EFFINGHAM HUNDRED 



GREAT BOOKHAM 



Bookham worth los., which afterwards became 

 appurtenant to Slyfield Manor, and with regard to 

 which a lengthy dispute arose between the Slyfields 

 and the lords of the manor of Stoke D'Abernon. The 

 mill, on the Mole, was on the boundary of Stoke 

 D'Abernon and of the Slyfield property which lies 

 on the river bank. In the early 1 6th century John 

 Slyfield alleged that Sir Edmund Bray had wilfully 

 turned away from his water corn-mill the stream 

 called Emlyn Streame, which worked the mill and 

 which formed the boundary between the manors of 

 Slyfield and Stoke D'Abernon, and it was represented 

 that when in 1375 Nicholas Slyfield had granted the 

 reversion of certain lands in Great Bookham to 

 William Croyser and Elizabeth his wife, it had been 

 on the expressed condition that Nicholas and his 

 heirs should not be disturbed in their possession of a 

 wharf extending from the north part of the water 

 running to their mill to the south-east angle of the 

 wood of the said William and Elizabeth called ' the 

 parke.' 6I In 1614 there were appurtenant to the 

 manor of Slyfield two water corn-mills and one 

 fulling-mill, called ' Slyfield Mills.' " 



The manor of POLESDEN (High Polesden, 

 Bookham Polesden) was in 1470 conveyed by Thomas 

 Slyfield and Anne his wife to John Norbury, 64 who in 

 14912 enfeoffed trustees to hold it to the use of 

 Robert Castleton and Elizabeth his wife " (daughter 

 of Sir Henry Norbury 66 ). John Castleton, son and 

 heir of Robert and Elizabeth, died in 1545 seised of 

 the manor of ' Pollesdon,' held of the king as of his 

 manor of Great Bookham, his son and heir William 

 Castleton being then aged seven years. 67 William 

 Castleton and Elizabeth his wife joined in conveyances 

 of the manor in 1572 and 1584," and in 1630 

 William Castleton (presumably a son of the above) 



with Phoebe his wife conveyed the manor to Anthony 

 Rous and Anne his wife. 69 Samuel Rous, the son of 

 Anthony, jointly with Elizabeth his wife, made a 

 conveyance of the manor in I68O. 60 In 1713 

 Edward Symes and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of 

 Samuel Rous, 61 suffered a recovery of the manor, and 

 in 1723 Elizabeth Symes, then a widow, jointly with 

 Thomas Harris, her son by her first husband, Thomas 

 Harris, of Gray's Inn, sold the estate to Arthur 

 Moore. 61 He sold to his brother, Col. Thomas 

 Moore, in 1729. The latter, who died in 1735, was 

 succeeded by his nephew, William Moore, M.P. for 

 Banbury, whose executors in 1747 were empowered 

 by Act of Parliament to sell the estate for the pay- 

 ment of his debts. 6 * It was purchased in the same 

 year by Francis Geary, 64 Cap- 

 tain R.N., afterwards Admiral 

 Sir Francis Geary. He died 

 in 1796, aged eighty-six. In 

 1804 it was conveyed by his 

 son Sir William Geary, bart., 

 to the trustees of the Right 

 Hon. R. B. Sheridan. In the 

 particulars of the sale in 1804 

 it is stated that the mansion- 

 house and principal part of the 

 land contained about 341 acres, 

 the terrace walk in the plea- 

 sure ground being 900 ft. in 

 length. Mr. Sheridan died 

 in 1816, and in 1818 the 

 estate was purchased by Mr. 



Joseph Bonsor, who rebuilt the mansion-house, and 

 was succeeded in 1835 by his son of the same 

 name. 64 It was subsequently bought by Sir Walter 

 Farquhar, bart., and after his death in 1896 was 



BONSOR. Six fieeet 

 azure and argent tvith 

 three Horn' heads razed 

 or in the azure and a 

 chief indented erminoit 

 with three rout gulei 

 therein. 



I early 12*0. EH 1341 

 e. ii4o 

 lateistc, IB u*cent. 

 C.H90-I200 E^ modem 



North Aisle 



South Chapel 



Scale of Feet 



Cha.nc 



PLAN OF ST. NICHOLAS'S CHURCH, GREAT BOOKHAM 

 Chan. Proc. (S.r. 2), bdle. 158, no. fait, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), fol. Manning and Bray, Hut. of Surr. ii, 



*7- 



48 Recov. R. East. 12 Jas. I, rot. 51 ; 

 Close, 12 Jas. I, pt. xxiv, no. 55. 



M Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 9 Edw. IV, no. 

 1 8. 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixxii, 79. 



50*. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixzii, 79 ; 

 I Edw. VI, pt. ii, no. 56. 



68 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 14 & 15 

 Eliz. ; Trin. 26 Eliz. 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 6 Chas. I. 



60 Ibid. Trin. 32 Chas. I. 



331 



689. 



611 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 9 Ceo. I 5 

 Close, 10 Geo. I, pt. iii, no. 26. 



18 Statute 20 Geo. II .cap. 15. 



M Manning and Bray, Hitt. of Surr. ii, 

 689. 



65 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 471. 



