A HISTORY OF SURREY 



parsonage or rectory, glebe and ' sanctuary lands,' and 

 the profits of court leet where 'one constable for the 

 Deanes ' was sworn. The lease by a former dean to 

 Valentine Castillion was confirmed, but the manor 

 was sold to George Peryer. 1 * The dean and 

 chapter were reinstated after the Restoration,*" and 

 the successive deans continued in possession till 22 

 May 1846, when the manor was transferred to the 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners."* The rectory manor 

 was sold with the land about 1860 to Mr. John Sim- 

 monds, whose son, Mr. J. Whateley Simmonds, is 

 now owner. The Commissioners retained the great 

 tithes, and the advowson was vested in the Bishop of 

 Winchester. 



The early history of the advowson 

 4DVOWSONS of the parish church is coincident 

 with that of the rectory manor. 

 After the deprivation of Dr. Andrews, whose Calvin- 

 istic parishioners petitioned against him in 1640,"' 

 the king presented Isaac Fortrey. The Crown again 

 presented in l66o,* M but withdrew the presentation 

 at the petition of the dean and chapter." 9 



The parsonage or rectory, now demolished, was 

 directly north of the church. Parts of the vicarage 

 house are of great antiquity. 



The ecclesiastical parish of St. John the Baptist, 

 Busbridge, was formed in I S6$. Ka The advowson was 

 then vested in Emma Susan, wife of Mr. John C. 

 Ramsden of Busbridge Hall. 181 



Farncombe was formed into an ecclesiastical parish 

 in 1 849 ; * 61 the living is in the gift of the Bishop of 

 Winchester. 



Shackleford parish was formed in i866. 16 * The 

 living is also in the patronage of the bishop. These 

 three are rectories, endowed by the Commissioners 

 out of the great tithes. 



There were also churches or chapels at Catteshull 

 and Hurtmore, now lost. Traces of the Catteshull 

 Chapel remained near the manor house when Man- 

 ning wrote. 



The wooden chapel of All Saints, Hurtmore, was 

 held in 1220 by Nicholas, apparitor of the Chapter of 

 Guildford, for half a mark, who had it from Thomas 

 of Hurtmore. The latter had made a composition 

 for it with the Chancellor of Salisbury. 164 In 1 260 

 the Prior of Newark, then lord of Hurtmore, pleaded 

 that he had been permitted to present to Hurtmore 

 ' Church.' 18S It has long disappeared, but its site was 

 south-west of the Charterhouse Hill towards Eashing. 

 Wyatt's Almshouses were founded 

 CHARITIES in 1619 by Richard Wyatt, of Lon- 

 don, carpenter. The management is 

 vested in the Carpenters' Company. They stand in 

 Mead Row, Farncombe. 



Smith's Charity exists in Godalming as in other 

 Surrey parishes ; it is distributed here in money, not 

 in bread. Richard Champion in 1622 left a house 

 and land in Crayford, now represented by 1,138 

 consols, which is administered as Smith's Charity. 



The Meath Home for Epileptic Women and Girls 

 was founded by the Countess of Meath, who in 1892 

 bought for the purpose the manor house of Westbrook, 

 near Godalming station. A new wing was added in 

 1896. It accommodates seventy-four patients. 



HAMBLEDON 



Hameledune (xi cent.), Hameledon (xiii cent.), 

 Hameldon (xiv cent.). 



Hambledon is a small parish inclosed on the north, 

 east, and west by Godalming, bounded on the south 

 by Chiddingfold. It is about 3 miles from north 

 to south, rather over I mile wide in the south, but 

 tapering to the north. It contains 2,721 acres. The 

 village is 4 miles from Godalming town. The 

 northern part of the parish is on the Green Sand, 

 which rises into a considerable elevation towards 

 Highden Heath (Hyddenesheth in 1453). Hyde 

 Stile is near it ; High Down is a probable corrup- 

 tion. The clay in the south of the parish is very 

 thickly wooded, chiefly with oak ; and Hambledon 

 Hurst, an oak wood, through which a clay track runs, 

 the old highway from Godalming to Chiddingfold 

 and beyond, is, when passable in dry weather, one 

 of the most picturesque woodland walks in Surrey. 

 This highway was continually being presented as out 

 of repair in the Godalming Hundred Courts in the 

 1 4th, 1 5th, and 1 6th centuries. 1 It is crossed more 

 than once by a stream, which ultimately joins the 

 Arun. On 21 September 1340, Thomas le Beel, 



rector of Hambledon, was presented for having dug a 

 ditch in the highway. 



Brick-making is carried on in the clay soil. Iron 

 also occurs in considerable quantities in the same soil; 

 Lord Montague claimed an iron mine at Hambledon, 1 

 and Mine Pits Copse no doubt preserves the name of 

 it, though the part of the wood now so named is over 

 the Godalming border. On 20 February 1570 Lord 

 Montague had had trouble with the commoners who 

 resented his cutting wood for his ironworks, perhaps 

 in Hambledon Hurst.* 



The school (under the National Society) was 

 enlarged in 1874. 



The Union Workhouse for the Hambledon Union 

 is in the parish. It was originally built as a parish 

 workhouse in 1786, but has been much enlarged. 



A small outlying portion of Hambledon, an enclave 

 of Godalming and Hascombe, was transferred to Has- 

 combe by the Local Government Board in 1884. It 

 included Lambert's Farm on the road through Has- 

 combe village. 



Within the bounds of the parish are several old 

 houses and cottages, as well as a number of good 



154 Close, 1651, pt. xiv, no. 4. 



164 See Col. S.P. Dam. 1663-4, pp. 169, 

 191. 



>Parl. Papers, 1847-8, xlix, 167. 



W y.C.H. Surr. ii, 33 ; Inst. Bkt. 

 (P.R.O.). 



In.t. Bkt. (P.R.O.) 



" Col. S.P. Dam. 1663-4, pp. 169, Reg. of St. Osmund (Rolls Ser.), 



191- i, 297. 



160 Land. Gax. 30 June 1865, p. Mi Curia Regis R. 166, m. 2id. 



3 z8 3- * See 21 Sept. 1377, and other 



181 Ibid. placet. 



*> a Pap. Ret. Surr. 1901, p. 5. Loselejr MSS. June 10 1595, x, 116. 



M Ibid. p. 6. Loselejr MSS. x, 28. 



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