A HISTORY OF SURREY 



previously been in the possession of John Wikes, 3 ' having 

 apparently been excepted from the sale of the manor 

 by Richard Wikes in 1526. 



In 1560 Edward, Lord Windsor, leased the manor 

 to the family of Puttenham, 33 and seven years later he 

 sold it to John Vaughan and Anne his wife." Anne 

 was the daughter of Sir Christopher Pickering, and had 

 been three times married : first to Francis Weston,* 4 

 who had been involved in the accusation against Anne 

 Boleyn ; secondly to Sir Henry Knyvett ; and thirdly 

 to John Vaughan. 36 By a curious chance Francis 

 Weston was descended from John Camel's daughter 

 Katherine, sometimes called Anne, who married 

 Edmund Weston." 



Anne Vaughan outlived her third husband, and 

 dying in 1582 she was succeeded by her son Henry 

 Weston. 38 His son Richard became lord of the manor 

 in 1 5 92, 39 and he probably conveyed it to William 

 Stydolf, amongst whose lands it is mentioned on his 

 death in I6OO-I. 40 In 1677 William's grandson 

 Sigismorid settled the manor on himself and his wife 

 Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis Rolle, 41 and having 

 no issue he left it to her in fee." She married 

 secondly Michael Hyde, 43 and thirdly Thomas Edwin, 

 who owned Headley after his wife's death in 1734." 

 He died shortly afterwards, childless, and his nephew 

 Charles Edwin inherited the estate. Charles Edwin 

 died in 1756, leaving the remainder at the death 

 of his wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of the Duke 

 of Hamilton, to his nephew Charles Windham, 

 who took the name of Edwin, 44 and who in 1784 sold 

 the estate to Henry Boulton. 46 The mansion house 

 was sold by Boulton to Colonel Alexander Hume, who, 

 having married the daughter of William Evelyn of 

 St. Clare, Kent, took the name of Evelyn. 4 ' Colonel 

 Evelyn afterwards sold it to Robert Ladbroke, who, 

 having purchased the rest of the estate in 1 804 from 

 Mr. Boulton, was lord of the manor in iSog. 43 Not 

 long after the manor, but not the manor-house, was 

 again sold, and passed into the hands of Richard 

 Howard of Ashtead. 49 He was the brother of Sir Wil- 

 liam Bagot the first Lord Bagot of Bagot's Bromley, 

 Staffordshire, who on his marriage with the heiress of 

 Ashtead had assumed the name of Howard. 50 His only 

 child and heir, Mary, married in 1807 the Hon. 

 Fulk Greville Upton, who also took the name of 

 Howard on his marriage." Mary Howard survived 

 her husband a great many years, dying at the age of 

 ninety-two in 1877." Headley then became the 

 property of Colonel Charles Bagot, one of the sons of 

 her first cousin, also Charles Bagot. 43 After his death 

 in 1 88 1 the manor was purchased by the Hon. Henry 

 Dudley Ryder, who succeeded his brother as fourth 

 Earl of Harrowby on 26 March 1900. He died on 



1 1 November following, and his widow the Dowager 

 Countess of Harrowby is the present lady of the manor. 



A fair held at Headley on 24 August is mentioned 

 by Symmes. 54 



The manor-house, where Mr. Ladbroke resided 

 after the manor was sold, is now the property of Mr. 

 Walter Cunliffe. It has been turned into a farmhouse. 

 When Mr. Cunliffe bought it the strong-room with 

 arrangements for securing the prisoners' hands was 

 still existing. 



The church of ST. MART THE 



CHURCH VIRGIN consists of a chancel 31 ft. 



by 1 5 ft. 9 in. with a small north vestry, 



a nave 59 ft. 6 in. by 25 ft. 6 in. with a south porch, 



and a west tower I 3 ft. square inside. 



The present building was erected in 1855, except- 

 ing the tower, which was added a few years later. 

 The nave is in 13th-century style. The tower, the 

 ground story of which serves as a porch, is capped by 

 a shingled wooden spire changing from square to 

 octagonal above the eaves. The former church had 

 a low square tower at its west end, and is said to have 

 been much dilapidated before it was pulled down. All 

 that is left of it is set up in the churchyard over the 

 grave of the late rector, the Rev. Ferdinand Faithful, 

 who died in 1871, in the form of a small rectangular 

 ivy-covered building with a 15th-century arch at the 

 west, and in it are preserved a few details, such as the 

 tracery of a two-light window with trefoiled heads, 

 and the bowl of an 18th-century font. The present 

 font is modern. 



In the vestry are preserved two painted wooden 

 mural tablets, one to Elizabeth Leate, daughter of 

 Mr. Nicholas Leate, Turkey merchant, 'a worthy and 

 eminent citizen of London,' and aunt of a former 

 rector, Richard Wyld ; she died in 1680. The other 

 is to Margaret daughter of William and Mary Warren 

 of London, who died in 1675. There are several 

 18th-century monuments retained and reset in the 

 tower. 



In the tower is a mediaeval bell used for striking 

 the hour only. It is inscribed ' Sancta Katrina ora 

 pro nobis,' and bears the ' cross and ring ' shield of 

 Richard Hille of London, c. 1430. There is also a 

 set of eight cup-shaped gongs, put up in 1876. 



The communion plate consists of a cup of 1752, a 

 standing paten of 1706, a flagon of 1854, and a 

 small cover paten without hall marks. 



The registers date from 1663. 



The right of presentation to the 



ADPOWSON church of Headley belonged from the 



beginning of the 1 4th century to the 



abbey of Westminster, 55 until its dissolution in 1539- 



4O. 46 In 1350, during a vacancy in the abbacy, 



M Pat I Mary, pt. xiv, m. 21. 



8 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 2 Eliz. 



M Ibid. Surr. East. 9 Eliz. ; Recov. R. 

 Trin. 9 Eliz. rot. 141. 



8S Visit. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 7. 



M Manning and Bray, Hiit. of Surr. ii, 

 640 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc, 60 ; 

 Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. xiii, m. 1 1. 



W Visit. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 7. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc, 60 ; Pat. 

 29 Eliz. pt. xiii, m. xi. 



88 Two documents, Pat. 3 1 Eliz. pt. vi, 

 m. 1 7, and Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 3 1 Eliz. 

 record a conveyance of Headley to Tho- 

 mas Foster and Thomas Cowper, but from 

 the wording of the inquisition on Henry, 



and from the fact that Thomas Cowper 

 acted as trustee formerly for Lady Vaughan, 

 it seems most probable that this transac- 

 tion was for the purpose of settlement 

 upon Richard. 



40 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxiv, 175. 



41 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 29 Chas. II. 

 " P.C.C. 193 Smith. 



48 Aubrey, Antiq. of Surr. ii, 303. 



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

 640 ; Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 421. 



45 Ibid. ; Recov. R. Trin. 24 Ceo. II, 

 rot. 262 ; P.C.C. 164, Glazier. 



46 Feet of F. Surr. East. 25 Ceo. III. 

 4 ' Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 



640 ; Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 421. 



292 



48 Ibid. 



4 Ibid. 422. 



* Records of the Ashtead Estate and its 

 HoivarJ Possessors, 173 ; Burke, Peer- 

 age. 



51 Records of the Ashtead Estate and 

 its Howard Possessors, 176; Burke, Peerage, 



" Ibid. 



M Ibid. Surr. Dir. 1878, 1882. 



54 Symmes MS., Add. MSS. 6167, fol. 

 215. 



65 Index Winton Epis. Reg. ; Egerton 

 MSS. 2031-2034, ii, 8, 58, 138 ; iii, 17, 

 88, 138 ; iv, 15, 45, 78. 



66 Dugdale, Monasticon, \, 280. 



