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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��In the chancel is a brass inscription to Sir Edward Zouch who died in 1634 ; it has a long eulogistic epitaph in Latin ; also a mural monument to Sir John Lloyd, bart., who died in 1663. There are several later monuments.

There are six bells : the treble, second, third and fifth were cast by William Eldridge 1684, the fourth is dated 1766 and has the initials i F cut in ; this is said to have been cast near the church ; the tenor was by Eldridge 1684, but was recast by Warren in 1887.

The church possesses no old plate, the set in use comprising two silver cups and a standing paten of 1 8 3 7, a plate of 1805, and a plated flagon.

The first book of the registers contains baptisms, marriages, and burials from 1653 to 1672 ; the second has baptisms from 1673 to 1770, marriages 1673 to 1754, and burials 1673 to 1786 ; the third has mar- riages 175410 1 763; fifth, marriages 176310 I787;sixth, the same to 1812 ; seventh, baptisms from 1770 and burials from 1 787, both to 1 808 ; eighth, baptisms 1 809 to 1812 ; and ninth, burials for the sane period.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S CHURCH, of stone in 13th-century style, was built by Sir Gilbert, then Mr., Scott, in 1842 at Goldsworth, and enlarged in 1879 and 1883.

The present church of CHRIST CHURCH parish was built in red brick in 1889.

ST. PAUL'S, MAYBURT HILL, built of red brick with Bath stone windows and quoins, was

��erected in 1895 as a chapel of ease to Christ Church.

An iron church, Holy Trinity, was built at Knapp Hill in 1855.

The church of Woking from early 4DVOWSONS times seems to have had the Prior and convent of Newark in Send as its patrons." After the dissolution of that monastery in the l6th century, it generally followed the history of the manor. A few exceptions must, however, be noted. Thus it was granted by Philip and Mary to John White, Bishop of Winchester. 100 Elizabeth seems to have resumed the patronage, and towards the end of her reign granted it to Francis Aungier, 101 after- wards Baron Longford. Under James I two persons, named respectively Francis Maurice and Francis Phelips, 10 ' received it from the Crown, but this grant was possibly in trust for the lord of the manor, for James Zouch presented in l637, 103 and from that date it has been united with the manor.

The parish of St. John the Baptist was formed from the old parish in 1884. The living is in the gift of the vicar of Woking.

Christ Church parish was formed out of the same dis- trict in 1893. In 1877 it was served by a temporary church. The living is in the gift of trustees.

Of old charities only Smith's, distri- CHARITY buted as in other Surrey parishes, appears to exist.

��WORPLESDON

��Werpesdune (xi cent.) ; Wcrplesdone and Wer- plesden (xii cent.).

Worplesdon is a parish lying 3 miles north-west from Guildford. It contains 5,253 acres, and is about 5 miles east to west, and 3 miles north to south in extreme measurement. The village and church stand upon an abrupt hill of Bagshot sand (the Bracklesham Beds), but round it the soil is lower Bagshot sand. To the south the parish is on the London Clay, and to the east there is alluvium of the Wey valley. The river runs through the parish for a short distance, and is joined by a brook, sometimes called Worplesdon Brook. There are brick and tile works, and cement works in the parish, and nursery gardens. It is otherwise agricultural, and a great part of it is waste land. Whitmoor and Broad Street Commons are extensive wastes. The Guildford and Aldershot road passes through it, and the main London and South-Western Railway line from Lon- don to Portsmouth. There is a Worplesdon station, which lies however, in Woking parish.

The parish was divided into four tithings : Perry Hill, about the hill on which the church stands ; Burpham, on the east side ; West End ; and Wyke. The last, which was separated from the rest of the parish, was added to Ash (q.v.) in 1890.

The heaths are rich in archaeological remains. Aubrey ' mentions a trench and bank, the bank on the west side running through this parish from south- east to north-west. It is still visible on Whitmoor Common, though it is now curtailed at both ends by

��extended cultivation, and at the south end has been apparently incorporated into the bank of a lane. It is roughly parallel to the railway line, on the west side of it, some 400 yds, from it. The existing portion is about 600 yds. long, too long for one side of an inclosure, more probably a boundary ditch. There are also Bronze Age tumuli which have been opened, and pottery found there is now in the Pitt-Rivers collection, Oxford. Arrow-heads and implements, including a perforated stone hammer head, are in the Archaeological Society's Museum at Guildford, and in the Charterhouse Museum. On Broad Street Common a Roman villa was excavated in 1829. A piece of pavement of some interest was removed to Clandon Park by the Earl of Onslow, lord of the manor. Tiles and pottery, and some doubtful pieces of metal, but no decipherable coins were found.' Romano- British interments, with pottery, have been found at Burpham. Some of the pottery is in the Archaeo- logical Society's Museum at Guildford ; but it is chiefly kept in private hands.

Close by Worplesdon Church, on the top of the hill, a tower used to stand with a semaphore, forming part of the communications between Portsmouth and London.

Two rather notable names occur among the rectors : Thomas Comber, 1615-42, Master of Trinity Col- ledge, Cambridge, and John Burton, 1766-71. The latter was author of a curious work, lier Surriense et Sussexiense, published 1752, which contains two different accounts in Latin and Greek of a journey

��99 Br acton's Note Bk. 769 ; also Wykc- ham't Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 61, 156, &c.

��100 Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv.

101 Ibid. 33 Eliz. pt.. 104 Ibid. 7 Jas. I, pt. xxii.

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��103 Winton Epis. Reg. Curie, fol. 420.

1 Hiit. ofSurr. iii, 326.

" Braj'ley, Hilt. ofSurr. ii, 44.

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