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��1505 to Henry Wykes under the name of Botlese Park." Sir Roger Chomeley was in possession of Botley's before 1541, in which year he granted the estate, then for the first time called a manor, to the king, in exchange for other lands. 100 Leases of the manor were made to Anne, Duchess of Somerset, in 1555"" and to James Harden in I 599- 1M I* was granted in 1610 to George Salter and John Williams, 103 who conveyed it in the same year to William Garwaie and his heirs. 104 The manor was sold by William Garwaie to John Hammond and his heirs for ever. 104 On the marriage of Robert Hammond son of John with Elizabeth Knollis the manor was settled on Robert, 1 * 6 whose son John Hammond died seised of it in 1643, leaving Robert his son as heir. 107 The manor afterwards passed to the Hall family. Samuel Hall ' of Botleys ' died in I7O7. 10 * Later in the i8th century Mrs. Pleasance Hall held the estate for life, but in 1763, having purchased the reversion of her son, she sold it to Joseph Mawbey, afterwards Sir Joseph Mawbey, who built the pre- sent house. 109 His son suc- ceeded him and died in 1817 leaving two daughters, one of whom had married John Ivett Briscoe and inherited the es- tate. 110 They sold it, however, in 1822 to David Hall, who conveyed to John Beecles Hyndman,from whom it passed to Robert Gosling. 111 The estate known as Botley's Park is now the property of Mr. Hubert Gosling, J.P.

Among the boundaries of Chertsey set forth in 673 is mentioned the isle oiHAM or Hamenege, 11 ' which is later represented by Ham Moor and Ham Farm, 1 " and which was known from the I2th to the i8th century as the manor of Ham. The manor was ancient demesne until the reign of Henry I, 1 " who granted it to the Abbot of Chertsey. 1 " In 1197 Martin, Abbot of Chertsey, granted the manor to William de Hamme and his heirs, 11 ' and Robert de Hamme was iord of the manor in 1 307."' Thomas de Saunterre, ipparently acting as trustee for purposes of a settle- ment, enfeoffed John de Hamme and Alina of the 'manor of Hamme next Chertsey,' and land in Stanore. 1 " John de Hamme died seised of the manor in 1319-20, leaving his brother Robert as heir. 11 *

Thomas de Hamme, probably a member of the same family, held the manor about 1323, when he

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��received licence to have divine service in his oratory at Ham. 120 He appears to have been still living in Chertsey in l^zS." 1 It is not apparent how the manor passed from Thomas de Hamme to the Fitz Johns, but it was probably by marriage of heiresses. It is at least evident that in 1372 Robert Danhurst and Agnes his wife, possibly the widow of a son of Thomas de Hamme, conveyed all that they held in the manor of Hamme, their share being a life-interest held in the right of Agnes, to William Fitz John and Agnes his wife and the heirs of this second Agnes. 1 ' 1 A further settlement of the manor on the Fitz Johns was made in 1 38 1. 1 " The manor descended to Nicholas IM son and heir of William Fitz John, to Nicholas's son John and grandson Henry, about whose succession some difficulty arose, a claim to the manor being made in 1466 by John Goryng and John Sturnyn, who said they had been enfeoffed of it by John Fitz John, father of Henry. 1 " The manor came soon afterwards into the possession of Sir Thomas Seyntleger, who in 1481 received licence to alien- ate it to the Dean and Ca- nons of the free chapel of St. George's, Windsor, 116 for the support of a chantry, and it remained with the chapter when the chantry was dis- solved. 1 " Occasional leases of it were made during the 1 7th and 1 8th centuries, when it was known under various

names the manor of Ham or Ham Court or Ham Farm or Ham Haw Farm. It was leased in 1614 to Dr. Henry Hammond, the king's physician, 118 who held Chertsey (q.v.), and had also a life grant of the manor of Botleys. Later, Sir George Askew and Sir Ralph Clare held leases. 1 * 9

In 1731 it was advertised for sale as held by the late Robert Douglas, on a lease from the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and was purchased by the second Earl of Portmore, 130 whose property in Weybridge it adjoined. 131 It is now held as a farm, on a lease from the dean and canons by Mr. H. F. Locke King,

The manor of HARDWICK was among the pos- sessions of the abbey of Chertsey in this parish ; the first reference to it occurs in 1430, when the manor, held by the abbey, was assigned to William Frowyk to farm. 131 From a later lease it would seem that this manor was usually demised to farm by the abbot, who reserved to himself the profits of leets and courts held

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��99 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 222 ; (quoting from information received).

100 Par, 32 Hen. VIII, pt. vii, m. 2.

101 Ibid. 2 & 3 Phil, and Mary, pt. viii, m. 22.

1M Ibid. 32 Eliz. pt. x, m. 16.

108 Ibid. 7 Jas. I, pt. xvi, no. I.

IM Close, 7 Jas. I, pt. xxix.

I0 Ibid. 9 Jas. I, pt. ii, m. 8.

1M Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. 19 Chas. I, pt. xvii, no. 8 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 14 Jas. I.

10 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. 19 Chas. I, pt. ivii, no. 3.

108 Add. MS. 6171, p. 65.

109 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, p. 122 ; G.E.C. Complete Baronetage, v, '35-

��110 Ibid, v, 135 ; Bray ley, op. cit. ii,222; Recov. R. East. 3 Geo. IV, rot. 147.

111 Ibid. 149 ; Brayley, op. cit. ii,

222.

119 Birch. Cart. Sax. i, 56.

y.C.H. Surr. i, 308 note.

U4 See, however, V.C.H. Surr. i, 308.

116 Cott. MS. Vitell. A. xiii, fol. 55, 67 d. ; Add. MS. 6167, fol. 96 b ; Assize R. 877, m. 59 ; 878, m. 37.

"Exch. K.R. Misc. Bk. 25, fol. 64.

"'Add. MS. 6167, fol. 96* ; Assize R. 877, m. 59.

""Feet of F. Surr. Trin. i Edw. II.

118 Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. II, no. 14.

1JO Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 23 d., 52 d.

m Cal. Pat. 1327-30, p. 336.

1M Feet of F. Surr. 46 Edw. Ill, no. 89.

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��lffl Ibid. 5 Ric. II, no. 40.

"< Wykebam'i Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), ii, 556 ; Exch. K.R. Misc. Bits. 25, fcl. 55*.

De Banco R. Hil. 6 Edw. IV, m. 116.

1M Pat. 21 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 17 ; Exch. T.R. Misc. Bks. cxiii, fol. 34.

19 J It probably included Ham in Cobham, though separate court rolls for this exist in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commis- sioners.

138 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1611-18, p. 254.

1M Ibid. 1660-1, p. 247.

130 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 229.

181 See Weybridge parish.

I* 9 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, foL 105, 108.

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