A HISTORY OF SURREY 



century. 10 This, however, is apparently not correct. 

 In the episcopate'of Richard of Ilchester, 1 173-88, it 

 appears that Merton had rights, confirmed to them then 

 by the bishop, of payments from the rector of the 

 church of Guildford (St. Mary's), and from the 

 rector of the" church of the Holy Trinity at Guildford, 

 on institution and at other, times, and that Merton 

 had received these payments in past times. 1 " It 

 certainly raises the presumption that the convent 

 already possessed the advowson in the 1 2th century. 



The right of presentation remained with the con- 

 vent until the Dissolution, 1 " when it passed to the 

 Crown. 136 



Bishop Morley planned the union of the benefices 

 of Holy Trinity and St. Mary, the incomes being 

 small, and left 1,000 in his will of 1684 for the 

 object of increasing their value. This was supple- 

 mented by too from Sir Richard Onslow, and the 

 union was completed by Act of Parliament in 1 699, 

 and became effective in 1715, when Holy Trinity 

 became vacant and the rector of St. Mary's was insti- 

 tuted to both churches. 



Most of the parish of St. Nicholas on the west side 

 of the Wey was always in Godalming Hundred ; but 

 part of it, including the church, was in the borough 

 of Guildford from time immemorial. The advowson 

 of the church, however, belonged to the church of 

 Salisbury, probably from the date when the church 

 or bishop, for the two are not clearly separated, 

 acquired Godalming (q.v.) under Henry I. 1 " On 

 i February 1324 Edward II, who refused to 

 acknowledge John Stratford, newly-appointed Bishop 

 of Winchester by Papal provision, and ignoring 

 Raymond de la Goth, Dean of Salisbury, also a Papal 

 nominee, whose admission as dean was stoutly resisted 

 at Salisbury, tried to present by Letters Patent ; but 

 his nominee was never instituted, and on the following 

 4 May 1324 the dean's nominee, Bernard Brocas, 

 a fellow-Gascon, was instituted. The advowson 

 remained with the church of Salisbury, by which it 

 was usually leased, till about 1847, when it was 

 transferred to the bishop of the diocese together with 

 Godalming. The Bishop of Winchester first presented 

 in 1856. 



The following charities relate to the 

 CHARITIES town in general : 



The Poyle Charity, founded by 

 Henry Smith in 1627, is administered under a scheme 

 of the Charity Commissioners of 1880, and is chiefly 

 devoted to small pensions for persons over fifty-five. 

 (See manor of Poyle.) 



In 1579 Thomas Baker founded the Blue Coat 

 School for teaching poor boys till they were appren- 

 ticed or passed on to the Grammar School. It 

 is now amalgamated with Archbishop Abbot's foun- 

 dation (q.v.). 



In 1582 Joan Austen left by will 13;. \d. a year 

 for the poor, charged on a house in St. Mary's parish. 



Thomas Jackman, by deed in 1785, gave 600 to 

 augment the endowment of Abbot's Hospital. 



In 1653 Henry Baldwin gave 61. 8</. a year, 

 similarly secured. 



In 1674 John Howe left 400, the interest of 

 which was to be cast lots for by two poor serving- 

 maids who had lived for two years with credit in the 

 same family. The competitors are nominated by the 

 mayor and magistrates. 



In 1702 John Parsons gave the annual produce of 

 600 for the setting up in business of a young man 

 who has served seven years'apprenticeship in Guildford, 

 or failing such a young man, a young woman who has 

 lived three years in one situation (not at an inn). If 

 the magistrates fail to appoint to this charity, the 

 charity lapses from Guildford to Chichester. 



Jasper Yardley, second master of Abbot's Hospital, 

 left in 1639 twenty nobles apiece to the three parishes 

 of Guildford for apparelling and placing poor children 

 thence. 



The following charities relate to the parish of Holy 

 Trinity : 



John Austen of Guildford, by will 1612, left 8 

 charged upon the rectory of Shalford for the poor of 

 Guildford. It was applied to ten widows of this 

 parish. 



Olive Duncombe, 1705, left about 500, the in- 

 come of which was applied to apprenticing poor boys 

 of this parish. 



The following charities apply to the parish of 

 St. Mary : 



The bequest of John Austen, above mentioned, was 

 partly applied to sixteen widows of this parish. 



John Howe, by will 1 674, gave a house for the use 

 of the poor, directing that two poor men and their 

 wives should inhabit it. The churchwardens' books 

 in the tower of St. Mary's have references to this house, 

 but it has apparently been sold and the price mis- 

 applied. 



Benefactions by William Shaw of 1 6s. 8</., by Mat- 

 thew Wise of 5/., and by Thomas Peters of 2/. 6d., all 

 annual, seem also to have disappeared. 



The following relate to the parish of St. Nicholas : 



Caleb Lovejoy in 1676 left a house in Southwark 

 for the education of children, apprenticing boys, and 

 for almshouses, for a sermon also at St. Nicholas's yearly 

 in commemoration of himself. The funds were in- 

 sufficient for more than the schooling of twenty boys 

 till the 1 9th century, when land was acquired in 

 Bury Street and almshouses for four women built in 

 1840. By a curious coincidence the almshouses are 

 nearly on the site of Lovejoy's father's house which 

 was next the old rectory, the latter being removed 

 from here to the Portsmouth Road (when the church 

 was rebuilt in 18367). The evidence for this is an 

 agreement copied out in the registers, concluding a 

 violent quarrel between Lovejoy and the rector upon 

 their respective garden boundaries. 



George Benbrick, by will 1682, left land at Alton 

 and in Shalford for eight poor freemen of the town, or 

 their widows, being Protestants, residing in St. Nicholas*!. 

 The income is now 60 a year. 



13S Dugdale, Men. Angl. vi, 247. 



184 Cott. MS. Cleopatra, C. rii. 



155 Egerton MSS. 2031, fot. 14 d. 77 ; 



1032, fol. 56 d. ; 2033, fol. I9d. 8; d. 83; 

 2034, fol. 5 j, 78. Wykiham'i Reg. (Hants 

 Rec. Soc.), i, 83, 184, 206, 246 (Holy 



Trinity) ; ibid. 23, 59, 78, 180 (St. 

 Mary). 



1M Inst. Bki. P.R.O. Crockford. 



"" Rig. tfSt. 0>mund (Rolls Ser.), i, 203. 



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