SEND WITH RIPLEY
Sande (xi cent.); Sandes and Saundes (xiii cent.);
Sende (xiv cent.).
Send is a parish with two villages, Send lying
about 3 miles and Ripley about 5 miles north-east
of Guildford. It is bounded by Woking on the
north-west, Pyrford to the north, Ockham to the
north-east, West Horsley on the east, the two Clandons
and Merrow on the south, and Worplesdon on the
south-west. It measures 3½ miles from east to west,
and about 4 miles north to south in the widest part.
It contains 5,139 acres. Ripley and the north of the
parish are on the sand and gravel of the Wey Valley,
Send on a patch of Bagshot Sand; the southern part of
the parish is on the London Clay. The River Wey
skirts the western side of the parish, and in part
bounds it. The road from London to Guildford runs
through it, and the London and South-Western
Railway line by Cobham to Guildford cuts the extreme south of the parish. There are brickfields on the
London Clay. Ripley Green is a well-known open
space in the parish.
The neighbourhood of Send has yielded several
neolithic flints, some of which are in the Archaeological
Society's Museum at Guildford. Salmon says that
Roman coins were found there. (fn. 1) The site of Newark
Priory is just within the border of the parish. It had
evidently occupied another site, also possibly in the
parish, but was rebuilt on a new site and called De
Novo Loco, Newark, Newstead, or New Place. The
foundation was anterior to the benefaction by Ruald
de Calva and his wife Beatrice de Sandes, under
Richard I, and the Winchester Registers (fn. 2) say that it
was founded by a Bishop of Winchester. Bishop
Godfrey de Lucy, who died in 1204, gave a grant of
land to the house under the name of Aldbury.
Andrew Bukerel, son of Andrew, citizen of London,
mayor 1231–7, or the son of the mayor, gave a grant
to the house De Novo Loco. (fn. 3) The site and remains
of the Priory buildings have lately been placed under
the protection of the Ancient Monuments Acts.
The parish was the scene of a nearly forgotten
skirmish. On 14 June 1497 the Cornish rebels
marching upon Kent from the west had reached
Guildford, and had a skirmish with the outposts of
the royal troops on the road from Guildford to
London. The latter evidently fell back, for they had
lost touch of the rebels on the 16th and were looking
for them on the Guildford road again near Kingston
when they were actually on the border of Kent. (fn. 4)
Old maps mark the place where the road crosses the
stream which joins the Wey near Send as St. Thomas's
Waterings, a name which occurs in the London
suburbs. It is now not used, but its occurrence here
shows that it had no connexion with pilgrimages to
St. Thomas's shrine.
By the Inclosure Act for Send and Ripley, passed
in 1803, 600 acres of common and common fields
were inclosed. (fn. 5)
There is a Congregational chapel at Cartbridge,
built in 1875.
Send Grove is the property of and occupied by the
Misses Onslow. General Evelyn, a son of Sir John
Evelyn of Wotton, resided at this house, and he laid
out the grounds. On his death, in 1783, it was
bought by Admiral Sir Francis Drake, second in
command to Rodney in his victory of 1782 over De
Grasse. Woodhill is the seat of the Dowager Countess
of Wharncliffe.
Ripley was formerly a chapelry of Send. There
are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels there. Earl
Ligonier, the famous Huguenot refugee and military
commander, was Baron Ripley.
Dunsborough House is the seat of Mr. G. H.
Maitland-King; Ripley Court of Mr. R. M. Pease;
Ripley House of Captain Herbert D. Terry, Inspector
of Constabulary for England and Wales.
Ripley (National) School was built in 1847 and
enlarged in 1898. Send (National) School was built
in 1834 and enlarged in 1892.
MANORS
The early history of SEND begins
with the 10th century, when Athelstan
sold lands which he held at Send to the
Archbishop of Canterbury. (fn. 6) But at the time of
Domesday the tenant in chief was Alured de Merlebergh, of whom Rainald held it. (fn. 7) There were two
other sub-tenants, Walter and Hubert, whose holdings
may be the origins of Papworth and Dedswell.
Alured's property in Send followed the descent of his
Herefordshire estate at Ewyas Harold. (fn. 8) Robert de
Tregoz married Sibyl daughter of Robert de Ewyas, (fn. 9)
and about 1207 confirmed the
endowment of Newark Priory
in Send. (fn. 10) Robert de Tregoz
his grandson was killed at
Evesham in 1265. In 1290
his son John de Tregoz granted
a knight's fee in Send to
Newark, (fn. 11) and some ten years
later he died seised of two
knights' fees in Send, leaving
two co-heirs, his daughter
Sibyl wife of Otho de Grandison, and John son of another
daughter, Clarissa wife of Roger
De La Warr. (fn. 12)
Tregoz. Azure two gimel bars or with a lion passant or in the chief.
In 1359 the Prior of Newark and Roger son of
John De La Warr (fn. 13) are mentioned as being lords of
Send, (fn. 14) so that probably Sibyl de Grandison had by that
date released her rights. In 1398 John De La Warr
son of Roger (fn. 15) died holding rents only in Send, (fn. 16) and
since the Priors of Newark are the only lords mentioned between that date and the Dissolution it seems
reasonable to suppose that the De La Warr family
endowed the priory with any other property that they
possessed.
Henry VIII granted the manor, called Send and
Jury, to Sir Anthony Browne in 1544. (fn. 17) It remained in his family until 1674, when the impoverishment of the family necessitated its being vested in
trustees with a view to sale. (fn. 18) Accordingly in 1711 (fn. 19)
Francis Browne, fourth Viscount Montagu, conveyed it
to Sir Richard Onslow, together with the manor of
Ripley and the farms called 'Chapel Farm, Send
Barnes, Jury Farm, Ride Farm, and Newark Priory.' (fn. 20)
The manor has remained in the Onslow family, but
Newark was sold to Lord King, ancestor of the Earl of
Lovelace, in 1785.
There are traces of various tenants of land in Send
during the 13th century. Ruald de Calva and
Beatrice his wife, the benefactors of Newark, evidently held land in Send as well as the advowson of
the church. (fn. 21) Their charter to the priory mentions
a certain William Maubaunc as their heir. (fn. 22) Geoffry
Maubaunc, John Dedeswell, and Simon Pypard are
mentioned in the inquisition of John Tregoz as having
formerly each held two-thirds of his two knights' fees. (fn. 23)
In 1290 Ruald Maubaunc is mentioned, who left three
daughters and co-heirs; Alice wife of Thomas de
Send is known to have been his daughter, (fn. 24) while
the others may possibly have been the wife of John
de Dedswell, (fn. 25) and Dionisia wife of John le Blund,
for in 1290 Robert de Lodenham held of John Tregoz,
and John le Blund and John de Dendeswell are
named as holders under him with Thomas de Sende. (fn. 26)
The earliest mention of the manor of RIPLEY
(Rippelege, xiii cent.) seems to be in 1279, when the
Prior of Newark claimed to have suit at his court of
Ripley. (fn. 27) Henry III in 1220 granted to the Prior of
Newark the right of holding an annual fair at the
feast of St. Mary Magdalen. (fn. 28) In 1279 the prior also
claimed the right of having a market in Ripley, which
he had received by charter from Henry III, but it was
of no value, as no one came to it. (fn. 29) This manor
subsequently descended with Send (q.v.).
There was apparently a manor of NEWARK in
Send, since in 1279 the prior claimed to have free
warren in his 'manor of Newark.' (fn. 30) This manor
probably consisted of the land immediately adjacent
to the priory. It is not described as a manor at the
Dissolution, and in the 18th century appears as the
farm called Newark Priory, (fn. 31) which was purchased
by Sir Richard Onslow and subsequently sold to
Lord King (vide supra).
The remains of the church of Newark Priory stand
in the midst of level fields almost wholly surrounded
by streams, and belong entirely to the early years
of the 13th century, though the plan shows evidence
of an older building, set at a slightly different axis,
represented by the quire and nave of the existing
church. The plan is noteworthy in several respects.
The quire, which seems to represent the presbytery
and possibly also the quire of a simple 12th-century
church, is flanked, as regards its two eastern bays,
by the 13th-century transepts, but is separated from
them by walls solid for some 10 ft. from the ground
to take the stalls, above which pairs of arches open to
the upper parts of the transepts, while its third or
western bay forms the first bay of the nave, and has
had a cross arch at the west, under which the pulpitum
stood. The 13th-century enlargements were a threebay presbytery east of the quire, flanked by pairs of
square-ended chapels en échelon, on the east of the
transepts. A very unusual feature of these chapels,
which were covered with barrel-vaults, is that they
have separate side walls, a space being left between
each pair of chapels. The aisles of the nave were
probably 13th-century additions, but have quite
disappeared except for a length of the wall of the
south aisle, which having no foundations has unfortunately fallen over bodily quite recently.
The walls are of well-built flint rubble, but nearly
all the ashlar dressings have been picked out, reducing
windows and doors to ragged holes in the wall.
The presbytery, which has lost its east wall, was of
three bays, forming a continuation of the quire, which
was also of three bays, both having been vaulted with
quadripartite rib vaults springing from wall-shafts
with Purbeck marble capitals. In each of the bays
is a gap on either side left by the removal of the
stonework of the lancet windows, which apparently
were of three orders with splayed rear-arches, and had
steeply sloping sills inside. Under the second or
middle north window is a gap opening to the north
chapel. In the third or western bay on both sides are
the openings which were the upper quire entrances.
In the middle bay of the south side a ragged hole
represents the sedilia. At the west of the presbytery
a cross arch marked the eastern limit of the quire;
the first two bays had lofty pointed archways opening
into the transepts, but only those on the south side
are standing; between the bays are the toothings of
buttresses which must have projected into the
transepts. The third or westernmost bay, left
standing on the south side, has a lower archway of
equal width with the others, opening into the east
end of the aisle. The dwarf wall closing its lower
half is pierced below the west jamb of the arch by a
pointed doorway. Over the archway are the remains
of a lancet window which gave light to a clearstory
above the aisle roof.
Plan of Newark Priory
The south transept is more complete than any other
part, its three outer walls being almost intact excepting where they have been robbed of all the dressed
stones. In the east wall were two pointed archways
—now mere gaps—opening into the chapels; between
them are the remains against the wall of a small stone
altar 5 ft. long, and over this altar is a square recess
2 ft. 6 in. wide. Another archway at the north end
of the west wall opened from the nave aisle.
In the south wall of the transept, near the southwest angle, is the doorway connected with the nightstair from the dorter. The transept is lighted by a
range of three lancet windows on either side, and
another lancet high up in the south gable end. This
portion had a high-pitched wooden roof, now of course
all gone.
Of the two chapels to the east of the transept very
little remains. The northern one extended behind
two bays of the presbytery, being divided into two
by a cross arch supporting the buttress between the
bays. Of this arch and the east wall only the
toothings on the presbytery wall are left; the chapel
had a semi-circular barrel-vault running from east to
west, of which a few springing stones remain. Over
it was a lean-to roof against the presbytery wall. On
the transept wall are the marks of two such roofs, one
steeper than the other, and evidently of different
dates.
The southern chapel was only of one bay in depth;
its south wall still stands with a few angle stones
indicating the return of the east wall; in it are the
remains of a piscina. There are also the springing
stones of a pointed barrel vault springing from a
grooved and hollow-chamfered string-course. Over
this vault, but not central with it, was a gabled wood
roof, the outline of which is to be seen on the transept
wall, and the gap between the two chapels is very
clearly shown, the east face of the transept wall
retaining its external plinth, which must have returned
round the outsides of the chapels.
On the south face of the transept and chapel wall
is the mark of the barrel-vault of the passage to the
cemetery, 12 ft. wide, part of the east wall of which
remains: the gable line of the dorter range also shows
on the transept wall, but except for this all traces of
the priory buildings have disappeared.
The north transept has entirely gone, and the only
part left on that side is the north chapel to the east
of the transept; of this much of the three outer walls
still stands, but they possess no details of note.
The only part of the nave still left is a length of
the south aisle wall, and this has now fallen; the
toothings where it came against the transept wall
remain in place, but for a space of 24 ft. the wall is
missing, the remaining portion running thence westward for 34 ft. On the transept wall are the marks
of the lean-to roof of the aisle; it cuts across the
north-west lancet window to the transept.
The dimensions of the church were: Presbytery,
43 ft. by 24 ft. 4 in.; quire, 40 ft. by 26 ft.; north
and south transepts, 30 ft. deep by 25 ft. 4 in.
wide; north-east chapel off the south transept and
south-east chapel off the north transept, 26 ft. by
10 ft. 6 in., the other two chapels 12 ft. by 10 ft. 6 in.;
nave length uncertain, width probably that of the
quire, and south aisle 12 ft. wide.
In the south transept lies a heavy 14th-century
cross slab of very rough work, being made of
the intractable crystalline stone which occurs in
isolated blocks in various parts of the county and
elsewhere.
The so-called manor of PAPWORTH (Pappeworth,
xiv cent.) may have been the holding of Walter or of
Hubert in 1086. In 1271 Ruald de Calva granted the
'hamene of Papworth' to Newark Priory. (fn. 32) The
priory granted it to the Westons of West Clandon,
for in 1331 William de Weston had land in Send, (fn. 33)
and in 1363 Margery widow of William de Weston
died seised of a 'tenement called Papworth,' which
she held of Newark. (fn. 34)
Papworth followed the descent of West Clandon
Manor (q.v.) until the beginning of the 17th century,
when Edmund Slyfield, lord of West Clandon,
conveyed it to Henry Weston of Ockham. (fn. 35) The
Westons held it until 1711, when John Weston sold
it with Ockham to Sir Peter King. (fn. 36) Early in the
19th century Lord King, a descendant of Sir Peter,
exchanged it with Lord Onslow for the manor of
Wisley. (fn. 37)
The reputed manor of DEDSWELL (Dodswell,
Dadswell, xvi cent.), possibly the other small holding of
Domesday, received its name as land held of John de
Tregoz by John de Dedeswell for the service of onethird of two knights' fees. (fn. 38) This service was in
1290 granted by John de Tregoz to the Prior of
Newark. (fn. 39)
In 1351 Thomas de Weston of Albury married
Joan daughter and heiress of John Dedswell of Send. (fn. 40)
This Thomas was of a younger branch of the Westons
of Send. At the death of William de Weston without
issue in 1485 (fn. 41) Dedswell passed to his sister Margaret,
who married first William Welles of Buxted in Sussex
and second John Appesley. She died in 1512 leaving
a son and heir John Welles. (fn. 42) In 1539 Thomas
Welles son of John conveyed the manor to Sir
Richard Weston of Sutton in Woking. (fn. 43) It remained
with the Westons of Sutton until 1661, when John
Weston conveyed it to Arthur Onslow. (fn. 44) The Onslow family has retained possession until the present
day.
The reputed manor of JURY in Send is mentioned
among the lands lately belonging to Newark Priory
which were granted to Sir Anthony Browne at the
Dissolution. (fn. 45) Probably it represents the grant of a
messuage with 100 acres of land made to the Prior and
convent of Newark in 1331 by William Diry, (fn. 46) whose
name was apparently attached to the holding, and
became corrupted into Jury in process of time. This
tenement descended with the manor of Send.
The Domesday Survey of Send (q.v.) mentions a
mill, which in the 13th century appeared as a watermill in the possession of Thomas and Alice de Send. (fn. 47)
This mill, which they granted to the priory, was
Newark Mill. The grant to Sir Anthony Browne (q.v.)
mentions a mill in Ripley which may refer to the
same. There was another mill on one of the smaller
holdings.
CHURCHES
The church of ST. MARY THE
VIRGIN, SEND, is a small building
consisting of a chancel 17 ft. 6 in. by
24 ft. 9 in. and an aisleless nave 38 ft. 3 in. by 31 ft.
2 in. with a west tower 10 ft. by 9 ft. 3 in., and a
south porch.
The chancel seems to have been built about the
year 1240, and is the oldest part of the church. The
whole nave was rebuilt late in the 14th century, being
unusually wide for its length, and the tower was added
somewhat later. The south porch, which is of timber,
was probably added late in the 15th century, and the
church was restored in 1847.
The east window of the chancel was inserted apparently in old jambs in 1819. It has three cinquefoiled lights and tracery of a curious semi-gothic
character in a two-centred head. The north wall
of the chancel has two original lancets, the easternmost one having chamfered and rebated jambs and the
other plain rebated jambs.
In the south wall are two lancets of 13th-century
date like those in the opposite wall, the easternmost
one in this case having unchamfered jambs, while all
have external shafts. At the west end of this wall
is a small coeval low side window.
Near the east end of the north wall of the chancel
is a plain projecting corbel, which was probably
intended to support a figure. Opposite this in the
south wall is a piscina with stop-chamfered jambs and
pointed head. The basin was circular, but the projecting portion has been lopped off. Between the
first and second windows of the south wall is a small
13th-century priest's doorway which has chamfered
jambs of sandstone, and a four-centred head. The
ashlar elsewhere, except in some of the lower quoins,
is of chalk. There is no chancel arch; but that one
originally existed is proved by the remains of squints
on either side at the western angles of the chancel.
The north wall of the nave contains three windows,
the easternmost being one of two plain lights with a
square head set low in the wall. The head, sill, and
mullion are chamfered, but the jambs are rebated as
well as if to receive a shutter. The other two windows have each three trefoiled lights under a square
head with a moulded label. They have both been
restored in places. The windows of the south wall
of the nave are similar to those of the north just
described, except that the small south-east window is
of one light only. The south doorway has plain
chamfered jambs and a pointed four-centred head, and
the porch retains its original moulded wall plates and
uprights, but the lower parts have been replaced by plastered brickwork. The cusped barge-board at the south
gable end is original. The tower arch is of two continuous chamfered orders, and in the north wall of the
tower is a small doorway with a four-centred head
which leads to the stair turret.
In the west wall of the tower is a plain doorway,
much repaired, with two continuous hollow-chamfered
orders and a moulded label. Above it is a 15th-century window partly restored, having
three cinquefoiled lights under a fourcentred head with a moulded label.
The tower is of three stages with
angle buttresses and a modern embattled parapet. In each face of the
top stage is a window with a modern
outer order and four-centred head of
two wide trefoiled lights, the tracery
of which is masked by modern louvres.
The second stage has a single cinquefoiled light on the north and south,
the former having a two-centred head
and the latter one of ogee shape.
The walls throughout are of flint
rubble, a few pieces of 13th-century
detail being built into those of the
nave; some of the heavy Horsham
slabs remain on the lower parts of the
nave roof, but elsewhere red tiles are used. The nave
roof has old tie-beams and embattled wall plates, and
is plastered between the rafters; and the tie-beam
at the west end of the chancel is supported on curved
brackets.
The chancel screen has been rebuilt, most of the
upper portion being modern, but the traceried heads
to all the lights and part of the moulded cornice are
of 13th-century date. There are no mullions now,
but modern carved pendants take their place, the
holes where the original mullions tenoned into the
middle rail being filled up; below the rail is plain
solid panelling. The moulded posts at each end of
the screen show the marks of former parclose screens
returning westwards.
The font is apparently of 13th-century workmanship, but the octagonal bowl has been entirely recut;
the lead lining, however, is old. One side of the
moulded base has been cut away.
Over the west end of the nave is an early 17th-century wood gallery with a turned baluster front,
now reached by modern stairs.
In the tower is an ancient chest constructed out of
roughly finished log timber and bound with iron straps.
It has two lids made out of half tree-trunks, the curved
surface being uppermost.
A stone on the north wall of the chancel has a brass
attached to it which bears the following black-letter
inscription: 'Here lyeth Laurence Slyffeld gent' &
Alys he wyfe which Laure[nce] decessid ye XIII day of
Nov[em]br' ao d[omin]i Mo Vo XXI ō whŵ soule Jhū have m'ci.'
Above are the figures of the man and his wife, and
below are three boys.
Above this brass is another with inscription: 'Pray
for the Soule of S' Thomas Marteyn late Vycar of Sende
the which decessed the XXIX day of September the yere
of our lord Ml Vc XXXIII on whos soule Jhū have
m'ci.'
To the south of the tower in the churchyard is an
indent of a half-figure and an inscription plate.
The westernmost window of the north wall of the
nave has in the top of its centre light a few fragments
of old painted glass.
The tower originally contained a ring of five bells,
all cast by Phelps in 1711; but three of these are now
missing, and one is known to have been sold. The
tenor was cast by T. Mears in 1803.
The oldest piece of plate is a paten of the Britannia
standard, but the date-letter is worn away. It is
inscribed 1845. There is also a cup of 1844, a
flagon of the same date, and a plate or almsdish which
is not silver.
Plan of Send Church
There are six books of registers, the first, which is of
parchment, containing in the beginning entries of
births from 1633 to 1659 copied from an old book.
Following this are baptisms from 1666 to 1683,
marriages from 1654 to 1700 with a gap between
1659 and 1666, and burials from 1653 to 1700
with a gap as in the marriages. The second book
contains baptisms, marriages, and burials all from 1700
to 1762, 1754, and 1764 respectively. The third
book contains marriages from 1754 to 1769; the
fourth baptisms and burials from 1792 to 1812; the
fifth has marriages from 1762 to 1791; and the sixth
continues them from 1792 to 1812.
The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, RIPLEY,
consists of a chancel, nave, south aisle, and north porch;
and was rebuilt in 1845–6, except the chancel, which
dates from about 1160 and was intended to have a stone
vault of two bays, the vaulting shafts of which yet
remain, although it is not certain whether the vault
was ever completed. The east window is an insertion
of c. 1230 and is too high to have co-existed with any
stone vault; the vault must therefore have been
removed by this time if it was ever completed at all.
The window consists of three lancets separated by
wide rebated and chamfered mullions, all under one
two-centred rear arch; the two jambs inside have a
deeply undercut roll with a somewhat formless base,
and stopped out below the springing. The two
north windows are original, and have round heads
with shallow rebated outer jambs, and wide inner
splays with engaged shafts at the angles, which have
scalloped capitals with grooved and chamfered abaci.
The two south windows are contemporary with the
east window; the first is restored outside, but has an
inner edge roll like that of the east window; the other
has plain angles. West of the latter is a 15th or
16th-century priest's doorway, now opening from the
modern vestry. The vaulting shafts divide the chan
cel into two bays; the middle pilaster is a foot wide
and projects about seven inches, and has an engaged
half-round shaft on its face, flanked by detached round
shafts 5 in. in diameter, and similar detached shafts
stand in the angles at the east and west ends of the
chancel; they all have good moulded bases with projecting spurs at the corners of the square sub-bases; the
capitals are richly scalloped and have hollow chamfered square abaci. The richest detail of the whole
chancel is the elaborately carved string-course running
round the chancel below the windows; it is large and
half-round in section, ornamented with interlacing
spiral bands filled in with diamond-shaped leaves; the
string is carried round the vaulting shafts and finishes
against the chancel arch. The eastern angles of the
chancel have shallow clasping buttresses, and there
are shallow buttresses behind the intermediate shafts;
the two side walls are about 2 ft. 8 in. thick and the
east wall about 3 ft., the walling is flint mixed with
conglomerate with chalk dressings, and all the dressings inside are of chalk.
Plan of the Chancel of Ripley Church
The chancel arch and the nave generally are
modern, excepting perhaps the rear arch of the north
doorway which appears to be of the 13th century; it
is of chalk and has a pointed edge roll with deep
hollows on either side of it and another small roll on
the outermost edge. Three lancet windows pierce
the north wall, the doorway with a pointed head
coming between the second and third. An arcade
of four bays divides the nave from the aisle; it has
round pillars and pointed arches of 13th-century
character. The east wall of the aisle is pierced by a
traceried circular window, and the south wall has four
windows each of three lights under traceried heads.
At the west end of the nave is a pointed doorway below an organ gallery, and on the west wall is a bellcot in which hangs a small modern bell.
The roofs are all modern, as are the altar, pulpit,
font, &c.
There are no ancient monuments, the earliest being
two gravestones in the chancel, one to Nicholas and
Elizabeth Fenn, 1705, and the other to Burleigh Fenn,
who died in 1708.
The communion plate comprises a silver cup and
stand paten of 1846 and a plated flagon and paten.
The older registers are incorporated with and kept
at the mother parish of Send.
ADVOWSON
The advowson of the church of
Send was granted to the Prior of
Newark by Ruald de Calva. (fn. 48) It
remained with the priory until the Dissolution, (fn. 49) when
it was granted with the manor (q.v.) to Sir Anthony
Browne. It has followed the descent of the manor
from that time.
The chapel at Ripley was granted to Newark Priory
by Ruald de Calva. (fn. 50) Its advowson descended with
the manor of Send after the Dissolution, when theNewark possessions were granted to Sir Anthony
Browne.
The chapel was included as a chantry chapel at
the time of the Commissions of Edward VI, and a
revenue of £6 was confiscated as a chantry foundation. The building survived and was made the church
of an ecclesiastical parish in 1878.
CHARITIES
A table in the church records
Smith's Charity, distributed as in
other Surrey parishes; and the following benefactions:
A house near the church which was exchanged with
General Evelyn for a house at Three Ford, 1772, for
the use of the poor. It was probably the old parish
workhouse.
William Boughton gave 40s. a year from the rent
of a house called Keep House.
Sarah Hale gave £20, the interest to be for poor
widows. A return of 1786 says that this was lost by
a defaulting churchwarden.
Dame Anne Haynes gave £300 to bind poor children as apprentices. This property is now worth £50
a year.
Mrs. Legat gave £200, the interest to be devoted
to poor widows not receiving regular relief.
General Evelyn gave 20s. a year for the repair of
his monument, the surplus for the poor on Christmas
Day.