A HISTORY OF SURREY 



of the church of Streatham as part of the 

 alien priory of Streatham. 



In 13 15 it was said that the prior of Oke- 

 burn held the manor of Tooting (Totynge) 

 Bee and Streatham of Gilbert de Clare, Earl 

 of Gloucester, by the service of one knight's 

 fee.* Hugh le Despenser, heir of the Earl 

 of Gloucester, died seized of a knight's fee in 

 Tooting and Streatham, which the prior of 

 Okeburn held of him.= 



> Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II. No. 68. 



> Ibid. 23 Edw. III. pt. ii. No. 169. 



When the alien priories were definitely 

 seized by Henry V. in 1 4 14, Tooting Bee 

 was granted to his brother John, Duke of 

 Bedford. The duke died seized of it on 14 

 September 1436, whereupon it devolved on 

 Henry VI. as his nephew and heir. There- 

 upon Henry VI. granted it to John Ardern 

 for ten years at a rent of j^ig ; which rent, 

 with the reversion, was granted in 1440 to 

 the college of Eton.' 



' Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 702. 



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