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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Henry VIII granted it in 1537 to Sir Nicholas Carew, K.G., in tail male;" but in 1539, in con- sequence of his attainder, the manor returned to the Crown, and the next year was annexed to the honour of Hampton Court.* 1 Queen Mary, however, granted it in 1576 to Francis Carew (afterwards knighted)," eldest son of Nicholas," and his heirs male, with reversion to the queen and her successors." In 1589 the reversion (Francis Carew being unmarried) ** was granted to Edward Darcy, groom of the Privy Chamber " and son of Carew's sister Mary,* 8 who held the manor after the death of Sir Francis in 1 6 1 1 and died seised in 1612, having settled it on his wife Mary with remainder to his second son Christopher and contingent remainder to his eldest son Robert.*

Robert died in 1 6 1 8 " seised of the reversion of the manor after the death of Mary widow of Edward, from which it appears that Christopher, who was alive in 1623," must have quitclaimed to Robert. Robert's widow and son Edward levied a fine of the manor in 1632." The rent of the manor (40) was settled on Queen Anne by James I,* 4 and on Queen Catherine by Charles 11." Edward Darcy sold the manor to Mrs. Anne Mynne, widow of George Mynne of Horton Manor,* 6 and daughter of Sir Robert Parkhurst, and she left it by will to her daughter Elizabeth wife of Richard Evelyn, brother to John Evelyn the diarist. He resided at Woodcote. Courts of the manor were held in his name in 1667 and 1668." Elizabeth survived him and held courts as lady of the manor until 1 69 1 ; * 8 she, at her death in 1692, devised the estate to Christopher Buckle of Banstead and his son Christopher as trustees for her sister Ann for her life, with remainder first to her nephew John Lewknor and then to John Parkhurst of Catesby, co. Northants." The trustees held the courts of the manor until 1706," when John Parkhurst succeeded to the estate ; his grand- son John was holding it in 1725." This John devised the manor to Sir Charles Kemys Tynte, bart., and another trustee for his wife Ricarda during her lifetime, after her death to be sold and the proceeds divided between his two younger sons. 4 ' He died in 1765, and in 1770 the manor was sold to Sir Joseph Mawbey, bart.," who was succeeded by his son John in 1798. John had no male heir, and was followed first by his daughter Emily and then by Ann, in right of whom her husband, John Ivett Briscoe, 44 held the manor till past the middle of the I gth century. It was afterwards held by his trustees, and then went to Charles Vernon Strange, who held it in 1874. From him it passed to James Stuart Strange, who died in 1 908 leaving three daughters.

��Two mills were in existence at the time of Domes- day," but only one is afterwards mentioned in the records of the manor. 46 Charles II granted Elizabeth Evelyn, then lady of the manor, the right to hold a weekly market and two fairs at Epsom ; the grant was renewed by James II, together with a grant to hold a court of pie-powder at each of the fairs. 47

Epsom Court, the old manor-house, was not sold with the property in 1770, but by a family arrange- ment descended to the Rev. John Parkhurst, eldest son of John and Ricarda Parkhurst (see above), and the great tithes and theadvowson went with it. It is now a farm-house.

The manor of HORTON in this parish belonged to the Abbot and convent of Chertsey, but there seem to be no early records relating to it, 49 unless the lands granted by Richard de Horton in 1338 (vldt lufra) formed part of it.

According to a charter of the early i;th century, the Abbot and convent of Chertsey owned the hamlet or township of Horton, co. Surrey, with 168 acres of land, 60 acres of pasture lying in common fields of Horton and in two fields called West Crofts and Sampsones, 3 acres of wood called Burnet Grove, 1 3/. SJ. rent of free tenants there, and 1 21. ^d. rent proceeding from the manor of Brettgrave and the lands of Adam Whitlokke in Ewell and 100 acres furze and heath in ' Ebbesham Common ' opposite the township of Horton ; also another small parcel of land containing i rood in ' Ebbesham ' near the parish church, par- cel of a tenement called Rankyns, with court and view of frankpledge there, 'wayf and strayf' fines, &c. These lands together made the manor of Horton. 49

In 1440 the abbot granted it to John Merston, the king's esquire, and his wife Rose, and their heirs, to hold of the king by payment of 3^. yearly for all service. Free warren in all the demesne lands of Horton was also granted by the king to John and Rose, and licence to inclose loo acres of land for a park. 50

After the death of Rose, who survived her husband, the manor passed to William Merston and his wife Anne ; " he died in 1495, leaving a son William,** who inherited on his mother's death. He died in January 1511-12, leaving Horton to his wife Beatrice for her life, with remainder to his daughter Joan and her heirs. 53 Joan married first Nicholas Mynne, 64 secondly William Sander of Ewell, 65 and died in 1 540 leaving a son John

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��L. and P. Hen. Vlll t zii (z), 1150

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Ibid, xv, 498.

88 Shaw, Knights of Engl. ii, 77.

41 Pat I Mary, pt viii, m. 35.

55 See Pat. 31 Eliz. pt v, m. 16.

26 Berry, County Gen. Surr. 5.

J < Pat. 31 Eliz. pt v, m. 16 ; Hat. MSS. Com. Rep. v, App. 266.

88 Berry, County Gtn. Surr. $ ; Tht Genealogist (New Ser.), xvi, 243.

39 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxxviii, 157, and W. and L. do. xviii, 85.

80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxii, 151, and W. and L. do. xxvi, 202.

81 See. Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), ccclxxii, 151.

��sa Christopher was knighted 29 Sept. 1623 ; Shaw, Knights, ii, 182. 88 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 8 Chas. I. 5 Pat. 17 Chas. II, pt. ix, no. i. 85 Feet of F. Surr. East 1659.
 * 4 Pat. 1 1 Jas. I, pt xiii, no. 4.

87 Ct R., quoted by Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 6 1 1.

88 Ibid.

89 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 611.

40 Ct R. quoted by Manning, op. cit. ii, fin.

41 Recov. R. East. II Geo. I, rot 193. 4S Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 612.

44 Recov. R. East. 3 Geo. IV, rot 47-
 * Feet of F. Surr. HiL II Geo. III.

2 74

��V.C.H. Surr. i, 308*

48 Recov. R. Trin. 4 Jas. II, rot 178.

47 Pat. I Jas. II, pt vii, no. 1 9.

48 Conveyances of land in Horton occur in Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 13 Hen. Ill, no. 30, 31 ; Trin. 23 Hen. Ill ; 10 Edw. I ; 2$ Edw. I ; B.M. Sloane Chart xxxii, 29.

49 Chart R. 1-20 Hen. VI, no. 26. Ibid.

61 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Hen. VII, no.

37-

6S Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 521.

58 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxvi, 27, and Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), mlxxvii, 3.

84 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 6iz.

55 Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc, xliii), 18.

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