A HISTORY OF SURREY 



spandrels, and the arch springs from carved bunches of 

 foliage on the doorposts, on the inner faces of which 

 are three sunk quatrefoils, an unusual detail. The 

 side bays are each divided into two trefoiled openings, 

 with a quatrefoil over in the traceried pointed head 

 of the bay ; the middle rail is moulded, and the plain 

 boarding below it is modern in the south half of the 

 screen. The muntins are all moulded : on the face of 

 the northernmost is a short length of half-octagonal 

 shaft with a moulded capital, from which sprang a 

 vaulted cove below the loft ; on the moulded cornice 

 stands a line of brattishing, but the rest of the loft 

 has. as usual, been removed. The space above the 

 screen was evidently once boarded, as in the soffit of 

 the chancel arch is a row of square holes (now filled in) 

 in which the uprights were fixed. 



The font is dated 1665, but the octagonal panelled 

 bowl is clearly some two centuries earlier, and the date 

 doubtless records its return to the church after having 

 been thrown out by Puritan fanatics in the time of 

 the Commonwealth. 



The hexagonal pulpit contains a number of early 

 16th-century linen-pattern panels in two tiers, one 

 pair of panels being modern ; the framing of the 

 pulpit appears to be modern also. 



The middle window of the north aisle contains 

 a few fragments of 15th-century glass in the two 

 piercings over its middle light. 



On the south wall of the chancel is a brass plate 

 inscribed : ' Orate p' aiabz WillrGraffton qnda Clici 

 hui' ecclesiae et Johe ux eius et JohiS filii eordm qor 

 aiabz ppiciet deus am.' Above it is the figure of a 

 man in a long cloak girt at the waist and with fur trim- 

 ming ; his hands are clasped in prayer ; also a woman in 

 long high-waisted gown and a loose head-dress hang- 

 ing down behind her. Over the man is a shield 

 charged with a cheveron, and over the woman one 

 charged with a cheveron impaling a saltire. On the 

 south wall of the south aisle is a small I "th-century 

 brass with a Latin inscription to Edmund Moly- 

 neux. 



On the north wall of the chancel is a chalk panelled 

 tablet to Charles Gillman, son of Anthony Gillman 

 of Reigate. The date of his death was left blank, 

 and has been roughly scratched in at a later date 

 ' 1 3th April 1631.' The inscription finishes : 'as by 

 y" monum' of y said Anthony in Reigat apears ' ; the 

 shield over is charged with a leg cut off at the thigh, 

 booted and spurred. 



There are six bells ; the treble by Mears and Stain- 

 bank, 1897 ; the second by William Eldridge, 1663 ; 

 the third, Thomas Mears, 1793 ; the fourth, C. and 

 G. Mears, 1848 ; the fifth and the tenor, Wm. El- 

 dridge, 1662. 



The oldest piece of the communion plate is a cup 

 with a trumpet stem with the hall-mark of 1665 ; it 

 has a cover dated 1 666 ; there is also a chalice and 

 paten of 1 849. In the vestry are kept two wooden 

 collecting boxes with handles, of the usual 17th- 

 century type ; both have painted inscriptions, 



' Pray remember the poore,' with the name of the 

 parish. 



The registers date from 1558. 



The Domesday Survey mentions 

 ADVOWSON the existence of a church at Nut- 

 field, 140 but no other early record of 

 it is found. It was valued at 8 I z/. in the Taxatio 

 of 1291."' It is not mentioned in the gift of the 

 manor to the priory of St. Wulmar of Boulogne, nor 

 in the surrender of the manor by the abbot to Warin 

 de Monchensey, but there is nevertheless some reason 

 for supposing that the advowson became the property 

 of the priory and was retained after the surrender of 

 the manor. John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, pre- 

 sented to the church in I328, 14> and it is possible that 

 he had received a grant of the advowson when the 

 possessions of alien priories had been seized by the 

 Crown some years before ; another advowson which 

 he held in 1328 had come into his possession in that 

 manner. 143 In 1337, at the beginning of the Hun- 

 dred Years' War, the Sheriff of Surrey was ordered to 

 restore church, goods and chattels to Giles de Fossato, 

 parson of Nutfield Church, whose possessions had 

 been seized because he was 'a native of the power 

 of the king of France.' '" As a reason for this con- 

 cession it was stated that the king had considered 

 the poverty of Giles and wished to have compassion 

 on him. 144 



It is not evident how the advowson passed to the 

 lord of the manor, but it had become his property 

 by I363, 146 and was held by successive lords until the 

 death, in 1466, of Nicholas Carew. 147 His son, who 

 died shortly after, left, as has been shown, 

 sisters and co-heirs who married into the families of 

 Ewerby, Tropenell, and Twynyho, and each sister 

 retained a third of the advowson. 148 The portions 

 belonging to the two latter families descended with 

 their respective shares of the manor (q.v.). 149 Of the 

 latter property each of the two families afterwards 

 held a complete moiety, which probably accounts for 

 the fact that their shares of the advowson were con- 

 stantly referred to as moieties also, though in reality 

 they were thirds only. In 1 5 80 William Best pre- 

 sented on a grant from William Charde and Elizabeth, 

 one of the Tropenell heiresses. 144 These two thirds were 

 finally conveyed to the Turner family in l6l9. 1M 

 The third held by the Ewerbys passed to the family 

 of St. John by the marriage of Joanna the daughter 

 and heir of Sir John Ewerby with John St. John. 1 " 

 The son of John and Joanna, also called John, 153 pre- 

 sented to the church in 1 5 50, 164 and in 1 5 90 conveyed 

 one moiety of his third to Henry Burton and the 

 other to Walter Cole. 1 " In 1620 Walter Cole and 

 William his son and heir sold their share to Sir 

 Thomas Penruddock, Sir George Stoughton and 

 George Duncombe, trustees of Ann, Dowager Countess 

 of Arundel. 166 In 1626 presentation was made by 

 Sir Julius Caesar by virtue of a grant made him by 

 Burton and Cole, 157 presumably before the latter gave 

 up his right in the advowson. The king presented by 



... Surr. i, 312*. 



141 Pope Nich. Tax (Rec. Com.), 2o84. 



1<a Egerton MS. 2032, fol. 67 (Winton 

 Epis. Reg. Index) ; Manning and Bray, 

 Hist, of Surr. ii, 274. 



143 Cd. Pat. 1327-30, p. 315. 



144 Cal. Close, 1337-9, P- " 6 - 

 " Ibid. 



148 Add. Chart. 23621. 



14 7 Vide manor of Nutfield ; Egerton 

 MSS. 2033, 2034. 



14 " Vidt infra. 



Feet of Div. Co. 35 Hen. VIII ; 

 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), xc, 10 ; East. 3 &4 

 Phil, and Mary ; Mich. 6 & 7 Eliz. 



" Add. MS. 6167, fol. 317. 



151 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 17 Jas. I, 2. 



152 Berry, Hants Gen. 230. 



228 



158 Ibid. 



1M Egerton MS. 2034, fol. 169 ; Man- 

 ning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 274. 



155 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 32 Eliz. 



156 Close, 1 8 Jas. I, pt. iii, no. 37 ; 

 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 18 Jas. I ; G.E.C. 

 Peerage ; Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. 

 ii, 509. 



"7 Add. MS. 6167, fol. 317. 



