A HISTORY OF SURREY 



of land, 10 acres of pasture, and 2 acres of wood in 

 Mickleham. 11 Robert's property descended to his son 

 Gilbert," who augmented it by his marriage with Alice 

 daughter of Peter de Rival, with whom he received 

 30 acres of land and rent and services of John Adrian 

 and others." He and his wife were also conjointly 

 enfeoffed by William de Bures of 4*. rent of assize." 

 He died in 1292 or 1293," and was succeeded by 

 his son John. In 1332 John conveyed the manor of 

 Mickleham (certain premises afterwards known as the 

 manor of Fredley excepted) to Roger de Apperdele. 

 Roger son of Roger de Apperdele settled it on his son 

 Richard to hold during his father's lifetime, 16 Richard 

 evidently died without issue, as it came to his brother 

 John, 17 who forfeited Mickleham when he was out- 

 lawed as a felon in 1366." The king, having the 

 manor as an escheat, granjted it, first to Simon de 

 Bradestede, 18 then to William Croyser.' Afterwards 

 Roger de Apperdele appears to have tried to regain 

 the manor by denying that he had made any grant 

 to his sons." Evidently he was not successful, as 

 Edward III about that time granted it to William, 

 Bishop of Winchester." Before this date Fredley and 

 West Humble (see below) had both been separated 

 from the manor of Mickleham, which is now referred 

 to as half, and sometimes as two thirds or two parts. 

 In 1402 the bishop received pardon for alienating 

 what is termed half the manor to Nicholas Wykeham " 

 and five other clerks." From these clerks the manor 

 or portion of the manor passed to another clerk, 

 John Brommesgrove, described as holding two parts 

 of the manor.* 1 ' Brommesgrove, in 1431, alienated 

 it to Lawrence Doune, who is said to have held two- 

 thirds of the manor.* 6 Half of this was bought from 

 him by Ralph Wymeldon and Isabel his wife in 

 1464." In 1481 Richard Wymeldon died seised of 

 a third of the manor known subsequently as Little- 

 burgh aRas Mickleham.* 8 He left a son Thomas, 

 whose daughter Isabel married Thomas Stydolf. The 

 other part of the manor, which belonged to Laurence 

 Doune, seems to have been acquired by William 

 Ashurst, who held it in I485- 30 Together with 

 land which William Ashurst already held in Mickle- 

 ham 30 '' it descended under the name of Mickleham 

 abas High Ashurst to his son John. 31 In 1511 

 William brother of John Ashurst quitclaimed his 

 right to Robert Gaynesford, whose son Henry in 

 1535 conveyed it to Thomas Stydolf. 5 ' From this 



time Littleburgh and Ashurst are sometimes treated 

 separately and sometimes as different names for the 

 same manor. 



In 1538 Thomas Stydolf appears as owner of two 

 parts of one part of the manor of Mickleham, formerly 



WYMILDON. Argent 

 a chevcron azure between 

 three eaglet table. 



STYDOLF. 

 chief table 



Argent a 

 wish fwo 



wol-vet* 

 therein* 



heads razed or 



the land of John de Mickleham, Henry Burton and 

 John Walk being trustees, to his use. 3 * At his 

 death in 1545 he is described as holding a third 

 of the manor of Mickleham alias High Ashurst." 

 John Stydolf succeeded his father Thomas, being 

 followed by his son, another Thomas, who was 

 succeeded by his son, Sir Francis. 34 



John Evelyn gives an account of a visit to Sir 

 Francis Stydolf at Mickleham in August 1655. He 

 says : ' I went to Boxhill to see those rare natural 

 bowers, cabinets, and shady walks in the box copses : 

 hence we walked to Mickleham, and saw Sir F. 

 Stidolph's seate environ'd with elme-trees and walnuts 

 innumerable, and of which last he told us they receiv'd 

 a considerable revenue. Here are such goodly walkes 

 and hills shaded with yew and box as render the 

 place extremely agreeable, it seeming from these ever- 

 greens to be summer all the winter.' " This de- 

 scription is one that might have been written 

 yesterday, for Surrey's lovely hill is still as fair in 

 winter as in summer. 



In the following century Sir Richard Stydolf 

 left two daughters, Frances wife of James, Lord 

 Astley," and Margaret wife of James Tryon, and 

 to the two sons of the latter, Charles and James 

 Tryon, the Stydolf lands descended. 58 In 1705 

 the two sons made a partition of the pro- 

 perty, the manor of Mickleham alias High Ashurst 

 alias Littleburgh falling to James." From James 



11 Kirby's Quest, fol. 97. Betides his 

 service to the king, he owed rent and suit 

 at the court of Bctchworth to ' Lord John 

 de Berewyk,' and also rent to William 

 Agulham for a certain tenement in the 

 manor. 



12 Exch. Enr. of Inq. rot. iv, m. 7, 



18 Exch. Enr. of Inq. rot. iv, m. 1 1 ; 

 Inq. p.m. zi Edw. I, no. 129. His wife 

 Alice apparently afterwards married Wil- 

 liam de Clyvedene (Inq. a.q.d. i Edw. II, 

 no. 86). 



14 Exch. Enr. of Inq. rot. iv, m. II. 



16 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. I, no. 38. 



11 Col. Pat. 1348-50, p. 421 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 48. 



W Ibid. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 40 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 60. 



Ibid. 



80 Abbrev.Rot. Orig. (Rcc. Com.), ii, 28 8. 



al Plac. in Cane, file v, HiL 41 Edw. 

 Ill, no. 5. 



a Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. Ill, pt. i, 

 no. ii. 



ffl Cal. Pat. 1401-5, p. 227. Before this 

 date conveyances were made to two of these 

 clerks, Nicholas de Wykeham and Master 

 John Campeden, by Roger de Friddele and 

 John Apperdele son of John Apperdele of 

 Letherhead, of 133 acres of land, 150 acres 

 of pasture, 6 acres of wood, and 141. rent in 

 Mickleham (Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 14 Ric. 

 II ; Mich. 1 5 Ric. III). This is the same 

 as the extent of the two thirds afterwards 

 given, so that the fines were probably for 

 assurance of title. 



Ibid. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Hen. VI, no. 43. 



16 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. VI, no. 12. 

 The extent here given, viz. 133 acres of 

 land, 150 acres of pasture, 6 acres of wood 

 and 141. rent is the same as that in the 

 fines mentioned above ; but in the inquisi- 

 tion taken after Brommcsgrove's death 

 the two parts were said to consist of 

 1 20 acres of arable land, 200 acres of 

 pasture, and 1 5 acres of wood. 



Cal. Pat. 1436-41, p. 545. 



58 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. IV, no. 71. 



34 



He had acquired it from Isabel Wymeldon 

 in 1464 (Fine R. 4 Edw. IV, m. I ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1461-7, p. 321). Why it is 

 called Littleburgh is unknown. There is 

 no reason to connect it with Bergt in 

 Domesday. 



29 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 651. 



80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xx, 24. 



8011 The Ashursts had land in Mickle- 

 ham, called High Ashurst, of which there is 

 record in 1439 and 1477 (Deeds quoted 

 by Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 656). 



81 Ibid. 



82 Manning and Fray, Surr. ii, 656. 



88 Mem. R. (L.T.R.) East. 30 Hen. 

 VIII, rot. I. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Hen. VIII, no. 

 89. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxv, 69 

 (i Tas. I) ; clxxv, 66 (18 Eliz.). 



86 Evelyn's Diary, 27 Aug. 1655. 



" He died 1674 (monument at Mickle- 

 ham). 



88 Close, 4 Anne, pt. iii, no. 16. 



Ibid. 



