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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��the dissolution of Chertsey Monastery. Probably the mesne lordship lapsed before the Dissolution, as the de Burstows of Horley, who are known to have held the manor of Lodge in that place in the I5th century and afterwards, held at an earlier date a considerable amount of land there direct of the abbot, who was lord of Horley Manor. In 1336, for instance, William de Burstow held land called Spiresland of the abbot, and died leaving a son John. 105 In 1339 John de Burstow made an exchange of lands with the abbot by which the former received lands called Mutheslond, Blakemores and Joyneres, to be held of the abbot for a rent of//. $J. m In 1417 Robert de Burstow is referred to as holding a messuage called Muthesland. 107

In 1471 John Bury died seised of the manor of ' Loge ' in Horley, held, 'as has been said, of John Codyngton, then lord of the manor of Lodge in Bur- stow, and of 50 acres of land called Blakemores and Joyneres and a toft and 20 acres called Speryslond held of the Abbot of Chertsey. 108 He had been en- feoffed of the manor to the use of himself and his heirs, in 1458, by Robert de Burstow of Horley, Vis- count Beaumont and Sir Ralph Boteley, the two latter being probably trustees. 109 He left two daughters and co-heirs, Elizabeth and Alice. 110 Possibly Elizabeth married Robert Cornwaleys, as, according to Manning, courts were held in 1501 by Robert Cornwaleys and Elizabeth his wife, and in 1510 by Elizabeth, when a widow, for the manor of Burstow Lodge. 111 This may be Lodge in Horley, which was sometimes called Burstow Lodge, from the chief holding being in Burstow. Robert and Elizabeth certainly held other land in Horley in the right of Elizabeth, 11 ' while there is no trace of them in Burstow. In 1526 the manor, again called Burstow Lodge but evidently in Horley, was held by John Mounteney and Agnes in the right of Agnes, 113 possibly the heiress of Elizabeth Cornwaleys. It seems to have passed back to the family of Burstow or Bristowe soon after, as, in 1546, Robert Bristowe died seised of it. 114 On the death of his grandson, in 1563, this manor was divided, as was that of Horley (q.v.) among four co-heirs. 114 The part belonging to the Jordans descended with the main manor of Horley (q.v.), and doubtless be- came united with it. John Woodman and Margaret conveyed their quarter to John Cowper in 1 564, 116 from whom it passed, three years later, to Peter Bonwick. 11 ' Henry Bonwick, his son, held a fourth in 1607."' In 1574 Thomas Francke and Anna widow of George Taylor conveyed a fourth part of Lodge to John Woodman, 119 but the latter, on his death in 1587, was seised of no part of this manor. 110 This part must have passed previously to John Kerrell, who presumably had also obtained the quarter belonging to Agnes daughter and heir of Thomas Twyner, 1 ' 1 as in 1 6 1 8 John Kerrell and Henry Bonwick held the ' manor of Lodge.' "'

��According to Manning Bonwick afterwards ob- tained the whole manor, and died in 1663, leaving it to his cousin John Shove, who died in 1 700 having de- vised to his son Henry Shove." 3 The latter died in 1 7 5 2 seised of ' the manor or reputed manor of Lodge in Horley,' which he bequeathed to his wife for life with remainder to his godson John Shove, eldest son of John Shove, and his heirs. 1 ' 4 The latter conveyed in 1769 to John Yeoman, whose grandson in 1791 sold to William Bryant ; the property then passed suc- cessively to Henry Byne, Spiller and Adams who held in 1 8c>4. m After that date it frequently changed hands ; it was at one time owned by the Rev. H. des Voeux, who sold to George Birch before 1845, and his family held until after l878." 6

The family of atte Holyland, who were seised of lands in Nutfield (q.v.), also held land in Horley in the 1 4th century. 1 * 7 In the early 1 7th century and until 1760 land called Holylands in Horley was the property of the Needier family, 118 the last of whom, Henry Needier, was a musician of some renown. 1 " The name Holyland is still preserved in Horley.

In 1334 Alleyn de Warewyk and Emma his wife granted to the priory of Reigate the reversion of an estate consisting of a messuage, a mill, 155 acres of land, 9 acres of meadow and 9 acres of wood in Hor- ley and Burstow. 130 At the time of the Dissolution the estate appears still to have been called by the name Allen of Warwick, the tenant being Thomas Michell. 131

The church of ST. B4RTHOLO- CHURCH MEW stands at the end of a narrow lane leading off the main road to Brigh- ton, and close to the River Mole. The churchyard, which is narrow on the north side, where its boundary is partly composed of the actual wall of the old Six Bells Inn (the windows of which look into the church- yard in a very unconventional fashion), has been considerably extended towards the south and east of late years. It is bordered by tall elms to the south, and there are public paths, stone flagged, through it, the whole bearing a well-tended appearance. In the more ancient parts are numerous quaint wooden ' bed- heads,' one with a most elaborate scrolled top, some large old railed tombs and many ancient headstones, one of which, with stone posts and a slab between, is a curious example of local taste, being evidently derived from the wooden ' bed-head.' Most of these are of 1 7th and 18th-century dates. At the western end of the churchyard are two fine yew trees.

Although there is no mention of a church in Domesday there is practical certainty of the exist- ence of one on this site by the middle of the I2th century, but it was probably of timber, like the exist- ing tower at the end of the north aisle ; at any rate no stones bearing the tooling of that period are observable, but, owing to the walls being plastered externally in the older parts, this must not be taken

��105 Lansd. MS. 434, fol. 84.

" Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. xxv, fol. 365.

w Ibid. fol. 357*.

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

109 Ib id. no Ibid.

111 Manning and Bray, Hist. ofSurr. ii,

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"" Feet of F. Surr. n Hen. VII, no. 8.

118 Ibid. Mich. 18 Hen. VIII.

114 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxvii,

��115 Ibid, cxxiv, 189 ; cxl, 176.

116 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 6 & 7 Eliz. W Ibid. Mich. 9 & 10 Eliz.

"* Ibid. Mich. 5 Jas. I.

119 Ibid. Hit. 1 6 Eliz.

120 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxvi, 70.

lu Ibid, cxcvii, 69. 122 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 16 Jas. I. 128 Manning and Bray, Hist, or Surr. ii, 198.

204

��114 P.C.C. 140 Butterworth.

125 See note 123.

126 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. (ed. Walford), iv, 64 ; Dir.ofSurr. 1845.

"7 Feet of F. Surr. 8 Edw. II, 128.

128 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), cccci, 92.

129 Diet. Nat. Biog.

130 Pat. 8 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 24.

181 MS. list of Priory lands inspected by editor.

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