GODLEY HUNDRED 



EGHAM 



FOSTER. Argent a 

 cheveron between three 

 hunting htrnt sable. 



the elder had rebuilt the house. This is called the 

 Place or Parsonage House by Aubrey, because Denham 

 held the rectory. It has been incorrectly confused 

 with the vicarage house. It is now pulled down."* 



The other part of Imworth alias Fosters was per- 

 haps separated at Sir William Warham's death. In 

 1568 Jasper Palmer and Rose his wife conveyed it 

 to Thomas Burtell. 113 About this time Chancery 

 proceedings are said to have been taken between 

 Edward Owen and Thomas Burtell. Fosters passed from 

 Owen to Sir Antony Manners, and from him to Sir 

 John Doddridge. 114 Sir John died in 1628, and the 

 name of Sir Robert Foster the judge, with which the 

 name of the house has been erroneously connected. 

 appears for the first time in 

 connexion with it in l639. lls 

 Sir Robert was youngest son 

 of Sir Thomas Foster, Justice 

 of the Common Pleas i6o7," 6 

 and was himself a Justice of 

 Common Pleas, 1 640-4, when 

 he was removed. In 1 660 he 

 was restored and made Lord 

 Chief Justice of the King's 

 Bench. He died in 1663. 

 His son Sir Thomas Foster 

 succeeded to the property and 

 died in l685. 117 It changed hands several times, and 

 early in the ipth century was a lunatic asylum. 



Fosters or Great Fosters is a good early 1 7th-cen- 

 tury house. 



The messuage of RUSH4M or RUTSSH4MES 

 in Egham appears to have been in the possession of a 

 family of that name from very early times. Alice 

 Rusham, who inherited the lands in the reign of 

 Henry VI, and who married first Robert Ferly, and 

 secondly John Wolley, was apparently the descendant 

 of a line of Rushams,"' and occasional references 

 to Rushams of Egham, occurring as a witness or 

 as owner of land, are found in the Ledger Book 

 of Chertsey Abbey and elsewhere.' 19 Agnes Ferly, 

 granddaughter and heiress of Alice, is said to have 

 married Thomas Day of Egham, 110 in whose family 

 Rusham remained until 1679.'" From the i6th 

 century onwards Rusham is described as a manor, 

 but there is no evidence to show that it was 

 considered as such before that time. An account 

 of the property in the reign of Henry VI describes 

 it as 'a messuage, 1 60 acres of arable land, 12 

 acres of meadow, 80 acres of pasture and 20 acres 

 of wood and 24*. rent in Egham in co. Surrey, 

 called Ruysshames.' " A rental of Egham Manor 

 taken in 1622 records that the sum of 201. ^d. 

 was paid by Richard Day for his manor of Rusham 

 and for his fishing and greyhounds. 113 After 1679 all 

 trace of the so-called manor is lost. Rusham Hall, 

 formerly the seat of the family of Day, was destroyed 



before the igth century, 1 " but Rusham Green and 

 a farm of the same name still exist in Egham. 



The PARK OF POTEN4LL or PORTN4LL 

 belonged anciently to the Crown. It is not clear 

 when it was imparked, but in 1485 the office of parker 

 in the king's park of Potenall in the forest of Windsor 

 was given to John Molle." 4 In 1528 Henry VIII 

 granted the park to Sir William Fitz William and his 

 heirs, 'for the service of one red rose annually.'" 6 

 It was apparently disparked before 1607, for 

 Norden's Survey of the parks in the forest of 

 Windsor of that year does not include it. 1 " The 

 history of the property during the lyth century 

 is not apparent." 8 During the latter half of the 

 1 8th century it is referred to as a manor held by 

 families named Walker and Day." 9 The manor so 

 called was conveyed in 1791 to Mr. Lowndes, 130 

 whose family owned property in Chertsey and Egham 

 fifty years later. Part of the estate, however, was in 

 the hands of Dr. Jebb, Dean of Londonderry. His 

 son Mr. David Jebb exchanged 

 it in 1 804 for other land with 

 the Rev. T. Bisse, whose son, 

 Colonel Bisse Challoner, held 

 it in 1840, and built the pre- 

 sent house. 131 It is now the 

 property of the Rev. H. J. 

 A. Fane de Salis. A park 

 was inclosed by Colonel Bisse 

 Challoner. The site of the 

 original park was probably not 



exactly where Portnall Park 



: . . T, 11 ITT 



now is, but in Portnall War- 



ren, where Norden's map 

 marks Valley Wood. 



In the 1 7th and l8th centuries occasional record 

 is found of a reputed manor called WICK, or 

 EGHAM WICK, in Egham. In 1618 Edward 

 Anthony and William Willis sold the manor, which 

 included two messuages or farms, to Francis Anthony 

 and his heirs. 13 * In 1 768 it was the property of the 

 Rev. William Robert Jones and Elizabeth his wife, 

 and was apparently held in the right of Elizabeth. 1 " 

 They sold it as the 'manor or reputed manor of 

 Egham' in 1782 to John Pitt and his heirs. 1 " 



The church of ST. JOHN THE 

 CHURCHES BAPTIST was built in 1817, and 

 is of little architectural interest. It 

 consists of a shallow chancel, a wide nave with galleries 

 on three sides, and a west tower, and has three west 

 doorways, the two side doors admitting to the gallery 

 stairs. The building is in poor classical style, and 

 built of brick with stone dressings. The chancel has 

 north and south vestries, and on each side of the nave 

 are six windows below the gallery, and six above it, 

 some of them filled with stained glass from the chapel 

 at Coopers Hill ; the nave has a coved plaster ceiling. 



DE SALIS. Paly ar- 



S"" <"< / *"'" " ch '"f 

 or *""* " WW fee 

 nrn uf hy thl roots 



thenin. 



1Ia Information from Mr. F. Turner of 

 Egham. 



118 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 10 & 1 1 

 Eliz. 



Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.), R. 626. 

 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 15 Chas. I. 

 J< Monument in Egham Church. 



Il ' Monument in Thorpe Church. 



">HarL MS. 5830, foi 250, 251 ; 

 Chan. Proc. bdle. 54, no. 179. 



118 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. vol. 25, foL 

 246*; Cat. Close 1821-;, p. 352. 



"Harl. MS. 5830, fol. 250, 251. 



m Feet of Surr. Mich. 44 & 45 Eliz. ; 

 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. i65o;Recov. R. 

 Mich. 1653, rot. 48 ; Feet of F. Surr. 

 Mich. 31 Chas. II. 



132 Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 54, no. 179. 



las Rentals and Surv. (P.R.O.) R. 626. 



111 Manning and Bray, op. cit. iii, 253. 



155 Cal. Pat. 1476-85, p. 512. 



146 Pat, 19 Hen. VIII, pt. i, 12. 



WHarl. MS. 3749. 



las Manning had a privately communi- 

 cated mention of deeds conveying 'Potter's 

 Park ' to Arthur Mainwaring and then to 



425 



John Lyne in 1661. Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit. iii, 255. But Potter's Park is 

 another place in Chcrtsey. 



1M Recov. R. Trin. 17 Geo. Ill, rot. 

 132 ; Feet of Surr. Mich. 30 Geo. III. 



"Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 31 Geo. III. 



181 E. W. Brayley, op. cit. ii, 297. 



188 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 15 Jas. I, 

 m. 6. 



188 Recov. R. East. 8 Geo. Ill, rot. 

 276. 



J8 Com. Pleas Recov. R. Trin. za 

 Geo. Ill, m. 303. 



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