

A HISTORY OF SURREY 



It appears that Henry II made another grant of 

 land which later was called a manor, but which does 

 not appear as a separate property after the 1 3th 

 century. He gave to Maurice de Creon w 43*. i\J. 

 rent * to hold of the king in chief" as an instalment 

 of 4 librates which he had promised him. Maurice 

 gave the rent to his son-in-law, Guy de la Val," 

 who sub-enfeoffed William St. Michael ;** this grant 

 was confirmed by the king's writ in 1205," and also 

 on the death of Guy without issue, when the king 

 granted the manor to Peter de Creon son of Maurice 

 to hold of the Crown as his father had done.' 5 

 William St. Michael continued to hold possession 

 until he was disseised in 1222." 



Peter was succeeded by his brother Almaric," 

 whose heir, Maurice, lord pf Creon, gave all his 

 hereditary right in the manor to Sir Robert Burnell, 

 clerk, and his heirs, to be held of the king by the 

 services due therefrom, and by rendering to Maurice 

 and his heirs id. yearly at Easter. 58 



Robert Burnell the same year, 1272, restored the 

 lands to the king, who bestowed them on John de la 

 Linde to be held by him and his heirs by the service 

 of one-fourth part of a knight's fee." From this 

 time the manor seems to have been attached as a 

 member to Wallington * (q.v.). 



Two mills at Ewell are mentioned in Domesday, 

 and later there appear to have been more ; Adam 

 Tychesey gave one to the Prior and convent of 

 Merton. 41 



There is a reputed manor in Ewell called BOT- 

 T4LS a (Battailes, Buttalls, Butolphs, xvii cent.), of 

 which there is no certain history until 1659, when 

 it was held by Henry Sanders ; he sold it to Thomas 

 Turgis, 44 who dying childless left it to his kinsman 

 William Newland. He had no son, and his two sur- 

 viving daughters were his heirs ; they married re- 

 spectively Philip Cantillon 4S and Robert Dillon, and 

 their children sold the manor to Anthony Chamier of 

 Epsom. 46 He died in 1780 without issue, having left 

 his estates in trust for his wife, and after her decease to 

 his nephew John des Champs or Chamier." They 

 sold it with the manors of Fitznells and Rookesley to 

 Thomas Calverley, whose son Thomas built Ewell 

 Castle on the site of the old family mansion. 48 He 

 was succeeded by his nephew William Bower Monro, 

 who sold the estate to James Gadesden. 49 Mr. James 

 Philip Gadesden of Burley, Newbury, Berks., is the 

 present owner. 



As early as 675 we have mention of 30 mansai of 

 land in Ewell, afterwards known as the manor of 

 FITZNELLS (Venelles, 60 Fenelles, 61 xv cent.; Fenys," 

 xvi cent.), being granted by Frithwald subregului of 

 Surrey and Bishop Erkenwald to the newly-founded 



Paly ar- 

 gent and gules a fesse 



abbey of Chertsey." In 1331 Robert de FitzNeel 

 died seised of one messuage, 250 acres of land, 6 acres 

 of meadow, and one water- 

 mill, which he held after his 

 wife's death of the inheritance 

 of his daughter Grace ; of 

 these he held the capital mes- 

 suage, 100 acres of land, and 

 4 acres of meadow of the Prior 

 of Merton by the service of 

 15;., and 50 acres of land and 

 one mill of the Abbot of 

 Chertsey by the service of 

 6t. Sd." It was from this 

 family that the manor took the 

 name of Fitznells. Robert's 

 daughter Grace had at the time of her father's death 

 a son and heir, Robert, 65 who was probably the father 

 of Robert Leversegge, who 

 died seised of a tenement 

 called Fenelles, lying in the 

 parishes of Ewell, Cudding- 

 ton, and East Cheam. 56 His 

 son Richard was imbecile from 

 his birth, but held the estate 

 in demesne as of fee until 

 10 June 1438, on which day 

 John Iwardby (alias Everby) 

 took possession and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son John, who 

 affirmed that his father held 

 the manor of the gift of Robert 

 Leversegge. 57 In 1 542 it was 



held by Dame Joan St. John, 68 who was daughter and 

 heir of Sir John Iwardby, 69 and her son John sold it 

 (1562) to Edmund Horde, 60 

 in whose family it remained 

 for more than a century, 61 

 Thomas Horde settling it on 

 his son William in tail male in 

 i639. 61 The Hordeswere hold- 

 ing the manor as late as 1662, 

 when Thomas Horde conveyed 

 it to Jane Hope, widow. 63 



In 1693 John Harvey and 

 his wife Mary quit-claimed an 

 annual rent in the manor to 

 Thomas Turgis, warranting it 



against themselves and all other claimants for Edmund 

 and Thomas Horde, deceased. The manor was in the 

 possession of Thomas Turgis at the time of his death, 

 1 704, he having devised it to his kinsman, Mr. William 

 Newland, 64 from which time the history of this manor 

 is the same as that of Bottals and Rookesley. 



IWARDBY. Argent a 

 saltire engrailed sable 

 and a chief sable with 

 Fwo molets argent there- 



HORDE. Argent a 

 chief or ivith a raven 

 therein. 



M Fife R. 20 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 3. 



30 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 125*. 



81 Rot. Lit. Pat. (Rcc. Com.), 142. 



Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 115*. 



Ibid. 



M Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 45*. 



> 6 Rot. Lit. Pat. (Rec. Com.), 142. 



88 Excerftae Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 88. 



" Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 484*. 



88 Chart. R. 56 Hen. HI, m. 4. 



Ibid. m. 3. 



40 See Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xiv, 44. 



41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, pt. ii, no. 



J* 



48 The name ' Butele ' oceurt in 1205-6. 

 See Cat. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), i, 16*. 



48 Recov. R. SUIT. East. 1659, rot. 15. 



44 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 1659. 



Feet of F. Div. Co. Mil. 27 Geo. II. 



48 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Geo. Ill ; 

 Hil. 6 Geo. III. 



Will of Anthony Chamier, dated 

 9 Oct. 1780, P.C.C. 465 Collins; see 

 also Recov. R. Surr. Mich. 22 Geo. Ill, 

 rot. 37. 



48 Burke, Visit, of Seats and Arms 

 (1855, Ser. 2), ii, 203. 4 Ibid. 



60 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Hen. VI, no. 3 ; 

 Plac. in Cane, file 30, no. II. 



41 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 41, no. no. 



M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 6 Hen. VIII. 



68 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64. But tee 



280 



note on Chertsey for the authenticity of 

 the charter. 



44 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. Ill, 75. 



Ibid. 



66 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Hen. VI, no. 3. 



*7 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 41, no. no. 



68 Chan. Proc. Eliz. Bb. xxviii, 60. 



59 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 460. 



80 Feet of F. Surr. East. 4 Eliz. 



61 See Bodl. Chart. 10, n, 12; Feet 

 of F. Surr. East. 12 Jas. I ; Hil. 10 Chas. I. 



89 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxviii, 



12. 



68 Feet of F. Surr. Mich 1662 ; Recov. 

 R. Mich. 14 Chas. II, rot. 217. 

 64 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 460. 



