A HISTORY OF SURREY
��minster claimed various privileges in his ' manors of Piriford and Horishill.' *" This is, apparently, the first reference to Horsell as a separate manor. Whether it was ever held as such is doubtful. Land at Sithwood, which was in the parish of Horsell, 5 was described as being part of the manor of Pyrford,* the two sub-manors in Horsell were held as of the manor of Pyrford, 7 and a survey of the manor of Pyrford, taken in 1 547, includes Horsell, Sithwood, and Wood- ham as part of its demesne. 8 In 1678 it is again referred to as a manor, 9 being held at that time, as was Pyrford, by Denzil Onslow, from whom the property passed to the present lord, the Earl of Onslow, whose manor of Pyrford includes Horsell and Woodham.
In 1 540 John Danaster of Chobham died seised of the manor or tenement called HILL PLACE, which was held of the king as of his manor of Pyrford by fealty and rent of zn. Danaster left the manor to his wife Anne for her life, with remainder to Robert, natural son of John and Anne, and his heirs, or in default to the right heirs of John. 10 His widow afterwards married Sir Francis Dawtrey, and they were in possession of the manor apparently about 1560." It had passed, before 1571, to Christopher Hennage and Anne his wife," daughter of John Dan- aster and formerly wife of Owen Bray, who had died in 1568." They conveyed it in 1578 to Richard Hat ton," but it changed hands again and in 1599 Sir William and Sir George More, probably acting as trustees, conveyed it to Henry Weston, 15 from whom it passed in 1622 to Henry Collyer and Richard Simones. 16 The Collyer family continued to hold it, though it is not generally called a manor." The Collyers of Hill Place were among the lay impropria- tors of the tithes (q.v.), mentioned about 1682 and in 1804. In 1841 the Collyer family sold Hill Place to Mr. G. Marshall of Godalming. In 1851 he settled it upon his daughter on her marriage with Mr. T. Shearburn. Her son Mr. R. W. Shearburn of the Hall, Scraith, Yorkshire, is the present owner. The house is let as a farm, and some of the land has been sold off, a small part having been bought by Mr. John Collyer of Horsell, a descendant of the former owners. 18
In 1 3 1 6 is found the first trace of the manor of TWICHEN, when Walter atte Rude settled on his son Walter the estate described as I messuage, 40 acres, half a mill, &c., with appurtenances in Chobham, Horsell, and Pyrford. William de Carleton and Alice his wife, and John atte Twichen and Alice his wife, also put in a claim to this land." It is probable that it had previously belonged to John atte Twichen and his wife, as in 1326 he sought to replevy his and his wife's lands in Chobham, Horsell, and Pyrford, which had been taken into the king's hands for their default against Walter son of
��Walter atte Rude. In 1352 Roger Bernard and Katherine and William atte Twichen conveyed certain land in Horsell, Chobham, and Pyrford a messuage, 80 acres of land, &c. to Richard Doxeye and Alice his wife." John atte Grenette in 1363 obtained from Richard Doxeye and Sabina his wife and the heirs of Sabina land in these parishes, consist- ing of two messuages, 100 acres of land, &c." These different holdings seem to have become amalgamated before the middle of the i6th cen- tury. They were then known as the manor or capital tenement called Twichen, of which John Danaster died seised in 1 540, and which he held of the king as of his manor of Pyrford by fealty and rent of 1 8/. M He left the manor to his wife Anne for her life, with reversion to their daughter Anne, who afterwards married Owen Bray." Anne the mother married, as her second husband, Sir Francis Dawtrey, and they were apparently seised of the manor about the year 1560." In 1572 this manor, together with that of Hill Place, was held by Christopher Hennage and Anne his wife. 1 * The latter was the widow of Owen Bray, for the next reference to Twichen, in 1607, records that the site of the manor was the property of Owen Bray ; " John Bray also held with Owen, 18 the two being grandsons of Owen and Anne Bray. 19 In 1607 the reversion of the site held for life by Susan, 30 wife of Richard Lumley, of the inheritance of Owen Bray, was granted, on a forty-year lease, to Richard Bonsey.* 1 In 1615 Owen and John Bray conveyed the site to John Bonsey and his heirs.* 1 The term ' site of the manor' probably includes the manor, or reputed manor itself, of which John Bonsey was certainly possessed by 1621, and of which he was seised in fee at the time of his death, which occurred about 1638.** The manor passed to his son Richard, who held it in 1678, when he brought a suit against John Scotcher, whose father, William, was alleged to have held various lands in Horsell of the manor of Twichen for which the son refused to pay quit-rent or relief, declaring that ' he knew not whether there were any such manor of Twichen, nor knew the complainant's title thereto or to the demesne lands thereof, and he said he had no writings concerning the said estate, but he believed complainant might be seised of a certain messuage, farm and lands in Horsell, called Twichen. He had heard that some of the complainant's ancestors had seized oxen as heriots at the death of his grand- father, but his father maintained that no heriots were due.' " The case as regards the quit-rents was decided in favour of Bonsey, and Scotcher was ordered to pay the arrears. The manor was held in 1744 by another Richard Bonsey, who conveyed it in that year to Matthew Nicholls," probably by way of mortgage, for in 1755 Richard Bonsey left it in
��flu. Ji Quo ffarr. (Rec. Com.), 745 ; Assize R. SUIT. 877, m. 59 and 878, m. 37. 'Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 62, no. 459.
6 See Townesley Manor.
7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 143.
8 Exch. T.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 1 68, fol. 171 et seq.
Chan. Enr. Decrees, no. 1912, m. 6.
10 Chan Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 143.
"Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 22, no. 84 j Exch. T.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 168, fol. i884.
" Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 3 Eliz.
"See below for references under "Twichen.'
��" Feet of F. Surr. HiL 20 Eliz. "Ibid. 41 Eliz. "Ibid.Hil. 19 Jas. I. Ibid.Trin.i3 Geo.I';East.i8 Geo.III.
18 Information from Mr. Collyer.
19 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 10 Edw. II. 88 Cat, Close, 1323-7, p. 567.
n Feet of F. Surr. 26 Edw. Ill, no. 76.
M Ibid. 37 Edw. HI, no. 92.
See under Hill Place.
- Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxii, 143 j
Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 2 2, no. 84.
"Excb, T.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 168, fol. ittfc
428
��M Feet of F. Surrr. HiL 14 Eliz. 1 1bid. Mich. 5 Jai. I. 18 Ibid. 13 Jas. I.
- Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 199, where
Danaster is miswritten ' Banester.'
80 Susan was the name of the mother of Owen and John Bray, who perhaps married again.
81 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 5 Jas. I. 811 Ibid. 13 Jas. I.
"Chan. Enr. Decrees, no. 1912, m. 6.
"Ibid
M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 17 Geo. IL
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