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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��solicitor to the Treasury 1756-65, M.P. for Hasle- mere 1754-67. He was a distinguished lawyer, antiquary, and collector. He died at Busbridge in 1770. Chauncey Hare Townshend the poet was born here in 1798, when his father owned the pro- perty, which he bought in 1796. It now belongs to Mr. P. Graham. The house was pulled down in 1 906, and a new one is being erected on a new site.

The hamlet of Shackleford contains some old cot- tages and farm buildings and many new houses in very beautiful scenery. Hall Place, the house of Richard Wyatt, who built the Mead Row Almshouses, was pulled down. The offices were made an inn, called Cyder House. The inn was acquired by Mr. William Edgar Home, who turned it into a modern mansion. The panelling.and overmantel of the dining-room came from the Cock Tavern in Fleet Street, London, whilst the gallery railings in the hall came from the old Banqueting Hall at Whitehall.

Neolithic implements found upon Charterhouse Hill and the school cricket ground are now in the school museum.

King Edward's school is in the Laborne tithing of Godalming parish, close to Witley Station. It is a school for destitute boys who have never been con- victed of crime, who are trained for the Army, Navy, or industrial life, and is under the control of the Governors of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospital. The

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corresponding girls' school is in Southwark. This building was erected in 1867, and enlarged in 1882 and 1887, and will hold 240 boys. It is in the Italian Renaissance style in brick. There is a chapel for the joint use of this school and the Convalescent Home for women and children in Witley.

The Technical Institute and School of Science and Art in Bridge Road was built in 1896 in the Renais- sance style from designs by Mr. S. Welman.

A cemetery was opened in 1857. The present cemetery was opened in 1899. It serves both the civil parishes, the town and Godalming Rural, and is under joint management.

A Roman Catholic chapel used to exist, but had no resident priest. The new Roman Catholic Church of St. Edmund King and Martyr is in Croft Road. It

��was consecrated in 1906. It consists of a plain nave and chancel divided by a pointed arch. It is of local stone with a tiled roof. On the north is a low tower. The Unitarian chapel in Mead Row was built before 1 809, when worship is first recorded there in the church books, in accordance with a resolution passed as far back as 1788, for a Baptist congregation which had met at Worplesdon, and which admitted another body of Unitarian Baptists who met at Crownpits, Godalming, in 1814. In 1818 the Baptist qualification was dropped, and the meeting became Unitarian as the older members died.

A Congregational chapel was opened in 1730 in Hart Lane. The building has been replaced since. Under Charles II the population of Godalming had been very largely nonconformist ; 700 or 800 people met in a conventicle every Sunday, and 400 or 500 monthly in a Quaker's house, out of a population of under 3,ooo. 19 In 1725 there was no meeting house, but ' several kinds of Protestant Dissenters of no great consideration as to numbers or quality.' * The con- gregation may be considered however the lineal repre- sentative of the conventicle of the reign of Charles II, organized in 1730. There is now a Wesleyan chapel, a Friends' meeting house, and a small Baptist chapel, opened in 1903.

The parish is divided into two civil parishes, Godalming Urban and Godalming Rural." The former includes the borough of 897 acres.

There were anciently nine tithings, for which tith- ingmen were chosen : Godalming Enton (the town), Binscombe, Catteshull, Bashing, Farncombe, Hurtmore, Laborne, Shackleford, Tuesley. Tithingmen also attended the Godalming Hundred Court from Shackle- ford, Arlington and Littleton (in St. Nicholas Guild- ford), Compton, Peper Harow, Chiddingfold Magna, Chiddingfold Parva, and Haslemere. But the names of the tithings vary from time to time, nor are they all constantly represented in the extant rolls. High Tithing, from which tithingmen also came, is the same as Upper Bashing, answering nearly to Bus- bridge. To the Godalming Enton Court Vann, Haslemere, Chiddingfold, Shackleford, Bashing, and Godalming constantly sent tithingmen. All these were originally in the manor and were perhaps in the parish. There were parish churches at Compton, Chidding- fold, and Haslemere, and churches at Tuesley, Hurt- more, Catteshull, Arlington (St. Catherine) ; there are modern churches at Farncombe, Shackleford, and Busbridge."

In Domesday in the manor held by Ranulf Flam- bard, which was afterwards known as the Reclory Manor, ihere are twelve cotarii mentioned. In the king's manor of Godalming there were no cotarii, but in Tuesley, held by Flambard, were six cotarii. Tuesley was afterwards included in the Rectory Manor. In the rolls preserved at Loseley there are fourteen, and in the survey of I Edward VI, eighteen cotholders, on the king's manor. They are described as libere tenentes a or ' free ten- ants,' but their services seem to have been similar to the ordinary villein services in kind, though different in particulars. They all paid small money renls. They goi in the lord's hay ;" and did suit at the courts." They paid heriots on succession, and

��19 V.C.H. Surr. ii, 39, 40.

K Bishop Willis' Visitation, 1724-5.

56 & 57 Viet. cap. 73.

��See below. Miru. Accts. Hen. VIII, no. n.

��Mic. Co. 33, 34

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 * Ct. R. 23 Aug. 31 Hen. VI, Ac.

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