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��standing now as a farm-house at the end of Walnut Tree Close, between the railway and the river. The ' Deer Leap,' or place for taking deer alive, was by the side of the Great Mount, where a path now leads from the mount to the new Farnham road." Mr. Carter was then under-keeper. He was the Mr. John Carter who later received a grant of Guildford Castle. Gorges died in 1610, and John Murray, afterwards Earl of Annandale, succeeded. In 1631 Charles I granted it to him in fee-simple, to be held as for a quarter of a knight's fee, and by his heirs for ever." His son, the second earl, died childless, and the Guildford Park Estate was ultimately sold in 1 709 to the Hon. Thomas Onslow, afterwards Lord Onslow, and the park was disparked before 1717. The park extended from the road on the Hog's Back to the road between Woodbridge and Worplesdon, and from close to the river to a line of hedges and a green lane east of a small stream and west of Strawberry Grove, which exactly corresponds to the boundary on John Norden's plan.

West of St. Catherine's Hill stand St. Catherine's House, in which the late Mr. W. More-Molyneux lived, and Mount Browne, the residence of the Dowager Marchioness of Sligo. Littleton School was built by Mr. James More-Molyneux of Loseley in 1843. It has been recently enlarged, and a service is celebrated there on Sundays by a curate of St. Nicholas. It was let to the County Council in 1903. A new school is in course of erection.

AR TINGTON MANOR was originally MANORS a part of Godalming, from which it was separated by Henry II, who, about the year 1171, bestowed it on Master David of London, an ambassador at Rome. 17 This Master David granted it in fee farm to Ralph de Broc for 15, with whose daughter Stephen de Turnham had it in marriage. 18 In 1191 and again in 1 205 Stephen obtained royal confirmations of his right to the manor. 1 ' In 1220, shortly after Stephen's death, his widow Edelina, daughter of Ralph de Broc, put forward her claim to certain rents in Arlington against Stephen's five co- heiresses, Mabel wife of Thomas de Bauelingham, Alice wife of Adam de Bendeng, Eleanor wife of Roger de Layburn, Eleanor wife of Ralph son of Bernard, and Beatrice wife of Ralph de Fay. 10 Edelina entered upon the land, but probably only for life. The manor was divided into four portions, of which Mabel de Bauelingham obtained one, the manor of Artington ; Beatrice de Fay a second ; a third portion, which was Alice de Bendeng's, afterwards formed part or the whole of the manor of Braboeuf ; and a fourth became the manor of Piccard's.

��Artington Manor, i.e. the portion of the original manor which was assigned to Mabel de Bauelingham, descended with her manor of Catteshull " till William Weston and his wife Joan sold the latter in 1384 5, but retained Artington." A rent roll of William Weston's lands in Artington, dated 3 November 1 394, is among the Loseley Manuscripts. 13 John Weston of Weston died seised of Artington 1 7 November 1 440, leaving three married daughters, Agnes wife of John atte Hull, Joan wife of John Skynet, and Anne wife of Thomas Slifield." Of these we find that Agnes atte Hull died in widowhood in the year 1488 seised of the manor of Artington, Henry atte Hull being her grandson and heir." The overlordship was conveyed to Sir George More of Godalming, 3 November 1 60 1, and the manor of Artington has since been in the family of More of Loseley. Artington Manor Farm was the manor house.

BRABOEUF MANOR, which extends very widely about St. Catherine's Hill and towards Godalming, includes that portion of Stephen de Turnham's manor which was assigned to his daughter Alice de Bendeng, for she granted her portion of Artington to Geoffrey of Braboeuf in 1232," and he had confirma- tion of the grant in 1 25 1. 17 He had other lands in Artington and Guildford, and in 1257, together with Richard Testard, obtained a royal grant of the sites of old mills in Guildford which they had recently sold to the king, and also of new mills which they were to remove to the site of the old ones. 88 Cicely ' la Braboeuf held a quarter of the manor at ' Artington next Braboeuf at her death in 1 347," probably as dower. John Braboeuf witnessed deeds of Artington in 1337 and again in 1350.* Andrew Braboeuf, son of Andrew and Cecily de Braboeuf, died seised of one quarter of Artington in 13612, leaving a daughter Agnes, 81 who married first Robert Dan- hurst, and secondly, Robert Loxley. At her death her grandson Robert Danhurst inherited her lands. He died s.p.m. in 1481-2, having settled Braboeuf on Bernard Jenyn and his wife Elizabeth, who was niece of Agnes Braboeuf 's second husband Robert Loxley ." Bernard Jenyn settled the manor on his second son Thomas, 33 who died in March 1508-9.** Sir John Jenyn, kt., son of Thomas Jenyn, died holding Braboeuf in 1 545, leaving a son Edward aged five," who died a minor and was succeeded by his aunt Joan, wife of Robert Kemp. 86 Agnes, wife of John Wight of Wimbledon, and daughter of Joan Kemp, was in possession of Braboeuf in 1 5 59," and was succeeded by her son Rice (Riceus) Wight, who died at Artington 31 October 1602. His son John was born in 1674 an< ^ died ' n 1656, his son John died

��15 Norden's Surv. 1606 ; Harl. MSS. 3749. " Cart. Chas. I, R. 8, m. 2.

>' Fife R. 17 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 144 et seq.

Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225. It seems probable therefore that Matter David only had a life interest in Arling- ton, and that after hit death Stephen de Turnham held directly of the king, for in later confirmations Stephen is stated to have had it of the gift of Henry II.

19 Pipe R. 3 Ric. I, m. 3 ; Rot. Cart, (Rec. Com.), 160.

Exarpta e Rat. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii, 25. There was apparently another daughter Clemency, see Piccard's Manor.
 * > Maitland, Bracton'i Nate Bk. 1410 ;

��V, dt infra.


 * > Feet of F. Surr. 8 Ric. II, 73, 75.

" Hist. MSS. Cam. Rep. vii, App. pt. i, 599-

M Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Hen. VI, no. 5.

85 Ibid. (Ser. 2), iv, 14.

It seems probable that he already possessed a tenement called Braboeuf in Artington. Indeed, in 1496 it was declared that 'the manor of Braboeuf and the manor of Art- ington are not one, nor was any part of it ever part of Arlington.' Memo. R. Exch. L.T.R. Trin. n Hen. VII, m. xvi. It seems, however, that the lords of Braboeuf also possessed a part of the original manor of Artington.
 * Col. Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 366.

��W Add. Chart. 24581, 24583,

88 Cal. Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 456.

99 Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 20.

60 Montagu Burrows, Tht Family of Broeas f 430-2.

11 Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. Ill (it nos.), no. 21.

"Memo. R. (Exch. L.T.R.), Trin. II Hen. VII, m. 16, 'Recorda' ; Feet of F. Surr. 42 Edw. Ill, 15 10 Ric. II, 23-

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxiil 20.

Ibid. xxv, 48. M Ibid. Ixxii, 9&

M Ibid, cxiii, 46.

7 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. i Eliz.

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