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��by her first marriage, during whose minority William Sander was granted an annuity of 4 issuing from the manor of Horton, with wardship and marriage of the said John. 56 This John Mynne was holding the manor in 1564 ; 57 he died in I 595, M leaving a son and heir William, 59 whose son John succeeded his father in i6i8. M John married Alice daughter of William Hale and settled various lands and tenements on her, among them the manor-house of Horton ; 61 but in order to pay his debts he with the consent of William Hale sold these estates 61 to George Mynne of Woodcote (1626). George Mynne left two daughters, co-heiresses ; M Elizabeth married Richard Evelyn 6i and Anne married Sir John Lewknor. On the division of the estate the manor of Horton fell to the share of Elizabeth, 66 who, having survived her husband and children, left the manor to Charles Calvert, 67 fourth Lord Baltimore, a great-grandson of Anne, daughter of George Mynne of Hertingford- bury, a connexion of her family. 68

His grandson Charles, the sixth Lord Baltimore, died in 1751, and his son and heir Frederick, Lord Bal- timore, who left the country after a celebrated trial in 1 768, sold the estates. 69 During the next twenty years Horton Manor changed hands several times, and was finally bought by Mr. Trotter, an upholsterer in Soho ; 70 his son James, high sheriff in 1798, succeeded him in 1 79O. 71 He was succeeded by his son John, M.P. for West Surrey 1841-7, from whom it passed to William S. Trotter. The estate has been recently bought by the London County Council for asylums.

The old manor-house of Horton was a large building surrounded by a moat. It was in the low ground north of Epsom. The Mynnes seem to have lived at Woodcote, for Richard Evelyn married their heiress there in 1648," and he is said to have rebuilt the house at Woodcote."

Later, when Woodcote Park had been separated from Horton, Mr. John Trotter, owner of Horton, built a new mansion, called it Horton Place, and inclosed land around it for a park. 74

The manor of BRETTGRAVE (Bruttegrave, Bertesgrave, Brottesgrave, Bryddesgreve, xiv and xv cent.) belonged to the abbey of Chertsey as parcel of their manor of Epsom. 75 It was held of the Abbot of Chertsey in the reign of Henry III by John de

���TROTTIR of Horton. Argtnt a crescent gulet and a chief indented a- zure with three pierced molets argent therein.

��Tichemarsh. 76 Later in the century it was in the > v tenure of Reginald de Imworth, who died before 1287, leaving a son John, then a minor. 77 In a suit brought in 1346 by the Abbot of Chertsey against Nicholas de Tonstall, Joan his wife, and Thomas de Saye, this John was said to have granted the manor in fee to Henry Gerard, chaplain, and John his illegitimate son, who were holding in the reign of Edward II by services due. 78 After the death of John son of Henry, John the then abbot entered upon the manor as an escheat, 79 and continued his seisin until forcibly and unlawfully disseised by Joan and her first husband, Henry de Saye, who carried off his crops, impounded the beasts from his ploughs, and otherwise persecuted him, until by a writing he released his right in the manor. As the release was obtained by force, and without the consent of the convent, it was not held valid by the jurors, and the abbot recovered seisin of the manor with damages. In the same year the abbot and convent received licence to grant the manor to Guy de Bryan the younger to be held of the king in chief by the rent of 8/. ^d. ;" they probably reserved to themselves a rent of I ^s. ^d. from the manor, as this is afterwards stated to belong to their manor of Horton, 81 and this may have led to Brettgrave being considered a parcel of the manor of Horton, which was denied by the jurors in an inqui- sition taken in 151 7.** Guy de Bryan had licence to have Mass celebrated in his chapel in Brettgrave in Epsom in I348, 8 * but in the same year enfeoffed John Gogh and other clerks of the manor, 64 probably in trust for Henry, Earl of Lancaster, who in 1350 received a grant of free warren in his demesne lands of Brettgrave. 85 Henry was created Duke of Lancaster in 1352, and died seised of the manor in 136 1. 66 He left no son, and his eldest daughter Maud, wife of the Duke of Bavaria, dying the following year, 87 the estates passed to her only sister Blanche, wife of John of Gaunt, Earl of Richmond, 98 created Duke of Lancaster in 1362, father of Henry IV. 89 The manor thus became part of the Duchy of Lancaster, leases of it being granted by successive kings. 90 Ultimately the fee-simple seems to have been acquired by

William Merston, whose father John Merston (vide Horton) had held the lease of it. 91 William died in January 1511 12. 91 It descended through his daugh- ter Joan, wife of Nicholas Mynne, to John Mynne, the

���DUCHY or LANCAS- TIB. England -with a label azure.

��M L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xvi, 1056 (68).


 * 7 Recov. R. East. Eliz. rot. 614.

59 Chan. Inq. p.m. ccli, 158.

59 Chan. Inq. p.m. ccclxxi, 105 ; W. and L. Inq. xxviii, 163.

Jai. I ; Recov. R. Mich. 21 Jas. I, rot. 65.
 * > Ibid. ; Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. II

B.M. Add. Chart. 36438.

61 Ibid. 36439.

M Feet of F. Surr. HiL 2 Chat. I.

M Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 16515 ibid. Trin. 15 Chat. II.

65 Berry, County Gen. Surr. 79.

66 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 612. 7 Recov. R. HiL I Geo. II, rot. 40.

68 O.E.C. Peerage, i, 296 (George Mynne of Woodcote's daughter Anne

��married Sir John Lewknor, not Lord Baltimore).

D. Enr. HiL 9 Geo. Ill (1769).

70 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 614.

7 1 Brayley, Surr. iv, 351.

T 2 Evelyn's Diary, 16 Aug. 1648. 7 Burke, fait. ofSeati, i, 131. 7* Brayley, Surr. iv, 351. 7* Col. Pat. 1345-8, p. 155.

7 Ibid.

77 Cal. Clou, 1279-88, p. 490.

7 8 Cal. Pat. 1345-8, p. 155.

7" Cal. Clote, 1279-88, p. 490.

80 Inq. a.q.d. ccclxxxi, 1 1 ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 21 Edw. Ill ; Cal. Pat. '345-8 P- ZI 7 i Add. MS. 6167, foL 141.

81 See Chart. R. i-zo Hen. VI, no. 26.

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��82 Exch. Inq. p.m. mlxxii, 3. Locally its boundaries make it a long way off Horton, but near Woodcote.

83 Winton Epia. Reg. Edington, pt ii, \6b.

84 Cal. Pat. 1348-50, p. 206.

86 Chart. R. Z4 Edw. Ill, pt i, no. 3. 86 Cal. Incj. p.m. (Rec. Com.), ii, 236 ^ Add. MS. 6167, foL 151 d.

>7 Cal. Itu). p.m. (Rec. Com.), ii, 247.

88 Add. MS. 6167, foL 151 d.

89 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 8.

90 Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xvi, 102 (pt iii) ; xviii, 135 d, 136 d; Cal. Pat. 1422-29, p. 455.

91 Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. xxi,. 1(44.

M Exch. Inq. p.m. mlxxii, 3.

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