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��there, and all other manorial rights, granting only to his tenant ' the other half of waifs and strays in the land of the manor.' 13S These courts would appear to be the courts-leet and views of frankpledge of the manor of Chertsey to which the half-hundred of Godley (q.v.) did suit. The manor of Hardwick has, throughout, followed the descent of the manor of Chertsey (q.v.). During the reign of Charles II the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria were held at Hardwick, as they had been before the Civil War. 154

The site of the manor of Hardwick at the time of the Dissolution, or shortly after, was in the tenure of William Cooke." 3 It was leased with the manor to Sir William Fitz William in 1550 and afterwards to his widow Joan, who died in I574. 136 It was again leased, in 1589, to Richard Lilley, this time without the manor," 7 and sold during the Commonwealth to Robert Boscoes or Bwes. IM Later grants of the manor of Chertsey included both the site and manor of Hardwick. 1 "

Land at WQQDHAM. was granted to Chertsey Abbey by Frithwald, the founder. 140 In 1402 tithes from the ' township ' of Woodham were granted as augmentation of the vicarage of Chertsey. 1 " Occasional references to lands in Woodham are found in the 1 4-th century, but no one family appears to have held them for any length of time. 1 " Symmes, in his collections for Surrey, made in the I yth century, states that Woodham was held as a manor in 1413 by John Erith, Robert Thurbane, and Richard Grene, and by John Brown and others in 1426. According to the same authority John Fagger was lord there in 1482.

In 1526 Richard Covert and Robert Darknold, or Dorkenoll, were lords of the manor in the right of their wives, Elizabeth and Joan.'** Richard Covert's wife was daughter of Richard Wasse. 14 " Robert Darknold relinquished his share in 1531, and Giles Covert, the son of Richard Covert, died seised of the manor in 1557, leaving his brother Richard as heir. 144 Richard Covert conveyed it to John Austin and Thomas In- wode in I563, 144 possibly in trust for Walter Cresswell,as the latter, when he died in 1 596,

was seised of the ' manor or farm of Woodham,' which he held of the manor of Pyrford, 140 of which manor Woodham, though parochially in Chertsey, was a tithing. His heir, William Cresswell, by will dated August 1622, bequeathed two-thirds of the manor to his cousin Edward Cresswell, with remainder to the male heirs of another cousin, Richard. 14 ' The re- maining third appears to have become the property of Richard's family immediately on William Cresswell's

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��death in January 1623, as Elizabeth Collins, daughter of Richard Cresswell, died seised of a third of the manor in 1627, leaving as heir her uncle, Christopher Cresswell. 148 He, as male heir of his brother Richard, had inherited the rest of the manor on Edward Cress- well's death in July 1623."' From Christopher the manor descended to his son Richard and to the latter's son Christopher, who possessed it at the beginning of the 1 8th century. 140 After his death the manor appears to have been split up among female heirs, 1 " by whom it was eventually conveyed as a single property in 1 7 1 4 to Sir John Jennings and his heirs. 1 " In 1741 Sir John Jennings's estates were sold under a private Act, 158 and Woodham was ultimately acquired by Lord Onslow and is not now distinguished from the manor of Pyrford (q.v.). Ancient rentals of Woodham Manor were in the custody of Mr. Sibthorp, the steward of Woking and Pyrford Manors, in I795. 154

Land called ' Otreshagh,' OTTERSH4W, is men- tioned in the charter of King Alfred to the monastery made about 890, in which he gives the boundaries of Chertsey and Thorpe. 145

The Testa de Nevill states that the 'manor of Otterseye ' had been given in alms to the abbey before the Conquest. 158 This is, however, perhaps not the same place as Ottershaw. Ottershaw in its subse- quent history is referred to simply as a wood or lands. The possession of Ottershaw by the abbey is doubtful. It appears that in 1270 (vide infra) Nicholas de Croix was one of the holders, and the early charter of Chertsey, re-edited in the 1 3th century, seems to exclude the holding of Geoffrey de Croix, alive at the date of Testa de Nevill, from the lands granted to Chertsey. In the 1 4th century it appears to have been held of the king in chief.

Tithes from Ottershaw were due to the Abbot of Chertsey and formed the subject of a dispute in 1270 between the abbot and the rector of Walton, who claimed a portion. 147 The dispute, which was eventually terminated in favour of the abbot, was renewed in 1279, when Ottershaw was the property of the Earl of Hereford and Nicholas de Cruce. 149 In 1301 Walter de Langton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, received licence to assart 300 acres of his wood of Ottershaw which he held for life by demise of Humphrey de Bohun, sometime Earl of Hereford and Essex. 149

The latter conveyed part of Ottershaw, a messuage, 40 acres of land, &c., to Geoffrey de Parys, whose kinsman and heir, John Aylet, conveyed them to John de Tighele, from whom William Ingelard acquired them. From his heir Edward atte Brugg they passed to Robert Dachet and William his son, who were arraigned for entering into possession without licence from the king. Pardon and restitu- tion of the estates were, however, granted them in I337- 160

��188 Add. Chart, no. 2341 6, 2 1 Hen. VIII. 184 Ct. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 204, no. 52, 53. 184 Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7. 188 \\>\A.;Acts of the P.C.I 549-50, p. 415.

187 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 13.

188 Close, 1650, pt. Iv, no. 4.

" Pat 24 Chas. II, pt. ix, m. I ; ibid. 28 Chas. II, pt. v, m. n.

140 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 55, 56.

" Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, fol. 39 d.

141 Feet of F. Surr. 2 1 Edw. Ill, no. 1 3 ; ibid. 34 Edw. Ill, no. 56 ; ibid. Uiv. Co. 10 Edw. II, no. 144.

��14 Add. MS. 6167, fol. 101 d. ; Feet of F. Surr. East. 23 Hen. VIII. 1481 Had. MS. 1561, 35*, 36.

144 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxiv, 42.

145 Feet of F. Surr. East. 5 Eliz.

148 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccli, 148 ; Exch. T.R. Misc. Bks. 168, fol. 171 et eq.; vide Pyrford.

14 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2),cccxcvii, 93.

148 Ibid, ccccxxxvi, 2O.

149 Ibid, cccxcvii, 93 ; Recov. R. Trin. I Chas. I.

Add. MS. 6167, fol. lot d.

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��151 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 9 Anne; East 13 Anne.

"Ibid. Trin. Geo. I.

1S8 14 Geo. II, cap. 5.

154 Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, 154, and private information from Lord Onslow.

154 Vide Chertsey.

156 Testa de Nevill (Rcc. Com.), 225.

W Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25, fol. 53*.

> Ibid. fol. 54.

169 Inq. a.q.d. 29 Edw. I, file 34, no. 1 1 ; Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 575.

u Cal. Pat. 1334-8, p. 432.

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