A HISTORY OF SURREY 



have remained united to that of Hamme for some 

 time longer. It is at least probable that Nicholas 

 Fitz John, who held the latter (q.v.) about 1400, also 

 held land at Stanore." After this date there appears 

 to be no record of it until 1 5 32, when the manor, then 

 in possession of William Lambert, was leased for thirty- 

 one years to John Rogers of Chobham at the rent of 

 j is. 8J. 43 William Lambert died before 1539, 

 when his widow Alice and daughter Collubra, wife 

 of Richard Warde, conveyed the manor to the king 

 in exchange for other lands." In 15 54 the Crown 

 extended the lease previously made to John Rogers to 

 his son Henry for a term of twenty-one years. 46 The 

 manor in 1559 was granted to Thomas Reve and 

 George Evelyn and the latter's heirs, to hold by knight's 

 service, 46 Reve being only a trustee. Evelyn died in 

 1 603, and the manor of Stannards passed to his second 

 son John Evelyn, a settlement having been made on the 

 marriage of George eldest son of John Evelyn with 

 Elizabeth Rivers. 47 In 1618 the moiety of the manor 

 was conveyed by John Evelyn and his wife to Robert 

 Hatton as a settlement on his younger son John 

 Evelyn on the latter's marriage ; George Evelyn 

 released his right to his brother, and in 1621 the other 

 moiety of the manor was conveyed to him. 4 ' John 

 Evelyn the younger apparently re-sold the manor to 

 his brother George and his son Sir John in 1624," 

 and the latter was in possession in 1636,*" when he 

 conveyed it to George Buncombe and Henry Baldwin 

 in trust for James Linch, who died seised of the manor 

 of Stannards and Fords in 1 640, leaving as heiresses 

 his granddaughters Eleanor, Susan, and Elizabeth 

 Gauntlett. 41 It is probable that Eleanor and Susan 

 married Robert Parham and Robert Hussey respec- 

 tively and released their right in the manor in 1651." 

 In 1687 the manor was in possession of Francis 

 Swanton, 51 son of William Swanton, who married 

 Elizabeth the youngest granddaughter of James Linch." 

 Francis Swanton is said to have sold it to Nathaniel 

 Cocke in 1694." In 1721 his widow Anne Cocke 

 was seised of it, with reversion to Zachariah Gibson, 5 * 

 to whom Joseph Paris and Sara, probably the daughter 

 of Anne Cocke, had released their interest. 47 In the 

 same year Anne Cocke and Zachariah Gibson conveyed 

 ' the manor or lordship or reputed manor or lordship 

 of Stannards and Fords' to John Martin, who in 1728 

 sold it to Thomas Woodford for 2,300,** the sale 

 including two farms known as Forde Farm and Coxhill 

 Farm, a common called Mynfield Green, and other 

 lands. Thomas Woodford's son Thomas inherited the 

 major part of his father's estate in I758, M and in 1761 

 sold the manor of Stannards and Fords to Thomas 

 Sewell, whose son and heir T. B. H. Sewell inherited 

 it in 1784, selling in 1795 to Edmund Boehm, who 

 owned it till iSig. 60 Mr. Boehm's property was 

 sold in 1820 after his bankruptcy, and the manor was 

 acquired by Mr. James Fladgate, corn merchant of 



Chertsey. He died in 1857 * to and left it to his son 

 James Fladgate. The latter's son Henry sold the 

 manor. The manor-house now belongs to Sir Henry 

 Denis le Marchant, the land and manor to Mr. Otter, 

 J.P., of Queenwood, and Miss Peele. 61 The manor- 

 house, now tenanted by Mr. A. E. Greenwell, is 

 in part an early 17th-century building with some 

 good Jacobean woodwork. It was probably erected 

 by one of the Evelyns, the old manor-house being a 

 timbered house still standing on the other side of the 

 road, or Stanner's Hill Farm belonging to Mr. Baker 

 of Ottershaw Park. The former is a large, picturesque 

 old cottage of whitewashed brick and half-timber with 

 a tiled roof. It is on the plan of a "J" with gabled 

 ends to the head and hipped roof at the foot ; and 

 is in two stories. It is now divided into two 

 cottages. 



ADEN is a house and small estate in Chobham, 

 sometimes called a manor in title-deeds. A John 

 Ardern held land in Chobham in 1331." John 

 Danaster, baron of the Exchequer, died seised of 

 the manor of Aden in I 54O. 63 His daughter Anne, 

 then aged two, afterwards married Owen Bray, 

 second son of Sir Edward Bray of Shiere. Their son 

 Edward had a son Owen, 64 whose daughter married 

 a Mr. Sear, and their daughter married Mr. Johnson. 

 The manor was sold to General Broome, and then to 

 Mr. Jerram the vicar of Chobham in 1808. It passed 

 through four more owners to Miss Perceval, the 

 present owner. The house was rebuilt on another 

 site, and is now called ' Chobham House.' The 

 mill, which was part of the estate, was sold separately 

 by Captain Sanders in the igth century, and is now 

 owned by Mr. F. W. Benham. 



The church of ST. L4WRENCE 

 CHURCHES consists of a chancel 28 ft. I in. by 

 1 5 ft. II in., a nave 72 ft. 6 in. 

 by 1 8 ft., with a north aisle 1 1 ft. 3 in. wide and a 

 south aisle and transept 6 ft. to in. wide. At the 

 west end of the nave is a tower 1 1 ft. I in. square, 

 with a wooden west porch, and at the east end of the 

 north aisle is a small vestry. 



The earlier church was a small building consisting 

 of a chancel with a nave of about half the length of 

 the present one, dating from the beginning of the 1 2th 

 century or a little earlier. Parts of two of the early 

 windows still remain high up in the south wall of the 

 nave, cut into by thearcade which was built about 1 1 80, 

 when the south aisle was added. In the 1 3th century a 

 transept chapel was added at the east end of the aisle, 

 which with the nave was lengthened westwards by 

 the addition of one more bay, the old west respond of 

 the south arcade being replaced by a square pier. The 

 history of the chancel during this time has been lost 

 by its complete rebuilding, noted below. The tower 

 was built about 1450, and thus the church remained 

 until 1 866, when the north aisle was added and the 



"Exch. K..R. Misc. Bks.vol. 25, fol. 55)5. 

 48 Pat. I & 2 Phil, and Mary pt. xi, 

 m. 5. 



"Ibid. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. iv, m. 27. 



45 See note 43. 



46 Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. iv, m. 27. 

 4 'Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxc, 124. 

 4 Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 16 Jas. I; 



Recov. R. Trin. 1 8 Jas. I ; Feet of F. 

 SUIT. Trin. 19 Jas. I. 



Feet of F. Surr. HiL 21 Jas. I ; Mich. 

 2 Chat. I. 



so lbid. Hit. 12 Chas. I. 



61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxcii, 41. 



"Feetof F. Surr. Hil. 1651. 



M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 3 Jas. II ; 

 Recov. R. Mich. 3 Jas. II. 



"Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ill, 

 I94;SirT. Phillips, Visit.Wilti. 1677, p. 



"7- 



56 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 196. 



M Close, 8 Geo. I, pt. ii, no. I. 



W Feet of F. Surr. HiL 8 Geo. I ; Man- 

 ning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 194. 



68 Close, 1 Geo. II, pt. v, m. 12 ; Feet 

 of F. Surr. Hil. i Geo. II. 



416 



"See P.C.C. 76 Arran (will of Thos. 

 Woodford of Chertsey). 



60 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 

 194 (quoting from the title-deeds of 

 Edmund Boehm, lord t>f the manor in 

 1811). 



*> Will proved Dec. 1857. 



61 Local information. 



Feet of F. 5 Edw. Ill, 68, in Surr. 

 Arch. Soc. volumes of fines. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. 

 iii, no. 143. 



"Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 199. 



