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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Camps ' on Walton Heath, but it is not obvious that they were camps. Fortified inclosures against ban- ditti or wild beasts, or both, might be nearer the truth. They are worth comparison with the inclo- sures round Ashtead Church and near Pachevesham, Letherhead. Within the boundary of Walton parish there is a well, now dry and mostly filled up, with no modern house near it, which may belong to the same period of settlement.

No Inclosure Act or Award seems to be known, but undoubtedly some inclosure of common fields and waste has taken place. The names in the register and churchwardens' accounts seem to point to holdings of shots in common fields in the I7th and i8th cen- turies, and the tithe map of 1839 shows common fields, called North and West Common Fields, with small holdings in them. The road to the common fields was mended by the parish in 1835.

Frith Farm, a 17th-century house with a park, is the seat of Mr. W. Stebbing. Street Farm is another I yth-century house. Of other large properties may be mentioned Walton Lodge (Mr. H. J. Broadbent), Hurst (Mr. H. C. Lyall), Feeble Combe (Mr. E. J. Coles), and Lovelands (Hon. H. S. Littleton).

There was a village shepherd still in 1792.*

There is a Congregational mission room in the village.

The schools (National) were built in 1878, and enlarged in 1898.

The manor of W4LTON-ON-THE- MANOR HILL (Waleton, Wauton, xi-xvi cent.) was held in 1086 by Richard de Ton- bridge,* and descended from him to the Earls of Gloucester and Hertford. At the death of the last Gilbert de Clare, his estates were divided among his sisters and co-heiresses. Walton-on-the-Hill passed to Hugh le Despenser, who had married Eleanor the

����CLARE. Or thru cheveront gules.

��DF SPENSER. Quar- terly argent and gules t the gules fretty or t tuith a bend table over all.

��earl's sister. Hugh, their son, died seised of Walton in 1 349.' His descendant, Thomas le Despenser, created Earl of Gloucester by Richard II, was murdered and attainted in 1400, when, his land being confis- cated to the Crown, this manor seems to have passed to the Earls of Stafford, the descendants of Margaret,

��sister of Gilbert de Clare, 8 who were still the overlords in 1403.' By 1437, however, the manor was said to be held of the Crown.

The manor was held under Richard in 1086 by a certain John, 10 who seems to have been the ancestor or predecessor of the Dammartin family. (See Buck- land in Reigate Hundred.) 11 John de Walton, who married Alice daughter of Odo de Dammartin," is said to have founded the church of Walton, 11 and in 1268 free warren in Betchworth, Buckland, and Walton was granted to John de Walton, probably his son, and his heirs. 1 ' Ten years later he was called upon to show by what right he claimed this privi- lege. 14 In 1293-4 John de Walton senior conveyed the manor to John de Lovetot senior, who died seised of it shortly after, and was succeeded by his son and heir, also John."

The next tenant under the De Clares was John Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He had a grant of free warren here in 1 307." He was tenant of the Gilbert de Clare who fell at Bannockburn in 1314," and the inquisition taken on his lands shows him dying in possession in I33O. 19

What next occurred in the descent is extremely difficult to trace. John de Braose, a minor, and the ward of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey," was heir to the manor of Walton at the death of the latter in 1 347." This John was half-witted," and after the Earl's death Mary, Countess Marshal, the widow of John's great-grandfather Sir William de Braose, who had since married Thomas of Brotherton, Duke of Norfolk, 13 occupied the manor for four years, and later it was held by Sir Thomas de Braose, apparently, how- ever, as guardian, and only for the life of his witless cousin John. 14 After this the Braoses disappear, and the next lord of the manor was Richard, Earl of Arundel, nephew and heir to John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, whose only sister Alice married Edmund, Earl of Arundel." Richard's son John succeeded him, and settled one-third of the manors of Buckland, West Betchworth, and Walton, upon his wife Eleanor. She married, secondly, Sir Reginald Cobham, who died in 1403 seised of these estates in his wife's right. Eleanor survived him two years. 1 * Her second son William appears to have had the remaining two-thirds of Walton Manor, with the reversion of his mother's dower ; for in 1401, he having lately died, all his share in Walton was granted to his next brother Richard and his wife Alice for life, which grant was confirmed and renewed at several subsequent dates." Alice outlived her husband over twelve years, and held the manor until her death in 1437, when it reverted to the king. 18

In the spring of that year Walton was granted in lease by Henry VI to Ralph Rocheford to hold for seven years, but in the following November the grant was changed to one for life, with remainder, on the

��5 Overseers* Accts. V.CJi. Surr. i, 316.

I Vide Chipstead. Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 58 ; 13 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 169.

8 Vide Chipstead.

9 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 34. 1 V.C.H.Surr. i, 316.

II He held also Woldingham in Tand- r!dge Hundred.

" See Buckland.

18 Inscription in Walton Church.

" Col. of Chart. R. 1157-1300, p. 88.

��Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 737,

747-

16 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 22 Edw. 1 5 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. I, no. 33.

V Chart. R. 35 Edw. I, no. 66.

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

Ibid. 3 Edw. Ill, no. 41.

nos.), no. 58 ; 23 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 169.
 * > Chan. Inq. p.m. zi Edw. HI (ist

n Ibid. 21 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 58.

M Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii,

316

��77 ; Index Winton Epis. Reg. Egerton MS. 2031-4, iii, foL 37.

G.E.C. Peerage, Norfolk ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 77.

w Chan. Inq. p.m. 31 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 49.

u Ibid. 21 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 58 5 Berry, Gen. Peerage, 88.

86 Nichols, To fog. etGen, ii, 318 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 34.

1399-1401, p. 347 ; 1422-9, p. 205.
 * > Berry, Gen. Peerage, 88 ; Cat. Pat.

B Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Hen. VI, no. 27.

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