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manor were wont to have the amercements. 109 They 

 also had court baron, heriot, and relief. 110 



The chapel of St. Nicholas at Catteshull is mentioned 

 in the Dean of Salisbury's survey of Godalming in 

 1 220. The lady of the manor claimed suit of court 

 from its tenants, but the chaplain and vicar were 

 strictly prohibited from paying it. 1 " The chapel 

 was near the present manor-house, on the right-hand 

 side of the road from Catteshull to Munstead. 



F4RNCOMBE M4NOR was held by Ansgot under 

 Edward the Confessor, and became demesne land of 

 Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, after the Conquest. He 

 added it to the land which he had out in farm at 

 Bramley ('convertit ad firmam de Bronlei '). One of 

 the king's reeves, Lofus, claimed the manor in 1086, 

 asserting that he had held it when the king was in 

 Wales (i.e. in 1081), and had kept it till the 

 bishop took his journey into Kent (i.e. in lo82). n> 

 It was probably granted out to tenants by the Crown 

 after the forfeiture of Bishop Odo's lands, for in 1280 

 Reginald of Imworth and his wife Matilda held the 

 manor in her right "* and 

 granted it to John son of 

 John Adryan, to hold of Ma- 

 tilda and her heirs. 1 " 



The manor passed to the 

 Ashursts of East Betchworth 

 in the latter part of the I4th 

 century. In 1371 William 

 Prestwyke and others in Farn- 

 combe paid fine for leave of 

 absence from the hundred 

 court. 1 " There are similar 

 payments by the lord of Farn- 

 combe, not named, in 1377 

 and 1384. In 1382 William 

 Ashurst paid a fine of the 

 same amount, xii</. 114 The 

 Ashursts held High Ashurst in 

 Mickleham and other land in 

 that neighbourhood, and prob- 

 ably had acquired Farncombe 

 about 1382, and did not find 

 it convenient to attend Godal- 

 ming Hundred Court. Ashursts 



paid for non-attendance in 1412, 1440, and 1447- 

 In 1413 Margaret Ashurst conveyed Farncombe 

 Manor to her son William. 117 



In 1452 the death of William Ashurst, the holder 

 of land in Farncombe, is mentioned. 118 



In 1503-4 John Ashurst of Farncombe paid 

 igs. <)<t. towards an aid, 119 and he died seised of the 

 manor in February 1 506-7, leaving a brother and heir 

 William. 110 He is said to have sold the manor, 12 

 January, to John Skinner, who had married John 

 Ashurst's widow." 1 James Skinner sold it to John 



Mellersh in 1552,'" and John Mellersh, clothier, died 

 1567 holding the manor of Farncombe, which he en- 

 tailed on his son John and heirs. 113 John cut off the 

 entail by recovery 1573,'" but died seised in 1623 

 leaving a daughter and heir Juliane who married John 

 Launder. 1 " In 1675 John Launder senior, his 

 grandson, and the latter's son John Launder junior, 

 conveyed the manor to Thomas Mathew and others, 12 * 

 probably as trustees to sell, for five years later Robert 

 Pratt sold it to Anne Buncombe of Albury, 117 who, 

 with her second husband, Timothy Wilson, conveyed 

 it to trustees in 1685. 1M After the death of Anne's 

 granddaughter, Mary wife of Charles Eversfield, the 

 manor, which had been divided among her four 

 daughters, was sold by them, 1733-4, to Henry Page," 9 

 who left it by will to his nephew John Skeet, 110 after his 

 widow's death. She died 1784, and John Skeet was 

 in possession in the same year." 1 



His widow died in 1800, having bequeathed Farn- 

 combe in moieties to her two daughters, Sarah Hall 

 and Elizabeth Geering Lane. The former's infant 



SHACKLEFORD : THE OLD GARDEN, HALL PLACE 



daughters Eliza and Sarah inherited her moiety. 1 " 

 In 1841 the manor was the property of William 

 Saunders Robinson and others. 13 * The British Free- 

 hold Land Society bought the land c. 1850-5 and 

 pulled down the Manor House, which stood at the 

 angle between Manor Road and Farncombe Street. 

 The manor was advertised for sale in 1859, with 76 

 heriots and 2 a year quit-rents." 4 It was bought by 

 Mrs. Marshall, and belongs now to Mr. George 

 Marshall, her grandson. 



In the road near Farncombe, besides several 



109 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. I, no. 25. 



110 Plat, de Qua Warr. (Rec. Com.), 

 743 ; Misc. Bks. (L.T.R.), clxi*, 114. 



111 Reg. of St. Oimund (Rolli Sen), i, 

 297. The chapel it (aid to be 'in curia 

 quae fuit Stephani de Thurncham.' 



118 V.C.H. Surr. i, 3020. 



118 Reginald died c. 1280, leaving an 

 infant son John ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 

 Edw. I, file 2;, no. 8. 



111 Feet of F. Surr. 8 Edw. I, 7. 



115 Godalming Hund. Ct. 2 Oct. 45 

 Edw. HI. 



Ibid. 29 Oct. I Ric. II ; Oct. 8 

 Ric. II ; 6 Ric. II. 



"7 B.M. Add. MS. 6:67, fol. 182; 

 Hund. Ct. R. 



118 12 Oct. 31 Hen. VI. 



'"Add. R. (B.M.), 1355. 



130 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), nr, 24. 



111 Deeds quoted by Symmes. Add. 

 MS. (B.M.), 6167, fol. 182. 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 6 Edw. VI. 



M P.C.C. Will proved 7 Feb. 1568. 



191 Recov. R. Hil. 16 Eliz. 



las Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccv, 151. 



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196 Feet of F. SUIT. 27 Cha. II. Symmet 

 quotes a conveyance by John Launder to 

 Thomas Mathew and Robert Pratt. Add. 

 MS. (B.M.), 6167, fol. 182. 



"" Close, 32 Chas. II, pt. iii, no. 28. 



198 Feet of F. Surr. East, i Jas. II. 



" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 6 Anne ; Close, 

 7 Geo. II, pt. iv, no. 5. 



"O Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, 624. 



181 Rccov. R. East. 24 Geo. Ill, m. 241. 



1(9 Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, 624. 



its Bray ley, op. cit. v, 219. 



184 W. Surr. Times, 27 Aug. 1859. 



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