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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

���GAVELL. Sable an eagle argent and a chief or with three pheont table therein.

��to George Bigley, gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife. 16 Early in the next reign it came into the hands of Robert Gavell, 17 through his marriage with Dorothy, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Bigley. His immediate descendants held it under an entail " for upwards of a hundred and fifty years." In 1708 Robert Gavell, senior, together with his son and heir - apparent, Robert Gavell, junior, con- veyed the manor and several farms (reserving the manor- house, known as Cobham Court, and the farm attached to it, being demesne lands of the manor) to Frances, Vis- countess Lanesborough,* and she in 1719 bequeathed it to her second grandson, James Fox, with remainder to other grandsons." James Fox died without issue in 1753, and was succeeded by his brother, Sackville Fox, who died in 1760, and who left an only son James, in whom the estate ultimately became vested." This gentleman in 1778 sold Cobham to Robert Mackreth, and he next year sold it to Thomas Page,* 3 who then held a farm called Poynters in Cobham parish. Before his death in 1781 Mr. Page left his estates to trustees for sale, giving the option of purchase to his eldest son Thomas." The latter bought the manor and farms belonging to it, and enlarged the house of Poynters for his own residence. He died in 1 842 and left one daughter by his marriage with Catherine Brooksbank. Miss Page died in 1860, leaving the manor to her cousin Francis John Mount. On his death in 1903 his elder brother William George Mount succeeded under Miss Page's will, and made over the property in 1904. to his fourth son, Francis Mount, the present lord of the manor of Cobham.' 5 Cobham Court, with its attached farm, descended from the Gavells to the Woods of Littleton, co. Middlesex. It continued in the family of Wood till the middle of the last century, and is now the seat of Mr. Philip Warren.

In 1535 the manor was valued at 37 9/. 8</. per annum." In 1708 the appurtenances of the manor included two water grist-mills.* 6 "

The lord had view of frankpledge. Constables and tithing-men were elected for the tithings of Street Cobham, Church Cobham, and Downeside, and one pinder and one ale-taster."

Henry VIII visited Cobham on several occasions.* 8

There appears to be no early history of the reputed manor of HEYWOOD in Cobham. A family named ' Heiwude ' held land so called in 1 206 " and two

��grants of land there occur in the 1 4th century" by William de Horwode, who was perhaps one of the same family.

A certain John Prudhomme held lands in Heywood in Cobham in I 3 1 7. In 1 3 3 1 the Prior and convent of Newark by Guildford acquired from him lands in Cobham, amounting altogether to 80 acres of land and 20 acres of wood. These lands were held of Henry de Somerbury, who held of Henry atte Downe, who held of the abbey of Chertsey. 30 *

In 1594 James Sutton died seised of 'a messuage called Heywood ' in Cobham, which he held of the Crown." In 1711 Katherine Gyles, widow, and Thomas Machell quitclaimed to Robert Porter and his heirs, for 320, the manor of Heywood with its appurtenances, including a i fishery in the River Mole." The small property now called Heywood Park, near Fairmile Common, belonged to Lord Iveagh, and was recently sold by him to Mr. Hartmann.

It is almost equally difficult to trace the history of the manor ofDOWNE. A certain Deodatus de Dunes held land at Cobham in the early part of the 1 3th cen- tury," and it seems possible that the manor of Doneham (? = Downe) which is mentioned in 1280** may have been this manor. The name of Thomas atte Downe occurs in 1 340," another Thomas Downe or Donne of Cobham is mentioned in the 1 5th century,* and a third in 1565. This last 'Thomas Adowne ' held the mill on the River Mole called Downe Mill in Cobham." But in 1395 the manor of Downe in Cob- ham was in the possession of Thomas Colney. 38 The name of Downe Common was fami- liar in Cobham in the 1 7th

century, 39 and this part of the parish is called Downe- side from this family. Their house, formerly called Downe Place, is now known as Cobham Park. 40

A piece of land called ' NORTH ff^OOD with Serichecroft and two acres of land in the field of Barett' was granted by Gilbert Walsh to the church of St. Swithun and William de Raleigh, Bishop of Winchester, in the 1 3th century." This was prob- ably the land held in 1086 by William de Wate- ville of the abbey of Chertsey, and considered part of the manor of Esher. The bishop's successors held this land till 1538, when Bishop Gardiner was obliged to hand it over to the king along with the manor of Esher. 43 Northwood was restored to the see of Win- chester by Queen Mary. 44 With Esher (q.v.) it was re-acquired by the Crown in 1582-3.

���DOWNE. Azure three hulls' headt or cut off at the neck and having crotvns argent.

��16 Pat. I Mary, pt. vi, m. 29.
 * ' Ibid. 7 Eliz. pt. vi, m. 6.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), ccxlii, 33.

19 Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 42.

90 See Recov. R. East. 7 Anne, rot. 1 10.

u Will, proved P.C.C. 9 June 1721.

" Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 18 Geo. Ill, m. 8.

Ibid. Mich. 20 Geo. Ill, m. 32. Page held his first court in 1779.

84 See Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 21 Geo. HI.

15 Information kindly communicated by Mr. Mount.


 * Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56.

��* a Recov. R. East. 7 Anne, rot. no.

Ct. R. of Cobham.

633 ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vii, App. 603*.
 * >/.. and P. Hen. fill, i, 5383 ; xv,

Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 8 John, no.


 * 5-

80 Ibid. Hil. 34 Edw. I, 5, 29 ; Harl. Chart. 58, B. 40.

a Harl. Chart. 58, B. 40 ; Pat 5 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 24 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 5 Edw. Ill ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 66.

81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxl, 36. M Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 10 Anne.

444

��83 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 8 John, no. 25 ; East. 5 Hen. Ill, no. 1 1.

84 Abbre-u. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 199.

85 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 14 Edw. Ill, no. 95.

88 Pat. 12 Hen. VI, pt. ii, m. 26; Anct. D. (P.R.O.) A. 9505. ' Feet of F. Surr. East. 7 Eliz.

88 Ibid. Surr. Mich. 19 Ric. II, no. 32.

89 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxvi, 59.

40 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. ii, 410.

41 Cal. Pat. 1313-17, p. 676.

V.C.H. Surr. i, 307, and note.

43 L. and P. Hen. VIII, niii (i), 778.

44 Pat. I Mary, pt. ix, m. 18.

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