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��castle and was formerly much admired. The allied Sovereigns lunched in it in 1814. The skull of Eclipse, the race-horse, is kept in it.

The estate known as BROOKLYN DS formed part of Oatlands Manor." It was held by Isabel Reed in 1535, and was annexed by Henry VIII to the honour of Hampton Court. 6 ' In 1541 it was granted to Thomas Hungate. 65 In 1610 the king leased it to John Eldred and others. 64 The property was acquired by the Duke of York when he held Oatlands, and was sold to Mr. Ball Hughes. It was bought from him by the Hon. John Locke-King. The Duke of York pulled down the house built by George Payne, a friend of Warren Hastings." A new house has now been built, the property of Mr. H. F. Locke-King, J.P. The Brooklands Automobile Club holds the ground covered by the motor racing track, which extends beyond Brooklands into Byfleet.

Dorney House also formed part of the Crown property in Weybridge. It was leased by Queen Elizabeth to John Woulde, yeoman, 68 who died in 1 598.* In the reign of Charles I it was granted for twenty-five years to Humphrey Dethick, gentleman usher, 70 who died in 1642 and was buried in Wey- bridge Church. There is extant an address by the author of a history of the Netherlands to his two sons dated at Dorney House, 15 November 1621."

In 1461 Edward IV granted to Thomas Warner, citizen and ironmonger of London, for life, two acres of land called Weybridge Hawe at a rent of jt. \d. per acre." Two years later he licensed him to build a wharf or quay on this land, which bordered on the River Thames, and to load and unload vessels there, and take merchandise to and from the City of London and other places adjoining the river. 73 Henry VII granted the Hawe wharf to William Reed for 1 3*. \d. yearly, and Reed leased it to Richard Allddere for 3 6f. 8</. over and above the king's rent. After Reed's death a dispute arose as to his tenure of the property, and Stydolf wrote to advise Cromwell to step in while the matter was yet undecided and take possession of it. 7 * The name of Warner, wharfinger of Ham Hawe, occurs in 1636 ; he was summoned for sending his barges weekly to London in spite of the orders to the contrary which had been given in consequence of the prevalence of the plague." But probably, though resident in Weybridge, his landing- stage was on the other side of the river, in Ham in Chertsey.

The church of ST. J4MES is a fair- CHURCH sized modern structure designed by Pear- son, and consists of a chancel with a north vestry and organ chamber, a nave with a north and two south aisles, one being a later addition, and a western tower with a stone broach spire. The whole church is in 13th-century style, and is of excellent design. The chancel is extremely ornate, and is com- pletely lined with polished marbles and further deco- rated with glass mosaics. The colour scheme is so well conceived and the materials so well chosen that the general effect, while rich in the extreme, is quite free from gaudiness. The texture and degree of

��polish of the various marbles is also managed with considerable subtlety. It is worthy of note that the whole of this decorative treatment was at the cost of an anonymous benefactor. The old church stood in the present churchyard, a little to the north of the existing structure.

There are in the tower a number of brasses brought from the old church. On the south is one to John Woulde, esq., 1598, and his two wives ; the first Adrye (formerly the wife of Thomas Street), 1596, by whom he had four daughters and four sons ; thesecond, Elizabeth (Notte, formerly the wife of Henry Standish), date of death left blank, by whom he had five sons and three daughters. There are three shields of arms. The first bears an owl standing in an orle. A second is Street, of six quarters : (l), three Catherine wheels ; (2), a cheveron ; (3) six griffons segreant ; (4) three harts' heads razed ; (5) bendy ; (6) three roundels, between five crosslets fitchy, impaling a bend with three martlets thereon between three leopards' heads, for Adrye. The third shield bears the coat given above impaling ermine three roundels and a cinqfoil. On the north side of the tower is a monu- ment, with three skeletons, and the inscription :

��hand ildren Of I n ,

VDatne Margaret

��Francis \ (I59*>

viz. Dorothy I buried J 1600 Thomas ) (.1605

Also an inscription plate to Humphrey Dethick, 1642, 'who was one of his Ma tes Gent" Vshers (Dayly waiter) ' ; with the arms (Argent) a fesse vairy (or and gules) between three water bougets (sable), for Dethick quartering Allestry and (?) Boshall. Another brass is to ' Thomas Inwood y Elder, late of this towne, Yoman,' 1586, with the kneeling figures of himself and his three wives and their children.

There is a ring of eight modern bells.

The plate consists of a flat paten given in 1720, with the London date-letter for 171 9, and a modern set of a chalice, a cover paten, flat paten and flagons of 1844 and 1847.

The first book of registers contains mixed entries from 1625 to 1762, the burials to 1676 only. The second has burials from 1678 to 1775; the third, mixed entries from 1771 to 1797 ; the fourth, bap- tisms from 1797 to 1824 ; the fifth, marriages from 1797 to 1820. There is also a book of banns from 1754 to 1812.

A series of church wardens' accounts and vestry books exist, beginning early in the 1 7th century.

The advowson of Weybridge ADVQWSQN Church belonged with the manor to Chertsey Abbey. In the early 1 3th century the monks transferred it to Newark Priory, 76 reserving a rent of 6t. Sd. 71 In 1262 the priory obtained licence for an appropriation, and from the Winchester Episcopal Registers it appears that vicars were instituted till 1414. The latter part of the Beaufort Register (1415-47) is lost, but in 1450 the church was presented to as a rectory by John Penycoke " (probably by grant from the priory), and the presentations have since continued under

��L. and P. Hen. rill, xvi, 1 500.

"Ibid, ix, nji.

ss lbid. xvi, 1500.

" Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. xlix.

7 Manning and Bray, op. cit ii, 789.

Pat. 13 Eliz. pt. ix.

��"Surr. Arc/l. CM. x, 300. T>Surr. Arch. Call, xvii, 46. I 1 Hiit. MSS. Com. Rtf. iv, App. i, 252.

7" Pat. I Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 10. " Pt. 3 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 15.

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��7L. and P. Hen. VIII, vii, 1247. 7' Surr. Arch. Coll. xvii, 45. J' Harl. Chart. 51 C, 29. n V.C.H. Surr. ii, 58. W Called of Weybridge' Pat. I Rie, III, pt i, m. 6.

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