Page:The Victoria History of the County of Surrey Volume 3.djvu/546

 A HISTORY OF SURREY

���Mary of Cambridge) in 1871. They are certified industrial schools for female children of prisoners, or children otherwise in a destitute or dangerous position. They are conducted on the separate homes system, and are supported by voluntary contributions, with a Treasury allowance for children committed under the Industrial Schools Act. The village schools are St. Paul's (Church), built 1841, enlarged 1851 and 1885, for girls and infants. A boys' school was added in 1901. New Ham School was built in 1874. St. Augustine's School (Church) for infants was built in 1882, and Chapel Park (Church) in 1896.

CHERTSET or CHERTSET BEO- M4NORS MONO was included in the original endowment made to the Abbey of St. Peter, Chertsey, by Frith- wald, subregulus of Surrey, be- tween the years 666 and 675." The name appears in' the charter as ' Cirotisege ' or ' Cerotesege ' that is, the is- land of Cirotis. The boun- daries included the lands of Chertsey and Thorpe, and were as follows : first from the mouth of the Wey along the Wey to Weybridge, thence within the old mill - stream midward of the stream to the old Herestraet (military way), along this to Woburn Bridge and along the stream to the great willow and to the pool above Crockford, from there to an alder tree, thence to the ' wertwallen,' to the Herestraet and along to the ' Curtenstapele,' from there along the street to the Horethorn, thence to the eccan Irene (oak tree), to the three barrows, from the three barrows to 'sihtran,' to Merchebrook, to a torrent called Exlaepe, to the old maple tree, to the three other trees, along Depebrok straight to 'Weale- gate.' Thence to Shirenpole, to Fullbrok, to the black willow and to ' Weales huthe ' along the Thames to the other side of the town called Mixtenham, thence by water between an island called Bury and Mixtenham by water to Nete Island, from there along the Thames round Oxlake, along the Thames to Buresburgh, and so along the Thames to the Isle of Hamme, along the river northward and midward along the Thames to the mouth of the Wey." King Alfred, confirming this grant to the abbey, also set forth the boundaries of Chertsey, which differ slightly from those laid down by Frithwald, with separate boundaries for Egham and Chobham, and a reference to the heath of Geoffrey de Croix."

��CHERTSF.Y ABBEY. Party or and argent St. PauFs sword argent -with its hilt or (rotted with St. Peter'i kej/s gules and azure.

��The charter of Frithwald also refers to eight islands, both large and small, which belonged to Chertsey and Thorpe, and to 'seven instruments, suitable for catching fish and keeping them, called weares,' all lying between Wealeshuthe and the mouth of the Wey.

Confirmation of this charter was made by Alfred, Edward the Confessor, and William the Conqueror," and succeeding kings of England and popes confirmed this grant to the abbey." At the time of the Domes- day Survey Chertsey was held by the abbey as a manor and rated at 5 hides ; of these Richard Sturmid held 2 \ under King William." The abbey, however, claimed him as a tenant, and this claim was probably allowed, as he does not appear among the tenants in chief."

The manor, known from about the 1 4th century by the name of ' Chertsey- Beomond ' M as well as by the simpler form of ' Chertsey,' remained in the pos- session of the monastery until 1537," when, upon the surrender of the latter, the abbot conveyed its lands to the king. The manor of Chertsey was leased in 1550 to Sir William Fitz William for thirty years." He died before 1569, when the lease was extended for twenty-one years to his widow Joan. 33 Upon her death in 1574 the manor reverted to the Crown. James I granted it to his eldest son, Henry Prince of Wales, 34 after whose death Sir Francis Bacon and others held it in trust for Charles Prince of Wales for ninety-nine years, the term beginning in 1617.'* Charles, when king, granted the manor to his queen, Henrietta Maria. 36 During the Common- wealth the manor of Chertsey was sold, as Crown land, to William Aspinall. 87 The sale included a wood called Birchwood, whereof 292 trees were reserved for the use of the navy. Returning to the Crown at the Restoration, it was granted by Charles II, for the remainder of the term of ninety-nine years fixed in 1617, to Denzil, Lord Holies, and others in trust for Queen Catherine of Braganza for life and afterwards in trust for the king and his successors." In 1676, four years after this grant, the manor was granted, for forty-one years, to Sir Gilbert Talbot and Sir Peter Wiclce. 39 The manor remained in the Crown throughout the 1 8th century. In 1779 a thirty-one years' lease was granted to the Duke of Bridgewater, who died in i8o3. M According to Brayley, writing in 1841, the last tenant under the Crown was Frederick, Duke of York, who died in 1827, and in the following year the manor with other Crown lands was sold by the Crown for 3,330 to a Mr. Allison, who disposed of it to James Goren. The latter became bankrupt in 1834, and the manor was sold by auction to Mr. Cutts of Essex."

��18 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 55-6.

" Ibid. ; Colt MS. Vitell. A. xiii.

K Ibid. But Geoffrey de Croix wa living at the time of the Testa de Nevill ; the reference to him therefore, the as- cription of the date of 727 to a charter confirmed by Wulfhere of Mercia who died in 675, the witness by Humfrith, Bishop of Winchester, who became bishop in 744, of charters of 673 and 727, the reference in the boundaries to the Park Gate, and the Park Hedge of Windsor Park, make it impossible to accept the details of these early charters as worth much except for 13th-century matters. The Surrey Archaeological

��Society have given a detailed account of these boundaries with various etymological explanations, coupled with local informa- tion concerning the places or landmarks in Chertsey which may coincide with those mentioned in the ancient charter. Surr. Arch. Coll. i, 80 et seq.

88 Birch, Cart. Sax. ii, 203 ; Cart. Antiq. D. 9, ii.

MS. Vitell. A. xiii.
 * Cart. Antiq. D. 15, 17, 18, 23 ; Cott.

28 V.C.H. Surr. i, 308.

M H. E. Maiden, Hist, of Surr. 68.

80 Cal. Chart. 1257-1300, p. 305, vide Beomond.

u Poj* Nitfi. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 206;

406

��Cal. Close, 1346-49, p. 134 ; Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56 ; Lansd. MS. 434; Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. 25 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin.zg Hen. VIII ; Ct. of Aug. Surr. 54.

"Acts of the P.O. 1549-50, p. 415 ; Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7. "Ibid.

84 Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. xli, no. 2.

"Exch. L.T.R. Orig. R. 14 Jas. I, pt. iv, no. 126.

M Cal.S.P. Dam. 1640-1, p. 552; Ct. R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 204, nos. 40, 52, 53.

8 7 Close, 1650, pt. Ivii, no. 24.

88 Pat 24 Chas. II, pt. ix, m. i. "Ibid. 28 Chas. II, pt. v, m. II.

40 Mann ing and Bray, op. cit. iii, 222. a E. W. Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iii, 189.

�� �