A HISTORY OF SURREY 



ABINGDON ABBEY. 

 Argent a cross paty be- 

 tween four martlet! table. 



Surrey of the abbot for the same service. 60 During 

 the 13th century Richard Russel held this J knight's 

 fee in Trotsworth or Troccesvvorth. 81 In 1252 a 

 dispute arose between Richard Russel of Trottesworth 

 and the Abbot of Chertsey concerning view of frank- 

 pledge in the hundred of Godley. It was finally 

 agreed that Richard and his heirs should come to 

 view of frankpledge at Godley Hill every year at the 

 feast of the Epiphany. The abbot in return granted 

 him a certain marsh called Losehall. 8 * In 1428 

 John Tendale held in Egham J part of a knight's fee 

 which Margaret de Trottes- 

 worth formerly held of the 

 Abbot of Chertsey. 63 The 

 manor afterwards passed to the 

 monastery of Abingdon in 

 Berkshire, though the date of 

 the conveyance is not ap- 

 parent. At the suppression 

 of this monastery in 1538 the 

 manor of Trottesworth in 

 Thorpe and Egham, with a 

 tenement called le Strande, 

 was valued at $ 3/. 4^. M 

 In 1545 the manor was granted to John Broxholme, 

 John Bellew and others in trust for Anthony Bond. 86 

 The next year Anthony Bond leased Trottesworth 

 to William Knight for a term of eighty-one years, 

 dating from I552. 86 Bond sold the manor to the 

 Crown shortly afterwards, and in 1555 Anne, 

 Duchess of Somerset, received a life grant of it. 87 

 She died in 1 587." William Knight was still in 

 possession of the lease in 1588, when the queen 

 granted the reversion to James Bond for a period of 

 twenty-one years. 89 



In 1599 the queen granted the manor 'lately in 

 the tenure of James Bond ' to George Austeyne and 

 William Minterne and their heirs. 90 They were 

 presumably trustees, as John Bond was in possession of 

 the manor in 1 609, in which year he sold it to John 

 Worsopp. 91 The latter conveyed it in 1625 to John 

 Machell and Deborah his wife, 98 and it remained in 

 their family until 1750," when Lancelot Machell 

 sold it to Charles Simes and Samuel Meredith to the 

 use of Charles Simes and his heirs. 94 The manor 

 afterwards passed to John Forster, who conveyed it to 

 his son George in 1 8o2, 95 when the property in- 

 cluded, besides the manor, a farm called Trottesworth 

 Farm and closes called Hollymore Field, Knowle 

 Field, Furzey Field, Blackshill Field, Reversfield, 

 Packers Land, Lamsley Hill, Hams Mead, Horse 

 Mead, One Brock, Holly Platt and the Slip. 



Trottesworth seems to have ceased to be regarded 

 as a manor about this period. The deed of 1802 

 refers to it as a 'manor or reputed manor.' Manning 



ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, 

 CAMBRIDGE. France 

 quartered tu'uh England 

 in a border gobony ar~ 

 gent and axure. 



states that the property consisted of two farms, which 

 were held in his time, about 1 804, by Mr. Forster 

 and Mr. Fournier. 88 The Countess de Morella held 

 the estate in 1905. 



BROOMHALL. Among the possessions of the 

 priory of Broomhall in Berkshire when it became 

 escheat to the Crown in 1522 were certain tene- 

 ments in Egham and Thorpe, including 32 acres 

 of meadow in Egham, of which the priory had 

 apparently been seised for some time. 97 The name 

 Broomehall in Egham is as old as the perambulation 

 of the forest boundaries in 

 I226. 9 * In October 1522 the 

 king granted the site and pos- 

 sessions of the late priory to 

 the Master and Fellows of 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. 

 The deed included a ' manor ' 

 in Egham which was un- 

 doubtedly the land previously 

 referred to." In 1544 the 

 college sold to the king a por- 

 tion of their land in Egham, 

 about 44 acres, called Knowle 

 Grove. 100 A survey of Egham 

 Manor in 1622 includes land 

 called Broomhall Piece, the 



property of St. John's, and in the tenure of William 

 Minterne. 101 The college still holds the manor of 

 Broomhall, in Egham. 10 * 



IMWQRTH.k tenement and lands in Egham 

 were in the possession of the family of Imworth in 

 1224, when John de Imworth brought a suit against 

 Henry de Middleton concerning the land. 10 * In 1 298 

 John de Imworth conveyed the reversion of lands in 

 Egham to Robert de Burghton and Sarah his wife, 

 and to the heirs of Sarah, who was probably the daugh- 

 ter of John de Imworth. The latter was to hold it of 

 Robert and Sarah for the remainder of his life for the 

 annual rent of one rose and for the services due to the 

 chief lords of the fee. 1 " 



In January 1339 Robert de Imworth received 

 licence for the celebration of divine service in the 

 oratory of his house in Egham. 105 In 1550 the manor 

 of Inworths alias Fosters belonged to Sir William 

 Warham, 108 and afterwards went to his heir, who held 

 the manor in l6l6. 107 Fosters apparently became a 

 separate holding, for in 1 622, when Sir John Doddridge 

 was holding the messuage and lands called Fosters, Sir 

 John Denham had the site of the manor of Im- 

 worth.' 08 In 1638 Imworth passed to his son Sir John 

 Denham the Royalist poet, 109 whose estates were se- 

 questered, and in 1 648 conveyed to John Thynne." 

 Thynne remained in possession, and his son was 

 resident at Imworth in 1673. '" Sir John Denham 



*> Rtd Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 198. 



n Testa de ffevill (Rec. Com.), izib. 



m Exch. K.R. Mic. Bks. 25, fol. 241*. 



88 Feud, Aids, v, 123. 



M Dugdale, Man. Angl. i, 505. 



Pat. 37 Hen.VIII.pt. ix,m. 26-36 ; 

 Add. MS. 4705, fol. 28, 39. 



86 Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. x, m. 6. 



7 Ibid. 2 & 3 Phil, and Mary. pt. yiii, 

 m. 22. 



88 Diet. Nat. Siog. 



89 Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. x, m. 6. 

 80 Ibid. 42 Eliz. pt. xii, m. I. 



91 Feet of F. Surr. East. 6 Jas. 1 5 Com. 

 Pleat D. Enr. East. 6 Jas. I, m. 23. 



w Feet of F. Surr. Mich, i Chas. I. 



98 Recov. R. East. 4 Chas. I, rot. I ; 

 Mich. 34 Chas. II, rot. 208 ; Feet of 

 F. Div. Co. Mich. 34 Chas. II ; Recov. R. 

 Mich. 3 Geo. I, rot. 146. 



M Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 26 

 Geo. II, m. 60, 62. 



95 Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 42 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 96; Recov. R. East. 42 Geo. Ill, rot. 17. 



96 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 255. 

 57 Exch. Incj. p.m. file 1075, no. 3 & 4, 



13, 14 Hen. VIII. 

 08 V.C.H. Surr. i, 357. 

 98 Pat. 14 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 5. 

 100 Information from St. John's College. 



424 



101 Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 6z6. 



LM Information from St. John's College. 



108 Cal. Pat. 1216-25, F- 4 8 5- 



104 Feet of F. Surr. Eatt. 26 Edw. I. 



104 Winton Epis. Reg. Orlcton, i, fol. 

 joa. Compare Egerton MS. 



106 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 4 Edw. VI; 

 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 85, no. 22; 

 Feet of F. Surr. East. 2*3 Phil, and 

 Mary. 



10 ? Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccl, 57. 



108 Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 626. 



109 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



110 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 1790. 



111 Aubrey, op. cit. fii, 164. 



