KINGSTON HUNDRED 



LONG DITTON 



bart., and Penelope wife of Sir Joseph Alston." By 

 his will he devised this manor as Talworth or Tal- 

 worth Court to Dame Mary Glynne. Both Mary 

 and her son William predeceased Sir William Glynne, 

 who devised the manor of Talworth or Talworth Court 

 to his brother Sir Stephen Glynne. 9 * He conveyed 

 it in 1724 to Hugh Viscount Falmouth and others, 

 trustees of the will of Sir William Scawen, in trust 

 for Thomas Scawen. 93 From Thomas it descended 

 to James Scawen his son, who in 1777 mortgaged the 

 manor to Robert Waters of Whitehaven, 94 and it was 

 sold by his trustees in 1781 to Nathaniel Polhill, 

 tobacconist, M.P. for Southwark. 95 He died in 

 1782, and Nathaniel his son and heir died in the 

 following November, leaving an infant son. This son 

 dying just before he would have come of age in 

 April 1802, the estate came to his uncle John 

 Polhill, owner in I8IO. 96 Before 1835 the manor 

 was bought by the fourth Earl of Egmont. The 

 land was sold before the death of the seventh earl 

 in 1 897, and a number of small houses were built 

 upon it by a building company. Talworth Court 

 was burnt down in April 1911. 



The manor of NORTH TALWORTH may be 

 identified with the land which previous to the Con- 

 quest had been held by Edmcr, and in 1086 was held 

 by Ralph of Richard de Tonbridge. Afterwards it 

 seems to have been held under the Clares by the 

 Dammartins 9r and in 1314 appears among the fees 

 held of Gilbert de Clare by Thomas de Warblington, 

 who held the manors of Tandridge, North Talworth, 

 and Ockley by service of three and a half knights' 

 fees. 99 John de Warblington held the same of Hugh le 

 Despenser in 1349," an( ^ t ' le tnree manors were in 

 1376 held by Alice the widow of John de War- 

 blington.' 00 In 1440 they formed part of the fees 

 of Isabel, Countess of Warwick, daughter of Thomas 

 le Despenser, grandson of Hugh, being described as 

 those which Thomas de Warblington formerly held. 101 

 There seems to be no further trace of this manor, the 

 overlordship of which was in the same hands as that 

 of Long Ditton, with which perhaps it was united, 

 unless it be the property in Talworth of which John 

 Danaster, baron of the Exchequer, died seised in 

 1 54O, 101 which he settled on his daughter Anne, 

 afterwards the wife of Owen Bray of Chobham. 

 Manning and Bray " say that Danaster* land was 

 held in 1571 by Margaret Lambard (Lambert), 

 whose heir was Christopher Muschamp. Christopher 

 married a daughter of a Margaret Lambert, 104 who 

 was also apparently his cousin. He died in 1587. 

 His will was dated from his capital messuage of 

 Talworth, and he held lands in Carshalton, Bedding- 

 ton, Sutton, and Wallington 'eidemcapitali messuagio 

 spectantes.' His widow Dorothy, who had been 



MlRTON PIORY. 



Or fretty azure with 

 eaglet argent on the fret. 



apparently his second wife, had a life interest with 

 reversion to his son Henry. 105 



The priory of Merton held a manor in Talworth, 

 called by Manning and Bray SOUTH TALWORTH, 

 which was also part of the Clare fee. 



At an early date Huelmus le Fleming acquired a 

 virgate of land in Talworth from Robert, Prior of 

 Merton, which the prior had 

 before received from Hugh 

 son of Isold. 10 * In 1255 the 

 Prior of Merton held the 

 eighth part of a knight's fee 

 in Talworth of Ralph de 

 Planaz, for which he denied 

 that he owed suit of court at 

 the manor of Talworth, 107 and 

 in 1314 among the fees of 

 Gilbert de Clare was a manor 

 of Talworth held by the Prior 

 of Merton by the service of a 

 quarter of a knight's fee, value 

 loo/. 108 In I349, 109 '376," and 1440,'" the in- 

 quisitions on the Clares and their descendants mention 

 the same fee. 



At its dissolution the priory held rents of assize in 

 Kingston, Ditton, Talworth, Chessington, Hook, and 

 elsewhere amounting to I l6/. lj^. m These were 

 annexed to the honour of Hampton Court. 113 



The Knights of St. John in the reign of Henry III 

 held a knight's fee in Talworth of which they had 

 been enfeoffed by Henry Kyryel. Their prior in 

 that reign was fined for withdrawing his men of Tal- 

 worth so that they did not render suit at the king's court 

 at Kingston, nor pay tallage when due. 1 " In 1 294 

 Henry Pycot granted 8 acres in Talworth to the prior 

 of this order. 114 



The church of ST. MARY is a build- 

 CHURCH ing of Godalming stone in the style of the 

 1 3th century, consisting of a chancel, 

 chamber, vestry, nave, transepts, aisles, and south 

 porch. It was erected in 1878-80 some distance to 

 the north of a former building on a neighbouring 

 site ; the foundations of this are still visible, and 

 some portions of its chancel walls still stand. It was 

 of a small Greek-cross plan and built of brick in 

 the place of the ancient building, which dated partly 

 from the I zth century and which had fallen into a 

 bad state of decay. Nothing remains to show the 

 size and appearance of the ancient church, but from 

 the disposition of the churchyard it must have been 

 very small, no larger than the 18th-century building. 



Some of the floor slabs and mural monuments have 

 been left in their original places in the 1 8th-century re- 

 mains. The earliest is a slab to Thomas Evelyn, 1659, 

 and there are others to Sir Edward Evelyn, bart., 1692, 



" G.E.C. Baronetage, iv, 131. 



M Manning and Bray, Hitt.of Surr. iii, 

 19. 



"Ibid.; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. II 

 Geo. I ; Recov. R. Mich. 33 Geo. II, 

 rot. 328. 



" Com. Pleat D. Enr. HiL 17 Geo. Ill, 

 m. 1 80. 



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

 19 ; Recov. R. East. I Will. IV, rot. 36. 



96 Manning and Bray, Surr. iii, 20. 



*> The Dammartins held Ockley, which 

 alto belonged to Ralph in 1086, and after- 

 wards to the Warblingtons, and William 

 de Dammartin appears as witness in the 

 grant of land in Talworth to the hospital 



of St. Thomas, Southwark, mentioned 

 above. See also Tandridge. 



98 Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68, m. 65. 



m Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist 

 nos.), no. 169. 



100 Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill, pt. ii 

 (ist nos.), no. 46. 



101 Fees of Edward le Despenser, Inq. 

 p.m. 18 Hen. VI, file 96, no. 3, m. 44. 



lw Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 

 143. See also manor of Aden in Chobham. 



101 Surr. iii, 19. But tee note 105 

 below. 



"X yhit. o/Srr.(Harl. Soc.), 82, 94, 95. 



loi Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cciiv, 214. 

 John Danaster, however, had no lands 



521 



in these other parishes ; so that possibly 

 hit holding was not the tame at Mus- 

 champ's. 



1M Cott. MS. Cleop. C vii. 



10 ? Assize R. 872, m. 12 d. 



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



109 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. ii 

 (ist nos.), no. 169. 



110 Ibid. 49 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), 

 no. 46. 



111 Ibid. 1 8 Hen. VI, no. 3, m. 44. 

 in Dugdale, Man. vi, 245. 



111 Mint. Accts. Surr. 33-4 Hen. VIII, 

 no. 169. 



1M Assize R. Surr. 873, m. 7 d. 

 115 Cal. of Pat. 1292-1301, p. IOI. 



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