A HISTORY OF SURREY 



for life on a younger son, Henry, later an eminent 

 divine and scholar, who died in 1660." The eldest 

 son, Robert, died seised of the site of the abbey in 

 1623," and it passed to his son John Hammond, who 

 died in 1643 leaving a son Robert." 



In 1 68 1 James Hayes and Griselda his wife con- 

 veyed the site of the monastery to Edward Read," 

 from whom it passed in 1685 to John Hussey. 79 At 

 the close of the century the site appears to have been 

 in the possession of Sir Nicholas Wayte, who built a 

 house out of the abbey ruins called the Abbey House, 

 a 'beautiful seat . . . adorned with pleasant gardens.' 80 

 His daughter, who married Halsey, inherited the 

 bulk of Sir Nicholas's property, 81 and was in possession 

 of one-third of this estate in I723. 8 * She apparently 

 sold it to Robert Hinde before I734, 83 in which year 

 he died and was buried at Chertsey. His son Robert 

 Hinde inherited it. He mortgaged it and subsequently 

 sold the property to William Harwell in 1 75 1. 84 It 

 was left by William Harwell's son to one Fuller, who 

 sold the property in lots in iSog. 85 The site of the 

 abbey was bought in 1861 by Mr. Bartrop, the 

 secretary to the Surrey Archaeological Society. Among 

 the appurtenances of the site of the abbey which 

 descended with it were the watermills known as the 

 Oxlake or Okelake mills and a small river or brook 

 known as the Abbey River or the Bargewater. 



Of the abbey M buildings only small fragments re- 

 main ; a large barn or granary, the west end of which is 

 intact, the rest much repaired, is probably part of the 

 outbuildings. Opposite to it a wall contains early 

 work and part of a blocked arch of the 1 2th or 1 3th 

 century. The church and main part of the buildings 

 had been pulled down before James I in 1 610 granted 

 the site to Dr. John Hammond. Sir Nicholas Wayte 

 built a house out of the abbey ruins called the Abbey 

 House, as mentioned above. 67 



The site of the church and other buildings has 

 been partially excavated by the Surrey Archaeological 

 Society and private enterprise,*' 3 and a large number of 

 flooring tiles of great merit have been removed, most of 

 them to the Royal Architectural Museum, Tufton 

 Street, Westminster, a few to the Surrey Archaeological 

 Museum, Guildford. 



Queen Elizabeth granted the site of the manor- 

 house of Chertsey Beomond for twenty-one years 

 to Thomas Holte some time before 1580, in 

 which year an extension of thirty-one years was 

 granted him, to begin at the expiration of the 

 previous lease. 68 In 1606 John Hammond re- 

 ceived a grant of the same for thirty-one years, 

 dating from the termination of the leases on which 

 Thomas Holte held it.* 9 The last of these leases 

 expired in 1631, when John son of Robert Hammond, 

 and grandson of the original grantee, entered into 



possession. 90 He married Margaret daughter of Sir 

 Robert Rich, and died in 1643, leaving as heir his 

 son Robert." In the Parliamentary Survey of 1650, 

 however Elizabeth, the mother of John Hammond 

 was stated to be the tenant of the messuage and lands 

 called Chertsey Beomond, 9 ' the lease having still 

 twelve years to run. In this survey the manor-house 

 is described as ' an old house part brick, part wood, 

 covered with tiles and consisting of a hall, parlor, 

 kitchen, buttery, brewhouse, milkhouse, and larder 

 below staires and of 7 rooms above staires.' Among 

 the stock ' as well alive as dead ' which rightfully 

 belonged to the tenant or farmer of the site of the 

 manor were included ' 3 horses, 1 1 oxen, 3 heifers, 



1 boore, 3 cows, 16 young hogs, 12 qrs. of wheat, 

 20 qrs. of barley, 10 qrs. of draggett, 40 qrs. of oats, 



2 ploughs with all furniture, with 2 plough shares, 

 2 cutters, 3 harrows with front teeth, I cart with 

 furniture for 3 horses and 3 leather head-stalls.' After 

 the Restoration the site of the manor appears to have 

 followed the descent of the manor, as no separate trace 

 of it is found. The old manor-house has been evi- 

 dently rebuilt. 



The manor of Beomond had for a short time a 

 separate history from Chertsey. In 1 306 Walter 

 of Gloucester and Hawisia his wife were holding 

 the manor of Beomond or Bemond in Chertsey. 95 

 In 1311-12 Walter died seised of this land held 

 of the abbey of Chertsey. 94 In 1320 Walter 

 his son conveyed land in Chertsey to Master John 

 Walewayn, in trust for the abbey, and Hawisia 

 granted to John Rutherwyk, Abbot of Chertsey, tene- 

 ments and lands ' formerly called Gloucester, now 

 known as le Bemond,' which had previously been two 

 holdings belonging to John de Chertsey and William 

 Scot respectively. 95 In a cartulary of Chertsey Abbey, 

 of the time of Edward III, mention is made of a hold- 

 ing called ' Gloucester,' apparently a sub-manor of 

 Chertsey, and held with the latter. The name of 

 Gloucester gave way to that of Bemond. 96 The 

 manor of Bemond appears to have been united with 

 that of Chertsey soon afterwards, the two being hence- 

 forth known as the manor of Chertsey or Chertsey- 

 Beomond. 



Before its alienation by Hawisia the tenement had 

 been held of the abbot and convent at a rent of 28/. 

 a year, a three-weekly suit at the abbot's hundred 

 court, and for certain customary services. 97 



In 1319 John de Bottele of Chertsey, holding of 

 the abbot and convent of Chertsey, made an exchange 

 with them of lands in Chertsey, 98 and it is probable 

 that the lands so held were those which became known 

 later as BOTLETS Manor. According to Man- 

 ning and Bray, John Manory owned the lands in 

 the 1 5th century, and his son conveyed them in 



7* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxc, 145, 

 21 Jas. I ; ibid. Misc. file 522, pt. xvii, 

 no. 3. 



;6 Ibid, cccxcix, 143. 



T< Ibid. Misc. loc. cit. 



7" Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 33 Chas. II. 



7 Ibid. Trin. i Jas. II. 



90 Add. MS. 6167, fol. 38. Manning, 

 perhaps misunderstanding Aubrey, says 

 that in 1673 the site belonged to Sir 

 Nicholas Carew, from whom it passed to 

 the Orbys, and that Sir Charles Orby sold 

 it to Sir Nicholas Wayte ; of this account 

 there appears to be no documentary evi- 

 dence save that Sir Charles Orby held the 



advowson j Aubrey (op. cit. iii, 174) says 

 that ' the house is now (1673) in the posses- 

 sion of Sir Nicholas Carew.' Sir Nicholas 

 Wayte was apparently in the East Indies, 

 and Carew, Master of the Buckhounds, 

 may have been in temporary possession of 

 a house nearer Windsor than Beddington, 

 his own seat. 



81 Le Neve, Ptd. of Knights, 467. 



" Feet of F. Surr. HiL 9 Geo. I. 



88 Close, 25 Geo. Ill, pt. iii, no. 15. 



" Ibid. 



85 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 219. 



88 For the history of the abbey see 

 V.C.H. Surr, ji, 55. 



408 



8 ' Add. MS. 6171, fol. 38. 

 "7 Surr. Arch. Coll. i, 97. 



88 Pat. 22 Eliz. pt. x, m. 31. 



89 Cat. S.P. Dam. 1603-10, p. 281. 



90 Parl. Surv. Surr. 1650, no. 9. 



91 Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. file 522, pt. 

 xvii, no. 3. ^ See note 90. 



98 Feet of F. Surr. 34 Edw. I, no. 129 

 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, fol. 65*. 



94 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. II, no. 66. 



95 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, fol. 66, 

 1806 ; Pat. 17 Edw. II, pt. iv, no. 19. 



Lansd. MS. 434. 



"' Inq. a.q.d. file 165, no. II. 



98 Ibid, file 135, no. 6, 12 Edw. II. 



