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 TOPOGRAPHY

��THE HUNDRED OF GODALMING

��CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF

ARTINGTON ' HAMBLEDON PUTTENHAM

CHIDDINGFOLD HASLEMERE THURSLEY

COMPTON PEPER HAROW WITLEY GODALMING

The history of the hundred is generally coincident with that of the manor. The earliest definite reference to the hundred is the confirmation of Arlington Manor, and possibly Godalming also, to Stephen de Turnham, in I2o6. 2 In 1 22 1 the king directed the Sheriff of Surrey to give full seisin of the manor of Godalming, the hundred, and the market (town) of Haslemere to Richard, Bishop of Salisbury, which manor, &c., were belonging to Edelina de Broc, salvo iure nostro et heredium ipsius TLdeline?

On 24 May 1224, Thomas de Bauelingham and Mabel his wife, eldest daughter and co-heir of Stephen de Turnham, levied a fine, and for 3 5 marks of silver gave to the Bishop and church of Salisbury, the bishop holding the hundred, all their rights in the hundred of Godalming, and in the manor of Godalming, saving to Thomas and Mabel the tenement which they held in Arlington and Catteshull. 4

It does not appear therefore that the bishop obtained full possession of the hundred till the reign of Henry III, and subsequently Witley, in the hundred, remained a royal manor of ancient demesne, having no connexion with the courts of the hundred, except in suits for the recovery of land and debts ; neither is Puttenham represented in the courts.

The hundred remained in the hands of the bishop till 1541. In that year it was conveyed, under an Act of Parliament, to Thomas Paston, and by him to the Crown, 20 April I542. 6 Elizabeth granted the manor and hundred, 3 November 1601, to Sir George More of Loseley for 1,341 8s. 2f</. 6

1 Including Littleton and Loseley, i.e. that part of the parish of St. Nicholas, Guildford, which lay out- side the borough boundaries as they were in 1831. For the sake of convenience the account of the whole parish has been included in the hundred of Godalming. The extent of the hundred is taken from Pop. Ret. 1831, p. 632.

1 Rot. de Oblat. et Fin. (Rec. Com.), 339. Compare the accounts of Arlington and Godalming.

1 Ret. Lit. Clam, (Rec. Com.), i, 455.

4 Lib. Evident. B. no. 363, Salisbury. 5 Aug. Off. Hen. VIII, Box C, 12.

6 The original grant is at Loseley. It is copied by Symmes (Town Clerk of Guildford, temp. Chas. II), B.M. Add. MS. 6167. It contains a grant of the 'bondmen, bondwomen, villeins, and their sequele,' but this is probably only a customary form and does not mean that there were any then.

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