GODLEY HUNDRED 



There are a large number of good houses in the neigh- 

 bourhood. Potuall Park is the residence of the Rev. H. 

 J. F. de Salis, Kenwolde Court of Mr. G. N. Stevens, 

 Wentworth of the Countess de Morella, Markwood of 

 Mr. J. S. Fletcher, Kingswood of Mrs. Eastwood, 

 Alderhurst was the seat of the late Lord Thring. 



Coopers Hill College was erected for the training 

 of candidates for the Government service in India in 

 the engineering, telegraphic, and forestry services. 

 It was established in 1 87 1, and was administered by a 

 highly-distinguished staff of scientific men who gave a 

 special character to the society of the neighbourhood. 

 It was closed amid general regrets in October 1906, 

 the Indian Government having adopted other means 

 of supplying their services. 



The Royal Holloway College for Women, Egham 

 Hill, was founded by the late Mr. Thomas Holloway 

 in 1879 and opened in 1886 by Her Majesty Queen 

 Victoria. The founder gave 600,000 in the first 

 instance, and by his will left 200,000 more for 

 endowment in 1883. It was intended for the educa- 

 tion of women by women. The building, consisting 

 of two quadrangles, is in red-brick in the style of the 

 French Renaissance. It in fact follows generally the 

 model of the Chateau de Chambord in Touraine. 

 There is a picture gallery looft. long, 30 ft. wide, 

 and 5oft. high, containing a fine collection of paintings 

 by Turner, Gainsborough, Constable, Crome, Mor- 

 land, Copley Fielding, Landseer, Creswick, Millais 

 (The Princes in the Tower), Long (The Babylonian 

 Marriage Market), and other distinguished modern 

 artists. The chapel is richly decorated and contains 

 on the apsidal east end a high relief of the Creation 

 of Eve and a ceiling designed and made by the late 

 Signer Fucigno. The government of the college is in 

 the hands of twelve governors, including the trustees 

 of the property. It has not been found possible so 

 far to dispense entirely with male teaching, and the 

 undenominational services in the chapel have resolved 

 themselves into alternate denominations, one Sunday 

 service being usually conducted by a Canon of Windsor. 



The same founder established the sanatorium at 



St. Anne's Heath for mentally afflicted persons of the 

 upper and middle classes. It was opened in 1885. 

 Mr. W. H. Crossland was architect of both buildings. 



The Cottage Hospital, Englefield Green, was 



opened in 1880, and contains sixteen beds. 



There are Wesleyan, Congregational, Baptist, and 

 Primitive Methodist chapels in the parish. 



The Schools are : Station Road School, formerly 

 Egham Parish School, built in 1870, taken over by 



the School Board in 1884, enlarged in 1895 ; Vir- 

 ginia Water School (National), built 1857 ; Englefield 

 Green School (National), built in 1864, enlarged in 

 1885,1896, and 1899; Hythe School, built in 

 1886, enlarged in 1890 and in 1900 ; Bishopsgate 

 Infant School (Church of England), built in 1882 ; 



.St. Anne's Heath School, built in 1896. The School 

 Board was formed in 1884. 



EGHAM 



EGHAM was included in the original 

 MANORS endowment of Chertsey Abbey in 

 666-75.'* Confirmation of the grant 

 was made in 727 and in 967, and in both cases the 

 property at Egham is referred to as '20 mansae cum 

 porcorum pascuis in pene wold.' ls The Domesday 

 Survey records that in the time of King Edward it 

 was assessed for 40 hides, whereas in 1086 it was 

 assessed for 15. Its value, previously 40, was then 

 30 lot. Of this land Gozelin held 3 hides which 

 were of the abbey's demesne in King Edward's time." 



The manor was included in all subsequent con- 

 firmations of the abbey land, and was held with those 

 of Chertsey, Thorpe, and Chobham (q.v.) until the 

 surrender of the abbey in 1537," since which time 

 the manor of Egham has remained in the Crown. 

 With the Chertsey manors Egham was leased to Sir 

 William Fitz William in 1550 for thirty years," and 

 after his death the lease was renewed to his widow 

 Joan, 19 who died in 1574. 



The manor was included in the Crown grants to 

 Prince Henry and Charles Prince of Wales in the 

 reign of James I, and to Queen Henrietta Maria in 

 the reign of Charles I.* During the Commonwealth 

 the manor was sold to Thomas Richardson," who in 

 1650 sold it to John Blackwele." After the Restora- 

 tion the manor was granted to Queen Catherine of 

 Braganza.** A lease of the manor was granted to 

 John Thynne, which expired about the year 1693." 

 The reversion was granted to Sir Richard Powle in 

 1673, but this grant was cancelled," and in 1674 John 

 Thynne was granted a further lease of forty years." 

 Aubrey says that this lease was acquired by Adrian 

 Moore, attorney, of Egham." In 1694, however, a 

 lease of ninety-nine years, to date from the death 

 of Queen Catherine, was granted by the Crown to 

 William Blaythwayt. 1 ' 8 The queen died in 1705, in 

 which year, therefore, Blaythwayt's lease began. 

 This lease also became the property of Adrian Moore, 

 a relation of William Blaythwayt.* 9 Adrian Moore 

 held a lease of Milton Place also (q.v.). The lease 

 from the Crown held by this family was finally 

 surrendered about the year 1865,* Richard Wyatt, 

 the heir of Adrian Moore (see under Milton), having 

 in 1804 obtained a renewal of Blaythwayt's lease." 



Queen Elizabeth granted the site of the manor of 

 Egham to William Grene in 1579 fora period of 

 twenty-one years," but in 1587 he sold all right, 

 title, and interest in the premises to Thomas Stydolf, 

 who then received a further grant of twenty-one years 

 from the Crown. 33 This grant was extended in 

 1592 to Thomas Stydolf, Elizabeth his wife, and 

 Francis his son, ' to have and to hold for the term of 

 their natural life for the longest liver.' ** In 1607 

 Thomas Merrye was granted the reversion of this 

 site for a term of forty years, 35 but he in the same 

 year assigned the capital messuage, site, and all his 

 estate and term of years therein to Francis Stydolf. 36 

 The Parliamentary Survey of 1650 records that 



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

 14 Ibid, i, 64 ; iii, 469. 

 V.C.H. Surr. i, 309*. 

 W Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 19 

 ;H^n. VIII. 



18 Acti of tht P.O. 1549-50, p. 415. 



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



M Vide Chertsey. Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. xli, 

 no. 2 ; Exch. L.T.R. Orig. R. 14 Jas. I, 

 pt. iv, rot. 126 ; Cal. S.P. Dam. 1640-1, p. 



552 ; Ct. R. (P.R.O.), belle. 204, no. 



47, 53- 



M Particulars for Sale of Crown Lands 

 during Commonwealth, R. I. 



93 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 1650. 



M Pat. 24 Cha. II, pt. ix, m. I. 



* Cal. S.P. Dam. 1673, p. 385-6 ; 

 ibid. 1673-75, p. 175. 



"Ibid. 1673-5, pp. 175, 185. 



M Ibid. 



421 



"7 Aubrey, op. cit. iii, 150 (after 1673). 

 98 Pat. 6 Will, and Mary, pt i, m. 1 3. 

 29 Information communicated by Mr. 

 A. Wyatt-EdgelL *> Ibid. 



81 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 150. 

 89 Pat. 22 Eliz. pt. iii, m. 21. 

 88 Ibid. 30 Eliz. pt. ix, m. 22. 

 84 Parl. Surr. 1650, no. 24. 

 86 Ibid, i Pat. 4 Jas. I, pt Jtxix, m. I. 

 84 Part. Surv. 1650, no. 24. 



