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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��of massive oak timbers. The chancel roof, of rafters, collars and struts, has large moulded plates and tie- beams excessively cambered, and is perhaps of 14th- century date.

The font, seating, quire stalls, and other fittings are all modern, and a very large organ, bracketed out overhead, blocks up the narrow chancel. 77 The altar is well raised, as, owing to the site, there are four steps between the sacrarium and the nave.

In the chancel is the small brass of a priest in mass vestments inscribed : ' Hie jacet dns Edward' Cranford' quonda' Rector isti' Ecclie'. qui obijt viij die mens' August! Anno dm MillO. cccc. xxxj cui' aie p'piciet' deus. Amen.'

In the north chapel is a small stone with indents of man and wife and the brass inscription below ; the date may be about '1504"": 'Hie jacent Ricardus Lussher et Etheldreda uxor ejus quorum animabus propicietur Deus. 1

Also a large slab of Sussex marble bearing in Roman capitals the inscription : ' Hie jacet sepultn corpus dominse Dorotheae unius filiarum JohfS Hunt de lindon in Com. Rutland armigeri nup' uxoris charis- simae Nicholai Lussher militis cui quatuor pep'it filios totidemque puellas nempe Ricardn, Gulielmfi Nichos laO, Mariam et AnnS adhuc superstites JohaTIem Janam et JohSnam, in cunabilis defunctos, et de hac vita decessit 1 8 Feb : 1 604 orans ut ignoscat ei peccata sua Omnipotens et Misericors Dominus.'

Aubrey gives another inscription as existing in his day on a slab in the north chapel to Nicholas Lusher of Shoeland, esq., son and heir of Robert Lusher, who died in 1566.

There is also a small brass, with the arms of Wyatt impaling Burrell, to Francis Wyatt, 1634, now set ' n a marble slab on the chancel wall ; it came from a stone in the middle of the north chapel, which formed the burial spot of the Wyatts of Rodsell.

Fixed to the sill of the westernmost window of the chancel is an oblong brass plate, with an inscription to the memory of Henry Beedell and his son Henry, both rectors of Puttenham, who died respectively in 1636 and 1692. Besides these there are one or two ledgers bearing heraldry and some marble tablets of more recent dates.

The registers date from 1562.

The only ancient pieces of church plate a silver cup and paten, dated respectively 1636 and 1674, are of interest from their association with the Beedells, father and son. The paten is known to have been given by the son, ' who gave back to the church the alienated or chantry lands which his father, the pre- ceding rector, had purchased. Perhaps he also gave the cup." 7b

The bells are all modern.

There was no church here at the

ADVQWSQN time of the Domesday Survey so far as

is known. The advowson probably be-

��longed subsequently to the lord of the manor. The king seems to have possessed it before 1305, when he granted it with Shalford, Wonersh, and Dunsfold churches to the Hospital of St. Mary without Bishops- gate. 78 In 1342 the prior and brethren of the hospital had licence to appropriate the churches of Puttenham and Dunsfold, 79 but apparently the appropriation was never carried out, for the living was a rectory in 1535. The annual pension due from the rectory at this time was 2O/. 80 In 1537 Thomas Elliott obtained a lease of this pension together with Shalford rectory for ninety-nine years. 81 St. Mary without Bishopsgate was taken into the king's hand at the time of the Dis- solution, but when Queen Elizabeth granted Shalford Rectory to John Wolley 81 she retained the advowson of Puttenham, which has ever since belonged to the Crown. In 1694 Thomas Swift, Jonathan Swift's ' little parson cousin,' became rector.

Richard Lusher presented the parsonage to the church. His gift consisted of a house, garden, and croft lying on ' Gildowne,' and half an acre of land at Rods- mill (Rodsell) in a field called the ' Pece.' They were given to the parson on condition that he should sing or say thirty masses yearly in the parish church, and also a Placebo and Dirige on Thursday before the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September S). 83 After the sup- pression of chantries by Edward VI these premises were leased by the king to Henry Foisted and William More. No provision seems to have been made for the parsonage till Henry Beedell, rector early in the 1 7th century, bought back the parsonage, which his son Henry, who succeeded his father as rector, gave to the parish, 84 confirming the gift in his will. 84 The two Henry Beedells, father and son, held the living from 1598 to 1692.

Manning and Bray quote a will in the Archdeacon's office, by which a certain Stephen Burdon, an inn- keeper of Southwark in 1503, directed 61. 8d. to be paid for an image of St. Roke to be given to Putten- ham Church. 86

In 1725 the return was that there was no chapel, no lecturer, no curate, no Papist, one Quaker, no gentleman, ' nor any school but what teaches children to read and write.' 86a

The charities are Smith's Charity, CHARITIES founded 1627 for the relief of the deserving poor, and a small sum em- ployed in the same way from the rent of the golf-links.

Mr. Richard Wyatt, 1619, left two nominations to the Carpenters' Company's Almshouses at Godalming to this parish.

Mr. Robert Avenell, 1733, left money with a trus- tee for the relief of the deserving poor, but this seems to have disappeared.

In 1725, in answer to Bishop Willis's Visitation, the churchwardens returned that there were rents of about 4 from lands called the Church Lands applied to the relief of the poor.

��77 The present font is the successor of that described in Manning and Bray's Surr. as 'of a square form, of free- itone.'

77" Richard Lusher' s will was proved 1504; P.C.C. Holgrave, ig.

��" b Rev. T. S. Cooper, in Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 343.

7 s Chart. R. 33 Edw. I, m. 49.

7 Cal. Pat. 1340-3, p. 410.

8 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 28.

81 Misc. Bks.(Land Rev.), vol. 1 90, p.i68.

ra Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. 17.

��M Partic. of Sales of Colleges, Misc. Bks. (Aug. Off.), vol. 68, p. 56.

84 Monumental inscription in Putten- ham Church.

85 Proved 20 July 1693. 88 Hist, of Surr. ii, 20 86a Willis' Visitation.

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