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 CHURCH OF CARSHALTON. 127 one Carrucate in demesne, and 3 Villans and one Cotar with 3 Carrucates, and one Mill value 35s. and 3 Villans in gross, and 10 acres of Meadow. The Wood yields 2 Hogs. The arable land is 2 Carrucates. "In the time of King Edward it was worth 4l., afterwards 40s., now l00s. Of the same Hide a certain Blacksmith of the King has half a Hide, which in the time of King Edward he received with his wife, but he never did any suit or service for it." As stated in the foregoing extract from "Domesday" the five manors into which Carshalton had been divided were, at the time of the survey, consolidated into one, called the Manor of Kersalton, which manor was con- ferred by William the Conqueror upon Geoffery de Mandeville, one of his adherents and constable of the Tower of London. William his son was succeeded in the manor by a son, Geoffery, who was created Earl of Essex by King Stephen. He died A.D. 1144, 9 Stephen, and his eldest son, Ernulph, was banished. Manning deems it probable that his estates were seized by the king, and that the king afterwards gave the manor to Pharamus, or Faramuse de Bolonia, or Boulogne, nephew to Maude, his queen; for though Henry II. created Geoffrey, younger brother to Ernulph, Earl of Essex, and is said to have granted him all the lands of his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, it is certain that the before-mentioned Faramuse had this manor, and that he gave the church to the priory of Merton. King Richard I. confirmed the inheritance to Sybilla, the daughter and sole heir of Faramus, who married Ingelram de Fielnes, Fenes, or Fienes, with power to hold it as her husband did on the day he took his journey to the Holy Land. The charter also empowers her to marry whom she pleased.1

The before-mentioned Ingelram had a son William, who died A.D. 1241, 25 Henry III., and was succeeded by Ingelram his son, who is stated in the Testa de Nevil to have held half a knight's fee in Carshalton of Humphrey de Bohun, as of the honor of Mandeville; that 1 Cart Antiq., A 36. L 2