A HISTORY OF SURREY 



D'ABERNON'. Azure 

 a cheveron or. 



Roger D'Abernon, who held in West Molesey of 

 Richard in io86. 16 The association of the name of 

 the family with Stoke indicates 

 an early and long connexion, 

 but the first who can certainly 

 be said to have been there was 

 I ngelram D'Abernon in I iSg, 16 

 when he lent his house there 

 to William Marshal and the 

 daughter of the Earl of Pem- 

 broke for their honeymoon." 

 In 1205 there were four bro- 

 thers living, Ingelram, Walter, 

 William, and Richard. Ingel- 

 ram, son of Walter, died in 

 1235, without children, his heir being his kinsman 

 Jordan. 18 Jordan ceded his claims to his uncle Gilbert, 19 

 which looks as if Ingelram and Jordan were grandsons, 

 not sons, of two of the four brothers mentioned above. 

 Gilbert was father to John," who is commemorated by 

 the larger brass in the church. John was apparently 

 dead by 1278, when his son John was being pressed 

 to take up knighthood as holder of a knight's fee." 

 John the younger died in 1327 leaving an heir John." 

 William, probably his son, died in 1359." He had 

 no son and the estate was inherited by his elder 

 daughter Elizabeth, who married, first, Sir William 

 Croyser, kt., and afterwards John de Grey of Ru- 

 thyn." William Croyser, her son by her first 

 husband, inherited the manor from her, and dying in 

 1415 left it to his widow, Edith Croyser." On her 

 death in 1418 it passed to their daughter Anne, who, 

 though only thirteen years of age, was already married 

 to Ingelram Bruyn, son of Sir Maurice Bruyn, kt." 

 Before the year 1436 Anne married her second 

 husband, Sir Henry Norbury, kt., son of Sir John 

 Norbury, Treasurer of England.* 7 In 1439 the 

 property was entailed on Sir Henry and his wife and 

 their issue.** Their eldest son, Sir John Norbury, 

 married Jane Gilbert." The sole issue of this 

 marriage was a daughter, Anne, who married Sir 

 Richard Haleighwell. 30 From them the estate 

 descended to their daughter Jane," wife of Sir Edmund 

 Bray, Lord Bray." Lord Bray died in 1539. His 

 son John, the second Lord Bray, who died in 1557, 

 had a sister and co-heir, Frances, who married Thomas 

 Lyfeld, and the manor having come into their hands 

 in 1 5 5 7, as Frances' share of her father's property, 33 

 they settled it 34 on their daughter and heir, Jane, and 

 her husband, Thomas Vincent, for their lives, and then 

 on Jane's sons Francis and Bray Vincent, successively. 

 A further settlement took place on the marriage of 

 Francis Vincent with Sarah, daughter of Sir Amyas 

 Paulet, in 15 89." Francis Vincent was made a 



baronet in i62O. 36 The manor descended in the 

 Vincent family till the early part of the igth cen- 

 tury. 37 Before 1824 it was sold to Hugh Smith," 

 who died in 183 1. 39 Almost 

 immediately afterwards the 

 manor-house was let to Mrs. 

 Phillips a widow, who died 

 there in 1842. Her son, the 

 Rev. F. P. Phillips, hon. canon 

 of Winchester and rector of 

 Stoke D'Abernon from 1862 

 to 1898, bought the manor- 

 house and manor. He died 

 in 1904. His son Mr. F. A. 

 Phillips died by an unhappy 

 accident in 1908, leaving 



VINCENT, baronet. 

 Azure three quatrefoilt 

 argent. 



issue.*" 



The manor-house close by the church is no doubt 

 on the site of that in which William Marshal stayed. 

 In the wall of one of the bedrooms on the first floor 

 are some very massive beams of 1 5th or 16th- 

 century date. This was one of the ends of an 

 E-shaped house (compare Slyfield, close by, in Great 

 Bookham parish). There are also traces of a gal- 

 lery, since cut up into smaller rooms. The house 

 was practically rebuilt by Sir Francis Vincent, 

 who succeeded in 1757, and who filled up the 

 centre of the E with the present large hall. The 

 stable walls are partly of a date about 1 600, which 

 perhaps indicates that the first Sir Thomas Vincent, 

 who died in 1613, was the builder who designed the 

 gallery. The earlier house might date to Sir John 

 Norbury, who died in 1521. The house now con- 

 tains a fine collection of Morland's pictures. 



In 1253 John D'Abernon, then lord of the manor, 

 received a grant of free warren from Henry III," and 

 when in the following reign his son John claimed 

 that he and his ancestors time out of mind had held 

 a view of frankpledge in Stoke, the claim was allowed. 4 * 

 In 1557 a free fishery in the River Mole was among 

 the rights of the lord of the manor. 45 Free fishery in 

 the waters of ' Emlyn' is mentioned in 1824." Two 

 mills were established in the manor at the time of the 

 Domesday Survey, the profits of the one being worth 

 js. and those of the other 6s. a year. 45 



There is in this parish a small manor within the 

 district of OCKSHOT (anciently Occasate, Oggesethe, 

 Hoggeset, &c.). Gilbert D'Abernon in the I3th cen- 

 tury granted lands and pasture there to the monks of 

 Waverley, 46 who seem to have retained them, or some 

 part of them, 47 till the Dissolution, when they were 

 granted to Sir William Fitz William, K.G. 48 There 

 was a house in Ockshot called Ockshot Grange, per- 

 haps part of the monks' holding, which was owned by 



15 V.C.Ji. Surr. i, 318*. 



16 Roger D'Abernon made a grant of 

 land in Ockshot in the time of Hen. II. 

 Add. MS. 5529. 



*7 L'hiitoire de Guillaume le Marechal, 

 lines 9545-5- 



18 Add. MS. 5562; Excerfta e Rot. Fin. 

 (Rec. Com.), i, 270. 



"Add. MS. 5541. 



80 Excerfta e Rot. Fin. i, 305. 



n Parl. Writs (Rec. Com.), i, 214, 216, 

 218. 



99 Chan. In<). p.m. I Edw. Ill, no. $3. 



28 Ibid. 32 Edw. Ill (ist. nos.), no. 23. 

 There is an excellent paper on the D'Aber- 

 nons by Dr. Spencer Perceval in Surr. 

 Arch. Call, v, 53, Set. 



M Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 14 Ric. II, 

 no. 20;. 



26 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 



37- 



26 Ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 30. 



2 ' Brass in Stoke D'Abernon Church ; 

 Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 284 ; Pat. 12 Hen. VI, 

 pt. ii, m. 26. 



B.M. Add. Chart 5618. 



89 Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 287. 



" Ibid. 



81 Burke, Dorm, and Ext. Peerages. 



M Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 158, no. 



27- 



88 Feet of F. Surr. East. 3 & 4 PhiL 

 and Mary. 



84 Ibid. Trin. 17 Eliz. 



458 



86 Chan. Inq. p.m. Surr. (Scr. 2), ccxlvii, 

 99. 



86 Cal. S.P. Dam. 1619-23, p. 167. 



7Recov. R. East. 50 Geo. III. rot. 

 231. 



88 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Geo. IV. 



89 Monument in church. 



40 Personal knowledge. 



41 Cal. Chart. R. 1226-7, P- 434- 



*' Plac.de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747. 

 48 Feet of F. Surr. East. 3 & 4 PhiL 

 and Mary. 



44 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Geo. IV. 

 ^V.C.H. Surr. i, 318^. 

 4 B.M. Add. Chart 5528 to 5538. 

 4 "Pat 15 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 45. 

 43 Pat. 28 Hen. VIII, pt ii, m. 9. 



