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DUCHY OF CORNWALL. 

 Sable fifteen bezants. 



which, like Weybridge, had been held of Chertsey and 

 was annexed to the duchy of Cornwall, was in the 

 king's hands in the reign of 

 Edward I (see Byfleet). Wey- 

 bridge was apparently annexed 

 to the duchy of Cornwall be- 

 fore 1 346, for in that year 

 Reginald de Wodeham and 

 others invaded the closes and 

 houses of Edward the king's 

 son, Duke of Cornwall, at 

 Weybridge, mowed his hay, 

 cut his trees, and hindered his 

 servants in the collection of 

 rents.' 8 This seems to prove 

 that there was some local feeling against the justice of 

 the royal acquisition. 



In 1 540 Henry VIII annexed it, together with 

 Byfleet Manor, &c., to the honour of Hampton Court, 

 assigning to the duchy in return the manor of Ship- 

 pon, co. Berks." From this time onwards the manor 

 appears to have been held by the Crown and leased 

 out to various persons, generally to the possessors of 

 Oatlands. In 1578 Queen Elizabeth granted free 

 warren in Weybridge Manor to Thomas Wilkins and 

 others. 10 James I granted leases of the manor suc- 

 cessively to Henry Prince of Wales," to Queen Anne," 

 to Sir Francis Bacon," and (in reversion) to Charles 

 Prince of Wales." Denzil Lord Holies held the 

 manor under a lease from Charles II." In 1749 

 Abel Walter received a grant of it in reversion after a 

 lease for 1 ,000 years from George II. 16 



In 1 804 an Act of Parliament " enabled the Duke 

 of York to become owner of the leasehold under the 

 Crown. His estates were broken up at his death in 

 1827 (see Oatlands). Mr. Henry Edwards Paine is 

 now lord of the manor. 



O4TL4NDS and the former manor of HUN- 

 DULSHAM, or HUNEW4LDESH4M. In 1086 

 Herfrey held Weybridge of Odo Bishop of Bayeux. 

 Two sisters had held it in King Edward's time. 

 When the bishop possessed himself of this land he 

 had not the king's livery officer or writ therefor, 

 as the hundred testified. 18 This cannot have been 

 what was known as the manor of Weybridge, since 

 that was held simultaneously by the Abbot and con- 

 vent of Chertsey. It seems probable, therefore, that 

 we have in this extract from Domesday the early history 

 of the only other manor in the parish, that of Hune- 

 waldesham or Hundulsham, afterwards included in the 

 manor of Oatlands. Hunewaldesham was one of the 

 alleged gifts of Frithwald to Chertsey," so that this was 

 another of the many usurpations of the bishop recorded 

 in Domesday. There is, however, a gap of nearly two 

 hundred years before any further mention of the 

 estate occurs. In 1252-3 Richer Maunsell and his 

 wife Cecilia conveyed land in Hunewaldesham to 

 Sarra de Wodeham ; and Richer conveyed land in 



18 Pat 20 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 15 d. ; 

 Close, 22 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 1 5. 



19 Manning and Bray, Hat of Surr. ii, 

 785. 



*> Pat 30 Eliz. pt v. 

 i Pat 8 Jan. I, pt xli. 

 m Pat 1 3 Jas. I, pt. xxix. 

 88 Pat 14 Ja*. I, pt xx. 

 44 Pat. 14 Jas. I, pt. x. 

 Pat. 24 Chas. II, pt iv. 

 48 Pat. 22 Geo. II, pt. ii. 

 *7 44 Geo. Ill, cap. 25. 



Hunewaldesham to Joan widow of William de Hune- 

 waldesham. In 1271-2 James de Wodeham made a 

 grant in Hunewaldesham to John de Souwy. 30 In 

 1 290 Robert atte Otlond and Sibill his wife granted to 

 James son of James de Wodeham 2 acres of land in 

 Weybridge at a yearly rent of one rose. 3 ' In 1324 

 the Wodehams held property in Weybridge consisting 

 of a messuage, 64 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 

 5 acres of pasture, 6 acres of wood, and a rent of 6/." 

 Fifty years later John de Wodeham, son and heir of 

 Reginald Wodeham, 33 granted to John Bouelythe lands 

 in the parish of Weybridge called Hunewaldesham." 

 In 1383 Symon atte Otlond is mentioned as paying a 

 rent to Byfleet Manor, 34 probably for ' Otlond,' 

 which was held of Byfleet, and a Simon atte Wey- 

 bridge appears in the Court Rolls in 1389 as holding 

 ' Otlond.' 



Late in the I Jth century John de Wodeham died 

 seised of Hundulsham Manor, which descended from 

 him to his daughter and heiress, Margery Waker." 

 She was disturbed in her possession by the heirs 

 of Sir Bartholomew Reed. In 1505 Sir Bartholo- 

 mew Reed, kt., had died seised of land in Wey- 

 bridge called ' Otland,' 36a which he bequeathed to 

 his wife Elizabeth, with remainder to his nephew 

 William Reed. 37 After his death Dame Elizabeth and 

 William Reed, the latter a goldsmith of London, took 

 possession not only of those lands in Weybridge which 

 Sir Bartholomew had undoubtedly held, but also of 

 Hundulsham Manor. Thomas Waker, son and heir 

 of Margery, appealed in the Court of Requests against 

 the injustice of this proceeding, stating that as he 

 himself was a poor man with but few friends, while 

 the Reeds were ' of great substance ' and had great 

 friends in the county, he was not able to sue against 

 them. The Reeds denied that there had ever been 

 such a manor as Hundulsham, 58 but said that Sir 

 Bartholomew had been seised of two messuages and 

 various lands in Weybridge, and that his right to 

 them had been admitted in 1499 by Joan Arnold, 

 daughter of Elizabeth, daughter of John Wodeham, 

 who had quitclaimed from her heirs to Sir Bartholo- 

 mew and his heirs. 39 Rightly or wrongly, the Reeds 

 won their case : the manor of Hundulsham is never 

 mentioned again, and in Sep- 

 tember 1534 William Reed 

 died seised of ' the manor 

 called "Oteland" in Wey- 

 bridge held of the ex-Queen 

 Catherine,' and a number of 

 tenements in Weybridge, under 

 the will of his uncle Bartholo- 

 mew. 40 His son John was 

 still a minor, and was placed 

 under the guardianship of 

 Cromwell." A letter from 

 Thomas Stydolf to Cromwell is 

 still in existence, arranging for 



Oatlands. 

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* r.C.H. Surr. i, 304*. 

 Cott. MS. VitelL A. xiii. 



80 Surr. Fines (Surr. Arch. Coll.), 48. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. East. 18 Edw. I, 

 no. 26. 



8a Ibid. Trin. 18 Edw. II. 



83 See Weybridge descent. 



84 Anct D. Surr. C. 628. 



85 Surr. Arch. Coll. xvii, 53. 



86 Ct of Req. bdle. 3, no. 106. 



88a Sir Bartholomew Reed had acquired 

 78 acres of land in Weybridge and Walton 



477 



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from the widow of Thomas Warner (who 

 died in 1478). Feet of F. Surr. 9 Hen. 

 VII, no. 1 8. 



"'Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xix, 53. 



88 Ct. of Req. bdle. ii, no. 98. 



89 This statement is borne out by Feet 

 of F. Surr. HiL 13 Hen. VII, but there is 

 no mention of a manor, such as the Reeds 

 claimed to hold later. 



40 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ivii, 30. 



41 See L. and P. Hen. Vlll, vii, 1 246 ; ix, 

 1151. 



