A HISTORY OF SURREY 



chapel in 1889, and there is a Quakers' meeting-house. 

 The village hall was built in 1887. The drinking 

 fountain was presented by Her Majesty Queen Victoria 

 in 1877, in place of a public pump given by the 

 late Comte de Paris, which had become unservice- 

 able. 



Besides Claremont and Esher Place (see under 

 manor) there are several large houses in Esher : Esher 

 Lodge, built late in the 1 8th century, is the seat of Mr. 

 W. Seymour Eastwood ; Milburn of the Hon. Henry 

 Lorton Burke ; Glenhurst of Lady Emma Talbot ; 

 Moore Place of Mr. C. A. Moreing ; Littleworth, 

 a modern house in a small park, of Mr. P. M. Mar- 

 tineau ; The Grove of Mr. Rhodes H. Cobb ; Hill 

 House, in a small park, of Mr. G. B. Batchelor ; 

 Hawkshill Place, in a park, of Mr. A. W. Drayson. 

 Broom Hill was the residence of the late Sir Robert 

 Hawthorn Collins, K.C.B. 



The manor of ESHER (also called 

 MANORS ESHER EPISCOPI) which Tovi had 

 held of Edward the Confessor, was given 

 to the Abbot and convent of Croix St. Leufroy in 

 Normandy by William I,* on condition of rinding 

 two priests to say mass in the said manor for the souls 

 of his predecessors. 4 In the reign of Henry III, 

 before 1238, Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, 

 bought the manor from the monks of Croix St. Leu- 

 froy, 6 and gave it to the Abbot and convent of the 

 Place of St. Edward at Netley in Hampshire.* In 1 245 

 the Abbot and convent of Netley released the manor 

 to William de Raleigh, Bishop of Winchester, and the 

 church of Winchester, 7 and it remained among the pos- 

 icssions of the see till 1538, 

 when Bishop Gardiner con- 

 veyed it to Henry VIII, who 

 wished to annex it to the 

 honour of Hampton Court. 8 

 In 1550 Edward VI granted 

 the manor to John, Earl of 

 Warwick, to hold of the king 

 in chief by service of one 

 knight's fee ; ' but a few months 

 later the earl reconveyed it to 

 the king. 10 Queen Mary re- 

 stored the estate to the see 

 of Winchester in the first year 

 of her reign. 11 



In 1578 it appears that Charles Lord Howard of 

 Effingham tried to prevail on Bishop Home of Win- 

 chester to grant him a lease in perpetuity of the 

 manor for 20 a year, and by the threat of compass- 

 ing his end by other means if the bishop would not 

 agree, and bribing him further by promising to 

 support his scheme for reviving a school at Farnham, 11 

 induced him to comply." Lord Howard was acting 



SEE OF WINCHESTER. 

 Gulei St. Peter's keys 

 crossed with St. Paul's 

 {word. 



in the affair for the queen on behalf of Richard Drake 

 Her Majesty's equerry. In February 1582-3 the 

 Crown bought up the lease " and granted the manor 

 to Lord Howard, who evidently transferred the 

 property to Richard Drake, for he died in possession 

 in 1603." His son Francis Drake held it in 1629, 

 and died in i634. 16 He had apparently sold the 

 manor during his lifetime, for in 1635 Sir William 

 Russell, bart., and his wife Dorothy conveyed it to 

 George Price. 17 In 1659 George Price and Margaret 

 his wife quitclaimed the manor to Walter Plomer and 

 his sister Elizabeth, 18 who held a manorial court here 

 in l662, 19 and in 1663, in conjunction with John, 

 son and heir of George Price, they conveyed it to 

 Nicholas Colborne, citizen and vintner of London, in 

 consideration of the sum of 9, 1 04 1 4/. 6J. paid to 

 Sir Walter and his sister, and a competent sum to 

 John Price.' Colborne mortgaged the estate, which 

 in 1677 was purchased by Philip Doughty." He in 

 1679 s ld Northwood, which, though in the parish 

 of Cobham, was demesne land of the manor of Esher ; 

 and it seems probable that he sold the manor also to 

 Sir T. Lynch, who held it in 1680," and whose 

 daughter Philadelphia married Thomas Cotton. 

 They held the manor jointly , M and sold it to John 

 Latton," from whom it was purchased in 1716-17 by 

 Thomas Pelham, Duke of Newcastle." After the 

 duke's death in 1768 this manor, together with Esher 

 Wateville and the mansion and estate of Claremont, 

 was purchased by Lord Clive, who held the whole 

 property till his death in 1774. ^' was then so ^ to 

 Viscount Galway, who disposed of it to the Earl of 

 Tyrconnel, from whom it was bought in 1807 by 

 Charles Rose Ellis." He in 1 8 1 6 agreed to sell the 

 entire property to the Commissioners of His Majesty's 

 Woods and Forests for 66,000 for the use of Prin- 

 cess Charlotte, and the purchase was ratified by an Act 

 of Parliament.' 63 Subsequently it reverted to the 

 Crown, and the Duchess of Albany is now lady of the 

 manor. Shortly after the time that the manor of 

 Esher was sold to the Duke of Newcastle, the park and 

 manor-house, which had been separated from the 

 manor, were sold by John Latton to Peter Delaporte," 

 one of the directors of the South Sea Company. 

 When in 1721 the South Sea crisis occurred, the 

 estates of the principal directors were seized under 

 the authority of an Act of Parliament, and sold for 

 the benefit of those holders of South Sea stock who 

 had lost their money. This estate was purchased 

 by Dennis Bond in I724,* 8 and resold by him in 

 1 729 to the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, the 

 well-known statesman." By a will dated 17 Septem- 

 ber 1748 Mr. Pelham devised the estate to Frances, 

 his eldest surviving daughter, for her life. 30 She died 

 unmarried in 1804, and this property passed to her 



. Surr. i, II* Vf 



4 Pleat of the Crown, 7 Edw. I. 

 6 He suppressed the chantry. 

 Chart. R. 24 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 

 7 Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 676. 



8 Close, 30 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 27 d. 5 

 B.M. Arun. MS. 97, fol. 48*. 



9 Pat. 4 Edw. VI, pt. vii, m. 39. 



10 Acts of the P. C. (new er.) iii, II 8. 



11 Pat. I Mary, pt ix, m. 1 8. 

 "See V.C.H. Surr. ii, 188. 



18 Loseley MSS. ix, 26, 27, 28. 

 14 Pat, 25 Eliz. pt. xiv, m. 25. 

 16 Surr. Arch. Coll. viii, 203 j monu- 

 ment in Esher Church. 



u Hiit. MSS. Com. Ref. iv, App. 220. 



W Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 1 1 Chas. I. 



"Ibid. Hil. 1659. 



19 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. ii, 430. 



a Recov. R. Trin. 15 Chas. II, rot. 32, 

 (John Price is the vouchee); Close, 15 

 Chas. II, 20 Mar. 1663. 



91 Feet of F. Surr. East. 29 Chas. II. 



"From the Ct. R. communicated to 

 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 



747- 



"Recov. R. East 2 Anne, rot 129. 



94 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 6 Geo. I. John 

 Latton died 1727 and was buried at Esher. 



35 He was residing at Claremont, and 



448 



bought the Esher manors under an Act of 

 Parl. 3 Geo. I, cap. 10. 



"Manning and Bray,ff<jr. of Surr. 11,743. 



" 56 Geo. Ill, cap. 115. 



97 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 6 Geo. I. 



98 In the deed of transfer it was described 

 as consisting of ' a capital messuage, and 

 lands, a wood, Esher farm, and the war- 

 ren, late in the occupation of John Latton, 

 esq. with the royalty of the River Mole 

 within the extent of the premises, and 

 some small rents issuing out of houses in 

 Esher.' Brayley, Hist, of Surr. ii, 435. 



m Surr. Arch. Coll. vii, 214. 

 M Brayley, Hist, of Surr. ii, 436. 



