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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

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��bergh, of whom Rainald held it. 7 There were two other sub-tenants, Walter and Hubert, whose holdings may be the origins of Papworth and Dedswell.

Alured's property in Send followed the descent of his Herefordshire estate at Ewyas Harold. 8 Robert de Tregoz married Sibyl daughter of Robert de Ewyas,' and about 1207 confirmed the endowment of Newark Priory in Send. 10 Robert de Tregoz his grandson was killed at Evesham in 1265. In 1290 his son John de Tregoz granted a knight's fee in Send to Newark," and some ten years later he died seised of two knights' fees in Send, leaving two co-heirs, his daughter Sibyl wife of Otho de Grandi- son, and John son of another daughter, Clarissa wife of Roger De La Warr."

In 1359 the Prior of Newark and Roger son of John De La Warr ls are mentioned as being lords of Send, 14 so that probably Sibyl de Grandison had by that date released her rights. In 1398 John De La Warr son of Roger " died holding rents only in Send, 16 and since the Priors of Newark are the only lords men- tioned between that date and the Dissolution it seems reasonable to suppose that the De La Warr family endowed the priory with any other property that they possessed.

Henry VIII granted the manor, called Send and Jury, to Sir Anthony Browne in 1544." It re- mained in his family until 1674, when the impover- ishment of the family necessitated its being vested in trustees with a view to sale. 18 Accordingly in 1711 " Francis Browne, fourth Viscount Montagu, conveyed it to Sir Richard Onslow, together with the manor of Ripley and the farms called ' Chapel Farm, Send Barnes, Jury Farm, Ride Farm, and Newark Priory.' * The manor has remained in the Onslow family, but Newark was sold to Lord King, ancestor of the Earl of Lovelace, in 1785.

There are traces of various tenants of land in Send during the 1 3th century. Ruald de Calva and Beatrice his wife, the benefactors of Newark, evi- dently held land in Send as well as the advowson of the church." Their charter to the priory mentions a certain William Maubaunc as their heir." GeofFry Maubaunc, John Dedeswell, and Simon Pypard are mentioned in the inquisition of John Tregoz as having formerly each held two-thirds of his two knights' fees." In 1 290 Ruald Maubaunc is mentioned, who left three daughters and co-heirs ; Alice wife of Thomas de Send is known to have been his daughter, 14 while the others may possibly have been the wife of John de Dedswell," and Dionisia wife of John le Blund, for in 1290 Robert de Lodenham held of John Tregoz, and John le Blund and John de Dendeswell are named as holders under him with Thomas de Sende.' 6

��The earliest mention of the manor of RIPLET (Rippelege, xiii cent.) seems to be in 1279, when the Prior of Newark claimed to have suit at his court of Ripley." Henry III in 1220 granted to the Prior of Newark the right of holding an annual fair at the feast of St. Mary Magdalen." In 1279 the prior also claimed the right of having a market in Ripley, which he had received by charter from Henry III, but it was of no value, as no one came to it. 19 This manor subsequently descended with Send (q.v.).

There was apparently a manor of NEWARK in Send, since in 1279 the prior claimed to have free warren in his ' manor of Newark.' so This manor probably consisted of the land immediately adjacent to the priory. It is not described as a manor at the Dissolution, and in the 1 8th century appears as the farm called Newark Priory,* 1 which was purchased by Sir Richard Onslow and subsequently sold to Lord King (vide supra).

The remains of the church of Newark Priory stand in the midst of level fields almost wholly surrounded by streams, and belong entirely to the early years of the 1 3th century, though the plan shows evidence of an older building, set at a slightly different axis, represented by the quire and nave of the existing church. The plan is noteworthy in several respects. The quire, which seems to represent the presbytery and possibly also the quire of a simple 12th-century church, is flanked, as regards its two eastern bays, by the 1 3th-century transepts, but is separated from them by walls solid for some loft, from the ground to take the stalls, above which pairs of arches open to the upper parts of the transepts, while its third or western bay forms the first bay of the nave, and has had a cross arch at the west, under which the pulpitum stood. The 13th-century enlargements were a three- bay presbytery east of the quire, flanked by pairs of square-ended chapels en echelon, on the east of the transepts. A very unusual feature of these chapels, which were covered with barrel-vaults, is that they have separate side walls, a space being left between each pair of chapels. The aisles of the nave were probably 13th-century additions, but have quite disappeared except for a length of the wall of the south aisle, which having no foundations has unfor- tunately fallen over bodily quite recently.

The walls are of well-built flint rubble, but nearly all the ashlar dressings have been picked out, reducing windows and doors to ragged holes in the wall.

The presbytery, which has lost its east wall, was of three bays, forming a continuation of the quire, which was also of three bays, both having been vaulted with quadripartite rib vaults springing from wall-shafts with Purbeck marble capitals. In each of the bays is a gap on either side left by the removal of the stonework of the lancet windows, which apparently were of three orders with splayed rear-arches, and had steeply sloping sills inside. Under the second or middle north window is a gap opening to the north chapel. In the third or western bay on both sides are

��1V.C.H. Surr. i, 326*. " Ibid. 281.

'Glouc. Chart. ; Teat de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 69.

"Dugdale, Man. Angl. vi, 383.

"Chan. Inq. a.q.d. file 14, no. 30.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. I, no. 43.

18 G.E.C. Complete Peerage.

"Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Edw. Ill (2nd not.), no. 83.

��15 G.E.C. Complete Peerage.

"Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no. 53.

J 7 Pat. 36 Hen. VIII, pt. xxvi, m. 20.

18 Lords' Journ. xix, 271^.

19 Under an Act 9 Anne, cap. 30. 2(1 Close, ii Anne pt. iii, no. 18.

H Dugdale, Man. Angl. vi, 383. Ibid. 98 Chan. Inq. p.m. 28 Edw. I, no. 43 (ai above).

366

��34 Chan. Inq. a.q.d. file 14, no. 30.

35 See below.

36 Inq. a.q.d. 19 Edw. I, no. 52.

W Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 737-

38 Rot. Lit. Claut. (Rec. Com.), i, 413. 38 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747.

80 Ibid.

81 Close, II Anne, pt. iii, no. 1 8.

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