Quenells of Chiddingfold 1373–1744

Chiddingfold, “Chadynge's fold" (Anglo-Saxon: meaning – enclosure for animals) became famous for

its glass-making - during the reign of Elizabeth I, there were no fewer than eleven glass works on

the green. Chiddingfold glass was used in some of the finest buildings in the land, including St

Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, and St George's Chapel, Windsor.1 Though the industry went into

decline when the prohibition of the use of wood fuel was issued in 1615.2 Chiddingfold and its neighbourhood abound in ancient farm-houses and cottages, prominent among

which may be mentioned Lythe Hill Farm, on the right of the road leading from Haslemere to

Anstead Brook, with halftimber work of two periods, the richer and later being a gabled wing with

square and circle patterns in the timber framing, probably c. 1580; but the main body of the house

is at least half a century earlier. The wing is panelled, and has a good mantelpiece of c. 1700. It was

owned by the Quenell (pronounced ‘Chennel’), Quenel, or Quyneld family, to which, as the name is

uncommon, the Quynolds who held land at Ware, Hertfordshire, in the 14th century, may have

belonged. They were in Chiddingfold in the 14th and 15th centuries.3 The name Quenell is old

French and means ‘dweller by the little oak’4 though another source asserts that it derives from the

Old English pre 7th Century female personal name 'Cwenhild', in Middle English 'Quenilla' and

'Quenilde'. The name is composed of the elements 'cwen', meaning 'woman', and 'hild', meaning

'battle' or 'war'.5

6

John Quyneld, holding land in 1373 in the manor of Ware in Hertfordshire, was the father of Peter

Quenell, as was shown by a monument formerly at Haslemere7. In 1374 John and Walter Lepere are

recorded as having been granted a licence to grant two properties and 2 acres of land called

'Eggeswere' and 'Idelstree' (Edgware and Elstree), to the Priory of Watford8

Timeline:

� 1373 Plague

� 1381 Plague in the north of England � 1381. The Peasants Revolt led by Wat Tyler. Peasants in Essex and Kent rose up and marched on London capturing

the Tower and killing the Archbishop of Canterbury and the King’s Treasurer. The King, Richard II, managed to persuade them to disperse by making promises, none of which he kept.

� 1382 Winchester College is founded by William of Wickham � 1388 The Scots defeat the English at the battle of Otterburn � 1391 Plague almost as bad as that of 1348-1349 in the north of England � 1400 Geoffrey Chaucer dies. He was the first great writer in the English language � 1405 Plague � 1407 Plague

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiddingfold 2 http://july.fixedreference.org/en/20040724/wikipedia/Sussex 3 Malden H E, A Victorian County History: A History of the County of Surrey Volume 3, Parishes, Chiddingfold. pub 1911. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42922 4 Mybaby-name.com 5 Surnamedb.com 6 http://www.jvsn.co.uk/history.htm 7 'Parishes: Chiddingfold', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 10-16. URL: http://www.british-

history.ac.uk/

8 'The fourteenth century: Prior Thomas de Watford', The records of St. Bartholomew's priory [and] St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield: volume 1 (1921), pp. 168-177.

John Quyneld

� 1415 The battle of Agincourt. Once again the English win a great victory � 1420 Plague � 1427 Influenza � 1439 Pestilence � 1453 The Hundred Years War ends. England loses all its territory in France except for Calais. � 1455-1485 England suffers a series of civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses � 1461 The battle of Towton � 1464 Plague � 1471 The battle of Tewkesbury and plague � 1472 Plague � 1476 Caxton introduces the printing press into England and plague � 1478 Plague

� 1479 Plague � 1483-1485 Reign of Richard III � 1485 Plague and the English sweat

Peter may have been born in Ware in Hertfordshire. The family moved to and settled in Chiddingfold

around 1480 when Lythe Hill Farm was built. Peter had two sons, Peter (abt 1480-1559) and

another, possibly Richard Quyneld, a Cistercian monk at Meaux Abbey, who was granted a pension by Henry VIII on 11 December 1539 during the dissolution of the monasteries9

Meaux Abbey Earthworks and Wharram Percy Medieval village site of the Abbey’s Sacred Well

Peter Quenell (abt 1480-1559), the eldest son of Peter Quyneld, was born at Lythe Hill Farm about

1480, the year that Lythe Hill Farm was built, and inherited the property from his father. Peter

married Alice and they had seven children; Elizabeth, Cathryn, Thomas (1500-1571), John (1507-),

Richard (1510-), Robert (1540-1612), and Peter (1553-)

� 1485 Henry VII wins the battle of Bosworth. Richard III is killed and Henry becomes the first Tudor king � 1487 Plague � 1494-1496 Syphilis � 1497 John Cabot sails to North America � 1499-1500 Severe plague

Nothing is known about him though he is mentioned in his brother Thomas’s will

� 1508 English sweat � 1509 Henry VII dies. Henry VIII becomes king. Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon. Great outbreak of plague � 1510 Ague � 1511 The Mary Rose is launched � 1513 The English win the battle of Flodden against the Scots. Great outbreak of plague

9 'Letters and Papers: December 1539, 11-15', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 14 Part 2: August-December 1539 (1895), pp. 243-255.

Peter Quyneld m unknown wife

Peter Quenell (1480-1559) m Alice unknown

Richard? Daughter Elynor, cousin to Thomas Quenell 1500-1571 and mentioned in his will

John b 1507

� 1517 Plague and English sweat � 1528 English sweat � 1531 Great outbreak of plague � 1533 Henry divorces Catherine of Aragon. He marries Anne Boleyn � 1534 Henry VIII makes himself head of the Church of England � 1535 Great outbreak of plague � 1536 The Pilgrimage of Grace. (An uprising in the North of England). Anne Boleyn is beheaded. Henry marries Jane

Seymour � 1536-1540 Henry VIII closes the monasteries and confiscates their property � 1537 Jane Seymour dies � 1539 Ague, cholera and dystentry � 1540 Henry marries Anne of Cleves but quickly divorces the 'great Flanders mare' Henry marries Kathryn Howard.

Outbreak of dysentery, cholera and spotted fever � 1542 The battle of Solway Moss. The English defeat the Scots. Kathryn Howard is beheaded � 1543 Henry marries Catherine Parr. Great outbreak of plague � 1545 The Mary Rose sinks � 1547 Henry VIII dies. Edward VI becomes king. The Duke of Somerset is made Lord Protector. Great outbreak of

plague � 1549 An Act of Uniformity imposes a Book of Common Prayer. The Duke of Northumberland becomes Lord Protector � 1551 last ever outbreak of the English sweat � 1552 The Duke of Somerset is executed

Most of the family would have witnessed Edward VI’s progress when in July 1552, accompanied by a

substantial retinue, of court officials and men at arms numbering some 4,000 horse, camped on the

village green. Edward stayed at Chiddingfold’s Crown Inn (still extant) on his way to a State visit to

Shillinglee, not far from Chiddingfold and the home of the ‘Master of Game’, Henry Earl of Arundel.

Around about the 24 July, not long after the progress passed through Chiddingfold, the retinue was

substantially reduced to 150 as they had ‘begun to eat up the country’ and on 25 July they arrived

at Cowdray, the house of Sir Anthony Browne. Edward recorded in a letter to his close childhood

friend, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, that ‘we were marvellously, yea, excessively banqueted’10

Crown Inn, Chiddingfold

� 1553 Edward VI dies. Mary becomes queen.

� 1554 Lady Jane Grey is beheaded � 1555-1558 Queen Mary persecutes Protestants. Nearly 300 people are burned to death for 'heresy'. � 1557 Cholera, dysentery, ague and spotted fever � 1558 Queen Mary (also known as 'Bloody Mary') dies. Elizabeth I becomes queen. Cholera, dysentery, ague and

spotted fever � C. 1560 to C. 1640 'The Great Rebuilding'. Stone and brick replace most wooden houses. Chimneys and glass

windows become common � 1563 Plague � 1568 Plague

When Peter died in 1559 he was interred in the Quenell’s burial place at St. Mary’s Church,

Chiddingfold “against the east end of the Chancell within the Churchyard“. Of Peter and Alice’s

children…

Elizabeth Quenell married John Brodefolde whose son Richard would act as guardian of Peter

Quenell’s inheritance from his brother Thomas

10 Skidmore C, Edward VI The Lost King of England, 2007, Pub. Orion, London

Elizabeth m John Brodefolde

Cathryn m Richard Hardonne

Richard Brodefolde

Thomas Hardonne John Hardonne

Cathryn Quenell married her cousin Richard Haredonne, who would later transcribe his cousin

Thomas Quenell’s Last Will and Testament on 3rd April 1571. They had two sons, Thomas and John

Richard Quenell moved to Chithurst, as attested by a Deed of Partition dated 4 April 1598 and

issued in West Sussex between two Yeoman, Peter Bettesworth of Elsted and John Bettesworth of

Chithurst of the Manor of Chithurst which reads … a messuage or tenement with barns, orchard,

gardens, lands &c. in the tenure of Richard Quenell in right of his wife and lands called Lobsters in

the tenure of Ayling holden by copy of court roll of the said manor of Chithurst11

On 10 October 1584 Peter, a husbandman, purchased property from Giles Hull of Hambledon, a

gentleman, and his wife Mary (with consent of Sir William More and son George) which included a

barn, garden etc called 'Sollers', alias Soleste, on north side of Chiddingfold Street (bounds given);

also 35 acres called 'Whytlands', bounded by highway from Chiddingfold to Hasellbridge on the east,

the brook running from Haslemere to Dunsfold on the south and west and a lane leading from the

highway to Chownings on the north - all of which Giles inherited from his father John Hall for a

consideration of £9012. Peter also had a Covenant agreed with Sir William More of Loseley and

George More on the 24 Sep 1588 that the Mores will not make any claim to a property called Sollers

or Soleste and 35 acres at Whytlande in Chiddingfold which Peter had purchased from Giles Hull of

Hambledon) by reason of a civil contract recognised in law on Giles Hull's lands.13 Peter probably

purchased the land rights from the inheritance made to him by his brother Thomas. Peter’s

inheritance had been kept and maintained by his cousin Richard Hardedonne between the date of his

brother Thomas’s death in 1571 and 1577 when Peter reached the age of twenty four.

Thomas Quenell (abt 1500-1571) married Agnes Irelond. As the eldest son he inherited Lythe Hill

Farm and, as mentioned in his will purchased Anstrood and Anstrood (now Anstead) Fields along

with a barn, which had belonged to a Mr. Denham, from a John Covert of Hascombe, and purchased

a plot of land adjoining a water-course, called Rovis (now Imbhams pond) from a the same John

Covert and purchased the other half of the property in 1568 from John More, grandson of Sir

Christopher More’s sister Florence Scarlett, a widow. This water course had previously been the

supply for Viscount Montague of Cowdray’s forge furnace which had been located on leasehold land

at the south corner of Imbhams Farm at a rent of six shillings eight pennies a year.

Thomas Quenell farmed the tithes of the “parsonage of Hasilmore (present day Haslemere)," and

was acquainted with its curate at the time, one Richard Crampe. His mother church was Winchester

to which he bequeathed two pennies. He had four servants to whom he left legacies in his will…

Robert Page: one cow to be delivered to him within one month next after my death and six

pounds thirteen shillings and four pennies to be paid to him within one year next after my death

William Wodier: one heifer bullock of the age of three years such as one as my supervisors will appoint to be delivered within one month next after my death

11 Add Mss 37,938 National Archives 12 G105/6/1 Exploring Surrey’s Past 13 Item ref: LM/348/198 Surrey History Centre

Richard b 1510 m unknown

Thomas Quenell 1500-1571 m Agnes Irelond

Peter b 1553

William Allyn: three ewe tegge14 to be delivered to him within two months next after my

death

Agnys Todman: one heifer bullock of two years old to be delivered within seven years next

after my death

In his will he describes in detail Lythe Hall Farm which he left to his wife, ‘a parlour in the west side

of my house at Lyethehill which adjoins the hall there, the chamber over the same pier15, the

garret16 above the same chamber, the loft over the hall and the kitchen loft with free ingress, egress

and regress Room and foyer in the said hall at all times and also half the kitchen, and wood or fuel,

to dress meat and drink, bake and brew, and to do all other necessaries mete and convenient in the

same kitchen at all times and half the new coop now standing in the said kitchen with free ingress,

egress and regress into the same kitchen at all times and also all my old stable which adjoins to the

west side of my house, the west end of my barn to have hay or straw in, and half the rest of my

barn, and also the upper gates for (her) cattle… garden which adjoins the east side of my said house

and all my orchard which adjoins to the said garden on the south side of my said house from the

new pale that adjoins the said garden on the eastside unto the home field on the west side and

extends from the said house on the north side unto the little mead on the south side’ and three best

beds with bolsters, pillows and pillow cases belonging to them, two bedstead, sheets, three pairs of

canvas sheets, blankets, three best coverlets & one Quilt, pewter vessels, his father’s five pewter

platters, two pewter dishes and one basin, his candlesticks, best brass pots, kettles, a kettle which

was bound with iron by Hewghe the Smithy, a posnet17 of brass bells, a Skyllet18 of brass, and a

Caldron, wooden vessels, a vate19 and kyfe20, bacon flytches21 at the beam, Lard and grease,

flytches of dried beef, two best table clothes, two best towels, table napkins, one dozen spoons,

three best stone cups, a best chest and coffers and one belonging to his wife

He also owned the lease on lands called Padbrooke, Harwells the Leecrofte and Harwels meade

(field). His livestock is listed as…

one cow, , two ewes, one cow, one heifer bullock of the age of three years, three ewe tegge, one

heifer bullock of two years old, one ewe of two years old, seven ewes and wethers22 shipe23 in

keeping with one Mr. Lussher of Hyndehed in the Parish of Thurseley, six best keene24, one cow

named Lustye, four heifers whereof one black with a white star in the forehead, one Red with a

white back, one other Red with a chynned25 face and one brown with a white face, six best oxen

with yokes and chains meet for them my new wollen wheles26, a young bay Amblynge27 mare, a

black Amblynge mare with a white star in the forehead two stears now going in Anstroode the one

having a brended28 face and the other being a yellow stear with white face, one brown heifer going

with the said two stars in persaid ground of Anstroode and one other heifer of cooler Red with a star

in the forehead, twelve best ewes and twelve Lambs, five hogs of one sort being about two years old

at Michaelmas last, two Red hogs going among my wild hogs and half my wheat and Rye that I have

now growing on the ground and also half my oats that I have now growing on the ground (except all

the oats now growing in the two Snow fields), one acre of grass in the Hearnelonde, my poultry

whatsoever, all the Rye, Rye straw and all the oat straw for the threshing of the oats in Haslemere,

one hundred of the best oaks of which one oak is already felled that are standing, growing & being

in and upon the manor of South Imbham, barren cow (of five) except two

14 A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing 15 Abutment of masonry which projects from the fireplace with recesses either side of it 16 A room on the top floor of a house, typically under a pitched roof; an attic. 17 A little pot 18 A small pot with a long handle 19 From the Middle Dutch for cases 20 Or keeve : a large tub or vessel used in brewing 21 Side of bacon 22 A castrated ram 23 A productive, non-combinative suffix forming abstract nouns from other nouns – friendship(e). In this instance probably implies ward ship or care 24 Noun for cows 25 With a narrow strip of white on the face 26 Wool wheels – for spinning yarn 27 Gentile, a superior, better-bred animal, an easy-gaited, gentle and pleasant-mannered horse 28 Brindled or streaked

According to his wishes he was buried at St. Mary’s Church, Chiddingfold next to his father “against

the east end of the Chancell within the Churchyard“ though nothing remains to mark the spot. The service would have been conducted by the then Chaplain of St. Mary’s; John Evans.

29

Chiddingfold Church, J Hassell 1822

� 1570 The Pope excommunicates Queen Elizabeth

When Thomas died in 1571 without issue, he willed Lythe Hill Farm to his brother, Robert Quenell

(1540-1612) who added a wing to the east end of the house. Robert also became owner of the

Imbhams iron furnace in Chiddingfold (the works probably reached into Haslemere) purchasing more

of South Imbhams in 1574 from Thomas Hull. Robert had a fine levied against him in 1576 by

Florence Scarlett who inherited South Imbhams from her brother, Sir Christopher More. Robert’s

brother Peter was pardoned by Anthony Browne, Viscount Montague of Cowdray, probably in early

1575, for a misdemeanour, alluded to in correspondence between the Viscount and William More in

a letter dated 1st April 1575. The letter, from the Viscount, expresses his concerns about an

‘outrageous band of hunters’ in Whitley Park and, his own, Cowdray Park, which included the ‘chief’

Robert Quenell. He states that since they ‘are his own men, and thus he is reluctant to proceed

alone. He has three or four of the offenders, and has sent for another, Yalden, late servant to Mr Hill

[?Hull] of Hambledon. The men 'deny all things peremptorily'.’30 Robert died in 1612. His wife was

Elizabeth Hall, heiress of George Hall of Field Place31, Compton, where the Quenells came to live.

Robert and Elizabeth (nee Hall) had two sons, Robert (abt 1585- ) and Peter (1580-1650) both born

in Chiddingfold.

32 Field Place, Compton

� 1573 The architect Inigo Jones is born � 1576 The first theatre opens in London � 1577-1580 Francis Drake sails around the world � 1580-1582 Cholera, hot ague and spotted fever � 1585 Plague in Chesterfield in Nov � 1587 Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded. Plague in Chesterfield in May1588 The Spanish Armada is defeated � 1596 Francis Drake dies. Cholera and spotted fever � 1597 spotted fever and famine fever � 1600 The East India Company is founded � 1601 The Poor Law is passed. People are made to pay a rate to support the poor

29 Surrey Archaeological Society Flickr photo collection 30 6729/8/54 Exploring Surrey’s Past

31 In 1490 Field Place, a small manor-house, belonged to Anne Saint Leger (descendant of Edward III and granddaughter of

Richard Plantagenet). Latterly it was the property of William Crandley and his wife Margaret from whom it descended to their son William and from him to his son Henry. Henry Crandley leased the manor to his younger son John for forty years after his own death with remainder to his eldest son Emery of Wisborow (now Wisborough), Sussex. From him it descended in equal parts to his daughters, Elizabeth Hall wife of Peter Quenell, and Jane Hall wife of George Stoughton. The whole manor descended to Peter Quenell, son of Elizabeth and Peter, who sold it to William Yalden in 1651. ‘Parishes: Compton', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 16-24. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx.

32 Google Earth

Robert 1540-1612 m Elizabeth Hall (above)

It would seem that Robert could live up to a growing reputation as a bit of a rogue (his son would

also fall foul of the law – see below; 21-22 Feb 1632) as on 15 May 1604. Bp. of Oxford's Privilege.

Upon Complaint this Day made by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, That one Robert Quinell, his Lordship's

ordinary Servant, hath been lately arrested, and committed to the Prison of The White Lyon, in

Southwarke, upon a Capias ut legatum (a writ for the arrest of an outlaw), contrary to the Honour

and Privilege of the said High Court; it is Ordered, That a Writ of Habeas corpus shall be awarded,

for the removing of the said Prisoner out of Prison, and for the bringing of him, by the Sheriffs of

Surrey (whose Prisoner now he is), before the Lords, in the Upper House, on Saturday next, the

19th of this Instant May, by Nine in the Morning33

Married a Dorothy

Magdalen Hall (now Hertford College)34

Robert (abt 1585-) matriculated from Magdalen Hall on 26 November 1602 aged 17, was elected a

Demy at Magdalen College in July 1605 (elections for Fellowships and Demyships were always held

in this month). He took his BA on 24 January 1607 and his MA on 9 November 1609. During his time

there, the one time when he actually appears in his own right was when on 5 October 1610, he and

four other Demies were punished for missing morning prayers by being “deprived of their commons”

for a day. That means that they lost the free meals to which they were entitled under their

scholarships. This was a common punishment at the time. Robert remained in his post until 1612.

The Vice-President’s Register for 10 February 1612 reports that Master “Quennill” [sic] was deprived

of his post “because he had spent time away from College beyond the days permitted by statute,

although he was not hindered by illness”. Quite what he was doing away from Magdalen is not

stated, but it seems that he had been staying away long enough to arouse official wrath.35 The

principal at Magdalen Hall at the time was a Puritan called John Wilkinson. Robert’s contemporary

alumni at Magdalen Hall were Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (Magdalen Hall 1579-1603)

and Thomas Hobbes, Political philosopher and author of Leviathan (Magdalen Hall 1603-1608, Sir

James Hussey, his master)

Thomas Hobbes Magdalen College

� 1602 Plague

33 'House of Lords Journal Volume 2: 15 May 1604', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 2: 1578-1614 (1802), pp. 299-300.

34 Hertford College Alumni website http://alumniweb.hertford.ox.ac.uk 35 Courtesy of Robin Darwall-Smith, Archivist, Magdalen College Oxford. The original is in Latin, this is Robin’s translation.

Robert (1585-1643)

� 1603 In March Queen Elizabeth dies. James I becomes king. Plague � 1605 The gunpowder plot, a Catholic conspiracy to blow up parliament, is discovered. � 1607 Jamestown, the first successful British colony in North America, is founded � 1610 Smallpox and plague � 1611 The King James Bible is published. Plague � 1612 Epidemic ague and spotted fever � 1613 Smallpox, epidemic ague and spotted fever � 1614 Smallpox � 1616 Epidemic ague � 1621-1622 Smallpox � 1623 Great fever, spotted fever and hot ague � 1624 Great fever, spotted fever and hot ague

� 1625 James I dies. Charles I becomes king. Great fever, spotted fever, hot ague, great plague, malignant fever and the end of harvest ague

� 1626-1627 Plague and malignant fever � 1628 William Harvey publishes his discovery of the circulation of the blood. The Petition of Right is presented to the

king by parliament. George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham and favourite of James I is assassinated in Portsmouth. Smallpox, measles, plague and malignant fever

� 1629-1640 The Eleven Years Tyranny. Charles I rules without parliament. � 1632 Christopher Wren is born. Moderate smallpox

20 August 1601. Copy of gift between (1) John Osborne, snr, of Chedingefolde [Chiddingfold],

Surrey, yoman, and (2) Roberte Quennell of Chedingefolde, yoman, and William Billinghurst of High

Billinghurst in the parish of Shalford, Surrey, yoman, as trustees, of a messuage with barns, stables

and orchards in Chedingefold in the tenure of John Osborne, snr, and all his lands in the parishes of

Chedingefolde and Whitley [Witley], apart form a cottage with eight acres of land in Chedingefolde

in the tenure of John Lawborne and an annuity of 10 shillings out of land now Stephen Peito in the

parish of Witley, being the settlement upon the marriage of John Osborne, jnr, son of John Osborne,

snr, to Johan Gould, daughter of William Gould of Dunfolde [Dunsfold], Surrey, yoman. Dated 20

August, 43 Elizabeth I [1601]36

On 21-22 Feb 1632 Robert, who was living in Dunsfold at the time, had a deposition made against

him which alleged that he had killed some stray sheep and had kept a gold chain he had found while

ploughing37

Field Place, Dunsfold. Quite possibly the residence of Robert Quenell and could’ve been named after his brother’s place of

residence in Compton

On the north wall of the chancel of the Church of St. Giles, Ashtead, Surrey is a brass plate to

Dorothy wife of Robert Quennell, 'Pastor of this church,' 1640. Ashtead Rectory, An Ordinance for

sequestring the Rectory of Ashtead, in the County of Surrey (become void by the Death of Mr.

Quennell, the late Incumbent) – 23 Sept 164338

St. Giles Church, Ashtead, Surrey

36 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=503-pw&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 37 LM/1057/1 National Archives

38 'House of Commons Journal Volume 3: 23 September 1643', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 3: 1643-1644 (1802), pp. 252-254.

39 Signature of Peter Quyneld about 1640

Peter (1580-1650), ‘a gentleman’, married his cousin Alice Crandley (1567-1599) in 1598 and

subsequently, after Alice’s death in 1599 her sister, his other cousin, Elizabeth Crandley (- 1631) in

1599 by whom he had a son, Peter (1603- ) and a daughter Elizabeth (-1640). He had the manor of

Ashurst and Fridinghurst conveyed from John Middleton of Horsham and Thomas Burdett of Abinger

to himself and Thomas Payne of Pitfold and in 1623 and the same year he was made a gentleman of

coat armour at the Heralds' Visitation40

41

Peter’s name occurs amongst the chief landowners in Surrey in 1625, who subscribed to the loan

levied by the King in 1625, his own share being 10 pounds and in 1627 he acquired the other part of

Imbhams from John Covert’s sons John and Anthony. He is recorded as supplying 'gunns and shott'

for Charles I on credit when the Civil War was breaking out. The family at this point are ardent

Royalists, and his son, ‘Captaine’ Peter (1603-5 May 1666), who married Elizabeth Grey in 1628 and

had three sons, Peter (-1684), Arnold (-1680) and Thomas, raised a Royalist company of 74 men in

1642, but it was soon disarmed. A somewhat risky undertaking since not far away, near Haslemere

is Black Down House, built in 1607 with panelled rooms and mullioned windows, which was used by

Oliver Cromwell as his headquarters during the Civil War.42

� 1633 William Laud becomes Archbishop of Canterbury � 1634 Smalpox � 1638 Epidemic ague, hot ague and spotted fever � 1639 Epidemic ague and hot ague � 1641 MP's draw up a list of grievances called the Grand Remonstrance. Smallpox in London and plague � 1642 Civil war between king and parliament begins. They fight the indecisive battle of Edgehill. Isaac Newton is born � 1643 War typhus, spotted fever and epidemics of hot ague � 1644 Parliament wins the battle of Marston Moor. Plague, spotted fever and epidemics of hot ague � 1645 Parliament wins the battle of Naseby. William Laud is executed. Plague � 1646 Charles I surrenders to the Scots and the first civil war comes to an end. Plague � 1647 Plague � 1648 .Charles I starts another civil war. The Scots intervene on his behalf. However the battle of Preston ends hopes

of restoring Charles I to power. Pride's Purge. Thomas Pride removes some Presbyterian MPs from parliament. Plague

� 1649 King Charles I is beheaded. Plague and smallpox in London � 1650 Plague

39 http://www.jvsn.co.uk/history.htm 40 Malden H E, A Victorian County History: A History of the County of Surrey Volume 3, Parishes, Chiddingfold. pub 1911. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42922 41 Azure a cross argent between two roses or in the chief and two fleur-de-lis argent in the foot 42 http://www.haslemere.com/vic/outandabout.htm

Peter 1580-1650 m Alice Crandley 1567-

1599 in 1598 then Elizabeth Crandley – 1631 in 1599, both cousins

Bargain and sale 1) Peter Quennell of Chiddingfold (could have been the elder or younger), gent 2)

Thomas Remnant of Compton, his wife Susan and his youngest son Richard. Cottage with garden etc

and 1 acre in Compton (position described) to Thomas and Susan for life, then to Richard and his

heirs for £25 down and peppercorn rent. 1 Nov 161343

He died in 1650 and was buried on 7th May 1650 at Haslemere, Surrey where there is a Latin

memorial inscription to him

� 1651 A Scottish army invades England in an attempt to put Charles II on the throne. The Scots are defeated at

Worcester and Charles II escapes from England passing through Petworth just south of Chiddingfold. Thomas Hobbes publishes his work Leviathan. Spotted fever and epidemics of hot ague

44

Alms House at Petworth

� 1652 Inigo Jones dies. Smallpox in London � 1652-1654 The first Anglo-Dutch war � 1653 Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England � 1655 Smallpox in London � 1655-1657 Rule of the Major-Generals

They lived at Wintershull, Dunsfold, Surrey and had three children, Ann, Joan and John. John had

two daughters, Joan and Margaret. John senior set up a new rail, the upkeep of middle post of

which was the responsibility of both John senior and Arnold Quenell, for the Church of St. Mary’s and

All Saints in Dunsfold. John senior’s mother was known as Old Widow Bromham and lived at a

property called New Inne in Dunsfold. She was buried at St. Mary’s 12 December 1663 aged 91. 45

46

Church of St. Mary’s and All

Saints in Dunsfold

43 LM/349/96 National Archives 44 Gutenberg.org 45 Dunsfold and its Rectors, Surrey Archaeological Collections Vol 32 pg 10

46 Presented by the Rev. Erskine Wm. Holland. T. Allom. Engraved for Brayley's History of Surrey. J.H. Kernot. Dorking. Published by & for Mrs. R.B. Ede

Peter 1603-1666 married Elizabeth Grey daughter of Rev. Edmund Grey and sister of Joan Grey

Elizabeth -1640 married John Bromham who predeceased her

Daughter Joan married a Mr. Medgick and daughter Margaret married a Mr. Stoner. Elizabeth’s Will

reads…Testatrix: Elizabeth Quennell of Dunsfold, widow, Date of Will: 27 Jan 1639/40

[nuncupative]. To my son John Bromham a bed and bedstead and a cauldron (which was his

father's); to my granddaughter Margaret Bromham daughter of John a cupboard; to my

granddaughter Joan Bromham daughter of John two pairs of sheets; to my daughters Joan Medgick

and Ann Stoner both of Kirdford, Sussex. Witnesses: John Shipsea, rector; Arnold Quennell (X)

(nephew?). Proved: 12 Apr 1640 to Joan Medgick, daughter and principal legatee47 John senior’s

mother, referred to as Old Widow Bromham lived in a property called New Inne. She was buried aged 91 on 12 December 166348

Peter and Elizabeth’s son Peter, born in 1603 enrolled as an undergraduate at Magdalen Hall (now

Hertford College), Oxford in 1621 and studied there at the same time as Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of

Clarendon, a moderate Royalist during the English Civil War, who fled to Jersey with Charles (II),

Prince of Wales in 1646 (Magdalen College 1622-1626). In the 1620s Magdalen Hall enjoyed an

immense and not altogether explicable popularity. With over three hundred resident members, it

was larger than any college, and accommodation was hard to find, so much so that the Principal,

John Wilkinson, had inaugurated an ambitious building programme to which he himself contributed

£3,000. John Oliver, fellow and later President, in writing to Hyde's father alluded to the throng in

the Hall, but reassured him that his son occupied 'a chamber warm and convenient to study in, and,

among so great a company as we are, at a reasonable price'.49

Edward Hyde in 1626

Peter served a commission in the king's army, and for his loyalty and that of his father, " Peter

Quinnall, Esq. '' it was intended at the Restoration for him to be raised from the Yeomanry to the

Gentry as one of the thirty-two persons in Surrey selected as Knights of the Order of the Royal Oak.

However, for political reasons it was never instituted. His estate was valued at a wealthy £600 a

year and he married Elizabeth daughter of the Reverend Edmund Grey and went to live a Field

Place.

A vellum indenture records the sale of a tenement and lands in Bramshott, Sussex (now

Hampshire), between Peter Qwynnell of Lythe Hill (the elder?) in the parish of Chiddingfold, Surrey,

gent, and Robert Palmer of Lippuck (liphook) Hants, yeoman. Dated the 10th day of March in the

4th year of the reign of Charles I [1629]. Relates to the sale of lands called Bowhunt, 100 acres

arable land in Bramshott and the manor of Rogate in Sussex. Also mentions an Elizabethan deed

between Right Honourable Earl Arundell and the Right Honourable John Lumley Knight Lord Lumley

and lady Jane his wife, daughter of the said Earl. Lythe Hill house is now an hotel. Peter Qwynnell

(or Quennell) supplied guns and shot to Charles I during the civil war from his iron works.

Handwritten in English on vellum. Very good clean indenture. Document size: 66 by 60 cm. Large

3.5 cm diameter wax seal with rampant lion impression50

On 16th March 1657 a quitclaim was made between Peter (using the name variant Quynnell), at the

time classified in the court register as a gentleman, and Richard Remnant of Compton, a

brickmaker, on property and land called Wattillham in Compton51.

47 Archdeaconry Court of Surrey DW/PA/7/13 f.123v; DW/PA/5/1640/120 48 Dunsfold and its Rectors, Surrey Archaeological Collections Vol 32 pg 10

49 Hertford College Alumni http://alumniweb.hertford.ox.ac.uk 50 Qwynnell, Palmer 51 Item ref: LM/351/20 Surrey History Centre

On 2 Sep 1663 a feoffment with livery of seisin52 was granted between Peter Quynell esq the elder

of Compton and his son and heir Peter, to William Sadler of Chiddingfold, a blacksmith, for Sollars,

Chiddingfold, which had been purchased by the elder Peter’s Uncle Peter on 10 October 1584, for a

consideration of £57.53

Peter and Elizabeth had three sons, Arnold (-1680), Peter (-1684) and Thomas

The elder Peter died in 1666, and was buried at Compton Church, Compton, Surrey, England 7 May

1666 in the north part of Compton Church (Pilgrim’s Progress – 1678. Compton was one of the

villages that the pilgrims travelled through on their way to Canterbury) under the uppermost arch in

the wall there. In the vault probably of the Halls of Field Place, whose heir he was. During his

lifetime he had borrowed heavily, a habit which was to come back to haunt his son Peter.

Compton Church, Compton, Surrey

Just a year later a Grant, dated 30 Apr 1667, was made by his widow Elizabeth to 1) Sir William

More 2) Edmund Yalden, rector of Compton, and his successors. All trees planted or to be planted by

Yalden within 50 yards of hedges and ditches of the Barn Field, Gascoynes and Bushy Parkes in

Compton and land of Elizabeth Quennell, widow. Lops and tops54 to be distributed to poor at

discretion of rector, churchwardens and overseers of the poor. 55

The younger Peter (-1684) with his mother Elizabeth (nee Grey) Quynell’s agreement sold South

Imbhams, and perhaps had already also sold Lythe Hill, in 1651 to Thomas Newton and William

Yalden to pay off his father’s debts. Yet there was still some contention between Peter Quynell

(Quennell) and Thomas Newton in 1680 as is shown by a legal suit over the mortgage of Imbhams

[iron forge] and Lythill [Lythe Hill Farm, Chiddingfold], which was settled by private arbitration by

Mr Killingworth, Wight and Child and may have been written in the hand of James Gresham56, the

MP for Haslemere in 1661 and 1679, grandson of Sir Thomas More, Constable of Farnham Castle

and Uncle of Sir William More.

In 1619 Peter Quennell presented for an ecclesiastical post at the Church of St. Giles, Ashtead in

Surrey and again in 164757

In 1653 when the Parliamentarians won the English Civil War they destroyed the forge at Imbhams

and ruined the family who had to leave their ancestral home at Lythe Hill, now a hotel. In 1673

52 Livery of seisin was the dominant method of transferring land in England until 1536, and it continued to be legal until 1925. The term livery of seisin means simply "transfer of possession": livery means "delivery" and is from the Old French livrer, and

seisin means "possession" and is from the Old French saisir or seisir. The concept behind livery of seisin,

therefore, was the symbolic transfer of the possession of land. The entire ceremony of transfer was called feoffment with

livery of seisin, with feoffment meaning "a gift," specifically a gift of a freehold interest in a parcel of land. The transferor was the feoffor, the transferee was the feoffee, and the land interest was the fief (Answers.com) 53 G105/6/5 Surrey History Centre 54 from Middle English loppe, small branches and twigs

55 LM/351/46 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=176-lm_2&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 56 LM/1298 National Archive 57 the right of presentation to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice, so called because the patron defends or advocates the claims of the person whom he presents

Peter (-1684)

Peter was known as Captain Quynnell, a title by which he was still being referred to after 1695. He

had two daughters; Elizabeth and Joan, and one son, Simon Quenell (-1744) who married

Susannah. Elizabeth married Robert Beare and Joan married John Waight.

30 Jan 1673 letter from James Gresham, Haslemere, to his nephew Sir William More, Lord of

Godalming, whose residence was at Loseley Park near Guildford. ...TitleLetter from James Gresham,

Haslemere, to Sir William More, Loseley. He responds to a letter from More and refers to a coroner's

inquest, possibly regarding a murder a claim on the felon’s goods made by Sir William, about which

Gresham's 'cousin', Wight, has 'consulted with some very ignorant lawyers'. Gresham advises More

that he may have a 'melius inquirement to avoid the first inquest,' and should get a copy of the

inquest from either Mr Child of Guildford or the coroner in London. He also refers to another matter

concerning a 'discourse between Captain Quenell and Mr Wimbolt'. Mr Wimbolt and his brother,

Child, believe that More 'may by a melius inquirement get Payne to be found compos mentis'.

Gresham offers to find a deed of purchase by Sir George and Robert More for a 'charge of £16 at the

Rolls' if Mr Smith denies he has it.58

Peter died in 1684 leaving two sons Simon (-1744 see below) who moved to Chertsey and became

an Inn Keeper, and possibly a Peter Quenell, Esq., who, in 1693/94, owned a house at the City of

London, Farringdon Ward Without, St Dunstan Precinct, Street side59

� 1657 Great epidemics of ague, influenza and hot ague

� 1658 Oliver Cromwell dies. His son Richard takes over. Great epidemics of ague, influenza and hot ague, catarrhal influenza and spotted fever

On 26 May 1656 Thomas Quynell of Chiddingfold, a gentleman, sold a Mortgage (with covenant to

levy a fine) on White Lands (13 enclosures containing 50 acres) in Chiddingfold to Richard Watts

Esq. of Guildford for £15060

On 19 Jan 1658 Thomas Quynell61 and Richard Watts assigned a lease to William Sadler of

Chiddingfold, a blacksmith, on Whitelands, Chiddingfold for a consideration of £150 paid to Watts

and £100 to Quynell62

� 1659 Richard Cromwell resigns. His fall from power is so swift he becomes known as 'Tumbledown Dick'. Great epidemics of ague, influenza and hot ague, catarrhal influenza and spotted fever and smallpox

� 1660 Charles II becomes king. Official founding year of the Royal Society

On 18 Jan 1660 William Sadler paid £150 in addition to previous payment63

� 1661 Robert Boyle publishes his great work The Sceptical Chemist. Brain fever and nervous stock predominantly

affecting children, fevers, small pox and spotted fever � 1662 The Royal Society (a Scientific organisation) is given its charter by Charles II who marries a Portuguese

princess, Catherine of Braganza. The Act of Uniformity is passed. Fevers and spotted fever � 1663 The first turnpike road is opened. (Turnpike roads were owned by turnpike trusts that maintained them. You

had to pay to use them � 1663-1664 Fevers and spotted fever � 1665 Last great plague in London. This is the last outbreak of bubonic plague in England � 1666 Last plague and the great fire of London. Most of the city is destroyed but it is soon rebuilt � 1665-1667 The second Anglo-Dutch war � 1667 John Milton publishes Paradise Lost. Smallpox � 1668 Smallpox � 1666-1670 Hudson’s Bay Company is formed

58 LM/COR/6/39 Exploring Surrey’s Past

59 'Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693-1694: City of London, Farringdon Ward Without, St Dunstan Precinct, Street side', Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693/4: The City of London, the City of Westminster, and Metropolitan Middlesex (1992).

60 G105/6/2 Surrey History Centre 61 No records found for Thomas and brother Arnold Quynell may have been cousins of the younger Peter, or possibly even his brothers. Both were butchers. Arnold’s will is dated 21 Jul 1718 and in it kinsmen Arnold and John Quinell are mentioned 62 G105/6/3 Surrey History Centre 63 G105/6/4 Surrey History Centre

Thomas

� 1669 Cholera nostrus, smallpox, infantile diarrhoea, summer of cholera � 1670 Measles, smallpox, summers of cholera � 1671-1672 Smallpox and griping in the guts � 1672-1674 The 3rd Anglo-Dutch war � 1673 The Test Act is passed. Catholics and Protestant dissenters are prevented from holding public office. Comatose

fever � 1674 Comatose fever, measles spring and summer, smallpox autumn and winter � 1675 Comatose fever, influenza and griping in the guts � 1676 Comatose fever and griping in the guts � 1678 Titus Oates claims he has discovered a 'Popish plot' against Charles II. (The whole thing is a hoax). Hot ague

epidemic and influenza � 1679 The Act of Habeas Corpus. Imprisonment without trial is outlawed. Hot ague epidemic

On 24 Apr 1680 Elizabeth and John Layfield, a clerk of Chiddingfold, sold the rectory and church of

Cleve, Somerset, Cowpers and Coxgarden, Balefield, piece of land (11 acres), and 60 acres called

'Harrolds', Chiddingfold, previously mortgaged to Elizabeth Quynell for £500 to Richard Coldham esq

and Edmund Yelden (Yalden?), a clerk, both of Compton, and Richard Symes of Guildford, a

gentleman. A subsequent memorandum of 22 Oct 1688 - term of years now vested in Charles

Layfield of Farnham, clerk, who hereby assigns it to Thomas Newton, esq, in trust for Thomas

Hutches of Guildford who has bought the freehold of the Chiddingfold property from John Layfield.64

� 1680 Hot ague epidemic � 1681 Hot ague epidemic and smallpox

On 5/6 October 1683 Thomas Quynell appeared as a witness to the issue of a lease and release by

William Winson of Plaistow in Kirdford, yeoman, as a marriage settlement, and William Putticke of

Plaistow, a butcher, of a property and 20 acres called Phillips, near Plaistow Green in Kirdford,

adjoining Plaistow Green on north west, and lands of Thomas Jackman called Quynell House

(Plaistow, Kirdford) on the south east and also garden and field called Rickman Garden and Rickman

Field, containing 4 acres in Plaistow. With covenant to levy a fine to John Woods, William Winsom,

and Robert Lusher of Chiddingfold, Surrey, mercer (textile merchant) for £230 to Putticke, £170 to

Winson65

On 9 and 10 October 1688 Thomas Hutches, alias Hutchest, of Guildford, a yeoman, sold Cowpers

and Coxgarden, Balefield and Spookes alias Swanland in Chiddingfold to Peter’s brother Thomas and

nephew Arnold Quennell the younger (-1718, son of Arnold -1680), both of Chiddingfold and both

butchers, for a consideration of £36266 buying back the land that had once belonged to Thomas’s

mother Elizabeth. Then, in all likelihood to raise further finance, they sold the mortgage on Cowpers

and Coxgarden property to Johane Yalden of North Chapel, Sussex, a widow, on the 22 October 1688 for the sum of £15067

Arnold had two daughters, Mary and Joan, and three sons Arnold, Robert and John, who lived on a property called Boxalls.

Mary married a Mr. Meersh and had a son, John Meersh

In 1641 Arnold was a Witness and Overseer to the Will of Thomas of Dunsfold, Husbandman. Proved: 9 Jun 164168

The Will of Arnold Quennell (the elder), yeoman, ancient and weak (-1680) was proved on 21

January 1681/2 for a fee of £101 and 10shillings at the Commissary Court of Surrey, the Will of

Arnold Quennell of Dunsfold, and dated 14 February 1679/80. He was to be buried in the churchyard and bequeathed to the poor ten shillings. The remainder of his will states that…

64 G105/5/2 Surrey History Centre 65 Add Mss 53,645-53,646 dated 26 March 1662, Add Mss 53,647-53,652 dated 21/22 April 1680, and Add Mss 53,653-53,658 National Archive 66 G105/5/4 Surrey History Centre 67 G105/5/5/ Surrey History Centre 68 DW/PA/7/13 ff.188r-v; DW/PA/5/1641/131B

Arnold (-1682)

To Bridewell, Foster and Higglett (probably servants or farm hands) four shillings each; I have

settled my land by conveyance to my three sons; to my son Arnold ten shillings; to my son Robert

Quennell twenty pounds above the sixty pounds he has already had, the cupboard in the hall, twelve

pewter dishes, the bed and bedstead I lie on with bolsters, blankets and its trappings and two pairs

of good sheets; to my daughter Mary Quennell ten pounds over and above the hundred pounds she

has had already; to my godson and grandson John Meersh ten pounds and to my son John

Quennell’s daughters Mary Quennell and Joan Quennell ten pounds each at age twenty one; to my

daughter Mary a joined cupboard in the parlour, twelve pewter dishes, second best bed, pillows,

bolsters, blankets and its trappings and a bedstead in the chamber where my sons lie, a flaxen

tablecloth, a pair of holland sheets, two pairs of very good tire flaxen sheets and the second chest in

the house; to my son Robert a joined chest at the foot of the bed in the parlour to my godchildren

one shilling each; to my son John Quennell a little close of land at Hazel Bridge69 (Pickhurst Road),

Chiddingfold and residue, Executor Overseers: my friends John Holney of Dunsfold; George

Entiknappe of Chiddingfold, yeoman. Witnesses: John Ifold; Arnold Fullett; William Dowlter70

� 1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opens its doors

� 1684 Severe bowel complaints � 1685 Charles II dies. James II (a Roman Catholic) becomes king. The Duke of Monmouth (Charles II's illegitimate

son) leads an unsuccessful rebellion in Southwest England. Typhus and smallpox � 1686 'Hanging' Judge Jeffery’s sentences many of the rebels to death. Typhus � 1687 Isaac Newton publishes his great work Principia Mathematica. He lays the foundations of modern physics. � 1688 The 'Glorious, Bloodless Revolution'. James II flees abroad and William and Mary become the new monarchs.

Influenza and infantile diarrhoea � 1689 The Bill of Rights is passed. Infantile diarrhoea � 1693-1699 Seven ill years � 1694 Mary dies of smallpox aged 32. The Bank of England is founded. Fever epidemic in London � 1698 Thomas Savery invents the first steam engine � 1701 The Act of Settlement is passed. Jethro Tull invents the seed drill � 1702 William dies. Anne becomes queen � 1703 Scarlet fever in London � 1704 The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Blenheim. The British capture Gibraltar � 1705-1706 Measles � 1706 The Duke of Marlborough defeats the French army at Ramillies � 1707 The Act of Union joins England and Scotland � 1708 The Duke of Marlborough defeats the army of Louis XIV at Oudenarde � 1709 Abraham Darby uses coke instead of charcoal to smelt iron. The Duke of Marlborough wins the battle of

Malplaquet against the French. London fever and influenza � 1710 London fever and smallpox

� 1712 Newcomen makes steam engines for pumping water out of mines. Influenza � 1714 Queen Anne dies. George I becomes king. Fever epidemic in London and smallpox � 1715 The first Jacobite uprising. The Highlanders rise but the uprising ends in an indecisive battle near Stirling.

Convulsions � 1718 Typhus and measles

Probate of will, dated 21 Jul 1718, of Arnold Quennell (the younger) of Chiddingfold, butcher. House

and lands called 'Swan Land', the Ballfield and Coxgarden to kinsman Arnold Quinell (a cousin?)

after wife's death. Farm called 'Lower Tugley' to kinsman John Quinell (a cousin?). Several

legacies. William Osmen of Chiddingfold, chirurgeon71, one of the overseers of the will on paper and

sealed. Lodged 24 Dec 171872

� 1719 Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe. Measles, smallpox and typhus � 1720 The South Sea Bubble (stocks in the South Sea Company suddenly fall in price and many people lose huge

sums of money.) � 1721 Robert Walpole becomes the king's main minister. People call him the Prime Minister. (Originally it was a term

of abuse) � 1722 General smallpox epidemic � 1723 The great architect Christopher Wren dies. General smallpox epidemic, fever and griping

69 The Quenells were shown as still living at Hazelbridge House, with kinsfolk living at Rodgate and Prestwick in the 1841 Census of Chiddingfold 70 DW/PC/7/1 Q36; DW/PC/5/1682/47 http://www.willtranscriptions.co.uk/surnames/p-q- r/quennell_arnold_q8.htm 71 Middle English cirurgien, from Old French, from Latin ch rurgia, surgery. A surgeon

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Arnold (-1718)

� 1725 Smallpox in London � 1726 Relapsing fever, typhus, convulsions and griping � 1727 George I dies. George II becomes king. Isaac Newton dies. � 1727-1729 Great febrile epidemic in London, relapsing fever and some typhus, fatal anginas, cholera, epidemic

agues and ‘influenzas’, fever, convulsions and griping, dysentery (amongst others), smallpox in London � 1731 Smallpox in London � 1733 John Kay invents the flying shuttle. Measles followed an influenza epidemic in same year, scarlet fever,

influenza � 1734 Scarlet fever, convulsions, ‘milatary fever’ (eruption of red and purple and white vesicles), smallpox in London � 1735 The Prime Minister moves into 10 Downing Street. ‘Milatary fever’ (eruption of red and purple and white

vesicles) � 1736 ‘Milatary fever’ (eruption of red and purple and white vesicles), smallpox in London

� 1737 Influenza, smallpox in London � 1739 The highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged. John Wesley founds the Methodists. Typhus � 1740 Typhus and smallpox � 1741 Smallpox, great epidemic of fever, great typhus epidemic, fever in Sheffield � 1742 Prime Minister Robert Walpole resigns. Smallpox, great epidemic of fever, great typhus epidemic � 1743 Dysentery followed influenza

On 20-21 Jun 1743 Arnold Quennell of Frensham, a butcher, and devisee of late A Quennell of

Chiddingfold, sold the lease and release with bond for Ballfield in Chiddingfold to Thomas Martin of Enton, Godalming, a yeoman, for £5673

On 22-23 Jun 1744 Arnold Quennell of Chiddingfold, a butcher, ex of Frensham, sold the property

divided into two called 'Cowpers' and 'Coxgarden' and 11 acres called 'Spookes' or Swanland in Chiddingfold to Thomas Martin of Enton, a yeoman, for £50074

Thomas Martin, as plaintiff lodged a complaint, in 1744 on the indenture of a fine, against Arnold

Quennell and Thomas Dudman and wife Joan, deforciants (having illegally kept out) Thomas Martin

as the rightful owner of the estate of a property and two gardens, 2 orchards, 30 acres, etc in Thursley, Chiddingfold75

� 1745 The second Jacobite uprising. The Jacobites invade England and reach as far as Derby but then turn back. Ulcerous sore throat - Sheffield

� 1746 The Jacobites are crushed at the battle of Culloden. Smallpox in London � 1749 Smallpox in London � 1751-1752 Smallpox � 1754 Smallpox in London � 1755 Measles � 1756 The Seven Years War against France begins. Putrid fever � 1757 Fever in Sheffield Oct/Nov, smallpox in London � 1758 Dysentery � 1759 General Wolfe captures Quebec but is killed. His victory ensures Canada will be a British colony not a French

one � 1759-1760 Dysentery, Yorkshire epidemic (‘Military’), "anomalous malignant measles" � 1761 The Bridgwater canal opens. Dysentery � 1762 Dysentery and influenza � 1763 The Seven Years War ends

� 1767 Influenza � 1769 James Watt patents an improved steam engine � 1771 Richard Arkwright introduces a loom powered by a water mill � 1772 Smallpox � 1773 The Stock Exchange is founded. London high febrile mortality, smallpox in Warrington � 1774 Smallpox in Chester � 1775 Jane Austen is born. Influenza � 1777-1778 Scarletina anginosa � 1779 The world's first iron bridge is built in Shropshire. Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule � 1780 Dysentery, epidemic agues � C. 1780 The Industrial Revolution begins to transform Britain

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Arnold (1700-1785)

The son of Peter (-1684), Simon Quenell, an Inn Keeper in Chertsey, died about June 1744. His Will

proved 9 June 174476 states…I do hereby give and bequeath unto my dear wife Susannah all my

Personal Estate whatsoever and I do appoint her Executrix of this my Will I do also give and devise

to my said Wife and the Heirs of her Body all my freehold Estates in the County of Surry or

elsewhere and also my right Title Interest Remainders or Reversions which I have or may claim of in

or to all or any of the Lands and Premises devised to me after the death of my Mother by the Will of

my father Peter Quennell In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this fifteenth

day of February and in the seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the King 1743 Simon Quennell

Henry Wapshot Junr

Nicklas Wooten

William Horne Junior

76 Prob11/734 http://www.willtranscriptions.co.uk/surnames/p-q-r/quennell_simon_q10.htm

Simon (-1744)

Appendices: Quennells of Shottersmill, Frensham

Appendix 1: Linchmere Priory

1500s – 1600s Quenells listed in manor rolls as tenants ofViscount Montagu77

Appendix 2: Hammer Farm, Manor of Pophole, Frensham, Surrey78

Belonged to the Quennels from 1536.

Roger Quenell, owner 1673, value 30 and a few sheep (£4 worth in 162379), a few acres of rye and

oats and five stalls of bees. Grandson James inherited the property and land at a value of £71 though with more sheep.

1654 – James admitted to Pophole for £8, paid £5 with a promissory to pay the balance later

1670 – Raised £84 on farm

1671 – Raised £105 on farm

1675 – Mortgaged farm for £30

James Quennells’ Will

£20 a piece to his two daughters at the age of 24 or when they are married. 20 shillings and the farm to his son Thomas

Thomas Quennell died 1741 and farm passed out of the ownership of the Quenells

Appendix 3: Pophole Ironworks, Tythe Dispute, 1598

Roger Quenell, witness to the deposition. Statement that the ironworks had been inplace for about twenty years80

Appendix 4: Shottover Mill

Leased to Thomas Quennell in 1536 for 20 shillings Ministers Account of 1536 to the Crown81

77 Turner G A, Shottermill, Its farms, Families and Mills: Part 1 Early Times to the 1700s, pg 60. pub. John Owen Smith. 2004

78 Turner G A, Shottermill, Its farms, Families and Mills: Part 1 Early Times to the 1700s, pg 77. pub. John Owen Smith. 2004

79 Turner G A, Shottermill, Its farms, Families and Mills: Part 1 Early Times to the 1700s, pg . pub. John Owen Smith. 2004

80 Turner G A, Shottermill, Its farms, Families and Mills: Part 1 Early Times to the 1700s, pg 133. pub. John Owen Smith.

2004 81 Turner G A, Shottermill, Its farms, Families and Mills: Part 1 Early Times to the 1700s, pg 100. pub. John Owen Smith.

2004

Appendix 5: Places in Surrey and Sussex associated with the Quenells

Chiddingfold

Lythe (Leeth) Hill Farm – Petworth Road towards Chiddingfold

Crown Inn, Chiddingfold

St. Mary’s Church, Chiddingfold - “against the east end of the Chancell within the Churchyard“.

Burial place of the Quenells

'Sollers', alias Soleste, on north side of Chiddingfold Street

Chownings

House and lands Spookes alias Swanland

Ballfield

35 acres called 'Whytlande' (White Lands), bounded by highway from Chiddingfold to Hasellbridge

(Hazelbridge) on the east, the brook running from Haslemere to Dunsfold on the south and west and

a lane leading from the highway to Chownings on the north

Hazelbridge House (Pickurst Road), with kinsfolk living at Rodgate and Prestwick

Anstrood and Anstrood (now Anstead) Fields along with a barn

Rovis (now Imbhams pond)

Padbrooke, Harwells the Leecrofte and Harwels meade (field)

Chaplain of St. Mary’s; John Evans 1571

Hyndehed in the Parish of Thurseley

Hearnelonde

Whitley Park

Cowpers and Coxgarden, Balefield, piece of land (11 acres), and 60 acres called 'Harrolds'

Hazel Bridge

Farm called 'Lower Tugley'

Thursley, property and two gardens, 2 orchards, 30 acres

Ashtead

St. Giles Church

Compton

Field Place

Wattillham

Compton Church, Compton, Surrey – burial Peter Quenell 1666. Under the uppermost arch in the

wall there. In the vault probably of the Halls of Field Place, whose heir he was

Barn Field, Gascoynes and Bushy Parkes

Dunsfold

Field Place

Arnold Quenell buried in the churchyard

Boxalls House

Haslemere

“parsonage of Hasilmore (present day Haslemere)," and was acquainted with its curate at the time,

one Richard Crampe

Peter Quenell, St. Bartholomews Church?, May 1650

Manor of Ashurst and Fridinghurst

Chithurst

Manor of Chithurst – Lobsters, tenure of Ayling

Chertsey

Inn Keeper Simon Quenell

Kirdford

Plaistow - Quynell House

Sussex – Bramshott. Midhurst, Cowdray Park and Castle

Authors note: Dates of birth and death are notoriously difficult to pin down and their accuracy

deteriorates as research progresses further into the past. The sequence of generations is correct and

is verified by research sources though some adjustment to the dates of birth and death have been

made based on such things as legal documents, court hearings, undergraduate admissions, marriage dates, child bearing age, etc., etc.

Trevor Skingle, Brixton, 8 December 2008

Additional References:

List of famines and pestilences in England to 1894. http://www.fraser-courtman.co.uk

A Timeline of English History. http://www.localhistories.org/timeline.html

Area Map (Google Maps)

Compton