A HISTORY OF SURREY 



ST. MARY SPITAL. 

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of Anne, the latter's widow, were settled on her 

 daughters Isabel, the wife of George Duke of Clarence, 

 and Anne, the wife of Richard Duke of Gloucester, 

 afterwards Richard III. 11 Both their husbands were 

 attainted, and they both died before the Dowager 

 Countess Anne. Another Act of Parliament early 

 in the reign of Henry VII restored the estates to the 

 countess, who immediately conveyed them to the 

 king," who thus became over- 

 lord of Long Ditton. 



At the beginning of the 

 1 3th century the manor was 

 held under the de Clares by 

 Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl 

 of Essex, 13 and seems to have 

 been granted by his brother 

 and heir William de Mande- 

 ville to the priory of St. Mary 

 Spital without Bishopsgate. 1 ' 

 In 1314 the manor was re- 

 turned as held by the Prior of 

 Bishopsgate for the fourth part 

 of a knight's fee." 



The farm of Long Ditton in 1535 was valued at 

 5, other lands and tenements at 5 it. 8J., and the 

 perquisites of court, &c., at 2/. 16 After the Dissolu- 

 tion woods belonging to the manor were sold by the 

 king to Sir Thomas Heneage, 17 and in 1552 

 Edward VI granted the manor in exchange for lands 

 in Richmond 18 to David Vincent, a groom of the 

 Privy Chamber, who died in 1565 leaving the property 

 to his son Thomas, 19 who sold it almost immediately 

 to George Evelyn, the great maker of gunpowder,* 

 whose mother was daughter of another David Vincent. 

 At his death in 1603 " he left a son Thomas, who, 

 dying in October 1617, left also a son Thomas," 

 who had been knighted in the July of that year." 

 Concerning the conduct of 

 Sir Thomas Evelyn and his 

 family towards himself, Richard 

 Hinde, minister of Long Dit- 

 ton, made complaint to Arch- 

 bishop Laud. He complained 

 that he had suffered much 

 indignity from Sir Thomas 

 and his lady, which he had 

 borne in silence, until Dame 



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divine service, while yet in gri f on fatsaat and a 

 the church, before all the chief or. 

 people thus addressed him : ' You are a base man, 

 and a base unworthy priest ; you have abused me 

 basely, and your base carriage and usage of me shall 



not any longer be endured,' and yet more vilifying 

 speeches. Sir Thomas complained that the minister 

 had abused his lady. The archbishop appointed a 

 time for a private hearing of these disagreements." 

 In 1657 Sir Thomas was again in trouble with the 

 parson. According to the petition of Richard Byfield, 

 officiating as minister in Long Ditton, money that 

 had been collected in 1641 and 1642 for the re- 

 building of the church had remained in Sir Thomas 

 Evelyn's hands, while meantime the church fell down." 

 Another complaint was that Sir Thomas entertained 

 a prelatical household chaplain who used the words of 

 the book of Common Prayer, and gathered a concourse 

 of people of like views and invaded the parson's right, 

 with regard to which Sir Thomas was warned to 

 remove his chaplain. 86 He died in 1659. His son 

 Sir Edward Evelyn, knighted in 1676 and created a 

 baronet in 1682-3, held this manor," which, when he 

 died without leaving male issue in 1692, descended 

 to his daughter and co-heiress Penelope and her 

 husband, Sir Joseph Alston, third baronet, the manor 

 having been settled on the occasion of Penelope's 

 marriage on himself (Sir Ed- 

 ward Evelyn) for life, with re- 

 mainder to Penelope and her 

 husband. 18 Joseph, their eldest 

 son, succeeded to the manor,* 9 

 and he dying without issue, it 

 passed to his brother, Sir 

 Evelyn Alston, bart., who in 

 1720-1 sold it to Sir Peter 

 King of Ockham, co. Surrey, 30 

 who was made Lord High 

 Chancellor in 1725, and was 

 created Lord King, Baron of 

 Ockham, in the same year." 

 His successor and heir male, 

 William King, was, in 1838, 



created Viscount Ockham and Earl of Lovelace. 

 Lionel Fortescue King, third Earl of Lovelace, is the 

 present lord of the manor. 



Another manor of DITTON is entered in Domes- 

 day as held by Wadard of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, 

 Wadard being the successor of Leuegar, who had held 

 under King Harold." The Arsics succeeded here 

 as elsewhere to the lands of Wadard, and this manor 

 appears at the beginning of the 1 3th century as a 

 knight's fee in Ditton belonging to the barony of 

 Arsic, which was one of the baronies charged with 

 castle ward to Dover. 35 The overlordship descended 

 with the barony of Arsic, which appears to have 

 escheated to the Crown after the succession of female 

 heirs to the lands of Robert de Arsic, who died in 



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"Par!. R. vi, 100 ; Pat. 14 Edw. IV, 

 pt. i, m. 7. 



18 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 3 Hen. VII. 



"Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 

 1 2. The reference for the Close R. which 

 they quote does not seem to be correct. 



14 Asize R. 876, m. i. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68 

 (m. 65). 



" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 400. 



>7Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 83, no. 

 12. 



18 Acts, of P. C. 1552-4, p. 57; Pat. 

 6 Edw. VI, pt. iv, m. 45. 



"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxlii, 131. 



80 Pat. 9 Eliz. pt. ix, m. 7 ; Recov. R. 

 East. 1567, rot. 1003. 



M Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxc, 1 24. 



m lbid. ccclxxii, 161. 



38 Shaw, Knights of Engl. ii, 164. 



41 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1637, pp. 342, 354. 



M Ibid. 1657-8, p. 139. They were 

 reconciled through Cromwell's interven- 

 tion. Diet. Nat. Biog. 



86 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1657-8, p. 159. 



* Recov. R. East. I Jas. II, rot. 8, &c. 



88 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 

 15. See Feet of F. Surr. Hil. I Anne ; 

 Trin. 9 Anne. 



89 Manning and Bray, loc. cit. ; Recov. 

 R. Hil. 3 Geo. I, rot. 118. 



80 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 7 Geo. I, 

 m. 4 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 7 Geo. I 5 

 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 8 Geo. I, m. 



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3 ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 8 Geo. I. In 

 these last two conveyances Sophia Glynne, 

 another of Evelyn's co-heiresses, with her 

 husband Sir Stephen Glynne, bart., and 

 Edward Hill, representing Anne the third 

 co-heiress, joined with Sir Edward Alston. 

 In his will Sir Edward Evelyn had left hi 

 estates between his daughters. (Will at 

 Somerset House proved 1692.) 



81 G.E.C. Peerage. 



82 This manor is identified in V.C.H. 

 Surr. i, 305^1, as Thames Ditton, but 

 from the subsequent descent of Long 

 Ditton it seems more probable that the 

 latter was the Domesday manor. 



*>Red Bk. ofExcb. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 617, 

 709, 720. 



