A HISTORY OF SURREY 



8 hides only. Its value had, however, increased from 

 /1 2 to 18 since the time of King Edward. It was 

 stated that 3 hides of the land belonged to the king, 

 being in his forest of Windsor. 7 After 1086 

 William made a grant of eight hides in Pyrford 

 to Westminster, these three and five more, unless 

 the iii of Domesday be a mistake for viii. 8 The 

 manor of Pyrford remained in the possession of the 

 monastery of Westminster until the Dissolution, 9 being 

 assigned to the portion of the abbot. 10 Between 

 1346 and 1366 licence was granted to the abbot" 

 for his monks to celebrate mass in the oratory of his 

 manor of Pyrford. In 1558 Queen Mary granted it 

 to the new priory of Sheen which she had refounded 

 in 1556-7." Early in 1559, however, an Act was 

 passed for the suppression of all the religious houses 

 which had been refounded by Mary, and their estates 

 were once more annexed to the Crown." In 1561 

 Queen Elizabeth granted the site of the manor, lately 

 in the possession of John Carleton and Joyce his wife, 

 to George Revel for twenty-one years," but in 1574 

 another grant of the same was made to Edward Clin- 

 ton, Earl of Lincoln and Lord High Admiral of 



England. 15 Queen Elizabeth granted the manor of 

 Pyrford to Henry Weston, who in 1589 received 

 licence to alienate to Sir John Wolley and his heirs 

 for ever." When Sir John died in 1596 he was 

 seised both of the manor and of the site of the manor, 

 which afterwards follow the same descent." Never- 

 theless in 1609 James I made a special grant of the 

 site of the manor, the park, and various lands to Sir 

 Francis Wolley, which refers to the Earl of Lincoln as 

 though he were the last tenant. 18 Sir John's widow 

 Elizabeth, who afterwards married Sir Thomas 

 Egerton, held the manor as dower for life, and 

 at her death it passed to Francis Wolley, son of 

 Sir John Wolley and Elizabeth. 19 Sir Francis Wolley 

 (knighted in 1603) died in 1609,* when the 

 manor apparently passed to Sir Arthur Mainwaring, 

 his cousin, 11 who held it until 1628, when he sold it 

 to Sir Robert Parkhurst." Sir Robert held the manor 

 jointly with his son Robert, a settlement having been 

 made on the occasion of the latter's marriage with 

 Elizabeth Baker.* 3 Sir Robert the father died in 1636, 

 and the manor passed to his son and grandson." A 

 fourth Robert Parkhurst, son of the latter, sold the 



PYRFORD CHURCH FROM NORTH-EAST 



I V.C.H. Surr. I, 306*. 

 s Cart. Antiq. C.C. (2). 



9 Wins. Accts. (Gen. Ser.) bdle. 1109, 

 no. 4; Cott. MS. Faust. A. iii, foL 4*; Cott. 

 MS. Claud. A. viii, 54* ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. 

 Com.), i, 411 ; Mins. Accts. Rcl. Houses, 

 31 & 32 Hen. VIII, rot. 113, m. I. 



10 V.C.H. Ltmd. i, 450. 



II Egerton MS. 2033, fol. 61. 



11 Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, m.g. 



u Dugdale, Man. Angl. vi, 30. 



14 Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. v, m. 5. 



14 Ibid. 16 Eliz. pt. xi, m. 5 ; Acts of 

 iheP.C. 1 571-5, p. 396. 



"Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. xv, m. 18 ; Feet of 

 F. Surr. Trin. 3 1 Eliz. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Eliz. pt. i, no. 74. 



18 Pat. 7 Jas. I, pt. xxxvii, m. 24. 



19 Chan. Inq. p.m. 42 Eliz. pt. i, no. 

 '33- 



432 



M Ibid. (Ser. 2), cccxxxir, 60. 



1 Hart. Sac. Pub . xliii, 3 ; W. Brayley, 

 op. cit i, 359; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 

 8 Jas. I. 



Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 Chas. I. 



Ibid. East. 4 Chas. I ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxx, 21. 



84 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 16575 

 Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, 157. 



