A HISTORY OF SURREY
century.133 This, however, is apparently not correct. In the episcopate'of Richard of Ilchester, 1 173-88, it appears that Merton had rights, confirmed to them then by the bishop, of payments from the rector of the church of Guildford (St. Mary's), and from the rector of the" church of the Holy Trinity at Guildford, on institution and at other, times, and that Merton had received these payments in past times. 1 " It certainly raises the presumption that the convent already possessed the advowson in the 1 2th century.
The right of presentation remained with the con- vent until the Dissolution, 1 " when it passed to the Crown. 136
Bishop Morley planned the union of the benefices of Holy Trinity and St. Mary, the incomes being small, and left £1,000 in his will of 1684 for the object of increasing their value. This was supplemented by £200 from Sir Richard Onslow, and the union was completed by Act of Parliament in 1699, and became effective in 1715, when Holy Trinity became vacant and the rector of St. Mary's was instituted to both churches.
Most of the parish of St. Nicholas on the west side of the Wey was always in Godalming Hundred ; but part of it, including the church, was in the borough of Guildford from time immemorial. The advowson of the church, however, belonged to the church of Salisbury, probably from the date when the church or bishop, for the two are not clearly separated, acquired Godalming (q.v.) under Henry I.137 On i February 1324 Edward II, who refused to acknowledge John Stratford, newly-appointed Bishop of Winchester by Papal provision, and ignoring Raymond de la Goth, Dean of Salisbury, also a Papal nominee, whose admission as dean was stoutly resisted at Salisbury, tried to present by Letters Patent ; but his nominee was never instituted, and on the following 4 May 1324 the dean's nominee, Bernard Brocas, a fellow-Gascon, was instituted. The advowson remained with the church of Salisbury, by which it was usually leased, till about 1847, when it was transferred to the bishop of the diocese together with Godalming. The Bishop of Winchester first presented in 1856.
The following charities relate to the CHARITIES town in general :
The Poyle Charity, founded by Henry Smith in 1627, is administered under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 1880, and is chiefly devoted to small pensions for persons over fifty-five. (See manor of Poyle.)
In 1579 Thomas Baker founded the Blue Coat School for teaching poor boys till they were appren- ticed or passed on to the Grammar School. It is now amalgamated with Archbishop Abbot's foun- dation (q.v.).
In 1582 Joan Austen left by will 13;. \d. a year for the poor, charged on a house in St. Mary's parish.
Thomas Jackman, by deed in 1785, gave 600 to augment the endowment of Abbot's Hospital.
In 1653 Henry Baldwin gave 61. 8</. a year, similarly secured.
��In 1674 John Howe left 400, the interest of which was to be cast lots for by two poor serving- maids who had lived for two years with credit in the same family. The competitors are nominated by the mayor and magistrates.
In 1702 John Parsons gave the annual produce of 600 for the setting up in business of a young man who has served seven years'apprenticeship in Guildford, or failing such a young man, a young woman who has lived three years in one situation (not at an inn). If the magistrates fail to appoint to this charity, the charity lapses from Guildford to Chichester.
Jasper Yardley, second master of Abbot's Hospital, left in 1639 twenty nobles apiece to the three parishes of Guildford for apparelling and placing poor children thence.
The following charities relate to the parish of Holy Trinity :
John Austen of Guildford, by will 1612, left 8 charged upon the rectory of Shalford for the poor of Guildford. It was applied to ten widows of this parish.
Olive Duncombe, 1705, left about 500, the in- come of which was applied to apprenticing poor boys of this parish.
The following charities apply to the parish of St. Mary :
The bequest of John Austen, above mentioned, was partly applied to sixteen widows of this parish.
John Howe, by will 1 674, gave a house for the use of the poor, directing that two poor men and their wives should inhabit it. The churchwardens' books in the tower of St. Mary's have references to this house, but it has apparently been sold and the price mis- applied.
Benefactions by William Shaw of 1 6s. 8</., by Mat- thew Wise of 5/., and by Thomas Peters of 2/. 6d., all annual, seem also to have disappeared.
The following relate to the parish of St. Nicholas :
Caleb Lovejoy in 1676 left a house in Southwark for the education of children, apprenticing boys, and for almshouses, for a sermon also at St. Nicholas's yearly in commemoration of himself. The funds were in- sufficient for more than the schooling of twenty boys till the 1 9th century, when land was acquired in Bury Street and almshouses for four women built in 1840. By a curious coincidence the almshouses are nearly on the site of Lovejoy's father's house which was next the old rectory, the latter being removed from here to the Portsmouth Road (when the church was rebuilt in 18367). The evidence for this is an agreement copied out in the registers, concluding a violent quarrel between Lovejoy and the rector upon their respective garden boundaries.
George Benbrick, by will 1682, left land at Alton and in Shalford for eight poor freemen of the town, or their widows, being Protestants, residing in St. Nicholas*!. The income is now 60 a year.
��13S Dugdale, Men. Angl. vi, 247.
184 Cott. MS. Cleopatra, C. rii.
155 Egerton MSS. 2031, fot. 14 d. 77 ;
��1032, fol. 56 d. ; 2033, fol. I9d. 8; d. 83; 2034, fol. 5 j, 78. Wykiham'i Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), i, 83, 184, 206, 246 (Holy
��Trinity) ; ibid. 23, 59, 78, 180 (St. Mary).
1M Inst. Bki. P.R.O. Crockford.
"" Rig. tfSt. 0>mund (Rolls Ser.), i, 203.
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