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��died in 1627, and bequeathed all his lands, with the and her husband sold the manors in 1744 with exception of one-half of Shoelands, to Wolley Leigh." Bury Farm to Brigadier-General James Edward Ogle-

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��Francis Leigh having died without children in 1637, Wolley should have succeeded to all the manors. But some rearrangement of trusts must have been made. Sir Francis Leigh the father was still alive, and it is he who held a court in 1643." Sir Francis died 1645, and Wolley Leigh very soon after him. In 1645 the estate was conveyed by Thomas Leigh, Wolley's half-brother, or son, to William Leigh, another half-brother, 16 whose widow, Lydia Leigh, was lady of the manor as early as 1661, and held courts up to 1711, when she was buried at Puttenham. In 1728 Jasper Jones and his wife Frances were in possession of the two manors." Frances was only daughter and heir of Francis Leigh of the Middle Temple, son of the said William and Lydia. She

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��thorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia.* 8 He sold the manors in 1761 to Thomas Parker,* 9 wha rebuilt the Manor House, since called the Priory ;. but parts of an older house of Elizabethan or Jacobean date, including a shaped gable of Bargate stone and brick, remain at the back. In 1775 he sold the whole property. Admiral Cornish bought the Manor House and some other property, and after his death in 1 8 1 6 it was sold to his wife's nephew Richard Sumner, who died in 1870. His son Mr. Morton Cornish Sumner owned it, and died before 1 880. His widow died recently, and the owner now is Mr. Ferdinand F. Smallpeice. The manors were bought by Mr. Nathaniel Snell, from whom they were bought by Mr. E. B. Long with Hampton Lodge in 1 799. He was succeeded by Mr. H. L. Long and by Mr. Mow- bray Howard of Hamp- ton Lodge, vide infra. Mr. F. F. Smallpeice has since bought the manors. P UTTE N HAM PRIORY or PRIOR was the moiety of the original manor of Putten- ham which Maud de Fay, one of the sisters of John de Fay, inherited. She granted it in 1248 to the Priory of Newark by Guildford. 30 In 1279 the prior claimed assize of bread and ale and view of frankpledge in his manor of Puttenham."

At the time of the sur- render of the priory in 1538 the farm of the manor of Puttenham was 6." The king thus being in possession of the manor as part of the lands late of Newark Priory, granted it to Edward Elrington and Humphrey Metcalfe in exchange for other lands in various counties. 33 On the sites of Puttenham and other manors granted at the same time there grew two hundred oaks and elms, 'part timber and most part usually croppyd and shrude of sixty and eighty years Sgrowthe,' of which a great many were reserved ' by

��38 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxxviii, half-brother Thomas, but this is incor 125. Bridget wife of William Mintcrne rect. was also to have a life interest in half of Shoelands.

34 Surr. Arch. Coll. vii, pt. i, p. in.

"' Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 17,

��, . ., , think that it was Francis son of Wolley's

��36 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 21 Chas. I ; Recov. R. East. 24 Chas. I.

28 Close, 19 Geo. II, pt. i, no. 26. 38 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 2 Geo. III.
 * > Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 2 Ceo. II.

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��80 Feet of F. Surr. 32 Hen. Ill, 35.

81 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rcc. Com.), 747-

82 Dugdale, Man. vi, 384.

88 L. and P. Hen. VIII, xix (i), 441 (16).

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