A HISTORY OF SURREY 



ing to repair the chancel, which had fallen into 

 such a state of ruin that the parishioners complained 

 that divine service could not be celebrated there. 98 



In 1535 the Prior of Merton granted to John 

 Holgate a lease of the rectory, with all tithes and 

 profits, excepting the presentation of the vicar and 

 mortuaries, to hold from Midsummer 1544 for a 

 term of twenty-one years, at a rental of 12 6s. Bd., 

 but chargeable with a pension of 261. %J. to the 

 vicar." In the same year the vicarage was found to 

 be worth with its appurtenances j 1 8/. 9^., 100 while 

 the farm of the rectory was worth jio. 101 After the 

 dissolution of Merton Priory the king retained the 

 patronage of the living. 10 ' In 1551 the rectory and 

 church were granted by Edward VI to John Poynet, 

 Bishop of Winchester, and his successors, 103 and this 

 grant was confirmed in VJ58 by Philip and Mary. 104 



But this grant was apparently afterwards revoked, 

 for a grant of the rectory appears to have been 

 acquired by William Hammond, who in 1574 

 bequeathed the remainder of it to Rose Cave his 

 step-daughter. 105 Rose married Laurence Stoughton, 

 in conjunction with whom she is said to have conveyed 

 the rectory to Thomas Cornwallis of East Horsley, 106 

 who in 1588, as farmer of the king's rectory of Effing- 

 ham, recovered three cartloads of peas, three cartloads 

 of barley, one cartload of oats, &c., to the value of 

 3CM., of the tithes of the rectory, 107 and again in 1592 

 recovered forty sheaves of peas to the value of 201. of 

 the tithes of the rectory. 109 In 1626 Lady Catherine 

 Cornwallis died seised of the rectory, from the inherit- 

 ance of her late husband, the said Thomas, having 

 settled the same in 1625 on her nephew Thomas, Earl 

 of Southampton. 10 ' The latter, however, in 1629, 

 conveyed the rectory with tithes to Carewe Raleigh, 110 

 by whom it is said to have been conveyed to William 



Grey, 111 who in 1645 died seised of the rectory and 

 tithes together with the manor of Effingham East 

 Court, 11 ' with which it descended from that date. 

 The patronage of the living was, however, reserved 

 to the Crown, 113 until in 1866 it was acquired by 

 A. Cuthell. 114 Since 1891 it has been in the gift of 

 the Rev. E. F. Bayly, the present incumbent. 



In 1607 a fee-farm rent reserved from the rectory, 

 of the annual value of 11, was granted by the king 

 to William Blake and George Tyte, gentlemen. 115 

 Under the Commonwealth Act for the sale of fee-farm 

 rents, it was sold in 1651 to Walter Kempson and his 

 heirs, 118 but Charles II granted it to Queen Catherine 

 for life. 117 Subsequently, it appears to have been 

 acquired by James, Duke of Chandos, who in 1732, 

 jointly with Cassandra his wife, conveyed to Sir 

 Matthew Deckes, bart., his annual rents from the 

 rectory of Effingham. 118 In 1 790 the fee-farm rent 

 of 1 1 payable from the rectory was in the hands of 

 Lord FitzWilliam and his heirs. 119 



In 1658 it was proposed to unite the parishes and 

 churches of Effingham and East Horsley, when the 

 commissioners appointed to make inquiries reported 

 that the two parishes were distant about a mile, and 

 neither alone sufficient to maintain ' an able and 

 godly preaching minister,' the real yearly values of 

 both being not above 85 a year. 1 " The project 

 was however abandoned. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. There were 

 some small tenements near the 

 church used as a poor-house. They were rebuilt in 

 1774, the proceedings being the cause of a lawsuit 

 which ended in the expense being disallowed. 111 

 Later, a workhouse for Effingham stood on the south- 

 ern verge of the parish, on the brow of the downs. 



GREAT BOOKHAM 



Bocheham (xi cent.) ; Bocham (xiii cent.) ; Boke- 

 ham (xvi cent.). 



Great Bookham is a village 2 miles south-west of 

 Letherhead. The parish is bounded on the north by 

 Stoke D'Abernon and the River Mole, on the east by 

 Fetcham and Mickleham, on the south by Dorking, 

 on the west by Little Bookham. It measures 5 miles 

 from north to south ; in the southern part it is a mile 

 wide, diminishing to half a mile near the north. It 

 contains 3,281 acres. It extends from the brow of 

 the Chalk, here capped by clay and gravel, across the 

 Thanet and Woolwich beds, on which the church and 

 village lie, over the London Clay, to the alluvium of 

 the Mole. Bookham Common is still an extensive 

 open space in the middle of the parish, and Ranmore 

 Common, on the Chalk Down, is chiefly in Bookham. 

 In this part of the parish are extensive plantations on 



the property of the Hon. Henry Cubitt, Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of Surrey. 



The road from Letherhead to Guildford, and the 

 London and South-Western Railway between the 

 same places pass through the parish. Bookham 

 Station was opened in 1885. Roreing House was 

 transferred from Great Bookham to Fetcham in 1882. 



Neolithic flints are not very uncommon in the 

 southern part of the parish, and there are cavities in 

 the chalk which may be caused by collapsed dene 

 holes. Roman brass coins, of Gallienus chiefly, but 

 also of some later emperors, are said to have been 

 found in an earthen pot about 1750, at Bagden Farm.* 

 Anglo-Saxon interments were found in making the 

 high road from Letherhead to Guildford in 1758. 

 These probably belong to the discoveries recently made 

 in Fetcham (q.v.). 



*V.C.H. Surr. ii, 101 ; Winton Epis. 

 Reg. Wykeham, ii, fol. 23*. 



99 A. C. Heales, Records of Merton 

 Priory, 339. 



i" Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 29. 



" Ibid, ii, 48. 



1M Sarr. Arch. Coll. ix, 378. 



108 Pat. 5 Edw. VI, pt. vi. 



I" Pat. 5 & 6 Phil, and Mary, pt. iv, 

 m. 6. 



iwp.C.C. Will 19 Pyckering. 



1M Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 

 713. 



lO'Exch. of Pleas 30 & 31 Eliz. Mich, 

 m. 19. 108 Ibid. 34 Eliz. East. m. 25. 



109 Chan. In<j. p.m. (ser. 2), ccccxxii, 

 no. 19. 



11 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Chas. I. 



111 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 



7I3- 



ua Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr.2) Mite, dxxzvii, 



>3- 



326 



" Inst. Bks. P.R.O. 

 114 Clergy Lists. 

 114 Pat. 5 Jas. I, pt. xix, m. 39. 

 116 Close, 1653, pt. x, no. 27. 

 "7 Pat. 15 Chas. I, pt. xiv, no. I. 

 "0 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 6 Geo. II. 

 119 Close, 30 Geo. Ill, pt. i, no. 10. 

 "oSurr. Arch. Coll. xvii, 103. 

 1M Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 718. 

 1 Manning and Bray, Hiit. of Surr. ii, 

 688. 



