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��picturesque half-timber cottages and other ancient houses, there is a charming block of red-brick almshouses in Mead Row, founded in 1622 by Richard Wyatt, citizen of London, and owner of Hall Place, Shackle- ford. This has a wonderful row of chimneys, very irregular in outline, at the back, and in the centre is the chapel, in which are some curious details. 135

A small stone and brick cottage on the road leading to Binscombe 135a has a good chimney and a brick hood-moulding over its windows.

HURTMORE (Hormera, xi cent. ; Hertmere, xiii cent. ; Hurtmere, xiv cent.), also a tithing in God- aiming, was held before the Conquest by Alwin. In

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��1086 Tezelin held it of Walter Fitz Other, founder of the Windsor family, 136 in which the overlordship was still vested in I54I. 137 The under tenant in 1166 was Philip of Hurtmore, 13 ' and in January 1 199-1200 William of Hurtmore released his claim in land in Hurtmore to Thomas son of Philip in considera- tion of a life annuity. 139 Thomas of Hurtmore held a fee in Hurtmore." A Thomas of Hurt- more granted the manor to the Priory of Newark, Surrey, in I259, 1 " and about twenty years afterwards the prior granted to Mary Norries and her grandson Robert common of pasture in ' Quachet ' and land called ' Lyth,' formerly the demesne of Thomas of Hurtmore."' The prior leased the manor from time to time, for in 1527 Henry Tanner obtained a lease of it for forty years, 143 and in 1535 the farm of the manor was 4 131. \d. lu On the surrender of the priory in 1538 Hurtmore was taken into the hands of the king, who in April 1 542 gave it with other lands to Andrew Lord Windsor in part exchange for the manor of Stanwell. 1 " The latter's son Wil- liam succeeded to his estates in the following March, 146 and his son and heir Edward Lord Wind- sor sold the manor to Eustace Moone of Farnham in I564-5- 147 Edmund Moone, son of Eustace, sold Hurtmore to Francis Clarke in I59O. 148 He was resident in 1592."' In 1595 he conveyed it to his son John Clarke and his wife Mary. Their children were baptized at Godalming 1596 1 60 1.

In 1606 John Clarke sold it to Sir Edward More of Odiham. 150 For some reason he obtained a grant of it from the Crown in i6i5, 1M probably on account of recusancy. By his will he directed that his daughter and her husband Sir William Staunton, recusant convict, 151 should have the house free of rent for life.

He died in 1623, having set- tled Hurtmore on his infant grandson Edward More. 153 The latter was dealing with Hurtmore

��185 There are excellent photographs of the front and back in Old Cottages and Farmhouses in Surr. B. T. Batsford, 1908. The will of Richard Wyatt and other ancient documents relating to the alms- houses are printed in Surr. Arch. CM. iii,

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185a Illustrated in Mr. Ralph Nevill's Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture of South-tvcst Surrey.

" V.C.H. Surr. i, 3230.

W When they exchanged it with the king, in whom the overlordship was after- wards vested; see below. Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, no. 46 ; ibid. 22 Ric. II, no. 52 ; ibid. 9 Hen. V, no. 45 ; ibid. 17 Hen. VI, no. 36.

k. of Exch. 315.

��139 Feet of F. Surr. i John, 6 ; Pipe R. 2 John, m. 15 d.

140 Testa dt Nevill (Rec. Com.), 221.

141 Feet of F. Surr. 43 Hen. Ill, 28. For an inspiximus of this gift see Dugdale, Man. yi, 384.

141 Cal. ofAnct. D. iii, 284. Thomas of Hurtmore had granted Robert Norries land in Southcroft in Hurtmore ; ibid, iii, 279, 283.

I4B Mins. Accts. Surr. 31 & 32 Hen. VIII, no. 146.

" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 33.

14S D. of Purchase and Exchange (Aug. Off.), 33 Hen. VIII, C. 22. Strangely enough Stanwell was the caput of the barony of Windsor of which Hurtmore was held. The exchange is said to have been

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��forced upon Lord Windsor by Henry VIII. See Dugdale, Baronage, ii, 307-8. In 165 1 the fee-farm rent due from the manor to the Crown was sold by the trustees of the Crown lands to John Johns, a merchant of London ; Close, 1651, pt. ix, no. 23.

146 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixviii, 28.

"7 Pat. 7 Eliz. pt i ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cciiv, 236.

148 Feet of F. Surr. East. 32 Eliz. ; Recov. R. Trin. 32 Eliz.

" Godalming Ct. R. (view of frank- pledge), n Oct. 34 Eliz.

160 Close, 4 Jas. I, pt. xxxiii, modern ref. no. 1870.

151 Pat. 13 Jas. I, pt. xv, no. 2.

lsa Subs. R. 4 Chas. I, bdle. 186, no. 439.

158 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxc.ix, 155.

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