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��whose descendant in the fourth generation, John Henry Bridges, now holds the lands which are known as Langshott Manor.

At the end of the I 3th century 40 acres of land in Horley, and a messuage there worth I 3^. were held of Fulk de Archek, lord of Woodmansterne, by suit at the court of Woodmansterne. 70 It is possible that this land was part of what was afterwards known as the manor of K1NNERSLET in Horley. Fulk held his lands in the right of his wife, and they were afterwards inherited by her family, passing at length to John Skinner." During this time no trace of the lands in Horley can be found, but in 1 506 Agnes, a daughter and co-heir of John Skinner, then wife of Roger Leigh and formerly wife of Thomas Chaloner, held Wood- mansterne together with the ' moiety of Kynworsley in Horley." 1 In 1556 Henry Lechford and Cle- mency his wife held 80 acres of land in Horley called ' Kenersley ' and Ladyland, in the right of Cle- mency daughter of Huchar, 71 who was Lechford's second wife." They demised the land in 1556 to Richard Hever on a ten-year lease for a rent of 1 2 per annum." In 1563 they conveyed the reversion of ' the manor of Kinnersley ' from themselves and the heirs of Clemency to John Cowper ; " in the following year Hever brought a suit against the latter for wrongfully entering on the premises. 77

Cowper sold Kinnersley in 1566 to John More. 78 Edward More and Mary his wife conveyed to George and Jasper Holmden in 1 5 84," and they, with others, to Matthew Carew, Master in the Court of Chancery, in isSy. 80 The manor changed hands many times at the beginning of the iyth century. It passed successively from Carew to James Cromer, 81 William Southland, 82 George Huxley, 85 and finally, in 1 606, to Sir William Mounson," a distinguished admiral, who had served under Essex in the Cadiz expedition, and was at this time in command of the fleet in the narrow seas, a post which he held until 1615. In this year he fell under suspicion of being implicated in the murder of Overbury and was committed to the Tower in 1616. He was, however, released in the following year and made vice-admiral of the narrow seas, remaining in the navy until 1635, when he retired to Kinnersley and spent the last seven years of

��his life compiling naval tracts. 84 He died in 1642 seised of the manor of Kinnersley, which he held jointly with his son John, who died three years later. 86

Anne, daughter and heir of John Mounson, married Sir Francis Throckmorton ; they, with Ann Mounson, widow, conveyed the manor in 1667 to Arthur Kettleby and George Petty, 87 from whom it passed, in 1675,10 Benjamin Bonwick, 88 whose son Benjamin, according to Manning, left two daughters and co-heirs. 88 In 1740 Charles Mason and Sarah his wife conveyed a moiety of the manor to Richard Ireland ; M he obtained the other moiety from Samuel Duplock and Mary his wife in 1765." At his death in 1 7 80 the manor passed by will to his niece Ann Jones," whose son Arthur held in 1797," when he sold to Robert Piper, 94 and the latter's family held it as late as iSzg. 93 During the next ten years it passed through the hands of Gibson, Fosket and Clark. 96 John Clark held until after 1845. It became the property, before 1855, of J. C. Sherrard, who held until after 1874. It passed soon after to the Brocklehurst family, and is at present held by Mr. Edward Brocklehurst. 87

From the i6th century onwards the right of free fishery at Horley is mentioned as appurtenant to Kinnersley.* 8

In 1263 Mary daughter of William de Dammartin received a grant of a water-mill and a carucate of land in Horley to be held of Roger de Loges and his heirs for the annual rent of a pair of gold spurs, or 6J. and foreign service. 88 It was probably part of the lands afterwards known as the manor of LODGE in Horley ; a water-mill was included among the appurtenances of this manor in the 1 6th century. 100 A tenement called Labbokland, which Roger son of Roger atte Logge had quitclaimed to the Abbot of Chertsey in 1324,"" was also held with the manor about 1590."" Evi- dently this family, who held the manor of Lodge in Burstow (q.v.) in the I4th century, gave their name to their lands in Horley also. These latter lands they may have held of the Abbot of Chertsey, while their under-tenants held of them as mesne lords. In the 1 5th century Lodge in Horley was held of the lord of the manor of Lodge in Burstow,"" while in the next century it was held of Sir Robert Southwell, 104 to whom the manor of Horley had been granted at

��""Chan. Inq. p.m. zi Edw. I, no. 37 ; 32 Edw. I, no. 28.

71 Vide Woodmansterne ; Manning and Bray, Hist. ofSurr. ii, 460, 461.

7" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 21 Hen. V; Manning and Bray, Hist of Surr. ii, 244.

78 Ct. of Req. bdle. 41, no. 26 ; Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 43.

74 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), czlv, 1 3 ; Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 43. The fact that hit first wife had been Mary, daughter of a Thomas Chaloner (Visit, of Surr. [Harl. Soc. xliii] 43) suggests that the moiety of 'Kynworsley' held by Agnes, co-heir of John Skinner and at one time wife of Thomas Chaloner, passed by marriage of a daughter Mary to Lechford, and that he obtained different moieties of the manor with each of his wives, Clemency having acquired hers from Elizabeth Scott, the second co-heir of John Skinner. There is also a manor of Kinnersley in Carshalton, of which John Scott died seised in 1532, but in spite of this coincidence, the descents do not seem to have been otherwise the same, for John Scott acquired this Kinnersley

��from Edward Burton and his wife Isa- bel, who were holding in the right of Isabel.

75 Ct. of Req. bdle. 41, no. 26.

78 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Eliz. Cow- per's mother was also named Clemency. She was the daughter of Engler, so was not the same as Clemency Lechford. In 1549 she bought land in Horley of Robert Hawkes as Clemency Cowper, widow (Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 3 Edw. VI). In 1566 Cowper sold the land which his mother, Clemency Cowper, had bought of Hawkes (Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 8 Eliz.). Richard Cowper, her husband, who held Roys in Horley of the manor of Banstead, died in 1 549. His youngest son and heir, 'according to the custom of the manor,' was Robert (Banstead Ct. R. 2 May 1549). He also held Langshott in Horley (q.v.). John and Richard were other sons.

77 See note 75.

' Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 8 Eliz.

7 Ibid. Trin. 26 Eliz.

80 Ibid. Trin. 29 Eliz.

81 Ibid. Hil. 42 Eliz.

20 3

��83 Ibid. Trin. 43 Eliz. 88 Ibid. Trin. I Jas. I. "Ibid. Mich. 4 Jas. I. 85 Diet. Nat. Biog.

88 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 7 Chas. I; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxxii, 26.

87 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 19 Chas. II ; Brydges, Collins Peerage, vii.

88 Feet of F. Surr. East 27 Chas. II.

89 Manning and Bray t Hist. of Surr. ii, 90.

90 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 14 Geo. II.

91 Ibid. Trin. 5 Geo. III. P.C.C. 323 Collins.

98 Recov. R.East. 29 Geo. Ill, rot. 312; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 37 Geo. III. 94 See note 89.

94 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 8 & 9 Geo. IV. 98 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 283.

97 Kelly, Directories of Surr.

98 See above references.

99 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 47 Hen. III.

100 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxxiv, 189.

101 Exch. K. R. Misc. Bks. xxv, fol. 361*.

104 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. xxi, m. 12.

108 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. IV, no. 42.


 * Ibid. (Ser. 2), Ixxii, 85 i cxl, 176.

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