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��wards Sir John Morgan. 67 He sold it m 1614 to Sir Edward Onslow, 68 in whose family it remained till 1815, when it was sold to Mrs. Sarah Shurlock of Bramley. She died before 1821, and her daughter and heiress married Mr. Charles Hemming of Dorset- shire. 69 Mr. Walter Hemming sold Utworth in 1889 to the late Sir Edward Carbutt. The house is now inhabited by the bailiff of Lady Carbutt's estate at Nanhurst.

RTE FARM, if we may conclude that it was the tenement known as ' la Ree,' was released in 1 394 by John grandson of Walter at Ree to John Reding- hurst/ In 1406-7 it was the dower of Tiffania widow of John Redinghurst." It was conveyed to Robert Harding with Knowle Manor."

NANHURST (Knauenhurst, xiv cent.), part of Vachery, 7 * was rented by Edmund Constantin of Robert Redinghurst in 1303." It belonged at one time to Lord Onslow, but was for sale in 1778. It

��gate of stone erected as a memorial in 1880. The boundaries of the churchyard have been greatly ex- tended within the last half-century, to meet the growth in population.

The church is built of ironstone rubble and con- glomerate, with a little Bargate rubble, and with dressings of Bargate stone and clunch, the modern portions being in the same stone with Bath stone dressings. A good deal of the old walling is plastered externally. The roofs are still in part covered with Horsham slabs, and the quaint conical roof of the tower, with a gablet at the apex from which rises the weathercock, is shingled. The nave roof is old and of oak, but the roofs of the aisles, transepts, vestry, and chancel, are modern, and chiefly of stained deal, those of the aisles being of wretched and flimsy con- struction. The modern porch (1862) is of oak. Few Surrey churches have suffered more barbarous ill- treatment under the name of ' restoration ' than this.

���PLAN OF CRANLEIGH CHURCH

��was part of the estate of the late Sir Edward Carbutt, bart. The tenement called Furshulle, or Freeswell (xix cent.), also part of Vachery, granted to Walter at How and William Clynon in I 303," was settled by the latter on his son Henry, 76 while Henry at How granted to Walter at How two crofts and a messuage in Furshullshamme in 1337."

The church of ST. NICHOLAS stands CHURCH picturesquely on rising ground, backed by beautiful old trees. The well-kept churchyard has an exceptionally fine cedar and other trees, besides two yews, one near the chancel, of great antiquity, and is approached through a modern lych-

��Very few are built on such spacious lines. The tower is unusually large, almost a square of 20 ft. internally, with walls 3ft. 9 in. thick, and very mas- sive buttresses ; the nave is slightly wider, and 36 ft. in length ; the transepts are about 1 6 ft. in width (they have been lengthened in modern times), and the chancel is about 34 ft. long by 20 ft. wide. Its axis inclines about 5 degrees to the north of east. Both nave and chancel are exceptionally lofty, the walls of the former being about 30 ft. in height. The present timber south porch is modern a memo- rial to Jacob Ellery and the vestry and organ-cham- ber on the north side of the chancel are also modern,

��Chan. Inq. p.m.(Scr. 2), cclxxxi, 85. Chart. 7631, in which William at Ree it Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1 1 Jas. I. itated to have land called Church land'

Dr^ila firrtft \AfUura \X7\\itf\n\r Xr T'ir_ in C"rtr, \m\nV,

��69 Deeds ftnes Messrs. Whatelcy & Bar- low, Godalming.

"Add. Chart. 7604; ee alio Add.

��in Cranleigh. 7 1 Ibid. 7603. 7' Clote, 21 Edw. IV, m. 9.

8 9

��7> Onslow Deeds. 1* Add. Chart. 7613. ' Ibid. 5939. ' Ibid. 5940. " Ibid. 7602.

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