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��tenay, and Mr. Walsh there ; left at 7 ; paid for dinner and wine, 4*. 6J.' "

The house called Pasture Wood, built fifteen years since, is the seat of Mr. F. J. Mirrielees. Feldemore is the seat of Mr. Edwin Waterhouse. High Ashes is the seat of Lord Justice Vaughan-Williams ; it was a small farm-house, which he has improved.

The schools (National) were built in 1863, and the school at Abinger Hammer in 1873.

At the time of the Domesday Survey MANORS 4BINGER was held by William Fitz Ansculf, who also held the honour of Dudley. In the time of King Edward a huscarle had held it of the king." From Fitz Ansculf the overlordship evidently passed with Dudley through the Pagenels to the Somery family, who held it at least as late as the 1 3th century. The lord of Abinger owed suit to their court at Bradfield. 14

Early in the 1 3th century Gilbert de Abingworth (Abinger) held one knight's fee in Surrey ; ls his name is also found in a list of the jurors in a suit concerning land in Tilings. 17 Possibly he was connected with the family of Jarpenvill, who appear about this time in the history of Abinger. Geoffrey de Jarpenvill shortly afterwards held a knight's fee in Abinger; 18 and in 1273 David de Jarpenvill was holding Abinger Manor." At David's death, 1293, the manor, which should have passed to his daughters, fell into the hands of his brother Thomas, who in 1295 settled it on himself, with remainder to his son Roger and Nora his wife." Evidently Roger succeeded his father before 1316, for about that date he was concerned in a dispute touching the church of Abinger," and in 1322 he was holding the manor." Ten years later he made a settlement on his son Thomas and Avice his wife, daughter of William de Latimer. The effect of this settlement, however, was nullified by a suit brought against Thomas de Jarpenvill in 1 348 by Margaret wife of Henry de la Marlere, and Margery wife of William de Harpesbourne,the daugh- ters of Joan daughter of David de Jarpenvill, who had married Geoffrey Fitz Waryn. 15 Also in 1360 Sir John de Aylesbury, knight, the great-grandson of Margaret, another daughter of David de Jarpenvill, asserted his claim against Thomas and Avice." The plaintiffs apparently succeeded in ousting Thomas de Jarpenvill, for some years later Hugh son of Margaret de la Marlere released his right in Abinger Manor to Sir John de Aylesbury, 14 a course which was also followed by Margery Franklin, formerly the wife of William de Harpesbourne.* 6 Sir John de Aylesbury, who filled the office of high sheriff for the county of Buckingham," died in 1409 seised of the manor of

��Abinger,* 8 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who held until his death in 141 8. John son and heir of Thomas, who was a minor at the time of his father's death, died in 1422,' leaving Hugh his son and heir, an infant, who survived his father only about a year." The heirs of Hugh were his father's two sisters, Isabel wife of Sir Thomas Chaworth, knight, and Eleanor Aylesbury. Evidently in some ensuing division of the property " Abinger fell to the share of Eleanor, and through her marriage with Sir Humphrey Stafford passed into his family.'* Eleanor's son Humphrey,

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��who had been one of the leaders in Lord Level's Worcestershire rising, was attainted and executed at Tyburn in 1486 ;" his lands, including the manor of Abinger, were granted to Sir John Guldeford, knight," who, however, does not seem to have retained them long, for in 1511 another grant was made, to Sir Richard Jermigan.* 6 Before 1546, however, Abinger passed again into the possession of the Staffords ; in that year Humphrey, presumably the son of that Humphrey who was attainted under Henry VII, having been restored to his father's lands died in possession," leaving Humphrey his son and heir, whose death took place two years later. 38 In 1551 Sir William Stafford and his wife Dorothy, and Sir Hum- phrey Stafford (presumably son and heir of the last- named Humphrey) and his wife Elizabeth sold the manor to Thomas and Edward Elrington. Thomas Elrington held a court in 1563." In 1578 and 1580 Thomas and Edward alienated in two moieties* to Richard Brown of Cranleigh, trustee for Richard Hill, and William Morgan of Chilworth. Hill and Morgan held a court as joint lords in 1586, and in 1589 William Morgan settled his moiety on his son John, 41 who settled it on his daughter Anne on her marriage with Edward Randyll of Chilworth 1602." He was knighted, and in 1622 conveyed his moiety to Richard Evelyn. 43 The other moiety, which was sold in 1580 by the Elringtons to Richard Browne 44 in trust for Edmund Hill of Sutton in Shiere, was conveyed by his son Richard in 1595 to Sir Oliph

��18 Inform kindly supplied by Lieut.- Col. T. H. Lcwin of Parkhurst.

" y..C.H.Surr. i, jzza.

15 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Edw. I, no. 15.

" Red Bk. of Exch. (Roll. Ser.), ii, 560.

" Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.), i, 140.

18 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 220.

19 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Edw. I, no. 1 5. 80 Feet of F. SUIT. 23 Edw. I, no. 44. 11 Egerton MSS. 2031, fol. 46.

B Feet, of F. Surr. 6 Edw. Ill, no. 13.

" Parl. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 191.

14 De Banco R. 421, m. 265 d.

" Close, 30 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 9 d.

"Close, i Ric. II, m. i6d. Man- ning and Bray (Surr. ii, 137) jay that Thomas de Jarpenvill conveyed the manor

��to Sir John Aylesbury by charter, 44 Edw. III. This may have been by way of an agreement after the suit.

Cal.Pat. 1381-5, p. 481.

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Hen. IV, no. 9.

Ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 35.

80 Ibid. 10 Hen. V, no. 3.

81 Ibid. 2 Hen. VI, no. II. Fine R. 2 Hen. VI, m. I.

88 Although no actual record of this marriage has been found, the circumstan- tial evidence seems fairly conclusive i Humphrey Stafford left a widow Eleanor, and her son Humphrey inherited Abinger j Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. II.

84 See Bacon, Hist, of Hen. Vll (ed.

'878), 333-

Pat. 2 Hen. VII, pt. i, m. 18.

��" L. and P. Hen. VIII, i, 214. no. I.
 * l Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 1093,

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxvii, 77.

89 Feet of F. SUIT. East. 5 Edw. VI.

40 Pat. 21 Eliz. pt. vi ; Feet of F. SUIT. Hil. 22 Eliz.

41 A settlement on John's marriage with Anne Lumsford, widow, daughter of John Love of Winchelsea ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxi, 85.

4 " Ibid, ccccxxxvii, 72.

48 Deeds in possession of the late Mr. W. J. Evelyn. Despite the inquisitions of 1603 George Evelyn was then possessed of only the other moiety.

44 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 22 Eliz. ; Trin. 23 Eliz.

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