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��whose son and heir William entered upon it in 1405-6, and died in 1456, before which date he is said to have sold it to William Sydney of Loseley. 71 It was evidently divided between the two daughters of William son of William Sydney ; of these, the one, Anne, married William Uvedale, and the other, Eliza- beth, married John Hampden. 71 The njanor was divided in moieties, whence doubtless arose the names EAST and WEST POLLINGFOLD. The Ufedale anoiety, East Pollingfold, chiefly in Ewhurst, was .alienated by Anne n to Sir Edward Bray and others in I528. 74 He had already purchased Elizabeth Hampden's moiety, or West Pollingfold, and Baynards from his brother Edmund Lord Bray," whose uncle Reginald, to whom Edmund was heir, or whose father, John, had apparently purchased it from Michael Dor- mer, to whom Sir John Hampden had conveyed it in I52O, 76 and thus the manor was reunited, but not for long. In 1581 Sir Edward sold the manor of Pollingfold with 40 acres of land and 30;. rent in Sussex to John Rede, 77 who conveyed it to Edward Tanworth seven years later. 78 The latter sold it in 1595 to George, afterwards Sir George More, 79 of JBaynards, with which it has since descended (q.v.).

AST POLLINGFOLD apparently was again separated from the main manor before 1560, and in October 1 606 Sir Thomas Leedes, son of John Leedes of Wapingthorne, Sussex, sold it to John Hill of Ewhurst. 80 Some years after the latter's death it was assigned to one of his daughters, Sarah, wife of John Stevens. 81 A John Stevens was in possession in l69O, 8> but in 1695 Robert Gardiner and his wife Mary held it, 83 probably in her right, and conveyed it in 1 70 1 to George Mabank, 84 evidently as a marriage portion, for in 1790 George Mabank Gardiner sold it to John Crouze."

The remains of a moated inclosure called the Site of Pollingfold Manor House are just outside Baynards Park, in Cranleigh parish. This house was presumably pulled down by Sir George More when he rebuilt Baynards close by. But there is some doubt whether it was really the old manor-house, for the court baron was recently held at Moated Farm, an old moated house now also pulled down, in Ewhurst parish. 86 If Bay- nards had taken the place of the old manor house the courts would have been held there.

MATBANKES, in the south of the parish, was occupied in 1503 by William Edsalle, 87 and was granted with Somersbury Manor, Saltland, and Slehurst in Ewhurst to Thomas Salter in 1 5 1 1. 88 About the same time Rumbemyr in Ewhurst was occupied by Richard Astret, and Marschall by Thomas Edsalle. 89 Lands called Mascalls Pipers and Potfelds were sold by Robert Browning to Nicholas Dendy in the 1 6th century. 90 At the same time Moon Hall was held (of Coneyhurst Manor) by William Ticknor," and land .called Sprout or Prout was the subject of a dispute

��between Agnes Hill and her uncle, Richard Hill." Thomas Hill sold it in 1608 to Sir Francis Wolley. 93 The church of ST. PETER AND CHURCH ST. PAUL consists of a chancel ztft. 9 in. by 1 5 ft. 9 in. ; a central tower 1 7ft. I oin. by 1 5 ft. 3 in. ; a north transept 2 1 ft. 5 in. by 19 ft. 2 in. ; a south transept 23 ft. by 18 ft. 3 in. ; a nave 34 ft. 5 in. by 19 ft. 5 in. The whole struc- ture was almost completely rebuilt in 1838-9, for during the progress of some repairs the central tower collapsed and brought down much of the chancel in its fall. The nave would appear to have been less altered than the rest, and is of 1 2th-century date. Alterations were evidently made, however, late in the 1 5th century, and a century or so later the nave at least was a good deal altered as regards its windows. But in view of the devastating repairs of 1838 the early history of the church must remain a matter of uncertainty, for they included a skin of plaster which hides all evidence possibly contained in the walling. The present church, however, is probably on the foundations of the old one.

The windows of the chancel all date from 1838, that to the east being of three cinquefoiled lights and ' perpendicular ' design. To north and south are plain rather wide single lancets. To the south is also a plain pointed door of the same date as the windows. Externally the chancel appears entirely modern, and the walls are of rubble plastered with sham joints representing masonry.

The tower rests upon four two-centred arches, all of two continuous chamfered orders, heavily plastered and probably completely modern. Above these the tower rises in two stages. The second one, containing the ringing chamber, is quite plain. The belfry stage however, is of 12th-century design with round-headed shafted openings, pilaster buttresses, and a crowning corbel table with plain corbels and small round connecting arches ; above this is a tiled broach spire of a somewhat obtuse type. The whole of this part of the tower is completely modern, as are also the diagonal buttresses set in the angles of the chancel and transepts and the nave and transepts. The ringing chamber is reached by a wooden stair in one flight in the north transept.

The north transept appears to have been wholly rebuilt in 1838. It is lit on the north by three wide grouped lancet lights with wide chamfered pilastered external jambs, and (over these) a trefoil light. To east and west are two single lancet lights, and on the west is also a small pointed door, all of which date from the rebuilding. The south transept is similar in every way, but lacks the door, and retains an old window of late I 5th-century date. This is of two rather wide trefoiled lights with sub- mullions over and a square main head. It has been a good deal disfigured in the resetting and restoration.

��70 Close, 7 Hen. IV, m. 29.

I 1 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. ix, App. i, 390.

7* Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, i, 170.

7* Evidently she married Henry Roberts as her second husband.

7<Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 19 Hen. VII.

"Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), ccxlvii, 72.

7 Close, ii Hen. VIII, pt. xxiii.

77 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 23 Eliz.

78 Ibid. Surr. East. 30 Eliz. 7Ibid. Hil. 37 Eliz.

��8 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Mich. 4. Jas. I, m. 7 ; Manning and Bray quote a court roll recording the death of John Leedes, seised of Pollingfold in 1560. He was succeeded by a son John, evidently father of Sir Thomas.

81 Deeds quoted in Manning and Bray, op. tit. i, 502.

M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. I Will, and Mary.

Ibid. East, 7 Will. III.

"Ibid. Trin. 13 Will. III.

100

��85 Ibid. HiL 30 Geo. III.

86 Information from Mr. Waller of Baynards.

W Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), portf. xviii, no. 51.

88 L. and P. Hen. VIII, i, 1916.

89 Rentals and Surv. P.R.O. portf. xviii,

Si- s'* 1 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccix, n8. 91 Ibid, ccxl, 9.


 * > Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 97, no. 37.
 * Close, 5 Jas. I, pt. xxv.

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