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MANOR OF SANDERSTEAD.

At the time of Domesday Survey we find the manor in possession of the Abbey of St. Peter of Hide at Winchester. "The Abbey of St. Peter of Winchester holds Sandestede," so says the Survey. Among Col. Wigsell's deeds, to which he has kindly given me access, is a very early and interesting one of the time of King John, with a seal of the abbey of Hide attached, partly broken, of which a fac-simile is here given by the autotype process. It is an exchange between John, abbot of Hide, and Hugh de Wrongeham of half a hide in Sanderstead belonging to the former, for some land called Papeholt. This John was John Suthill, prior of Cluny: he succeeded in 1181, went in 1185 to Rome to bring back the pall for Baldwin, Archbishop elect of Canterbury, and died in 1222, which would fix the date of this deed^[1] between those years. His name occurs in two fines of land relating to Sanderstead in 6 John, 1205, and 11 John, 1210. I find in a Fine Roll of 3 Hen. III., 1219, a Hugh de Wrongham, probably the same person, cited before the justices in Eyre for receiving malefactors on his land in Sanderstede.

In 4 Edw. I, 1276, William of Worcester, then abbot, impleaded the prior of Bermondsey for setting up gallows within his manor of Sanderstead, when the prior pleaded that it was in his manor of Warlingham. In 17 Edw. II. we find license granted to the abbot and convent of Hide to lease the manor of Sanderstead and lands there, with the exception of the advowson, to Walter, Bishop of Exeter, for ten years, at a yearly rent of 20l. It continued the property of the abbey of Hide until the dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII., when, on 4th November, in the thirtieth year of that king, by letters patent dated at Westminster, and in consideration of 79l., it was granted, together with Felcourt in Lingfield, and Langhurst in Limpsfield, to Sir John

↑ Only part of the seal remains, but in the Collection of Seals of the late Mr. Albert Way, now in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries, is an identical seal. It represents St. Peter with the keys and a book. The legend, instead of going round the seal, is on the right and left of his head: Sigillü Sci. Petri Ap^li. (See Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries, vol. vi. No. iv. p. 396.)

[1] Only part of the seal remains, but in the Collection of Seals of the late Mr. Albert Way, now in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries, is an identical seal. It represents St. Peter with the keys and a book. The legend, instead of going round the seal, is on the right and left of his head: Sigillü Sci. Petri Ap^li. (See Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries, vol. vi. No. iv. p. 396.)

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