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��the elder had rebuilt the house. This is called the Place or Parsonage House by Aubrey, because Denham held the rectory. It has been incorrectly confused with the vicarage house. It is now pulled down."*

The other part of Imworth alias Fosters was per- haps separated at Sir William Warham's death. In 1568 Jasper Palmer and Rose his wife conveyed it to Thomas Burtell. 113 About this time Chancery proceedings are said to have been taken between Edward Owen and Thomas Burtell. Fosters passed from Owen to Sir Antony Manners, and from him to Sir John Doddridge. 114 Sir John died in 1628, and the name of Sir Robert Foster the judge, with which the name of the house has been erroneously connected. appears for the first time in connexion with it in l639. lls Sir Robert was youngest son of Sir Thomas Foster, Justice of the Common Pleas i6o7," 6 and was himself a Justice of Common Pleas, 1 640-4, when he was removed. In 1 660 he was restored and made Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He died in 1663. His son Sir Thomas Foster succeeded to the property and died in l685. 117 It changed hands several times, and early in the ipth century was a lunatic asylum.

Fosters or Great Fosters is a good early 1 7th-cen- tury house.

The messuage of RUSH4M or RUTSSH4MES in Egham appears to have been in the possession of a family of that name from very early times. Alice Rusham, who inherited the lands in the reign of Henry VI, and who married first Robert Ferly, and secondly John Wolley, was apparently the descendant of a line of Rushams,"' and occasional references to Rushams of Egham, occurring as a witness or as owner of land, are found in the Ledger Book of Chertsey Abbey and elsewhere.' 19 Agnes Ferly, granddaughter and heiress of Alice, is said to have married Thomas Day of Egham, 110 in whose family Rusham remained until 1679.'" From the i6th century onwards Rusham is described as a manor, but there is no evidence to show that it was considered as such before that time. An account of the property in the reign of Henry VI describes it as 'a messuage, 1 60 acres of arable land, 12 acres of meadow, 80 acres of pasture and 20 acres of wood and 24*. rent in Egham in co. Surrey, called Ruysshames.' " A rental of Egham Manor taken in 1622 records that the sum of 201. ^d. was paid by Richard Day for his manor of Rusham and for his fishing and greyhounds. 113 After 1679 all trace of the so-called manor is lost. Rusham Hall, formerly the seat of the family of Day, was destroyed

��before the igth century, 1 " but Rusham Green and a farm of the same name still exist in Egham.

The PARK OF POTEN4LL or PORTN4LL belonged anciently to the Crown. It is not clear when it was imparked, but in 1485 the office of parker in the king's park of Potenall in the forest of Windsor was given to John Molle." 4 In 1528 Henry VIII granted the park to Sir William Fitz William and his heirs, 'for the service of one red rose annually.'" 6 It was apparently disparked before 1607, for Norden's Survey of the parks in the forest of Windsor of that year does not include it. 1 " The history of the property during the lyth century is not apparent." 8 During the latter half of the 1 8th century it is referred to as a manor held by families named Walker and Day." 9 The manor so called was conveyed in 1791 to Mr. Lowndes, 130 whose family owned property in Chertsey and Egham fifty years later. Part of the estate, however, was in the hands of Dr. Jebb, Dean of Londonderry. His son Mr. David Jebb exchanged it in 1 804 for other land with the Rev. T. Bisse, whose son, Colonel Bisse Challoner, held it in 1840, and built the pre- sent house. 131 It is now the property of the Rev. H. J. A. Fane de Salis. A park was inclosed by Colonel Bisse Challoner. The site of the original park was probably not

exactly where Portnall Park


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now is, but in Portnall War-

ren, where Norden's map marks Valley Wood.

In the 1 7th and l8th centuries occasional record is found of a reputed manor called WICK, or EGHAM WICK, in Egham. In 1618 Edward Anthony and William Willis sold the manor, which included two messuages or farms, to Francis Anthony and his heirs. 13 * In 1 768 it was the property of the Rev. William Robert Jones and Elizabeth his wife, and was apparently held in the right of Elizabeth. 1 " They sold it as the 'manor or reputed manor of Egham' in 1782 to John Pitt and his heirs. 1 "

The church of ST. JOHN THE CHURCHES BAPTIST was built in 1817, and is of little architectural interest. It consists of a shallow chancel, a wide nave with galleries on three sides, and a west tower, and has three west doorways, the two side doors admitting to the gallery stairs. The building is in poor classical style, and built of brick with stone dressings. The chancel has north and south vestries, and on each side of the nave are six windows below the gallery, and six above it, some of them filled with stained glass from the chapel at Coopers Hill ; the nave has a coved plaster ceiling.

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��1Ia Information from Mr. F. Turner of Egham.

118 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 10 & 1 1 Eliz.

Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 626. Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 15 Chas. I. J< Monument in Egham Church.

Il ' Monument in Thorpe Church.

">HarL MS. 5830, foi 250, 251 ; Chan. Proc. bdle. 54, no. 179.

118 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, foL 246*; Cat. Close 1821-;, p. 352.

"Harl. MS. 5830, fol. 250, 251.

��m Feet of Surr. Mich. 44 & 45 Eliz. ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. i65o;Recov. R. Mich. 1653, rot. 48 ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 31 Chas. II.

132 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 54, no. 179.

las Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.) R. 626.

111 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 253.

155 Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 512.

146 Pat, 19 Hen. VIII, pt. i, 12.

WHarl. MS. 3749.

las Manning had a privately communi- cated mention of deeds conveying 'Potter's Park ' to Arthur Mainwaring and then to

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��John Lyne in 1661. Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 255. But Potter's Park is another place in Chcrtsey.

1M Recov. R. Trin. 17 Geo. Ill, rot. 132 ; Feet of Surr. Mich. 30 Geo. III.

"Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 31 Geo. III.

181 E. W. Brayley, op. cit. ii, 297.

188 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 15 Jas. I, m. 6.

188 Recov. R. East. 8 Geo. Ill, rot. 276.

J8 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. za Geo. Ill, m. 303.

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