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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Horsley in 1166. Hamo de Wudecote in 1232 brought a suit against Hugh de Windsor, who seems to have been a younger son of the Hugh last mentioned, concerning services which Hugh claimed from him." Some ten years later Hugh de Windsor bought the right of common pasture in eighty acres of land in West Horsley. 11 In 1271 Hugh son of Hugh de Windsor granted the manor to Ralph de Berners and Christina his wife in return for an annual rent of jio during the life of Hugh. 11 This Christina was probably the daughter of Hugh de Windsor ; most of the old historians agree in asserting that the manor passed to the Berners family by reason of the succes- sion of heirs female. 14 The manor still continued to be held of the main line of the Windsor family." In 1297 Ralph de Berners died, leaving a son and heir Edmund, 16 who was reported to be in Normandy at the time of his father's death, although it was uncertain whether he were alive or dead. 17 Christina wife of Ralph survived both her husband and her son, and in 1317 was party in a fine with Richard de Berners touching lands held by him in West Horsley and elsewhere. 18 In 1325 another fine was levied : Christina had died in the meanwhile, and the manor had passed to her grandson John son of Edmund." A final conveyance of these lands was not made until some ten years later, when Thomas son of Richard released all his right to John. 10 In 1 3 3 2 John settled the manor on himself and his wife Elizabeth, probably on the occasion of their marriage. 11 He died in 1361, and the manor passed to his grandson James, who was then a minor." James de Berners grew up to be a person of some influence in the government, but was accused of taking advantage of the youth of Richard II for his own purposes, and was beheaded in 1388." His lands were forfeited to the Crown, but his widow Anne secured West Horsley by a special grant from the king." Henry IV confirmed this grant, while deprecating the fact that his predecessor had alienated the manor without the consent of Parlia- ment." Anne de Berners married a second husband, John Bryan, who seems to have held the manor jointly" with her until her death" in 1403, when her son Richard de Berners came into possession. Bryan released his right in the manor to Richard in 1 406." Three years later Richard enfeofFed trustees of his estate to the use of himself and his wife Philippa, with remainder to their heirs. He died in 141 7- 30 Philippa married a second husband, 11 Thomas Leukenore," but did not live long afterwards, and at her death Margery daughter of Richard de Berners was found to be her heir. Margery while still a child

��was married to John Fereby, 3 * who held his first court at West Horsley in 1420." He died in 1441," and she then became the wife of Sir John Bourchier. In 1442 certain trustees released the manor to Sir John

����BERNERS. Quarterly or and vtrr.

��BOUXCHIIR. Argent a cross engrailed gules be- tween four vjater-bougets table.

��Bourchier, called Berners, summoned to Parliament in 1455 as Baron Berners, and to Margery his wife, which was probably a form of marriage settlement." By her second husband Margery had issue Humphrey, who, however, died before his mother, being killed at Barnet in 1471, so that at her death in 1475 the manor passed to her grandson John Bourchier, Baron Berners, then a child of eight." John, known as the translator of Froissart, was also a distinguished soldier and courtier in the expensive court of Henry VIII, and in 1518 he mortgaged the manor to Thomas Unton 38 and others. He died in 1522.

Thomas Unton was probably father of Alexander Unton who married Mary, Lord Berners' daughter, who died childless. Joan, his other daughter, married Ed- mund Knivett and had livery as heiress to the estate in 1 534." The Lady Knivett's steward is referred to in a document at about this date. 40 The manor afterwards passed into the possession of Henry, Marquis of Exeter, who was seised of it at his attainder in 1539." His estates were forfeited to the king, who in 1 5 47 granted West Horsley to Sir Anthony Browne. 4 ' His widow, daughter of the Earl of Kildare, Surrey's ' Fair Geral- dine," married Lord Clinton, afterwards Earl of Lin- coln, and held West Horsley for life. She and her husband resided here till her death, which took place after 8 December 1589.*' Her stepson Viscount Montagu succeeded and died here in 1592. His grandson and heir succeeded. His son, who made great sacrifices for the king in the Civil War, appar- ently mortgaged some of his estates to Sir John Evelyn and sold West Horsley in 1 65 6 " to Carew Raleigh 44 son of the great Sir Walter, who conveyed it to Sir Edward Nicholas*' in 1664." Sir Edward died in

��Feet of F. SUIT. Trin. 16 Hen. Ill, 9.

" Ibid. Mich. 27 Hen. Ill, 9.

Ibid. Mich. 56 Hen. Ill, IJ.

14 e.g. Collins, Hiit. Coll. for family of Winder.

16 Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no 52.

16 Ibid. 25 Edw. I, no. 39.

Ibid.

> 8 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 10 Edw. II, no. 14.

19 Par!. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 4250.

80 Close, 10 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 39 d. ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 1 Edw. III.

Ibid. Hil. 6 Edw. Ill, 114.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 50 Edw. Ill (lit nos.), no. 10.

23 Par!. R. (Rec. Com.), iii, 241-3.

11 Ibid. 24;. This James was father of Lady Juliana Berners, Prioress of Sopwell,

��the celebrated authoress ; Pat. 13 Ric. II, pt. iii, m. 28 ; 16 Ric. II, pt. iii, m. II.

95 Cal. Pat. 1399-1401, p. 81.

" Ibid.


 * Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 18.

88 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 7 Hen. IV, II.

M Close, 10 Hen. IV, m. 9, lod.

Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Hen. V, no. 8.

81 Ibid.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Hen. V, no. 24.

88 Ibid.

81 Ct. R. (P.R.O.), gen. scr. portf. 204, no. 59.

85 Esch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i,) file 1222, no. 7.

86 Feet of F. Div. Co. 20 Hen. VI, 70. 1 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. IV, no. 35.

88 Anct. D.(P.R.O.), A. 3993, 3981, &c.

89 Pat. 25 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 17.

354

��<Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 262.

41 Esch. Inq. p.m. file 1088, no. 3. The marquis shortly before his attainder had received large grants in Surrey, including the adjacent manors of Effingham and Ockham. Blomefield (Hist, of Nor J.) says that Berners died in debt to the Crown, which may explain the addition of West Horsley to those grants.

Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. ix.

48 Loseley MSS. numerous letters.

44 Cf. Aubrey, op. cit. iii, 253, who misdates the sale apparently. Carew Raleigh was of the dominant party.

45 Feet of F. Surr. East. 1656.

46 Secretary of State to Charles I and Charles II, collector of the Nicholas Papers.


 * l Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1664.

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