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��consideration had been a perpetual payment to the Black Friars of Guildford for masses for Richard, and perhaps this was not paid. At any rate the next holder to be found is Lawrence Rasterne who married Anne daughter of Thomas Purvoch and Joan Brocas. 45 Their son was Wil- liam Rasterne, 46 who died I 562. His only survivingchild Martha married John Lussher. She was involved in an action in the Court of Requests 15745 with her mother's second hus- band William Grey. 47 John Lussher died before October 1603, when Martha his widow held a court. 48 Her son John Lussher mortgaged the manor to Richard Carrill 10 Novem- ber i63o, 49 and in December 1631 Lussher and Carrill conveyed the manor to trustees for John Kempsall of St. Clement Danes. 60 John Kempsall had a son Edward, married again and had a son John, and died 1659." Edward the elder son had only an annuity out of the manor, which had been leased to a Dr. Tichborne and settled on the elder John's second wife and her children." John the younger sold to Dr. Edward Fulham in 1662, who in 1667 further secured himself against the claim of John's mother and her second husband Thomas Weston.**

The estate remained in the Fulham family, for the Rev. Edward Fulham held it at his death in 1832." It was purchased by Charles Devon," who sold the manor and manor-house to George Best, who resided there c. 1848. Mr. Best died 1870. His widow died 1873, when the manor was sold to Colonel McC. Hagart, C.B. His sister, Mrs. Ellice, is now owner.

DOWN PLACQ, the manor which includes the northern part of Compton parish, was a part of the main manor of Compton at the time of the Domesday Survey. Gregory de la Dune held half a knight's fee there of William de Windsor c. I2I2. 66 It was held with Compton of the manor of Stanwell until the sale of the overlordship by Lord Windsor to Henry VIII."

In 1386 Elizabeth Stonhurst was holding the manor of Miles Windsor, 68 and a few years later she paid poll tax for herself and four servants in Compton in i 38 1. 69 She is probably identical with Elizabeth de Doune who appears in the Godalming Hundred Rolls, the Arlington and the Catteshull courts,

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��1382-5, as holding land in Compton, Arlington, and Cherfold in Chiddingfold ; perhaps Downland in Chiddingfold was so named from her holding it. Down was subsequently in the hands of Robert Hull. 60 In 1427 Margery Knollis was in posses- sion, 61 but by 1451 it had again changed hands and was held by George Daniell. 61 William Brocas in 1452 held Me Doune ' in Arlington. 63 That this was part of Down in Compton appears likely from his son holding the manor of Down in 1485. If so, it had been confiscated before by Edward IV and given to his brother-in-law Sir Thomas St. Leger, who held it towards the end of the 1 5th century. He was the chief tnstigalor of the rising in Surrey in I483- 64 After his attainder and execution Down Place was forfeit to the king, who granted it to his servant William Mistelbroke in tail male, 66 but William Brocas was holding Down soon afterwards, see above. 66 The attainder of

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��Sir Thomas St. Leger having been reversed at the accession of Henry VII, 67 his heiress Anne, wife of George Lord Roos, entered upon the manor, 68 but seems to have alienated it, for under Henry VIII William FitzWilliam, Earl of Southampton, was in possession, and settled it on his wife, Mabel, and his heirs by her. He died in 1542 without issue, and the manor descended, in accordance with the terms of the settlement, to his half-brother Sir Anthony Browne, kt., father to the first Lord Montague. 69

Down Place under Guildown was among lands granted in 1592 to William Tipper, a fishing grantee. 70 However, the rightful owners succeeded in recovering their lands, for in 1610 Anthony Viscount Montague, a descen- dant of Sir Anthony Browne, sold the manor to Richard Coldham. 71 From him it de- scended to his son Richard." In 1668 Richard Coldham and George Coldham the younger were dealing with it. 7 * Richard Coldham conveyed it in 1688 to the trustees of the estates of Gerard Gore, deceased, 74 whose daughter Sarah married Sir Edward Tumor, Speaker of the House of Commons in 1661." Arthur

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��4t Catteshull Manor R. 12 June 23 Hen. VIII, and brass of Thomas and Joan Purvoch in Godalming Church. They had a son Thomas who married Jane. The wife of the father or the son might be Joan Brocas.
 * Ct. of Req. bdle. 39, no. 91, 17 Eliz.
 * Ibid. Ct. R.

V Close, 7 Chas. I, pt. xxvi, no. 28. Ibid. pt. xxv, no. 33. P.C.C. will proved 27 Jan. 1659. 2 Close, 1 1 Chas. I, pt. xxv, no. 2$. ' Feet of F. Surr. East. 14 Chas. II ; . Trin. 19 Chas. II. Brayley, Hist, of Surr. v, 22 j. Testa de Neiiill (Rec. Com.), 220. /'" Deeds of Purchase and Exchange (Aug. Off.), Hen. VIII, C. 22.
 * Coll. To fog. et Gen. i, 17.

��58 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, 46.

"Exch. Lay Subs. bdle. 184, no. 29, m. I.

60 Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Ric. II, no. 52. Robert Hull and his wife Elisora (?) ap- pear in the protracted lawsuit of 1398- 1410 owing homage to Eastbury. The question arises whether 'Elisora' could have been ' Elizabeth ' Stonhurst.

Ibid. 6 Hen. VI, 46. She also held Cherfold, vide supra, Catteshull R. 7 Hen. VI.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Hen. VI, no. n.

68 Godalming Hund. R. 1452.

M V.C.H. Surr. i, 365 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. V.O. Ric. Ill, no. 18.

M Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 529.

M Cal. oflnj. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 19.

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<* Feet of F. Surr. East. 4-5 Hen. VI;II.

69 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxix, i 43.

7 That is, one of a class of professio nal informants who made it their business to report to the Crown questionable titles o. landowners. In many cases the lands were thereupon resumed by the Crown, and regranted to the informants, and the original owner had to pay highly in order to recover them ; Pat. R. 34 Eliz. pt. vii.

n Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 8 Jas. I ; Recov. R. Mich. 9 Jas. I.

7Add. MS. (B.M.), 6171.

7 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 20 Chat. II.

7 Close, 4 Jas. II, pt. i, no. 17.

' 5 Diet. Nat. Biog. Ivii, 373.

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