A HISTORY OF SURREY 



signed it to Katherine his mother as part of her 

 dower. 20 



Queen Katherine died at Bermondsey Abbey on 

 4 January 1437. In the same year the king, having 

 formerly granted the lordship of Walton on Thames 

 to John Penycok for a term of years at a yearly rent 

 of 2$, reduced that sum to 15, and extended the 

 grant to the term of Penycok's life." After Edward IV 

 had obtained the crown Parliament bestowed upon 

 him the personal estates of Henry VI, who died a 

 prisoner in the Tower in 1471. Henry's only son 

 Prince Edward being dead, and none of the other 

 three sons of Henry IV by Mary Bohun having left 

 issue, the inheritance of the Bohun estates legally 

 devolved on Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, 

 who was descended from Eleanor the sister of Mary 

 Bohun. King Edward, however, retained possession 

 of the property." On his death Buckingham espoused 

 the cause of Richard UUKC ' of Gloucester, and aided 

 him so effectually that Richard, a few days after his 

 accession, signed an order for the livery of the lands 

 in question to Buckingham. 13 The duke's subsequent 

 rebellion against the king, however, ended in his own 



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PLAN OF MANOR HOUSE, WALTON ON THAMES 



destruction, and neither he nor his family ever 

 obtained Walton, which remained in the hands of the 

 Crown," and passed from Richard III to Henry VII." 

 The Tudor sovereigns granted leases of the manor 

 of Walton to various tenants. In 1589 Queen Eliza- 

 beth granted to Katherine West, widow, wood, herbage, 

 and pannage in Kingesridons Coppice, parcel of the 

 manor,* 6 and on 1 1 July 1593 John Woulde received a 

 grant from the queen of the manor, together with the 

 capital messuage known as Dorney House." In 1612 

 Francis Drake of Esher had a lease for lives from 

 James I. 88 Twenty years later Charles I granted the 

 manor to Sir Henry Browne and John Cliffe (with 

 the exception of such lands belonging to the manor as 

 had been inclosed in Oatlands Park, certain rents 

 anciently paid to the manor, and lands in Walton 

 which had been annexed to the honour of Hampton 

 Court), to hold in fee at a rent of 22 ids. li^J. 

 In 1650 this rent was conveyed by Thomas Coke and 

 others, trustees for the sale of the fee-farm and other 



rents of the late king, to William Lilly of St. Clement 

 Danes, gentleman, the famous astrologer. 89 In 1672 

 Francis Drake was lord of the manor, 30 but whether 

 he held it under the lease above mentioned, or had 

 purchased the fee-simple, is uncertain. In 1698 Sir 

 Matthew Andrews and his wife Ann conveyed the 

 manor to James Justice and John Phillips, probably 

 trustees, 31 for the same year William Robinson held his 

 court there. 38 The manor descended to Sara wife of 

 John Bonsey ; they jointly held their court at Walton 

 in 1 7 1 4." Mr. Bonsey dying shortly afterwards, his 

 widow married John Palmer, 34 who survived her and 

 became owner of the estate, 35 which she settled on 

 him. By his will, dated 1758, he gave this manor 

 and that of Walton Leigh to Thomas and John, the 

 sons of his brother Richard Palmer, and to Henry son 

 of Henry Palmer. Henry's share descended to his 

 daughter Frances, who married Thomas Hurst. His 

 son, Palmer Hurst, sold it to the Duke of York 

 previous to the passing of the Inclosure Act in 1 800. 

 The duke dying in 1827, his interest in the manor 

 was sold to Edward H. B. Hughes, the purchaser of 

 Oatlands. The two-thirds held by Thomas and John 

 Palmer came into the possession 

 of their nephew RichardPalmer, 

 D.D., chaplain of the House of 

 Commons from 1765 to 1769 ; 

 and on his death passed to his 

 son the Rev. John Palmer of 

 Adisham, co. Kent. It was 

 next held by Gillias Payne Pal- 

 mer, but passed from him under 

 a mortgage into the hands of 

 William Clark, solicitor, of 

 Chertsey,* 6 and the present lord 

 is Mr. Henry Edwards Paine 

 of the firm of Paine, Brettell & 

 Porter, solicitors, Chertsey. 



The Manor Road, forming 

 a loop from Walton village 

 incloses the old Manor House, at 

 about 100 yards from the river, a 



to the river, 

 the north end 



fine specimen of 15th-century building, which has 

 been called Bradshaw's house, but was never owned 

 by him. It consists of a central hall running approxi- 

 mately north and south, with projecting wings at each 

 end, built of timber framing originally filled in with 

 brick and lath-and-plaster. The walls of the hall 

 appear to have been thickened with modern brick in 

 order to carry an inserted floor, and small additions 

 of modern brick have also been made. This floor 

 has in modern times been taken away, restoring the 

 hall to its original design ; the wings have each an 

 upper story which projects over the ground floor. 

 The hall has a large brick chimney-breast in the west 

 wall, and in the south wing is a larger stack which 

 appears to have served the kitchen fireplace. In the 

 north wing is a corresponding chimney-stack, and a 

 modern one has been inserted in the northern 



room. 



""Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. vol. 18 

 (pt. 2), p. 49. 



81 Ibid. vol. 1 8, p. 96. 



22 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 15 Edw. 

 IV, no. 102. 



43 Dugdale, Baronage, 1 68, from the 

 Stafford archives. 



"Duchy of Lanc.Misc.Bks.vol.20,p.87d. 



"Ibid. vol. 21, p. 184. 



M Pat 32 Eliz. pt. xii. 



27 Pat. 35 Eliz. pt. iv. 



K Pat. 9 Jas. I, pt. xxviii. Drake 

 by his will, dated 21 May 1603, left to 

 his wife 'the Manor and demesne of 

 Walton if the lease shall last so long,' with 

 remainder to his son Francis Drake; P.C.C. 

 Harte, fol. 2. 



m Manning and BrzjjHitt.tifSurr.iirfSj. 



47 



80 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1672. 



81 Ibid. HiL 9 Will, and Mary. 



85 Ct. R. quoted by Manning and Br.ijr, 

 Hist, of Surr. ii, 763. 

 83 Ibid, ut supra. 

 M Feet of F. Div. Co. HiL 3 Ceo. I. 



85 Feet of F. S"-r. Iviich. 12 Geo. I. 



86 Braylry, Hist, of Surr. ii, 316 ; Recov. 



'i & 2 Geo. IV, rot. 42. 



