COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



There is a Wesleyan chapel and hall, a Baptist 

 chapel, and a Congregational chapel, which was 

 built in 1 844, but represents an older congregation. 



The Victoria Memorial Cottage Hospital was built 

 in 1903. 



Mr. John Lucas, by will, endowed a school with 

 $oo in 1797. The Highlands Road School 

 (National) was built by subscription in 18378. It 

 is now used as the boys' school. The girls' school in 

 Poplar Road was built in 1883. Fairfield Road (infants) 

 is on a site given to the vicar and churchwardens by 

 Mr. John Henderson of Randalls Park; and All Saints', 

 Kingston Road (infants), was built when the chapel 

 of ease was built. The schools were regulated under 

 a scheme of the Charity Commissioners in 1873. 



The earliest mention of Letherhead 

 MANORS occurs in the will of King Alfred, who 

 bequeathed land at ' Leodrian ' to his 

 son Edward," but it is uncertain with which part of 

 the Letherhead land mentioned in Domesday this is 

 connected. 



The Bishop of Bayeux was overlord of the manor 

 of PACHESHAM, later called MAGNA PACHE- 

 FESHAM, in Letherhead, at the time of the Domesday 

 Survey. 1 * Hugh held Pachevesham under the bishop. 

 His holding was that which had belonged to ./Elmer 

 under the Confessor." A certain Baingiard also held 

 part of Pachevesham, that which ^Elmer had held of 

 King Harold. Both owned moieties of mills. 15 

 Subsequently (probably when Odo's lands were 

 forfeited to William II) Pachevesham came into the 

 king's hands. In 1203 King John granted 60 soli- 

 dates and 2 denariates of land in Letherhead to Brian 

 de Therfield for rent of a sparrowhawk. 16 In the 

 reign of Henry III the royal estate seems to have 

 been held for three serjeanties. William Frankelen 

 then held certain land by finding a hall for the county 

 court, then held in Letherhead. Walter le Hore held 

 land by finding a prison for prisoners taken at the 

 sheriff's tourn, and William de Oxencroft " held his 

 land by finding a pound for cattle taken for the 

 king's debt. 18 The whole of the land held by the 

 serjeanties and the sparrowhawk passed to Walter de 

 Thorp. 19 He subinfeudated to Eustace de Hacche, 

 who held the manor in 1 2923,* when he was accused 

 before the justices itinerant of seizing upon horses and 

 carts that did not belong to him in Kingston market- 

 place, for carrying timber to his ' manor of Pacheves- 

 ham.' " He made a warren in Pachevesham." He 

 also appears to have acquired a rent a of I o/. which 

 King Richard granted to William d'Eyo,* 4 afterwards 

 held by Eustace d'Eyo " and Matthew Besill.* 6 



LETHERHfficAD 



The next lord of Pachevesham of whom there 

 seems to be any record was the favourite of Edward II 

 Piers Gaveston. To him free warren in his lands 

 in Pachevesham was granted by Edward in the year 

 he came to the throne. On Gaveston's marriage 

 with Margaret sister of the Earl of Gloucester, 17 

 two years later, the king confirmed Gaveston's grant 

 of Pachevesham to Robert Darcy and Joan his wife. 13 

 Charters of Edward III gave to Darcy free warren, 19 

 view of frankpledge, 30 a weekly market on Fridays, 

 and a yearly fair upon the festival of St. Peter ad 

 Vincula at Letherhead. 31 Dying in 1343, Robert 

 Darcy left a daughter Margaret, 3 * who married Sir 

 John Argentine or Argentham, 3 * who held the manor 

 in 1347." He died in 1 382-3, 35 leaving three co- 

 heirs, two grandchildren, and his daughter Maud, the 

 wife of Sir Ivo Fitz Warin, kt., who held the manor 

 in his wife's right until his death in l^l^.. 3 * They 

 left a daughter Eleanor, who had married John 

 Chideok." She presumably alienated the manor, 

 since William Massey 38 seems to have been lord of 

 Pachevesham in 1420, and Eleanor Chideok did not 

 die till I433-* 9 



Possibly William Massey left co-heirs, for it seems 

 that John Bacon and Reginald Rakett owned, in right 

 of their wives, Dorothy and Joan, three parts of the 

 manor of Magna Pachevesham in 1538, which they 

 conveyed by fine to Thomas Stydolf, who left it in 

 1545 to his son John.* There exists an account of 

 the boundaries of part of the manor at this time.' 1 

 The lane called ' Bygnallane,' the regia via from 

 Great Bockham to Kingston, appears to have formed 

 a boundary. This is the road that runs from 

 Bookham, over Hawks Hill, through Letherhead, and 

 on to Kingston. Probably the Letherhead part of 

 the road was ' Bygnallane.' Following the same 

 boundaries that divided the parishes of Letherhead 

 and Stoke d'Abernon, the manor stretched to places 

 named ' Page Grene,' ' Charlewood Corner,' ' Horns- 

 hyll,' and ' Ravennest,' and so to where the ditch 

 divided Pachevesham Common from the common of 

 Chessington. It crossed the old highway from 

 Dorking to Kingston, reaching Ashtead Common 

 and ' Asshested Crosse,' and so on to the ditch which 

 severed Pachevesham Common from that of Thorncroft, 

 another Letherhead manor. Thence it stretched to a 

 bridge named ' Woodbrydge,' and so by copses to 

 ' Bygnallane ' again. By this it seems that the manor 

 comprised all the northern part of Letherhead parish, 

 but did not extend south of the village. 



Stydolf having three parts of the manor, there 

 remained a fourth part, which was acquired by John 



Kemble, Codex Dipl. 



18 V.C.H. Surr. i, 303. 



14 Ibid. Ibid. 



16 Chart. R. 5 John, m. 24. The same 

 king also made a gift of 601. rent in 

 Letherhead to Richard Lewer for rent of 

 a sparrowhawk ; Testa de Nevill, 225. 



V The name of Oxencroft survived for 

 many years in a plot of land so called, 

 which with land named Potesland 

 escheated to the Crown, and was leased 

 by Henry VII and Henry VIII to John 

 Iwarby and Richard Hest and to Chris- 

 topher Smyth for terms of years. It was 

 granted by Edward VI to Sir William 

 Sackville (see Fine R. 1 Hen. VII, m. n; 

 37 Hen. VIII, m. 16 ; and Pat. 7 Edw. 

 VI, pt. xiii, m. 16). After this date there 

 is no further trace of the serjeanties. 



Various overlords are afterwards men- 

 tioned of Pachevesham : Hamo de Gatton 

 before 1310, the Prior of Merton and 

 Robert de Northwode, lord of Gatton in 

 1343. In 1509 the manor was said to 

 be partly held of Merton and later of the 

 Crown; Subs. R. Surr. bdle. 184, no. 4; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), 

 no. 54 ; (Ser. 2) xxiv, 46 ; 16 Hen. VIII, 

 no. 40. 



18 Blount, ' Tenures of Land and 

 Customs of Manors,* fol. 191. 



19 Assize R. 891. 



*> Ibid. Ibid. M Ibid. 



M Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 20 Edw. I. 

 " Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225. 

 45 Ibid. 227. *> Assize R. 865. 



V Chart. R. I Edw. II, no. 7. 

 * Pat. 3 Edw. II, m. 20. 



295 



89 Chart. R. i Edw. Ill, no. 42. 



Ibid. 2 Edw. Ill, no. 20. 



81 Ibid. 5 Edw. Ill, no. 47. 



a Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 54. 



88 Brayley and Britton, Hist, of Surr, 

 iv, 427. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), no. 48. 



8i Ibid. 6 Ric. II, no. 5. 



88 Ibid. 2 Hen. V, no. 38. The extent 

 of the manor then comprised a house iind 

 dovecote, 200 acres of arable land, 12 

 acres of meadow, 4 acres of pasture, 20 

 acres of wood, and a water-mill. 



8 ? Ibid. 88 Add. Chart. 27759. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Hen. VI, no. 38. 



40 Ibid. 37 Hen. VIII, no. 89. 



Ibid. 



