WOKING HUNDRED 



WINDLESHAM 



had been granted by Henry II out of his 

 demesne lands to a certain Ralph. This land was 

 bought from Hoppeschort by Robert de Basing." In 

 1218 Geoffrey Aurifaber sued Robert de Basing for 

 the possession of 3$ hides of land in Bagshot, but 

 judgement was entered for Basing. 13 Some three 

 years later, however, Robert de Bagshot, evidently the 

 same person as Basing, granted the 3^ hides to 

 Geoffrey with the consent of Hoppeschort. 14 But this 

 grant was only of a temporary nature, for at the time 

 of the Testa de Nevill Robert son of Robert de 

 Basing was holding, and in 1365 Geoffrey de Bagshot 

 died holding the manor. 16 



The other part of Bagshot was granted to John 

 Belet by Henry III, and descended to his son 

 Michael. 1 ' Both these holdings seem to have re- 

 verted to the Crown early in the 1 4th century, and 

 from that date Bagshot followed the descent of Sutton 

 in Woking (q.v.). 



The return for the aid taken for marrying of Blanche 

 daughter of Henry IV states that ' Mantell tenet 

 terras et tenementa que quondam fuerunt Hoppe- 

 sort.' 18 Unfortunately the name is torn off, but it 

 seems probable that the reference is to Bagshot. 



The reputed manor of FOSTERS in Windlesham 

 appears first in 1557, when Alan Fryday and Mar- 

 garet his wife released one-seventh of it to John 

 Taylor. 1 * In 1603 George Evelyn at his death was 

 reported to have been in possession of three-fifths of 

 it. 10 This portion passed under the terms of a settle- 

 ment made before his death to George second son of 

 his second son John.* 1 The whole manor was in the 

 possession of the Evelyns in 1637," but apparently 

 was sold in the year that George died to James 

 Lynch,** 8 who died seised of it in 1648," and in 1650 

 his nephew James Lynch conveyed it to John Lovi- 

 bond." Heneage Finch, Lord Guernsey, held a court 

 here in 1 7 1 4." In 1717 Mr. John Walter bought 

 it,' 4 * and his son Abel Walter sold it in 1752 to Sir 

 More Molyneux.* 6 He was a trustee of the Onslow 

 property, 16 " and probably pur- 

 chased in that capacity, for it 

 belonged to Lord Onslow 

 later." 



There is mention in 1650 

 of a ' manor ' in Windlesham 

 which was held by the Dean 

 and Canons of Windsor." 

 They were said to have re- 

 ceived it of the gift of Queen 

 Elizabeth, and to have shortly 

 afterwards leased it to Edward 

 Harward. ' Those entrusted 

 with the abolishing of the Deans and Chapters ' granted 

 it to Walter Harward, possibly the son of Edward. 19 



ST. GIORGI'S, Wind- 

 sor. Argent a cro 



The so-called manor of FREEM4NTLES in Win- 

 dlesham had its origin in land held by Richard 

 Freemantle in the time of Edward II. 3 * His grand- 

 son Richard, son of John, released to William Skrene 

 and Robert Hewlett all his right in the manor of 

 Windlesham." In 1467 Edmund Skrene, probably 

 son of William, quitclaimed his right to Robert Hew- 

 lett," and from that time until the Dissolution the 

 manor apparently formed part of the endowment of 

 Hewlett's gild in this parish. 83 



After the dissolution of gilds and chantries the 

 manor seems to have been granted out in two parts. 

 In 1549 George Molyneux was in possession of one 

 moiety,* 4 and in 1561 William Molyneux released it 

 to John Attefield. 34 During the next hundred and 

 fifty years it passed successively through the Whit- 

 field, 36 Quinby, and other families," none of whom, 

 however, retained possession for any length of time. 

 Finally it came into the hands of Francis Bartholo- 

 mew, 38 who conveyed it to Leonard Child, an attorney 

 in Guildford, in 1719." 



The other moiety was granted by Queen Elizabeth 

 to George Evelyn in 1560,' and seems to have 

 followed the history of the manor of Fosters (q.v.). 41 



The church of ST. JOHN THE 

 CHURCHES B4PTIST, Windlesham, consists of 

 a modern chancel with a north 

 vestry and south chapel, a nave with north and south 

 aisles, a south porch, and a south-western tower. The 

 south chapel and aisle are the chancel and nave of a 

 small church, the date of which is given on a board in 

 the tower, which bears the inscription : ' Burnt by 

 lightning in 1676. Rebuilt 1680 John Atfield 

 Richard Cotherell.' The tower dates from 1838, 

 and, like the rest of the church, is of brick. The 

 17th-century walls are faced with a chequer of black 

 and red bricks ; the aisles have projecting stone quoins. 

 In the south wall of the old nave are four windows of 

 Gothic style, two of three lights in 15th-century 

 style with square heads, and two of late 13th-century 

 style with a quatrefoiled circle over the trefoiled 

 lights. They are in part modern, in part old work 

 reset. The porch has small balustered openings on 

 either side. 



The roofs, seating, and fittings throughout are 

 modern, and of no particular interest. The sanc- 

 tuary has been somewhat elaborately decorated in. 

 recent years, and has a high dado of marble and 

 mosaic. Preserved in a glass case in the nave is a 

 chained copy of Jewel's Apology, found in the floor 

 of the tower at the time of the enlargement of the 

 church. There are no monuments of any interest. 



The tower contains a sanctus bell by William 

 Eldridge, 1686, and one large bell by Warner,. 

 1875. 



u Op. cit. 225. Hoppeschort held by 

 the service of providing the king with a 

 leash of hounds. Ia Ibid. 



18 Sracton's Note Bk.(td. Maitland), 10; 

 Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 3783. 



14 Feet of F. Surr. 5 Hen. Ill, no. 9. 



15 Op. cit. 227*. 



*' Chan. Inq. p.m. 39 Hen. Ill, no. 26. 

 M Tata ae Nmill (Rec. Com.), 225. 

 18 Rentals and Surv. Surr. portf. 1 5, no. 



3'- 



Feet of F. Surr. East. 3*4 Phil, and 

 Mary. 



*> Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxc, 124. 



Ibid. 



aa Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 12 Chas. I. 



221 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 82. 



33 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccxcii, 

 41. 



Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 1650. 



35 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 82. 



Ibid. ; See Chobham and Woking 

 for the Walters. 



* Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 25 & 26 Gco. II. 



864 Private information. 



*> Inclosure Act, 52 Geo. Ill, cap. 166. 



98 Close, 1650, pt. zlvi, no. 16. 



Ibid. 



84 Par!. Ifritt, vol. ii, div. iii, p. 337. 



81 Close, 21 Hen. VI, m. 21. 



377 



8 "Ibid. 6Edw. IV, m. 17. 

 88 Cat. Pat. 1476-85, p. 204. 

 M Feet of F. Surr. East. 1 549. 

 Ibid. East, 1561. 

 84 Ibid. Trin. 38 Eliz. 

 8; Ibid. East. 34 Eliz.; Trin. 38 Eliz. ; 

 East. 12 Chas. II ; Mich. II Jas. II. 



88 Ibid. Mich. 4 Geo. I. 



89 Ibid. Mich. 5 Geo. I. 



40 Pat. I Eliz. pt. iv, m. 27. 



41 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxc, 124: 

 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 20 Jas. I ;; 

 Hil. 21 Jas. I ; Mich. 2 Chas. I ; Hil, 

 12 Chas. I ; Div. Co. 1650 ; Surr. East, 

 29 Chas. II. 



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