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��Record Office. The present writer acknowledges with gratitude the kindness of the owner, who has given him free access to such a collection, interesting to the historian generally and invaluable to the historian of Surrey in particular. It is not too much to say that the history of the administration of a county under Elizabeth could be compiled from these sources alone.

P1CC4RDS M4NOR seems to have formed a part of Stephen de Turnham's manor of Arlington, for it ap- pears in 1279 in the possession of Joan wife of William Branche and descendant of Clemency, one of Stephen de Turnham's daughters. 100 Joan and William were granted free warren in Arlington by Henry III. 101 It passed with their manor of Peper Harow to Henry of Guildford, who died seised of land and rent in Ar- lington together with pleas of court there early in the 14th century. 101 His kinsman and heir, John son of Gilbert the Marshal of Guildford, paid relief for the manor in 1319 20 1M and granted il lo John Piccard of Guildford and his wife Margaret in I323. 104 It is evidently from this family that the manor obtained its name of Piccards. In 1350 John son of John Piccard and his mother Margaret conveyed all their lands in Arlington to Master Bernard Brocas, clerk, in exchange for lands called Heysull in Chiddingfold. 105 From this date Piccards descended with Peper Harow (q.v.) till the death of Sir Richard Pexall, c. 1 57 1. 106 He bequeathed it to Pexall Brocas the elder son of his daughter Anne, who had married Bernard Brocas of Horton. 10 ' In 1586 Pexall Brocas sold ten-twelfths of the manor to Sir William More of Loseley, 108 who evidently bought up the remaining two-twelfths, for he died seised of ihe whole in July i6oo. 109 Since then the descent of the manor has been coin- cideni wilh lhal of Loseley (q.v.).

For an accounl of ihe church of CHURCH ST. NICHOLAS, see ihe history of Guildford, wilhin the boundaries of which it is situated.

The ruins of ST. CATHERINE'S CH4PEL stand on St. Catherine's or Drake Hill, 110 about a mile south of Guildford Bridge. The building was a plain paral- lelogram of 45 ft. 6 in. by 20 ft. 6 in., inside measure- ment. The walls are mainly of sandstone, 3 ft. ihick, the windows, doors, and bullresses faced with chalk. At ihe north-west corner is a turret, with vice, lead- ing perhaps to a priesl's room, as the top of ihe lurrel does nol seem like a belfry. The butlresses belween ihe ihree windows on each side and at the angles ran up into pinnacles. There were large east and west windows, and west and also north and south doors. The side windows over the north and south doors were al some period converted inlo doorways, approached by oulside sleps and probably connected by a gallery or bridge across the chapel. The north- ern door opened inwards, ihe southern outwards. The only possible use was lo allow a great number of

��people to pass through the chapel, by the upper and lower doors simultaneously, to venerate relics. The present building is mainly early 14th-century. In the Pipe Roll 14 Henry III (i 230) 50*. was allowed lo ihe sheriff for his disbursement of so much lo ihe priesi of St. Catherine's Chapel, by which it would seem that the chapel, in the old royal manor of Godalming, was still in ihe king's hands. The subordinale manor of Arlington was then held by the co-heiresses of Stephen Turn ham.

In 1317 Richard de Wauncey, rector of St. Nicholas, had rebuilt the chapel and received licence for ils consecraiion after rebuilding. 111 He had bought it and the neighbouring ground from the holders of ihe manor of Arlington before 1301. Andrew Braboeuf granted by charter to Richard de Wauncey, rector of St. Nicholas, and his successors, all his rights on Drake Hill and in the chapel of St. Catherine. 11 ' But in 1 3 1 7 ihe king appointed Robert de Kyrkeby to the chapel of Arlington, belonging to ihe king because ihe lands of John ihe Marshal were in ihe king's hands. The rector's grant had been annulled, and in 1318 the chapel was granted to Richard le Constable, chaplain to ihe king and rector of St. Mary's, Guildford. 1 " But in 1328 Bernard Brocas, rector of St. Nicholas, received a grant of the chapel, 114 and ihe apparenlly delayed consecraiion was carried oul "* in spite of the remonstrance of Con- stable. The chapel was valuable because attached to it was the right of holding a fair on St. Matlhew's Day, and receiving ihe tolls. The lord of ihe manor of Godalming, the Bishop of Salisbury, had, however, certain dues from the fair. In the Godalming Hun- dred Rolls "' the steward accounled to the lord for 3/. Afd., perquisiles from the fair pro agro, picaglo, stal- lagio, et dlvertis occupationibus. On 22 September 1453 the tithing-man of Arlington presented one absentee and nine persons for breaking ihe assize of ale al the fair. This probably comprised all the inhabitants. At least a century later there were only eleven men, for in 1 546 the courl presented that all the inhabit- ants of Arlington were sellers of beer al ihe lime of ihe fair, and paid according lo ancient custom id. each, hence the sum of lid. was due, and paid. At this time the manor was in the king's hands, and ihese dues were going to him and not to the rector of St. Nicholas. The episcopal registers are silent as to appointmenls lo the chaplaincy, and it may be that the rectors failed to provide payment for a separate priest. The chapel itself iherefore may have become disused. Il does nol appear among ihe chapels or chantries suppressed under Edward VI. In 1653 John Manship, presented lo St. Nicholas by the Parliament, sold his rights in ihe fair to Mr. Wight, lord of the manor of Braboeuf; and Sir William More, lord of the manor of Godalming, failed to recover ihe lolls in a Chancery suit. 117 Mr. Wight's representa- tives have since enjoyed the tolls of the fair, which are

��100 See below under Peper Harow. It is also called * one quarter of Arlington manor.'

wplac. dt Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 741.

1M Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 57.

'"PipeR. 13 Edw. II. 'Susse* Ob- lata.'

104 Cal. Pat. 1321-4, p. 295.

105 Inq. a.q.d. ccrcviii, 7 ; Montagu Burrows, Hiit. of Family ofBrocat, 432,434.

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��IM The records of two leases, one in 1 500, the other in 1 503, are among the deeds of the Brocas family ; ibid. 436.

10 7 P.C.C. Will 1571, 46 Holney.

108 Close, 28 Eliz. pt. xviii.

109 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxiv, 179.

110 Winton Epis. Reg. Stratford, foL 43*. m Winton Epis. Reg. Sandal, pt. 2,

fol. i2b.

UJ Charter among Loseley MSS.

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��Chart. 1 8 Edw. II; cf. Parl. R. (Rec. Com.), ii, 378.

114 Pat 2 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 9.

115 Winton Epis. Reg. Stratford, fol.43*. ue Loseley MSS. Godalming Hundred

Court, 21 Sept. 1377.

"'The Chancery reference cannot be found ; the fact is alluded to in Loseley letters, and was vouched for by Manning and Bray. A copy of the pleadings is at Loseley.

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