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��but it is not mentioned in connexion with the manor after this date.

Another estate in Chessington, probably part of the original manor, was acquired by Merton Priory, 18 whose lands in the i6th century are entered in the monastic accounts under the name of the manor of CHESSINGTON-4T-HOKE.

In 1521 the manor was leased by the Prior of Merton to Thomas Rogers for a term of 21 years at a rental of $ o/. 6d., chargeable with 2cu. 6J. in fee-farm rent due to the king," and this lease was renewed to Richard Rogers on the same terms in 1 52 5 m and in 1536." The manor was surrendered to tie Crown with the rest of the possessions of the priory in 1538, and in 1552 was held at farm by Richard Hewer for the.sum quoted above."

George Rigley made a request to purchase this manor in 15534," but nothing appears to have re- sulted, and in 1557 it was granted to William Rigges and Peter Gearing.* 4

Rigges and Gearing may have been trustees for Nicholas Saunders of Ewell, who was holding the manor in 1590, at which date he mortgaged it to Thomas Fletcher of London." In 1601 Nicholas Saunders conveyed the manor to Benedict Haynes, gentleman,* 6 son of William Haynes and Alice his wife, 27 and in 1610 1 1 it was held by William Haynes, brother of Benedict, who settled it upon himself and Anne his wife in that year.* 8 William died in 1611, his son and heir William being then aged 1 3 years. The latter died two years later, leaving Matthew his brother and heir, aged 12 years.* 9 Matthew died in 1617, and the estate was divided among his four sisters, Alice, Jane, Ann, and Thomasine.* Thomasine married John Evelyn, and in 1622 conveyed her fourth part of the manor to Robert Hatton," serjeant-at-law, of Thames Ditton, 3 ' who had married Alice, and who in 1628 acquired the remaining fourth parts from Ann (wife of Thomas Samwell) and Jane Haynes.* 3 Robert and Alice had a son Sir Richard Hatton, who married Anne daughter of Sir Kenelme Jennour of Great Dunmow, Essex, bart. 34 Their son Sir Robert Hatton, afterwards Sheriff of Surrey, was holding the manor in 1 679," and, dying without issue, was suc- ceeded by his nephew, Robert Hatton, a serjeant-at- law.* 8 The latter died in 1 70 1 ," and was succeeded by his son Thomas Hatton, 18 who in 1 742 conveyed this manor to Edward Northey of Epsom.* 8 William Northey, son of Edward, sold in 1797 to Joseph Smith Gosse, a distiller of Battersea, 40 who died in 1 8 1 2, 4 ' and was succeeded by his son Henry Gosse, who held the manor in 1813." His granddaughter

��married Mr. John Maude, and they are now lords of the manor.

Appurtenant to the prior's manor were certain woe .Is called Lynell Coppice (18 acres), Fusgrove Coppice (7 acres), Beatrice Hill Coppice (2 acres 7 roods), and 'Le Hedgerowe' in Alderfield (l acre), which in 1552 were held on a lease granted by the prior to John Garroway ; 43 also a wood called Gos- borough Hill Wood, leased in 1537 to William Saunders, with liberty to fell the timber, on condition of leaving thirty ' slanders ' (trees left for increase) on every acre. 44 In the accounts of the manor for 1544 there is reckoned 4 1 3/. ^d. from eighty old oaks called ' Storbedd Okes,' suitable for firewood, situated on that parcel of the manor called Epsom Common. 43

In a dispute which arose in the 1 6th century with regard to certain lands called ' Maulthayes ' in Ches- sington, it was declared to be the custom of this manor that the youngest son should inherit. 46

FREAM, formerly FREREN. Land in Chessing- ton was held of Edward the Confessor by Magno Suert, and in 1086 (when it was assessed for I hide, though in the time of King Edward it had been assessed for 5) was included among the estates of Miles Crispin, who appears to have claimed it without warrant in right of his father-in-law Wigod of Walling- ford, as the jurors declared that Wigod was not holding it when William I came into England. 47

This land descended with the honour of Walling- ford, and in 1279 was in the possession of Edmund Earl of Cornwall.

In 1300 the tenant of the earl in Chessington was Rowland Huscarl, 48 and later it was held of the honour of Wallingford by Ro- ger Apperle. 49 Before 1428 it seems to have been granted to the Abbot of Boxley, co. Kent, who in that year was assessed for half a knight's fee formerly held by Roger Ap- perle. 40 As early as 1189 the abbot had held land in Ches- sington granted by Robert de Chessington and confirmed in that year by Richard I" and subsequently by other kings." In 1291 the possessions of in. the monastery in Boxley were

taxed at l 4*., and in 1329 the abbot was pardoned for acquiring a rent of 1 3/. 2 9 Mint Accts. 19-30 Hen. VIII, no. 115.

80 A. C. Heales, Record* of Merton Priory, 338.

Harl. MSS. 606, fol. 125.

88 Misc. Bks. (Exch. K.R.), vol. 168, p. 210.

83 Partic. for Gts. 2225.

J1 Pat. 4 & 5 Philip and Mary, pt. vii, m. 34.

85 Close, 32 Eliz. pt. xvi.

M Feet of F. Sum East. 43 Eliz.

" Close, 40 Eliz. pt. v.

��88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxxiv, 168.

89 Ibid, cccxxxiv, 55.

80 Ibid, ccclxi, 101.

81 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 20 Chas. I. 88 Le Neve, Knights, 3 1 7.

88 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 3 Chas. I. 84 Le Neve, Knighti, 317.

86 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 30-31 Chas. I ; Lilt of Skcriffi, P.R.O. 138.

86 Manning and Bray, Mitt, of Surr. ii, 685 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 36 Chas. II.

" Chan. Enr. Decrees, 1901, no. 4, pt. ii. Ibid.

89 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 685. Ibid.

41 Gent. Mag. Ixxxii (i), 604.

264

��48 Recov. R. Hil. 53 Geo. Ill, no. 7. 48 Harl. MSS. 606, fol. 125.

44 Harl. Chart. 112, C 28.

45 Mins. Accts. 36-7 Hen. VIII, no. 44, m. 65 d.

16 Ct. of Req. bdles. 39, no. 2, 124, no. 54.

4 ? V.C.H. Surr. i, 325*.

48 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. I, no. 44. The family of Huscarl also held under the honour of Wallingford in Bcddington.

48 Feud. Aids, v, 122.

stl Ibid.

61 Cart. Antiq. Q. 8.

68 Cal. of Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 354.

53 Pat. 3 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 32 ; Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. Ill (znd nos.), no. 134.

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