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��8 hides only. Its value had, however, increased from /1 2 to 18 since the time of King Edward. It was stated that 3 hides of the land belonged to the king, being in his forest of Windsor. 7 After 1086 William made a grant of eight hides in Pyrford to Westminster, these three and five more, unless the iii of Domesday be a mistake for viii. 8 The manor of Pyrford remained in the possession of the monastery of Westminster until the Dissolution, 9 being assigned to the portion of the abbot. 10 Between 1346 and 1366 licence was granted to the abbot" for his monks to celebrate mass in the oratory of his manor of Pyrford. In 1558 Queen Mary granted it to the new priory of Sheen which she had refounded in 1556-7." Early in 1559, however, an Act was passed for the suppression of all the religious houses which had been refounded by Mary, and their estates were once more annexed to the Crown." In 1561 Queen Elizabeth granted the site of the manor, lately in the possession of John Carleton and Joyce his wife, to George Revel for twenty-one years," but in 1574 another grant of the same was made to Edward Clin- ton, Earl of Lincoln and Lord High Admiral of

��England. 15 Queen Elizabeth granted the manor of Pyrford to Henry Weston, who in 1589 received licence to alienate to Sir John Wolley and his heirs for ever." When Sir John died in 1596 he was seised both of the manor and of the site of the manor, which afterwards follow the same descent." Never- theless in 1609 James I made a special grant of the site of the manor, the park, and various lands to Sir Francis Wolley, which refers to the Earl of Lincoln as though he were the last tenant. 18 Sir John's widow Elizabeth, who afterwards married Sir Thomas Egerton, held the manor as dower for life, and at her death it passed to Francis Wolley, son of Sir John Wolley and Elizabeth. 19 Sir Francis Wolley (knighted in 1603) died in 1609,* when the manor apparently passed to Sir Arthur Mainwaring, his cousin, 11 who held it until 1628, when he sold it to Sir Robert Parkhurst." Sir Robert held the manor jointly with his son Robert, a settlement having been made on the occasion of the latter's marriage with Elizabeth Baker.* 3 Sir Robert the father died in 1636, and the manor passed to his son and grandson." A fourth Robert Parkhurst, son of the latter, sold the

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��I V.C.H. Surr. I, 306*. s Cart. Antiq. C.C. (2).

9 Wins. Accts. (Gen. Ser.) bdle. 1109, no. 4; Cott. MS. Faust. A. iii, foL 4*; Cott. MS. Claud. A. viii, 54* ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 411 ; Mins. Accts. Rcl. Houses, 31 & 32 Hen. VIII, rot. 113, m. I.

10 V.C.H. Ltmd. i, 450.

II Egerton MS. 2033, fol. 61.

11 Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, m.g.

��u Dugdale, Man. Angl. vi, 30.

14 Pat. 4 Eliz. pt. v, m. 5.

14 Ibid. 16 Eliz. pt. xi, m. 5 ; Acts of iheP.C. 1 571-5, p. 396.

"Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. xv, m. 18 ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 3 1 Eliz.


 * Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Eliz. pt. i, no. 74.

18 Pat. 7 Jas. I, pt. xxxvii, m. 24.

19 Chan. Inq. p.m. 42 Eliz. pt. i, no. '33-

432

��M Ibid. (Ser. 2), cccxxxir, 60.

1 Hart. Sac. Pub. xliii, 3 ; W. Brayley, op. cit i, 359; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 8 Jas. I.

Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 Chas. I.

Ibid. East. 4 Chas. I ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxx, 21.

84 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 16575 Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, 157.

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