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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

���JOLLIFFB, Lord Hyl- ton. Argent a pile vert with three right hands or thereon.

��was created Baron Hylton and held the manor until 1876. His heir the second baron died in 1899, and his son the present Lord Hyl- ton is lord of the manor. 38

William Jolliffe, after his purchase in 1788, built what was called the Great House, west of Merstham Street. This was pulled down in 1834 and the remains sold to Lord Mon- son for building Gallon Park. The present Merstham House is what was called the Cottage, built by the Rev. W. J. Jolliffe, father of the first Baron Hylton, and subsequently enlarged. 89

There are three grants of free warren to the Abbots of Christchurch in their demesne lands at Merstham, ihe earliest from Henry II, and the two others bearing the dates 1316 and 1364.* The prior had a prison " at Merstham, and kept a stricl walch over his rights there. In 1 335 in a case depending on a writ of right, granted at the petition of John Passelew, the suitors had assumed to themselves ihe righl of giving an award before ihe process had been begun by ihe prior's bailiffs, lo whom ihe writ was addressed, and the prior wrote indignantly that this was done ' in prejudice of us and infringement of our position which is not to be patiently borne.' " On another occasion a special representalive was sent to the court as the abbot understood thai ' cenain mailers of high im- port ' were impending."

A mill worlh 30*'. at Merslham is menlioned in Domesday,* 4 and in the conveyance to Thomas Copley Iwo waler-mills and Iwo horse-mills are spoken of." One waler-mill also went with the moiety of the manor which was owned by Henry and Jane Hoare in I7O5- 46

In 1 348 Alexander Hanekyn was granted licence to alienate some 28 acres of meadow, woodland, &c., lo ihe Prior of Christchurch for ihe suslenance of seven chaplains to celebrate divine service daily in the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, to pray for the souls of Edward II and his ancestors. 47

At ihe beginning of the 141)1 cenlury the repuled manor o{4LBURF(A\debury, Aldbury, xiv-xvi cenls.) was held of ihe Prior of Christchurch by Sir Edmund de Passelew or Passelee, together with his son John, for service of 161. a year and suit of court every ihree weeks at Merstham. Sir Edmund also held 40 acres of land in Merstham parish jointly with his second wife Margaret. John de Passelew inherited the manor al his father's death about I 327," and in 1339 he conveyed all his right in il to Richard de Burton, 49 transferring to him an annual rent of 20 marks from

��John le French, who held the tenement of Albury on a seven years' lease from the preceding year, 1338.*' It seems that either this lease was renewed or else John le French acquired the manor in fee, for we find laler that Nicholas le French granted the manor for eight years at a renl of 50*. lo Fulk Harwode, who in 1365-8 conveyed his right to Nicholas de Lovayne." Il does nol appear who next succeeded as lord of ihe manor, but Manning and Bray, quoting the Court Rolls of Merslham, say that Albury was held by John Timperley, 5 ' who in the reign of Henry VI was granted licence to impark 40 acres of wood, 100 of land, 80 of pasture, and 30 of meadow in Merstham, with ' pales and ditches.' At the same time Timperley received a grant of ' waif and stray/ of free warren in all his lands in Merslham, 63 wilh ihe furlher privilege lhal he should nol be ' pul on assizes, juries, &c." M

Quoling the same Court Rolls, Manning and Bray say that Timperley conveyed the manor of Albury to John Elingbridge, who setlled il upon his second wife Anne, ihe daughter of John Prophet and widow of Ralph St. Leger." This John died in 1473, and was succeeded by his grandson Thomas, who died in 1 507 leaving one daughter, Anne. A son John was born to him posthumously, bul died in the same year. 56 Anne, who then became heiress of the estales, afterwards mar- ried her guardian, John Dannett," knighled in 1529, who marshalled a musler of ihirly-eighl men from Merstham, reviewed in I539. 68 Albury remained in the possession of the Dannetls until 1 5 79, when it was sold by Leonard Dannetl and Chrisliana his wife lo John Soulhcole, one of the judges of the Queen's Bench. 58 Southcote died in April 1585, and Albury was sellled upon his son John and his wife Magdalen, one of ihe daughters of Sir Edward Waldegrave. 60 Apparenlly the estale was sequeslered by ihe Crown under Charles I, for two-thirds of it, with several other eslates, were regranted in 1633-4 to John Southcote and Edward his son, recusants, at a yearly rent of ^loo. 61 John Soulhcole lived unlil January 16378, ihe manor having been sellled in ihe pre- ceding December on his grandson John, 6 * and it remained ihe properly oflhis family 63 unlil 1727, when il was sold lo Paul Docminique. 64 Il evenlually became the property of William Jolliffe and was united lo the manor of Merstham (q.v.), Lord Hylton being the presenl owner.

The site of the old manor-house is marked by a moated inclosure.

According to Manning and Bray, who quote deeds in ihe regisler of the Dean and Chapler of Canter- bury, the reputed manor of 4LDERSTEj4D was held by the Passelew family aboul 1287." In the 1 3th cenlury it was in the possession of Sir Robert

��88 G.E.C. Peerage.

89 Information, Lord Hylton.

40 Stowe MS. 924, p. 212 ; Chart. R. 10 Edw. II, m. 24, no. 60 ; 38 Edw. II, ni. 8, no. 1 5.

41 Cat. Pat. 1301-7, p. 172.

4S Lit. Cant. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 102.

Ibid, ii, 272. V.C.H. Surr. i, 300.

45 Pat. 10 Eliz. pt. vi, m. 40.

46 Recov. R. Trin. 4 Anne, rot. 103. <7 Cal. Pat. 1345-8, p. 447.

48 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 35 ; Add. MS. 6167 fol. 20.

"Add. MS. 6167, fol. 245 ; Cal. Close, 1339-41, P. 33 8 -

��'"Ibid.

"Close, 39 Edw. Ill, m. 26 and 25.

"Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 258.

58 Fishery and free warren in Albury was owned by the family of Medley in the 1 6th century. See Feet of F. Surr. 5 Edw. VI.

"Chart. R. 27-39 Hen - VI > no - 4 1 -

65 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxi, 118. The rental of 1522 gives Albury as Dan- net's, late Illingbridge, formerly Corve.

68 Aubrey, Antiq. of Surr. iv, 233-4, Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), file 1066, no. 3.

6 ? Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii,

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��259. He held in 1522 (Rental, Surr. Arch. Coll. xx, 92).

<><>L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 294.

69 Recov. R. Hil. 22 Eliz. rot. 534; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 22 & 23 Eliz.; Hil. 22 Eliz.

80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccvi, 25.

61 Pat. 9 Chas. I, pt. xvi, no. 2.

62 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxvii, 181.

68 Recov. R. Hil. 1652, rot. 98; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1652 ; East. 1687.

M Close, I Geo. II, pt i, no. 18 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich, i Geo. III.

66 Manningand Biay,Hist.ofSurr.'ri, 257.,

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