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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Heneage Finch, first Earl of Aylesford, Solicitor- General to Charles II, who presented to the church in 1691," and was in possession of the manor in the latter part of the 1 7th century." His son the second earl lived at Albury. The fourth earl sold the manor to his brother, Cap- tain William Clement Finch, 15 of whom Samuel Thornton, Governor of the Bank of Eng- land, bought it in 1800. He made it his residence.** In 1 8 1 1 John Thornton and his wife Eliza sold the rent from the manor to Charles Wall," who

���FINCH, Earl of Ayles- ford. Argent a che-veron between three griffins passant sable.

��appears to have sold in 1819 to Henry Drummond, M.P. for West Surrey from 1847 to 1860, an enthu- siastic supporter of Irving. The ' little prophetic parliament ' which originated the Catholic Apostolic Church met at his house at Albury, and at a later date he built a church for the community near his park.' 8 From Henry Drummond the manor descended through his daughter Louisa to her son the present Duke of Northumberland. 19

An engraving of 1645 gives a clear idea of the ancient house that then stood upon the site of the present building. This shows an irregular elevation of half-timber gables, backed by a long ridge of roof with many chimneys, and flanked by a square-topped wing on the right, the whole inclosed within a walled court- yard, in which is an arched gateway. This picturesque and rambling structure, which must have had many points of resemblance to the old house of the Evelyns at Wotton, judging by John Evelyn's drawing of the latter, was burnt down in Queen Anne's reign and rebuilt by the Earl of Aylesford. Mr. Samuel Thorn- ton, M.P., owner from 1800 to 181 1, altered it again. It was remodelled in red brick and stone by Pugin during Mr. Drummond's ownership. Perhaps the most interesting of its treasures is the fine collection of old paintings formed here by Mr. Drummond, which include a portrait of Melanchthon by Holbein, Cor- nelius Schall's ' Four Doctors,' and portraits of many royal and noble personages connected with the Northumberland family.

WESTON M4NOR, known in the 1 7th and i8th centuries as Weston Gomshall, possibly to distinguish it from the~*second Weston, is situated about the village now called Albury, but formerly known as Weston Street. It gave its name to an ancient Surrey family who occur as lords of many manors, and now hold West Horsley. Early in the 1 3th century David son of Nicholas was dealing with land in Weston. 30 In 1254-5 John of Weston granted a messuage, mill, and a caru- cate of land in Weston to Thomas of Weston to held

���WESTON of Weston. Sable a cheveron or be- tween three lions' heads razed argent.

��of him and his heirs. 31 Early in the next century John

D'Abernon unjustly dispossessed Thomas of Weston

of his common of pasture in

Albury. 3 * He seems to have

been succeeded by William of

Weston, who obtained licence

to hear service in the chapels

of his manors of Weston and

West Clandon. 3 ' In 1335

this William of Weston was in

possession. The manor was

to revert at his death to his

grandson William. 54 Margery

widow of the William Weston

of Weston and Clandon died

seised of a tenement in Albury

called Weston in 1361 ; 3S and John Weston of Weston

died in 1440, leaving a son who died without issue

and three daughters, of whom the one, Anne, married

Thomas Slyfield ; 38 another, Joan, Thomas Pope ; and

the third, Margaret, William Wells.

Thomas Slyfield and his son John granted the manor to Richard Eliot," whose son Richard mort- gaged and finally sold it to George Holman of Lon- don. 38 He conveyed to George Duncombe of Shal- ford in l6lo-u. 39 Sir Richard Onslow and his son Arthur seem to have had some claim on the manor from 1644 to 1 677," but it remained in the possession of the Dun- combe family, for in 1693 George Duncombe was deal- ing with it, 41 and his daugh- ters Hester Woodroffe and Anne Sturt sold it in 1724 to Abel Alleyne, 4 ' after whose death it was sold to Sir Robert Godschall. He died in 1 742, and it descended to Nicholas Godschall. 43 His only daugh- ter and heiress Sarah married William Man, F.R.S., 44 who

took the name of Godschall and lived at Weston.* 5 His son, the Rev. Samuel Man Godschall, succeeded. After his death it was sold to Henry Drummond, then lord of Albury, 46 since when its history has been coincident with that of Albury.

There was a second Weston Manor near the par- sonage house of Albury, but lying in a detached part of Shere parish, and called Weston in Shere. 47

Alderbrook, the seat of Mr. Pandeli Ralli, is pos- sibly the site of ' Aldrebrook,' sold in 1 3 74-5 by Roger Libbesofte and Joan his wife to Robert Brown. 43 The old church of Sr. PETER and CHURCHES ST. PAUL lies close to the stream, and within a short distance of the

���DUNCOMBE. Party

chciieronivise and en- grailed gules and argent three talbotf heads razed countertoloured.

��23 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.), B. 6.

iv, 65.
 * Aubrey, Nat. Hist, and Antiq. ofSurr.

25 Gent. Mag. liii, 576.

ffi Manning and HT3y,Hist.ofSurr.ti,i2;.

1 Add. Chart. (B.M.) 40623. Mrs. Wall lived there in 1816 (old print).

28 Diet. Nat. Biog. nvi, 29.

29 Gent. Mag. (new ser.), viii, 41 3.

80 Feet of F. Surr. 1 3 Hen. Ill, 23

81 Ibid. 38 & 39 Hen. Ill, 17.

8a Assize quoted by Symmes ; Add. MS. (B.M.), 6167, fol. 24.

88 Egerton MS. 203 1, foUi 13 ; 2032, fol.

��90. The first grant was between 1305 and 1316, the second between 1 3 33 and 1345.

84 Feet of F. Surr. 9 Edw. Ill, 9.

85 Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. ii (ist nos.), no. 75.

86 Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Hen. VI, no. 5. 8 " Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 41, no.

1 2,where it is thus stated, but Manning and Bray (op. cit. ii, 126) quote an enfeoftment of Henry Slyfield son of Thomas, and say that he joined in a sale of the manor to Richard Eliot in 1521.

83 Close, 42 Eliz. pt. viii ; ibid. 42 Eliz. pt xxiv.

74

��89 Close, 8 Jas. I, pt. viii.

ibid. Mich. 1650, m. 19 ; ibid. Hil. 28 & 29 Chas. II, m. 57.
 * Recov. R. Mich. 29 Chas. I, m. 240;

Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 & 5 Will, and Mary.

Ibid. Hil. 10 Geo. I.

43 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 16 Geo. II.

44 Gent. Mag. xxii, 432.

45 Ibid. Uxii, 1169.

46 Braj-ley, To fog. Hist, of Surr. v, 1 60.

4 7 For its history see under Shere.

Feet of F. Surr. 48 Edw. Ill, 115.

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