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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Shiere cum Vachery and Cranleigh. It is recognized as a parish in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, 1191. The advowson of the rectory was granted in 1244 by Roger de Clare, lord of Shiere, to John Fitz Geof- frey. 80 Robert Montalt, who had married Emma, widow of Richard son of John, presented to the church after the latter's death. 81 Two of the co- heirs of Richard son of John, viz. Matilda Beau- champ and Robert Clifford, had possession of the advowson. The successive representatives of their families presented to the church s * in alternation till the attainders of John, Lord Clifford, 1461, and Richard Earl of Warwick, 1471, after which the advowson was escheat to the Crown. 8 * Henry VIII granted it to Sir Edward Bray, 84 who sold it to Walter Cresswell, 85 to whose son William it descended. 86 At his death one-third descended to his granddaughter Elizabeth, the other two-thirds to his son Christopher, 87 who ultimately inherited his niece's portion. 88 He sold it to Michael Pyke in i64O. 89 From this time it frequently changed hands. In 1691 Ralph Drake and his wife Mary and Anne Glyd conveyed it to Henry Cheynell. 90 The Rev. James Fielding in- herited it at his father's death late in the i8th

���century." In 1806 the Rev. John Wolfe was patron." It is now in the gift of Sir W. Peek, bart. The chapel at La Vacherie, to which chap- lains were appointed in 1302 and subsequently, 95 was only the north transept of the parish church of St. Nicholas, dedicated in honour of the Trinity.

There was an anniversary in Cranleigh Church main- tained from lands in the parish. Edward VI granted these to Henry Foisted. 94

Cranleigh Cottage Hospital, found- CH4RITIES ed in 1859, is said to have been the first of the kind set up in England. It is partly self-supporting, patients paying on a varied scale according to position, and partly supported by subscriptions.

Smith's Charity is distributed in Cranleigh, as in other Surrey parishes, to the value of 23 i8/. 8d., charged on the Warbleton Estate, Sussex.

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��DUNSFOLD

��Duntesfaud and Dunterfeld (xiii cent.) ; Dunttes- fold (xiv cent.).

Dunsfold is a small parish bounded on the west by Chiddingfold and Godalming, on the north by Hascombe and Bramley, on the east by Hascombe and Alfold, on the south by the county of Sussex. It contains 4,028 acres of land and 1 1 of water. The parish is roughly a parallelogram of 3 miles from north to south and 2 miles from east to west. An outlying portion to the north, between the parishes of Bramley and Wonersh, is now the eccle- siastical parish of Graffham, and is included in the civil parish of Bramley, to which it was transferred with Brookwell in 1884; at the same time High Billinghurst was transferred from Bramley to Duns- fold. The parishes hereabouts were formerly very much intermixed, portions of various manors being included parochially in the parish where the caput manerli lay. Dunsfold, not named in Domesday, was probably in 1086 uninhabited woodland belong- ing to the manor of Bramley. It is mentioned in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, 1291, but is not separately assessed in the early Subsidy Rolls of Edward III. 1

Dunsfold is still one of the most completely rural and sequestered parishes of the county. The northern part of the consolidated parish just touches the Ather- field Clay at the foot of the escarpment of the Green-

��sand hills, but the main part of it is on the Wealden Clay. There is a patch of sand and gravel on Dunsfold Common. The parish is still thickly wooded, and the oak trees are very numerous. There were iron forges, or furnaces, in the 1 6th century in the parish. Thomas Gratwyck and Richard March owned three in Dunsfold, and Thomas Clyde one at Durfold, which is in the parish. 1

In 1653 the Dunsfold forges were still at work,' and as late as 1758 in a list of militia William Gardiner, ' furnaceman ' of Dunsfold appears. 4 Burn- ingfold 5 Wood and Furnace Bridge preserve the names of places of charcoal-burning and iron-founding. Norden's Surveyor says that the woods at Burningfold were destroyed by the ironworks; but in the i8th century charcoal was being made for the government gunpowder mills just over the Sussex border close to Burningfold, and the woods exist still. Bricks and tiles are now made in the parish. The disused Wey and Arun Canal skirts the eastern side of the parish.

Dunsfold village consists chiefly of small houses and cottages scattered round a very large green. The cottages are highly picturesque and a feature is the number of well-designed chimneys. One of these cottages has an unglazed window with wooden stanchions and shutter, such as were the rule in houses before glass came into general use. Mr

��80 Feet of F. Div. Co. 28 Hen. Ill, 199.

81 Egerton MS. 2032, fol. II, 50.

81 Egerton MS. 2032, fol. II ; 2034, fol. 38 ; Wykcham'i Reg. (Hantt Rec. Soc.), i, 76, 1 06, 117, 124; De Banco R. 74.9, m. 339.

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. IV, 52.

84 L. and P. Hen. fill, xiv (2), 780

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85 Feet of F. Surr. Mil. 22 Eliz. 88 Ibid. Trin. 2 Jaa. I.

��87 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccrcvii, 93.

88 Ibid, ccccxxxvi, 20 ; William Holt presented to the living in 1632. See Int. Bk. (P.R.O.).

89 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 16 Chan. I.

90 Ibid. Trin. 3 Will, and Mary.

91 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 546.

w Brayley, Hiit. of Surr. v, 173. 98 Winton Epi. Reg. Beaufort, foL 550. 94 Pat. 2 Edw. VI, pt. i, m. 14. 1 y.CJi. Surr. i, 441.

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��* S.P. Dom. Eliz. xcv, 20, 61 ; xcvi, 199. See Loseley MSS. Letter of 31 Oct. 1588.


 * V.CJI. Surr. ii, 273.

west hundreds of Surrey, at Loseley.
 * List of militia of the three south-

connected with a kindred, the Burning!, like Burningham in Norfolk. There was a Burningfold in Haslemere (rentals of 1517 and 1653), a small tenement, perhaps Buringfold's originally,
 * Burningfold however may be a name

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