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��of 6oi. a It passed from Thomas Niger to Giles Niger or le Neyr. 58 Apparently Thomas Niger left a widow, Agnes, who married John son of Adrian, as in 12423 John Adrian and Agnes his wife were holding a third of the manor as Agnes's dower. 59 At the same date William de Fakeham, who had evidently been enfeoffed by Giles le Neyr, granted the other two-thirds to John Adrian, a right of dower being however reserved to Julia wife of Giles le Neyr. 60 Three years afterwards Giles le Neyr quitclaimed all right in the manor to Adrian. 61 Confirmation of this transfer was made to Adrian and his heirs by John son of William de Warenne in I254. 61 John

����ADRIAN. Argent tvjo bar: 'wavy gules and a chief cheeky or and azure.

��FROWVK. Azure a cheveron between three leopards heads or.

��grandson of John Adrian seems to have married Margaret daughter of Henry Frowyk, and in 1348 a settlement was made by which the manor, failing other heirs, was to revert to Henry Frowyk and his heirs." John Adrian held the manor until after 1356, in which year he received licence from the bishop to celebrate mass in his house at Brockham. 65 He appar- ently died without issue, as by 1377 the manor had come into the possession of Henry de Frowyk, who shortly before his death in 1378 made a settlement by which the reversion was granted to Henry son of Thomas de Frowyk in fee.* 6 This second Henry was evidently the grandson of the first, whose son Thomas predeceased his father. 67 Henry the grand- son died in 1386, leaving two sons, the elder of whom, Thomas, continued the senior branch of the family, holding Oldford in Middlesex, land in Hert- fordshire, and then or later South Mimms, while from the younger descended the Frowyks of Gunnersbury. 68 The manor of Brockham remained in the elder branch of the family, as the will of the elder son Thomas, proved in 1448, states that the manors of Oldford and Brockham were to remain in the hands of feoffees for a year, his debts being paid from the issues therefrom, after which Brockham was to

��remain to his wife Elizabeth for her life, reverting to his son Henry and his issue. 69 Henry was succeeded by his son Thomas, and the latter by his son Henry, who married Ann Knolles and died in 1527, leaving as sole heir his daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Coningsby, who was holding it with her husband in 1530.' In 1547 Elizabeth settled an annuity of 27 on Mary, widow of her brother Thomas, who had predeceased his father. 71 Elizabeth Coningsby married William Dodd as her second husband, but at her death she was succeeded in the lordship of Brock- ham by Henry Coningsby, her son by her first husband, who was knighted in 1 5 85." Sir Henry died in 1 5 90 and was succeeded by his eldest son Ralph, 7 * who held until 1 606, in which year he joined with his brothers Philip and Henry in conveying the manor to Thomas Wight, 76 who died seised of it in 1 609. His son, Gabriel Wight, succeeded him,' 7 and the manor remained in this family, passing from father to son, until the end of the 1 8th century. 78 In 1793 Henry Wight, the last surviving son of William Wight, died without issue. 79 He devised his Surrey estate to his sister, Lady Elizabeth Harington, for her life. After her death one-half was to remain succes- sively to Elizabeth White, a kinswoman, and to John Wight of Brabceuf (Arlington), q.v., for their lives, remainder to right heirs of testator. The other half was devised to William Martin and his heirs or, failing them, was to descend with the first half. The where- abouts of Martin being unknown, advertisement for him was to be made in the London Gazette.*" This was done 91 after the death, in 1 794, of Elizabeth Harington, who had married the Rev. John Chaundler as her second husband e> and had held Brockham after her brother's death. 85 John Wight inherited a moiety in 1 794, and, according to Manning, the other moiety was claimed shortly afterwards by the two daughters of William Martin, Elizabeth and Sarah wife of William Hibbet, and they, with John Wight, held the manor in iSoS. 84 Elizabeth appears to have given up her share soon after, as in 1809 William Hibbet and Sarah were in full possession of a moiety of the manor, the other moiety being still held by John Wight. 85 The entire manor afterwards became the property by purchase of Henry T. Hope of Deepdene, who held it in 1844." In 1878,

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���HOPI or DtrpniNi. Azure a cheveron or between three bezants.

��"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccix, 189.

" Feet of F. SUIT. 27 Hen. Ill, no. 1 1.

" Ibid. Ibid.

Ibid. 30 Hen. Ill, no. 32.

M Add. Chart. 24551, 24552.

88 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 209.

' Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 22 Edw. III.

65 Egcrton MS. 2033, fol. 47 ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 209.

M Ibid, quoting from private deeds.

6 ?F. C. Can, 'South Mimms, 1 Lend, ind Midd. Arch. Soc. 70 5 Harl. MS. 1546, fol. 57*.

68 F. C. Ca. 'South Mimms,' Land. end Midd. Arch. Soc. 70 ; Harl. MS. 1546, fol. 57* ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 209 ; Chauncey, Hist, of Herts.

"Will of Thomas Frowyk, P.C.C. Bk. Rowse, 13.

��7F. C. Cass, 'South Mimms,' Land, and Midd. Arch. Soc. 70 ; Rccov. R. Hil. 22 Hen. VIII; P.C.C. Porch, 18 (will of H. Frowyk, 1527). Manning lays that by 1515 the manor of Brockham had patted to the younger branch of the family, that is, to the Frowyks of Gunnersbury, and that Elizabeth Coningsby wai the heiress of this branch. This, however, from the relationships mentioned in the wills, etc. referred to above, would seem to be impossible.

7 1 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. I Edw. VI ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 209.

? a Berry, Hern. Gen. 163; Harl. Sof. Publ. xxii, 45 ; Shaw, Knights of Engl. ii, 83.

"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxiii, 51.

7* Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 39 Eliz. ; Mich. 44 & 45 Eliz.

169

��7* Ibid. East. 4 Ja. I.

T Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2.), cccix, i8a

"Ibid.

' Visit, if Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 81 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 14 Chas. II ; Man- ning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 21 1 ; Re- cov. R. East. 6 Geo. Ill ; Baker, Hist, ef Northants, ii, 23.

' Baker, loc. cit

T.C.C. Dodwell, 534.


 * Lond.Gaz. 1795,1796.

m Scc note 80.

88 Feet ofF. Surr. Trin. 34 Geo. III.

M Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, XII.

86 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 49 Geo. Ill ; Rov. R. Trin. 49 Geo. Ill, rot. 305,

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E. W. Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 251.

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