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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��chapel are some remains of 17th-century glass, one piece bearing the date 1619. It came from Great Burgh, and has some modern heraldic glass set with it.

There are many monuments in the church, of which the following are the oldest or most noteworthy. In the vestry a quaint little marble wall-tablet to Paul Tracy, 1 6 1 8, son of Paul and Margaret Tracy and grandson of Sir Paul Tracy of Stanway, Glouces- tershire. At the foot is his figure in low relief in a chrism robe. Another, a black marble tablet in an ala- baster frame, is to Robert Smyth, fourth son of Richard Smyth of Backton, Suffolk, 1603 ; and in the north aisle is a wooden panel to Ruth (Lambert) wife of George Brett, citizen and goldsmith of London, 1647, with a set of twelve couplets of somewhat extravagant eulogy, and a shield with the arms Argent a cheveron azure with three bezants thereon, impaling Gules three sexfoils (narcissi) argent.

In the south chapel are several monuments of the Lambert family, including one to Mrs. Judith Lam- bert, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Lambert, 1725; and one on the south wall of the aisle to Sir Daniel Lambert, Lord Mayor of London 1741, died 1750.

There are eight bells hung on a modern iron frame : the treble and second by Warner 1 892, the third by Bryan Eldridge 1638, the fourth by William Carter 1613, the fifth by Thomas Mears 1791, the sixth by Lester & Pack 1756, the seventh by Robert Mot 1585, and the tenor by William Eldridge 1651.

The communion plate is a silver-gilt set of 1788 given by Richard Ladbroke in 1789, and comprising a cup, paten, almsdish, and a large helmet-shaped flagon.

The first book of the registers contains baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1547 to 1618, the second baptisms from 1616 to 1783, and burials from 1663 to 1783, third baptisms and burials 1663 to 1712, and marriages 1663 to 1711, fourth marriages 1754 to 1772, fifth marriages 177310 1811, sixth baptisms 1784 to 1812, seventh burials 1789 to 1812, and eighth marriages 1811 to 1837.

The church of ST. MART at BURGH HEATH, successor of the ancient church, was begun in April 1908 and opened in 1909. It is built of flint and stone, and has a chancel, nave, two aisles, vestry, &c. There was a church in existence ADrOirSONS at Banstead in 1086.** Tirel del Maniers granted the advowson to the Prior and convent of St. Mary Overy during the reign of Henry I,* 05 and this grant was afterwards confirmed by Nigel de Mowbray, lord of Banstead.* 06 After his death his widow Mabel seems to have claimed the advowson against the prior,* 07 but without success (see under Banstead Manor), and the prior continued to hold it.* 08 A vicarage was ordained before the end of the i 3th century.* 09 In 1 549, after the Dissolution, the advowson was granted, with the rectory (q.v.), to Robert Moys,* 10 whose descendants held until 1661, when four co-heirs'" conveyed four- fifths of the advowson to Francis Beard.'" Frances

��Moys presented to the church in 1663,'" and, accord- ing to Manning, she had acquired the four-fifths held by Beard and conveyed them soon after to her brother Christopher Buckle." 4 His grandson pre- sented to the church in I7I4, 215 and held four-fifths of the advowson in 1 726,* 16 obtaining the remaining fifth both of rectory and advowson in 1732.*" The rectory and advowson remained in possession of the Buckles* 1 * until 18556, when they passed to the Earl of Eg- mont, the present earl being patron of the vicarage.

Nigel de Mowbray, at the close of the I 2th cen- tury, granted the advowson of the church of Burgh to the priory of St. Mary Overy," 9 presentation being made to the church by the prior and convent during the 1 4th and 1 5th centuries." After the Dissolution it became the property of the lords of the manor of Burgh, being held by the Merlands and afterwards by the Buckles,*" but no incumbents were instituted after the 1 5th century.

A chapel dedicated to St. Leonard was attached to the manor of Preston in the i 5th century.' 2 * The advowson was held with the manor, the last record of it being, apparently, in the conveyance from the Merlands to Christopher Buckle.** 3 r-u Am<rjve These are recorded in the church

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as follows :

1693. Mr. Samuel Wilmot left .50 for 5 poor

men and 5 poor widows. 1699. Mr. Robert Wilmot gave 35. 1725. Mrs. Judith Lambert left 10 for 10 poor

housekeepers, at the town end of the parish. 1741. Simon Wilmot, merchant, left .100 for

the poor. 1750. Sir Daniel Lambert left 100 for 16 poor

people not receiving parish relief. 1770. Dame Mary Lambert, his widow, left 50

for the same purpose. 1785. Mr. Edward Lambert left 100 for the

same purpose. 1793. Mr. J. Motteux left 100 for bread on

the first Sunday in February. 1805. Mrs. Lucy Burr gave 5 a year for the

poor on the first Monday in Advent.

1814. Mr. John Hewitt, 100.

1815. Mr. Wilmot Lambert, ^50. 1818. Mr. Richard Pairy, 100.

1822. Rev. J. E. Francis (vicar), .100.

1823. Mrs. Katherine Motteux, 150 for bread

on the first Sunday in December. 1824 Mrs. Lucy Motteux, 150 for bread on

the second Sunday in the year. 1829. Mrs. Martha Jones, late wife of Mr. W.

Lambert, 100. 1833. Mr. Thomas Lambert, 100.

In 1725 30 a year from a Mr. Lambert was returned to Bishop Willis, but is not in this table.

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

��" V.C.H. Surr. i, 301*.

205 Dugdale, Man. vi, 169, 172 ; RMt in the King'i Court (Pipe R. Soc.), xiv,42.

206 Dugdale, Man. vi, 169.

"7 Rolli in the King'i Court (Pipe R. Soc.), xiv, 42.

208 Egerton MS. 2031-34 (Index Winton Epi>. Reg.).

309 Cott. MS. Faust. A. viii, fol. 156.

210 Pat 3 Edw. IV, pt xi, m. 17.

��211 See North Tadworth.

212 Feet of F. Surr. East. 13 Chas. II.

213 Inst. Bk. (P.R.O.).

214 Manning and Bray, Hitt. of Surr. ii, 590 ; Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 1 86.

Inst Bks. (P.R.O.). 216 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 12 Geo. I. vide rectory.
 * M Close, 6 Geo. II, pt xii, no. 12,

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��218 See Burgh. 219 See note 206.

220 Egerton MSS. 2031, fol. 3d. 52; 2033, fol. 4*, 75* (Index Winton Epis. Reg.) ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 591.

221 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 8 Jas. I. ; see description of the parish.

222 Exch. Inq. p.m. mlxv, 7.

228 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 12 Jas. I. ; see description of the parish.

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