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��de Hevre, apparently the successor of Leukenore, was holding Effingham, 15 " but not long after the De Clares seem to have resumed their possession, for in 1295 a capital messuage and tenements in Effingham were held by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, as member of Blechingley, 16 and in 1306, during the minority of his son and heir Gilbert, the manor was held by John Pichard" (who in 1278 had been acting as attorney for the late earl ") by service of one fee, of the honour of Blechingley, then in the king's hands. The said Gilbert in 1314 died seised of lands at Effingham held as member of Blechingley, including a messuage, 1 1 2 acres of arable land, of which 50 were worth z$j. per annum or 6J. per acre, and 62 were worth 201. SJ., or 4^. per acre ; 4 acres of meadow worth 101. or 2/. 6J. per acre ; 30 acres of boscage worth 5/., or 'zd. per acre ; 74*. \d. rent of assize ; customary work worth 32*. 9^. per annum ; pleas and perquisites of the court worth 3/. 19

In 1317 Thomas de Geddyng was holding at Effingham a third of a curtilage called ' Bellosehagh ' containing rood of land held of the inheritance of the Earl of Gloucester by service of \d., and owing suit every three weeks at the East Court, ' which is in the king's hands by the death of the said Earl.' He also held of the said court 7 acres of land called ' Golereslond ' by service of 51. t,\d., owing suit as above." In 1 347 Hugh de Audley, Earl of Gloucester,

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��died seised of tenements in Effingham held respectively for a quarter and a tenth of a knight's fee, which he Jiad by his wife Margaret daughter and co-heir of Gilbert de Clare. In 1372 Ralph de Stafford died seised of this tenement, having married Margaret daughter of the said Hugh."

Their son Hugh died in 1386," and on the death of his son Edmund, Earl of Stafford, the manor was taken into the king's hands by reason of the minority of Humphrey son of Edmund, afterwards Duke of Buckingham." The latter settled this manor after the death of his eldest son Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, at St. Albans, 1455, on his third son John, Earl of Wilt- shire, and Constance his wife." Their son Edward

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��dying without issue in 1498-9," the manor reverted to Edward, Duke of Buckingham," who was attainted for high treason and beheaded in 1521." In 1528 the manor was granted to John Bourchier, Lord Berners,* 8 on whose death in 1533 it was conveyed by his executor Francis Hastings, and Joan his wife, to Henry, Mar- quis of Exeter. 19 The latter in 1535 settled it on himself and Gertrude his wife and their heirs, 50 but on his at- tainder in 1538 it was forfeited to the Crown, and in 1 547 was granted by Edward VI to Sir Anthony Browne,* 1 one of the knights of the Bath at the Coronation, created in 1554 Viscount Montagu." Anthony, Viscount Montagu, his grandson, conveyed the manor in 1618 to Henry Weston and Thomas Grey. 33 In 1625 Thomas Grey and William Grey conveyed the manor to William Wall and John Fielder, 34 apparently trustees, for William Grey died seised of the manor and capital messuage of Effingham East Court in 1645, leaving a son and heir Thomas, aged eighteen."

In 1660 Thomas Grey sold to Matthew Tayler, grocer of London, for the sum of 3,000, the manor of Effingham East Court, a tenement and farm called Nice Court in Effingham, and the rectory and parsonage of Effingham. 36 Matthew died in 1678, having be- queathed this manor, with the farm of Nice Court and the rectory, to his grandson Thomas White, younger son of Thomas White and of Margaret daughter of Matthew. 37 Thomas White suffered a recovery in I692, 38 and manorial courts were held in his name in 1696, 1697, and l698. 39 In 1732 William White son of Thomas * suffered a recovery of the manor, 41 and by his will dated 1758 devised it to trustees to sell for the payment of debts and legacies." In 1790 William White son of William sold to William Bryant, 43 who resold in 1793 to Gerard Dutton Fleetwood of Letherhead. The latter died in 1796, and was succeeded by John Fuller, 44 who with Dinah his wife made a conveyance of the manor in 1799 to William Lyson. 46 The manor was subsequently pur- chased by General Oliver de Lancey, Barrack-Master General, whose estates were, however, seized for debts to the Crown in 1806, and vested in trustees for sale. 4 ' This manor was purchased by Miles Stringer, who died in 1839, but it was acquired by the Maxse family before 1874, when Lady Caroline Maxse, daughter of the fifth Earl of Berkeley and widow of James Maxse, was lady of the manor. 4 ' Her son Admiral Maxse held the manor in i8gi, 48 and died in 1900. Shortly

��"a Cal. Clou, 1271-9, pp. 90, 739.

16 Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, no. 107. He was also receiving 10 marks rent paid by Roger de Home from a manor in Effing- ham.

V Subs. R. 34 Edw. I, bdle. 242, no. 44.

18 Cal. Close, 1272-9, p. 489.

Exch. Inq. 8 Edw. II, no. 68.


 * Chan. Inq. p.m. Edw. II, file 54, no. 6.

" Ibid. 21 Edw. Ill, no. 57.

M G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vii, 210.

M Mins. Accts. bdle. 1123, no. II.

no. 50.
 * Chan. Inq. p.m. 38 & 39 Hen. VI,

15 G.E.C. Complete Peerage, viii, 165.

��M Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. IV, no. 13.

file 1074, no. 5.
 * Exch. Inq. p.m. 12 & 13 Hen. VIII,

(15) j Pat. 19 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. II.
 * > L. and P. Hen. Ylll. iv (2), 3991

M Feet of F. SUIT. Trin. 35 Hen. VIII.

80 Pat. 27 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 17.

81 Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. vii, m. 13. M G.E.C. Complete Peerage, v, 359. 88 Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 5 Jas. I.

84 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. I Chas. I.

85 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Misc. dxxxvii, 13.

M Close, 12 Chas. II, pt. x, no. 34; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 12*13 Chas. II.

3 22

��W P.C.C. Will Reeve 58.

88 Recov. R. 4 Will, and Mary, rot. 1 90.

> Add. MSS. 23751.

40 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 712.

41 Recov. R. 5 Geo. II, rot. 213.

41 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 712.

48 Close, 30 Geo. IV, pt. i, no. 10.

44 Burke, Landed Gentry, 1886, p, 693.

45 Feet of F. Mich. 39 Geo. III.

46 Pub. Gen. Acts, 47 Geo. Ill, less. 2, cap. 69.

Surr. Dir. 1874, Ibid. 1891.

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