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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��hospital certainly existed in the reign of Henry III ; but in the licence for its suppression in 1436 the foundation is attributed to an unknown Bishop of Winchester. 08 It is quite possible that the land had been part of the Wateville manor of Esher. It extended into Walton on Thames, Thames Ditton, and West Molesey.

In 1436 the hospital became so impoverished that it could no longer support itself, and was therefore united, with all its possessions, to the hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr, Southwark. 6 ' The rolls of the courts held by the master of St. Thomas's at Sandon in 1467-8 are extant. 70 In 1538 the master and brethren of the hospital conveyed the manor of Sandon and parsonage of Esher to the king in exchange for other parsonages, lately monastic property. 71 The manor remained in the hands of the Crown, and was, leased by Queen Elizabeth to Elizabeth Nolle in 1577, under the name of the manor of Sandon Chapel. 7 ' In 1603 James I granted the manor to John Earl of Mar, 73 but five years later the king resumed it, granting the earl other lands in exchange. 74 Charles I in 1630 granted San- don Manor to Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester," who died in l632. 76 From him it descended to his nephew Sir Dudley Carleton, who with his wife Lucy and his elder brother Sir John Carleton, the heir-at- law of the viscount, conveyed the manor to William and Gerard Gore as the manor of Sandon and the manor of Sandon Chapel. 77 Courts were held by William and Gerard Gore till 1 640, and by William Gore only till 1659. In 1665 and 1675 John Gore appearsas lord, in 1768-9 courts were held by John and Gerard Gore, in 1684 and 1692 by John Gore only. 78 In 1694 Sir William Gore, Benjamin Dolphin and Tabitha his wife, daughter and heiress of Gerard Gore, conveyed to John Gore, 79 whose wife Joanna sold it in 1715 to Charles Earl of Halifax, 80 who had become Lord Lieutenant of Surrey in the previous December, but died in May 1715, about the time of the completion of the sale. He was succeeded by his nephew George, second Earl of Halifax, who entered 'into a contract for the sale of Sandon to George Tournay, then a resident at Esher. Tournay died before the purchase was completed, and after some liti- gation the estate was conveyed in 1740 to Marsh Dickenson and Henry Laremore in trust for the co-heirs of Tournay. A partition of the property was made, the manor falling to the share of Na- thaniel Bateman, and the old buildings and Sandon Chapel to Mrs. Catherine Jen- kin. In 1741 the manor was bought by Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Com- mons, who died in 1768. In 1780 his son and heir George, Lord Onslow and Cranley,sold it to Sir John Frederick, bart., of Burwood Park, from whom it passed to his second son and successor,Sir Richard Frederick, who died without issue in 1873."

���FREDERICK, baronet. Or a chief azure <with three do-vet argent therein.

��Sandown House, the seat of Mr. J. P Currie- Blyth, J.P., belonged in 1870 to Mr. Spicer of Esher Place. The Sandown Park Racecourse Company, which held its first meeting in 1875, has acquired some of the land.

The property is described as consisting, at the time of Lord Dorchester's death, of the manor of Sandon, and houses, chambers, &c., in the manor, belonging at the time of the Dissolution to the hospital of St. Thomas of Southwark, called ' le Master's lodgings,' to wit, a parlour and a chamber built above it, a small kitchen, and a garden, and the two chambers above the said chapel.' "

CHRIST CHURCH is a completely CHURCHES modern structure, built in 1853-4, and consists of a chancel with north vestry and organ chamber and a south chapel or pew belonging to Esher Place ; a large nave with north and south aisles and porches, and a west tower sur- mounted by a broach spire. The whole church is in 13th-century style, and contains no old work of any sort except one monument brought from the old church. This is on the wall of the south aisle and is to Richard Drake, who died in 1603, who was ' one of the Queries (i.e. Equerries) ofOur late Soverane Elizabets Stable.' He married Ursula Stafford, and had one son, Francis. Above are three shields. In the centre a shield of seven quarters, arranged four and three ;

(1) Argent a dragon gules for Drake ; (2) Argent on a chief gules three molets argent ; (3) Gules on a fesse argent two molets gules ; (4) Ermine on a fesse indented azure three crosslets argent ; (5) Ermine three bars azure ; (6) Azure six lions rampant or, three, two, and one ; (7) Argent a cheveron azure. On the dexter side is a shield of six quarters ; (i) and (6) Or a cheveron gules with a canton ermine ;

(2) Party fessewise gules and azure a lion rampant or; (3) Azure, two bars or with three molets gules on each ; (4) Azure a cross argent ; (5) Or ermined sable a fesse azure. On the sinister is the first shield given above impaling the second. The crest over the first shield is a clenched hand. The monument itself is in the form of a small Corinthian order in- closing an arched recess in which is the kneeling effigy of a man in complete armour with ruffs at the neck and wrists. In the north aisle is a wall monument to Leopold Duke of Albany, died 1884, with his arms of England with the difference of a label of three points argent having three hearts gules thereon, and the arms of Saxony in pretence. In the tower is another modern monument, erected by Queen Victoria to Leopold King of the Belgians, 1865, 'in memory of the uncle who held a father's place in her affections.'

The tower contains eight modern bells. The church plate is also modern and consists of two chalices, two small and two large patens, a flagon, an almsdish and a spoon, all silver-gilt.

The first book of the registers is of paper and con- tains marriages from 1691, burials from 1678, and baptisms from 1684, all entries running to 1695. The second book is in part a duplicate of the first and contains marriages from 1688 to 1754, burials from

��68 Pat. 14 Hen. VI, pt. i, m. 4. Ibid.

" Ct. R. Surrey, portf. 205, no. 4.

7 1 Close, 30 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, no. 9.

'" Pat. 20 Eliz. pt. i.

7 Pat. i Jas. I, pt. xiii, in. 10.

74 S.P. Dom. Jas. I, xxxiv, ji.

��7* Pat 5 Chas. I, pt. v, m. 14.

" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxv, 89.

Tl Feet of F. Surr. East. 12 Chas. I ; Close, ii Chas. I, pt. xxi, no. I.

" Ct. R. quoted by Manning and Bray, op. cit ii, 749.

450

��7 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 6 Will, and Mary.

80 Ibid. East. I Geo. I.

81 Brayley, Hist. Surr. ii, 432, 433.

811 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxv, 89.

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