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 GODALMING HUNDRED

��CHIDDINGFOLD

��Quia Emptom. It was held by the Purvoch family, and a rental of Thomas Purvoch of 1 507 is in evidence. 50 Laurence Rawsterne, husband of Anne daughter of Thomas Purvoch, jun., son of the above- mentioned Thomas, sold Combe in 1546 to William Hammond," who had other lands in Chiddingfold which passed to Henry Hooke, 5 * clothier, of Godal- ming. The latter held his first court in 1560, and his son John held a court at Combe in 1571-2 and '577-8; ne sold the manor in 1592 to William Peyto, a yeoman." John Peyto of Pound, son of William, died seised of the manor of Combe Brabis in 1616."

John Peyto left two daughters, Anise and Eliza- beth. Anise married John Courtneshe of Chidding- fold, yeoman, in 1630, who in 1632 bought Eliza- beth's share of the manor. 45 He held his last court in 1676, and died i68i. M William his son held a court in 1 694, and in 1711 conveyed the manor to Henry Welland of Witley, yeoman." Henry Welland died I739, 58 leaving a son Thomas, who held his first court in 1745, and died 1 749 ; his son Tho- mas died unmarried 1758.

The manor went to Thomas's three cousins Anne, Jenny, and Mar- garet. Their trustees con- veyed two-thirds to Mr. John Leech, of Alton, co. Hants, surgeon, in 1764, and the remainder in 1768. Mr. Leech died in 1778. His son John died intestate 1786. Mr. Leech, his son, by agree- ment dated 22 Septem- ber 1803, released to the tenants of the manor all heriots, fines, reliefs, ser- vices, &c., and put an end to the manor's ex- istence, they on their part surrendering their com- mon rights in the waste. 69 Combe Court was built by Mr. John Storer about fifty years after this.

PRESTW1CK, otherwise HIGH PRESTWICK, ind OKEL4NDS, otherwise ROOKELAND or NOOKEL4ND, were dependencies of Catteshull in Godalming. 60 High Prestwick and Prestwick are tenements which were of some importance in the early history of Chiddingfold. 61 Robert of Prestwick and William Prestwick witnessed deeds at Chidding- fold in the 1 4th century. 6 ' A little later Sir Thomas Fleming was possessed of a tenement called Prestwick, which included land extending from Fridinghurst to

��the land of Robert of Prestwick and from Prestwick Hatch to Shoelands. 63

But this (Great) Prestwick to the west of Chidding- fold, to which the family of the same name belonged, was not part of the lands of the manor, which was at High Prestwick, and should probably be rightly called Oke or Okelands. A Richard de Oke, or del Hoc, witnessed local deeds in the 131)1 century. In 1316 Richard Lawrens conveyed land out of the tenement called ' del Ok ' to William Frensh. Richard Frensh, heir of William, in 1327 granted to Robert de Prestwick money to be paid out of tenements held of Oke. This brings the Prestwicks first into con- nexion with Oke, afterwards High Prestwick, to which, perhaps, they gave the name. In 1434 a Robert Prestwick had a life interest in a moiety of the manor. 64 In 1581 the demesne lands were divided between Thomas Hull and Thomas Ropley.* 4 * The farm and land called ' High Prestwick formed part of the estate settled by Sir William Elliott on his wife Joan in February 1620 I. 65

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��The existing Court Rolls date from 1649, after the manor had been divided. Courts were held between 1649 and 1676 by Richard Baker and Robert Elliott, in 1697 and 1711 by Henry Baker and Thomas Elliott. In 1723 Henry Holloway, husband of Elizabeth, only surviving child of Henry Baker, and Richard Elliott held a court. Henry Holloway died in 1755, leaving his property to his daughter's son Stephen Mills. Stephen Mills and Richard Elliott held a court in 1762. Stephen Mills died in 1772. His heir was his sister Mary the wife of William Sadler of Chiddingfold, yeoman.

��40 Information kindly supplied by Mr. Percy Woods of Guildford.

51 Feet of F. Surr. 37 Hen. VIII. He held courts there in 1550; Add. MS. (B.M.) 6167, fol. 107.

' Misc. Bks. (Land. Rev.), cxc, 230.

"As early as 1559 Thomas Peyto, father of William, had bequeathed land at Combe to his wife Agnes j Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 10, no. 101.

64 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxviii, 139.

" Deeds fena Rev. T. S. Cooper.

��Par. Reg.

'7 Ct. R. ; cf. Manning ind Bray, Hist. Surr. i f 651,

58 Par. Reg. Witley.

dingfold. o Deed, ibid.
 * Deeds of Mr. James Sadler, Chid-

61 Manning and Bray (Hist. Surr. i, 652) state that Prestwick was a manor, the demesne lands of which were divided into moieties in 1580 (correctly 1581), one moiety being in the tenure of Thomas Hull and the other in that of Thomas Ropley ; that Hull's moiety eventually came to

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��Nicholas Elliott and Ropley'i to Richard Baker ; and that Elliott's moiety eventually descended to Thomas Smyth, and Baker's to William Sadler. The Ropleys of Rod- gate held various lands in the parish up to 1621, including Magwicks.

" Add. Chart. 24.654, 26628.

88 Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 628.

64 Deeds in possession of Mr. Jamel Sadler of Chiddingfold.

64a Abstract of deed penet Rev. T. S. Cooper.

HarL Chart. 57, H. 43.

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