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 �A HISTORY OF SURREY

��1 2 34, 19 and which passed to Gilbert d'Abernon, uncle of Ingelram, by reason of Jordan d'Abernon, the rightful heir, having surrendered his claim. 20 Gilbert paid a relief of 40 marks to the sheriff in 1235 on taking up this inheritance, and on his death, in the next year, the custody of his land and of his heir was granted to John de Gatesden, then sheriff of Surrey and Sussex." The heir of Gilbert was probably the John d'Abernon who in 1252 granted to William d'Abernon a tene- ment in Fetcham," and who claimed liberties in the manor in 1252-3." He was sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1266," and was apparently dead in 1279, when his son John was made a knight." The elder John had also been a knight. 86 The son John claimed the same rights as his father in 1279." In 1314 John d'Abernon the son was _ holding the manor,* 8 and in 1326-7 died seised of it as a holding con- sisting of half a messuage, 100 acres of land worth 25*. per annum, 8 acres of meadow, and 19*. from rent of free tenants, leaving a son and heir of the same name. 19 The latter w.is sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1330 and I334, 30 and in 1339 settled Fetcham on his grandson William son of John and Margery wife of William. 31

William died in 1358," leaving a daughter Eliza- beth then wife of William Croyser, and afterwards of John de Grey of Ruthyn. 33 In 1395 William son of Elizabeth and William Croyser was holding the manor," of which he died seised jointly with his wife Edith in 1415, leaving a daughter and heir Anne," then aged nine years, and before her thirteenth year the wife of Ingram Bruyn, son of Sir Maurice Bruyn. 36 Anne subsequently married Sir Henry Norbury, and died in 1464, leaving a son and heir Sir John Norbury," afterwards Vice-Marshal to Richard III,' S who inherited these estates and married Jane daughter of Sir Otes Gilbert. Their daughter Anne married Richard Hallywell of Devon, and had a daughter Joan, 39 who in 1514-15 was holding the manor jointly with her husband Edmund Lord Bray. In a bailiffs account of Lord Bray's manors of Fetcham and Letherhead for this date the rents of assize for the two manors amounted to ll us. l^J.; the farm of the manor and the demesne lands was 8 a year."

In 1548 Joan settled the manor upon herself and her husband for their lives, with remainder to John Bray their son and heir. 41 The latter married Ann daughter of Francis fifth Earl of Shrewsbury, and was summoned to Parliament as a baron from 1545 to 1555, but on his death without issue in 1 5 5 7 his estates were divided among his six sisters and co-heirs,

��Fetcham falling to the share of Frances, the youngest, who married Thomas Lyfield." In 1575 a settle- ment was made on Thomas Vincent and Jane his wife, daughter of Thomas and Frances, with remainder to Francis Vincent and Bray Vincent, sons of Thomas and Jane. Francis married Sara daughter of Sir Amias Paulet in 1589," and in 1617 settled this manor on his son Anthony on the occasion of his marriage with Elizabeth daughter of Sir Arthur Ackland." Anthony was sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 16367." He was named as a sequestrator of delinquent estates by the Long Parliament, but died in 1642, and was succeeded by his son Sir Francis. He married Catherine daughter of George Pitt and died in 1670," having settled this manor on his fourth son Thomas Vincent," who in 1693, jointly with his wife Mary, conveyed it to Thomas Folkes, 48 the latter probably acting in the interest of Francis, fifth Baron Howard of Effingham, for whose widow he was executor in 1727.**

Thomas, Lord Howard, son of the said Francis, suffered a recovery of the manor in 172 1, 50 and died without issue four years later. His nephew, Thomas Howard, Earl of Ef- fingham, was seised of it in 1742." In 1801 Richard, nephew of Thomas and last Earl of Effingham, 4 * conveyed the manor to James Laurell, 4 * who made his seat at Eastwick Park in Great Bookham, and subsequently sold this property

to the family of Hankey of Fetcham Park, 64 whose descendant, Mr. John Barnard Hankey, is lord of the manor at the present day.

In 12523 John d'Abernon received a grant of free warren in his demesne lands of Fetcham," and the privilege is mentioned as appurtenant to the manor in a conveyance of 1607.' In 1279 John d'Abernon claimed in addition to have view of frankpledge and all things pertaining thereto from time immemorial."

In 1303 Henry de Gildford had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Fetcham, 58 but there is no other trace of his connexion with Fetcham, ex- cept that in 1284-5 ne was appointed custodian of Robert d'Abernon, rector of Fetcham, who was under age at the time of his admission to the rectory.*'

At the time of the Domesday Survey the king's manor included 4 mills worth \s., and Richard de Tonbridge received 6s. 64. from another mill, 60 which

���HANKEY. Party gules and azure a leafing wolf erminois wounded in the shoulder.

��19 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 270. There it an exhaustive article on the d'Abernoni by C. S. Percival, Dir.S.A. and formerly Fellow of Trinity Hall, in Surrey Arch. Coll, v, 53.

80 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), 172. Ibid. 305.

82 Feet of F. Surr. 30 Hen. Ill, no. 31.

83 Chart. R. 37 Hen. HI, m. 3 (i).

24 Madox, Hist, of Exch. 24, 4.

25 Purl. Writs (Rec. Com.), i, 216, 218; Pat. 7 Edw. I, m. 21 d.

86 Add. Chart. 5547- 88 Cat. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Com.), i, 266. 29 Chan. Inq. p.m. Edw. Ill, file 3, no. i.
 * Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747.

80 Lists of Sheriff, 135, 136.

��"Feet of F. Div. Co. 13 Edw. Ill, no. 267.

81 Chan. Inq. p.m. file 139 (ist no*.), no. 23. M Ibid.

84 De Banco R. 538, m. 3 380,

86 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no. 37.

Ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 30.

8 ? Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 282.

88 Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 392.

88 Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 221.

40 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 480.

41 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. JJ Hen. VIII.

42 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, ii, 1 1 ; Feet of F. Surr. East. 3 & 4 Phil, and Mary.

48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxlvii, 99. 44 Ibid, ccccxcii, 106.

286

��45 List ofSheriffi, 138. 41 G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, i, 158. Will P.C.C. Penn, 68. Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 5 Will, and Mary.

49 Surr. Arch. Coll. ix, 431.

50 Recov. R. Mich. 3 Geo. I, rot. 267.

51 Ibid. East. 15 Geo. II, rot. 191.

68 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iii, 237-8. M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 41 Geo. III.

54 Br yley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 415.

55 Chart. R. 37 Hen. Ill, m. 3 (i). " Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 5 Jas. I.

W Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747. 48 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 74.

69 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 486 (quoting from the episcopal register).

M y.C.. Surr. i, 279, 297.

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