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��the park pales. The place, however, existed in name only. There was no ecclesiastical parish ; the land was taxed with Ewell, but separately rated, with its own overseers.

The present house, known as Nonsuch Park, is the property of Captain W. R. G. Farmer. It is not on the site of the palace, but is on the confines of the old Little Park, in which the palace stood. It was built for Mr. Samuel Farmer by Sir Jeffrey Wyatt- ville, in supposed 16th-century style, early in the I9th century (1802-6).

In the last fifty years, as railways extended, houses have grown up near the site of Worcester Park and have received the name of Cuddington. Worcester Court is the residence of Mrs. Hanney, and Home- steads that of Mr. C. A. Harris, C.B., C.M.G. In 1894 a church was built at Worcester Park, which is now the parish church, though certainly upon a vejy different site from the original one. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.

In Cuddington is the Joint Isolation Hospital for the Sutton, Carshalton, Letherhead, and Epsom District Councils.

Cuddington and Nonsuch Park were, according to Leland, the site of pits for obtaining fire-clay. Sub- sequently Nonsuch pottery and tiles were known, but they were in reality made in Ewell. la There used to be gunpowder works on the Hoggsmill Stream, called generally the Maiden Mills or the Long Ditton Mills, but they were actually in Cuddington parish.'

There are no schools peculiar to Cuddington. Cheam and Cuddington (National) School for Boys was built in 1826, and that for girls and infants in 1869. But they are the original Cheam schools.

The earliest mention of CUDD1NG- MJNOR TON is in connexion with Chertsey Monastery, the alleged first endowment of which in 675 by Frithwald, subregulus of Surrey, and Bishop Erkenwald included thirty dwellings at Ewell cum ' Cotinton.' ' The confirmation of this charter by Athelstan in 933* mentions the village of 'Cudintone'; and Edward the Confessor in 1062 confirmed to the monastery six dwellings at ' Cudin- tone.' * No further mention of Chertsey in connexion with Cuddington occurs after this date, however," and in the Domesday Survey it is declared to have been held in the time of Edward the Confessor by Earl Leofwine, the younger brother of Harold.' At the date of the Survey (1086) it was held by Ilbert de Laci, lord of Pontefract, of Odo of Bayeux, 8 and on the forfeiture of his estates for high treason by Robert son of Ilbert, was bestowed by Henry I on Hugh de Laval.'

In 1203 Guy de Laval forfeited his English estates for joining with the French king against John, 10 who in the same year granted Cuddington to William de

���CODINGTON. Gules a cross or fretty gules.

��St. Michael, who was to render to Roger de Lacy, Constable of Chester (who had claimed the estates of Guy as his right by inheritance), the same farm which he, William, had been wont to render to Guy." Laurence de St. Michael was holding land in Surrey in 1233," and in 1236-7 he appears as party to a fine concerning lands in Cuddington." He or his son died in 1283, leaving a widow Margaret, four sons Laurence, William, Thomas, and John and four daughters. 14 It was probably the eldest son Laurence who in 1289 sought to replevy his land in Cuddington which had been taken into the king's hands for default." In 1331, 1332, and 1333 courts were held in the name of Thomas de St. Michael, 16 who in 1333 settled the manor upon him- self for life, and after his death upon Laurence son of John de St. Michael and Joan his wife and their heirs. 17 In 1337 the manor was held by Laurence, 18 who appears indif- ferently in records of this period under the name of Codington (Cuddington) or St. Michael, the latter, however, occurring but rarely after this date.

In 1355 courts were held in the name of Sir Simon de Codington (Sheriff of Surrey in 1353 and 1362) and Katherine his wife. 19 Sir Simon married, secondly, Idonea, and died before 1378, in which year the manor was settled by trustees on Ralph son of Simon (Sheriff of Surrey in 1400) and Anne his wife.'"

In 1470 the manor was surrendered to John Codington by his mother Margaret widow of Thomas Codington. 11 The manor was finally sold in 1538 by Richard Codington and Elizabeth his wife to Henry VIII," who annexed it to the honour of Hampton Court, and commenced there the erec- tion of the magnificent palace of Nonsuch.

In 1 547 a messuage and lands in the manor of Nonsuch alias Cuddington were granted by Edward VI to Sir Thomas Cawarden (who was Sheriff of Surrey in 1547) to hold for 21 years for a rent of 5 5*. 8J. In 1550 Cawarden was appointed Keeper of the King's House of Nonsuch, 'called the Banketyng House within the Park there.' M The Banqueting House was a separate building from the Palace, which was not completed until later. In 1556 the reversion of Cawarden's lease, with the ad- ditions of the capital mansion of Nonsuch or Non- such Place, with appurtenances in Nonsuch, Ewell, Cuddington, and Cheam, and all that park called the Little Park of Nonsuch, was bestowed on Henry, twelfth Earl of Arundel," Lord Chamberlain to

��ta y.C.H. Surr. ii, 182, 193-4.

Ibid. 317.

" Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64. But see in Chcrtsey for the authenticity of thete early charters.

4 Kemble, Cod. Difl. ccclxiii ; Birch, Cart. Sax. ii, 397.

' Kemble, Cod. Difl. dcccxii.

6 A possible upp oiition it that Ulwin who in 1086 held I hide of 'Codintone ' may have been the tame Ulwin who held Byfleet of Chertsey, and this may have been the Chertiey holding in Cuddington.

��^ V.C.H. Surr. i, 304,1.

8 Ibid. ; Engl. Hist. Rev. xiv, 430.

9 Engl. Hist. Rev. xiv, 419.

10 Rot. dt Liberate (Rec. Com.), 44.

11 Ibid. ; Dugdale, Baronage, i, 100. " Col. Close, 1131-4, p. 250.

18 Feet of F. Surr. 21 Hen. Ill, file IO. 14 R. R. Sharpe, Cal. of London Wills, i, 67 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. Edw. I, file 33, no. 1 1. 16 Cal. Close, 1288-96, p. 52. 16 Ct. R. portf. 204, no. 44. '? Feet of F. 6 Edw. HI, no. 105. 18 Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. Ill, no. 39.

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��19 Ct. R. portf. 204, no. 44.


 * > Close, 51 Edw. Ill, m. 6 d.

n AncL Deeds, P.R.O. B. 1159.

M Pat. 30 Hen. VIII, pt. Hi, m. 31 j Treas. Roll of Accts. pt. i, m. 1 1 d ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 30 Hen. VIII j L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiii (i), g. 1519 (10) ; KV, 498 (36).

93 Original patent at Loseley.

14 Pat. 3 & 4 Philip and Mary, pt. iii, m. 36 ; Orig. R. 3 & 4 Philip and Mary, pt. iv, no. 71. Cawarden died in 1559. His lease expired in 1568.

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