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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��The church plate is a silver-gilt set given by H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester in 1841, and consists of two cups with paten covers of 1841, a paten of 1 840, a flagon of the same date, an alms- dish undated, but part of the set, and a cup of 1896.

The first book of the registers contains baptisms from 1677 to 1689 ; a second, all entries from 1695 to 1747 ; a third, baptisms and burials from 1749 to 1783, and marriages from 1749 to 1753; a fourth, baptisms from 1783 to 1810; a fifth, burials from I 793, and baptisms from iSioto 1812. There are also two printed marriages and banns books from 1754 to 1 802, and from 1802 to 1812.

When the old church of Windlesham was struck by lightning and burnt in 1676, the registers were burnt, and now date only from that time.

There is a chapel of ease, St.Alban's, on the Bagshot Road.

ST. JNNE'S, B4GSHOT, is red brick with Bath stone dressings, a tower, and spire. The east window, in memory of H.R.H. the Duke of Albany (ob. 1884), was given by King Edward VII and the other brothers and sisters of the late duke.

The earliest mention of the 4DFOWSONS church of Windlesham is in 1230, when it was reported that Hoppe- schort, who held land in Bagshot, granted the advow- son to Sherborne Priory in the time of Henry II.*' The priory's right of presentation, however, was successfully disputed by Newark Priory in 1230," and in 1262 the living was, it is said, appropriated to Newark." The advowson was, however, in private hands after that date. In 1443 the church re- appears attached to the manor of Freemantles in Windlesham.* 4 It was still so attached in 1539." In 1 5 36 John Quinby, who held Freemantles, pre-

��sented. 47 But on the death of the rector in 1598 the queen presented,* 3 and the patronage has since con- tinued in the Crown.

Presentations were always to Windlesham, cum capella de Bagshot. The chapel at Bagshot was dedicated to Our Lady. Hewlett's or Hulot's chantry was founded in the chapel of Our Lady at Bagshot, and endowed with half the manor of Freemantles.* 9 In 1467 Edmund Skrene released all his rights in the manor of Freemantles to Robert Hewlett. 40 He, or one of his family, founded the chantry. The chapel at Bagshot probably fell with the chantry in it, though a tradition of its site lingered here in the middle of the 1 8th century." In 1820 a new chapel was built. Bagshot became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1874. In 1884 a new church, that of St. Anne, was built (see above). Smith's Charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. Half an acre of land was vested in the parish for the use of the poor at an unknown date.

Mr. George Newton, by will 1754, left 5 a year charged on land for the distribution of bread quar- terly on Sundays in the churchyard. A tablet in the church commemorates the bequest.

In 1757 Lady Amelia Butler, residing in Bagshot Park, gave 100 for building a pest-house. One room was set apart for wayfaring men suffering from small- pox.

In 1761 James Butler gave a house for an alms- house. These benefactions seem to have been amal- gamated into six almshouses.

In 1 804 the Rev. Edward Cooper by will gave five guineas annually for educating poor boys.

In 1809 Mrs. Strange gave by will 100 bank annuities for providing clothing for six poor widows.

��WISLEY

��Wiselei (xi cent.) ; Wyseleye (xiii cent).

Wisley is a small parish 4 miles south-west from Weybridge station. It contains 1,076 acres. In shape it is roughly triangular, the apex southwards, and each side about two miles in length. It is bounded on the north by Walton-on-Thames and Byfleet, on the east by Cobham and Ockham, on the south and west by Ockham and Pyrford. The soil is mainly the alluvium, sand, and gravel of the Wey valley ; the old natural course of the river runs through it, and Wisley Common on the south-east side is on the patch of Bagshot Sand which makes St. George's Hill and Cobham Common. There is no village of Wisley ; merely some scattered farms and cottages. The road from London to Guildford, through Cobham and Ripley, passes through the parish.

Neolithic flints have been found in Wisley. One fine polished celt is in the Archaeological Society's

��Museum, Guildford. In 1906 an ancient dug-out canoe was found in the old river bed of the Wey. It is still, 1911, in the possession of the farmer on whose land it was found.

The parish is ecclesiastically attached to Pyrford. Slade Farm and a cottage were transferred from Wisley to Ockham 25 March 1883.' The children of Wisley Common attend Byfleet School.

Fox Warren is the seat of Mrs. Charles Buxton.

The manor of WISLEY was held at M4NOR the time of Domesday by Oswold, lord of Wotton ; * and the overlordship follows the descent of Wotton (q.v.). Early in the 1 3th century Roger de Somerey was holding in sub-fee and demised the manor to Robert de Briwes, 3 who in 1243 leased it to Walter le Basle and Denise his wife.* Apparently this grant was for Walter's life, since Denise after her husband's death gave up her rights in the manor.'

��< a Bracton'i Note Bk. 769.

43 Ibid. 416. There is record of an earlier suit in 1226; Rot. Lit. Claut. (Rec. Com.), ii, 145*.

44 V.C.H. Surr. ii, 103.

Close, 21 Hen. VI, m. 2 id.

��46 Feet of F. Surr. Mich, i Hen. VIII.

4 'Winton Epis. Reg. Gardiner, foL l6a.

49 Ibid. Bilson, fol. 64.

49 Particulars for Sale of Chantries, Index, vol. ii, P.R.O.


 * > Close, 6 Edw. IV, no. 17.

��51 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii,

��85.

��I Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 14282.

II y.C.H. Surr. i, 328,1.

' Cal. oflntj. p.m. Hen. Ill, 20.

4 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 23 Hen. III.

6 Ibid. East. 42 Hen. III.

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