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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��for special privileges in his Buckinghamshire pro- perty," and in 1359 the king levied a fine against William son of John, 11 by which he made his pos- session more secure.

From that time Henley Manor remained Crown property for upwards of three centuries, and the evidence for its history consists chiefly of appoint- ments of stewards and parkers. In 1633 Charles I granted it to Robert Tyrwhitt and Arthur Squib," who sold it soon after to Sir John Glynn.' 4 In 1724 the Duke of Roxburgh, Lord Justice in the absence of George I from England in 1723 and 1725, seems to have been residing at Henley Park.* 6 Bowen's map of about 1736 also names him as occupier. Sir John Glynn's son left three daughters, two of whom died unmarried, and the manor passed to Dorothy, the third daughter, who ' married Sir Richard Child, created Earl of Tylney in 1731. In 1739 the earl sold the manor to Mr. Solomon Dayrolles,* 6 who in 1784 conveyed to Henry Halsey.* 7 The Halsey family are still owners, but the late Lord Pirbright lived in the house, and Sir Owen Roberts is the present tenant.

In 1338 John de Molyns received licence to im- park his woods of West Grove and Goddard's Grove in the manor of Henley. 18 In 1356, after the manor had returned into the king's hands, he bought out twenty tenants, and seems to have laid all the land into the park, granting the rector of Ash compensa- tion for the loss of tithes. The office of park- keeper, with a residence in the manor-house, was a valuable piece of preferment bestowed among others upon Sir Thomas St. Leger by his brother-in-law, Edward IV, on Sir Reginald Bray by Henry VII, and on Viscount Montagu by Queen Mary. Montagu frequently resided at Henley, and it was notoriously the refuge of recusants and suspected priests M dur- ing his tenure. Henley Park is among those sur- veyed by John Norden in 1607." The house may contain some ancient walls, but it was mostly rebuilt by Mr. Dayrolles in 1751, the year of his marriage, and bears the date upon it. Lord Pirbright made further additions during his tenancy.

The manor of CLAYGATE (Cleygate) was appa- rently of late formation. In 1 399 a grant was made to Richard Rayle and Nicholas Churchill of lands called Claygate lying at Henley." These lands probably came into the hands of Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, later Duke of Bedford, and on his attainder in 1461 lapsed to the Crown. In 1475 Sir Thomas St. Leger received a grant of the manor of Claygate ** for his expense in keeping the game in Guildford Park.* 4 Claygate returned into the possession of Jasper, Duke of Bedford," on the reversal of his attainder in 1485. He died in 1495." It is said, however, that Claygate was granted for life to Sir

��Reginald Bray in 1488 with the custody of Guildford and Henley Parks. 37 Bedford died without issue, and his lands passed to his nephew, King Henry VII. Elizabeth granted the manor to Edward Lord Clynton and Saye, afterwards Earl of Lincoln. 88 A deed of 1564" records that Lord Clynton owed money to a certain Christopher Draper, citizen and alderman of London. The manor was in Draper's hands in the same year, 40 so that probably Claygate was ceded to him in payment for debt. Draper apparently lost little time in selling, for a year later William Harding of Wanborough was in possession. 41 He died seised in I593, 4 ' leaving by his wife Catherine daughter of Sir John White of London a son and heir William, who died unmarried in 1 6 10, when the manor passed to his sister Mary. 4 * Mary married Sir Robert Gorges, who in 1620 joined with her in conveying the manor to Sir Thomas White. 44 According to Manning and Bray, 44 who had access to Mr. WoodrofFe's papers, Sir Thomas settled it on his cousin, Robert Wood- roffe, son of Catherine wife of William Harding, by her second marriage with Sir David Woodroffe. From him it descended in the family with Poyle ** (q.v.).

The manor of FR1MLEY, although part of the parish of Ash, is in Godley Hundred, and is reckoned in it in a court roll. 47 It may have been the land in Ash purchased for Chertsey Abbey by Bartholomew de Winton, the abbot, in 1277, from a Sir Walter Raleigh. 48 William de Henley ' held land in Fremeles- worth ' of the abbey, together with Henley (q.v.), in 1324. It came into the possession of Henry VIII in I537 49 with other monastic lands, and was appa- rently held by the Crown in demesne for some years. It was granted to Sir John White of Aldershot,* who died seised of it in 1573," leaving a son and heir Robert, then aged twenty-eight. Robert died in 1599," when the manor passed to his daughters Helen and Mary, who had respectively married Richard

and Walter Tichborne.

The manor remained in the

Tichborne family until 1790,

when Sir Henry Tichborne

and Elizabeth his wife joined

in conveying it to James

Laurell. 61 He died in 1799

leaving a son and heir James. 64

He sold the Manor House to

Mr. Tekell. This and the

manor were subsequently

bought about 1858 by Mr. J. F. Burrell. The manor

has since been sold to Messrs. Pain & Brettell, soli- citors at Chertsey.

The reputed manor of fORMANS in Ash does

not appear before the i6th century. Henry Vyne

died seised of it in 1571, leaving a son and heir

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��M Close, 25 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 4. 88 Feet of F. Surr. 33 Edw. Ill, 41. 88 Pat. 8 Car. I, pt. ix. and Bray.
 * 4 Private Deed quoted bjr Manning

85 Willis, Visit. 1724.


 * Deed quoted by Manning and Bray.

28 Pat. II Edw. Ill, pt. iii, m. 19.
 * Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 25 Geo. III.

M Close, 29 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 14, 15 d. ; pt. ii, m. 25.

80 Loseley MSS. passim,

81 Harl. MS. 3749.

88 Cat. Pat. 1399-1401, p. 109.

��88 Ibid. 1467-77, p. 548.

84 Accts. &c. Exch. JC.R. 516, no. II.

86 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), ccxxxvi,

79-

88 Ibid, xxiii, 280.

8 ' Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. quoting Antis MS.

88 Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. i.

89 Close, 6 Eliz. pt. x.

40 Pat. 6 Eliz. pt. i.

41 Ibid. 7 Eliz. pt. vi.

48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxxvi, 79.

48 Ibid, cccxxiv, 131.

44 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 18 Jas. I.

342

��44 Hist. Surr. iii, 69. 48 V.C.H. Surr. ii, 618.

4 7 Ct. R. (P.R.O.), portf. 204, no. 53.

48 Excheq. K..R. Mic. Bks. xxv, 67*. 48 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 1537.

40 He was Lord Mayor 1563. Hif brother, alto John, was Bishop of Lincoln and Winchester; deprived 1559. The grant is probably of Mary's reign.

41 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxv, 174. 48 Ibid, cclvii, 1 1 2.

48 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 29 Geo. III. 44 Manning and Bray, Hist. Surr. iii, 77-

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