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��' by crafty meanes," occupied the manor and took the profits to their own use ; the defendants maintained that Reginald Cobham had disposed of the manor to them by various sales and mortgages." The result of the suit is not apparent. It is probable that John Jordan, whose actual claim is not stated, eventually acquired the whole manor, as it was in his family by the latter half of the 1 6th century. 40 Edmund Jordan, his descendant in direct line, 41 held the manor in 162 5, when he acquired also the manor of Charlwood (q.v.) and that of Shiremark (q.v.). The manors followed the same descent un- til 1 806," when John Sharp, whose grandmother Philippa was the sister and co-heir of the last of the Jordans," sold all his manors in Charlwood except that of Gatwick to Thomas Kerr." Reference is made in 1785 to a capital messuage called Gatwicks with houses, &c., belonging, then in possession, as was the
manor itself, of the second John Sharp." Accord- ing to Manning a new manor - house, called Timberham House from its vicinity to Timberham Bridge, was erected by this owner, the site of the old manor-house being in the east of the parish. Brayley, writing in 1841, mentions 'Gatwick house' as having been recently sold by John Sharp to Alexander Fraser, 46 who occupied it as late as 1859. The Gatwick Race Course Company bought the Gatwick estate and the manor-house in 1890 from Mr. John King Farlow of Egham. They do not appear to have bought the manorial rights, and it seems as if these had fallen into abeyance."
The family of Sander, from whom the manor of SENDERS PLACE took its name, was established at Charlwood as early as the l^-th century. A court roll of 1388 records that Stephen Sander was called upon to answer for a plea of trespass,* 8 and a reference is found in 1434 to Thomas Sander of Charlwood," apparently his son. 40 In 1446 land called Sloghter- wyk in Charlwood was granted to Thomas Sander and William his son by Richard son of Thomas Cokeman," and about the same time they received
��a grant of 4 acres from Thomas White." In 1565 Sir Thomas Sander, kt. died seised of ' the manor of Charlwood called Sander's manor,' held as of the manor of Charlwood by fealty and rent of 15*. \\d:* Edmund his son and heir succeeded to the property, which passed successively to Edmund's son Thomas and grandson Edmund." The latter died without issue in 1662, having devised all his 'lands and tene- ments in Charlwood ' to his sister Elizabeth Brad- shaw," from whom they evidently passed to Sir Wil- liam Throckmorton, son of her aunt Dorothy, 56 as in a conveyance of this property in 1673 from Sir Andrew King to Francis Lord Aungier, it was stated that Sir Andrew had obtained it from Throckmorton." The deed of 1673 describes the property as 'the site and the remaining part of the late capital messuage . . . called Charlwood Place, with all fields, &c. called the Great Parke, the Little Parke, the Knowe, the Great Godfreyes, the Lesser Godfreyes, the Greater Biggie Hawe, the Lesser Biggie Hawe, Bush Field, the Granthams, the Skewles mead and Lyons Riddles Mead,' containing altogether about 300 acres. Ac- cording to Manning the estate afterwards passed, with the church, to the family of Wise. This family held these lands in 1 828, by which time, apparently, a new house had been built, as reference is made to ' all that capital messuage, and site and late remaining part of the late capital messuage called Charlwood Place."
Land called HOKE or LA HOKE existed in Charlwood at an early date, as the name Walter atte Hoke, or Walter de la Hok, occurs as that of a wit- ness to deeds in the early 141)1 century, 49 and in 1333 Walter atte Hoke contributed to the lay subsidy for Surrey. 60 In 1335 the custody of a messuage and 45 acres at la Hoke, possibly in Charlwood, was granted to Thomas de Flaynsford." In the late I 5th century the family of Lechford held at least a portion of the lands afterwards called the ' manor of Hook. ' In 1546 the 'manor of Howke,' then in the possession of Henry Lechford, was sold by him to Henry Am- cotts ; 6S he retained, however, a parcel of ground in Hook called Backworth and Littleworth. In 1614 William Hewett died seised of the manor, which was held of the manor of Charlwood by suit at court and yearly rent of 1 1/. \od. M According to Manning, William Hewett son of the above William conveyed it in 1627 to Symonds, from whom it afterwards passed to the family of Jordan. 65 It descended with the
��> Star Chamb. Proc. Hen. VII, Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii,
no. ji. 188.
40 Recov. R. Hil. 30 Eiiz.
41 Pita, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 113. These arms quartered with Codington, Berwick, Hussey, Nesficld and Husscy, stand at the head of the pedigree of Jor- dan (Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 120 and izo/>) ; but the chief was ' taken away ' by St. George Clarenceux (Harl. MS. 1433, fol. 6y/>), and in 1628 a new coat Azure a lion between nine crostlets or was granted by Segar Garter to Edmund Jordan of Gat- wick.
Vide Charlwood, Feet of F. Surr. Trin. i Will, and Mary; Recov. R. Mich. 5 Gco. II, rot. 124; Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 5 Gco. II, m. 9 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 27 Geo. II ; P.C.C. 357 Trevor; Recov. R. East. 2; Geo. Ill, rot. 259 ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 26 Geo. Ill, m. 113, 114; Recov. R. Hil. 45 Geo. Ill, rot. 197.
48 Berry, Surr. Gen. 28, 29.
��45 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 26 Gco. Ill, m. 113, 114.
46 Brayley, Tofog. Hist, of Surr. iv, 264. ^ Information from Mr. G. H. Verrall,
secretary to the company.
48 Ct. R. bdle. 204, no. 67.
49 Cal. Pat. 1429-36, p. 381.
- Berry, Surr. Gen. 40.
"Stoane Chart, xxxii, fol. 30. The name 'Sloghterwyk 1 occurs as that of a witness to deeds in the early I4th century, see Add. Chart. 18588-91. A MS. in private hands contains a list of inscriptions taken down 15 December 1622 : Thomas Sander and his wife Johanna (in the church porch, no date) ; Johanna Sander, 1470 ; Margaret wife of John Sander, d. 1477 ; Richard Sander, d. 1480 ; Wil- liam Sander, d. 1481 (husband of Johanna above) ; Agnes (wife of Richard above), d. 148; ; James Sander, third son of Richard Sander, d. 1510; Nicholas
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��Saunder (d. 1553) and Alice his wife, father and mother of Sir Thomas Saunders,, King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer.
"Feet of F. Surr. 24 Hen. VI. no. 17.
"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxli, 25.
M Feet of F. Surr.Trin. 43 Eliz. ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcii, 129.
" P.C.C. 28 Land.
66 Berry, Surr. Gen. 40, 41 ; Le Neve, Knights (Harl. Soc. viii).
7 Close, 25 Chas. II, pt. iv, no. 6.
58 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 9 Geo. IV, m. 4.
"Add. Chart. 18588, 18590-1,18600.
60 Subs. R. Surr. bdle. 1 84, no. 4, xv"
ftx*.
61 Add. Chart. 24596.
11 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 100 ; no. 79 ; Close, 38 Hen. VIII, pt. i, no. 63.
Close, 38 Hen. VIII, pt. i, no. 63 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich, i Edw. VI.
64 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxliv, 66.
- 5 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii,
188.
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