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Notes for John Gunter and Margaret

1501 "Indictment of Henry Morgan of Westminster for breaking and entering with others the house of John Gunter, gentleman, at Bramley, Surrey, on 4 March 1501 and assaulting him, his wife, Margaret, his daughter, Katherine, and his servants, Walter Thomas, William Welot and Richard Taillour, and beating and wounding Walter Thomas and abducting the said Katherine." [1]

1504-1515 "Wyntreshull v Gunter. Plaintiffs: Margaret, late the wife of Robert Wyntreshull. Defendants: Margaret, executrix and late the wife of John Gunter, of Marterhill. Subject: Dower of complainant in lands in Shalford, whereof she was deforced by the said John. Surrey." [2]

1519/20 January 27-February 3. "Final concord from the quindene of Hilary 11 Henry VIII between Richard Weston, knight, William Walsyngham, William Westbroke, Christopher More, John Gunter and John Sandes, querents, and Edmund Walsyngham, knight, and Katherine, his wife, deforciants, for the manors of Chilworth and Utworth, and eleven messuages and various lands and woods with their appurtenances in Bramley, East Shalford, West Shalford, Cranleigh, Wonersh, Dunsfold, Albury, Shere, Guildford, Stoke by Guildford and Merrow, Surrey." [3]

Research Notes:

"Utworth Manor, which extends into Wonersh and Dunsfold parishes, (fn. 56: Lease in 1821 of part of the waste of Utworth manor near Dunsfold Church.) was held of Bramley. In 1234 John de Fay, lord of Bramley, granted the Abbess of Fontevraud 2 marks rent from Utworth in exchange for an annuity due to her. (fn. 57: Feet of F. Surr. 19 Hen. III, 16. Thomas of Utworth bought a release from this rent in 1260-1; Feet of F. Surr. 45 Hen. III, 24.) Other rents were due from the manor to Beatrice, mother of John de Fay. (fn. 58: Feet of F. Surr. 25 Hen. III, 20) Roger de Clare confirmed the grant of a rent from Walter of Utworth to the Abbess of Wherwell towards the support of a chaplain in the chapel of the Garden of St. Mary. (fn. 59: See Artington; Chartulary of Wherwell Abbey; Egerton, MS. 2104, A. fol. 105b.) Walter son of Elias of Utworth laid claim to Chilworth Church in 1224, (fn. 60: Maitland, Bracton's Note Bk. 928.) and was probably the Walter of Utworth who conveyed the manor to his son Thomas in return for a life annuity in 1247-8. (fn. 61: Feet of F. Surr. 32 Hen. III, 28 and 37.) There is a late 13th-century agreement between Edmund and Lawrence of Utworth as to land in Bramley. (fn. 62: Feet of F. Surr. 12 Edw. I, 17. This Edmund was juror in a perambulation of Windsor Forest in 1300. Select Pleas of the Forest (Selden Soc., xiii), 117.) They seem to have been succeeded by Thomas of Utworth, who witnessed many charters at Cranleigh. (fn. 63: Add. Chart. 7609, 7610, 7623, 7631.) In 1394-5 Walter Utworth witnessed a grant to John Redinghurst. (fn. 64: Add. Chart. 7604.) William Utworth was living in 1462. (fn. 65: Cal. Pat. 1461-7, p. 201.) In 1580 William Morgan, who is said to have been a descendant of William Utworth's granddaughter Catherine, held the manor, (fn. 66: According to Visit. of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii, 23), Catherine daughter of William Utworth married John Gunter, and their daughter Catherine married Henry Morgan. They had a grandson William Morgan.) which he settled on his son John, afterwards Sir John Morgan. (fn. 67: Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxi, 85.)."


Footnotes:

[1] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, WARD 2/54/181/7, [UKNationalArchives].

[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, C 1/371/8, Chancery pleadings addressed to William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor, [UKNationalArchives].

[3] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, WARD 2/54A/181/44, [UKNationalArchives].