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��custome of olde tyme ' to the farmer for the repair of the houses on the manors * 4 (for which compare the grant by Henry III to Robert de Barevill, above). In 1544 Edward EIrington and Humphrey Metcalfe sold the manor to Robert and Elizabeth Lusher, then owners of Puttenham Bury. Thenceforward the two manors generally follow the same descent.

The lords of Puttenham Priory seem to have had view of frankpledge and assize of bread and ale in their manor." William of Wintershull and his wife Beatrice also had view of frankpledge in Putten- ham.* 6 Both Puttenham Bury and Priory had courts baron."

RODSELL lies to the south of the parish between Shackleford in Godalming and Cut Mill. Under Edward the Confessor Tovi held it. Bishop Odo of Bayeux held it in demesne after the Conquest,* 8 and added it to the land which he held out in farm at Bramley.* 9 The bishop's lands fell to the Crown at his final exile, and with them Bramley. The history of the holding from this time is obscure. In 1273 William Palmer of Rodsell obtained from John son of William 3. lease for life of a messuage and half a virgate of land in Puttenham.' In 1508 William Lusher held the manor of ' Redsale ' (evidently Rodsell by the context)." In 1568 William Lusher, son and heir of George Lusher, had a rent-charge on lands in Rod- sell and Puttenham. 4 ' Richard Wyatt purchased lands in Put- tenham from Sir John and Sir Francis Leigh, who were con- nected by marriage with the Lushers, 4 * and Richard's son Francis Wyatt died in 1634 holding the manor and farm of Rodsell, 44 which he had settled on his wife Timothea

in April 1621." He also held the wood called Prior's Wood in Puttenham and Compton. His son Richard entered upon the manor after his mother's death. 46 He died in June 1645, leaving a younger brother Francis, who was his heir. 47 Francis died in 1673. His son Francis died in 1723, having survived his son, also Francis, who died in 1713, aged twenty-six. The latter's elder son Richard married Susan daughter of Sir Thomas Molyneux of Loseley, and died s.p. in 1753. His younger brother Wil- liam died in 1775, and his son Richard in 1784. Richard son of Richard died unmarried in 1816. His heir, another Richard, of Horsted Keynes, sold Rodsell in 1819 to Edward Beeston Long, who was followed by his son Henry Lawes Long of Hampton Lodge. 49 It is now the property of Mr. Mowbray Howard of Hampton Lodge.

SHOELANDS (Sholaund, xiii cent. ; Sheweland,

���LUSHF.R. Gules three martltti or and a chief or with three molets azure therein.

��xvi cent. ; Sholand and Shoeland, xvii and xviii cents.) was probably a sub-manor of Burgham, for its tenants paid rent to the lord of Burgham. 49 In 1235 Ralph Attewood granted to John de Fay land in Shoelands. 50 The lords of Burgham in 1251 were William of Wintershull and Beatrice his wife," and when, at that date, Peter de Ryvall granted a carucate of land and 5;. rent in Shoelands and Puttenham to the Prior and church of Selborne, co. Han's, forever, William of Wintershull and his wife confirmed the land to the priory to be held of them and their heirs by rent of a gilded spur yearly within a week of the Nativity of John the Baptist (J une 24)." The rent of the gilded spur is mentioned in an ex- tent of the Wintershulls" lands dated 1287. The men of the priory in Shoelands and Puttenham were to be free from view of frankpledge. At the same time William and Beatrice released to the prior all their claim to the road which led from a certain close (hega) at ' Otteford,' before the prior's gate at Shoelands as far as the house of Ralph Du Bois." This was probably a right of way to the main road in the Down, up the existing steep and certainly ancient lane.

For some time the priory remained in possession of Shoelands, paying an annual rent of 6J., M probably in lieu of the gilded spurs. In 1338 Ralph Poynaunt incurred the greater excommunication for stealing an ox from the manor of the Prior and convent of Selborne at ' Schoulonde.' " The priory was suppressed owing to its poverty, and by Waynflete's influence added to the foundation of Magdalen College in I484. 56 Thomas Lusher was tenant of some Hampshire lands under the priory, 1462, and just before the foun- dation of Magdalen Shoelands had been granted for life to Richard Lusher." Apparently it was somehow retained, for it never belonged to Magdalen, and William Lusher was seised of it late in the I 5th century. From him it descended to his son Thomas. Thomas's son Robert, the purchaser of the Puttenham manors, pre- deceased his father in 1545, leaving a son Nicholas aged ten. 58 After Thomas's death his grandson Nicholas entered upon the manor, and in 1561 was sued by his uncle William for a rent from the manor, which he claimed as bequeathed him by Robert. 5 ' After the death of Nicholas Lusher in 1566 Shoelands was taken into the queen's hands, the demesne lands being leased with those of Puttenham Bury to Mary Lusher, 60 Nicholas's widow. Their son Nichoks was knighted after 1580, and his son Richard Lasher of Shoelands was admitted as a student at the Inner Temple in 1602. Shoelands seems to have been sold with Puttenham Bury and Priory to Sir Olliph and Sir John Leigh. Sir Francis, the son of the former (see Puttenham Bury), conveyed a moiety of it in February 1615-16 to William Minterne to the use of his wife Bridget Minterne, with remainder to Francis Leigh and

��M Partic. of Grants, Aug. Hen.VIII.no. 411, E. 6.

84 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.),

747-

88 Feet of F. Surr. 35 Hen. Ill, 24. 8 ' Harl. Chart, in, E. 25. Ibid. 3023.
 * Y.C.H.Surr.\, 301*.

40 Feet of F. Surr. 2 Edw. I, 14.

41 De Banco R. East. 23 Hen. VII. Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1 1 Eliz.

43 Will of Francis Wyatt, proved Lond. 10 Feb. 1635.

��Off. 44 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxiii,

��90.

45 Ibid.

49 Ibid, mxxxvii, 12.

4 ? Ibid, mxxiv, 34.

48 Brayley, Hitt.ofSurr. v, 239.

4> Chart, of Selborne Priory (Hants Rec. Soc.}, 1891, p. 117.

60 Plac. de jur. and Assiz. 19-20 Hen. Ill, Calendar 21 (xlix), 85.

61 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, IJ.

SJ Feet of F. Surr. 35 Hen. Ill, no. 3, 24.

55

��48 Ibid. In 1198-9 Thurbert Du Bois leased a virgate of land in Puttenham to a certain Richard le Curt ; ibid, xo Ric. I,

34-

M Chart, of Selborne Priory (Hants Rec. Soc.), 1891, p. 117. M Ibid. 89.

68 See V.C.H. Hants, ii, 179.

'7 Doc. of Selborne at Magdalen Col- lege, Oxford.

69 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxzv, 55. 69 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), ex, 13.

80 Harl. Chart, ill, E. 25.

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