Surrey archaeological collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county . marked by the restoration of the naveof the church (where some interesting wall paintingswere discovered) in 1892-3; the addition of three bells,thus making a peal of six; the building of a lych-gate to the churchyard; and the collection of funds,just before his death, for a parish hall, now namedin his memory. He died on Dec. 27th, 1913, and, onMarch25th, 1914, the present writer was instituted resigned on Oct. 1st, 1915, and was succeeded byArthur Edtvard Hollins, instituted on Dec. 20th, 191
Surrey archaeological collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county . marked by the restoration of the naveof the church (where some interesting wall paintingswere discovered) in 1892-3; the addition of three bells,thus making a peal of six; the building of a lych-gate to the churchyard; and the collection of funds,just before his death, for a parish hall, now namedin his memory. He died on Dec. 27th, 1913, and, onMarch25th, 1914, the present writer was instituted resigned on Oct. 1st, 1915, and was succeeded byArthur Edtvard Hollins, instituted on Dec. 20th, 1915. In this paper I have ventured to assail some half-accepted, but, as far as I can test them, wholly mistakenbeliefs about the story of Dunsfold. I put on record onedoubt more. I have found no authority for the allegeddedication of the Church to the Blessed Virgin Mary andAll Saints. The wills afford no clue, the testator, whensuch piety was usual, bequeathed his soul to God and toBlessed Mary and to All Saints, as part of the commonform; it is found everywhere and in no Dunsfold will. :|gu DUNSFOLD before its Restoration in 1881. \^F7-oni a Sketch hy Mrs. To face i>age 30 DUNSFOLD AND ITS RECTORS. 33 that I have examined is the dedication of the Churchmentioned. Richard Symmes (died 1680), in his for Surrey, states explicitly, DunsfoldChurch is dedicated to All Saints;^ on the other hand,in Ectons Thesaurus (3rd ed., 1763),^ under the Deaneryof Stoke, appears Dunsfold Rectory, St. Mary, patronthe King. Whether the present alleged dedication isarrived at simply by a conflation of these two authori-ties I wonder. The old Fair day, Whit Monday, givesno help to a solution, for, being a movable feast, it cannotpoint to the patron saint. An old tradition is current—it comes from the lips of an old labourer—as to the siteof the church. They do say, he said in 1914, ashow that church at Dunsfold was fought for by thePharisees and Sadd
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