A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Shiere cum Vachery and Cranleigh. It is recognized as 

 a parish in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, 1191. The 

 advowson of the rectory was granted in 1244 by 

 Roger de Clare, lord of Shiere, to John Fitz Geof- 

 frey. 80 Robert Montalt, who had married Emma, 

 widow of Richard son of John, presented to the 

 church after the latter's death. 81 Two of the co- 

 heirs of Richard son of John, viz. Matilda Beau- 

 champ and Robert Clifford, had possession of the 

 advowson. The successive representatives of their 

 families presented to the church s * in alternation till the 

 attainders of John, Lord Clifford, 1461, and Richard 

 Earl of Warwick, 1471, after which the advowson 

 was escheat to the Crown. 8 * Henry VIII granted it 

 to Sir Edward Bray, 84 who sold it to Walter Cresswell, 85 

 to whose son William it descended. 86 At his death 

 one-third descended to his granddaughter Elizabeth, 

 the other two-thirds to his son Christopher, 87 who 

 ultimately inherited his niece's portion. 88 He sold 

 it to Michael Pyke in i64O. 89 From this time it 

 frequently changed hands. In 1691 Ralph Drake 

 and his wife Mary and Anne Glyd conveyed it to 

 Henry Cheynell. 90 The Rev. James Fielding in- 

 herited it at his father's death late in the i8th 



century." In 1806 the Rev. 

 John Wolfe was patron." It 

 is now in the gift of Sir W. 

 Peek, bart. The chapel at 

 La Vacherie, to which chap- 

 lains were appointed in 1302 

 and subsequently, 95 was only 

 the north transept of the 

 parish church of St. Nicholas, 

 dedicated in honour of the 

 Trinity. 



There was an anniversary 

 in Cranleigh Church main- 

 tained from lands in the parish. 

 Edward VI granted these to Henry Foisted. 94 



Cranleigh Cottage Hospital, found- 

 CH4RITIES ed in 1859, is said to have been the 

 first of the kind set up in England. 

 It is partly self-supporting, patients paying on a varied 

 scale according to position, and partly supported 

 by subscriptions. 



Smith's Charity is distributed in Cranleigh, as in 

 other Surrey parishes, to the value of 23 i8/. 8d., 

 charged on the Warbleton Estate, Sussex. 



PICK, Baronet. A- 



zure a star argent <vjuh 

 three crescfntt argent in 

 the chief. 



DUNSFOLD 



Duntesfaud and Dunterfeld (xiii cent.) ; Dunttes- 

 fold (xiv cent.). 



Dunsfold is a small parish bounded on the west by 

 Chiddingfold and Godalming, on the north by 

 Hascombe and Bramley, on the east by Hascombe 

 and Alfold, on the south by the county of Sussex. 

 It contains 4,028 acres of land and 1 1 of water. 

 The parish is roughly a parallelogram of 3 miles 

 from north to south and 2 miles from east to west. 

 An outlying portion to the north, between the 

 parishes of Bramley and Wonersh, is now the eccle- 

 siastical parish of Graffham, and is included in the 

 civil parish of Bramley, to which it was transferred 

 with Brookwell in 1884; at the same time High 

 Billinghurst was transferred from Bramley to Duns- 

 fold. The parishes hereabouts were formerly very 

 much intermixed, portions of various manors being 

 included parochially in the parish where the caput 

 manerli lay. Dunsfold, not named in Domesday, was 

 probably in 1086 uninhabited woodland belong- 

 ing to the manor of Bramley. It is mentioned 

 in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, 1291, but is not 

 separately assessed in the early Subsidy Rolls of 

 Edward III. 1 



Dunsfold is still one of the most completely rural 

 and sequestered parishes of the county. The northern 

 part of the consolidated parish just touches the Ather- 

 field Clay at the foot of the escarpment of the Green- 



sand hills, but the main part of it is on the Wealden 

 Clay. There is a patch of sand and gravel on 

 Dunsfold Common. The parish is still thickly 

 wooded, and the oak trees are very numerous. 

 There were iron forges, or furnaces, in the 1 6th 

 century in the parish. Thomas Gratwyck and 

 Richard March owned three in Dunsfold, and 

 Thomas Clyde one at Durfold, which is in the 

 parish. 1 



In 1653 the Dunsfold forges were still at work,' 

 and as late as 1758 in a list of militia William 

 Gardiner, ' furnaceman ' of Dunsfold appears. 4 Burn- 

 ingfold 5 Wood and Furnace Bridge preserve the 

 names of places of charcoal-burning and iron-founding. 

 Norden's Surveyor says that the woods at Burningfold 

 were destroyed by the ironworks; but in the i8th 

 century charcoal was being made for the government 

 gunpowder mills just over the Sussex border close to 

 Burningfold, and the woods exist still. Bricks and 

 tiles are now made in the parish. The disused Wey 

 and Arun Canal skirts the eastern side of the parish. 



Dunsfold village consists chiefly of small houses 

 and cottages scattered round a very large green. The 

 cottages are highly picturesque and a feature is the 

 number of well-designed chimneys. One of these 

 cottages has an unglazed window with wooden 

 stanchions and shutter, such as were the rule in 

 houses before glass came into general use. Mr 



80 Feet of F. Div. Co. 28 Hen. Ill, 

 199. 



81 Egerton MS. 2032, fol. II, 50. 



81 Egerton MS. 2032, fol. II ; 2034, 

 fol. 38 ; Wykcham'i Reg. (Hantt Rec. 

 Soc.), i, 76, 1 06, 117, 124; De Banco 

 R. 74.9, m. 339. 



88 Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. IV, 52. 



84 L. and P. Hen. fill, xiv (2), 780 



(33)- 



85 Feet of F. Surr. Mil. 22 Eliz. 

 88 Ibid. Trin. 2 Jaa. I. 



87 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccrcvii, 93. 



88 Ibid, ccccxxxvi, 20 ; William Holt 

 presented to the living in 1632. See 

 Int. Bk. (P.R.O.). 



89 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 16 Chan. I. 



90 Ibid. Trin. 3 Will, and Mary. 



91 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 

 546. 



w Brayley, Hiit. of Surr. v, 173. 

 98 Winton Epi. Reg. Beaufort, foL 550. 

 94 Pat. 2 Edw. VI, pt. i, m. 14. 

 1 y.CJi. Surr. i, 441. 



92 



* S.P. Dom. Eliz. xcv, 20, 61 ; xcvi, 

 199. See Loseley MSS. Letter of 31 Oct. 

 1588. 



* V.CJI. Surr. ii, 273. 



* List of militia of the three south- 

 west hundreds of Surrey, at Loseley. 



* Burningfold however may be a name 

 connected with a kindred, the Burning!, 

 like Burningham in Norfolk. There was a 

 Burningfold in Haslemere (rentals of 1517 

 and 1653), a small tenement, perhaps 

 Buringfold's originally, 



