A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Nicholas is said to have settled the manor on his wife 

 Margaret for life, with remainder to their son Bernard. 



Margaret's third husband, Henry Mannock, held in 

 right of his wife in 1 548.'" He died in 1 563, having 

 quarrelled with his wife, to whom he left nothing in 

 his will. 159 



In 1564 Margaret brought a suit against Ralph, 

 great-nephew of John Jenings, who had entered upon 

 the manor after the death of Bernard. 190 Ralph 

 Jenings held it, 191 and was succeeded by his son 

 Thomas, who sold it to Thomas Cowper in 1590.'" 

 Thomas Cowper's brother and heir Martin sued for 

 the lands as part of his inheritance, 191 and released his 

 claim to John Hollinshed and Richard Sheppard in 

 1597."* 



In 1 608 they conveyed it to the Vintners' Company 

 for the use of Mary Clarke wife of John Clarke of 

 Battle in Sussex, and her son Francis and her other 



* 194 



sons in succession. 



John Clarke, the third son, parted with it to Wil- 

 liam Byerley in l635, 196 but apparently the purchase 

 money was not all paid, 197 and it reverted to his son 

 Mark, and afterwards to his son Antony, who was in 

 possession in 1665,'^ and in 1689 sold to John Childe 1M 

 the manor of Vann and a parcel of land called Pepper- 

 hams. John Childe died 1 70 1 , and was succeeded by his 

 son John. 100 He sold to John Greenhill in 1722.*" 

 In 1734 it was entailed on Peter, son of Sir Peter 

 and Sarah Anna Myers, and Sarah his wife, daughter 

 of John Curryer. The latter in her widowhood 

 settled it* * in 17589 on her daughter Sarah, wife 

 of Thomas Geldart, but her son Peter Myers was 

 treated as tenant in a court of 1 762 as a defaulter. 

 The Geldarts are said in a court of 1789 to have 

 obtained Vann from Peter Myers. In 1822 Richard 

 Smyth of Burgate died holding the manor, 10 * and it 

 was in the Smyth family for some time later. There 

 is no record of any court in the reputed manor. 



The reputed manor of WESTBROOK lies to the 

 west of the town. From an undated customary of 

 Godalming of the early part of the reign of Edward III, 

 of which a 1 6th or 1 7th-century copy exists at Loseley, 

 it appears that there was a Richard de Westbrook hold- 

 ing land in Godalming ; by the marginal notes on 

 the copy this seems to be the same land that was after- 

 wards held by Thomas Hull, owner of Westbrook. 

 The conditions of tenure are plainly servile in origin, 

 including carriage of harvest and serving as reeve with 

 food allowance. In 1334 a Robert Westbrook and 

 his wife Bona were enfeoffed of land in Godalming,* * 



WISTBROOK of God- 

 aiming. Gules a fleur- 

 de-lis coming out of a 

 leopard's head or. 



but whether of what was afterwards called Westbrook 

 is not clear. Westbrooks occur frequently in the God- 

 aiming courts. They held Prestwick in Chiddingfold 

 soon after i327,* M and Asshtede,* 06 which afterwards 

 both belonged to the West- 

 brooks of Westbrook, but 

 there is no evidence of their 

 holding Westbrook. It was 

 probably a holding in Godal- 

 ming named from them. The 

 original ' Westbroke ' was per- 

 haps that in Hampshire. There 

 were members of the family 

 about the neighbourhood, and 

 they were rising in the world. 

 A John Westbrook acquired 

 the Strode moiety of Loseley 

 in or before 1481. 



According to Symmes, Wil- 

 liam Westbrook was buried at Godalming in 1437, 

 and Thomas Westbrook in 1493 ; both holders of 

 the manor.* 07 It appears from a rental at Loseley 

 that John Westbrook held Westbrook in 1486. John 

 Westbrook sold his moiety of Loseley Manor in 

 I5o8.* 8 He died in 1513-14 and was buried in 

 Godalming Church.* 09 William Westbrook died in 

 1537. His widow Margaret resided at Westbrook, 

 and after her death the manor descended to the heirs 

 of his sisters Florence Scarlet and Elizabeth Hull.* 10 



Thomas Hull and John Scarlet a minor were hold- 

 ing Westbrook in moieties in 1547.'" John Scarlet's 

 portion seems to have passed to William Morgan, who 

 sold it to Thomas Hull about the year 1576.*" He 

 was thus seised of the whole of Westbrook. A 

 Thomas Hull and his wife Florence were dealing 

 with it in 1600, and again in 1622."* Their son 

 Thomas Hull was an ardent Royalist," 4 who suffered 

 sequestration in April 1649 for lending money to 

 maintain the war against Parliament." 5 He was 

 obliged to compound, and in 1656 sold Westbrook 

 to John Platt, clerk of West Horsley," 6 who after- 

 wards held weekly conventicles at his house in Godal- 

 ming," 7 and died in 1670. His son John, who was 

 knighted in 1672, was raising money on the manor 

 in 1674,"' and is said to have built Westbrook 

 Place." 9 In 1688 the manor was sold to Sir 

 Theophilus Oglethorpe, kt.,** who sat in Parlia- 

 ment for Haslemere from 1698 till 1701.*" His 

 eldest son Louis was killed at Schellenberg in 1704. 

 The next son, Theophilus, who also represented 



18B Survey of manor of Godalming, 13 

 Edw. VI i Land. Rev. Misc. Surv. vol. 

 190, p. 248, etc. 



185 P.C.C. Wills (Stephenson, 47). 



190 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), Ixxxiii, 20. 



191 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxii, 

 146. 



1M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 32 Eliz. ; 

 Recov. R. Trin. 32 Eliz. m. 22. 



19a Chan. Proc. Eliz. C.c. xiii, 5 9 ; 

 ibid. C.c. xiv, 41. 



191 Com. Plea D. Enr. Trin. 39 Eliz. 

 en. 9. 



195 Close, 6 Jas. I, pt. xi, no. II. 



196 Close, 12 Chas. I, pt. xxvi, 25 j 13 

 Chas. I, xxv, 8. 



W Will of John Clarke, P.C.C. 2 June 

 1637 (Goare, 99). 



198 B.M. Add. MS. 6167, fol. 168. 



199 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. I Will, and 

 Mary. 



800 Godalming Ct. R. 17 Oct. 1701. 



801 Recov. R. Hil. 9 Geo. I, Vann, Win- 

 tershull and High Loxley. 



808 Close, 32 Geo. II, pt. i, no. 8 ; cf. 

 Feet of F. Surr. East. 32 Geo. II. 

 * Will 



804 Feet of F. Surr. 7 Edw. Ill, 29. 

 It consisted of a messuage, a carucate of 

 land, and 131. S,/. rent. 



805 Deed Rev. T. S. Cooper. 



806 Godalming R. 1384. 



107 Inscriptions quoted by Symmes, Add. 

 MS. (B.M.), 6167, fol. 167. It is prob- 

 able that Symmes confused 1437 and 

 1537 ; the date of Thomas Westbrook is 

 doubtful. 



808 Add. Chart. (B.M.), I3SS7- 



809 Where there is an altar-tomb in his 

 memory. See Surr. Arch. Sue. Proc. vii, 

 279. Ralph Nevill, F.S.A., Notts on the 

 Restoration of Godalming Ch. 



36 



See V.C.H. Surr. ii, 592, under 

 Compton Hall. 



811 Misc. Bks. (Exch. T.R.), clxix, 223. 



818 Close, 20 Eliz. pt. xx ; Feet of F. 

 Surr. Mich. 18-19 Eliz - 



811 Feet of F. Surr. East. 42 Eliz. ; ibid. 

 Trin. 20 Jas. I. 



814 He had an elder brother Humphrey 

 who died without issue. 



815 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, iit,20 1 8. 

 818 Close, 1656, pt. xxxi, no. 20. 



417 A. R. Bax, Conventicles in Surr.' 

 Surr. Arch. Coll. xiii, 159. 



tt8 Feet of F. Surr. East. 26 Chas. II. 



*** Aubrey, Nat. Hist, and Aniij. of 

 Surr. iv, 17. 



880 Before 1690, for in March of that 

 year Lady Oglcthorpe had a pass to go to 

 her house near Godalming ; Cal. S.P. 

 Dom. 1689-90, p. 512. 



881 Diet. Nat. Biog. xlii, 50. 



