A HISTORY OF SURREY 



probably of two dates with projecting upper stories, 

 ornamental barge-boards to the gables and a delightful 

 jumble of tiled roofs. There is a picturesque porch 

 to the front, having an oak doorway with four- 

 centred arch and carved spandrels. Among other 

 interesting details are the moulded joist-boards and 

 brackets, the barge-boards of two patterns, and pen- 

 dants to the barge-boards and wall plates. There is a 

 good gable of timber pattern-work at the back, retain- 

 ing its barge-board. 



Another old house, at Snowdenham, although 

 marked by later alterations, exhibits internally some 

 door-posts of perhaps 1 5th-century work. A stable 

 belonging to this house is in a very perfect condition 

 and apparently of early I yth-century date. 



Thorncombe Street, a straggling hamlet to the 

 south of Nursecombe, contains a number of old 

 timber-framed cottages. One of these, T" s ^ a P e ^ ' n 

 plan, has some very solid half-timber work, and the 

 original windows with lead lights. An old farm- 

 house called Slades, in the same hamlet, has a good 

 ttalrcase and other woodwork of 18th-century date. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey 

 MANORS the manor of BRAMLEY covered appar- 

 ently the inhabited parts of the county 

 from near Shalford Church southwards to the Sussex 

 border. All the manors of the parishes of Wonersh, 

 Cranleigh, Hascombe, Dunsfold, and Alfold, and part 

 of Shalford seem to have been formed out of it. 

 Alnod Cild held it in the time of Edward the 

 Confessor. After the Conquest it became the holding 

 of Odo of Bayeux, who found various pretexts for 

 annexing to it land in Clandon and Gomshall, the 

 manors of Chilworth and Sutton, and lands else- 

 where.' It is recorded in Domesday that the manor 

 paid no geld since Odo held it. After the forfeiture 

 of the Bishop of Bayeux it escheated with his other 

 lands to the Crown. Under Henry I Eustace de 

 Brutvile held it for a short time. 3 Henry II gave the 

 manor to Ralph de Fay, who was, however, dis- 

 possessed during the war between the king and his 

 son, the young King Henry. 4 Bramley paid tallage 

 as king's demesne in 1187.' It was afterwards held 

 for a short time by Baldwin de Bethune, 6 but in 1 196 

 46 is given as the ferm of Bramley for half a year 

 before it was given to John Count of Mortain. 7 After 

 his accession John granted the manor to Ralph de 

 Fay, son of the former tenant. 9 His son John de Fay 

 had seisin of his father's lands in 1223,' and after his 

 death in 1241 the manor was divided between his 

 two sisters, Maud de Clere and Philippa de Fay. 10 

 They each held a moiety by service of half a knight's 

 fee, the two portions being afterwards accounted 



separate manors. Maud de Clere's portion was again 

 divided into three in the I 7th century, but Philippa's 

 remained entire, and is now known as the manor of 

 Bramley. 



Philippa married a William Neville " and enfeoffed 

 her only daughter Beatrice, who married William of 

 Wintershull, lord of the manor of Wintershull in 

 Bramley, of her portion of the manor of Bramley." 

 Beatrice survived her husband 13 and entailed the 

 manor on their younger son Walter, 14 whose son 

 Thomas succeeded him, 15 and married Alice 16 after- 

 wards wife of Henry de Loxley, who held with Alice, 

 or was at all events answerable for dues from the 

 manor." Thomas died on Good Friday I339, 18 hold- 

 ing half the manor of Bramley of John de Hadresham 

 as of his manor of Combe Neville. 19 He left a son 

 and heir William, 80 who died in 1361. He was suc- 

 ceeded by his brother, 11 Thomas Wintershull, from 

 whom the manor descended to his son Thomas." 

 The latter died in January 1414-15, leaving a son, 

 also Thomas, whose proof of age was taken in 1418." 

 He died in 1 420, his heirs being his sisters, Joan wife 

 of William Weston of Sussex, and Agnes wife of 

 William Basset.* 4 Joan married a second husband, 

 William Catton. 15 No more is known of Agnes 

 Basset; 16 in 1485, after the death without issue of 

 William Weston, Joan's only son, the manor was 

 divided between Margaret Appesley, Joan's daughter, 

 and John Pope, son of Thomas Pope and Joan, 

 another of her daughters." Margaret Appesley died 

 27 August 1516, leaving a son and heir, John Welles, 

 by her first husband William Welles.' 8 In January 

 1534-5 John Welles died possessed of half the manor 

 of Bramley, and was succeeded by his son Thomas 

 Welles,* 9 who, with his wife Cecily, joined with 

 Edmund Pope (probably a descendant of John Pope 

 and as such seised of the other half of the manor) in 

 a sale of the whole manor to William Harding of 

 Knowle in Cranleigh, citizen and mercer of London, 

 and his wife Cecily. 30 After 

 William Harding's death in 

 September 1549" the manor 

 was divided between his daugh- 

 ters Helen and Catherine. 

 Catherine married in 1559 

 Richard Onslow, 33 who be- 

 came Speaker of the House 

 of Commons and Solicitor- 

 General. 33 Helen in 1561 

 sold her share to her brother- 

 in-law Onslow.' 4 From him 

 the manor descended to his 

 son Sir Edward, whom Queen 



HARDING of Knowle. 

 Argent a bend azure tuith 

 three martlets or thereon. 



I V.C.H. Surr. i, 295*, 2963, 29811, 

 301, 302(1, 305*. 



8 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 225. 

 Ibid. 



6 Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, m. 15 d. 



Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 6, fol. 73. 

 In the printed Testa de Nrvill the name 

 is given ' Becchon. 1 



7 Pipe R. 8 Ric. I, m. 17 d. 



8 Cal. Rot. Chart. (Rec. Com.), 33. He 

 confirmed at the same time a tithe of the 

 manor to the monks of Lyre. 



9 Excerfta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 102. 



10 Ibid, i, 346, 352. 



II Wintershull Chart, quoted by Man- 

 ning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 28. By the In- 



quisition below it would seem that William 

 and Philippa had a son of whom the manor 

 was held. 



Feet of F. Div. Co. 33 Hen. III. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, no. 15. 



Ibid. 5 Hen. V, no. 52. 



"Ibid. 20 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 46. 



Ibid. 8 Ric. II, no. 24. 



V Pipe R. 26 Edw. Ill, m. 30. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (ut 

 nos.), no. 46. 



19 Ibid. 14 Edw. Ill, no. 7. 



2 Ibid, ii Edw. Ill, pt. 2 (ist nos.), 

 no. 82. 

 al Ibid. 



M Ibid. 5 Hen. V, no. 52. 

 33 Ibid. 6 Hen. V, no. 53. 



82 



Ibid. 8 Hen. V, no. 86 ; Feet of F. 

 Div. Co. Hil. 9 Hen. VI. 



85 Surr. V'nit. 216 ; and Feet of F. Div. 

 Co. Hil. 9 Hen. VI. 



* Manning and Bray quote a deed 

 dated 2 Ric. Ill, by which William Swan, 

 a trustee, conveyed Bramley to William 

 Weston, son of William and Joan Weston. 



*7 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxvii, 61. 



Ibid. 



S9 Exch. Inq. p.m. file 1085, no. I. 



80 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 33 Hen. VIII. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxxix, 136. 

 8a Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 3 Eliz. 



83 Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. pt. 



, 475- 



84 Lord Onslow's D. 



