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 THE HUNDRED OF REIGATE

��BETCHWORTH BUCKLAND BURSTOW CHARLWOOD

��CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF

CHIPSTEAD GATTON HORLEY LEIGH

��MERSTHAM

NUTFIELD

REIGATE 1

��This hundred was known as the hundred of Cherchefelle at the time of the Domesday Survey and afterwards. The name Reigate occurs in 1199.* In 1086 Buckland, Chipstead, Gatton, Merstham, Nutfield, and. Reigate (Cherchefelle) were placed in this hundred, which also included Orde, which has been identified with the parish of Worth in Sussex; 8 possibly, however, it represents North and South Worth in Merstham (see under that parish). Charl- wood was probably included in Merstham, of which manor it was a member (see account of Charlwood). The chief manor in Leigh (q.v.) appears, shortly after the Survey, as a member of Ewell, and was probably so regarded in 1086 also. Bur- stow and Horley (q.v.) were in Wimble- don and Banstead. Part of Betchworth appears in Wotton Hundred,* but was in- cluded in Reigate Hundred before 1279.'

The hundred seems to have always been a royal one.* A grant of the office of bailiff of this hundred with that of Tandridge was made in 1485 to Thomas Body. 7 To a lay subsidy levied in 1546 the hundreds of Tandridge and Reigate contributed together 420 los. 8</., of which 2 35 5 s - 8</. was raised in Reigate Hundred. 8 A lease of the farm of the two hundreds for twenty-one years was made in 1617 to Thomas Hunt. 9 A Parliamentary Survey 10 made in 1651 shows that the certainty money due from both hundreds annually amounted to 4 i^s. 6d., whilst profits of court, amercements, and other perquisites were valued annually at 8 13^. Afd. The courts leet for both hundreds were kept at Under-

1 The parish of Newdigate, which is partly in this hundred, is treated under Copthorne Hundred,

��INDEX MAP

TO THE HUNDRED

OF REIGATE

���/. Surr. i, 297, note 4. 4 Assize R. 877, m. 56.

7 Mat. for Hist, of Hen. WI (Rolls Ser.), i, 256. ' Pat. I 5 Jas. I, pt. xxxi, no. 44.

��1 Ibid, i, 3160. 4 Ibid, i, 3210.

Ibid. 878, m. 34.

' Lay Subsidies, Surr. bdle. 185, no. zzo. w Parl. Surv. Surr. no. 3.

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