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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��church stood in the park ; it is now the bailiff's house. The new house called Banstead Wood was built by the Hon. Francis Baring in 1884-90, and is now owned together with the park by Mr. Charles Carton.""

At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor of BURGH or GREAT BURGH (Berge, xi cent. ; Bergh, Burgh, Barewe, Berewe, xiii cent. ; West Bergh, Great Bergh, xiv. cent. ; Borowe, Westborowe, Westburgh, xvii cent. ; Burrowe, Westburgh, Tviii cent.) was held of Odo of Bayeux by his vassal Hugh de Port for z hides. 80 Before the Conquest three freemen had held it and could seek what lord they pleased, the assessment then being for 5 hides. 81 The three manors were held as one in io86. e * The holders of Burgh during the izth century do not appear. Possibly the Mowbrays had it with Ban- stead, and enfeoffed one of the family of de Bures, as, between the years 1216 and 1243, John de Bures held a knight's fee in Burgh or Barewe of Hubert de Burgh as of the honour of Mowbray. 8 * In 1276 John de Bures died seised of the whole land of Burgh which he held for the service of one knight's fee and for which he paid izs. castle ward to Rochester. 81 His son John succeeded him. In 1325 an extent of the manor of Banstead included a messuage and a carucate of land at Burgh held by de Bures for the service and rent above mentioned and, in addition, for an annual rent of zs. and suit at the court of Banstead. 86 His son inherited in I332, 86 dying in 1345, when the extent of the tenement at Burgh included a capital messuage and a garden newly planted. 87 The next John de Bures seems to have become involved in debt to Robert Boteler. In 1 3467 the king pardoned the latter for acquiring for life without licence land of John de Bures at Burgh consisting of a messuage, 240 acres of land, 3 2 acres of wood, and 1 2/. rent, 88 and, by an extent for debt taken on de Bures' lands in 1357, Boteler was found to hold a part of those in Burgh. 89 The reversion, after the death of Boteler, was granted by de Bures, called John de Bures of Surrey, kt., to John de Bures of London, citizen and fishmonger. 90 The grant was made before 1362, in which year, .Boteler being dead, de Bures of London entered the premises without licence, but was permitted to retain them," the licence being extended to his heirs in 1368-9." In 1384 his son 9 * conveyed the manor by means of trustees to Thomas Hayton, 94 who in 1428 was said to hold the 'half-fee in Berewe which Robert Boteler formerly held of the king in the said vill,' M and in 1432 he died seised of 'the manor of Westbergh.' Agnes, then wife of John Exham or

��Hexham, was his daughter and heir. 9 * She seems to have afterwards married Thomas Sayer, as in 1450 they conveyed lands in Westbergh, held in the right of Agnes, and identical in extent with those men- tioned in 1346, to Richard Ford and Mercy his wife, William Sander and Joan his wife, and John Collard." Mercy and Joan were daughters of Agnes by her first husband, Thomas Carew. 98 These parties released the property in 1466 to Henry Merland and others. 99

Richard son and heir of Henry Merland died in 1 506, having left the lands to his wife Elizabeth for life with remainder to his brother Nicholas. 100 Nicholas survived and died seised of the manor in 1 5 24, Edward being his son and heir. 101 Edward married Frances Leigh, and in 1543 settled the manor on her with remainder to their sons. 10 ' After his death his widow married Robert Moys ; her son William 'Merland inherited at her death in 1596, her elder sons Arthur and Matthew having predeceased her. 101 In 1614 Merland, with other members of his family, conveyed to Christopher Buckle, 104 whose family continued to hold this manor with others in Burgh until the middle of the I9th century. 104 Christopher Buckle, 1684-1759, built Nork House, where his son, Admiral Matthew Buckle, died. The property descended in the direct line until the death without issue, in 1 8 1 6, of Christopher Buckle, the fifth of that name to hold Burgh, 106 when it passed to his sister, wife of Captain Crowe. 10 ' A year later it went to the Rev. William Buckle, a cousin, representing the younger branch of the family, and he held until his death in l832. 108 His son, the Rev. William Lewis Buckle, held this manor, with others in Banstead and with the church, until 1 847,

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��when it became the property of the Earl of Egmont. 109 From his successor, the fourth earl, it passed (about 1900) to Mr. F. E. Colman, and Mrs. Colman now holds it. Dr. Burton, author of the Iter Surrieme, in

��"* Information from Col. F. A. H. Lambert.

80 V.C.H. Surr. i, 304* and note 7. >l Ibid. 8a Ibid.

83 Testa di Nevill (Rec. Com.), 220, 221 k.

84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Ed w. I, no. 1 9.

85 Add. Chart. 16532.

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (lt no.), no. 54 ; Cal. if Close, 1330-3, p. 475.

W Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. Ill (ist no>.), no. 54 ; Abbrtv. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 173.

88 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), u, 191 ; Cal. of Pat. 1345-8, p. 354.

89 Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (lit nos.), no. 55.

��90 Inq. a.q.d. cccxlii, 3 ; ccclxv, 4. > Ibid.

93 Inq. a.q.d. ccclxv, 4 ; Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.) ii, 305.

98 Chan. Inq. p.m. 7 Ric. II, no. 14.

94 Chnn. Inq. p.m. 13 Ric. II, no. 14 ; Inq. a.q.d. ccccviii, iz ; Cal. of Pat. 1388- 92, p. 99.

95 Feud. Aids, v, 125.

96 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Hen. VI, no. 19. W Feet of F. Surr. 28 Hen. VI, no. 33.

98 Berry, Surr. Gen. 4.

99 Cal. of Pat. 1461-7, p. 518 ; Feet of F. Surr. 6 Edw. IV, no. 13.

100 Exch. Inq. p.m. mlxv, 7.

101 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xliii, 85. l Recov. R. Hil. 34 Hen. VIII, rot.

��100 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlvii,

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108 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlvii, 95. " Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 12 Jas. I.

104 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 1653; 32-33 Chas. II ; Recov. R. Trin. 12 Anne, rot. 149 ; Hil. 4 Geo. Ill, rot. 144 ; Hit 58 Geo. Ill, rot. 160.

106 There were six of the name of Christopher,but the third died, v. p. in 1 706.

107 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv.

"* Com. Pleas D. Enr. HiL 58 Geo. Ill, m. 60; Recov. R. Hil. 58 Geo. Ill, rot. 160 ; Visit of Surr. (HarL Soc. xliii) ; Berry, Surr. Gen. iS, 19, 20.

109 Parish Reg. of Banitead (Par. Reg. Soc.), i, yi.

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