A HISTORY OF SURREY 



1 2 34, 19 and which passed to Gilbert d'Abernon, uncle of 

 Ingelram, by reason of Jordan d'Abernon, the rightful 

 heir, having surrendered his claim. 20 Gilbert paid a 

 relief of 40 marks to the sheriff in 1235 on taking up 

 this inheritance, and on his death, in the next year, 

 the custody of his land and of his heir was granted to 

 John de Gatesden, then sheriff of Surrey and Sussex." 

 The heir of Gilbert was probably the John d'Abernon 

 who in 1252 granted to William d'Abernon a tene- 

 ment in Fetcham," and who claimed liberties in the 

 manor in 1252-3." He was sheriff of Surrey and 

 Sussex in 1266," and was apparently dead in 1279, 

 when his son John was made a knight." The elder 

 John had also been a knight. 86 The son John claimed 

 the same rights as his father in 1279." In 1314 

 John d'Abernon the son was _ holding the manor,* 8 

 and in 1326-7 died seised of it as a holding con- 

 sisting of half a messuage, 100 acres of land worth 

 25*. per annum, 8 acres of meadow, and 19*. from 

 rent of free tenants, leaving a son and heir of the 

 same name. 19 The latter w.is sheriff of Surrey and 

 Sussex in 1330 and I334, 30 and in 1339 settled 

 Fetcham on his grandson William son of John and 

 Margery wife of William. 31 



William died in 1358," leaving a daughter Eliza- 

 beth then wife of William Croyser, and afterwards of 

 John de Grey of Ruthyn. 33 In 1395 William son 

 of Elizabeth and William Croyser was holding the 

 manor," of which he died seised jointly with his 

 wife Edith in 1415, leaving a daughter and heir 

 Anne," then aged nine years, and before her thirteenth 

 year the wife of Ingram Bruyn, son of Sir Maurice 

 Bruyn. 36 Anne subsequently married Sir Henry 

 Norbury, and died in 1464, leaving a son and heir 

 Sir John Norbury," afterwards Vice-Marshal to 

 Richard III,' S who inherited these estates and married 

 Jane daughter of Sir Otes Gilbert. Their daughter 

 Anne married Richard Hallywell of Devon, and had 

 a daughter Joan, 39 who in 1514-15 was holding the 

 manor jointly with her husband Edmund Lord Bray. 

 In a bailiffs account of Lord Bray's manors of Fetcham 

 and Letherhead for this date the rents of assize for 

 the two manors amounted to ll us. l^J.; the 

 farm of the manor and the demesne lands was 8 a 

 year." 



In 1548 Joan settled the manor upon herself and 

 her husband for their lives, with remainder to John 

 Bray their son and heir. 41 The latter married Ann 

 daughter of Francis fifth Earl of Shrewsbury, and was 

 summoned to Parliament as a baron from 1545 to 

 1555, but on his death without issue in 1 5 5 7 his estates 

 were divided among his six sisters and co-heirs, 



Fetcham falling to the share of Frances, the youngest, 

 who married Thomas Lyfield." In 1575 a settle- 

 ment was made on Thomas Vincent and Jane his wife, 

 daughter of Thomas and Frances, with remainder to 

 Francis Vincent and Bray Vincent, sons of Thomas 

 and Jane. Francis married Sara daughter of Sir 

 Amias Paulet in 1589," and in 1617 settled this 

 manor on his son Anthony on the occasion of his 

 marriage with Elizabeth daughter of Sir Arthur 

 Ackland." Anthony was sheriff of Surrey and 

 Sussex in 16367." He was named as a sequestrator 

 of delinquent estates by the Long Parliament, but 

 died in 1642, and was succeeded by his son Sir 

 Francis. He married Catherine daughter of George 

 Pitt and died in 1670," having settled this manor 

 on his fourth son Thomas Vincent," who in 1693, 

 jointly with his wife Mary, conveyed it to Thomas 

 Folkes, 48 the latter probably acting in the interest 

 of Francis, fifth Baron Howard of Effingham, for 

 whose widow he was executor in 1727.** 



Thomas, Lord Howard, son 

 of the said Francis, suffered a 

 recovery of the manor in 

 172 1, 50 and died without issue 

 four years later. His nephew, 

 Thomas Howard, Earl of Ef- 

 fingham, was seised of it in 

 1742." In 1801 Richard, 

 nephew of Thomas and last 

 Earl of Effingham, 4 * conveyed 

 the manor to James Laurell, 4 * 

 who made his seat at Eastwick 

 Park in Great Bookham, and 

 subsequently sold this property 



to the family of Hankey of Fetcham Park, 64 whose 

 descendant, Mr. John Barnard Hankey, is lord of the 

 manor at the present day. 



In 12523 John d'Abernon received a grant of 

 free warren in his demesne lands of Fetcham," and 

 the privilege is mentioned as appurtenant to the manor 

 in a conveyance of 1607.' In 1279 John d'Abernon 

 claimed in addition to have view of frankpledge and 

 all things pertaining thereto from time immemorial." 



In 1303 Henry de Gildford had a grant of free 

 warren in his demesne lands in Fetcham, 58 but there 

 is no other trace of his connexion with Fetcham, ex- 

 cept that in 1284-5 ne was appointed custodian of 

 Robert d'Abernon, rector of Fetcham, who was under 

 age at the time of his admission to the rectory.*' 



At the time of the Domesday Survey the king's 

 manor included 4 mills worth \s., and Richard de 

 Tonbridge received 6s. 64. from another mill, 60 which 



HANKEY. Party gules 

 and azure a leafing wolf 

 erminois wounded in the 

 shoulder. 



19 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 270. There it an exhaustive article on 

 the d'Abernoni by C. S. Percival, Dir.S.A. 

 and formerly Fellow of Trinity Hall, in 

 Surrey Arch. Coll, v, 53. 



80 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), 

 172. Ibid. 305. 



82 Feet of F. Surr. 30 Hen. Ill, no. 31. 



83 Chart. R. 37 Hen. HI, m. 3 (i). 



24 Madox, Hist, of Exch. 24, 4. 



25 Purl. Writs (Rec. Com.), i, 216, 218; 

 Pat. 7 Edw. I, m. 21 d. 



86 Add. Chart. 5547- 

 * Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747. 

 88 Cat. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Com.), i, 266. 

 29 Chan. Inq. p.m. Edw. Ill, file 3, 

 no. i. 



80 Lists of Sheriff, 135, 136. 



"Feet of F. Div. Co. 13 Edw. Ill, 

 no. 267. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. file 139 (ist no*.), 

 no. 23. M Ibid. 



84 De Banco R. 538, m. 3 380, 



86 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 37. 



Ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 30. 



8 ? Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 282. 



88 Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 392. 



88 Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 221. 



40 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 

 480. 



41 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. JJ 

 Hen. VIII. 



42 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, ii, 1 1 ; Feet 

 of F. Surr. East. 3 & 4 Phil, and Mary. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlvii, 99. 

 44 Ibid, ccccxcii, 106. 



286 



45 List ofSheriffi, 138. 

 41 G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, i, 158. 

 Will P.C.C. Penn, 68. 

 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 5 Will, and 

 Mary. 



49 Surr. Arch. Coll. ix, 431. 



50 Recov. R. Mich. 3 Geo. I, rot. 267. 



51 Ibid. East. 15 Geo. II, rot. 191. 



68 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iii, 237-8. 

 M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 41 Geo. III. 



54 Br yley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 415. 



55 Chart. R. 37 Hen. Ill, m. 3 (i). 

 " Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 5 Jas. I. 



W Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747. 

 48 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 74. 



69 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 486 (quoting from the episcopal register). 



M y.C.. Surr. i, 279, 297. 



