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��CHIPSTEAD COURT, also called a manor, was retained by William Frank when he sold the manor in i 563 (vide supra), and held by him at his death in 1595, when his son Robert succeeded him." In 1639 Ferdinand Heybourn died seised of this estate, leaving as heirs his elder brother John's three daugh- ters Elizabeth wife of George Morton, Hester wife of Henry Burley, and Mary wife of Francis Mascall." It must have been reunited to the manor, for as Court Lodge Farm it was bought from the Tattersall trustees by William Jolliffe in 1788.

BE4UCH4MPS.ln the I4th century the family of Beauchamp of Hatch in Somerset held property in Chipstead, which also after- wards came to be called the manor of Chipstead. A mention of this estate occurs in 1301, when John de Beau- champ complained that, during his absence in Scotland, Tho- mas de Wotton and several others had cut his corn at Chipstead and driven away 200 sheep." The property was apparently at this time in the tenure of his mother Cecilia, daughter of William de Vivonia, who, surviving her husband nearly thirty years, did not die until 1321." For some years before her death she was involved in a dispute with William Inge concerning her manor of Woodmansterne, which seems to have also concerned her estate in Chipstead, for Inge obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Woodemansterne, Chipstead, and Ewell in 1314. Cecilia, however, must have won her cause here as at Woodmansterne, for the ownership eventually re- mained with the Beauchamps. 44

Her son and grandson, both named John, succeeded her in turn, the latter dying childless in 1361. The property was then divided between his sister Cecilia wife of Sir Richard Turberville, and his nephew John Meriet, the only son of Eleanor Beauchamp.' 6 Cecilia granted her half of the estate at farm to Peter atte Wode, his wife Laurencia and their son Peter, in survivorship, and Peter atte Wode accounted for the manor of Chipstead in 1 364- 47 Some years later, in 1381-2, Peter and his son both being dead, Cecilia Turberville quitclaimed the manor to Hugh Queche of London, mercer, Laurencia's son by her second hus- band. 48 In 13878 there is a conveyance of Chip- stead from Hugh Queche to John Gardyner, 49 prob- ably for the purpose of settlement upon Hugh's daughter Joan Norton, who at his death in 1402

��inherited his estates. 50 Joan's daughter carried the property to the Colcok (or Caldecote) family by mar- riage," and Richard Colcok settled Chipstead upon his eldest daughter Joan and her husband John Skinner, of Reigate, who died about 1472." The property then descended to their son Richard Skinner, who settled it upon his son William with remainder first to William's brother Michael, and after him to their eldest sister Anne, sometimes called Agnes. William and Michael both died childless, and about eighteen months later Anne with her husband Bartholomew Chaloner brought a suit against her sister Elizabeth the wife of John Scott, who, they complained, had taken possession of the premises, disregarding the elder sister's right. 53 The dispute was settled by dividing the estate, and in 1505-6 the moiety of Chipstead Manor was settled upon Anne and her second husband Roger Leigh and their children, with remainder to her two sons by her first husband, Henry and William Chaloner,* 4 while in 151314 John Scott the elder settled half of the manor of Chipstead upon his son and heir, also John Scott." The latter John Scott died in 15 58," and was succeeded in turn by Richard Scott and his son Thomas, both of whom died within a couple of years, and Edward Scott, Richard's brother, inherited the property," which he held apparently in 1571, when he presented to the living. It is not possible to trace it further. A house called Noke, near the church, may have been the same.

A fair was held in Chipstead in the reign of Ed- ward I, and is again referred to in 15 84. 58 A court leet and view of frankpledge are said to have belonged to the manor in the i6th century, 59 but according to Brayley no such court was held there, and conse- quently the constable for Chipstead, who is now ap- pointed at the quarter sessions, used to be chosen at the sheriff's tourn for the hundred of Tandridge. 60

In 675 Frithwald, subregulus of Surrey, gave 5 hides of land in Chipstead to the abbey of Chertsey, 61 and this seems to have been the property which was afterwards known as the manor of PURBRIGHT (Purybrith, Pirifrith, xiii cent.). In 933 a similar grant from Athelstan to the abbey speaks of the vill of Chipstead. 6 * In 967 Edgar confirmed a gift of 10 hides, 63 while under Edward the extent is again estimated at 5 hides. 64 These variations appear to be different estimates of the value of the same land, as in Domesday the Abbot of Chertsey is said to hold Chipstead, which, though assessed at 5 hides under King Edward, was rated at I hide only at the time of the Survey." It was then held at farm of the abbot.

The abbey remained overlord of the manor M and received from the rector of Chipstead all the tithes

��n Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlii, 33.

"Ibid, dxxx, 198.

w Cal. Pat. 1301-7, p. 79.

"G.E.C. Peerage, Beauchamp of So- merset ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. II, no. 38.

<& Rot. Par!. (Rec. Com.), i, 3043, 3223 ; Chart. R. 8 Edw. II, m. 22. no. 53.

<6 G.E.C. Peerage, Beauchamp of So- merset ; Add. Chart, 23729. No mention of the second half of the estate is extant, but it is possible that it was quitclaimed to Cecilia, and became the property of Hugh Queche with the rest.

4 ' Mins. Accts. bdlc. 1092, no. 3.

<s Close, 5 Ric. II, m. 24 d.

Ibid. II Ric. II, pt. i, m. 45 d.

��50 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 25 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 4 Hen. IV, no. 65.

41 Manning and Bray, op, cit. quoting Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian, no. 425, foL 104.

" Harl. MS. 897, fol. 140.

68 Star Chamb. Proc. bdle. 19, no. 86. This is dated reign of Henry VIII, but internal evidence proves that it must have occurred before 1505. In the Visi- tation (Harl. 1561, fol. 50) Bartholomew is sailed Thomas Chalnner.

" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 21 Hen. VII.

" Ibid. Hil. 5 Hen. VIII.

H Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxxi, 148.

" Ibid, cxxxi, 191.

192

��18 Plac. de Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 740 5 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cciv, 123.

13 Eliz. ; Close, 8 Eliz. pt. i.
 * 9 Ibid, cxlv, II ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin.

60 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 299.

61 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64 ; Kemble, Cod. Difl. v, 19. But see notes on Chert- sey for the doubtful character of the al- leged earliest Chertsey charters.

M Ibid, ii, 193.

Ibid, iii, 6 ; Birch, Cart. Sax. iii, 469.

Kemble, Cod. Dip!, iv, 151.

s V.C.H. Surr. i, 310.

68 Testa de Ncvill (Rec. Com.), 22oi, mi; Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. I, no. 25.

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