GODLEY HUNDRED 



CHERTSEY 



John Danaster was seised of Ottershaw in the early 

 part of the 1 6th century, and at his death it passed 

 to his widow Anne, with reversion to their daughter 

 Anne, who married Owen Bray. 161 A complaint was 

 lodged by Owen Bray and his wife against Sir Francis 

 Dawtrey, second husband of Anne, his grandmother, 

 on the ground that he had committed great spoil in 

 their lands ; in Ottershaw in particular he had cut 

 down and sold 60 oaks of the value of los. each. 16 ' 



The subsequent holders of Ottershaw are not 

 always apparent. Manning, quoting from the title 

 deeds of Edmund Boehm, who held Ottershaw in 

 1811, states that in the lyth century it belonged to 

 the Roake family of Horsell, who in 1722 conveyed 

 it to Lawrence Porter. He sold it to Thomas Wood- 

 ford, who also held Stanners in Chobham. Woodford 

 died in 1758, and the property passed from his son 

 to Thomas Sewell, whose son sold it in 1796 to 

 Edmund Boehm. 163 It afterwards became the pro- 

 perty of Sir George Wood, and according to Brayley 

 his son sold a portion of the estate, including the house, 

 to Richard Crawshay. 164 Brox, mentioned by Aubrey 

 as a tithing of Chertsey, is at present held with Otter- 

 shaw by Captain Sumner and Mr. R. Brettell. Mr. 

 Lawrence J. Baker owns Ottershaw Park. 



A tenement called SHRTMPLEM4RSHE (Simple 

 Marsh, or Simple Mere) was included among the abbey 

 lands, being valued in the 1 6th century at loo/. 164 At 

 the surrender of the monastery it was granted to John 

 Prior ; in 1 5 50 it was leased to William Fitz William, 

 after whose death it was granted in 1569 to his 

 widow Joan for twenty-one years. 166 It was granted 

 in 1613 to Francis Morrice and Francis Phillips. 16 ' 

 In 1616 they conveyed it to Richard Tylney. 168 In 

 1739 John Tylney, afterwards Earl Tylney, whose 

 grandmother was daughter of Mr. Frederick Tylney, 

 sold it to Aaron Franks. 169 He sold it to Mr. Pem- 

 broke in 1807, and he to Mr. G. H. Sumner in 

 iSio, 1 of whom Captain Sumner is grandson and 

 heir. 



In 1535 land called DEPENH4MS in Chertsey 

 was valued among the possessions of the monastery at 

 6 1 3/. \d. ln It was conveyed to Henry VIII as a 

 manor by the Abbot of Chertsey in 1537,"* but no 

 other reference to Depenhams as a manor occurs. It 

 was granted in 1550 on a lease to Sir William Fitz 

 William, being then, or having previously been, in the 

 tenure of William Loksmyth. 173 The grant was 

 extended in 1569 to Joan Fitz William, widow of 

 Sir William, for twenty-one years. 174 In all these 

 transactions Depenhams is referred to as a tenement 

 only. It was granted as a messuage to William Holt 

 and others in 15 go, 171 and in the sale of Crown lands 

 during the Commonwealth the ' brewhouse or 

 farmhouse called Depenhams ' became the property of 

 Daniel Wyatt. 17 ' It was apparently included in the 

 grants of Chertsey Manor made by Charles II. 17 ' 



JMPNER'S B4RN was also conveyed to the king 



by the abbot of Chertsey as a manor, 178 but there is no 

 further evidence to show that it had any claim to be 

 such. Tithes from it were due to the rectory of 

 Chertsey. 179 After the surrender of Chertsey monas- 

 tery it was in the tenure of William Stanlake or 

 Robert Skyte, and was granted with other tenements 

 in Chertsey to Sir William Fitz William, and on his 

 death to Joan his widow in 1569 for twenty-one 

 years. 180 At the sale of Crown land during the 

 'Commonwealth J. Bailly purchased Ampner's Barn, 

 described as ' a farm.' 181 The tenement called Tyle- 

 holt or Tylecroft, probably identical with the tene- 

 ment afterwards called le Tyle, was also referred to 

 as a manor in the conveyance from the abbot to the 

 king. 181 When granted to Sir William Fitz William it 

 was in the tenure of Roger Fenne. 163 



A tenement called S41TES was granted to Edward 

 Carleton in 1610, and was sold as Crown land to 

 Samuel Oram during the Commonwealth. David 

 More had a lease of it from the Crown in i673. 164 

 Potter's Park, which still exists in Chertsey, is men- 

 tioned as early as the time of Henry VI among the 

 boundaries of Godley Hundred. 1 " During the reign 

 of James I it was sold to the Crown by Richard 

 Furbench. Charles I in 1634 demised the park to 

 Sir Arthur Mainwaring for twenty-one years. His 

 wife, Dame Gressell, was still in possession in 1650 

 when a survey was made of the property. 188 In 1 66 1 

 John Lyne petitioned for a lease of the same park. 187 



The parish church of ST. PETER 

 CHURCHES consists of chancel with north organ 

 bay, a vestry, and south chamber with 

 gallery stair, a nave with north and south aisles, the 

 ends coterminous with the west tower and containing 

 stairs to the galleries which surround three sides of the 

 church. 



The church was much rebuilt early in the igth 

 century, but the chancel and west tower have some 

 15th-century work remaining; the new work is 

 faced with Heath stone. The east window of the 

 chancel is modern of four lights in ijth-century style. 

 On each side are shallow cinquefoiled image niches of 

 15th-century date. In the north and south walls are 

 two bays of an arcade, now blocked up, showing 

 pointed arches with a moulded order springing with- 

 out capitals from square piers with rounded angles. 

 On the two central piers are shallow cinquefoiled 

 niches, like those on either side of the east window. 



The chancel arch is contemporary with the side 

 arcades and consists of two moulded orders, with 

 small engaged shafts in the jambs having foliate 

 capitals. The nave is of four bays with square piers 

 carried up to the plaster vaulted ceilings of nave 

 and aisles, and is entirely of modern date. The aisle 

 windows have large dripstones to their labels, carved 

 in a rather theatrical style, and under each are the 

 carvers' names, Coade and Sealy of London, and the 

 date 1806. 



10 Chan. Proc.(Scr. z), bdle. 22, no. 84. 



' Ibid. 



u> Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 194, 

 223 ; Close, 36 Geo. Ill, ft. iii, m. 25, 

 no. 13. 



181 E. W. Brayley, op. cit ii, 224. 



165 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bk. 25 } Vahr 

 Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56. 



" Pat. 12 Elir. pt. viii, m. 7. 



I6 ~ Ibid. 10 Jas. I, pt. xxii, no. 3. 



1(8 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 229. 



"' Close, 12 Geo. II, p. 19, no. 9. 



1:0 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 221. 



171 Vahr Eecl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 56. 



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

 VIII. 



178 Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7. 



174 Ibid. W Ibid. 33 Eliz. pt. iv. 



lr< Particulars for sale of Crown lands, 

 Commonwealth, Aug. Off. Z.z. 4 (3). 



1:7 Pat. 24 Chas. II, pt. ix, m. i ; ibid. 

 28 Chas. II, pt. v, m. 1 1. 



" 8 Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. 

 VIII. 



4" 



Pat. S Eliz. pt. i!. 



180 Ibid. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7. 



181 Sale of Crown lands during Common- 

 wealth (Aug. Off.). 



1M FeetofF. Div. Co. Trin. 29 Hen. 

 VIII. 



188 Pat. 12 Eliz. pt. viii, m. 7. 

 184 Cal. S.P. Dam. 1673-5, p. 122. 

 "Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, fol. 



74- 



181 Parl. Surv. no. 22. 



t. ofTrtat. Bkt. 1660-7, p. 41. 



