A HISTORY OF SURREY 



picturesque half-timber cottages and other ancient 

 houses, there is a charming block of red-brick almshouses 

 in Mead Row, founded in 1622 by Richard Wyatt, 

 citizen of London, and owner of Hall Place, Shackle- 

 ford. This has a wonderful row of chimneys, very 

 irregular in outline, at the back, and in the centre is 

 the chapel, in which are some curious details. 135 



A small stone and brick cottage on the road leading 

 to Binscombe 135a has a good chimney and a brick 

 hood-moulding over its windows. 



HURTMORE (Hormera, xi cent. ; Hertmere, xiii 

 cent. ; Hurtmere, xiv cent.), also a tithing in God- 

 aiming, was held before the Conquest by Alwin. In 



GoDALMING CHURCH FROM THE EAST 



1086 Tezelin held it of Walter Fitz Other, founder of 

 the Windsor family, 136 in which the overlordship was 

 still vested in I54I. 137 The under tenant in 1166 

 was Philip of Hurtmore, 13 ' and in January 1 199-1200 

 William of Hurtmore released his claim in land in 

 Hurtmore to Thomas son of Philip in considera- 

 tion of a life annuity. 139 Thomas of Hurtmore 

 held a fee in Hurtmore." A Thomas of Hurt- 

 more granted the manor to the Priory of Newark, 

 Surrey, in I259, 1 " and about twenty years afterwards 

 the prior granted to Mary Norries and her grandson 

 Robert common of pasture in ' Quachet ' and land 

 called ' Lyth,' formerly the demesne of Thomas of 

 Hurtmore."' The prior leased 

 the manor from time to time, for 

 in 1527 Henry Tanner obtained 

 a lease of it for forty years, 143 

 and in 1535 the farm of the 

 manor was 4 131. \d. lu On 

 the surrender of the priory in 

 1538 Hurtmore was taken into 

 the hands of the king, who in 

 April 1 542 gave it with other 

 lands to Andrew Lord Windsor 

 in part exchange for the manor of 

 Stanwell. 1 " The latter's son Wil- 

 liam succeeded to his estates in 

 the following March, 146 and his 

 son and heir Edward Lord Wind- 

 sor sold the manor to Eustace 

 Moone of Farnham in I564-5- 147 

 Edmund Moone, son of Eustace, 

 sold Hurtmore to Francis Clarke 

 in I59O. 148 He was resident in 

 1592."' In 1595 he conveyed 

 it to his son John Clarke and his 

 wife Mary. Their children were 

 baptized at Godalming 1596 

 1 60 1. 



In 1606 John Clarke sold it to 

 Sir Edward More of Odiham. 150 

 For some reason he obtained a 

 grant of it from the Crown in 

 i6i5, 1M probably on account of 

 recusancy. By his will he directed 

 that his daughter and her husband 

 Sir William Staunton, recusant 

 convict, 151 should have the house 

 free of rent for life. 



He died in 1623, having set- 

 tled Hurtmore on his infant 

 grandson Edward More. 153 The 

 latter was dealing with Hurtmore 



185 There are excellent photographs of 

 the front and back in Old Cottages and 

 Farmhouses in Surr. B. T. Batsford, 1908. 

 The will of Richard Wyatt and other 

 ancient documents relating to the alms- 

 houses are printed in Surr. Arch. CM. iii, 



277- 



185a Illustrated in Mr. Ralph Nevill's 

 Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture of 

 South-tvcst Surrey. 



" V.C.H. Surr. i, 3230. 



W When they exchanged it with the 

 king, in whom the overlordship was after- 

 wards vested; see below. Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 10 Ric. II, no. 46 ; ibid. 22 Ric. II, no. 

 52 ; ibid. 9 Hen. V, no. 45 ; ibid. 17 

 Hen. VI, no. 36. 



k. of Exch. 315. 



139 Feet of F. Surr. i John, 6 ; Pipe R. 

 2 John, m. 15 d. 



140 Testa dt Nevill (Rec. Com.), 221. 



141 Feet of F. Surr. 43 Hen. Ill, 28. 

 For an inspiximus of this gift see Dugdale, 

 Man. yi, 384. 



141 Cal. ofAnct. D. iii, 284. Thomas 

 of Hurtmore had granted Robert Norries 

 land in Southcroft in Hurtmore ; ibid, iii, 

 279, 283. 



I4B Mins. Accts. Surr. 31 & 32 Hen. 

 VIII, no. 146. 



" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 33. 



14S D. of Purchase and Exchange (Aug. 

 Off.), 33 Hen. VIII, C. 22. Strangely 

 enough Stanwell was the caput of the 

 barony of Windsor of which Hurtmore was 

 held. The exchange is said to have been 



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forced upon Lord Windsor by Henry VIII. 

 See Dugdale, Baronage, ii, 307-8. In 165 1 

 the fee-farm rent due from the manor to 

 the Crown was sold by the trustees of the 

 Crown lands to John Johns, a merchant of 

 London ; Close, 1651, pt. ix, no. 23. 



146 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixviii, 28. 



"7 Pat. 7 Eliz. pt i ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 (Ser. 2), cciiv, 236. 



148 Feet of F. Surr. East. 32 Eliz. ; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 32 Eliz. 



" Godalming Ct. R. (view of frank- 

 pledge), n Oct. 34 Eliz. 



160 Close, 4 Jas. I, pt. xxxiii, modern ref. 

 no. 1870. 



151 Pat. 13 Jas. I, pt. xv, no. 2. 



lsa Subs. R. 4 Chas. I, bdle. 186, no. 439. 



158 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxc.ix, 155. 



