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 COPTHORNE HUNDRED

��MICKLEHAM

���TALBOT, baronet. Gulct a lion in a border engrailed or with the difference of a crescent.

��Tryon, according to Manning and Bray, the manor descended to his nephew, Charles Tryon, whose son Charles, in 1766, sold it to Anthony Chapman of London for 35,000. Chap- man sold Mickleham Manor to Benjamin Bond Hopkins of Paine's Hill in 1775, and he in 1779* sold it to Charles Talbot, afterwards a baronet. He died in 1798. His family held the manor till 1871, when the baronetcy being ex- tinct the Misses Talbot sold it to Mr. R. H. Mackworth Praed, the present lord. Mickle- ham Hall, built by Sir C. H. Talbot, was bought at the same time by the late Mr. Gordon W. Clark, and is now the seat of his son, Mr. H. H. Gordon Clark."

Meanwhile Ashurst had been separated, as a re- puted manor, but bearing the name of Mickleham, and had been sold by Chapman in 1776 to Mr. Robert Botall." From him it passed to George Morgan," and in 1804 was conveyed by John Morgan to F. R. V. Villebois." In 1817 it was bought by Mr. Andrew Strahan, the king's printer. In 1855 it was purchased from his nephew by Sir Henry Muggeridge ; it passed in 1862 to Sir Richard Glass, and in 1872 to J. C. Wilson. It is now the seat of the Dowager Countess of Harrowby."

NORBURr was evidently the estate in Mickleham which in 1086 belonged to Richard son of Earl Gilbert ; it was then assessed for two hides." From Richard de Tonbridge the overlordship descended to the De Clares, Earls of Gloucester," from them to the Despensers, 49 and in the reign of Henry VI be- longed to their descendant Isabel, Countess of War- wick. 49 As her ultimate heir was Anne Beauchamp who married Warwick the King-maker, the overlordship must have fallen to the Crown after his death and attainder in 1471 ; but in the 1 6th century it was said to belong to the warden and scholars of Merton College, Oxford, and Nor- bury to be held as of their manor of Thorncroft ; M this is evidently an error.

At the time of the Domesday Survey Norbury was held under Richard de Tonbridge by Oswold, who had formerly been the tenant under Edward the Confessor. The next holder of whom any- thing is known was Odo de Dammartin, who during

��the 1 2th century granted to the monks of St. Pan- eras a third of his tithe in Mickleham. 51 His daughter, Alice de Dammartin, held half a fee there," and Margery widow of Odo de Dammartin had as her dower, among other lands, the manor of Mickleham."

From the Dammartins the manor passed to William Husee, who in 1314 held 'the manor called Le North Bury ' in Mickleham as half a knight's fee of Earl Gilbert de Clare. 6 * He was granted free warren there by Edward II," and had licence for an oratory in his manor between 1323 and 1333."

In 1349 l ^ e manor was held by Isabel Husee," and in 1376 by another William Husee. 63 The next holder of Norbury appears in Thomas Stydolf, who died seised of it in 1545." He has been connected by Manning and Bray with William Husee, in direct de- scent. According to these historians Isabel daughter of William Husee married William Wymeldon, the grand- child of whose son Ralph, Isabel Wymeldon, married Thomas Stydolf who died in 1545. The Stydolfs held Norbury with their other Mickleham manors until the latter half of the 1 7th century. 61 In 1705 the manor became the property of James Tryon, grand- son of Sir Richard Stydolf. 61 According to Manning and Bray James Tryon devised Norbury to his nephew Charles Tryon, who settled it upon his wife. She lived at Norbury till 1 764, and then granted her life interest to her son Charles, 63 who with his wife Re- becca, in 1765, levied a fine to Sewallis Shirley. 64 In 1766 the estate was sold (according to Manning and Bray) to Anthony Chapman, who sold it to William Locke in 1774. Mr. Locke built the present house. 65 In 1819 his son sold Norbury to Mr. E. R. Robinson, who, however, sold it again in 1822 to Mr. E. Fuller Maitland, who exchanged it with Mr. H. P. Sperling for Park Place, near Henley-on-Thames. Mr. Sper- ling made great improvements in the beautiful grounds. In 1 848 he sold it to Mr. Thomas Grissell, whose family sold it in 1890 to Mr. Leopold Salomons. 66

FREDLET. In 1336 John de Mickleham, after having granted the manor of Mickleham with the exception of a messuage, 1 20 acres of land, and 4 acres of wood, to Roger de Apperdele, granted the excepted premises, also under the name of the 'manor of Mickleham,' 67 to his son-in-law John Dewey, husband of Margery de Mickleham. 66

In 1365 John Frychele or Fridlee alias Dewey settled a house, 80 acres of land, and 4 acres of wood in Mickleham on himself and his wife Joan, by Hugh

��40 In 1779, not 1780,35 Manning and Bray say, for in 1779 Talbot, as owner, made an agreement with the parish about a right of way (Parish Books).

41 Private and local knowledge.

Com. Pleas D. Ear. Hil. 16 Geo. Ill, m. 1 3 3. Botall himself seems to have told Manning that he bought it from Hopkins.

48 Feet of F. Surr. East. 21 Geo. III.

44 Recov. R. Mich. 44 Geo. III.

45 Private and local information. V.C.H. Surr. i, 317.

4 " Teita de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219, 220 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68.

48 Ibid. 23 Edw. Ill (pt. 2, ist not.), no. 169.

Ibid. 18 Hen. VI, no. 3.

50 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 66. Thorncroft includes lands in Mickleham now, but not Norbury.

61 Cat. of And. Deeds, iii, A. 3978.

��11 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219. Robert de Mickleham also seems to have held half a fee (according to Testa de Nevill^ of the honour of Clare.

M Feet of F. Div. Co. 1 5 & 1 6 Hen. Ill, 89.

64 Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68.

" Chart. R. 1 1 Edw. II, m. 9, no. 42.

66 Egerton MS. 2032.

W Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill (pt 2, 1st nos.), no. 169.

68 Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill (pt I, 2nd nos.), no. 46.

Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 89.

60 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 651. From deeds, apparently. The Visi- tation in Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 38*, alto connects Thomas Stydolf with Husee in descent through the Wymeldons, but makes Isabel Wymeldon marry George Stydolf, their son being Thomas Stydolf.

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��61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 66 5 cclxxx, 69 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 14 Chas. I.

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

68 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 652.

4 Feet of F. Surr. Hit 5 Geo. III.

65 On the hill. The old house wa near the river. Part of it was preserved and is now a farm-house.

M Local and private knowledge.

6 7 Compare the common use of the name, the manor of Mickleham for Mickleham and Ashurst later.

68 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 10 Edw. Ill 5 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 108 ; Cal. Pat. i334-8,p. 232. This'manor* was subsequently held of the king by half of the original service owed by the manor of Mickleham. See Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Edw. Ill (2nd not.), no. 38.

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