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��WEST CLANDON

��This manor was also called CL4NDON REGIS,' and it was stated in 1279 that part had been in the king's hands/ and part in those of William de Braose in his manor of Bramley. It is a fact that some houses are in the manor of Tangley, which represents William's Bramley manor. 6 * In 1255 Christina de Alsefeld released to Matthew de Bovill one messuage and lands in West Clandon, 6 which seem to have been part of the original manor. Matthew de Bovill left a daughter Alice, who in 1 294 was the wife of William de Weston. 7 She had, however, made two previous marriages. 8 Her first husband was John de Aqua,' who was probably a member of the Atwater family, who in later years tried to assert their claims to this manor. She married secondly Robert de Boclynton, 10 and in 1290 a settle- ment was made, probably on their marriage, by which the manor was secured to them for life with remainder to the heirs of Alice. Robert was found dead at Send in the autumn of 1290, having been slain by William Atwater 'qui percussit dictum Robertum in capite et praeterea in sinistra parte collis cum hachia quae vocatur polhax." " The sheriff of Surrey was afterwards ordered to release Atwater, on the grounds that his attack had been provoked."

The Atwater family seem to have had certain rights in the manor; in 1279 John Atwater claimed to have liberty to buy and sell in Guildford with- out payment of tolls 'for himself and his men of Clandon,' and won his case. 11 It therefore seems as though the quarrel which proved fatal to Robert de Boclynton may have originated in some dispute touching the manor. At any rate, after Robert's death, William and Alice de Weston enjoyed peaceable possession of the manor." Their son William, who succeeded them, married first Isabel, daughter of Wal- ter Burgess, by whom he was the father of another William, who inherited West Clandon, and secondly Margery de Romaine, 14 who was custodian of the manor during the minority of her stepson. In 1336 the elder William made a settlement of the manor on himself and his wife with remainder to his son William, and contingent remainders to Edmund and Richard his sons by Margery."

After William's death the old Atwater dispute reappeared. Robert son of William Atwater brought a suit against Margery de Weston, with intent to recover the manor of West Clandon, into which, so it was declared, ' she would not have had ingress but for the disseisin wrongfully wrought by Robert de Boclynton and his wife Alice on Robert Atwater, grandfather of the plaintiff.' " Some six years later Robert released to Margery and to William son of William de Weston all his right in the manor." Margery died seised in 1361."

��The manor seems to have descended in the Weston family from father to son until the death of John de Weston, great-grandson of William son of William and Margery, in 1441.' John left no male issue, and his lands were apparently divided among his three daughters, Agnes wife of John Athall of Horsham, Joan wife of John Skynner, and Agnes, who carried West Clandon to her husband Thomas Slyfield of Great Bookham." His son Henry was given possession by his father's trustees in 1487."

In 1531 John Slyfield, presumably his son, died seised of the manor, leaving Edmund his son and heir." He had entered into an agreement with one Walter Lambert, citizen and goldsmith of London, by which the one of John's three sons, Edmund, John, or Richard, who first reached the age of fifteen was to take to wife either of Lambert's two daughters, Eliza- beth or Margaret. 14 Edmund the eldest was only ten years old at the time of his father's death, and there seems no record to show whether the agreement was ever carried out. In 1598 Henry Slyfield, who was the eldest son of Edmund, 14 " died seised, leaving Edmund as his eon and heir, then aged eighteen." By Henry's will, dated 1598, the manor was secured to his wife Elizabeth for life with remainder to his son Edmund and contingent remainders to his other sons Thomas and John. 16 Elizabeth soon afterwards became the wife of Henry Vincent, 1 ' brother of Sir Thomas Vincent of Stoke D'Abernon, and appears as Elizabeth Vincent in the list given by Symmes of persons who held their court at West Clandon as late as 1631." Of Henry's younger sons, Thomas died in 1 608," and John, who had become a member of Gray's Inn, was convicted of felony and murder and attainted ; he contrived to escape the extreme penalty of the law, but his lands and remainders were forfeited to the Crown. 50 West Clandon was not affected, not being his, and in 1615 Ed- mund and William Slyfield united in conveying the rever- sion after their mother's death to George Duncumbe," who held courts from 1638 to 1645.

The Duncumbes, however, did not retain possession long. Sir Richard Onslow had bought the Lodge in the park in 1642," and a series of trans- actions with the Onslow family, begun in 1650," was finally concluded in 1711 by the transference of the manor to Sir Richard Onslow.* 4 The Earl of Onslow, a descendant of Sir Richard, still holds it.

����ONSLOW, Earl of Ons- low. Argent a feat gulet between tix Cornish choughs.

��* Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist not,), no. 75.

' Plac. Cor. 7 Edw. I, rot. ji.

ii puzzling, for if it is true that it had been in the king's hands, one would have expected a grant of it to have been on record. The part belonging to William de Braose must have been at first a separate holding attached to the manor of Tangier which was included in the original manor of Bramley.
 * " Historically the name Clandon Regis

Feet of F. SUIT. 39 Hen. Ill, no.

9-

1 Ibid. 11 Edw. I, no. 29, also Hurl. Sec. Putl. xliii, 215.

��8 Brayley, Hist. ofSurr. ii, 81-8 (pedi- gree supplied by Weston family). Ibid. M Ibid.

11 Assize R. 906. " Cal. Close, 1288-96, p. 373. 18 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747. 14 Feet of F. SUIT. 21 Edw. I, no. 29. " Visit. ofSurr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 115. " Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 10 Edw. III.

17 De Banco R. 351, m. 333.

18 Close, 17 Edw. Ill, m. 18.

" Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, (ist. nos.), no. 75.

" Ibid.
 * >Ibid. 19 Hen. VI.no. 5.

347

��83 Deed quoted by Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 74.


 * Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ii, 10.


 * Ibid.

Church.
 * Monument in Great Bookhara

96 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cell, 131.


 * Etch. Spec. Com. 4974. * Ibid.

Add. MSS. 6167, fol. 443.

M Exch. Spec. Com. 4974. * Ibid.

n Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 13 Js. I.

' See below.

88 Ibid. Mich. 1650; Recor. R. Mich. 29 Chas. II, m. 240, &c. 14 Ibid. Trin. 10 Anne.

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