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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��of the college protested to Archbishop Laud against the inhabitants of Frimley, who had petitioned him ' for the allowance of a yearly stipend pretended to be due from the parson of Ashe, for the maintenance of a chaplaine at their chappell of ease in Frimley.' It was pointed out that the people of Frimley, like the other inhabitants of Ash, ought to repair to the parish church. The archbishop's decision is not re- corded. Services were intermittent ; but in 1735 an agreement was made by which the rector of Ash was to pay 10 a year for a curate, the inhabitants 8, and the bishop z.** The inhabitants appointed the curate ; 67 but the patronage is now in the hands of Winchester College. It was made a separate parish in 1866.

The ecclesiastical parish of Wyke was formed out of Ash, Worplesdon, "and Wanborough in 1 847. The greater part of it was in Worplesdon, but was sur-

��rounded by Ash and is part of the civil parish. The living is in the gift of Eton College.

York Town was made an ecclesiastical parish in 1851. The living is in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester, and includes Camberley.

Smith's Charity exists as in other CHARITIES Surrey parishes.

Dr. Michael Woodward, rector in 1643, who died or retired before 1662, left z I or. annually to the poor, charged on land.

Mr. Edward Dawe left 20 in 1721, laid out in land, for persons not receiving regular relief.

Mr. Thomas Stevens in 1 747 left a charge of ^3 annually on land for distribution of bread to the poor.

A parcel of land in Ash, called Parish Close, was let for the benefit of the poor of Ash and Frimley. 68

��EAST CLANDON

��Clanedun (xi cent.) ; Clendon, and Clandon Abbatis (xii cent.).

East Clandon is a small parish 5 miles east-by-north of Guildford. It is bounded on the north by Send and Ripley, on the east by West Horsley, on the south by Shere and Albury, on the west by West Clandon. It measures about 2 miles from north to south and about a mile from west to east. It contains 1,444 acres -

The parish extends from the summit of the chalk downs over the northern slope of the chalk and the Thanet and Woolwich Beds on to the London Clay. Clandon Downs on the chalk are still partly open ground, and East Clandon Common to the north is fairly well covered with oaks. The Guildford and Epsom road (see West Clandon) runs through the parish. The Guildford and Cobham line cuts the northern part of it.

The village, which includes several picturesque timbered and thatched cottages, lies as usual just on or below the limit of the chalk.

Hatchlands, in East Clan- don, is often spoken of as the site of the old manor-house. When Sir Thomas Heath con- veyed the manor to Lord King, in 1720, he retained this house. His son Richard sold it, and in 1749 it was bought by Ad- miral Boscawen. He pulled down the old house and built the present. After his death it was sold to Mr. W. B. Sum- ner in 1770, and it continued

in the Sumner family for some generations. It is now the property of Lord Rendel. It is extremely im- probable that it was the site of the manor-house ; the name indicates a different property, and on the original

���RENDEL, Lord Rendel of Hatchlands. Six pieces parted nebulyfesse- wise table and argent with a ragged staff be- tween two demi-lions in the thief and a demi- lion berween /wo ragged staves in the foot all countercoloured.

��manor of the abbey, farmed by the vlliani (vide infra), there was probably no manor-house at all.

High Clandon is the residence of Mr. F. B. East- wood, who did much for the restoration of the church. The schools (National) were opened in 1863, and enlarged in 1902.

The manor of EJST CL4NDON M4NOR (Clandon Abbatis, xi-xiv cent.) is in- cluded among the estates which purport to have been granted to Chertsey at the foundation in 675, but appears for the first time in the copy of the charter ascribed to 727,' which is undoubtedly a later edition and includes all the Chertsey lands of 1086, some of which were certainly acquired long after 675. At the time of the Survey the abbey was still hold- ing, and it was recorded that under Edward the Confessor the abbot had bought two hides in East Clandon and 'laid them in the manor." In 1201 Martin, Abbot of Chertsey, granted the manor to John Chaper for life, with reversion to the abbey. 3 Otherwise the history of East Clandon during the Middle Ages consists for the most part of a recital of grants and licences for alienating lands in mortmain. In 1537, after a reputed tenure of over eight hun- dred years, the abbey ceded East Clandon Manor to the king. 4 In July 1544 Henry granted it to Sir Anthony Browne, 6 who a few weeks later alienated it to George Bigley and Elizabeth his wife. 6 George Bigley's tenure was marked by a dispute in connexion with the copyhold of certain lands in the manor, 7 but seems to have been otherwise uneventful. He died in 1558, leaving two daughters and co-heirs, Dorothy and Mary ; the manor, in default of issue, was to remain to Edmund son of Richard Sutton, with contingent remainders to his brothers John, James, and Jasper. 8 At the death of Elizabeth Bigley, 9 some five years later, Dorothy Bigley had become the wife of Robert Gavell, while Mary had married Edward Carleton. There is record of a fine in the year 1565

��** Correspondence quoted by Manning and Bray, Surr. iii, 78. ' Ibid.

68 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr, iii, 76.

1 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 94.

��. Surr. i, 310*. 8 Feet of F. Surr. 2 John, no. 21. 4 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.

>L. and P. Hen. Fill, x (i), p. 616.

344

��'Ibid. p. 641.

7 Chan. Proc. (Ser. ii), bdle. 183,00.

8 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), exv, 6j. Ibid. (Ser. 2), cxxxv, 18.

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