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 BLACKHEATH HUNDRED

they were, were granted by James I in 1620 to Sir Edward Zouche of Woking, and to the heirs male of Sir Alan his uncle, together with Woking Hundred and Manor and other lands, to be held by the service of bringing in the first dish to the king's table on St. James's Day and paying annually 100. All feudal incidents were expressly abrogated. 8

Charles II granted this rent and the reversion of the hundred for 1,000 years to Viscount Grandison, Henry Howard, and Edward Villiers, in trust for the Duchess of Cleveland. 9 In 1708 James Zouche, younger son of Sir Edward, the last of the male heirs, died. The Duchess of Cleveland succeeded, but died on 9 October 1709. Her trustees in 1715 sold the rights in this hundred, as well as in Woking, to John Walter of Busbridge House, Godalming, whose son sold them to Lord Onslow in 1752, having obtained by Act of Parliament in 1748 a grant of the fee simple after the expiration of the 1,000 years. 10 The interest of the present Earl of Onslow in the hundred, if it continues, is purely nominal.

There was ' a Hundred Hedge ' bounding Blackheath Hundred towards Godalming, referred to in rolls of Catteshull Manor at Loseley.

Pat. 1 8 Jas. I, pt. vi, m. i. ' Ibid. 23 Chas. II, pt. ix, m. 24.

10 Ibid. 22 Geo II, pt. ii, m. 14 ; Com. Journ. xxv, 601.

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