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��since then has been united to Newdigate under one lord of the manor.

In 1298-9 Walter de la Poyle died seised of the site of the manor of CUDWORTH or CUDFORD, in Newdigate and Rusper, Sussex, which he held of the Abbot of Chertsey in socage, the house, court, and garden then being worth ji. The lands were held of various overlords, 50 acres from the abbot, 30 from the Earl Warenne of Surrey, 20 from John de Montfbrt, &c. M His son and heir was John,' 9 who presumably inherited the manor, though there is no mention of it amongst the possessions he held in demesne at his death in 13 17-1 8." Some years later licence was granted to Henry de la Poyle to have mass celebrated in the oratory of his manor of Cudworth, 61 and in 1360, at his death, he was hold- ing the manor of the king, the Abbot of Chertsey, the Earls of Arundel and Warwick, &c., for various rents. 6 ' After this there is no further mention of the estate until 1574, when Thomas Bowett died seised of the manor, which his father Richard had bought, and which was said to be held of Sir Francis Carew." Bowett's brother Nicholas succeeded him, and in 1 579 sold the property to John Thorpe." In 1622 the lord of the manor was still a John Thorpe, 64 whether the same or his successor does not appear, and in 1636 the estate was purchased by Mr. Ede. 66 The extant court rolls begin with courts of John Ede in 1763 and 1773. In 1 775 67 it was sold to Mr. Lee Steere Steere, who died in 1785. It was left to his wife for her life, and at her death passed into the possession of his grandson Lee Steere Witts, who took the name of Steere ; he died in 1842. His son Mr. Lee Steere Steere succeeded. The grandson of the latter, Henry Lee Steere of Jayes Park, is now lord of the manor. The

manor-house is of some age, and is surrounded by a moat. It was long occupied as a farm, but was con- verted again lately into a gentleman's house.

There was also a farm or tenement in Newdigate called GREENES, sometimes referred to as a manor, with lands in Newdigate and Capel. In 144950 John Grene held land in Newdigate,* 8 and the family again appears in 1457 and 1497. Towards the end of the 1 6th century one half of Greenes was held by Thomas Boorde, who died in January 1601 z. 69 His son Ninian held it till his death in 1606, and left a son and heir Herbert, then about four years old. 70 By 1642 the property was in the possession of

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��Christopher Wheeler, yeoman, and he bequeathed it in his will of that year, in tail male," to his grandson Robert, who was holding it in 1663.'* In 1694 the manor of Greenes was conveyed by John Hill of Hurstpoint, gentleman, and Mary his wife, the daughter of Robert Wheeler, to Thomas Patching." Thomas Patching became a bankrupt in 1706, and his property was conveyed to trustees for the benefit of his creditors. 74 In 1714 it was conveyed by them to John Woods, and by him to Ezra Gill, as the manor of Greenes. In 1729 Greenes was settled on the children of a marriage between Ezra Gill and Mary Woods," daughter of John Woods. It descended in the Gill and Frankland family (see Hashing and Temple Elfold in Capel) till 1832, when J. H. Frankland sold it to Mr. James Tschudi Broadwood of Lyne, whose great-grandson is now owner. 76

In 1291 it was found that the Prior of Merton held a messuage and 60 acres of land in Newdigate, which was of the ancient demesne of the Crown, and Richard de la Sterte held it of him. 77 KINGSL4ND, by its name, may answer to this ancient demesne, but subsequent possession by Merton does not appear. 773

On 14 January 1573-4 Matthew Wrighte of Newdigate, yeoman, conveyed to Nicholas Bryne of Reigate, tanner, his tenement in Newdigate, called Kingsland, in the occupation of William Wood. On 5 October 1584 William Dible of Newdigate, husbandman, gave a lease to William Wood, tanner, of his messuage, barns, &c., and one half of his lands called Kings Lands in Newdigate, ' as it lyeth divided by the king's highway leading between Nudigate and Capell on the south, and one pond and lymepitte on the north,' in the occupation of William Wood. 78 Kingsland so lies on the present road. In 1619 Thomas Constable and Agnes his wife sold it to Sir Thomas Bludder, whose widow and her second husband sold it in 1655 to the former's mother, Mrs. Hester Shaw. By will of 1659 Mrs. Hester Shaw of London left Kingsland in Newdigate, consisting of two messuages, barns, &c.,and 50 acres of land, in trust for her daughter Elizabeth, Lady Bludder, then the wife of George Farrington, who by deed of 12 April 1687 made an appointment of the property, charging it with an annuity to her son, and naming trustees, who on 10 June 1696 conveyed it, subject to the said payment, to Thomas Patching, from whom it descended as Greenes above. Thomas Patching became bankrupt in 1706. On 25 August 1714 Kingsland and other property of Thomas Patching was conveyed by trustees for his creditors to Ezra Gill, Preston Patching, and George Arnold. On 26 September 1716 Kingsland was released to the use of Ezra Gill, and descended in his family with his manor of Temple Elfold, adjoining, in Capel (q.v.). 7 '

��68 Chan. Inq. 27 Edw. I, no. 44. Ibid.

80 Ibid. II Edw. II, no. 17. The inquisition lays that he had no other land than Guildford and Stoke in his own hands, implying that there were others.

' Index Winton Epis. Reg. Egerton MS. 2031-4, iv, 58.

69 Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill (lit no*.), no. 71.

68 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxci, 95.

81 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 21 Eliz.

u Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcii, 123.

��* Manning and Bray, Hiit. of Surr. ii,

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7 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. i Will, and Mary ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr.

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68 Feet of F. Surr. 21 Hen. VI.

69 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclnr, 145 5 Fine R. 44 Eliz. pt. i, no. 33.

<o Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cczcii, 159.

7 1 Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Chas. I, pt. xvi, no. 145 j (Ser. 2) diuti, 145 ; P.C.C. 88 Rivers.

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��7* Recov. R. East. 15 Chas. II, rot. 28.

7 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 6 Will, and Mary.

7 Com. under Great Seal, 3 July 1706.

7* See Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. I Geo. I.

7" Deeds in private hands.

77 Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. I, no. 75.

77* Unless this is the manor of Wyke- lond : see under Charlwood.

? 8 Deeds in private hands.

7 Ibid.

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