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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��Fulham, Canon of Windsor, who died 1 694, aged 90, and was buried at Compton.

Of the bells, the treble is by Brian Eldridge, 1634, and the second by the same founder, 1660. The tenor is by Mears, 1845.

The church was mentioned in ADVQWSOX the Domesday Survey of Compton. 1 " The advowson seems to have been in dispute early in the 1 4th century between the lords of Foisted and Compton Westbury, for, though Hugh of Foisted granted the advowson with Foisted to Simon Passelew, 1 " Henry of Guildford, lord of Westbury, died seised of it ; his successor, John the Marshal, disputed the presentation, and finally John of Brideford presented a rector." 6 Thenceforward the history of the advowson was coincident with that of Compton Westbury, saving that during the I Jth and 1 8th centuries the Mores and their descendants sold the right of presentation for several turns to members

��of the Fulham family. 187 It is now in the hands of the owner of Loseley and Westbury.

The charities are Smith's Charity, CHARITIES on the usual terms for the relief of deserving poor, charged on the War- bleton estate, Sussex ; a bequest by Richard Wyatt, in his will, 20 March 1618, for the maintenance of one poor man, with is. gd. a week and clothes once a year, in the almshouses at Godalming trustees, the Carpenters' Company ; 50.1., charged on land in Compton, in bread and money to the poor and clothes to two aged persons, by John Thompsall, first distributed in 1674, in the hands of the church- wardens and overseers ; a gown yearly to one poor woman, and the overplus bread, by Mrs. Jane Aburne, by will 19 May 1708.

A convalescent home for four inmates was founded in 1884 by Miss Hagart, and is supported by Mrs. Ellice of Eastbury.

��GODALMING

��Godelminge (xi cent.) ; Godhalminges and Godeli- ming (xiii cent.) ; Godlyman (xvii cent.). 1

The town of Godalming is 32 miles from London, and 4 from Guildford. The parish is of an extremely irregular shape, the extreme measurements being 6 miles north and south, 4 miles east and west. The area is 6,980 acres of land, and 59 of water.

The parish is entirely upon the Lower Green Sand, with the exception of alluvium in the valley of the Wey. The town lies in the valley, but its outskirts extend on to the hill to the south, called Holloway Hill, and to the north near Hurtmore, where the Charterhouse School stands. The most extensive open ground is Highden Heath to the south, near Hambledon. High Down is a corruption ; it was Hyddenesheth in 1453,' and Hyde Stile is near it. Hyden Ball rises to 592 ft. above the sea. Chauncey Hare Townshend, a poet of some celebrity, born at Busbridge in Godalming, 1798, celebrated the view from it. Burghgate, or Burgate Farm, where a road comes up the declivity of the sand from the Weald, perhaps gives its name to Bargate stone, a well-known building stone. But Topley * says that though the stone occurs freely in the parish, it does not occur here. Manning and Bray suggest that this was the en- trance to Godalming Common Park, which stretched over the waste land hence to the common fields on Holloway Hill and near Busbridge, south of the town. The tenants by copy of court roll had to repair the park palings. 4 The park is marked with no inclosure in Rocque's map ; but, from absence of any early reference to it, the probability is that ' park,' in the sense of ' a pound,' is here intended. The meadows to the west, up the Wey, are called Salgasson. In the 1 4th century this was spelt Chelnersgarston. The meadows by the river, north

��of the town, were lammas lands, common pasture for the parish; under regulations as to the number of beasts allowed to townsmen. Westmede was old common pasture closed from Lady Day to St. Peter ad Vincula.* The common fields had been partly alienated to private use in Elizabeth's time. In Court Rolls of 23 September 1591 it appears that Arnold Champion had alienated to John West- broke 6 acres by estimation, lately parcels of the field called ' Godalmyng field,' and four closes of 1 6 acres lately parcel of the field called ' Ashtedfielde ' in Godal- ming. The fields in Shackleford were called Estfield, Southfield, and Buryland.

Shackleford inclosure had begun earlier. On 5 Oc- tober 1503 Robert Bedon had inclosed 'land called Andyelle,' ' Rydys and Wodecrofte, that was never before inclosed.' The final Inclosure Act for Godal- ming and Catteshull was passed in l8o3, 6 and Pease- marsh, partly in Godalming, Compton, and Arlington, was inclosed by an Act of the same year. 7

The three ancient mills of the Domesday Survey were at Catteshull (mentioned 22 September 1453), Westbrook (mentioned 21 September 1441), and Eashing ; and there was a mill called Southmill at Lalleborne 8 (Laborne).

The road from Guildford to Portsmouth passes through the parish, and also the South Western Rail- way (Portsmouth line), opened through in 1859. ^ n 1 849 however, the line had been taken from Guildford to Godalming old station, now used for goods only as a siding. Farncombe station was opened when old Godalming station was disused in 1898. The Wey Navigation was extended from Guildford to Godalming in 1 760, with four locks.

The old bridge of Godalming was owned by the lords of the manor and hundred. It was only open

��1M V.C.H. Surr. i, 322*.

Feet of F. Surr. 45 Hen. Ill, 30. It is alo mentioned in the conveyance of Foisted by John de Middleton.

la6 Egerton MSS. 2031, 2034.

W Imt. Bks. P.R.O.

1 In 1647 it was spelt God Almaignt. The pronunciation of that time is illus-

��trated by the following 17th-century proverb :

He that shall say well, do well, and

think well in mind, Shall as soon come to heaven, as they

that dwell at Godalming.'

(Add. MS. (B.M.), 6167, fol. 167). 24

��" Ct. R. Geol. of the Weald, 123. < Ct. R. 2 Chas. I, Monday after St. Matt. 5 Ct. R. Aug. 2, 1453.

6 43 Geo. Ill, cap. 99. The award wa dated 1811.

7 43 Geo. Ill, cap. 94.

8 Thursday after Michaelmas I 108 ; Ct. R.

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