A HISTORY OF SURREY 



Mary of Cambridge) in 1871. They are certified 

 industrial schools for female children of prisoners, or 

 children otherwise in a destitute or dangerous position. 

 They are conducted on the separate homes system, and 

 are supported by voluntary contributions, with a 

 Treasury allowance for children committed under the 

 Industrial Schools Act. The village schools are 

 St. Paul's (Church), built 1841, enlarged 1851 and 

 1885, for girls and infants. A boys' school was added 

 in 1901. New Ham School was built in 1874. 

 St. Augustine's School (Church) for infants was built 

 in 1882, and Chapel Park (Church) in 1896. 



CHERTSET or CHERTSET BEO- 

 M4NORS MONO was included in the original 

 endowment made to the Abbey of 

 St. Peter, Chertsey, by Frith- 

 wald, subregulus of Surrey, be- 

 tween the years 666 and 675." 

 The name appears in' the 

 charter as ' Cirotisege ' or 

 ' Cerotesege ' that is, the is- 

 land of Cirotis. The boun- 

 daries included the lands of 

 Chertsey and Thorpe, and 

 were as follows : first from 

 the mouth of the Wey along 

 the Wey to Weybridge, thence 

 within the old mill - stream 

 midward of the stream to the 

 old Herestraet (military way), 

 along this to Woburn Bridge 

 and along the stream to the great willow and to 

 the pool above Crockford, from there to an alder 

 tree, thence to the ' wertwallen,' to the Herestraet 

 and along to the ' Curtenstapele,' from there along 

 the street to the Horethorn, thence to the eccan 

 Irene (oak tree), to the three barrows, from the three 

 barrows to 'sihtran,' to Merchebrook, to a torrent 

 called Exlaepe, to the old maple tree, to the three 

 other trees, along Depebrok straight to 'Weale- 

 gate.' Thence to Shirenpole, to Fullbrok, to the 

 black willow and to ' Weales huthe ' along the Thames 

 to the other side of the town called Mixtenham, 

 thence by water between an island called Bury and 

 Mixtenham by water to Nete Island, from there along 

 the Thames round Oxlake, along the Thames to 

 Buresburgh, and so along the Thames to the Isle of 

 Hamme, along the river northward and midward 

 along the Thames to the mouth of the Wey." King 

 Alfred, confirming this grant to the abbey, also set 

 forth the boundaries of Chertsey, which differ slightly 

 from those laid down by Frithwald, with separate 

 boundaries for Egham and Chobham, and a reference 

 to the heath of Geoffrey de Croix." 



CHERTSF.Y ABBEY. 

 Party or and argent St. 

 PauFs sword argent -with 

 its hilt or (rotted with 

 St. Peter'i kej/s gules and 

 azure. 



The charter of Frithwald also refers to eight 

 islands, both large and small, which belonged to 

 Chertsey and Thorpe, and to 'seven instruments, 

 suitable for catching fish and keeping them, called 

 weares,' all lying between Wealeshuthe and the mouth 

 of the Wey. 



Confirmation of this charter was made by Alfred, 

 Edward the Confessor, and William the Conqueror," 

 and succeeding kings of England and popes confirmed 

 this grant to the abbey." At the time of the Domes- 

 day Survey Chertsey was held by the abbey as a 

 manor and rated at 5 hides ; of these Richard Sturmid 

 held 2 \ under King William." The abbey, however, 

 claimed him as a tenant, and this claim was probably 

 allowed, as he does not appear among the tenants in 

 chief." 



The manor, known from about the 1 4th century 

 by the name of ' Chertsey- Beomond ' M as well as by 

 the simpler form of ' Chertsey,' remained in the pos- 

 session of the monastery until 1537," when, upon the 

 surrender of the latter, the abbot conveyed its lands 

 to the king. The manor of Chertsey was leased in 

 1550 to Sir William Fitz William for thirty years." 

 He died before 1569, when the lease was extended 

 for twenty-one years to his widow Joan. 33 Upon her 

 death in 1574 the manor reverted to the Crown. 

 James I granted it to his eldest son, Henry Prince 

 of Wales, 34 after whose death Sir Francis Bacon and 

 others held it in trust for Charles Prince of Wales 

 for ninety-nine years, the term beginning in 1617.'* 

 Charles, when king, granted the manor to his 

 queen, Henrietta Maria. 36 During the Common- 

 wealth the manor of Chertsey was sold, as Crown 

 land, to William Aspinall. 87 The sale included a 

 wood called Birchwood, whereof 292 trees were 

 reserved for the use of the navy. Returning to the 

 Crown at the Restoration, it was granted by Charles II, 

 for the remainder of the term of ninety-nine years 

 fixed in 1617, to Denzil, Lord Holies, and others in 

 trust for Queen Catherine of Braganza for life and 

 afterwards in trust for the king and his successors." 

 In 1676, four years after this grant, the manor was 

 granted, for forty-one years, to Sir Gilbert Talbot and 

 Sir Peter Wiclce. 39 The manor remained in the 

 Crown throughout the 1 8th century. In 1779 

 a thirty-one years' lease was granted to the Duke of 

 Bridgewater, who died in i8o3. M According to 

 Brayley, writing in 1841, the last tenant under the 

 Crown was Frederick, Duke of York, who died in 1827, 

 and in the following year the manor with other 

 Crown lands was sold by the Crown for 3,330 to 

 a Mr. Allison, who disposed of it to James Goren. 

 The latter became bankrupt in 1834, and the 

 manor was sold by auction to Mr. Cutts of Essex." 



18 Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 55-6. 



" Ibid. ; Colt MS. Vitell. A. xiii. 



K Ibid. But Geoffrey de Croix wa 

 living at the time of the Testa de Nevill ; 

 the reference to him therefore, the as- 

 cription of the date of 727 to a charter 

 confirmed by Wulfhere of Mercia who 

 died in 675, the witness by Humfrith, 

 Bishop of Winchester, who became bishop 

 in 744, of charters of 673 and 727, 

 the reference in the boundaries to the 

 Park Gate, and the Park Hedge of 

 Windsor Park, make it impossible to 

 accept the details of these early charters 

 as worth much except for 13th-century 

 matters. The Surrey Archaeological 



Society have given a detailed account of 

 these boundaries with various etymological 

 explanations, coupled with local informa- 

 tion concerning the places or landmarks 

 in Chertsey which may coincide with 

 those mentioned in the ancient charter. 

 Surr. Arch. Coll. i, 80 et seq. 



88 Birch, Cart. Sax. ii, 203 ; Cart. Antiq. 

 D. 9, ii. 



*Cart. Antiq. D. 15, 17, 18, 23 ; Cott. 

 MS. Vitell. A. xiii. 



28 V.C.H. Surr. i, 308. 



M H. E. Maiden, Hist, of Surr. 68. 



80 Cal. Chart. 1257-1300, p. 305, vide 

 Beomond. 



u Poj* Nitfi. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 206; 



406 



Cal. Close, 1346-49, p. 134 ; Valor Eccl. 

 (Rec. Com.), ii, 56 ; Lansd. MS. 434; Exch. 

 K.R. Misc. Bks. 25 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. 

 Trin.zg Hen. VIII ; Ct. of Aug. Surr. 54. 



"Acts of the P.O. 1549-50, p. 415 ; 

 Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7. "Ibid. 



84 Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. xli, no. 2. 



"Exch. L.T.R. Orig. R. 14 Jas. I, pt. 

 iv, no. 126. 



M Cal.S.P. Dam. 1640-1, p. 552; Ct. 

 R. (P.R.O.), bdle. 204, nos. 40, 52, 53. 



8 7 Close, 1650, pt. Ivii, no. 24. 



88 Pat 24 Chas. II, pt. ix, m. i. 

 "Ibid. 28 Chas. II, pt. v, m. II. 



40 Mann ing and Bray, op. cit. iii, 222. 

 a E. W. Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iii, 189. 



