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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��manor to Peter Atwood for life, 67 and, subsequently, to Thomas Stowes. 88 In founding the abbey of St. Mary Graces near the Tower of London in 1376 the king endowed it with the reversion of this moiety of Gomshall. Hence it obtained the name of Gomshall Towerhill. 83

In 1539, after the dissolution of the abbey, the king granted Gomshall Towerhill to Sir Edward Walsingham, 90 who conveyed it to Sir Edward Bray in I55O. 91 In 1589 it was granted as 'concealed lands' to Walter Coppinger and others. 91 It was, however, restored to its former owners, for Sir Edward Bray conveyed it to trustees for the use of his wife Mary for life, with final reversion to his grandson and heir Edward in tail male," and since that time it has remained, with Shiere Vachery, in the Bray family.

Towerhill is an old and picturesque farmhouse close to the station.

In 1086, when Gomshall was royal demesne, the villeins there were exempt from the sheriff's jurisdic- tion. 94 Both Netley and Towerhill had court baron. 95 Eleanor Countess of Ormond had view of frankpledge in Gomshall Towerhill. 96 In 1281 William Braose was granted free warren there. 97

SUTTON was in 1086 in Wotton Hundred. It is a hamlet now chiefly in Shere parish, but with a few cottages in Abinger parish and Wotton Hundred.

It is apparently the land in Wotton called ' Sudtone ' which the Bishop of Bayeux had rated in his manor of Bramley. 98 It was subsequently associated with Holehurst or Holdhurst, in Cranleigh, a parish non- existent in 1086 (Holdhurst Manor extends beyond Cranleigh parish), and Sutton was called Holdhurst at Down, or the manor of Downe, to distinguish it from the rest of Holdhurst in the Weald. 99 It may once have been held with the rest of Holdhurst (see under Cranleigh), but Richard Hill died holding Downe in 1551, and his son Edmund Hill was in possession in 1554.' He was alive in 1582, and Richard Hill his son, who married Elizabeth daughter of the first Sir Richard Onslow of the family in Surrey, was in possession c. 1586.*' Richard conveyed it in 1595 to Ralph Hill. 10 ' He conveyed it to Edward Allford, who sold it to William Leigh of Abinger and Thames Ditton in i6o9. 103 From this family it was conveyed, c. 1620, to Oliver Huntley, who sold it in the following year to Richard Holman. The latter conveyed it to Henry Hilton in l636. lM The Hus- sey family seem to have acquired an interest in Sutton as early as 1 646, when Sir William Smyth, bart., and his wife Mary, whose interests were possibly derived

��from Henry Hilton, transferred their rights in one- third of the manor to Peter Hussey. 105 Thomas Hus- sey of London, who is said to have acquired the whole manor, was buried at Shere in 1655. He left a son Peter, who was visited at Sutton by John Evelyn, August 1 68 1. 106 He died 1 684, and his son Peter (who died in I/24 107 ) left a daughter Mary, who in 1720 married Edward Bugden. Before 1728 Sutton was sold to Edward Pike Heath. His niece Frances married the Hon. Henry Knight, and they sold it to Mr. Edmund Shallet between 1750 and 1 76 1. 10 * Mr. Shallet was sheriff of the county in 1758. His daughter married Caleb Lomax. For the later descent see under Wotton.

There was a house at Sutton of considerable size, which was pulled down by Mr. Edmund Shallet Lomax, son of Mr. Shallet's daughter and heir, when he built Netley (see above), but the remains of the walled garden and some other fragments are con- spicuous upon the left-hand side of the road leading from Gomshall station towards Holmbury St. Mary.

There was a second WESTON Manor, to be dis- tinguished from that in Albury, near the parsonage house of Albury, but lying in a detached part of Shere parish, and called Weston in Shere. In the Weston genealogy taken, it is said, from the College of Arms, 109 a Thomas de Weston, living c. 1305, and his son Thomas are described as lords of the manor of ' Weston in Shire.' It would seem that the family must have been early divided, for others are described as of ' Weston in Albury.' " William Weston held it of the abbey of Netley at his death in I483. 1 " Edmund Pope, a descendant, no doubt, of Joan wife of Thomas Pope, 1 " sold it in 1 540 to John Risbridger of Albury, 113 whose son John sold it the same year to Thomas Baker. 114

In 1621 it formed part of the portion of Mary daughter of George Hyer on her marriage with Robert Boothby. 115 In 1 709 William Boothby conveyed it to George Wheeler. 116 Dr. William Shaw purchased a moiety from Bridges Baldwin and his wife Frances in 1746."' Dr. Shaw's son sold the manor in 1804 to the Hon. Robert Clive, a younger son of the first Lord Clive (who died in 1833), who improved the house. 118 The house was at one time the residence of Elias Ashmole the antiquary. The manor seems to be non-existent, and the house is pulled down.

In the Domesday Survey two mills are mentioned at Shere. 119 In the 1 3th century there was still a water-mill there. 120 It formed part of the rents granted to Richard, Earl of Ulster, being held by

��8 ~ Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 288.

88 Pat. R. 12 Ric. II, pt. i, m. I.

Dugdale, Mm. v, 718 ; Cal. Pat. 1385-9, p. 539.

"> L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 1354

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91 Chan. Inq. p.m. ccilvii, 72. " Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. vii, m. 31. 93 Chan. Proc. (Eliz.), Bb xiv, 54. " y.C.. Surr. i, 2 9 8a.

95 The Court Rolls for 1481 and 1504 re at the Public Record Office ; Gen. Ser. cciv, 50, 51.

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

" Chart. 9 Edw. I, no. 24. "3 V.C.H. Surr. i, 305*. 99 See Harl. Chart. 78 G. 535 79 F. 3 8a, b; 75 H. 41.

��100 Misc. Bks. (L.T.R.), vol. 168, fol. 69.

Harl. Chart. 78 G. 53.

1M Ibid. 79 F. 380, A.

108 Ibid. 75 H. 41 ; see under Abinger. These transactions had only to do with Sutton alias Holdhurst alias Holhurst at Down in Shere, Abinger, and Ewhurst, not with Holdhurst in Cranleigh (q.v.).

I" Feet of F. Surr. East. 18 Jas. I; Mich. 19 Jas. I ; Trin. 12 Chas. I.

106 Ibid. Mil. 21 Chas. I. It is said, however, that it was Thomas Hussey who purchased the whole manor ; Man- ning and Bray, op. cit. i, 497.

106 Diary, 30 Aug. 1681.

10 7 For Hussey pedigree see the parish registers and monuments in Shere Church.

108 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 497-8.

116

��109 Printed in Brayley, op. cit. ii, 8 1, &c.

110 Ibid.

"1 Cal. Inj.fM.Hen. VU, i, 162.

lla See under Wetton in Albury.

118 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 32 Hen. VIII.

"< Add. Chart. (B.M.), 28236.

lu Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 20 Jas. I ; Close, 19 Jas. I, pt. xiii, no. 7.

" 6 Ibid. Surr. Mich. 8 Anne.

"7 Recov. R. Mich. 20 Geo. II, m. 38. Dr. Shaw is said to have obtained the manor from a niece of a former pro- prietor ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 127.

118 Ibid, ii, 1 88 ; Brayley, op. cit. v, 1 60.

9 V.C.H. Surr. i, 2 9 8.

" Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 500.

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