GODALMING HUNDRED 



HAMBLEDON 



modern houses. The old manor-house close to the 

 churchyard is one of the best of the old buildings. 



H4MBLEDOX MA" NOR included lands 

 M4NOR in Chiddingfold, Godalming, and Witley. 

 In the time of Edward the Confessor, 

 Azor held Hambledon. 4 After the Conquest it was 

 held in chief by Edward of Salisbury, ancestor of the 

 first Earl of Salisbury, and remained for some time a 

 member of the honour of Salisbury.* 



The immediate tenant in 1086 was Randulf. His 

 successors in the I3th century took their name from 

 Hambledon. In consideration of a grant to William 

 de Brademer of certain land in Fetcham and Lether- 

 head in 1207, Robert of Hambledon obtained a 

 release of William's claim to a hide of land in Ham- 

 bledon in favour of his own son, Richard of Hamble- 

 don. 6 This hide had formerly been held by Robert 

 de Smallbrede, and may therefore have been identical 

 with the lands called Great and Lesser Smallbredes, 

 which were attached to the manor in 1621.' In 

 1251 free warren in Hambledon and Prestwick was 

 granted to Robert Norris, but there is no proof 

 that he held the manor. 8 Richard of Hambledon, 

 the son of Henry of Hambledon, was lord of the 

 manor later in the same century.' His successor in 

 1316 was Walter of Hambledon ; " he apparently died 

 leaving heirs who were minors, for in 1321 the king 

 granted Hambledon to John de Toucester during his 

 pleasure." Before 1324 it appears to have been 

 acquired by Robert Fleming and Alice his wife, for in 

 that year they had licence for a chapel in their manor 

 of Hambledon." A 14th-century extent of the pur- 

 party of a certain inheritance assigned to Thomas 

 Fleming includes a hall at Smallbredes with a solar 

 and kitchen and a chapel." The history of the manor 

 during the next century is obscure. It would appear 

 from the patronage of the church, which both before 

 and after this period belonged to the lords of the 

 manor, that it changed hands several times, for the 

 advowson was successively in the possession of Edward 

 the Black Prince, John de Bursebrigg, Richard Earl of 

 Arundel, John Ryouns, William Petworth, Robert 

 Payn, John Wintershull and Henry Payn, Robert 

 Marshall and Richard Payn, Richard Monsted and 

 Edmund Sumner, and Robert atte Mille and John Bus- 

 bridge and others." It is directly stated that Richard 

 Earl of Arundel held the lordship of Hambledon by 

 reason of the custody of the heir, a woman ; it is 

 therefore possible that the above-mentioned patrons 

 of the church were also holding the manor either as 

 guardians or feoffees to the use of the heir of the 



vv 



HULL of Hambledon. 

 Argent a cheveron azure 

 between three demi-lioni 

 passant gules vtith three 

 bexants on the chrvertm 

 and a chief table -with 

 Pun piles argent therein. 



at Hyls or Hulls. In 1350 Thomas at Hyl wa* 

 lord of the manor and Maud was his wife." She was 

 clearly seised of the manor and is said to have been 

 Maud of Hambledon. 



At his death in 1489 John Hull was lord of 

 Hambledon. 16 Probably he was a descendant of Maud 

 wife of Thomas Hull whose 

 death w*s presented at Godal- 

 ming Court, October 1410." 

 The sons of John Hull were 

 Richard and Edward. 



In 1538 John Hull of Ham- 

 bledon died. John Hull of 

 full age was his heir. 18 He 

 held in 1547-9" and Giles 

 Hull in 1567 and 1572. 

 Giles was father to Samuel 

 and Joseph who sold in 1606 

 to Lawrence Stoughton." In 

 1613 he sold to Laurence 

 Eliot of Busbridge, 81 a yearly 

 rent being reserved to Samuel 

 Hull during his life." Lau- 

 rence Eliot who held a court in 1614 died holding 

 the manor in 1 6 1 9," and left a son Sir William Eliot 

 who settled the manor on himself and his wife Joan in 

 tail male." He died in 1650. His son Sir William 

 with his wife and son William barred the entail in 

 1692." William the son died 1707. The manor 

 was mortgaged and in 1710 was sold to John Walter * 

 except the next presentation to the church, which 

 William had already granted 

 to his brother, Laurence El- 

 iot. John Walter settled the 

 manor on his son Abel's wife 

 Anne Nevill in 1 729, and they 

 conveyed it in 1737 to James 

 Jolliffe and others, 87 possibly 

 trustees for Hitch Young. 88 

 In 1759 it passed to the lat- 

 ter's grand-nephew the Hon. 

 William Bouverie, created Earl 

 of Radnor 1761. His son 

 Viscount Folkestone was in 

 possession in 1770." In 1800 

 his son Jacob Pleydell Bouverie 

 sold it to Henry Hare Town- 

 send of Busbridge. 30 Mr. 

 Thomas Mellersh of Godalming purchased it from 

 him in 1823, and it has since remained in the 

 Mellersh family. 



BOUVERIE, Earl of 

 Radnor. Party fesseviise 

 or and argent an eagle 

 sable with nvo heads hav- 

 ing on his breast a scut" 

 chcon gules vjsth a bend 

 vair. 



* V.C.H. Surr. i, 325*. 



6 Testa di Nevill (Rec. Com.), 220, 

 ait. 



e Feet of F. Surr. 9 John, 30. 



7 Harl. Chart, 57, H. 43. 



8 Chart. R. 35 Hen. Ill, m. 3. There 

 is, however, a possibility that Robert of 

 Hambledon was ' Robert Norrii of Ham- 

 bledon.' 



Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 221 ; 

 Anct. D., B. 4012. 



10 Par!. Writs (Rec. Com.), ii (3), 



338 (13). 



11 Abbrev. Rot. Ong. (Rec. Com. ), i, 

 163. There are numerous record* of mem- 

 bers of the Hambledon family in Surrey 

 during the ijth century, and as late as 

 1 342 John of Hambledon owed suit to God- 

 aiming Hundred Court (Ct. R. 24 Oct. 17 

 Edw. III). 



18 Winton Epis. Reg. Stratford, fol. 6a. 



It is worthy of note that the Flemings 

 were connected with the Norris family, for 

 in 1319-20 a release was granted to Robert 

 son of William Fleming from a warranty 

 of dower, claimed by Lucy late wife of 

 Robert Norris of Fordham in Essex (Anct. 

 D. [P.R.O.] B. 3625). 



18 Rentals and Surv. P.R.O., no. 628. 



11 Egerton MS. 2033, fol. 17, 58, 88. 



ls Lay Subs. R. bdle. 184, no. 29. 



16 P.C.C. Will proved 23 Oct. 1489 ; 

 Miller 39. 



V Thomas Hull held land at Heydon in 

 Godalming close to Hambledon. John 

 Hull was in possession of Heydon in 

 1428-9 (Catteshull Customary, 7 Hen. VI.) 



18 Catteshull Court, 23 Sept. 30 Hen. 

 VIII. 



19 In a survey of Godalming (Misc. 

 Bks. Exch. L.T.R. vol. clxix, fol. 109*) 

 John Hull senior is mentioned as owing 



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suit at Godalming Hundred Court for the 

 manor in 1549, and a marginal note says 

 that Giles Hull held it later. 



* Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 4 Jas. I ; Mich. 

 6 Jas. I. 



21 Close, 1 1 Jas. I, pt. xxxv, no. 23. 



*> Harl. Chart. 57, H. 43, 44. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclxxx, 127. 



84 Harl. Chart. 57, H. 43, 44. 



95 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 4 Will, and 

 Mary. 



m See Close, 7 Geo. II, pt. vi, no. I. 



"Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 12 Geo. II} 

 Release Enr. in Chan. 1733, pt. B. 6, 

 no. 9. 



88 Manning and Bray say that Hitch 

 Young bought it c. 1737 ; Hist, of Surr. 

 ii, 56. 



* Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. II 

 Geo. Ill, m. 104. 



80 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii,56. 



