GODALMING HUNDRED 



GODALMING 



fines, and were admitted, like other tenants of the 

 manor, at the courts which did common service as 

 both hundred and manorial courts. For instance, on 



15 June 19 Henry VI (1441) Juliana wife of John 

 Savage was admitted ' ad unam parcellam terrae unius 

 cotlonde vocatam Hykemannes,' as heiressof Christiana 

 wife of John Peck, and paid a fine of two shillings, 

 doing fealty. Only six weeks after this, on 27 July 

 1441, Juliana who was 



the wife of John Savage 

 was deceased. There was 

 no heriot, because Juliana 

 had no beast. John her 

 husband was admitted as 

 tenant for life of the 

 'cotlond,' paying a fine 

 of one shilling and four- 

 pence." The cotholders 

 had perhapo a share in 

 the common fields : on 



1 6 March 8 Richard II 

 (1385) John Farnham 

 claimed, as heir, Edward 

 Waterman's land. Ed- 

 ward Waterman was a 

 cotholder, and some of 

 his land lay in campo and 

 some in communi campo. 

 But it is possible that 

 this may have been apart 

 from his cotholding. One 

 of the services of the cot- 

 holders was to convey 

 prisoners to the county 

 gaol at Guildford Castle. 

 This service was due from 

 Waterman's land, and fur- 

 ther he was hangman ap- 

 parently, for after the 

 conveyance of prisoners 

 the words are added et eos 

 suspendet. The convey- 

 ance of prisoners led on 

 one occasion to a mis- 

 adventure which illustrates 

 the lawless action possi- 

 ble in the 1 4th century, 

 though the perpetrator 

 was a Frenchman of Ca- 

 lais, before Calais belonged 



There was no chance then of the guard and 

 prisoners being locked up together, but the county 

 gaol was in Southwark, and the obligation much more 

 burdensome than when it was at Guildford. 13 The 

 question was raised at the same court whether the 

 cotholders were bound to repair the fence of the 

 common pound of Godalming. This seems to 

 differentiate them from the other customary 



to England, in the service 

 of Margaret, the second wife of Edward I. Richard atte 

 Watere of Godalming came to the king's court in 1317 

 or 1318, and complained that his tenure obliged him 

 to convey prisoners to Guildford Castle from the 

 court at Godalming, and that Andrew de Caleys, 

 constable of the castle of Queen Margaret at Guild- 

 ford, took Richard vi et armis, and shut him up with 

 his prisoners for three months and more, and only let 

 him go on payment of a heavy ransom. It was 

 ordered that the sheriff should produce Andrew to 

 answer to this on the morrow of St. Martin.* 7 



The obligation to convey prisoners, at their own 

 proper charges, lay in the cotholders as late as 1670. 



GODALMING: 'THE WHITE HART' (see p 



tenants ; for there was no question that the latter 

 had to repair it. The obligation occurs frequently, 

 and had been affirmed so lately as by the court 

 held on the Monday after St. Matthew 1626." 

 They certainly repaired the fence of the lord's pound 

 or pinfold. 30 



Queen Elizabeth incorporated the 

 BOROUGH town by a charter dated 25 January 

 1574-5," when the cloth trade was 

 flourishing there." The corporate body was to con- 

 sist of the warden (gardlanus) and inhabitants, who 

 were to have the usual right of impleading, and also a 

 common seal. At the same time the queen granted 



* Loseley R. of dates cited. 



*< DC Banco R. Trin. 1 1 Edw. II, m. 



tCa. 



18 t. R. 14 Oct. 22 Chas II. 



M R. in steward's hands. 



80 R.patiim; Exch. Min. Accts. 34 & 35 

 Hen. VIII, Div. Co. R. 64, m. 11. 



81 Pat. 17 Eliz. pt. vii, no. 4. 



29 



81 Though the inhabitants complained 

 of their great poverty ; possibly only for 

 the sake of rhetoric. 



