FARNHAM HUNDRED 



Neither Caleb nor John Woods lived at the manor 

 house.*' The former lived at Guildford, the 

 latter in London or Bramshott in Hants. In 1761 

 John Woods died, having settled Frensham Beale 

 on his third wife Mehetabel Goldney for life.*8 

 After her death he willed it to William Gill, son of 

 his daughter Mary." Mehetabel Woods held 

 courts from 1 762-1 767 ; William Gill from 1767- 

 1813.5° The latter died in 1815, and was suc- 

 ceeded by his brother Henry Streeter Gill, who 

 died in 1818, leaving the manor to his daughter, 

 Mary Frankland, whose husband now assumed the 

 name of Gill. In 1819 she and her husband con- 

 veyed the manor, evidently by way of mortgage, 

 to John Leach.61 Mary Frankland Gill died in 

 1856, her husband in 1859. Their son William 

 Henry Gill, retired Major, Rifle Brigade, died 

 unmarried 21 August, 1866, and his sisters, Mary 

 Douglas Frankland and the Hon. Agnes Stewart 

 Kerr,62 divided the property, the former taking 

 Frensham Beale for her share, the latter adopting 



FRENSHAM 



holdings are subject to a heriot on the death of a 

 tenant. 58 



When the two Woods, Caleb and John, were in 

 possession of the manor, the only resident gentry 

 in Frensham were the Salmon and Bishop families.s" 

 The Woods lived elsewhere, and the manor house 

 had probably become a farm house, as it is still. 

 The Salmons were lessees of the tithes until, on the 

 death of Henry Salmon, the last of the family, in 

 1 71 7, the lease passed to his sister Elizabeth, the 

 wife of Captain William Bishop."" As lessees of 

 the tithes it is probable that they occupied the 

 vicarage house, which before the late fire was old 

 and much too large for the curate whom they put 

 in at ;£2o a year. It has the appearance of having 

 been a larger house than the manor house. 



The tithing of PIT FOLD (Putfolde xiv. cent. ; 

 Pitfall ivii. cent.) lies in the southernmost part of 

 Frensham parish to the west of Haslemere, and east 

 of Bramshott in Hampshire. From the court rolls 

 of Farnham manor, Pitfold seems to have been in 



Frensham. 



the name of GiU.sa In 1867 Mary Douglas Frank- 

 land married Mr. Morton Cornish Sumner, who held 

 the courts of the manor."* Mrs. Sumner, who sur- 

 vived her husband, held her last court in 1885.55 

 In 1888 Mr. Richard H. Combe of Pierrepont 

 bought the manor. 5" He died in 1900, and his 

 widow is now lady of the manor.5' 



The manor roUs give many interesting ' customs 

 of the manor.' Tenants can cut timber for the 

 repair of their houses, gates, and fences, and for 

 'plough-bote' and ' cart-bote,' but cannot trans- 

 fer it to any one else. Another survival is that 



the tithing of Churt as late as the seventeenth 

 century."! and then seems to have included 

 ShottermiU. In 1847, when Shottermill was 

 formed into an ecclesiastical district, Pitfold was 

 included in that district."^ In 1896, when, by 

 Order in Council, Shottermill was created a civil 

 parish, Pitfold became a tithing of Shottermill."' 



Pitfold mill in the south of the tithing is used for 

 dressing chamois leather and buckskins. 



Lands in Pitfold, which seem to have become 

 the manor of Pitfold, were held by the Bavent 

 family in the thirteenth century. In 1285 Adam 



*^ The manor house had probably 

 become a farm by this time. 

 " Deed Jan. 30, 1753-4. 

 " Will of John Woods, 1753. 

 5" Manor R. and deeds ut supra, 



51 Feet of F. Hil. 59 Geo. III. 



52 Widow of the Hon. Arthur 

 Schomberg Kerr. 



53 Manor R, and deeds ut supra. 



5* Ibid. 



55 Ibid. 



5" Ibid. 



67 Ibid. 



68 Ibid. 



59 Aubrey, vol. iii. p. 365, Visitation 



Ret. of 1 724.-5 at Farnham Castle. 



611 



Bishop Willis asked for the number 

 and names of all resident gentry in 

 each parish. 



«» Ibid. 



"1 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. Bpric. of Win- 

 ton, bdle. 125, No. 2. 



«2 Under Act. i and 2 Will. IV. c. 38. 



"3 Land. Gaz. 



