LOSELY PLACE
SURREY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
ARTIST - JAMES S. OGILVY
Approximate Size of image: 8 X 5.5 inches
Approximate Overall Size With Margins: 10.75 X 8.25 inches
LOSELY - A field path leads through Binscombe and out on the road near the gates
of Losely Place. This is one of the great houses which still remain the pride
And the glory of Surrey. Like all the others, it has had many troubles and changes
of fortune ; at one period associated with all that was famous at another, neglected
and falling into decay, and now again restored as a goodly old house. According
to the editor of the Losely MSS. (Mr. Kempe) the manor bore its present name in
Saxon times ; it was given by Osmond to Edward the Confessor. William the Conqueror
gave it to one of his companions in arms, Roger de Montgomery who was created
Earl of Arundel; he founded several religious houses, including the Priory of
Shrewsbury, where he spent the latter part of his life, and died, 1094. ; his
daughter Sibilla married Robert Fitz-Hamon, Lord of the Honour of Gloucester,
to which Losely was united. In the thirteenth century it was held of that Honour
by Eugh de Deol, and on the death of his grandson in 1356 the property devolved
on his two daughters, Joan and Margaret , Joan married John de Bures ; Margaret
married John de Norton. From their descendants the property was conveyed to the
families of Westbroke and Cross. In 1515 the Westbroke share was bought by Christopher
More, who in 1532 also bought the other share from William Sidney of Stoke D'Abernon.
In 1545 he added to the estate by the purchase of Westbury in Compton parish.
Christopher More was a member of a Derbyshire family he was one of the clerks,
and afterwards in 1546 was appointed King's Remembrancer to the Exchequer. In
1533 he received a licence to empark and surround with ditches and pales two hundred
acres of his manor of Losely. This enclosure appears to have been used as a deer
park, but no house of any consequence seems to have been erected ; his death in
1154-9 is recorded by an inscription in the Losely Chapel at Guildford. One of
his daughters married her cousin, Sir Thomas More. Christopher More was succeeded
by his eldest surviving son William who like his father became Sheriff of Surrey,
sat as Member of Parliament for Guildford. was appointed Vice- Admiral of Sussex,
and in 1576 was made a knight by Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in the presence of
Queen Elizabeth, while in the Earl of Lincoln's garden at Pirford. The Queen,
on giving him her hand to kiss told him ,that he well deserved the. honour which
she had then conferred upon him. William More began in 1562 to build the central
portion of the present mansion, a little to the north of a former house which
had been erected by his father; the work when completed in 1568 was practically
the present building as it stands ; it had been intended to extend wings southward
at each end but the design was not carried out.
CONDITION: Vintage Colour Lithograph. Blank on the
back. Comes with descriptive tissue. From a First Edition Publication. Good Condition.
Image has beautiful detail. Suitable ageing. As Scanned. This exquisite Vintage
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