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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��parsonage or rectory, glebe and ' sanctuary lands,' and the profits of court leet where 'one constable for the Deanes ' was sworn. The lease by a former dean to Valentine Castillion was confirmed, but the manor was sold to George Peryer. 1 * The dean and chapter were reinstated after the Restoration,*" and the successive deans continued in possession till 22 May 1846, when the manor was transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners."* The rectory manor was sold with the land about 1860 to Mr. John Sim- monds, whose son, Mr. J. Whateley Simmonds, is now owner. The Commissioners retained the great tithes, and the advowson was vested in the Bishop of Winchester.

The early history of the advowson 4DVOWSONS of the parish church is coincident with that of the rectory manor. After the deprivation of Dr. Andrews, whose Calvin- istic parishioners petitioned against him in 1640,"' the king presented Isaac Fortrey. The Crown again presented in l66o,* M but withdrew the presentation at the petition of the dean and chapter." 9

The parsonage or rectory, now demolished, was directly north of the church. Parts of the vicarage house are of great antiquity.

The ecclesiastical parish of St. John the Baptist, Busbridge, was formed in I S6$. Ka The advowson was then vested in Emma Susan, wife of Mr. John C. Ramsden of Busbridge Hall. 181

Farncombe was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1 849 ; * 61 the living is in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester.

��Shackleford parish was formed in i866. 16 * The living is also in the patronage of the bishop. These three are rectories, endowed by the Commissioners out of the great tithes.

There were also churches or chapels at Catteshull and Hurtmore, now lost. Traces of the Catteshull Chapel remained near the manor house when Man- ning wrote.

The wooden chapel of All Saints, Hurtmore, was held in 1220 by Nicholas, apparitor of the Chapter of Guildford, for half a mark, who had it from Thomas of Hurtmore. The latter had made a composition for it with the Chancellor of Salisbury. 164 In 1 260 the Prior of Newark, then lord of Hurtmore, pleaded that he had been permitted to present to Hurtmore ' Church.' 18S It has long disappeared, but its site was south-west of the Charterhouse Hill towards Eashing. Wyatt's Almshouses were founded CHARITIES in 1619 by Richard Wyatt, of Lon- don, carpenter. The management is vested in the Carpenters' Company. They stand in Mead Row, Farncombe.

Smith's Charity exists in Godalming as in other Surrey parishes ; it is distributed here in money, not in bread. Richard Champion in 1622 left a house and land in Crayford, now represented by 1,138 consols, which is administered as Smith's Charity.

The Meath Home for Epileptic Women and Girls was founded by the Countess of Meath, who in 1892 bought for the purpose the manor house of Westbrook, near Godalming station. A new wing was added in 1896. It accommodates seventy-four patients.

��HAMBLEDON

��Hameledune (xi cent.), Hameledon (xiii cent.), Hameldon (xiv cent.).

Hambledon is a small parish inclosed on the north, east, and west by Godalming, bounded on the south by Chiddingfold. It is about 3 miles from north to south, rather over I mile wide in the south, but tapering to the north. It contains 2,721 acres. The village is 4 miles from Godalming town. The northern part of the parish is on the Green Sand, which rises into a considerable elevation towards Highden Heath (Hyddenesheth in 1453). Hyde Stile is near it ; High Down is a probable corrup- tion. The clay in the south of the parish is very thickly wooded, chiefly with oak ; and Hambledon Hurst, an oak wood, through which a clay track runs, the old highway from Godalming to Chiddingfold and beyond, is, when passable in dry weather, one of the most picturesque woodland walks in Surrey. This highway was continually being presented as out of repair in the Godalming Hundred Courts in the 1 4th, 1 5th, and 1 6th centuries. 1 It is crossed more than once by a stream, which ultimately joins the Arun. On 21 September 1340, Thomas le Beel,

��rector of Hambledon, was presented for having dug a ditch in the highway.

Brick-making is carried on in the clay soil. Iron also occurs in considerable quantities in the same soil; Lord Montague claimed an iron mine at Hambledon, 1 and Mine Pits Copse no doubt preserves the name of it, though the part of the wood now so named is over the Godalming border. On 20 February 1570 Lord Montague had had trouble with the commoners who resented his cutting wood for his ironworks, perhaps in Hambledon Hurst.*

The school (under the National Society) was enlarged in 1874.

The Union Workhouse for the Hambledon Union is in the parish. It was originally built as a parish workhouse in 1786, but has been much enlarged.

A small outlying portion of Hambledon, an enclave of Godalming and Hascombe, was transferred to Has- combe by the Local Government Board in 1884. It included Lambert's Farm on the road through Has- combe village.

Within the bounds of the parish are several old houses and cottages, as well as a number of good

��154 Close, 1651, pt. xiv, no. 4.

164 See Col. S.P. Dam. 1663-4, pp. 169, 191.

>Parl. Papers, 1847-8, xlix, 167.

W y.C.H. Surr. ii, 33 ; Inst. Bkt. (P.R.O.).

In.t. Bkt. (P.R.O.)

��" Col. S.P. Dam. 1663-4, pp. 169, Reg. of St. Osmund (Rolls Ser.),

191- i, 297.

160 Land. Gax. 30 June 1865, p. Mi Curia Regis R. 166, m. 2id.

3 z8 3- * See 21 Sept. 1377, and other

181 Ibid. placet.


 * > a Pap. Ret. Surr. 1901, p. 5. Loselejr MSS. June 10 1595, x, 116.

M Ibid. p. 6. Loselejr MSS. x, 28.

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