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��in which George Carleton and Edmund Sutton appear as the plaintiffs, while Robert and Dorothy Gavell with Edward and Mary Carleton defended. 10 Probably this suit represented a division of property, since the manor was afterf 'ards in the possession of the Carletons. Edward Carleton died in 1582," and in the inquisition taken at his death " his wife Mary is mentioned as having been seised of the manor jointly with him." Their son Edward, who had just come of age at the time of his father's death," evidently sold the property, and it came into the hands of Francis Lord Aungier, who died seised of it in 1632." The Aungiers were Royalists and suffered accordingly. From Gerard son of Francis Lord Aungier it came into the possession of Thomas Earl of Pembroke, whose son sold it in 1692 to Sir Richard Heath of Hatchlands in East Clandon." The Heath family did not keep the manor long ; it was conveyed in 1718 under a private Act " by Sir Richard's sons to Sir Peter King, 18 whose descendant, the Earl of Lovelace, is the present owner.

Clandon gives an interesting case in Domesday of a manor entirely in the hands of the tenants in villein- age. There is no demesne land mentioned, but the villani paid rent. There was a small separate holding in Clandon claimed by Chertsey Abbey, the overlord of the main part, but taken by Odo of Bayeux. John de Rutherwyk, the stirring and reforming Abbot of Chertsey, temp. Edward II and Edward III, bought out the rights of the villani in the common field called Sigge- worth, 1315. But common fields continued to exist at East Clandon, and are marked on old maps. Between James and Mal- colm's General View of the Agriculture of Surrey, 1794, and Stevenson's General View in 1809, 150 acres were inclosed at Clan- don, perhaps the common fields of the two Clandons. 19 But there is no reference in Sir John Brunner's Return, 1903. In this, however, the final award of the in- closure of the waste is noted on 21 May 1867.

The church of ST. THOM4S OF CHURCH C4NTERBURT has a chancel 3 1 ft. 3 in. long by 1 8 ft. 8 in. wide, nave 36ft. 4 in. by 20 ft. 5 in., a short north aisle loft, wide, with a vestry to the west of it, and a south porch ; all internal measurements.

The nave, which is short for its breadth, is evidently of early origin, probably dating from the end of the I ith century ; but no architectural details of the ori- ginal building are left to give a clue to its exact age. The building originally consisted of this nave and a small chancel, but the latter was rebuilt and consider- ably enlarged about the year 1220, and a few years later a north aisle with an arcade of two bays was added. The western bay is now closed up, and there is nothing to show when this was done ; but it may have occurred as far back as the 1 5th century, when the present wooden bell-turret seems to have been constructed.

��The aisle is now modern, having been rebuilt in 1900, when the vestry also was added and the church restored and re-seated.

In the east wall of the chancel are two 1 3th-century lancet windows with splayed inner jambs and arches. One of the external jamb stones of the south lancet is made of the small pointed head of a rebated and splayed lancet of very early 13th-century or late 12th- century date. On either side of the chancel are two lancets contemporary with the east window, all four more or less renewed. The pair on the north side have plain square jambs and are very much patched. To the south-west is a rectangular low side window with chamfered jambs and lintel, inserted probably in the 1 4th century. Opposite to this is a blocked doorway with a shouldered lintel, probably of the date of the chancel.

The chancel arch, also of the same period, has cham- fered jambs and a two-centred arch with a plain chamfered label ; the angles of the jambs have been partly repaired with oak, and the abaci are now entirely replaced by modern oak copies.

The arch to the north aisle has a half-round east

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respond and a circular pillar partly buried for its west respond ; the filling in of the other bay is plastered on both faces and shows no indication of a blocked arch ; the responds have moulded bases and capitals, and the arch is a pointed one of two chamfered orders with a grooved and hollow-chamfered label ; in the east respond is a vertical groove (now filled in) showing where the arch was boarded up in later times. A plain opening in the wall above, to the east of the arch, is the passage-way to the former rood-loft from the aisle, and contains several steps in the thickness of the wall.

There are two windows in the south wall of the nave ; the first is a single trefoiled light near the east, and was inserted presumably to light the pulpit ; it is modern externally, but has an old pointed hollow- chamfered rear arch of clunch ; the second is an inser- tion close to it dating from the I5th century and consisting of three trefoiled lights much renewed under a square head with a square-cut moulded label ;

��10 Feet of F. Surr. HiL 7 Eliz.

11 Parish Register.

19 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cczzzviii, 20.

18 Ibid. (She remarried, as lady of the manor, in 1583* Parish Register.)

��"Ibid. " Ibid. ccccUvii, 39.

" Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 4 Will, and Mary.

17 3 Geo. I, cap. 12.

18 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 4 Will, and Mary.

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��19 The two Clandons are not distinguish - able by name in Domesday. The disputed land had been acquired by the abbey apart from their original holding, and seems to have been in what is now West Clan- don.

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