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��of land, 10 acres of pasture, and 2 acres of wood in Mickleham. 11 Robert's property descended to his son Gilbert," who augmented it by his marriage with Alice daughter of Peter de Rival, with whom he received 30 acres of land and rent and services of John Adrian and others." He and his wife were also conjointly enfeoffed by William de Bures of 4*. rent of assize." He died in 1292 or 1293," and was succeeded by his son John. In 1332 John conveyed the manor of Mickleham (certain premises afterwards known as the manor of Fredley excepted) to Roger de Apperdele. Roger son of Roger de Apperdele settled it on his son Richard to hold during his father's lifetime, 16 Richard evidently died without issue, as it came to his brother John, 17 who forfeited Mickleham when he was out- lawed as a felon in 1366." The king, having the manor as an escheat, granjted it, first to Simon de Bradestede, 18 then to William Croyser.' Afterwards Roger de Apperdele appears to have tried to regain the manor by denying that he had made any grant to his sons." Evidently he was not successful, as Edward III about that time granted it to William, Bishop of Winchester." Before this date Fredley and West Humble (see below) had both been separated from the manor of Mickleham, which is now referred to as half, and sometimes as two thirds or two parts. In 1402 the bishop received pardon for alienating what is termed half the manor to Nicholas Wykeham " and five other clerks." From these clerks the manor or portion of the manor passed to another clerk, John Brommesgrove, described as holding two parts of the manor.* 1 ' Brommesgrove, in 1431, alienated it to Lawrence Doune, who is said to have held two- thirds of the manor.* 6 Half of this was bought from him by Ralph Wymeldon and Isabel his wife in 1464." In 1481 Richard Wymeldon died seised of a third of the manor known subsequently as Little- burgh aRas Mickleham.* 8 He left a son Thomas, whose daughter Isabel married Thomas Stydolf. The other part of the manor, which belonged to Laurence Doune, seems to have been acquired by William Ashurst, who held it in I485- 30 Together with land which William Ashurst already held in Mickle- ham 30 '' it descended under the name of Mickleham abas High Ashurst to his son John. 31 In 1511 William brother of John Ashurst quitclaimed his right to Robert Gaynesford, whose son Henry in 1535 conveyed it to Thomas Stydolf. 5 ' From this

��time Littleburgh and Ashurst are sometimes treated separately and sometimes as different names for the same manor.

In 1538 Thomas Stydolf appears as owner of two parts of one part of the manor of Mickleham, formerly

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��the land of John de Mickleham, Henry Burton and John Walk being trustees, to his use. 3 * At his death in 1545 he is described as holding a third of the manor of Mickleham alias High Ashurst." John Stydolf succeeded his father Thomas, being followed by his son, another Thomas, who was succeeded by his son, Sir Francis. 34

John Evelyn gives an account of a visit to Sir Francis Stydolf at Mickleham in August 1655. He says : ' I went to Boxhill to see those rare natural bowers, cabinets, and shady walks in the box copses : hence we walked to Mickleham, and saw Sir F. Stidolph's seate environ'd with elme-trees and walnuts innumerable, and of which last he told us they receiv'd a considerable revenue. Here are such goodly walkes and hills shaded with yew and box as render the place extremely agreeable, it seeming from these ever- greens to be summer all the winter.' " This de- scription is one that might have been written yesterday, for Surrey's lovely hill is still as fair in winter as in summer.

In the following century Sir Richard Stydolf left two daughters, Frances wife of James, Lord Astley," and Margaret wife of James Tryon, and to the two sons of the latter, Charles and James Tryon, the Stydolf lands descended. 58 In 1705 the two sons made a partition of the pro- perty, the manor of Mickleham alias High Ashurst alias Littleburgh falling to James." From James

��11 Kirby's Quest, fol. 97. Betides his service to the king, he owed rent and suit at the court of Bctchworth to ' Lord John de Berewyk,' and also rent to William Agulham for a certain tenement in the manor.

12 Exch. Enr. of Inq. rot. iv, m. 7,

18 Exch. Enr. of Inq. rot. iv, m. 1 1 ; Inq. p.m. zi Edw. I, no. 129. His wife Alice apparently afterwards married Wil- liam de Clyvedene (Inq. a.q.d. i Edw. II, no. 86).

14 Exch. Enr. of Inq. rot. iv, m. II.

16 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. I, no. 38.

11 Col. Pat. 1348-50, p. 421 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 48.

W Ibid.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 40 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 60.

Ibid.

80 Abbrev.Rot. Orig. (Rcc. Com.), ii, 28 8.

al Plac. in Cane, file v, HiL 41 Edw. Ill, no. 5.

a Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. ii.

��ffl Cal. Pat. 1401-5, p. 227. Before this date conveyances were made to two of these clerks, Nicholas de Wykeham and Master John Campeden, by Roger de Friddele and John Apperdele son of John Apperdele of Letherhead, of 133 acres of land, 150 acres of pasture, 6 acres of wood, and 141. rent in Mickleham (Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 14 Ric. II ; Mich. 1 5 Ric. III). This is the same as the extent of the two thirds afterwards given, so that the fines were probably for assurance of title.

Ibid.


 * Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Hen. VI, no. 43.

16 Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. VI, no. 12. The extent here given, viz. 133 acres of land, 150 acres of pasture, 6 acres of wood and 141. rent is the same as that in the fines mentioned above ; but in the inquisi- tion taken after Brommcsgrove's death the two parts were said to consist of 1 20 acres of arable land, 200 acres of pasture, and 1 5 acres of wood.

Cal. Pat. 1436-41, p. 545.

58 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. IV, no. 71.

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��He had acquired it from Isabel Wymeldon in 1464 (Fine R. 4 Edw. IV, m. I ; Cal. Pat. 1461-7, p. 321). Why it is called Littleburgh is unknown. There is no reason to connect it with Bergt in Domesday.

29 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 651.

80 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xx, 24.

8011 The Ashursts had land in Mickle- ham, called High Ashurst, of which there is record in 1439 and 1477 (Deeds quoted by Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 656).

81 Ibid.

82 Manning and Fray, Surr. ii, 656.

88 Mem. R. (L.T.R.) East. 30 Hen. VIII, rot. I.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Hen. VIII, no. 89.

84 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxv, 69 (i Tas. I) ; clxxv, 66 (18 Eliz.).

86 Evelyn's Diary, 27 Aug. 1655.

" He died 1674 (monument at Mickle- ham).

88 Close, 4 Anne, pt. iii, no. 16.

Ibid.

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