KINGSTON HUNDRED 



LONG DITTON 



1244-5. In the l6th and iyth centuries the manor 

 was said to be held of the Crown as of the castle of 

 Dover or as of the barony of Arsic.' 4 



In 1257 this fee was in the tenure of John de 

 Guglesham, who conveyed it under the name of a 

 carucate of land, with a mill in Kingston and Ditton, 

 to William de Brademere. 35 From an inquisition 

 taken in 1290, it appears that William de Brademere 

 held it of Robert le Tut, husband of Alice daughter 

 of Robert Arsic, by a rent of z(,s. x Robert le Tut 

 held of the king in chief for rent of los. to Dover 

 Castle every twenty-four weeks, which payment he 

 ceased to render after his wife's death, so that William 

 de Brademere, Richard his son, and William 

 Richard's son, were distrained for the money." 

 Alice wife of Richard de Brademere, who died in 

 1288, and Bartholomew de Morle, her second hus- 

 band, claimed the custody of the land in Long 

 Ditton during the minority of William son of 

 Richard. 38 William de Brademere was apparently 

 still holding in 131 o. 3 * Nothing more appears con- 

 cerning the manor until 1398, when Walter Pem- 

 broke and Margery his wife quitclaimed Long 

 Ditton to John Gravesende and Isabel his wife, 40 and 

 about 1418 Henry Haweles and Margaret his wife 

 were holding it with successive remainder to John 

 Haweles son of Henry, and Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Margaret, and her issue. 41 Elizabeth wife of William 

 Stowe, who in 1505 quitclaimed the manor of 

 Long Ditton to Robert Fenrother, may have been a 

 descendant of Henry and Margaret Haweles, as the 

 manor was warranted against her and her heirs. It 

 was also warranted against John, Abbot of St. Peter's 

 Westminster.*' In 15 60 the manor was in the 

 possession of Thomas Rede, 43 and he conveyed it in 

 1566 to William Notte, 14 who proved before the 

 Exchequer Court that there were two manors called 

 Long Ditton, one held, at the time, by David Vin- 

 cent, the other by himself. The manor that he held 

 had, he said, been owned by Thomas Rede, who held 

 it of the queen as of Dover Castle by rent of 2 is. 8f d., a 

 and had been granted to himself by Rede. He 

 maintained that there was no reason why it should be 

 taken into the hands of the Crown for alienation by 

 fine without licence, as it was not held of the queen 

 in chief. William Notte died in 1576, leaving an 

 heir, his son Anthony, 46 who died in 15 86 holding 

 this manor. 47 He also held a wharf named Jeffereyes 

 Wharf (which had formerly belonged to the hospital 

 of St. Mary without Bishopsgate) and other land in 

 Long Ditton. 4 ' He left a son Thomas. In 1621-2 

 Thomas Notte sold the manor to Anne Goulde or 

 Gold, widow. 49 She, in 1623, mortgaged it to 

 Mark Snelling of Kingston, 50 but died in seisin of it 



in 1629." Her heir was her daughter Anne, wife of 

 Sir Thomas Evelyn, 5 * by whom both the manors of 

 Long Ditton became vested in the same family. 



There is one reference to a third manor of Long 

 Ditton. In I 386 Sir Miles de Windsor died possessed 

 of this manor, which was held of him by Geoffrey de 

 Metham, 53 but there seems to be no further trace 

 of it. 



The overlordship of the manor of TALWORTH, 

 or TALWORTH COURT, was from 1086, when 

 Talworth formed part of the possessions of Richard de 

 Tonbridge, vested in the family of Clare, passing 

 thence to the Despensers, Beauchamps, and Nevills. 04 

 (See manor of Long Ditton.) 



In 1086 Picot held under Richard de Tonbridge 

 the land that had formerly been held by Alwin in 

 Talworth, while Ralph held that land in Talworth 

 which Edmer had formerly held. 55 The first of these 

 holdings was probably Talworth Court. Early 

 in the I3th century, William Picot appears as witness 

 to a charter of Peter de Talworth, by whom 1 2 acres 

 in this place were granted to the hospital of St. 

 Thomas of Southwark, 66 and the Picots were still hold- 

 ing land there in 1291, when Henry Picot (Pycoch) j 

 granted 8 acres in Talworth to the Prior of the 

 Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem." But the manor of 

 Talworth was probably held by the above-mentioned 

 Peter de Talworth (who granted the advowsbn to 

 Merton), and later by a family named Planaz. Among 

 the fees of the Testa de Nevi/l was half a fee in Ditton 

 and Talworth, held of the honour of Clare by John 

 de Planaz, 58 and in 1255 Ralph de Planaz, brother of 

 John, demanded suit at his court of Talworth and 

 foreign service from the Prior of Merton, who held 

 of him the eighth part of a knight's fee there. 59 In 

 1314 Herbert de Borhunte held the manor of Talworth 

 of Gilbert de Clare, by service of the third part of a 

 knight's fee, this property being the hereditament of 

 his wife, 60 who may be the Joan widow of Henry de 

 Saye who in 1316 held the vill of Talworth. 61 She 

 possibly afterwards married Thomas Corbett, who with 

 Joan his wife in 1320 granted the manor of Talworth 

 to Hugh le Despenser, junior (the overlord in right 

 of his wife), 68 who had also acquired the manor of 

 Turberville, henceforth reckoned a member of Tal- 

 worth. Turberville, which was held of the manor of 

 Sheen, was about 1312 in the tenure of John de 

 Berewyk, whose heir at his death was Roger son of 

 John de Husee, aged five years. 63 Directly after 

 the death of John de Berewyk, Hubert de Swynes- 

 ford his ' groom ' entered into the manor, and after- 

 wards granted it to Walter de Waldeshelf. Hugh le 

 Despenser, junior, coveting the manor, then contrived 

 to obtain a grant of it from Waldeshelf. 64 From this 



84 Memo. R. (L.T.R.) Trin. 8 Eliz. rot 

 6 1 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), clxxix, 93 ; 

 ccxii, 16 ; dxxi, 105. 



85 Feet of F. Surr. 42 Hen. Ill, no. 1 8. 

 "Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. I, file 56, 



no. 20. 



"Ibid. 



m Abbrev.R/>t. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 67. 



'Inq. a.q.d. file 78, no. 25 (3 Edw. II). 



Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 22 Ric. II. 



41 Ibid. Trin. 6 Hen. V, no. 28. 



4 >Ibid. Mich. 21 Hen. VII, no. ji. 



48 Ibid. Hil. 2 Eliz. 



Ibid. Hil. 8 Eliz. 



* Memo. R. (L.T.R.) Trin. 8 Eliz. rot. 

 61. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxiz, 93. 



'Hbid. ccxii, 1 6. 



"Ibid, cclxiii, 78 ; ccli, 153. 



48 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 19 Jas. I ; Hil. 

 19 Jas. I ; Close, 19 Jas. I, pt. xxi, no. 

 25. According to Manning and Bray she 

 was daughter and heir of Hugh Gold by 

 Anne heir of Thomas Notte. Sir Edward 

 Evelyn's settlement on his daughter con- 

 firms that she was his own grandmother, 

 and calls the manor her inheritance, and 

 later the inheritance of Thomas Notte. 



50 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 21 Jas. I, 

 m. 5. 



51 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dxxi, 105. 

 * Ibid. 



"Ibid. 10 Ric. II, no. 46. 



" Testa de Ncvill (Rec. Com.), 221 ; 



519 



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

 65) ; 23 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 

 169; 35 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 104; ibid. 

 49 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 46 ; 18 

 Hen. VI, no. 3, m. 44 ; Exch. Inq. p.m., 

 file 1059, no. 9. 



y.C.H. Surr. i, 317. 



"Add. Chart. 23666. 



WInq. a.q.d. file 15, no. 25. 



68 Tata de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 221. 



" Assize R. Surr. Trin. 39 Hen. Ill, 

 rot. 12 J. 



80 Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68 (m. 65). 



81 Feud. Aids, v, no. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. 14 Edw. II, no. 13. 

 88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 43. 

 "Par I. R. ii, 48*. 



