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��Nicholas is said to have settled the manor on his wife Margaret for life, with remainder to their son Bernard.

Margaret's third husband, Henry Mannock, held in right of his wife in 1 548.'" He died in 1 563, having quarrelled with his wife, to whom he left nothing in his will. 159

In 1564 Margaret brought a suit against Ralph, great-nephew of John Jenings, who had entered upon the manor after the death of Bernard. 190 Ralph Jenings held it, 191 and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who sold it to Thomas Cowper in 1590.'" Thomas Cowper's brother and heir Martin sued for the lands as part of his inheritance, 191 and released his claim to John Hollinshed and Richard Sheppard in 1597."*

In 1 608 they conveyed it to the Vintners' Company for the use of Mary Clarke wife of John Clarke of Battle in Sussex, and her son Francis and her other


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sons in succession.

John Clarke, the third son, parted with it to Wil- liam Byerley in l635, 196 but apparently the purchase money was not all paid, 197 and it reverted to his son Mark, and afterwards to his son Antony, who was in possession in 1665,'^ and in 1689 sold to John Childe 1M the manor of Vann and a parcel of land called Pepper- hams. John Childe died 1 70 1, and was succeeded by his son John. 100 He sold to John Greenhill in 1722.*" In 1734 it was entailed on Peter, son of Sir Peter and Sarah Anna Myers, and Sarah his wife, daughter of John Curryer. The latter in her widowhood settled it* * in 17589 on her daughter Sarah, wife of Thomas Geldart, but her son Peter Myers was treated as tenant in a court of 1 762 as a defaulter. The Geldarts are said in a court of 1789 to have obtained Vann from Peter Myers. In 1822 Richard Smyth of Burgate died holding the manor, 10 * and it was in the Smyth family for some time later. There is no record of any court in the reputed manor.

The reputed manor of WESTBROOK lies to the west of the town. From an undated customary of Godalming of the early part of the reign of Edward III, of which a 1 6th or 1 7th-century copy exists at Loseley, it appears that there was a Richard de Westbrook hold- ing land in Godalming ; by the marginal notes on the copy this seems to be the same land that was after- wards held by Thomas Hull, owner of Westbrook. The conditions of tenure are plainly servile in origin, including carriage of harvest and serving as reeve with food allowance. In 1334 a Robert Westbrook and his wife Bona were enfeoffed of land in Godalming,* *

���WISTBROOK of God- aiming. Gules a fleur- de-lis coming out of a leopard's head or.

��but whether of what was afterwards called Westbrook is not clear. Westbrooks occur frequently in the God- aiming courts. They held Prestwick in Chiddingfold soon after i327,* M and Asshtede,* 06 which afterwards both belonged to the West- brooks of Westbrook, but there is no evidence of their holding Westbrook. It was probably a holding in Godal- ming named from them. The original ' Westbroke ' was per- haps that in Hampshire. There were members of the family about the neighbourhood, and they were rising in the world. A John Westbrook acquired the Strode moiety of Loseley in or before 1481.

According to Symmes, Wil- liam Westbrook was buried at Godalming in 1437, and Thomas Westbrook in 1493 ; both holders of the manor.* 07 It appears from a rental at Loseley that John Westbrook held Westbrook in 1486. John Westbrook sold his moiety of Loseley Manor in I5o8.* 8 He died in 1513-14 and was buried in Godalming Church.* 09 William Westbrook died in 1537. His widow Margaret resided at Westbrook, and after her death the manor descended to the heirs of his sisters Florence Scarlet and Elizabeth Hull.* 10

Thomas Hull and John Scarlet a minor were hold- ing Westbrook in moieties in 1547.'" John Scarlet's portion seems to have passed to William Morgan, who sold it to Thomas Hull about the year 1576.*" He was thus seised of the whole of Westbrook. A Thomas Hull and his wife Florence were dealing with it in 1600, and again in 1622."* Their son Thomas Hull was an ardent Royalist," 4 who suffered sequestration in April 1649 for lending money to maintain the war against Parliament." 5 He was obliged to compound, and in 1656 sold Westbrook to John Platt, clerk of West Horsley," 6 who after- wards held weekly conventicles at his house in Godal- ming," 7 and died in 1670. His son John, who was knighted in 1672, was raising money on the manor in 1674,"' and is said to have built Westbrook Place." 9 In 1688 the manor was sold to Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, kt.,** who sat in Parlia- ment for Haslemere from 1698 till 1701.*" His eldest son Louis was killed at Schellenberg in 1704. The next son, Theophilus, who also represented

��18B Survey of manor of Godalming, 13 Edw. VI i Land. Rev. Misc. Surv. vol. 190, p. 248, etc.

185 P.C.C. Wills (Stephenson, 47).

190 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), Ixxxiii, 20.

191 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxii, 146.

1M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 32 Eliz. ; Recov. R. Trin. 32 Eliz. m. 22.

19a Chan. Proc. Eliz. C.c. xiii, 5 9 ; ibid. C.c. xiv, 41.

191 Com. Plea D. Enr. Trin. 39 Eliz. en. 9.

195 Close, 6 Jas. I, pt. xi, no. II.

196 Close, 12 Chas. I, pt. xxvi, 25 j 13 Chas. I, xxv, 8.

W Will of John Clarke, P.C.C. 2 June 1637 (Goare, 99).

198 B.M. Add. MS. 6167, fol. 168.

199 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. I Will, and Mary.

��800 Godalming Ct. R. 17 Oct. 1701.

801 Recov. R. Hil. 9 Geo. I, Vann, Win- tershull and High Loxley.

808 Close, 32 Geo. II, pt. i, no. 8 ; cf. Feet of F. Surr. East. 32 Geo. II.
 * Will

804 Feet of F. Surr. 7 Edw. Ill, 29. It consisted of a messuage, a carucate of land, and 131. S,/. rent.

805 Deed Rev. T. S. Cooper.

806 Godalming R. 1384.

107 Inscriptions quoted by Symmes, Add. MS. (B.M.), 6167, fol. 167. It is prob- able that Symmes confused 1437 and 1537 ; the date of Thomas Westbrook is doubtful.

808 Add. Chart. (B.M.), I3SS7-

809 Where there is an altar-tomb in his memory. See Surr. Arch. Sue. Proc. vii, 279. Ralph Nevill, F.S.A., Notts on the Restoration of Godalming Ch.

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��See V.C.H. Surr. ii, 592, under Compton Hall.

811 Misc. Bks. (Exch. T.R.), clxix, 223.

818 Close, 20 Eliz. pt. xx ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 18-19 Eliz -

811 Feet of F. Surr. East. 42 Eliz. ; ibid. Trin. 20 Jas. I.

814 He had an elder brother Humphrey who died without issue.

815 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, iit,20 1 8. 818 Close, 1656, pt. xxxi, no. 20.

417 A. R. Bax, Conventicles in Surr.' Surr. Arch. Coll. xiii, 159.

tt8 Feet of F. Surr. East. 26 Chas. II.

Surr. iv, 17.
 * Aubrey, Nat. Hist, and Aniij. of

880 Before 1690, for in March of that year Lady Oglcthorpe had a pass to go to her house near Godalming ; Cal. S.P. Dom. 1689-90, p. 512.

881 Diet. Nat. Biog. xlii, 50.

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