A HISTORY OF SURREY 



works in the south part of Chiddingfold 

 parish which were probably those at Imbhams. 

 The 1730 edition of Camden's Britannia 

 speaks of the ironworks at Haslemere and 

 Dunsfold as the most considerable then exist- 

 ing in the county. It must be noted however 

 that this edition is an untrustworthy authority, 

 as it is obvious in places that the editor has 

 contented himself with copying verbatim 

 statements made by Aubrey over thirty years 

 previously without taking the trouble to make 

 them accord with the state of affeirs at the 

 later date. 



The Pophall furnace is somewhat difficult 

 to locate. It is given in a list of Sussex 

 works compiled about the year 1664 as a 

 forge and not a furnace.^ It seems to have 

 remained in the possession or occupation of 

 the Lords Montague down to Aubrey's time, 

 for he says that Lord Montague then had a 

 hammer in Frensham called Popes Hole. 

 But in the map which accompanies his work, 

 Paphole is marked by Shotover Mills to the 

 south of Haslemere and at some considerable 

 distance from Frensham. The 1730 edition 

 of the Britannia mentions the Lord Viscount 

 Montague as still in possession of the hammer 

 or mill at Popes Hole. Pophall, Paphole or 

 Popes Hole does not appear on the present 

 ordnance map, but the Shotover Mills close by 

 Paphole in Aubrey's map stand for Shotter- 

 mill, now an ecclesiastical parish within the 

 parish of Frensham. 



Cranleigh. — The 1574 list has 'The 

 La(dy) Braye one forge in Cranleye in the 

 hands of Gardener,' and further on 'John 

 Lambert a forge in Cranleye.' John Lam- 

 bert and Gardener are identical, for we have 

 a bond taken on 28 February of the same 

 year by John Lambert alias Gardiner of 

 Cranleigh, co. Surrey, yeoman, the signature 

 being merely ' John Lambard.' ' Moreover 

 in the latter part of the preceding year (1573) 

 John Gardyner <7/r<7j Lambertewas summoned, 

 in conjunction with Richard Weste of Rudg- 

 wick in Sussex, to answer to a complaint 

 lodged against him in the Court of Exchequer 

 that he had since 15 November 1572 con- 

 verted 837 trees of oak, ash and beech grow- 

 ing in the woods in Cranleigh into fuel for 

 the making of iron, contrary to the Act i Eliza- 

 beth. Cranleigh, it was said, was a parish with- 

 in 14 miles of Pulborough, where the river 

 was commonly used for transport to the sea 

 and consequently was a place within the 

 meaning of the Act.= Probably only one 



» Lower, Sujs. Arch. Coll. xviii. 14-6. 



' S. P. Dom. Eliz. xcv. 27. 



» Exch. K. R. Memo. R. Mich. 15 Eliz. 270. 



forge is to be implied in the 1574 list as being 

 at that time in Cranleigh. Lambert had a 

 partner in this forge in DufFeld, who was a 

 Sussex ironmaster of some importance, for he 

 had besides a forge and furnace in East 

 Grinstead and was a partner also in a forge 

 and furnace in Shillinglee in Kirdford.* 

 Mr. Maiden has no doubt that the Cran- 

 leigh forge was at Vachery, where the 

 names Hammer Farm and Hammer Lane 

 now keep alive the memory of its former 

 existence. An iron-mill pond is marked 

 on Speed's map (16 10) on the site of 

 Vachery Pond, which was afterwards made a 

 reservoir for the Wey and Arun Canal. The 

 Loseley list of 1588 mentions another forge in 

 Cranleigh which was called Benhal forge and 

 was owned or farmed by Robert Woodheie. 



COPTHORNE AND LiNGFIELD. ' Mr. John 



Gage one forge and one furnace about Cop- 

 thorne and Lingfeilde in the hands of Thorpe.' 

 This was John Thorpe who appeared to take 

 his bond on 26 February 1573-4, when this 

 forge and furnace are said to be ' belonging to 

 the Lady Gage and after to Mr. John Gage 

 her son.' ^ These works belonged to that 

 part of the Worth iron district which extended 

 into Surrey and are wrongly given under 

 Sussex in the list. Lower states that the 

 Thorpe family resided at Gibsaven in the 

 parish of Worth," but in his bond John 

 Thorpe is described as of East Grinstead. 

 The description ' about Copthorne and Ling- 

 field ' is vague, but in the Loseley list John 

 Thorpe's furnace and forge are said to be at 

 Heldcourt.'' This is no doubt intended for 

 Hedge Court, a little to the north of which 

 an iron-mill is marked on the map accom- 

 panying Aubrey's Surrey. In the list of 

 those who appeared to take the bond we find 

 a John French, yeoman, who had a forge of 

 his own in Chiddingly, Sussex, and also 

 * farmeth part of a forge and furnace besides 

 Copthorne in Hedge Courte of John Gage 

 gentleman,' ^ He was therefore in all proba- 

 bility in partnership with John Thorpe. 



In Hilary term 1 5 80-1, John Lamberte or 

 Gardiner was again summoned to answer in this 

 court, this time with John Thorpe of East Grin- 

 stead, who is mentioned below. This time the 

 charge was for felling trees in Ewhurst, Surrey, 

 but on the informer making default the case 

 against Lambert was dismissed sine die in Hilary, 

 1582-3 (Exch. K. R. Memo. R. Hil. 23 Eliz. 90, 

 and Hil. 25 Eliz. 104). 



* S. P. Dom. Eliz. xcv. 79. 



* Ibid. xcv. 23, 79. 



' Lower, Suss. Arch. Coll. iii. 242. 

 ' Loseley MSS. {Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. vii. 

 App. 645). 8 Ibid. 



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