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��afterwards it was acquired by Mr. Caesar Czarnikow, the present lord of the manor. 43

In the i jth century there appears to have existed some doubt as to the legality of the franchises of the de Clares in Effingham, and when William de Hevre in 1279 claimed view of frankpledge, assize of bread and ale, and other liberties in this manor, it was declared on evidence that when the Dammartins and Thomas de Warblington held the manor they were geldable and came twice a year to the sheriff's tourn, to which they paid St. yearly, but that Richard de Clare, father of Gilbert the present earl, after he had taken the manor unto his own hands, had unlawfully appropriated the said rent. Moreover, it is stated that William I had given this manor to Odo Dammartin, his knight and member of his household, who with his descendants had always had seisin of these liber- ties. 50 In view of the Domesday entry the alleged grant to Odo by the Conqueror can hardly be correct.

EFFINGHAM PLACE COURT alias EFFING- HAM. About 1316 Thomas de Geddyng died seised of lands in Effingham, including 29 acres of land at La Place, held of the manor of La Leigh by the service of 2s., 4 acres of land held of the Lord de Berners (Lord of West Horsley Manor in Woking Hundred) by the service of I ^d., also a hall, chamber, granary, fishery, and dovehouse at La Place. His heir was Walter de Geddyng, son of his brother Walter." In 1320 Walter de Geddyng conveyed his lands in Effingham under the name of a messuage, 80 acres of land, 60 acres of wood, and 6s. rent to Master John Walewayn to hold for life, with remain- der to William son of Humphrey de Bohun and his issue. 51 William de Bohun had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands of Effingham in 1328.

In 1347 Humphrey son of Humphrey de Bohun granted the reversion of certain lands to Sir John de Pulteney, 5 * a distinguished citizen of London and five '.imes lord mayor, and apparently a similar transaction ook place in regard to some of William's lands also, for in 1362 Sir William de Pulteney conveyed the manor of Effingham (said to be formerly of John his father) to trustees." In 1363 these trustees settled it on Nicholas de Lovayne and Margaret his wife, widow of Sir John de Pulteney," for their lives, with remainder to William de Pulteney, and failing issue to him, to Guy de Lovayne and his heirs. 56 William died without issue in 1367. Whether Lovayne suc- ceeded is not clear, for in 1478 Lawrence Downe died seised of the manor, said to be held of John de Berners as of his manor of West Horsley, leaving his grandson John son of Thomas Downe his heir. 57 In 1491 John Downe and Joan his wife sold the manor to John Leigh," who in 1544 conveyed it to the Crown."

In 1550 Edward VI granted the manor to Lord

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William Howard, 60 who died seised of it in 1573," having in 1554 received the title of Baron Howard of Effingham as a reward for his services in suppress- ing Wyatt's rebellion. 61 His son and heir, Charles Howard, distinguished as commander-in-chief against the Spanish Armada and created in 1588 Earl of Nottingham," suffered a recovery of this manor in 1622," and on his death in 1624 it passed to his eldest surviving son Charles, second Earl of Notting- ham. 65 The latter was succeeded by his half-brother Charles, third Earl of Not- tingham, who in 1647 con- veyed the manor to Thomas Turgis. 66 The latter, by will dated 1703 and proved in 1705, gave the manor to Wil- liam, third son of Thomas Urry of Gatcombe in the Isle of Wight, 67 subject to such interest as his wife Mary had in some part of it. 66 William suffered a recovery in 1 704," but leaving no children the manor passed to Thomas Urry, who died unmarried

in 1776, having bequeathed his estates to his niece Elizabeth, wife of Windsor Heneage, with instruc- tions that the court for his manor of Effingham should be kept every three years. 70 Elizabeth had by her husband, Windsor Heneage of Haynton, two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, who became co-heirs. Elizabeth married Basil Fitzherbert Squire, of Swyn- nerton, Staffordshire, and Mary married William Fitzherbert Brockholes of Claughton Hall, Lanca- shire. 71 Thomas Fitzherbert Brockholes, son of Mary and William, suffered a recovery of this manor in 1832," but in the same year the estate, comprising upwards of 800 acres, was disposed of in lots, the manor and manor-house (in- cluded in the homestead of the Upper Farm), with the woods and other lands to the extent of 358 acres, being purchased by Sir Thomas Hus- sey Apreece, bart., 73 who died in 1833, leaving an only son, Sir Thomas G. Apreece, who died unmarried in i842. 74 The manor is now held by Colonel E. Latimer Parratt. The manor of EFFING-

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HAM-LA-LEIGH was al- leged to be Chertsey property as early as 675, when Frithwald, Subregulus of Surrey, and Bishop Erkenwald were said to have granted to the abbey twenty dwellings at Bookham-cum-Effingham. 76 But

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"> Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 739,

743-

61 Exch. Inq. 10 Edw. II, no. 42.

" Feet of F. Surr. 14 Edw. II, no. 21.

" Cal. Pat. 1317-21, p. 255.

M Close, 36 Edw. Ill, m. 20 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 36 Edw. Ill, no. 100.

M Cal. Close, \ 349-54, p. 249.

' Feet of F. Div. Co. 37 Edw. Ill, no. 628.

' Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. IV, no. 14.

68 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 6 Hen. VII.

��" Feet of F. DJT. Co. East. 36 Hen. VIII ; Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, pt. x, m. 33.

Pat. 4 Edw. VI, pt. ix, m. 48 ; Lansd. MSS. no. 49.

61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxlv, 171.

" Diet. Nat. Biog.

Ibid.

64 Recov. R. Trin. 20 Jas. I, rot. 15.

es Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxii, 69.

M Feet of F. Surr. East. 23 Chas. I.

87 H. B. Wilson, Hist, of Merchant Taylors' School, 1172; Berry, Hants Gen. 357-

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��68 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 709. Mary quitclaimed all right in the manor to William Urry after the death of Thomas. Close, 3 Anne, pt. ii, no. 20.

69 Recov. R. Mich. 3 Anne, rot. 49. 7 P.C.C. Will Collier, 289.

71 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 709 ; H. B. Wilson, loc. cit.

T Recov. R. Mich. 3 Will. IV, rot. 368.

"' Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 486.

" 4 G.E.C. Baronetage, V, 233.

'' Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 64.

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