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��Bishop Willis's Visitation of 1725 mentions 'about 50 Presbyterians,' an unusual instance in rural Surrey of the continuance of a large body of Nonconformity between those dates.

The village is supplied with gas by the Epsom and Ewell Gas Company, and with water by the Sutton Water Company.

The Chelsea and Kensington Workhouse Schools are in the parish.

In 1 8 1 1 a National School was established on the strength of Mr. White's and Mr. Brumfield's bene- factions. Mr. Calverley gave a further benefaction, which became available in 1 860. The schools at present existing were built in 1 86 1, one for boys and girls, and the other for infants. The former was enlarged in 1893. They still continue Church of England Schools.

Kingswood Liberty is a completely detached part of Ewell parish, bounded on the west and north by Banstead, on the east by Chipstead and Gatton, on the south by Reigate. It measures less than 3 miles from north to south, and is under a mile broad, of a fairly regular form. It contains 1,821 acres. It lies upon the chalk hills, but the chalk is here in general crowned with a deposit of brick-earth and of clay with flints.

Kingswood is traversed by the old Brighton road which came up Reigate Hill and went to Sutton. It has now a railway station on the Tattenham Corner branch of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, opened as far as Kingswood in 1899. The neigh- bourhood which used to be singularly sequestered and rural is fast becoming residential, especially since the opening of the railway. But the majority of the new houses are in the part of Banstead included in the ecclesiastical parish of Kingswood, not in the old portion of Ewell.

In 1838 an ecclesiastical district was formed from Kingswood with a portion of Banstead, and a new church, St. Andrew's, was built in 1 848 by the late Mr. Thomas Alcock. The old church is used as a parish room. The church is endowed with a glebe of 31 acres. There is also a Methodist chapel, built by the late Mr. H. Fowker.

Kingswood Warren, built about 1850 by Mr. H. Alcock, M.P., is the fine seat of Mr. Henry C. O. Bonsor, J.P.

Lower Kingswood School was built in 1893 and enlarged in 1903. Tadworth and Kingswood School (in Banstead parish) was built in 1875. Both are County Council Schools.

The manor of EWELL is named in MANORS Domesday as part of the royal demesne, 7 and as such William I secured it as the alleged heir of Edward the Confessor. 8 Henry II granted it to the Prior and canons of Merton in frankalmoign and as free from aids and customs as it had been when Crown property. 9 This grant was augmented by one from Richard I of 101 acres of land, without impeachment of assart and quit of all

��aids and escheats, See. 10 Henry III granted to the prior the right of free warren in his manor of Ewell, 11 this grant being confirmed by Edward I. u

Richard tenth Earl of Arundel, who was executed as a traitor in 1398, held the manor of the Prior and convent of Merton at the time of his death."

With the manor of Ewell Henry II had granted to the convent of Merton, as parcels of the same manor, two pieces of land called Fifhide" and Selswood (Shelwood). 15 In the reign of Henry III the prior claimed that the men on these lands were his villeins and owed him villeins' service ; this the men denied, affirming that they owed him only the service of free men, and that what the men of Ewell, who were their equals, gave they would give, and no more. 16 An inquisition held later on the services due to the Prior of Merton determined that the men of Selswood and Fifhide were subject to the tax of Peterpence, and that they might not marry son or daughter out of the town- ship without the prior's licence, but that their taxation should be the same as that of the men of Ewell. 1 '

At the dissolution of Merton in 1538, the prior surrendered all the lands of the convent to the king, and this manor was annexed to the honour of Hamp- ton Court, 18 Henry purchasing from William Cooper his lease of the manor. 19 In 1540 Ralph Sadler was appointed bailiff of the manor, 80 and he was granted a lease for twenty-one years of the site of the manor where not inclosed in Nonsuch Park.* 1

Edward VI granted a lease of the site of Ewell Manor to Henry Collier and Agnes his wife for the rent of 6<)s. gd. yearly, which lease was renewed by Philip and Mary. 8 * In 1563 Elizabeth granted the manor to Henry, Earl of Arundel, and his heirs, for the sum of 885 izs. lod.* 3 He had only one child, Jane, who married John, Lord Lumley ; " these died without issue surviving, and the estates passed, 1609, to Splandian Lloyd, Lord Lumley's nearest kinsman, son of his sister Barbara ; " Splandian died childless, and his brother Henry succeeded, 86 the manor then continuing in his family in direct male line to Robert Lumley Lloyd, D.D. He presented a claim to the peerage, being a direct descendant of Barbara sister and heir of Lord Lum- ley ; it was disallowed on the ground that the barony was limited to John, Lord Lumley, in tail male. 87 Dr. Lloyd died in 1730, and left his estates to his three sisters for their life, with reversion to Lord John Russell, afterwards Duke of Bedford. By him they were sold in 1755 to Edward Nor- they, 88 in whose family they have remained, the present lord of the manor being the Rev. E. W. Northey of Ep- som.

����NOKTHIY. Or afctu axure between three fan- then Handing and paw- dered with start argent 'with a pamy or between two lilies argent on the fesse.

��7 V.C.H. Surr. i, 297*.

8 Ibid. 279.

' Cart. Antiq. U, 6. This was not the whole of the royal property, see below.

10 Cart. Antiq. GG, 18 ; RR, 10.

11 Chart. R. 36 Hen. Ill, m. II.

1J Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 739. u Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, bdle. of forfeitures, no. lie.

" Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 35*

��15 Maitland, Braeton's Note Book, no. 1 65 1. See under Leigh parish. " Ibid.

17 Cur. Reg. R. 94, Hil. 10 Hen. HI.

18 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 455.

L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xiv (i), g. 651

(36).


 * Ibid, xvi, p. 7 14. ** Ibid, xvii, p. 695.

99 Pat. 4 & 5 Phil, and Mary, pt. xii, m. 58.

279

��" Pat. 5 Elir. pt. ii, m. 45.

84 Feet of F. Div. Co. East, 8 Eliz. See also Chan. Proc. Eliz. Cc. ii, 18.

Inq. p.m. Surr. 7 Jas. I.
 * G.E.C. Peerage, v, 178 (e) ; Chan.

M Recov. R. East. 4 Chas. I, rot. 33 ; Feet of F. Surr. East. 4 Chas. I.

>7 G.E.C. Peerage, v, 178 (c).

88 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 457.

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