By the Rev. G. S. Master. 259 



About the commencement of the seventeenth century the manor 

 and advowson of West Dean passed by purchase to the family of 

 Evelyn, 1 originally of Co. Salop, and then of Harrow-on-the-hill, 

 Co. Middlesex. William Evelyn, of that place, had a son, Roger 

 Evelyn, of Stanmore, in the same county, who married Alice, 

 daughter and heir of Aylard, by whom he had John Evelyn, of 

 Kingston, Co. Surrey ; who, marrying the daughter and heir o£ 

 David Vincent, a relative of David Vincent, Lord of the manor of 

 Long Ditton, had issue (with a daughter, married to Robert Cole, 

 of Heston, Co. Middlesex, of an elder branch of the family of the 

 Earls of Enniskillen) an only son, George Evelyn. This George, 

 obtaining a monoply for the manufacture of gunpowder, and 

 establishing mills at Long Ditton, Godstone, and Wotton, acquired 

 a large fortune, and purchased extensive estates in Surrey and 

 elsewhere. Twice married, he had by his first wife, Rose, daughter 

 and heir of Thomas Williams, brother and heir of Sir John Williams, 

 a large family, of whom three sons and one daughter survived. Of 

 the sons, Thomas, the eldest, was of Long Ditton, where his grandson 

 was created a baronet, February 17th, 1682-3 ; and John, the second, 

 was of Kingston and Godstone, where his grandson, son of his second 

 son, John, attained the like honour by letters patent from the Hague, 



29th May, 1660. By his second wife, Joan, daughter of Stint, 



George Evelyn had again a numerous family, of whom survived 

 Catherine, married to Thomas Stoughton, and Richard, who was of 

 Wotton, and by Eleanor, his wife, daughter and heir of John 

 Stansfield, of Lewes, Co. Sussex, Esq., had issue, with other children, 

 John Evelyn, F.R.S., the accomplished author of " Silva." 



The purchaser of the Dean estate was John Evelyn, of Godstone, 

 Esq,, above-mentioned, second son of George. It is probable that 

 he erected the mansion house, and resided in it for the latter portion 

 of his life, for he was buried in the chancel of this Church (where 

 was a monument to his memory), May 21st, 1627, set. 73. From 

 this, and his funeral certificate^ it appears that by Elizabeth, his 



1 Arms of Evelyn, " Azure a griffin passant and a chief or." Crest, " A griffin 

 passant or ducally gorged, beaked and forelegged azure." 



2 Printed in "Miscellanea Genealogiea," pt. i., New Series. 



