WOKING HUNDRED 



WORPLESDON 



and the arms of Eton College. In the south-east 

 window is the name W. Roberts, 1802. 



There are six bells : the treble and third cast by 

 Thomas Mears in 1827 ; the second, fourth, and fifth 

 by R. Phelps in 1 726 ; and the sixth by Thomas Mears 

 in 1826. 



The church plate consists of a cup of 1616; a 

 flagon of 1598, the gift of Lady Margaret Savill ; a 

 repouss6 salver, the gift of John Lancing in 1612 ; and 

 a much-repaired unmarked standing paten, probably 

 of early 1 8th-century date. 



The first book of the registers contains entries from 

 'the 30 year of Henry VIII' (1538) to 1718. A 

 second book contains entries between 1776 and 1812, 

 the intermediate entries from 1718 to 1776 having 

 been contained in one now fallen to pieces. 



St. Luke's Church, Burpham, was built in 1859 as 

 a chapel of ease to Worplesdon. It is a plain stone 

 building of a nave and chancel and western bell- 

 turret. 



The early history of Worplesdon 

 JDVOWSON Church is somewhat obscure. There 

 was a church in Worplesdon at the 

 time of the Domesday Survey, 8 * but the advowson 

 does not seem to be mentioned before 1291, when 

 Ladereyna Valoynes released it to Sir John de Cobham." 

 It remained in the direct line of the Cobham family 8S 



until the death of John, Lord Cobham, in 1407, when 

 it passed to his granddaughter Joan, daughter of Joan 

 de Cobham by her marriage with Sir John De La 

 Pole. 89 The younger Joan, Baroness de Cobham in 

 her own right, died in 1434 ; M and by a settlement 

 made in 1428 " her fifth husband, Sir John Harpen- 

 den, was to retain possession of the advowson for life, 

 with remainder at his death to Joan, wife of Sir 

 Thomas Brooke, and daughter of Joan de Cobham by 

 her second marriage with Sir Reginald Braybrooke." 



The advowson continued in the possession of the 

 Cobhams till it was forfeited with the other possessions 

 of Henry, Lord Cobham, who was attainted in 1603." 

 Before that Henry, Lord Cobham, had granted the 

 next presentation to Sir George More of Loseley, who 

 presented Thomas Comber, afterwards Master of 

 Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1615." The Crown 

 presented in 1660, 1670, and again in 1683." The 

 advowson was granted to Eton College in 1690." 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. 



In 1605 Mr. Shaw left 4 a year 

 for the poor, charged upon the ' Nag's Head ' in 

 Guildford and land in Stoke. 



In 1726 the rector, the Rev. C. Moore, left 200 

 in Government stock for educating poor children 

 under the direction of the rector. 



. Surr. i, 313*. 

 W Feet of F. Surr. 19 Edw. I, 34. 

 Harl. Chart. 45 C. 24 ; fTyktham' 

 Reg, (Hants Rec. Sec.), i, 52, 161, 216. 



89 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



90 Chan. Inq. p.m. 11 Hen. VI, no. 37. 

 Ibid. 



M G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



Ibid. 



94 Winton Epis. Reg. Hilton, fol. 43 



Inot. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



96 Add. MS. 5847, fol. 414. 



