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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

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��Robert de Meleburn, and in that year they confirmed a lease of the manor of Sheen (as Emma's moiety was always called) to John Maunsel, treasurer of York and reeve of Beverley, for fourteen years. 183 In 1264 Emma conveyed all her lands held in chief in Sheen to the king, for him to grant to Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, which was accor- dingly done. 184 A few years later the manor of Sheen came into the possession of Hugh de Windsor, who granted it in 1272 to Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 185 the gift being confirmed by Henry III. The bishop then enfeoffed Otto de Grandison of the manor in tail - male, with reversion to himself in case of Otto's death with- out issue, but Edward I took it into his own hands be- cause he was given to under- stand that Hugh de Windsor had enfeoffed the bishop while he was of unsound mind. Afterwards, however, the king inspected the confirmation of Henry III, and on reflection that no right in the manor could accrue to him he restored it to Otto de Grandison, 186 who was a specially trusted servant and friend of the king's, and granted him free warren in his demesne lands there in I279- 187 On setting out for his second expedition to Palestine, before the fall of Acre (1291), Grandison appears to have delivered the manor to the custody of Burnell, who died holding it in I2g2. 188 Otto de Grandison survived the bishop, and in 1 299 the king gave a curious order that no person, with the sole exception of the king's son, should enter, stay, or lodge in Otto's manor of Sheen, or put his baggage or goods there, against his will or the will of the keeper of the manor, as it appeared that great damage had been done by people lodging in the houses there. 169 Otto seems to have conveyed the manor to the king, probably about 1305, for Letters Patent, &c., are dated there from that year onwards, and in 1316 Sheen is called the king's manor. 190

The other property in Sheen, which descended to John Belet's daughter Alice, was held by her husband John de Vautort by the grand serjeanty of being one of the king's cup-bearers. He died seised of the vill

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��of Sheen about 1301, and was succeeded by a son John, 191 who appears as John de Vautort of Sheen in I3I3. 1 " This John was deprived of his lands there by Hugh le Despenser the elder, who granted them to Edward II ; and the petition to Edward III for their restoration by Richard de Vautort, brother and heir of John, in 1329, was apparently without avail. 193 They were evidently added to the Crown manor, which has remained in royal hands from about 1305 until the present day, although granted out at various times by successive kings. In I 3 1 5 it was described as the king's manor of Sheen, and Edward II made it an occasional place of residence, as his father had done towards the close of his reign. "" Edward III granted the manor in 1331 to his mother, the dowager Queen Isabella, for her life. 196 She died in I358, l96 and in 1 3 59 William of Wykeham, at that time an influential favourite with the king, 197 was given the custody of the manor. 198 Two years later Ralph Thurbarn was made keeper. In 1377 John de Swanton, who had previously been granted the custody of the warren of Sheen, was appointed to the keeper- ship of the manor for life. He held the office during the greater part of the reign o* Richard II, but gave it up to his son Thomas in 1 3 go. 199 Edward IV, soon after his ac- cession, made William Nor- burgh custodian of the manor of Sheen for life.' 00 In 1466 the king granted the manor for life to his queen Elizabeth

Woodville, together with the park, warren, and all appurtenances, 101 and she conceded the office of cus- todian to William Norburgh in 1468, allowing him to hold it himself or by deputy.* 01 A few months after the accession of Richard III, however, Henry Davy obtained from the king a grant of the keeper- ship of the manor for life. This grant included the custody of the garden, warren, and park belong- ing to the palace, and it is interesting to notice that the several offices were worth fid. a day for the manor, \d. a day for the garden, 3^. a day for the warren, and zd. a day for the park, with another zd. for the maintenance of the palings of the park. 10 * The custody of the manor was again trans- ferred on the accession of Henry VII, who granted it for life to Robert Skerne in I485. 104 The manor itself was still the right of Queen Elizabeth, the widow of Edward IV, but in 1487 Henry VII held a council at Sheen, and declared that she had for- feited her property by deserting his cause before he became king. After that time she retired into the

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��188 Cal. Pat. 1247-58, p. 615 5 Feet of F. Sum 42 Hen. Ill, no. 18.

1 * t Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 50.

185 Feet ofF. Mich. 56 Hen. III.no. 23. In 1279 a quitclaim was made to the bishop by Ralph de Berners and his wife Christine (Feet of F. Surr. 7 Edw. I, no. 35), the latter being probably the daughter of Hugh de Windsor ; see descent of West Horsley.

lse Cal. Close, 1272-9, p. 520; Cal. Pat. 1272-81, p. 357.

187 Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 221.

188 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. I, no. 50.

��189 Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 418.

190 Ibid. 1313-17, p. 514. Otto was lord of Grandison (hodie Granson) in NeuchateU He withdrew there in his later life, and was not in England after 1307, though he lived till April 1328. He seems to have surrendered English lands into the custody at least of his old master and friend Edward I ; C. L. Kings- ford in Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. 1909.

191 Chan. Inq. p.m. 29 Edw. I, no 35. 1M Ca/. Pat. 1313-17, p. 4.

198 Ibid. 1327-30, p. 433. 194 Ibid. temp. Edw. I and Edw. II, passim.

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��195 Ibid. 1330-4, p. 195. ""Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, i, 539.

19 ' Diet. Nat. Biog. Ixiii, 226. l *Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii,

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199 Cal. Pat. 1377-81, p. 236.

soo lbid. 1461-7, pp. 53, 1 86.

301 Ibid. p. 525.

^Mins. Accts. bdle. 1094, no. 5 (20 Edw. VI).

Ms Ibid. Duchy of Lane. bdle. 41, no. 799-


 * Pat. 1 Hen. VII, pt. i, m. 34.

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