A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The lordship of the hundred continued in the family of More and More- 

 Molyneux of Loseley till 1871, when it was conveyed with the manor to 

 Mr. James Stewart Hodgson. The lordship of the hundred was by this time 

 meaningless. The courts of the hundred had become at an early period 

 indistinguishable from those of the manor. There are at Loseley a large 

 number of Hundred Court Rolls, views of frankpledge, and views of frank- 

 pledge on the rectory manor, from the time of Edward III downwards. 

 Courts were held at three weeks' intervals for ' playnts and accions,' dealing 

 with tenants of all the manors in the hundred except the royal manors of 

 Witley and Puttenham. Two ' lawdays,' or leets, were held at Hocktide and 

 Michaelmas, except for the town of Godalming, for which a ' lawday ' was 

 held on St. Matthew's Day ; this was called Enton lawday. These included 

 in their business the view of frankpledge, the Visus Personates, election of 

 tithing-men, of ale-taster, a reeve (prepositus) for Godalming by the customary 

 tenants, and of a bedell, and the receiving of the burgage rents of Haslemere. 

 There were also yearly leets at Catteshull, Hambledon, Loseley, Arlington, 

 Farncombe, and Compton. The hundred and three-weekly courts and Enton 

 court were held, latterly at least, in the old town hall of Godalming, where 

 the market house now stands. 7 Fines levied in the hundred court were 

 accounted for to the More-Molyneux family as lords of the hundred up to at 

 least I79O. 8 



' Rolls at Loseley, passim, and Misc. Bks. Exch. L.T.R. vol. 169 ; Godalming Hundred, 1-3 Edw. VI. 

 8 Accts. at Loseley. 



INDEX MAP TO THE HUNDRED OF GODALMING 



