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��There is no mention of the so-called manor of SHAWFQRD (Standeford, Shaldeford, Rokesley, xv cent. ; Rixley, xvi cent.) until the middle of the 15th century ; but as early as 1229 John de Scalde- ford is mentioned as owning half a hide of land in Ewell, 65 and twenty years later William de Standeford claimed common of pasture in Ewell, of which his uncle Joceus de Standeford (whose heir he was) was seised as of fee as pertaining to his free tenement in ' Scaldeford,' the day on which he died. 66

Manning and Bray, 67 quoting an undated deed in the Rawlinson MSS., give a grant by Henry Picot of Chessington of a tenement in ' Schaldeford," in the parish of Ewell, and of a mill in ' Schaldeford,' in Long Ditton, to John de Rokesle. The witnesses, John d'Abernon and William Ambesas, date the deed about 1297, when those two were knights of the shire.

In 1458-9 Simon Melbourne and others released to John Merston and Rose his wife for the term of their lives, with remainder to William, nephew of the said John, and Anne his wife, all right in the ' manor of Shaldeford alias Rokesley,' formerly called ' Stande- ford,' in the parish of Ewell, without impeachment of waste.' 3 This manor was then worth 5 marks and included a barn worth 4*. and two tenements, 100 acres of land, 261. %d. rent in the parishes of Ewell and Cuddington worth 5 marks, and was said to be held of the Prior of Merton, service unknown. John and Rose died so seised and William and Anne entered and were seised in fee tail. William died 26 October 1495, and was succeeded by his son William. 69 About fifty years later it was owned by Edward Jenens, who, dying without issue, left it to his aunt Jane wife of Robert Kempe. Her only daughter and heir married John Wight, and they had one son Rhys. 70 Then it seems to have come into the possession of John, Lord Lumley, at that time lord of Ewell Manor, for in 1 593 he quitclaimed it to Margaret Sanders, widow,' 1 for the sum of 100.

In 1714 William Newland" was holding the manor, and thenceforward its history follows that of the manors of Bottals and Fitznells.

At the Domesday Survey ' the men of the Hun- dred' deposed that the reeves of the king's manors had abstracted two and a quarter hides of the manor of Ewell with appurtenances. 7 * This is believed to be the manor of KINGSWOOD, which Henry II granted with Selswood as parcel of the manor of Ewell 74 to the Prior and canons of Merton." It was augmented by 5 acres of wood granted by Richard de Bures, 1208."

In 1291 the Prior and convent of Merton were granted licence to inclose their wood of Kingswood, which was of their own soil and without the bounds of the forest, and which they held by grant of the king's progenitors. 77

��In 1 5 3 5 Kingswood Manor was worth 1 4 6.-. 8^., 78 including the perquisites of court valued at 14*. 8</. The manor continued in the priory till its dissolution, when it was annexed by Henry to the honour of Hampton Court. Queen Elizabeth granted it to William Lord Howard of Effingham and Lady Mar- garet his wife for the service of one-fortieth part of a knight's fee " ; it descended to their son, who was created Earl of Nottingham. His son Charles died seised of it in 1642,* having settled it on his second wife Mary daughter of Sir William Cockayne. 81 She held a court there as lady of the manor. 8 ' On her death, 1651, the manor should have passed to Sir John Heydon, the reversion of the manor having been granted to him in consideration of the military services of his brother Sir William Heydon, 6 * but as Sir John Heydon had been a Royalist officer and died in i653, M it is doubtful if he was ever in posses- sion. His name, according to Manning, does not appear in the court rolls. In 1656 the manor was conveyed by Charles Cockayne and his wife Mary to Sir Thomas Bludworth, 66 another Royalist partisan, who held a court as lord in October 1 660. He lived at Flanchford, Reigate (q.v.). He was succeeded by his son Charles, who held his first court 1698, and in 1703 conveyed the manor to Richard Lynch and Thomas Brandon, possibly trustees for Thomas Harris, who held a court in 1708 ; it then descended to his son Thomas, whose nephew John Hughes ^ in 1791 sold the manor to William Jolliffe, whose son- Hylton Jolliffe was owning it in 1804." It was sold about 1830 to Mr. Thomas Alcock, 85 from whose executors it was bought by Sir John Hartopp, and from his trustees by Mr. H. Cosmo Bonsor. The manorial rights are in abeyance.

The old parish church of ST. MART CHURCHES THE VIRGIN, has been pulled down, all except the tower, which is of 15th-century date, and is built of flint with stone dressings in three stages. The west doorway is original, and has moulded jambs and a two-centred arch, but is restored with plaster. The window over it, also old, has three cinquefoiled lights with tracery under a two-centred arch. On the east side there are remains of the nave walls, which are now used as buttresses- and to form the sides of a porch. There is also part of the west wall of the south aisle.

The middle stage has single cinquefoiled lights on the north-west and south sides, but a good deal of the stone has been plastered over. The top stage has two-light windows of similar character in each face. The stair turret is on the south-west, and the top of the tower has a much-repaired parapet and angle pinnacles.

The two-centred tower arch is of typical 15th- century character, the moulded jambs having attached' shafts with octagonal moulded bases and capitals.

��M Feet of F. Surr. ij Hen. Ill, no.

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M Cur. Reg. R. 135, m. 22.

" Surr. i, 460.

Close, 37 Hen. VI, m. *i.

Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 511.

J Chan. Proc. (Set. 2), cxciii, 41.

n Feet of F. Surr. HiL 35 Eliz.

1 Recov. R. Mich. I Geo. I, rot. 125.

J V.C.H. Surr. i, 290.

J 4 The three portions of the manor of Ewell, Ewell itself on the northern side of

��the chalk, Kingswood detached from it on the summit and southern side, and Shcl- vrood further detached, down in the Weald, indicate the isolated condition of human habitation in the nth and even 1 2th centuries.

'* Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.),

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? 8 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. IO John. JJ Pat. 19 Edw. I, m. 10. J" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 48. J Pat. 6 Eliz. pt. iv, m. 3.

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��80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), dxx, 2 ; see' also Rccov. R. Trin. 9 Chas. I, rot. 60

81 B.M. Add. Chart 5638.

82 Court Rolls quoted by Manning ano> Bray, Surr. i, 461.

88 Pat. 6 Chas. I, pt. viii, m. 5.

84 Diet. Nat. Biog.

85 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1656, pt. ii. 88 See Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 30 Geo. III..

87 Recov. R. Trin. 44 Geo. Ill, rot. 283.

88 Brayley, Surr. iv, 272.

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