A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



Killigrew with a lease of Kempton Manor and park 

 for eighty years. 31 This grant was possibly made 

 with a view to inclosures. Sir William's son, Sir 

 Robert, obtained a grant in free socage of the same 

 manor and park in 1631, presumably with the 

 same rights over Feltham ; for the deed recites the 

 grant to Sir William of the courts and profits of 

 the courts, and other emoluments in Feltham, 

 although in the ensuing confirmation to Sir Robert, 

 Feltham is not mentioned by name." His son 

 and grandson, Sir William and Robert Killigrew, 

 held manorial rights over Feltham together with 

 the manor of Kempton in 1651, and conveyed 

 them with the latter manor to Sir Brocket Spencer 

 and William Muschamp. 33 It seems probable that 

 the manorial rights over Feltham died out about 

 the end of the I yth century. There is evidence 

 that courts were held there by the lords of Kemp- 

 ton in 1676 and lyoo. 34 The manorial rights 

 probably died out very soon after. 



The grant of jurisdiction in Feltham and Kemp- 

 ton to Sir William Killigrew in 1594 did not of 

 course affect the king's possession of his lands in 

 Feltham (vide supra}. In 1631 Francis Lord Cot- 

 tington received a grant through his trustees, Sir 

 Henry Browne and John Cliffe, of these lands 

 under the title of ' all lands, tenements, and here- 

 ditaments known as the manor of Feltham,' 

 together with certain specified tenements. 35 A 

 great fire broke out in 1634, which destroyed 

 Lord Cottington's manor- 

 house, together with thir- 

 teen dwelling-houses and 

 sixteen barns, causing a loss 

 of nearly $,ooo. K Lord 

 Cottington was on the 

 king's side in the Civil War, 

 and was amongst those ex- 

 cepted by Parliament from 

 indemnity or composition. 37 

 His estates were confis- 

 cated, and were assigned 

 in 1649 to J^ 11 Brad- 



COTTINGTON. Azure 

 a Jesse between three 

 roses or. 



shaw the regicide, 33 but they were recovered at 

 the Restoration by his nephew and heir, Charles 

 Cottington. 39 The latter sold Feltham in 1670 

 to Sir Thomas Chambers. 40 He died in 1692, and 

 was succeeded by his son Thomas, who left two 

 daughters. 41 By the marriage of the elder, Mary, 

 Feltham came to Lord Vere Beauclerk. 42 It was 

 inherited by their son, Aubrey (Beauclerk) Baron 

 Vere, who succeeded his cousin in 1 78 7 as Duke of 

 St. Albans. 43 He still held the manor in 1 8oz, 44 but 

 it was sold probably after his death in 1803 to a 



Mr. Fish, who himself died before i8i6. 45 It 

 came before 1874 to Thomas and Edward Barnet, 

 and Peregrine Birch, by whom with others it is 

 still held. 



By an order stated in the court roll for 1676 

 no person was allowed ' to bring or recieve into 

 the parish of Feltham or to entertain there any 

 foreigner or stranger as an inhabitant' without the 

 consent of the majority of the parish, and without 

 giving security to the churchwardens or overseers 

 of the poor for the care of any such ' foreigner." ** 

 Any one transgressing in this manner was liable to 

 a fine of I id. to be paid to the lord of Kempton 

 manor. The parish not being inclosed at that 

 time there was a great expanse of common pasture 

 for pigs, and consequently two ' hogg-drivers ' were 

 appointed for the year in the manor court." One 

 of their duties was to give warning to the owners 

 of every ' un-ringed ' hog or pig which they found 

 in the commons or fields, and if after two days the 

 warning was still disregarded, they were entitled 

 to \d. for each hog and 2d. for each pig over and 

 above the amount of the fine paid by the owner 

 to the lord of the manor. 48 



THE RTE (Reye, Ray, Raye, xvi and xvii cents.) 

 was held of the lords of Feltham. William de Vernon 

 gave land in Feltham to the convent ofCheshunt,** 

 and the gift was confirmed by Hubert de Burgh as 

 lord of the manor of Feltham before I zap. 60 Land 

 was held of the convent by Agnes de la Rye, who 

 was probably the daughter or the widow of Richard 

 de la Rye. 51 Whether he took his name from the 

 land or the land was named after him, it seems to 

 have been known as the Rye from that time. At 

 the instance of Dionysia, Prioress of Cheshunt, 

 and as the result of a lawsuit which was perhaps 

 collusive, Agnes conveyed her land in 1257 to 

 John the Warrener of Kempton, to hold at a 

 yearly rent of js. from the convent. 58 In 1311 

 Alice de Somery, who was then prioress, released 

 all the convent's right in the land to John, 53 

 who seems to have added to it to a considerable 

 extent ; this sub-tenancy is here lost sight of. M 

 The Rye, having passed as part of the manor to 

 the Crown in 1228," was granted by Henry VIII 

 to the Hospital of St. Giles in 1524, in return for 

 other lands in Feltham which Henry VII had 

 taken for the enlargement of Hanworth Park, and 

 for which no recompense had been made. 58 The 

 Rye then consisted of a barn and toft, a croft, a 

 close, and 30 acres of land." After the lands of 

 St. Giles had been ceded to the Crown in 1537, 

 the Rye was granted to John Welbeck in 1543, 

 on a lease of twenty-one years. 58 



61 Pat. 36 Eliz. pt. xix, m. 22. 



" Pat. 7 Chas. I, pt. vii, no. 2. 



88 Feet of F. Midd. East. 16515 

 Recov. R. East. 1651, rot. 123. 



84 B.M. Egerton MS. 2351, fol. 

 3-4, 104. 



85 Pat. 7 Chas. I, pt. viii, no. 2. 



M Lysons, Environs of London (i 800), 

 v, 45, quoting Strafford Papers, i, 

 227. 



87 Diet. Nat, Biog. xii, 393. 



88 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 146. 



89 G.E.C. Comflite Peerage, ii, 384 ; 



Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 18 & 19 

 Chas. II. 



40 Close, 22 Chas. II, pt. ii, no. I 5 

 Feet of F. Midd. Trin. 22 Chas. II. 



41 Lysons, Environs of London, v, 97 ; 

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



44 Lysons, Environs of Lond. v, 45 ; 

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

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



44 Recov. R. East. 43 Geo. Ill, rot. 



233- 



45 Beauties of Engl. and Wales, x (4), 

 516. 



316 



46 B.M. Egerton MS. 2351. 



47 Ibid. 4 Ibid. 

 49 Cal. Close, 1227-31, p. 149. 



> Ibid. 



sl Feet of F. Lond. and Midd. 41 

 Hen. VIII, no. 362. " Ibid. 



68 Ibid. 29 Edw. I, no. 294; 33 

 Edw. I, no. 311. 



64 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), C. 2433. 



55 v.s. manor. 



s Pat. 1 6 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. o. 



*? Ibid. 



58 Aug. Off. Misc. Bits, ccxv, fol. 51. 



