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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��In 1 3 3 8 the advowson was held by JDVOWSON John d'Abernon, lord of the manor of Fetcham," and from that date descended with the manor at least until 1654, when Thomas Vincent presented to the living. 93

Shortly after it was held by William Heckford in right of his wife Elizabeth, with whom, in 1711, he joined in conveying it to Thomas Cooke, clerk, and Joshua Draper, gentleman. 9 * The latter in the same year sold it for the sum of 580 ** to Arthur Moore of Fetcham Park, who presented to the living in 1720, 1724, and 1726.

The advowson was acquired with the rest of Arthur Moore's Fetcham property by Thomas Revell, who presented to the living in 1737 and 1748," and descended to his son-in-law Sir George Warren, who presented in ljj2, is and is said to have sold it in 1788 to Mrs. Ann Kirkpatrick, under whose will it passed to Rev. Abraham Kirkpatrick Sherson, rector of Fetcham, in 1 794. Before 1 8 1 8 it was acquired by John Bolland, whose son Rev. J. G. Bolland presented to the living in 1829. On the death of the latter in 1833 it was sold by his executors to Rev. Robert Downes, incum- bent at that date.* 9 The patronage was acquired in 1864 by Alderman Sydney, 100 trustee for Lady Moon, wife of the late rector. Lady Moon presented in 1904. It is now in the hands of her son, Lieut. - Colonel Sir F. S. G. Moon, bart.

In 1 5 3 5 the farm of the rectory with the accompany- ing glebe land was valued at 21 ig/. 1 1 %4. There was also a pension of 6/. %J. due to Chertsey Monas- tery, 101 which after the Dissolution was granted to the new foundation at Bisham. 101

��Dr. Thomas Turner, a devoted royalist, was insti- tuted rector of Fetcham in 1634, and after having been deprived of this with his other benefices during the Commonwealth, was reinstated after the restora- tion of the Monarchy and became Dean of Canter- bury. 105

Samuel Lisle, afterwards Bishop of Norwich, was rector from 1 726 till 1 737, 104 and Dr. J. Conybeare, the famous metaphysician and defender of revelation, was curate for a short time under the rectorship of Dr. Shortrudge. 105

In 1358 Robert de Leddrede, the king's sergeant- at-arms, had licence for making a chapel at his house at Fetcham, 106 the site of which is probably that now occupied by the Sun ale-house. Salmon, writing in 1736, says, 'In this parish is an old chapell, now turned to an ale-house which may however supply in excise more than ever it paid in tenths.' 107

The almshouses, for six poor per- CH4RITIES sons, were founded in 1886 by the Rev. Sir Edward Graham Moon, bart., Mr. J. B. Hankey, and Mr. Gervas Parnell.

Smith's Charity is distributed as in other Surrey parishes, but in the case of Fetcham it was endowed with parcels of lands in the common fields and in- closed fields in the parish. It is commemorated on a tablet in the church.

In 1690 a decree in Chancery confirmed the will of Sir George Shiers, bart., 108 who left rents of land amounting to 24 21. for apprenticing boys, marrying maids who had lived in the same family for seven years, and relieving the poor not in receipt of parish relief. 109

��HEADLEY

��Hallega (xi cent.) ; Hadlee and Hadlig (xiii cent.) ; Hedleghe (xiv cent.) ; Medley (xvii cent.).

Headley is a small parish on the top of the chalk downs. The village is 2 miles north of Betchworth station, and about three miles south-east of Lether- head. The parish measures about two miles from north to south, under a mile and a half from east to west, and contains 2,066 acres. The subsoil is that of the chalk downs, which is on the surface in the valleys and on the slopes of the hills, but in the higher parts is crowned with brick earth and hill-sand de- posits. The church, and the few houses which form the centre of a scattered village, stand on the brow of a steep slope some 600 ft. above the sea, at the head of the valley up which the road from Juniper Hall in the Mickleham valley runs to Walton-on-the-hill. The church is a conspicuous landmark for many miles round. Headley Heath is a large extent of still open ground to the south of the parish, lying back from the southern edge of the chalk range.

The parish is agricultural, and formerly fed large numbers of sheep.

��On Headley Heath, and scattered at other points in the parish, are numerous neolithic implements and flakes, and fragments of a coarse earthenware vessel have been found near Toot Hill. 1 Less than a mile south-west of the church, west or north-west of Headley Heath, on the slopes of the valley up which the road from Juniper Hall comes, excavations have revealed the inclosing trench of a large inclosure. In the loose soil overlying the undisturbed chalk Mr. Gordon Home, of Epsom, found in 1907 fragments of hand-made pottery, with bones of many different animals, and one worked flint. At a higher level he found the broken point of a bronze weapon. Near the trench, but not in it, was some good glazed pottery, and in another place several signs of fires, burnt stones, and charcoal. A young plantation unfortunately is on the spot. The names Toot Hill, and Elderbury, and Nore Wood (a name often found in close juxtaposition to old fortifications, for which we may compare Nore under the banked hill at Has- combe) suggest an ancient settlement or settlements.

No Inclosure Act or Award is on record.

��M Feet of F. Div. Co. 13 Edw. Ill, file 40, no. 268.

Inst Bkn. P.R.O.

M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 10 Anne.

95 Close, 10 Anne, pt. i, no. 6.

Inst. Bk3. P.R.O.

7 Ibid. " Ibid.

89 Brayler, Hist, of Surr. iv, 415.

100 Clergy Lisa.

��101 yalor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 31. 1M L. and P. Hcn.Vm,*u (2), g. 1311

103 Diet. Nat. Biog. "* Ibid.

105 Ibid. ; Gentleman's Magazine Library, pt. 12, p. 30.

106 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 482 (quoting from Episcopal Register).

290

��10 7 Salmon, Antiq. of Surr. 90.

108 Died 1685, monument in Great Bookham Church.

lu9 It is commemorated on a tablet in the church.

1 Neolithic Man in North-tail Surr. I54.-62 ; and personal observation. There seem to be traces of terracing on the sides of the slopes.

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