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 REIGATE HUNDRED

��BUCKLAND

��ticing children, and for marrying maidservants born in Betch worth and living seven years in the same employ- ment, the surplus, ff any, to go to the poor. A house and certain parcels of the Common Fields of Lether- head were bought for the purpose. The house was allowed to fall into ruins, and the land was sold at the inclosure of the Letherhead Fields.

In 1777 Mr. John Turner left money and a house in Nassau Street, Westminster, to relieve the poor not in receipt of parish relief, to provide clothing, and to put children to school. These benefactions are re- corded in the church, and in spite of waste and neg- lect produce about 180 a year.

��The vicar, Hugh Griffiths, who rebuilt the vicarage, reported to Bishop Willis in 1725 that Mr. Cade had left 20 as a stock to be employed in setting the poor to work, but that it was all spent in 1 669. Also Mr. Arnold left 40 to buy 2 acres of land next the vicarage, the profits to go to the vicarage ; but this had never yet been done, nor the money received. But this is perhaps the 40 which Mr. Griffiths records in the registers that he obtained from the parish to help in rebuilding the vicarage, done otherwise at his own expense. He records the rebuilding in the parish register, with the subscription Latu soli Deo Not to ye Parish.

��BUCKLAND

��Bocland (Testa de Nevitt), Bukelonde (xiii cent.) ; Bokelond (xiv cent.).

Buckland is a small parish and village 2 miles west of Reigate. It is bounded on the north by Walton- on-the-Hill, on the east and south-east by Reigate, on the west and south-west by Betchworth. It contains 1,866 acres of land and 10 of water. It covers the three soils, as usual, the northern boundary being on the summit of the chalk hills, and the parish extending across the sand on to the Wealden Clay. The village and church here, as elsewhere, are situated on the sand. It measures about i miles from east to west, and barely 2 miles from north to south. A small detached portion inclosed by Reigate was added to that parish under the Divided Parishes Act of 1882. Part of the south of Buckland has been added to the ecclesiastical parish of Sidlow Bridge, formed in 1862. The parish is purely rural.

Buckland is traversed by the road from Dorking to Reigate and by the Redhill and Reading branch of the South Eastern Railway. No prehistoric antiquities are recorded.

The rector in 1725 returned to Bishop Willis that there was no chapel, no lecturer, no curate, no Papist, no Nonconformists, no school. The history of the parish seems as uneventful as might be ex- pected, before and since. A succeeding rector, the Rev. Oliph Leigh Spencer (1783-96), was author of a life of Archbishop Chicheley, founder of All Souls College, Oxford, the patrons of the living, and supported his brother by arguments in a rather famous lawsuit when the latter, Mr. Woolley Leigh Spencer, claimed a fellowship at All Souls as being of founder's kin. The claim was successful, 1762. Mr. Oliph Leigh Spencer was himself a fellow. 1

There is no record of inclosure.

Buckland Court, the seat of Major F. M. Beaumont, is near the church. Mr. F. H. Beaumont, J.P., lord of the manor, resides at The Cottage. Shagbrook

��was the seat of the late Sir George Thomas Livesey ; Broom Perrow of Mr. J. H. Bovill.

A national school was built in 1822.' It was rebuilt in 1862, and enlarged in 1886. It is subsidized from Johnson's Charity, given in 1857, which produces 11 5*. a year. The National Society are trustees.

At the time of the Domesday Survey MANORS BUCKLAND, assessed for 2 hides, was held by 'John' of Richard de Tonbridge, lord of Clare. 3 The manor remained part of the honour of Clare, 4 and was held of the Earls of Glouces- ter, 5 descendants of Richard de Tonbridge.

In the first half of the I3th century Buckland was held as one knight's fee by Alicia de Dammartm." She was the daughter of Odo de Dammartin and Margery his wife ; before 1231 she was married to John de Wauton, 7 who thus became possessed of Buckland. In 1293 the manor and church of Buckland were conveyed to Guy Ferre, junior, by John Wauton, 8 a settlement being made in 1302 on Guy and his heirs, with remainder in default of issue to Sir John Claron and his issue, afterwards to the right heirs of Guy. 9 Guy Ferre ^ was in the suite of Eleanor Countess of Bar, daughter of Edward I, whom he constantly accompanied abroad ; " after her death he probably continued in the service of her daughter Joan." He died childless in 13223, and his lands at Buckland therefore passed to Claron. 11 Eleanor widow of Guy Ferre retained a third of the manor as dower," as she presented to the church which belonged to the manor after 1346." Sir John Claron died in or before the year 1342," but it is not apparent wh his heirs were. The next record of the manor shows that two-thirds of it were held by John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, at his death in 1 347, and that he held in the right of his wife Joan, daughter of Eleanor Countess of Bar."

John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, died without male issue, his next heir being Richard, Earl of

��1 Notet of Opinions and Judgements of the late Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas, by John Wilmot (i 802).

1 Returns at Farnham.


 * f.C.H.Surr. i, 316.

4 Testa de Nevill {Rcc. Com.), 219,

220*.

6 Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Edw. II, no. 66 ; 21 EJw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 58 ; 9 Hen. V, no. 51.

��Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 119,

220*.

7 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich, i; & 16 Hen. Ill, no. 89.

8 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. zi EJW. I. Ibid. Mich. 30 Edw. I.

10 Vide Witley, Arlington, and Cattis- hull.

11 Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, pp. 66, 67, 69.

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��11 Ibid. 1313-18, p. 4.70.

u Chan. Inq. p.m. :6 Edw. II, no. 66 ; Cal. Close, 1323-7, p. 16.

Vide infra.

15 Egerton MS. 2033, foL 5*.

18 Cal. Close, 1341-3, p. 541.

17 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. Ill (lit nos.), no. 58 ; Cat. Close, 1346-9, pp. 315, 316. She must have acquired the rever- sion.

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