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��The latter grant, however, was cancelled on the acces- sion of Elizabeth. In 1 6 1 1 James I granted both rectory and advowson to Francis Morrice and Francis Philipps, 145 probably trustees, as Maria Moore," 4 a widow, presented in 1620.'" Sir John Dormer owned the rectory and advowson in l624, 148 but Sir John Denham had acquired both before 1639."' In 1 648 the estate of his son, Sir John Denham the poet, a delinquent, was conveyed to John Thynne, M.P., for a debt of j2O. 148 The rectory and advowson were probably included in this conveyance, as John Thynne presented to the vicarage in 1662. 149 Ac- cording to Manning, Thomas Sutton, son-in-law of John Thynne, sold the property to Adrian Moore, who sold it in his turn in 1734 to William Scawen, 150 whose family was certainly in possession in I759. 141 It afterwards passed to John Dawe, whose son sold the rectory to George Gostling in lySS. 15 * The advowson passed at the same time to Mrs. Challoner, who conveyed it to George Gostling in 1797.'" He presented to the church in 1 8 1 1. li4 The patronage remained in his family until 1879, when it passed to the Rev. W. Trevor Nicholson, who now holds it. 140 Christ Church Virginia Water was formed into a parish in 1838. The living is in the gift of three trustees.

Of the older charities the most CHARITIES important is Henry Strode's, left by will in 1703. He left 6,000, of which the Cooper's Company became trustees, for almshouses and a school. Considerable litigation followed owing to alleged misappropriation of funds and to some ambiguity in the will, it being doubtful

��whether the almspeople need or need not be in- habitants of Egham. It was decided in 1749 that they must be chosen from the parish. The next question was about the schoolhouse, which Mr. Jeans, as master, wished to use as a first-grade school, rele- gating the teaching of poor children to other hands. This state of affairs is similar to that which occurred at Farnham. 156

In 1812 the Court of Chancery decided that the school must be reserved for the poor children of Egham. In 1828 new almshouses were begun and in 1839 completed, on the north side of Egham Street (see inscription in almshouses). The school is now, however, discontinued, and the money formerly devoted to it has gone since 1870 to the Station Road School, formerly called Egham Parish School. There are twelve almshouses and a chapel. Before this, in 1624, Sir John Denham, baron of the Exchequer, father to the poet, founded almshouses for five poor women.

Ann Reid in 1838 founded five almshouses in memory of her husband.

In 1840 Mr. Stewart founded five almshouses.

In 1683 Mr. Richard Barker charged land with 2 lot. per annum, for the benefit of the poor.

In 1705 Mr. Edmund Lee left land producing then 60 per annum for the apprenticing of poor children.

In 1712 Mrs. Mary Barker left 5 per annum charged on land for the teaching of poor children.

Smith's Charity exists as in other Surrey parishes.

Egham parish has a nomination in rotation with thirty other parishes of one poor man to Lucas's Hospital at Wokingham in Berkshire, founded in 1663.

��HORSELL

��Horishull (xiii cent.) ; Horsehill (xvii cent.) ; Hors- hill (rviii cent.).

Horsell lies a mile north-west of Woking Junction. It is bounded on the north by Chobham, north and east by Chertsey, south by Woking, west by Bisley. It contains 2,913 acres. It measures about 3$- miles east to ^yvest, and from I to ij miles north to south. The soil is Bagshot sand. This lends itself to the chief industry of the place, nursery gardening. Messrs. Waterer, Messrs. Cobbett and others have nursery gardens of American plants and trees. There is also a brewery. Formerly there were extensive commons, of which Horsell Birch and part of Wood- ham Common are the largest remaining ; the Inclo- sure Act of 35 George III 1 affected part of the commons of Horsell, as being in Pyrford Manor. The Basingstoke Canal skirts the parish.

There are said to have been barrows upon the heath, but there is now no trace of their existence.*

The aspect of the eastern part of the parish has been quite transformed by the growth of the town

��about Woking Junction. When the railway was first opened the neighbourhood was so secluded that a spot in Horsell parish, near the Basingstoke Canal, was selected as a suitable place for a prize fight, as out of the observation of the police. 3 This is now covered with houses, a considerable number of which usually reckoned in Woking are really in Horsell. Gentle- men's houses are increasing rapidly, and there are famous golf links in Horsell.

There is a Baptist chapel in the parish built in 1901.

The schools (National) were built in 1851 and enlarged in 1882. But a Church school and a Baptist school existed about 1845.*

HORSELL, though parochially a MANORS chapelry of Woking, appears to have been included in the manor and lordship of Pyrford (q.v.) from the time of its earliest records until the present day. No reference to it is found in the Domesday Survey, but that it was part of the land at the Pyrian Ford granted to Westminster in 956 is probable, as in 1278-9 the Abbot of West-

��148 Pat 8 Ja. I, [it. xxxi, m. I ; I o Ja. I, pt. ii, m. I.

144 See manor of Milton. She was widow of Adrian Moore of London, mer- chant (Harl. MS. 1561, fol. 68). Her husband presented a chalice to the church.

Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.).

146 Feet of F. SUIT. East. 22 Jas. I.

��"7 Recov. R. East, 15 Chas. I. 148 Cal. of Com. for Compounding^ 1790. 14 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 150 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii ; Aubrey, op. cit. iii, 150.

! Recov. R. Mich. 33 Geo. II. 1M Close, 19 Geo. Ill, pt. i, no. 17. 153 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii.

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��4 Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). s Clergy Littt.

f.C.H.Surr. ii, 189.

1 Award 29 Sept. 1815, Blue Bk. Intl. Award*.

'Aubrey, op. cit. iii, 189, 193.

chant of Chobham Place.
 * Information from Sir Denis Le Mar-

4 Brayley^f/i/. tfSurr. ii, 170.

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