. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. FARNHAM HUNDRED SEALE o o PoYLK. Sii'ver a sal- tire gules and a border sable beisanty. TONGHAM MANOR seems to MANORS have been reckoned a manor as early as 1360, when Henry de la Poyle held a court here for the lands which he held of the Bishop.'' These lands had passed to Henry from his grandfather ' Walter de la Puille,' who was seised of a ' tenement in Twang- ham,' sixty acres of arable land, rents from seven free tenants, etc., held by ser- vice of one-seventh of a knight's fee of the Bishop of Winchester, in In 1317


. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. FARNHAM HUNDRED SEALE o o PoYLK. Sii'ver a sal- tire gules and a border sable beisanty. TONGHAM MANOR seems to MANORS have been reckoned a manor as early as 1360, when Henry de la Poyle held a court here for the lands which he held of the Bishop.'' These lands had passed to Henry from his grandfather ' Walter de la Puille,' who was seised of a ' tenement in Twang- ham,' sixty acres of arable land, rents from seven free tenants, etc., held by ser- vice of one-seventh of a knight's fee of the Bishop of Winchester, in In 1317 John, son and heir of Walter, died, leav- ing a son and heir ; In 1333 John died, leav- ing his brother Henry as his heir.'" Henry's son, Thomas Poyle, succeeded him in 1369,*' and in 1402 died seised of ' a hall and grange in Tongham,' leaving his brother John as his ; In 1407 John Poyle conveyed the same to his son ^ Henry married Elizabeth Warner, who through her trustees conveyed the manor to John Gaynesford in 1440.'* In 1474 the Gaynesfords were still holding the manor,is but between that date and 1516 it was evidently conveyed to William West- broke, for in 1517 William Westbroke conveyed the manor of Tongham with appurtenances, etc., to Thomas Polstead, Edward Hylle, and William Bus- ^ It seems probable that these were trustees for his heirs, for on his death in 1537 the manor seems to have been divided between his two nephews John Scar- lett " and Thomas Hull.'s In 1546 John Scarlett mortgaged his' moiety of the manor of Tongham ' to John Elyot of ' In 1547 John Scarlett died,'" in 1576 his heir confirmed the grant to John Elyot.'* In the same year John Elyot conveyed the moiety to Robert It is difficult to trace the history of the other moiety of the manor. It seems to have passed to the heir of Elizabeth Westbroke, William West- broke's sister, who probably married Edward Hull, and her heir may have


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