COPTHORNE HUNDRED 



ASHTEAD 



bezants, in dexter chief a canton argent with two 

 embattled bars sable. 



In the chancel floor are two small brass inscriptions, 

 the first reading : 



BODL.KI CONJUX, FROMOUNDI FILIA, CHRISTI 

 SERVA SUB HIS SAXIS EL1ZABETHA JACET. 



UNDER THIS STONE LIES ELIZABETH BEREFTE OF MORTALL 

 LIFE, 



CHRIST'S FAITHFULL SERVAUNT FROMOUND'S CHILD AND 



BODLEY'S LOVING WYFE. 

 DIED THE 2ND MARCH ANNO DNI 



The other brass is inscribed : HERE LVETH BURYED 



THE BODYE OF JOHN BROWNE ESQUIER LATE SARGEANT 

 OF HER MAJESTIES WOOD YEARD AND EDITH HIS LATE 

 WIFE W CH EDITH DECEASED THE ... OF JULY 1$<)O. 



There are several 18th-century and later gravestones. 

 On the north wall of the chancel is a brass plate to 

 Dorothy wife of Robert Quennell, ' Pastor of this 

 church,' 1 640 ; and there are other monuments to 

 Henry Newdigate, second son of John Newdigate of 

 Harefield, Middlesex, 1629 ; William Duncomb, 

 rector, 1698-9, and Philadelphia his wife, 1724-5 ; 

 Lady Diana Fielding, daughter of the Earl of Bradford, 

 1733, and others. 



There are eight bells by Mears and Stainbank, 

 1874. 



None of the pieces of the Communion plate are of 

 great age, the earliest being a standing paten of 1710 ; 



there are also a cup of 1847, a flagon of 1889, an 

 almsdish of 1847, and a Victorian stand-paten with 

 an illegible hallmark. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms 

 from 1662 to 1698, and marriages and burials, 1662 

 to 1699 ; the second book has baptisms 1699 to 1784, 

 marriages 1691 to 1754, and burials 1699 to 1783 ; 

 the third contains the printed forms of marriages 

 from 1754 to 1812; and the fourth continues the 

 baptisms and burials from 1782 to 1812. 



The church of Ashtead is men- 

 ADVOWSON tioned in the Taxation of Pope 

 Nicholas, where it is valued at 

 13 6j. 8</. a Theadvowson of the church belonged 

 to the lord of the manor. From 1302, and probably 

 before then, a vicar was presented by the rector, whose 

 benefice in 1331 was endowed by the bishop with 

 the small tithes. The last institution of a vicar 

 appears to have taken place in 1482.** In 1291 the 

 tithes were held by the executors of the will of William 

 de Montfort, 85 to whom John de Montfort, his 

 nephew and lord of the manor, had leased the manor 

 of Ashtead. 86 



In 1 543 Sir Edward Aston conveyed to the king 

 the advowson of the church with the manor, 87 and in 

 the various grants of the manor in this and the three 

 following reigns the Crown always reserved the 

 advowson ; ** but when James I granted to Thomas 

 Earl of Arundel the manor of Ashtead he must have 

 included the advowson, for the earl held it in 1624..** 



ASHTEAD CHURCH FROM THE SOUTH-EAST 



w Pof, Nieh. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 208. 

 * 4 Manning and Bray, Surr. ii, 634. 

 85 fife Nicli. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 209. 



86 See Chan. Inq. p.m. 24 Edw. I, viii, m. zz ; 5 Eliz. pt. I, m. 46 ; 37 Eliz. 



no. 59 



' Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 35 Hen. VIII. 

 See Pat. 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, pt. 



251 



pt. iv, m. ii. 



89 Feet of F. Surr. Eatt. 22 Jas. I. 



