Identifier: environsoflondon01lyso (find matches)
Title: The environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital interspersed with biographical anecdotes
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834
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Publisher: London : printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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n afterwards the Gage familyappear to have been again in poffeffion, for they alienated the manor,in the fecond year of Charles I. to Chriflopher Gardiner, Efquire *.It continued to be the property of the Gardiners till 1707, when it,was conveyed by them to Edward Stringer, Efq. who dying withoutiflue, his widow brought it into the Parker family, and her grandfon,William Parker Hamond, Efq. is the prefent proprietor. The manor of Norbury, held of the archbifhop of Canterbury,was at an early period the property of the Carews °, and has de-fcended in the fame manner as Beddington. *3 Fin. 1 Hen. IV. m. 8. * Pat. 34 EHz. pt. 5. May 9 ; and Pat. ** By an abftraft of the Court Rolls of the 9 Jac. pt. 23. N 5. manor, in the poffeffion of Samuel Chollet, Efq. ■*^ Dugdales Baronage, vol. ii. *s 27 Hen. VIII. Grants and Ex-changes of From the Abftraft of Mr. Hamonds Lands, Augmentation Office. Title Deeds. ^^ Pat. I & 2 P. & M, pt. 9. Feb. 21. = Harleian MSS. Brit. Muf. 7025. I have
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%^,:J CROYDON. 179 I have feen only one record relating to either of the two following Manors ofmanors ; viz. Palmer, or Tylecroft, of which Richard Forth, L L. D. Tyiecroft,died feized, 37 Eliz. ^, and Chelhurft, or Shelhurft, which was grant- hurft ored to the archbilhop of Canterbury by Hen. VIII. \ They are ^^^■both now included in the manor of Croydon. Sir Peter Burrell, Bart, has a manor-farm in this parifh, , called Manor of T-T Ham ; it was purchafed by his grandfather, and is fituated at the ex-tremity of the parifh, towards Beckenham. I have not had an op-portunity of procuring any information of the more early pro-prietors. The church, which is dedicated to St. John the Baptift, is built of The church,flone and flint j it is fituated at the bottom of the town, near the fourceof the Wandle. It confifts of a nave, two aifles, and three chan-cels ; at the weft end is a handfome fquare tower, with pinnacles.The nave is feparated from the aifles, by light cluftered columns,•

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