190 BANSTEAD COMMONS. 
to the throne for 270 years till 1543, when Henry 
VIII, having previously annexed it to the Honour 
of Hampton Court, granted it to Sir Nicholas Carewe. 
On Carewe’s subsequent attainder it reverted to the 
Crown, but Queen Mary regranted it to his son. In 
1762 another Sir Nicholas Carewe sold it to Rowland 
Frye, from whom it passed through other hands by 
purchase, till in 1832 it was bought by Mr. Thomas 
Alcock, whose representatives, in 1873, sold it to Sir 
John Hartopp. 
The first general survey of the Manor was in 1325. 
It is still to be found in the charters of the British 
Museum. There was another survey of the parish in 
1598, in which the common lands are described as 
extending over 1,300 acres. The Court Rolls com- 
mence in 1379, and continue in unbroken succession, 
and in perfect order, till 1876. The history of the de- 
pendent Manors can be traced with equal precision 
from the earliest times, and, indeed, they form an 
interesting study from an historical and archeological 
standpoint, as bearing upon the subject of the creation 
of Manors. All the land in three of them was ulti- 
mately concentrated in the hands of the Earl of 
Egmont, who held them at the time of the commence- 
ment of the suit hereafter described, with the exception 
of Tadworth Park, which was the demesne land of the 
Manor of South Tadworth, and which was bought, a 
few years ago, by Sir Charles Russell, Q.C. There was 
also another Manor, that of Chaldon, not in the Parish, 
but dependent on the Manor of Banstead. This, at the 
