A HISTORY OF SURREY 



circa 1280) is also called Nicholas de Hotham, which 

 renders the tradition of his birthplace here more un- 

 certain. John Occam (flourished circa 1 340) was a 

 doctor of civil and canon law. William of Ock- 

 ham was the most famous, and has the best claim to 

 be a native of Surrey, if he was a fellow of Merton 

 College, Oxford (which is very doubtful), for natives of 

 the diocese of Chichester were not eligible for fellow- 

 ships at Merton, so that Okeham in Sussex could not 

 have been his birthplace, and Oakham in Rutland has 

 never been mentioned as claiming him. His was the last 

 great name among the schoolmen. He was a Nomina- 

 list, but is better known for his controversy with the 

 Popes John XXII and Benedict XII. The former he 

 charged with seventy errors and seven heresies. He 

 subsequently submitted, but the next pope admitted 

 the incaution of his predecessor's language. Ockham 

 warmly supported the Emperor, Lewis of Bavaria, 

 the ally of Edward III, in his quarrel with the papacy 

 on the imperial election. He died at Munich about 

 1349. 



Evenwood House is the residence of Mr. B. Noel ; 

 Southend, of Mr. W. H. Morgan. 



In 1836 elaborate schools were planned by Ada, Lady 

 King, daughter of Lord Byron. Besides the ordinary 

 village school, they included workshops where the 

 children were taught carpentry, the use of the lathe, and 

 gardening. The subjects of school lessons were also more 

 advanced than was then common in village schools, and 

 there was a gymnasium. As children were attracted 

 from neighbouring parishes, accommodation for boarders 

 was provided. There were masters' houses, in one 

 of which infants were taught up to seven years 

 old. After Lord Lovelace had removed from Ockham 

 to Horsley Towers they were superintended by the 

 Misses Lushington, daughters of Dr. Lushington, who 

 lived at Ockham Park. After his death they were 

 unfortunately given up, in 1874, and an ordinary 

 National School carried on in the same buildings, 

 where it still continues. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey 

 MANOR OCKH4M Ma- 

 nor was held by 

 Richard de Tonbridge, 4 and 

 it remained in the possession 

 of the Clares for several cen- 

 turies. It was part of the 

 property surrendered by Gil- 

 bert de Clare on his marriage 

 with Joan of Acre, daughter 

 of Edward I, 1290, and re- 

 settled on her and her heirs. 

 Gilbert died seised in right 

 of his wife in 1 295,* and it 

 passed with his other possessions to his wife Joan 

 during the minority of his son Gilbert. About this 

 time the manor was leased by Joan widow of Gilbert 

 to a certain Jordan le Bacheler, who died in 1 297.' 



CLARE. Or thrti 

 chtveront gulet. 



Joan herself died in 1307," leaving a son and heir 

 Gilbert, then seventeen years of age. He died at 

 Bannockburn without issue in 1314.* 



The heirs of Gilbert de Clare were his three 

 sisters : Eleanor wife of Hugh le Despenser, Margaret 

 widow of Piers Gaveston, and Elizabeth formerly 

 wife of John de Burgh. 10 In 1320 the sisters were 

 confirmed in their possession, Margaret by that time 

 having become the wife of Hugh de Audeley. 11 A 

 division of the Clare lands took place in which Ock- 

 ham must have fallen to Margaret's share, for in 1326 

 Ockham appears in the king's hands owing to the 

 minority of Hugh de Audeley's heir." Margaret, 

 the only child of Hugh de Audeley, became the wife 

 of Ralph de Stafford, who paid a relief for her lands 



A D D L E Y. Gllltt a 



fret or. 



STAFFORD. Or active- 



in 1347." The date of Margaret's death is doubtful : 

 the inquisition taken in 1364 gives it as September 

 1 347," but since the king received homage for her 

 lands in December of that year 1S this is evidently a 

 mistake. It is, however, certain that she was succeeded 

 by her son Hugh, 16 who died seised of the manor in 

 1387, leaving a son and heir Thomas, them aged 

 eighteen." Thomas died without issue, and the 

 manor passed in turn to his brothers William and Ed- 

 mund. 18 Edmund was slain at Shrewsbury in 1403," 

 fighting in the king's army. His son Humphrey, who 

 was not quite two years old at the time of his father's 

 death, was created Duke of Buckingham by Henry VI 

 in 1444, and met his death at the battle of North- 

 ampton in 1460.* His son Humphrey had been 

 killed at the first battle of St. Albans five years 

 before," so that the manor passed to his grandson 

 Henry, then a child of four." Henry led the rebel- 

 lion of 1483 against Richard III and was beheaded, 15 

 when hi lands were forfeited to the Crovrn." Ock- 

 ham was granted to a certain William Cowper in re- 

 turn for his services to the Crown," but he did not 

 hold it for long. 



After the accession of Henry VII, Edward son of 

 Henry Stafford was restored as Duke of Buckingham," 

 and had his father's estates on coming of age in 1499 ;" 

 he was, however, beheaded for treason in 1521, and his 

 lands were forfeited." Henry VIII granted Ockham 

 in 1528 to John Bourchier, Lord Berners," who held 

 the manor of West Horsley, and from him it passed 



>>y.C.H.Surr. i, 320*. 



6 Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, no. 1072. 



7 Ibid. 25 Edw. I, no. 19. 



8 Ibid. 35 Edw. I, no. 47, pt. ii, m. 



36. 



Ibid. 8 Edw. II, no. 68. 



"> Ibid. 



11 Cal. Pat. 1317-24, p. 532. 



"Ibid. 1324-7, p 273. 



"Originalia R. 21 Edw. Ill, m. 25. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 37 Edw. HI, pt. i 

 (ist no.), no. 67. 



"Fine R. 21 Edw. Ill, m. 8. 



16 Vide Inq. above. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, no. 38. 



18 Ibid. 22 Ric. II, no. 46 ; vide also 

 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 41 5 

 also G.E.C. op. cit. 



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

 no. 59 ; G.E.C Com f left Peerage. 



360 



a G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



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

 no. 59. 



*> Ibid. Ric. Ill, V. O. 00.17 ; G.E.C. 

 Complete Peerage. 



"Ibid. 



86 Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 488. 



* G.E.C. Complete Peerage. *> Ibid. 



88 Exch. Inq. p.m. file 1074, no. 5. Act 

 of Attainder, 14-15 Hen. VIII, cap. 20. 



M Pat. 19 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 18. 



