ELMBRIDGE HUNDRED 



WEYBRIDGE 



castle and was formerly much admired. The allied 

 Sovereigns lunched in it in 1814. The skull of 

 Eclipse, the race-horse, is kept in it. 



The estate known as BROOKLYN DS formed part 

 of Oatlands Manor." It was held by Isabel Reed in 

 1535, and was annexed by Henry VIII to the honour 

 of Hampton Court. 6 ' In 1541 it was granted to 

 Thomas Hungate. 65 In 1610 the king leased it to 

 John Eldred and others. 64 The property was acquired 

 by the Duke of York when he held Oatlands, and 

 was sold to Mr. Ball Hughes. It was bought from 

 him by the Hon. John Locke-King. The Duke of 

 York pulled down the house built by George Payne, 

 a friend of Warren Hastings." A new house has now 

 been built, the property of Mr. H. F. Locke-King, 

 J.P. The Brooklands Automobile Club holds the 

 ground covered by the motor racing track, which 

 extends beyond Brooklands into Byfleet. 



Dorney House also formed part of the Crown 

 property in Weybridge. It was leased by Queen 

 Elizabeth to John Woulde, yeoman, 68 who died in 

 1 598.* In the reign of Charles I it was granted for 

 twenty-five years to Humphrey Dethick, gentleman 

 usher, 70 who died in 1642 and was buried in Wey- 

 bridge Church. There is extant an address by the 

 author of a history of the Netherlands to his two sons 

 dated at Dorney House, 15 November 1621." 



In 1461 Edward IV granted to Thomas Warner, 

 citizen and ironmonger of London, for life, two acres 

 of land called Weybridge Hawe at a rent of jt. \d. 

 per acre." Two years later he licensed him to build 

 a wharf or quay on this land, which bordered on the 

 River Thames, and to load and unload vessels there, 

 and take merchandise to and from the City of London 

 and other places adjoining the river. 73 Henry VII 

 granted the Hawe wharf to William Reed for 1 3*. \d. 

 yearly, and Reed leased it to Richard Allddere for 

 3 6f. 8</. over and above the king's rent. After 

 Reed's death a dispute arose as to his tenure of the 

 property, and Stydolf wrote to advise Cromwell to 

 step in while the matter was yet undecided and take 

 possession of it. 7 * The name of Warner, wharfinger 

 of Ham Hawe, occurs in 1636 ; he was summoned 

 for sending his barges weekly to London in spite of 

 the orders to the contrary which had been given in 

 consequence of the prevalence of the plague." But 

 probably, though resident in Weybridge, his landing- 

 stage was on the other side of the river, in Ham in 

 Chertsey. 



The church of ST. J4MES is a fair- 

 CHURCH sized modern structure designed by Pear- 

 son, and consists of a chancel with a north 

 vestry and organ chamber, a nave with a north and 

 two south aisles, one being a later addition, and a 

 western tower with a stone broach spire. The whole 

 church is in 13th-century style, and is of excellent 

 design. The chancel is extremely ornate, and is com- 

 pletely lined with polished marbles and further deco- 

 rated with glass mosaics. The colour scheme is so 

 well conceived and the materials so well chosen that 

 the general effect, while rich in the extreme, is quite 

 free from gaudiness. The texture and degree of 



polish of the various marbles is also managed with 

 considerable subtlety. It is worthy of note that the 

 whole of this decorative treatment was at the cost of 

 an anonymous benefactor. The old church stood in 

 the present churchyard, a little to the north of the 

 existing structure. 



There are in the tower a number of brasses 

 brought from the old church. On the south is one 

 to John Woulde, esq., 1598, and his two wives ; the 

 first Adrye (formerly the wife of Thomas Street), 

 1596, by whom he had four daughters and four sons ; 

 thesecond, Elizabeth (Notte, formerly the wife of Henry 

 Standish), date of death left blank, by whom he had 

 five sons and three daughters. There are three shields 

 of arms. The first bears an owl standing in an orle. 

 A second is Street, of six quarters : (l), three Catherine 

 wheels ; (2), a cheveron ; (3) six griffons segreant ; 

 (4) three harts' heads razed ; (5) bendy ; (6) three 

 roundels, between five crosslets fitchy, impaling a bend 

 with three martlets thereon between three leopards' 

 heads, for Adrye. The third shield bears the coat 

 given above impaling ermine three roundels and a 

 cinqfoil. On the north side of the tower is a monu- 

 ment, with three skeletons, and the inscription : 



hand 

 ildren Of I n , 



VDatne Margaret 



Francis \ (I59*> 



viz. Dorothy I buried J 1600 

 Thomas ) (.1605 



Also an inscription plate to Humphrey Dethick, 

 1642, 'who was one of his Ma tes Gent" Vshers (Dayly 

 waiter) ' ; with the arms (Argent) a fesse vairy (or 

 and gules) between three water bougets (sable), for 

 Dethick quartering Allestry and (?) Boshall. Another 

 brass is to ' Thomas Inwood y Elder, late of this towne, 

 Yoman,' 1586, with the kneeling figures of himself 

 and his three wives and their children. 



There is a ring of eight modern bells. 



The plate consists of a flat paten given in 1720, 

 with the London date-letter for 171 9, and a modern 

 set of a chalice, a cover paten, flat paten and 

 flagons of 1844 and 1847. 



The first book of registers contains mixed entries 

 from 1625 to 1762, the burials to 1676 only. The 

 second has burials from 1678 to 1775; the third, 

 mixed entries from 1771 to 1797 ; the fourth, bap- 

 tisms from 1797 to 1824 ; the fifth, marriages from 

 1797 to 1820. There is also a book of banns from 

 1754 to 1812. 



A series of church wardens' accounts and vestry books 

 exist, beginning early in the 1 7th century. 



The advowson of Weybridge 

 ADVQWSQN Church belonged with the manor 

 to Chertsey Abbey. In the early 

 1 3th century the monks transferred it to Newark 

 Priory, 76 reserving a rent of 6t. Sd. 71 In 1262 the 

 priory obtained licence for an appropriation, and 

 from the Winchester Episcopal Registers it appears 

 that vicars were instituted till 1414. The latter 

 part of the Beaufort Register (1415-47) is lost, but 

 in 1450 the church was presented to as a rectory by 

 John Penycoke " (probably by grant from the priory), 

 and the presentations have since continued under 



L. and P. Hen. rill, xvi, 1 500. 



"Ibid, ix, nji. 



ss lbid. xvi, 1500. 



" Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. xlix. 



7 Manning and Bray, op. cit ii, 789. 



Pat. 13 Eliz. pt. ix. 



"Surr. Arc/l. CM. x, 300. 

 T>Surr. Arch. Call, xvii, 46. 

 I 1 Hiit. MSS. Com. Rtf. iv, App. i, 

 252. 



7" Pat. I Edw. IV, pt. i, m. 10. 

 " Pt. 3 Edw. IV, pt. ii, m. 15. 



479 



7L. and P. Hen. VIII, vii, 1247. 

 7' Surr. Arch. Coll. xvii, 45. 

 J' Harl. Chart. 51 C, 29. 

 n V.C.H. Surr. ii, 58. 

 W Called of Weybridge' Pat. I Rie, 

 III, pt i, m. 6. 



