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��same terms, to John and Rose de Merston, who had consented ' to marry according to the king's intent.' " In the following year Rocheford transferred all his right to Rose and John. 30 By 1464 the manor was again disposed of to Richard Harleston and Thomas Bradbrigge, yeomen, to hold for life." In the next year, however, it was granted to Elizabeth Woodville ' in part support of her expenses of her chamber ' ; and in 1470, during the brief return to the throne of Henry VI, the sum of 45 yearly was granted to the Keeper of the Great Wardrobe from the custody of the manors of Banstead, Walton, &c." In 1471 the king gave the manor to George, Duke of Clarence," and it reverted to the Crown on his attainder in 1478.

In the reign of Henry VIII it became part of the possessions of Catherine of Aragon, given to her appa- rently in 1 509." In 1513 the queen granted a lease of the manor to Richard Carew of Beddington at a rent of 48 yearly." About twenty years later she granted it at the same rent to his son Nicholas, Master of the Horse to Henry VIII, for a lease of ninety-nine years, which was afterwards changed to a grant of the reversion to hold after Catherine's death at a rent of 40." This rent seems to have formed part of the jointure of Henry's queen, Jane Seymour, for Walton is included in a valuation of the lands that had contributed to her dowry. 3 ' In 1539 Sir Nicholas Carew was attainted and beheaded, and the king annexed the manor to the honour of Hampton Court, which he had lately created, 58 and it was consigned to the charge, first of Sir Ralph Sadler one of the king's secretaries, 59 and in 1 544 of Thomas Ca war- den of the Privy Council. 40

Queen Mary in 1553 restored his father's estates to Sir Francis Carew, 41 and he was holding the pro- perty under Elizabeth." He never married, and his sisters Mary, Elizabeth, and Anne were his heirs. Elizabeth had no children, but the sons of Mary the wife of Sir Arthur Darcy and Anne the wife of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton in- herited. 45 In 1615 Sir Francis Carew alias Darcy conveyed all his right in Walton to Sir Nicholas Carew alias Throg- morton of Beddington, 44 and from this date until the end of the 1 8th century the manor was held by the direct descen- dants of the latter." In 1762 Sir Nicholas Hacket Carew TH.OG MORTON.

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left the estate to William Pellat in trust for her, with remainder to the sons of his cousin John Fountain, Dean of York, and after them to Richard the son of his cousin Richard Gee of Orpington. 48 In 1769 Katherine Carew died unmarried, and in 1780 the only son of the Dean of York also died without issue. Richard Gee then in- herited the manor and took the name of Carew. 47 Mr. Richard Gee Carew dying un- married in 1816 left all his estates to the widow of his brother. She died in 1828 and left them to her cousin Admiral Sir Benjamin Hallo- well. He died in 1834, and was succeeded by his son Cap- tain Charles Hallowell, who assumed the name of Carew by royal licence. In 1 865-6 the Carew estates were broken up. Mr. Henry Padwick was

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��lord of the manor in 1891, but sold it shortly after- wards to Mr. H. Cosmo Bonsor, the present owner.

The manor-house was occupied in the 1 7th century by other members of the Carew family who were not the lords. A somewhat distant relative, George Carew, Baron Carew of Clopton and Earl of Totnes, was living here. His arms are on the house. In 1643 Mr. Nicholas Carew of the manor-house died in Walton. Mr. James Ede of the manor-house died in I825- 48 In 1865 Mr. Cumberland bought the house, and in 1890 it was acquired by Mr. W. Rolle- Malcolm, J.P., the present owner.

The manor-house is a most interesting building, containing amid much modern work a stone-built hall of c. 1340, 38ft. by 21 ft., with a contemporary chapel at its south-east corner. At the west or lower end of the hall are the three original doorways once leading to the buttery, pantry, and kitchen passage, and at the south-east is an original doorway to the chapel, while at the east end of the north wall is a fifth doorway which opened to a newel stair. This stair led to another doorway exactly over that last named, opening either to a gallery across the east end of the hall, over the dais, or perhaps merely to a landing in the north-east angle. A fine 1 4th-century doorway in the cast wall of the hall opened on to this gallery or landing, and doubtless formed the main approach to the great chamber, which must have been at the north-east of the hall, on the first floor. A passage must also have run outside the east wall of the hall at the first floor level to a door in the north- west corner of the chapel, leading to the west gallery in which the household would sit. The chapel re- tains considerable parts of an east window, a north window, and two on the south, all original work, and has had an external door at the south-west. In the

��89 Cat. Pat. 1436-41, pp. 121, 138, 160, 347.

Ibid. p. 238.

81 Ibid. 1461-7, p. 328.

" Pat. 5 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 18 ; Cat. Pat. 1467-77. P- *37-

83 Cat. Pat. 1467-77, p. 241.

84 Pat. 24 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 12. 84 Add. Chart. 22629.

" Pat. 24 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. u 5 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, v, 1207 (13].

��7 L. and P. Hen. rill, xii (2), 975.

88 Coll. Topog. et Gen. iv, 361 5 L. and P. Hen. nil, xv, 498 (36).

L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xvi, 714 ; xvii, 695.

40 Ibid, xix, 643.

41 Pat. \ Maty, pt. viii.

41 Add. Chart. 23703, 22903, 23232, 13234.

48 Berry, Surr. Gen. 56 j Feet of F. SUIT. Trin. 7 Jan. I.

��44 Add. Chart. 23720 ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 13 Jas. I.

44 Add. Chart. 23721, 22906, 22907, 23718, 23719, 23725 5 Recov. R. Trin. 35 Chat. II, rot. 183 ; Hit. 6 Anne, rot. 106 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 15 Geo. II.

41 P.C.C. 370 St. Eloy.

4 ? Manning and Brajr, Hist, of Surr. ii, 527 5 Brajrley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 288.

48 Parish Reg.

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