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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��In late years it has been a good deal injured by the insertion of modern windows in place of the ancient mullioned openings filled with lead lights, but it still retains its arched doorway and a projecting gable, carried on a moulded bressummer and brackets and having a foliated barge-board. 6

W1LDWOQD? now represented by MANORS Great and Little Wildwood Farms and Wildwood Copse and Moat, was formerly possessed by the lords of Albury and Stoke D'Aber- non, the D'Abernons and their successors. 8 In the 1 3th century the D'Abernon family had land in Alfold, 9 and in a deed of 1313 John D'Abernon's wood called ' le Wylwode ' is mentioned. This was probably the wood of 40 acres of oaks, possibly the

���ALFOLD : OLD HOUSE

' Wealden ' Wood named in the inquisition on the Albury Manor. 10 In 1391 Elizabeth Grey, lady of Stoke D'Abernon, widow of Sir William Croyser,

��granted the soil and wood of Wildwood except the moat, grange, and manorial rights " to John, Duke of Lancaster, and others." The descent of Wildwood followed that of Albury till 1626, when Sir Edward Randyll alienated it to Elizabeth Ons- low, widow, and Sir Richard Onslow, 13 from whom it seems to have passed to the Duncombes of Wes- ton." With Weston it descended to Nathaniel Sturt, who is said to have sold it in 1736 to either Richard or Francis Dorrington, from whom it was purchased by Henry Page. He bequeathed it to his cousin Richard Skeet of Effingham, whose son Richard succeeded him as owner."

MARKWICK and MONKSNHOOK were among the possessions of Waverley Abbey, 16 but Markwick only was assessed as the property of the abbey in 1534-5." The ' manors of Markwick and Monken hook ' were included within the grant of the site of the abbey to Sir William Fitz William, at whose death they appear under the name of the manor of Alfold, 18 and de- scended to Anthony, second Viscount Montagu, 19 who alienated the estate circa 1623," evidently to agents in a sale to Simon Carrill of Tangley, for it appears afterwards in the possession of the three daughters of John Carrill," and de- scended with that part of his estate which was assigned to Henry Ludlow and his wife Margaret." Giles son of Thomas Strangways sold them in 1784 to Thomas Boehm, the owner in 1808." The Earl of Onslow is now lord of the manor.

It was said in the 1 7th century that the lord of Markwick had both court baron and court leet, while the lord of Monkenhook had court baron." The courts were held at Rickhurst and Hook Street.

The reputed manor of STDNET alias HEDGECOURT or RICKHURST lies partly in Dunsfold. The family of Syd- ney can be traced in the surrounding parishes from the 1 4th century, while John at Sydney witnessed a deed con- cerning lands in Alfold in 1313." In 1413 the lord of the manor of Shalford Bradestan is said to have granted Rick- hurst and other land in Alfold to William Sydney and his wife Agnes. 16

In 1595-6 Richard Ireland died possessed r/f a house called ' Sydneys,' which was held of the lord of

��6 Resembling one in a house at Sham- ley Green and another in the rear of West Horsley Place, Surrey.

parish.
 * Formerly an outlying part of Albury

8 See the account of Stoke D'Abernon.

9 Surr. Arch. Coll. xviii, 222.

10 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Edw. Ill, no. 53.

11 The manorial rights probably apper- tained to Albury Manor, for Wildwood itself never seems to have been a separate manor.

11 Close, 14 Ric. II, m. 8 d.

Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 2 Chas. I.

14 See Albury.

15 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 7.

��16 In 1346 the Abbot of Waverley proved his claim to view of frankpledge in his ' manor of Bramley.' Cal. Pat. 1345-8, p. 220. This may possibly refer to Markwick and Monkenhook, which appear to be the only lands in or near Bramley held by the abbey. In a bill of sale in 1 784 they include land in Dunsfold and Bramley.

V Yalor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 34. Probably it included Monkenhook.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixx, 29.

19 See V.C.H. Surr. ii, 624.

80 Recov. R. East. 20 Jas. I, m. 51 and 14. al Feet of F. Surr. HiL 23-4 Chas. II ;

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��Hil. 25-6 Chas. II ; Hil. 26-7 Chas. II ; Mich. 30 Chas. II. Symmes, writing later in the same century, says that their uncle, Simon Carrill, was the purchaser ; Add. MS. 6167, fol. 135.

M Exch. Spec. Com. 6485. See under Bramley.

58 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 70 ; and Bill of Sale, in which the manor includes GrarVham and Burningfold, that is probably some land of the latter.

Add. MS. (B.M.) 6167, fol. 135.

"Add. Chart 5585. See also Cal. Feet of F. Surr. ; Surr. Arch. Coll. passim.

46 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 64.

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