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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

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��' the said Francis Stidolf, now Sir Francis Stidolf, is yet full of life and is 70 and lives at Mickelham,' and that he 'is therefore in pos- session now, and for his life and for 40 years after.' It also states that the manor- house and premises were in 'good tenantable repair and very fit to be continued as a farmhouse.' In 1672 the pro- perty was granted to Sir Richard Stidolf, bart., the son of Sir Francis," for a period of seven years dating from 169 5." Sir Richard died in 1677, but in 1675 a forty- year lease, dating from 1702,

was made to Sir Richard Powle. This lease was sold successively to William Cherry, Adam Bellamy, and Francis Bartholomew. 39 The lease of the manor of Egham, made to William Blaythwayt in 1694, men- tions the site of the manor as among the premises to be leased. This is probably a mistake, the grant being made in general terms only.

The Survey of 1650 includes the meadow of Runnimede among the lands appurtenant to the site of the manor. When the lease of the manor was renewed in 1804, ninety-nine years after Catherine of Braganza's death, the manor-house was included and was apparently in Mr. Wyatt's possession.

The Parliamentary Survey of 1650 states that there was a court baron, belonging to the manor of Egham, usually kept at some known place within the same manor, at the will of the lord of the manor, and also a court leet, usually kept for the said manor at Hard- wick in Chertsey. It also mentions, as common fields in Egham, Englefield, Hurst Heath, Southbrook Com- mon, Wick Common, Deane Common, and Purche Heath. 40 At the courts of Queen Henrietta Maria, held both before and after the Commonwealth, tithing- men presented for the tithings of Englefield, Stroud, Lewith or Waryth, and Hicklie. 41

In Egham, as in the other riverside lands belong- ing to the monastery, the abbot and convent had constructed weirs for catching fish. A 14th-century court roll has the following entry : ' To this court came Adam atte le Hale and surrendered into the hands of the abbot and convent a certain weir with a fisher- man's house and small island adjacent with appurten- ances at la Huche in Egham which he held of them as a tenant at will in villeinage, so that neither the said Adam nor his family nor anyone in his name should enter on the fore-mentioned weir, etc., nor yet sell or make any profit of them in the future. For which surrender the abbot and convent have granted the said Adam, for his whole life, 4 qrs. of corn, wheat and barley, to be received from the granary annually, etc. And if it should happen that the abbot and convent should neglect to furnish the above special corn for a year, then it shall be lawful for said Adam to re-enter said weir, etc., and to keep possession of them in perpetuity, on the same terms as he before

��held them, without any obstruction from the abbot.' " In 1642 the inhabitants of Egham made a petition l} in which they claimed the privilege, lately wrested from them, of depasturing their cattle in Windsor Great Park at very easy rates. The privilege had been granted in consideration of divers services per- formed by them, such as carrying in hay, sending ' treaders ' and the like, and also in respect that a great part of the park had been taken out of the commons belonging to the parish. The terms for which this depasturing was allowed were from 10 May till Lammas and from All Hallows tide until Christmas, and the weekly payment per animal had never exceeded \\d. until recently. The petition stated, however, that, in view of the fact that ' the prices of land, as of all other commodities, are much increased,' the inhabi- tants were willing to pay 4</. weekly for a cow or a bullock, 6J. for a horse, mare, or colt. A representa- tive of the inhabitants was ordered to attend the Attorney-General for settling the point.

Land at Pernehrs in Egham, described as ' half a hide of land and 5 acres, with appurtenances,' now known as ANKERWICK PARNISH, was confirmed to the priory of Ankerwick in Buckinghamshire by Henry III in 1252," when it was stated to have been given to the priory by Hugh, Abbot of Chertsey. This Hugh must be the one to whom the charter of Stephen to Chertsey is addressed." He is called Hugh the abbot, nepoi meus, and if the charter is genuine must be Hugh de Puiset, Stephen's nephew, who became Bishop of Durham in 1153. The date of the grant to Ankerwick thus seems to be fixed as previous to that year. 46 The possessions of the priory in Egham included also I acre of land of the gift of Grunwin de Trottesworth, land which Almerus held of the gift of Godfrey de Middle- ton, 1 3 acres of land of the gift of Robert de Mid- dleton, and a croft called Tutescroft of the gift of Henry son of Henry de Middleton. 47 Waste lands in Egham were granted to the prioress in I28o, 48 her possessions there in 1291 being taxed at lo/. 49 The prioress seems, by degrees, to have acquired all the land called Pernehrs or Parnish, giving the abbot in return other pieces of land which she possessed in Egham. In 1319 John, Abbot of Chertsey, con- firmed to the prioress half an acre called Guldenhalfacre at Loderlake in Egham, in a certain field called Ermehrs between the land of Stephen de Purnehrs on the west and the land which had belonged to John de Walyngford on the east, in exchange for all that land which the prioress had in Egham in the field called Bokelnfrude. 50 Assart land called Patteshill next Pernehrs was also granted her in exchange for a croft called Litelcroft. 51 An annual rent of 28/. 6J. which the prioress paid the abbot was reduced in 1319 to 24*. 6d. At the survey of the priory's possessions in 1535 the manor of Parnish in Surrey was valued at 5 2s. 6d. a The estates of the priory, which were soon afterwards surrendered, were granted in 1537 to the monks of Chertsey in the new foundation at Bisham, 53 but reverted to the Crown at the final sup- pression of this monastery in 1538. Henry VIII

��7 Monument at Mickleham.

88 That is forty year after the death of Sir Francis, 1655.

89 Add. Chart. 6150.

40 Parl. Surv. SUIT. 1650, no. 25.

41 Ct. R.

43 Lansd. MS. 434, fol. 32.

��48 Ca/. S.P.Dom. 1641-3, p. 318. 44 Chart. R. 41 Hen. Ill, no. J. 46 Not Hugh, abbot from 1107.

46 Cf. V.C.H. Bucks, i, 355.

4 7 Chart. R. 41 Hen. Ill, no. 3. 48 Inq. a.q.d. file 5, no. 19; Cal.Pat.

1281-92, p. I.

422

��Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), zo6<>.

60 Ench. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, fol. 230.

"Ibid. fol. 230*.


 * Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), iv, 222.

68 L. and P. Hen. fill, xii (2) g. 1311 (22).

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