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���Haslemere, and died at the Jacobite court of St. Ger- mains about 1728, was dealing with the manor in 1727.'" His younger brother, General James Ed- ward Oglethorpe, the great philanthropist and founder of Georgia, next came into possession. In spite of his fre- quent absences from England, he was five times elected mem- ber of parliament for Hasle- mere. After his final return from Georgia he was made a general in the English army and served under the Duke of Cumberland in the rebellion of 1745. He died in 1785, having left the manor by will to his widow, who devised it to be sold for the general's

great-nephew, the Marquis of Bellegarde." 5 It was bought in 1788 by Christopher Hodges, who sold it in 1790 to Nathaniel Godbold, a quack doctor." 4 The latter's son of the same name was living there in 1824 and died 1834."' In 1844 part of the estate was sold to the Direct London and Portsmouth Rail- way Company ; m and the house, after being occupied only for short terms, became the Meath Home for Epileptics in 1892. Mr. G. J. Hull bought the house, part of the estate, and the manor. The manor is now held by Mr. H. Thackeray Turner.

A quit-rent of lot. 6d. was payable from West- brook to the lord of Godalming manor, of whom it was held.

��OGLITHOHFI. Argent a Jftse dancetty between three boars* heads sable.

��Near Westbrook are the town mill and a tanning mill.

In the roll of a leet-court held at Godalming in 1483 mention is made of ' Westbrokesmyll." 87 Two fulling mills were'sold with the manor in 1624, 1647, and 1 727.""

Binscombe, about I \ miles from Westbrook, seems to have been closely connected with that manor. ' Bedelescombe ' and Farncombe sometimes sent two tithingmen between them, sometimes one each separately, to the hundred court of Godalming. TO A list of tenants of Westbrook Manor at Loseley (circa 1670) contains some names in Binscombe, and it is called sometimes a manor, but always in connexion with Westbrook. The existing houses are the pro- perty of Mrs. More-Molyneux McCowan, owner of Loseley. There is a Friends' burial ground dating from the 1 7th century. This is now no longer used. The church of ST. PETER 4ND CHURCHES ST. PAUL is charmingly situated in the meadows close to the River Wey, set in a large and prettily kept churchyard.

It is built of Bargate stone rubble, originally of a bright yellow colour, and of hard texture. The dressings in the earliest periods were executed in the same stone, but from the end of the 1 2th century clunch or hard chalk was employed for wrought work in the successive enlargements, Bath stone being used in the 19th-century additions. The roofs are tiled and the lofty spire is covered with lead a valuable example of this treatment.

In its present form the church has been considerably

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��m Recov. R. Trin. 13 Geo. I, m. 271.

815 Gent. Mag. Ivii, 1025.

114 Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, III.

��" Gent. Mag. itciv, 120 ; Feet of F. ibid. Mich. 23 Chas. I, m. 46; ibid. Surr. Eait. 57 Geo. III. Trin. 13 Geo. I, m. 261.


 * > Brayley, op. cit. v, 214. m Add. R. (B.M.), 26892 ; ibid.


 * > Add. R. (B.M.), 26892. 1355 i and Rolli at Loseley, paitim.

08 Recov. R. Trin. 22 Jat. I, m. 35 ;

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