SPELTHORNE HUNDRED 



1388. Amongst the forfeited goods and chattels 

 in the manor of Hanworth she was so prudent as 

 to purchase a brass pot for 1 8</., a leaden pot for 

 is., fourteen oxen, and other commodities to the 

 value of ^54 5*. \d?* 



John de Macclesfield may have lost his lands after 

 the fall of Richard II, as in the early 1 5th century 

 (he manor was apparently occupied by a fresh 

 owner. 



The manor was held in 1428 by Henry Somer," 

 warden of the Mint under Henry VI.* 9 He died 

 about 1450," and his right in Hanworth probably 

 reverted to the Crown. Later in the same cen- 

 tury the manor came into the possession of Sir 

 John Crosby, 40 alderman of London, and founder 

 of Crosby Hall." After his death in 1475 the 

 custody of the manor was granted during the 

 minority of his son John to Thomas Rigby and Wil- 

 liam Bracebridge." Sir John Crosby the younger 

 died in 1 5001 in possession of the manor which 

 had been settled previously on Thomas Winter- 

 bourne and other trustees for the use of John 

 and his wife Anne, with remainder in default to 

 Peter Christmas the next of kin. The latter 

 being already dead in 1500-1," John Crosby's 

 heir was found to be the posthumous son of Peter 

 Christmas, aged six months." His trustees appear 

 to have conveyed the manor during the same reign 

 to Sir John Huse, and by an exchange of land in 

 1512 Hanworth came to the Crown." In 1521 

 the lands of the manor, excluding the manor 

 house, were let to Sir Richard Weston, 46 and in 

 1530 Stephen Gardiner 47 received the reversion 

 of the same property, together with the site and 

 all other appurtenances, to hold for life. 48 In 

 1532 these patents were surrendered, and the 

 ' manor of Hanworth,' except the manor house, 

 was granted to Anne Boleyn for 99 years ; a 

 month later the house was granted to her for life. 48 

 In 1536 Gregory Lovell was appointed to the office 

 of keeper of the manor. 50 Hanworth was settled in 

 1544 on Katherine Parr, sixth and last queen of 

 Henry VIII." After her death it is said to have 

 been granted, probably for life, to Anne Duchess of 

 Somerset," who was certainly living there with 

 her second husband, Francis Newdigate, in August 

 1563, when her son the Earl of Hertford was 

 removed to Hanworth from the Tower," where he 

 had been imprisoned on account of his marriage 



HANWORTH 



with Lady Katherine Seymour." In 1594 the 

 manor was leased to William Killigrew, groom of 

 the privy chamber under Elizabeth, for about 

 eighty years on surrender of a former grant for 

 life." He was succeeded by his son Robert, who 

 conveyed the remainder of the lease to Francis 

 Lord Cottington. 46 The manor was granted by 

 the king in 1627 to Sir Roger Palmer and Alex- 

 ander Stafford," who acted as trustees for Francis 

 Lord Cottington. 68 The latter was a prominent 

 figure in the reigns of James I and Charles I. 

 Having accompanied Sir Charles Cornwallis, the 

 English Ambassador in Spain in 1609, and after- 

 wards acted as English agent and consul, 69 Cotting- 

 ton was much in request on his return on account 

 of his knowledge of Spanish affairs. 60 He was 

 concerned in the question of the Spanish marriage," 

 and though disapproving of Prince Charles's 

 journey to Spain, he was sent with him and took 

 part in the negotiations at Madrid." He acted 

 as ambassador to Spain from 1629, and as a 

 reward for negotiating the secret treaty of 1631 M 

 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cottington 

 of Hanworth, 64 receiving the honour ' at Green- 

 wich in a very solemn manner.' M As the Civil 

 War drew near he declared himself an active 

 member of the war party, and after hostilities had 

 broken out he joined the king at Oxford. 66 He 

 was excepted by Parliament from indemnity and 

 composition, and spent the remainder of his life 

 abroad, dying in Spain in 1652." His estates 

 were assigned in 1649 to John Bradshaw the 

 regicide, 68 but were recovered at the Restoration 

 by his nephew and heir Charles Cottington, son of 

 his elder brother Maurice. 69 



Charles Cottington did not keep Hanworth long, 

 for he sold it in 1670 to Sir Thomas Chamber. 70 

 The latter died in 1692 and was succeeded by his 

 son Thomas. Thomas Chamber left two daughters 

 and co-heiresses, and Hanworth passed, through the 

 marriage of the elder, to Lord Vere Beauclerk, 71 

 who was created Baron Vere of Hanworth in 

 1750." The manor was inherited by his son 

 Aubrey Lord Vere 73 in 1781, who succeeded his 

 cousin as Duke of St. Albans six years later.' 4 

 He still held the manor in 1802," but conveyed 

 it very shortly after to James Ramsey Cuthbcrt. 76 

 Frederick John Cuthbert was lord of the manor in 

 1816, but it passed before 1832 to Henry Perkins. 



Cat. Pat. 1385-9, p. 481. 



* FeuJ. Aids, iii, 381. 



*> Cal. Put. 1422-9, p. 72. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 8 Hen.VI,no.zi. 



40 Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 7. 



41 Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii, 21 1. 

 n Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 7. 



48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxi, no. 

 10. 



Ibid. 



L. and P. Hen. fill, i, 3284. 



46 Ibid, y, 1139 (32). 



4 ? Diet. Nat. Biog. xx, 420. 



Ibid. 1207 (7). 



49 Pat. 24 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. iz- 



> /.. and P. Hen. fill, xiii (i), 573. 

 Ibid, xix (i), 644 ; P.R.O. Ct. R. 

 portf. 191, no. I. 



2 



sa Lysons, Environs of Lund, (1800), 



v, 95- 



48 Engl. Hist. Rev. xiii, 305. 



41 Diet. Nat. Biog. Ii, 310-11. 



65 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1591-4, pp. 547, 



559- 



58 S.P. Dom. Chas. I, ccclxxvii, 177. 



" Pat. 3 Chas. I, pt. iii, no. I. 



48 S.P. Dom. Chas. I, ccclxxvii, 177. 

 The docquet conveys the manor to the 

 trustees for 47 years ; but the patent 

 roll grant is made to them and their heirs. 



s * Gardiner, Hist, of Engl. ii, 134, 

 151. 



80 Diet. Nat. Biog. xii, Z93- 



61 Narrative of Spanish Marriage 

 Treaty (Camd. Soc.), ill. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. xii, Z93. 



* Gardiner, Hist, of Engl. vii, 176. 



393 



64 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, ii, 384. 



65 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1631-3, p. 107. 



M Diet. Nat. Biog. xii, 293. ' Ibid. 



88 Cal. of Com, for Compounding, \, 146. 



" G.E.C. Complete Peerage, ii, 384 ; 

 Feet of F. Midd. Hil. 18 & 19 Chas. II. 



7 Feet of F. Midd. Trin. 32 Chas. II ; 

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



~ l G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vii, 6 ; 

 Feet of F. Midd. East. 3 Geo. III. 



? a G.E.C. Complete Peerage, viii, 26. 



? 8 Feet of F. Midd. Mich. 33 Geo. 

 III. ; Recov. R. Mich. 33 Geo. Ill, 

 rot. 302. 



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



? 4 Recov. R. East. 42 Geo. Ill, rot. 



'* Beauties of Engl. and Wales x (4), 

 5'7- 



