Editing Wisley (section)

===Manorial descent===
Oswold, lord of [[Wotton, Surrey|Wotton]] held the manor of Wisley when [[Domesday Book]] was compiled. The manor was [[subinfeudated]] by the later lords of Wotton. In the early 1200s, the manor passed from Roger de Somerey to [[Robert de Briwes]], who leased it in 1243 to Walter le Basle and his wife Denise during Walter's life. On Robert's death in 1275, it passed to his son John, who settled it on his daughter Beatrice shortly before she married Robert Burnel. Around the end of the 1200s, Robert Fitz Payne came into possession of some of John's lands in Somerset, and apparently acquired title to Wisley as well, prevailing in a lawsuit initiated by Robert Burnel in 1328.

Fitz Payne died without male heirs; at the death of his wife Ela, in 1355, it passed to her cousin Robert, the second son of [[Richard Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Codnor|Richard de Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Codnor]]. Robert assumed the Fitz Payne surname and died in 1392, when the manor passed to his daughter Isabel, wife of [[Richard Poynings, 3rd Baron Poynings]]. She died the following year, and it passed to her son and heir [[Robert Poynings, 4th Baron Poynings]]. In 1434, he settled the manor on his granddaughter [[Eleanor Percy, 5th Baroness Poynings|Eleanor]] on the occasion of her marriage to [[Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland]]. Eleanor died in 1483, and her successor, her son [[Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland]], was killed in 1489. Towards the end of his life, a dispute arose among Northumberland and the other heirs of Sir Guy de Bryan (Robert Fitz Payne's father-in-law). One of these was [[Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond]], who apparently received Wisley in the settlement between heirs, as he granted it to John Covert, who died in 1503.

Upon John's death without heirs male of the body, Wisley passed to his cousin Richard Covert, who in 1594 joined with his son Anthony in conveying the manor to the courtier [[John Wolley (MP)|Sir John Wolley]] and [[Elizabeth Wolley|Elizabeth]] his wife, daughter of [[William More (died 1600)|Sir William More]]. Wolley's son Francis inherited the manor in 1596, but died without legitimate issue in 1609. Wisley passed to Elizabeth's nephew [[Arthur Mainwaring|Sir Arthur Mainwaring]]. Perhaps to pay for a lawsuit over guardianship of his niece, Mainwaring sold the manor to [[Robert Parkhurst (died 1651)|Sir Robert Parkhurst]] in 1641. Sir Robert died in 1651, and Wisley passed to his son [[Robert Parkhurst (died 1674)|Robert]], who died in 1674. In 1677, his son, yet another Robert, sold Wisley and other Surrey estates bought from Mainwaring, including [[Pyrford]], to [[Denzil Onslow of Pyrford|Denzil Onslow]].

Onslow died in 1721; upon the death of his widow Jane, in 1729, Wisley passed to his great-nephew [[Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow]]. The manor descended with the peerage to [[George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow]], who exchanged it with [[Peter King, 6th Baron King]] for Papworth in [[Send, Surrey|Send]]. It thereafter descended with that peerage (later the [[Earl of Lovelace|Earls of Lovelace]]).<ref name=m/>