A HISTORY OF SURREY 



and 1 8th centuries. 64 It was exchanged by George, 

 first Earl of Onslow, with John Sparkes, from whom 

 it eventually came to Captain Albemarle Bertie, 64 

 who sold it in 1 800 to Captain William Pierrepont. 66 

 He conveyed it to Mr. H. Trowers. It is now 

 part of the property of Mr. L. Phillips. The farm 

 is on the right-hand side of the road leading from the 

 Portsmouth road to Bramley, formerly called Trowers. 



SH4LFORD RECTORr M4NOR. King John 

 granted to John of Guildford, parson of Shalford, a 

 yearly fair to be held in the church and church- 

 yard on the vigil, day, and morrow of the Assump- 

 tion. The parson took no toll, but claimed the 

 stakes fixed in the cemetery and his fee outside, 

 and held pleas for merchants staying in his 

 fee. When the fair grew so large that it extended 

 into Bramley Manor, the lords of Bramley took the 

 stakes of merchants in their fee, and also held courts 

 for them. 67 In 1304-5 Ed- 

 ward I granted two messuages 

 and land with the services of 

 free tenants in Shalford and 

 the advowson of Shalford to 

 the Hospital of St. Mary 

 Without Bishopsgate. 68 The 

 prior evidently leased the rec- 

 tory from time to time. Roger 

 Elliot, who had obtained such 

 a lease in 1475 6, complained 

 that the prior forced him, be- 

 ing ' a stranger not acqueynted 

 in the Cite of London and ferr 

 from his frendes and wife,' to 

 pay his rent a second time. 69 

 After the Dissolution Queen Elizabeth granted the 

 rectory of Shalford with court leet, view of frank- 

 pledge, law-days, and assize of bread and ale, to her 

 secretary John Wolley. 70 He sold it in 1590 to his 

 brother-in-law, George More," afterwards Sir George 

 More, from whom it was purchased in 1 599 by John 

 Austen," who built Shalford House on a place called 

 the Timber Yard, on the rectory manor, 1 608-10." 

 The rectory still remains in the possession of his 

 descendants. George Austen died at Shalford in 1621, 

 leaving a son John, who inherited the rectory 

 manor." Robert Austen and his mother Elizabeth 

 were in possession in 1714, at which date Robert 

 Austen was living in the ' Parsonage House.' " The 

 present owner is Lieut.-Colonel Henry Haversham 

 Godwin Austen, of Nore, Bramley. 



The house of Shalford Park is said to be close to the 

 site of the old rectory manor-house, but the actual 

 site was called the Timber Yard. In 1 609 Sir George 

 More conveyed the manor of Unstead to George Aus- 

 ten, subject to redemption on the payment of 800 

 in 161 1, in the tenement of the said Austen, ' now in 

 building upon a parcel of land called the Tymber 

 Yarde parcel of the parsonage of Shulforde in the 

 Parish of Shulforde.' 76 Colonel Godwin Austen, lord 

 of the manor, has the building accounts from 1 60 8 to 

 1610, showing that it was built in stone and brick. 



HOSPITAL OF ST. MARY 

 WITHOUT BISHOPSGATE. 

 Party argent and sable a 

 mill-rind cross counter- 

 coloured -with a martlet 

 gules in the quarter. 



The house was much altered, and a top story added by 

 Sir Henry Edmund Austen, who succeeded, as a minor, 

 in 1797. The front part of the house, now quite 

 modernized in appearance, is internally of the original 

 date ; but the carved wooden mantelpiece in the 

 room to the left of the front door, bearing the date 

 1631, was brought from elsewhere. The oak room, 

 on the right hand of the front door, has good panel- 

 ling, mantelpiece, and ceiling of the later 1 7th cen- 

 tury. The carved mantelpiece bears the curious 

 motto Heyme incalesco, aestate refrigero which, as Mr. 

 Ralph Nevill remarks, is ' a proof that our ancestors 

 were sufficiently alive to the advantages of open fire- 

 places.' The library was originally the kitchen. The 

 mantelpiece bears the date 1 68 1, and the iron fire- 

 back has the royal arms of Charles II. The dining- 

 room was built by the late owner in 1875. The 

 mantelpiece, chalk, with the date 1609, was brought 

 from Tyting Farm. 77 There was a fine gallery of 

 pictures, some of which are still in the house, which 

 is at present let as a private hotel. 



The church of ST. MART is the 

 CHURCH third that has stood on the present 

 site since 1789, in which year the 

 mediaeval building, possibly retaining parts of that 

 mentioned in Domesday, was rebuilt. A view of 

 the church from the south-east, as it appeared in 

 1780, shows a picturesque irregular building of cruci- 

 form plan, having a short and rather high nave with 

 a south porch, a central tower, and shingled spire, 

 apparently of 1 2th or 13th-century date, beneath 

 which is a transept, or rather two transeptal chapels, 

 conjoined, and having a double-gabled roof, with 

 1 5th-century windows, and a longish chancel with a 

 priest's door and a three-light east window of 1 5th- 

 century date. 



In 1789 the church was rebuilt in local stone 

 rubble with brick dressings a very ugly, heavy 

 structure having a squat tower with domed roof of 

 copper, surmounted by a cupola. There was no chancel, 

 only an alcove or shallow apse, projecting from the 

 east end of the nave. Cracklow's view of 1824 pre- 

 serves the memory of this building, which, in 1847, 

 was in its turn entirely demolished to make way for 

 the present structure, an ambitious but unsatisfactory 

 example of the 1 3th-century style. This consists of 

 nave, aisles, transepts, and chancel, with south porch 

 and tower with shingled spire at the north-west 

 angle. The whole building is excessively high ia 

 proportion to its length, and the detail is starved 

 and bad. 



There are no monuments of any interest except 

 some tablets to the Austens and to the local family of 

 the Eliots, of I7th and 18th-century dates. 



The old font is at present turned upside down, and 

 placed as a mounting block outside the vicarage. It 

 may shortly be restored to the church. There are two 

 pieces of old glass, preserved from the original church, 

 showing the arms of Canterbury and Winchester. 



The church plate is of the i8th century, and of no> 

 great interest. 



" Feet of F. Div. Co. Hit 22 Chas. 

 I; ibid. Mich. 1649; ibid. Mich. 28 

 Chas. I. 



65 Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 99. 



66 Feet of F. Surr. East. 41 Geo. III. 

 " Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. I, no. 69. 

 68 Chart. R. 33 Edw. I, 49. The ad- 

 vowson is mentioned in the conveyance 



of Shalford Bradestan to Hugh le De- 

 spenser by Idonea de Crumbwell, but the 

 lords of Shalford Bradettan never pre- 

 sented. 



69 Early Chan. Proc. liii, 119. 



7 Pat. 31 Eliz. pt. xvii. 



71 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 32 & 35 

 Eliz. 



110 



Ibid. Hil. 41 Eliz. 



7* Accounts penes Col. Godwin Austen,. 

 and a deed at Loseley. 



" 4 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccxcvii, 90. 



7 s Exch. Dep. Mich. 9 Anne, 3 ; ibid.. 

 Mich, i Geo. I, 5. 



' 6 Close, 7 Jas. I, no. 1981. 



77 Information of Col. Godwin Austen. 



