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The manor of Haling, comprising a park and mansion, situate at the southern extremity of the town of Croydon, was thought by Ducarel to have found its designation with our Saxon ancestors. Holy, in their language is halix,, and meadow — and from these two words he deduces Haling—holy-meadow, a supposition that is in some degree strengthened by the contiguity of this estate to the manor of Wodden—which he deduced with an equal degree of probability from their idol Woden.
It is stated by Bray, but on no cited authority, that towards the close of the fifteenth century the manor of Haling was in the possession of Thomas Warham. Thomas Warham, citizen and carpenter of London, was one of the twelve principal inhabitants of Croydon, presenting to the chauntry of St. Mary in the church of that parish in 1458, and again in 1476,c and who appears, from an imperfect roll de anno 34 Henry VI. (1456), to have been professionally employed on the archiepiscopal residence. In his will, dated 3rd September 1478, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on the 8th November 1481, he directs his body to be buried in the parish church of St. John the Baptist, at Croydon, in the chapel of St. Nicholas, "before the ymage of Our Lady of Pitie." In his will he makes mention of Ellen his wife, of his brother Richard and his two daughters— Alice, the wife of John Barret, and Margery, the wife of John Massam, and of Annis the daughter of his nephew William Warham deceased. In 1543 (34 Henry VIII.) certain lands of Thomas Warham were held by William Wilde, gentleman, in right of his wife Dorothy, the offspring of an incestuous marriage between Jane, daughter and heir of the before-mentioned John Barret, and Thomas Morley, son of his widow by her second husband Robert Morley. In a complaint made to Archbishop Warham, then Archbishop of Canterbury, by certain tenants holding lands under the said Wilde, that they had been then lately threatened with an ejectment, and praying his interference, as lord of the manor of Croydon, this marriage—as contrary to the laws both of God and the King—is urged against the right of his wife to the lands of her maternal grandfather John Barret, and his wife's uncle Thomas Warham. It is also here noticed, that, as the latter made no surrender of any part of his copyhold lands to the use of his brother Richard or his children before mentioned, or to the use of any other person, according to the custom of the manor, the said copyholds had reverted to the lord,a and were consequently unjustly held by the said Wilde and his predecessors from the time of Warham's death.
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