A HISTORY OF SURREY
��John Northwood. 37 Gatton was evidently assigned to the latter, for her husband was holding the manor in 1327,** and her son Sir Robert Northwood, kt., was holding in I344, 39 and was summoned to do homage for it in I345- 40 He died in 1360, leaving a son and heir Thomas." The latter's sisters and co-heirs, Agnes Northwood and Joan wife of John de Levedale, conveyed the manor to Richard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, in 1364," and Gatton was among the lands seized by the Crown on the attainder and execution of his son Richard in 1 397." His son Thomas, Earl of Arundel, was restored to his father's lands in 1399,"* and so probably to Gatton, although no record mentions his tenure of it. At his death in 1415 his lands were divided among his three sisters and co-heirs, the eldest of whom, Elizabeth, married Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Nor- folk. Her great-grandson, John, Duke of Norfolk, probably granted Gatton about 1446" to his retainer John Timperley, 45 who in 1449 had licence to inclose the manor. 46
John Timperley conveyed the manor 47 to feoffees to the use of Roger Copley and his wife Anne and their heirs. 48 Roger Copley, son of the former Roger and Anne, in May 1537 en- tailed it on his son Thomas ; after his death, which took place in 1548," his widow Elizabeth nominated the bur- gesses, and Thomas Copley re- presented Gatton in 1554, 1557-8, and 1562-3." Un- der Queen Mary he was com- mitted to the custody of the Serjeant at Arms for indiscreet words in favour of the Lady Elizabeth in Parliament. 51 He had scruples about the oath of supremacy, left England without licence in 1569 and became a leader among the English fugitives, was created Baron Copley of Gatton by the King of Spain, and died in Flanders in 1584." His son and heir William Copley settled the manor on his younger son William in 1615, but the latter died in 1623 in his lifetime, leaving two infant daughters, Mary and Anne." His estate had been sequestered for his recusancy c. 1 6 1 1 , and an annuity of j 1 60 from it granted to Sir William Lane, who had evidently procured the sequestration.* 4
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��Captain Henry Lane, son of Sir William, petitioned for a lease of Gatton Manor in 1630." Apparently he was unsuccessful, for in 1632 William Copley the elder was pardoned his recusancy and permitted to hold Gatton for twenty-one years for an annual rent to the Crown. 56 Meanwhile his granddaughters Mary and Anne had been left under the guardianship of Sir Richard Weston, who married them to his two sons John and George, in spite of the protests of their grandfather. 67 Their estates were again sequestered for their recusancy, c. 1650.** John Weston's moiety was purchased from the Treason Trustees by John Carrill in l653. M Finally, a partition of the lands of William Copley the younger assigned Gatton to John and Mary Weston, 60 who joined with John Car- rill and others in a sale to Thomas Turgis in 1654." He died in 1 66 1 6 * leaving a son Thomas, who in 1 669 obtained a release of the manor from Richard Weston. 63 By his will 64 dated 1703 he bequeathed it to his kinsman William, eldest son of George Newland of Smithficld. He left it to his brother Dr. George Newland for life, with remainder to the sons of his own daughters in tail male. The estate was sold after his death to James Colebrooke, 65 who was created baronet in 1759. His two daughters, Mary wife of John Aubrey and Emma wife of Charles, Earl of Tankerville, sold Gatton to their uncle Sir George Colebrocke, bart., from whom it was purchased in 1774 by Sir William Mayne, afterwards Baron New- haven of Ireland. 66 It was then successively purchased by a Mr. Percy and a Mr. Graham. 67 Mary and George Graham sold to Robert Ladbrooke of Portland Place in 1789.** He sold the manor to John Petrie in February I796, 69 and it was purchased in 1808 by Mark Wood, later Sir Mark Wood, bart. 70 After his death it was purchased by trustees for John, fifth Baron Monson. 71 It was sold in 1 88 8 by the seventh Lord Monson, created Viscount Oxenbridge in 1886, to Mr. J. Colman, since created Sir J. Colman, bart., the present owner.
A house of considerable importance was attached to Gatton Manor in I22O, 7 ' and a deer-park existed in 1278." The custody of the park was entrusted to John Berwick, a clerk of the king, from 1301 on- wards during the minority of the heirs of Hamon de Gatton. 74 The hall was divided between the sisters of Thomas de Northwood in 1362." Possibly John Timperley wished to enlarge the park in 1449 when
��87 Plac. Abbrev. (Rec. Com.), 318.
88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 Edw. Ill (ist DOS.), no. 35.
89 Chan. Mic. Inq. file 151 (18 Edw. Ill, 2nd not.), no. 95.
> Cal. Close, 1343-6, p. 528.
41 Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 72.
41 Close, 37 Edw. Ill, m. 38-40 ; Feet of F. Surr. 38 Edw. Ill, 39.
48 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Ric. II, 137, m. I If.
4to Cal. Pat. 1399-1401, p. 134.
44 It was at this date that he granted Flanchford in Reigate.
45 He was M.P. for Reigate in 1453 and 1460.
46 Chart. R. 27-39 Hen. VI, no. 41.
47 It is strange that as late as 1468-9 Gatton is included in lands granted by the Duke of Norfolk to Thomas Hoc and others, apparently trustees, who seem to have granted these lands to a certain John Charlys in exchange for a manor in Suf-
��folk (Feet of F. Div. Co. 8 Edw. IV, 64; Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 137, no. 4). Whether this inclusion is an error or not it is difficult to say, but in 1518 Roger Copley received a quitclaim from Michael Denys and bis wife Margery (Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 10 Hen. VIII) which may represent Charlys' interest*
Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 10 Hen. VIII ; Berry, Surr. Gen. 85.
- Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), Ixxxix, 139.
40 Ret. of Memb. of Par I. i, 391, 394, 398, 406.
" Cal. S.P. Dam. 1580-1625, p. 66.
- Diet. Nat. Biog. xii, 189 ; Cal. S.P.
Dom. 1580-1625, p. 66.
M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccv, 159.
M Cal. S.P. Dom. 1611-18, p. 31.
- Ibid. 1629-31, p. 427.
66 Pat. 8 Chas. I, pt. iv, no. 2.
67 Cal. S.P. Dom. 1638-9, p. 41 ; Cal. of Com. for Compounding i, 252.
Ibid.
69 Ibid, iii, 2171.
198
��60 Title deeds quoted by Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 231.
61 Close, 1654, pt. xl, no. 10.
62 Title deeds quoted by Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 231.
68 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 21 Chas. II.
M Quoted by Manning and Bray, loc. cit.
85 Private Act, 24 Geo. Ill, cap. 39.
- Title deeds quoted by Manning and
Bray, loc. cit
67 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 310.
68 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 29 Geo. Ill, m. 264.
Ibid. Hil. 36 Geo. Ill, m. 298, 308. Petrie immediately mortgaged it to Lad- brooke.
70 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 132.
71 Brayley, loc. cit.
"" Curia Regis R. 78, m. 10. 78 Cal. Pat. 1272-81, p. 294. 74 Ibid. 1292-1301, p. 597. 7* Close, 37 Edw. Ill, m. 38 d.
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