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��and the arms of Eton College. In the south-east window is the name W. Roberts, 1802.

There are six bells : the treble and third cast by Thomas Mears in 1827 ; the second, fourth, and fifth by R. Phelps in 1 726 ; and the sixth by Thomas Mears in 1826.

The church plate consists of a cup of 1616; a flagon of 1598, the gift of Lady Margaret Savill ; a repouss6 salver, the gift of John Lancing in 1612 ; and a much-repaired unmarked standing paten, probably of early 1 8th-century date.

The first book of the registers contains entries from 'the 30 year of Henry VIII' (1538) to 1718. A second book contains entries between 1776 and 1812, the intermediate entries from 1718 to 1776 having been contained in one now fallen to pieces.

St. Luke's Church, Burpham, was built in 1859 as a chapel of ease to Worplesdon. It is a plain stone building of a nave and chancel and western bell- turret.

The early history of Worplesdon JDVOWSON Church is somewhat obscure. There was a church in Worplesdon at the time of the Domesday Survey, 8 * but the advowson does not seem to be mentioned before 1291, when Ladereyna Valoynes released it to Sir John de Cobham." It remained in the direct line of the Cobham family 8S

��until the death of John, Lord Cobham, in 1407, when it passed to his granddaughter Joan, daughter of Joan de Cobham by her marriage with Sir John De La Pole. 89 The younger Joan, Baroness de Cobham in her own right, died in 1434 ; M and by a settlement made in 1428 " her fifth husband, Sir John Harpen- den, was to retain possession of the advowson for life, with remainder at his death to Joan, wife of Sir Thomas Brooke, and daughter of Joan de Cobham by her second marriage with Sir Reginald Braybrooke."

The advowson continued in the possession of the Cobhams till it was forfeited with the other possessions of Henry, Lord Cobham, who was attainted in 1603." Before that Henry, Lord Cobham, had granted the next presentation to Sir George More of Loseley, who presented Thomas Comber, afterwards Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1615." The Crown presented in 1660, 1670, and again in 1683." The advowson was granted to Eton College in 1690."

Smith's Charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes.

In 1605 Mr. Shaw left 4 a year for the poor, charged upon the ' Nag's Head ' in Guildford and land in Stoke.

In 1726 the rector, the Rev. C. Moore, left 200 in Government stock for educating poor children under the direction of the rector.

��. Surr. i, 313*. W Feet of F. Surr. 19 Edw. I, 34. Harl. Chart. 45 C. 24 ; fTyktham' Reg, (Hants Rec. Sec.), i, 52, 161, 216.

��89 G.E.C. Complete Peerage.

90 Chan. Inq. p.m. 11 Hen. VI, no. 37. Ibid.

M G.E.C. Complete Peerage.

��Ibid.

94 Winton Epis. Reg. Hilton, fol. 43

Inot. Bks. (P.R.O.).

96 Add. MS. 5847, fol. 414.

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