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widow Theophila and son William sold to the Hon. 

 Thomas Pagett in 1 7 36." By Caroline daughter of 

 Thomas Pagett and her husband Sir Nicholas Bayly 

 in 1753 Parva Pachevesham was sold to George Lord 

 Carpenter, Earl of Tyrconnel, 74 whose son conveyed 

 to Lewis Montolieu in 1788." He sold it in 1792 

 to Henry Casmajor, who conveyed the mansion 

 house in 1795 to Thomas Kingscote, from whom it 

 passed by sale in 1802 to Sir John Coghill. 76 In 

 1812 Sir John sold to Nathaniel Bland, who in 1829 

 pulled down the old house, 

 which was a timbered one close 

 to the river, and built the pre- 

 sent house called Randalls Park 

 on a new site. Rather before 

 this the road leading to the 

 ford across the Mole and to 

 Fetch am had been diverted to 

 the westward, but still crosses 

 the river at the old ford." 

 The manor was bought in 1856 

 from Eland's trustees by Mr. 

 Robert Henderson, whose son, 

 Mr. John Henderson, is now 

 lord of the manor. 



THORNCROFT, a manor in Letherhead, formed 

 part of the lands of Richard de Tonbridge, lord 

 of Clare. 78 Of the honour of Clare the manor 

 was continuously held. 79 Jordan son of Amfred 

 held half a virgate in Letherhead in the reign of 

 Henry III. 80 This half-virgate William le Moine 

 in 1226 claimed against Henry son of Jordan, 61 and 

 in 1228 William Monk or le Moine quitclaimed his 

 right in a virgate of land in Letherhead to John de 

 Chereburg or Cheleburg, SI who according to the 

 Teita de Nevill held half a knight's fee there of the 

 honour of Clare. He alienated all his Letherhead 

 property to Sir Philip Basset and the Lady Ela his 

 wife, Countess of Warwick. 83 The countess and 

 Sir Philip in 1267 granted two carucates of land in 

 Letherhead to Walter de Merton for the support of 

 the house of his scholars at Oxford. 8 * Merton 

 College, Oxford, still holds the manor. 84 Sir Thomas 

 Bludder (vide Reigate) lived there, also Mr. Henry 

 Crab Boulton (vide Headley), who rebuilt the house 

 in 1772. It was occupied in the igth century by 

 Colonel Drinkwater Bethune, author of The Siege of 

 Gibraltar. 



MrNCHIN.ln 1 195 Ailric of Leddrede claimed 

 and obtained half a hide of land in Letherhead against 

 his brother Baldwin. 86 Baldwin's son, however, seems 

 to have owned it later, if this was the same half-hide 

 that William the son of Baldwin granted to Ralph de 

 Bradele in I248. 8 ' Whether or not this was the 

 land which was shortly afterwards in the possession of 

 the Apperdele family cannot be ascertained. The 

 Apperdeles held land in Letherhead at the end of the 



reign of Henry III when Henry de Apperdele claimed 

 against William de Apperdele and Maud his wife 

 various parcels of land in Letherhead which he de- 

 clared he had given to them when he was ' non 

 compos mentis, et extra se et extra mentem suam.' 

 He also thought that the Prior of Holy Cross, Reigate, 

 ought not to retain the 26 acres in Letherhead which 

 Alexander, Henry's son, had given him, because he 

 (Henry) had given them to Alexander when he was 

 mentally unbalanced, and that gifts made at such a 

 time were quite invalid. The other parties, however, 

 said that Henry had not been out of his mind at the 

 time, and had himself afterwards ratified his son's grant 

 to the prior, and five years after his grant to William 

 had further assured the same to him. The jury not 

 inclining to the excuse of mental aberration sent 

 Henry to prison. 88 



Roger de Apperdele in the 1 4th century founded 

 a chantry in Letherhead Church, 89 and in 1365 

 granted a messuage, 30 acres of land, 8 acres of 

 meadow, and l$s. \d. rent in Letherhead to the 

 Prior and convent of Kilburn. 90 Roger de Apper- 

 dele held some of his land of Sir John Argentine as 

 of his manor of Pachevesham and some of Merton 

 Priory." Part of the land given to the prioress seems 

 to have been rather poor ground : some of the pasture 

 was too stony to be sown, and some lay in so dry a 

 place that it could only be mown in a wet season." 

 This lay in the north of the parish bordering on 

 Letherhead Common, which is poor land; other 

 Apperdele land was between the river and the Dork- 

 ing road, now called Aprils. 93 The property re- 

 mained with Kilburn until its dissolution, when it 

 was granted under the name of the manor 94 of 

 Minchen to Thomas Stydolf, and then followed the 

 descent of Pachevesham S5 and the other Stydolf 

 property. 



The priory of Merton had an estate in Lether- 

 head which in the 1 6th century is called the manor 

 of PAKENHAM. In 1535 the possessions of the 

 monastery in Pachevesham were valued at 2O/. M In 

 1579 'the lordship and manor of Pakenham in 

 Letherhead, late part of the possessions of the 

 monastery of Merton,' was granted to Edmund 

 Downing and John Walker and their heirs. 97 There 

 seems to be no further trace of this manor. 



The church of ST. NICHOLAS con- 

 CHURCHES sists of a chancel 48 ft. by 1 6 ft., north 

 transept 30 ft. 5 in. by 1 6 ft. 4 in., 

 south transept 1 7ft. 8 in. by 1 3 ft. 2 in., nave 54 ft. 2 in. 

 long on its north side by 23ft. gin., north aisle 

 9ft. 5 in. wide, north porch, south aisle I oft. 7 in. 

 wide, and a west tower 1 7 ft. 9 in. wide by 1 2 ft. 10 in. 

 deep ; all these measurements are internal. 



The plan of the nave, apart from the interruption 

 caused by the irregular setting of the tower, is doubt- 

 less of the 1 2th century, as the early 1 3th-century arches 



7* Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 671. 

 7< Ibid. 



Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 28 Geo. III. 

 7 6 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 671. 

 7" Private information. 

 "> V.C.H. Surr. i, 319. 

 7' Teita de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68. 



80 Feet of F. Surr. 3 Hen. III. 



81 Rot. Lit. Claui. (Rec. Com.), ii, 210. 

 m Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219. 



88 Anct, D. (P.R.O.), A, 4586. 



" Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 51 Hen. Ill 5 



Coram Rege R. Trin. 51 Hen. Ill, rot. 

 14. 



86 See Pat. 9 Cha. I, pt. v, no. 23. 



86 Pipe R. 7 Ric. I, m. 1 8 d. 



W Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 32 Hen. III. 



88 Assize R. 874, rot. lod. 



88 Egerton MS. 2833. 



90 Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Edw. Ill (2nd 

 nos.), no. 34. 



91 Ibid. Certain land in Letherhead 

 was owned by Roger de Apperdele at the 

 time of his death, viz. a field of 30 acrei 

 named Long Aperdele said to be held of 



297 



the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, and 

 an acre and a half of meadow in Busche- 

 mede and a house in Letherhead held of 

 the Abbot of Netley. Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 45 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 37. 



Ibid. 



98 Local knowledge. 



94 Pat. 33 Hen. VIH, pt i. 



m Vide Pachevesham Magna. 



96 Vakr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 48. 



W Pat. 21 Eliz. pt. vi, no. I. Perhapi 

 this grant was in trust for Robert Darcy, 

 for ice Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. xvi, m. 17. 



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