A HISTORY OF SURREY 



minster claimed various privileges in his ' manors of 

 Piriford and Horishill.' *" This is, apparently, the 

 first reference to Horsell as a separate manor. 

 Whether it was ever held as such is doubtful. Land 

 at Sithwood, which was in the parish of Horsell, 5 was 

 described as being part of the manor of Pyrford,* the 

 two sub-manors in Horsell were held as of the manor 

 of Pyrford, 7 and a survey of the manor of Pyrford, 

 taken in 1 547, includes Horsell, Sithwood, and Wood- 

 ham as part of its demesne. 8 In 1678 it is again 

 referred to as a manor, 9 being held at that time, as was 

 Pyrford, by Denzil Onslow, from whom the property 

 passed to the present lord, the Earl of Onslow, whose 

 manor of Pyrford includes Horsell and Woodham. 



In 1 540 John Danaster of Chobham died seised of 

 the manor or tenement called HILL PLACE, which 

 was held of the king as of his manor of Pyrford by 

 fealty and rent of zn. Danaster left the manor to 

 his wife Anne for her life, with remainder to Robert, 

 natural son of John and Anne, and his heirs, or in 

 default to the right heirs of John. 10 His widow 

 afterwards married Sir Francis Dawtrey, and they 

 were in possession of the manor apparently about 

 1560." It had passed, before 1571, to Christopher 

 Hennage and Anne his wife," daughter of John Dan- 

 aster and formerly wife of Owen Bray, who had died 

 in 1568." They conveyed it in 1578 to Richard 

 Hat ton," but it changed hands again and in 1599 Sir 

 William and Sir George More, probably acting as 

 trustees, conveyed it to Henry Weston, 15 from whom 

 it passed in 1622 to Henry Collyer and Richard 

 Simones. 16 The Collyer family continued to hold it, 

 though it is not generally called a manor." The 

 Collyers of Hill Place were among the lay impropria- 

 tors of the tithes (q.v.), mentioned about 1682 and in 

 1804. In 1841 the Collyer family sold Hill Place to 

 Mr. G. Marshall of Godalming. In 1851 he settled 

 it upon his daughter on her marriage with Mr. T. 

 Shearburn. Her son Mr. R. W. Shearburn of the 

 Hall, Scraith, Yorkshire, is the present owner. The 

 house is let as a farm, and some of the land has been 

 sold off, a small part having been bought by Mr. 

 John Collyer of Horsell, a descendant of the former 

 owners. 18 



In 1 3 1 6 is found the first trace of the manor of 

 TWICHEN, when Walter atte Rude settled on his 

 son Walter the estate described as I messuage, 40 acres, 

 half a mill, &c., with appurtenances in Chobham, 

 Horsell, and Pyrford. William de Carleton and 

 Alice his wife, and John atte Twichen and Alice 

 his wife, also put in a claim to this land." It is 

 probable that it had previously belonged to John 

 atte Twichen and his wife, as in 1326 he sought 

 to replevy his and his wife's lands in Chobham, 

 Horsell, and Pyrford, which had been taken into the 

 king's hands for their default against Walter son of 



Walter atte Rude. In 1352 Roger Bernard and 

 Katherine and William atte Twichen conveyed 

 certain land in Horsell, Chobham, and Pyrford a 

 messuage, 80 acres of land, &c. to Richard Doxeye 

 and Alice his wife." John atte Grenette in 1363 

 obtained from Richard Doxeye and Sabina his wife 

 and the heirs of Sabina land in these parishes, consist- 

 ing of two messuages, 100 acres of land, &c." 

 These different holdings seem to have become 

 amalgamated before the middle of the i6th cen- 

 tury. They were then known as the manor or 

 capital tenement called Twichen, of which John 

 Danaster died seised in 1 540, and which he held of 

 the king as of his manor of Pyrford by fealty and rent 

 of 1 8/. M He left the manor to his wife Anne for her 

 life, with reversion to their daughter Anne, who 

 afterwards married Owen Bray." Anne the mother 

 married, as her second husband, Sir Francis Dawtrey, 

 and they were apparently seised of the manor about 

 the year 1560." In 1572 this manor, together with 

 that of Hill Place, was held by Christopher Hennage 

 and Anne his wife. 1 * The latter was the widow 

 of Owen Bray, for the next reference to Twichen, 

 in 1607, records that the site of the manor was 

 the property of Owen Bray ; " John Bray also held 

 with Owen, 18 the two being grandsons of Owen and 

 Anne Bray. 19 In 1607 the reversion of the site 

 held for life by Susan, 30 wife of Richard Lumley, 

 of the inheritance of Owen Bray, was granted, 

 on a forty-year lease, to Richard Bonsey.* 1 In 1615 

 Owen and John Bray conveyed the site to John 

 Bonsey and his heirs.* 1 The term ' site of the 

 manor' probably includes the manor, or reputed 

 manor itself, of which John Bonsey was certainly 

 possessed by 1621, and of which he was seised in fee 

 at the time of his death, which occurred about 1638.** 

 The manor passed to his son Richard, who held it in 

 1678, when he brought a suit against John Scotcher, 

 whose father, William, was alleged to have held various 

 lands in Horsell of the manor of Twichen for which 

 the son refused to pay quit-rent or relief, declaring 

 that ' he knew not whether there were any such 

 manor of Twichen, nor knew the complainant's title 

 thereto or to the demesne lands thereof, and he said 

 he had no writings concerning the said estate, but 

 he believed complainant might be seised of a certain 

 messuage, farm and lands in Horsell, called Twichen. 

 He had heard that some of the complainant's ancestors 

 had seized oxen as heriots at the death of his grand- 

 father, but his father maintained that no heriots 

 were due.' " The case as regards the quit-rents was 

 decided in favour of Bonsey, and Scotcher was ordered 

 to pay the arrears. The manor was held in 1744 

 by another Richard Bonsey, who conveyed it in that 

 year to Matthew Nicholls," probably by way of 

 mortgage, for in 1755 Richard Bonsey left it in 



flu. Ji Quo ffarr. (Rec. Com.), 745 ; 

 Assize R. SUIT. 877, m. 59 and 878, m. 37. 

 'Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 62, no. 459. 



6 See Townesley Manor. 



7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 143. 



8 Exch. T.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 1 68, fol. 171 

 et seq. 



Chan. Enr. Decrees, no. 1912, m. 6. 



10 Chan Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 143. 



"Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 22, no. 84 j 

 Exch. T.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 168, fol. i884. 



" Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 3 Eliz. 



"See below for references under 

 "Twichen.' 



" Feet of F. Surr. HiL 20 Eliz. 

 "Ibid. 41 Eliz. 

 "Ibid.Hil. 19 Jas. I. 

 Ibid.Trin.i3 Geo.I';East.i8 Geo.III. 



18 Information from Mr. Collyer. 



19 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 10 Edw. II. 

 88 Cat, Close, 1323-7, p. 567. 



n Feet of F. Surr. 26 Edw. Ill, no. 76. 



M Ibid. 37 Edw. HI, no. 92. 



See under Hill Place. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 143 j 

 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 2 2, no. 84. 



"Excb, T.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 168, fol. 

 ittfc 



428 



M Feet of F. Surrr. HiL 14 Eliz. 

 1 1bid. Mich. 5 Jai. I. 

 18 Ibid. 13 Jas. I. 



** Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 199, where 

 Danaster is miswritten ' Banester.' 



80 Susan was the name of the mother of 

 Owen and John Bray, who perhaps 

 married again. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 5 Jas. I. 

 811 Ibid. 13 Jas. I. 



"Chan. Enr. Decrees, no. 1912, m. 6. 



"Ibid 



M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 17 Geo. IL 



