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��Sir Francis Geary of High Polesden, who died in 1796, being succeeded by his son Sir William, who sold to Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1809. In 1816, after Sheridan's death, it was sold to Mr. Thomas Hudson, along with Chapel Farm, which was in Poles- den Lacy Manor. The manorial rights and part of the property were sold by Mrs. Hudson's trustees in 1 874 to Mr. J. Leverton Wylie, by whom courts were held occasionally. He died recently, and his relative, Mr. F. Leverton Harris, is now lord of the manor.

In the reign of John the priory of Merton held land in Polesden, 94 later described as the manor of POLESDEN LACY?" At the dissolution of the monastery in 1538 the manor was granted by Henry VIII to William Sackvyle, who purchased the manor of Polesden Lacy and farms called Capelland and Bowetts." William Sackvyle died in 1556." His son in the same year had licence to alienate the manor and messuages and land called Capelland and Bowetts to Gilbert and Richard Sackvyle, 98 by whom it was sold to Henry Stydolf in 1564." He died without male issue, 100 having settled the manor on a certain John Stydolf, with re- mainder to his brothers William and Thomas successively. 101 Wil- liam died in seisin of it at the end of Elizabeth's reign; Thomas himself, at his death in 1603, only possessed land in Polesden, which descended to his son Sir Francis Stydolf. 103

William Stydolf, son of William, had Poles- den Lacy in 1657."" His son Sigismund Stydolf in 1689 settled the manor on himself and his wife Mar- garet, daughter of Sir Francis Rolle, and at his death left it to his wife. 105 She married

three times, her third husband being Thomas Edwin, upon whom she settled the manor after her death, in default of issue from the marriage. She died in 1734, and as she left no children Mr. Edwin be- came seised of the manor, which descended to his nephew Charles Edwin. 106 Charles Edwin bequeathed his estates to his wife Lady Charlotte, with remainder to his issue, in default to his sister Catherine Edwin and her male issue, and in default to his nephew Charles Windham. Lady Charlotte died in 1777, and Catherine Edwin being dead without issue,

��Charles Windham succeeded to the estates and took the name of Edwin. In 1 784 he sold the manor to Admiral Sir Francis Geary, who held the manor of High Polesden in Great Bookham, after which the descent of the two manors is identical (q.v.).

The church of ST. MICHAEL con- CHURCH sists of a chancel 28 ft. gin. by i6ft. 9 in., with vestries on the north side and a circular organ-chamber on the south ; a nave 42 ft. by 1 7 ft. loin., with a north aisle 30 ft. 6 in. by 1 5 ft. 6 in., at the east end of which is a chantry i6ft. by loft. ; a south aisle 7 ft. 6 in. wide, and a west tower 1 6 ft. 7 in. by 1 4 ft. 2 in., having over its west doorway a porch loft. gin. by 8 ft. 7 in.

The oldest part of the building is the west tower, dating from c. 1 140, while the chancel is some forty years later. All the rest of the church except the west porch, a 15th-century addition, and the north chapel, which is of early 1 6th-century date, has been rebuilt in modern times 1872 and 1891 the north aisle having been widened at the latter date. A

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��former north doorway was taken away in 1891, and has been set up in the grounds of Fredley, in the parish.

Parts of a large circular column with a scalloped capital, now in the tower, were found in excavating for the new arcade, and show that an aisle existed in the 1 2th century, evidently on the south side, as the north aisle was a very late addition, none existing when Manning and Bray wrote.

The chancel has a marked deviation to the south from the line of the nave and tower, and doubtless

��94 Feet of F. Surr. 3 John ; Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 93.

<* Vdor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 48 ; Mint. Accti. Surr. 29 & 30 Hen. VIII, no. 115, m. 7. It it probably what is meant at an earlier date by East Polesden ; vide Feet of F. Surr. 13 Edw. II, no. 10 (Surr. Arch Coll. Vol. of Fines, 89).

98 Aug. Off. Parties, of Grants, 38 Hen. VIII, no. 971 ; Pat. 4 Edw. VI, pt. viii, m. 38.

lj; Chan. Inq. p.m. Z & 3 Phil, and

��Mary, ex, 148. He held the manor and woodlands called the Hooke Grove, the Lower Prunes, the Upper Prunes, Capell Grove, and Malbrydynge Coppice in Mickleham and Polesden, and messuages and tenements called Capellande and Bowetts.

88 Pat. 3 & 4 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, m. 17 ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 6 Eliz. m. 28 d.

99 Pat. 6 Eliz. pt. ix, m. 9 : Com. Plea D. Enr. East. 6 Eliz. m. 28 d.

��100 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Sen 2), clxxv, 66. > Mem.R. (L.T.R.) loEliz. rot. 157. loa Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxiv, 175. "> Ibid, cclxxx, 69.

104 Recov. R. Trin. 1657, rot. 59.

105 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 657 j Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 29 Chas. II.

108 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 658. The history of the tenure from the Sty- dolfs to the Edwins is identical with that of Headley (q.v.).

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