BLACKHEATH HUNDRED
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��Ralph Nevill Sa notes the common occurrence of slabs of Sussex or Petworth marble for steps and paving-stones, and occasionally in mantel-pieces, in these cottages and houses a fact due to its having been dug in the neighbourhood of the church until within the memory of persons now living.*
At Burningfold is a fine old house of timber framework. The two gables of the front are covered with tile-hanging, but in the central space on ground and first floors the original construction is exposed and exhibits some square and circle patterns in the framing, bearing considerable resemblance to the work at Great Tangley. There are some good mullioned windows with lead glazing, and the in- terior retains a little oak panelling.
The Baptist chapel was erected in 1883, and the elementary school in 1839.
BURNINGFOLD Manor seems origi- M4NORS nally to have been a member of Bramley. 7 There is record of Stephen ' de Brun- feld ' in a suit against the Abbot of Westminster in 1199.* In 1233-4 J nn de Fay, lord of Bramley, sued Richard of Burningfold for customary service in Bramley. 9 In 1229 John de Fay gave to Roger de Bydon land in the woods of Burningfold and Wither- fold; 10 and in 1235-6 Roger granted the land to Sandon Hospital to be held of him." The Witherfold lands reverted to the Crown and were granted to Ralph Camoys of Wotton."
Richard of Burningfold and his wife Isabel were dealing with land in Dunsfold in 1 2712," and he was one of the tenants who in 1280 paid rent due from Bramley Manor to the Prior of Carisbrook in accor- dance with a grant of Ralph de Fay. 14 In 1386-7 Robert Adam and his wife Elizabeth sold to Robert March certain lands in Dunsfold with the reversion of one-third of a quarter of a house which Joan widow of John of Burningfold was holding in dower." Two centuries later Burningfold was in the possession of William March and of John his son, 16 and in 1569 of John's son Richard March, 17 who was succeeded in 1 584 by his son William. 18 In 1 604 William March sold the manor, all manorial rights, and the ironworks there 18a to George Buncombe for J 886. 18b But John Middleton, Richard Wyatt of Hall Place, Shackleford, and Thomas Burdett, also had claims on the estate, 19 and Dun- combe sold his rights to the other three in i6o8. !0
���GORING, Baronet. Ar- gent a cheveron between three rings gules.
��Middleton seems to have purchased those of Burdett, for in 1619 Henry Wyatt inherited one-third of the manor at his father's death, 11 John Middleton con- veyed two-thirds to Arthur Middleton in 1622,** and finally Henry Wyatt sold his rights in the manor to Arthur Middleton, 1 * whose two youngest sons succeeded to the manor." They sold it in 1657 to Henry, afterwards Sir Henry Goring, bart., whose direct descendant, Sir Harry Goring of Horsham, conveyed the manor to John Tanner in 1722.** He died in 1751, and his executors sold it about 1756 to Viscount Mon- tagu (who died in 1767),** and Manning and Bray incor- rectly state that his son Anthony Joseph sold it by auction to Edmund Woods ini768;' 7 but Montagu mortgaged the estate to Robert and Henry Drummond, 28 of Drummond's Bank, in 1781, and his son sold it to Edmund Woods jun. in ijgo. 13
Mr. Woods died in 1833,* his daughter Katherine succeeded. She was succeeded by her sister Charlotte Woods, who built and endowed the school on the Green in 1850."
It now belongs to Mr. Samuel Barrow.
FIELD PLACE, a farm in the south of the parish, is a reputed manor." In the I Jth century it was the property of William Cranky and his wife Mar- garet. 3 * It descended to their son William and from him to his son Henry." Henry Cranley leased the manor to his younger son John for forty years after his own death with remainder to his eldest son Emery." From him it descended in moieties to his daughters, Alice wife of Peter Quenell, 36 and Jane wife of George Stoughton.* 7 The whole manor descended to Peter Quenell, son of Alice and Peter. 38 He sold it to William Yalden in 1651." In 1677 William Yalden and Mary Yalden, widow, conveyed the manor to William Sadler. 40 In 1808 it was the property of William, nephew of Thomas Sadler, 41 and in 1850 of James Sadler of Chiddingfold." Land in Chiddingfold, of this manor, was held by Giles Covert, who died in 1556, holding of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. 43
��* Old Cottage and Domestic Architecture in SoutA-tvfst Surr. (znd ed.), 87.
8 Large Paludina marble, Topley, Geol. of the Weald, 105.
' In 1583-4, however, Richard March is said to have held it of Viscount Mon- tagu as of his manor of Shalford Bradestan; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cciv, 97.
8 Rot. Cur. Regis (Rec. Com), ii, 60.
8 Close, 18 Hen. Ill, m. 17 d.
10 Chart, quoted by Manning and Bray, ii, 60.
11 Feet of F. SUIT. 19 Hen. Ill, 177. 11 Cal. Pat. 1317-11, p. 565.
18 Feet of F. Surr. 56 Hen. Ill, 27.
14 Exch. K..R. Transcripts of Charters, bdle. 2.
15 Feet of F. Surr. 10 Ric. II, 9. The lands were the right of Elizabeth, who was evidently an heiress of John of Burn- ingfold ; see also ibid. 2 Hen. IV, 4, which seems to refer to the same lands.
Surv. of Bramley, Edw. VI.
" Feet of F. Surr. Mil. II Eliz.
18 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. z), cciv, 97.
��'"a See V.C.H. Surr. ii, 173.
18b Close, 2 Jas. I, pt. xx.
19 Ibid. 6 Jas. I, pt. ii, no. 29.
- > Ibid. ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 5 Jas. I.
81 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccclixx, 132. Wyatt left by his will, 12 Mar. 1618, one-third of his share to his third son Francis, who died 1634, and does not refer to this property in his will. Henry borrowing money on the land refers to it as his by right of descent, and his mother's will in 1632, printed in Surr. Arch. Coll. iii, speaks of his having acquired an estate from his brothers and sisters against the intention of his father.
M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 20 Jas. I.
88 Ibid. Trin. 14 Chas. I. Arthur Mid- dleton is said to have died just afterwards seised of two-thirds of the manor only. The title to the Wyatt third was probably in doubt.
- Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccclxxxvi,
124.
Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 8 Ceo. I.
- Haslemere Registers ; Private Deeds.
93
��27 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. ii, 61.
89 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Trin. 30 Ceo. Ill, m. 257.
ai> Ibid, and see Land Tax Assessments.
80 Private information.
81 Brayley, Tofog. Hist, of Surr. v, 125. 88 In 1 347 Richard de Feld was an
agent in a conveyance of land in Dunsfold; Feet of F. Surr. 21 Edw. Ill, 3.
88 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 48, no. 8.
84 Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 37 Hen. VIII.
85 Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 48, no. 8. 84 Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc.), pp. 162
and 86.
1 Feet of F. Div. Co. HiL 5 Jas. 1 1 Ibid. East. 6 Jas. I.
88 Feet, of F.Surr. East i6jo.
"Ibid. Mich. 1651.
> Ibid. HiL 28 & 29 Chas. II.
41 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. IT, 60.
41 Brayley, Tofog.Hist.ofSurr.v, 125.
48 Harl. MS. 756, foL 309.
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