A HISTORY OF SURREY 



that denomination. After the dissolution of Chert- 

 sey Abbey the king granted the payment due to it 

 from Weybridge Church to his new monastery at 

 Bisham, 79 but retained the advowson, which has ever 

 since remained with the Crown. 80 



During the Commonwealth period the living was 

 sequestrated, and temporary ministers were appointed. 

 In 1657 the Commissioners for inquiry into ecclesias- 

 tical matters reported that ' the patrons of Weybridge 

 were the Lords.' In 1660 the king appointed to the 

 living as before. 81 



Smith's Charity is distributed as in 

 CHARITIES other Surrey parishes. 



In the church is a tablet recording 

 the following charities : 



1 500. Seven acres of land in the Common Meadow, 

 the product to be sold every Easter Tuesday for the 

 necessary repairs of the church ; donor unknown. 



1657. l a year from a farm called Tromp's 

 Green, Surrey, to five poor widows, left by Edmund 

 Bunyon, citizen and armourer. 



1739. 100 endowment by Charles Hopton of 

 Littleton, Middlesex, of the Charity School built by 

 his sister Elizabeth some years before. This is paid 

 to the National school. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Carr 50 three per cents, for the 

 repair of the church. 



1837. 200 three per cents, by Mr. Antony 

 Wills of Staines, for bread for the poor. 



1837. Ten acres of the land allotted to the poor 

 by the Act of 1800 being sold to the London and 

 Southampton Railway, .300 was invested in the three 

 per cents, to be distributed to the poor in fuel. 



1838. j^jo paid by the railway for accommodation 

 for turning a road was invested in the same way for 

 the same purpose. 



1>L. and P. Hen. VIII, xii (z) 1311. 



80 In.t. Bkfc (P.R.O.). 



81 Surr. Arch. Call, rvii, 48, &C. 



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