A HISTORY OF SURREY 



himself stands in front, directing Jezebel to be thrown 

 down. 



To the eastward of this are the remains of another 

 subject, also apparently of the latter part of the 1 2th 

 century the Scourging of Our Lord. The bound 

 figure of Christ is discernible, and also a particularly 

 vigorous drawing of the ' executioner,' whose pose 

 and brutal expression, as he swings his whole body 

 round to bring down the scourge with full force, is 

 admirably rendered. His clothes are shown as spotted 

 with the sacred blood. 49 



In the quatrefoil of the east window is preserved 

 the only piece of ancient glass in the church. This, 

 which is mentioned by Cracklow (though wrongly 

 described as ' the Virgin holding a Crucifix ' ), depicts 

 God the Father holding forth the Son upon the Cross. 

 The date of this interesting fragment is the latter part 

 of the i 5th century. The lower lights are filled with 

 stained glass. 



A fitting of particular interest has unhappily dis- 

 appeared quite lately. This was a wooden balance- 

 lever, fixed to the wall-plate on the north side of the 

 chancel. It projected about 1 6 in. from the face of 

 the plate, and its underside was gently curved, the 

 end being rounded off. Three holes were visible in 

 the end as though for the purpose of suspending either 

 the pyx or a lamp before the Sacrament. 47 



The font is modern, and there are no monuments 

 of any importance or antiquity. 



There are many small crosses scratched upon the 

 stonework of windows and doors. 



There are two bells in the small turret, one quite 

 plain, and the other bearing a curious ' puzzle ' in- 

 scription which has defied all the efforts at interpre- 

 tation of Mr. Stahlschmidt and other campanologists. 

 It reads : svvz HCVVO viz JIHOIE. The plain bell is 

 probably mediaeval, and the other looks like the work 

 of an 1 8th-century itinerant founder perhaps the 

 same who has left us the fourth bell at Woking, 

 inscribed I.F. 1766. 



Among the church plate is a most graceful cup of 

 1570, beautifully designed, a model of elegance. It 

 bears the usual foliage strap-work band between 

 plain fillets, which, interlacing, divide it three 

 times : there is also a silver ' paten with a foot,' 

 of the same date and of the usual shape, bearing a 

 band of ' hyphens.' Both are in good preservation 

 and have been well cared for. Besides there are a 

 pewter paten and a tankard-shaped flagon, both dating 

 from the latter part of the 1 7th century. 



The register of burials dates from 1605, that of 

 marriages from 1666, and of births from 1670. 



In 1258 the Abbot of Westminster 

 conveyed the advowson of the chapel 

 of Pyrford, with that of Horsell, to 

 the Prior of Newark next Guildford. The grant 

 included common of pasture for all animals in the 

 common pasture in the vills belonging to the said 

 churches except in ' Wathelisham ' and Townesley, in 

 which they were not to have common of pasture for 

 pigs. The prior paid 40 marks to the abbot in re- 

 turn. 48 



Before 1 262 both chapels had been annexed to the 

 church of Woking, which was in the hands of the 

 same prior and convent, 49 and they remained so 

 until the Dissolution. 60 During this time the duty 

 of finding a chaplain devolved upon the vicar of 

 Woking. In the 141)1 century it was found that the 

 latter had omitted to provide a chaplain, and he was 

 commanded to do so by reason of ' the composition 

 made on that behalf to provide a chaplain to perform 

 divine service in the chapel of Pyrford dependent on 

 his church and to administer the sacraments to the 

 parishioners in the said hamlet of Pyrford on pain of 

 excommunication.' 51 It is probable that the chapel of 

 Pyrford remained attached to the church of Woking 

 for some time after the Dissolution, as no separate 

 trace of it appears then. The date of the trans- 

 ference of the chapel from the benefice of Woking 

 to that of Wisley, to which it has since been appen- 

 dent, is not certain. The first evidence of it is 

 in 1631, when the king presented, by lapse, to Wisley 

 and the chapel of Pyrford, 5 ' and again in i6j<). si In 

 1656 Sir Robert Parkhurst of Pyrford and Wisley, 

 and the inhabitants of those parishes, petitioned against 

 the intended union of the parishes of Wisley with 

 Byfleet," desiring the union of Wisley with Pyrford. 55 

 Despite this petition, however, the trustees for the main- 

 tenance of ministers issued an order in the following year 

 for the union of Byfleet with Wisley, the church of 

 Byfleet to serve for both parishes, no mention being 

 made of Pyrford. 66 George Bradshaw, of the same 

 name as the incumbent presented to Wisley and Pyrford 

 in 1639, was appointed in 1648 to Wisley, 57 and died in 

 possession of Wisley and Pyrford in 1668. The next 

 presentation was to both places by Sir Robert Park- 

 hurst, and the advowson passed with the manor to the 

 Onslow family. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 . o . . 



other Surrey parishes. 



tf These paintings bear a considerable 

 resemblance to some of 12th-century 

 date upon the west wall of East Clandon 

 Church, one being the Last Supper. 



J ' In Sussex a similar balance-lever, 

 doubtless used for one or other of these 

 purposes, still remains in the roof timbers 

 of the chancel of West Grinstead Church, 

 although stupidly concealed from view by 

 i modern boarded ceiling. This is illus- 



trated in a paper on the church by the late 

 Mr. J. L. Andre, F.S.A., in Suts. Arch. 

 Coll. xxiviii, 56. The same three holes 

 in the end of the lever are shown in Mr. 

 Andre's drawing. 



Feet of F. Surr. East. 42 Hen. III. 



"KC.H. Surr. ii, 103. 



50 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 33. 



6I Egerton MS. 2033, foL 151. 



5a Winton Epis. Reg. Neile, fol. 364. 



* Ibid. Curie, fol. 54*. 



M A change projected by Wolsey (Reg. 

 fol. job), which had not, however, appar- 

 ently taken effect. 



56 Cat. S.P. Dam. 1656-7, p. 4; Mac. 

 MS. Lambeth, dccccxci, 126, 135, 

 236. 



" Cal. S.P. Dam. 1657-8, p. 82 ; Misc. 

 MSS. Lambeth, dccccxc, 69 ; mxv, 21. 



VLorJi' Journals, x, 588. 



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