HORNE
Horne, originally a chapelry of Blechingley, was
made a separate parish by Act of Parliament in 1705.
It is a small scattered village 3½ miles south-west of
Godstone station and 4 miles north-east of Horley
station. It measures about 3 miles from north to
south, about 2 miles from east to west, and comprises
4,548 acres of land and 46 of water. It is on the
Wealden Clay, with the exception of a small part in
the south, which is on the Hastings Sand. The streams
in this parish drain to the Eden Brook and the Medway.
There was formerly open heath land here adjoining
Copthorne Common in Burstow and Sussex. (fn. 1) It is
now inclosed, with the exception of Thorney Park,
which is uncultivated and partly wooded. There is
still a good deal of woodland in the southern part of
Horne, and the whole was probably forest when Horne
was included with Blechingley in the great Clare
manor of that name. The names East Park and
West Park, at some considerable distance apart, indicate the former character of the parish. Frogwood
Heath is partly in this parish, partly in Godstone.
Horne Common was inclosed by an Act of 1810 (fn. 2)
and an order made on 14 April 1813. There is a
small group of houses near the church, but the farms
and houses are usually scattered.
A British gold coin has been found in Horne, (fn. 3) but
is more probably a mark of transit than of settlement.
Otherwise there are no prehistoric remains, such as are
usually found in the Weald parishes. Horne must have
owed such importance as it had later to the iron industry. There was a forge and a furnace at Hedgecourt in the 16th century, and Furnace Wood, chiefly
in Sussex, extends into Horne at Hedgecourt. There
is an extensive sheet of water here, a dammed stream
forming the pond for head of water to work the
mills. A corn mill is now worked by it. A map
in Aubrey's Surrey marks the mill in the 17th or
18th century. (fn. 4)
Horne had to some extent a separate existence
before the Act of 1705. A constable or headborough for the 'Gildables,' a lost division, and
another for the Upper Borough were appointed at the
sheriff's tourn. The parish registers begin in 1614, and
churchwardens and overseers were elected. (fn. 5) When it
was made into a parish there was no parsonage-house.
Mr. Stileman, who was instituted in 1728, bought a
house near the church, but this was afterwards bought
by the parish for a workhouse, and so continued to be
used till the Poor Law Act of 1834. There was no
parsonage-house until 1891, when Jesus College,
before parting with Horne Court Manor, gave a site
for a parsonage. The house then built was sold in
1905, and a smaller and more convenient house was
built.
The school (Church), founded in 1851, was rebuilt
in 1886.
In 1725 there were at least three families of Roman
Catholics in Horne, a very unusual number in a rural
parish in Surrey.
In the small outlying part of Horne parish between
Burstow and Horley, where Harrowsley is situated,
are the remains of Thunderfield Castle. The land
here is flat, with clay soil and no building stone and
the plan of the defences is an adaptation of the
mount and bailey principle to this wet low-lying
ground. The defences consist of elaborate concentric
wet ditches, divided by banks and fed by a small
tributary of the Mole. A level inner ward, an ellipse
of about 175 ft. by 25 ft., takes the place of the usual
mount. To the north-west of this is a small demilunar work of slightly greater height, and beyond
this is a space formed by a curve of the outer ditch. The
inner ward probably contained a building and possibly
a stone keep. (fn. 6) The castle was on land of the Clares,
and on a small scale bears some resemblance to the
elaborate water defences of Caerphilly Castle, their
stronghold in Glamorganshire. Possibly it was built
in the time of Stephen and dismantled by Henry II.
It is not certainly known whether this Thunderfield
was the place where Athelstan held a witan, but
it is improbable that the neighbourhood was much
inhabited until after 1086. It may be the 'Thunresfelda' where Alfred bequeathed lands to his
nephew Aedelme, (fn. 7) and it may also be the Thunderfield at which a pool is mentioned as a boundary of
lands granted by Edgar to his servant Oswig. (fn. 8) It is
more probably the Thunderfield of 'Suttone cum
Thunresfelda' granted to Chertsey by Athelstan, and
of 'Suttone cum cubilibus porcorum quae illuc pertinent, scilicet in Thunresfelda 30 mansas' confirmed to the same abbey in 967. (fn. 9) This holding
may have included the abbey's property in Horley in
Reigate Hundred (q.v.), which adjoins the parish of
Horne.
MANORS
HORNE is not mentioned in the
Domesday Survey. It was then included in the manor of Blechingley,
which belonged to Richard de Tonbridge. In
1228–9 a Richard de Horne appears in connexion
with land in Blechingley. (fn. 10) It is not until the early
14th century that record is found of a separate manor
of Horne. In 1322 Agnes widow of John de
Horne, kt., held two-thirds of it in dower, and John
de Badesulle, presumably a trustee, quitclaimed the
remaining third to John de Horne and Alice his
wife. (fn. 11) In 1347 the two last-named granted their
portion to William de Roderham, saving 160 acres of
land and the moiety of 6 acres of meadow and of the
knight's fee in the same third. They also granted him
the reversion of the two thirds held for life by Agnes
de Horne, widow. (fn. 12) William was to provide a robe
or 20s. and 46s. 8d. during the life of John. (fn. 13) Henry
son of John de Horne, jun., quitclaimed his right
in 1350. (fn. 14) In 1352 Nicholas Dyn released 28s. 9d.
rent and suit of court to William de Roderham
for lands in Horne, (fn. 15) and his widow Emma in 1363
released her right in the same to Christina Roderham,
widow. (fn. 16) William de Roderham left two daughters
and co-heirs: Alice wife of Richard Virly, described
as a spicer of London, and Joan wife of John
Silverton, pelterer of London. (fn. 17) In 1408 John
Silverton and Joan granted John Hadresham, cousin
to Joan and Alice, (fn. 18) and William Newenham 245
acres of land, 12 acres of meadow, 50 acres of wood,
45s. rent, and the moiety of a messuage in Horne,
&c. (fn. 19) This property evidently constituted Joan's
moiety of the manor, as in 1410 Alice, then a
widow, conveyed to John de Hadresham all her
share in the lands, &c., in Horne and elsewhere
which had belonged to her father, (fn. 20) and her cousin
certainly afterwards held the manor, which, after
various conveyances and enfeoffments, finally passed
from him to John Gainsford of Crowhurst about
1415–17. (fn. 21) Alice Virly, who had received from
John de Hadresham a re-grant for life of the lands
she had conveyed to him, quitclaimed her right
to Gainsford in 1418. (fn. 22) In 1421 William Kyng of
Maidstone and Joan his wife quitclaimed a fourth
part of the manor to Gainsford and others. (fn. 23) Joan
may have been the widow of John Silverton, having
retained, as did her sister, some right in the manor
until its conveyance to Gainsford. In 1446–7 John
Gainsford settled a messuage, 300 acres of land,
100 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood and 18 acres
of meadow in Horne upon his son John and his heirs.
George Gainsford son of John conveyed the manor
and appurtenances in 1495–6 to R. Hawkins and
others. The next year R. Hawkins released it to
Richard Spencer, probably a trustee for Richard
Pigott, serjeant-at-law, and his wife Joan daughter
of Lord Welles, who afterwards married Richard
Hastings, as Pigott bestowed the manor on Jesus
College, Cambridge, to found a fellowship since called
the Hastings Scholarship. The master and fellows
appointed attorneys to take seisin of it in 1500–1. (fn. 24)
In the reign of Elizabeth a suit occurred showing
that the master and fellows of the college had leased 'a
messuage, lands and tenements called by the name of
the manor of Horne, alias Horne Court,' to a certain
John Willett, who died intestate when the lease had
many years still to run. His son, called John Willett
the elder, complained that he had been kept out of
the premises by his own son John Willett the younger,
and by William, brother to the elder John, who had
made a false will for the disposal of the original lessee's
property. (fn. 25) The college continued to hold the manor
until 1891, when they sold it to Mr. A. H. Lloyd.
In the same year they granted a site on the land for
a parsonage-house for Horne. (fn. 26)
In 1706 Thomas Patching, an outlaw, was seised
of a manor and farm called GREENS, held of Horne
Court. The college took counsel's opinion as to
whether the manor and farm had escheated to them,
which was answered in the affirmative. (fn. 27)
BYSSHE COURT.—In 1355 Bartholomew de
Burghersh died seised of a tenement called 'la Bysshe'
in Horne, consisting of a capital messuage and
200 acres of land, held of the heir of Hugh le
Despenser for a quarter of a knight's fee. (fn. 28) In 1382
it was held as a manor by Sir Thomas Bysshe (fn. 29) son
and heir of John Bysshe or de la Bysh, who had
married Isabel, heiress of the family of Burstow. (fn. 30)
There is a tradition that the manor came to the
Bysshes through this heiress. She was the granddaughter and eventually the heir of a John de
Burstow who had served in the French wars, according to a 16th-century account given by a descendant
of the Bysshes, (fn. 31) and had there been instrumental in
saving the life of Bartholomew de Burghersh, who had
rewarded him by giving him land in Burstow. It is
possible that Bartholomew or his son added the land
in Horne to the previous grant and that it thus finally
passed to the Bysshe family. There is at least no
other evidence to show how they acquired the manor.
By 1391–2 the manor had come into the possession of William Curlyng, described as a mercer of
London. (fn. 32) In 1407–8 he with his wife Elizabeth
conveyed a messuage, 4 carucates of land, 20 acres
of meadow, 200 of pasture, 120 of wood and 60s.
rent in Horne to Richard Wakehurst. (fn. 33) The latter
in 1445 granted the manor to his son John, (fn. 34) who
in 1452 enfeoffed William Gainsford and John Wodye
or Woode of the manor, now known by the alternative name of Bysshe Court, to the use of his younger
son John Wakehurst, jun., and John's wife Alice
in survivorship, with reversion to himself and his
heirs. (fn. 35) William Gainsford, who by the assent of
his co-feoffee had the disposal of the manor,
granted it in 1464 to his brother Nicholas. (fn. 36)
After the death of William, Alice widow of John
Wakehurst the younger and then wife of Harry
Tracy brought a suit against Nicholas Gainsford, who
had not only defrauded her of her rightful share of
the profits of the manor, but had also persuaded the
heirs of John Wakehurst the elder to enter into part
of the lands and tenements with a view to forcing
Alice to relinquish her claim to the profits. (fn. 37) These
heirs were the two daughters of Richard Wakehurst,
the elder son and heir of John Wakehurst the elder,
by a sister of William and Nicholas Gainsford. The
sister afterwards married John Colepeper, whose sons
by a previous marriage, Richard and Nicholas, married
the two Wakehurst heiresses Margaret and Elizabeth. (fn. 38)
These two, with their husbands, made a settlement
of the manor in 1521. (fn. 39) Richard Colepeper, the
eldest son, and Margaret died without issue and the
manor passed to Richard the son of Nicholas and
Elizabeth (fn. 40) and his descendants. In 1626 Sir Edward
Colepeper settled the manor on his son William on
the latter's marriage with Jane Pellett. (fn. 41) Three years
later, however, father and son joined in conveying it
to Edward Bysshe and Mary his wife, the former,
according to Sir Edward Bysshe, being a lineal
descendant of William Bysshe, younger brother of the
Sir Thomas who held this manor towards the close
of the 14th century. (fn. 42) Edward Bysshe died in 1655;
his son Sir Edward, Garter King at Arms, inherited the
manor (fn. 43) and, with his wife Margaret, conveyed it to
Thomas Turgis in 1674. (fn. 44) The latter devised the
property to Turgis Newland, (fn. 45) who died without
issue in 1737, having left Bysshe Court to his brother
Sir George. Manning, quoting from title-deeds, &c.,
states that Sir George died intestate in 1749, when
his nieces Rebecca Cantillon, Martha Dillon and
Elizabeth Binford inherited, Elizabeth afterwards
dying without issue. (fn. 46) Rebecca's daughters Rebecca
and Elizabeth married Daniel Murphy and Dennis
Sullivan respectively and conveyed their moiety to
Robert Bulkeley in 1769. (fn. 47) Christine, the daughter
of Martha Dillon, married Edward Swinburne, who
was created a baronet in 1763, (fn. 48) and according to
Manning they conveyed their moiety also to Bulkeley.
After Bulkeley's death in 1787 his trustees sold the
property to John Ewart, who pulled down the old
house and built a new one. (fn. 49) His son Simon married
— Manship and their son John Manship Ewart
held in 1808. (fn. 50) It was purchased of this family, under
authority of the court of Chancery, for Mr. Willett
Willett before 1811. (fn. 51) The house was occupied as a
farm-house when Brayley wrote, and has been so used
in recent times. There is a moat inclosing ground
which was no doubt the site of the old house.
The manor of HARROWSLEY lay in the detached
portion of Horne parish. It seems to have been, with
the rest of Horne, part of the manor of Blechingley,
the property of the lords of Clare.
In 1225 William Earl Warenne received the manor
of Harrowsley to hold as a quarter of a knight's fee
of William Haunsard, who held it of John de Wauton
and Alice his wife in the right of Alice, (fn. 52) heiress of
Odo de Dammartin, and afterwards the Countess
Warenne held a quarter of a fee here as of the
honour of Clare. (fn. 53) Gilbert de Clare at his death in
1295 was seised of 16s. 8d. rent from Harrows'ey. (fn. 54)
His son died in 1314, and Harrowsley Manor
was then held of him by Walter Borgeis for onethird of a fee. (fn. 55) Reginald de Purle appears to have
obtained it from Walter Borgeis soon after, as in 1334
the former granted his 'arable land called Herewoldesle in Horne' to Thomas atte Gate to farm for
five years for a rent of 33s. 4d. (fn. 56) The overlordship
passed to the Despenser family, into which Eleanor,
one of the co-heirs of Gilbert de Clare, had married, (fn. 57)
and an inquisition taken in 1375 states that it was
held of them by the scholars of Merton Hall, Oxford. (fn. 58)
The manor passed before 1386 to Reginald Cobham
of Gatwick, as in that year he granted a rent of
8 marks out of Harrowsley to John Piers, (fn. 59) and it is
again mentioned in a valuation of his lands for debt,
made in 1396. (fn. 60) In 1428 John Gainsford held a
quarter of a fee here, (fn. 61) which Andrew Peverell
formerly held of the Earl of Gloucester. (fn. 62)
It is not evident how this manor came into the
hands of the Coverts, but in 1601 (fn. 63) it was held by
Humphrey Covert. (fn. 64) In 1628 it was still held
by him, (fn. 65) but after this time there is no trace of the
manor with the exception of a document of 1786,
which shows that William Breton and Elizabeth his
wife were holding it. (fn. 66) Manning and Bray, in 1808,
state that it was a member of Blechingley Manor
where a head-borough was chosen. (fn. 67)
In 1328 John de Wysham received a grant of
free warren in his demesne of Burstow and Horne
for ever. (fn. 68) An inquisition taken in 1334 after
his death states that he held in Horne of Hugh
de Audley a park containing 200 acres for onethirtieth part of a knight's fee. (fn. 69) No further descent
of the park is found, but Manning suggests that it
became part of the Bysshe Court estate, (fn. 70) to which
farms, called the East and West Park, belonged in
his time. The East and West Park Farms still exist
in the parish.
In 1302 John de Berewyk received a grant of free
warren in his demesne lands of HEDGECOURT and
COVELINGELEY. (fn. 71) He was seised of these manors
at his death, when Roger Husee, a minor, was stated
to be his kinsman and heir. (fn. 72) A further inquisition
was made in 1313, by which it was found that the
tenement called le Heggecourt alias le Heycourt was
held of John de St. John of Lagham by the service
of 1d., and a carucate of land in Covelingeley
(Lindlegh) was held of the Earl of Gloucester for
one-eighth part of a knight's fee, and that John de
Berewyk had been enfeoffed of both by Stephen de
Appultrefeld during the reign of Edward I. Further,
John de Berewyk had held both until three weeks
before he died, when John de St. John, thinking him on
the point of death and claiming the reversion of Hedgecourt, ejected him therefrom on the ground that he
held for life only. (fn. 73) John de Berewyk's servants had
after his death entered into the manor of Covelingeley,
of which they claimed to have been enfeoffed by their
late master. Their charter was, however, declared
to be false, (fn. 74) and St. John's claim to Hedgecourt also
appears to have been untenable, as the king shortly
after committed the custody of the manor to Gilbert
de Middleton during the minority of John de
Berewyk's heir. (fn. 75) It was taken into the king's hands
again in 1323–4, presumably for the purpose of regranting it to Roger de Husee, who attained his
majority in that year. (fn. 76) At his death in 1361 his
brother John inherited Hedgecourt, said to be
held of John de Warblington, overlord of Lagham, as
of Tandridge Manor. (fn. 77) In 1365 Hugh Craan of
Winchester granted to Sir Nicholas Loveine and his
heirs 'the manors of Hedgecourt and Covelingleye,
called Lynlee, with the chapel in the park there,'
which he had received of the grant of John Husee. (fn. 78)
In 1408, at the death of Philip St. Clare, kt., who
had married Nicholas Loveine's daughter and heir,
and who also held Lagham and Marden in her right, it
was found that one part of the manor of Hedgecourt,
called Shanenore, with parcel of the park there, was
held of the manor of Sheffield in Lingfield by rent
of 10s., the other part, Lilley, and the rest of the
park, of William de Warblington as of Tandridge, (fn. 79)
for service unknown. His sons John and Thomas
succeeded to his lands in turn. (fn. 80)
At the death of Thomas St. Clare his daughter
Eleanor, one of his co-heirs and wife of John Gage,
inherited this manor. (fn. 81) Gage survived his wife and
at his death in 1475 (fn. 82) their son William became
possessed of the manor, which he settled on his wife
Agnes. (fn. 83) His son and grandson held after him;
both received the honour of knighthood. (fn. 84) The
latter, Sir Edward Gage, died in 1568, leaving nine
sons. He devised this manor to his wife Elizabeth
so long as she should remain unmarried. (fn. 85) John
Gage, who was created a baronet in 1622, son and
heir of Thomas Gage, Sir Edward's third son,
succeeded his uncle, Sir Edward's eldest son, (fn. 86) and
Hedgecourt remained in this family until the death
of Sir William Gage, great-grandson of the first
baronet, in 1744. (fn. 87) He, by will, devised his lands
to trustees to be sold, (fn. 88) and Hedgecourt was purchased
of them in 1747 by Edward Evelyn. (fn. 89) James son of
Edward Evelyn succeeded to the manor in 1751 (fn. 90) ; he
also held the estate of Felbridge in this parish. (fn. 91) James
Evelyn married Anabella Medley as his first wife and
Jane daughter of Sir Richard Cust as his second.
He left only female heirs. The manor of Hedgecourt descended to Julia Evelyn Medley, his granddaughter by his first wife, who had married Charles
Cecil Cope Jenkinson, afterwards third Earl of Liverpool, (fn. 92) who held, after his wife's death, as late as
1841. (fn. 93) It is now the property of the Sayer family.
St. Clare. Azure a sun or.
Gage, baronet. Party saltirewise azure and argent a saltire gules.
CHURCH
The church of ST. MARY consists of
a chancel 24 ft. 9 in. by 16 ft. 7 in.,
with a modern organ chamber and
vestry on the north, a nave 49 ft. 11 in. by 22 ft. 1 in.,
a modern north aisle, a south porch and a timber
spire over the west end of the nave.
Unfortunately a drastic restoration in 1880, when
the north aisle and organ chamber were added and
the spire and porch rebuilt, robbed the building of
almost all its archaeological interest and completely
destroyed its early history.
The oldest feature now remaining is the south
doorway, which dates from the middle of the 13th
century, but this may possibly have been inserted in
the walls of a 12th-century nave. A slight inclination
of the chancel to the north points to a rebuilding of
the east end of the church, but here again the
absence of any original detail earlier than a 15th-century rood stair in the west end of the south wall
makes the dating of this rebuilding, if indeed it ever
took place, solely a matter of conjecture.
The walls of the chancel are covered externally
with pebble dash, and have stone dressings to the
windows and a two-stage buttress at the south end of
the east wall.
Most of the details of the chancel are modern. In
the south wall is a blocked up priest's doorway, the
four-centred rear arch only being original. In the
west jamb is a lower four-centred arch opening into
the rood stair. The stair was originally lighted by a
small square-headed window at about the level of the
rood beam, now blocked; built into the south wall
just by the entrance is a curious little quatrefoil
panel, in the centre of which is a small flower carved
in a conventional manner. The walls of the nave are
of rubble with ashlar dressings. The arcade opening
into the north aisle is of four bays with pointed arches
carried on circular pillars having moulded capitals and
bases. In the south wall are two windows, and the
eastern one, with the exception of the mullion, which
is completely restored, is of late 14th-century date
and of two trefoiled lights under a vertical traceried
head. To the west of these is a mid-13th-century
pointed doorway of two continuous hollow-chamfered
orders under a scroll-moulded label. Between the
windows on the outside wall is a small marble sundial, the hand of which is missing; it is dated 1809.
In the centre of the west wall of the nave is a tall
pointed arch, out of which projects a square bay supporting the western part of the spire, the east side of
which is carried by an elaborate roof truss. This
bay is lighted by a 15th-century square-headed
window of three cinquefoiled lights, the mullions of
which are modern, and a modern quatrefoil.
The walls of the aisle and the west wall of the
nave are of quarry-faced squared rubble with ashlar
dressings.
The aisle is lighted from the west by a two-light
window, and from the north by two similar windows
and a window, c. 1450, in the west end of the wall,
which formerly occupied a corresponding position in
the north wall of the nave. It is of three trefoiled
lights under a square head with the glass set in the
centre of the wall, and has deep casement mouldings
in both the inner and outer jambs, which are returned
round the head.
The lower part of the spire is square, and—with
the exception of the west side, which is of stone, the
west wall of the end bay to the nave being carried
up—is covered with weather-boarding. The upper
part is octagonal and is covered with shingles and
surmounted by a modern weather vane.
The porch has been completely restored. Two
circular wooden pillars which formerly supported a
west quire gallery have been utilized to carry some
of the roof timber. The roof is covered with stone
slates. The chancel roof, which is of three bays, is
modern, but the nave still retains its mediaeval
covering. It is of trussed rafters, with the space
between the rafters ceiled and plastered, and is
divided into bays by slightly cambered tie-beams.
At the west end of the nave is a large queen-post
truss carrying the east side of the spire. With the
exception of the roof to the porch and the first few
courses at the eaves on the south side of the chancel,
which are of stone slates, all the roofs are tiled.
Across the east end of the nave is an early 15th-century chancel screen, divided into five bays by six
little buttresses, each of two steps with moulded offsets and bases. The centre bay is open, but the
upper part of each of the side ones is farther divided
by moulded mullions, which mitre with the head of
the screen and stop on a chamfered sill into five
cinquefoiled openings. The head is finished with a
modern cornice, and the lower part of the side bays
is filled in with modern lining.
The pulpit is modern, but the font is of 15th-century date. The bowl is octagonal, with a quatrefoil panel in each face, in the middle of each of which
is a conventional leaf or flower, and stands on an
octagonal stem having a small chamfered base. The
connecting piece between the bowl and the stem is
unmoulded, being simply chamfered, with a small
bowtel at the necking, but has carved on its four
eastern faces naturalistic leaves in the following order:
on the south-east, three oak leaves; the east, three
horse-chestnut leaves; on the north-east, five ivy
leaves; and on the north three oak leaves.
In two small lights in the tracery of the head of
the east window of the south wall of the nave are
the borders to the original stained glass. They are of
yellow and white and have a painted pattern in dark
brown running round them.
A considerable quantity of 16th-century panelling
has been used in the backs of the modern varnished
deal pews.
On the north wall of the chancel is a painted
wooden and plaster monument to John Goodwine,
died 30 December 1618, aged seventy-one years and
three-quarters, and Margaret his wife, daughter of
Ninian Ward of Cuckfield, Sussex, died at East
Grinstead 31 January 1611, aged seventy years,
leaving issue Edward and Elizabeth. Figures of the
man and his wife are represented kneeling at a desk,
one on either side, and in the head of and below the
monument are painted shields, the upper one Gules
two bars or between six lozenges argent, the lower
one Argent a cheveron between three birds sable.
On the north wall of the organ chamber is a mural
tablet to Thomas Wallop (ob. 27 June 1629), third
son of Richard Wallop of Bugbrooke (Northampton)
and Mary his wife, daughter and co-heir of Thomas
Spencer of Everton (Northampton). Richard the
father was second son of Sir Oliver Wallop of
Farleigh Wallop, Hants. In the head of the monument is a shield of Wallop, quartering Wallington
and Spencer. On the north wall of the aisle is a
mural tablet to Ralph Hope, only son of Ralph Hope
of Horne, who died 13 July 1681, aged twenty-four.
In the head of the tablet are his arms: Ermine two
cheverons engrailed sable between three scallops gules.
In the floor of the nave is the sepulchral slab of the
above. There is also the slab of his father Ralph,
who died in 1693, and his mother Elizabeth Hope,
who died in 1690.
There are three bells: the treble, apparently a
17th-century bell, has no inscription, maker's mark
or name; the second is inscribed 'R. M. William
Eldridge made me 1663,' the tenor 'John Waylett
made me 1781.'
The plate consists of a silver chalice, paten, plate
and flagon, all of 1821, and inscribed 'Presented to
the parish of Horne by Thomas Poynder, Esq.,
Patron of the Living. April 1822.'
The registers previous to 1812 are in six volumes:
(1) baptisms 1614 to 1694, burials 1614 to 1710,
marriages 1643 to 1710. The burials from 1678
have been transcribed from another volume. (2)
burials 1678 to 1742; (3) baptisms and burials 1711
to 1787, marriages 1711 to 1753; (4) marriages
1754 to 1781; (5) baptisms and burials 1783 to
1812; (6) marriages 1783 to 1812.
ADVOWSON
Horne Chapel remained attached
to Blechingley until 1705, when the
two churches were separated by Act
of Parliament. (fn. 94) It was stated in the Act that the
churches had been united because of the smallness of
the tithes, but that now, owing to disemparkment in
Blechingley and to the cutting down and grubbing
up of several large woods in Horne, the tithes had
been greatly improved. Horne therefore became a
separate parish on 25 March 1705, William Jones
being appointed the first rector and the patronage
being in the hands of Sir Robert Clayton, as was that
of Blechingley. (fn. 95) It remained in this family until
after 1780, (fn. 96) and passed, probably with Blechingley,
to Richard Troward, who conveyed it in 1798 to
Thomas Poynder, (fn. 97) in whose family it remained
until 1863, when it passed to Miss Weston. The
present patron is the lord of the manor.
In 1346 Mary de St. Paul, Countess of Pembroke,
received licence to found a house of the Carthusian
order at Horne in Surrey, and to assign to the prior
of the same and his successors a messuage, 4 carucates
of land, some 340 acres of pasture, meadows and wood
and 52s. rent in Horne and Lingfield. (fn. 98) There is,
however, no evidence that this house ever came into
existence. (fn. 99)
CHARITIES
Smith's charity is distributed as in
other Surrey parishes.
A charity of unknown origin, consisting of £1 a year charged on Packmire's Farm, is
also distributed.