A HISTORY OF SURREY 



de Hevre, apparently the successor of Leukenore, was 

 holding Effingham, 15 " but not long after the De Clares 

 seem to have resumed their possession, for in 1295 a 

 capital messuage and tenements in Effingham were 

 held by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, as 

 member of Blechingley, 16 and in 1306, during the 

 minority of his son and heir Gilbert, the manor was 

 held by John Pichard" (who in 1278 had been 

 acting as attorney for the late earl ") by service of 

 one fee, of the honour of Blechingley, then in the 

 king's hands. The said Gilbert in 1314 died seised 

 of lands at Effingham held as member of Blechingley, 

 including a messuage, 1 1 2 acres of arable land, of 

 which 50 were worth z$j. per annum or 6J. per acre, 

 and 62 were worth 201. SJ., or 4^. per acre ; 4 acres 

 of meadow worth 101. or 2/. 6J. per acre ; 30 acres 

 of boscage worth 5/., or 'zd. per acre ; 74*. \d. rent of 

 assize ; customary work worth 32*. 9^. per annum ; 

 pleas and perquisites of the court worth 3/. 19 



In 1317 Thomas de Geddyng was holding at 

 Effingham a third of a curtilage called ' Bellosehagh ' 

 containing rood of land held of the inheritance of 

 the Earl of Gloucester by service of \d., and owing 

 suit every three weeks at the East Court, ' which is in 

 the king's hands by the death of the said Earl.' He 

 also held of the said court 7 acres of land called 

 ' Golereslond ' by service of 51. t,\d., owing suit as 

 above." In 1 347 Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester, 



CLARE. Or three cheve- 

 nm gvlet. 



AUDLKY. Gulfs fretty 



died seised of tenements in Effingham held respectively 

 for a quarter and a tenth of a knight's fee, which he 

 Jiad by his wife Margaret daughter and co-heir of 

 Gilbert de Clare. In 1372 Ralph de Stafford died 

 seised of this tenement, having married Margaret 

 daughter of the said Hugh." 



Their son Hugh died in 1386," and on the death 

 of his son Edmund, Earl of Stafford, the manor was 

 taken into the king's hands by reason of the minority 

 of Humphrey son of Edmund, afterwards Duke of 

 Buckingham." The latter settled this manor after the 

 death of his eldest son Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, at 

 St. Albans, 1455, on his third son John, Earl of Wilt- 

 shire, and Constance his wife." Their son Edward 



STAFFORD. Orachtvt- 

 ron gules. 



dying without issue in 1498-9," the manor reverted 

 to Edward, Duke of Buckingham," who was attainted 

 for high treason and beheaded in 1521." In 1528 

 the manor was granted to John Bourchier, Lord 

 Berners,* 8 on whose death in 

 1533 it was conveyed by his 

 executor Francis Hastings, and 

 Joan his wife, to Henry, Mar- 

 quis of Exeter. 19 The latter 

 in 1535 settled it on himself 

 and Gertrude his wife and 

 their heirs, 50 but on his at- 

 tainder in 1538 it was forfeited 

 to the Crown, and in 1 547 

 was granted by Edward VI to 

 Sir Anthony Browne,* 1 one of 

 the knights of the Bath at the 

 Coronation, created in 1554 Viscount Montagu." 

 Anthony, Viscount Montagu, his grandson, conveyed 

 the manor in 1618 to Henry Weston and Thomas 

 Grey. 33 In 1625 Thomas Grey and William Grey 

 conveyed the manor to William Wall and John 

 Fielder, 34 apparently trustees, for William Grey died 

 seised of the manor and capital messuage of Effingham 

 East Court in 1645, leaving a son and heir Thomas, 

 aged eighteen." 



In 1660 Thomas Grey sold to Matthew Tayler, 

 grocer of London, for the sum of 3,000, the manor 

 of Effingham East Court, a tenement and farm called 

 Nice Court in Effingham, and the rectory and parsonage 

 of Effingham. 36 Matthew died in 1678, having be- 

 queathed this manor, with the farm of Nice Court 

 and the rectory, to his grandson Thomas White, 

 younger son of Thomas White and of Margaret daughter 

 of Matthew. 37 Thomas White suffered a recovery in 

 I692, 38 and manorial courts were held in his name in 

 1696, 1697, and l698. 39 In 1732 William White 

 son of Thomas * suffered a recovery of the manor, 41 

 and by his will dated 1758 devised it to trustees to 

 sell for the payment of debts and legacies." In 1790 

 William White son of William sold to William 

 Bryant, 43 who resold in 1793 to Gerard Dutton 

 Fleetwood of Letherhead. The latter died in 1796, 

 and was succeeded by John Fuller, 44 who with Dinah 

 his wife made a conveyance of the manor in 1799 to 

 William Lyson. 46 The manor was subsequently pur- 

 chased by General Oliver de Lancey, Barrack-Master 

 General, whose estates were, however, seized for debts 

 to the Crown in 1806, and vested in trustees for sale. 4 ' 

 This manor was purchased by Miles Stringer, who died 

 in 1839, but it was acquired by the Maxse family 

 before 1874, when Lady Caroline Maxse, daughter of 

 the fifth Earl of Berkeley and widow of James Maxse, 

 was lady of the manor. 4 ' Her son Admiral Maxse 

 held the manor in i8gi, 48 and died in 1900. Shortly 



"a Cal. Clou, 1271-9, pp. 90, 739. 



16 Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, no. 107. He 

 was also receiving 10 marks rent paid by 

 Roger de Home from a manor in Effing- 

 ham. 



V Subs. R. 34 Edw. I, bdle. 242, no. 44. 



18 Cal. Close, 1272-9, p. 489. 



Exch. Inq. 8 Edw. II, no. 68. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. Edw. II, file 54, no. 6. 



" Ibid. 21 Edw. Ill, no. 57. 



M G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vii, 210. 



M Mins. Accts. bdle. 1123, no. II. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 38 & 39 Hen. VI, 

 no. 50. 



15 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, viii, 165. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. IV, no. 13. 



* Exch. Inq. p.m. 12 & 13 Hen. VIII, 

 file 1074, no. 5. 



*> L. and P. Hen. Ylll. iv (2), 3991 

 (15) j Pat. 19 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. II. 



M Feet of F. SUIT. Trin. 35 Hen. VIII. 



80 Pat. 27 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 17. 



81 Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. vii, m. 13. 

 M G.E.C. Complete Peerage, v, 359. 

 88 Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 5 Jas. I. 



84 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. I Chas. I. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Misc. 

 dxxxvii, 13. 



M Close, 12 Chas. II, pt. x, no. 34; 

 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 12*13 Chas. II. 



3 22 



W P.C.C. Will Reeve 58. 



88 Recov. R. 4 Will, and Mary, rot. 1 90. 



> Add. MSS. 23751. 



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

 712. 



41 Recov. R. 5 Geo. II, rot. 213. 



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

 712. 



48 Close, 30 Geo. IV, pt. i, no. 10. 



44 Burke, Landed Gentry, 1886, p, 693. 



45 Feet of F. Mich. 39 Geo. III. 



46 Pub. Gen. Acts, 47 Geo. Ill, less. 2, 

 cap. 69. 



Surr. Dir. 1874, 

 Ibid. 1891. 



