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��modern houses. The old manor-house close to the churchyard is one of the best of the old buildings.

H4MBLEDOX MA" NOR included lands M4NOR in Chiddingfold, Godalming, and Witley. In the time of Edward the Confessor, Azor held Hambledon. 4 After the Conquest it was held in chief by Edward of Salisbury, ancestor of the first Earl of Salisbury, and remained for some time a member of the honour of Salisbury.*

The immediate tenant in 1086 was Randulf. His successors in the I3th century took their name from Hambledon. In consideration of a grant to William de Brademer of certain land in Fetcham and Lether- head in 1207, Robert of Hambledon obtained a release of William's claim to a hide of land in Ham- bledon in favour of his own son, Richard of Hamble- don. 6 This hide had formerly been held by Robert de Smallbrede, and may therefore have been identical with the lands called Great and Lesser Smallbredes, which were attached to the manor in 1621.' In 1251 free warren in Hambledon and Prestwick was granted to Robert Norris, but there is no proof that he held the manor. 8 Richard of Hambledon, the son of Henry of Hambledon, was lord of the manor later in the same century.' His successor in 1316 was Walter of Hambledon ; " he apparently died leaving heirs who were minors, for in 1321 the king granted Hambledon to John de Toucester during his pleasure." Before 1324 it appears to have been acquired by Robert Fleming and Alice his wife, for in that year they had licence for a chapel in their manor of Hambledon." A 14th-century extent of the pur- party of a certain inheritance assigned to Thomas Fleming includes a hall at Smallbredes with a solar and kitchen and a chapel." The history of the manor during the next century is obscure. It would appear from the patronage of the church, which both before and after this period belonged to the lords of the manor, that it changed hands several times, for the advowson was successively in the possession of Edward the Black Prince, John de Bursebrigg, Richard Earl of Arundel, John Ryouns, William Petworth, Robert Payn, John Wintershull and Henry Payn, Robert Marshall and Richard Payn, Richard Monsted and Edmund Sumner, and Robert atte Mille and John Bus- bridge and others." It is directly stated that Richard Earl of Arundel held the lordship of Hambledon by reason of the custody of the heir, a woman ; it is therefore possible that the above-mentioned patrons of the church were also holding the manor either as guardians or feoffees to the use of the heir of the

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���HULL of Hambledon. Argent a cheveron azure between three demi-lioni passant gules vtith three bexants on the chrvertm and a chief table -with Pun piles argent therein.

��at Hyls or Hulls. In 1350 Thomas at Hyl wa* lord of the manor and Maud was his wife." She was clearly seised of the manor and is said to have been Maud of Hambledon.

At his death in 1489 John Hull was lord of Hambledon. 16 Probably he was a descendant of Maud wife of Thomas Hull whose death w*s presented at Godal- ming Court, October 1410." The sons of John Hull were Richard and Edward.

In 1538 John Hull of Ham- bledon died. John Hull of full age was his heir. 18 He held in 1547-9" and Giles Hull in 1567 and 1572. Giles was father to Samuel and Joseph who sold in 1606 to Lawrence Stoughton." In 1613 he sold to Laurence Eliot of Busbridge, 81 a yearly rent being reserved to Samuel Hull during his life." Lau- rence Eliot who held a court in 1614 died holding the manor in 1 6 1 9," and left a son Sir William Eliot who settled the manor on himself and his wife Joan in tail male." He died in 1650. His son Sir William with his wife and son William barred the entail in 1692." William the son died 1707. The manor was mortgaged and in 1710 was sold to John Walter * except the next presentation to the church, which William had already granted to his brother, Laurence El- iot. John Walter settled the manor on his son Abel's wife Anne Nevill in 1 729, and they conveyed it in 1737 to James Jolliffe and others, 87 possibly trustees for Hitch Young. 88 In 1759 it passed to the lat- ter's grand-nephew the Hon. William Bouverie, created Earl of Radnor 1761. His son Viscount Folkestone was in possession in 1770." In 1800 his son Jacob Pleydell Bouverie sold it to Henry Hare Town- send of Busbridge. 30 Mr. Thomas Mellersh of Godalming purchased it from him in 1823, and it has since remained in the Mellersh family.

���BOUVERIE, Earl of Radnor. Party fesseviise or and argent an eagle sable with nvo heads hav- ing on his breast a scut" chcon gules vjsth a bend vair.

��* V.C.H. Surr. i, 325*.

6 Testa di Nevill (Rec. Com.), 220, ait.

e Feet of F. Surr. 9 John, 30.

7 Harl. Chart, 57, H. 43.

8 Chart. R. 35 Hen. Ill, m. 3. There is, however, a possibility that Robert of Hambledon was ' Robert Norrii of Ham- bledon.'

Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 221 ; Anct. D., B. 4012.

10 Par!. Writs (Rec. Com.), ii (3),

338 (13).

11 Abbrev. Rot. Ong. (Rec. Com. ), i, 163. There are numerous record* of mem- bers of the Hambledon family in Surrey during the ijth century, and as late as 1 342 John of Hambledon owed suit to God- aiming Hundred Court (Ct. R. 24 Oct. 17 Edw. III).

18 Winton Epis. Reg. Stratford, fol. 6a.

��It is worthy of note that the Flemings were connected with the Norris family, for in 1319-20 a release was granted to Robert son of William Fleming from a warranty of dower, claimed by Lucy late wife of Robert Norris of Fordham in Essex (Anct. D. [P.R.O.] B. 3625).

18 Rentals and Surv. P.R.O., no. 628.

11 Egerton MS. 2033, fol. 17, 58, 88.

ls Lay Subs. R. bdle. 184, no. 29.

16 P.C.C. Will proved 23 Oct. 1489 ; Miller 39.

V Thomas Hull held land at Heydon in Godalming close to Hambledon. John Hull was in possession of Heydon in 1428-9 (Catteshull Customary, 7 Hen. VI.)

18 Catteshull Court, 23 Sept. 30 Hen. VIII.

19 In a survey of Godalming (Misc. Bks. Exch. L.T.R. vol. clxix, fol. 109*) John Hull senior is mentioned as owing

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��suit at Godalming Hundred Court for the manor in 1549, and a marginal note says that Giles Hull held it later.

6 Jas. I.
 * Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 Jas. I ; Mich.

21 Close, 1 1 Jas. I, pt. xxxv, no. 23.


 * > Harl. Chart. 57, H. 43, 44.

88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxx, 127.

84 Harl. Chart. 57, H. 43, 44.

95 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 4 Will, and Mary.

m See Close, 7 Geo. II, pt. vi, no. I.

"Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 12 Geo. II} Release Enr. in Chan. 1733, pt. B. 6, no. 9.

88 Manning and Bray say that Hitch Young bought it c. 1737 ; Hist, of Surr. ii, 56.

Geo. Ill, m. 104.
 * Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. II

80 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii,56.

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