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��ford made Shalford a favourite country retreat, and that this accounts for there being several houses of some pretension. Among others, near to the mill, is one which as it does not face the road is easily over- looked. It has a gable of stone with very ornamental brick dressings, and this and the other gables, which are curved and pedimental, bear a close resemblance to the early examples of brickwork in Godalming, Guildford, Farnham, &c., and both inside and out it has many points in common with the old manor- house of Slyfield, in Great Bookham parish.

This house, called Old House, but formerly Mill House, has some good mullioned windows with lead glazing, in square and diamond panes, and a good door-head. It is panelled in nearly all the rooms, and there is a particularly fine 1 staircase, very like that at Slyfield, with rusticated newels, and instead of balus- ters pierced arabesque scroll-work cut out of the solid.

As a relic of the past, the stocks and whipping-post, shaded by the yew tree under the churchyard wall, are of interest.

The manor of SHALFORD or EAST MANORS SHALFORD 9 was held jointly by two brothers in the time of Edward the Confessor. 10 In 1087 it was held by Robert (possibly de Wateville) of Richard de Tonbridge." The latter was the ancestor of the de Clares, and the manor continued to be held of the honour of Clare." It is probable that the de Watevilles were the under-tenants until the reign of Henry II, when Robert de Wateville is said to have sold the manor to Robert de Dun- stanville. 13 Walter de Dun- stanville gave the manor with his sister Alice in marriage, but repossessed himself of it, whereupon Gilbert Bassett, son of Alice, ob- tained a confirmation of his rights from King John." Richard de Camvill and his wife Eustacea (daughter and heiress of Gilbert Bassett) are said to have had the custody of Shalford during the minority of the heir of Walter de Dunstanville." Richard's daughter Idonea married William Longesp6e son of the Earl of Salisbury," and with him seems to have retained the manor " in spite of continued suits by a certain Sibyl. 18 Finally, William Longesp6e granted the manor to John son of Geoffrey, Earl of Essex." His son John died seised of it, leaving a brother and heir Richard," whose widow Emma, afterwards wife of

���CLARE. Or three ehe- uerons gules.

��Robert de Montalt, 11 held it in dower." She conveyed her right in it to Hugh le Despenser the younger, to whom Idonea Crumbwell, one of the heirs of Isabel

����LoNGEspf K. Azure six lioncels or.

��DESPCNS&R. Argent quartered 'with gules fretty or with a bend sable over all.

��sister and co-heir of Richard son of John,** also released her claim in that moiety of the manor which should have descended to her at the death of Emma de Montalt," this conveyance being forced on her against her will.* 4 Robert, Lord Clifford, the other co- heir of Isabel,* 6 made no quitclaim to the Despensers. Therefore when, at the forfeiture of the latter's estates, Shalford was taken into the king's hands," this moiety remained with Robert Clifford and became the manor of Shalford Clifford.' 8

SHALFORD CLIFFORD was settled by Robert, Lord Clifford, on his youngest son Thomas for life.' 9 In 1373 Sir Roger Clifford, kt., second son, but ulti- mately heir, of Robert, conveyed the reversion at his brother's death to his own son Thomas and his wife Elizabeth, 30 who survived her husband." Their grandson and heir, Thomas, Lord Clifford, was killed at St. Albans in 1455, leaving a son and heir John, Lord Clifford, who was killed at

����CLIFTORD, Earl of Cumberland. Cheeky or and azure afesse gules.

��BROWNE, Viscount Montagu. Sable three lions passant bendivays bet-ween double catises argent.

��8 In contra-diitinction to the rectory manor of West Shalford ; Early Chan. Proc. liii, 119.

10 V.C.H. Surr. i, 3190. They are said to have lived ' in Una curia.'

" Ibid.

14 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, 50 ; ibid. 18 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 50 ; ibid. (Ser. 2), x, 164.

u Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 59. Quoting 'Plac. de Banco, East. 14 Hen. Ill, in pell, scacc. reg. reman, rot. 19,' but this reference cannot be verified.

14 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), i, 41.

" Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 47.

Rot. Lit. Pat. (Rec. Com.), i, 178* j Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), ii, 123, 138.


 * 7 Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 2 1 9.

��18 She is said to have been the second wife of Walter de Dunstanville. She appears first as Sibyl wife of Ingram de Pratellis and afterwards as Sibyl Ferrars ; Close, 10 Hen. Ill, m. 5 ; ibid. 12 Hen. Ill, m. 13 d, 3 d.

19 Deed then in possession of Sir John Nicholas quoted by Symmea ; Add. MS. 6167, fol. 370.

20 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. I, no. 47. M Pat. 29 Edw. I, m. 32.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 61.

83 Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 50. Feet of F. Surr. 17 Edw. II; Cal. Pat.

��34 Cal. of Pat. 1330-4, p. 440. Ap- parently restitution was not made to Idonea.

108

��* Pat. 7 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 27 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. I, no. 50. Robert was brother and heir of Roger son of Isabel ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 61. Roger forfeited his land: before his death in 1 344, and with them the reversion of Shalford 5 Pat 1 5 Edw. II, m. 7.

W Esch. Accts. 5-8 Edw. Ill, ii, 54, m. II ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. Ill (2nd nos.), no. 61.

48 The temporary custody of the other half was granted to William Hatton j Esch. Accts. 5-8 Edw. Ill, ii, 54, m. n.

"Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 50.

80 Feet of F. Surr. 2 Ric. II, 1 5. The conveyance was not complete till 1379.

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 3 Hen. VI, no. 42.

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