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��privilege claimed by John son of Geoffrey, 51 and at the division of the manor was assigned to the Butlers, who held it once a year. 6 ' Both Shiere Vachery and Ebor had court baron," and the lords of Shiere Vachery were granted a market on Tuesdays and an annual fair in 1 309,** and free warren in

1330."

The manor of GOMSH4LL lies on the Tilling- bourne to the east of Shere village. In early times it was royal demesne. Earl Harold had it, and after the Conquest King William held it in demesne. Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, wrongfully annexed half a hide which had belonged to this manor to his manor of Bramley. 56 It is mentioned with lands granted to the Earl of Warenne in 1154 and 1 1 5 5-6." He probably resigned Gomshall with his other English lands to Henry II,' 8 who granted it in moieties to Robert de Wendenale and to William de Clere. M Under Richard I William Malveisin's lands in Gomshall were escheat to the Crown, 60 and they or others appear to have been given to the Dapifer of Ponthieu, 61 Ingram de Fontains, who held one moiety of the manor, while William Malveisin had the other. 6 * Ingram's lands were escheat to the Crown in or before II94. 6 * Richard I granted the manor in moieties to William de Es and Alan Trenchmere. 64 The moiety of William de Es became the manor of Gomshall Netley, and the other was known later as Gomshall Towerhill. 65

GOMSH4LL NETLET, the moiety of Gomshall granted by King Richard to William de Es, 66 was held in 1217 by Eustace de Es, w and in 1233 passed from him to Sir Matthias Besille, kt, 68 who granted it to the abbey of Netley, co. Hants. 69 Thus it came to be called Gomshall Netley. In the Taxation of 1291 10 is returned as the abbey's annual income from 'Gomshall Grange.' In 1332 the Abbot of Netley's tenants in Gomshall complained that he had exacted other services from them than he ought, since they were tenants in ancient demesne. 71 After the suppression of the abbey Henry VIII granted to Sir Edward Bray the reversion of Gomshall Netley at the termination of a seventy years' lease, which John Redforde and his wife Thomasina had obtained from the abbey in 1502." Since this time it has descended in the same family with Shiere Vachery, and is now in the possession of Mr. Justice Bray.

The old manor-house was separated from the manor about 1640. It is a farm, usually called King John's Lodge, and stands opposite to the modern house of Netley. It is largely of 16th-century date, and possibly occupies the site of the Saxon aula.

��This house has a fine chimney, rising from the ground with a stack of diagonally-placed flues on its flint and rubble base. At either end of the front is a projecting gabled wing, that on the left having some good square and circle pattern-work in its timber construction, resembling that at Great Tangley in Wonersh parish. The upright timbering of the main portion between these wings seems to indicate a date early in the 1 6th, or possibly late in the I Jth century, the pattern-work in the wing being nearly a hundred years later. Modern windows and other injudicious alterations have somewhat altered the ancient character of this house, but the old door, with a flat-arched head, still remains in the left wing.

The present Netley House was built by Mr. Edmund Shallet Lomax about, or shortly before, 1800, and is now the residence of Col. Eraser.

GOMSH4LL TOWERHILL. Alan Trenchmere possibly held his moiety for life only," for by 1205 he was succeeded by William de Braose, who had a grant of it in tail." William's family was starved to death, and he himself driven into exile by John; he died abroad, and John evidently gave his moiety of Gomshall to Peter de Maulay." William's son, the Bishop of Hereford, took part in the civil war against John, and extorted the restoration of the family estates to himself in trust for his nephew. 76 After his death this manor was granted to Rowland de Bloet. 77

In 1218 Reginald Braose, the bishop's younger brother, had the manor,' 8 from which his widow claimed dower in 1230," and William Braose was holding it in 1 2 8 1 j 80 and conveyed it to a sub-tenant, John Savage. William Braose was still living in 1311, when John Savage died, leaving a young son, Roger, 8 ' who, having been im- prisoned for felony in New- gate, broke prison and forfeited his estates." In 1332 the king committed the custody of the manor to John Pul-

teney, Lord Mayor of London, who did the cus- tomary service for it to John de Ifield. 83 A year having elapsed, the manor was restored to the over- lord, John de Ifield." At John's death the king granted this manor for life to Eleanor, Countess of Ormond,* 6 then lady of Shiere, and obtained from John of Ifield's heirs a release of their rights in it. 86 At her death Edward III granted the custody of the

���BRAOSE. Assure cru- sily and a lion or.

��Close, 38 Hen. Ill, m. ijd.

SJ Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. Ill (nt mi'.), no. 40.

M Ibid. 7 Edw. Ill, no. 39 ; 31 Edw. I, no. 82.

M Chart. R. 3 Edw. II, m. 7, no. 1 9.

" Ibid. 3 Edw. Ill, m. 5, no. 13.

y.C.H. Surr. i, 2984.

W RtJ Bk. of the Excb. (Roll* Ser.), 654, 666.

8 See V.C.H. Surr. i, 342.

M Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 125.

M fife R. i Ric. /(Rec. Com.), 1 1, 117.

61 Ibid. 216.

M Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225.

M Pipe R. 6 Ric. I, m. I.

M Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 325,

��says that King Richard gave it to William de Es and Alan Trenchmere, and that after Alan's death John gave his share first to William de Braose and afterwards to Peter Maulay.

64 Curia Regis R. 113, m. 27 d.

M Rot. Cane. 3 John (Rec. Com.), 28.

7 Cal.Pat. 1216-25, p. 53.

8 Cal. Chart. R. i, 174.

69 Anct. D. (P.R.O.), D. 131,200.

'<> Pope Nicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 214.

7 1 De Banco R. 290, m. 276.

7" L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xiii, (i), 646 (39).

7' Rot. Cane. 3 John (Rec. Com.), 28 5 Pipe R. 2 John, m. 15 d.

7< Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), i, 1 34*.

7* Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225.

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��7 Rot. Lit. Claui. (Rec. Com.), i, 232*.

7? Ibid. 238*.

78 Ibid. 348.

7' Cal. Close, 1227-31, p. 389.

80 Chart. R. 9 Edw. I, no. 24.

81 Cal. Close, 1307-13, p. 430.

ra Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com. ), ii,

59-

88 Ibid, ii, 56; Cal. Close, 1330-3, p. 436. John of Ifield appears to have succeeded William de Braose in the over- lordship.

84 Cal. Close, 1330-3, p. 515.

85 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 159.

8 Anct, D. (P.R.O.), A. 3974, 3975, 3976.

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