COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



MICKLEHAM 



TALBOT, baronet. 

 Gulct a lion in a border 

 engrailed or with the 

 difference of a crescent. 



Tryon, according to Manning and Bray, the manor 

 descended to his nephew, Charles Tryon, whose son 

 Charles, in 1766, sold it to Anthony Chapman of 

 London for 35,000. Chap- 

 man sold Mickleham Manor 

 to Benjamin Bond Hopkins of 

 Paine's Hill in 1775, and he 

 in 1779* sold it to Charles 

 Talbot, afterwards a baronet. 

 He died in 1798. His family 

 held the manor till 1871, 

 when the baronetcy being ex- 

 tinct the Misses Talbot sold it 

 to Mr. R. H. Mackworth Praed, 

 the present lord. Mickle- 

 ham Hall, built by Sir C. H. 

 Talbot, was bought at the 

 same time by the late Mr. Gordon W. Clark, and is 

 now the seat of his son, Mr. H. H. Gordon Clark." 



Meanwhile Ashurst had been separated, as a re- 

 puted manor, but bearing the name of Mickleham, 

 and had been sold by Chapman in 1776 to Mr. Robert 

 Botall." From him it passed to George Morgan," 

 and in 1804 was conveyed by John Morgan to 

 F. R. V. Villebois." In 1817 it was bought by 

 Mr. Andrew Strahan, the king's printer. In 1855 

 it was purchased from his nephew by Sir Henry 

 Muggeridge ; it passed in 1862 to Sir Richard Glass, 

 and in 1872 to J. C. Wilson. It is now the seat of 

 the Dowager Countess of Harrowby." 



NORBURr was evidently the estate in Mickleham 

 which in 1086 belonged to Richard son of Earl 

 Gilbert ; it was then assessed for two hides." From 

 Richard de Tonbridge the overlordship descended to 

 the De Clares, Earls of Gloucester," from them to 

 the Despensers, 49 and in the reign of Henry VI be- 

 longed to their descendant Isabel, Countess of War- 

 wick. 49 As her ultimate heir was Anne Beauchamp 

 who married Warwick the King-maker, the 

 overlordship must have fallen to the Crown after 

 his death and attainder in 1471 ; but in the 

 1 6th century it was said to belong to the warden 

 and scholars of Merton College, Oxford, and Nor- 

 bury to be held as of their manor of Thorncroft ; M 

 this is evidently an error. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey Norbury 

 was held under Richard de Tonbridge by Oswold, 

 who had formerly been the tenant under Edward 

 the Confessor. The next holder of whom any- 

 thing is known was Odo de Dammartin, who during 



the 1 2th century granted to the monks of St. Pan- 

 eras a third of his tithe in Mickleham. 51 His 

 daughter, Alice de Dammartin, held half a fee 

 there," and Margery widow of Odo de Dammartin 

 had as her dower, among other lands, the manor of 

 Mickleham." 



From the Dammartins the manor passed to William 

 Husee, who in 1314 held 'the manor called Le 

 North Bury ' in Mickleham as half a knight's fee of 

 Earl Gilbert de Clare. 6 * He was granted free warren 

 there by Edward II," and had licence for an oratory 

 in his manor between 1323 and 1333." 



In 1349 l ^ e manor was held by Isabel Husee," and 

 in 1376 by another William Husee. 63 The next 

 holder of Norbury appears in Thomas Stydolf, who 

 died seised of it in 1545." He has been connected by 

 Manning and Bray with William Husee, in direct de- 

 scent. According to these historians Isabel daughter of 

 William Husee married William Wymeldon, the grand- 

 child of whose son Ralph, Isabel Wymeldon, married 

 Thomas Stydolf who died in 1545. The Stydolfs 

 held Norbury with their other Mickleham manors 

 until the latter half of the 1 7th century. 61 In 1705 

 the manor became the property of James Tryon, grand- 

 son of Sir Richard Stydolf. 61 According to Manning 

 and Bray James Tryon devised Norbury to his nephew 

 Charles Tryon, who settled it upon his wife. She 

 lived at Norbury till 1 764, and then granted her life 

 interest to her son Charles, 63 who with his wife Re- 

 becca, in 1765, levied a fine to Sewallis Shirley. 64 In 

 1766 the estate was sold (according to Manning and 

 Bray) to Anthony Chapman, who sold it to William 

 Locke in 1774. Mr. Locke built the present house. 65 

 In 1819 his son sold Norbury to Mr. E. R. Robinson, 

 who, however, sold it again in 1822 to Mr. E. Fuller 

 Maitland, who exchanged it with Mr. H. P. Sperling 

 for Park Place, near Henley-on-Thames. Mr. Sper- 

 ling made great improvements in the beautiful grounds. 

 In 1 848 he sold it to Mr. Thomas Grissell, whose 

 family sold it in 1890 to Mr. Leopold Salomons. 66 



FREDLET. In 1336 John de Mickleham, after 

 having granted the manor of Mickleham with the 

 exception of a messuage, 1 20 acres of land, and 

 4 acres of wood, to Roger de Apperdele, granted 

 the excepted premises, also under the name of the 

 'manor of Mickleham,' 67 to his son-in-law John 

 Dewey, husband of Margery de Mickleham. 66 



In 1365 John Frychele or Fridlee alias Dewey 

 settled a house, 80 acres of land, and 4 acres of wood 

 in Mickleham on himself and his wife Joan, by Hugh 



40 In 1779, not 1780,35 Manning and 

 Bray say, for in 1779 Talbot, as owner, 

 made an agreement with the parish about 

 a right of way (Parish Books). 



41 Private and local knowledge. 



Com. Pleas D. Ear. Hil. 16 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 1 3 3. Botall himself seems to have told 

 Manning that he bought it from Hopkins. 



48 Feet of F. Surr. East. 21 Geo. III. 



44 Recov. R. Mich. 44 Geo. III. 



45 Private and local information. 

 V.C.H. Surr. i, 317. 



4 " Teita de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219, 

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



48 Ibid. 23 Edw. Ill (pt. 2, ist not.), 

 no. 169. 



Ibid. 18 Hen. VI, no. 3. 



50 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 66. 

 Thorncroft includes lands in Mickleham 

 now, but not Norbury. 



61 Cat. of And. Deeds, iii, A. 3978. 



11 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219. 

 Robert de Mickleham also seems to have 

 held half a fee (according to Testa de 

 Nevill^ of the honour of Clare. 



M Feet of F. Div. Co. 1 5 & 1 6 Hen. Ill, 

 89. 



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



" Chart. R. 1 1 Edw. II, m. 9, no. 42. 



66 Egerton MS. 2032. 



W Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill (pt 2, 

 1st nos.), no. 169. 



68 Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill (pt I, 

 2nd nos.), no. 46. 



Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 89. 



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

 651. From deeds, apparently. The Visi- 

 tation in Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 38*, alto 

 connects Thomas Stydolf with Husee in 

 descent through the Wymeldons, but 

 makes Isabel Wymeldon marry George 

 Stydolf, their son being Thomas Stydolf. 



305 



61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 66 5 

 cclxxx, 69 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 

 14 Chas. I. 



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



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

 652. 



4 Feet of F. Surr. Hit 5 Geo. III. 



65 On the hill. The old house wa near 

 the river. Part of it was preserved and 

 is now a farm-house. 



M Local and private knowledge. 



6 7 Compare the common use of the 

 name, the manor of Mickleham for 

 Mickleham and Ashurst later. 



68 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 10 Edw. Ill 5 

 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 108 ; 

 Cal. Pat. i334-8,p. 232. This'manor* 

 was subsequently held of the king by half 

 of the original service owed by the manor 

 of Mickleham. See Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 

 Edw. Ill (2nd not.), no. 38. 



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