From the original description - Byefleet Park has a considerable history after the Conquest the earliest owner of note was Geoffrey de Luey, who held the lands from the Abbot of Chertsey by military service ; he died in 1284, and his son Geoffrey sold the tenancy of the manor in 1294 to Henry de Leybourne, who was with Edward 1. at the siege of Caerlaverock, and received the honour of knighthood for his services there. The manor in some way came into the possession of Edward 1., and he is said to have sometimes lived there. When Edward ii. ascended the throne he gave the manor to that gay soldier friend of his youth, who had been banished by Edward I. -it would have saved the new King much trouble if he had left him in exile. Gaveston was created Earl of Cornwall, and, relying on the favour of Edward II., he soon goaded the Barons into fury by his reckless wit and reckless deeds ; and, though it took some time, he had in the end to pay for his taunts by the loss of his head in 1312. The King then appointed Humphrey de Walden as steward of the manor, and occasionally lived at BYEFLEET AND WISLEY Byeflect Park, as he had done when it was held by Piers Gaveston. From this house he issued the warrants for the suppression of the Knights Templars in 1307, and at least one other document bears his signature from here in 1308. In 1331 Edward III. granted the manor to his brother John, Duke of Cornwall, who died in Scotland during the expedition against Baliol four years later. The King then settled it on his eldest son and his heirs as Dukes of Cornwall it reverted to the Crown at the death of Richard II., and was settled by Henry iv. on his son Henry, who granted the occupation of it to Sir Francis Court and his wife. In 1417 the sum of 64, 7s. 4d. was paid out of the Exchequer to John Penycok, valet of the King's robes, in advance for repairs done at Byeqeet Park to a bridge within the park, and for repairing a certain lodge there to keep rabbits within the said park."' About 1486 Sir Thomas Bourchier held the oflice of Keeper, and it is said that Henry viii. was sent there to be nursed or fostered-in after days quite a number of people must have been sorry that the rearing of this infant was so successful. Whether the King retained pleasing memories of the old house under the hill, with the quiet river flowing by, or not, he annexed it to the Chase formed by him at Hampton Court, giving to the Duchy of Cornwall in exchange an estate in Berkshire. Sir Anthony Browne obtained a grant of part of the estate in the time of Henry viii. and built, or rebuilt, a house here, as well as at West Horsley, and died at Byefleet House in 1548. No owner appears during the following reigns, and probably the house went to decay.