A HISTORY OF SURREY 



WcSTBROKE. Gulei a 

 fieuT de lys issuing from a 

 leopards bead gold. 



date. In 1 307 an action appears between Stephen 

 de Trolleberg and his vsdfe against Robert son of 

 Richard de Westbrok in Farnham." Possibly this 

 was the land in Compton which was held in 

 15 1 6 by William West- 

 broke,83 who died in 1537. 

 The land then evidently 

 passed to his nephew John 

 Scarlett,'* who died 8 Octo- 

 ber 1546 seised of ' a moiety 

 of the manor of Compton 

 next Waverley,' held by 

 fealty and an annual rent 

 of /jj. of the Bishop of Win- 

 chester as of his manor of 

 Farnham. This moiety of 

 the manor seems to have 

 included 100 acres of arable 



land, 20 acres meadow, 60 acres pasture, 34 acres 

 moor, 20 acres wood, and 200 acres heath in Farn- 

 ham. John Scarlett's heir was his son John, then 

 aged five years." 



In 1571 a deed was made between John Scarlett 

 and Thomas Hull, both of Godalming, whereby 

 the messuage called ' Compton Haull ' vidth 

 appurtenances, in the parish of Farnham, and all 

 the houses, lands, etc., belonging thereto in the 

 tenure of Henry Stynte by lease from John Scarlett 

 for 4CW. a year, and ' the 

 raoytie part ' of the said 

 John Scarlett in the said 

 premises, and all his other 

 lands in Farnham, were 

 conveyed to Thomas Hull.»« 

 Scarlett and Hull were 

 grandsons respectively of 

 Florence and Elizabeth 

 Westbroke, sisters and co- 

 heiresses of the William 

 Westbroke who died 1537." 



In 1576 Thomas Hull 

 conveyed by fine to Richard 

 Cresswell a messuage, gar- 

 den, 300 acres of land, 40 

 acres meadow, 200 acres 

 pasture, too acres wood, 200 acres heath and furse 

 in Farnham, Seale, and Waverley.'s In 1577 

 Thomas Hull conveyed by recovery to Richard 

 Cresswell divers lands in the same places ; »» and 

 in the same term Richard Cresswell conveyed to 

 Anthony Bagge lands in Farnham, etc., and Comp- 

 ton Hall. > 00 



Hull. Silver a cbev- 

 eron azure benueen three 

 demi - lions passant gules 

 ivitb tbree bezants on the 

 cbeveronj and a cbief sable 

 with tvio piles silver. 



In April 1587 Robert Ashton died seised of 

 ' the manor or messuage called from old time 

 Compton Hall,' then leased to his nephew, John 

 Cotton. His son and heir was Robert Ashton, 

 who was then nearly seventeen years of age.«»» 



From 1588 until 1632 the only mention of 

 Compton or Morehouse >»« is in Norden's descrip- 

 tion of Surrey, i"' which by internal evidence is 

 after 1590 and before 1597, in which he says that 

 Cotton, gent., lived at Morehouse. By 1632 it had 

 passed into the hands of Sir Francis Clarke, who 

 died seised of it in that year.'"* 



About 1686 Sir William Temple, the brilliant 

 diplomatist, statesman, and 

 man of letters, author of an 

 Essay on Gardening and 

 patron of Swift, purchased 

 the manor from the execu- 

 tors of the Clarke family, 

 and probably changed the 

 name from Morehouse or 

 Compton Hall to Moor 

 Park.»<" Moor Park, during 

 Sir William Temple's life 

 there, was the meeting-place 

 of many interesting men,'"" 

 and the scene of the meet- 

 ing between Swift and Stella."' Temple laid out 

 the gardens in the Dutch style, with a canal. They 

 were modernized by Mr. Timson, the tenant, in 

 the early nineteenth century. 



Sir William Temple on his death in 1699 left 

 Moor Park to Elizabeth, the younger daughter of 

 his late son John."^ Eliza- 

 beth married her cousin 

 John Temple, survived her 

 husband and children, and 

 in 1770 devised the manor 

 to her nephew Basil Bacon, 

 son of her sister Dorothy 

 and Nicholas Bacon of 

 Shrubland Hall, SuflFolk.»»e 

 In 1775 Basil Bacon "» left 

 his * capital messuage or 

 manor house called Moor 

 Hall, otherwise Compton 

 Halls, otherwise Moor Park,' 

 and all his Temple estate to his younger brother 

 in tail, wdth remainder to his elder brother in tail, 

 with remainder to his sister in tail, and failing these 

 to his eldest son Charles, known as Charles Wil- 

 liams, provided he took the name of Bacon, with 



Temple. Silver two 

 bars sable each •with three 

 martlets gold. 



Bacon. Gules a cbiej 

 silver ivitb two pierced 

 molets sable. 



« Feet of F. Surr. 35 Edw. I. 

 printed for Surr. Arch. Soc. 



" Common R. Mich. 8 Hen. VIII. 

 pt. cxliii. 



WUliaic 



Wc-lbroke 



ob. 1517 



Florence ■= Scarlett 

 John Scarlett 

 John Scatiett 



Elizabeth 



I 



Eliz 



" Inq. p.m. I Edw. VI. lixiv. 63. 

 »" Com. Pleas, 13 Eliz.pt.xi. 857. 

 " Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 13-14 



^ Feet of F. Mich. 18-19 Eliz. 

 '^ Common R. iS Eliz. m. 144. 

 '* Ibid. 



"" Inq. p.m. 30 Eliz. ccxix. 106. 



IM Speed's Map, 1610. 



"» B.M. Add. MSS. 31853. 



>" Inq. p.m. 8 Chas. I. cccclxv. No. 

 69. Sir Francis Clarke had married 

 Grisscll, daughter of the neighbouring 

 landowner. Sir David Woodroffe, of 

 Poyle in Tongham. 



'"^ His open admiration for the gar- 

 den at Moor Park in Hertfordshire is 

 well known — ' the perfectest figure of a 

 garden I ever saw either at home or 

 abroad .' — ' Essay on the Gardens of 

 Epicures.' He laid out his own garden 

 in a similar Dutch style. (Manning 

 and Bray, iii. 138 and 139.) 



i<« William III. visited Temple at 

 Moor Park, and met there Jonathan 

 Swift, who a few years later was to be 

 the great scourge of the Whig Party. 

 (Manning and Bray, iii. 138.) 



•l" Stella was the daughter of Esther 

 Johnson, waiting woman of Lady Gif- 

 fard, Temple's sister. 



»<» Life of Sir W. Temple prefixed 

 to hit Memoirs and IVorks (cd. 1814), 

 and Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surrey, 

 iii. 138. 



"* Manning and Bray, Hist, of 

 Surr. iii, 139. 



"» Basil Bacon altered the house 

 and built a new south front. 



