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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��HASCOMBE

��Hascumbe (xiv cent.).

Hascombe parish, about 12 miles south of Guild- ford, contains 1,587 acres. It is in two portions, one nearly three-quarters of a mile from north to south and half a mile from east to west ; the other half a mile each way, with tongues of the parishes of Bramley and Dunsfold separating them. Of these two portions the north-western is rather larger than the south-eastern. The whole is bounded by Godal- ming and Bramley on the north, by Godalming on the west, by Dunsfold and Alfold on the south, and by Bramley and Cranleigh on the east. The north-western portion is almost entirely on the Green- sand and Atherfield Clay, and contains Hascombe Hill, formerly, from a large beech tree, known as Hascombe High Beech, which is 624 ft. above the sea. A tele- graphic semaphore formerly stood here. The south- eastern portion is on the Wealden Clay. Hascombe village and church lie in a valley north of Hascombe Hill. The school was opened in 1867.

Park Hatch, the seat of Mr. Joseph Godman, is on the southern slope of Hascombe Hill, in a deer park of about 200 acres. Hall Place, the seat of Mr. E. L. Rowcliffe, is in the south-eastern detached portion of the parish. The old disused Wey and Arun Canal skirts this part of the parish. In 1884 Lambert's Farm, which abuts on the village street, was transferred from Hambledon to Hascombe.

There are no old houses or cottages of special architectural interest in the village, but many are to be found in the surrounding hamlets and lanes of a highly picturesque character.

Mr. Ralph Nevill notes that ' Hoe Farm is a timber house, rudely framed with great curved struts, and has ... a look as if it might be of unusual age. Such framing is often shown in manuscripts.'

On Hascombe Hill, at the western end, is an ancient camp. It is roughly rectangular, following the slope of the hill, and from the curiously regular form of the ground it makes a sort of square of 200 yds. Water was procurable a little way down the hill. Lieut.-Colonel Godwin Austen has found sling stones on the hill, rounded flint pebbles, where no such should be geologically, and Mr. Godman found a good flint arrow-head lower down the southern slope. H4SCOMBE was held of the joint MANORS lords of Bramley. 1 Richard and John of Hascombe were tenants of Bramley in 1241-2,' but Hascombe probably did not separate from Bramley till early in the next century. 3 In 1306-7 Henry Hussey bought the reversion of the

��manor of Hascombe from Henry Sturmy, to whom it should have descended at the death of Joan wife of John of Wintershull, who had already obtained a release of other lands in Bramley and Hascombe. 4 This Joan was probably the wife of Walter of Huntingfield, of whose grant the manor is said to have come to Henry Hussey in the inquisition of 1 349-

In 1 307 Henry Hussey obtaineda grant of free warren in Danhurst and Hascombe. 5 In 1331 he was succeeded by his son Henry, afterwards Sir Henry Hussey, kt., 6 who died seised of Hascombe in 1 349, his heir being his grandson Henry, son of his son Mark, aged six years. 7 This Henry Hussey, or his cousin of the same name/' died seised in 1409, and was succeeded by his son Henry, 8 who held for life with remainder to his son Nicholas for life and reversion to Henry elder brother of Nicholas. 9 Henry was outlawed and forfeited his rights in 1454.' Nicholas was sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, victualler of Calais, and Lieutenant of Guisnes Castle under Henry VI. Edward IV seized Hascombe, alleging that Nicholas had refused to render account since the change of dynasty," but pardoned him in 1467." Nicholas Hussey left two daughters, Catherine wife of Reginald Bray, and Alice or Constance, wife of Henry Level. 13 Probably the co-heiresses sold Hascombe to the Coverts, for William

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���HUSSET. Barry er- mine and gulei.

��COVIRT. Gales afesse ermine between three mart- lets or.

��Covert died seised of it in 1494." His son John, who died in 1 503, bequeathed his lands, failing his heirs male, to his cousin Richard Covert. 16 Giles Covert 1Sa was in possession of the manor in I547, 16 died in 1556, and was succeeded by his brother Richard. 17 The manor was then successively owned by Anthony, who died in 1631, John, and Anthony Covert." The last lived at Hascombe about i654, 19 and was succeeded by John Covert,* whose son Anthony sold the rever- sion to John Fawkes of Guildford. 11 His son John

��1 Chan. Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 77 ; ibid, to Hen. IV, 17 ; ibid. (Ser. 2), cxiv, 42.

a Assize R. 37, m. 21 d.

8 Feet of F. Surr. I Edw. II, 1 1.


 * Ibid. 34 Edw. I, 3 and 12.

6 Charter R. 35 Edw. I, m. 16.

' Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill ( ist not.), no. 66.

7 Ibid. 23 Ed-w. Ill, pt. i, no. 77.

" a Compare manor of Freefolk (f.C.H. Hants, iv), and tee De Banco R. Mil. 2

��Hen. VII, m. 430 ; Mich. 3 Hen. VII, m. 154.

8 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Hen. IV, no. 17.

Add. Chart. 18726.

10 Ech. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), 32-3 Hen. VI, file 1801, no. 2. He had previously conveyed the manor to Richard Bitterley and John Hole. Anct. D., B 4199.

11 Enr. Accti. (Foreign), 5 Edw. IV, no. 99 P.

la Ca/. Pat. 1467-77, p. 20.

" Winton Epi. Reg. Fox, i, foL 30.

102

��14 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2),, 38.

15 Ibid, xxiii, 263.

JSa Son of Giles, nephew of John, HarL Soc. Publ. xliii, 39.

16 Mi8C.Bks.(Ld.Rev.),vol.i90,fol. 143.

17 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxiv, 42.

18 Feet of F. (Sum), Hil. 31 Eliz. \ HiL I4ja. I ; Hil. 1654.

M Add. MS. 6167, foU 252. 81 Aubrey, Nat. Hist, and Antij. of Surr* iv, 93.
 * > Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 34 Chas. II.

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