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 | | In the 13th century its owners bought and sold land in Poyle and Stanwell (Footnote 84) so that whereas Poyle manor comprised 1 carucate in 1265, (Footnote 85) by 1299 it included 50 acres of demesne arable, 72 acres held by free-tenants, and a house and mill. |
 | | The Crown leased it in 1575 to Robert Holmes and in 1587 to Nicholas Hilliard the miniaturist, (Footnote 5) while in 1591 a lease was assigned from William Daye to Thomas Ridley. |
 | | (Footnote 6) Thomas, Lord Knyvett, acquired Poyle from the Crown in 1613 and it descended with Stanwell until it was assigned to Sir Francis Leigh on the partition of the Knyvett estates in 1678. |
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