COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



NEWDIGATE 



gate apparently falling to the share of Joan the widow 

 of William Beauchamp, Lord Abergavenny, as in 

 1576 the manor was held of her descendant, Henry 

 Nevill, then Lord Abergavenny. 6 The early history 

 of the tenants of Newdigate in subfee is difficult to 

 trace. In 1292 John de Montfort was granted free 

 warren in his demesne lands in Newdigate. 7 He was 

 succeeded by his son John, who was slain in battle at 

 Bannockburn in 1314* ; he left no children, and was 

 succeeded by his brother Peter, who is said to have 

 been previously in holy orders, but to have become 

 a knight on inheriting. He married Margaret the 

 daughter of Lord Furnival. By her he had one son 

 Guy, who died in his father's lifetime.' Guy had 

 married Margaret Beauchamp, 10 and on his death 

 Peter settled the reversion of his estates on her father, 

 Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick." Peter died 

 in 1367" and the earl succeeded, holding of the 

 Earl of Arundel. In 1369 he enfeoffed John de 

 Bokyngham, Bishop of Lincoln, and several others, of 

 the manor of Newdigate, 13 probably in order to settle 

 it upon his son Thomas, who inherited at his death 

 in 1369." At this point Dugdale states that Baldwin 

 de Freville, son of Elizabeth one of the sisters and 

 .heirs of Peter de Montfort, claimed and recovered the 

 manor of Newdigate with that of Ashtead, and that 

 from him it passed to the family of Aston 15 (vide 

 Ashtead). Aubrey also says in his book on Surrey 

 that the manor of Newdigate was left by the Baldwin de 

 Freville, who died in 1400, to his son Baldwin, who 

 died a minor, leaving three sisters co-heirs, of whom 

 Joyce the wife of Roger Aston inherited this manor. 16 

 There is, however, no mention of property in Newdi- 

 gate in any of the subsequent inquisitions on the 

 Frevilles and Astons, but this might arise from the 

 fact that the manor was small and appurtenant to 

 Ashtead. That they actually did hold Newdigate is 

 proved by the settlement of one third of the manors 

 of Ashtead and Newdigate made in 1419 by Hugh 

 de Willoughby and his wife 

 Margaret, one of the sisters of 

 Baldwin de Freville, upon 

 themselves and their heirs male. 

 Ultimately the whole of Ash- 

 tead went to the Aston family, 

 who inherited through Joyce 

 another sister of Baldwin de 

 Freville." In 1543, when 

 Sir Edward Aston conveyed 

 Ashtead to the king, he also con- 

 veyed rents and appurtenances 

 in Newdigate. 18 Tradition 

 exists that these same lands 

 were granted by Henry VIII 

 to Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 and were identical with the 

 manor of Marshlands, which the college subsequently 

 held. 19 Unfortunately no grant to the college exists, 



TRINITY COLLEGE, 

 CAMBRIDGE. Argent a 

 cheveron between three 

 rotes gules and a chief 

 gules with a leopard 

 between fwo bibles or 

 therein. 



but the fact that part of that estate held by the family 

 of Newdigate, which came to be called the manor 

 of Newdigate, was held of the manor of Marsh- 

 lands,* appears to corroborate the presumption that 

 Marshlands was the original manor of Newdigate. 

 The manor remained in the possession of Trinity 

 College until the middle of the igth century, when 

 it was sold to Mr. Henry Fowler Broadwood, whose 

 father and grandfather had held it on lease, 81 and 

 whose grandson is the present owner. 



At Trinity College there are several surveys of the 

 manor of Marshlands, and these show its gradual 

 decay and deterioration. In 1564 their estate at 

 Newdigate was divided amongst various tenants who 

 paid quit-rents, heriots, and owed suit of court. In 

 1702 the manor-house, then in good repair, was let 

 to Dr. Akehurst, and sublet to Joseph Peter, and the 

 estate included three other farms Naylors, Horseland, 

 and Bearland. By 1756, however, the manor and farms, 

 of which there were then only two besides the manor 

 farm, were falling into ruin. Naylors seems to be now 

 incorporated with Horseland or Horseyland. The soil 

 had apparently never been fertile, but incompetence 

 and neglect, and the increasing poverty of the tenant, 

 had hastened the general deterioration. Reference is 

 made to quit-rents worth about 3O/., which had been 

 collected by Mr. Capon, a recent tenant, but it was no 

 longer precisely known who had paid them. A court 

 had been called within the last twenty years, but no 

 one had attended it. Cattle had been brought to the 

 pound, but the tenant had refused to admit them ; 

 the pound was now ruinous and part of it had been 

 carried away. It was then suggested to unite the 

 manor farm and one of the others, which appears 

 to have been done. The estate was much improved 

 during the tenancy of the Broadwoods, who gave great 

 care and attention to the timber. 



The second reputed manor of NEWDIGATE was 

 not called a manor until the 1 6th century. It 

 appears to have originated in lands which were held 

 there at a very early date by 

 the family of Newdigate, whose 

 name is derived from the place. 

 Mr. Budgen showed various 

 documents to Manning," which 

 prove that they were holding 

 property in Newdigate from 

 the 1 3th century, and besides 

 these there is a conveyance in 

 1234-5 f na lf a carucate of 

 land by Roger de London to 

 Richard de Newdigate," while 

 further lands there were granted 

 to William de Newdigate and his brother Richard 

 in 133 56." The Newdigates evidently continued 

 to acquire various tenements which they held of 

 different overlords, and in time their estate came to 

 be called a manor. The inquisition taken in 1592 



NEWDIGATC of New- 

 digate. Gules three lions 9 

 legs razed argent. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxix, 76; 

 clxxxiii, 74. 



I Cal. of Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 428 ; 

 Chart. R. 21 Edw. I, 86, m. 3. 



9 Surr. Arch. Coll. six, 29 ; Banks, 

 Dormant and Extinct Peerage, i, 376. 

 9 Ibid. W Ibid. 



II Add. Chart. 20422. 



13 Not in 1357 asin Banks, op.cit. He 

 went to law in 1364. See under Ash- 

 tead. 



'' Close, 43 Edw. Ill, m. 8 d. 



14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. Ill, no. 19 ; 

 Close, 46 Edw. Ill, m. 1 5 (bis). 



15 Dugdale, Baronage, ii, 105. 



18 Aubrey, Hist, and Antij. of Surr, iv, 

 262. 



W Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 1 3 Hen. 

 VI, no. 63. 



18 Aug. Off. Deeds of Purch. and Exch. 

 c. 49 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 35 Hen. 

 VIII, no. I9 . 



19 Gent. Mag. Aug. 1811, p. loo. 

 Letter to Trin. Coll. Cambridge from Mr. 



3" 



Broadwood, 1876 (Docs, re Marshlands at 

 Cambridge). See deed of Mr. Budgen's 

 quoted by Manning and Bray, op. cit. 171. 



30 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxix, 76, 

 ccxxxiii, 74 ; Docs, re Marshlands in New- 

 digate at Trin. Coll. Cambridge. 



31 Docs, at Trin. Coll. Cambridge. 



83 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 173. 

 38 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 19 Hen. HI. 



84 Add. Chart. 17303. See also article 

 on the Newdigate family, Surr. Arch, 

 Coll. vi, 227. 



