A Picturesque Promenade Round Dorking In Surrey

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... After its alienation from the crown, the earls of Warren are the first subjects in ral survey, we learn that, "in the time of the Confessor, this manor was part of the royal firm of Edith his Queen, who was probably permitted to hold in her dower till the time of her decease, in December, 1074. At this time it was rated at one thousand and fifty acres of land. At the time of the survey, when the Conqueror was found in possession, it was not rated to the land-tax at all. The arable land is said to be fourteen hundred acres, the meadow no more than three: but woeds on the manor were sufficient to maintain five hundred swine upon the mash and acorns in pasnage time, and three hundred and eighty upon the grass in time of herbage; for they yielded to the lord a rent offifty of the fed of that stock, and thirty-eight of the lean. Here were also three mills, and four villans in grass." "The demesne, or manor, properly so called, consisted of sixteen hundred acres; whereof two hundred were occupied by the King himself, and the remaining fourteen hundred by his tenants at will, which were thirty-eight villans and thirteen boarders." The family of Warren probably had this manor at some very early period, although we find no mention made of it among their estates, as enumerated by Dugdale and others, till the time of the first John Earl of Warren and Surrey, in the reign of Henry m. "An inquisition was taken at Dorkyng before J. de Lovelot, one of the justices assigned for that purpose, on Sunday next after the feast of St. Matthew the apostle, in the 4th year of King Edward I., by a jury sworn to certify to the whose hands it is found. From that family it descended to the Fitz-Alans, earls of Arundel; and on the decease of King, the value of the...