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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��WANBOROUGH

��Weneberge (xi cent.) ; Waneberg (xii-xiii cent.) ; Wamberge (xiii cent.); Wanbergh (xiv cent.) ; Wan- borowe (xvii cent.).

Wanborough is a small parish, 4 miles west of Guildford, containing 1,823 acres an( ^ measuring about 3 miles from east to west and one from north to south. It is bounded on the north by Ash and Worplesdon, on the east by Compton, on the south by Compton and Puttenham, on the south-west and west by Scale. It throws out a tongue, however, between Compton and Puttenham which just touches Godalming. The South Eastern Railway, Redhill and Reading line, runs through it, with a station opened in 1 849. It is traversed by the high road from Guildford to Farnham along the Hog's Back, the via regia of early deeds and Hundred Rolls. The greater part of the parish is on the chalk of the Hog's Back, but it reaches the sand south of the ridge, where Puttenham Heath is partly in Wanborough, and a further distance north on to the London Clay. The small hamlet of Wanborough lies on the north side of the Hog's Back. It is an exception to the almost universal rule of the church and village lying south of the chalk hills with a parish reaching over the chalk or on to it north- wards. The village and church are to the north, as is most of the parish. It is doubtful whether it is an ancient parish. It was perhaps a chapelry of Putten- ham, though in a different hundred (but for this compare Ash and Frimley).

Neolithic flint implements were found in 1870 near the church, and others at various times and places. A palaeolithic ovate implement is in the Charterhouse Museum and a small bronze palstave in the Archaeological Society's Museum, Guildford.

WANBOROUGH was in the early M4NOR stages of its history held as two manors

by two brothers, Swegen and Leofwine, possibly Harold's brothers ; after the Conquest, however, these two manors were united in the pos- session of Geoffrey de Mande- ville. 1 Probably the overlord- ship of the manor remained with the Mandevilles, and passed with the earldom of Essex from their family to the de Bohuns,* for Humphrey, Earl of Hereford and Essex, held four knights' fees in

Wanborough, Clapham, and Carshalton in 1372, and the connexion still existed under Henry IV. 5 Geoffrey son of Eustace, Count of Boulogne, married

���BOHUN. Axure a bind argint between eotitet and lix lioneeh or.

��a daughter of Geoffrey de Mandeville. He received with her the Mandeville land at Carshalton,* and his grandson Faramus of Boulogne * appears as sub-tenant of the Mandeville land at Wanborough also, for in or about 1 1 30, just after the foundation of Waverley Abbey, he sold it, with the permission of his over- lord, to the abbey, for the sum of one hundred marks.' This sale was some years later ratified by Pope Eugenius III. 7 In 1279 the abbey's possessions in Wanborough were increased by the gift of a capital messuage with appurtenances from William de Abbecroft. 8

In 1 346 the Abbot of Waverley claimed to have view of frankpledge in his manor of Wanborough by right of immemorial custom without charter ; and this claim obtained recognition from the king's treasurer and chamberlain.'

At the dispersion of the abbey lands in 1536, the major portion of them, including Wanborongh Manor, was assigned to Sir William Fitz William, afterwards Earl of Southampton. 10 At his death in 1542 the manor passed to his half-brother, Sir Anthony Browne," in whose family it remained for some sixty years. His grandson, the second Viscount Montagu, demised the manor to a certain Richard Amye " for a term of twenty-one years from Michaelmas 1603 ; but before the expiration of the lease the ownership of the manor had been transferred to John Murray, keeper of the privy purse to King James I," who created him Earl of Annandale. In 162; he mort- gaged the manor to Thomas Bennett for the sum of 4,200," and after his death his son James sold it to his cousin James Maxwell, 15 who a few years later became Earl of Dirletoun." His widow Elizabeth survived him for some years, keeping the manor in her possession." At her death it passed under the terms of her husband's will to their daughter Eliza- beth, wife of the second Duke of Hamilton." The Duchess took as her second husband Thomas Dal- mahoy," to whom she bequeathed Wanborough in trust to sell." He conveyed it to Mrs. Elizabeth Col- wall,' 1 from whom it passed in due course to her grand- son Daniel Colwall." Daniel in his will devised it to his half-brothers, Arthur and Richard Onslow, sons of Foot Onslow." The manor was shortly after- wards sold to Thomas Onslow," ancestor of the present Earl of Onslow, who is lord of the manor.

Shortly before the Dissolution the monks of Waverley obtained the privilege of holding an annual fair with court of pie powder on the feast of St. Bartholomew, in whose honour the church is dedicated." The manor house, a fine old gabled house near the church, is now the seat of Sir Algernon West, G.C.B.

��1 V.C.H. Surr. i, 324*.
 * " G.E.C. Complete Peerage.

8 Ech. Inq. p.m. file 146 (51), m. 20. ' Note alo Chan. Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill (ist m is.), no. 10.


 * r.C.H.Surr. i, 314.

6 See Genealogist (New Ser.), xii, 145- 51, article by Mr. J. H. Round.

6 Dugdale, Monastieon, v, 342.

"Lansd. Chart. 27.

8 Annalei Man. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 392.

'Cat. of Pat. 1345-6, p. 220.

10 L. and P. Hen. yill, xi, 88.

��11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), but, 29.

M Chan. Proc.Jas. I, m. xxii, 24. Richard Amye was a parishioner in 1600. A daughter of a Henry Amye was buried at Wanborough in 1630, and a John Amye in 1634.

"Ibid. ; see also Add. MSS. 6167.

Com. Pleas Recov. R. Hil. 22 Ja. I m. ii.

15 Close, 1 8 Chas. I, pt. xviii, no. 20.

16 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. "Add. MS. 6167. "Ibid.

374

��19 Ibid.; see also G.E.C. Complete Peerage

"Add. MS. 6167.

"Ibid. M Ibid. "Ibid.

Wanborough was added to Symmes's Collections (Add. MSS. 6167) after his death, but since the MS. was in the possession of the Onslow family until the beginning of the igth century, it eems reasonable to suppose that had these facts been incorrect the Onslows would have taken steps to rectify them.
 * "Ibid. This part of the history of

"Chart. R. 207, m. 8, no. 16.

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