BLACKHEATH HUNDRED 



ST. MARTHA'S 



SPENCER, Earl Spen- 

 cer. Argent quartered 

 with gules fretty or over 

 all a bend sable ivith three 

 scallops argent thereon. 



Utworth but retained Chilworth. 7 Sir John's 

 daughter Anne married Sir Edward Randyll, 8 whose 

 son Sir Morgan Randyll, kt., was seised of the manor 

 in 16401, when he was proved insane. 9 His 

 brother, Vincent Randyll, succeeded him. 10 His son 

 Morgan Randyll, who was for some years member of 

 Parliament for Guildford, sold the manor in 1720 to 

 Richard Houlditch, a director of the South Sea 

 Company." After the company's failure the direc- 

 tors' lands were sold to indem- 

 nify its victims. The estates 

 of Richard Houlditch were 

 purchased by Sarah, Dowager 

 Duchess of Marlborough, who 

 bequeathed them to her grand- 

 son John, Earl Spencer, 11 who 

 was succeeded in 1746 by his 

 son John, afterwards Viscount 

 Althorp." His son sold the 

 manor in 1796 to Edmund 

 Hill," from whom it passed 

 to William Tinkler, whose son 

 William owned it in 1841." 

 It was sold in 1 845, together 

 with Weston in Albnry, to 

 Mr. Henry Drummond, and is now in the possession 

 of the Duke of Northumberland. 16 



On the south side of St. Martha's Hill stands the 

 manor-house of Chilworth, which has an ornamental 

 brick gable and porch. On the site of this was a cell 

 belonging to the priory of Newark, and St. Martha's 

 was probably always served by a canon resident 

 here. Their large walled and terraced gardens and 

 stewponds for fish still remain. 



TTTING (Tetinges, xi cent ; Tiling, xiii cent.) was 

 held by Elmer the Huntsman before the Conquest, and 

 afterwards became a possession 

 of Bishop Osbern of Exeter, 

 who had been chaplain to 

 Edward the Confessor. 17 It 

 was held by the successive 

 Bishops of Exeter till 1548. 

 In 1234-5 John l fi Chanu 

 and his wife Katherine quit- 

 claimed to William Bishop of 

 Exeter Katherine's rights in 

 a carucate of land in Tyt- 

 ing. 18 From time to time this 

 manor was assessed among the 

 Bishop's temporalities." In 

 August 1549 John Veysey, 



then Bishop of Exeter, sold the freehold to Thomas 

 Fisher. 10 He shortly afterwards conveyed it to 

 Henry Polsted," whose son Richard, together with 



SEK OF EXETER. Gules 

 St. Pouts sword erect sur- 

 mounted by St, Peter* s keys 

 crossed saltirttvisc. 



William Morgan, was in possession in 1571." He 

 married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William More of 

 Loseley, and had from him an assignment of a ninety- 

 nine years' lease which Sir William and Henry Weston 

 are said to have acquired in February 1566-7." 

 Richard Polsted died in 1576," and in the next year 

 Francis Polsted alienated Tyting to Sir William 

 More, probably as trustee for Elizabeth (Polsted), 15 but 

 William Morgan's interest still continued, for in 1602 

 he died seised of lands and tenements called 'Tiling.' K 



Early in the same century bolh Sir George More, 

 son of Sir William More, and Ann Randyll, grand- 

 daughler of William Morgan, joined wilh George 

 Duncombe in a conveyance of ihe manor to John 

 Astrete or Street," who is said to have been holding 

 the estate in l6o2. 18 He was succeeded by his son 

 John. 19 John Street and George Duncombe conveyed 

 to Francis Williamson in 1637. He sold to Vincent 

 Rundyn, and ihe latter to George Duncombe of 

 Albury, who by his will of 1672 left in il Irust for his 

 family, Richard Symmes being one of the truslees. 30 

 Manning and Bray say that it was conveyed in 1710 

 to Abraham Woods, from ihe trustees of whose son 

 William it came to Philip Carteret Webb, in 1747. 

 From Mr. Webb il descended to his son, John Smith 

 Webb," who sold it to Robert Austen of Shalford, 31 

 in whose family it still remains. 



ST. MARTHA'S Chapel, 3 ' a well- 

 CHURCH known landmark for all the country side, 

 stands upon the summit of a ridge of 

 Greensand, about 5 70 ft. above the sea. Although called 

 a chapel, it seems always to have possessed the rights of 

 a parish church ; and it is probably lo be identified 

 with one of the ihree churches mentioned in Domes- 

 day as standing on the manor of Bramley, then held 

 by Bishop Odo of Bayeux, who may well have built 

 the original of the present building. The site itself 

 is an extremely ancient one, and several circular earth- 

 works still remain on St. Martha's Hill. 



The building as we now see it is largely of modern 

 date, an object-lesson of the mischievous results of 

 fanciful restoration, the nave, which had long lain in 

 ruins, being rebuilt in a pseudo-' Norman ' style, and 

 the chancel and iransepl largely reconstructed in 

 1848. The chancel and transepts had remained 

 intacl unlil about 1846, although the nave was a 

 roofless ruin, and only fragments of the large west 

 tower existed ; but in thai year part of the roof fell 

 in and services wera suspended. The then Lord 

 Loraine co-operated with two other neighbouring 

 county gentlemen, Mr. H. Currie, of Wesl Horsley, 

 and Mr. R. A. C. Godwin Austen, of Shalford, to 

 rebuild the ruined nave and restore the eastern limb, 

 the last fragmenis of the western tower being at the 



" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. n Jas. I. 



8 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxxxvii, 



7- 



9 Ibid, ccccxcii, 15. 



10 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 1649. 

 Ibid. Mich. 7 Geo. I. 



u True Copy of the Last Will and 

 Testament of Sarah, late Duchess Dowager 

 of Marlborougb (ed. 1 744), 2 et eq. 



u Collins, Peerage (ed. 1779), i, 340. 



14 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, IX 8. 



" Bray ley, Topog, Hist, of Surr. v, 131. 



18 See account of Albury. 



W V.C.It. Surr. i, 300.7. In the 

 Domesday Survey Tyting is accounted 

 for in Woking Hundred. In Speed's 



map of Surrey, 1676, Tyting is just 

 within the boundary of Woking Hun- 

 dred. 



18 Feet of F. Surr. 19 Hen. Ill, 19. 



19 Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 207 ; 

 Esch. Inq. (Ser. i), file 1760, no. I. 



Pat. 3 Edw. VI, pt, vi, m. 16 et 

 seq. 



81 Feet of F. Surr. East 5 Edw. VI. 



M Loseley MS. x, 59. 



93 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 119. 

 The lease had been granted by Veysey to 

 Sir Edmund Walsingham in 2 Edw. VI 

 (1548). Elizabeth Polsted paid money 

 to Henry Weston shortly after 1576 

 (Loseley MS. iz, 36). 



105 



Loseley MS. x, 59. 



* Feet of F. SUIT. Mich. 19 & 20 Eliz. 

 x Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxxi, 85. 



* Feet of F. Surr. East. 6 Jas. I ; Hil. 

 19 Jas. L 



98 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 119. 



99 W. and L. Inq. p.m. xxxix, 94. 



80 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 119, 

 from Symmes Add. MS. 6167. From 

 Symmes' position as trustee the account is 

 probably correct. 



81 Recov. R. Trin. 25 Geo. III. 



89 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 119. 



88 ' Saynt Marter ' is the title given in 

 the inventory of church goods taken in 

 the reign of Edward VI. 



