A HISTORY OF SURREY
���CHJRLrTOOD seems to have been MANORS held from an early period by the Prior and convent of Christchurch, Canterbury, as member of the manor of Merstham (q.v.).' In 1231 the Prior of Christchurch or Holy Trinity, Canterbury, received licence to send letters to his freemen of ' Cherlewud,' desiring them to render him aid to get quit of the debts with which he was burdened." A ten-years' lease of the manor of Merstham and its member of Charlwood, made in 1 396 by the prior, records many particulars concerning the ' live and dead stock ' existing at both places (vide Merstham), and mentions, among other things, that the 'dig- ging of iron at Cherlwood ' was to remain the right of the prior and con- vent." The prior surrendered his possessions in July 1539," and in the following month Henry VIII granted Merstham and Charlwood to Sir Robert Southwell and his heirs." In 1542 the manor of Charl- wood was quitclaimed to South- well by Henry de la Hay, 14 who was possibly the lessee of the prior. This deed marks the separation of Charlwood, henceforth held as a separate manor, from the manor of Merstham, their subsequent
descent being entirely distinct. In 1547 Sir Robert Southwell and Margaret his wife alienated the manor of Charlwood to Henry Lechford, 16 whose family had held land in Charlwood as early as the reign of Edward III." He died seised of the manor in 1567 and was succeeded by his son Richard, 18 who was afterwards knighted. It descended in 1611 to the latter's grandson Richard, his son Henry being already dead. 19 The second Sir Richard Lech- ford conveyed the manor in 1625 to Edmund Jordan,' who was already seised of the manors of Gatwick and Shire- mark in Charlwood, and was also possessed either then or soon afterwards of the manor of Hook (q.v.). These manors remained in the Jordan family, passing from father to son, until
��CONVENT or CHRIST- CHURCH, CANTERBURY. Azure a cross argent with the monogram X table thereon.
���LECHFORD. Sable a cheveron between three leopards 1 heads argent.
��the death issue of Thomas Jordan in 1750." His sisters
��without and
��co-heirs, Elizabeth Beaumont and Philippa Sharp, divided his inheritance, the manors in Charlwood becoming the property of the latter, who held them with her husband John Sharp until her death without issue in 1759." Her husband continued to hold the manors, and by will of 1770, having disinherited his eldest son by a former marriage, entailed them on John and James, sons of William Jennyngs Sharp, his second son." On his death in 1771" his eldest grandson, John Sharp, succeeded and held the property intact until i8o6,* 4 when he sold the manors of Charlwood, Hook, and Shiremark to Thomas Kerr.** They afterwards passed to James Woodbridge, from whom they were purchased by Michael Clayton before 1841." He died without issue in 1847, when the estate apparently passed to the family of his younger brother Richard,* 8 whose grandson, Major Edward Clayton, afterwards held the manor. The present lord is Mr. G. S. Clayton, brother of the last owner.**
Grants of free warren in their demesne lands of Charlwood were made to the Prior and convent of Christchurch during the reigns of Edward II and Edward III.* In 1592 mention is made of a fair which was held annually on the feast of St. James, the profits of which belonged to the lord of the manor. 81 It seems, however, to have long been dis- continued.
In 1241 Richard de Warwick and Juliana his wife and Joan her sister quitclaimed a messuage, 4 acres of meadow, and 1 8 acres of land in Charlwood to John de Gatwick and his heirs." This land was probably part of that which was afterwards known as the manor of GATWICK and which was held by the de Gatwicks until the 1 4th century. It is probable that a John de Gatwick who held during the reign of Edward II married Joan de Ifeld, and that their daughter and heir Elizabeth married Thomas de Cobham. 53 In 1363 the manor of Gatwick was granted to William son of Elizabeth, daughter of John de Gatwick, by the vicars of Charlwood and Horley and by William Jordan ; it was stated that the latter parties held the manor of the gift and feoffinent of Thomas de Cobham. 34 In 1396 Reginald de Cobham, son of William, held the manor," of which he suffered a temporary forfeiture for debt. 36 In the reign of Henry VII Gatwick was held by Joan widow of Reginald Cobham, son and heir of John," and presumably grandson of the first Reginald.* 8 Joan Cobham after her husband's death brought a suit against John Jordan, John Lechford, Richard Sanders, and others on the grounds that they,
��10 Cal. Pat. 1225-32, p. 429; Chart. R. 10 Edw. II, no. 24; 38 Edw. Ill, no. 15 ; Ct. R. bdle. 204, no. 66, 67, 68 ; Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, m. 28 ; Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. i, m. 6.
11 Cal. Pat. 1225-32, p. 429.
la Manning and Bray, Hut, of Surr. ii, 255 (quoting from a 'long roll marked 85 in Lambeth Palace ').
Pat. 31 Hen. VIII, pt. iii, no. 28.
" Ibid. pt. i, m. 6.
15 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 34 Hen. VIII.
16 Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. viii, m. 15.
" Feet of F. Surr. 31, 37 Edw. Ill; Ct. R. bdle. 204, no. 67, 68 ; Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 100, no. 79 ; Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII, no. 31; bdle. 17, no. 85.
��18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sen 2), cxlv, 13.
19 Ibid, cccxxv, 195.
50 Close, I Chas. I, pt. zviii, no. 18.
51 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. I Will, and Mary ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 5 Geo. II, m. 9 ; Recov. R, Mich. 5 Geo. II, rot. 124 ; Berry, Surr. Gen. 28, 29.
ffl Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 27 Geo. II ; Surr. Arch. Coll, xi, 22 ; Berry, Surr. Gen. 29, and monument in Charlwood Church.
P.C.C. 357, Trevor. * Ibid.
85 Recov. R. East. 25 Geo. Ill, rot 259 ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. HiL 26 Geo. Ill, m. 113-14; Recov. R. HiL 45 Geo. Ill, rot. 197.
26 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr, ii, 189.
184
��* Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 264. 88 Burke, Landed Gentry.
- Ibid.
80 Chart. R. 10 Edw. II, m. 24 ; 3$ Edw. Ill, no. 15.
81 Pat. 34 Eliz. pt iv, m. 21.
8 Feet of F. Surr. East 25 Hen. III.
88 Wrottesley, Fed. from the Plea A 244 ; Feet of F. Surr. 4 Edw. Ill, no. 41 ; Close, 7 Ric. II, m. 20 d.
84 Close, 7 Ric. II, m. 20 d.
8& Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Ric. II, no. 63 ; Wrottesley, Fed. from the Plea R. 244.
84 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Ric. II, no. 63 ; Cal. Pat. 1401-5, p. 162.
- > Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII,
no. 31.
88 Surr. Arch. Coll. ; Feet of F. Surr. 9 Hen. V, no. 50.
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