A HISTORY OF SURREY 



atte Sonde, his feoffee. 69 The manor was held by his 

 son and grandson John Dewey and Roger Dewey aSas 

 Fridlee. 70 Roger Fridlee granted the manor to James 

 Janyn and Nicholas Glover, who enfeoffed John 

 Wydoweson and Isabel his wife." 



In 1449 John Wydoweson was in possession of 

 the manor then first called the manor of Fredley 

 (Frydelees) in Mickleham, 78 and the following year 

 he and his wife Isabel granted the manor (then simply 

 styled Mickleham) to William Wydoweson." A 

 William Wydewson presented to the living in 1492," 

 so was perhaps still holding Fredley. He is buried in 

 Mickleham Church, where his wife also was buried in 



I513- 



Nothing more is known of the manor till 1528, when 

 Sir John Mordaunt granted a lease of land in it," and 

 in 1571 Lewis, Lord Mordaunt, his grandson, alienated 

 the manor to William Lever or Leaver/ 6 From William 

 Leaver the manor of Fredley descended to his son and 

 grandson, John and Thomas Leaver, the latter in- 

 heriting it in 1640." Documentary evidence of the 

 descent is wanting, but according to Manning and 

 Bray Thomas Leaver left sisters, Mary and Joan 

 Leaver, as his heirs. The former married Edward 

 Arnold,' 8 the latter Edward Turner. The Arnolds 

 in 1682 sold their moiety to Mr. John Spencer of 

 Dorking, who in 1691 purchased Turner's moiety. 

 On the same authority Spencer devised to Margaret 

 wife of Gilbert Parker. 79 They sold Fredley to 

 Samuel Hawkes in IJ21. 60 Hawkes, according to 

 Manning and Bray, was succeeded by his nephew 

 Samuel Lamb, by whom Fredley was again sold in 

 1762 to Cecil Bisshop, afterwards Sir Cecil Bisshop, 

 and Susannah his wife. 81 Cecil Bisshop is distin- 

 guished for building the famous Juniper Hall on 

 the site of the old Royal Oak Inn. This fine old 

 house afforded a kindly shelter to French emigres in 

 troubled times. 88 Sir Cecil Bisshop died in 1779. 

 Mr. David Jenkinson, a lottery agent, bought the 

 property, and built Juniper Hill. In 1803, on the 

 death of his son, the property was broken up. Mr. 

 Worrall bought Juniper Hall and sold it in 1814 

 to Mr. Thomas Broadwood, from whom it was 

 bought by Miss Beardmore. Her heir conveyed it 

 in 1868 to Mr. F. Richardson, who in 1882 sold 

 it to Mr. George McAndrew. Juniper Hill was 

 bought by Sir Lucas Pepys, bart., M.P., who married 

 the Countess of Rothes and took the name of Leslie. 

 It passed through them and Colonel Lambton to 

 Mr. J. H. Bryant in 1884, and in 1899 to Mr. Leo- 

 nard Cunliffe. 



A third portion was ultimately bought by Mr. 



Sharp, F.R.S., 'Conversation Sharp.' He left it to 

 his adopted daughter, Mrs. Drummond, who built 

 the house now called Fredley. It is the property of 

 her daughter, Mrs. Kay. 



As early as 1253 the priory of Reigate held a tene- 

 ment in Mickleham of Robert de Watevile. 83 Their 

 property, afterwards known as the manor of WEST 

 HUMBLE, was augmented by the grant of John de 

 Mickelham, who gave to the Prior and convent of 

 Reigate a house and is. %d. rent with the advowson 

 of the church in Mickleham. 8 * Licence for the 

 alienation was granted by the king in 1345 at the 

 request of Queen Philippa. 85 The priory held their 

 land until the Dissolution. Before that event, earlier 

 in the reign of Henry VIII, it had been leased by the 

 priory, under the name of the manor of ' West Humble 

 in Mikelham,' to Thomas Stydolf for 99 years. 

 StydolPs right in certain lands in Mickleham was con- 

 tested by John Arnold, who declared that he had been 

 unjustly ousted by Stydolf from the peaceful occupa- 

 tion of his land in Mickleham, leased to him, so he 

 said, for 99 years, by the Prior of Reigate in the 

 March of 1 52 1. 86 He accused Stydolf of having set 

 his servants to kill him, one of whom assaulted him 

 with a sword and ' strake ' him ' upon the raynes of 

 his bak ' and ' there cut his coot,' his enemies' inten- 

 tion being to cut his head off, and ' playe at the fote- 

 ball therewith,' according to the admission of Stydolfs 

 own daughters. StydolPs reply was that the lease of 

 the lands in question had been made to him in 

 August 151 6. 8 ' An audit of rents of the late priory of 

 Reigate in 1537 shows three years' rent from Thomas 

 Stydolf and John Stydolf his son for the manor of 

 West Humble 15 is/. 88 



After the dissolution of Reigate Priory the Stydolfs 

 remained as tenants of the manor, which they held of 

 Lord William Howard and his successors, 89 to whom 

 the lands of the dissolved priory were granted in 

 1 55 1. 90 The lease seems to have been renewed at 

 the end of the ninety-nine years, as in 1 68 1 a rent 

 of 6 $s. %d. was still paid to the successors of the 

 Howards. 91 



The Stydolfs now held the three manors in Mickle- 

 ham Norbury, High Ashurst, and West Humble 

 all Mickleham, in fact, except Fridley. As Norbury and 

 Ashurst, so West Humble passed, in Anne's reign, to 

 the grandson of Sir Richard Stydolf, 98 James Tryon, 

 whose nephew, Charles Tryon, in the reign of 

 George III, 1765, levied a fine of the same manor to 

 Sewallis Shirley for purpose of sale. 93 According to 

 Manning and Bray the manor was sold to Chap- 

 man in 1776, in 1780 to Hopkins, and in 1781 to 



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

 nos.), no. 38. 



7 De Banco R. Mich. 5 Edw. IV and 

 44 Hen. VI, ra. 619. 



H Ibid. 



7* Close, 27 Hen. VI, m. 109. He 

 appears to have been enfeoffed by Rich- 

 ard Horton, who was probably a trustee, 

 as were, doubtless, Janyn and Glover. 



" B Feet of F. Surr. East. z8 Hen. VL 



7 4 Winton Epis. Reg. Courtney, 430. 



' 6 Deed in private hands. See also 

 Exch. (L.T.R.) Memor. R. East. 29 Hen. 

 VIII, rot. 6. 



7 Pat. 1 3 Eliz. pt. xi. 



"Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxvi, 150; 

 ccccxcii, 54. 



78 Edward Arnold, of Fridley,' wa 

 churchwarden in 1 670. The Arnolds had 



farmed Fridley in the previous century. 

 From 1549 to 1635 there are 68 baptisms 

 of Arnold children. 



~' J Manning and Bray, S;,rr. ii, 655. 



so Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 7 Ceo. I. 



81 Ibid. 12 Ceo. III. A fine between 

 John Matthews and Cecil Bisshop occurs 

 in 1772. 



** Hill, Jumper Hall. 



83 Feet of F. Surr. East. 37 Hen. III. 



84 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. Ill (znd nos.), 

 no. 86. 



85 Cat. Pat. 1343-5, p. 526. 



88 Ct. of Req. bdle. 1 1, no. 46. 

 "7 Ibid. 



88 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiii (2), 1264. 



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

 (18 Eliz.) ; cclxxx, 69. 



90 Pat 33 Hen. VIII, pt. vii, m. i; Mar- 



306 



garetwife of Lord William Howard was suc- 

 ceeded by her son Charles, Lord Howard 

 of Effingham, from whom the priory's 

 lands descended to his granddaughter, 

 Elizabeth wife of the Earl of Peterborough 

 (Pat. 12 Chas. II, pt. xviii, no. 16). 

 Charles II in 1660 made a grant of these 

 lands to Viscount Mordaunt de Avalon, 

 son of the Countess of Peterborough (Pat. 

 12 Chas. II, pt. xviii, no. 16), by whom 

 they seem to have been conveyed, by 

 fine, in 1681, to John Parsons (Feet of 

 F. Surr. Mich. 33 Chas. II), who also, 

 in the same year, levied a fine to Grace 

 Pierpoint (Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 33 & 34 

 Chas. II). 



81 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 33 Chas. II. 



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



Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 5 Geo. III. 



