GODALMING HUNDRED 



ARTINGTON 



Record Office. The present writer acknowledges with 

 gratitude the kindness of the owner, who has given 

 him free access to such a collection, interesting to 

 the historian generally and invaluable to the historian 

 of Surrey in particular. It is not too much to say 

 that the history of the administration of a county 

 under Elizabeth could be compiled from these sources 

 alone. 



P1CC4RDS M4NOR seems to have formed a part 

 of Stephen de Turnham's manor of Arlington, for it ap- 

 pears in 1279 in the possession of Joan wife of William 

 Branche and descendant of Clemency, one of Stephen 

 de Turnham's daughters. 100 Joan and William were 

 granted free warren in Arlington by Henry III. 101 

 It passed with their manor of Peper Harow to Henry 

 of Guildford, who died seised of land and rent in Ar- 

 lington together with pleas of court there early in the 

 14th century. 101 His kinsman and heir, John son of 

 Gilbert the Marshal of Guildford, paid relief for the 

 manor in 1319 20 1M and granted il lo John Piccard 

 of Guildford and his wife Margaret in I323. 104 It is 

 evidently from this family that the manor obtained its 

 name of Piccards. In 1350 John son of John 

 Piccard and his mother Margaret conveyed all their 

 lands in Arlington to Master Bernard Brocas, clerk, 

 in exchange for lands called Heysull in Chiddingfold. 105 

 From this date Piccards descended with Peper Harow 

 (q.v.) till the death of Sir Richard Pexall, c. 1 57 1. 106 

 He bequeathed it to Pexall Brocas the elder son of 

 his daughter Anne, who had married Bernard Brocas 

 of Horton. 10 ' In 1586 Pexall Brocas sold ten-twelfths 

 of the manor to Sir William More of Loseley, 108 

 who evidently bought up the remaining two-twelfths, 

 for he died seised of ihe whole in July i6oo. 109 

 Since then the descent of the manor has been coin- 

 cideni wilh lhal of Loseley (q.v.). 



For an accounl of ihe church of 

 CHURCH ST. NICHOLAS, see ihe history of 

 Guildford, wilhin the boundaries of which 

 it is situated. 



The ruins of ST. CATHERINE'S CH4PEL stand 

 on St. Catherine's or Drake Hill, 110 about a mile south 

 of Guildford Bridge. The building was a plain paral- 

 lelogram of 45 ft. 6 in. by 20 ft. 6 in., inside measure- 

 ment. The walls are mainly of sandstone, 3 ft. ihick, 

 the windows, doors, and bullresses faced with chalk. 

 At ihe north-west corner is a turret, with vice, lead- 

 ing perhaps to a priesl's room, as the top of ihe lurrel 

 does nol seem like a belfry. The butlresses belween 

 ihe ihree windows on each side and at the angles 

 ran up into pinnacles. There were large east and 

 west windows, and west and also north and south 

 doors. The side windows over the north and south 

 doors were al some period converted inlo doorways, 

 approached by oulside sleps and probably connected 

 by a gallery or bridge across the chapel. The north- 

 ern door opened inwards, ihe southern outwards. 

 The only possible use was lo allow a great number of 



people to pass through the chapel, by the upper and 

 lower doors simultaneously, to venerate relics. The 

 present building is mainly early 14th-century. In 

 the Pipe Roll 14 Henry III (i 230) 50*. was allowed lo 

 ihe sheriff for his disbursement of so much lo ihe 

 priesi of St. Catherine's Chapel, by which it would seem 

 that the chapel, in the old royal manor of Godalming, 

 was still in ihe king's hands. The subordinale manor 

 of Arlington was then held by the co-heiresses of 

 Stephen Turn ham. 



In 1317 Richard de Wauncey, rector of St. 

 Nicholas, had rebuilt the chapel and received 

 licence for ils consecraiion after rebuilding. 111 

 He had bought it and the neighbouring ground from 

 the holders of ihe manor of Arlington before 1301. 

 Andrew Braboeuf granted by charter to Richard de 

 Wauncey, rector of St. Nicholas, and his successors, 

 all his rights on Drake Hill and in the chapel of St. 

 Catherine. 11 ' But in 1 3 1 7 ihe king appointed Robert 

 de Kyrkeby to the chapel of Arlington, belonging to 

 ihe king because ihe lands of John ihe Marshal were 

 in ihe king's hands. The rector's grant had been 

 annulled, and in 1318 the chapel was granted to 

 Richard le Constable, chaplain to ihe king and rector 

 of St. Mary's, Guildford. 1 " But in 1328 Bernard 

 Brocas, rector of St. Nicholas, received a grant of the 

 chapel, 114 and ihe apparenlly delayed consecraiion 

 was carried oul "* in spite of the remonstrance of Con- 

 stable. The chapel was valuable because attached to 

 it was the right of holding a fair on St. Matlhew's 

 Day, and receiving ihe tolls. The lord of ihe manor 

 of Godalming, the Bishop of Salisbury, had, however, 

 certain dues from the fair. In the Godalming Hun- 

 dred Rolls "' the steward accounled to the lord for 

 3/. Afd., perquisiles from the fair pro agro, picaglo, stal- 

 lagio, et dlvertis occupationibus. On 22 September 1453 

 the tithing-man of Arlington presented one absentee 

 and nine persons for breaking ihe assize of ale al the 

 fair. This probably comprised all the inhabitants. 

 At least a century later there were only eleven men, 

 for in 1 546 the courl presented that all the inhabit- 

 ants of Arlington were sellers of beer al ihe lime of 

 ihe fair, and paid according lo ancient custom id. 

 each, hence the sum of lid. was due, and paid. At 

 this time the manor was in the king's hands, and ihese 

 dues were going to him and not to the rector of St. 

 Nicholas. The episcopal registers are silent as to 

 appointmenls lo the chaplaincy, and it may be that 

 the rectors failed to provide payment for a separate 

 priest. The chapel itself iherefore may have 

 become disused. Il does nol appear among ihe 

 chapels or chantries suppressed under Edward VI. In 

 1653 John Manship, presented lo St. Nicholas by the 

 Parliament, sold his rights in ihe fair to Mr. Wight, 

 lord of the manor of Braboeuf; and Sir William More, 

 lord of the manor of Godalming, failed to recover ihe 

 lolls in a Chancery suit. 117 Mr. Wight's representa- 

 tives have since enjoyed the tolls of the fair, which are 



100 See below under Peper Harow. It 

 is also called * one quarter of Arlington 

 manor.' 



wplac. dt Quo War. (Rec. Com.), 

 741. 



1M Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 57. 



'"PipeR. 13 Edw. II. 'Susse* Ob- 

 lata.' 



104 Cal. Pat. 1321-4, p. 295. 



105 Inq. a.q.d. ccrcviii, 7 ; Montagu 

 Burrows, Hiit. of Family ofBrocat, 432,434. 



3 



IM The records of two leases, one in 

 1 500, the other in 1 503, are among the 

 deeds of the Brocas family ; ibid. 436. 



10 7 P.C.C. Will 1571, 46 Holney. 



108 Close, 28 Eliz. pt. xviii. 



109 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxiv, 

 179. 



110 Winton Epis. Reg. Stratford, foL 43*. 

 m Winton Epis. Reg. Sandal, pt. 2, 



fol. i2b. 



UJ Charter among Loseley MSS. 



9 



Chart. 1 8 Edw. II; cf. Parl. R. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 378. 



114 Pat 2 Edw. Ill, pt. ii, m. 9. 



115 Winton Epis. Reg. Stratford, fol.43*. 

 ue Loseley MSS. Godalming Hundred 



Court, 21 Sept. 1377. 



"'The Chancery reference cannot be 

 found ; the fact is alluded to in Loseley 

 letters, and was vouched for by Manning 

 and Bray. A copy of the pleadings is at 

 Loseley. 



