FARNHAM HUNDRED 



SEALE 



o 



o 



PoYLK. Sii'ver a sal- 

 tire gules and a border 

 sable beisanty. 



TONGHAM MANOR seems to 

 MANORS have been reckoned a manor as early 

 as 1 360, when Henry de la Poyle held 

 a court here for the lands which he held of the 

 Bishop.'' These lands had passed to Henry from his 

 grandfather ' Walter de la Puille,' who was seised of 

 a ' tenement in Twang- 

 ham,' sixty acres of arable 

 land, rents from seven free 

 tenants, etc., held by ser- 

 vice of one-seventh of a 

 knight's fee of the Bishop 

 of Winchester, in 1299.8 

 In 1 3 17 John, son and 

 heir of Walter, died, leav- 

 ing a son and heir John." 

 In 1333 John died, leav- 

 ing his brother Henry as 

 his heir.'" Henry's son, 

 Thomas Poyle, succeeded 

 him in 1369,*' and in 1402 died seised of ' a hall 

 and grange in Tongham,' leaving his brother John 

 as his heir." In 1407 John Poyle conveyed the 

 same to his son Henry.i^ Henry married Elizabeth 

 Warner, who through her trustees conveyed the 

 manor to John Gaynesford in 1440.'* In 1474 

 the Gaynesfords were still holding the manor, is 

 but between that date 

 and 1516 it was evidently 

 conveyed to William West- 

 broke, for in 15 17 William 

 Westbroke conveyed the 

 manor of Tongham with 

 appurtenances, etc., to 

 Thomas Polstead, Edward 

 Hylle, and William Bus- 

 sell.i^ It seems probable 

 that these were trustees for 

 his heirs, for on his death 

 in 1537 the manor seems to 

 have been divided between 

 his two nephews John Scar- 

 lett " and Thomas Hull.'s In 1546 John Scarlett 

 mortgaged his ' moiety of the manor of Tongham ' 

 to John Elyot of Godalming.i' In 1547 John 

 Scarlett died,'" in 1576 his heir confirmed the 

 grant to John Elyot.'* In the same year John 

 Elyot conveyed the moiety to Robert White.22 



It is difficult to trace the history of the other 

 moiety of the manor. It seems to have passed 

 to the heir of Elizabeth Westbroke, William West- 

 broke's sister, who probably married Edward Hull, 

 and her heir may have died while his heir was a 



Gaynesford. Silver 

 a cheveron gules between 

 three running greyhounds 

 sable ivith gold collars. 



White. Six piecet 

 azure and gold with a 

 lion's head erased gules be- 

 tvjeen tvjo roundels silver 

 in the chief and a like 

 roundel between two of 

 the like lions' heads in the 

 foot, each roundel having 

 fwo 'waves of green. 



minor. Be that as it may, his moiety of the manor 

 evidently passed to trustees, Henry Weston and 

 John Austen, who in 1569 conveyed the same to 

 Henry KnoUes and Richard Polstead. '^ In 1576 

 Thomas Hull, evidently the 

 grandson of Elizabeth, was in 

 possession, and conveyed the 

 same in that year to Robert 

 White,'* who therefore held 

 the whole manor, and con- 

 tinued to do so until his 

 death in April 1599. His 

 heirs were his daughters 

 Helen Tichborne, wife of 

 Richard Tichborne, then 

 aged seventeen, and Mary, 

 wife of Walter Tichborne, 

 aged fifteen. '5 The manor 

 was then evidently divided 

 a second time. In 1600 

 Walter Tichborne and Mary 

 his wife mortgaged half the 

 manor to Richard Weston, James Weston, and 

 George Blande.iK In 1604 Sir Richard Tichborne, 

 who had been knighted in 1603, and Helen his 

 wife, and Walter Tichborne, and Mary his wife, 

 mortgaged the whole manor to Sir Richard Weston 

 and William Brocke." By 1623 Helen Tichborne 

 was dead without male issue, 

 and her half of the manor 

 evidently passed to Benja- 

 min, the eldest son of her 

 sister Mary. In 1623 Sir 

 Walter Tichborne, who had 

 been knighted by King 

 James in 1604, in recogni- 

 tion of his father's services 

 in proclaiming the King at 

 Winchester, and Benjamin 

 Tichborne his son mort- 

 gaged the whole manor to 

 Sir John Compton.'^ Sir Walter Tichborne died 

 in November 1640, and Mary his wife in the follow- 

 ing January. They left six sons, the eldest of whom 

 was Benjamin, the second Francis. Benjamin, 

 who was aged thirty-nine at the time of his father's 

 death, received the whole manor of Tongham.'" 

 He died between 1640 and 1661, evidently without 

 heirs of his body, as in l66l his brother Francis 

 was seised of the manor, and in that same year he 

 and his v/iie Susanna mortgaged it to Isaac Lyte 

 and Samuel Brownerigg.s" On his death in 1671 

 Francis was succeeded by his son White, who died 



' Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. III. (ist nos.), 



7'- 



8 Ibid. 27 Edw. I. No. 44. 



" Feet of F. Surr. i Edw. III. m. 8. 

 Inq. p.m. II Edw. II. No. 17. 



W Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. III. No. 71. 



11 A comparison of the state of the 

 manor in 1299 and 1369 is interesting. 

 After the Black Death of 1 349, where 

 in so many cases the population, value 

 and arable extent of manors had 

 diminished, the arable of the manor had 

 increased to 100 acres from 60, and the 

 rent of the free tenants was almost 



II 



exactly the same, i^s. ^d. against 

 151. 4</. 



1' Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. IV. No. 25. 



13 Feet of F. Surr. 8 Hen. IV. 



1* Harl. MS. 392. 



16 Rental, Harl. MS. 392, 97b. 



18 Common R. Mich. 8 Hen. VIII. 

 m. 143. 



1^ Nephew of William Westbrook, 

 son of his sister Frances. 



18 Also nephew, son of William's 

 sister Elizabeth, who was possibly wife 

 of the trustee, Edward Hull. 



1» Close 37 Hen. VIII. pt. 3, m. 50. 



617 



21 

 Eliz. 



Inq. p.m. I Edw. VI. No. 63. 

 Feet of F. Mich. i8 and 19 



78 



