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��the Crown. In 1337, however, Hugh de Audley, the second husband of MargarerMe Clare, was created Earl of Gloucester. 9 Chipstead appears to have fallen to the share of Margaret, for her grandson Hugh, Earl of Stafford, the son of her only daughter Margaret, died seised of the manor in 1386, when his son Thomas succeeded to his title and estates. 10 This Thomas married Anne the daughter of Thomas of Wood- stock, Duke of Gloucester, and she, after his death, became the wife of his brother and heir, Edmund Stafford. Their son Humphrey, who was created Duke of Buckingham," in 1458 conveyed the manor for the purpose of settling it son John, Earl of Wiltshire."

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death John held the manor jointly with his wife Con- stance, who survived him for two years. 13 Edward Stafford, the second Earl of Wiltshire, who at his mother's death in 1474-5 was only five years old, died without children in 1499, and Henry the younger son of his cousin the second Duke of Buckingham then became Earl of Wiltshire." Chipstead, how- ever, passed into the possession of Henry's eldest brother Edward, 14 who had at that time succeeded to the dukedom. In I 521, when the duke was attainted and beheaded, Chipstead with the rest of his lands was forfeited to the king, 16 who in 1528 granted it to Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners." Lord Berners, the translator of Froissart's Chronicles, has left several records of a varied experience ; in 1518, while envoy in Spain, he wrote home accounts of the court sports and entertainments there, and in the following year he sent a description to the Privy Council of the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1520 he became deputy of Calais, where he did much in superintending the fortifications. At the time of the grant of Chipstead he was, and had been for many years, heavily indebted to the Crown, and it seems possible that the king took the manor back into his own hands when Lord Ber- ners became seriously ill in 1532-3." It is perhaps more likely that Lord Berners never actually entered into possession, as besides the original grant, which may not have been immediately acted on, there is a bill to the same purport dated 1532, but unsigned." In any case, there is no mention of Chipstead in his will, drawn up a few days before his death, although the reversion of two or three other manors was bequeathed

��to the king in payment of the debt. 10 From 1 542 to 1547 John Ledes and Ann his wife held courts at Chipstead." In 1558 Thomas Matson and Ann his wife conveyed the manor of Chipstead to Thomas Copley in mortgage ; " another document of the same year a few weeks earlier conveying it to Thomas Percy and Reginald Heygate is probably part of the same transaction. 13 In the following year Matson conveyed it to William Frank," and he, while re- taining the ownership of Chipstead Court," sold the manor in 15623 to John Turner of the Inner Temple in trust for Sir Richard Sackville, 16 whose wife Winifred surviving him held it until her death in 1586." In 1571 her son Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, sold the reversion to John Skinner of Reigate, 1 * who, however, never owned the manor in fee, as he died in 1 5 84, two years before the death of Winifred, then Marchioness of Winchester. 19 The manor was settled after his death upon his wife Alice and her sons, should she have any, with remainder to her brother William Pointz, and after him to his son John. 50 In 1613 John Pointz sold Chipstead to John Huntley, 31 who with his wife Margaret con- veyed it two years later to Sir Henry Burton.* 1 According to Manning and Bray it then became part of the estates of the Owfields of Upper Gatton, Samuel Owfield holding his court there in 163 5." He died in 1645. His son William, who died in 1664, con- veyed it in turn to his father-in-law, Maurice Thomp- son, whose son Sir John held his first court there in 1 68 1." By him it was sold to Paul Docminique, 55 and henceforth it apparently followed the same de- scent as Merstham, becoming the property of Rachel Tattersall and her husband John, 36 and later that of William Jolliffe, with whose descendants it has re- mained up to the present day, Lord Hylton being now lord of the manor (vide Merstham).

For a short period the manor of Chipstead seems to have been held in subfee from the Clares by the Dammartins. In 1230 it was quitclaimed to Mar- gery widow of Odo de Dammartin as part of her dower by Roger de Clare and his wife Alice, daughter of Odo, formerly wife of John de Wauton. 37 In 1248 Alice Dammartin conveyed the manor of Chip- stead to Thomas de Warblington,* 8 who probably afterwards surrendered it, for in an undated document Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, granted the manor of Chipstead to Nicholas de Leuk- enore to hold as two knights' fees. 38 This grant must have been made by Richard, who became Earl of Gloucester in 1230 and who died in 1262, as he was the only Richard de Clare who bore the title."

��G.E.C. Peerage, Gloucester.

"Ibid. Stafford j Cat. Pat. 1385-9, P . 365.

11 G.E.C. Peerage, Buckingham.

a Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 36 Hen. VI ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 38*39 Hen. VI, no. 59 ; 13 Edw. IV, no. 13.

u Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 5 Edw. IV, no. 44.

14 G.E.C. Peerage, Wiltshire.

ls Mins. Accts. Harl. MS. 1667.

16 G.E.C. Peerage, Buckingham.

"Pat. 19 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 18 ; L. and P. Htn. VIII, iv, 3991 (15).

18 Diet. Nat. Biog. Sir John Bourchier ; and see in West Horsley.

"L. and P. Hen. VIII, v, 858.

M P.C.C. 10 Hogan.

31 Court Rolls fenei Lord Hylton. They were patrons of the living in 1552.

��"Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii ; Feet of F. Surr. East. 4 & 5 PhiL and Mary.

Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary.

Feet of F. Surr. Hil. I Eliz.

as Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), ccxlii, 33.

48 Close, 8 Eliz. pt. i.

"Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 13 Eliz. ; G.E.C. Peerage, Winchester.


 * Ibid.

"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), cciv, 123 j G.E.C. Peerage, Winchester.

80 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. xvi, m. 36.

81 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 1 Jas. I. "Ibid. Trin. 13 Jas. I.

21 Oct. II Chas. I j Court Roll fenet Lord Hylton. The two Owfields were both M. P. for Gatton. For deaths see Com.

��Journ. 3 Sept. 164;, and return of election of Sir Nicholas Carew vice W. Owfield, deceased 1664.

84 19 May 1 68 1 ; ibid. The courti from 1663 to 1 68 1 were all held by Ed- ward Thurland, 'Seneschal.' He con- tinued as 'Seneschal' after 1681, but the lord's name appears again.

86 Close, 3 Anne, pt. i, no. 14.

86 P.C.C. 96 Ducie.

8 ~ Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 15 & 16 Hen. Ill, no. 89. The Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219, 22o4 gives Alice Dam- martin holding a knight's fee in Chipstead of the honour of Clare.

88 Feet of F. Surr. East. 32 Hen. Ill, 50.

89 Add. Chart. 20039. S Effingham,

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