GODALMING HUNDRED 



PUTTENHAM 



custome of olde tyme ' to the farmer for the repair 

 of the houses on the manors * 4 (for which compare 

 the grant by Henry III to Robert de Barevill, above). 

 In 1544 Edward EIrington and Humphrey Metcalfe 

 sold the manor to Robert and Elizabeth Lusher, then 

 owners of Puttenham Bury. Thenceforward the two 

 manors generally follow the same descent. 



The lords of Puttenham Priory seem to have had 

 view of frankpledge and assize of bread and ale in 

 their manor." William of Wintershull and his wife 

 Beatrice also had view of frankpledge in Putten- 

 ham.* 6 Both Puttenham Bury and Priory had courts 

 baron." 



RODSELL lies to the south of the parish between 

 Shackleford in Godalming and Cut Mill. Under 

 Edward the Confessor Tovi held it. Bishop Odo of 

 Bayeux held it in demesne after the Conquest,* 8 and 

 added it to the land which he held out in farm at 

 Bramley.* 9 The bishop's lands fell to the Crown at 

 his final exile, and with them Bramley. The history of 

 the holding from this time is obscure. In 1273 William 

 Palmer of Rodsell obtained from John son of William 

 3. lease for life of a messuage and half a virgate of land 

 in Puttenham.' In 1508 William Lusher held the 

 manor of ' Redsale ' (evidently 

 Rodsell by the context)." In 

 1568 William Lusher, son and 

 heir of George Lusher, had a 

 rent-charge on lands in Rod- 

 sell and Puttenham. 4 ' Richard 

 Wyatt purchased lands in Put- 

 tenham from Sir John and Sir 

 Francis Leigh, who were con- 

 nected by marriage with the 

 Lushers, 4 * and Richard's son 

 Francis Wyatt died in 1634 

 holding the manor and farm 

 of Rodsell, 44 which he had 

 settled on his wife Timothea 



in April 1621." He also held the wood called 

 Prior's Wood in Puttenham and Compton. His 

 son Richard entered upon the manor after his mother's 

 death. 46 He died in June 1645, leaving a younger 

 brother Francis, who was his heir. 47 Francis died 

 in 1673. His son Francis died in 1723, having 

 survived his son, also Francis, who died in 1713, aged 

 twenty-six. The latter's elder son Richard married 

 Susan daughter of Sir Thomas Molyneux of Loseley, 

 and died s.p. in 1753. His younger brother Wil- 

 liam died in 1775, and his son Richard in 1784. 

 Richard son of Richard died unmarried in 1816. 

 His heir, another Richard, of Horsted Keynes, sold 

 Rodsell in 1819 to Edward Beeston Long, who was 

 followed by his son Henry Lawes Long of Hampton 

 Lodge. 49 It is now the property of Mr. Mowbray 

 Howard of Hampton Lodge. 



SHOELANDS (Sholaund, xiii cent. ; Sheweland, 



LUSHF.R. Gules three 

 martltti or and a chief or 

 with three molets azure 

 therein. 



xvi cent. ; Sholand and Shoeland, xvii and xviii 

 cents.) was probably a sub-manor of Burgham, for 

 its tenants paid rent to the lord of Burgham. 49 In 

 1235 Ralph Attewood granted to John de Fay land 

 in Shoelands. 50 The lords of Burgham in 1251 were 

 William of Wintershull and Beatrice his wife," and 

 when, at that date, Peter de Ryvall granted a carucate 

 of land and 5;. rent in Shoelands and Puttenham to 

 the Prior and church of Selborne, co. Han's, forever, 

 William of Wintershull and his wife confirmed the 

 land to the priory to be held of them and their 

 heirs by rent of a gilded spur yearly within a week 

 of the Nativity of John the Baptist (J une 24)." 

 The rent of the gilded spur is mentioned in an ex- 

 tent of the Wintershulls" lands dated 1287. The 

 men of the priory in Shoelands and Puttenham 

 were to be free from view of frankpledge. At the 

 same time William and Beatrice released to the prior 

 all their claim to the road which led from a certain 

 close (hega) at ' Otteford,' before the prior's gate at 

 Shoelands as far as the house of Ralph Du Bois." 

 This was probably a right of way to the main road 

 in the Down, up the existing steep and certainly 

 ancient lane. 



For some time the priory remained in possession 

 of Shoelands, paying an annual rent of 6J., M probably 

 in lieu of the gilded spurs. In 1338 Ralph Poynaunt 

 incurred the greater excommunication for stealing an 

 ox from the manor of the Prior and convent of Selborne 

 at ' Schoulonde.' " The priory was suppressed owing 

 to its poverty, and by Waynflete's influence added 

 to the foundation of Magdalen College in I484. 56 

 Thomas Lusher was tenant of some Hampshire lands 

 under the priory, 1462, and just before the foun- 

 dation of Magdalen Shoelands had been granted for 

 life to Richard Lusher." Apparently it was somehow 

 retained, for it never belonged to Magdalen, and William 

 Lusher was seised of it late in the I 5th century. From 

 him it descended to his son Thomas. Thomas's son 

 Robert, the purchaser of the Puttenham manors, pre- 

 deceased his father in 1545, leaving a son Nicholas 

 aged ten. 58 After Thomas's death his grandson Nicholas 

 entered upon the manor, and in 1561 was sued by 

 his uncle William for a rent from the manor, which 

 he claimed as bequeathed him by Robert. 5 ' After 

 the death of Nicholas Lusher in 1566 Shoelands was 

 taken into the queen's hands, the demesne lands being 

 leased with those of Puttenham Bury to Mary 

 Lusher, 60 Nicholas's widow. Their son Nichoks was 

 knighted after 1580, and his son Richard Lasher of 

 Shoelands was admitted as a student at the Inner 

 Temple in 1602. Shoelands seems to have been sold 

 with Puttenham Bury and Priory to Sir Olliph and 

 Sir John Leigh. Sir Francis, the son of the former (see 

 Puttenham Bury), conveyed a moiety of it in February 

 1615-16 to William Minterne to the use of his wife 

 Bridget Minterne, with remainder to Francis Leigh and 



M Partic. of Grants, Aug. 

 Hen.VIII.no. 411, E. 6. 



84 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 



747- 



88 Feet of F. Surr. 35 Hen. Ill, 24. 

 8 ' Harl. Chart, in, E. 25. 

 ** Y.C.H.Surr.\, 301*. 

 Ibid. 3023. 



40 Feet of F. Surr. 2 Edw. I, 14. 



41 De Banco R. East. 23 Hen. VII. 

 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1 1 Eliz. 



43 Will of Francis Wyatt, proved Lond. 

 10 Feb. 1635. 



Off. 44 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxiii, 



90. 



45 Ibid. 



49 Ibid, mxxxvii, 12. 



4 ? Ibid, mxxiv, 34. 



48 Brayley, Hitt.ofSurr. v, 239. 



4> Chart, of Selborne Priory (Hants 

 Rec. Soc.}, 1891, p. 117. 



60 Plac. de jur. and Assiz. 19-20 

 Hen. Ill, Calendar 21 (xlix), 85. 



61 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, IJ. 



SJ Feet of F. Surr. 35 Hen. Ill, no. 

 3, 24. 



55 



48 Ibid. In 1198-9 Thurbert Du Bois 

 leased a virgate of land in Puttenham to 

 a certain Richard le Curt ; ibid, xo Ric. I, 



34- 



M Chart, of Selborne Priory (Hants 

 Rec. Soc.), 1891, p. 117. 

 M Ibid. 89. 



68 See V.C.H. Hants, ii, 179. 



'7 Doc. of Selborne at Magdalen Col- 

 lege, Oxford. 



69 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxzv, 55. 

 69 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), ex, 13. 



80 Harl. Chart, ill, E. 25. 



