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��Utworth but retained Chilworth. 7 Sir John's daughter Anne married Sir Edward Randyll, 8 whose son Sir Morgan Randyll, kt., was seised of the manor in 16401, when he was proved insane. 9 His brother, Vincent Randyll, succeeded him. 10 His son Morgan Randyll, who was for some years member of Parliament for Guildford, sold the manor in 1720 to Richard Houlditch, a director of the South Sea Company." After the company's failure the direc- tors' lands were sold to indem- nify its victims. The estates of Richard Houlditch were purchased by Sarah, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, who bequeathed them to her grand- son John, Earl Spencer, 11 who was succeeded in 1746 by his son John, afterwards Viscount Althorp." His son sold the manor in 1796 to Edmund Hill," from whom it passed to William Tinkler, whose son William owned it in 1841." It was sold in 1 845, together with Weston in Albnry, to Mr. Henry Drummond, and is now in the possession of the Duke of Northumberland. 16

On the south side of St. Martha's Hill stands the manor-house of Chilworth, which has an ornamental brick gable and porch. On the site of this was a cell belonging to the priory of Newark, and St. Martha's was probably always served by a canon resident here. Their large walled and terraced gardens and stewponds for fish still remain.

TTTING (Tetinges, xi cent ; Tiling, xiii cent.) was held by Elmer the Huntsman before the Conquest, and afterwards became a possession of Bishop Osbern of Exeter, who had been chaplain to Edward the Confessor. 17 It was held by the successive Bishops of Exeter till 1548. In 1234-5 John l fi Chanu and his wife Katherine quit- claimed to William Bishop of Exeter Katherine's rights in a carucate of land in Tyt- ing. 18 From time to time this manor was assessed among the Bishop's temporalities." In August 1549 John Veysey,

then Bishop of Exeter, sold the freehold to Thomas Fisher. 10 He shortly afterwards conveyed it to Henry Polsted," whose son Richard, together with

���SEK OF EXETER. Gules St. Pouts sword erect sur- mounted by St, Peter* s keys crossed saltirttvisc.

��William Morgan, was in possession in 1571." He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William More of Loseley, and had from him an assignment of a ninety- nine years' lease which Sir William and Henry Weston are said to have acquired in February 1566-7." Richard Polsted died in 1576," and in the next year Francis Polsted alienated Tyting to Sir William More, probably as trustee for Elizabeth (Polsted), 15 but William Morgan's interest still continued, for in 1602 he died seised of lands and tenements called 'Tiling.' K

Early in the same century bolh Sir George More, son of Sir William More, and Ann Randyll, grand- daughler of William Morgan, joined wilh George Duncombe in a conveyance of ihe manor to John Astrete or Street," who is said to have been holding the estate in l6o2. 18 He was succeeded by his son John. 19 John Street and George Duncombe conveyed to Francis Williamson in 1637. He sold to Vincent Rundyn, and ihe latter to George Duncombe of Albury, who by his will of 1672 left in il Irust for his family, Richard Symmes being one of the truslees. 30 Manning and Bray say that it was conveyed in 1710 to Abraham Woods, from ihe trustees of whose son William it came to Philip Carteret Webb, in 1747. From Mr. Webb il descended to his son, John Smith Webb," who sold it to Robert Austen of Shalford, 31 in whose family it still remains.

ST. MARTHA'S Chapel, 3 ' a well- CHURCH known landmark for all the country side, stands upon the summit of a ridge of Greensand, about 5 70 ft. above the sea. Although called a chapel, it seems always to have possessed the rights of a parish church ; and it is probably lo be identified with one of the ihree churches mentioned in Domes- day as standing on the manor of Bramley, then held by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, who may well have built the original of the present building. The site itself is an extremely ancient one, and several circular earth- works still remain on St. Martha's Hill.

The building as we now see it is largely of modern date, an object-lesson of the mischievous results of fanciful restoration, the nave, which had long lain in ruins, being rebuilt in a pseudo-' Norman ' style, and the chancel and iransepl largely reconstructed in 1848. The chancel and transepts had remained intacl unlil about 1846, although the nave was a roofless ruin, and only fragments of the large west tower existed ; but in thai year part of the roof fell in and services wera suspended. The then Lord Loraine co-operated with two other neighbouring county gentlemen, Mr. H. Currie, of Wesl Horsley, and Mr. R. A. C. Godwin Austen, of Shalford, to rebuild the ruined nave and restore the eastern limb, the last fragmenis of the western tower being at the

��" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. n Jas. I.

8 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxxvii,

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9 Ibid, ccccxcii, 15.

10 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1649. Ibid. Mich. 7 Geo. I.

u True Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Sarah, late Duchess Dowager of Marlborougb (ed. 1 744), 2 et eq.

u Collins, Peerage (ed. 1779), i, 340.

14 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, IX 8.

" Bray ley, Topog, Hist, of Surr. v, 131.

18 See account of Albury.

W V.C.It. Surr. i, 300.7. In the Domesday Survey Tyting is accounted for in Woking Hundred. In Speed's

��map of Surrey, 1676, Tyting is just within the boundary of Woking Hun- dred.

18 Feet of F. Surr. 19 Hen. Ill, 19.

19 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 207 ; Esch. Inq. (Ser. i), file 1760, no. I.

Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt, vi, m. 16 et seq.

81 Feet of F. Surr. East 5 Edw. VI.

M Loseley MS. x, 59.

93 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 119. The lease had been granted by Veysey to Sir Edmund Walsingham in 2 Edw. VI (1548). Elizabeth Polsted paid money to Henry Weston shortly after 1576 (Loseley MS. iz, 36).

105

��Loseley MS. x, 59.

x Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxi, 85.
 * Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 19 & 20 Eliz.

19 Jas. L
 * Feet of F. Surr. East. 6 Jas. I ; Hil.

98 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 119.

99 W. and L. Inq. p.m. xxxix, 94.

80 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 119, from Symmes Add. MS. 6167. From Symmes' position as trustee the account is probably correct.

81 Recov. R. Trin. 25 Geo. III.

89 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 119.

88 ' Saynt Marter ' is the title given in the inventory of church goods taken in the reign of Edward VI.

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