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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

���STOUGHTON, baronet. Azure a cross engrailed

��Ive, 10 and it accordingly passed to him. 11 At his death in 1615 " he was succeeded by his third son George," who died in 1624 without issue.* 4 His brother Nicholas barred the entail in order to secure the manor to his daughter Rose, wife of Arthur Onslow, but on the failure of her issue it passed to Nicholas son of Anthony eighth son of Laurence Stough- ton.* 5 He was created a baronet in 1 66 1, and died in 1 68 5, leaving one son Laurence and four daughters." Laurence died childless in 1692," and by a Parliamentary decree his estates were vested in trustees to be sold for the double purpose of paying his debts and providing portions for his sisters. 88

The now combined manors of Stoke and Stoughton were bought by Edward Hubbald in 169 8." He died in 1 707. His son William died in 1 709, and shortly after his death in 1711 an Act was passed for the sale of his estates." Nicholas Turner purchased the manors in 1718, and his son sold them about 1760 to Jeremiah Dyson." Mr. Dyson died in 1776. His son sold in 1780 to Mr. George Vansittart, who sold immediately to Mr. William Aldersey (vide supra}. The latter also purchased parts of Stoughton which had been alienated since 1 700 and had passed to Lord Onslow, including the site of Stoughton Place, which had been pulled down after the sale in 1692. Mr. Aldersey died in 1800. His widow sold next year to Mr. Nathaniel Hillier. Colonel the Hon. C. T. Onslow married in 1812 Susannah second daughter and co-heiress of Mr. Hillier. His son, Mr. G. A. C. Onslow, who died in 1855, succeeded, and his son, the present Earl of Ons- low is now lord of the manor. No separate courts have been held for Stoughton since 1615.

In 1324 there is mention of a messuage and 5 acres of land in Stoke called WOODBRIDGE. This tenement was held of the family of La Poyle," who had lands in Guildford and Tongham. The earliest tenant seems to have been Thomas de Woodbridge, who was holding about 1264; Juliana his daughter and heir married Roger de Rypon. 33

About the end of the 1 6th century Henry Stough- ton was in possession of this property," which passed from him to his son Thomas, who died seised of it in 1612. Woodbridge, with certain lands appurtenant, was settled on his wife Alice, with remainderi to various members of the Stoughton family. 34

Manning M speaks of Woodbridge House as having been the property of Jeremiah Dyson in the i8th century. It was aftenvardi in the possession of Mr. Allen and Mrs. Smith, and in Manning's time belonged to John Creuse." It was subsequently the

��residence of Colonel the Hon. E. M. Onslow, of Colonel Annand, and now of Mr. H. Porter.

The church of ST. JOHN THE CHURCHES EfJNGELIST, STOKE JUXTA GUILDFORD, consists of a chancel 1 5 ft. 5 in. by 33ft. 2 in., with a north chapel 24ft. 10 in. by 13 ft. loin. ; south vestry and chapel formed by a prolongation of the aisle ; a nave 40 ft. 6 in. by 1 9 ft. 6 in. ; a north aisle i8ft. 7 in. wide ; a south aisle 1 7 ft. 6 in. wide ; a west tower 12 ft. 8 in. by loft. 3 in., and a south porch. Like so many churches in the neighbourhood it has suffered severely at the hands of the restorer, and externally is almost completely modern. The earliest details now to be seen are in the arcades of the nave and south chapel, which are of early ^th-century date. Late in the 1 5th century the tower was added, and the north chapel is probably work of a century later. In comparatively recent years the north aisle has been completely rebuilt and widened, and the whole church greatly modernized. The south porch and south-east vestry are completely modern, but the latter is evi- dently on the site of an earlier and similar structure.

The east window of the chancel is of five lights, of 15th-century style, with sub-mullions and smaller lights in the two-centred head. The north wall is in three bays, the first being blank and the other two filled with an arcade with a circular column and half- round responds, plainly moulded capitals, and arches of two chamfered orders. The bases are now buried under the floor. On the south is a similar arrange- ment, but the arcade is of earlier date, and has arches of two wave and ogee moulded orders. The capitals are of good profile, and the bases have a roll-mould- ing, all being circular on plan. There is no chancel arch, a cambered beam of late 1 6th-century date sup- porting the eastern gable of the nave.

The nave is of three bays, with arcading of similar date but plainer detail than the south chancel arcade. The arches are of two plain chamfered orders, and the columns circular with moulded capitals and bases. The tower arch is of late ^th-century date, and of two continuously moulded orders, separated by a three-quarter hollow.

The north chapel has a two-light window to the east and a four-light to the north, both tran- somed, and with square heads of late 16th-century date. Between the chapel and the aisle is a plastered arch, either of brick or lath-and-plaster. At the north- east is an external door with a segmental head.

The north aisle has, to the north, two modern windows of two lights with tracery of 14th-century detail. The west window is of four lights, also of 14th-century design.

The south aisle and chapel, in one range, have an east window of which the opening is apparently original and at such a height above the floor as to clear the vestry. The tracery and external jambs are

��* Feet of F. Surr. East. 17 Eliz.

81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxix, 81.

88 Ibid, ccclv, 49.

88 His eldest son Laurence died s.p. in 1597, and his second son Thomas in 1610. Thomas has a monument in the church.

84 Entry in Stoke Ch. Reg. copied in Symmes, MSS. (Add. MSS. 6167, fol. 405 d.) ; Harl. MSS. 1561, f. 76.

11 G.E.C. Complete Baronetage. The inscription to Nicholas at Stoke Church

��records how he was disinherited in favour of Rose, but succeeded at last Deo volente, bominibus iwiiis.

M Ibid, (i) Elizabeth, wife of Timothy Whitfield ; (2) Frances, wife of Charles Ventris ; (3) Henrietta ; (4) Sara. See also Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1 1 Will, and Mary.


 * G.E.C. Complete Baronetage.

89 Journ. of Haute of Lords, xv, 6140, 668A.

372

��99 D. Jan. 1697-8 ; Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 168. The deaths of Edward and William Hubbald are in Stoke Reg.

w journ. of House of Lords, xix, 216, 30 1 i.

81 Hist, of Guildford (publ. xSoi), 276.

88 CW. Close, 1 324, p. 241.

88 Ibid.

84 Chan. Inq. p.m. {Ser. 2), dxvii, 36.

85 Ibid.

M Hist. Surr. i, 173. *! Ibid.

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