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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��the four vewers of that Honorable City of London.' He married Ann Frognal, daughter of William Frog- nal, citizen and fishmonger of London, by whom he had five sons and two daughters and he died in 1619, ' she still surviving until. . . ' ; the date of her death is not filled in. He is represented above in a long robe and his wife in a full skirt and wearing a straw hat. Below are the children, the sons in one group and the daughters in another. Two of the sons, one of them a small boy, carry a skull each. Above are two shields, one containing the arms of London, and the second has a cheveron between three compasses, the Carpenters' arms. A stone slab near this records the death of John Collyer in 1689. On the north wall of the nave, fixed to a modern stone, is an inscription to ' Fayth Sutton,' the wife of John Sutton the younger, and daughter to ' Hwgh Fear- clough of London, gentleman.' She died in 1603. Above on one plate are the figures of two sons and one daughter, but these are not in their right place and probably belong to John Sutton the elder, as this lady had two daughters only.

To the west of this is another modern stone on which is an inscription to John Sutton the elder, who lived a widower 24 years and died in 1603. He had two sons and one daughter. On the same stone is an inscription to Thomas, the elder of these two sons, who died in 1603. Above each inscription is a figure, the old man in a long robe and the son in a short cloak. Between the two figures are three shields, two having : quarterly (i) a cheveron between three cows, (2) a fesse between three ducks, (3) party cheve- ron-wise two voided molets in chief and one in base, (4) a fesse between two cheverons. On the centre point is a crescent for difference. The other shield has the quarterly coat impaling a lion between three fleurs de lis.

On the west wall of the nave is a small wall monu- ment to John Greene, who died in 1651, and in the south aisle is a large white marble monument to James Fenn, 1793, who is shown in his robes as Sheriff of London, kneeling at a desk with his wife and daughter opposite him. The treatment is some- what florid, but the survival of this Jacobean type of monument is very interesting and curious at the end of the 1 8th century.

There are five bells in the tower, originally all cast by R. Catlin in 1741, but the second and fifth have been recast in 1896 by Taylor & Son.

The plate comprises a silver cup of 1798, a chalice and paten of 1892, and a flagon of 1888. There is also a base metal paten dated 1 8 1 8 and a flagon of the same material dated 1860 and an old pewter flagon dated 1713.

The registers are contained in five volumes the first having entries of baptisms from 1653 to 1770, mar- riages 1654 to 1754 and burials 1653 to 1765. The second contains marriages from 1754 to 1801. The third has baptisms from 1770, and burials from 1765, both up to 1798. The fourth continues the baptisms and burials from 1799 to 1812 and the fifth has marriages from 1801 to 1812.

��The chapel of Horsell originally be- ADVOWSQN longed to the monastery of Westmin- ster. The date of its foundation is not apparent, but in 1 2 5 8 the Abbot of Westminster granted the advowson, with that of Pyrford, to the priory of Newark." By 1262 both chapels had been annexed to the church of Woking, which was also among the possessions of Newark Priory. 40 In 1291 the chapels of Horsell and Pyrford were together valued at 10 annually," and in 1428 were taxed at 15 marks." In 1457, owing to the smallness of the receipts of the chapel of Horsell and its ruinous condition, Roger Hallye, a canon regular of Newark, received licence from the bishop to administer the sacraments to the parishioners for one year, more or less, dating from 2 April, during which time he would take all the profits." Horsell remained attached to the rectory of Woking and was surrendered, with the priory's other possessions, in 1538, when the farm of the chapel of Horsell was valued at is." After the Dis- solution it appears that the benefice, a curacy, was rendered perpetual under a licence from the ordinary." The great tithes of Horsell were granted, with those of Woking, to Francis Aungier, Baron Longford, being subsequently held by his son and by the latter's nephew, who was lay impropriator in 1679.*' In the mean time, the king apparently presented perpetual curates, who both served and had an actual estate in the chapel at a rent of 2/.* 7 In 1628, at the sug- gestion of the Earl of Anglesey, the chapel was granted to John Robinson, who served it. 4 ' The chapel, with the vicarage house and lands and the small tithes, was subsequently conveyed by the ministers themselves, or by their widows, to their various successors until about 1674, when Ann Alchorn, widow of the last curate, sold the property to Godfrey Lee, a layman, who appropriated the small tithes and closed the chapel while he himself occupied the house belonging to it." In October 1679, however, the lay rector, Lord Aungier, came forward and brought a suit against Godfrey Lee, 50 maintaining that there could not be two lay fees in the tithes of one parish. 41 It was on the strength of this plea, apparently, that Lord Aungier had presented to Horsell earlier in the year, but doubts having arisen on that occasion as to his right to do so, the incumbent was again instituted a few weeks later by the Crown." The dispute, how- ever, was not immediately settled. Bishop Morley of Winchester, evidently wishing to arrange matters and to erect the curacy into a vicarage, bequeathed, by his will, proved 31 October 1684, 10 per annum for an augmentation to the ' vicarage ' on the conditions that the ' vicarage ' house and tithe should be restored to the church and that those who had bought the great tithe should settle 10 per annum more on the living for ever. The terms were not complied with however, and the benefaction became void. 53 Godfrey Lee in 1684 M still held the chapel house and small tithes, but the property appears to have been handed to the lay rector soon after, as according to Manning both this and the great tithes were sold by Lord Aungier to Richard Lee and

��* Feet of F. SUIT. East. 42 Hen. III. V.C.H. Surr. ii, 103. Pope Nich. Tax (Rec. Com.), 208*. 4 " Feud. Aidt, v, 117. 48 Surr. Arch. Call, vii, 167. Mini. Accts.ji-2 Hen. VIII, rot. 146, m. 31 i 36-7 Hen. VIII. rot. 187, m. 31.

��46 Surr. Arch. Coll. vii, 167.

Exch. Dcp. Mich. 31 Chas. II, 5.

47 See note 44. Rentals and Sunr. P.R.O. bdle. 59, no. 39.

48 Pat. 4 Chas. I, pt. xxv, no. 2.

49 Close, 15 Chas. I, pt. v, no. 14 ; Exch. Dep. Mich. 31 Chas. II, 5.

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��M Exch. Dep. Mich. 31 Chas. II, 5. 61 Surr. Arch. Coll. vii, 1 66. "Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.); Surr. Arch. Cell, vii, 167.

M Surr. Arch. Coll. vii, 166.

M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 36 Chas. II.

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