COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



NEWDIGATE 



since then has been united to Newdigate under one 

 lord of the manor. 



In 1298-9 Walter de la Poyle died seised of the 

 site of the manor of CUDWORTH or CUDFORD, 

 in Newdigate and Rusper, Sussex, which he held of 

 the Abbot of Chertsey in socage, the house, court, 

 and garden then being worth ji. The lands were 

 held of various overlords, 50 acres from the abbot, 30 

 from the Earl Warenne of Surrey, 20 from John de 

 Montfbrt, &c. M His son and heir was John,' 9 who 

 presumably inherited the manor, though there is no 

 mention of it amongst the possessions he held in 

 demesne at his death in 13 17-1 8." Some years 

 later licence was granted to Henry de la Poyle to 

 have mass celebrated in the oratory of his manor of 

 Cudworth, 61 and in 1360, at his death, he was hold- 

 ing the manor of the king, the Abbot of Chertsey, the 

 Earls of Arundel and Warwick, &c., for various rents. 6 ' 

 After this there is no further mention of the estate 

 until 1574, when Thomas Bowett died seised of the 

 manor, which his father Richard had bought, and 

 which was said to be held of Sir Francis Carew." 

 Bowett's brother Nicholas succeeded him, and in 1 579 

 sold the property to John Thorpe." In 1622 the 

 lord of the manor was still a John Thorpe, 64 whether 

 the same or his successor does not appear, and in 

 1636 the estate was purchased 

 by Mr. Ede. 66 The extant 

 court rolls begin with courts 

 of John Ede in 1763 and 

 1773. In 1 775 67 it was sold 

 to Mr. Lee Steere Steere, 

 who died in 1785. It was 

 left to his wife for her life, 

 and at her death passed into 

 the possession of his grandson 

 Lee Steere Witts, who took 

 the name of Steere ; he died 

 in 1842. His son Mr. Lee 

 Steere Steere succeeded. The 

 grandson of the latter, Henry 

 Lee Steere of Jayes Park, is 

 now lord of the manor. The 



manor-house is of some age, and is surrounded by a 

 moat. It was long occupied as a farm, but was con- 

 verted again lately into a gentleman's house. 



There was also a farm or tenement in Newdigate 

 called GREENES, sometimes referred to as a manor, 

 with lands in Newdigate and Capel. In 144950 

 John Grene held land in Newdigate,* 8 and the family 

 again appears in 1457 and 1497. Towards the end 

 of the 1 6th century one half of Greenes was held by 

 Thomas Boorde, who died in January 1601 z. 69 His 

 son Ninian held it till his death in 1606, and 

 left a son and heir Herbert, then about four years 

 old. 70 By 1642 the property was in the possession of 



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o 



STEIRI of Jayes Park. 

 Ermine two ban table 

 with three bevanti or 

 thereon and a quarter 

 argent icith a chief table 

 and thereon a crois formy 

 betiveen fwo martlets or. 



Christopher Wheeler, yeoman, and he bequeathed it 

 in his will of that year, in tail male," to his grandson 

 Robert, who was holding it in 1663.'* In 1694 the 

 manor of Greenes was conveyed by John Hill of 

 Hurstpoint, gentleman, and Mary his wife, the 

 daughter of Robert Wheeler, to Thomas Patching." 

 Thomas Patching became a bankrupt in 1706, and 

 his property was conveyed to trustees for the benefit 

 of his creditors. 74 In 1714 it was conveyed by them 

 to John Woods, and by him to Ezra Gill, as the 

 manor of Greenes. In 1729 Greenes was settled on 

 the children of a marriage between Ezra Gill and 

 Mary Woods," daughter of John Woods. It descended 

 in the Gill and Frankland family (see Hashing and 

 Temple Elfold in Capel) till 1832, when J. H. 

 Frankland sold it to Mr. James Tschudi Broadwood 

 of Lyne, whose great-grandson is now owner. 76 



In 1291 it was found that the Prior of Merton 

 held a messuage and 60 acres of land in Newdigate, 

 which was of the ancient demesne of the Crown, and 

 Richard de la Sterte held it of him. 77 KINGSL4ND, 

 by its name, may answer to this ancient demesne, but 

 subsequent possession by Merton does not appear. 773 



On 14 January 1573-4 Matthew Wrighte of 

 Newdigate, yeoman, conveyed to Nicholas Bryne of 

 Reigate, tanner, his tenement in Newdigate, called 

 Kingsland, in the occupation of William Wood. On 

 5 October 1584 William Dible of Newdigate, 

 husbandman, gave a lease to William Wood, tanner, 

 of his messuage, barns, &c., and one half of his lands 

 called Kings Lands in Newdigate, ' as it lyeth divided 

 by the king's highway leading between Nudigate and 

 Capell on the south, and one pond and lymepitte on 

 the north,' in the occupation of William Wood. 78 

 Kingsland so lies on the present road. In 1619 

 Thomas Constable and Agnes his wife sold it to 

 Sir Thomas Bludder, whose widow and her second 

 husband sold it in 1655 to the former's mother, Mrs. 

 Hester Shaw. By will of 1659 Mrs. Hester Shaw of 

 London left Kingsland in Newdigate, consisting of two 

 messuages, barns, &c.,and 50 acres of land, in trust for 

 her daughter Elizabeth, Lady Bludder, then the wife 

 of George Farrington, who by deed of 12 April 

 1687 made an appointment of the property, charging 

 it with an annuity to her son, and naming trustees, 

 who on 10 June 1696 conveyed it, subject to the 

 said payment, to Thomas Patching, from whom it 

 descended as Greenes above. Thomas Patching 

 became bankrupt in 1706. On 25 August 1714 

 Kingsland and other property of Thomas Patching 

 was conveyed by trustees for his creditors to Ezra 

 Gill, Preston Patching, and George Arnold. On 

 26 September 1716 Kingsland was released to the 

 use of Ezra Gill, and descended in his family with 

 his manor of Temple Elfold, adjoining, in Capel 

 (q.v.). 7 ' 



68 Chan. Inq. 27 Edw. I, no. 44. 

 Ibid. 



80 Ibid. II Edw. II, no. 17. The 

 inquisition lays that he had no other land 

 than Guildford and Stoke in his own hands, 

 implying that there were others. 



' Index Winton Epis. Reg. Egerton 

 MS. 2031-4, iv, 58. 



69 Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill (lit 

 no*.), no. 71. 



68 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxci, 95. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 21 Eliz. 



u Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcii, 123. 



* Manning and Bray, Hiit. of Surr. ii, 



175- 



7 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. i Will, and 

 Mary ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. 



'75- 



68 Feet of F. Surr. 21 Hen. VI. 



69 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclnr, 145 5 

 Fine R. 44 Eliz. pt. i, no. 33. 



<o Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cczcii, 

 159. 



7 1 Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Chas. I, pt. xvi, 

 no. 145 j (Ser. 2) diuti, 145 ; P.C.C. 88 

 Rivers. 



313 



7* Recov. R. East. 15 Chas. II, rot. 28. 



7 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 6 Will, and 

 Mary. 



7 Com. under Great Seal, 3 July 

 1706. 



7* See Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. I Geo. I. 



7" Deeds in private hands. 



77 Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. I, no. 75. 



77* Unless this is the manor of Wyke- 

 lond : see under Charlwood. 



? 8 Deeds in private hands. 



7 Ibid. 



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