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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��D.D., and descended to his son the Rev. John Palmer. On the sale of the Crown lands, which had been transferred to the Duke of York under an Act of 1804, the entire manor of Walton Leigh became vested in Edward H. B. Hughes. 60

Early in the reign of Henry VIII a quarrel took place between certain fishermen of Walton and Giles Leigh, lord of the manor of Walton Leigh. The fishermen, Thomas Brewer, John Newman, and John and Richard Albroke, with others, claimed that they and their forefathers had been used to fish in the king's water of Thames beside Walton time out of mind. But Giles Leigh, ' by the sinister council of John Carleton, man of law and bailly there,' claimed a several water and fishing there of half a mile. Accompanied by certain persons armed with swords and bucklers he riotously came to Brewer's boats and took away his great salmon net. At other times he took from Brewer certain engines called ' clere weles ' for catching roach and dace ; and finally went to law with him and the two Albrokes for fishing in his water. Giles was non-suited, but he ' continued in his malicious mind,' and finally gave information which caused Robert Bawce, farmer of the king's moiety of Walton weir, to descend upon the luckless fishermen and ' uncharitably to vex them by privy seals and otherwise ' for infringing upon the royal rights, driving them at last to appeal for justice."

4PPS (Ebsa, xi cent.), which now forms part of the parish of Walton on Thames, was originally a separate vill. In 675 Frithwald of Surrey and Bishop Erkenwald are said to have granted five ' mansas ' there to Chertsey Abbey, 68 and this grant was renewed by Edward the Confessor when he restored its lost property to that monastery. 63 After the Conquest Richard de Tonbridge acquired some land in the manor, 64 or perhaps the whole manor, which was certainly afterwards held of his successors. The account of the matter given in Domesday is as follows : ' The same Richard has six hides in the manor of Ebsa which Abbot Wulfwold [of Chertsey] delivered to him in augmentation of Waleton, as Richard's homagers say. But the men of the hundred say that they have never seen the King's writ or livery officer who had given him seisin thereof. Nine thegns held this land [under Edward the Confessor] and they could seek for it and for them- selves what lord they pleased.' 6i

A certain Picot held two separate half-hides of Richard de Tonbridge, and there was also half a hide held by a villein, for which he had previously paid rent to the homagers, but which he then held of the king. 66 This last half-hide appears in the Testa de Nevill as held of the king in free alms by Ralph Blundell, William son of Gunnild, William son of Gilbert, and Osbert Malherbe by the service of brewing and distributing beer for the benefit of the souls of Kings of England on All Souls' Day. In the escheats

��in the same record the same tenure is in the hands of William le Fraunkeleyn, Osbert Malherbe, Osbert Blundus, and Matilda, a widow. 67 In 1318 this land belonged to Hawisia de Hautot, and was said to form part of the manor of Apps Court. 68

The overlordship of the Clare lands descended after the death of Gilbert de Clare in 1314 to the Despensers, 69 and subsequently to Isabella Countess of Warwick, daughter of Thomas le Despenser. It probably escheated to the Crown after the attainder of Warwick ' the Kingmaker' in 1 47 1. 70

Part of the Clare lands were held in mesne lord- ship in the early 1 3th century by the D'Abernons. Gilbert D'Abernon in or about 1235 granted to Jane widow of Engelram D'Abernoun all his interest in half a knight's fee in Apps. 71 John D'Abernon appears as mesne lord of lands in the manor in 1 3 1 8, 7 ' and in 1361 the manor was said to be held of Sir William Croyser, 73 husband of Elizabeth, daughter of William D'Abernon. It descended to his son William, after whose death it was held by his wife, Edith, 74 and the mesne lordship continued with the lords of Stoke D'Abernon until as late as I546. 74 Other lands in the manor were held of various lords," so that it appears to have been a consolidation of several holdings.

These various lands, forming the manor of Apps, were held as sub-tenant by Hawisia de Hautot, wife of Ralph le Hever, at her death in 1318. Thomas de Hever, her son and heir, succeeded her. 77 His daughter Margaret married Oliver de Brocas, who held the manor of Apps in his wife's right. 78 John Brocas, his son, succeeded him, and died without issue, leaving as heir Edward St. John, kt., lord of ' Wylde- brugge,' son of Joan sister of Thomas Hever. 79 The manor was mortgaged under a statute staple for 1,000 marks to John Campden and others, who entered on possession. This probably accounts for a certain Bernard Brocas remitting all right in the manor in 1393 to John Nekelin and others. 60 Edward St. John therefore never seems to have been in possession. In 1418 the manor was held under the Croysers by John Pegays and William atte Field, probably feoffees. 81 In 1454 Ralph Agmondesham, whose family belonged to Row- barnes and East Horsley, and his wife Millicent 8 * were tenants, and it continued in a branch of this family for some time.

In 1541 it was in the hands of John Agmondesham and Eleanor his wife, 63 and in I 546 John Agmondesham died seised

of the manor, which he had AGMONDCSHAM. Ar- settled on his wife, who sur- f' " c, heve ' m ,"~ ur. e

i i ti i T 11 between three boars heads

vivedhim. 84 He was succeeded sahll with, hree einj _ by Francis, his son and heir, foils or on the chevemn.

���" Bray ley, Hitt. of Surr. ii, 318. 61 Star Chamber Proc. Hen. VIII, bdle. 1 8, no. 79.

6a B.M. Cott. MS.Vitell.A. xiii, fol. 2lk.

Ibid. fol. 50*.

H Surr. Arch. CM. xv, 1 7 note.

65 r.C.H. Surr. i, 317*.

" Ibid. 318*.

6 7 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225, 227.

68 Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. II, no. I.

69 Ibid. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist. nos.),

��no. 169 ; 49 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 46.

'"Ibid. 1 8 Hen. VI.no. 3.

7 1 B.M. Add. Chart. 5562.

" 2 Chan. Inq. p.m. 12 Edw. II, no. 17.

" Ibid. 17 Edw. Ill (ist no.".), no. 7.

' 4 Ibid. 3 Hen. V, no. 17. See also Coram Rege R. Mich. 7 Hen. VII, m. 16 (Surr.).

" 5 See Chan. Inq. p.m.(Ser. 2), lxxxv,65.

" 6 Ibid. I Ric. II, no. 4.

472

��" Ibid. 12 Edw. II, no. 17.

' 8 Ibid. 17 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 7.

7* Chan. Inq. p.m. I Ric. II, no. 41 5 2 Ric. II, no. 19.

so Close, 17 Ric. II, m. 3 id.

81 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Hen. V, no. 30. See also Feud. Aids for 1422.

8" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 38 Hen. VI.

""Ibid. Div. Co. East. 33 Hen. VIII.

84 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), Ixxxv, 65.

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