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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Norfolk." Thomas the eighth Duke of Norfolk was attainted in 1546, and although he was restored on the accession of Queen Mary, his moiety of the honour was retained by the Crown, and after this the manor was held of the Crown in chief.

At the beginning of the I3th century the manor was held in sub-fee by Henry de Mara, who, dying before 1 260, left a daughter or granddaughter Matilda." In 1 260 Peter son of Peter de Montfort forcibly took possession, ejecting Walter de la Hyde and his wife Joan from a moiety of the same, which Walter and Joan held by virtue of the wardship of Matilda. Possibly Peter the younger was already at this date the husband of Matilda. 14 In 1286 Peter settled the manor on his son John and the heirs of John by his wife Alice de la Plaunche I6 : this John obtained a grant of free warren in 1292." He leased the manor to his brother William, and died in 1 296, before the lease had expired, so that at his death the manor was in the hands of Robert Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the co-executors of William's wil' ." His son John was five years old when he succeeded t > the property : he joined in the murder ol Piers de G.iveston, but was pardoned and summoned to Parlia.nent, 1313." The following year he was killed at Bannockburn, and, leaving no issue, was succeeded by his brother Peter, who was in holy orders, but who obtained a dispensation, and was knighted.* Peter's only son Guy married Margaret daughter of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick," a marriage arranged to put an end to many suits which were constantly taking place between the two families, who were related, and whose estates in many places adjoined." Peter settled the manor of Ashtead on Guy and Margaret in tail, with reversion to the Earl of Warwick. Guy died before his father, and his .widow took the veil at Shouldham, co. Norfolk," upon which the earl entered into possession, and obtained in 1352 a grant of free warren. 2 * He died in 1369, and his son Thomas Beauchamp conveyed the estates to Sir Baldwin Freville and Sir Thomas Boteler, heirs of Peter de Montfort.* 5 Freville was son of Peter's sister Elizabeth, who had married Sir Baldwin Freville, and Sir Thomas Boteler was husband of Joan granddaughter of Maud, the other sister, who had married Bartholomew de Sudeley. 16 These two made a partition of the Montfort estates, and the manor of Ashtead fell to the share of Sir Baldwin Freville (1382)." He was twice married, and left a son, who died in 1400, leaving a son * 8 (two years old) and three daughters. The son died a minor and with-

��out issue, and the Freville estates were divided among the daughters,* 9 Ashtead remaining ultimately with Joyce wife of Sir Roger Aston. 30 Their son Robert

����FREVILH. Or a cross paty gules.

��ASTON. Party cheve- ronwise sable and argent.

��held a court as lord of the manor in 1442," and died seised of the manor 1 464-5 3 * ; he was succeeded by his son John, who died in 1483," and whose son, John Aston," was made a Knight of the Bath on the marriageof Arthur, Prince of Wales, 1501." Hedied in 1522, leaving a son and heir Edward, 36 who granted the site of the manor to Thomas Frank and his wife Agnes for their lives, for a yearly payment of 23 marks : in this grant mention is made of the commons and warrens as belonging to the site. 3 ' In 1 543 Aston granted to the king in exchange for other lands the manor of Ashtead : he discharged the king of all rents except 1 3/. 4//. yearly payable to the Duke of Norfolk as chief lord. 38

The following year the king granted the reversion of the manor for 2 1 years after the death of Thomas Frank and his wife to William Tanner of Nonsuch, rendering yearly 15 gs. 4</. 39 In the same year the manor was augmented by the purchase of lands in Ashtead from Nicholas Leigh, ' the king's servant.' *

Philip and Mary (1556) granted to Anne widow of Edward, Duke of Somerset, in full satisfaction of her dower, the reversion of the site of the manor, and also the manor itself, which by an error is described as ' parcel of the lands and posses- sions lately purchased of the Abbot of Bermond- sey.' 41 In 1563 Elizabeth granted to Henry, Earl of Arundel, for the sum of 725 8/., the rever- sion of the site and manor to hold by the service of one-fortieth of a knight's fee. 4 * His son died before him, without issue, and he divided his estates between his two daughters Joan wife of John. Lord Lumley, and Mary wife of Th mas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. He settled Ashtead on him- self, with remainder to the Duke of Norfolk, 43 but the duke being attainted and beheaded in 1572"

��19 See grant I $42, also Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Hen. VIII (Ser. 2), xl, 96.

14 Coratn Rege R. 1 1, m. I4d ; Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 152. Matilda is here given as the daughter and heir of Henry de Mara, but according to the pedigree given in De Banco R. 926, m. 427, she was the daughter of Matthew son of Henry.

16 That they were subsequently married is shown by the above-mentioned pedigree. De Banco R. 926, m. 427.

16 County Placita, Surr. portf. no. 42, 43 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 14 Edw. I, no. 32.

V Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 428.

13 Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, no. 59.

18 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 349.

Ibid. Ibid.

88 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 626.

83 Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages (1883), 31.

��84 Chart. R. 26 Edw. Ill, m. 10.

83 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 626. Peter died in 1367, not 1358 as Manning and Bray say.

86 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 349. De Mara Chantry, Surr. Arch. Coll. xix.

8 7 Dugdale, Baronage, i, 103. William de Beauchamp, brother of Thomas, evi- dently had a life interest in the manor (ibid.) which probably took effect after the lease of three years made to Thomas by his trustees in 1372. Close, 46 Edw. Ill, m. 15 (tii).

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 2 Hen. IV, no. 46.

89 See Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 13 Hen. VI, no 63.

80 See Mins. Accts. bdle. 1010, no. 4.

81 See Ct. R. portf. 204, no. 30, for a court held by him.

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. IV, no. 24.

24. 6

��88 The date of his death a given as 1485 in an inquisition taken in 1512. Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 1069, no. 4.

81 Ct. R. portf. 204, no. 31.

86 Shaw, Knights, \, 145.

86 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xl, 96.

8 ' See Pat. 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, pt. viii, m. 22.

88 Pat. 34 Hen. VIII, pt. xii, m. 15 j Deeds of Purchase and Exch. (Aug. Of}'.), c. 49 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 35 Hen. VIII ; Mins. Accts. 34, 35 Hen. VIII.

" L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (i), 648 ; see also Pat 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, pt. viii, m. 22.

40 Pat. 38 Hen. VIII, pt. xxviii, m. 29.

41 Pat. 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, pt. viii, m. 22. 48 Pat. 5 Eliz. pt. i, m. 46.

43 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 628.

44 G.E.C. Pierage, vi, 53.

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