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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��that it seems probable that on that account it was forfeited to the Crown. It was granted with Shiere to John, Lord Audley, and forfeited by his son James after the insurrection at Blackheath." It was then farmed by a certain William Cokys, 80 and in October i Jl i, Henry VIII granted it with other lands in Ewhurst to Thomas Salter, Sewer of the Chamber, to hold for the annual rent of a red rose.* 1 The manor seems, however, to have been restored to John, Lord Audley, for he conveyed it in 1532 to Thomas Wolley the younger." In 1 549 Ambrose Wolley sold the manor to Robert Whitfeld,* 8 who held it till 1576, when he sold it to Nicholas Dendy "and his son John, w\io were also holding Breach." Nicholas died at Rwhurst in October 1 5 87 and was succeeded by John Dendy, 16 who conveyed the manor to Edward Dendy in 1621." In 1640 Henry Ockley and his wife Beatrice were in possession, and sold the reversion to John Clifton of Worplesdon.* 8

In 1 648 these three conveyed it to Richard Evelyn of Baynards.' 9 John Dendy was farming it at the time of the Commonwealth. 10 It descended from Richard Evelyn to his daughter Ann, wife of William Montague, who conveyed it to William Freeman in 1674." In 1680 William Montague, junior, 'seised in fee in reversion," surrendered all his rights to William Freeman. The latter in 1700 granted a lease for a year to Sir Richard Onslow ' to test the possession,' and his son, Thomas Onslow, after- wards the second Lord Onslow, mortgaged the pro- perty in 1714," as owner. It continued in Lord Onslow's family till about 1863, when it was bought

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��SCARLETT, Lord Abin- ger. Cheeky or and gules a lion ermine and a quar- ter azure with a castle argent therein.

��by the late William Lord Abinger, in whose heir it now remains.

It seems possible that the manor of BdTNdRDS, which lies on the boundary between Ewhurst and Cranleigh, was originally a part of Pollingfold (q.v.), and never a separate manor, though so called, for tenants of the Baynards estate appear in the court rolls of Pollingfold (extant between 1772 and 1883). In 1447 William Sydney the younger obtained a licence to impark 800 acres of land appertaining to

���his ' manor ' of Baynards." According to a monu- mental inscription in Cranleigh Church, quoted by Aubrey in the I7th century, William Sydney died in 1449.'' He was succeeded by a son William, whose widow Elizabeth obtained the custody of his lands during the minority of his daughters Elizabeth and Anne." Baynards Manor appears to have been the portion of Anne, who married William (afterwards Sir William) Uvedale.* 6 According to his will * 7 a rent was to be paid to his eldest son and the residue of the profits divided between his younger son John and his brother Thomas. The manor was conveyed to Reginald Bray or his brother John. Ed- mund Lord Bray, son of the latter, sold it in 1535 to his brother Sir Edward Bray. Sir Edward Bray died in 1558. His son Sir Edward mortgaged Baynards,

2 November 1580, to John Reade of Sterborough, 58 to whom he sold Pollingfold

3 December, a month later. On 29 October 1587 John Reade released his rights in Baynards to George More of Loseley, afterwards knighted, and a fine was levied in 1588 confirming the conveyance. Baynards was bought by More with his wife's money, she being a wealthy heiress.' 9 He probably rebuilt the house with the great hall, which

now exists, for his home while his father Sir William was alive. 40 In 1604, after the death of the latter, Sir George, his wife Constantia, and his son Sir Robert, conveyed Baynards to Sir Francis Woolley of Pirford, Sir George More's nephew, for a sum of money and the manor of Witley in exchange.

On 6 March 4 James (1607) Sir Francis Woolley sold Baynards for 4,400 to Edward Bayninge, gentleman, of London. He presumably died, leaving an heir Andrew Bayninge, who sold it i 5 February 1608-9 to I saac Woder of Plumstead in Kent. Woder, who also had acquired Knowle in Cranleigh, described as ' a manor in Surrey and Sussex,' in the same year, sold Baynards 28 February 160910 to Robert Jossey. His son James Jossey alias Hay mortgaged his property, and was clearly in considerable difficulties, for on 23 January 1628-9 his mot her Margaret surrendered to him all her jointure, Polling- fold Manor, Coneyhurst Hill, and two rooms over ' the great dining chamber ' at Baynards. The mort- gage changed hands, and finally Richard Gurnard, citizen and clothworker, conveyed his rights under it to Richard Evelyn, father of the diarist, i 3 November 1629. On 30 August 1630 Jossey released all his rights in Baynards and Pollingfold to Richard Evelyn, and in 1631 a lessee of Mrs. Jossey's jointure sur- rendered his lease to Evelyn. 41

��MORI of Loseley. A- seure a cross argent with Jive martlea sable there- on.

��Pat. 7 Edw. IV, pt, i, m. 6. L. and P. Hen. VIII, i, 1916. Feet of F. SUIT. East. 23 Hen. VIII. Ibid. Mich. 3 Edw. VI. Ibid. Mich. 18 & 19 Eliz. Ibid.
 * > Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), rviii, 51.

7 Feet of F. Surr. HiL 18 Jas. I ; Re- COT. R. East. 19 Jas. I, rot. 59. 18 Deed of Lord Onslow.
 * Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccix, 118.

��** Ibid.; Close, 22 Chas. I, pt. ii, no. 5.

80 Surr. Arch. Coll. xvii, 88.

81 Feet of F. Surr. East. 26 Chas. II.
 * Deeds of Lord Onslow.

"Chart. R. 25 & 26 Hen. VI, no. 12.

81 Antiq. of Surr. (ed. 1718), iv, 85.

85 Cal. Pat. 14.61-7, p. 273.

"Till 1487 it was held in dower by Elizabeth their mother, who had remar- ried Sir Thomas Uvedale. See Cal. Inj. p.m. Hen. Vll, i, 170, 171.

9 8

��7 See Surr. Arch. Coll. iii, 171.

88 Cf. Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 22 Eliz. ; a conveyance to Sir Thomas Cotton, probably for the purposes of the mort- gage.

89 Settlement at Loseley.

40 John Evelyn in his letter to Aubrey prefixed to Aubrey's Hist, and Antiq. of Surr. says that More built the house. Some of it, however, is probably older.

41 Deeds of Lord Onslow.

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