SPELTHORNE HUNDRED 



It was included in the grant of the manor to 

 the trustees of Lord Cottington in 1631," and was 

 at that time, as it had been in 1 543, divided into 

 two parts the Great Rye, containing a barn, two 

 closes and 4 acres of pasture and woods ; and the 

 Little Rye, which consisted of 3 acres. 00 Both 

 were included in the manor in 1 6 70." Rye Close 

 was still known in l8oo. 6 * It lay on the southern 

 borders of the parish to the east of Feltham Hill. 



An estate called HAUBERGERS in Feltham 

 was apparently held in chief. John le Hauberger 

 held a considerable estate in Feltham in the reign 

 of Edward II. About 40 acres of land had belonged 

 to Thomas atte Brugge, who held of the king, and 

 these had been acquired by John le Hauberger from 

 Thomas le Spenser in the preceding reign." 5 As 

 the transaction had been carried out without gain- 

 ing the consent of the king, the lands were taken 

 into the king's hands. On payment of a fine, 

 however, the offence was pardoned, and John le 

 Hauberger was allowed to enter again into posses- 

 sion in I326. 64 He died about 1335, and in 

 common with his wife Margaret he held a certain 

 amount of land in Feltham of the king at a yearly 

 rent of I ;/., payable to the manor of Kempton. 6 * 

 He held also a smaller estate of the Hospital of 

 St. Giles, 66 and both were inherited by his son 

 Edward le Hauberger, who was born and baptized 

 at Feltham." It was probably these lands which 

 were known later as Haubergers or Lucyes. A 

 farm of this name was bought from Nicholas 

 Townly by Francis Lord Cottington in the iyth 

 century, 68 and descended with the latter's manor 

 to his nephew Charles Cottington. 63 The manor 

 was sold to Sir Thomas Chambers in 1670, but 

 Haubergers was specially excepted. 70 It was the 

 cause of litigation shortly afterwards between 

 Charles Cottington and Francis Philips, who held 

 Kempton Manor, 71 and the farm was finally sold 

 to the latter in 1674 for the sum of 150, and in 

 consideration of the release of 29 13^. \d. which 

 Cottington owed him as costs and charges in the 

 foregoing suit. 7 * It was then known as Feltham 

 Farm, 7 * and seems to have descended with the 

 manor of Kempton, for in 1800 it was supposed 

 to form part of the property of Edmund Hill, who 

 had bought Kempton in 1798.'* The present 

 Feltham Farm lies on the main road near the older 

 part of the village." 



The RECTORY M4NOR, which was also 

 known as the manor of Feltham, was held of the 

 king in chief. The Hospital of St. Giles in the 

 Fields received a grant of land in Fe'.tham at an 

 early date from Earl Baldwin de Redvers. 76 The 



FELTHAM 



gift has been ascribed to the reigns of Richard I 

 and John, 77 but no member of the family named 

 Baldwin was living at that time, 78 and it was prob- 

 ably made by the Baldwin de Redvers who was 

 son and heir of Richard de Redvers, and first Earl 

 of Devon, 79 whose daughter gave the church of Felt- 

 ham to the hospital. 80 In this case the grant 

 must have taken place before 1155, the year in 

 which Baldwin died. 81 It was confirmed to the 

 hospital by Pope Alexander IV in the time of 

 Henry III." 



In the reign of John the master and brethren of 

 St. Giles granted land in Feltham to Robert 

 Simple at a yearly rent of i^j." When any of 

 the brethren passed through Feltham he was bound 

 by the terms of his lease to receive them in the 

 house (fiojficium), and to give them such food as he 

 had. He was also to give to the hospital a tenth 

 of the produce of the land, and a third of all his 

 chattels at his death, in return for which the land 

 was secured to him and his heirs, though he could 

 neither pledge nor alienate it, and the hospital 

 undertook to compel the villeins on the estate to 

 work for him. 81 



It was perhaps the same house which was 

 mentioned in 1307 as in the custody of Robert 

 Simple. An inquiry was then made as to the 

 advisability of stopping up a way in the village of 

 Feltham which led to the village well through the 

 middle court of the house belonging to St. Giles. 85 

 The village seems to have been just within the 

 king's manor of Feltham, 86 but on condition that 

 the hospital made a new and equally convenient 

 approach to the well they were allowed to stop up 

 the old way. 87 The alteration really benefited both 

 parties, for not only did the hospital ensure the 

 privacy of their house, but also the new way was 

 considerably shorter and broader than the old. M 



The Hospital of St. Giles held the rectory manor 

 until 1537, when, in exchange for the manor of 

 Burton Lazars, it was ceded to the king. 6 ' All the 

 land which the hospital had held in Feltham was 

 granted in I 544, after the dissolution of the house, 

 to John Dudley, Viscount Lisle, the son of the 

 Earl of Northumberland. 90 He sold it in May 

 1545 to John Welbeck, 91 who conveyed it during 

 the same month to John Leigh of Ltmdon, 

 probably in mortgage, 9 * as Welbeck had licence to 

 alienate to Andrew Bury in the following Decem- 

 ber. 93 It is uncertain how the rectory came to 

 Edward Bashe or Baeshe, who died seised of it in 

 1587." He had settled it the preceding year on 

 his son and heir Ralph, on the latter's marriage 

 with Frances daughter of Edward Gary. 95 Ralph 



69 Pat. 7 Chas. I, pt. viii, no. 1. 

 o Ibid. 



61 Close, 22 Chas. II, pt. ii, no. I. 

 " B.M. Egerton MS. 2356. 



63 Inq. a.cj.J. 19 Edw. II, no. 71. 



64 Cal. Pat. 1 3 24-7, p. 3 1 2. 



65 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Edw. II (it 

 nos.), no. 10. 



Ibid. 



" Ibid. 12 Edw. III(istno.), no. 56. 



68 Close, 26 Chas. II, pt. ix, no. 9. 



Ibid. 



1> Ibid. 22 Chas. II, pt. ii, no. I. 



7' Ibid. 26 Chas. II, pt. ix, no. 9. 



7" Ibid. ' s Ibid. 



7 4 Lysons, Environs of Land. V, 45. 



7* Ord. Sur-u. 



1* Harl. MS. 4015 ; Parton, Account 

 of Half, and Par. of St. Giles in the fields, 

 32,61. 



77 Parton, op. cit. 61. 



7" Diet. Nat. Biog. xlvii, 385. 



7" Ibid. 



w Harl. MS. 4015. 



81 Diet. Nat. Biog. xlvii, 385. 



ra Harl. MS. 4015. 



3'7 



83 Ibid. Ibid. 



85 Inq. a.q.d. I Edw. II, no. 35. 



86 Feud. Aids, iii, 372. 



87 Cal. Pat. 1 307- 1 3, p. 135. 



88 Inq. a.q.d. i Edw. II, no. 35. 



89 Parton, op. cit. 31. 



90 Pat. 36 Hen. VIII, pt. ix, m. 29. 



91 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xx (i), 846 



(93)- 



9 Close, 37 Hen. VIII, pt. iv, no. 7. 



9 ' Ibid, xx (2), 1068 (52). 



94 Chan. Inq. p.m. 29 Eliz. no. 215 

 (269). 95 Ibid. 



