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��John Danaster was seised of Ottershaw in the early part of the 1 6th century, and at his death it passed to his widow Anne, with reversion to their daughter Anne, who married Owen Bray. 161 A complaint was lodged by Owen Bray and his wife against Sir Francis Dawtrey, second husband of Anne, his grandmother, on the ground that he had committed great spoil in their lands ; in Ottershaw in particular he had cut down and sold 60 oaks of the value of los. each. 16 '

The subsequent holders of Ottershaw are not always apparent. Manning, quoting from the title deeds of Edmund Boehm, who held Ottershaw in 1811, states that in the lyth century it belonged to the Roake family of Horsell, who in 1722 conveyed it to Lawrence Porter. He sold it to Thomas Wood- ford, who also held Stanners in Chobham. Woodford died in 1758, and the property passed from his son to Thomas Sewell, whose son sold it in 1796 to Edmund Boehm. 163 It afterwards became the pro- perty of Sir George Wood, and according to Brayley his son sold a portion of the estate, including the house, to Richard Crawshay. 164 Brox, mentioned by Aubrey as a tithing of Chertsey, is at present held with Otter- shaw by Captain Sumner and Mr. R. Brettell. Mr. Lawrence J. Baker owns Ottershaw Park.

A tenement called SHRTMPLEM4RSHE (Simple Marsh, or Simple Mere) was included among the abbey lands, being valued in the 1 6th century at loo/. 164 At the surrender of the monastery it was granted to John Prior ; in 1 5 50 it was leased to William Fitz William, after whose death it was granted in 1569 to his widow Joan for twenty-one years. 166 It was granted in 1613 to Francis Morrice and Francis Phillips. 16 ' In 1616 they conveyed it to Richard Tylney. 168 In 1739 John Tylney, afterwards Earl Tylney, whose grandmother was daughter of Mr. Frederick Tylney, sold it to Aaron Franks. 169 He sold it to Mr. Pem- broke in 1807, and he to Mr. G. H. Sumner in iSio, 1 of whom Captain Sumner is grandson and heir.

In 1535 land called DEPENH4MS in Chertsey was valued among the possessions of the monastery at 6 1 3/. \d. ln It was conveyed to Henry VIII as a manor by the Abbot of Chertsey in 1537,"* but no other reference to Depenhams as a manor occurs. It was granted in 1550 on a lease to Sir William Fitz William, being then, or having previously been, in the tenure of William Loksmyth. 173 The grant was extended in 1569 to Joan Fitz William, widow of Sir William, for twenty-one years. 174 In all these transactions Depenhams is referred to as a tenement only. It was granted as a messuage to William Holt and others in 15 go, 171 and in the sale of Crown lands during the Commonwealth the ' brewhouse or farmhouse called Depenhams ' became the property of Daniel Wyatt. 17 ' It was apparently included in the grants of Chertsey Manor made by Charles II. 17 '

JMPNER'S B4RN was also conveyed to the king

��by the abbot of Chertsey as a manor, 178 but there is no further evidence to show that it had any claim to be such. Tithes from it were due to the rectory of Chertsey. 179 After the surrender of Chertsey monas- tery it was in the tenure of William Stanlake or Robert Skyte, and was granted with other tenements in Chertsey to Sir William Fitz William, and on his death to Joan his widow in 1569 for twenty-one years. 180 At the sale of Crown land during the 'Commonwealth J. Bailly purchased Ampner's Barn, described as ' a farm.' 181 The tenement called Tyle- holt or Tylecroft, probably identical with the tene- ment afterwards called le Tyle, was also referred to as a manor in the conveyance from the abbot to the king. 181 When granted to Sir William Fitz William it was in the tenure of Roger Fenne. 163

A tenement called S41TES was granted to Edward Carleton in 1610, and was sold as Crown land to Samuel Oram during the Commonwealth. David More had a lease of it from the Crown in i673. 164 Potter's Park, which still exists in Chertsey, is men- tioned as early as the time of Henry VI among the boundaries of Godley Hundred. 1 " During the reign of James I it was sold to the Crown by Richard Furbench. Charles I in 1634 demised the park to Sir Arthur Mainwaring for twenty-one years. His wife, Dame Gressell, was still in possession in 1650 when a survey was made of the property. 188 In 1 66 1 John Lyne petitioned for a lease of the same park. 187

The parish church of ST. PETER CHURCHES consists of chancel with north organ bay, a vestry, and south chamber with gallery stair, a nave with north and south aisles, the ends coterminous with the west tower and containing stairs to the galleries which surround three sides of the church.

The church was much rebuilt early in the igth century, but the chancel and west tower have some 15th-century work remaining; the new work is faced with Heath stone. The east window of the chancel is modern of four lights in ijth-century style. On each side are shallow cinquefoiled image niches of 15th-century date. In the north and south walls are two bays of an arcade, now blocked up, showing pointed arches with a moulded order springing with- out capitals from square piers with rounded angles. On the two central piers are shallow cinquefoiled niches, like those on either side of the east window.

The chancel arch is contemporary with the side arcades and consists of two moulded orders, with small engaged shafts in the jambs having foliate capitals. The nave is of four bays with square piers carried up to the plaster vaulted ceilings of nave and aisles, and is entirely of modern date. The aisle windows have large dripstones to their labels, carved in a rather theatrical style, and under each are the carvers' names, Coade and Sealy of London, and the date 1806.

��10 Chan. Proc.(Scr. z), bdle. 22, no. 84.

' Ibid.

u> Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 194, 223 ; Close, 36 Geo. Ill, ft. iii, m. 25, no. 13.

181 E. W. Brayley, op. cit ii, 224.

165 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bk. 25 } Vahr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56.

" Pat. 12 Elir. pt. viii, m. 7.

I6 ~ Ibid. 10 Jas. I, pt. xxii, no. 3.

1(8 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 229.

"' Close, 12 Geo. II, p. 19, no. 9.

��1:0 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 221.

171 Vahr Eecl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56.

171 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.

178 Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7.

174 Ibid. W Ibid. 33 Eliz. pt. iv.

lr< Particulars for sale of Crown lands, Commonwealth, Aug. Off. Z.z. 4 (3).

1:7 Pat. 24 Chas. II, pt. ix, m. i ; ibid. 28 Chas. II, pt. v, m. 1 1.

" 8 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.

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��Pat. S Eliz. pt. i!.

180 Ibid. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7.

181 Sale of Crown lands during Common- wealth (Aug. Off.).

1M FeetofF. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. VIII.

188 Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7. 184 Cal. S.P. Dam. 1673-5, p. 122. "Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, fol.

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181 Parl. Surv. no. 22.

t. ofTrtat. Bkt. 1660-7, p. 41.

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