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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��for life on a younger son, Henry, later an eminent divine and scholar, who died in 1660." The eldest son, Robert, died seised of the site of the abbey in 1623," and it passed to his son John Hammond, who died in 1643 leaving a son Robert."

In 1 68 1 James Hayes and Griselda his wife con- veyed the site of the monastery to Edward Read," from whom it passed in 1685 to John Hussey. 79 At the close of the century the site appears to have been in the possession of Sir Nicholas Wayte, who built a house out of the abbey ruins called the Abbey House, a 'beautiful seat . . . adorned with pleasant gardens.' 80 His daughter, who married Halsey, inherited the bulk of Sir Nicholas's property, 81 and was in possession of one-third of this estate in I723. 8 * She apparently sold it to Robert Hinde before I734, 83 in which year he died and was buried at Chertsey. His son Robert Hinde inherited it. He mortgaged it and subsequently sold the property to William Harwell in 1 75 1. 84 It was left by William Harwell's son to one Fuller, who sold the property in lots in iSog. 85 The site of the abbey was bought in 1861 by Mr. Bartrop, the secretary to the Surrey Archaeological Society. Among the appurtenances of the site of the abbey which descended with it were the watermills known as the Oxlake or Okelake mills and a small river or brook known as the Abbey River or the Bargewater.

Of the abbey M buildings only small fragments re- main ; a large barn or granary, the west end of which is intact, the rest much repaired, is probably part of the outbuildings. Opposite to it a wall contains early work and part of a blocked arch of the 1 2th or 1 3th century. The church and main part of the buildings had been pulled down before James I in 1 610 granted the site to Dr. John Hammond. Sir Nicholas Wayte built a house out of the abbey ruins called the Abbey House, as mentioned above. 67

The site of the church and other buildings has been partially excavated by the Surrey Archaeological Society and private enterprise,*' 3 and a large number of flooring tiles of great merit have been removed, most of them to the Royal Architectural Museum, Tufton Street, Westminster, a few to the Surrey Archaeological Museum, Guildford.

Queen Elizabeth granted the site of the manor- house of Chertsey Beomond for twenty-one years to Thomas Holte some time before 1580, in which year an extension of thirty-one years was granted him, to begin at the expiration of the previous lease. 68 In 1606 John Hammond re- ceived a grant of the same for thirty-one years, dating from the termination of the leases on which Thomas Holte held it.* 9 The last of these leases expired in 1631, when John son of Robert Hammond, and grandson of the original grantee, entered into

��possession. 90 He married Margaret daughter of Sir Robert Rich, and died in 1643, leaving as heir his son Robert." In the Parliamentary Survey of 1650, however Elizabeth, the mother of John Hammond was stated to be the tenant of the messuage and lands called Chertsey Beomond, 9 ' the lease having still twelve years to run. In this survey the manor-house is described as ' an old house part brick, part wood, covered with tiles and consisting of a hall, parlor, kitchen, buttery, brewhouse, milkhouse, and larder below staires and of 7 rooms above staires.' Among the stock ' as well alive as dead ' which rightfully belonged to the tenant or farmer of the site of the manor were included ' 3 horses, 1 1 oxen, 3 heifers,

1 boore, 3 cows, 16 young hogs, 12 qrs. of wheat, 20 qrs. of barley, 10 qrs. of draggett, 40 qrs. of oats,

2 ploughs with all furniture, with 2 plough shares, 2 cutters, 3 harrows with front teeth, I cart with furniture for 3 horses and 3 leather head-stalls.' After the Restoration the site of the manor appears to have followed the descent of the manor, as no separate trace of it is found. The old manor-house has been evi- dently rebuilt.

The manor of Beomond had for a short time a separate history from Chertsey. In 1 306 Walter of Gloucester and Hawisia his wife were holding the manor of Beomond or Bemond in Chertsey. 95 In 1311-12 Walter died seised of this land held of the abbey of Chertsey. 94 In 1320 Walter his son conveyed land in Chertsey to Master John Walewayn, in trust for the abbey, and Hawisia granted to John Rutherwyk, Abbot of Chertsey, tene- ments and lands ' formerly called Gloucester, now known as le Bemond,' which had previously been two holdings belonging to John de Chertsey and William Scot respectively. 95 In a cartulary of Chertsey Abbey, of the time of Edward III, mention is made of a hold- ing called ' Gloucester,' apparently a sub-manor of Chertsey, and held with the latter. The name of Gloucester gave way to that of Bemond. 96 The manor of Bemond appears to have been united with that of Chertsey soon afterwards, the two being hence- forth known as the manor of Chertsey or Chertsey- Beomond.

Before its alienation by Hawisia the tenement had been held of the abbot and convent at a rent of 28/. a year, a three-weekly suit at the abbot's hundred court, and for certain customary services. 97

In 1319 John de Bottele of Chertsey, holding of the abbot and convent of Chertsey, made an exchange with them of lands in Chertsey, 98 and it is probable that the lands so held were those which became known later as BOTLETS Manor. According to Man- ning and Bray, John Manory owned the lands in the 1 5th century, and his son conveyed them in

��7* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxc, 145, 21 Jas. I ; ibid. Misc. file 522, pt. xvii, no. 3.


 * 6 Ibid, cccxcix, 143.

T< Ibid. Misc. loc. cit.

7" Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 33 Chas. II.

7 Ibid. Trin. i Jas. II.

90 Add. MS. 6167, fol. 38. Manning, perhaps misunderstanding Aubrey, says that in 1673 the site belonged to Sir Nicholas Carew, from whom it passed to the Orbys, and that Sir Charles Orby sold it to Sir Nicholas Wayte ; of this account there appears to be no documentary evi- dence save that Sir Charles Orby held the

��advowson j Aubrey (op. cit. iii, 174) says that ' the house is now (1673) in the posses- sion of Sir Nicholas Carew.' Sir Nicholas Wayte was apparently in the East Indies, and Carew, Master of the Buckhounds, may have been in temporary possession of a house nearer Windsor than Beddington, his own seat.

81 Le Neve, Ptd. of Knights, 467.

" Feet of F. Surr. HiL 9 Geo. I.

88 Close, 25 Geo. Ill, pt. iii, no. 15.

" Ibid.

85 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 219.

88 For the history of the abbey see V.C.H. Surr, ji, 55.

408

��8 ' Add. MS. 6171, fol. 38. "7 Surr. Arch. Coll. i, 97.

88 Pat. 22 Eliz. pt. x, m. 31.

89 Cat. S.P. Dam. 1603-10, p. 281.

90 Parl. Surv. Surr. 1650, no. 9.

91 Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. file 522, pt. xvii, no. 3. ^ See note 90.

98 Feet of F. Surr. 34 Edw. I, no. 129 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, fol. 65*.

94 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. II, no. 66.

95 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, fol. 66, 1806 ; Pat. 17 Edw. II, pt. iv, no. 19.

Lansd. MS. 434.

"' Inq. a.q.d. file 165, no. II.

98 Ibid, file 135, no. 6, 12 Edw. II.

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