EFFINGHAM HUNDRED LITTLE BOOKHAM 



Great Bookham, left JO/, yearly, charged upon land in 

 Eastwick Manor. 



Sir George Shiers, bart., of Slyfield, left in 1685 

 an annual rent-charge of 36 p. (less land tax) upon 

 land in Hertfordshire for Great Bookham, to 

 apprentice children, to portion poor maids, and to 

 relieve the aged poor or those with large families who 

 had not come upon the rates. It is commemorated 

 by a tablet in the church, dated 1717. 



In 1715, by deed enrolled in chancery, a settle- 

 ment was made by Dr. Shortrudge, Sir Francis Vincent 

 and others, of land in Hertfordshire and in Bookham 

 for the use of various charities, the residue to go to 



the vicars of Great Bookham, Effingham, Letherhead, 

 and Shalford for ever, on condition that they read 

 the Common Prayer in their churches on Wednesdays 

 and Fridays ; that they preach sermons proper for the 

 several days on Good Friday and 30 January ; that 

 the vicar of ' Lethered ' administers the Holy 

 Sacrament, according to the form of the Church of 

 England, in the parish church there on the first Sun- 

 day of every month. This charity is commemorated 

 by a tablet in the church, by order of the trustees. 

 There is a similar tablet in Shalford Church. The 

 second condition, as to 30 January, is not now 

 observed. 



LITTLE BOOKHAM 



Bocheham (xi cent.) ; Bokham (xiii and xiv cent.). 



Little Bookham is a small parish 2$ miles south- 

 west of Letherhead. It is bounded on the north- 

 west by Cobham, on the north by Stoke D'Abernon, 

 on the east by Great Bookham, on the south by 

 Dorking and Wotton, on the west by Effingham. The 

 area of the parish is 926 acres. It runs from the brow 

 of the Chalk, across the Thanet and Woolwich Beds 

 and over the London Clay, and touches the alluvium 

 of the Mole valley, which river bounds the parish on 

 the north. The Guildford and Letherhead road, and 

 the Guildford and Letherhead line pass through it. 



The village is on the Thanet and Woolwich Beds 

 immediately below the Chalk, on to which it has ex- 

 tended in recent times. Part of Bookham Common 

 to the north is still open land, and there is some open 

 land to the south on the top of the Chalk near Ran- 

 more Common. Though separately held from Great 

 Bookham in Domesday Little Bookham is evidently a 

 slice cut off the latter ; its shape and soil illustrate the 

 usual arrangements of the settlements which subse- 

 quently became parishes. There were extensive com- 

 mon fields on the Chalk which are mentioned as 

 existing by James and Malcolm in 1794, but not 

 mentioned in Stevenson's fiftv of the Agriculture of 

 Surrey in 1809. They would seem to have been 

 inclosed with Great Bookham in 1822." 



The manor-house is the seat of Mr. Meredith 

 Townsend ; the Lane Cottage of Lady Yule ; Ingle- 

 wood of Mr. W. F. A. Archibald ; Rickleden of the 

 Hon. D'Arcy Lambton. The old rectory house, pro- 

 bably of the 1 8th century, is too large to have been 

 built for a rectory. Preston House was a preparatory 

 school for boys kept by Mr. De Brath Stanley. The 

 school (under the County Council), for infants only, 

 was founded by the late Mr. T. Mashiter, and opened 

 in 1884. The elder children attend the school at 

 Great Bookham. 



The manor of LITTLE BOOKHAM 



M4NOR is stated in the Domesday Survey to have 



been held by Godtovi of Earl Harold, and 



in 1086 was held by Halsard of William de Braose, 



lord of Bramber.' In 1275 Sir John Haunsard held 



MOWBRAY. 



lion argent. 



Gules a 



part of the manor of the lord of Bramber for one 

 knight's fee, part of the Earl of Gloucester for a 

 quarter of a fee, and part of the Abbot of Chertsey. 1 

 The Braose overlordship was sold in 1324 as part of 

 the barony of Bramber to Hugh le Despenser, one of 

 the heirs by marriage of the 

 Gloucester property, by Oliva 

 daughter of William de Braose 

 and wife of John de Mowbray. 4 

 After the forfeiture of his es- 

 tates following the attainder 

 of Hugh in 1326,* the over- 

 lordship was confirmed to John 

 de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, 

 son of Oliva, and remained 

 with the Dukes of Norfolk un- 

 til it was acquired by Richard 

 Duke of York, second son of 



Edward IV, who was affianced to Anne, only daughter 

 and heir of John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, at the 

 age of six years.' The manor is said to have been held 

 of Richard in 1480,' and after his death in the Tower 

 in 1483 appears to have become vested in the Crown. 



The part of the manor which was held of 

 the Earl of Gloucester was a carucate of land which 

 extended into the parish of Effingham 8 and formed 

 part of his fee there. 9 It is sometimes mentioned 

 separately from the manor of Bookham. In 1306 

 this carucate was said to be held of John Pykard, 10 

 probably as representing the Earl of Gloucester," and 

 in 1326 was in the king's hands by the forfeiture of 

 Hugh de Audley, who had acquired part of the 

 Gloucester estates by marriage. 1 ' The Braose and 

 Gloucester portions thence fell to the Crown by con- 

 temporaneous forfeitures, and were treated as one 

 manor. Three virgates of land in the manor were 

 held of the Abbot of Chertsey for I2J." annual rent 

 and suit of court at Cobham and Great Bookham. 



The subtenancy of the manor appears to have 

 continued with the descendants of Halsard, the Domes- 

 day tenant. In 1189 William de Braose accounted 

 to the sheriff of Surrey for 8 it. ^d. of the 

 amercement of William Hansard, whose heir was in 



1 Sir John Brunner's Ret. 1903. 

 *y.C.H.Surr.\, 321 j. 



* Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I, no. 65. 

 4 Pat. 1 7 Edw. II, pt. ii, m. 9, 6. 



* G.E.C. Complete Peerage, Hi, 91. 



* Suss. Arch. Coll. xxvi, 261. 



7*- 



Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. IV, no. 



8 See Ibid. 19 Edw. II, no. 90. 

 Cal. Close, 1272-9, p. 501. 

 10 Chan. Inq. p.m. 33 Edw. I, no. 

 6 4 . 



335 



11 John Pykard was acting as attorney 

 for the Earl of Gloucester in 1278 ; Cal. 

 Close, 1172-9^.489. 



"Close, 19 Edw. II, m. 2. 



13 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 Edw. I, no. 65 

 ibid. 7 Ric. II, no. 15. 



