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��It appears that Henry II made another grant of land which later was called a manor, but which does not appear as a separate property after the 1 3th century. He gave to Maurice de Creon w 43*. i\J. rent * to hold of the king in chief" as an instalment of 4 librates which he had promised him. Maurice gave the rent to his son-in-law, Guy de la Val," who sub-enfeoffed William St. Michael ;** this grant was confirmed by the king's writ in 1205," and also on the death of Guy without issue, when the king granted the manor to Peter de Creon son of Maurice to hold of the Crown as his father had done.' 5 William St. Michael continued to hold possession until he was disseised in 1222."

Peter was succeeded by his brother Almaric," whose heir, Maurice, lord pf Creon, gave all his hereditary right in the manor to Sir Robert Burnell, clerk, and his heirs, to be held of the king by the services due therefrom, and by rendering to Maurice and his heirs id. yearly at Easter. 58

Robert Burnell the same year, 1272, restored the lands to the king, who bestowed them on John de la Linde to be held by him and his heirs by the service of one-fourth part of a knight's fee." From this time the manor seems to have been attached as a member to Wallington * (q.v.).

Two mills at Ewell are mentioned in Domesday, and later there appear to have been more ; Adam Tychesey gave one to the Prior and convent of Merton. 41

There is a reputed manor in Ewell called BOT- T4LS a (Battailes, Buttalls, Butolphs, xvii cent.), of which there is no certain history until 1659, when it was held by Henry Sanders ; he sold it to Thomas Turgis, 44 who dying childless left it to his kinsman William Newland. He had no son, and his two sur- viving daughters were his heirs ; they married re- spectively Philip Cantillon 4S and Robert Dillon, and their children sold the manor to Anthony Chamier of Epsom. 46 He died in 1780 without issue, having left his estates in trust for his wife, and after her decease to his nephew John des Champs or Chamier." They sold it with the manors of Fitznells and Rookesley to Thomas Calverley, whose son Thomas built Ewell Castle on the site of the old family mansion. 48 He was succeeded by his nephew William Bower Monro, who sold the estate to James Gadesden. 49 Mr. James Philip Gadesden of Burley, Newbury, Berks., is the present owner.

As early as 675 we have mention of 30 mansai of land in Ewell, afterwards known as the manor of FITZNELLS (Venelles, 60 Fenelles, 61 xv cent.; Fenys," xvi cent.), being granted by Frithwald subregului of Surrey and Bishop Erkenwald to the newly-founded

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��abbey of Chertsey." In 1331 Robert de FitzNeel died seised of one messuage, 250 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, and one water- mill, which he held after his wife's death of the inheritance of his daughter Grace ; of these he held the capital mes- suage, 100 acres of land, and 4 acres of meadow of the Prior of Merton by the service of 15;., and 50 acres of land and one mill of the Abbot of Chertsey by the service of 6t. Sd." It was from this family that the manor took the name of Fitznells. Robert's daughter Grace had at the time of her father's death a son and heir, Robert, 65 who was probably the father of Robert Leversegge, who died seised of a tenement called Fenelles, lying in the parishes of Ewell, Cudding- ton, and East Cheam. 56 His son Richard was imbecile from his birth, but held the estate in demesne as of fee until 10 June 1438, on which day John Iwardby (alias Everby) took possession and was suc- ceeded by his son John, who affirmed that his father held the manor of the gift of Robert Leversegge. 57 In 1 542 it was

held by Dame Joan St. John, 68 who was daughter and heir of Sir John Iwardby, 69 and her son John sold it (1562) to Edmund Horde, 60 in whose family it remained for more than a century, 61 Thomas Horde settling it on his son William in tail male in i639. 61 The Hordeswere hold- ing the manor as late as 1662, when Thomas Horde conveyed it to Jane Hope, widow. 63

In 1693 John Harvey and his wife Mary quit-claimed an annual rent in the manor to Thomas Turgis, warranting it

against themselves and all other claimants for Edmund and Thomas Horde, deceased. The manor was in the possession of Thomas Turgis at the time of his death, 1 704, he having devised it to his kinsman, Mr. William Newland, 64 from which time the history of this manor is the same as that of Bottals and Rookesley.

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����HORDE. Argent a chief or ivith a raven therein.

��M Fife R. 20 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 3.

30 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 125*.

81 Rot. Lit. Pat. (Rcc. Com.), 142.

Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 115*.

Ibid.

M Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 45*.

> 6 Rot. Lit. Pat. (Rec. Com.), 142.

88 Excerftae Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 88.

" Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 484*.

88 Chart. R. 56 Hen. HI, m. 4.

Ibid. m. 3.

40 See Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xiv, 44.

41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 16 Ric. II, pt. ii, no.

J*

48 The name ' Butele ' oceurt in 1205-6. See Cat. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), i, 16*.

��48 Recov. R. SUIT. East. 1659, rot. 15.

44 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 1659.

Feet of F. Div. Co. Mil. 27 Geo. II.

48 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Geo. Ill ; Hil. 6 Geo. III.

Will of Anthony Chamier, dated 9 Oct. 1780, P.C.C. 465 Collins; see also Recov. R. Surr. Mich. 22 Geo. Ill, rot. 37.

48 Burke, Visit, of Seats and Arms (1855, Ser. 2), ii, 203. 4 Ibid.

60 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Hen. VI, no. 3 ; Plac. in Cane, file 30, no. II.

41 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 41, no. no.

M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 6 Hen. VIII.

68 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64. But tee

280

��note on Chertsey for the authenticity of the charter.

44 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. Ill, 75.

Ibid.

66 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Hen. VI, no. 3.


 * 7 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 41, no. no.

68 Chan. Proc. Eliz. Bb. xxviii, 60.

59 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 460.

80 Feet of F. Surr. East. 4 Eliz.

61 See Bodl. Chart. 10, n, 12; Feet of F. Surr. East. 12 Jas. I ; Hil. 10 Chas. I.

89 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxviii,

12.

68 Feet of F. Surr. Mich 1662 ; Recov. R. Mich. 14 Chas. II, rot. 217. 64 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 460.

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