A HISTORY OF SURREY
��COOMBE (Cumbe, xi cent. ; Cumbe Nevill, xiiicent. ; Combe, xiv cent.).
Certain lands held here by Cola in the time of the Confessor had passed into the hands of Ansgot the Interpreter by 1086, when they were assessed at ij hides, half the previous computation. 366 In 1164-5 the sheriff rendered account of 7 from Coombe, already considered a member of Kingston,* 67 and the payment was repeated in the following year, when an additional \\s. was rendered from the pasture of the park there ;** these payments were still made in 1173-4.'*' Before 1167-8 the fee was held by Robert Belet, who in that year was dispossessed by Henry II, 370 but the lands were restored in 1190-1, when Robert Belet paid 80 to the Exchequer for restoration to his inheritance." 1 At the beginning of the 1 3th century it was held by Michael Belet, and with his manor of Sheen came into the hands of the Crown. 371 In 1215 King John gave Coombe to Hugh de Nevill," 1 and it was already known as Coombe Nevill in 1 260."* In the following year John Nevill bought an acre of land in Kingston from Peter the Goldsmith.'" At the beginning of the 1 4th century the manor was held by William de Nevill, who died without male issue, his lands being divided between his daughter Nicholaa, wife of John de Hadresham, and Henry son of the second daughter Alice, who had married Richard le Weyte. 37 '
The moiety of the manor held by Nicholaa and John descended to John de Hadresham who was the tenant in 1341.*" William de Hadresham was in possession at his death in 1361, when the manor passed to John his infant son. 378 During his minority the ' manorhouse ' was accidentally burnt, and in 1 368-9 the custody was granted to John de Hadresham who was charged with the reconstruction. 3 " John de Hadresham died in 1417, his heirs being his cou- sins, Alice Virly and Joan wife of John Silverton, daughters of Christina sister of his father William, and his own child yet unborn. 380 In 1418 the manor was conveyed by Alice widow of Richard Virly, Elizabeth widow of Edward Herveys, and John Silver- ton and Joan his wife to trustees,* 81 who in 1423 completed the transfer to Merton Priory. 38 *
The manor was still in the hands of the priory 383 at the Dissolution, when it came to the Crown, and in 1539-40 was leased for twenty -one years to John Jenyns of the household. 384 In 1 547 it was granted to Edward Duke of Somerset, 385 but escheated to the Crown on his execution, and was re-granted in 1552 to Willaim Cecil for twenty-one years.' 86 On the accession of Queen Mary the reversion of the manor was granted to Anne widow of Edward Duke of Somerset for life, and in 1571 William Cecil, now Lord
��Burghley, obtained a further grant of the reversion, 3 " and at the same time Anne, now the wife of Francis Newdigate, released the manor to him. 388 Burghley retained it until I579, 36 ' when he quitclaimed to the queen, who forthwith granted it and the manor of Berwell to Thomas Vincent and his heirs. 390 In 1 60 1 Thomas Vincent with Jane his wife and Francis his son conveyed his rights of free warren here to Edward Heron and another, 3 ' 1 and in 1 608 Sir Francis Vin- cent, kt., sold these rights and the manor itself to William Cockayne, 398 Lord Mayor of London, knighted in 1 6 1 6."* Sir William was succeeded by his son Charles created Viscount Cullen in i642. 391 He was a staunch Cavalier and raised a trcop of horse for the king's service. He apparently refused to pay his church rate to the party in power in 1650, when an entry for zd. occurs in the churchwardens' accounts as incurred ' in going to the Lord Cockayne for his rate money.' 396 He is said to have lost ^50,000 by his loyalty, and was forced in 1651 to convey the manor of Coombe to Edward, Lord Montagu, and others, 396 apparently trustees for Elizabeth wife of Sir Daniel Harvey and daughter of Lord Montagu. 397 From Sir Daniel it descended to his son Sir Edward Harvey, who made various settlements of the manor in 1679.*" His son Edward Harvey, Jacobite M.P. for Clitheroe in 1714, resided here. Rent from the manor appears as the property of Edward Southwell, senior and junior, in 1729 and I76i," 9 but the manor is said to have passed to Michael, cousin of Edward Harvey, junior, and to have been sold in about 1753 to the trustees of John Spencer, 400 who was created Viscount Spencer in 1761 and Earl Spencer in \'j6^. v>l His son George John, Earl Spencer, succeeded his father as lord of the manor in 1783 and was still holding in i8o4. WI The manor is not mentioned after this date, and has now ceased to exist. Coombe House belonged to the Earl of Liverpool, the statesman ; and subsequently to the late Duke of Cambridge.
The most interesting fee in Kingston was perhaps that which was held in the time of the Confessor by Alured, who could seek what lord he pleased, and held land assessed at 3 hides. He was succeeded by a woman who, in the time of King William, placed herself and her land under the queen's pro- tection. In 1 086 the land was in the hands of Hum- frey the Chamberlain ; he had in his charge one villein to collect the queen's wool, and took from him 2O/. as a relief when his father died. 403 This land seems to have been granted by Henry II to one Postel. 40 * In 1 1 64-5 the sheriff rendered account of 9*. from one hide of land in Coombe which Postel held, 406 and in the following year this was increased
��" y.C.H. Srr. i, 382.
' Pi ft R. II Hen. 11 (Pipe R. Soc.), III.
8 Ibid. 12 Hen. II, 107.
< Ibid. 20 Hen. II, 3.
- !' Ibid. 14 Hen. II, 216.
871 Pipe R. 2 Ric. I, m. 13.
W For descent see Sheen. In 1417 the tenants in demesne were said to hold in socage of the king as of his manor of Sheen.
" Rot. Lit. Clans. (Rec. Com.), 237.
? 4 Feet of F. Surr. 44 Hen. Ill, no. 1)1.
Ibid. 45 Hen. Ill, no. 32.
- " Chan. Jnq. p.m. 13 Edw. II no, 13* ;
Cal. Clou, 1318-23, p. 315.
��OT Chan. Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 7.
'T Ibid. 35 Edw. Ill, pt i, no. 93. 7 Abbrev.Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com), ii,197. 180 Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Hen. V, no. 45. "Feet of F. Surr. 6 Hen. V, no. 29.
883 Close, 2 Hen. VI, ra. 1, 5.
888 Heales, Rec. of Merton Priory, App. p. cxxxiv.
884 L. tnd P. Hen. VIII, XT, 565. 884 Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. iv, m. 36. 888 Ibid. 13 Eliz. pt. vii, m. 21. < Ibid.
888 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 13 & 14 Eliz.
888 Ibid. Trin. 21 Eliz.
890 Pat. 21 Eliz. pt xi.
881 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 43 Eliz.
502
��8 Ibid. Trin. 6 Jas. I.
898 G.E.C. Peerage, ii, 435. '" Ibid.
895 Churchwardens' Accts. 1650.
8M Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1561.
89 7 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 402.
898 Recov. R. East. 31 Chas. II, rot. 8 5 Feet of F. Surr. East 3 1 Chas. II.
8M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 2*3 Geo. II; Recov. R. East I Geo. Ill, rot. 364.
400 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 402.
" G.E.C. Peerage.
4(B See Lysons' Environs, 1,235 ; Man- ning and Bray, Surr. i, 402.
4 o V.C.H. Surr. i, 297, 326.
404 Testa de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 226.
408 Pipe R. 1 1 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 1 1 1 .
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