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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��other manors in Charlwood which were held by this family, 64 and probably became united with the main manor. It is named on the tomb of Philippa Sharp in 1759, and in the sale of 1806.

No mention^ of SHIREMARK as a separate manor is found unrii the 1 6th century, and it was probably included '.a the manor of Charlwood, being evidently situated in that part of the parish which borders Sussex. In 1542 Shiremark was quitclaimed, with ttie manor of Charlwood, to Sir Robert Southwell and Margaret by Henry de la Hay. 67 The manor of Shiremark passed to Henry Lechford before the latter obtained that of Charlwood from Sir Robert Southwell, as in 1546 Lechford sold it to Henry Amcotts. 68 In 1616 Sir Thomas Hewett, then hold- ing the manor, conveyed it to William Mulcaster, 69 whose son Thomas was rector of the church of Charl- wood. 70 In 1625 it passed from William Mulcaster to Edmund Jordan of Gatwick," with whose manor of Charlwood it has since descended. 71

ROWLEY is another reputed manor in this parish which was held of the manor of Charlwood. In 1429-30 Reginald Cobham of Charlwood made an agreement with the Abbot of Chertsey concerning the right to repair the banks of a certain brook which flowed past a meadow of Reginald Cobham and into the main stream, called Emel stream (the Mole), flowing from a mill called Rowle Mill to one belonging to the abbot in Horley. 7 * It is possible from this account that the mill marks the position of lands after- wards known as ' the manor of Rowley,' the manor of Gatwick, close by, being held at that time by Cobham. In 1497 the 'manor' of Rowley was held by the family of Culpepper. 74 John Culpepper died seised of it in 1565 and was succeeded by his son Thomas. 74 The manor descended in this family until 1648," when Sir William Culpepper, bart., with his brother and other trustees conveyed it to Thomas Luxford." George Luxford held the manor in 1683, when he conveyed it to Thomas Jordan, 78 and it appears to have been in this family as late as 1770." In 1820 it was held by George Maximilian Bethune of Worth in Sussex in the right of his wife, Anna Maria. 80 It is now a farm.

In 1295 Master Clement de Wyk held 2 1/, rent in Charlwood. 8 ' In 1357 an inquisition taken on John son and heir of John de Brewes states that he held a tenement called WYKES in Charlwood consisting of a toft, a garden worth 4 </., I oo acres of arable land, 5 acres of meadow worth 5/., and 201. rent ; mention is also made of one Richard de Sloghterwyk who held land in Charlwood of John de Brewes, paying an annual rent of 21. at the tenement called Wykes. 8 '

��At the end of the I5th century land called Wyke- land is referred to as being parcel of the manor of Gatwick ; M it is probable that it was identical with the Wykes before named. In 1539-40 Henry VIII granted the ' manor of Wyklond ' M in Surrey to Sir Robert Southwell in fee. 85

Sir Robert Southwell was so notorious a recipient of monastic lands that the grant raises a suspicion that ' Wyklond ' answered to the 60 acres once held in New- digate by Merton Priory (see under Newdigate). But a messuage in Charlwood, ' Wykelandes in Charl- wood,' and Lowfield Common had been granted for life that same year to Agnes widow of Walter Whyght, lately in occupation of the same, by Thomas Nudy- gate, John Skynner, and others, and by a deed of 10 October 1541 the reversion of the life interest of Agnes, now wife of William Wever, was confirmed to Sir Robert Southwell and his heirs for the sum of 100 paid to William Wever and Agnes. 86

Sir Robert Southwell, in 1547, received licence to alienate the manor to Henry Lechford 87 together with that of Charlwood (q.v.), with which Wyklond, or Weekland, has since been held. 88

EDOLPHS, a well-known farm in Charlwood, de- rives its name from the family of Edolf, who were settled in Charlwood in the early 1 4th century. 8 * John Edolf made a grant of land in Charlwood in 13 18," and in 1371 Stephen Edolf, or Edolfi, quit- claimed land there to William Walsshe. 91 At the end of the 1 5th century a messuage and lands called Edoln's was held by Henry Lechford, whose family afterwards held the manor of Charlwood."

Occasional reference is found to a RECTORY MANOR in Charlwood. The earliest mention of land belonging to the rectory occurs in 1316-17, when a grant of land in Charlwood, bounded on one side by that of the rectory, is recorded. 95 Manning states that in 1406-7 Richard, vicar of the parish, held lands of the manor of the rectory." In 1535 Philip Mesurer, rector, gave the annual value of the rectory as 20 131. i^d., of which the house with garden and cemetery of the church was worth 2O/. 9S A conveyance of the rectory, made in 1629, includes ' all manors, views of frankpledge, courts leet and baron &c. belonging,' * and a deed of 1828 also mentions the ' manor of the rectory.' " According to Manning courts were held by most of the rectors from quite early times. 98

The church of ST. NICHOLAS con-

CHURCH sists of a chancel (now used as a vestry

and organ chamber) 28 ft. 4 in. long by

1 6 ft. 7 in., south chapel (now serving as the chancel)

26ft. 5 in. by 1 9 ft. 2 in., central tower 1 6 ft. Sin.

��Recov. R. East. 25 Geo. III. rot. 259 ; Com. Pleat D. Enr. Hil. 26 Geo. Ill, m. 113-14.

7 Feet of F. Div.Co. Mich-34 Hen. VIII.

68 Close, 38 Hen. VIII. pt. i, no. 63 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich, i Edw. VI.

"Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 13 Jas. I.

1Surr. Arch. Coll. xi ; Diet. Nat. Biog. (Hy. Heiketh).

7* Close, I Chas. I, pt. xviii, no. 17.

7' Vide Charlwood Manor.

7Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, fol. 367.

7< Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 13 Hen. VII.

7* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxlii, 91.

7 Ibid, clix, 50; Recov. R. Trin. 33 Eliz rot, 17 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2),

��cccclv, 80 i Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 6 Chas. I ; Trin. 22 Chas. I.

77 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 24 Chas. I.

78 Ibid. Mich. 35 Chas. II; Recov. R. Mich. 35 Chas. II, rot. 4$.

7Feet of F. Div. Co. (K.S.B.) Mich. 10 Geo. III.

80 Feet of F. Surr. East. I Geo. IV.

81 Ibid. East, 23 Edw. I, no. 38. 8J Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (lit

nos.), no. 49.

88 Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII, no. ji.

84 It seems that the manor of Wyklands, and some at least of the land called Wyke- landes, must be distinguished. The former may have been partly in Newdigate, the latter in Charlwood.

1 86

��**L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 590. " Close, 33 Hen. VIII, pt. i, no. 66. 8 ' Pat, I Edw. VI, pt. viii, m. 15.

88 See Newdigate parish.

89 Add. Chart. 17303, 17307, 18588, 18590, 18600.

""Add. Chart. 8816. 01 Feet of F. Surr. 45 Edw. Ill, no. 87. M Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 100, no. 79. "Add. Chart. 18590.

94 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 192.

95 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 43.

96 Close, 5 Chas. I, pt xxvi, no. 1 3. 'Recov. R. East. 9 Geo. IV, rot.

3 '4-

98 See note 94.

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