MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES.
No manor
of Edburton was recorded in 1086, but what was
later the manor seems likely to be 2½ hides of the 4
hides of Paythorne in Fulking, which Levenot held
of King Edward in 1066, the 2½ hides being held in
1086 of William de Braose apparently by Levenot. (fn. 23)
They seem to have passed to the archbishop of
Canterbury, from whom William de Braose held a
fee in Edburton in the 1210s. (fn. 24) The mesne tenancy
of that fee descended with the rape until 1279 or
later, (fn. 25) and c. 1285 it was called EDBURTON
manor. (fn. 26) By that date it had come to be held with
Perching in Fulking, with which it afterwards descended in the Poynings family and the family of
Browne, Viscounts Montague, until the later 18th
century. When Perching was resumed by the Crown
at that period, (fn. 27) Edburton passed with other former
Montague estates to W. S. Poyntz, (fn. 28) who in 1836
sold Edburton farm to the Crown. (fn. 29) About 1841 it
comprised 317 a. (fn. 30) It was sold by the Crown in 1984
to the National Freight Consortium plc. (fn. 31)
Aburton Farm, (fn. 32) the manor house of Edburton
manor, is a spacious early 17th-century building
with walls of squared clunch, red brick dressings,
and ovolo-moulded oak window frames. The main
east-west range has two external chimneystacks on
the south side, and may once have had a south wing
at its west end. Some internal refitting was done in
the 18th and 19th centuries, and the west end and
part of the south front were remodelled in the early
20th century. Stone fragments apparently of 16thcentury date existed in the garden of the house in
1958. (fn. 33) The attached farm buildings include a dovecot of unusual form. (fn. 34)
The manor of TRULEIGH was held by Bedling
of Earl Godwin before 1066, and by William, a
knight, of William de Braose in 1086. (fn. 35) The overlordship later descended with Bramber rape. (fn. 36) In
the 19th century the manor occupied the western
half of the parish. (fn. 37)
William of Northo apparently had an interest in
Truleigh manor in 1316, (fn. 38) and in 1332 both he and
his sister-in-law Nichole of Hartridge were taxed in
Edburton. Nichole's son-in-law John Percy (fn. 39) may
have had an interest in the manor by 1334, (fn. 40) and in
1339 died seised of a moiety held of the rape with
Woodmancote as 1¼ fee. (fn. 41) His widow Elizabeth and
her second husband William Burton were dealing
with the moiety in 1341-2, (fn. 42) and John of Farnborough, William Fillol, and others were dealing
with it in 1354-5. (fn. 43) William of Northo died seised of
what was evidently the other moiety in 1338; (fn. 44) it
afterwards passed from his son William (fl. 1357-8)
to Michael Poynings, (fn. 45) thereafter descending with
Poynings until 1531. (fn. 46) In that year Henry Percy,
earl of Northumberland, conveyed the entire manor
of Truleigh to Sir Thomas Nevill, (fn. 47) who conveyed
it in 1540 to Richard Bellingham; (fn. 48) another Richard
Bellingham, apparently the latter's grandson, (fn. 49) died
seised of it in 1592. (fn. 50)
In 1593 (fn. 51) and 1597 (fn. 52) Truleigh belonged to Sir
Thomas Shirley of Wiston (d. 1612), (fn. 53) and in 1610
to Sir Benjamin Pellatt (fn. 54) (d. 1637), who was succeeded by three granddaughters and coheirs, Anne,
Catherine, and Rose. (fn. 55) Catherine and her husband
William Hippisley (fn. 56) in 1653 acquired Anne's share
of the manor. (fn. 57) After William's death in 1657 (fn. 58)
Catherine sold her interest in 1662 to George Kilner,
who also bought Rose's share in 1665, (fn. 59) by which
date he had the whole manor. (fn. 60) Kilner's niece (fn. 61) Mary
Olive, a widow, mortgaged the manor in 1681, and
in 1682 and 1694 the manor court was held in the
name of John Olive, (fn. 62) presumably her son. (fn. 63) In 1705
he sold the manor to Robert Leeves, whose son and
heir, (fn. 64) also Robert (d. 1744 × 1749), devised it to
his brother Samuel. In 1776-7 it belonged jointly to
Samuel's three coheirs, who were surnamed Lamport, Johnson, and Edwards. (fn. 65) Charles Johnson
Gogney (d. 1781 or 1782), apparently the younger
Leeves's nephew, (fn. 66) devised a third to his widow
Elizabeth, and in 1782 the whole manor seems to
have been settled on Henry Johnson.
Johnson was described as lord in 1785 and later; (fn. 67)
he died between 1797 and 1799, and his widow or
his son and namesake sold Truleigh in 1803 to
Nicholas Hall. Hall sold it in 1814 to George Wyndham, earl of Egremont, (fn. 68) after which it descended
with Coombes (fn. 69) until Charles Wyndham, Lord
Leconfield, sold first, in 1920, the demesne land, and
later, in 1925, the manor, to John C. Buckwell. (fn. 70) By
1927 Truleigh had passed to Capt. L. N. Masters, (fn. 71)
and in 1933 it was bought by V. L. Windus (d.
1950), whose son, R. L. Windus, owned it in 1984. (fn. 72)
Capital messuages on each of what appear to have
been the two moieties of Truleigh manor were mentioned in 1338-9. (fn. 73) The south side of Truleigh Farm,
the manor house of Truleigh manor, may incorporate
the flint rubble walls of an older building, but the
house is substantially 18th-century. There was some
internal refurbishment in the early 19th century, and
the house was extended on the east and north sides
in castellated style in the 1920s. The large collection
of farm buildings, mostly 19th-century, includes a
castellated dovecot, presumably also of the 1920s.
A ½ hide which had apparently formed part of
Truleigh manor in 1066 was held of it in 1086 by
Ansfrid. (fn. 74) Its location is not known.
Summers Deane presumably gave rise to the surname Somerdenn recorded in Edburton in 1296. (fn. 75)
In 1361 and 1389-90 Summersdeane farm was held
with Horton manor in Upper Beeding; at the latter
date it comprised 60 a. (fn. 76) It may have continued to
descend with Horton, since it also belonged to the
lord of that manor c. 1841, when it had 196 a. in
Edburton, (fn. 77) and in 1910. (fn. 78) The descent has not been
traced further.