A HISTORY OF SURREY 



D.D., and descended to his son the Rev. John Palmer. 

 On the sale of the Crown lands, which had been 

 transferred to the Duke of York under an Act of 

 1804, the entire manor of Walton Leigh became 

 vested in Edward H. B. Hughes. 60 



Early in the reign of Henry VIII a quarrel took 

 place between certain fishermen of Walton and Giles 

 Leigh, lord of the manor of Walton Leigh. The 

 fishermen, Thomas Brewer, John Newman, and John 

 and Richard Albroke, with others, claimed that they 

 and their forefathers had been used to fish in the 

 king's water of Thames beside Walton time out of 

 mind. But Giles Leigh, ' by the sinister council of 

 John Carleton, man of law and bailly there,' claimed 

 a several water and fishing there of half a mile. 

 Accompanied by certain persons armed with swords and 

 bucklers he riotously came to Brewer's boats and 

 took away his great salmon net. At other times he 

 took from Brewer certain engines called ' clere weles ' 

 for catching roach and dace ; and finally went to law 

 with him and the two Albrokes for fishing in his 

 water. Giles was non-suited, but he ' continued in 

 his malicious mind,' and finally gave information 

 which caused Robert Bawce, farmer of the king's 

 moiety of Walton weir, to descend upon the luckless 

 fishermen and ' uncharitably to vex them by privy 

 seals and otherwise ' for infringing upon the royal 

 rights, driving them at last to appeal for justice." 



4PPS (Ebsa, xi cent.), which now forms part of 

 the parish of Walton on Thames, was originally a 

 separate vill. In 675 Frithwald of Surrey and 

 Bishop Erkenwald are said to have granted five 

 ' mansas ' there to Chertsey Abbey, 68 and this grant 

 was renewed by Edward the Confessor when he 

 restored its lost property to that monastery. 63 After 

 the Conquest Richard de Tonbridge acquired some 

 land in the manor, 64 or perhaps the whole manor, 

 which was certainly afterwards held of his successors. 

 The account of the matter given in Domesday is as 

 follows : ' The same Richard has six hides in the 

 manor of Ebsa which Abbot Wulfwold [of Chertsey] 

 delivered to him in augmentation of Waleton, as 

 Richard's homagers say. But the men of the hundred 

 say that they have never seen the King's writ or 

 livery officer who had given him seisin thereof. 

 Nine thegns held this land [under Edward the 

 Confessor] and they could seek for it and for them- 

 selves what lord they pleased.' 6i 



A certain Picot held two separate half-hides of 

 Richard de Tonbridge, and there was also half a hide 

 held by a villein, for which he had previously paid 

 rent to the homagers, but which he then held of the 

 king. 66 This last half-hide appears in the Testa de 

 Nevill as held of the king in free alms by Ralph 

 Blundell, William son of Gunnild, William son of 

 Gilbert, and Osbert Malherbe by the service of brewing 

 and distributing beer for the benefit of the souls of 

 Kings of England on All Souls' Day. In the escheats 



in the same record the same tenure is in the hands of 

 William le Fraunkeleyn, Osbert Malherbe, Osbert 

 Blundus, and Matilda, a widow. 67 In 1318 this land 

 belonged to Hawisia de Hautot, and was said to form 

 part of the manor of Apps Court. 68 



The overlordship of the Clare lands descended 

 after the death of Gilbert de Clare in 1314 to the 

 Despensers, 69 and subsequently to Isabella Countess 

 of Warwick, daughter of Thomas le Despenser. It 

 probably escheated to the Crown after the attainder 

 of Warwick ' the Kingmaker' in 1 47 1. 70 



Part of the Clare lands were held in mesne lord- 

 ship in the early 1 3th century by the D'Abernons. 

 Gilbert D'Abernon in or about 1235 granted to 

 Jane widow of Engelram D'Abernoun all his interest 

 in half a knight's fee in Apps. 71 John D'Abernon 

 appears as mesne lord of lands in the manor in 1 3 1 8, 7 ' 

 and in 1361 the manor was said to be held of Sir 

 William Croyser, 73 husband of Elizabeth, daughter of 

 William D'Abernon. It descended to his son 

 William, after whose death it was held by his wife, 

 Edith, 74 and the mesne lordship continued with the 

 lords of Stoke D'Abernon until as late as I546. 74 

 Other lands in the manor were held of various lords," 

 so that it appears to have been a consolidation of 

 several holdings. 



These various lands, forming the manor of Apps, 

 were held as sub-tenant by Hawisia de Hautot, 

 wife of Ralph le Hever, at her death in 1318. 

 Thomas de Hever, her son and heir, succeeded her. 77 

 His daughter Margaret married Oliver de Brocas, who 

 held the manor of Apps in his wife's right. 78 John 

 Brocas, his son, succeeded him, and died without issue, 

 leaving as heir Edward St. John, kt., lord of ' Wylde- 

 brugge,' son of Joan sister of Thomas Hever. 79 The 

 manor was mortgaged under a statute staple for 1,000 

 marks to John Campden and others, who entered on 

 possession. This probably accounts for a certain 

 Bernard Brocas remitting all right in the manor in 

 1393 to John Nekelin and others. 60 Edward St. 

 John therefore never seems to have been in possession. 

 In 1418 the manor was held under the Croysers by 

 John Pegays and William atte Field, probably feoffees. 81 

 In 1454 Ralph Agmondesham, 

 whose family belonged to Row- 

 barnes and East Horsley, and 

 his wife Millicent 8 * were 

 tenants, and it continued in 

 a branch of this family for 

 some time. 



In 1541 it was in the hands 

 of John Agmondesham and 

 Eleanor his wife, 63 and in I 546 

 John Agmondesham died seised 



of the manor, which he had AGMONDCSHAM. Ar- 

 settled on his wife, who sur- f' " c , heve ' m ,"~ ur . e 



i i ti i T 11 between three boars heads 



vivedhim. 84 He was succeeded sahll with , hree einj _ 

 by Francis, his son and heir, foils or on the chevemn. 



" Bray ley, Hitt. of Surr. ii, 318. 

 61 Star Chamber Proc. Hen. VIII, bdle. 

 1 8, no. 79. 



6a B.M. Cott. MS.Vitell.A. xiii, fol. 2lk. 



Ibid. fol. 50*. 



H Surr. Arch. CM. xv, 1 7 note. 



65 r.C.H. Surr. i, 317*. 



" Ibid. 318*. 



6 7 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225, 227. 



68 Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. II, no. I. 



69 Ibid. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist. nos.), 



no. 169 ; 49 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), 

 no. 46. 



'"Ibid. 1 8 Hen. VI.no. 3. 



7 1 B.M. Add. Chart. 5562. 



" 2 Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. II, no. 17. 



" Ibid. 17 Edw. Ill (ist no.".), no. 7. 



' 4 Ibid. 3 Hen. V, no. 17. See also 

 Coram Rege R. Mich. 7 Hen. VII, m. 16 

 (Surr.). 



" 5 See Chan. Inq. p.m.(Ser. 2), lxxxv,65. 



" 6 Ibid. I Ric. II, no. 4. 



472 



" Ibid. 12 Edw. II, no. 17. 



' 8 Ibid. 17 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 7. 



7* Chan. Inq. p.m. I Ric. II, no. 41 5 

 2 Ric. II, no. 19. 



so Close, 17 Ric. II, m. 3 id. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Hen. V, no. 30. 

 See also Feud. Aids for 1422. 



8" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 38 Hen. VI. 



""Ibid. Div. Co. East. 33 Hen. VIII. 



84 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), Ixxxv, 65. 



