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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��that denomination. After the dissolution of Chert- sey Abbey the king granted the payment due to it from Weybridge Church to his new monastery at Bisham, 79 but retained the advowson, which has ever since remained with the Crown. 80

During the Commonwealth period the living was sequestrated, and temporary ministers were appointed. In 1657 the Commissioners for inquiry into ecclesias- tical matters reported that ' the patrons of Weybridge were the Lords.' In 1660 the king appointed to the living as before. 81

Smith's Charity is distributed as in CHARITIES other Surrey parishes.

In the church is a tablet recording the following charities :

1 500. Seven acres of land in the Common Meadow, the product to be sold every Easter Tuesday for the necessary repairs of the church ; donor unknown.

��1657. l a year from a farm called Tromp's Green, Surrey, to five poor widows, left by Edmund Bunyon, citizen and armourer.

1739. 100 endowment by Charles Hopton of Littleton, Middlesex, of the Charity School built by his sister Elizabeth some years before. This is paid to the National school.

Mrs. Elizabeth Carr 50 three per cents, for the repair of the church.

1837. 200 three per cents, by Mr. Antony Wills of Staines, for bread for the poor.

1837. Ten acres of the land allotted to the poor by the Act of 1800 being sold to the London and Southampton Railway, .300 was invested in the three per cents, to be distributed to the poor in fuel.

1838. j^jo paid by the railway for accommodation for turning a road was invested in the same way for the same purpose.

��1>L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (z) 1311.

��80 In.t. Bkfc (P.R.O.).

��81 Surr. Arch. Call, rvii, 48, &C.

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