. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY MA Bavbnt. Silver chief indented sable. ^e Bavent had a grant of free warren in ; His grandson, Roger de Bavent, held the same, and sold his lands and rights to Edward III. in ; In 1362 Edward granted the lands for life to John de Winwyk, WilUam de Thorp, and WUliam de ; In 1373, when this life tenure had ex- pired, he granted ' all his lands and tenements with appurtenances in Pitfold' to Maud, Prioress of the Monastery of Dertford and her successors.'^ In 1372 the Prioress an
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY MA Bavbnt. Silver chief indented sable. ^e Bavent had a grant of free warren in ; His grandson, Roger de Bavent, held the same, and sold his lands and rights to Edward III. in ; In 1362 Edward granted the lands for life to John de Winwyk, WilUam de Thorp, and WUliam de ; In 1373, when this life tenure had ex- pired, he granted ' all his lands and tenements with appurtenances in Pitfold' to Maud, Prioress of the Monastery of Dertford and her successors.'^ In 1372 the Prioress and convent surrendered their lands, including the manor of Hatcham (Heccesham) with lands and tenements in Pitfold in Surrey,»8 for the purpose apparently of ob- taining a new ; The lands seemingly re- mained in the hands of the monastery until the dissolution," at which time they rendered a yearly customary rent of 49/. 3^.71 This rent fell to the king after 1538, and is noted in the Ministers' Accounts from 1540 to ; The roll for 1546-7 is not extant, but in that for 1547-8 there is no mention of the rent from Pitfoldâevidently the lands had been granted away or had fallen into the hands of the ; In 1562 Elizabeth granted the 'lordship and manor of Pytfold Dertford, otherwise Highe Pit- folde,' to John White and Thomas ; On I April, 1566, John White exchanged the manor with Viscount Montague for the grange at Tongham and ^177 \6s. ;i In 1593 Anthony Browne Viscount Montague died seised of the manor,^!' which descended to his grandson and heir Anthony, who died seised of it in ; From him the manor passed to his son Francis and descended in the Montague family to George Samuel, eighth Viscount, who died in 1793 without heirs; leaving the estate to his sister Elizabeth Mary, who married William Stephen Poyntz, of Medgham, Berks.'s In 1832 the three daughters and co-heiresses of William Stephen Poyntz, Fran
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