

COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



There is no mention of the so-called manor 

 of SHAWFQRD (Standeford, Shaldeford, Rokesley, 

 xv cent. ; Rixley, xvi cent.) until the middle of the 

 15th century ; but as early as 1229 John de Scalde- 

 ford is mentioned as owning half a hide of land in 

 Ewell, 65 and twenty years later William de Standeford 

 claimed common of pasture in Ewell, of which his 

 uncle Joceus de Standeford (whose heir he was) was 

 seised as of fee as pertaining to his free tenement in 

 ' Scaldeford,' the day on which he died. 66 



Manning and Bray, 67 quoting an undated deed in 

 the Rawlinson MSS., give a grant by Henry Picot of 

 Chessington of a tenement in ' Schaldeford," in the 

 parish of Ewell, and of a mill in ' Schaldeford,' in 

 Long Ditton, to John de Rokesle. The witnesses, 

 John d'Abernon and William Ambesas, date the 

 deed about 1297, when those two were knights 

 of the shire. 



In 1458-9 Simon Melbourne and others released 

 to John Merston and Rose his wife for the term of 

 their lives, with remainder to William, nephew of the 

 said John, and Anne his wife, all right in the ' manor 

 of Shaldeford alias Rokesley,' formerly called ' Stande- 

 ford,' in the parish of Ewell, without impeachment 

 of waste.' 3 This manor was then worth 5 marks 

 and included a barn worth 4*. and two tenements, 

 100 acres of land, 261. %d. rent in the parishes of 

 Ewell and Cuddington worth 5 marks, and was said 

 to be held of the Prior of Merton, service unknown. 

 John and Rose died so seised and William and Anne 

 entered and were seised in fee tail. William died 

 26 October 1495, and was succeeded by his son 

 William. 69 About fifty years later it was owned by 

 Edward Jenens, who, dying without issue, left it to 

 his aunt Jane wife of Robert Kempe. Her only 

 daughter and heir married John Wight, and they had 

 one son Rhys. 70 Then it seems to have come into 

 the possession of John, Lord Lumley, at that time 

 lord of Ewell Manor, for in 1 593 he quitclaimed it 

 to Margaret Sanders, widow,' 1 for the sum of 100. 



In 1714 William Newland" was holding the 

 manor, and thenceforward its history follows that of 

 the manors of Bottals and Fitznells. 



At the Domesday Survey ' the men of the Hun- 

 dred' deposed that the reeves of the king's manors 

 had abstracted two and a quarter hides of the manor 

 of Ewell with appurtenances. 7 * This is believed to 

 be the manor of KINGSWOOD, which Henry II 

 granted with Selswood as parcel of the manor of 

 Ewell 74 to the Prior and canons of Merton." It 

 was augmented by 5 acres of wood granted by Richard 

 de Bures, 1208." 



In 1291 the Prior and convent of Merton were 

 granted licence to inclose their wood of Kingswood, 

 which was of their own soil and without the bounds 

 of the forest, and which they held by grant of the 

 king's progenitors. 77 



In 1 5 3 5 Kingswood Manor was worth 1 4 6.-. 8^., 78 

 including the perquisites of court valued at 14*. 8</. 

 The manor continued in the priory till its dissolution, 

 when it was annexed by Henry to the honour of 

 Hampton Court. Queen Elizabeth granted it to 

 William Lord Howard of Effingham and Lady Mar- 

 garet his wife for the service of one-fortieth part of a 

 knight's fee " ; it descended to their son, who was 

 created Earl of Nottingham. His son Charles died 

 seised of it in 1642,* having settled it on his second 

 wife Mary daughter of Sir William Cockayne. 81 She 

 held a court there as lady of the manor. 8 ' On her 

 death, 1651, the manor should have passed to Sir 

 John Heydon, the reversion of the manor having 

 been granted to him in consideration of the military 

 services of his brother Sir William Heydon, 6 * but 

 as Sir John Heydon had been a Royalist officer and 

 died in i653, M it is doubtful if he was ever in posses- 

 sion. His name, according to Manning, does not 

 appear in the court rolls. In 1656 the manor was 

 conveyed by Charles Cockayne and his wife Mary to 

 Sir Thomas Bludworth, 66 another Royalist partisan, 

 who held a court as lord in October 1 660. He lived 

 at Flanchford, Reigate (q.v.). He was succeeded by 

 his son Charles, who held his first court 1698, 

 and in 1703 conveyed the manor to Richard Lynch 

 and Thomas Brandon, possibly trustees for Thomas 

 Harris, who held a court in 1708 ; it then descended 

 to his son Thomas, whose nephew John Hughes ^ 

 in 1791 sold the manor to William Jolliffe, whose son- 

 Hylton Jolliffe was owning it in 1804." It was sold 

 about 1830 to Mr. Thomas Alcock, 85 from whose 

 executors it was bought by Sir John Hartopp, and 

 from his trustees by Mr. H. Cosmo Bonsor. The 

 manorial rights are in abeyance. 



The old parish church of ST. MART 

 CHURCHES THE VIRGIN, has been pulled 

 down, all except the tower, which is 

 of 15th-century date, and is built of flint with stone 

 dressings in three stages. The west doorway is original, 

 and has moulded jambs and a two-centred arch, but is 

 restored with plaster. The window over it, also old, 

 has three cinquefoiled lights with tracery under a 

 two-centred arch. On the east side there are remains 

 of the nave walls, which are now used as buttresses- 

 and to form the sides of a porch. There is also part 

 of the west wall of the south aisle. 



The middle stage has single cinquefoiled lights on 

 the north-west and south sides, but a good deal of the 

 stone has been plastered over. The top stage has 

 two-light windows of similar character in each face. 

 The stair turret is on the south-west, and the top of 

 the tower has a much-repaired parapet and angle 

 pinnacles. 



The two-centred tower arch is of typical 15th- 

 century character, the moulded jambs having attached' 

 shafts with octagonal moulded bases and capitals. 



M Feet of F. Surr. ij Hen. Ill, no. 



35- 



M Cur. Reg. R. 135, m. 22. 



" Surr. i, 460. 



Close, 37 Hen. VI, m. *i. 



Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 511. 



J Chan. Proc. (Set. 2), cxciii, 41. 



n Feet of F. Surr. HiL 35 Eliz. 



1 Recov. R. Mich. I Geo. I, rot. 125. 



J V.C.H. Surr. i, 290. 



J 4 The three portions of the manor of 

 Ewell, Ewell itself on the northern side of 



the chalk, Kingswood detached from it on 

 the summit and southern side, and Shcl- 

 vrood further detached, down in the Weald, 

 indicate the isolated condition of human 

 habitation in the nth and even 1 2th 

 centuries. 



'* Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 



739- 



? 8 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. IO John. 

 JJ Pat. 19 Edw. I, m. 10. 

 J" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 48. 

 J Pat. 6 Eliz. pt. iv, m. 3. 



28l 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), dxx, 2 ; see' 

 also Rccov. R. Trin. 9 Chas. I, rot. 60 



81 B.M. Add. Chart 5638. 



82 Court Rolls quoted by Manning ano> 

 Bray, Surr. i, 461. 



88 Pat. 6 Chas. I, pt. viii, m. 5. 



84 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



85 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1656, pt. ii. 

 88 See Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 30 Geo. III.. 



87 Recov. R. Trin. 44 Geo. Ill, rot. 

 283. 



88 Brayley, Surr. iv, 272. 



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