GODLEY HUNDRED 



CHERTSEY 



1505 to Henry Wykes under the name of Botlese 

 Park." Sir Roger Chomeley was in possession of 

 Botley's before 1541, in which year he granted 

 the estate, then for the first time called a manor, 

 to the king, in exchange for other lands. 100 Leases 

 of the manor were made to Anne, Duchess of 

 Somerset, in 1555"" and to James Harden in 

 I 599- 1M I* was granted in 1610 to George 

 Salter and John Williams, 103 who conveyed it in 

 the same year to William Garwaie and his heirs. 104 

 The manor was sold by William Garwaie to John 

 Hammond and his heirs for ever. 104 On the marriage 

 of Robert Hammond son of John with Elizabeth Knollis 

 the manor was settled on Robert, 1 * 6 whose son John 

 Hammond died seised of it in 1643, leaving Robert 

 his son as heir. 107 The manor afterwards passed to 

 the Hall family. Samuel Hall ' of Botleys ' died in 

 I7O7. 10 * Later in the i8th century Mrs. Pleasance 

 Hall held the estate for life, but in 1763, having 

 purchased the reversion of her 

 son, she sold it to Joseph 

 Mawbey, afterwards Sir Joseph 

 Mawbey, who built the pre- 

 sent house. 109 His son suc- 

 ceeded him and died in 1817 

 leaving two daughters, one of 

 whom had married John Ivett 

 Briscoe and inherited the es- 

 tate. 110 They sold it, however, 

 in 1822 to David Hall, who 

 conveyed to John Beecles 

 Hyndman,from whom it passed 

 to Robert Gosling. 111 The 

 estate known as Botley's Park 

 is now the property of Mr. 

 Hubert Gosling, J.P. 



Among the boundaries of Chertsey set forth in 673 

 is mentioned the isle oiHAM or Hamenege, 11 ' which is 

 later represented by Ham Moor and Ham Farm, 1 " and 

 which was known from the I2th to the i8th century 

 as the manor of Ham. The manor was ancient 

 demesne until the reign of Henry I, 1 " who granted 

 it to the Abbot of Chertsey. 1 " In 1197 Martin, 

 Abbot of Chertsey, granted the manor to William de 

 Hamme and his heirs, 11 ' and Robert de Hamme was 

 iord of the manor in 1 307."' Thomas de Saunterre, 

 ipparently acting as trustee for purposes of a settle- 

 ment, enfeoffed John de Hamme and Alina of the 

 'manor of Hamme next Chertsey,' and land in 

 Stanore. 1 " John de Hamme died seised of the manor 

 in 1319-20, leaving his brother Robert as heir. 11 * 



Thomas de Hamme, probably a member of the 

 same family, held the manor about 1323, when he 



GOSLING. Gules a 

 cheveron tenvten three 

 crescents or and on the 

 cheveron a pale ermine 

 between (wo squirrels 

 sitting back to back and 

 cracking nuts ivith a 

 like squirrel on the pale. 



received licence to have divine service in his oratory 

 at Ham. 120 He appears to have been still living in 

 Chertsey in l^zS." 1 It is not apparent how the 

 manor passed from Thomas de Hamme to the Fitz 

 Johns, but it was probably by marriage of heiresses. 

 It is at least evident that in 1372 Robert Danhurst and 

 Agnes his wife, possibly the widow of a son of Thomas 

 de Hamme, conveyed all that they held in the manor of 

 Hamme, their share being a life-interest held in the 

 right of Agnes, to William Fitz John and Agnes his 

 wife and the heirs of this second Agnes. 1 ' 1 A further 

 settlement of the manor on the Fitz Johns was made 

 in 1 38 1. 1 " The manor descended to Nicholas IM 

 son and heir of William Fitz John, to Nicholas's son 

 John and grandson Henry, about whose succession 

 some difficulty arose, a claim to the manor being 

 made in 1466 by John Goryng and John Sturnyn, 

 who said they had been enfeoffed of it by John Fitz 

 John, father of Henry. 1 " The 

 manor came soon afterwards 

 into the possession of Sir 

 Thomas Seyntleger, who in 

 1481 received licence to alien- 

 ate it to the Dean and Ca- 

 nons of the free chapel of St. 

 George's, Windsor, 116 for the 

 support of a chantry, and it 

 remained with the chapter 

 when the chantry was dis- 

 solved. 1 " Occasional leases of 

 it were made during the 1 7th 

 and 1 8th centuries, when it 

 was known under various 



names the manor of Ham or Ham Court or Ham 

 Farm or Ham Haw Farm. It was leased in 1614 

 to Dr. Henry Hammond, the king's physician, 118 who 

 held Chertsey (q.v.), and had also a life grant of the 

 manor of Botleys. Later, Sir George Askew and Sir 

 Ralph Clare held leases. 1 * 9 



In 1731 it was advertised for sale as held by the 

 late Robert Douglas, on a lease from the Dean and 

 Canons of Windsor, and was purchased by the second 

 Earl of Portmore, 130 whose property in Weybridge it 

 adjoined. 131 It is now held as a farm, on a lease from 

 the dean and canons by Mr. H. F. Locke King, 



The manor of HARDWICK was among the pos- 

 sessions of the abbey of Chertsey in this parish ; the 

 first reference to it occurs in 1430, when the manor, 

 held by the abbey, was assigned to William Frowyk to 

 farm. 131 From a later lease it would seem that this 

 manor was usually demised to farm by the abbot, who 

 reserved to himself the profits of leets and courts held 



DEAN AND CANONS 

 or ST. GEORGE'), WIND- 

 SOR. Argent a cress 

 gules. 



99 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 222 ; 

 (quoting from information received). 



100 Par, 32 Hen. VIII, pt. vii, m. 2. 



101 Ibid. 2 & 3 Phil, and Mary, pt. viii, 

 m. 22. 



1M Ibid. 32 Eliz. pt. x, m. 16. 



108 Ibid. 7 Jas. I, pt. xvi, no. I. 



IM Close, 7 Jas. I, pt. xxix. 



I0 Ibid. 9 Jas. I, pt. ii, m. 8. 



1M Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. 19 Chas. I, pt. 

 xvii, no. 8 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 14 

 Jas. I. 



10 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. 19 Chas. I, 

 pt. ivii, no. 3. 



108 Add. MS. 6171, p. 65. 



109 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, p. 

 122 ; G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, v, 

 '35- 



110 Ibid, v, 135 ; Bray ley, op. cit. ii,222; 

 Recov. R. East. 3 Geo. IV, rot. 147. 



111 Ibid. 149 ; Brayley, op. cit. ii, 



222. 



119 Birch. Cart. Sax. i, 56. 



y.C.H. Surr. i, 308 note. 



U4 See, however, V.C.H. Surr. i, 308. 



116 Cott. MS. Vitell. A. xiii, fol. 55, 

 67 d. ; Add. MS. 6167, fol. 96 b ; Assize 

 R. 877, m. 59 ; 878, m. 37. 



"Exch. K.R. Misc. Bk. 25, fol. 64. 



"'Add. MS. 6167, fol. 96* ; Assize 

 R. 877, m. 59. 



""Feet of F. Surr. Trin. i Edw. II. 



118 Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. II, no. 14. 



1JO Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 23 d., 52 d. 



m Cal. Pat. 1327-30, p. 336. 



1M Feet of F. Surr. 46 Edw. Ill, no. 89. 



409 



lffl Ibid. 5 Ric. II, no. 40. 



"< Wykebam'i Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), 

 ii, 556 ; Exch. K.R. Misc. Bits. 25, fcl. 

 55*. 



De Banco R. Hil. 6 Edw. IV, m. 

 116. 



1M Pat. 21 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 17 ; 

 Exch. T.R. Misc. Bks. cxiii, fol. 34. 



19 J It probably included Ham in Cobham, 

 though separate court rolls for this exist 

 in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commis- 

 sioners. 



138 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1611-18, p. 254. 



1M Ibid. 1660-1, p. 247. 



130 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 229. 



181 See Weybridge parish. 



I* 9 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, foL 

 105, 108. 



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