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��previously been in the possession of John Wikes, 3 ' having apparently been excepted from the sale of the manor by Richard Wikes in 1526.

In 1560 Edward, Lord Windsor, leased the manor to the family of Puttenham, 33 and seven years later he sold it to John Vaughan and Anne his wife." Anne was the daughter of Sir Christopher Pickering, and had been three times married : first to Francis Weston,* 4 who had been involved in the accusation against Anne Boleyn ; secondly to Sir Henry Knyvett ; and thirdly to John Vaughan. 36 By a curious chance Francis Weston was descended from John Camel's daughter Katherine, sometimes called Anne, who married Edmund Weston."

Anne Vaughan outlived her third husband, and dying in 1582 she was succeeded by her son Henry Weston. 38 His son Richard became lord of the manor in 1 5 92, 39 and he probably conveyed it to William Stydolf, amongst whose lands it is mentioned on his death in I6OO-I. 40 In 1677 William's grandson Sigismorid settled the manor on himself and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir Francis Rolle, 41 and having no issue he left it to her in fee." She married secondly Michael Hyde, 43 and thirdly Thomas Edwin, who owned Headley after his wife's death in 1734." He died shortly afterwards, childless, and his nephew Charles Edwin inherited the estate. Charles Edwin died in 1756, leaving the remainder at the death of his wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, to his nephew Charles Windham, who took the name of Edwin, 44 and who in 1784 sold the estate to Henry Boulton. 46 The mansion house was sold by Boulton to Colonel Alexander Hume, who, having married the daughter of William Evelyn of St. Clare, Kent, took the name of Evelyn. 4 ' Colonel Evelyn afterwards sold it to Robert Ladbroke, who, having purchased the rest of the estate in 1 804 from Mr. Boulton, was lord of the manor in iSog. 43 Not long after the manor, but not the manor-house, was again sold, and passed into the hands of Richard Howard of Ashtead. 49 He was the brother of Sir Wil- liam Bagot the first Lord Bagot of Bagot's Bromley, Staffordshire, who on his marriage with the heiress of Ashtead had assumed the name of Howard. 50 His only child and heir, Mary, married in 1807 the Hon. Fulk Greville Upton, who also took the name of Howard on his marriage." Mary Howard survived her husband a great many years, dying at the age of ninety-two in 1877." Headley then became the property of Colonel Charles Bagot, one of the sons of her first cousin, also Charles Bagot. 43 After his death in 1 88 1 the manor was purchased by the Hon. Henry Dudley Ryder, who succeeded his brother as fourth Earl of Harrowby on 26 March 1900. He died on

��1 1 November following, and his widow the Dowager Countess of Harrowby is the present lady of the manor.

A fair held at Headley on 24 August is mentioned by Symmes. 54

The manor-house, where Mr. Ladbroke resided after the manor was sold, is now the property of Mr. Walter Cunliffe. It has been turned into a farmhouse. When Mr. Cunliffe bought it the strong-room with arrangements for securing the prisoners' hands was still existing.

The church of ST. MART THE

CHURCH VIRGIN consists of a chancel 31 ft.

by 1 5 ft. 9 in. with a small north vestry,

a nave 59 ft. 6 in. by 25 ft. 6 in. with a south porch,

and a west tower I 3 ft. square inside.

The present building was erected in 1855, except- ing the tower, which was added a few years later. The nave is in 13th-century style. The tower, the ground story of which serves as a porch, is capped by a shingled wooden spire changing from square to octagonal above the eaves. The former church had a low square tower at its west end, and is said to have been much dilapidated before it was pulled down. All that is left of it is set up in the churchyard over the grave of the late rector, the Rev. Ferdinand Faithful, who died in 1871, in the form of a small rectangular ivy-covered building with a 15th-century arch at the west, and in it are preserved a few details, such as the tracery of a two-light window with trefoiled heads, and the bowl of an 18th-century font. The present font is modern.

In the vestry are preserved two painted wooden mural tablets, one to Elizabeth Leate, daughter of Mr. Nicholas Leate, Turkey merchant, 'a worthy and eminent citizen of London,' and aunt of a former rector, Richard Wyld ; she died in 1680. The other is to Margaret daughter of William and Mary Warren of London, who died in 1675. There are several 18th-century monuments retained and reset in the tower.

In the tower is a mediaeval bell used for striking the hour only. It is inscribed ' Sancta Katrina ora pro nobis,' and bears the ' cross and ring ' shield of Richard Hille of London, c. 1430. There is also a set of eight cup-shaped gongs, put up in 1876.

The communion plate consists of a cup of 1752, a standing paten of 1706, a flagon of 1854, and a small cover paten without hall marks.

The registers date from 1663.

The right of presentation to the

ADPOWSON church of Headley belonged from the

beginning of the 1 4th century to the

abbey of Westminster, 55 until its dissolution in 1539-

4O. 46 In 1350, during a vacancy in the abbacy,

��M Pat I Mary, pt. xiv, m. 21.

8 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 2 Eliz.

M Ibid. Surr. East. 9 Eliz. ; Recov. R. Trin. 9 Eliz. rot. 141.

8S Visit. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 7.

M Manning and Bray, Hiit. of Surr. ii, 640 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc, 60 ; Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. xiii, m. 1 1.

W Visit. Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 7.

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc, 60 ; Pat. 29 Eliz. pt. xiii, m. xi.

88 Two documents, Pat. 3 1 Eliz. pt. vi, m. 1 7, and Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 3 1 Eliz. record a conveyance of Headley to Tho- mas Foster and Thomas Cowper, but from the wording of the inquisition on Henry,

��and from the fact that Thomas Cowper acted as trustee formerly for Lady Vaughan, it seems most probable that this transac- tion was for the purpose of settlement upon Richard.

40 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxiv, 175.

41 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 29 Chas. II. " P.C.C. 193 Smith.

48 Aubrey, Antiq. of Surr. ii, 303.

44 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 640 ; Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 421.

45 Ibid. ; Recov. R. Trin. 24 Ceo. II, rot. 262 ; P.C.C. 164, Glazier.

46 Feet of F. Surr. East. 25 Ceo. III. 4 ' Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii,

640 ; Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 421.

292

��48 Ibid.

4 Ibid. 422.

HoivarJ Possessors, 173 ; Burke, Peer- age.
 * Records of the Ashtead Estate and its

51 Records of the Ashtead Estate and its Howard Possessors, 176; Burke, Peerage,

" Ibid.

M Ibid. Surr. Dir. 1878, 1882.

54 Symmes MS., Add. MSS. 6167, fol. 215.

65 Index Winton Epis. Reg. ; Egerton MSS. 2031-2034, ii, 8, 58, 138 ; iii, 17, 88, 138 ; iv, 15, 45, 78.

66 Dugdale, Monasticon, \, 280.

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