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 WOKING HUNDRED SEND WITH RIPLEY

��The first book of registers contains mixed entries 1574 to 1600, the second is a transcribed copy of this book, but contains baptisms to 1655, burials to 1642, and marriages to 1641. There are also further burial entries 1650 to 1664 ; the third book contains mixed entries 1653 to 1733, the fourth baptisms and burials 1733 to 1812, the fifth marriages 1733 to 1754, and the sixth marriages 1754 to 1812.

The chapel of Pirbright was in ADyOWSON early times attached to the church of Woking, and was granted by Peter of Pirbright to the Prior of Newark in 1240." It was still part of the priory possessions in 1535, and was then worth 6 8/. 4^." It was served separately from Woking, and after the Dissolution was in all respects a parish served by a perpetual curate.

In 1 640 the family of Stoughton were holding the

��advowson ; " in 1 694 they released it to George Martin," in whose descendants it remained till 1779, when George Tate, second husband of the widow of Martin's grandson, presented. It was probably bought by the Halseys with the manor, they being now patrons. In Pirbright were two plots of land called Torch Plot and Lamp Plot, let at I id. and 8</. a year re- spectively for lights in the church. They do not appear among lands devoted to such uses in Surrey in the certificates of Edward VI. They were granted by Elizabeth to John Dudley and John Ascough, 17 May 1575.

Smith's Charity is distributed as in

CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. There is a

charity of about 6, left by Mr.

George Poulton of Pirbright, which is distributed in

clothing to old persons.

��SEND WITH RIPLEY

��Sande (xi cent.) ; Sandes and Saundes (xiii cent.) ; Sende (xiv cent.).

Send is a parish with two villages, Send lying about 3 miles and Ripley about 5 miles north-east of Guildford. It is bounded by Woking on the north-west, Pyrford to the north, Ockham to the north-east, West Horsley on the east, the two Clandons and Merrow on the south, and Worplesdon on the south-west. It measures 3$ miles from east to west, and about 4 miles north to south in the widest part. It contains 5,139 acres. Ripley and the north of the parish are on the sand and gravel of the Wey Valley, Send on a patch of Bagshot Sand ; the southern part of the parish is on the London Clay. The River Wey skirts the western side of the parish, and in part bounds it. The road from London to Guildford runs through it, and the London and South-Western Railway line by Cobham to Guildford cuts the ex- treme south of the parish. There are brickfields on the London Clay. Ripley Green is a well-known open space in the parish.

The neighbourhood of Send has yielded several neolithic flints, some of which are in the Archaeological Society's Museum at Guildford. Salmon says that Roman coins were found there.' The site of Newark Priory is just within the border of the parish. It had evidently occupied another site, also possibly in the parish, but was rebuilt on a new site and called De Novo Loco, Newark, Newstead, or New Place. The foundation was anterior to the benefaction by Ruald de Calva and his wife Beatrice de Sandes, under Richard I, and the Winchester Registers ' say that it was founded by a Bishop of Winchester. Bishop Godfrey de Lucy, who died in 1204, gave a grant of land to the house under the name of Aldbury. Andrew Bukerel, son of Andrew, citizen of London, mayor 1231-7, or the son of the mayor, gave a grant to the house De Novo Loco. 1 The site and remains of the Priory buildings have lately been placed under the protection of the Ancient Monuments Acts.

The parish was the scene of a nearly forgotten skirmish. On 14 June 1497 the Cornish rebels

��marching upon Kent from the west had reached Guildford, and had a skirmish with the outposts of the royal troops on the road from Guildford to London. The latter evidently fell back, for they had lost touch of the rebels on the 1 6th and were looking for them on the Guildford road again near Kingston when they were actually on the border of Kent. 4 Old maps mark the place where the road crosses the stream which joins the Wey near Send as St. Thomas's Waterings, a name which occurs in the London suburbs. It is now not used, but its occurrence here shows that it had no connexion with pilgrimages to St. Thomas's shrine.

By the Inclosure Act for Send and Ripley, passed in 1803, 600 acres of common and common fields were inclosed. 5

There is a Congregational chapel at Cartbridge, built in 1875.

Send Grove is the property of and occupied by the Misses Onslow. General Evelyn, a son of Sir John Evelyn of Wotton, resided at this house, and he laid out the grounds. On his death, in 1783, it was bought by Admiral Sir Francis Drake, second in command to Rodney in his victory of 1782 over De Grasse. Woodhill is the seat of the Dowager Countess of Wharncliffe.

Ripley was formerly a chapelry of Send. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels there. Earl Ligonier, the famous Huguenot refugee and military commander, was Baron Ripley.

Dunsborough House is the seat of Mr. G. H. Maitland-King ; Ripley Court of Mr. R. M. Pease ; Ripley House of Captain Herbert D. Terry, Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales.

Ripley (National) School was built in 1847 and enlarged in 1898. Send (National) School was built in 1834 and enlarged in 1892.

The early history of SEND begins

MANORS with the loth century, when Athelstan

sold lands which he held at Send to the

Archbishop of Canterbury. 6 But at the time of

Domesday the tenant in chief was Alured de Merle-

��Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 24 Hen. III. Valar Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 33. Feet of F. Surr. Mich, i 5 Chas. I. Ibid. Mich. 6 Will, and Mary.

��"Salmon, Antiq.ofSurr. 142. s Winton Epi. Reg. Woodlock, fol.

141.'-, 1720.

8 Jnspeximus of 14 Edw. II, Chart. 26.

365

��*r.C.H.Surr. i, 366.

In the Com. Ret. (Bd. of Agric.).

' Birch, Cart. Sax. 1063.

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