MILITARY HISTORY 



and Sussex, exclusive of Chichester, were called upon for 500 men.' 

 They were to have hauberks, basinets and suitable weapons, by which 

 it seems that they were all to be raised from the second and third classes 

 under the Statute of Winchester, being infantry drawn from men with 

 land valued above jTio and £^ respectively. Whether the authorities 

 found so many men, and whether they actually got to the north, is 

 another matter. In 1339 Edward III. raised from Surrey twenty men- 

 at-arms, eighty armed foot and eighty archers, as professional soldiers 

 for the French war, under the command of the Earl of Arundel, who, 

 although he had not yet succeeded to the earldom of Surrey, was made 

 joint Commissioner of Array in Surrey on 16 February 1339.^ But it is 

 not till the reign of Henry VIII. that we find a record of what 

 may be considered the full fighting force of the county available for 

 foreign wars. In the summer of 1544 Henry, during the war with 

 France and Scotland, took Boulogne, but the sudden peace between the 

 the Emperor and France gave the latter the opportunity of concentrating 

 her attention upon England. In the following year they made an attempt 

 on Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight at a time when Henry's relations 

 with the Emperor were strained. On 26 July 1544 the Council wrote 

 to Matthew Brown, John Gresham and Christopher More, knights, and 

 to the sheriff, to make a general muster of the county.^ As a result of 

 the review 400 men were ordered to be raised for immediate service, 

 distributed and armed as follows : Southwark, six archers and fourteen 

 billmen ; the hundred of Brixton, four archers, twenty-six billmen ; 

 the hundred of Wallington, four archers, twenty billmen ; the town of 

 Croydon, four archers, six billmen ; the hundred of Tandridge, six 

 archers, twenty-four billmen ; the hundred of Reigate, four archers, 

 eighteen billmen ; the hundreds of Blackheath and Wotton, four archers 

 and thirty-two billmen ; the hundred of Godalming, eight archers and 

 twenty-eight billmen ; the hundred of Farnham, six archers and twenty 

 billmen ; the town of Guildford, four archers and twelve billmen ; the 

 hundred of Woking, six archers and twenty-four billmen ; the hundred 

 of Godley, four archers and twenty-two billmen ; the town of Kingston, 

 four archers and sixteen billmen ; the hundreds of Kingston and Emley- 

 bridge, six archers and twenty-four billmen ; the hundred of Copthorne, 

 six archers and eighteen billmen ; the hundred of Effingham, four archers 

 and sixteen billmen. The captains appointed were Thomas Hall of 

 Compton, gentleman, and William Creswell of Farnham.* There are 

 some interesting points about the levy. The numbers are based presum- 

 ably upon those of the general muster taken earlier in the year. The two 

 towns of Southwark and Kingston were slightly more numerously re- 

 quisitioned than Guildford and furnished double the number of Croydon, 

 the only other place separately treated. Brixton was the most populous 

 hundred apparently, with Southwark it furnished fifty men ; Woking 

 the next, with Guildford, furnishing forty-six ; then Godalming with 



1 Pat. 15 Edw. II. pt. 2, m. 19. 2 Fadera, Rolls Ed., Edw. II. 1070. 



a Loseley MS. vi. 13. 4 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Sun: iii. 664. 



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