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��into the possession of Henry Marquis of Exeter. 50 In 1538 the Crown was once more in possession, owing to the attainder of the marquis : " and Ockham was in 1 545 leased to Gregory Reavill." Edward Courtenay, son of the marquis, was restored by Queen Mary as Earl of Devon in 1553, but died abroad, without heirs, in 1556. In 1560 the manor, then said to have been lately a possession of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, was granted to Anthony Crane and Elizabeth his wife. 53 In 1566 Crane obtained a licence to alienate Ockham to Thomas Knevett and Francis Vaughan to the use of John Vaughan and Lady Anne his wife, with remainder to the heirs of Lady Anne." The actual conveyance took place in 1567.** Anne Vaughan died seised in 1582," when Henry Weston, her son by a previous marriage with Francis son of Sir Richard Weston of Sutton "' (q. v.), was found to be her heir.* 8 Henry died in 1592, leaving Ockham to his son Richard, then twenty-five years old." From Richard the manor passed to his son of the same name 40 who in 1621 conveyed it to Henry " son of John Weston, 4 ' of quite a different family the Westons of Albury, Send in Surrey, and of Sussex. Henry died in 1638, and his brother Edward was found to be his heir. 4 * Edward died in 1640 ; he is buried at Speld- hurst, Kent. His son Henry was Sheriff of Surrey in 1661. From Henry the manor passed to his son John, 44 who under an Act of Parliament (9 Anne, cap. 31) sold the manor to Sir Peter King in 1710." His descendant, Lord Lovelace, is the present owner.

By the inquisition on the death of Henry Weston in 1638 (vide supra) it appears that he held 54 acres of land and two messuages in Ockham, besides the manor, with tithes of hay in Pirford Mead, all late the property of Newark Priory, and granted by Parliament to Cardinal Reginald Pole.

Ockham Park, the seat of the Countess of Lovelace, was largely rebuilt by Lord Chan- cellor King, who died in 1 734, and more completely altered by the late Lord King, ances- tor to the Earl of Lovelace, who died in 1833. It is a fine specimen of Italian archi- tecture, and the gates from the Guildford road are well- known examples of ironwork.

Two water-mills at Ockham

are mentioned in the inquisition taken at the death of Gilbert de Clare in 1296 ; they appear to have always descended with the manor. In 1296 they were worth os. w

���WESTON of Ockham. Sable a cheveron be- tween three lions 1 heads raxed argent.

���KING, Earl of Love- lace. Sable three ipear- headi argent viith draft of blood and a thief or viith three battleaxet azure therein.

��Two fisheries worth lot/, are mentioned in Domes- day ; but in 1296 there was only one, which was then worth zs.

The church of ALL SAINTS consists CHURCH of a chancel 27ft. n in. by 176. with

a north chapel 1 6 ft. 2 in. by 12 ft. 5 in., ' a nave 3 1 ft. 1 1 in. by 1 8 ft. 2 in. with a north aisle 12 ft. 3 in. wide, and a west tower I oft 6 in. by I o ft. 3 in. ; to the north of the aisle is a transept 12 ft. 9 in. square and a small porch.

The plan of the nave probably represents that of a 1 2th-century church, the chancel of which gave place at the beginning of the 1 3th century to that now standing. A north aisle was added to the nave about 1220, and in the middle of the century the original triplet in the east wall of the chancel was replaced by the beautiful group of seven lancets which forms the most striking feature of the church. About 1350 the south wall of the nave seems to have been rebuilt, and in the i 5th century the north aisle was enlarged and the west tower added.

To the north of the aisle is an 1 8th-century tomb- chamber built by Peter, Lord King, whose monument it contains, and in 1875 the aisle was lengthened east- wards, overlapping the chancel, and a north porch added.

The walls are built of flint rubble, plastered on both faces, the old external ashlar dressings of freestone having been to a great extent replaced by new stone or brick. The stonework of the tower is, however, in great measure old and weatherworn. The roofs are of high pitch and covered with red tiles, and the tower has a flat leaded roof.

The lower parts of the original east windows of the chancel may be seen on the outer face of the wall below the sill of the beautiful seven-light window which succeeded them. The lights are graduated, the middle one being the tallest, having its springing line a few inches higher in the wall than the heads of the lancets on either side, and the same propor- tion is observed between the other lights. Outside they are simply chamfered, and have no inclosing arch over the group, but inside there are Purbeck marble shafts on the faces of the mullions with moulded bases and foliate capitals of different designs, from which rise beautifully moulded arches with dog-tooth ornament and labels, the whole composition being in- closed by a wide chamfered rear arch of three-centred form.

In the north wall of the chancel is the semi- circular rear arch of an original early 1 3th-century window, in which is inserted tracery of c. 1320 of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil over. To the west is a modern arch to the north chapel, and at the west end of the chancel is a squint from the chapel.

The south wall contains two windows, the eastern- most being square-headed and of 15th-century style with three cinquefoiled lights and vertical tracery over, only the head and jambs being old. The other win- dow, c. 1320, has tracery like that in the north wall,

��"> Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 25 Hen. VIII. " L. and P. Hen. Fill, xix (i), 372. " Ibid. re Pat. 2 Eliz. pt. XT.

M Ibid. 8 Eliz. pt. vi, m. 34. Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 9 Eliz. ; Memo- randa R. L.T.R. 10 Eliz. m. 92. M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc, 60.

��1 The first of this family of Weston, of Essex and Lincolnshire, to come into Surrey.

" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cc, 60.

M Ibid, ccxxxv, 90.

40 Ibid, cccxxxiii, 20.

41 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 19 Jas. I.

361

��41 Pedigree supplied by Mr. Weston to Brayley (Hiit. of Surr. ii, 86).

48 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxixvi, 142.

44 Mr. Weston's pedigree.

44 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 9 Anne.


 * Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, no. 1074.

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