DIRECTORY. 705 . (.] erection------for the Surrey militia in Friary street. The 9 James I. when the site of it with the appurtenances, market, on Saturday, for wheat and other grain, is also containing, by estimation, 5 acres 3 roods 10 perches, was rfor mf'at, poultry, and vegetables; there is also a market granted, by letters patent, to Francis Carter of Guildford, on Wednesday for the latter articles, and a weekly lamb and it became private property; by a document of which and cattle market about Eastertide and for some weeks family, it was sold to the late Duke of Norfolk, about after; there is a good pig market every Saturday. The 1810, and has since been alienated by the late Duke to town is divided into three parishes: that in the east part of Lord Grantley, in whose possession it now remains. Guild­ the town being known by· the appellation of the Holy ford is the birth place of Robert A bbott, Bishop of Salis· Trinity; that on the west, St. Nicholas; and the part of bury; George Abbot, Archbishop of ; John the town between the two, the parish of the blessed Virgin Parkenhurst, Bishop of Norwich; and John Russell, R.A.. Mary. Trinity church standi! upon the very summit of Guildford was bequeathed by Alfred ihe Great to his the hill, in the east part of the town ; it is a modern nephew, Ethelwald. In 1036, Prince Alfred, son of structure, and built of ren brick, with tombs of Arch­ Ethelred II., was treacherously seized by Harold I., and bishop Abbot and Speaker Om·low, having a square his Norman attendants, six hundred in number, massacred. tower 90 feet high, at the west end ; it contains 8 bells. The population appears, in the time of "Domesday Sur­ The benefice is a rectory with St. l\fary's, value £171 per vey," to have bf'en about 700. The earliest charter was annum, and in the gift oi the Crown. St. Mary's church, that of Edward 11. situate on the declivity of the hill, a little to the south of Guildford returns two members to Parliament, and is the High street, is a very ancient and mdely built structure, the polling place and place of election for West Surrey. and is supposed to have been erected by some of the It is the head of a Poor Law Union, comprising most of Testard family for the use of their tenants. The building the Hundred of Woking, with Albury, and God­ consists of a nave with two aisle!~, anti a chancel, with aiming. Guildford is now approached by a branch of the .a chapel on each side of it. St. Nicholas church stands South-Western railway from Woking. There are 40 on the western bank of the river near. the bridge. public and private schools in the borough. There is a 1t is a hand!!ome object at the western entrance of the National school, for boys and girls; a Lancasterian school, town from Portsmouth or Southampton; at the west end for girls, and an Infant school. The population, in 1851, of this church is a square tower with a peal of 8 bells, and was 8,084, distributed as follows, viz. :-Holy Trinity, on the south side is a chapel belonging to the manor of 1,616; St. Mary, 1,762; St. Nicholas, 1,793; Stoke, Loseley. The benefice is a rectory with glebe house, valued 2,507; extra-parochial, 394. The extra-parochial places at £437 per annum, in the gift of the Dean of Salisbury. are the House of Correction, with 184 inhabitants; Besides the three churches, there are several other places of Priory, or Friary Place, with 120; Prospect Place, 10; worship in Guildford-viz., the Independent, Baptist, and Barrack Field and Bowling Green Precinct, the parlia­ Wesleyan chapels. The charities of this town are very mentary borough includes only a population of 6,740. The numerous, the principal of wl~ich is Abbot's Hospital. asses~ment of the Bowling Green Precinct is £71. This hospital was founded by George Abbot, Archbishop is a hamlet of St. Nicholas, with 740 in­ of Canterbury, in the reigns of J ames I. and Charles I. for habitants. Losely Hall, said to have been erected by Sir a master, 12 brethren, and 8 sisters. The Poyle Charity Thomas More, 2 miles from Ouildf,,rd, is a handsome is worthy of notice. The Poyle estate came by purchase mansion, belonging to the Molyneux family. At Ca~ into the hands of Henry Smith, and was left by him to therine Hill are the ruins of a chapel, rebuilt in the time Robert Earl of Essex: and others, in trust, that the proceeds of Edward I.; a fair is held on the hill on the 2nd of of the same should be received by the Mayor and approved October. The ruins of N ewark Abbey are in the neigh­ men, for the u~e of the poor of Guildford. There are bourhood ; Satton Place is a venerable structrue. From -excellent free schools here, the principal of which is the the eurious range, called the Hog's Back, is a fine view. Grammar school, founded and endowed in 1509. Erected The Queen of Henry III. founded a convent of friars into a free Grammar school by Edward VI. The number preachers at Guildford, remains of which still exist. educated upon the foundation is 10. There is also Love­ STOKE is a suburb of Guildford, adjoinin:z it on the joy's Charity schaol, National and Infant schools. The south-west, and is bounded on the north by fairs are held on the 4th of May, for sheep, principally in and Woking, and Merro\v on the east. In 1851 this the town-field and the streets at the lower end of the town, parish contained 2,507 inhabitants, and 2,410 acres; it and for cattle and horses, in the North street. Also is noticed in "Domesday" as being in the possession of November 22, for cattle, horses, and sheep, held in the the King, and as being part of the crown lands since the North street. On each occasion the pig fair and stalls reign of Edward the Confessor; it continued to be the are in the High street. Guildford Castle is very ancient, property of the Crown until the sixth year of John, 1204, the chief' parts of this building ori~inally occupied a con­ who, by a charter, granted it, with all its appurtenances, siderable eminence to the south of the site of the present to the church of St. Paul, London. Ou the deprivation High street, in which position the castle commanded the of Bonner, Bishop of London, in the first year uf Eliza­ river beneath it on the west. Some few remains of the beth, it again came into the hands of the Crown, and was "()Uter walls may yet be found in many places, particularly granted to various persons; the present lady of the manor on the south of the High street, and several curious archl's and 'principal landed proprietor is 1\'Irs. Colonel Delap, were taken away in 1800, on the removal of some old of Stoke Park. Woodbridge House, in Stoke, forming houses which stood nearly as iar as Trinity Church, east­ ~wo distinct residences, the seats of the Hon. Col. Main­ ward. Several acres were included in the precincts of this waring Ellerker Ouslow, and Ho~s Donnelly 1\fangles, once extensive fortress, in the middle of which stood tht! Esq., M.P. The church is dedicated to St. John the rudely constructed and then impenetrable citadel. The Evangelist, and the benefice is a rectory, in the deanery walls of the tower are about 10 feet in thickness at the of Stoke, value £597 per annum; patron, H. Paynter, bottom, and the foundations are of chalk mixed with flints; Esq.; the rectGr is the Rev. Samuel Paynter, of Stoke the superstructure is mostly composed of ragstone and Hill. The church, which has been considerably enlarged, roman brick, disposed in the herring-bone fashion, and and partially repewed, is a plain edifice, of flint and stone, cemented together with mortar of surprising hardnesCJ. and consists of a nave, chaucel, and north aisle, with a There were neither windows nor even loop-holes on the tower at the west end; the interior is very neat, and ground-floor; but in the upper stories there was formerly there is an organ, the gift of the late W. Aldersey, Esq.; one great window on either side near the middle; the rest at the east end of the aisle is Stoughton's chapel. Here of the windows are all breaches of modern times. The date are several long Latin monumental inscriptions, chiefly of building this castle is not ascet·tained ; in a publication on brass plates, for various individuals of the family of relative to the county of Surrey, as well as in Speed, it is that name, who resided at Stoughton Place, in Stoke, mentioned as having been the residence of the old English and were lords of the manor. Bv the side of the road • princes; but no traces of it are to be met with in the leading from Guildford to Stoke Church, is a neat brick Saxon Annals, nor is it noticed in " Domesday :" it is, hospital, erected for six widows, in 1796, by Richard and therefore, pretty certain that it was not erected before the Henry Parson, of Guildford; the widows must be not less Conquero•·'s reign at the earliest. In 1377, Sir Simon than 60 years of age, chosen out of Stoke; or, if such. .Burleigh, lLG., was constable here for Richard II.; afrer cannot be found there, out of the parish of Worplesdon, which time, says 1\lr. Manning, we find no notice of it till which is adjoining. Here is a small private lunatic asylurn.