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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��son John, who died in 1503," leaving only daughters. Wisley passed to his cousin Richard Covert, who died in 1547." The manor then became the property of Giles Covert, a distant cousin of Richard, who re- tained possession until his death in 1 5 56," when he was succeeded by his brother Richard.* 6 Richard Covert in 1594 joined with his son Anthony in conveying the manor to Sir John Wolley and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir William More." On the death of .Sir John in 1 596 his son and heir Francis, then thirteen years old, succeeded him." Francis died without lawful issue in 1609, leaving descendants of his father's three sisters-in-law as his heirs." Wisley passed to Sir Arthur Mainwaring, son of his mother's sister Anne, who was in possession in 1610.*

Sir Arthur conveyed the manor in 1 64 1 to Sir Robert Parkhurst," who died in 1651. His son died in 1674, and in 1677 it was sold to Denzil Onslow." It passed under his will, after his widow's death in 1729, to Thomas Lord Onslow, and early in the igth century it was exchanged for the manor of Papworth in Send with Lord King,** whose descen- dant the Earl of Lovelace is the present owner.

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m 10* m c. 1600.

El AVodem.

40 JO

��'Scale of Feel*. PLAN OF WISLEY CHURCH

A mill and a fishery were attached to the manor At the time of Domesday ; they do not, however, appear again.* 4

In 1252 Robert de Briwes received a grant of free warren in his demesne lands of Wisley, provided that the lands were not in the king's forest. 34 Wisley, partly on the west bank of the Wey (old river), was to that extent in the forest of Windsor.

In 1199 King John granted the Earl of Leicester the right of free chase in Wisley ; M and various mem- bers of the royal family seem to have enjoyed rights there at different times."

The dedication of the church of W1S- CHURCH LET has been lost. It is a very small building consistingof a chancel 1 5 ft. 7 in. by 1 1 ft. 4 in., and a nave 31 ft. 5 in. by 146. I in., both of late I zth-century date, to which has been added a. wooden north porch, probably in the 1 7th century,

��and a small modern south vestry. The church was restored irNi872.

The east wall of the chancel has a two-light window, c. 1600, with^a transom, set in the splayed jambs of the original round-headed 1 2th-century opening, the head of which has remains of ' masonry pattern ' decoration, every third course being ornamented with four-leaved flowers as a diaper. The north and south walls of the chancel have each two 12th-century round-headed windows, repaired in the heads and sills, with splayed jambs and semicircular rear arches, also having remains of colour. At the south-east of the chancel is a square patch of the diaper pattern left free from whitewash, giving it the effect of a cross. At the south-west there is a blocked square-headed window low down in the wall, which seems to be a 13th-century insertion.

The chancel arch has jambs and semicircular arch of one plain order with a chamfered abacus at the springing, and on the west face of the jambs are incomplete two-centred arched recesses, adjoined by others in the north and south walls of the nave ; they seem to be of 1 3th-century date, and were designed to give more room for the nave altars. In the north recess is a small star, the remains of painted decoration.

The side walls of the nave have each one window which is similar to the east window of the chancel, and the north doorway has been almost entirely restored in Bath stone, the only old parts being the 1 2th-century label, and the inner jambs and splayed head. The outer jambs are of two recessed orders with detached shafts having moulded bases and scalloped capi- tals, and the semicircular arch has zigzag ornament. The north porch is of plain timber construction, the lower portion being filled with modern brickwork.

The round-headed doorway to the vestry in the south wall is quite plain, and seems to be modern. Near its east jamb is a low round-headed recess of uncertain date, and west of the doorway is a consecration cross painted on the wall, which seems to be one of the original set. In the west wall of the nave are two round-headed windows with original inner jambs and rear arches, but modern outside, with small shafts in the jambs. Over the west end of the nave is a small wooden bell-turret containing one bell, and capped by an octagonal spire which, with the sides of the turret, is covered with shingles. All the walls are built with a dark brown ironstone conglomerate roughly plastered, and have no dressed stone angles, and the roofs, which retain much of their old timbers, are tiled. The internal fittings are all modern except a late 16th-century wrought-iron hour-glass bracket fixed on the wall near the pu pit.

The plate comprises a cup of 1713, a paten of 1714, and a plated flagon.

There are two books of registers, the first containing entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1666 all mixed together ; after which follow separately

��18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxiii, 263.

84 Berry, Suu. Gen. 321.

85 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cziv, 42.
 * Ibid.


 * > Feet of F. Surr. East. 36 Eliz.

��98 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ), ccxliz, 74.

M Ibid, cccxxxiv, 60.

o Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 8 JM. I.

81 Ibid. Trin. 17 Chas. I.

M Ibid. 29 Chas. II.

380

��M Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr, iii, no. M V.C.H. Surr. i, 328*

K Cat. Chart. R. 1226-57, P- 39 1 - 7 Cal. of Close, 1346-49, p. 566,
 * Col, Pat. 1327-30, p. 459.

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