KINGSTON HUNDRED
��LONG DITTON
��1244-5. In the l6th and iyth centuries the manor was said to be held of the Crown as of the castle of Dover or as of the barony of Arsic.' 4
In 1257 this fee was in the tenure of John de Guglesham, who conveyed it under the name of a carucate of land, with a mill in Kingston and Ditton, to William de Brademere. 35 From an inquisition taken in 1290, it appears that William de Brademere held it of Robert le Tut, husband of Alice daughter of Robert Arsic, by a rent of z(,s. x Robert le Tut held of the king in chief for rent of los. to Dover Castle every twenty-four weeks, which payment he ceased to render after his wife's death, so that William de Brademere, Richard his son, and William Richard's son, were distrained for the money." Alice wife of Richard de Brademere, who died in 1288, and Bartholomew de Morle, her second hus- band, claimed the custody of the land in Long Ditton during the minority of William son of Richard. 38 William de Brademere was apparently still holding in 131 o. 3 * Nothing more appears con- cerning the manor until 1398, when Walter Pem- broke and Margery his wife quitclaimed Long Ditton to John Gravesende and Isabel his wife, 40 and about 1418 Henry Haweles and Margaret his wife were holding it with successive remainder to John Haweles son of Henry, and Elizabeth, daughter of Margaret, and her issue. 41 Elizabeth wife of William Stowe, who in 1505 quitclaimed the manor of Long Ditton to Robert Fenrother, may have been a descendant of Henry and Margaret Haweles, as the manor was warranted against her and her heirs. It was also warranted against John, Abbot of St. Peter's Westminster.*' In 15 60 the manor was in the possession of Thomas Rede, 43 and he conveyed it in 1566 to William Notte, 14 who proved before the Exchequer Court that there were two manors called Long Ditton, one held, at the time, by David Vin- cent, the other by himself. The manor that he held had, he said, been owned by Thomas Rede, who held it of the queen as of Dover Castle by rent of 2 is. 8f d., a and had been granted to himself by Rede. He maintained that there was no reason why it should be taken into the hands of the Crown for alienation by fine without licence, as it was not held of the queen in chief. William Notte died in 1576, leaving an heir, his son Anthony, 46 who died in 15 86 holding this manor. 47 He also held a wharf named Jeffereyes Wharf (which had formerly belonged to the hospital of St. Mary without Bishopsgate) and other land in Long Ditton. 4 ' He left a son Thomas. In 1621-2 Thomas Notte sold the manor to Anne Goulde or Gold, widow. 49 She, in 1623, mortgaged it to Mark Snelling of Kingston, 50 but died in seisin of it
��in 1629." Her heir was her daughter Anne, wife of Sir Thomas Evelyn, 5 * by whom both the manors of Long Ditton became vested in the same family.
There is one reference to a third manor of Long Ditton. In I 386 Sir Miles de Windsor died possessed of this manor, which was held of him by Geoffrey de Metham, 53 but there seems to be no further trace of it.
The overlordship of the manor of TALWORTH, or TALWORTH COURT, was from 1086, when Talworth formed part of the possessions of Richard de Tonbridge, vested in the family of Clare, passing thence to the Despensers, Beauchamps, and Nevills. 04 (See manor of Long Ditton.)
In 1086 Picot held under Richard de Tonbridge the land that had formerly been held by Alwin in Talworth, while Ralph held that land in Talworth which Edmer had formerly held. 55 The first of these holdings was probably Talworth Court. Early in the I3th century, William Picot appears as witness to a charter of Peter de Talworth, by whom 1 2 acres in this place were granted to the hospital of St. Thomas of Southwark, 66 and the Picots were still hold- ing land there in 1291, when Henry Picot (Pycoch) j granted 8 acres in Talworth to the Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem." But the manor of Talworth was probably held by the above-mentioned Peter de Talworth (who granted the advowsbn to Merton), and later by a family named Planaz. Among the fees of the Testa de Nevi/l was half a fee in Ditton and Talworth, held of the honour of Clare by John de Planaz, 58 and in 1255 Ralph de Planaz, brother of John, demanded suit at his court of Talworth and foreign service from the Prior of Merton, who held of him the eighth part of a knight's fee there. 59 In 1314 Herbert de Borhunte held the manor of Talworth of Gilbert de Clare, by service of the third part of a knight's fee, this property being the hereditament of his wife, 60 who may be the Joan widow of Henry de Saye who in 1316 held the vill of Talworth. 61 She possibly afterwards married Thomas Corbett, who with Joan his wife in 1320 granted the manor of Talworth to Hugh le Despenser, junior (the overlord in right of his wife), 68 who had also acquired the manor of Turberville, henceforth reckoned a member of Tal- worth. Turberville, which was held of the manor of Sheen, was about 1312 in the tenure of John de Berewyk, whose heir at his death was Roger son of John de Husee, aged five years. 63 Directly after the death of John de Berewyk, Hubert de Swynes- ford his ' groom ' entered into the manor, and after- wards granted it to Walter de Waldeshelf. Hugh le Despenser, junior, coveting the manor, then contrived to obtain a grant of it from Waldeshelf. 64 From this
��84 Memo. R. (L.T.R.) Trin. 8 Eliz. rot 6 1 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), clxxix, 93 ; ccxii, 16 ; dxxi, 105.
85 Feet of F. Surr. 42 Hen. Ill, no. 1 8. "Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. I, file 56,
no. 20.
"Ibid.
m Abbrev.R/>t. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 67.
'Inq. a.q.d. file 78, no. 25 (3 Edw. II).
Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 22 Ric. II.
41 Ibid. Trin. 6 Hen. V, no. 28.
4 >Ibid. Mich. 21 Hen. VII, no. ji.
48 Ibid. Hil. 2 Eliz.
Ibid. Hil. 8 Eliz.
- Memo. R. (L.T.R.) Trin. 8 Eliz. rot.
61.
48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxiz, 93.
��'Hbid. ccxii, 1 6.
"Ibid, cclxiii, 78 ; ccli, 153.
48 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 19 Jas. I ; Hil. 19 Jas. I ; Close, 19 Jas. I, pt. xxi, no. 25. According to Manning and Bray she was daughter and heir of Hugh Gold by Anne heir of Thomas Notte. Sir Edward Evelyn's settlement on his daughter con- firms that she was his own grandmother, and calls the manor her inheritance, and later the inheritance of Thomas Notte.
50 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 21 Jas. I, m. 5.
51 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dxxi, 105.
- Ibid.
"Ibid. 10 Ric. II, no. 46.
" Testa de Ncvill (Rec. Com.), 221 ;
519
��Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68 (m. 65) ; 23 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 169; 35 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 104; ibid. 49 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 46 ; 18 Hen. VI, no. 3, m. 44 ; Exch. Inq. p.m., file 1059, no. 9.
y.C.H. Surr. i, 317.
"Add. Chart. 23666.
WInq. a.q.d. file 15, no. 25.
68 Tata de Ne-vill (Rec. Com.), 221.
" Assize R. Surr. Trin. 39 Hen. Ill, rot. 12 J.
80 Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68 (m. 65).
81 Feud. Aids, v, no.
81 Feet of F. Surr. 14 Edw. II, no. 13. 88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 43. "Par I. R. ii, 48*.
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