90 WIMBLEDON COMMON. 
duel with Colonel Lennox, and it was here also that 
Lord Cardigan killed Captain Tuckett in a similar 
affair of honour. 
The Manor of Wimbledon, in early times, formed 
part of the much larger Manor of Mortlake, which 
also included the Manors of Putney and Barnes. The 
Manor of Mortlake appears to have been granted 
by Edward the Confessor to the See of Canterbury. 
It was one of the many Manors belonging to that 
See which Odo, the fighting Bishop of Bayeux and 
Karl of Kent, took from the Archbishop. It was, 
however, recovered by Archbishop Lanfranc, in 1071, 
in the assembly of Nobles at Pinenden Heath, near 
Maidstone. It remained in possession of the See of 
Canterbury until Archbishop Cranmer exchanged it 
with Henry VIII. for other estates. The King goon 
after granted the Manor, with its extensive and valuable 
demesne lands, to Sir Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, 
who, from having been the son of a blacksmith at 
Putney, may be supposed to have highly valued this 
mark of Royal favour. On the attainder of Cromwell, 
in 1540, the King settled the Manor on Queen 
Catherine Parr for her life. Queen Mary gave it to 
Cardinal Pole, but it reverted again to the Crown : 
and Queen Elizabeth granted it to Sir Christopher 
Hatton, who sold the Manor House to Sir Thomas 
Cecil, the second son of Lord Burleigh. The Manor 
appears to have reverted to the Queen, who, in 1590, 
granted it to Sir Thomas Cecil. Cecil was created 
Earl of Exeter by James I. He settled the Manor 
