A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



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CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. 

 Argent a croii gules 

 with a siL-ord gules erect 

 in the quarter and a 

 chief 'azure 'with a Tudor 

 rose therein between fwo 

 fteurs de Us or. 



leaving it to his son and heir Edward, then ten years 

 old. 38 Edward had seisin of his inheritance in 

 I594, S9 but Thomas Page, possibly a relation of 

 Roland, seems to have had possession of the estate 

 even during the minority of the heir, for in 1589 

 he conveyed two-thirds of the manor to John 

 Draper." The latter apparently left the same to 

 his wife Barbara, and she 

 with her second husband, 

 Edward Pigeon, conveyed 

 them in 1614 to Edward 

 Hewlett. 41 The remaining 

 third is said to have been 

 sold in 1593 by Thomas 

 Page to Philip Gerrard, 

 who sold it in the follow- 

 ing year to Henry Bell." 

 Henry and William Bell 

 conveyed it in 1621 to 

 Edward Hewlett," who in 

 1623 gave the whole manor 

 to Christ's Hospital." The 

 hospital still holds this pro- 

 perty." 



The so-called manor of FAWNES was held of 

 the manor of East Bedfont. It seems to have been 

 conveyed to the Crown with the Windsor lands in 

 Middlesex in I542,' 6 and from that date to have 

 been held in chief." 



Richard Foun held land in East Bedfont by gift 

 of Ralph de Bromland and Alice his wife, belonging 

 to the latter, as early as the reign of Edward I, 48 and 

 Alan Foun or Fawne held land there in the succeed- 

 ing reign. 49 Robert Fawne, who was probably their 

 descendant, and who is described as a citizen and 

 skinner of London, held premises in the parish in 

 1428.* Ten years later a messuage and lands called 

 Fawnes were pledged by William Edy, a draper, 

 to John Derham of Windsor, for debt. 61 Fawnes 

 is first mentioned as a manor in 1531, when it 

 was in the possession of John Kempe. 61 The 

 history of the manor is somewhat obscure. It 

 was held by Anthony Walker as early as 1583 

 and at his death in 1590," and was inherited 

 by his son Thomas, 54 who still held it in 1603." 

 In 1618, however, it came into the hands of 

 Felix Wilson, 46 in whose family it remained until 

 1654," when it passed to Thomas Darling. 

 Edward Darling held it in i668, M after which 

 date there is no trace of the manor until 1739, 

 when Thomas Manning held it. 59 He seems to 

 have been still in possession ten years later, 60 but 

 by 1792 it was in the hands of Aubrey (Beau- 



clerk), Baron Vere, 61 who succeeded to the dukedom 

 of St. Albans 6 ' in 1787, and who held Fawnes in 

 1 802." It is now the property of Mr. William 

 Sherborn. Ma Fawnes stands on the south side of 

 the village. 



In 1086 Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel, 

 held i hides in HJTTON, which in the reign of 

 King Edward the Confessor had been held by two 

 sokemen, vassals of Albert of Lorraine. 64 This 

 land belonged to the earl's manor of Colham, in 

 which it probably became merged. A second entry 

 in the Domesday Survey relates to a still smaller 

 estate in Hatton, which was held by Walter Fitz 

 Other, and which had been held formerly by two 

 vassals of Azor. 65 It is probable that this land 

 became merged in the Windsor Manor of East 

 Bedfont, and was possibly granted to Hounslow 

 Priory with the rest of that property. The priory 

 certainly held land in Hatton in I382, 66 and in 

 1599 it was granted, as land formerly belonging to 

 Hounslow, to Sir Michael Stanhope," and from 

 that time has always been held with the manor of 

 East Bedfont (q.v.). 



Edward III seems to have built a house at 

 Hatton, which was known as Hatton Grange. 

 Richard II held this of the priory of Hounslow at 

 a yearly rent of 5CU. 68 



The church of ST. MART THE 

 CHURCH riRGIN consists of chancel 25 ft. 

 I in. by 1 6 ft. 3 in., nave 54 ft. 

 3 in. by 16 ft. 3 in., north transept 26 ft. by 

 29 ft. 3 in., and west porch with a tower adjoining 

 it on the west side. The earliest parts are the 

 chancel arch, south doorway, and two small windows 

 one in the nave, the other in the chancel 

 which date from c. 1 1 30, when the church consisted 

 of a simple chancel and nave, both of th same 

 width, but considerably shorter than at present. 

 In order to give more light to the chancel two 

 windows were inserted on the south side in the 

 1 3th century, but the church appears to have 

 remained very small until the ijth century, when 

 the chancel was lengthened 8 ft. 3 in. eastward, 

 and probably the nave some distance westward ; 

 there is nothing to show how much the nave 

 was increased, the western portion having been 

 rebuilt in modern times, nor can any date be 

 ascribed for the addition of a tower, as the present 

 one is also a rebuilding. 



The whole of the church except the north 

 transept is built of pudding stone, of dark-brown 

 colour, even to the quoins of the original chancel, 

 but the doors and windows of both ea-'y and later 



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

 no. 1 8. 



* FineR. 37 Eliz. pt. I. 



40 Feet of F. Midd. Mich. 31 & 31 

 Eliz. i Recov. R. Mich. 3 1 Eliz. rot. 26. 



Feet of F. Midd. East. 12 Jas. I. 



42 Lysons, op. cit. v, 8. 



48 Feet of F. MiJd. Trin. 19 Jas. I. 



44 Lysons, op. c't. v, 8. 



Inf. kindly s plied by Mr. W. 

 Lempriere, sen. assist, clerk Christ's 

 Hospital. 



48 L. and P. Hen. fill, xvii, 285 (18). 



4 ~ Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Eliz. no. 230 



Feet of F. Lond. and Midd. 

 7 Edw. I, no. 66. 



49 Ibid. 10 Edw. Ill, no. 220 ; 

 1 8 Edw. Ill, no. 321. 



Ibid. 6 Hen. VI, no. 29. 



61 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 10, no. 227. 



Feet of F. Midd. East. 22 Hen. 

 VIII. 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Eliz. no. 230 



(*9)- 



" Ibid. 



" Feet of F. Midd. Trin. I Jas. I. 



" Ibid. Hil. 15 Jas. I. 



W Ibid. Mich. 1 6 Chas. I ; Trin. 

 1654. 



3 I2 



*> Ibid. East. 20 Chas. II. 



Ibid. Div. Co. Hil. 12 Geo. II ; 

 Recov. R. Mich. 12 Geo. II, rot. 174. 



Feet of F. Midd. Mich. 22 Geo. II. 



61 Recov. R. Mich. 33 Geo III, rot. 

 302. 



63 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vii, 6. 



68 Recov. R. East. 42 Geo. Ill, rot. 



2 33- 



3a Inf. from Mr. Sherborn. 



64 Don. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, 129. 

 Ibid, i, 130. 



66 Cal. Pat. 1381-5, p. 131. 

 *1 Pat. 41 Eliz. pt. xvii, m. 16. 

 68 Cal. Pat. 1381-5, p. 131. 



