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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

���ABINGDON ABBEY. Argent a cross paty be- tween four martlet! table.

��Surrey of the abbot for the same service. 60 During the 13th century Richard Russel held this J knight's fee in Trotsworth or Troccesvvorth. 81 In 1252 a dispute arose between Richard Russel of Trottesworth and the Abbot of Chertsey concerning view of frank- pledge in the hundred of Godley. It was finally agreed that Richard and his heirs should come to view of frankpledge at Godley Hill every year at the feast of the Epiphany. The abbot in return granted him a certain marsh called Losehall. 8 * In 1428 John Tendale held in Egham J part of a knight's fee which Margaret de Trottes- worth formerly held of the Abbot of Chertsey. 63 The manor afterwards passed to the monastery of Abingdon in Berkshire, though the date of the conveyance is not ap- parent. At the suppression of this monastery in 1538 the manor of Trottesworth in Thorpe and Egham, with a tenement called le Strande, was valued at $ 3/. 4^. M In 1545 the manor was granted to John Broxholme, John Bellew and others in trust for Anthony Bond. 86 The next year Anthony Bond leased Trottesworth to William Knight for a term of eighty-one years, dating from I552. 86 Bond sold the manor to the Crown shortly afterwards, and in 1555 Anne, Duchess of Somerset, received a life grant of it. 87 She died in 1 587." William Knight was still in possession of the lease in 1588, when the queen granted the reversion to James Bond for a period of twenty-one years. 89

In 1599 the queen granted the manor 'lately in the tenure of James Bond ' to George Austeyne and William Minterne and their heirs. 90 They were presumably trustees, as John Bond was in possession of the manor in 1 609, in which year he sold it to John Worsopp. 91 The latter conveyed it in 1625 to John Machell and Deborah his wife, 98 and it remained in their family until 1750," when Lancelot Machell sold it to Charles Simes and Samuel Meredith to the use of Charles Simes and his heirs. 94 The manor afterwards passed to John Forster, who conveyed it to his son George in 1 8o2, 95 when the property in- cluded, besides the manor, a farm called Trottesworth Farm and closes called Hollymore Field, Knowle Field, Furzey Field, Blackshill Field, Reversfield, Packers Land, Lamsley Hill, Hams Mead, Horse Mead, One Brock, Holly Platt and the Slip.

Trottesworth seems to have ceased to be regarded as a manor about this period. The deed of 1802 refers to it as a 'manor or reputed manor.' Manning

���ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. France quartered tu'uh England in a border gobony ar~ gent and axure.

��states that the property consisted of two farms, which were held in his time, about 1 804, by Mr. Forster and Mr. Fournier. 88 The Countess de Morella held the estate in 1905.

BROOMHALL. Among the possessions of the priory of Broomhall in Berkshire when it became escheat to the Crown in 1522 were certain tene- ments in Egham and Thorpe, including 32 acres of meadow in Egham, of which the priory had apparently been seised for some time. 97 The name Broomehall in Egham is as old as the perambulation of the forest boundaries in I226. 9 * In October 1522 the king granted the site and pos- sessions of the late priory to the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The deed included a ' manor ' in Egham which was un- doubtedly the land previously referred to." In 1544 the college sold to the king a por- tion of their land in Egham, about 44 acres, called Knowle Grove. 100 A survey of Egham Manor in 1622 includes land called Broomhall Piece, the

property of St. John's, and in the tenure of William Minterne. 101 The college still holds the manor of Broomhall, in Egham. 10 *

IMWQRTH.k tenement and lands in Egham were in the possession of the family of Imworth in 1224, when John de Imworth brought a suit against Henry de Middleton concerning the land. 10 * In 1 298 John de Imworth conveyed the reversion of lands in Egham to Robert de Burghton and Sarah his wife, and to the heirs of Sarah, who was probably the daugh- ter of John de Imworth. The latter was to hold it of Robert and Sarah for the remainder of his life for the annual rent of one rose and for the services due to the chief lords of the fee. 1 "

In January 1339 Robert de Imworth received licence for the celebration of divine service in the oratory of his house in Egham. 105 In 1550 the manor of Inworths alias Fosters belonged to Sir William Warham, 108 and afterwards went to his heir, who held the manor in l6l6. 107 Fosters apparently became a separate holding, for in 1 622, when Sir John Doddridge was holding the messuage and lands called Fosters, Sir John Denham had the site of the manor of Im- worth.' 08 In 1638 Imworth passed to his son Sir John Denham the Royalist poet, 109 whose estates were se- questered, and in 1 648 conveyed to John Thynne." Thynne remained in possession, and his son was resident at Imworth in 1673. '" Sir John Denham

��*> Rtd Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 198.

n Testa de ffevill (Rec. Com.), izib.

m Exch. K.R. Mic. Bks. 25, fol. 241*.

88 Feud, Aids, v, 123.

M Dugdale, Man. Angl. i, 505.

Pat. 37 Hen.VIII.pt. ix,m. 26-36 ; Add. MS. 4705, fol. 28, 39.

86 Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. x, m. 6.

7 Ibid. 2 & 3 Phil, and Mary. pt. yiii, m. 22.

88 Diet. Nat. Siog.

89 Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. x, m. 6. 80 Ibid. 42 Eliz. pt. xii, m. I.

91 Feet of F. Surr. East. 6 Jas. 1 5 Com. Pleat D. Enr. East. 6 Jas. I, m. 23.

��w Feet of F. Surr. Mich, i Chas. I.

98 Recov. R. East. 4 Chas. I, rot. I ; Mich. 34 Chas. II, rot. 208 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 34 Chas. II ; Recov. R. Mich. 3 Geo. I, rot. 146.

M Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 26 Geo. II, m. 60, 62.

95 Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 42 Geo. Ill, m. 96; Recov. R. East. 42 Geo. Ill, rot. 17.

96 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 255. 57 Exch. Incj. p.m. file 1075, no. 3 & 4,

13, 14 Hen. VIII. 08 V.C.H. Surr. i, 357. 98 Pat. 14 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 5. 100 Information from St. John's College.

424

��101 Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 6z6.

LM Information from St. John's College.

108 Cal. Pat. 1216-25, F- 4 8 5-

104 Feet of F. Surr. Eatt. 26 Edw. I.

104 Winton Epis. Reg. Orlcton, i, fol. joa. Compare Egerton MS.

106 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 4 Edw. VI; Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 85, no. 22; Feet of F. Surr. East. 2*3 Phil, and Mary.

10 ? Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccl, 57.

108 Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 626.

109 Diet. Nat. Biog.

110 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, 1790.

111 Aubrey, op. cit. fii, 164.

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