the service of free 

 men, and that what the men of Ewell, who were their 

 equals, gave they would give, and no more. 16 An 

 inquisition held later on the services due to the Prior 

 of Merton determined that the men of Selswood and 

 Fifhide were subject to the tax of Peterpence, and that 

 they might not marry son or daughter out of the town- 

 ship without the prior's licence, but that their taxation 

 should be the same as that of the men of Ewell. 1 ' 



At the dissolution of Merton in 1538, the prior 

 surrendered all the lands of the convent to the king, 

 and this manor was annexed to the honour of Hamp- 

 ton Court, 18 Henry purchasing from William Cooper 

 his lease of the manor. 19 In 1540 Ralph Sadler was 

 appointed bailiff of the manor, 80 and he was granted a 

 lease for twenty-one years of the site of the manor 

 where not inclosed in Nonsuch Park.* 1 



Edward VI granted a lease of the site of Ewell 

 Manor to Henry Collier and Agnes his wife for the 

 rent of 6<)s. gd. yearly, which lease was renewed by 

 Philip and Mary. 8 * In 1563 Elizabeth granted the 

 manor to Henry, Earl of Arundel, and his heirs, for 

 the sum of 885 izs. lod.* 3 He had only one child, 

 Jane, who married John, Lord Lumley ; " these 

 died without issue surviving, and the estates passed, 

 1609, to Splandian Lloyd, Lord Lumley's nearest 

 kinsman, son of his sister Barbara ; " Splandian died 

 childless, and his brother Henry succeeded, 86 the manor 

 then continuing in his family in direct male line to 

 Robert Lumley Lloyd, D.D. He presented a claim 

 to the peerage, being a direct descendant of Barbara 

 sister and heir of Lord Lum- 

 ley ; it was disallowed on the 

 ground that the barony was 

 limited to John, Lord Lumley, 

 in tail male. 87 Dr. Lloyd died 

 in 1730, and left his estates to 

 his three sisters for their life, 

 with reversion to Lord John 

 Russell, afterwards Duke of 

 Bedford. By him they were 

 sold in 1755 to Edward Nor- 

 they, 88 in whose family they 

 have remained, the present 

 lord of the manor being the 

 Rev. E. W. Northey of Ep- 

 som. 



NOKTHIY. Or afctu 

 axure between three fan- 

 then Handing and paw- 

 dered with start argent 

 'with a pamy or between 

 two lilies argent on the 

 fesse. 



7 V.C.H. Surr. i, 297*. 



8 Ibid. 279. 



' Cart. Antiq. U, 6. This was not the 

 whole of the royal property, see below. 



10 Cart. Antiq. GG, 18 ; RR, 10. 



11 Chart. R. 36 Hen. Ill, m. II. 



1J Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 739. 

 u Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, bdle. 

 of forfeitures, no. lie. 



" Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 35* 



15 Maitland, Braeton's Note Book, no. 

 1 65 1. See under Leigh parish. 

 " Ibid. 



17 Cur. Reg. R. 94, Hil. 10 Hen. HI. 



18 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 455. 



L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xiv (i), g. 651 



(36). 



* Ibid, xvi, p. 7 14. ** Ibid, xvii, p. 695. 



99 Pat. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary, pt. xii, 

 m. 58. 



279 



" Pat. 5 Elir. pt. ii, m. 45. 



84 Feet of F. Div. Co. East, 8 Eliz. 

 See also Chan. Proc. Eliz. Cc. ii, 18. 



* G.E.C. Peerage, v, 178 (e) ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. Surr. 7 Jas. I. 



M Recov. R. East. 4 Chas. I, rot. 33 ; 

 Feet of F. Surr. East. 4 Chas. I. 



>7 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 178 (c). 



88 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 457. 



