A HISTORY OF SURREY 



date Turberville was annexed to the manor of Tal- 

 worth, which had also another member called Wyke. 

 After the death and forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser 

 an extent of the manor of Talworth with its members 

 Wyke and Turberville was taken in l^zj, K whereby 

 it appears that at Talworth there was a moated 

 mansion-house with a gateway and drawbridge, 

 which contained two halls (aule), six chambers, 

 kitchen and scullery, bake-house and brew-house and 

 a chapel. Beyond the moat were the lands pertain- 

 ing, and two granges, two ox-houses with stable and 

 pig-sty, a garden and a water-mill. Suit was ren- 

 dered to this manor by tenants holding thirty-two 

 and a half knights' fees, and the quarter of a fee.* 6 

 At Wyke there was a messuage, various lands and 

 tenants. To the messuage at Turberville a chapel 

 was attached. The mill which was known as 

 ' Brayest Mulne ' was held of the lord of Long 

 Ditton. In the same yeir Talworth was granted to 

 Edmund Earl of Kent, 67 who in 1330 was sentenced 

 to death on a charge of being engaged in a plot to 

 assist his brother the king, Edward II, who was 

 said to have escaped from Berkeley, but in reality 

 because he opposed the rule of Mortimer and the 

 queen-mother. He died seised of the manor of 

 Talworth with its members Wyke and Turberville, 

 held of the honour of Gloucester by service of the 

 fourth part of a knight's fee.* 8 In 1330 Roger Husee 

 petitioned the king for the manor of Turberville, as 

 the heir of John de Berewyk, 6 * but this petition had 

 apparently no effect. In 1330 Bartholomew de 

 Burghersh was granted Talworth for life ; 70 but this 

 grant must have been revoked when the young 

 Earl of Kent was restored in his blood and honours 

 in the year following the overthrow of Mortimer. 

 The king then granted to Margaret wife of the 

 late Earl of Kent the custody of the manor, to hold 

 for John the younger son of Edmund," although 

 Edmund the elder son did not die until 1333. 

 William de Arderne in 1332 sued the countess," 

 apparently without success, for the manor of Wyke, 

 which was still held by her 

 as a member of Talworth in 

 1 347, ? * and John Earl of 

 Kent died in 1352 seised of 

 the manor and its members." 

 His sister Joan, the Fair 

 Maid of Kent, was his heir. 

 This Joan and her husband, 

 Thomas de Holand, granted 

 the manor of Talworth for 

 life to Sir Otho de Holand, 

 his younger brother, who died 

 in 1359," when the manor 



HOLAND. England in 

 a border argent. 



reverted to Sir Thomas de Holand, who died in 



1360, leaving his son Thomas as heir. 76 The last- 

 named Thomas died in 1397 seised of the manor of 

 Talworth held of Lord le Despenser, and also seised 

 of a toft, two carucates of land and a water-mill in 

 the parish of Kingston, called ' Turbelvyle,' held 

 of the king for l8/. rent at his manor of Sheen. 77 He 

 left a son Thomas through whom once more Tal- 

 worth became an escheat. This last Thomas de 

 Holand was created Duke of Surrey in 1 397, and 

 was in favour with Richard II, but after that king's 

 deposition his title of duke was annulled, and 

 grants were rescinded that had been made to him 

 since the meeting of the preceding Parliament. 

 Joining in a conspiracy against Henry IV he was 

 taken at Cirencester and executed by the inhabitants 

 there in January I399-I4OO. 78 He was attainted 

 and his estates were confiscated." Alice, his father's 

 widow, was holding the manor at her death in 1416, 

 and as his brother Edmund, who was apparently 

 allowed to succeed to Thomas's estates, died without 

 issue in 1 408, the manor passed 

 eventually to Sir John de 

 Nevill, kt., son of Ralph first 

 Earl of Westmorland, who 

 had married Elizabeth, one 

 of the sisters of this last-named 

 Thomas de Holand. 80 She 

 died in January 1422-3, and 

 Ralph de Nevill the second 

 Earl of Westmorland was her 

 son and heir. 81 He granted 

 the manor for the rent of a 

 rose to his son John, who mar- 

 ried Anne daughter of John 

 Holand, Duke of Exeter, and died in March 

 14501 without issue. 8 * Anne being left a widow 

 married her late husband's heir, who was his 

 uncle Sir John de Nevill, kt. 83 At her death in 1486 

 she was holding the manor, her son and heir being 

 Ralph third Earl of Westmorland. 84 He settled the 

 manor on his son Ralph and his son's wife Edith, 

 but Ralph dying before him in 1498, the manor 

 reverted to him and passed at his death to his 

 grandson Ralph then aged four years, 85 subject, how- 

 ever, to the life-interest of Edith, who married 

 Thomas, Lord Darcy. 86 Queen Elizabeth by her 

 letters patent confirmed the manor to Ralph's son 

 Henry fifth Earl of Westmorland in 1559," an< * h e ' n 

 the same year granted it to Sir Ambrose Cave under 

 the name of Talworth alias Talworth Court." Sir 

 Ambrose in 1564 conveyed the manor to George 

 Evelyn. 89 The manor remained with the Evelyn 

 family * until the death of Sir Edward Evelyn, bart., 

 in 1692, who left three heirs; Edward Hill son of 

 his daughter Anne, Mary wife of Sir William Glynne, 



ILL, Earl of 

 morland. Gules a saltirt 

 argent. 



ei Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. file 103, no. 18. 

 Herein described as acquired by the king 

 from Thomas Corbett, and by him granted 

 to Le Despenser. The inquisition was 

 taken when Le Despenser was adjudged a 

 traitor and the king was a prisoner. 



68 These may be the tenants of the 

 honours of Gloucester and Clare in Surrey. 



W Chart. R. I Edw. Ill, m. 43, no. 82. 



68 Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 38. 



Par/. R. ii, 48*. 



'i Cal. Pat. 1327-30, p. 516. 



~ l Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 

 55 ; De Banco R. 291, m. 22$ d. 



? a De Banco R. 291, m. 225 d. 



''Cal. Chie, 1346-9, p. 280. 



' 4 Chan. Inq. p.m. 26 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 54. The extent of Talworth 

 gives a capital messuage, moated, an old 

 mill, land and rents ; and at Turberville 

 was a water-mill, a messuage, garden and 

 land held of the king at of the manor of 

 Sheen. 



7* Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill, no. 37. 



" 6 Ibid. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 104. 



"Inq. p.m. 20 Ric. II, no. 30. 



7" G.E.C. Peerage. 



WFineR. i Hen. IV, m. 18. 



80 Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. V, no. 51. He 

 had five sisters, Eleanor, Countess of 

 March, Joan, Duchess of York, Margaret, 

 Duchess of Clarence, Eleanor, Countesi 



520 



of Salisbury, and Elizabeth, who were heirs 

 on the death of their brother. Margaret, 

 the Duchess of Clarence, held half a fee in 

 Talworth in 1418 (Feud. Aid*, v, 122). 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Hen. VI, no. 45. 



2 Ibid. 29 Hen. VI, no. 13. 



88 Manning and Bray, Surr. iii. 19. 



M Exch. Inq. p.m. file 1059, no. 9. 



85 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xiv, 98. 



88 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, i, 721 ; Feet of 

 F. Div. Co. Trin. 16 Hen. VII. 



V Pat. i Eliz. pt. ii, m. i. 



88 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. I & 2 Eliz. 



89 Pat, 3 Eliz. pt. iv, m. z ; Feet of F. 

 Surr. HiU 6 Eliz. 



90 Vide Long Ditton tupra. 



