A HISTORY OF SURREY 



S T i D o L F, baronet. 

 Argent a chief sable with 

 two wolves' head* razed 

 or therein. 



' the said Francis Stidolf, now Sir Francis Stidolf, is 

 yet full of life and is 70 and lives at Mickelham,' and 

 that he 'is therefore in pos- 

 session now, and for his life 

 and for 40 years after.' It 

 also states that the manor- 

 house and premises were in 

 'good tenantable repair and 

 very fit to be continued as a 

 farmhouse.' In 1672 the pro- 

 perty was granted to Sir 

 Richard Stidolf, bart., the son 

 of Sir Francis," for a period 

 of seven years dating from 

 169 5." Sir Richard died in 

 1677, but in 1675 a forty- 

 year lease, dating from 1702, 



was made to Sir Richard Powle. This lease was sold 

 successively to William Cherry, Adam Bellamy, and 

 Francis Bartholomew. 39 The lease of the manor of 

 Egham, made to William Blaythwayt in 1694, men- 

 tions the site of the manor as among the premises 

 to be leased. This is probably a mistake, the grant 

 being made in general terms only. 



The Survey of 1650 includes the meadow of 

 Runnimede among the lands appurtenant to the site 

 of the manor. When the lease of the manor was 

 renewed in 1804, ninety-nine years after Catherine 

 of Braganza's death, the manor-house was included 

 and was apparently in Mr. Wyatt's possession. 



The Parliamentary Survey of 1650 states that there 

 was a court baron, belonging to the manor of Egham, 

 usually kept at some known place within the same 

 manor, at the will of the lord of the manor, and also 

 a court leet, usually kept for the said manor at Hard- 

 wick in Chertsey. It also mentions, as common fields 

 in Egham, Englefield, Hurst Heath, Southbrook Com- 

 mon, Wick Common, Deane Common, and Purche 

 Heath. 40 At the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria, 

 held both before and after the Commonwealth, tithing- 

 men presented for the tithings of Englefield, Stroud, 

 Lewith or Waryth, and Hicklie. 41 



In Egham, as in the other riverside lands belong- 

 ing to the monastery, the abbot and convent had 

 constructed weirs for catching fish. A 14th-century 

 court roll has the following entry : ' To this court 

 came Adam atte le Hale and surrendered into the hands 

 of the abbot and convent a certain weir with a fisher- 

 man's house and small island adjacent with appurten- 

 ances at la Huche in Egham which he held of them 

 as a tenant at will in villeinage, so that neither the 

 said Adam nor his family nor anyone in his name 

 should enter on the fore-mentioned weir, etc., nor yet 

 sell or make any profit of them in the future. For 

 which surrender the abbot and convent have granted 

 the said Adam, for his whole life, 4 qrs. of corn, 

 wheat and barley, to be received from the granary 

 annually, etc. And if it should happen that the 

 abbot and convent should neglect to furnish the above 

 special corn for a year, then it shall be lawful for said 

 Adam to re-enter said weir, etc., and to keep possession 

 of them in perpetuity, on the same terms as he before 



held them, without any obstruction from the abbot.' " 

 In 1642 the inhabitants of Egham made a petition l} 

 in which they claimed the privilege, lately wrested 

 from them, of depasturing their cattle in Windsor 

 Great Park at very easy rates. The privilege had 

 been granted in consideration of divers services per- 

 formed by them, such as carrying in hay, sending 

 ' treaders ' and the like, and also in respect that a 

 great part of the park had been taken out of the 

 commons belonging to the parish. The terms for 

 which this depasturing was allowed were from 10 May 

 till Lammas and from All Hallows tide until Christmas, 

 and the weekly payment per animal had never exceeded 

 \\d. until recently. The petition stated, however, 

 that, in view of the fact that ' the prices of land, as of 

 all other commodities, are much increased,' the inhabi- 

 tants were willing to pay 4</. weekly for a cow or a 

 bullock, 6J. for a horse, mare, or colt. A representa- 

 tive of the inhabitants was ordered to attend the 

 Attorney-General for settling the point. 



Land at Pernehrs in Egham, described as ' half a 

 hide of land and 5 acres, with appurtenances,' now 

 known as ANKERWICK PARNISH, was confirmed 

 to the priory of Ankerwick in Buckinghamshire by 

 Henry III in 1252," when it was stated to have been 

 given to the priory by Hugh, Abbot of Chertsey. 

 This Hugh must be the one to whom the charter of 

 Stephen to Chertsey is addressed." He is called 

 Hugh the abbot, nepoi meus, and if the charter is 

 genuine must be Hugh de Puiset, Stephen's nephew, 

 who became Bishop of Durham in 1153. The date of 

 the grant to Ankerwick thus seems to be fixed as 

 previous to that year. 46 The possessions of the 

 priory in Egham included also I acre of land 

 of the gift of Grunwin de Trottesworth, land which 

 Almerus held of the gift of Godfrey de Middle- 

 ton, 1 3 acres of land of the gift of Robert de Mid- 

 dleton, and a croft called Tutescroft of the gift of 

 Henry son of Henry de Middleton. 47 Waste lands 

 in Egham were granted to the prioress in I28o, 48 her 

 possessions there in 1291 being taxed at lo/. 49 The 

 prioress seems, by degrees, to have acquired all the 

 land called Pernehrs or Parnish, giving the abbot in 

 return other pieces of land which she possessed in 

 Egham. In 1319 John, Abbot of Chertsey, con- 

 firmed to the prioress half an acre called Guldenhalfacre 

 at Loderlake in Egham, in a certain field called 

 Ermehrs between the land of Stephen de Purnehrs on 

 the west and the land which had belonged to John 

 de Walyngford on the east, in exchange for all that 

 land which the prioress had in Egham in the field 

 called Bokelnfrude. 50 Assart land called Patteshill 

 next Pernehrs was also granted her in exchange for a 

 croft called Litelcroft. 51 An annual rent of 28/. 6J. 

 which the prioress paid the abbot was reduced in 1319 

 to 24*. 6d. At the survey of the priory's possessions 

 in 1535 the manor of Parnish in Surrey was valued 

 at 5 2s. 6d. a The estates of the priory, which were 

 soon afterwards surrendered, were granted in 1537 to 

 the monks of Chertsey in the new foundation at 

 Bisham, 53 but reverted to the Crown at the final sup- 

 pression of this monastery in 1538. Henry VIII 



7 Monument at Mickleham. 



88 That is forty year after the death of 

 Sir Francis, 1655. 



89 Add. Chart. 6150. 



40 Parl. Surv. SUIT. 1650, no. 25. 



41 Ct. R. 



43 Lansd. MS. 434, fol. 32. 



48 Ca/. S.P.Dom. 1641-3, p. 318. 

 44 Chart. R. 41 Hen. Ill, no. J. 

 46 Not Hugh, abbot from 1107. 



46 Cf. V.C.H. Bucks, i, 355. 



4 7 Chart. R. 41 Hen. Ill, no. 3. 

 48 Inq. a.q.d. file 5, no. 19; Cal.Pat. 



1281-92, p. I. 



422 



Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), zo6<>. 



60 Ench. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, fol. 

 230. 



"Ibid. fol. 230*. 



** Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 222. 



68 L. and P. Hen. fill, xii (2) g. 1311 

 (22). 



