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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

���and 1 8th centuries. 64 It was exchanged by George, first Earl of Onslow, with John Sparkes, from whom it eventually came to Captain Albemarle Bertie, 64 who sold it in 1 800 to Captain William Pierrepont. 66 He conveyed it to Mr. H. Trowers. It is now part of the property of Mr. L. Phillips. The farm is on the right-hand side of the road leading from the Portsmouth road to Bramley, formerly called Trowers.

SH4LFORD RECTORr M4NOR. King John granted to John of Guildford, parson of Shalford, a yearly fair to be held in the church and church- yard on the vigil, day, and morrow of the Assump- tion. The parson took no toll, but claimed the stakes fixed in the cemetery and his fee outside, and held pleas for merchants staying in his fee. When the fair grew so large that it extended into Bramley Manor, the lords of Bramley took the stakes of merchants in their fee, and also held courts for them. 67 In 1304-5 Ed- ward I granted two messuages and land with the services of free tenants in Shalford and the advowson of Shalford to the Hospital of St. Mary Without Bishopsgate. 68 The prior evidently leased the rec- tory from time to time. Roger Elliot, who had obtained such a lease in 1475 6, complained that the prior forced him, be- ing ' a stranger not acqueynted in the Cite of London and ferr from his frendes and wife,' to pay his rent a second time. 69 After the Dissolution Queen Elizabeth granted the rectory of Shalford with court leet, view of frank- pledge, law-days, and assize of bread and ale, to her secretary John Wolley. 70 He sold it in 1590 to his brother-in-law, George More," afterwards Sir George More, from whom it was purchased in 1 599 by John Austen," who built Shalford House on a place called the Timber Yard, on the rectory manor, 1 608-10." The rectory still remains in the possession of his descendants. George Austen died at Shalford in 1621, leaving a son John, who inherited the rectory manor." Robert Austen and his mother Elizabeth were in possession in 1714, at which date Robert Austen was living in the ' Parsonage House.' " The present owner is Lieut.-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin Austen, of Nore, Bramley.

The house of Shalford Park is said to be close to the site of the old rectory manor-house, but the actual site was called the Timber Yard. In 1 609 Sir George More conveyed the manor of Unstead to George Aus- ten, subject to redemption on the payment of 800 in 161 1, in the tenement of the said Austen, ' now in building upon a parcel of land called the Tymber Yarde parcel of the parsonage of Shulforde in the Parish of Shulforde.' 76 Colonel Godwin Austen, lord of the manor, has the building accounts from 1 60 8 to 1610, showing that it was built in stone and brick.

��HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY WITHOUT BISHOPSGATE. Party argent and sable a mill-rind cross counter- coloured -with a martlet gules in the quarter.

��The house was much altered, and a top story added by Sir Henry Edmund Austen, who succeeded, as a minor, in 1797. The front part of the house, now quite modernized in appearance, is internally of the original date ; but the carved wooden mantelpiece in the room to the left of the front door, bearing the date 1631, was brought from elsewhere. The oak room, on the right hand of the front door, has good panel- ling, mantelpiece, and ceiling of the later 1 7th cen- tury. The carved mantelpiece bears the curious motto Heyme incalesco, aestate refrigero which, as Mr. Ralph Nevill remarks, is ' a proof that our ancestors were sufficiently alive to the advantages of open fire- places.' The library was originally the kitchen. The mantelpiece bears the date 1 68 1, and the iron fire- back has the royal arms of Charles II. The dining- room was built by the late owner in 1875. The mantelpiece, chalk, with the date 1609, was brought from Tyting Farm. 77 There was a fine gallery of pictures, some of which are still in the house, which is at present let as a private hotel.

The church of ST. MART is the CHURCH third that has stood on the present site since 1789, in which year the mediaeval building, possibly retaining parts of that mentioned in Domesday, was rebuilt. A view of the church from the south-east, as it appeared in 1780, shows a picturesque irregular building of cruci- form plan, having a short and rather high nave with a south porch, a central tower, and shingled spire, apparently of 1 2th or 13th-century date, beneath which is a transept, or rather two transeptal chapels, conjoined, and having a double-gabled roof, with 1 5th-century windows, and a longish chancel with a priest's door and a three-light east window of 1 5th- century date.

In 1789 the church was rebuilt in local stone rubble with brick dressings a very ugly, heavy structure having a squat tower with domed roof of copper, surmounted by a cupola. There was no chancel, only an alcove or shallow apse, projecting from the east end of the nave. Cracklow's view of 1824 pre- serves the memory of this building, which, in 1847, was in its turn entirely demolished to make way for the present structure, an ambitious but unsatisfactory example of the 1 3th-century style. This consists of nave, aisles, transepts, and chancel, with south porch and tower with shingled spire at the north-west angle. The whole building is excessively high ia proportion to its length, and the detail is starved and bad.

There are no monuments of any interest except some tablets to the Austens and to the local family of the Eliots, of I7th and 18th-century dates.

The old font is at present turned upside down, and placed as a mounting block outside the vicarage. It may shortly be restored to the church. There are two pieces of old glass, preserved from the original church, showing the arms of Canterbury and Winchester.

The church plate is of the i8th century, and of no> great interest.

��" Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 22 Chas. I; ibid. Mich. 1649; ibid. Mich. 28 Chas. I.

65 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 99.

66 Feet of F. Surr. East. 41 Geo. III. " Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, no. 69. 68 Chart. R. 33 Edw. I, 49. The ad- vowson is mentioned in the conveyance

��of Shalford Bradestan to Hugh le De- spenser by Idonea de Crumbwell, but the lords of Shalford Bradettan never pre- sented.

69 Early Chan. Proc. liii, 119.

7 Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. xvii.

71 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 32 & 35 Eliz.

110

��Ibid. Hil. 41 Eliz.

7* Accounts penes Col. Godwin Austen,. and a deed at Loseley.

" 4 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcvii, 90.

7 s Exch. Dep. Mich. 9 Anne, 3 ; ibid.. Mich, i Geo. I, 5.

' 6 Close, 7 Jas. I, no. 1981.

77 Information of Col. Godwin Austen.

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