BLACKHEATH HUNDRED 



DUNSFOLD 



Ralph Nevill Sa notes the common occurrence of 

 slabs of Sussex or Petworth marble for steps and 

 paving-stones, and occasionally in mantel-pieces, in 

 these cottages and houses a fact due to its having 

 been dug in the neighbourhood of the church until 

 within the memory of persons now living.* 



At Burningfold is a fine old house of timber 

 framework. The two gables of the front are covered 

 with tile-hanging, but in the central space on ground 

 and first floors the original construction is exposed 

 and exhibits some square and circle patterns in the 

 framing, bearing considerable resemblance to the 

 work at Great Tangley. There are some good 

 mullioned windows with lead glazing, and the in- 

 terior retains a little oak panelling. 



The Baptist chapel was erected in 1883, and the 

 elementary school in 1839. 



BURNINGFOLD Manor seems origi- 

 M4NORS nally to have been a member of Bramley. 7 

 There is record of Stephen ' de Brun- 

 feld ' in a suit against the Abbot of Westminster in 

 1199.* In 1233-4 J nn de Fay, lord of Bramley, 

 sued Richard of Burningfold for customary service in 

 Bramley. 9 In 1229 John de Fay gave to Roger de 

 Bydon land in the woods of Burningfold and Wither- 

 fold; 10 and in 1235-6 Roger granted the land to 

 Sandon Hospital to be held of him." The Witherfold 

 lands reverted to the Crown and were granted to 

 Ralph Camoys of Wotton." 



Richard of Burningfold and his wife Isabel were 

 dealing with land in Dunsfold in 1 2712," and he was 

 one of the tenants who in 1280 paid rent due from 

 Bramley Manor to the Prior of Carisbrook in accor- 

 dance with a grant of Ralph de Fay. 14 In 1386-7 

 Robert Adam and his wife Elizabeth sold to Robert 

 March certain lands in Dunsfold with the reversion of 

 one-third of a quarter of a house which Joan widow 

 of John of Burningfold was holding in dower." Two 

 centuries later Burningfold was in the possession of 

 William March and of John his son, 16 and in 1569 of 

 John's son Richard March, 17 who was succeeded in 1 584 

 by his son William. 18 In 1 604 William March sold the 

 manor, all manorial rights, and the ironworks there 18a to 

 George Buncombe for J 886. 18b But John Middleton, 

 Richard Wyatt of Hall Place, Shackleford, and Thomas 

 Burdett, also had claims on the estate, 19 and Dun- 

 combe sold his rights to the other three in i6o8. !0 



GORING, Baronet. Ar- 

 gent a cheveron between 

 three rings gules. 



Middleton seems to have purchased those of Burdett, 

 for in 1619 Henry Wyatt inherited one-third of the 

 manor at his father's death, 11 John Middleton con- 

 veyed two-thirds to Arthur Middleton in 1622,** and 

 finally Henry Wyatt sold his rights in the manor to 

 Arthur Middleton, 1 * whose two youngest sons succeeded 

 to the manor." They sold it 

 in 1657 to Henry, afterwards 

 Sir Henry Goring, bart., whose 

 direct descendant, Sir Harry 

 Goring of Horsham, conveyed 

 the manor to John Tanner in 

 1722.** He died in 1751, 

 and his executors sold it 

 about 1756 to Viscount Mon- 

 tagu (who died in 1767),** 

 and Manning and Bray incor- 

 rectly state that his son Anthony 

 Joseph sold it by auction to 

 Edmund Woods ini768;' 7 but 

 Montagu mortgaged the estate to Robert and Henry 

 Drummond, 28 of Drummond's Bank, in 1781, and his 

 son sold it to Edmund Woods jun. in ijgo. 13 



Mr. Woods died in 1833,* his daughter Katherine 

 succeeded. She was succeeded by her sister Charlotte 

 Woods, who built and endowed the school on the 

 Green in 1850." 



It now belongs to Mr. Samuel Barrow. 



FIELD PLACE, a farm in the south of the parish, 

 is a reputed manor." In the I Jth century it was 

 the property of William Cranky and his wife Mar- 

 garet. 3 * It descended to their son William and from 

 him to his son Henry." Henry Cranley leased 

 the manor to his younger son John for forty years 

 after his own death with remainder to his eldest son 

 Emery." From him it descended in moieties to his 

 daughters, Alice wife of Peter Quenell, 36 and Jane wife 

 of George Stoughton.* 7 The whole manor descended 

 to Peter Quenell, son of Alice and Peter. 38 He sold 

 it to William Yalden in 1651." In 1677 William 

 Yalden and Mary Yalden, widow, conveyed the 

 manor to William Sadler. 40 In 1808 it was the 

 property of William, nephew of Thomas Sadler, 41 

 and in 1850 of James Sadler of Chiddingfold." 

 Land in Chiddingfold, of this manor, was held by 

 Giles Covert, who died in 1556, holding of the Dean 

 and Chapter of Windsor. 43 



* Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture 

 in SoutA-tvfst Surr. (znd ed.), 87. 



8 Large Paludina marble, Topley, Geol. 

 of the Weald, 105. 



' In 1583-4, however, Richard March 

 is said to have held it of Viscount Mon- 

 tagu as of his manor of Shalford Bradestan; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cciv, 97. 



8 Rot. Cur. Regis (Rec. Com), ii, 60. 



8 Close, 18 Hen. Ill, m. 17 d. 



10 Chart, quoted by Manning and Bray, 

 ii, 60. 



11 Feet of F. SUIT. 19 Hen. Ill, 177. 

 11 Cal. Pat. 1317-11, p. 565. 



18 Feet of F. Surr. 56 Hen. Ill, 27. 



14 Exch. K..R. Transcripts of Charters, 

 bdle. 2. 



15 Feet of F. Surr. 10 Ric. II, 9. The 

 lands were the right of Elizabeth, who 

 was evidently an heiress of John of Burn- 

 ingfold ; see also ibid. 2 Hen. IV, 4, 

 which seems to refer to the same lands. 



Surv. of Bramley, Edw. VI. 



" Feet of F. Surr. Mil. II Eliz. 



18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), cciv, 97. 



'"a See V.C.H. Surr. ii, 173. 



18b Close, 2 Jas. I, pt. xx. 



19 Ibid. 6 Jas. I, pt. ii, no. 29. 



*> Ibid. ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 5 Jas. I. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclixx, 132. 

 Wyatt left by his will, 12 Mar. 1618, 

 one-third of his share to his third son 

 Francis, who died 1634, and does not refer 

 to this property in his will. Henry 

 borrowing money on the land refers to it 

 as his by right of descent, and his mother's 

 will in 1632, printed in Surr. Arch. Coll. 

 iii, speaks of his having acquired an estate 

 from his brothers and sisters against the 

 intention of his father. 



M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 20 Jas. I. 



88 Ibid. Trin. 14 Chas. I. Arthur Mid- 

 dleton is said to have died just afterwards 

 seised of two-thirds of the manor only. 

 The title to the Wyatt third was probably 

 in doubt. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxvi, 

 124. 



Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 8 Ceo. I. 



** Haslemere Registers ; Private Deeds. 



93 



27 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 61. 



89 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 30 Ceo. 

 Ill, m. 257. 



ai> Ibid, and see Land Tax Assessments. 



80 Private information. 



81 Brayley, Tofog. Hist, of Surr. v, 125. 

 88 In 1 347 Richard de Feld was an 



agent in a conveyance of land in Dunsfold; 

 Feet of F. Surr. 21 Edw. Ill, 3. 



88 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 48, no. 8. 



84 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 37 Hen. 

 VIII. 



85 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 48, no. 8. 

 84 Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc.), pp. 162 



and 86. 



1 Feet of F. Div. Co. HiL 5 Jas. 1 1 

 Ibid. East. 6 Jas. I. 



88 Feet, of F.Surr. East i6jo. 



"Ibid. Mich. 1651. 



> Ibid. HiL 28 & 29 Chas. II. 



41 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. IT, 

 60. 



41 Brayley, Tofog.Hist.ofSurr.v, 125. 



48 Harl. MS. 756, foL 309. 



