SPELTHORNE HUNDRED 



Most of the principal landowners of the parish 

 are resident. Mrs. Reed lives at St. Mary's, 

 and Mr. Henry Barnfield at Oakdene on the 

 Ashford Road. Temple Hatton, once occupied 

 by Lady Pollock, is now the St. Antony's Home 

 for Boys. Mr. Alfred Barnfield lives at Pates 

 Manor. 



The following place-names occur : Goddard, 

 Parrette, le Tabber. 



E4ST BEDFONT was assessed at 

 MANORS 10 hides in the time of Edward the 

 Confessor. 7 Highland a half of these 

 were held by Azor, and lay within the jurisdiction of 

 his manor in Stanwell. The remaining I ^ hides were 

 divided equally between three sokemen, vassals re- 

 spectively of Edward the Confessor, of Earl Lewin, 

 and of Azor. The whole 10 hides were granted 

 as a manor by William I to 

 Walter Fitz Other, castellan 

 of Windsor. 8 His descen- 

 dants took the name of 

 de Windsor, by virtue of 

 their hereditary office as 

 keeper of the castle. 9 East 

 Bedfont owed the service 

 of one knight's fee in the 

 honour of Windsor in 

 1 2 1 2, 10 and still continued 

 to owe service to that 

 honour in the 1 5th cen- 

 tury. 11 It was probably 

 included in the surrender to the Crown of the 

 Windsor lands in Middlesex in 1 542, and from 

 that time it was held in chief." 



In 1086 the tenant of East Bedfont was one 

 Richard. 13 It seems to have then given name to 

 a family of under-tenants, for Walter de Bedfont 

 held a knight's fee under Windsor in ii66, 13a 

 and Henry de Bedfont held one in Bedfont 

 under him in iigS. 1 " 1 The manor was held of 

 the Windsors in the year 1 2 1 2 by Nicholas de 

 Aune, 14 the king's clerk and possibly also clerk to 

 Richard Earl of Cornwall." It is not clear how 

 it came to John de Nevill who held it early in 

 the reign of Edward II." He was probably one 

 of the Nevills of Essex, and was a distant con- 

 nexion of the Windsors, through the marriage 

 of his ancestor Hugh de Nevill with the heiress 

 of Henry de Cornhill, 17 who himself had married 



WINDSOR. Gulei 

 crutily or a taltirt 

 argent. 



EAST BEDFONT 

 WITH HATTON 



the descendant and heiress of Robert Lord of 

 Little Easton, the second son of Walter Fitz 

 Other. 18 John de Nevill conveyed his right in 

 the manor of East Bedfont to the Trinitarian 

 Priory at Hounslow. 1 * It was confirmed to the 

 master and brethren by Edward II in 1313,* and 

 remained in their hands until the suppression of 

 the monastery in I 530." 



In the reign of Elizabeth it was leased to Robert 

 Sownes 11 but was granted in 1599 to Sir Michael 

 Stanhope " of Sudbury, Suffolk, who in 1 609 

 protested against the king's order for the erection 

 of gunpowder mills and 

 workmen's houses on the 

 manor." Sir Michael died 

 in 1 62 1, having settled the 

 reversion of the manor six 

 years previously on his 

 second daughter Elizabeth, 

 on the occasion of her mar- 

 riage with George Lord 

 Berkeley. 15 It was inherited 

 by the latter's son George, 26 

 who conveyed it in 1656 

 to Algernon, Earl of North- 

 umberland. 17 It has since 

 descended with that title, 18 the representative of 

 which was created Duke of Northumberland in 

 1766.'" 



At the time of the Domesday Survey the Count 

 of Mortain held 2 hides in Bedfont, which lay in 

 his manor of Feltham. 30 As there is no further 

 mention of this land, it probably became merged in 

 the parish of Feltham, which adjoins East Bedfont. 



The so-called manor of PATES (Patys, Paytes, 

 Patts, xvi cent.) was held of the manor of East 

 Bedfont. 31 John Pate and Juliane his wife held 

 land in Bedfont in 1403-4." It was presumably 

 the estate which was known later as the manor of 

 Pates. The manor is said to have been held in 

 1498 by John Naylor and Clemence his wife, 33 

 whose daughter and heiress married Thomas West, 

 leaving an only son Edmund West. 34 The latter 

 left two daughters Elizabeth who married John 

 Bekenham, and Margaret, and these conveyed the 

 manor in 1549 to Roland Page. 35 From them it 

 passed in 1561 to Thomas Brend, 33 who conveyed 

 it in 1575 to George Britteridge. 37 The latter 

 died seised of the manor in January 1580-1, 



PERCY, Duke of 

 Northumberland. Or a 

 lion azure. 



I Dom. Bk, (Rec. Com.), i, 1 30. 

 ' Ibid. 



' G.E.C. Complete Peerage, viii, 185. 

 > Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 542. 



II Feud. Aids, iii, 380. 



L. and P. Hen. VIII, xvii, 285 ' 

 (18). 



18 Dom. Bk, (Rec. Com.), i, 1 30. 

 " JW B*. o/ Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 



3'5- 



18b Feet of Finn (Pipe Roll Soc.), 

 9 Ric. I. 



" Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 

 p. cclzzzii, 542 ; Testa de Nevill (Rec. 

 Com.), 361. 



15 Cal. Pat. 1232-47, p. 456. He 

 was alive in 1256, but apparently dead 

 before 1265 ; Excerfta e Rot. Fin, ii, 

 133. *43- 



18 Pat. 6 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 9. 



'" Morant, Hist, of Etitx, i, 383. 



18 Collins, Collections of the Family of 

 Windsor, 7. 



" Pat. 6 Edw. II, pt, ii, m. 9. 



90 Cal. Pat. 1307-13, p. 578. 



81 Feud. Aids, iii, 372, 374, 3805 

 Inj. Non. (Rec, Com.), 195 ; Dugdale, 

 Man, vi, 1563. 



M Pat. 41 Eliz. pt. xvii, m. 16. 



ffl Ibid. ; P.R.O. Rentals and Surv. 

 portf. 3, no. ii. 



M Cal. S.P. Dom. 1603-10, p. 537. 



14 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), ccccr, 

 no. 161 ; W. & L. Inq. bdle. 63, no. 

 178. 



M Dice. Nat. Biog. iv, 346. 



*7 Recov. R. Hil. 1655, rot. 136} 

 Feet of F. Midd. East. 1656. 



3" 



88 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mil. 3*4 Jas. 

 II ; Recov. R. Hil. 3 & 4 Jas. II, rot, 

 166 ; Hil. 22 Geo. II, rot. 52 ; Hil. 

 57 Geo. II, rot. 363. 



29 Burke, Peerage (1907), 1234. 



80 Dam. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, 129. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), cxcvi, 

 no. 1 8. 



m Feet of F. Lond. and Midd. 5 

 Hen. IV, no. 31. 



81 Lysons, Environs of Lond. (1800), 

 v, 7, cites records of Christ's Hospita . 



< Ibid. 



Feet of F. Midd. East. 3 Edw. VI. 



86 Ibid. Mich. 3 & 4 Eliz. Possibly 

 these conveyances may have been only 

 for a term of years. 



W Ibid. Trin. 18 Eliz. 



