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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

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��of Anne, the latter's widow, were settled on her daughters Isabel, the wife of George Duke of Clarence, and Anne, the wife of Richard Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III. 11 Both their husbands were attainted, and they both died before the Dowager Countess Anne. Another Act of Parliament early in the reign of Henry VII restored the estates to the countess, who immediately conveyed them to the king," who thus became over- lord of Long Ditton.

At the beginning of the 1 3th century the manor was held under the de Clares by Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, 13 and seems to have been granted by his brother and heir William de Mande- ville to the priory of St. Mary Spital without Bishopsgate. 1 ' In 1314 the manor was re- turned as held by the Prior of Bishopsgate for the fourth part of a knight's fee."

The farm of Long Ditton in 1535 was valued at 5, other lands and tenements at 5 it. 8J., and the perquisites of court, &c., at 2/. 16 After the Dissolu- tion woods belonging to the manor were sold by the king to Sir Thomas Heneage, 17 and in 1552 Edward VI granted the manor in exchange for lands in Richmond 18 to David Vincent, a groom of the Privy Chamber, who died in 1565 leaving the property to his son Thomas, 19 who sold it almost immediately to George Evelyn, the great maker of gunpowder,* whose mother was daughter of another David Vincent. At his death in 1603 " he left a son Thomas, who, dying in October 1617, left also a son Thomas," who had been knighted in the July of that year." Concerning the conduct of Sir Thomas Evelyn and his family towards himself, Richard Hinde, minister of Long Dit- ton, made complaint to Arch- bishop Laud. He complained that he had suffered much indignity from Sir Thomas and his lady, which he had borne in silence, until Dame

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divine service, while yet in gri f on fatsaat and a the church, before all the chief or. people thus addressed him : ' You are a base man, and a base unworthy priest ; you have abused me basely, and your base carriage and usage of me shall

���not any longer be endured,' and yet more vilifying speeches. Sir Thomas complained that the minister had abused his lady. The archbishop appointed a time for a private hearing of these disagreements." In 1657 Sir Thomas was again in trouble with the parson. According to the petition of Richard Byfield, officiating as minister in Long Ditton, money that had been collected in 1641 and 1642 for the re- building of the church had remained in Sir Thomas Evelyn's hands, while meantime the church fell down." Another complaint was that Sir Thomas entertained a prelatical household chaplain who used the words of the book of Common Prayer, and gathered a concourse of people of like views and invaded the parson's right, with regard to which Sir Thomas was warned to remove his chaplain. 86 He died in 1659. His son Sir Edward Evelyn, knighted in 1676 and created a baronet in 1682-3, held this manor," which, when he died without leaving male issue in 1692, descended to his daughter and co-heiress Penelope and her husband, Sir Joseph Alston, third baronet, the manor having been settled on the occasion of Penelope's marriage on himself (Sir Ed- ward Evelyn) for life, with re- mainder to Penelope and her husband. 18 Joseph, their eldest son, succeeded to the manor,* 9 and he dying without issue, it passed to his brother, Sir Evelyn Alston, bart., who in 1720-1 sold it to Sir Peter King of Ockham, co. Surrey, 30 who was made Lord High Chancellor in 1725, and was created Lord King, Baron of Ockham, in the same year." His successor and heir male, William King, was, in 1838,

created Viscount Ockham and Earl of Lovelace. Lionel Fortescue King, third Earl of Lovelace, is the present lord of the manor.

Another manor of DITTON is entered in Domes- day as held by Wadard of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, Wadard being the successor of Leuegar, who had held under King Harold." The Arsics succeeded here as elsewhere to the lands of Wadard, and this manor appears at the beginning of the 1 3th century as a knight's fee in Ditton belonging to the barony of Arsic, which was one of the baronies charged with castle ward to Dover. 35 The overlordship descended with the barony of Arsic, which appears to have escheated to the Crown after the succession of female heirs to the lands of Robert de Arsic, who died in

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��"Par!. R. vi, 100 ; Pat. 14 Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 7.

18 Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 3 Hen. VII.

"Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 1 2. The reference for the Close R. which they quote does not seem to be correct.

14 Asize R. 876, m. i.

" Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68 (m. 65).

" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 400.

>7Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 83, no. 12.

18 Acts, of P. C. 1552-4, p. 57; Pat. 6 Edw. VI, pt. iv, m. 45.

"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxlii, 131.

80 Pat. 9 Eliz. pt. ix, m. 7 ; Recov. R. East. 1567, rot. 1003.

��M Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxc, 1 24.

m lbid. ccclxxii, 161.

38 Shaw, Knights of Engl. ii, 164.

41 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1637, pp. 342, 354.

M Ibid. 1657-8, p. 139. They were reconciled through Cromwell's interven- tion. Diet. Nat. Biog.

86 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1657-8, p. 159.


 * Recov. R. East. I Jas. II, rot. 8, &c.

88 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 15. See Feet of F. Surr. Hil. I Anne ; Trin. 9 Anne.

89 Manning and Bray, loc. cit. ; Recov. R. Hil. 3 Geo. I, rot. 118.

80 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 7 Geo. I, m. 4 ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 7 Geo. I 5 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 8 Geo. I, m.

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��3 ; Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 8 Geo. I. In these last two conveyances Sophia Glynne, another of Evelyn's co-heiresses, with her husband Sir Stephen Glynne, bart., and Edward Hill, representing Anne the third co-heiress, joined with Sir Edward Alston. In his will Sir Edward Evelyn had left hi estates between his daughters. (Will at Somerset House proved 1692.)

81 G.E.C. Peerage.

82 This manor is identified in V.C.H. Surr. i, 305^1, as Thames Ditton, but from the subsequent descent of Long Ditton it seems more probable that the latter was the Domesday manor.

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