A HISTORY OF SURREY 



there, and all other manorial rights, granting only to 

 his tenant ' the other half of waifs and strays in the 

 land of the manor.' 13S These courts would appear 

 to be the courts-leet and views of frankpledge of the 

 manor of Chertsey to which the half-hundred of 

 Godley (q.v.) did suit. The manor of Hardwick has, 

 throughout, followed the descent of the manor of 

 Chertsey (q.v.). During the reign of Charles II 

 the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria were held at 

 Hardwick, as they had been before the Civil War. 154 



The site of the manor of Hardwick at the time of 

 the Dissolution, or shortly after, was in the tenure of 

 William Cooke." 3 It was leased with the manor to 

 Sir William Fitz William in 1550 and afterwards to 

 his widow Joan, who died in I574. 136 It was again 

 leased, in 1589, to Richard Lilley, this time without 

 the manor," 7 and sold during the Commonwealth to 

 Robert Boscoes or Bwes. IM Later grants of the 

 manor of Chertsey included both the site and manor 

 of Hardwick. 1 " 



Land at WQQDHAM. was granted to Chertsey 

 Abbey by Frithwald, the founder. 140 In 1402 tithes 

 from the ' township ' of Woodham were granted as 

 augmentation of the vicarage of Chertsey. 1 " Occasional 

 references to lands in Woodham are found in the 

 1 4-th century, but no one family appears to have held 

 them for any length of time. 1 " Symmes, in his 

 collections for Surrey, made in the I yth century, states 

 that Woodham was held as a manor in 1413 by John 

 Erith, Robert Thurbane, and Richard Grene, and by 

 John Brown and others in 1426. According to the 

 same authority John Fagger was lord there in 1482. 



In 1526 Richard Covert and Robert Darknold, or 

 Dorkenoll, were lords of the manor in the right of 

 their wives, Elizabeth and 

 Joan.'** Richard Covert's wife 

 was daughter of Richard 

 Wasse. 14 " Robert Darknold 

 relinquished his share in 1531, 

 and Giles Covert, the son of 

 Richard Covert, died seised of 

 the manor in 1557, leaving 

 his brother Richard as heir. 144 

 Richard Covert conveyed it to 

 John Austin and Thomas In- 

 wode in I563, 144 possibly in 

 trust for Walter Cresswell,as the 

 latter, when he died in 1 596, 



was seised of the ' manor or farm of Woodham,' which 

 he held of the manor of Pyrford, 140 of which manor 

 Woodham, though parochially in Chertsey, was a 

 tithing. His heir, William Cresswell, by will dated 

 August 1622, bequeathed two-thirds of the manor to 

 his cousin Edward Cresswell, with remainder to the 

 male heirs of another cousin, Richard. 14 ' The re- 

 maining third appears to have become the property 

 of Richard's family immediately on William Cresswell's 



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COVERT. Gules a 

 Jesse ermine between three 

 martlet! or. 



death in January 1623, as Elizabeth Collins, daughter 

 of Richard Cresswell, died seised of a third of the 

 manor in 1627, leaving as heir her uncle, Christopher 

 Cresswell. 148 He, as male heir of his brother Richard, 

 had inherited the rest of the manor on Edward Cress- 

 well's death in July 1623."' From Christopher the 

 manor descended to his son Richard and to the latter's 

 son Christopher, who possessed it at the beginning of 

 the 1 8th century. 140 After his death the manor 

 appears to have been split up among female heirs, 1 " by 

 whom it was eventually conveyed as a single property 

 in 1 7 1 4 to Sir John Jennings and his heirs. 1 " In 1741 

 Sir John Jennings's estates were sold under a private 

 Act, 158 and Woodham was ultimately acquired by Lord 

 Onslow and is not now distinguished from the manor 

 of Pyrford (q.v.). Ancient rentals of Woodham 

 Manor were in the custody of Mr. Sibthorp, the 

 steward of Woking and Pyrford Manors, in I795. 154 



Land called ' Otreshagh,' OTTERSH4W, is men- 

 tioned in the charter of King Alfred to the monastery 

 made about 890, in which he gives the boundaries of 

 Chertsey and Thorpe. 145 



The Testa de Nevill states that the 'manor of 

 Otterseye ' had been given in alms to the abbey before 

 the Conquest. 158 This is, however, perhaps not the 

 same place as Ottershaw. Ottershaw in its subse- 

 quent history is referred to simply as a wood or lands. 

 The possession of Ottershaw by the abbey is doubtful. 

 It appears that in 1270 (vide infra) Nicholas de Croix 

 was one of the holders, and the early charter of 

 Chertsey, re-edited in the 1 3th century, seems to 

 exclude the holding of Geoffrey de Croix, alive at the 

 date of Testa de Nevill, from the lands granted to 

 Chertsey. In the 1 4th century it appears to have 

 been held of the king in chief. 



Tithes from Ottershaw were due to the Abbot of 

 Chertsey and formed the subject of a dispute in 1270 

 between the abbot and the rector of Walton, who 

 claimed a portion. 147 The dispute, which was 

 eventually terminated in favour of the abbot, was 

 renewed in 1279, when Ottershaw was the property 

 of the Earl of Hereford and Nicholas de Cruce. 149 

 In 1301 Walter de Langton, Bishop of Coventry and 

 Lichfield, received licence to assart 300 acres of his 

 wood of Ottershaw which he held for life by demise 

 of Humphrey de Bohun, sometime Earl of Hereford 

 and Essex. 149 



The latter conveyed part of Ottershaw, a messuage, 

 40 acres of land, &c., to Geoffrey de Parys, whose 

 kinsman and heir, John Aylet, conveyed them to 

 John de Tighele, from whom William Ingelard 

 acquired them. From his heir Edward atte Brugg 

 they passed to Robert Dachet and William his son, 

 who were arraigned for entering into possession 

 without licence from the king. Pardon and restitu- 

 tion of the estates were, however, granted them in 

 I337- 160 



188 Add. Chart, no. 2341 6, 2 1 Hen. VIII. 

 184 Ct. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 204, no. 52, 53. 

 184 Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7. 

 188 \\>\A.;Acts of the P.C.I 549-50, p. 415. 



187 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 13. 



188 Close, 1650, pt. Iv, no. 4. 



" Pat 24 Chas. II, pt. ix, m. I ; 

 ibid. 28 Chas. II, pt. v, m. n. 



140 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 55, 56. 



" Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, fol. 39 d. 



141 Feet of F. Surr. 2 1 Edw. Ill, no. 1 3 ; 

 ibid. 34 Edw. Ill, no. 56 ; ibid. Uiv. Co. 

 10 Edw. II, no. 144. 



14 Add. MS. 6167, fol. 101 d. ; Feet of 

 F. Surr. East. 23 Hen. VIII. 

 1481 Had. MS. 1561, 35*, 36. 



144 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxiv, 42. 



145 Feet of F. Surr. East. 5 Eliz. 



148 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccli, 148 ; 

 Exch. T.R. Misc. Bks. 168, fol. 171 et 

 eq.; vide Pyrford. 



14 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2),cccxcvii, 93. 



148 Ibid, ccccxxxvi, 2O. 



149 Ibid, cccxcvii, 93 ; Recov. R. Trin. 

 I Chas. I. 



Add. MS. 6167, fol. lot d. 



4IO 



151 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 9 Anne; 

 East 13 Anne. 



"Ibid. Trin. Geo. I. 



1S8 14 Geo. II, cap. 5. 



154 Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, 154, 

 and private information from Lord Onslow. 



154 Vide Chertsey. 



156 Testa de Nevill (Rcc. Com.), 225. 



W Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, fol. 53*. 



> Ibid. fol. 54. 



169 Inq. a.q.d. 29 Edw. I, file 34, no. 1 1 ; 

 Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 575. 



u Cal. Pat. 1334-8, p. 432. 



