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��by him to Robert Bristowe in I54-I. 3 * On the death of Bristowe's grandson Robert, John, half-brother to the latter, received the mill as his share of the inheri- tance which was divided up among co-heirs. 33 John Bristowe, in 1586, alienated to John Kerrell and Nicholas his son the mill and its appurtenances, which included land called Mill Eye, the mill-house, and all watercourses, ponds, ways and passages belonging to the mill and all its profits and commodities."

In 1259 Roger de Stomnihole and Isabel his wife granted a messuage and a virgate of land in Horley to John de Bures." The land was in that part of Hor- ley adjacent to Hartswood, as a deed relating to the latter place refers to a wood of John de Bures close by," and Stumblehole in Leigh, held of Banstead, is also near. Another 13th-century deed records a grant of land in Horley,' made to William, son of Roger del Mahone by John de Bures." It is probable that the family of de Bures held, for at least another century, land in Horley, afterwards known as the manor of BURES, or BEE RES. In 1 3 14 land called Burilondin Horley is mentioned. 58 In 1358 an extent for debt, taken on the lands of John son of John de Bures, states that he held in Horley a messuage with 3</. per annum beyond reprises, 80 acres of land worth zo/., 2 5 acres of wood worth 4*. ^d., and I/, "jd. from rent of free tenants there.* 9

In 1487 John Holgrave, baron of the King's Exchequer, died seised of the manor of Bures in Horley which he devised to his son Thomas. 40 The latter died in 1505, and was succeeded in the lordship of the manor by Robert his son. 41 In 1544 the manor was held by Richard Broke and Elizabeth his wife in the right of Elizabeth, 4 ' daughter and heiress of Thomas or Robert Holgrave ; 4S they conveyed it in that year to Richard Bray and his wife Joan. 44 In 1581 Sir John Bray, their son, granted the reversion of the manor, after the death of Joan his mother, to John Skinner of Reigate, who died in 1584, hia nephew Richard Elyott of Albury being one of his heirs. 45 The latter was seised of the manor at his death in 1608 ; w his grandson Richard died unmarried in l6l2. 47 Thomas Elyott, brother of the elder Richard, 48 held in 1613." By deeds of 1617 and 1620 Thomas Elyott, Rachel Elyott widow of Richard, and her remaining children conveyed the manor to Sir William Garway. 60 In 1622 Garway sold to Nicholas Charrington 'the manor of Beres alias Buryes and

��that capital messuage and farm called Beres ... all of which premises are, or lately were, in the tenure of Nicholas Charrington and his assigns or farmers." sl The manor has since remained in the Charrington family ; Mr. E. S. Charrington holds it at present. 5 '

Occasional reference is found to a manor or farm called DUXHURSTin Horley and Charlwood." Peter de Duxhurst was one of those whose lands were reclaimed by the Abbot of Chertsey M on the grounds that they were held of the tenement which Gilbert atte Mathe had held of the abbot's predecessors in villeinage ; the abbot granted them back to Duxhurst, to be held of the abbey. 55 In 1604 Sir John Holm- den settled the manor to the use of himself and his heirs. 58 Giles Fraunces died seised of the manor or farm of Duxhurst and certain lands belonging in Horley and Charlwood in 1616."

A survey of the manor, taken much later, mentions the site of the manor-house with courtyard, barn, stable, and garden and lands. 58 It was afterwards acquired with the manor of Horley, by the governors of Christ's Hospital. 59 It is now used as Lady Henry Somerset's Home for Female Inebriates.

The priory of Merton, which had certain lands and tenements in Horley from which rent and ser- vices were due, included a wood called L4NGSHOTT among its possessions at an early date. 60 By a deed without date the prior granted Robert son of Walter of Horley 4 acres of land at Langshott to be held for the annual rent of 2/, 61 and Roger Salaman died in 1343 seised of land in Horley held of Merton. 61a

At the Dissolution the possessions of the priory included a farm called ' Landshott ' in Horley and Home." John Cooper farmed it of the priory, by an indenture of 1525, by which it was leased to him for thirty years. 63 In 1538-9 the lands were granted by the king to Richard Gylmyn for thirty years. 64 In 1550 William Sakevyle conveyed to Thomas Yngles and Katherine and their heirs ' all those lands, meadows, pastures, woods, &c., called Langshott alias Landshott, and Fryers landes alias Pryern in Horley.' M

In 1669 the land was held as a ' manor ' by Richard Evelyn and Elizabeth in the right of Elizabeth, 6 * the daughter of George Minne. 6 ' It seems to have passed soon after to the family of Barnes ; William Barnes of Horley married Sarah Bridges and she, after her husband's death, devised Langshott to her nephew Alexander Bridges, 68 who held in I733, 69 and

��8J L. and P. Hm.VIU, xvi, g. 1056 (4). 88 Vide Horlejr ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxl, 176 ; clxxxiii, 54. M Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. i, m. 5. 84 Feet of F. Surr. 44 Hen. Ill, no. 2. Add. Chart. 24586. W Ibid. 24588.

88 Lansd. MS. 435, fol. 27.

89 Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (lit nos.), no. 55. Earlier inquisitions on this family contain references which must mean this manor (Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill [ist nos.], no. 174 ; 19 Edw. Ill [ist nos.], no. 54). After men- tioning land in Banstead, and a tenement called Stumblehole in Leigh, the in- quisitions continue, ' and there are there : assize rent per annum 472. zJ. due from two free tenants at Banstead, 9 at La Legh, 5 at Sandon and I customary at La Legh.' Bures is adjacent to Stumblehole. Probably the manor-house now in Horley parish, which is not mentioned in the earlier inquisitions, had been built before 1358, causing the manor in the two much

��intermixed parishes to be spoken of as in Horley. The family of Bures continued in Banstead (q.v.), but perhaps through debt sold the Leigh and Horley lands.

P.C.C. 4 Milles.

41 Exch. Inq. p.m. file 1065, no, 6.

Feet, of F. Surr. Mich. 35 Hen. VIII.

"> Burke, Family Rec., 108. Ibid.

45 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 23 & 24 Eliz.; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cciv, 123.

46 Ibid.cccxi,n6. 4 ? Eerry,Surr.Gen. 25.

48 Harl. MS. 1561, fol. lib, &c. ; Berry, Surr. Gen. 25.

49 Recov. R. East. II Jas. I, rot. 23.

60 Berry, Surr. Gen. 5 ; Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 25 ; Surr. Arch. Coll. vi, 316 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. n Jas. I ; Mich. 1 5 Jas. I ; East. 1 8 Jas. I ; Recov. R. East. 1 8 Jas. I, rot. 48.

61 Close, 20 Jas. I, pt. xxiv, no. 4. M Feet of F. Surr. East. 13 Geo. I;

Hil. 7 Geo. Ill ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 195 ; Brayley, Hist, of Surr. (ed. E. Walford, 1878), iv, 64.

202

��58 The present house is in Horley.

M Vide Horley Manor.

"Lansd. MS. 435, fol. 35*.

58 Com. Pleai D. Enr. East. 2 Jas. I, m. 14.


 * 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxi, 98.

48 Harl. MS. 2192, fol. 23.

69 Brayley, Hiit. of Surr. loc. cit.

M Cott. MS. Cleop. C. vii, foL 88A, 103.

Ibid. foL 93.

1* Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. Ill, no. 45.

' Dugdale, M on. Angl. vi, 248.

68 Mint Accts. 33-4 Hen. VIII, no. 169.

"Ibid. 36-7 Hen. VIII, no. 187.

85 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 3 Edw. VI, m. 15. Prior's land was quite separate from Langshott.

66 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 21 Chas. II.

'7 Misc. Gen. and Her. (Ser. 2), ir, 125 ; v, 209 ; Betham, Baronetage, iii, 161, &c. Monument at Epsom.

68 Burke, Landed Gentry.

69 Recov. R. Hil. 7 Geo. II, rot. 216.

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