. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. Bele. Thru mis. ; A John Beel and his wife Suzanna of Frensham were alive ; Then the descent of the manor becomes a broken story, but it is still in the hands of the original family at a later date. Fragments exist of the manorial court rolls of 1437, 1443, and 1483, but with no names of the ' In 1570 a Mr. Beale was still lord of the manor.'s In 1571 Robert Beale conveyed the manor to Benedict Jaye.'' This was probably only a mortgage, for in 1583 Robert Beale was still holding the manor, and c
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. Bele. Thru mis. ; A John Beel and his wife Suzanna of Frensham were alive ; Then the descent of the manor becomes a broken story, but it is still in the hands of the original family at a later date. Fragments exist of the manorial court rolls of 1437, 1443, and 1483, but with no names of the ' In 1570 a Mr. Beale was still lord of the manor.'s In 1571 Robert Beale conveyed the manor to Benedict Jaye.'' This was probably only a mortgage, for in 1583 Robert Beale was still holding the manor, and conveyed the same to Sir Thomas Bowyer in that year.'o This Thomas Bowyer was evidently the Sir Thomas Bowyer of Leythorn, in North Mundham parish, Sussex, to whose son the manor passed in the seventeenth ; But between 1583 and 1609 the manor must have passed out of the Bovyyer family, for in the latter year James Fuller and Katherine his wife conveyed it to Anthony Radcliffe and his ; In the following year Anthony Radcliffe conveyed a third part of the manor to Richard ; By 1616 the whole manor had evidently passed to the Smythe family, for in August of that year Wil- liam Smythe conveyed it to Robert Birch, a cousin of Sir Thomas Bowyer.'* The same Robert Birch, on his death in 1627, wdlled the manor to his wife Margaret, and on her death to their son Francis, then aged seven years and more. In default of heirs to Francis the manor was to pass to John Bowyer, second son of Robert's cousin Sir Thomas Bowfyer, and in default of heirs to the said John to Thomas Bowyer, eldest son of the same ; Evidently both Francis Birch. Bowyer. GoU a bend voir vtitb catises table. and John Bowyer died without hein, for in 1651 Sir Thomas Bowyer junior clearly was holding the manor, and conveyed land in Frensham Beale to Henry ; In 1656 Sir Thomas Bowyer, Robert Bickerstaffe and Priscilla his wife conveyed the manor, evidently by way
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