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��attic stories have a considerable projection, and the whole of the three upper stories are of timber framing, the corbelled corner-posts being cut out of solid butts. The doors have flat arched heads ; and the date of the whole house appears to be about the second quarter of the 1 6th century. Several of the other cottages in the village are highly picturesque, and many date back at least to the 1 6th century. They are of timber con- struction, with tile-hanging over the upper stories, and high pitched tiled roofs, those of a farm-house at Compton being hipped over the wings of the front in a somewhat unusual manner. Some good chimneys occur. The coffee tavern is ancient and picturesque. Not far from it the manor pound still survives. There is a nursery garden in connexion with the Guildford Hardy Plant Nursery.

Foisted Manor is a modern house, but behind it stands the old manor-house, a small 16th-century timber-framed building.

Eastbury Manor, .Monk's Hatch, Brook House, Sunny Down, now occupied as a school, and Prior's Wood Lodge are modern houses.

The original manor of COMPTON, MANORS which afterwards divided to form Comp- ton Westbury and Eastbury, was held by Brixi in the time of Edward the Confessor. 1 At the time of the Domesday Survey it was held of the king by Walter son of Other, founder of the De Windsor family, of whose manor of Stanwell it con- tinued to be held 'until 1 541, when Lord Windsor exchanged the overlordship with the king for other lands in Surrey and Sussex.* The tenants of Comp- ton held it by knight's service, which was rendered after the division by the lord of Eastbury only. 4

No record of the under-tenants can be found until 1201 when Cecily of Compton was holding a knight's fee and a half in Surrey, which evidently included the manor of Compton. 4 John de Gatesden held half a knight's fee of William de Windsor in Comp- ton, circa 1212.' He or another John granted a life- interest in Compton Manor to Nicholas Malemeins for a yearly rent of io/. in 1249.' In 1260 a settle- ment 8 of Compton was made on John de Gatesden and his wife Hawise de Nevill, daughter of Robert de Courtenay, and widow of John de Nevill. 83 Hawise survived her husband, who died shortly before 1262,' leaving a young daughter, probably Margaret, the wife first of Sir John de Camoys, whom she deserted for Sir William Paynele or Pagenal, whom she ultimately married. 10 Margaret owed money to the Crown in 1294," whence perhaps a part of Compton, since knovyn as COMPTON WESTBURT, was granted to Henry of Guildford for life only with reversion to

��the grantors and to the heirs of Margaret. He was a tenant among several in 129 1. 11

In 1303 Henry of Guildford received a grant of free warren in his demesne lands of Compton, 13 and in 1308 obtained a release of land in Compton from Sir William Paynel and Margaret daughter of John de Gatesden. 14 Henry of Guildford was the chief bene- factor of Dureford Abbey in Sussex, to which he bequeathed a large sum of money for the maintenance of two chaplains. 1 * After his death his heir, John the Marshal of Guildford, held Westbury, 16 and re- ceived from the Abbot of Dureford a corrody of bread and ale, a yearly pension, and a messuage within the abbey, and four ' Paris candles whereof sixteen make the pound ' nightly. 17 The abbey bought many lands for the support of Henry of Guildford's chaplains, and amongst them in I 330 the manor of Westbury, then in the possession of John of Brideford. 18 The abbot retained the court and customary dues of Westbury, but leased the land to a tenant, who undertook to supply the abbot's officers with 'horsemeate and manesmeate ' when they held their yearly court at Compton." In 1532 one William Wynter obtained such a lease of the land for fifty-six years, but at the time of the Dissolution it was taken into the king's hands, together with the abbey's other possessions. 10 In October 1537 the king granted all the possessions of Dureford Abbey in Compton to Sir William Fitz William, K.G., whom he created Earl of Southampton in that same year.' 1 He held his first court 8 June 1541. He died in 1542 without heirs male," so that as Westbury had been granted to him in tail male, it then reverted to the king, by whom it was sold in 1 545 to Sir Christopher More," who in January 1535 had a lease of it in perpetuity from the abbot." After this grant the history of the manor was coin- cident with that of the Mores' manor of Loseley

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Mr. James More-Molyneux of Loseley sold a small part, including the manor-house, to Mr. George Best, owner of Eastbury, shortly before 1 842. The manor- house is now the cottage of the gardener of Eastbury Manor.

COMPTON E4STBURY, the eastern moiety of the original manor of Compton, was not included in the grant to Henry of Guildford," but was held by Sir Wil- liam Paynel in right of Margaret, daughter of John de Gatesden." John Paynel, William's brother, succeeded to the manor, which he granted to John of Brideford," who retained it when he sold Compton Westbury to Dureford. 18 John of Brideford obtained a release from Eva St. John, widow, formerly second wife of Sir William Paynel," of her right to dower in East-

��1 y.C.H. Surr. i, 322*. 1 Titta de Nevill (Rcc. Com.), 220 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. io Ric. II, no. 46 ; ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 46 ; Col. Inj. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 19.

-Deeds of Purchase and Exchange, H p. VIII, C. 22.

Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 57. Red Bk. ofExch. (Rolls Ser.), i, 148. Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 220. Feet of F. Surr. 33 Hen. Ill, i. Ibid. 44 Hen. Ill, 4. 1 Cott. MS. viii, 22 (12 Aug. 1253). Excerpta e Rot. Fin. ii, 384. 10 Exch. K.R. Proc. bdle. 14?, file 301. A see the story quoted by Camdcn, Brit. 1 1 72 (ed. Gibson), from Rolls of ParL 30 Jdw. I, of John de Camoys' conveyance

��of his wife Margaret to William Pagenal. There was, however, another Margaret, daughter of another John de Gatesden ' the younger,' who died in 1258 leaving a widow Margery ; Excerpta e Rot. Fin. ii, 316, 326 ; Cal. Chan. Inj. p.m. Hen. Ill,

454-

Ibid. " Ibid.

11 Chart. R. 31 Edw. I, no. 29.

" Feet of F. Surr. 2 Edw. II, 26.

" Dugdale, Men. vii, 936 ; Cal. Pat. 1317-21, p. 246.

" Part. Writ, (Rec. Com.), ii (3), 338

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" Cott. MS. Vesp. E. xxiii, fol. 1060.

18 Cal. Pat. 1327-30, p. 505. He was one of the executors of Henry of Guild- ford.

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��"Decrees of Ct. of Aug. .35 Hen. VIII, xiv, 12.

Dugdale, Man. vii, 936 ; Valor Eecl. (Rec. Com.), i, 321.

L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (z), 1008

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m Diet. Nat. Biog. xix, 232.

VIII, 411.
 * Panic, for Grants (Aug. Off.), Hen.

84 Close, 37 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, no. 26.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 57 5 ibid, io Edw. II, no. 61.

338 (13).
 * Parl. Wriu. (Rec. Com.), ii (3),

W De Banco R. Trin. 12 Edw. II, m. 234.

88 Inq. a.q.d. ccix, 21.

M Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 646.

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