A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



S p 1 1. 1. r. x. Sabli a 

 emit voided between four 

 pierced motets or. 



In 1612 James I granted the manor to Henry 

 Spiller," who was knighted in 1608.* He leased 

 the site of the manor to a 

 widow, Jane Thompson, 

 and to Thomas Stapley, 

 and litigation took place 

 in 1630 touching the ar- 

 rears of twelve years of 

 rent and waste and spoil 

 on the part of the defen- 

 dants, Jane Thompson and 

 others," when it was alleged 

 that the latter had neglected 

 to give entertainment to 

 the steward and surveyor 

 of the manor and their ser- 

 vants, and had not provided ' fitt and competent 

 meat drink and lodging for them.' Amongst other 

 charges they were accused of not holding the 

 manor courts, and of taking a new toll of id. for 

 every team of large horses passing through the 

 hnd of the Old Farm adjoining the river. 31 



In 1640 proceedings for recusancy were insti- 

 tuted against Sir Henry's wife, Lady Anne Spiller, 

 and she was pronounced guilty on 5 May of that 

 year." Sir Henry took the king's side in the 

 Civil War, and after being taken prisoner and 

 confined in the Tower, 34 he proposed to com- 

 pound f.>r his estates for the sum of 8, 6 1 1.*' He 

 died, however, in the early part of 1650, leaving 

 half the fine unpaid, and James Herbert, who had 

 married Jane Spiller, the granddaughter and heir- 

 at-law of Sir Henry, and Sir Thomas Reynell of 

 Weybridge, who had mar- 

 ried Sir Henry's daughter 

 Katherine, between them 

 paid the remainder of the 

 composition, and were ad- 

 mitted to the lands on 

 12 March 1652. Lale- 

 ham was apparently assigned 

 to Reynell, and was in- 

 herited by his son, also 

 named Thomas." 6 It passed 

 to the latter's daughter and 

 heiress Elizabeth, 37 who, as 

 her second husband, mar- 

 ried Sir Richard Reynell, son of Sir Richard Rey- 

 nell of East Ogwell, Devon.* 8 The manor was 

 held jointly by Richard and Elizabeth, and by 

 Richard after his wife's death.' 9 On his own death 



argent 

 masoned and a chief in- 

 denied sable. 



in 1723 it was inherited by his son Sir Thomas 

 Reynell. 40 The latter's son died unmarried in 1 7 3 5 ," 

 and in the following year Sir Thomas conveyed the 

 reversion to Sir Robert Lowther of Whitehaven," 

 sometime governor of Barbados." Sir Thomas 

 Reynell seems to have continued to hold the manor 

 at any rate until 1741," but by 1768 it was in 

 the hands of Sir James Lowther," who was th'* 

 second son of Sir Robert, and was created Earl of 

 Lonsdale in 1 784. The year after his death in 

 1802" it was bought by the Earl of Lucan, in 

 whose family it remains at the present day. 46 " 



The grange belonging to the abbey of West- 

 minster was apparently built about 1278." It 

 contained a room for the use of the monks. 18 A 

 house was built about 1290, with stables for cattle 

 and sheep, piggeries, and a garden. 49 The abbey 

 already possessed one garden, 50 and apparently a 

 good deal of fruit was grown in Laleham, for fruit 

 to the amount of 23*. was sold to Roger the 

 fruiterer of Wraysbury in 1385-6." A smithy- 

 was built before 1300, but ceases to be mentioned 

 after 1354." There was a dovecote on the estate 

 in the 1 3th century, 53 and as many as 189 doves 

 were sometimes sold in the year.* 4 The dovecote 

 fell into disrepair in 1302," and was still neglected 

 in 1 306, 56 after which there is no further mention 

 of it. 



There was a windmill and a grain-mill in the 

 1 4th century," and pastures on Windmill Hill 

 and Grundmullhull are occasionally mentioned. 5 ' 

 The abbey had a water-mill on the Thames, 5 * 

 which was considerably repaired in ifj6, w and 

 which appears to have been moved to a fresh place 

 in I3O2. 61 A mill is mentioned in a grant of the 

 site of the manor in 1608," and a water-mill 

 belonged to the manor when it was held by 

 Sir Henry Spiller. 63 



A weir called ' Depewere ' lay between Staines 

 and Laleham, and was given to the Abbot of 

 Westminster in the I3th century by Gilbert son 

 of John de Monte, together with the fishery, and 

 also with three cart-loads of timber and two of 

 brushwood from the Abbot of Chertsey's wood, 

 for its upkeep. 64 Weirs are mentioned in a grant 

 of the site of the manor in 1600," and there is 

 now a weir just beyond the parish boundary in 

 Staines, and a second weir at the southern boundary 

 opposite Chertsey. 



A sailing boat was made for the bailiff of Lale- 

 har.i in 1290, at a cost of 7 4/. M 



29 Pat. 10 Jas. I, pt. vii, no. 13. 



80 G.E.C. Baronetage. 



" Exch. Dtp. Mich. 6 Chas. I, no. 

 38. 



Ibid. 



M M. Co. Rec. iii, 1 54. 



M Midd. and Hera. N. and Q. iii, 45. 



M Cal. of Com. for Confounding, 1 145. 



M Feet of F. Midd. Trin. 19 Chas. 

 II ; G.E.C. Baronetage, iv, 212. 



" P.R.O. Ct. R. portf. 191, no. 46. 



" 8 G.E.C. op. cit. iv, 212. 



89 P.R.O. Ct. R. portf. 191, no. 46. 



40 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 2 Geo. 

 II ; G.E.C. op. cit. 



G.E.C. op. cit 



45 Recov. R. Mich. 10 Geo. II, rot. 



4*3- 



48 Collint, Peerage, Suppl. (ed. 5), 



349- 



B.M. fol. 21559, no. 5 8 - 

 Ibid. no. 162. 



46 Burke, Peerage (1906), 1032. 

 Ibid ; Firth, Middlesex, 165. 



4 ? Doc. in curtody of D. and C. of 

 Westm. Abbey, chest D.noi. 27105-6. 

 "> Ibid. no. 27108. 



49 Ibid. no. 27109. 

 ** Ibid. no. 27105-6. 

 41 Ibid. no. 27115. 



** Ibid. no. 27116-39. 

 * Ibid. no. 27105. 



398 



64 Ibid. no. 27108. 



55 Ibid. no. 27113. 



56 Ibid. no. 27115. 



*' Ibid. no. 27133, &c. 



58 Ibid. no. 27119, 27121,27128, &c. 



69 Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 431. 



M Doc. in custody of D. and C. of 

 Westm. Abbey, chest D. no. 27105. 



61 Ibid. no. 27113. 



M Pat. 4 las. I, pt. ix, m. 17. 



<" Exch. Dep. Mich. 6 Chas. I. 



64 Abst. of Chartul. of Weitm. Abbey 

 in possession of Saml. Bentley, no. 51. 



' Pat. 4 Ja. I, pt. ix, m. 17. 



" Doc. in custody of the D. and C. 

 of Westm. Abbey, chest D. no. 27110. 



