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��respectively ; and the tenor by Thomas Mears, 1835.

The communion plate consists of a cup, two patens, and a flagon of 1 703-4.

The registers date from 1595.

The advowson of the church be- longed with Charlwood Manor to Christchurch, Canterbury. 101 A vicar- age was ordained by the monks before 1 3089, as reference is made in that year to the land of the vicar of Charlwood. 1 " 1 After the dissolution of Christ- church the advowson was apparently granted to Sir Robert Southwell with the manor, as in 1547 he alienated both to Henry Lechford, 103 whose son Sir Richard conveyed the advowson to Richard Dallender in i6og. >ot In 1615 Dallender quit- claimed to Robert Hatton, 105 from whom in 1622 it returned to the Lechfords. 106 Sir Richard, when he sold the manor of Charlwood in 1625, retained the advowson, selling it, however, in 1629 to Edmund Sander of Charlwood Place. 10 '

In 1 644 the rectory of Charlwood was sequestered, the rector, Thomas Mulcaster, having been proceeded against by ' five or six of the very scum of the parish,' according to his own account. 108

His son-in-law, Henry Hesketh, who was chaplain in ordinary to Charles II, was afterwards rector of the

��parish. 109 In 1 66 1 Edmund Sander devised all his lands and tenements in Charlwood, including the property of the rectory, to his sister Elizabeth Bradshaw, 110 from whom they passed to her cousin Sir William Throckmorton, who sold in 1672 to Sir Andrew King. 111 In 1716 the rectory and advowson were conveyed to Henry Wise from various parties, 111 who were according to Manning trustees of Francis Lord Aungier, to whom Sir Andrew King had conveyed them. 113 The property remained with the Wises until 1884, during which time the church was often served by members of that family. 111 It passed in 1884 to the Rev. E. M. Gibson, 114 and the living, which is still in his gift, has been held by him since that time.

The living was a peculiar of Canterbury till 1 846, when it was transferred to Winchester. By the rearrangement of dioceses in 1878 it was again trans- ferred to Rochester.

Smith's Charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes.

Four houses for the use of the poor were returned as existing in 1786, but are now lost.

The Rev. John Bristowe, rector from 1624 to 1637, left a schoolhouse and 5 acres of land to educate poor children, and Michael Earle, rector I 598 to 1624, left z annually charged on land for the poor.

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��Tepestede (xi cent.) ; Chepstede, Testa de Nevill ; Chypstede (xiii cent.) ; Chipstede (xv cent.) ; Chep- stid (xvi cent.).

Chipstead is a small parish, 4 miles north from Redhill, and 6 miles south-west of Croydon. It is bounded by Banstead and Woodmansterne on the north, by Coulsdon and Merstham on the east, by Gatton on the south, and by Kingswood in Ewell on the west. It measures 3 miles north-east and south- west by 2 miles north-west to south-east, and contains 2,41 9 acres. It lies upon a high ridge of down between 500 and 600 ft. above the sea, on the chalk which is crowned by clay with flints and a large patch of sand, between the curiously dry depression in the chalk on the east through which the Brighton and South Eastern line and the road from Croydon to Merstham run, and the valley called Chipstead Bottom on the west and north-west. The former depression, called Smitham Bottom lower down, is purely in the chalk, but in the bottom of the latter is a continuous strip of gravel and sand, showing that though now dry a stream has run down it at no very remote time. Even in the historical period, and during recent years, the water level in the chalk has sunk appreciably.

The parish is agricultural. There can hardly be said to be a village. There is a farm near the church, which occupies a commanding position on the hill, and there are scattered houses. Mugswell, which formerly was called Muggs Hole, and before that

��Monks Hole, is a hamlet 2 miles south-west of the church. There is a considerable amount of wood upon the sand and clay which caps the chalk. Upper Gatton Park extends into the parish, and a road runs by it from Reigate along the high ground of Chip- stead towards Woodmansterne. Gatewick Heath, now inclosed, upon it, and Gatton, and Gatwick due south on the same line in Charlwood and Horley, may indicate an old track-way.

A few flakes and a celt of micaceous grit have been found about Chipstead. 1 The Chipstead Valley and Tattenham Corner branch of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway runs through the parish, and there is a station, opened in 1899, called Banstead and Chipstead, but situated in Woodmansterne parish Kingswood Station is in Chipstead.

The land is now nearly all inclosed, except Starrock and Parsonage Green, although no Inclosure Act or Award is extant. Above Chipstead Bottom are artificial balks along the face of the chalk slope, which may be traces of ancient cultivation.

There are several gentlemen's houses. Shabden, standing in a large park, is the seat of Mr. William Milburn,J.P. ; PirbrightofMr.W. A.McArthur.M.P.; Court Lodge Farm of Mr. Frank Brown. Manning and Bray 1 consider this to be the site of the old manor house of Beauchamps. The Old Rectory, at Mugs- well, 2 miles from the church, is the seat of Mr. E. Campbell Cooper. It is an old house, part of it dating

��101 V.C.H. Surr. ii, 9 ; Add. Chart. 18600; Manning and Bray, Hiit. of Surr. ii. li Add. Chart. 18600. l" 3 Pat. I Edw. VI, pt. viii, m. 15. i" 4 Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 7 Jas. I. 105 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 3 Jas. I. lc * Close, 20 Jas. I, pt. xxxvii, no. 40.

��W Close, I Clias. I, pt. xviii, no. 18 ; 5 Chas. I, pt. xxvi, no. 1 3. 1 9 Surr. Arch. CM. ix, 256. 1( Ibid, i Diet. Nat. Biog. P.C.C. 28 Land. 111 Close, 24 Chas. II, pt. v, no. 6. i" Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 2 Geo. II.

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��113 Manning and Bray, Hi a. of Surr. ii.

i Ibid. ; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.) ; Com. Plcai D. Enr. Trin. 9 Geo. IV, m. 4 ; Recov. R. East. 9 Geo. IV, rot. 314.

lu Close, 47 Viet. pt. xxxiii, m. 35.

l Proc, Sac. Antiq. (Ser. 2), V, 374-5.

a Hilt, of Surr. ii, 244.

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