A HISTORY OF SURREY 



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Bavbnt. Silver 

 chief indented sable. 



^e Bavent had a grant of free warren in Pitfold." 

 His grandson, Roger de Bavent, held the same, and 

 sold his lands and rights to Edward III. in 1344." 

 In 1362 Edward granted the lands for life to John 

 de Winwyk, WilUam de Thorp, and WUliam de 

 Peek." In 1373, when this life tenure had ex- 

 pired, he granted ' all his 

 lands and tenements with 

 appurtenances in Pitfold ' 

 to Maud, Prioress of the 

 Monastery of Dertford and 

 her successors.'^ In 1372 

 the Prioress and convent 

 surrendered their lands, 

 including the manor of 

 Hatcham (Heccesham) with 

 lands and tenements in 

 Pitfold in Surrey,»8 for the 

 purpose apparently of ob- 

 taining a new grant." The lands seemingly re- 

 mained in the hands of the monastery until the 

 dissolution," at which time they rendered a 

 yearly customary rent of 49/. 3^.71 This rent fell 

 to the king after 1538, and is noted in the Ministers' 

 Accounts from 1540 to 1545." The roll for 

 1546-7 is not extant, but in that for 1547-8 there 

 is no mention of the rent from Pitfold — evidently 

 the lands had been granted away or had fallen 

 into the hands of the Protector." 



In 1562 Elizabeth granted the 'lordship and 

 manor of Pytfold Dertford, otherwise Highe Pit- 

 folde,' to John White and Thomas Kerton." On 

 I April, 1566, John White 

 exchanged the manor with 

 Viscount Montague for 

 the grange at Tongham 

 and ^177 \6s. 6i."i In 

 1593 Anthony Browne 

 Viscount Montague died 

 seised of the manor,^!' 

 which descended to his 

 grandson and heir Anthony, 

 who died seised of it in 

 1630." From him the 

 manor passed to his son 

 Francis and descended in 

 the Montague family to George Samuel, eighth 

 Viscount, who died in 1793 without heirs ; leaving 

 the estate to his sister Elizabeth Mary, who married 

 William Stephen Poyntz, of Medgham, Berks. 's 

 In 1832 the three daughters and co-heiresses of 

 William Stephen Poyntz, Frances Selina, Elizabeth 

 Georgiana, and Isabella, who had married Robert 

 Gjtton St. John, Baron Clinton, Frederic Spencer, 

 and BrowiJow, Marquis of Exeter, respectively. 



Browne. Sable three 

 lions passant between four 

 cotises silver. 



PovNTi. Barrj gold 

 and gules of eight fieees. 



sold the manor to Richard Preston Pritchard '• 

 who died in 1836. He was succeeded by his jon 

 Richard Preston Pritchard, who sold Pitfold to 

 James Baker, of Frensham Hall, before 1853, In 

 which year an enclosure 

 award of the waste of the 

 manor "> shows Mr. Baker 

 to be lord of the manor. 

 He was succeeded by his 

 son, also James Baker, and 

 the latter by his nephew 

 James Goldsmith, of Milton 

 (Hants), to whom some of 

 the property still belongs.'* 

 There is an old manor 

 house still existing, with 

 the date 1668 over the 

 gateway. But the manor as such has ceased to 

 exist ; the copyholds were long ago enfranchised, 

 and much of the land and of the enclosed waste 

 sold in small lots for the building of the modern 

 country houses which cover the formerly wild dis- 

 tricts of Hindhead and the neighbouring commons. 

 PIERREPONT is the present name of an estate 

 which existed here in the eighteenth century. 

 About a mile down the river from Frensham Church 

 there was a ford called Tankersford, and a farm 

 of the same name lay on the left bank below the 

 hamlet of Mill Bridge, held as copyhold of the 

 manor of Frensham Beale. The name occurs in 

 a bill in Chancery, exhibited by Lord Montague 

 against the Bishop of Winchester and Sir William 

 More before Sir Christopher Hatton (1587-1591)." 

 Lord Montague claimed fishing rights in the ' Tyll- 

 ford' river from ' Tankerforde ' to Crickleborne, 

 as having belonged to the Abbey of Waverley. 

 Several letters relating to the case exist at Loseley, 

 and as late as 12 January, 1596-7, Thomas Bilson, 

 the bishop, wrote about it. 83 Peter Hampden, 

 chosen a burgess of Farnham in 1579, also wrote 

 an undated letter about it, to the eflect that the 

 Abbey claimed this fishery, and had a weir, for 

 which and for a little house at Tilford they paid 

 4^. rent. He described himself as ' a distressyd 

 old man,' and though he wrote to Sir George More, 

 apparently after the death of Sir William More, in 

 1600, it seems that he claimed personal reminis- 

 cence of affairs when Waverley was still stand- 

 ing.8* The land certainly did not belong to 

 Waverley, though the fishery may have. Tankers- 

 ford belonged to John Mabank in 1748," when 

 he surrendered the copyhold, and Colonel the 

 Hon. John Mordaunt, brother to the Earl of 

 Peterborough, was admitted.^' He built a 

 house on the site. In 1761 the Duke of Kings- 



" Chart. R. 13 Edw. I. No. 23 

 (Harl. MSS. 58, i. 57, a copy). 



« Pat. 18 Edw. ril. pt. 2, m. 30. 



» Inq. p.m. 40 Edw. III. (1st nos.) 

 40. 



"" Pat. 46 Edw. III. pt. 2, m. 28. 



" Ancient Deeds (P.R.O.), A. 5280. 



•» Pat. 46 Edw. III. pt. 2, m. 28. 



" J'alor Eccl. (Rec Com.) i. iiq. 



•« Ibid. ' ' 



" Mint. Acctj. 32-6 Hen. VIII. 



" Ibid. 38 Hen. VIII.— i Edw. VI. 

 No. 38. 



'* Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. 4, m. 51. 



'6 Close R. 8 Eliz. pt. 8. 



'« Inq. p.m. 33 Eliz. ccxxzv. no. 



" Ibid. 5 Chas. I. ccccliii. 80. 



'^ Burke, Peerage and Baronetage. 



■" Feet of F. Surr. 2 Will. IV. 



8" Award at Board of Agriculture 

 made under Stat. 12 and 13 Vict. c. 83. 



81 Information from Mr. Charlei 



612 



Pritchard of Churt, the ion of Richard 

 Preston Pritchard, the younger, and from 

 Mr. James Penfold of Haslemere. 



8' Loseley MSS. no further date. 



^ Ibid. 1596-7. 



8* Hist. MSS. Com. I Ref, n the 

 Loseley MS. wrongly describes tht* 

 letter as to Sir William More. 



85 Manor R. Frensham Beale, in cut- 

 tody of Mr. Richard Mason, Farnham. 



8» Ibid. 



