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Time Line part one |
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Holders of the Royal Manor of Woking
1066 Edward the Confessor
1066-1189 Crown
1189 Richard I grants Manor of Woking to Alan, Lord Bassett of Witcomb
1227 first mention of a house on the site
1232-1271 Gilbert, Fulk, and Philip sons of Alan
1271 Aliva daughter of Philip
1280 Hugh Dispenser the elder Spenser son of Aliva
1327 Manor forfeited to Crown
1327 Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, second son of Edward I
1330 Manor forfeited to Crown
1330 John, Earl of Kent
1351 Joan, Fair Maid of Kent, sister of John
1385 Thomas, Earl of Kent, son of Thomas
1396 Thomas, son of Thomas and Duke of Surrey
1399 Manor forfeited to Crown
1400 Alice Countess Dowager of Kent, mother of Thomas, Duke of Surrey
1415 Margaret wife of John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset and daughter of Alice
1439 John, Duke of Somerset, son of Margaret
1443 Edmund, Duke of Somerset, brother of John
1448 Edmund granted charter to hold a fair each year on first Tuesday after Feast of Pentecost
1454 Eleanor, wife of Edmund
1461 Assession of Edward IV
1465 Manor forfeited to Crown
1466 Lady Margaret Beaufort, daughter of John, Duke of Somerset and her third husband Sir Henry Stafford obtain by Royal warrant the former Beaufort manor of Woking
1468 Lady Margaret and her husband Sir Henry entertain Edward IV at Brookwood
1471 Sir Henry Stafford dies at Woking
1472 Lady Margaret marries her fourth husband Thomas, Lord Stanley
1479 Lady Margaret‘s son Henry Tudor later to become Henry VII rescued from the battlefield of Edgecote by Sir William Devereux, Lord Ferrers
1480 Edward IV at Woking
1483 death of Edward IV
1485 death of Richard III at Bosworth Field
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1490 HenryVII at Woking. Treaty of Woking signed
1500 death of Gilbert Gilpin, park keeper of Woking Park, buried at St Peter’s
1503 Henry VII decides to transform the manor house into a palace and reclaims the Manor from his mother
1508 building of the King’s Hall
1509 death of Henry VII and Lady Margaret Beaufort
1511 £21 15s11d paid to the glazier, Barnard Flower for glazing of the hall and other offices
1515 Henry VIII at Woking
1515/6 building of a new wharf alongside the River Wey
1516/7 making of a gallery with a draught in the Queen’s lodging
1533 tilers repairing the roofs of the King’s watching chamber and the Queen’s dining chamber and carpenters shoring up the great bay window in the Queen’s chamber
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