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��There are a large number of good houses in the neigh- bourhood. Potuall Park is the residence of the Rev. H. J. F. de Salis, Kenwolde Court of Mr. G. N. Stevens, Wentworth of the Countess de Morella, Markwood of Mr. J. S. Fletcher, Kingswood of Mrs. Eastwood, Alderhurst was the seat of the late Lord Thring.

Coopers Hill College was erected for the training of candidates for the Government service in India in the engineering, telegraphic, and forestry services. It was established in 1 87 1, and was administered by a highly-distinguished staff of scientific men who gave a special character to the society of the neighbourhood. It was closed amid general regrets in October 1906, the Indian Government having adopted other means of supplying their services.

The Royal Holloway College for Women, Egham Hill, was founded by the late Mr. Thomas Holloway in 1879 and opened in 1886 by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. The founder gave 600,000 in the first instance, and by his will left 200,000 more for endowment in 1883. It was intended for the educa- tion of women by women. The building, consisting of two quadrangles, is in red-brick in the style of the French Renaissance. It in fact follows generally the model of the Chateau de Chambord in Touraine. There is a picture gallery looft. long, 30 ft. wide, and 5oft. high, containing a fine collection of paintings by Turner, Gainsborough, Constable, Crome, Mor- land, Copley Fielding, Landseer, Creswick, Millais (The Princes in the Tower), Long (The Babylonian Marriage Market), and other distinguished modern artists. The chapel is richly decorated and contains on the apsidal east end a high relief of the Creation of Eve and a ceiling designed and made by the late Signer Fucigno. The government of the college is in the hands of twelve governors, including the trustees of the property. It has not been found possible so far to dispense entirely with male teaching, and the undenominational services in the chapel have resolved themselves into alternate denominations, one Sunday service being usually conducted by a Canon of Windsor.

The same founder established the sanatorium at

St. Anne's Heath for mentally afflicted persons of the upper and middle classes. It was opened in 1885. Mr. W. H. Crossland was architect of both buildings.

The Cottage Hospital, Englefield Green, was

opened in 1880, and contains sixteen beds.

There are Wesleyan, Congregational, Baptist, and Primitive Methodist chapels in the parish.

The Schools are : Station Road School, formerly Egham Parish School, built in 1870, taken over by

the School Board in 1884, enlarged in 1895 ; Vir- ginia Water School (National), built 1857 ; Englefield Green School (National), built in 1864, enlarged in 1885,1896, and 1899; Hythe School, built in 1886, enlarged in 1890 and in 1900 ; Bishopsgate Infant School (Church of England), built in 1882 ;

.St. Anne's Heath School, built in 1896. The School Board was formed in 1884.

��EGHAM

EGHAM was included in the original MANORS endowment of Chertsey Abbey in 666-75.'* Confirmation of the grant was made in 727 and in 967, and in both cases the property at Egham is referred to as '20 mansae cum porcorum pascuis in pene wold.' ls The Domesday Survey records that in the time of King Edward it was assessed for 40 hides, whereas in 1086 it was assessed for 15. Its value, previously 40, was then 30 lot. Of this land Gozelin held 3 hides which were of the abbey's demesne in King Edward's time."

The manor was included in all subsequent con- firmations of the abbey land, and was held with those of Chertsey, Thorpe, and Chobham (q.v.) until the surrender of the abbey in 1537," since which time the manor of Egham has remained in the Crown. With the Chertsey manors Egham was leased to Sir William Fitz William in 1550 for thirty years," and after his death the lease was renewed to his widow Joan, 19 who died in 1574.

The manor was included in the Crown grants to Prince Henry and Charles Prince of Wales in the reign of James I, and to Queen Henrietta Maria in the reign of Charles I.* During the Commonwealth the manor was sold to Thomas Richardson," who in 1650 sold it to John Blackwele." After the Restora- tion the manor was granted to Queen Catherine of Braganza.** A lease of the manor was granted to John Thynne, which expired about the year 1693." The reversion was granted to Sir Richard Powle in 1673, but this grant was cancelled," and in 1674 John Thynne was granted a further lease of forty years." Aubrey says that this lease was acquired by Adrian Moore, attorney, of Egham." In 1694, however, a lease of ninety-nine years, to date from the death of Queen Catherine, was granted by the Crown to William Blaythwayt. 1 ' 8 The queen died in 1705, in which year, therefore, Blaythwayt's lease began. This lease also became the property of Adrian Moore, a relation of William Blaythwayt.* 9 Adrian Moore held a lease of Milton Place also (q.v.). The lease from the Crown held by this family was finally surrendered about the year 1865,* Richard Wyatt, the heir of Adrian Moore (see under Milton), having in 1804 obtained a renewal of Blaythwayt's lease."

Queen Elizabeth granted the site of the manor of Egham to William Grene in 1579 fora period of twenty-one years," but in 1587 he sold all right, title, and interest in the premises to Thomas Stydolf, who then received a further grant of twenty-one years from the Crown. 33 This grant was extended in 1592 to Thomas Stydolf, Elizabeth his wife, and Francis his son, ' to have and to hold for the term of their natural life for the longest liver.' ** In 1607 Thomas Merrye was granted the reversion of this site for a term of forty years, 35 but he in the same year assigned the capital messuage, site, and all his estate and term of years therein to Francis Stydolf. 36 The Parliamentary Survey of 1650 records that

��Birch, Cart. Sax, i, 55-6. 14 Ibid, i, 64 ; iii, 469. V.C.H. Surr. i, 309*. W Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 19
 * H^n. VIII.

18 Acti of tht P.O. 1549-50, p. 415.

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

M Vide Chertsey. Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. xli, no. 2 ; Exch. L.T.R. Orig. R. 14 Jas. I, pt. iv, rot. 126 ; Cal. S.P. Dam. 1640-1, p.

��552 ; Ct. R. (P.R.O.), belle. 204, no.

47, 53-

M Particulars for Sale of Crown Lands during Commonwealth, R. I.

93 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1650.

M Pat. 24 Cha. II, pt. ix, m. I.

ibid. 1673-75, p. 175.
 * Cal. S.P. Dam. 1673, p. 385-6 ;

"Ibid. 1673-5, pp. 175, 185.

M Ibid.

421

��"7 Aubrey, op. cit. iii, 150 (after 1673). 98 Pat. 6 Will, and Mary, pt i, m. 1 3. 29 Information communicated by Mr. A. Wyatt-EdgelL *> Ibid.

81 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 150. 89 Pat. 22 Eliz. pt. iii, m. 21. 88 Ibid. 30 Eliz. pt. ix, m. 22. 84 Parl. Surr. 1650, no. 24. 86 Ibid, i Pat. 4 Jas. I, pt Jtxix, m. I. 84 Part. Surv. 1650, no. 24.

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