A HISTORY OF SURREY 



VII 



CHRISTCHURCH, Can- 

 terbury. Azure a crott 

 argent with the mono- 

 gram sable tkerton. 



In 1792 an Inclosure Act* enabled Mr. Currie to 

 inclose most of Horsley Common at the northern end 

 of the parish and the common fields and waste at 

 the southern part, on the Chalk. The parsonage and 

 glebe were at the same time removed, by exchange, to 

 other sites. 



The school (National) was established by Mr. Currie. 

 The entry in Domesday Book touch- 

 M4NORS ing the manor of EAST HORSLET 

 (Horslei, xiii cent. ; Horslegh, xiv cent. 

 &c.) reports it to have been held at that date by the 

 Archbishop of Canterbury for the sustenance of his 

 monks of Christchurch. 4 It is said to have been 

 granted for the purpose byThored in 1036.* But it 

 was later in the hands of the monks of Christ- 

 church, not of the archbishop 

 himself. 



In 1129 Edith of Horsley 

 gave a virgate of land in Hors- 

 ley to Geoffrey, Prior of Can- 

 terbury, to hold for a rent of 

 4<D/. during her life, of which 

 he was to be quit after her 

 death. 6 Edward II granted 

 to the Prior of Christchurch 

 the right of having free warren 

 in his demesne lands, 7 a pri- 

 vilege which was afterwards 

 confirmed by Edward III. 8 



East Horsley was taken into the king's hands at 

 the time of the Dissolution, and formed part of Queen 

 Mary's grant to the priory of Sheen when it was 

 refounded.' Under Elizabeth the Crown resumed 

 possession, and the manor was granted to John 

 Agmondesham, 10 whose family had held the manor of 

 Rowbarnes in East Horsley (q.v.) for some years. His 

 tenure was marked by an attempt to inclose part of 

 the common land of East Horsley ; a project opposed 

 by the Earl of Lincoln and Lord Montagu, who as 

 actual and contingent holders of West Horsley were 

 interested in the question. 11 He died without issue 

 in 1600, when the manor passed to his sister Mary 

 wife of William Muschamp. 1 * At Mary's death in 

 1620 she left a son and heir Agmondesham," who was 

 then forty years of age. He had a son William who 

 in 1646 made a settlement of the manor on his son 

 Agmondesham and Hester his wife. 14 According to 

 Manning and Bray 15 Agmondesham died in 1648 

 before his father, who died in 1 660, and was succeeded 

 by his grandson Ambrose. In 1701 Ambrose conveyed 

 the manor to Frances, Viscountess Lanesborough, widow 

 of his brother Denny Muschamp. 16 Lady Lanes- 

 borough bequeathed her Surrey estates in remainder 

 to Sackville Fox the youngest son of her daughter 

 Frances by Henry Fox." Sackville died in 1 760," 

 hij son James, who was then a minor, being heir 

 to his lands. James, shortly after his coming of age, 



SiiorExtTiR. Gulei 

 St. Paul's tv}Qrd erect 

 surmounted ty St. Peter't 

 keys. 



sold the manor to Robert Mackereth," who in his 

 turn conveyed to Thomas Page of Cobham. Page 

 died in 1781, and East Horsley was sold to Charles 

 Dumbleton," from whom it passed in 1784 to William 

 Currie." Brayley," writing about 1840, states that 

 shortly after Mr. Currie's death in 1829" the manor 

 was purchased by Lord Lovelace, with whose family 

 it remains. 



The SISHOP'S M4NOR 

 in East Horsley seems to have 

 belonged to the see of Exeter 

 throughout the Middle Ages. 

 It has been conjectured that 

 the Domesday entry to the 

 effect that 'Bishop Osbern of 

 Exeter holds Woking ' should 

 more properly be referred to 

 this manor, since there is no 

 trace of any land held by the 

 Bishop of Exeter in Woking.* 4 

 In 1 243 the bishop was 

 summoned to show by what 

 warrant he held the moiety of East Horsley Manor, 

 and it was then said to pertain to his chapelry of 

 Bosham in Sussex." About the same time the manor 

 was assessed at a quarter of one knight's fee.' 6 



Domesday Book mentions two homagers who each 

 held four hides of the bishop," but since this is the 

 only mention of tenants it seems reasonable to suppose 

 that the manor was farmed for the bishop. 



Manning M states that in the time of Henry VIII 

 the bishop sold the manor to Henry, Marquis of 

 Exeter ; and in that case it was forfeited to the Crown 

 with the marquis's other lands in 1538. Edward VI 

 granted it to a certain Thomas Fisher," who in 

 1555 alienated to William Walter." Walter did not 

 long retain possession, but in 1555 joined with Sir 

 Nicholas Throckmorton, to whom it had possibly been 

 leased, in conveying the manor to Joan Hamond, 

 widow." Her son William Hamond left it by will 

 (5 May 1575) to Sir Laurence Stoughton, husband 

 to his step-daughter Rose Ive, and they were in posses- 

 sion in 1580." Sir Laurence Stoughton sold the 

 manor in 1584 to Thomas Cornwallis," who died 

 in 1596." His widow died seised of it in 1626, when 

 her great-nephew Thomas Earl of Southampton came 

 into possession.** He sold the manor three years later to 

 Carew Raleigh," who afterwards purchased the manor 

 of West Horsley (q.v.). He kept possession of the 

 bishop's manor for about fi fteen years, and then conveyed 

 it through trustees to Henry son of Sir Christopher 

 Hildyard of Winestead in Holderness." At Henry's 

 death in 1674 ' l was inherited by his second son 

 Philip." His estates were sold under a private Act 

 of Parliament," and East Horsley was bought by Sir 

 William Brownlow, bart. He in 1698 conveyed to 

 Denny Muschamp and the Viscountess Lanesborough 



8 39 & 40 Geo. Ill, cap. II. 



4 y.C.H. Surr. i, jooa. 



Canterbury, Treasury Reg. ii, 351. 



e Feet of F. Surr. i John, no. 3. 



7 Chart. R. 10 Edw. II, m. 24, no. 60. 



'Ibid. 38 Edw. Ill, m. 156. 



Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, m. 9. 



10 Pat. Elir. pt. v. 



11 LoseleyMSS. Letters, viii, 67 ; x, 34. 

 "Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclvii, 86. 

 18 Ibid, ccclxxxviii, 1 20. 



14 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 22 Chas. I. 

 "Hist, of Surr. iii, 31. 



16 Chan. Proc. Reynardson, clxiii, 52. 

 V P.C.C. 10 Marlbro'. 



18 Gent. Mag. xxx, 594. 



19 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 



31. 



n Feet of F. SUIT. Trin. 24 Geo. III. 

 n Hist. of Surr. ii, 66. 

 " Tomb at East Horsley. 



* y.C.H. Surr. i, 300. 



**Plac. Abbrev. (Rec. Com.), ngi. 



* Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 22O. 



* V.C.H. Surr. i, 300. 

 88 Hist, of Surr. iii, 30. 



350 



n Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt. vi, m. 16. 



80 Feet of F. Surr. 5 Edw. VI. 



81 Ibid. East. I & 2 PhiL and Mary ; 

 Add. Chart. 2550;. 



M Feet of F. Surr. East, i Eliz. 



88 Ibid. Trin. 26 Eliz. 



84 Tomb at East Horsley. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxii, 19. 



86 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Chas. I. 



"Ibid. 18 Chas. I ; Div. Co. Mich. 22 

 Chas. I. Sec also Foster, Tork. PeJ. 

 under Hildyard. Foster, Tort. PeJ. 



89 3 & 4 Will, and Mary, cap. 35. 



