A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The church plate is a silver-gilt set given by 

 H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester in 1841, and 

 consists of two cups with paten covers of 1841, a 

 paten of 1 840, a flagon of the same date, an alms- 

 dish undated, but part of the set, and a cup of 1896. 



The first book of the registers contains baptisms 

 from 1677 to 1689 ; a second, all entries from 1695 

 to 1747 ; a third, baptisms and burials from 1749 to 

 1783, and marriages from 1749 to 1753; a fourth, 

 baptisms from 1783 to 1810; a fifth, burials from 

 I 793, and baptisms from iSioto 1812. There are 

 also two printed marriages and banns books from 1754 

 to 1 802, and from 1802 to 1812. 



When the old church of Windlesham was struck by 

 lightning and burnt in 1676, the registers were burnt, 

 and now date only from that time. 



There is a chapel of ease, St.Alban's, on the Bagshot 

 Road. 



ST. JNNE'S, B4GSHOT, is red brick with Bath 

 stone dressings, a tower, and spire. The east window, 

 in memory of H.R.H. the Duke of Albany (ob. 1884), 

 was given by King Edward VII and the other brothers 

 and sisters of the late duke. 



The earliest mention of the 

 4DFOWSONS church of Windlesham is in 1230, 

 when it was reported that Hoppe- 

 schort, who held land in Bagshot, granted the advow- 

 son to Sherborne Priory in the time of Henry II.*' 

 The priory's right of presentation, however, was 

 successfully disputed by Newark Priory in 1230," 

 and in 1262 the living was, it is said, appropriated to 

 Newark." The advowson was, however, in private 

 hands after that date. In 1443 the church re- 

 appears attached to the manor of Freemantles in 

 Windlesham.* 4 It was still so attached in 1539." 

 In 1 5 36 John Quinby, who held Freemantles, pre- 



sented. 47 But on the death of the rector in 1598 the 

 queen presented,* 3 and the patronage has since con- 

 tinued in the Crown. 



Presentations were always to Windlesham, cum 

 capella de Bagshot. The chapel at Bagshot was 

 dedicated to Our Lady. Hewlett's or Hulot's 

 chantry was founded in the chapel of Our Lady 

 at Bagshot, and endowed with half the manor of 

 Freemantles.* 9 In 1467 Edmund Skrene released 

 all his rights in the manor of Freemantles to Robert 

 Hewlett. 40 He, or one of his family, founded 

 the chantry. The chapel at Bagshot probably fell 

 with the chantry in it, though a tradition of its site 

 lingered here in the middle of the 1 8th century." In 

 1820 a new chapel was built. Bagshot became a 

 separate ecclesiastical parish in 1874. In 1884 a 

 new church, that of St. Anne, was built (see above). 

 Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. Half an acre 

 of land was vested in the parish for 

 the use of the poor at an unknown date. 



Mr. George Newton, by will 1754, left 5 a year 

 charged on land for the distribution of bread quar- 

 terly on Sundays in the churchyard. A tablet in the 

 church commemorates the bequest. 



In 1757 Lady Amelia Butler, residing in Bagshot 

 Park, gave 100 for building a pest-house. One room 

 was set apart for wayfaring men suffering from small- 

 pox. 



In 1761 James Butler gave a house for an alms- 

 house. These benefactions seem to have been amal- 

 gamated into six almshouses. 



In 1 804 the Rev. Edward Cooper by will gave five 

 guineas annually for educating poor boys. 



In 1809 Mrs. Strange gave by will 100 bank 

 annuities for providing clothing for six poor widows. 



WISLEY 



Wiselei (xi cent.) ; Wyseleye (xiii cent). 



Wisley is a small parish 4 miles south-west from 

 Weybridge station. It contains 1,076 acres. In 

 shape it is roughly triangular, the apex southwards, 

 and each side about two miles in length. It is 

 bounded on the north by Walton-on-Thames and 

 Byfleet, on the east by Cobham and Ockham, 

 on the south and west by Ockham and Pyrford. The 

 soil is mainly the alluvium, sand, and gravel of the 

 Wey valley ; the old natural course of the river runs 

 through it, and Wisley Common on the south-east 

 side is on the patch of Bagshot Sand which makes 

 St. George's Hill and Cobham Common. There is 

 no village of Wisley ; merely some scattered farms and 

 cottages. The road from London to Guildford, 

 through Cobham and Ripley, passes through the 

 parish. 



Neolithic flints have been found in Wisley. One 

 fine polished celt is in the Archaeological Society's 



Museum, Guildford. In 1906 an ancient dug-out 

 canoe was found in the old river bed of the Wey. It 

 is still, 1911, in the possession of the farmer on whose 

 land it was found. 



The parish is ecclesiastically attached to Pyrford. 

 Slade Farm and a cottage were transferred from 

 Wisley to Ockham 25 March 1883.' The children 

 of Wisley Common attend Byfleet School. 



Fox Warren is the seat of Mrs. Charles Buxton. 



The manor of WISLEY was held at 

 M4NOR the time of Domesday by Oswold, lord 

 of Wotton ; * and the overlordship follows 

 the descent of Wotton (q.v.). Early in the 1 3th 

 century Roger de Somerey was holding in sub-fee 

 and demised the manor to Robert de Briwes, 3 who 

 in 1243 leased it to Walter le Basle and Denise 

 his wife.* Apparently this grant was for Walter's 

 life, since Denise after her husband's death gave up 

 her rights in the manor.' 



< a Bracton'i Note Bk. 769. 



43 Ibid. 416. There is record of an 

 earlier suit in 1226; Rot. Lit. Claut. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 145*. 



44 V.C.H. Surr. ii, 103. 



Close, 21 Hen. VI, m. 2 id. 



46 Feet of F. Surr. Mich, i Hen. VIII. 



4 'Winton Epis. Reg. Gardiner, foL 

 l6a. 



49 Ibid. Bilson, fol. 64. 



49 Particulars for Sale of Chantries, 

 Index, vol. ii, P.R.O. 



*> Close, 6 Edw. IV, no. 17. 



51 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. iii, 



85. 



I Loc. Govt. Bd. Order 14282. 



II y.C.H. Surr. i, 328,1. 



' Cal. oflntj. p.m. Hen. Ill, 20. 



4 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 23 Hen. III. 



6 Ibid. East. 42 Hen. III. 



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