Catalogue description THE ARUNDEL INHERITANCE

In 1415 the Mowbrays became coheirs, as mentioned [see BCM/D Administrative history], to the estate which had descended from the last Warenne earl of Surrey to the last FitzAlan earl of Arundel. Warenne had held the manors of Tyburn (Middx.), the castle and town of Reigate, the manor of Dorking, portions of the tolls of Southwark and Guildford (Surrey) and Medmenham manor (Bucks.), which were later held by the Mowbrays, along with the barony of Lewes (Sussex) and Bromfield and Yale. [CIPM ix, no. 54.] The eldest of Arundel's sisters and coheirs, Elizabeth, was the widow of the first Mowbray duke of Norfolk, the second, Joan, was the widow of William Beauchamp of Abergavenny and the youngest, Margaret, was the wife of Roland Lenthall. Margaret died without issue, [Evidently not long after 1439, since her husband's daughter by his second wife gave birth in 1459: GEC vi. 133; xii (2), 946] so the Mowbrays eventually held half the Warenne lands. The initial division of the barony of Lewes (on the death of Arundel's widow Beatrice in 1439) was made on the basis of whole manors, the Mowbrays being assigned the manors of Meeching with Piddinghoe, Clayton, Pyecome, Brighton, Allington and Middleton with Seaford (with a rent from Northease with Iford, which was partitioned), and the Lenthalls the manors of Houndean, Keymer and Cuckfield, but after Margaret Lenthall's death her manors were divided in moieties between the Mowbrays and the Beauchamps. [Each of the three, later two, heirs had a portion of the castle, Cleeres chase and Worth forest, of the rents, of the profits from the court, fair, market and fishery of Lewes, and of the eight hundreds (Barcombe, Buttinghill, Holmestrow, Poynings, Streat, Swanborough, Whalebone and Younsmere) and two half-hundreds (Fishersgate and Wyndham): VCH Sussex, vii. 3-5.] Of the other lands, the Lenthalls had Tyburn and the rest seem to have been divided. The Lenthall portion did not revert immediately on the death of Margaret, as in 1476 it was being held for life by Margaret, widow of Edmund Lenthall, esquire, and the duchess Elizabeth could grant only the reversion of a moiety of the Lenthall portion to the queen (viz. moieties of the manors of Tyburn, Houndean, Keymer and Halleighs in Cuckfield, and of a third part of the barony). In 1467 John duke of Norfolk (also earl of Warenne since 1451) made a settlement of the Warenne lands which he then held, i.e. his portion of Lewes, half the manor of Dorking, rents, tolls and customs in Guildford and Southwark and lands in Groveheath, in Send with Ripley, and Bradley, in Dorking (Surrey), with Dinas Bran, Wrexham and Bromfield and Yale, on his wife Elizabeth Talbot. On the failure of the male line of the Mowbrays their moiety of the Warenne lands was further divided between the descendants of Elizabeth FitzAlan's four daughters, two by Mowbray (Howard and Berkeley) and two by her second husband, Robert Goushill (Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby, and Sir John Wingfield). Berkeley had a quarter of the manors of Reigate and Dorking [In 1467 Mowbray appears to have held only half of each manor, so Berkeley should have had only a quarter of the moieties.] and a quarter of half the tolls of Guildford and Southwark, a quarter of the Lewes manors originally assigned to Elizabeth FitzAlan and a quarter of half those assigned to Margaret FitzAlan, a quarter of half the manor of Tyburn, and half of Bromfield and Yale. [CIPM Hen. VII,i, nos.878-9.] He granted his portion of Bromfield and Yale to William Stanley in Feb. 1486: below, BCM/D/4/3/1 [GC 4451]. In 1490 he granted to Henry VII the reversion of his portion of Lewes, which was recovered by his brother and heir Maurice, and later passed to the Howards. [VCH Sussex, vii.5.]