GODALMING HUNDRED 



PUTTENHAM 



Heath, opened in 1882. The schools were built 

 in 1850. 



There are four manors or reputed 



MANORS manors in Puttenham; Puttenham Bury 



and Puttenham Priory moieties of one 



manor, Rodsell and Shoelands. Of these Rodsell 



alone is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. 



The main manor of PUTTENH4M was a member 

 of the manor of Bramley in Blackheath Hundred. 1 It 

 is uncertain whether it was included with Rodsell in 

 1086 or whether the ' two manors' of Wanborough 

 recorded in Domesday were Wanborough and Putten- 

 ham, or whether it was included in Bramley. It 

 seems to have followed the history of Bramley, for 

 it was in the king's hands in the 1 2th century, since, 

 c. 1199, Geoffrey Bocumton exchanged 15 librates of 

 land, which he had had in Puttenham by the king's gift, 

 for 1 2 librates of land in Stoke by Guildford. 1 The lands 

 of Ralph de Fay, lord of Bramley under Henry II, 

 were in 1203 granted to Robert de Barevill.' Robert 

 was sued for land in Puttenham by Geoffrey de 

 Roinges before the 

 time of this grant, 4 

 and evidently esta- 

 blished his rights, for 

 in 1 22 1 the king gave 

 Robert de Barevill 

 ten oaks towards the 

 mcndingand rebuild- 

 ing of his houses in 

 Puttenham. 6 Ralph 

 de Fay's lands were 

 restored and descend- 

 ed to his son Ralph,' 

 who was succeeded by 

 John de Fay, his son, 

 in 1223.' At John's 

 death his lands were 

 divided between his 

 two sisters, Maud 

 wife of Roger de 

 Clere and Philippa 

 Neville. 8 Puttenham, 

 however, had been 

 assigned to Ralph de 

 Fay's widow Beatrice, 



in dower. It was seized in 1241 owing to her 

 excommunication, but restored in 1242. It was 

 again taken into the king's hands in 1 246.' Putten- 

 ham was then divided between the two sisters, Philippa 

 and Maud. Philippa's moiety was afterwards called 

 Puttenham Bury, while her sister's portion became 

 the manor of Puttenham Priory. 



Philippa Neville gave PUTTENH4M BURY 

 with Bramley in free marriage with her daughter 

 Beatrice to William of Wintershull. 10 For the next 

 300 years Puttenham Bury and Bramley followed 

 the descent which is given under Bramley. 11 In 



1541 Edmund Pope, a lineal descendant of Wil- 

 liam of Wintershull and his wife Beatrice, sold both 

 manors. 11 Bury was purchased in 1541 by Robert 

 Lusher of Cheam and his wife Elizabeth, who also 

 bought Puttenham Priory in 1 544." His father 

 Thomas was holding Shoelands, but Robert predeceased 

 him, dying in 1545." His widow Elizabeth, aunt 

 of Sir Olliph Leigh (see below), married George 

 Beaumont," and retained for life an allowance out of 

 Puttenham Bury Manor, 16 and the whole of Puttenham 

 Priory, 17 which she leased to her son Thomas Beau- 

 mont in 1587."* Robert's son, Nicholas Lusher, died 

 26 May 1566, leaving an infant son Nicholas. 19 His 

 lands were therefore taken into the queen's hands 

 during the minority of the heir. She leased the de- 

 mesne lands of Puttenham Bury and Shoelands to Mary, 

 Nicholas Lusher's widow. In 1 6 1 o Nicholas, son 

 and heir of Nicholas Lusher, and his son Richard sold 

 the two manors 'of Puttenham and the manor of 

 Shoelands to Sir Olliph Leigh of Addington and his 

 brother Sir John Leigh." Sir Olliph died 1612. 



PUTTENHAM COMMON, LOOKING TO HINDHEAD 



His son Sir Francis and the latter's uncle Sir John 

 held the estates in coparceny, and demised a part of 

 Shoelands to one Nicholas Harding. They then 

 divided them, Sir John taking the two Puttenhams, 

 and Sir Francis Shoelands. On Sir John's death in 

 1624, Sir Francis took the whole. 2 ' Sir Francis 

 Leigh, having married Elizabeth daughter and heir 

 of William Minterne of Thorpe, conveyed the manor 

 of Puttenham Bury in 1625 to his father-in-law for 

 life, with reversion to his younger son Francis Leigh, 

 and failing his male issue to his elder son Wolley 

 Leigh, later an ardent Royalist. William Minterne 



1 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, no. 15 ; 

 bid. (Ser. 2), ii, 7. 



* Rot. dt Oblat. et Fin. (Rec. Com.), 

 [ohn, p. 41. 



8 Liberate R. 4 John, m. 6. 

 4 Rot. Cur. Regii (Rcc. Com.), ii, 79 ; 

 Feet of F. Surr. i John, 19. 



Rot. Lit. Claui. (Rec. Com.), i, 469. 



Tata de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225 ; 

 ltd Bk. ofExcb. ii, 560. 



* Exctrfta t Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i,iO2. 



Ibid. 346, 354. 



Ibid. 355, 448; and Close R. z6 

 Hen. Ill, m. IO. 



10 Feet of F. Surr. 33 Hen. Ill, 23. 



11 See under Bramley in Blackheath 

 Hund. 



Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 33 Hen. VIII ; 

 ibid. Hit. 33 Hen. VIII. 



a Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ciliii, 32. 



14 Exch. luq. p.m. (Ser. 2), bdle. 1094, 

 no. 15. 



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15 Surr. Visit. (Harl. Soc.), xliii, 14. 



Harl. Chart. 1 1 1, E. 25. 



W Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 29 Eliz. 



M Ibid. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxliii, 32. 



Harl. Chart, in, E. 25. 



11 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 7 Jat. 1 5 ibid. 

 Eatt. II Jas. I. 



w Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 13 Jas. I ; 

 deed of 26 Jan. 1615-16 ; P.C.C. will, 

 proved 2; Sept. 1624. 



