A HISTORY OF SURREY 



of the college protested to Archbishop Laud against 

 the inhabitants of Frimley, who had petitioned him 

 ' for the allowance of a yearly stipend pretended to 

 be due from the parson of Ashe, for the maintenance 

 of a chaplaine at their chappell of ease in Frimley.' 

 It was pointed out that the people of Frimley, like 

 the other inhabitants of Ash, ought to repair to the 

 parish church. The archbishop's decision is not re- 

 corded. Services were intermittent ; but in 1735 an 

 agreement was made by which the rector of Ash was 

 to pay 10 a year for a curate, the inhabitants 8, 

 and the bishop z.** The inhabitants appointed 

 the curate ; 67 but the patronage is now in the hands 

 of Winchester College. It was made a separate 

 parish in 1866. 



The ecclesiastical parish of Wyke was formed out 

 of Ash, Worplesdon, "and Wanborough in 1 847. The 

 greater part of it was in Worplesdon, but was sur- 



rounded by Ash and is part of the civil parish. 

 The living is in the gift of Eton College. 



York Town was made an ecclesiastical parish in 

 1851. The living is in the gift of the Bishop of 

 Winchester, and includes Camberley. 



Smith's Charity exists as in other 

 CHARITIES Surrey parishes. 



Dr. Michael Woodward, rector in 

 1643, who died or retired before 1662, left z I or. 

 annually to the poor, charged on land. 



Mr. Edward Dawe left 20 in 1721, laid out in 

 land, for persons not receiving regular relief. 



Mr. Thomas Stevens in 1 747 left a charge of ^3 

 annually on land for distribution of bread to the 

 poor. 



A parcel of land in Ash, called Parish Close, 

 was let for the benefit of the poor of Ash and 

 Frimley. 68 



EAST CLANDON 



Clanedun (xi cent.) ; Clendon, and Clandon 

 Abbatis (xii cent.). 



East Clandon is a small parish 5 miles east-by-north 

 of Guildford. It is bounded on the north by Send 

 and Ripley, on the east by West Horsley, on the south 

 by Shere and Albury, on the west by West Clandon. 

 It measures about 2 miles from north to south and 

 about a mile from west to east. It contains 1,444 acres - 



The parish extends from the summit of the chalk 

 downs over the northern slope of the chalk and the 

 Thanet and Woolwich Beds on to the London Clay. 

 Clandon Downs on the chalk are still partly open 

 ground, and East Clandon Common to the north 

 is fairly well covered with oaks. The Guildford and 

 Epsom road (see West Clandon) runs through the 

 parish. The Guildford and Cobham line cuts the 

 northern part of it. 



The village, which includes 

 several picturesque timbered 

 and thatched cottages, lies as 

 usual just on or below the 

 limit of the chalk. 



Hatchlands, in East Clan- 

 don, is often spoken of as the 

 site of the old manor-house. 

 When Sir Thomas Heath con- 

 veyed the manor to Lord King, 

 in 1720, he retained this house. 

 His son Richard sold it, and 

 in 1749 it was bought by Ad- 

 miral Boscawen. He pulled 

 down the old house and built 

 the present. After his death 

 it was sold to Mr. W. B. Sum- 

 ner in 1770, and it continued 



in the Sumner family for some generations. It is now 

 the property of Lord Rendel. It is extremely im- 

 probable that it was the site of the manor-house ; the 

 name indicates a different property, and on the original 



RENDEL, Lord Rendel 

 of Hatchlands. Six 

 pieces parted nebulyfesse- 

 wise table and argent 

 with a ragged staff be- 

 tween two demi-lions in 

 the thief and a demi- 

 lion berween /wo ragged 

 staves in the foot all 

 countercoloured. 



manor of the abbey, farmed by the vlliani (vide infra), 

 there was probably no manor-house at all. 



High Clandon is the residence of Mr. F. B. East- 

 wood, who did much for the restoration of the church. 

 The schools (National) were opened in 1863, and 

 enlarged in 1902. 



The manor of EJST CL4NDON 

 M4NOR (Clandon Abbatis, xi-xiv cent.) is in- 

 cluded among the estates which purport 

 to have been granted to Chertsey at the foundation in 

 675, but appears for the first time in the copy of the 

 charter ascribed to 727,' which is undoubtedly a later 

 edition and includes all the Chertsey lands of 1086, 

 some of which were certainly acquired long after 675. 

 At the time of the Survey the abbey was still hold- 

 ing, and it was recorded that under Edward the 

 Confessor the abbot had bought two hides in East 

 Clandon and 'laid them in the manor." In 1201 

 Martin, Abbot of Chertsey, granted the manor to 

 John Chaper for life, with reversion to the abbey. 3 

 Otherwise the history of East Clandon during the 

 Middle Ages consists for the most part of a recital of 

 grants and licences for alienating lands in mortmain. 

 In 1537, after a reputed tenure of over eight hun- 

 dred years, the abbey ceded East Clandon Manor 

 to the king. 4 In July 1544 Henry granted it to Sir 

 Anthony Browne, 6 who a few weeks later alienated it 

 to George Bigley and Elizabeth his wife. 6 George 

 Bigley's tenure was marked by a dispute in connexion 

 with the copyhold of certain lands in the manor, 7 but 

 seems to have been otherwise uneventful. He died 

 in 1558, leaving two daughters and co-heirs, Dorothy 

 and Mary ; the manor, in default of issue, was 

 to remain to Edmund son of Richard Sutton, with 

 contingent remainders to his brothers John, James, and 

 Jasper. 8 At the death of Elizabeth Bigley, 9 some five 

 years later, Dorothy Bigley had become the wife of 

 Robert Gavell, while Mary had married Edward 

 Carleton. There is record of a fine in the year 1565 



** Correspondence quoted by Manning 

 and Bray, Surr. iii, 78. ' Ibid. 



68 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr, 

 iii, 76. 



1 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 94. 



. Surr. i, 310*. 

 8 Feet of F. Surr. 2 John, no. 21. 

 4 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. 

 VIII. 



>L. and P. Hen. Fill, x (i), p. 616. 



344 



'Ibid. p. 641. 



7 Chan. Proc. (Ser. ii), bdle. 183,00. 



8 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), exv, 6j. 

 Ibid. (Ser. 2), cxxxv, 18. 



