. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. In April 1587 Robert Ashton died seised of ' the manor or messuage called from old time Compton Hall,' then leased to his nephew, John Cotton. His son and heir was Robert Ashton, who was then nearly seventeen years of age.«»» From 1588 until 1632 the only mention of Compton or Morehouse >»« is in Norden's descrip- tion of Surrey, i"' which by internal evidence is after 1590 and before 1597, in which he says that Cotton, gent., lived at Morehouse. By 1632 it had passed into the hands of Sir Francis Clarke, who died seised
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. In April 1587 Robert Ashton died seised of ' the manor or messuage called from old time Compton Hall,' then leased to his nephew, John Cotton. His son and heir was Robert Ashton, who was then nearly seventeen years of age.«»» From 1588 until 1632 the only mention of Compton or Morehouse >»« is in Norden's descrip- tion of Surrey, i"' which by internal evidence is after 1590 and before 1597, in which he says that Cotton, gent., lived at Morehouse. By 1632 it had passed into the hands of Sir Francis Clarke, who died seised of it in that year.'"* About 1686 Sir William Temple, the brilliant diplomatist, statesman, and man of letters, author of an Essay on Gardening and patron of Swift, purchased the manor from the execu- tors of the Clarke family, and probably changed the name from Morehouse or Compton Hall to Moor Park.»<" Moor Park, during Sir William Temple's life there, was the meeting-place of many interesting men,'"" and the scene of the meet- ing between Swift and ;' Temple laid out the gardens in the Dutch style, with a canal. They were modernized by Mr. Timson, the tenant, in the early nineteenth century. Sir William Temple on his death in 1699 left Moor Park to Elizabeth, the younger daughter of his late son ;^ Eliza- beth married her cousin John Temple, survived her husband and children, and in 1770 devised the manor to her nephew Basil Bacon, son of her sister Dorothy and Nicholas Bacon of Shrubland Hall, SuflFolk.»»e In 1775 Basil Bacon "» left his * capital messuage or manor house called Moor Hall, otherwise Compton Halls, otherwise Moor Park,' and all his Temple estate to his younger brother in tail, wdth remainder to his elder brother in tail, with remainder to his sister in tail, and failing these to his eldest son Charles, known as Charles Wil- liams, provided he took the name of Bacon, with Temple. Silver two bars sable
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