GODLEY HUNDRED 



EGHAM 



HARCOURT. Gulet 



two tan or. 



granted the manor of Parnish to Andrew Lord 

 Windsor in 1539 for life, with remainder to his sons 

 William, Edmund, and Thomas. 54 William Lord 

 Windsor sold this manor and others to the king for 

 i ,000 in 1 544." Edward VI granted it in 1 5 50 to 

 Sir Thomas Smith, 56 a settlement on the latter's heirs 

 being made in 1577." The 

 manor remained in this family 

 until 1652, when it was sold 

 by Thomas Smith, the nephew 

 of the original grantee, to John 

 Lee, 58 from whom it passed to 

 his son John. 59 Elizabeth, 

 daughter and heiress of this 

 son, married Sir Philip Har- 

 court, she being his second wife. 

 Their son was John Harcourt 

 of Ankerwick, and the manor 

 has remained in this family 



since that time. 60 The present lord of the manor in 

 the fifth generation from John Harcourt is Mr. 

 George S. C. Harcourt. 



The first definite reference to the manor of 

 MILTON does not occur until the middle of the 

 1 4th century, 1348, when Matilda Gatelyn, or 

 Gacelyn, received licence from the bishop to celebrate 

 divine service in the oratory of her manor of Middle- 

 ton. 61 It is, however, possible to trace the history of 

 land, which evidently formed the nucleus of this 

 manor, to an earlier date, as in 1299 Henry de 

 Middleton and Matilda his wife held a messuage, 

 a mill, and lands in Egham and Thorpe. 61 After the 

 death of Henry, Matilda presumably held the manor 

 for her lifetime, marrying as 

 her second husband John 

 Gatelyn. A record occurs in 

 1319 showing that John Gate- 

 lyn and Matilda, together with 

 Thomas son of Henry de 

 Middleton, disseised the Ab- 

 bot of Chertsey of various 

 lands, of which, however, he 

 afterwards regained posses- 

 sion. 63 After the death of 

 Matilda the manor probably 

 reverted to Thomas, her son 

 by her first husband, as in the 

 early 1 6th century the manor 

 was still in possession of the 

 Middletons. 61 Certain lands 

 belonging to the manor were 

 sold about this time by Henry 

 de Middleton to Richard Fox, 

 Buhop of Winchester and 

 founder of the college of Corpus Christi, Oxford, and 

 these lands, together with the manor of Middleton 

 or Milton, were granted to the college in 1518, when 



CORPUS CHRISTI COL- 

 LEGE, OXFORD. Tierced 

 in pale : (i) Azure a 

 pelican or, for Bishop 

 Fox ; (2) Argent -with 

 a scutcheon of the armt 

 of the tee of Winchester j 

 (3) Sable a che-veron or 

 between three oivls ar- 

 gent and a chief or with 

 three roies gules therein, 

 for Bishop Oldham. 



the Abbot and convent of Chertsey granted permission 

 to William Frost and Ralph Lepton, then seised of 

 the manor, to enfeoff John Cleymond, President, and 

 the fellows of the college of Corpus Christi. 65 It is 

 probable that Frost and Lepton were acting for 

 the Middletons, as in 1522 John Middleton and 

 Margaret made a confirmatory grant of the manor to 

 John Cleymond and his successors, receiving in return 

 the sum of J 34O. 66 The manor thus granted is still 

 held by this college. The Valor of 1535 shows that 

 the college paid a rent of 3 6s. to the Abbot of 

 Chertsey. 67 It was demised in 1598 to Francis 

 Morley, to hold for nineteen years. 68 In 1622 

 Mary More, widow, held the ' manor of Middleton 

 or Mylton Place and other lands in Egham ' of the 

 college of Corpus Christi. 69 The manor appears to 

 have been leased both before and after that date to 

 the family of More, or Moore. 70 Adrian Moore, 

 senior, who died in 1 740, was of Milton, and his son 

 Adrian Moore, who died in 1 749, held the estate. 71 

 His sister's son was William Edgell, who succeeded to 

 Adrian Moore's property, and his heiress and niece 

 Priscilla married Richard Wyatt in 1766." Edgell 

 Wyatt their son inherited the estate in 1813, taking 

 the additional surname of Edgell." His son, Richard 

 Wyatt-Edgell, succeeded him in i853. 7 ' The 



WYATT. Sable a 

 fesse dancetty argent 

 between three eagles or 

 with a chief or. 



EDGELL. Argent a 



cheveron sable between 

 three cinqfoils gulei 

 with three bezants on 

 the cheveron. 



connexion between this family and the college was 

 severed about 1870, when the unexpired portion of 

 their lease was purchased by Baron de Worms. 75 



A water-mill known as Trumpes Mill was granted 

 with the manor to the college of Corpus Christi. 76 

 Tithes from it to the value of 211. \d. remained due 

 to the almoner of Chertsey Abbey until the Dissolu- 

 tion. 77 In a rental of 1622 Trumpes Mill, the 

 property of Corpus Christi, and in the tenure of Mary 

 More, is stated to be in Thorpe, 78 a mistake which is 

 doubtless dae to the fact that the mill is on a stream 

 which divides the parishes of Egham and Thorpe. 



In 1 1 89-90 Nigel le Broc held land called 

 TROTTESfTORTH of the Abbot of Chertsey for 

 the fourth part of a knight's fee, 79 and at some 

 period during the latter half of the I2th century 

 Maurice de Trotteswrth and others held land in 



"Pat, 31 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 18, 19. 



"Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 35 Hen. 

 VIII. 



66 Dugdale, Mon. Angl. iv, 230; Add. 

 MS. 4705, fol. 145. 



'? Pat, 20 Eliz. pt. v, m. 31. 



68 Recov. R. Mich. 1651 ; Feet of F. 

 Div. Co. HiL 1652. 



"Feetof F. Div. Co.Trin. 31 Chas. II. 



Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 34 Geo. 

 Ill, m. 4 ; Recov. R. East. 9 Geo. IV , 

 Burke, Landed Gentry; E. W. Brayley, 

 op. cit. 



61 Winton Epis. Reg. Edendon, ii, 

 fol. 13*. 



63 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 27 Edw. I. 



63 Exch. K..R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, fol. 

 228 d. 



4 Ibid. fol. 245*. Ibid. 



66 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 14 Hen. VIII. 



7 Vahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 247. 



68 Ct, of Req. Ixxxvii, 54. 



19 RentaU and Surv. (P.R.O.), Surr. 

 R. 626. 



7 Information received from Mr. A, 

 Wyatt-Edgell j Aubrey, op. cit iii, 167. 



423 



"1 Gent. Mag. 1749, p. 93. 



1* Information received from Mr. A, 

 Wyatt-Edgell ; Burke, Landed Gentry. 



78 Burke, Landed Gentry. 7< Ibid. 



7* Information received from Mr. A. 

 Wyatt-Edgell. 



7 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, fol. 



MS*- 



77 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56. 



"' Rentals and Surv. Surr. R. 626, 20 

 Jas. I. 



7 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 15, 

 ful. 64. 



