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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��ing to repair the chancel, which had fallen into such a state of ruin that the parishioners complained that divine service could not be celebrated there. 98

In 1535 the Prior of Merton granted to John Holgate a lease of the rectory, with all tithes and profits, excepting the presentation of the vicar and mortuaries, to hold from Midsummer 1544 for a term of twenty-one years, at a rental of 12 6s. Bd., but chargeable with a pension of 261. %J. to the vicar." In the same year the vicarage was found to be worth with its appurtenances j 1 8/. 9^., 100 while the farm of the rectory was worth jio. 101 After the dissolution of Merton Priory the king retained the patronage of the living. 10 ' In 1551 the rectory and church were granted by Edward VI to John Poynet, Bishop of Winchester, and his successors, 103 and this grant was confirmed in VJ58 by Philip and Mary. 104

But this grant was apparently afterwards revoked, for a grant of the rectory appears to have been acquired by William Hammond, who in 1574 bequeathed the remainder of it to Rose Cave his step-daughter. 105 Rose married Laurence Stoughton, in conjunction with whom she is said to have conveyed the rectory to Thomas Cornwallis of East Horsley, 106 who in 1588, as farmer of the king's rectory of Effing- ham, recovered three cartloads of peas, three cartloads of barley, one cartload of oats, &c., to the value of 3CM., of the tithes of the rectory, 107 and again in 1592 recovered forty sheaves of peas to the value of 201. of the tithes of the rectory. 109 In 1626 Lady Catherine Cornwallis died seised of the rectory, from the inherit- ance of her late husband, the said Thomas, having settled the same in 1625 on her nephew Thomas, Earl of Southampton. 10 ' The latter, however, in 1629, conveyed the rectory with tithes to Carewe Raleigh, 110 by whom it is said to have been conveyed to William

��Grey, 111 who in 1645 died seised of the rectory and tithes together with the manor of Effingham East Court, 11 ' with which it descended from that date. The patronage of the living was, however, reserved to the Crown, 113 until in 1866 it was acquired by A. Cuthell. 114 Since 1891 it has been in the gift of the Rev. E. F. Bayly, the present incumbent.

In 1607 a fee-farm rent reserved from the rectory, of the annual value of 11, was granted by the king to William Blake and George Tyte, gentlemen. 115 Under the Commonwealth Act for the sale of fee-farm rents, it was sold in 1651 to Walter Kempson and his heirs, 118 but Charles II granted it to Queen Catherine for life. 117 Subsequently, it appears to have been acquired by James, Duke of Chandos, who in 1732, jointly with Cassandra his wife, conveyed to Sir Matthew Deckes, bart., his annual rents from the rectory of Effingham. 118 In 1 790 the fee-farm rent of 1 1 payable from the rectory was in the hands of Lord FitzWilliam and his heirs. 119

In 1658 it was proposed to unite the parishes and churches of Effingham and East Horsley, when the commissioners appointed to make inquiries reported that the two parishes were distant about a mile, and neither alone sufficient to maintain ' an able and godly preaching minister,' the real yearly values of both being not above 85 a year. 1 " The project was however abandoned.

Smith's Charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. There were some small tenements near the church used as a poor-house. They were rebuilt in 1774, the proceedings being the cause of a lawsuit which ended in the expense being disallowed. 111 Later, a workhouse for Effingham stood on the south- ern verge of the parish, on the brow of the downs.

��GREAT BOOKHAM

��Bocheham (xi cent.) ; Bocham (xiii cent.) ; Boke- ham (xvi cent.).

Great Bookham is a village 2 miles south-west of Letherhead. The parish is bounded on the north by Stoke D'Abernon and the River Mole, on the east by Fetcham and Mickleham, on the south by Dorking, on the west by Little Bookham. It measures 5 miles from north to south ; in the southern part it is a mile wide, diminishing to half a mile near the north. It contains 3,281 acres. It extends from the brow of the Chalk, here capped by clay and gravel, across the Thanet and Woolwich beds, on which the church and village lie, over the London Clay, to the alluvium of the Mole. Bookham Common is still an extensive open space in the middle of the parish, and Ranmore Common, on the Chalk Down, is chiefly in Bookham. In this part of the parish are extensive plantations on

��the property of the Hon. Henry Cubitt, Lord Lieu- tenant of Surrey.

The road from Letherhead to Guildford, and the London and South-Western Railway between the same places pass through the parish. Bookham Station was opened in 1885. Roreing House was transferred from Great Bookham to Fetcham in 1882.

Neolithic flints are not very uncommon in the southern part of the parish, and there are cavities in the chalk which may be caused by collapsed dene holes. Roman brass coins, of Gallienus chiefly, but also of some later emperors, are said to have been found in an earthen pot about 1750, at Bagden Farm.* Anglo-Saxon interments were found in making the high road from Letherhead to Guildford in 1758. These probably belong to the discoveries recently made in Fetcham (q.v.).

��*V.C.H. Surr. ii, 101 ; Winton Epis. Reg. Wykeham, ii, fol. 23*.

99 A. C. Heales, Records of Merton Priory, 339.

i" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 29.

" Ibid, ii, 48.

1M Sarr. Arch. Coll. ix, 378.

108 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. vi.

I" Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, m. 6.

iwp.C.C. Will 19 Pyckering.

��1M Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 713.

lO'Exch. of Pleas 30 & 31 Eliz. Mich, m. 19. 108 Ibid. 34 Eliz. East. m. 25.

109 Chan. In3-

326

��" Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 114 Clergy Lists. 114 Pat. 5 Jas. I, pt. xix, m. 39. 116 Close, 1653, pt. x, no. 27. "7 Pat. 15 Chas. I, pt. xiv, no. I. "0 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 6 Geo. II. 119 Close, 30 Geo. Ill, pt. i, no. 10. "oSurr. Arch. Coll. xvii, 103. 1M Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 718. 1 Manning and Bray, Hiit. of Surr. ii, 688.

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