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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

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��Henry VIII and Lord High Steward of the House- hold to Mary and Elizabeth. The Earl of Arundel died in 1580," having bequeathed all his manors and lands to his son-in-law Lord Lumley, upon whom he had already settled Nonsuch. Lord Lumley died in 1609, and was succeeded by his nephew, Splandian Lloyd. 16 Thelatterdyingwith- out issue was succeeded by his brother Henry Lloyd," whose grandson of the same name died in 1704. Robert Lum- ley Lloyd, son of Henry, was rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and chaplain to the Duke of Bedford, whose pat- ronage he acknowledged by bequeathing to him all his possessions in Surrey, includ- ing this estate.' 8 In 1755 the

manor, rectory, and advowson of the vicarage were sold by the duke to Edward Northey of Epsom," who died in 1772, leaving this estate to his son William Northey. 30 The latter died in 1 808," and was succeeded by his cousin William Northey, on whose death the estate passed to his brother, Rev. Edward Northey, Canon of Windsor." Edward Richard Northey, son of the latter, was holding the manor in 1821," and his son, Rev. E. W. Northey, M.A., of Epsom, is lord of the manor at the present day.

NONSUCH. The whole of the former village of Cuddington, with its mansion and church, were swept away by Henry VIII to make room for the palace afterwards known as Nonsuch, and its two parks the Great Park or Worcester Park (containing 91 1 acres), and the Little Park (containing 67 1 acres). The palace was never completed by Henry VIII, but had already attained sufficient splendour to evoke from Leland the lines

' Hanc quia non habeat similem, laudare Britanni Saepe solent, nullique parent cognomine dicunt.'

During the next reign Sir Thomas Cawarden, Keeper of the Banqueting House, in accordance with a royal mandate entertained there ' at the Quenes Majestie's House,' the French ambassador, M. de Noailles, and his wife."

In 1556 the reversion of Cawarden's lease was granted to the Earl of Arundel, with the additional grant of the Little Park and the palace (vide supra) which he is said to have completed." He in 1559 entertained there Queen Elizabeth, when, we are told, ' her grace had as gret chere every nyght and bankets ; but ye sonday at nyght my lord of Arundell made her a grete bankett at ys coste as ever was sene, for soper, bankete, and maske, w' drums and flutes, and all ye mysyke yt cold be, tyll mydnyght ; and as for chere,

��has not bene sene nor heard. On Monday was a great supper made for her, but before night she stood at her standing in the further park, and there she saw a course. At nyght was a play of the Chylderyn of Powlles and theyr mysyke master Sebastian Phelyps and Mr. Haywode ; and after, a grete banket, w' drumes and flutes and the goodly bankets and dishes as costely as ever was sene, and gyldyd. . . . My Lord of Arundell gayfe to ye Quene grace a cubard of plate.' 36 Queen Elizabeth paid frequent subsequent visits to Nonsuch, and in 1590-2 purchased the palace and park of John, Lord Lumley, heir of the Earl of Arundel, in exchange for lands to the value of

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In 1599 Mr. Roland White wrote to Robert Sydney : ' Her Majestic is returned again to None- such, which of all other places she likes best ' ; and it was on the occasion of this visit that the Earl of Essex, having returned from Ireland without the queen's permission, burst into her bedchamber at ten o'clock in the morning, and though received kindly at the time, was committed four days later to the custody of the Lord Keeper. 38

Lord Lumley was appointed Keeper of the Palace and Little Park by James I, who was frequently resi- dent there for hunting and racing, which probably took place on Banstead Downs (vide Banstead).

On I December 1606 the Earl of Worcester was appointed Keeper of the Great Park at Nonsuch, whence no doubt it acquired the name Worcester Park, and the lodge in it the name of Worcester House."

The estate formed part of the jointure of Queen Henrietta Maria, and was visited by Charles I in 1625, 1629, 1630, and 1632. During the Common- wealth the palace was at first leased to Algernon Sidney for .150 per annum. The Government soon afterwards assigned the whole place to Lilburne's regiment, then in Scotland, as security for the men's pay. A letter is extant from Colonel Robert Lil- burne to General Lambert, in which he offers on behalf of the regiment to sell Nonsuch to him. The men, it was thought, would be willing to accept izs. in the for their debentures. 40 Certainly the Little Park and Palace were purchased by Major-General Lambert," and in 1654-6 the Great Park and Wor- cester House were purchased by Colonel Thomas Pride," who died in 1658 at Worcester House, the house in the Great Park.

At the Restoration Nonsuch House and Parks were restored to Queen Henrietta Maria. In 1663 the reversion of part of the estate (under the name of Nonsuch Great Park or Worcester Park, land called the Great Park Meadow, and the mansion-house called Worcester House) was leased by Charles II for a term of 99 years to Sir Robert Long, his late companion in exile, and at this date Chancellor of the Exchequer ;

��85 Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 8 Eliz. ; Hil. 13 Eliz. ; Will P.C.C. I Arundell.

26 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxi, 109 ; G.E.C. Complete Peerage, V, 178.

7 Feet of F. Surr. East 4 Chas. 1 1 Recov. R. East. 4 Chas. I, no. 33.

98 Close, 29 Geo. II, pt. iii, no. II ; 34 Geo. II, pt. iv, no. 9.

Ibid. ; Recov. R. Mich. I Geo. Ill, rot. 147.

Will P.C.C. 403 Bargrave.

81 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 471.

88 Burke, Landed Gentry, 1906.

��88 Recov. R. Mich. 2 Geo. IV, rot. 1 60 ; ibid. HiL 3 & 4 Geo. IV, rot. 219.

84 A. J. Kempe, ThcLoseley MSS. 157.

85 Camden, Brit. (ed. Gibson), 158.

84 Gent. Mag. (New Ser.), viii, 139 (from the MS. life of the Earl of Arun- del).

W A. J. Kempe, The Loseley MSS. 147 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 34 Eliz.

88 Strickland, Lives of the Queens of Engl. iv, 717.

19 Pat. 4 Jas. I, pt. xxiv. Lord Lumley

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��had had a lease of the Great Park Lodge j Shrewsbury Letters, iii, 207. Lumley died in 1609, and Worcester's keepership must have co-existed with his lease and lasted beyond it, to allow the name Worcester Park to remain. The lodge is called the Earl of Worcester's house in 1642. B.M. Thomason Tracts, E. 127 (39).

40 Firth, Cramviell's Army, 206 ; Letters /ram Officers in Scotland (Bannatyne Club),

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41 Gent. Mag. (New Ser.), viii, 143. 48 Commons 1 Journ. viii, 73,

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