WOKING HUNDRED 



WISLEV 



ooo 



CAMOYS. Argent a 

 chief gules 'with three 

 bezant* therein. 



Robert de Briwes died in 

 1275 holding it of Ralph 

 Camoys of Wotton, and left a 

 son and heir John, then forty 

 years of age.* In 1282 John 

 effected a settlement of the 

 manor on his daughter Bea- 

 trice, 7 who soon after became 

 the wife of Robert son of Wil- 

 liam Burnel. 8 



The exact date at which 

 Wisley passed from the 

 Briwes family is uncertain. 9 



Lands in Somerset held by John de Briwes in 1285 

 were less than twenty years later in the possession 

 of Robert Fitz Payne, 10 to whom Wisley ultimately 

 passed." In 1328 Robert Burnel, who had acquired 

 the manor in right of his wife Beatrice, brought an 

 action against Robert Fitz Payne, who had apparently 

 ousted him from it." The end of the suit has not 

 been discovered, but since the Fitz Paynes remained 

 in possession, they evidently established their right to 

 the estate. 



Robert Fitz Payne married Ela daughter of Sir 

 Guy de Bryan," but had no male heirs, and at Ela's 

 death in 1355 the manor passed to her cousin " 

 Robert second son of Lord Grey of Codnor, under the 



terms of a settlement made in 1324." Robert de 

 Codnor assumed the name of Fitz Payne " and died 

 seised of the manor in 1 392," when the manor passed 

 to his daughter Isabel, wife of Richard de Poynings. 

 She did not long survive her father, but died seised of 

 the manor in 1393," holding of Thomas de Camoys, 

 lord of Wotton. She left a son and heir Robert then 

 fourteen years old. In 1434 Robert de Poynings settled 

 the manor on his daughter Eleanor on her marriage with 

 Henry Percy, son and heir of the Earl of Northumber- 

 land." She died in 1483, 

 and was succeeded in the pos- 

 session of the manor by her 

 son Henry Earl of Northum- 

 berland. 10 The earl was mur- 

 dered in a riot in 1489, and 

 shortly afterwards a dispute 

 arose among the descendants 

 of Sir Guy de Bryan touching 

 the lands inherited from him." 

 Two of the parties in this 

 suit were the Earls of North- 

 umberland and Orraond, and 

 in the ensuing division of pro- 

 perty Wisley was evidently assigned to Ormond, for John 

 Covert died in I 503 seised of the manor by Ormond's 

 grant." At Covert's death the manor passed to his 



fff 



COVERT. Gulei a 

 fesse ermine between three 

 martlets or. 



WISLEY CHLRCH FROM THE SOUTH-EAST 



6 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. I, no. 46. 

 ' Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 1 Edw. I. 

 8 Each. Inq. p.m. Roll i, no. 193. 

 Probably about 1324 ; ee note II. 



10 e.g. Manor of Staple Fitz Paine ; 

 fee feud. Aids, iv, 272, 313. 



11 In 1324 Richard de Fitz Payne and 

 Ela hi* wife paid half a mark for a writ 



of entry to their Surrey lands (Fine R. 

 1 7 Edw. II). 



" Parl. R. 



18 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



14 Son of Elizabeth sister of Sir Guy de 

 Bryan (G.E.C. Complete Peerage"). 



15 Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. HI, no. 

 14. 



379 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 

 ] ' Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, no. 12. 

 pt. i. 



18 Ibid. 17 Ric. II, no. 46. 



19 Close, 1 3 Hen VI, m. 4. 



90 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Ric. Ill, no. 26. 

 al Close, 4 Hen. VII, pt. i, no. 8. 

 " Cat. oflnj. Hen. Vll, i, 431. 



