EFFINGHAM HUNDRED 



afterwards it was acquired by Mr. Caesar Czarnikow, 

 the present lord of the manor. 43 



In the i jth century there appears to have existed 

 some doubt as to the legality of the franchises of the 

 de Clares in Effingham, and when William de Hevre 

 in 1279 claimed view of frankpledge, assize of bread 

 and ale, and other liberties in this manor, it was 

 declared on evidence that when the Dammartins and 

 Thomas de Warblington held the manor they were 

 geldable and came twice a year to the sheriff's tourn, 

 to which they paid St. yearly, but that Richard de 

 Clare, father of Gilbert the present earl, after he had 

 taken the manor unto his own hands, had unlawfully 

 appropriated the said rent. Moreover, it is stated that 

 William I had given this manor to Odo Dammartin, 

 his knight and member of his household, who with 

 his descendants had always had seisin of these liber- 

 ties. 50 In view of the Domesday entry the alleged 

 grant to Odo by the Conqueror can hardly be correct. 



EFFINGHAM PLACE COURT alias EFFING- 

 HAM. About 1316 Thomas de Geddyng died 

 seised of lands in Effingham, including 29 acres of 

 land at La Place, held of the manor of La Leigh by 

 the service of 2s., 4 acres of land held of the Lord de 

 Berners (Lord of West Horsley Manor in Woking 

 Hundred) by the service of I ^d., also a hall, chamber, 

 granary, fishery, and dovehouse at La Place. His 

 heir was Walter de Geddyng, son of his brother 

 Walter." In 1320 Walter de Geddyng conveyed 

 his lands in Effingham under the name of a messuage, 

 80 acres of land, 60 acres of wood, and 6s. rent to 

 Master John Walewayn to hold for life, with remain- 

 der to William son of Humphrey de Bohun and his 

 issue. 51 William de Bohun had a grant of free warren 

 in his demesne lands of Effingham in 1328. 



In 1347 Humphrey son of Humphrey de Bohun 

 granted the reversion of certain lands to Sir John de 

 Pulteney, 5 * a distinguished citizen of London and five 

 '.imes lord mayor, and apparently a similar transaction 

 ook place in regard to some of William's lands also, 

 for in 1362 Sir William de Pulteney conveyed the 

 manor of Effingham (said to be formerly of John his 

 father) to trustees." In 1363 these trustees settled 

 it on Nicholas de Lovayne and Margaret his wife, 

 widow of Sir John de Pulteney," for their lives, with 

 remainder to William de Pulteney, and failing issue 

 to him, to Guy de Lovayne and his heirs. 56 William 

 died without issue in 1367. Whether Lovayne suc- 

 ceeded is not clear, for in 1478 Lawrence Downe 

 died seised of the manor, said to be held of John de 

 Berners as of his manor of West Horsley, leaving his 

 grandson John son of Thomas Downe his heir. 57 

 In 1491 John Downe and Joan his wife sold the 

 manor to John Leigh," who in 1544 conveyed it to 

 the Crown." 



In 1550 Edward VI granted the manor to Lord 



HOWARD, Earl of Not- 

 tingham, bore the arms 

 of HOWARD with the 

 difference of a raolet. 



EFFINGHAM 



William Howard, 60 who died seised of it in 1573," 

 having in 1554 received the title of Baron Howard 

 of Effingham as a reward for his services in suppress- 

 ing Wyatt's rebellion. 61 His son and heir, Charles 

 Howard, distinguished as commander-in-chief against 

 the Spanish Armada and created in 1588 Earl of 

 Nottingham," suffered a recovery of this manor in 

 1622," and on his death in 1624 it passed to his 

 eldest surviving son Charles, second Earl of Notting- 

 ham. 65 The latter was succeeded by his half-brother 

 Charles, third Earl of Not- 

 tingham, who in 1647 con- 

 veyed the manor to Thomas 

 Turgis. 66 The latter, by will 

 dated 1703 and proved in 

 1705, gave the manor to Wil- 

 liam, third son of Thomas 

 Urry of Gatcombe in the Isle 

 of Wight, 67 subject to such 

 interest as his wife Mary had 

 in some part of it. 66 William 

 suffered a recovery in 1 704," 

 but leaving no children the 

 manor passed to Thomas 

 Urry, who died unmarried 



in 1776, having bequeathed his estates to his niece 

 Elizabeth, wife of Windsor Heneage, with instruc- 

 tions that the court for his manor of Effingham 

 should be kept every three years. 70 Elizabeth had by 

 her husband, Windsor Heneage of Haynton, two 

 daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, who became co-heirs. 

 Elizabeth married Basil Fitzherbert Squire, of Swyn- 

 nerton, Staffordshire, and Mary married William 

 Fitzherbert Brockholes of Claughton Hall, Lanca- 

 shire. 71 Thomas Fitzherbert Brockholes, son of Mary 

 and William, suffered a recovery of this manor in 

 1832," but in the same year the estate, comprising 

 upwards of 800 acres, was disposed of in lots, the 

 manor and manor-house (in- 

 cluded in the homestead of 

 the Upper Farm), with the 

 woods and other lands to the 

 extent of 358 acres, being 

 purchased by Sir Thomas Hus- 

 sey Apreece, bart., 73 who died 

 in 1833, leaving an only son, 

 Sir Thomas G. Apreece, who 

 died unmarried in i842. 74 

 The manor is now held by 

 Colonel E. Latimer Parratt. 

 The manor of EFFING- 



A p R F. i c E, baronet. 

 Sable three bloody spear- 

 heads argent. 



manor 



HAM-LA-LEIGH was al- 

 leged to be Chertsey property as early as 675, 

 when Frithwald, Subregulus of Surrey, and Bishop 

 Erkenwald were said to have granted to the abbey 

 twenty dwellings at Bookham-cum-Effingham. 76 But 



*' Surr. Dir. 1 907. 



"> Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 739, 



743- 



61 Exch. Inq. 10 Edw. II, no. 42. 



" Feet of F. Surr. 14 Edw. II, no. 21. 



" Cal. Pat. 1317-21, p. 255. 



M Close, 36 Edw. Ill, m. 20 ; Feet of 

 F. Div. Co. 36 Edw. Ill, no. 100. 



M Cal. Close, \ 349-54, p. 249. 



' Feet of F. Div. Co. 37 Edw. Ill, no. 

 628. 



' Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. IV, no. 14. 



68 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 6 Hen. VII. 



" Feet of F. DJT. Co. East. 36 Hen. 

 VIII ; Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. x, m. 33. 



Pat. 4 Edw. VI, pt. ix, m. 48 ; 

 Lansd. MSS. no. 49. 



61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxlv, 171. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. 



Ibid. 



64 Recov. R. Trin. 20 Jas. I, rot. 15. 



es Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxii, 69. 



M Feet of F. Surr. East. 23 Chas. I. 



87 H. B. Wilson, Hist, of Merchant 

 Taylors' School, 1172; Berry, Hants Gen. 

 357- 



323 



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

 709. Mary quitclaimed all right in the 

 manor to William Urry after the death of 

 Thomas. Close, 3 Anne, pt. ii, no. 20. 



69 Recov. R. Mich. 3 Anne, rot. 49. 

 7 P.C.C. Will Collier, 289. 



71 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 

 709 ; H. B. Wilson, loc. cit. 



T Recov. R. Mich. 3 Will. IV, rot. 

 368. 



"' Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 486. 



" 4 G.E.C. Baronetage, V, 233. 



'' Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64. 



