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��contingent remainder to Wolley Leigh. 61 Wolley Leigh died seised of the reversion of this portion of the manor, 61 his grandmother Bridget Minterne and his father Sir Francis Leigh being still alive, and of the other half on his father's death.

Sir Thomas Leigh, Wolley Leigh's son apparently, dealt with one moiety only in 1 66 1, 63 and again in i66f,. M Sir Thomas Leigh died in 1677, leaving a son Sir John Leigh, bart. He was suc- ceeded about 1692 by his son Sir John Leigh, born 1681, married 1700, and in 1703 a recovery was suffered by Sir John to Sir Stephen Lennard, father of his son's wifi." He died in 1 737. The recovery probably barred the entail, and Shoelands is not specifi- cally mentioned in the last Sir John's will.

The other moiety was apparently sold to John Caryll of Tangley, whose son-in-law Henry Ludlow was in possession in l695. 66 It descended in his family till 1767, when the whole manor apparently was part of the property assigned to Giles Strangways. 67 He sold it to the tenant, Francis Simmonds, whose grandson Thomas, a yeoman farmer, was the owner in i8o6. M In 1823 he sold to Mr. E. H. Long, and the property has passed, as Puttenham, to Mr. Mow- bray Howard. Thomas Packington, who has been described as an owner, was merely a tenant about

���LEIGH. Or a cheveron sable 'with three lions ar- gent thereon.

��Shoelands House bears the date 1616 or 1618 over the porch. The date has been replaced after removal. The house was therefore partly built by William Min- terne or his son-in-law Sir Francis Leigh, or by Thomas Packington (of Shoelands in Visitation of 1623). It has a fine mullioned window, blocked now, to the south, an old chimney-stack on the same side, and a Jacobean staircase with good carving of about the same date. This work probably marks a rebuilding of an older house, when the staircase was put in to reach rooms built over an old high hall the rafters of which are visible in one place in the wall of an upper room.

There are no mills given in the survey of Rodsell 70 in 1 086, though there are five given under Bramley. 71 In 1587 there were no fewer than four mills in Puttenham Priory, 72 and about the same time there was one water-mill in Putten- ham Bury Manor." This may have been Cutt Mill, which was afterwards in the possession of Francis and Richard Wyatt. 74

��The family of Frollebury seems to have been of some importance in Puttenham during Jhe 131)1 and I4th centuries. In 1296 William Frollebury and his wife Joan had two messuages and land there, which they held of Thomas son of William Frolle- bury. 76 Stephen Frollebury and his wife Katharine held the same land in 1 340." Frollesbury is an existing house in Puttenham.

The church of ST. JOHN THE CHURCH BAPTIST stands high above the road, the ground rising in steep banks round it on the south and east. The churchyard, which is bordered on the south by a low wall and the grounds of the manor-house (commonly called Puttenham Priory) has some fine trees and shrubs, and is carefully kept.

The building is of local sandstone rubble with dress- ings of hard chalk, mostly replaced on the outside by Bath stone ; parts of the north aisle and the chancel are plastered, and the roofs are tiled. In plan the church consists of a long and very narrow nave 5 2 ft. 3 in. by 1 6 ft. 9 in., and chancel 29 ft. 2 in. by 1 2 ft. 6 in.; these probably representthe extent of theearly church. 763 On the north of the nave is an aisle about 7 ft. wide, opening to the nave by an arcade of four arches, repre- senting the first extension in the latter part of the 1 2th century : and on the north of the chancel is a chapel 29 ft. 7 in. by I 3 ft. 6 in., partly opened to the chan- cel by a pair of small arches an addition of about 1 200.

At the eastern end of the south side of the nave is a transeptal chapel, 1 2 ft. square, added about 1330 ; and the west tower, very large and massive in proportion to the church, dates from the early part of the I jth century. The south porch in its present form is modern, dating from the general re- storation of the building in 1 86 1. The north chapel seems to have been largely rebuilt at the beginning of the igth century.

Judging by the different levels of the arcade bases, which increase in height from west to east, the ancient floor of the nave must have been laid on an inclined

���PUTTENHAM : SHOELANDS MANOR HOUSE

��61 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxxviii, 125. 6S Ibid, mxxiv, i.

68 Feet of F. Div. Co. East. 13 Cha. II.

"Ibid. Trin. 17 Chas. II.

85 Recov. R. Hil. 2 Anne.

< Feet of F. SUIT. East. 7 Will. III.

8 ' For detailed descent see under Bram-

��68 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 19.

Chan. Proc. 1621-5 (Ser. i), bdle. 364, no. 1 6.

V V.C.H. Surr. i, 301*.

1* Ibid. 3010.

T 5 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 29 Eliz. Not necessarily separate buildings, but possibly four separate mill-stones.

56

��7 Harl. Chart, in, E. 25.

1* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxiii, 90 ; mxxiv, 34.

" 5 Feet of F. Surr. 24 Edw. I, 3.

7'Ibid. 13 Edw. Ill, 1 6.

? te Cf. the plan of the neighbouring church of Compton, where the nucleus of a pre-Conquest plan has survived through later alterations.

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