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��signed it to Katherine his mother as part of her dower. 20

Queen Katherine died at Bermondsey Abbey on 4 January 1437. In the same year the king, having formerly granted the lordship of Walton on Thames to John Penycok for a term of years at a yearly rent of 2$, reduced that sum to 15, and extended the grant to the term of Penycok's life." After Edward IV had obtained the crown Parliament bestowed upon him the personal estates of Henry VI, who died a prisoner in the Tower in 1471. Henry's only son Prince Edward being dead, and none of the other three sons of Henry IV by Mary Bohun having left issue, the inheritance of the Bohun estates legally devolved on Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, who was descended from Eleanor the sister of Mary Bohun. King Edward, however, retained possession of the property." On his death Buckingham espoused the cause of Richard UUKC ' of Gloucester, and aided him so effectually that Richard, a few days after his accession, signed an order for the livery of the lands in question to Buckingham. 13 The duke's subsequent rebellion against the king, however, ended in his own

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PLAN OF MANOR HOUSE, WALTON ON THAMES

��destruction, and neither he nor his family ever obtained Walton, which remained in the hands of the Crown," and passed from Richard III to Henry VII." The Tudor sovereigns granted leases of the manor of Walton to various tenants. In 1589 Queen Eliza- beth granted to Katherine West, widow, wood, herbage, and pannage in Kingesridons Coppice, parcel of the manor,* 6 and on 1 1 July 1593 John Woulde received a grant from the queen of the manor, together with the capital messuage known as Dorney House." In 1612 Francis Drake of Esher had a lease for lives from James I. 88 Twenty years later Charles I granted the manor to Sir Henry Browne and John Cliffe (with the exception of such lands belonging to the manor as had been inclosed in Oatlands Park, certain rents anciently paid to the manor, and lands in Walton which had been annexed to the honour of Hampton Court), to hold in fee at a rent of 22 ids. li^J. In 1650 this rent was conveyed by Thomas Coke and others, trustees for the sale of the fee-farm and other

��rents of the late king, to William Lilly of St. Clement Danes, gentleman, the famous astrologer. 89 In 1672 Francis Drake was lord of the manor, 30 but whether he held it under the lease above mentioned, or had purchased the fee-simple, is uncertain. In 1698 Sir Matthew Andrews and his wife Ann conveyed the manor to James Justice and John Phillips, probably trustees, 31 for the same year William Robinson held his court there. 38 The manor descended to Sara wife of John Bonsey ; they jointly held their court at Walton in 1 7 1 4." Mr. Bonsey dying shortly afterwards, his widow married John Palmer, 34 who survived her and became owner of the estate, 35 which she settled on him. By his will, dated 1758, he gave this manor and that of Walton Leigh to Thomas and John, the sons of his brother Richard Palmer, and to Henry son of Henry Palmer. Henry's share descended to his daughter Frances, who married Thomas Hurst. His son, Palmer Hurst, sold it to the Duke of York previous to the passing of the Inclosure Act in 1 800. The duke dying in 1827, his interest in the manor was sold to Edward H. B. Hughes, the purchaser of Oatlands. The two-thirds held by Thomas and John Palmer came into the possession of their nephew RichardPalmer, D.D., chaplain of the House of Commons from 1765 to 1769 ; and on his death passed to his son the Rev. John Palmer of Adisham, co. Kent. It was next held by Gillias Payne Pal- mer, but passed from him under a mortgage into the hands of William Clark, solicitor, of Chertsey,* 6 and the present lord is Mr. Henry Edwards Paine of the firm of Paine, Brettell & Porter, solicitors, Chertsey.

The Manor Road, forming a loop from Walton village incloses the old Manor House, at about 100 yards from the river, a

��to the river, the north end

fine specimen of 15th-century building, which has been called Bradshaw's house, but was never owned by him. It consists of a central hall running approxi- mately north and south, with projecting wings at each end, built of timber framing originally filled in with brick and lath-and-plaster. The walls of the hall appear to have been thickened with modern brick in order to carry an inserted floor, and small additions of modern brick have also been made. This floor has in modern times been taken away, restoring the hall to its original design ; the wings have each an upper story which projects over the ground floor. The hall has a large brick chimney-breast in the west wall, and in the south wing is a larger stack which appears to have served the kitchen fireplace. In the north wing is a corresponding chimney-stack, and a modern one has been inserted in the northern

��room.

��""Duchy of Lane. Misc. Bks. vol. 18 (pt. 2), p. 49.

81 Ibid. vol. 1 8, p. 96.

22 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 15 Edw. IV, no. 102.

43 Dugdale, Baronage, 1 68, from the Stafford archives.

"Duchy of Lanc.Misc.Bks.vol.20,p.87d.

"Ibid. vol. 21, p. 184.

��M Pat 32 Eliz. pt. xii.

27 Pat. 35 Eliz. pt. iv.

K Pat. 9 Jas. I, pt. xxviii. Drake by his will, dated 21 May 1603, left to his wife 'the Manor and demesne of Walton if the lease shall last so long,' with remainder to his son Francis Drake; P.C.C. Harte, fol. 2.

m Manning and BrzjjHitt.tifSurr.iirfSj.

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��80 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1672.

81 Ibid. HiL 9 Will, and Mary.

85 Ct. R. quoted by Manning and Br.ijr, Hist, of Surr. ii, 763. 83 Ibid, ut supra. M Feet of F. Div. Co. HiL 3 Ceo. I.

85 Feet of F. S"-r. Iviich. 12 Geo. I.

86 Braylry, Hist, of Surr. ii, 316 ; Recov.

'i & 2 Geo. IV, rot. 42.

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