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��widow Theophila and son William sold to the Hon. Thomas Pagett in 1 7 36." By Caroline daughter of Thomas Pagett and her husband Sir Nicholas Bayly in 1753 Parva Pachevesham was sold to George Lord Carpenter, Earl of Tyrconnel, 74 whose son conveyed to Lewis Montolieu in 1788." He sold it in 1792 to Henry Casmajor, who conveyed the mansion house in 1795 to Thomas Kingscote, from whom it passed by sale in 1802 to Sir John Coghill. 76 In 1812 Sir John sold to Nathaniel Bland, who in 1829 pulled down the old house, which was a timbered one close to the river, and built the pre- sent house called Randalls Park on a new site. Rather before this the road leading to the ford across the Mole and to Fetch am had been diverted to the westward, but still crosses the river at the old ford." The manor was bought in 1856 from Eland's trustees by Mr. Robert Henderson, whose son, Mr. John Henderson, is now lord of the manor.

THORNCROFT, a manor in Letherhead, formed part of the lands of Richard de Tonbridge, lord of Clare. 78 Of the honour of Clare the manor was continuously held. 79 Jordan son of Amfred held half a virgate in Letherhead in the reign of Henry III. 80 This half-virgate William le Moine in 1226 claimed against Henry son of Jordan, 61 and in 1228 William Monk or le Moine quitclaimed his right in a virgate of land in Letherhead to John de Chereburg or Cheleburg, SI who according to the Teita de Nevill held half a knight's fee there of the honour of Clare. He alienated all his Letherhead property to Sir Philip Basset and the Lady Ela his wife, Countess of Warwick. 83 The countess and Sir Philip in 1267 granted two carucates of land in Letherhead to Walter de Merton for the support of the house of his scholars at Oxford. 8 * Merton College, Oxford, still holds the manor. 84 Sir Thomas Bludder (vide Reigate) lived there, also Mr. Henry Crab Boulton (vide Headley), who rebuilt the house in 1772. It was occupied in the igth century by Colonel Drinkwater Bethune, author of The Siege of Gibraltar.

MrNCHIN.ln 1 195 Ailric of Leddrede claimed and obtained half a hide of land in Letherhead against his brother Baldwin. 86 Baldwin's son, however, seems to have owned it later, if this was the same half-hide that William the son of Baldwin granted to Ralph de Bradele in I248. 8 ' Whether or not this was the land which was shortly afterwards in the possession of the Apperdele family cannot be ascertained. The Apperdeles held land in Letherhead at the end of the

��reign of Henry III when Henry de Apperdele claimed against William de Apperdele and Maud his wife various parcels of land in Letherhead which he de- clared he had given to them when he was ' non compos mentis, et extra se et extra mentem suam.' He also thought that the Prior of Holy Cross, Reigate, ought not to retain the 26 acres in Letherhead which Alexander, Henry's son, had given him, because he (Henry) had given them to Alexander when he was mentally unbalanced, and that gifts made at such a time were quite invalid. The other parties, however, said that Henry had not been out of his mind at the time, and had himself afterwards ratified his son's grant to the prior, and five years after his grant to William had further assured the same to him. The jury not inclining to the excuse of mental aberration sent Henry to prison. 88

Roger de Apperdele in the 1 4th century founded a chantry in Letherhead Church, 89 and in 1365 granted a messuage, 30 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, and l$s. \d. rent in Letherhead to the Prior and convent of Kilburn. 90 Roger de Apper- dele held some of his land of Sir John Argentine as of his manor of Pachevesham and some of Merton Priory." Part of the land given to the prioress seems to have been rather poor ground : some of the pasture was too stony to be sown, and some lay in so dry a place that it could only be mown in a wet season." This lay in the north of the parish bordering on Letherhead Common, which is poor land; other Apperdele land was between the river and the Dork- ing road, now called Aprils. 93 The property re- mained with Kilburn until its dissolution, when it was granted under the name of the manor 94 of Minchen to Thomas Stydolf, and then followed the descent of Pachevesham S5 and the other Stydolf property.

The priory of Merton had an estate in Lether- head which in the 1 6th century is called the manor of PAKENHAM. In 1535 the possessions of the monastery in Pachevesham were valued at 2O/. M In 1579 'the lordship and manor of Pakenham in Letherhead, late part of the possessions of the monastery of Merton,' was granted to Edmund Downing and John Walker and their heirs. 97 There seems to be no further trace of this manor.

The church of ST. NICHOLAS con- CHURCHES sists of a chancel 48 ft. by 1 6 ft., north transept 30 ft. 5 in. by 1 6 ft. 4 in., south transept 1 7ft. 8 in. by 1 3 ft. 2 in., nave 54 ft. 2 in. long on its north side by 23ft. gin., north aisle 9ft. 5 in. wide, north porch, south aisle I oft. 7 in. wide, and a west tower 1 7 ft. 9 in. wide by 1 2 ft. 10 in. deep ; all these measurements are internal.

The plan of the nave, apart from the interruption caused by the irregular setting of the tower, is doubt- less of the 1 2th century, as the early 1 3th-century arches

��7* Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 671. 7< Ibid.

Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 28 Geo. III. 7 6 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 671. 7" Private information. "> V.C.H. Surr. i, 319. 7' Teita de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219; Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68.

80 Feet of F. Surr. 3 Hen. III.

81 Rot. Lit. Claui. (Rec. Com.), ii, 210. m Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219.

88 Anct, D. (P.R.O.), A, 4586.

" Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 51 Hen. Ill 5

��Coram Rege R. Trin. 51 Hen. Ill, rot. 14.

86 See Pat. 9 Cha. I, pt. v, no. 23.

86 Pipe R. 7 Ric. I, m. 1 8 d.

W Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 32 Hen. III.

88 Assize R. 874, rot. lod.

88 Egerton MS. 2833.

90 Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 34.

91 Ibid. Certain land in Letherhead was owned by Roger de Apperdele at the time of his death, viz. a field of 30 acrei named Long Aperdele said to be held of

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��the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, and an acre and a half of meadow in Busche- mede and a house in Letherhead held of the Abbot of Netley. Chan. Inq. p.m. 45 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 37.

Ibid.

98 Local knowledge.

94 Pat. 33 Hen. VIH, pt i.

m Vide Pachevesham Magna.

96 Vakr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 48.

W Pat. 21 Eliz. pt. vi, no. I. Perhapi this grant was in trust for Robert Darcy, for ice Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. xvi, m. 17.

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