Benjamin Pellatt, Esq.

In February 1581, on the marriage of his son Benjamin to Dorothy Lewknor, Richard Pellatt enfeoffed his manors of Charlton and Ashurst for their benefit.

notes

from A P Baggs, C R J Currie, C R Elrington, S M Keeling and A M Rowland, 'Steyning: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 1, Bramber Rape (Southern Part), ed. T P Hudson (London, 1980), pp. 226-231. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol6/pt1/pp226-231 [accessed 14 July 2016].

The manor of CHARLTON, sometimes called CHARLTON-ASHURST, representing the nonurban part of the original manor of Steyning together with land in Ashurst, had acquired a separate identity by 1440, when Sir John Cornwall held it. (fn. 22) Whether it was separate much earlier is uncertain; the manor of Steyning was still so called in 1405. (fn. 23) Charlton followed the descent of Steyning manor and borough until the Dissolution, (fn. 24) when it came to the Crown, being attached like Steyning to the honor of Petworth. (fn. 25) William Pellatt, to whose grandfather (fn. 26) and namesake Syon abbey leased Charlton manor in 1484 (fn. 27) and who himself held a lease first from the abbey (fn. 28) and later from the Crown, was granted the manor in fee in 1557. (fn. 29) He was succeeded c. 1558 (fn. 30) by his son Richard (d. 1587), whose son Benjamin (fn. 31) sold the manor to Sir Thomas Shirley of Wiston in 1593. (fn. 32)

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