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���PRIORY or ST. MARY OVERY. Argent a crott indented gules -with a to- nenge gules in the quar- ter.

��RECTORT MANOR, alias SOUTHMERFIELD, alias C4NONS. The Prior and canons of St. Mary Overy were possessed, as early as the 1 2th century, of a con- siderable amount of land in Southmerfield in Banstead. In 1 1 94 Mabel de Mowbray, after the death of Nigel, claim- ed against the prior two caru- cates of land in Southmerfield, as well as the advowson of the church, as having been given her by her father as her marriage portion. 1 ' 8 The prior said that no lord had previously intermeddled with the church there, but she was finally al- lowed to hold three parts of the land for life ; the rest she quitclaimed to the prior. 17 * In the first year of King John's reign Sewel son of Robert of South- merfield quitclaimed to the prior and his successors two virgates in Southmerfield, with the house be- longing, which he had previously demised to the prior for a term of four years. 180

In 1269"" John de Burgh, then lord of Banstead, released the prior and his successors from the customary rent, services, and suit at court by which the priory lands in Banstead Manor were held. A rental of the priory in the reign of Edward I shows that its lands in Banstead amounted to nearly two hundred acres.' 6 * Of these, 1 7 acres were held of the gift of John de Burgh, 1 6 of the fee of John de Bures for the rent of 2j. and a rose, and 7 acres of the fee of Robert Walton for the rent of 1 2</. 183 The land belonging to the Waltons lay in Southmerfield. 184 In 1317-18 Juliana widow of Robert de Walton received licence to have divine service celebrated at a portable altar in her houses of Holeghe (in Coulsdon) and Southmer- field. 185

In 1524 the rectory, with the house in Southmerfield, was demised to William Colt- son and Richard Moys and Elizabeth, together with the priory's manor of North Tad- worth. 186 In 1549, after the surrender of the priory, these lands were granted to Robert son and heir of Richard Moys and Thomas Walsingham, the latter releasing his share soon after. 187 The deed of 1 549 re- fers to the lands as the manors of North Tadworth and Southmerfield and the rectory and church of Banstead. They passed successively to

���MOYS ot' Canons. Ermine a pale between two roses gules with a Calvary croit or on the fait.

��Philip, John, and Henry Moys, and finally to the five sisters and co-heirs of Henry. 1 * 8 In 1 66 1 the de- scendants of four of these sisters conveyed four-fifths of the rectory to Francis Beard. 189 According to Manning this portion passed from Beard in 1663 to Frances Moys widow of John Moys, and she, out of her share of the impropriation, endowed the vicarage with an annuity of J ^2O. 190 By 1702 Henry Read held four-fifths of the rectory, 191 and he still held in I724. 191 In 1726 he and Lydia his wife, with Chris- topher Buckle, levied a fine of four-fifths of the manor of Southmerfield and of the rectory and advow- son. 19 * This was probably part of a conveyance of the rectory from the Reads to Buckle, as he afterwards held both this and the advowson (q.v.). The remain- ing fifths of the rectory and advowson, the portion of Henry Moys's sister Katherine Lambert, passed to her daughter and heir Joyce, 194 who, with her husband, John Bushell, conveyed in 1663 to trustees of Richard Parr and Elizabeth his wife, widow of Henry Moys. 195 Parr and his trustees sold in 1 668 to Robert Wayth. 19 * In 1732 Edward Fulham, son and heir of Anne daughter and eventually heir of Robert Wayth, sold his fifth to Christopher Buckle. 197 After this time the entire rectory descended with the advowson, and the Earl of Egmont is the present impropriator of the great tithes with the exception of those in South Tadworth, which apparently passed out of the hands of the owner of the rectory in 1551 ."*

The house in Southmerfield, acquired in 1 1 99- 1200 by the prior and convent, 199 evidently became the site of the rectory manor, as in 1203 record is found of the prior's house in Southmerfield, where his bailiff collected or paid rent. 100 After the Dissolution, this house, called the capital messuage of the rectory, was known by the name of Canons or Southmerfield. 801 It descended with the rectory. Land called Canon's Hatch belonging to the priory is mentioned in the late 1 3th century. 208 A farm, Canhatch, was afterwards held by the Moys family with the church lands. 801

GARRATTS HALL* (Gerardes, Garades) re- presents a tenement held of the manor of Banstead, apparently according to the custom of borough Eng- lish. It preserves the name of a family settled in Banstead in the 1 5th century. Their estate passed to the Calcokes of Chipstead, and descended from Richard Calcoke to his youngest son Alan, who joined with his mother in conveying it to Jeffery Lambert of Woodmansterne in 1534. From this latter it passed to the youngest son of his nineteen children, Samuel, and after Samuel's death it descended to his son John, born in 1638, who left one daughter, Elizabeth, the wife of Sir Robert Wilmot, Lord Mayor of London. John Lambert rebuilt the mansion-house and con- veyed the property to his nephew Thomas, a

��W Rolls in the King's Court (Pipe R. Soc.), xiv, 42. See account of the manor.

J " Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 7 Ric. I, file I ; Trin. 9 Ric. I, file I.

18 Cott. MS. Nero C. iii, foU 197.

"1 Harl. Chart. 47 E, 35.

18a Cott. MS. Faust. A. viii, fol. 156.

188 Ibid. ; Cott. Chart, xvi, 45.

1S4 Feet of F. Surr. 9 Ric. I, file I.

186 Reg. of Sandalc and Asseriui (Hants Rec. Soc.), 83.

18 * Mins. Accts. Surr. bdle. 146, no. 59.

1B 7 Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt. xi, m. 17 ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 5 Edw. VI, m. 2.

��188 See North Tadworth. 89 Feet of F. Surr. East, 13 Chas. II.

190 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 590.

191 Feet of F. Surr. East I Anne ; Recov. R. East. 1 Anne, rot. 17.

192 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 1 Geo. I.

193 Ibid. Hil. 1 2 Geo. I.

184 Close, 20 Chas. II, pt. xiv, m. 35.

195 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1663.

198 Close, 20 Chas. II, pt, xiv, m. 35 ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 20 Chas. II.

19 7 Close, 6 Geo. II, pt. xii, no. 12 ; Recov. R. Trin. 6 Geo. II, rot. 155.

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��198 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 5 Edw. VI, m. 2.

199 Cott. MS. Nero C. iii, fol. 197. 800 Campb. Chart, xvi, 2.

901 Close, 20 Chas. II, pt. xiv, m. 35.

m Cott, MS. Faust. A. viii, fol. 156.

8113 See note 201. Canhatch is the name of a gate from which the farm was familiarly known. It is properly Canon Farm.

9083 The account of this estate and those following in this parish have been kindly supplied by Col. F. A. H. Lambert.

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