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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Malemayns, ' tenant in chief.' " The reason why he is called tenant-in-chief may be explained by a possible minority of the Warblington heir and also by the fact that in 1289-90, when the Earl of Glou- cester married Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I, he surrendered all his lands to his royal father-in-law. He received a grant back of most of them, but not all, the same year. The king clearly reserved some manors in his own hands till his daughter's son should be of age ; when the earl died in 1295 Ockley does not appear in his Inquisitio as part of his lands. When, however, the son of his royal marriage, the young earl, was killed at Bannockburn, 1314, Ockley was one of his fees," together with several other Surrey manors which are not mentioned in connexion with his father. Edward I is said to have presented the manor by patent 15 to Nicholas Malemayns. No such entry is in the Patent Rolls, but in a Charter Roll of 20 January 1 296 it appears that Nicholas Malemayns surrendered Ockley to the Crown, and that the king, after holding it for some time, re-granted it to him and his heirs by his wife Alice. In 1 300 a grant was made to Nicholas Malemayns of the assize of bread and ale and view of frankpledge in his manor of Ockley, as his ancestors had them, 16 and in 1 302 he received a grant of free warren, a weekly market on Tuesdays, and a fair on the feast of St. Margaret (the patron saint of the church)." Nicholas died at an unknown date. Another Nicholas died in 1350. This Nicholas Malemayns married Alice and left three daughters : Beatrice, who married Otho de Graunson ; Catherine, who married Sir Henry Newdigate ; Parnel, who married Sir Thomas Sentomer. The manor was divided between them. When Sir Otho de Graunson died in 1359, seised of one-third of the manor, it was said to be held of the manor of Tandridge, in spite of Nicholas Male- mayns having been called tenant-in-chief. The succession to the various parts is very uncertain ; but Beatrice the widow of Sir Otho de Graunson, the Newdigates, the descendants of Sir Thomas Sen- tomer, and in 1450 Richard Wakehurst, presented to the living. The heirs of the Graunsons do not appear again ; but they may be represented by Margaret, wife of John de Gaston (or Garton), who in 1368 conveyed one-ninth of the manor to William Newdi- gate. 18 The Newdigates continued to present to the living at intervals till 1407. Meanwhile Parnel Malemayns and Sir Thomas Sentomer had two daugh- ters, Alice and Elizabeth. The latter disappears ; Alice married Sir William Hoo. His son Thomas granted Ockley to his brother John and John Glemham. Glemham, the survivor, or his heir, enfeoffed Sir Thomas Hoo, Lord Hoo and Hastings, who died 148 1. He left four daughters, but by a previous arrangement the manor passed to Richard Culpepper. Whether he represented any of the other branches or not is unknown. Probably the rights of the others, much

���CULPEPPER. Argent a bend engrailed gules.

��broken up, had been conveyed to the Hoos, 19 or for- gotten.

Ockley remained in the possession of the Cul- pepper family until the time of Charles I, when it was sold to George Duncombe, of Weston, 10 who held his first court in 1638. He died in 1646, and was succeeded by his grandson George, son of his elder son John, deceased. This George held his first court in 1 648, but on his death soon afterwards, childless, the estate went to his uncle George of Shalford, who held his first court in 1654. He in his life- time conveyed it to his second

son, Francis, who held his first court 22 March 1658-9. Francis was created a baronet in 1662. He died before his father, in 1670; his widow Hester and her second husband, Thomas Smyth, held a court October 1671. Sir William Duncombe, her son, succeeded 1 in 1675, and in 1694 sold the manor to Edward Bax of Capel. Bax retained the manor-house and a little land round it, which was now separated from the manor, and in 1695 sold the manor to John Evershed, of an old yeoman family, which appears, in different holdings, in the rolls and parish books."

John Evershed received from Queen Anne a grant of three fairs yearly at Stonestead Causeway, 6 Octo- ber, 10 May, and 3 June." Evershed in 1717 con- veyed to John Young," who in the same year released to Thomas Moore or More. 14 Thomas More held courts till 1734. His nephew William 26 held courts till 1 745, and died in 1 746. He left the manor in trust for Frederick son of Lord North of Guildford (who held courts 1746-9), but the estate was sold under a private Act in 1751 to Frank Nicholls, Ph.D., who had some lively controversy with the tenants on the subject of heriots." Dr. Nicholls died in 1778, and was succeeded by his son John. He sold in 1784 to Lee Steere of Jays in Wotton, who died before the conveyance was completed, leaving his interest in the estate to his grandson Lee Steere Witts, who took the name of Steere. His great-great-grandson (Mr. H. C. Lee Steere) is the present owner. 18

Ockley Court, the residence of Mrs. Calvert, widow of Colonel Calvert, is the old manor-house of Ockley. In 1 744 Nathaniel, son of Edward Bax, sold it to Mr. Thomas Tash, who died in 1770. His son William married a Miss Calvert, and having no children left the property to his wife. She left it to her relative (? nephew) Charles Calvert of Kneller Hall, Middle- sex, M.P. for Southwark. He died in 1833. His son Charles William succeeded, and was followed by his brother Colonel A. M. Calvert. His son Mr. W. A. Calvert lived recently at Broomells in Capel.

��w Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 33.

14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68. Ockley is here said to be held by Thomas de Warblington, of whom Malemayns was evidently holding as sub-tenant.

15 Inq. Misc. Chan, file 329, 20 Edw. IV, no. 103.

16 Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 535. " Charter R. 30 Edw. I, no. 15.

18 Feet of F. Surr. 42 Edw. Ill, no. 14.

��19 See Inq. of 20 Edw. IV.no. 103, for descent to Lord Hoo.

Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 13 Chas. I.

M From Ct. R. See History of the Bax family and Edward Ban's account book furnished by Mr. A. R. Bax.

aa Rot. Orig. 2 Anne, pt. i, m. I.


 * > Feet of F. Surr. East. 3 Geo. I.

M Ibid. Mich. 4 Geo. I.

85 Manning and Bray, Surr, ii, 163.

" Ibid.

152

��*7 On the usual point, whether the tenant holding more than one copyhold owed a separate heriot on each or one for the whole.

28 Mr. Richard Symmes, whose MSS. (B.M. Add. MSS.no. 6167) were used by Manning and Bray, was steward of the manor 1662-82, and Mr. Bray was steward under Dr. Nicholls up to 1788. All the existing Court Rolls have been examined.

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