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��probably of two dates with projecting upper stories, ornamental barge-boards to the gables and a delightful jumble of tiled roofs. There is a picturesque porch to the front, having an oak doorway with four- centred arch and carved spandrels. Among other interesting details are the moulded joist-boards and brackets, the barge-boards of two patterns, and pen- dants to the barge-boards and wall plates. There is a good gable of timber pattern-work at the back, retain- ing its barge-board.

Another old house, at Snowdenham, although marked by later alterations, exhibits internally some door-posts of perhaps 1 5th-century work. A stable belonging to this house is in a very perfect condition and apparently of early I yth-century date.

Thorncombe Street, a straggling hamlet to the south of Nursecombe, contains a number of old timber-framed cottages. One of these, T" s ^ a P e ^ ' n plan, has some very solid half-timber work, and the original windows with lead lights. An old farm- house called Slades, in the same hamlet, has a good ttalrcase and other woodwork of 18th-century date.

At the time of the Domesday Survey MANORS the manor of BRAMLEY covered appar- ently the inhabited parts of the county from near Shalford Church southwards to the Sussex border. All the manors of the parishes of Wonersh, Cranleigh, Hascombe, Dunsfold, and Alfold, and part of Shalford seem to have been formed out of it. Alnod Cild held it in the time of Edward the Confessor. After the Conquest it became the holding of Odo of Bayeux, who found various pretexts for annexing to it land in Clandon and Gomshall, the manors of Chilworth and Sutton, and lands else- where.' It is recorded in Domesday that the manor paid no geld since Odo held it. After the forfeiture of the Bishop of Bayeux it escheated with his other lands to the Crown. Under Henry I Eustace de Brutvile held it for a short time. 3 Henry II gave the manor to Ralph de Fay, who was, however, dis- possessed during the war between the king and his son, the young King Henry. 4 Bramley paid tallage as king's demesne in 1187.' It was afterwards held for a short time by Baldwin de Bethune, 6 but in 1 196 46 is given as the ferm of Bramley for half a year before it was given to John Count of Mortain. 7 After his accession John granted the manor to Ralph de Fay, son of the former tenant. 9 His son John de Fay had seisin of his father's lands in 1223,' and after his death in 1241 the manor was divided between his two sisters, Maud de Clere and Philippa de Fay. 10 They each held a moiety by service of half a knight's fee, the two portions being afterwards accounted

��separate manors. Maud de Clere's portion was again divided into three in the I 7th century, but Philippa's remained entire, and is now known as the manor of Bramley.

Philippa married a William Neville " and enfeoffed her only daughter Beatrice, who married William of Wintershull, lord of the manor of Wintershull in Bramley, of her portion of the manor of Bramley." Beatrice survived her husband 13 and entailed the manor on their younger son Walter, 14 whose son Thomas succeeded him, 15 and married Alice 16 after- wards wife of Henry de Loxley, who held with Alice, or was at all events answerable for dues from the manor." Thomas died on Good Friday I339, 18 hold- ing half the manor of Bramley of John de Hadresham as of his manor of Combe Neville. 19 He left a son and heir William, 80 who died in 1361. He was suc- ceeded by his brother, 11 Thomas Wintershull, from whom the manor descended to his son Thomas." The latter died in January 1414-15, leaving a son, also Thomas, whose proof of age was taken in 1418." He died in 1 420, his heirs being his sisters, Joan wife of William Weston of Sussex, and Agnes wife of William Basset.* 4 Joan married a second husband, William Catton. 15 No more is known of Agnes Basset; 16 in 1485, after the death without issue of William Weston, Joan's only son, the manor was divided between Margaret Appesley, Joan's daughter, and John Pope, son of Thomas Pope and Joan, another of her daughters." Margaret Appesley died 27 August 1516, leaving a son and heir, John Welles, by her first husband William Welles.' 8 In January 1534-5 John Welles died possessed of half the manor of Bramley, and was succeeded by his son Thomas Welles,* 9 who, with his wife Cecily, joined with Edmund Pope (probably a descendant of John Pope and as such seised of the other half of the manor) in a sale of the whole manor to William Harding of Knowle in Cranleigh, citizen and mercer of London, and his wife Cecily. 30 After William Harding's death in September 1549" the manor was divided between his daugh- ters Helen and Catherine. Catherine married in 1559 Richard Onslow, 33 who be- came Speaker of the House of Commons and Solicitor- General. 33 Helen in 1561 sold her share to her brother- in-law Onslow.' 4 From him the manor descended to his son Sir Edward, whom Queen

���HARDING of Knowle. Argent a bend azure tuith three martlets or thereon.

��I V.C.H. Surr. i, 295*, 2963, 29811, 301, 302(1, 305*.

8 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225. Ibid.

6 Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, m. 15 d.

Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 6, fol. 73. In the printed Testa de Nrvill the name is given ' Becchon. 1

7 Pipe R. 8 Ric. I, m. 17 d.

8 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 33. He confirmed at the same time a tithe of the manor to the monks of Lyre.

9 Excerfta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 102.

10 Ibid, i, 346, 352.

II Wintershull Chart, quoted by Man- ning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 28. By the In-

��quisition below it would seem that William and Philippa had a son of whom the manor was held.

Feet of F. Div. Co. 33 Hen. III.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, no. 15.

Ibid. 5 Hen. V, no. 52.

"Ibid. 20 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 46.

Ibid. 8 Ric. II, no. 24.

V Pipe R. 26 Edw. Ill, m. 30.

18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (ut nos.), no. 46.

19 Ibid. 14 Edw. Ill, no. 7.

2 Ibid, ii Edw. Ill, pt. 2 (ist nos.), no. 82. al Ibid.

M Ibid. 5 Hen. V, no. 52. 33 Ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 53.

82

��Ibid. 8 Hen. V, no. 86 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 9 Hen. VI.

85 Surr. V'nit. 216 ; and Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 9 Hen. VI.

dated 2 Ric. Ill, by which William Swan, a trustee, conveyed Bramley to William Weston, son of William and Joan Weston.
 * Manning and Bray quote a deed


 * 7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxvii, 61.

Ibid.

S9 Exch. Inq. p.m. file 1085, no. I.

80 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 33 Hen. VIII.

81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxix, 136. 8a Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 3 Eliz.

83 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. pt.

, 475-

84 Lord Onslow's D.

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