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��knight's fee ' in Wimbledune ' of the Archbishop of Canterbury. 8 This entry seems to refer to the service rendered for the manor of Burstow, which was held of the archbishop as of his manor of Wimbledon.' In 1 247 a John de Burstow was lord of the manor, 10 though whether this is the John mentioned above or the son of the same name who, according to Bysshe, succeeded his father, is not evident. In 1255 a settlement was made between John de Burstow and Peter de Burstow, possibly a younger brother, by which John was to hold the manor, pay- ing an annual rent of 4 marks to Peter, John and his heirs to be quit of payment on Peter's death." From the account of this family given by Bysshe it appears that the second John married Joan Burnevalle and had a son Roger," who married Matilda Chastillon and was succeeded by his son John, who served in the French wars under the Black Prince and won great distinction. 1 * The next re- cords of the manor, in 1350

and 1358, show it to have been held at that time by Richard de Burstow," whose name, however, does not appear in Bysshe's pedigree, and whose relationship to John de Burstow is not apparent.

In 1 366 the reversion of the manor was conveyed by Richard de Burstow to Sir Nicholas de Loveyne. 1 * Margaret daughter of Nicholas Loveyne married Sir Philip St. Clere, and they held the manor in the right of Margaret, who was her father's heir. 16 When Sir Philip St. Clere died in 1408, very shortly after his wife, he was holding the manor of Burstow 'of the Archbishop of Canterbury by paying 6 yearly at his manor of Wimbledon.' " John St. Clere, son and heir of Philip, died in 1418, and was suc- ceeded by his brother Thomas. 19 In 1424-5 Thomas St. Clere, whose children were then all minors, granted the manor to William Cheyne, kt., John Aston, and Geoffrey Motte, in trust for himself and his heirs, ' in order to defraud the king and other lords of those fees (i.e. the manor of Burstow and others) of the custody thereof and the marriages of the heirs.' " Aston's share was afterwards conveyed to John Hall,* while Geoffrey Motte remitted his to the other trustees." Thomas St. Clere died in 1435, leaving three daughters and no sons." The second daughter,

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Eleanor, inherited the manor of Burstow ; she married John Gage, who was seised of it at his death in 1475, when, his wife having predeceased him, their son

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��William became lord of the manor. 13 John Gage, who was the son and heir of William and who was afterwards knighted, succeeded to the manor at the death of his mother Agnes, on whom it had been settled by her husband." The manor descended from Sir John to his son Sir Edward Gage, who as Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1557-8, was concerned in the Marian persecutions. He died in 1568.** His son John married Margaret daughter of Sir Thomas Copley, of the noted recusant family, and died without issue, his heir being his nephew John Gage, who in 1614 con- veyed the manor to Sir Edward Culpepper " of Wakehurst." He died in 1630, when his eldest surviving son, Sir Wil- liam Culpepper, created a baronet in 1628,** inherited the manor." Another son Edward seems to have held some share in the manor, set- tled on him doubtless on his marriage with Mary Belling- ham ; so in 1638 he was appa- rently lord of the manor, 31 but it certainly reverted afterwards to the elder branch, and in 1696 Sir William Culpepper, fourth baronet, sold it to Sir Richard Raines, 31 LL.D., judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

Henry Raines, son of Richard, inherited the manor at his father's death, 3 * and in 1733 conveyed it to Joseph Kirke," to whom Raines's widow Susan quitclaimed her right in 1745." Kirke, by will

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��*RedBk.ofExck. (Rolls Ser.), 473. y\de infra j Feud. Aids, v, izi.

10 Cat. of Chart. 1226-57, p. 326. "Feet of F. Surr. 39 Hen. Ill,

no. 12.

11 Bysshe, Notat its N. Uptonem. De Studio Military 67.

u Ibid. But ice account of Smallfield below.

" Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. Ill, no. 91 ; ibid. 32 Edw. Ill, no. 40.

Feet of F. Div. Co. 40 Edw. Ill, no. 25. Richard died after 1379; see under Redhall Manor below.

M Wrottesley, Fed. from the Plea Rolls, 376, 434 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 2 Hen. IV, no. 20.


 * 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. IV, no. 44.

Ibid. ; Chan. Inq. p.m. I Hen. VI, no. 30.

Close, 3 Hen. VI, no. 22 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Hen. VI, no. 56.

��Feet of F. Div. Co. 6 Hen. VI, no. 72 ; Close, 8 Hen. VI, m. 15.

Close, 7 Hen. VI, m. 8.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Hen. VI, no. 56.

"Ibid. 1 5 Edw. IV.no. 26.

94 Ibid. (Ser. 2), xiii, 103, 106; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 19 Hen. VIII.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clii, 144.

w Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 2 Jas. I.

^ Berry, Sussex Gen. 136.

98 G.E.C. Baronetage, ii, 60.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclv, 80.

80 Berry, Sussex Gen. 136; Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 6 Chas. I ; Trin. 22 Chas. I ; Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 2458 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 18 & 19 Chas. II.

81 Rccov. R. Mich. 14 Chas. I. rot. 16. " Ibid. East. I Will, and Mary,

rot. 95 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 2 Will, and Mary ; Close, 8 Will. Ill, pt. i, no. 33 ; Sussex Arch. Coll. x, 154. The

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��pedigree of the Culpeppers of Wakehurst given in G.E.C. Baronetage states that Sir William, first baronet, died in 1651, confusing him with Sir William Culpepper of Aylesford ; an article in the Sussex Arch. Coll. x, 1 54, however, gives the date of his death as 1678, and this statement is borne out by the fact that the document referred to in note 30 of 18 & 19 Chas. II refers to a Sir William Culpepper, baronet, then living. G.E.C. (op. cit. ii, 60) also says that the next Sir William, the fourth baronet, did not succeed his grandfather Sir Edward, younger son of the first Sir William, until 1700 (?). It appears, however, that he must have succeeded to the title as early as 1694, when he sold Wakehurst.

M Manning and Bray,///if.o/'Srr.ii,28o.

M Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 3 & 4 Geo. II, m. 5 d. ; Recov. R. Trin. 7 Geo. II, rot. 229.

" Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 19 Geo. II.

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