ELMBRIDGE HUNDRED 



WEYBRIDGE 



chantry, demised the rectory to John Carleton and 

 Joyce his wife for forty-one years. Edward VI in 

 1552 granted a lease to Hugh Rogers at a reserved 

 rent of 22 I t,i. 8J. After Rogers' death his wife 

 Anne married George Sneyde, and they assigned their 

 interest in the advowson to Richard Drake. 1 " Philip 

 and Mary granted the advowson and rectory in 1558 

 to John Bishop of Winchester. 1 " In 1622 Thomas 

 Watson died seised of it, or more probably of a lease 

 of it, 111 for the Crown presented in 1623. In or about 

 1624 Richard Uridge, then vicar of Walton, asked for 

 a reference to the Bishop of Winchester that the parson 

 impropriate might be caused to increase the endow- 

 ment of the vicarage. 1 " The Crown presented to the 

 living throughout the i/th and 1 8th centuries, 116 but 

 the Rev. W. K. Bussell, the vicar, is now patron. 



The rectory of Walton was granted in 1584 to 

 Richard Drake and his son Francis Drake for their 

 lives. 1 " In 1594 a lease for thirty-one years was 

 made to William Askewe, to begin after the expiration 

 of the Drakes' lease. 1 " It was granted in 1 609 to 

 Francis Morrice and Francis Phillips, 118 probably 

 trustees, for in 1622 Thomas Watson died seised of 

 the rectory. 11 * It was ultimately re-acquired by the 

 Drakes. Francis Drake (see the manor) by his will 

 of 1698 left it to his son William. Adria, only 

 daughter of William Drake, married Denton Boate, 

 and died without issue in 1754. She left the rectory 

 to Christopher D'Oyley of the Inner Temple, who 

 was buried at Walton. 130 His widow received a share 

 of the waste at the time of the inclosure in 1 800 as 

 lady of the Rectory Manor. In 1803 she sold most 

 of the estate, and the tithes were bought by the 

 various proprietors. The land inclosed from the 

 waste was reserved for the payment to the vicarage 

 appointed in 1413. 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. 



In the church are records of the 

 following bequests : 



By the will of Thomas Fennes, dated 8 February 



1635-6, a tenement in Bishopsgate Street, now pro- 

 ducing 500 a year (worth 10 a year when Fennes 

 died in 1644), and land in this parish were left for 

 the benefit of the poor. 



In 1744, by will dated 1729, Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Kirby left 200, which was increased to 336 by 

 Jeremiah Brown of Apps Court, for ten poor widows, 

 six nominated by the vicar and churchwardens, four 

 by the owner of Apps Court. It was laid out in the 

 purchase of land at Effingham, which in 1830 was 

 exchanged for land in this parish. 



The Apps Court Trust (see above) was settled in 

 1903. 



Michael Kneebone, by will dated 1771, gave 350 

 3 per cent, consols for ten poor widows. 



On the inclosure of 1800, land called Sandy Field 

 containing 8 a. I r. 1 7 p. was given to the church- 

 wardens and overseers for their expenses. 



The overseers have also two small plots of land, on 

 the south side of the road to Hersham and in Hersham 

 respectively, the rents of which they may apply to 

 their general expenses. The rent of a plot in West 

 Molesey is applied by the churchwardens to the repairs 

 of the church. 



Over and above these, 189 acres were set apart for 

 the poor at the inclosure of 1800. Part was sold to 

 the railway, the rest is let as allotment ground and 

 the rent distributed in coals. 



William Sherwood, by will in 1822, left 

 716 igs. 6J. the interest of which is distributed to 

 poor widows and other poor persons, and i to the 

 vicar for a sermon. 



In 1831 and 1862 Charles Smith and Miss Middle- 

 ton left 150 for two poor widows and the sick poor. 



In 1724 the vicar returned to Bishop Willis m that 

 Baron Hilton, by an undated bequest, had left 16 

 yearly to the poor, secured upon lands in the bishopric 

 of Durham. The Barons Hilton, so called by courtesy, 

 but not peers of the realm, were owners of Hilton 

 Castle. The last died in 1746. This benefaction 

 appears to be lost. 



WEYBRIDGE 



WebrigeandWebruge, 1086; Waybrugg (xii cent.); 

 Weybrigge juxta Byflet (xiv cent.). 



The village of Weybridge is 8J miles south-west of 

 Kingston. The parish is bounded on the north by 

 the Thames. It measures 3 miles from north to 

 south and I mile from east to west, and contains 

 1,330 acres of land and 41 of water. It is bounded 

 on the west by the natural stream of the Wey, and 

 for a short distance by the artificial navigation. The 

 Wey joins the Thames on the borders of the parish. 

 The soil is Bagshot sand on the south, where 

 St. George's Hill is partly in the parish. In the 

 valleys of the Thames and Wey it is gravel and 

 alluvium. 



On the Wey are seed-crushing mills, and there are 

 also extensive nurseries, but before the Inclosure Act 



of 1 800 more than a third of the parish was waste, 

 and a good deal of open land still remains, with 

 izj acres of allotments for the poor. 



The road from London to Chertsey passes through 

 Weybridge and crosses the river by a bridge which 

 gave its name to the place. 1 The bridge dates back 

 to very early times. In 1235 Henry III granted to 

 William son of Daniel Pincerna, for his homage and 

 service, two mills on the River Wey, one above the 

 ' bridge of Wey,' and the other at Feyreford, at an 

 annual rent of five silver marks.' In 1571 commis- 

 sioners were appointed to report on the condition of 

 the bridge. They stated that for some years it had 

 been so decayed as to be unsafe for passengers, and 

 that it was now ruinous. If the queen should be at 

 her house at Oatlands and the waters should rise, ' as 



121 Exch. Spec. Com. Surr. 26 Eliz. no. 

 1250. 



1M Pat. 5 & 6 PhiL and Mary, pt. iv. 



188 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), cccicv, 119. 



mffijf. AfSS. Com. Rcf. xii,App. i, 171. 



"Int. Bks. (P.R.O.), 1623, 1633, 

 1685, 1717, 1723, 1777. 



""Pat. 26 Eliz. pt. xri, m. 21. 

 1J 7Pat 36 Eliz. pt. xx, m. 12. 

 l *> Pat. 7 Ja. I, pt. ii, m. 22. 

 199 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. ii), CCCXCT, 119. 

 "O Drake Wills in Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit ii, 771. 



475 



181 Visit, answers at Farnham Castle. 



1 Emleybridge over the Mole, or Emlyn, 

 which gives its name to the hundred, was 

 on the same road. 



1 Chart R. 19 Hen. Ill, m. 2 ; Cart 

 Antiq. A. 29. 



