A HISTORY OF SURREY 



In 1 3 3 8 the advowson was held by 

 JDVOWSON John d'Abernon, lord of the manor 

 of Fetcham," and from that date 

 descended with the manor at least until 1654, when 

 Thomas Vincent presented to the living. 93 



Shortly after it was held by William Heckford 

 in right of his wife Elizabeth, with whom, in 1711, 

 he joined in conveying it to Thomas Cooke, clerk, 

 and Joshua Draper, gentleman. 9 * The latter in the 

 same year sold it for the sum of 580 ** to Arthur 

 Moore of Fetcham Park, who presented to the living 

 in 1720, 1724, and 1726. 



The advowson was acquired with the rest of Arthur 

 Moore's Fetcham property by Thomas Revell, who 

 presented to the living in 1737 and 1748," and 

 descended to his son-in-law Sir George Warren, who 

 presented in ljj2, is and is said to have sold it in 1788 

 to Mrs. Ann Kirkpatrick, under whose will it passed to 

 Rev. Abraham Kirkpatrick Sherson, rector of Fetcham, 

 in 1 794. Before 1 8 1 8 it was acquired by John Bolland, 

 whose son Rev. J. G. Bolland presented to the living 

 in 1829. On the death of the latter in 1833 it was 

 sold by his executors to Rev. Robert Downes, incum- 

 bent at that date.* 9 The patronage was acquired in 

 1864 by Alderman Sydney, 100 trustee for Lady Moon, 

 wife of the late rector. Lady Moon presented in 

 1904. It is now in the hands of her son, Lieut. - 

 Colonel Sir F. S. G. Moon, bart. 



In 1 5 3 5 the farm of the rectory with the accompany- 

 ing glebe land was valued at 21 ig/. 1 1 %4. There 

 was also a pension of 6/. %J. due to Chertsey Monas- 

 tery, 101 which after the Dissolution was granted to the 

 new foundation at Bisham. 101 



Dr. Thomas Turner, a devoted royalist, was insti- 

 tuted rector of Fetcham in 1634, and after having 

 been deprived of this with his other benefices during 

 the Commonwealth, was reinstated after the restora- 

 tion of the Monarchy and became Dean of Canter- 

 bury. 105 



Samuel Lisle, afterwards Bishop of Norwich, was 

 rector from 1 726 till 1 737, 104 and Dr. J. Conybeare, the 

 famous metaphysician and defender of revelation, was 

 curate for a short time under the rectorship of 

 Dr. Shortrudge. 105 



In 1358 Robert de Leddrede, the king's sergeant- 

 at-arms, had licence for making a chapel at his house 

 at Fetcham, 106 the site of which is probably that now 

 occupied by the Sun ale-house. Salmon, writing 

 in 1736, says, 'In this parish is an old chapell, now 

 turned to an ale-house which may however supply in 

 excise more than ever it paid in tenths.' 107 



The almshouses, for six poor per- 

 CH4RITIES sons, were founded in 1886 by the 

 Rev. Sir Edward Graham Moon, 

 bart., Mr. J. B. Hankey, and Mr. Gervas Parnell. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in other Surrey 

 parishes, but in the case of Fetcham it was endowed 

 with parcels of lands in the common fields and in- 

 closed fields in the parish. It is commemorated on a 

 tablet in the church. 



In 1690 a decree in Chancery confirmed the will 

 of Sir George Shiers, bart., 108 who left rents of land 

 amounting to 24 21. for apprenticing boys, marrying 

 maids who had lived in the same family for seven 

 years, and relieving the poor not in receipt of parish 

 relief. 109 



HEADLEY 



Hallega (xi cent.) ; Hadlee and Hadlig (xiii cent.) ; 

 Hedleghe (xiv cent.) ; Medley (xvii cent.). 



Headley is a small parish on the top of the chalk 

 downs. The village is 2 miles north of Betchworth 

 station, and about three miles south-east of Lether- 

 head. The parish measures about two miles from 

 north to south, under a mile and a half from east to 

 west, and contains 2,066 acres. The subsoil is that 

 of the chalk downs, which is on the surface in the 

 valleys and on the slopes of the hills, but in the higher 

 parts is crowned with brick earth and hill-sand de- 

 posits. The church, and the few houses which form 

 the centre of a scattered village, stand on the brow of 

 a steep slope some 600 ft. above the sea, at the head 

 of the valley up which the road from Juniper Hall in 

 the Mickleham valley runs to Walton-on-the-hill. The 

 church is a conspicuous landmark for many miles 

 round. Headley Heath is a large extent of still open 

 ground to the south of the parish, lying back from the 

 southern edge of the chalk range. 



The parish is agricultural, and formerly fed large 

 numbers of sheep. 



On Headley Heath, and scattered at other points 

 in the parish, are numerous neolithic implements and 

 flakes, and fragments of a coarse earthenware vessel 

 have been found near Toot Hill. 1 Less than a mile 

 south-west of the church, west or north-west of 

 Headley Heath, on the slopes of the valley up which 

 the road from Juniper Hall comes, excavations have 

 revealed the inclosing trench of a large inclosure. In 

 the loose soil overlying the undisturbed chalk Mr. 

 Gordon Home, of Epsom, found in 1907 fragments 

 of hand-made pottery, with bones of many different 

 animals, and one worked flint. At a higher level he 

 found the broken point of a bronze weapon. Near 

 the trench, but not in it, was some good glazed 

 pottery, and in another place several signs of fires, 

 burnt stones, and charcoal. A young plantation 

 unfortunately is on the spot. The names Toot Hill, 

 and Elderbury, and Nore Wood (a name often found 

 in close juxtaposition to old fortifications, for which 

 we may compare Nore under the banked hill at Has- 

 combe) suggest an ancient settlement or settlements. 



No Inclosure Act or Award is on record. 



M Feet of F. Div. Co. 13 Edw. Ill, 

 file 40, no. 268. 



Inst Bkn. P.R.O. 



M Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 10 Anne. 



95 Close, 10 Anne, pt. i, no. 6. 



Inst. Bk3. P.R.O. 



7 Ibid. " Ibid. 



89 Brayler, Hist, of Surr. iv, 415. 



100 Clergy Lisa. 



101 yalor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 31. 

 1M L. and P. Hcn.Vm,*u (2), g. 1311 



103 Diet. Nat. Biog. 

 "* Ibid. 



105 Ibid. ; Gentleman's Magazine Library, 

 pt. 12, p. 30. 



106 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. 

 i, 482 (quoting from Episcopal Register). 



290 



10 7 Salmon, Antiq. of Surr. 90. 



108 Died 1685, monument in Great 

 Bookham Church. 



lu9 It is commemorated on a tablet in 

 the church. 



1 Neolithic Man in North-tail Surr. 

 I54.-62 ; and personal observation. There 

 seem to be traces of terracing on the sides 

 of the slopes. 



