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 A HISTORY OF SURREY atte Sonde, his feoffee.69 The manor was held by his son and grandson John Dewey and Roger Dewey alias Fridlee.70 Roger Fridlee granted the manor to James Janyn and Nicholas Glover, who enfeoffed John Wydoweson and Isabel his wife.71

In 1449 John Wydoweson was in possession of the manor then first called the manor of Fredley (Frydelees) in Mickleham,78 and the following year he and his wife Isabel granted the manor (then simply styled Mickleham) to William Wydoweson.79 A William Wydewson presented to the living in 1492,80 so was perhaps still holding Fredley. He is buried in Mickleham Church, where his wife also was buried in 1513.

Nothing more is known of the manor till 1528, when Sir John Mordaunt granted a lease of land in it," and in 1571 Lewis, Lord Mordaunt, his grandson, alienated the manor to William Lever or Leaver/ 6 From William Leaver the manor of Fredley descended to his son and grandson, John and Thomas Leaver, the latter in- heriting it in 1640." Documentary evidence of the descent is wanting, but according to Manning and Bray Thomas Leaver left sisters, Mary and Joan Leaver, as his heirs. The former married Edward Arnold,' 8 the latter Edward Turner. The Arnolds in 1682 sold their moiety to Mr. John Spencer of Dorking, who in 1691 purchased Turner's moiety. On the same authority Spencer devised to Margaret wife of Gilbert Parker. 79 They sold Fredley to Samuel Hawkes in IJ21. 60 Hawkes, according to Manning and Bray, was succeeded by his nephew Samuel Lamb, by whom Fredley was again sold in 1762 to Cecil Bisshop, afterwards Sir Cecil Bisshop, and Susannah his wife. 81 Cecil Bisshop is distin- guished for building the famous Juniper Hall on the site of the old Royal Oak Inn. This fine old house afforded a kindly shelter to French emigres in troubled times. 88 Sir Cecil Bisshop died in 1779. Mr. David Jenkinson, a lottery agent, bought the property, and built Juniper Hill. In 1803, on the death of his son, the property was broken up. Mr. Worrall bought Juniper Hall and sold it in 1814 to Mr. Thomas Broadwood, from whom it was bought by Miss Beardmore. Her heir conveyed it in 1868 to Mr. F. Richardson, who in 1882 sold it to Mr. George McAndrew. Juniper Hill was bought by Sir Lucas Pepys, bart., M.P., who married the Countess of Rothes and took the name of Leslie. It passed through them and Colonel Lambton to Mr. J. H. Bryant in 1884, and in 1899 to Mr. Leonard Cunliffe.

A third portion was ultimately bought by Mr. Sharp, F.R.S., 'Conversation Sharp.' He left it to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Drummond, who built the house now called Fredley. It is the property of her daughter, Mrs. Kay.

As early as 1253 the priory of Reigate held a tenement in Mickleham of Robert de Watevile. 83 Their property, afterwards known as the manor of WEST HUMBLE, was augmented by the grant of John de Mickelham, who gave to the Prior and convent of Reigate a house and is. %d. rent with the advowson of the church in Mickleham. 8 * Licence for the alienation was granted by the king in 1345 at the request of Queen Philippa. 85 The priory held their land until the Dissolution. Before that event, earlier in the reign of Henry VIII, it had been leased by the priory, under the name of the manor of ' West Humble in Mikelham,' to Thomas Stydolf for 99 years. StydolPs right in certain lands in Mickleham was con- tested by John Arnold, who declared that he had been unjustly ousted by Stydolf from the peaceful occupa- tion of his land in Mickleham, leased to him, so he said, for 99 years, by the Prior of Reigate in the March of 1 52 1. 86 He accused Stydolf of having set his servants to kill him, one of whom assaulted him with a sword and ' strake ' him ' upon the raynes of his bak ' and ' there cut his coot,' his enemies' inten- tion being to cut his head off, and ' playe at the fote- ball therewith,' according to the admission of Stydolfs own daughters. StydolPs reply was that the lease of the lands in question had been made to him in August 151 6. 8 ' An audit of rents of the late priory of Reigate in 1537 shows three years' rent from Thomas Stydolf and John Stydolf his son for the manor of West Humble 15 is/. 88

After the dissolution of Reigate Priory the Stydolfs remained as tenants of the manor, which they held of Lord William Howard and his successors, 89 to whom the lands of the dissolved priory were granted in 1 55 1. 90 The lease seems to have been renewed at the end of the ninety-nine years, as in 1 68 1 a rent of 6 $s. %d. was still paid to the successors of the Howards. 91

The Stydolfs now held the three manors in Mickle- ham Norbury, High Ashurst, and West Humble all Mickleham, in fact, except Fridley. As Norbury and Ashurst, so West Humble passed, in Anne's reign, to the grandson of Sir Richard Stydolf, 98 James Tryon, whose nephew, Charles Tryon, in the reign of George III, 1765, levied a fine of the same manor to Sewallis Shirley for purpose of sale. 93 According to Manning and Bray the manor was sold to Chap- man in 1776, in 1780 to Hopkins, and in 1781 to

��" Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 38.

7 De Banco R. Mich. 5 Edw. IV and 44 Hen. VI, ra. 619.

H Ibid.

7* Close, 27 Hen. VI, m. 109. He appears to have been enfeoffed by Rich- ard Horton, who was probably a trustee, as were, doubtless, Janyn and Glover.

" B Feet of F. Surr. East. z8 Hen. VL

7 4 Winton Epis. Reg. Courtney, 430.

' 6 Deed in private hands. See also Exch. (L.T.R.) Memor. R. East. 29 Hen. VIII, rot. 6.

7 Pat. 1 3 Eliz. pt. xi.

"Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxvi, 150; ccccxcii, 54.

78 Edward Arnold, of Fridley,' wa churchwarden in 1 670. The Arnolds had

��farmed Fridley in the previous century. From 1549 to 1635 there are 68 baptisms of Arnold children.

~' J Manning and Bray, S;,rr. ii, 655.

so Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 7 Ceo. I.

81 Ibid. 12 Ceo. III. A fine between John Matthews and Cecil Bisshop occurs in 1772.


 * Hill, Jumper Hall.

83 Feet of F. Surr. East. 37 Hen. III.

84 Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. Ill (znd nos.), no. 86.

85 Cat. Pat. 1343-5, p. 526.

88 Ct. of Req. bdle. 1 1, no. 46. "7 Ibid.

88 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiii (2), 1264.

89 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 66 (18 Eliz.) ; cclxxx, 69.

90 Pat 33 Hen. VIII, pt. vii, m. i; Mar-

306

��garetwife of Lord William Howard was suc- ceeded by her son Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, from whom the priory's lands descended to his granddaughter, Elizabeth wife of the Earl of Peterborough (Pat. 12 Chas. II, pt. xviii, no. 16). Charles II in 1660 made a grant of these lands to Viscount Mordaunt de Avalon, son of the Countess of Peterborough (Pat. 12 Chas. II, pt. xviii, no. 16), by whom they seem to have been conveyed, by fine, in 1681, to John Parsons (Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 33 Chas. II), who also, in the same year, levied a fine to Grace Pierpoint (Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 33 & 34 Chas. II).

81 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 33 Chas. II.

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

Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 5 Geo. III.

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