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 EFFINGHAM HUNDRED LITTLE BOOKHAM

��Great Bookham, left JO/, yearly, charged upon land in Eastwick Manor.

Sir George Shiers, bart., of Slyfield, left in 1685 an annual rent-charge of 36 p. (less land tax) upon land in Hertfordshire for Great Bookham, to apprentice children, to portion poor maids, and to relieve the aged poor or those with large families who had not come upon the rates. It is commemorated by a tablet in the church, dated 1717.

In 1715, by deed enrolled in chancery, a settle- ment was made by Dr. Shortrudge, Sir Francis Vincent and others, of land in Hertfordshire and in Bookham for the use of various charities, the residue to go to

��the vicars of Great Bookham, Effingham, Letherhead, and Shalford for ever, on condition that they read the Common Prayer in their churches on Wednesdays and Fridays ; that they preach sermons proper for the several days on Good Friday and 30 January ; that the vicar of ' Lethered ' administers the Holy Sacrament, according to the form of the Church of England, in the parish church there on the first Sun- day of every month. This charity is commemorated by a tablet in the church, by order of the trustees. There is a similar tablet in Shalford Church. The second condition, as to 30 January, is not now observed.

��LITTLE BOOKHAM

��Bocheham (xi cent.) ; Bokham (xiii and xiv cent.).

Little Bookham is a small parish 2$ miles south- west of Letherhead. It is bounded on the north- west by Cobham, on the north by Stoke D'Abernon, on the east by Great Bookham, on the south by Dorking and Wotton, on the west by Effingham. The area of the parish is 926 acres. It runs from the brow of the Chalk, across the Thanet and Woolwich Beds and over the London Clay, and touches the alluvium of the Mole valley, which river bounds the parish on the north. The Guildford and Letherhead road, and the Guildford and Letherhead line pass through it.

The village is on the Thanet and Woolwich Beds immediately below the Chalk, on to which it has ex- tended in recent times. Part of Bookham Common to the north is still open land, and there is some open land to the south on the top of the Chalk near Ran- more Common. Though separately held from Great Bookham in Domesday Little Bookham is evidently a slice cut off the latter ; its shape and soil illustrate the usual arrangements of the settlements which subse- quently became parishes. There were extensive com- mon fields on the Chalk which are mentioned as existing by James and Malcolm in 1794, but not mentioned in Stevenson's fiftv of the Agriculture of Surrey in 1809. They would seem to have been inclosed with Great Bookham in 1822."

The manor-house is the seat of Mr. Meredith Townsend ; the Lane Cottage of Lady Yule ; Ingle- wood of Mr. W. F. A. Archibald ; Rickleden of the Hon. D'Arcy Lambton. The old rectory house, pro- bably of the 1 8th century, is too large to have been built for a rectory. Preston House was a preparatory school for boys kept by Mr. De Brath Stanley. The school (under the County Council), for infants only, was founded by the late Mr. T. Mashiter, and opened in 1884. The elder children attend the school at Great Bookham.

The manor of LITTLE BOOKHAM

M4NOR is stated in the Domesday Survey to have

been held by Godtovi of Earl Harold, and

in 1086 was held by Halsard of William de Braose,

lord of Bramber.' In 1275 Sir John Haunsard held

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��part of the manor of the lord of Bramber for one knight's fee, part of the Earl of Gloucester for a quarter of a fee, and part of the Abbot of Chertsey. 1 The Braose overlordship was sold in 1324 as part of the barony of Bramber to Hugh le Despenser, one of the heirs by marriage of the Gloucester property, by Oliva daughter of William de Braose and wife of John de Mowbray. 4 After the forfeiture of his es- tates following the attainder of Hugh in 1326,* the over- lordship was confirmed to John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, son of Oliva, and remained with the Dukes of Norfolk un- til it was acquired by Richard Duke of York, second son of

Edward IV, who was affianced to Anne, only daughter and heir of John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, at the age of six years.' The manor is said to have been held of Richard in 1480,' and after his death in the Tower in 1483 appears to have become vested in the Crown.

The part of the manor which was held of the Earl of Gloucester was a carucate of land which extended into the parish of Effingham 8 and formed part of his fee there. 9 It is sometimes mentioned separately from the manor of Bookham. In 1306 this carucate was said to be held of John Pykard, 10 probably as representing the Earl of Gloucester," and in 1326 was in the king's hands by the forfeiture of Hugh de Audley, who had acquired part of the Gloucester estates by marriage. 1 ' The Braose and Gloucester portions thence fell to the Crown by con- temporaneous forfeitures, and were treated as one manor. Three virgates of land in the manor were held of the Abbot of Chertsey for I2J." annual rent and suit of court at Cobham and Great Bookham.

The subtenancy of the manor appears to have continued with the descendants of Halsard, the Domes- day tenant. In 1189 William de Braose accounted to the sheriff of Surrey for 8 it. ^d. of the amercement of William Hansard, whose heir was in

��1 Sir John Brunner's Ret. 1903.
 * y.C.H.Surr.\, 321 j.

4 Pat. 1 7 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 9, 6.
 * Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I, no. 65.


 * G.E.C. Complete Peerage, Hi, 91.


 * Suss. Arch. Coll. xxvi, 261.

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��Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. IV, no.

��8 See Ibid. 19 Edw. II, no. 90. Cal. Close, 1272-9, p. 501. 10 Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. I, no. 6 4.

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��11 John Pykard was acting as attorney for the Earl of Gloucester in 1278 ; Cal. Close, 1172-9^.489.

"Close, 19 Edw. II, m. 2.

13 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I, no. 65 ibid. 7 Ric. II, no. 15.

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