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��tition was made of the estates which she had held in dower between her husband's co-heirs, the descend- ants of his three sisters, viz. John, Duke of Norfolk, grandson of one sister Elizabeth, who had married Thomas, Duke of Norfolk ; Lady Elizabeth Nevill, granddaughter of Joan, Lady Abergavenny, a second sister ; and Edmund Lenthal, son of Margaret wife of Sir Roland Lenthal, a third sister.' 3 Since Edmund Lenthal was then a minor Sir Roland Lenthal, perhaps his father," had the custody of his lands till he came of age, 16 June 1441." Among these was one-third of certain houses within the castle of Reigate, 76 and Ed- ward Lord Abergavenny held at his death by right of his wife Lady Elizabeth Nevill another third of the castle and liberties." No further trace of tenure either by the Lenthal or Nevill families has been found, but in a later plea it is stated that by an agree- ment between the three sisters, Elizabeth, Joan, and Margaret, the whole of Reigate was assigned as the purparty of Elizabeth and her husband, Thomas Duke of Norfolk. 78 The whole manor seems to have been in the possession of the latter's great-grandson, John Duke of Norfolk, 79 who, in September 1474, settled it on his wife Elizabeth. 80 In 1477 she conveyed her life interest to Elizabeth (Wydeville), Queen of Ed- ward IV, 81 but in the same year Katharine, widow of the late duke's grandfather and sister-in-law of the queen, was holding the manor in dower. 8 ' The remainder was then settled on Anne, the duke's only daughter and heir, at her betrothal to Richard the un- fortunate Duke of York, murdered in I483. 83 The co- heirs of Anne were the representatives of her great-aunts, viz., William Marquess of Ber- keley, John Howard, created Duke of Norfolk in 1483, Thomas Earl of Derby, and Sir John Wingfield. The manor was apparently divided between them, for William Marquess of Berkeley was in possession of one-fourth in 1489." His brother and heir Maurice, from whom he en- deavoured to alienate his in- heritance, 64 recovered one- fourth of Reigate from the

Crown in 1503." In the following year he con- veyed this purparty to Sir Edward Poynings, kt., H and others, probably to sell, for he is said to have

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��parted with his quarter to Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of John Duke of Norfolk. 88

John, Duke of Norfolk, fell at Bosworth, August 1485, and was attainted in the following November. 85 His interest in Reigate thus fell to the Crown, 80 but was not regranted to Thomas with his father's other lands in 1489." Henry VIII granted the manor of Reigate to Agnes, widow of Thomas, in dower." His son, Thomas Duke of Nor- folk, was attainted in January 1 546-7," and the farm of his moiety of the manor was granted in March 1550-1 to his half-brother William Ho- ward, afterwards Baron Howard

of Effingham. 94 His widow Margaret held a court in I574- 95 Their son and heir Charles, Lord High Admiral, created Earl of Nottingham in 1596, held one moiety of the manor in his own right and leased the other moiety from the Earl of Derby. 96 He settled his moiety on his wife Margaret, 97 who, after his death in December 1624, married William, afterwards Viscount Monson 98 of Castlemaine. After her death in 1 639 s9 this half of the manor appears to have reverted to her husband'sheir male, Charles, second Earl of Nottingham, whose half-brother, the third earl of that name, sold it to John Goodwyn I0 in 164%.* The latter held a court jointly with James, Duke of York, in 1672, and in 1683 his interest was vested in Dean Goodwyn, 101 who with Charles Goodwyn released his moiety to James shortly after his accession to the throne. 10 '

Thomas Earl of Derby, the third co-heir to the lands of Anne Mowbray (see above), appears to have acquired the Wingfield quarter of the manor in addition to his own. 108 He was succeeded by his grandson

Thomas, who died seised of this moiety in 1 52 1. 104 His widow held it in dower. 165

During the lifetime of his son and ultimate heir, Henry fourth Earl of Derby, the Earl of Nottingham had a lease of it. 106 After the death of his son

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"* Sir Roland, the father, is said to have married a second time (Devon Vis'st. [Harl. Soc. vii], 169). His second wife seems to have been named Lucy (Cal. Pat. 1429-36, p. 446).

"''Cal. Pat. 1436-4,1, p. 562.

''Mint. Accts. (Gen. Ser.) bdle. 1120, no. i.

77 Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Edw. IV, file 66, m. 22.

78 Plac. in Caneellaria (Rolls Chapel Ser.), bdle I, no. 29.

' Feet of F. Div. Co. 8 Edw. IV, 64 5 cf. Chart. R. 8-10 Edw. IV, no. 14.

"Add. Chart. (B.M.), 7619, 7629. In the settlement on the Duke of York it is called ' the halvendale ' or moiety of Reigate ; cf. also Chan. Proc. Eliz. H. h. xvii, 3.

81 Feet of F. Div. Co. 16 Edw. IV, 116.

88 Part. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 1 68*.

��88 Ibid.

Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 5 Hen. VII.

85 Fosbroke, Lives of the Berkeley*, passim.

86 Par/. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 529 ; Placita in Caneellaria, bdle. I, no. 29.

"7 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 19 Hen. VII.

88 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 276.

89 G.E.C. Peerage, vi, 47.

90 Par!. R. (Rec. Com.), vi, 336 ; Mar. for Hist, of Hen. VII (Rolls Ser.), ii, 138.

91 Parl. R. vi, 426*.

M L. and P. Hen. r///,xv,4 9 8 (p. 220).

98 Agnes the dowager duchess died in the preceding May, and it appears from the terms of the grant to William Howard that the duke held the farm of Reigate until his attainder.

54 Partic. for Grants (Aug. Off.), 1710 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxv, 172. It had been leased to John Skynner in 1547.

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��96 Chan. Proc. Eliz. H. h, xvii, 3. 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxii, 69.

98 Hist. AfSS. Com. Rep. iv, 386.

99 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 334.

100 M.P. for Godalming 1640, for Rei- gate 1656. Hewasabuyer of church lands and sequestrated estates. See Farnham.

N* 1 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 23 Chas. I.

i^Ct. R. 1683. He was M.P. for Reigate 1678-81.

102 Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 2 Jas. II.

1M He was first lord with Thomas Earl of Surrey in 1496 (Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, 278) ; and from Chan. Proc. Eliz. H. h, xvii, 3, it appears that, by that time, there were only two moieties, owned respectively by the Earl of Derby and Charles, Earl of Nottingham.

104 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxxii, no.

15 L. and P. Hen. nil, iii, 2820.

10 See above.

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