COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



same terms, to John and Rose de Merston, who had 

 consented ' to marry according to the king's intent.' " 

 In the following year Rocheford transferred all his 

 right to Rose and John. 30 By 1464 the manor was 

 again disposed of to Richard Harleston and Thomas 

 Bradbrigge, yeomen, to hold for life." In the next 

 year, however, it was granted to Elizabeth Woodville 

 ' in part support of her expenses of her chamber ' ; 

 and in 1470, during the brief return to the throne of 

 Henry VI, the sum of 45 yearly was granted to the 

 Keeper of the Great Wardrobe from the custody of 

 the manors of Banstead, Walton, &c." In 1471 the 

 king gave the manor to George, Duke of Clarence," 

 and it reverted to the Crown on his attainder in 

 1478. 



In the reign of Henry VIII it became part of the 

 possessions of Catherine of Aragon, given to her appa- 

 rently in 1 509." In 1513 the queen granted a lease 

 of the manor to Richard Carew of Beddington at a 

 rent of 48 yearly." About twenty years later she 

 granted it at the same rent to his son Nicholas, Master 

 of the Horse to Henry VIII, for a lease of ninety-nine 

 years, which was afterwards changed to a grant of the 

 reversion to hold after Catherine's death at a rent of 

 40." This rent seems to have formed part of the 

 jointure of Henry's queen, Jane Seymour, for Walton is 

 included in a valuation of the 

 lands that had contributed to 

 her dowry. 3 ' In 1539 Sir 

 Nicholas Carew was attainted 

 and beheaded, and the king 

 annexed the manor to the 

 honour of Hampton Court, 

 which he had lately created, 58 

 and it was consigned to the 

 charge, first of Sir Ralph Sadler 

 one of the king's secretaries, 59 

 and in 1 544 of Thomas Ca war- 

 den of the Privy Council. 40 



Queen Mary in 1553 restored his father's estates 

 to Sir Francis Carew, 41 and he was holding the pro- 

 perty under Elizabeth." He never married, and his 

 sisters Mary, Elizabeth, and Anne were his heirs. 

 Elizabeth had no children, but the sons of Mary the 

 wife of Sir Arthur Darcy and Anne the wife of 

 Sir Nicholas Throgmorton in- 

 herited. 45 In 1615 Sir Francis 

 Carew alias Darcy conveyed 

 all his right in Walton to Sir 

 Nicholas Carew alias Throg- 

 morton of Beddington, 44 and 

 from this date until the end of 

 the 1 8th century the manor 

 was held by the direct descen- 

 dants of the latter." In 1762 

 Sir Nicholas Hacket Carew TH.OG MORTON. 



j. j ii t Ga/ a caeveron argent 



died, leavmg one only daugh- with three w f 

 ter Katherine. By his will he thereon. 



CAKF.W. Or thru 

 liont fasiant table. 



WALTON-ON- 

 THE-HILL 



left the estate to William Pellat in trust for her, with 

 remainder to the sons of his cousin John Fountain, 

 Dean of York, and after them to Richard the son of 

 his cousin Richard Gee of Orpington. 48 In 1769 

 Katherine Carew died unmarried, and in 1780 the 

 only son of the Dean of York also died without 

 issue. Richard Gee then in- 

 herited the manor and took 

 the name of Carew. 47 Mr. 

 Richard Gee Carew dying un- 

 married in 1816 left all his 

 estates to the widow of his 

 brother. She died in 1828 

 and left them to her cousin 

 Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallo- 

 well. He died in 1834, and 

 was succeeded by his son Cap- 

 tain Charles Hallowell, who 

 assumed the name of Carew 

 by royal licence. In 1 865-6 

 the Carew estates were broken 

 up. Mr. Henry Padwick was 



BONSOR. Six freees 

 azurt and argent with 

 three lion? heads razed 

 in the azure and a chief 

 indented erminoit with 

 three rotes gules therein. 



lord of the manor in 1891, but sold it shortly after- 

 wards to Mr. H. Cosmo Bonsor, the present owner. 



The manor-house was occupied in the 1 7th century 

 by other members of the Carew family who were not 

 the lords. A somewhat distant relative, George 

 Carew, Baron Carew of Clopton and Earl of Totnes, 

 was living here. His arms are on the house. In 

 1643 Mr. Nicholas Carew of the manor-house died 

 in Walton. Mr. James Ede of the manor-house died 

 in I825- 48 In 1865 Mr. Cumberland bought the 

 house, and in 1890 it was acquired by Mr. W. Rolle- 

 Malcolm, J.P., the present owner. 



The manor-house is a most interesting building, 

 containing amid much modern work a stone-built hall 

 of c. 1340, 38ft. by 21 ft., with a contemporary 

 chapel at its south-east corner. At the west or lower 

 end of the hall are the three original doorways once 

 leading to the buttery, pantry, and kitchen passage, 

 and at the south-east is an original doorway to the 

 chapel, while at the east end of the north wall is a 

 fifth doorway which opened to a newel stair. This 

 stair led to another doorway exactly over that last 

 named, opening either to a gallery across the east end 

 of the hall, over the dais, or perhaps merely to a 

 landing in the north-east angle. A fine 1 4th-century 

 doorway in the cast wall of the hall opened on to this 

 gallery or landing, and doubtless formed the main 

 approach to the great chamber, which must have been 

 at the north-east of the hall, on the first floor. A 

 passage must also have run outside the east wall of 

 the hall at the first floor level to a door in the north- 

 west corner of the chapel, leading to the west gallery 

 in which the household would sit. The chapel re- 

 tains considerable parts of an east window, a north 

 window, and two on the south, all original work, and 

 has had an external door at the south-west. In the 



89 Cat. Pat. 1436-41, pp. 121, 138, 

 160, 347. 



Ibid. p. 238. 



81 Ibid. 1461-7, p. 328. 



" Pat. 5 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 18 ; Cat. 

 Pat. 1467-77. P- *37- 



83 Cat. Pat. 1467-77, p. 241. 



84 Pat. 24 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 12. 

 84 Add. Chart. 22629. 



" Pat. 24 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. u 5 

 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, v, 1207 (13]. 



7 L. and P. Hen. rill, xii (2), 975. 



88 Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 361 5 L. and 

 P. Hen. nil, xv, 498 (36). 



L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xvi, 714 ; xvii, 

 695. 



40 Ibid, xix, 643. 



41 Pat. \ Maty, pt. viii. 



41 Add. Chart. 23703, 22903, 23232, 

 13234. 



48 Berry, Surr. Gen. 56 j Feet of F. 

 SUIT. Trin. 7 Jan. I. 



44 Add. Chart. 23720 ; Feet of F. Surr. 

 Trin. 13 Jas. I. 



44 Add. Chart. 23721, 22906, 22907, 

 23718, 23719, 23725 5 Recov. R. Trin. 

 35 Chat. II, rot. 183 ; Hit. 6 Anne, rot. 

 106 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 15 Geo. II. 



41 P.C.C. 370 St. Eloy. 



4 ? Manning and Brajr, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 527 5 Brajrley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 288. 



48 Parish Reg. 



