GODALMING HUNDRED 



GODALMING 



Haslemere, and died at the Jacobite court of St. Ger- 

 mains about 1728, was dealing with the manor in 

 1727.'" His younger brother, General James Ed- 

 ward Oglethorpe, the great philanthropist and founder 

 of Georgia, next came into 

 possession. In spite of his fre- 

 quent absences from England, 

 he was five times elected mem- 

 ber of parliament for Hasle- 

 mere. After his final return 

 from Georgia he was made a 

 general in the English army 

 and served under the Duke of 

 Cumberland in the rebellion 

 of 1745. He died in 1785, 

 having left the manor by will 

 to his widow, who devised it 

 to be sold for the general's 



great-nephew, the Marquis of Bellegarde." 5 It was 

 bought in 1788 by Christopher Hodges, who sold it 

 in 1790 to Nathaniel Godbold, a quack doctor." 4 

 The latter's son of the same name was living there in 

 1824 and died 1834."' In 1844 part of the estate 

 was sold to the Direct London and Portsmouth Rail- 

 way Company ; m and the house, after being occupied 

 only for short terms, became the Meath Home for 

 Epileptics in 1892. Mr. G. J. Hull bought the 

 house, part of the estate, and the manor. The manor 

 is now held by Mr. H. Thackeray Turner. 



A quit-rent of lot. 6d. was payable from West- 

 brook to the lord of Godalming manor, of whom 

 it was held. 



OGLITHOHFI. Argent 

 a Jftse dancetty between 

 three boars* heads sable. 



Near Westbrook are the town mill and a tanning 

 mill. 



In the roll of a leet-court held at Godalming in 

 1483 mention is made of ' Westbrokesmyll." 87 Two 

 fulling mills were'sold with the manor in 1624, 1647, 

 and 1 727."" 



Binscombe, about I \ miles from Westbrook, seems 

 to have been closely connected with that manor. 

 ' Bedelescombe ' and Farncombe sometimes sent two 

 tithingmen between them, sometimes one each 

 separately, to the hundred court of Godalming. TO A 

 list of tenants of Westbrook Manor at Loseley (circa 

 1670) contains some names in Binscombe, and it is 

 called sometimes a manor, but always in connexion 

 with Westbrook. The existing houses are the pro- 

 perty of Mrs. More-Molyneux McCowan, owner of 

 Loseley. There is a Friends' burial ground dating 

 from the 1 7th century. This is now no longer used. 

 The church of ST. PETER 4ND 

 CHURCHES ST. PAUL is charmingly situated in 

 the meadows close to the River Wey, 

 set in a large and prettily kept churchyard. 



It is built of Bargate stone rubble, originally of a 

 bright yellow colour, and of hard texture. The 

 dressings in the earliest periods were executed in the 

 same stone, but from the end of the 1 2th century 

 clunch or hard chalk was employed for wrought work 

 in the successive enlargements, Bath stone being used 

 in the 19th-century additions. The roofs are tiled 

 and the lofty spire is covered with lead a valuable 

 example of this treatment. 



In its present form the church has been considerably 



A -Windows of 11OO - 2o 

 B- c.i2oo 



IP t go 30 40 j 



GODALMING CHURCH : GROUND PLAN 



m Recov. R. Trin. 13 Geo. I, m. 

 271. 



815 Gent. Mag. Ivii, 1025. 



114 Manning and Bray, op. cit. i, 

 III. 



" Gent. Mag. itciv, 120 ; Feet of F. ibid. Mich. 23 Chas. I, m. 46; ibid. 

 Surr. Eait. 57 Geo. III. Trin. 13 Geo. I, m. 261. 



*> Brayley, op. cit. v, 214. m Add. R. (B.M.), 26892 ; ibid. 



*> Add. R. (B.M.), 26892. 1355 i and Rolli at Loseley, paitim. 



08 Recov. R. Trin. 22 Jat. I, m. 35 ; 



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