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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��now insignificant. At the change of style it was brought on to 2 October. Within the memory of the last generation universal selling of beer by the in- habitants continued, and the fair was of real com- mercial importance. Turner drew the chapel in Liber Studiorum. The old Portsmouth road went over the hill, near the chapel, and a cross-way led to the ferry, which is probably on the site of the ford for the Pilgrims' way. The fair was at the crossways.

Caleb Lovejoy in 1 677 left property

CHARITIES in Sonthwark for the teaching and

apprenticing of boys in the parish, the

��preaching of a sermon, and the providing of a dinner, on the anniversary of his death. The surplus was to go to the foundation of almshouses for poor women. In fact the property was insufficient, and the alms- houses were not built till 1841. They hold four women. They are nearly on the site of the house of Caleb Lovejoy's father, which can be fixed from an agreement recorded in the Parish Register.

George Ben brick in 1682 gave sums charged on land at Alton and at Shalford for poor freemen (of the borough) or their widows residing in St. Nicholas.

��CHIDDINGFOLD

��Chedelingefelt (xii cent.) ; Chidingefalde(xiiicent.) ; Chudyngfold (xiv cent.). Twenty-eight different spellings are found.

The parish of Chiddingfold lies between Haslemere and Witley on the west, Godalming and Hambledon on the north, Dunsfold on the east, and Sussex on the south. Part of the parish was transferred to the ecclesiastical parish of Grayswood in 1 900. The village is 7 miles south of Godalming. The area is 7,036 acres of land, and 7 of water. The soil is the Wealden Clay, very deep and tenacious in wet weather, but not unfertile. The parish is well wooded. The oak flourishes as usual upon this soil, and the ash is grown commercially for the making of walking-sticks and umbrellas. There are tile and brick works.

Formerly glass-making was largely carried on. The industry was curiously persistent, though not probably continuous, in the neighbourhood. Much Roman glass, some of it now in the museum of the Surrey Archaeological Society at Guildford, has been found in Chiddingfold. Remains of a Roman villa exist, but the glass is more abundant than would necessarily be the case were it merely the rubbish from one house, and probably glass was made here. In the 1 3 th century (c. 1225-30) Simon de Stokas granted land in Chiddingfold, at Dyer's Cross, to Laurence the Glass- maker. 1 The history of the industry in the I4th century, and under Elizabeth, is dealt with in an earlier volume of this history.' On Thursday after Michaelmas, 1440, John Courtemulle of Chidding- fold was presented and fined for leather-dressing outside a market town. These country industries are con- tinually noted, the same people being fined again and again.

The Godalming Hundred Rolls show that the parish was divided into two tithings of Chiddingfold Magna and Chiddingfold Parva in 1538. Earlier there had been three, Chiddingfold Magna to the west, Pokeford or Chiddingfold Parva to the east, Sittinghurst in the middle, afterwards merged in Chiddingfold Parva. The rolls show * that there were at least eight bridges, Southbrugge or Stonebridge, Middilbrugge, Pokeford Bridge, Bothedenesbrigge, Hazelbridge, Godleybridge, Jayesbridge, and Dene- brugge, reparable by the Villa de Chudyngfold, and complaints were constant of the bad state of repair or the flooding of the via regia, the road, no doubt, which runs from Godalming through Hambledon and Chiddingfold into Sussex, which was reparable by certain

1 D. in Surr. Arch. Society's Museum. ' ;

��tenants in Chiddingfold, and easily became impassable on the heavy clay. It was continually submersa, or profunda, or noxia. There are traces of another old road in the parish, running north-eastward towards Dunsfold. The common over which this road goes is always High Street Common on old maps and deeds. Rye Street is parallel to it on the north. There were two mills at Sittinghurst and le Estmull. But the most remarkable presentment to be made at a Hundred Court is that on 29 September 1483, when Richard Skynner of Chiddingfold 'non venit admissam in festialibus diebus sed vivit suspiciose'; was a Lollard, in short. The lord of the hundred was a bishop, we may remember.

There are no references to common fields in the rolls in Chiddingfold, though they are frequent in Godalming proper. There seem never to have been common fields in the Weald, which was scarcely in- habited, or thinly inhabited only, in 1086 and before then. Nevertheless the common lands of the manor of Godalming within Chiddingfold were inclosed under an award dated 1811, now in the custody of the clerk of the peace.

There is a Congregational chapel, built in 1871, and a small Particular Baptist chapel at Ramsnest Common.

Schools were built at private expense in 1868, and in 1872 at Anstead Brook.

Chiddingfold and its neighbourhood abound in ancient farm-houses and cottages, prominent among which may be mentioned Lythe Hill Farm, with half- timber work of two periods, the richer and later being a gabled wing with square and circle patterns in the timber framing, probably c. 1580; but the main body of the house is at least half a century earlier. The wing is panelled, and has a good mantelpiece of c. 1700. It was owned by the Quenell, Quenel, or Quy- neld family, to which, as the name is uncommon, the Quy- nolds who held land at Ware, Hertfordshire, in the I4th century, may have belonged.

���QUINILL of Chidding- fold. Azure a cross ar- gent between tvn rases or in the chief and tvnf curs- de-lit argent in the foot.

��They were in Chiddingfold in the I4th and centuries. Peter Quenell, of Lythe Hill, died in 1559,

'Hund. Ct. 27 Apr. 1357, inter alia.

��, Surr. ii, 195. IO

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