ELMBRIDGE HUNDRED 



Hampden, and in 1511 Elizabeth wife of John 

 Hampden held one-sixth of the manor." In that 

 year she with her husband conveyed it to William 

 Frost, 68 so that probably this sixth also formed part 

 of the lands granted by the Bishop of Winchester to 

 Corpus Christi College. The other sixth seems to 

 have been afterwards acquired by Sir Richard Page, 

 who was living at Molesey in 1532. 



In 1538 the king ordered Page to leave Molesey, 

 and gave him in exchange the nunnery of St. Giles 

 in the wood, Flamstead, Herts, from which he ejected 

 John Tregonwell to make room for Page, much to 

 the former's indignation. 84 The king gave Sir Rich- 

 ard lands in exchange for West Molesey, 64 which he 

 annexed to the honour of Hampton Court. 



Edward VI in 1553 granted the manor to Sir 

 Richard Cotton, kt., by the name of WEST MOLE- 

 SEY" and from him it passed to William Ham- 

 mond early in Queen Mary's reign." In 1570 Queen 

 Elizabeth granted to William Hammond licence 

 to alienate the lordship and manor of West Molesey, 

 with a capital messuage, &c., M to Thomas Brend, sen., 

 and Thomas his son and heir. In September 1598 

 Thomas Brend, junr. died seised of the manor and 

 farm in West Molesey late belonging to William 

 Hammond, held of the Crown." He was succeeded by 

 his son Nicholas, whose will bears date 10 October 

 1 60 1. 70 At the time of the death of Nicholas, his 

 only son Matthew was not much over a year old." 

 Subsequently several conveyances took place between 

 Matthew and his son Thomas and various members 

 of the Smith family," by whom it seems to have been 

 ultimately acquired, for in 1767 the manor was in 

 the possession of Sir Robert Smith, bart." Before 

 1816 it seems to have become amalgamated with 

 Molesey Matham, for Beaumont, Lord Hotham, then 

 held a moiety of ' the manor of Molesey Matham, or 

 West Molesey.' 



In 1 21 2 the Prior of Merton brought an action 

 against Samson of Molesey, who had a mill in East 

 Molesey called Upmilne, for having diverted the course 

 of the water of Molesey to the injury of the free 

 tenant of the priory there. 74 The grant to Sir Thomas 

 Heneage by Henry VIII included a mill in East 

 Molesey called Stert Mill, and two ferries leading 

 from East and West Molesey to Hampton Court." 

 In 1585 Anthony Crane, tenant of the manor, having 

 died, his widow had a grant of Stert Mill and the two 

 ferries for forty-one years. 76 One ferry was granted 

 to Lady Dorothy Edmonds in 1 606 for forty years, 

 together with Stert Mill. 77 In 1611 Stert Mill was 

 granted to Felin Wilson and others ; 78 and in 1612 

 Martin Freeman received a grant of a rent of 7 

 reserved for the same mill. 79 ' Molesey-mill ' is men- 

 tioned in 1536." 



Grants of free fishery at East Molesey occur from 

 time to time. 81 



At Molesey Park was formerly an extensive powder- 

 mill situated on the River Mole, which runs through 



EAST AND 

 WEST MOSELEY 



the grounds. The powder manufacture has long been 

 discontinued. 8 * 



The church of ST. MARY EAST 



CHURCHES MOLESEY consists of chancel, north 



vestry, nave, north and south aisles, 



and a porch at the west end of the north aisle with a 



tower above it. 



The church has been entirely rebuilt during modern 

 times, and is in late 1 3th-century style. The east 

 window of the chancel is of three traceried lights, and 

 there is a single lancet in the north wall and three in 

 the south. The nave has an arcade of four bays on 

 the north and five on the south, with circular columns 

 and foliate capitals, and the aisles are gabled to the 

 north and south, the eastern bay of each aisle being larger 

 than the rest, and marked by a wider arch in the nave 

 arcades. 



The west window of the nave is of three lights, and 

 below it is a plain west door set in a slight projection. 



The tower is in two stages with two-light belfry 

 windows and a slated broach spire with a wooden 

 spire-light on each face. On the east wall of the nave 

 is a brass tablet to Anthony Standen, 161 1, third son 

 of Edmond Standen, 'which Antonie was cupbearer to 

 ye king of Scotland sometyme Ld : Darnley father to 

 King James now of England.' The tablet was put up 

 by Elizabeth his widow. 



Above is a shield charged with a single molet, and 

 on a chief indented a lion passant. In the walls oi 

 the porch a fragmentary tablet records Francis Eedes, 

 1667, Richard Eedes his son, 1660, and Francis son 

 of Richard, 1 690. A separate fragment has a shield : 

 two bars vair impaling three molets between two 

 bends. 



There are three bells, the treble, formerly of 1608, 

 recast by Mears & Stainbank in 1871 ; the second 

 by Lester & Pack, 1760, and the tenor by Bryan 

 Eldridge, 1623. 



The plate consists of a cup, paten, and flagon of 

 1873, and a spoon of 1880, with two silver topped 

 glass cruets. 



The registers date from 1668 only, previous entries 

 having been either lost or destroyed. 



The church of WEST MOLESEY, whose dedica- 

 tion is unknown, consists of chancel with north vestry, 

 nave with north aisle, west tower, and south porch. 

 With the exception of the tower the whole building 

 is of yellow brick, having been rebuilt in modern 

 times. The tower is of 1 6th-century date and is built 

 of flint and stone. The tower arch is of straight-lined 

 four-centred form with moulded capitals to the inner 

 order. The west window of the ground stage has 

 restored tracery of three trefoiled lights, and below it 

 is a blocked four-centred doorway under a square head, 

 with continuous mouldings and leaves in the spandrels. 



The tower is in three stages, each slightly set back, 

 with a square stair-turret at the south-east. Above the 

 west window is carved a pelican in her piety. On 

 the north and south faces of the second stage are single- 



s' Feet of F. SUIT. Ea.t. 2 Hen. VIII. 



82 Ibid, (vide supra). 



L. and P. Hen. Pill, v-xiv, passim. 



M Ibid, xiii (2), 74. 



"Ibid, xiv (2), 113, (16). 



Pat. 7 Edw. VI, pt. ii. 



67 Pat. 1 & 2 Phil, and Mary, pt. vii, 

 in. 24. 



" Pat. 12 Elii. pt. ix. The church of 

 West Molesey contain! a monument to 



Thos. Brende, d. 1598. He it described 

 as ' of West Moulsey." 



M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclvii, 68. 



70 Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 302. 



71 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxi, IJI. 

 78 Feet of F. Surr. East. 22 Jas. I ; 



Div. Co. Mich. 1655. 



78 Recov. R. Trin. 7 Ceo. Ill, rot. 227. 



74 Akbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 86, 91 ; 

 V.C.H. Surr. ii, 98. 



455 



75 Pat. 22 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 22. 



76 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. ii, 301. 



77 Pat. 4 Jas. I, pt. xxi. 

 ? 8 Pat. 10 Jas. I, pt. v. 

 7 Ibid. pt. xxv. 



*> L. and P. Hen. VI 11, x, p. 788. 

 81 Pat. 22 Chas. II, pt. iv ; Feet of 

 F. Surr. Mich. 12 Geo. I. 



ra Brayley, Hist, of Surr. ii, 307. 



