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��son was sold in 1819 to the Haberdashers' Company, as trustees to hold advowsons under the will of Lady Weld. 114 The presentation is now in the hands of the Company, but the Governors of Christ's Hospital nominate alternately with them.

����THE HABERDASHERS. Barry wavy argent and azure a bend gules and thereon a leopard of England.

��CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. Argent a erost gules with St. Paufs sword gules in the quarter and a chief azure with a Tudor rose between two flturs de Us or therein.

��Longcross was made an ecclesiastical district in 1 847. The living is in the gift of the present vicar, the Rev. William Tringham.

The ecclesiastical district of Botleys and Lyne was formed in 1 849. The Bishop of Winchester is patron.

Ottershaw and Brox was formed into an ecclesiastical district in 1865. The representatives of the late Rev. B. Hichens are patrons.

Addlestone was formed into an ecclesiastical dis- trict in 1838. The living is in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester.

Woodham was made into a separate ecclesiastical district in 1902.

A chapel on St. Anne's Hill, dedicated to St. Anne, existed in the 1 4th century. The augmentation of the vicarage of Chertsey, made in 1402, granted the vicar all oblations in Chertsey, with the excep- tion of those coming from the chapel of St. Anne." 4 Licence to perform service in the newly-erected chapel had been granted in 1334."' There is an

��artificially lined well and a little stonework on the hill, perhaps the remains of the chapel. But Antony Wood says that the Chertsey tradition of his day was to the effect that Laurence Tomson, the Biblical scholar, who died in 1 608 and is buried at Chertsey, built the house on St. Anne's Hill on the ' very place where that chapel stood.' '" It is not known when the chapel perished. It does not appear among the suppressions of Edward VI of free chapels and chantries, neither does it appear among the possessions of Chertsey when surrendered.

Sir John Denham, in his poem on Coopers Hill, published in 1643, refers to

' . . . a neighbouring hill whose top of late A chapel crowned, till in the common fate Th' adjoyning abbey fell.'

Smith's Charity is distributed in CHARITIES Chertsey.

In 1721 Henry Sherwood left land for the clothing of three poor men and three poor women, but all trace of it has been long lost.

Miss Mary Giles, who died in 1841, gave in her lifetime 800, the interest to be devoted to bread for the poor on St. Thomas's Day, and 2 to the vicar and churchwardens for superintending it, and l towards keeping up the family monument. By will she left 2,700, clear of all duties, for the poor. From this two almshouses for widows were built and endowed. 1 "

Mr. Edward Chapman, a draper of Chertsey, built two almshouses in 1668 for poor widows, in Windsor Street. In 1815 they were removed to Gogmore Lane.

Mrs. Mary Hammond, widow, of the Abbey House, founded almshouses for four widows in 1645 ; Thomas Cowley for two widows in 1671. Richard Clark built new houses in place of these two in 1782, and Mr. Hammond's almshouses were rebuilt by the parish, all in Guildford Street.

In 1837 Mr. Thomas Willatts built two aims- houses in Chapel Lane.

��CHOBHAM

��Cebeham (xi cent.) ; Chabbeham (in Chertsey Charter), and Chabham (xiii cent.).

Chobham is a village 3^ miles north-west of Woking Junction, 6 miles south-west of Chertsey. The parish is bounded on the north-east by Egham and Chertsey, on the south by Horsell, Bisley, and Pirbright, on the west by Ash, on the north-west by Windlesham. It measures about 6 miles from north- east to south-west, 4 miles from north-west to south- east at the north-eastern part, but 2 miles only further west. It contains 9,057 acres of land and 22 of water. It is traversed by the Bourne Brook and its tributaries which flow from the Chobham Ridges to the Thames near Weybridge, and the village and hamlets are chiefly on the gravel and alluvium of the stream beds, but the rest of the parish is on the Bagshot Sands, with extensive peat beds. There are very extensive open heaths with clumps of conifers.

��Ironstone abounds, and there are several strong chalybeate springs. The Wokingham and Reading branch of the London and South Western Railway runs through the northern side of the parish, and Sunningdale Station is just beyond the border.

Neolithic flints are said to have been found, and there are several round barrows on the heaths ; three stand close together near Street's Heath, and the Herestraet or Via Mi/itaris of the Chertsey Charters ran through Chobham parish. In 1772 silver coins of Gratian and Valentinian (? the first), and copper coins of Theodosius, Honorius, and Valentinian, a spear-head and a gold ring, were found near Chob- ham Park. 1

Near Sunningdale Station is a very large inclosure of earthen banks on the heath. The old ordnance map marked it as 'old entrenchment,' but the later maps ignore it. It is artificial, and not round

��n< Deed enrolled in Chancery 19 June 1819. 5 Exch. K..R. Miic. Bki.vol. 25, fol. 39.

��'"' Winton Epij. Reg. Orleton, i, fol. Jo. M Athtnac Oxonienset (ed. of 1721), i, 4.

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��318 Monument to Milt Mary Gile* in church.

1 Manning and Bray,//;V. ofSurr. 111,195.

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