A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



After the death of his heir Algernon Perkins, 

 before 1866, it was in the hands of his devisees, 

 but was bought before 1887 by Messrs. Pain & 

 Bretell, solicitors, of Chertsey, who are lords of the 

 manor at the present day. 



Henry Dayrell claimed the right to hold a view 

 of franicpledge and amends of assize of bread 

 and ale in the reign of Edward I. 77 The king's 

 attorney said his claim dated from the grant by 

 Henry III of the honour of Wallingford to 

 Richard Earl of Cornwall and King of Almain. 

 The jurors said that the Dayrells had, before that 

 grant, held a meeting of all their tenants in 

 Hanworth, and had taken the amendment of assize 

 of bread and ale, and all that appertained to the 

 view of frankpledge ; and that after Henry III 

 had given the honour of Wallingford to the Earl 

 of Cornwall the latter's bailiff had attached all 

 the men of Hanworth to the view held for that 

 honour at Uxbridge. It appears that although 

 the Dayrells obviously had no chartered right to 

 hold the view, yet their right which accrued from 

 custom was allowed. 78 Yet it seems as though a 

 rent was paid in 1 303 to the Earl of Cornwall 

 for the view, 79 and in the i;th and 1 6th centuries 

 the view seems always to have been held by the 

 overlord. 80 



Fishing rights were among the appurtenances of 

 the manor in I3O3- 81 Lord Cottington had a 

 grant of free warren in Hanworth Park in 1 63 8 s * 

 (v.s. park). 



A water-mill belonging to the manor is 

 mentioned in I 3O3. 83 In 1340 there was a mill 

 known as Eldeford in Haneworth, 84 which ap- 

 parently stood near the dyke called ' the Mersdich,' 

 which ran between Hanworth and Kempton. 

 Litigation took place concerning this dyke and 

 the foot-bridge which crossed it and led to the mill. 

 In the early part of January 1338-9 Roger, 

 Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, complained that 

 though he was not liable to repair the dyke except 

 in proportion to the use made of it by his yokes of 

 oxen (pro averiis ipannatis) and had done his part 

 sufficiently therein, and though he ought not to 

 repair the foot-bridge by the mill, yet he had been 

 amerced by the sheriff to the amount of 38*. %J. 

 on the pretext that the dyke was not properly 

 cleansed nor raised nor the foot-bridge repaired. 84 

 The sheriff was accused of having fined him on in- 

 sufficient evidence, and was accordingly commanded 

 to appear before the king, and to bring with him 

 four good men from each of the four townships 

 nearest the bridge. The sheriff appearing on the 

 day appointed, said that the bridge was in a dan- 

 gerous state by default of John Dayrell, lord of Han- 

 worth, who was bound to repair it as his ancestors 



had been used to do within the memory of man. 

 The four men from the townships could not 

 attend, as the order had come too late, and the 

 case was adjourned to a later date. It was again 

 respited to midsummer, when, the bishop, sheriff, 

 and four men from each of the townships of 

 Twickenham, Hampton, East Bedfont, and Fel- 

 tham being present, it was found by the jury that 

 the bridge was not for the common use, but only a 

 little bridge by Eldeford mill for the easement of 

 the miller and those of the neighbourhood who 

 came to grind corn ; and that the lord of Hanworth 

 was not bound to repair it. The bishop recovered 

 the amount of his amercement, while the sheriff 

 was declared to be in mercy for taking present- 

 ment without his jurisdiction, it being found that 

 one end of the bridge leading to Hanworth was 

 within the liberty of the honour of Wallingford, 

 and the other within the liberty of Queen Phi- 

 lippa's manor of Isleworth. 86 



HANWORTH PARK is not mentioned before 

 the beginning of the 1 6th century, so that it may 

 have been made either by the Crosbys or by the 

 king. It was held as part of the manor of Han- 

 worth, and became a royal seat in the reign of 

 Henry VIII, ' where,' says Camden, ' he had the 

 diversion at all times of the buck and hare.' w 

 The park had been enlarged in the preceding 

 reign by the addition of a considerable amount of 

 land in the adjoining parish of Feltham. 8 * Much 

 care seems to have been expended both on the 

 house and gardens under Henry VIII. 89 The 

 office of keeper of the park was granted to Sir 

 Richard Weston, who held it early in the reign, 90 

 and on the occasion of Princess Mary's residence 

 at Hanworth in 1522 sent her a New Year's 

 present of twelve pairs of shoes." The park 

 was granted with the manor-house to Stephen 

 Gardiner in I53O, 98 and to Anne Boleyn in 

 July I532. 93 In 1544 it was settled for life on 

 Katherine Parr," who continued to live there after 

 the king's death, with her second husband, Sir 

 Thomas Seymour. 95 The Princess Elizabeth, whose 

 education was entrusted to Katherine, came to 

 live there at the age of fifteen. Seymour indulged 

 in such familiarities with the princess as to lay 

 himself open at his impeachment to the charge 

 of having attempted to gain the affections of 

 Elizabeth with a view to seating himself on the 

 throne as Prince Consort, after he should have 

 rid himself of Queen Katherine. 96 



After the queen's death in 1548 the custody 

 of the park is said to have been entrusted to 

 William, Earl of Pembroke. 97 It came in 1594 

 into the hands of William Killigrew,* 8 who was 

 a person of some importance under Elizabeth and 



" Plat. Jt Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 



477- 

 '<* Ibid. 

 " Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. I, no. 26. 



80 P.R.O. Ct. R. portf. 212, no. 

 2, 6, 7, 8, 18, 19. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 1 Edw. I, no. 26. 

 * Pat. 1 3 Chas. I, pt. xxiv, no. 2. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. I, no. 16. 

 84 Col. Pat. 1340-3, p. 47. 



84 Ibid. 

 * Ibid. 

 8 ^ Camden, Mag. Brit. (ed. Cough), ii, 



2, 13. 



88 Pat. 1 6 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 30. 



L. and P. Htn. VIII, xiv (2), 236 ; 

 iii, 2214; xvi, 380; xvii, 258 ; xviii, 

 (2) 2 3I . 



90 Pat. 24 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 

 12-14 > 37 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, m. 16. 



394 



l L. and P. Htn. VIII, iii, 2585. 



M Pat. 24 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 

 12-14. 



98 Pat. 24 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 12. 



L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (i), 644. 



* Diet. Nat. Biog. 



" Heyne, Burltigk Papers, 99. 



7 Lysons, Envirom of Lund, v, 94. 



8Ca/. S.P. Oo. 1591-4, pp. 547, 

 559- 



