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��GREAT BOOKHAM

��Bookham worth los., which afterwards became appurtenant to Slyfield Manor, and with regard to which a lengthy dispute arose between the Slyfields and the lords of the manor of Stoke D'Abernon. The mill, on the Mole, was on the boundary of Stoke D'Abernon and of the Slyfield property which lies on the river bank. In the early 1 6th century John Slyfield alleged that Sir Edmund Bray had wilfully turned away from his water corn-mill the stream called Emlyn Streame, which worked the mill and which formed the boundary between the manors of Slyfield and Stoke D'Abernon, and it was represented that when in 1375 Nicholas Slyfield had granted the reversion of certain lands in Great Bookham to William Croyser and Elizabeth his wife, it had been on the expressed condition that Nicholas and his heirs should not be disturbed in their possession of a wharf extending from the north part of the water running to their mill to the south-east angle of the wood of the said William and Elizabeth called ' the parke.' 6I In 1614 there were appurtenant to the manor of Slyfield two water corn-mills and one fulling-mill, called ' Slyfield Mills.' "

The manor of POLESDEN (High Polesden, Bookham Polesden) was in 1470 conveyed by Thomas Slyfield and Anne his wife to John Norbury, 64 who in 14912 enfeoffed trustees to hold it to the use of Robert Castleton and Elizabeth his wife " (daughter of Sir Henry Norbury 66 ). John Castleton, son and heir of Robert and Elizabeth, died in 1545 seised of the manor of ' Pollesdon,' held of the king as of his manor of Great Bookham, his son and heir William Castleton being then aged seven years. 67 William Castleton and Elizabeth his wife joined in conveyances of the manor in 1572 and 1584," and in 1630 William Castleton (presumably a son of the above)

��with Phoebe his wife conveyed the manor to Anthony Rous and Anne his wife. 69 Samuel Rous, the son of Anthony, jointly with Elizabeth his wife, made a conveyance of the manor in I68O. 60 In 1713 Edward Symes and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Samuel Rous, 61 suffered a recovery of the manor, and in 1723 Elizabeth Symes, then a widow, jointly with Thomas Harris, her son by her first husband, Thomas Harris, of Gray's Inn, sold the estate to Arthur Moore. 61 He sold to his brother, Col. Thomas Moore, in 1729. The latter, who died in 1735, was succeeded by his nephew, William Moore, M.P. for Banbury, whose executors in 1747 were empowered by Act of Parliament to sell the estate for the pay- ment of his debts. 6 * It was purchased in the same year by Francis Geary, 64 Cap- tain R.N., afterwards Admiral Sir Francis Geary. He died in 1796, aged eighty-six. In 1804 it was conveyed by his son Sir William Geary, bart., to the trustees of the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan. In the particulars of the sale in 1804 it is stated that the mansion- house and principal part of the land contained about 341 acres, the terrace walk in the plea- sure ground being 900 ft. in length. Mr. Sheridan died in 1816, and in 1818 the estate was purchased by Mr.

Joseph Bonsor, who rebuilt the mansion-house, and was succeeded in 1835 by his son of the same name. 64 It was subsequently bought by Sir Walter Farquhar, bart., and after his death in 1896 was

���BONSOR. Six fieeet azure and argent tvith three Horn' heads razed or in the azure and a chief indented erminoit with three rout gulei therein.

��I early 12*0. EH 1341 e. ii4o lateistc, IB u*cent. C.H90-I200 E^ modern

���North Aisle

���South Chapel

��Scale of Feet

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��PLAN OF ST. NICHOLAS'S CHURCH, GREAT BOOKHAM Chan. Proc. (S.r. 2), bdle. 158, no. fait, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), fol. Manning and Bray, Hut. of Surr. ii,

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48 Recov. R. East. 12 Jas. I, rot. 51 ; Close, 12 Jas. I, pt. xxiv, no. 55.

M Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 9 Edw. IV, no. 1 8.


 * Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxii, 79.

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" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixzii, 79 ; I Edw. VI, pt. ii, no. 56.

68 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 14 & 15 Eliz. ; Trin. 26 Eliz.

Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 6 Chas. I.

60 Ibid. Trin. 32 Chas. I.

331

��689.

611 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 9 Ceo. I 5 Close, 10 Geo. I, pt. iii, no. 26.

18 Statute 20 Geo. II .cap. 15.

M Manning and Bray, Hitt. of Surr. ii, 689.

65 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 471.

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