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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��have remained united to that of Hamme for some time longer. It is at least probable that Nicholas Fitz John, who held the latter (q.v.) about 1400, also held land at Stanore." After this date there appears to be no record of it until 1 5 32, when the manor, then in possession of William Lambert, was leased for thirty- one years to John Rogers of Chobham at the rent of j is. 8J. 43 William Lambert died before 1539, when his widow Alice and daughter Collubra, wife of Richard Warde, conveyed the manor to the king in exchange for other lands." In 15 54 the Crown extended the lease previously made to John Rogers to his son Henry for a term of twenty-one years. 46 The manor in 1559 was granted to Thomas Reve and George Evelyn and the latter's heirs, to hold by knight's service, 46 Reve being only a trustee. Evelyn died in 1 603, and the manor of Stannards passed to his second son John Evelyn, a settlement having been made on the marriage of George eldest son of John Evelyn with Elizabeth Rivers. 47 In 1618 the moiety of the manor was conveyed by John Evelyn and his wife to Robert Hatton as a settlement on his younger son John Evelyn on the latter's marriage ; George Evelyn released his right to his brother, and in 1621 the other moiety of the manor was conveyed to him. 4 ' John Evelyn the younger apparently re-sold the manor to his brother George and his son Sir John in 1624," and the latter was in possession in 1636,*" when he conveyed it to George Buncombe and Henry Baldwin in trust for James Linch, who died seised of the manor of Stannards and Fords in 1 640, leaving as heiresses his granddaughters Eleanor, Susan, and Elizabeth Gauntlett. 41 It is probable that Eleanor and Susan married Robert Parham and Robert Hussey respec- tively and released their right in the manor in 1651." In 1687 the manor was in possession of Francis Swanton, 51 son of William Swanton, who married Elizabeth the youngest granddaughter of James Linch." Francis Swanton is said to have sold it to Nathaniel Cocke in 1694." In 1721 his widow Anne Cocke was seised of it, with reversion to Zachariah Gibson, 5 * to whom Joseph Paris and Sara, probably the daughter of Anne Cocke, had released their interest. 47 In the same year Anne Cocke and Zachariah Gibson conveyed ' the manor or lordship or reputed manor or lordship of Stannards and Fords' to John Martin, who in 1728 sold it to Thomas Woodford for 2,300,** the sale including two farms known as Forde Farm and Coxhill Farm, a common called Mynfield Green, and other lands. Thomas Woodford's son Thomas inherited the major part of his father's estate in I758, M and in 1761 sold the manor of Stannards and Fords to Thomas Sewell, whose son and heir T. B. H. Sewell inherited it in 1784, selling in 1795 to Edmund Boehm, who owned it till iSig. 60 Mr. Boehm's property was sold in 1820 after his bankruptcy, and the manor was acquired by Mr. James Fladgate, corn merchant of

��Chertsey. He died in 1857 * to and left it to his son James Fladgate. The latter's son Henry sold the manor. The manor-house now belongs to Sir Henry Denis le Marchant, the land and manor to Mr. Otter, J.P., of Queenwood, and Miss Peele. 61 The manor- house, now tenanted by Mr. A. E. Greenwell, is in part an early 17th-century building with some good Jacobean woodwork. It was probably erected by one of the Evelyns, the old manor-house being a timbered house still standing on the other side of the road, or Stanner's Hill Farm belonging to Mr. Baker of Ottershaw Park. The former is a large, picturesque old cottage of whitewashed brick and half-timber with a tiled roof. It is on the plan of a "J" with gabled ends to the head and hipped roof at the foot ; and is in two stories. It is now divided into two cottages.

ADEN is a house and small estate in Chobham, sometimes called a manor in title-deeds. A John Ardern held land in Chobham in 1331." John Danaster, baron of the Exchequer, died seised of the manor of Aden in I 54O. 63 His daughter Anne, then aged two, afterwards married Owen Bray, second son of Sir Edward Bray of Shiere. Their son Edward had a son Owen, 64 whose daughter married a Mr. Sear, and their daughter married Mr. Johnson. The manor was sold to General Broome, and then to Mr. Jerram the vicar of Chobham in 1808. It passed through four more owners to Miss Perceval, the present owner. The house was rebuilt on another site, and is now called ' Chobham House.' The mill, which was part of the estate, was sold separately by Captain Sanders in the igth century, and is now owned by Mr. F. W. Benham.

The church of ST. L4WRENCE CHURCHES consists of a chancel 28 ft. I in. by 1 5 ft. II in., a nave 72 ft. 6 in. by 1 8 ft., with a north aisle 1 1 ft. 3 in. wide and a south aisle and transept 6 ft. to in. wide. At the west end of the nave is a tower 1 1 ft. I in. square, with a wooden west porch, and at the east end of the north aisle is a small vestry.

The earlier church was a small building consisting of a chancel with a nave of about half the length of the present one, dating from the beginning of the 1 2th century or a little earlier. Parts of two of the early windows still remain high up in the south wall of the nave, cut into by thearcade which was built about 1 1 80, when the south aisle was added. In the 1 3th century a transept chapel was added at the east end of the aisle, which with the nave was lengthened westwards by the addition of one more bay, the old west respond of the south arcade being replaced by a square pier. The history of the chancel during this time has been lost by its complete rebuilding, noted below. The tower was built about 1450, and thus the church remained until 1 866, when the north aisle was added and the

��"Exch. K..R. Misc. Bks.vol. 25, fol. 55)5. 48 Pat. I & 2 Phil, and Mary pt. xi, m. 5.

"Ibid. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. iv, m. 27.

45 See note 43.

46 Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. iv, m. 27. 4 'Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxc, 124. 4 Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 16 Jas. I;

Recov. R. Trin. 1 8 Jas. I ; Feet of F. SUIT. Trin. 19 Jas. I.

Feet of F. Surr. HiL 21 Jas. I ; Mich. 2 Chat. I.

so lbid. Hit. 12 Chas. I.

��61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxcii, 41.

"Feetof F. Surr. Hil. 1651.

M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 3 Jas. II ; Recov. R. Mich. 3 Jas. II.

"Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ill, I94;SirT. Phillips, Visit.Wilti. 1677, p.

"7-

56 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 196.

M Close, 8 Geo. I, pt. ii, no. I.

W Feet of F. Surr. HiL 8 Geo. I ; Man- ning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 194.

68 Close, 1 Geo. II, pt. v, m. 12 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. i Geo. II.

416

��"See P.C.C. 76 Arran (will of Thos. Woodford of Chertsey).

60 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 194 (quoting from the title-deeds of Edmund Boehm, lord t>f the manor in 1811).


 * > Will proved Dec. 1857.

61 Local information.

Feet of F. 5 Edw. Ill, 68, in Surr. Arch. Soc. volumes of fines.

"Chan. Inq. p.m. 32 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, no. 143.

"Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 199.

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