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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

���D'ABERNON'. Azure a cheveron or.

��Roger D'Abernon, who held in West Molesey of Richard in io86. 16 The association of the name of the family with Stoke indicates an early and long connexion, but the first who can certainly be said to have been there was I ngelram D'Abernon in I iSg, 16 when he lent his house there to William Marshal and the daughter of the Earl of Pem- broke for their honeymoon." In 1205 there were four bro- thers living, Ingelram, Walter, William, and Richard. Ingel- ram, son of Walter, died in 1235, without children, his heir being his kinsman Jordan. 18 Jordan ceded his claims to his uncle Gilbert, 19 which looks as if Ingelram and Jordan were grandsons, not sons, of two of the four brothers mentioned above. Gilbert was father to John," who is commemorated by the larger brass in the church. John was apparently dead by 1278, when his son John was being pressed to take up knighthood as holder of a knight's fee." John the younger died in 1327 leaving an heir John." William, probably his son, died in 1359." He had no son and the estate was inherited by his elder daughter Elizabeth, who married, first, Sir William Croyser, kt., and afterwards John de Grey of Ru- thyn." William Croyser, her son by her first husband, inherited the manor from her, and dying in 1415 left it to his widow, Edith Croyser." On her death in 1418 it passed to their daughter Anne, who, though only thirteen years of age, was already married to Ingelram Bruyn, son of Sir Maurice Bruyn, kt." Before the year 1436 Anne married her second husband, Sir Henry Norbury, kt., son of Sir John Norbury, Treasurer of England.* 7 In 1439 the property was entailed on Sir Henry and his wife and their issue.** Their eldest son, Sir John Norbury, married Jane Gilbert." The sole issue of this marriage was a daughter, Anne, who married Sir Richard Haleighwell. 30 From them the estate descended to their daughter Jane," wife of Sir Edmund Bray, Lord Bray." Lord Bray died in 1539. His son John, the second Lord Bray, who died in 1557, had a sister and co-heir, Frances, who married Thomas Lyfeld, and the manor having come into their hands in 1 5 5 7, as Frances' share of her father's property, 33 they settled it 34 on their daughter and heir, Jane, and her husband, Thomas Vincent, for their lives, and then on Jane's sons Francis and Bray Vincent, successively. A further settlement took place on the marriage of Francis Vincent with Sarah, daughter of Sir Amyas Paulet, in 15 89." Francis Vincent was made a

��baronet in i62O. 36 The manor descended in the Vincent family till the early part of the igth cen- tury. 37 Before 1824 it was sold to Hugh Smith," who died in 183 1. 39 Almost immediately afterwards the manor-house was let to Mrs. Phillips a widow, who died there in 1842. Her son, the Rev. F. P. Phillips, hon. canon of Winchester and rector of Stoke D'Abernon from 1862 to 1898, bought the manor- house and manor. He died in 1904. His son Mr. F. A. Phillips died by an unhappy accident in 1908, leaving

���VINCENT, baronet. Azure three quatrefoilt argent.

��issue.*"

The manor-house close by the church is no doubt on the site of that in which William Marshal stayed. In the wall of one of the bedrooms on the first floor are some very massive beams of 1 5th or 16th- century date. This was one of the ends of an E-shaped house (compare Slyfield, close by, in Great Bookham parish). There are also traces of a gal- lery, since cut up into smaller rooms. The house was practically rebuilt by Sir Francis Vincent, who succeeded in 1757, and who filled up the centre of the E with the present large hall. The stable walls are partly of a date about 1 600, which perhaps indicates that the first Sir Thomas Vincent, who died in 1613, was the builder who designed the gallery. The earlier house might date to Sir John Norbury, who died in 1521. The house now con- tains a fine collection of Morland's pictures.

In 1253 John D'Abernon, then lord of the manor, received a grant of free warren from Henry III," and when in the following reign his son John claimed that he and his ancestors time out of mind had held a view of frankpledge in Stoke, the claim was allowed. 4 * In 1557 a free fishery in the River Mole was among the rights of the lord of the manor. 45 Free fishery in the waters of ' Emlyn' is mentioned in 1824." Two mills were established in the manor at the time of the Domesday Survey, the profits of the one being worth js. and those of the other 6s. a year. 45

There is in this parish a small manor within the district of OCKSHOT (anciently Occasate, Oggesethe, Hoggeset, &c.). Gilbert D'Abernon in the I3th cen- tury granted lands and pasture there to the monks of Waverley, 46 who seem to have retained them, or some part of them, 47 till the Dissolution, when they were granted to Sir William Fitz William, K.G. 48 There was a house in Ockshot called Ockshot Grange, per- haps part of the monks' holding, which was owned by

��15 V.C.Ji. Surr. i, 318*.

16 Roger D'Abernon made a grant of land in Ockshot in the time of Hen. II. Add. MS. 5529.

lines 9545-5-
 * 7 L'hiitoire de Guillaume le Marechal,

18 Add. MS. 5562; Excerfta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 270.

"Add. MS. 5541.

80 Excerfta e Rot. Fin. i, 305.

n Parl. Writs (Rec. Com.), i, 214, 216, 218.

99 Chan. In<). p.m. I Edw. Ill, no. $3.

28 Ibid. 32 Edw. Ill (ist. nos.), no. 23. There is an excellent paper on the D'Aber- nons by Dr. Spencer Perceval in Surr. Arch. Call, v, 53, Set.

��M Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 14 Ric. II, no. 20;.

26 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Hen. V, no.

37-

26 Ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 30.

2 ' Brass in Stoke D'Abernon Church ; Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 284 ; Pat. 12 Hen. VI, pt. ii, m. 26.

B.M. Add. Chart 5618.

89 Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 287.

" Ibid.

81 Burke, Dorm, and Ext. Peerages.

M Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 158, no.

27-

88 Feet of F. Surr. East. 3 & 4 PhiL and Mary.

84 Ibid. Trin. 17 Eliz.

458

��86 Chan. Inq. p.m. Surr. (Scr. 2), ccxlvii, 99.

86 Cal. S.P. Dam. 1619-23, p. 167.

7Recov. R. East. 50 Geo. III. rot. 231.

88 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Geo. IV.

89 Monument in church.

40 Personal knowledge.

41 Cal. Chart. R. 1226-7, P- 434-

48 Feet of F. Surr. East. 3 & 4 PhiL and Mary.
 * ' Plac.de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747.

44 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Geo. IV. ^V.C.H. Surr. i, 318^. 4 B.M. Add. Chart 5528 to 5538. 4 "Pat 15 Edw. III. pt. i, m. 45. 43 Pat. 28 Hen. VIII, pt ii, m. 9.

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