GODALMING HUNDRED 



CHIDDINGFOLD 



Quia Emptom. It was held by the Purvoch family, 

 and a rental of Thomas Purvoch of 1 507 is in 

 evidence. 50 Laurence Rawsterne, husband of Anne 

 daughter of Thomas Purvoch, jun., son of the above- 

 mentioned Thomas, sold Combe in 1546 to William 

 Hammond," who had other lands in Chiddingfold 

 which passed to Henry Hooke, 5 * clothier, of Godal- 

 ming. The latter held his first court in 1560, and 

 his son John held a court at Combe in 1571-2 and 

 '577-8; ne sold the manor in 1592 to William 

 Peyto, a yeoman." John Peyto of Pound, son of 

 William, died seised of the manor of Combe Brabis 

 in 1616." 



John Peyto left two daughters, Anise and Eliza- 

 beth. Anise married John Courtneshe of Chidding- 

 fold, yeoman, in 1630, who in 1632 bought Eliza- 

 beth's share of the manor. 45 He held his last court 

 in 1676, and died i68i. M William his son held a 

 court in 1 694, and in 1711 conveyed the manor to 

 Henry Welland of Witley, yeoman." Henry Welland 

 died I739, 58 leaving a son Thomas, who held his 

 first court in 1745, and 

 died 1 749 ; his son Tho- 

 mas died unmarried 1758. 



The manor went to 

 Thomas's three cousins 

 Anne, Jenny, and Mar- 

 garet. Their trustees con- 

 veyed two-thirds to Mr. 

 John Leech, of Alton, co. 

 Hants, surgeon, in 1764, 

 and the remainder in 

 1768. Mr. Leech died 

 in 1778. His son John 

 died intestate 1786. Mr. 

 Leech, his son, by agree- 

 ment dated 22 Septem- 

 ber 1803, released to the 

 tenants of the manor all 

 heriots, fines, reliefs, ser- 

 vices, &c., and put an 

 end to the manor's ex- 

 istence, they on their part 

 surrendering their com- 

 mon rights in the waste. 69 

 Combe Court was built by Mr. John Storer about 

 fifty years after this. 



PRESTW1CK, otherwise HIGH PRESTWICK, 

 ind OKEL4NDS, otherwise ROOKELAND or 

 NOOKEL4ND, were dependencies of Catteshull in 

 Godalming. 60 High Prestwick and Prestwick are 

 tenements which were of some importance in the 

 early history of Chiddingfold. 61 Robert of Prestwick 

 and William Prestwick witnessed deeds at Chidding- 

 fold in the 1 4th century. 6 ' A little later Sir Thomas 

 Fleming was possessed of a tenement called Prestwick, 

 which included land extending from Fridinghurst to 



the land of Robert of Prestwick and from Prestwick 

 Hatch to Shoelands. 63 



But this (Great) Prestwick to the west of Chidding- 

 fold, to which the family of the same name belonged, 

 was not part of the lands of the manor, which was at 

 High Prestwick, and should probably be rightly 

 called Oke or Okelands. A Richard de Oke, or 

 del Hoc, witnessed local deeds in the 131)1 century. 

 In 1316 Richard Lawrens conveyed land out of the 

 tenement called ' del Ok ' to William Frensh. Richard 

 Frensh, heir of William, in 1327 granted to Robert 

 de Prestwick money to be paid out of tenements held 

 of Oke. This brings the Prestwicks first into con- 

 nexion with Oke, afterwards High Prestwick, to 

 which, perhaps, they gave the name. In 1434 a 

 Robert Prestwick had a life interest in a moiety of 

 the manor. 64 In 1581 the demesne lands were 

 divided between Thomas Hull and Thomas Ropley.* 4 * 

 The farm and land called ' High Prestwick formed 

 part of the estate settled by Sir William Elliott on 

 his wife Joan in February 1620 I. 65 



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PLAN OF CHIDDINGFOLD CHURCH 



The existing Court Rolls date from 1649, after 

 the manor had been divided. Courts were held 

 between 1649 and 1676 by Richard Baker and 

 Robert Elliott, in 1697 and 1711 by Henry Baker 

 and Thomas Elliott. In 1723 Henry Holloway, 

 husband of Elizabeth, only surviving child of Henry 

 Baker, and Richard Elliott held a court. Henry 

 Holloway died in 1755, leaving his property to his 

 daughter's son Stephen Mills. Stephen Mills and 

 Richard Elliott held a court in 1762. Stephen 

 Mills died in 1772. His heir was his sister Mary 

 the wife of William Sadler of Chiddingfold, yeoman. 



40 Information kindly supplied by Mr. 

 Percy Woods of Guildford. 



51 Feet of F. Surr. 37 Hen. VIII. He 

 held courts there in 1550; Add. MS. 

 (B.M.) 6167, fol. 107. 



' Misc. Bks. (Land. Rev.), cxc, 230. 



"As early as 1559 Thomas Peyto, 

 father of William, had bequeathed land 

 at Combe to his wife Agnes j Chan. Proc. 

 (Ser. 2), bdle. 10, no. 101. 



64 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxviii, 

 139. 



" Deeds fena Rev. T. S. Cooper. 



Par. Reg. 



'7 Ct. R. ; cf. Manning ind Bray, Hist. 

 Surr. i f 651, 



58 Par. Reg. Witley. 



* Deeds of Mr. James Sadler, Chid- 

 dingfold. o Deed, ibid. 



61 Manning and Bray (Hist. Surr. i, 652) 

 state that Prestwick was a manor, the 

 demesne lands of which were divided into 

 moieties in 1580 (correctly 1581), one 

 moiety being in the tenure of Thomas Hull 

 and the other in that of Thomas Ropley ; 

 that Hull's moiety eventually came to 



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Nicholas Elliott and Ropley'i to Richard 

 Baker ; and that Elliott's moiety eventually 

 descended to Thomas Smyth, and Baker's 

 to William Sadler. The Ropleys of Rod- 

 gate held various lands in the parish up to 

 1621, including Magwicks. 



" Add. Chart. 24.654, 26628. 



88 Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 628. 



64 Deeds in possession of Mr. Jamel 

 Sadler of Chiddingfold. 



64a Abstract of deed penet Rev. T. S. 

 Cooper. 



HarL Chart. 57, H. 43. 



