ELMBRIDGE HUNDRED
��Hampden, and in 1511 Elizabeth wife of John Hampden held one-sixth of the manor." In that year she with her husband conveyed it to William Frost, 68 so that probably this sixth also formed part of the lands granted by the Bishop of Winchester to Corpus Christi College. The other sixth seems to have been afterwards acquired by Sir Richard Page, who was living at Molesey in 1532.
In 1538 the king ordered Page to leave Molesey, and gave him in exchange the nunnery of St. Giles in the wood, Flamstead, Herts, from which he ejected John Tregonwell to make room for Page, much to the former's indignation. 84 The king gave Sir Rich- ard lands in exchange for West Molesey, 64 which he annexed to the honour of Hampton Court.
Edward VI in 1553 granted the manor to Sir Richard Cotton, kt., by the name of WEST MOLE- SEY" and from him it passed to William Ham- mond early in Queen Mary's reign." In 1570 Queen Elizabeth granted to William Hammond licence to alienate the lordship and manor of West Molesey, with a capital messuage, &c., M to Thomas Brend, sen., and Thomas his son and heir. In September 1598 Thomas Brend, junr. died seised of the manor and farm in West Molesey late belonging to William Hammond, held of the Crown." He was succeeded by his son Nicholas, whose will bears date 10 October 1 60 1. 70 At the time of the death of Nicholas, his only son Matthew was not much over a year old." Subsequently several conveyances took place between Matthew and his son Thomas and various members of the Smith family," by whom it seems to have been ultimately acquired, for in 1767 the manor was in the possession of Sir Robert Smith, bart." Before 1816 it seems to have become amalgamated with Molesey Matham, for Beaumont, Lord Hotham, then held a moiety of ' the manor of Molesey Matham, or West Molesey.'
In 1 21 2 the Prior of Merton brought an action against Samson of Molesey, who had a mill in East Molesey called Upmilne, for having diverted the course of the water of Molesey to the injury of the free tenant of the priory there. 74 The grant to Sir Thomas Heneage by Henry VIII included a mill in East Molesey called Stert Mill, and two ferries leading from East and West Molesey to Hampton Court." In 1585 Anthony Crane, tenant of the manor, having died, his widow had a grant of Stert Mill and the two ferries for forty-one years. 76 One ferry was granted to Lady Dorothy Edmonds in 1 606 for forty years, together with Stert Mill. 77 In 1611 Stert Mill was granted to Felin Wilson and others ; 78 and in 1612 Martin Freeman received a grant of a rent of 7 reserved for the same mill. 79 ' Molesey-mill ' is men- tioned in 1536."
Grants of free fishery at East Molesey occur from time to time. 81
At Molesey Park was formerly an extensive powder- mill situated on the River Mole, which runs through
��EAST AND WEST MOSELEY
the grounds. The powder manufacture has long been discontinued. 8 *
The church of ST. MARY EAST
CHURCHES MOLESEY consists of chancel, north
vestry, nave, north and south aisles,
and a porch at the west end of the north aisle with a
tower above it.
The church has been entirely rebuilt during modern times, and is in late 1 3th-century style. The east window of the chancel is of three traceried lights, and there is a single lancet in the north wall and three in the south. The nave has an arcade of four bays on the north and five on the south, with circular columns and foliate capitals, and the aisles are gabled to the north and south, the eastern bay of each aisle being larger than the rest, and marked by a wider arch in the nave arcades.
The west window of the nave is of three lights, and below it is a plain west door set in a slight projection.
The tower is in two stages with two-light belfry windows and a slated broach spire with a wooden spire-light on each face. On the east wall of the nave is a brass tablet to Anthony Standen, 161 1, third son of Edmond Standen, 'which Antonie was cupbearer to ye king of Scotland sometyme Ld : Darnley father to King James now of England.' The tablet was put up by Elizabeth his widow.
Above is a shield charged with a single molet, and on a chief indented a lion passant. In the walls oi the porch a fragmentary tablet records Francis Eedes, 1667, Richard Eedes his son, 1660, and Francis son of Richard, 1 690. A separate fragment has a shield : two bars vair impaling three molets between two bends.
There are three bells, the treble, formerly of 1608, recast by Mears & Stainbank in 1871 ; the second by Lester & Pack, 1760, and the tenor by Bryan Eldridge, 1623.
The plate consists of a cup, paten, and flagon of 1873, and a spoon of 1880, with two silver topped glass cruets.
The registers date from 1668 only, previous entries having been either lost or destroyed.
The church of WEST MOLESEY, whose dedica- tion is unknown, consists of chancel with north vestry, nave with north aisle, west tower, and south porch. With the exception of the tower the whole building is of yellow brick, having been rebuilt in modern times. The tower is of 1 6th-century date and is built of flint and stone. The tower arch is of straight-lined four-centred form with moulded capitals to the inner order. The west window of the ground stage has restored tracery of three trefoiled lights, and below it is a blocked four-centred doorway under a square head, with continuous mouldings and leaves in the spandrels.
The tower is in three stages, each slightly set back, with a square stair-turret at the south-east. Above the west window is carved a pelican in her piety. On the north and south faces of the second stage are single-
��s' Feet of F. SUIT. Ea.t. 2 Hen. VIII.
82 Ibid, (vide supra).
L. and P. Hen. Pill, v-xiv, passim.
M Ibid, xiii (2), 74.
"Ibid, xiv (2), 113, (16).
Pat. 7 Edw. VI, pt. ii.
67 Pat. 1 & 2 Phil, and Mary, pt. vii, in. 24.
" Pat. 12 Elii. pt. ix. The church of West Molesey contain! a monument to
��Thos. Brende, d. 1598. He it described as ' of West Moulsey."
M Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclvii, 68.
70 Surr. Arch. Coll. x, 302.
71 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cclxxi, IJI. 78 Feet of F. Surr. East. 22 Jas. I ;
Div. Co. Mich. 1655.
78 Recov. R. Trin. 7 Ceo. Ill, rot. 227.
74 Akbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 86, 91 ; V.C.H. Surr. ii, 98.
455
��75 Pat. 22 Hen. VIII, pt. ii, m. 22.
76 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. ii, 301.
77 Pat. 4 Jas. I, pt. xxi. ? 8 Pat. 10 Jas. I, pt. v. 7 Ibid. pt. xxv.
- > L. and P. Hen. VI 11, x, p. 788.
81 Pat. 22 Chas. II, pt. iv ; Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 12 Geo. I.
ra Brayley, Hist, of Surr. ii, 307.
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