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Friends of Woking Palace
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Timeline
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Holders of the Royal Manor of Woking
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1066
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Edward the Confessor
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1066-1189
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Crown
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1189
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Richard I grants Manor of Woking to Alan, Lord Bassett of Witcomb
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1232-1271
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Gilbert, Fulk and Philip sons of Alan
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1271
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Aliva daughter of Philip
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1272
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first mention of a house on the site
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1280
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Hugh Dispenser the elder Spenser son of Aliva
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1327
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Manor forfeited to Crown
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1327
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Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, second son of Edward I
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1330
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Manor forfeited to Crown
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1330
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John, Earl of Kent; Joan, Fair Maid of Kent, sister of John
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1360
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Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, son of Joan
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1397
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Thomas, Duke of Surrey and son of Thomas
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1399
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Manor forfeited to Crown
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1400
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Alice Countess Dowager of Kent, mother of Thomas, Duke of Surrey
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1415
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Margaret wife of John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset and daughter of Alice
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1439
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John, Duke of Somerset, son of Margaret
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1443
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Edmund, Duke of Somerset, brother of John
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1448
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Edmund granted charter to hold a fair each year on first Tuesday after Feast of Pentecost
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1454
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Eleanor, wife of Edmund
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1461
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Accession of Edward IV
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1465
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Manor forfeited to Crown
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1466
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Lady Margaret Beaufort and her third husband Sir Henry Stafford
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1468
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Lady Margaret and her husband Sir Henry entertain Edward IV at Brookwood
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1471
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Sir Henry Stafford dies at Woking
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1472
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Lady Margaret marries her fourth husband Thomas, Lord Stanley
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1479
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Lady Margaret‘s son Henry Tudor later to become Henry VII rescued from the battlefield of Edgecote by Sir William Devereux, Lord Ferrers
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1480
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Edward IV at Woking
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1483
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death of Edward IV
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1485
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death of Richard III at Bosworth Field
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Woking Palace
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1490
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Henry VII at Woking. Treaty of Woking signed
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1500
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death of Gilbert Gilpin, park keeper of Woking Park, buried at St Peter’s
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1503
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Henry VII decides to transform the manor house into a palace and reclaims the Manor from his mother
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1508
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building of the King’s Hall
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1509
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death of Henry VII and Lady Margaret Beaufort
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1511
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£21 15s 11d paid to the glazier, Barnard Flower, for glazing of the hall and other offices
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1515
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Henry VIII at Woking
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1515/6
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building of a new wharf alongside the River Wey
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1516/7
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making of a gallery with a draught in the Queen’s lodging
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1533
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tilers repairing the roofs of the King’s watching chamber and the Queen’s dining chamber and carpenters shoring up the great bay window in the Queen’s chamber
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1534
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pargeting and whiting of all the walls, windows and chimneys in the King’s and Queen’s lodgings
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1534
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taking down of two wharves in the moat
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1534
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bridge built across river
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1534
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Edward Lydger of Woking, bricklayer undertakes to burn 230,000 bricks in a kiln on Clandon Common.
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1536
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Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell at the Palace
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1537
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Two new bowling alleys built
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1540
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Thomas Cromwell appointed Earl of Essex
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1540
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Henry VIII and Queen Catherine Howard at the Palace
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King’s gallery re-plastered
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1540
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bridge across river newly planked
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1541
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Henry VIII at Woking
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1543
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carpenters frame a new window for the king’s presence chamber and make an arbour (chiefly of birch branches) for the king to dine and sup in
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1543
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Henry VIII and Catherine Parr at Woking
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1544
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Catherine Parr at Woking
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1547
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death of Henry VIII
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1550
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Edward VI at Woking
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1553
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death of Edward VI
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1558
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death of Mary I
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1569
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Elizabeth I at Woking
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1576
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two new galleries built
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1578/9
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new framing and raising of bridge over river making it a foot wider
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1579/80
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construction of great new window extending through two stories to the battlements
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1580
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part of the inner moat filled in
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1593/4
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plasterers modernising the external appearance of the building
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1603
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death of Elizabeth I
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1607
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John Norden map of Woking Park
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1620
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James I grants Manor of Woking to Sir Edward Zouch
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1622
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Sir Edward Zouch presents gallery to St Peter’s
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1625
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death of James I
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1625
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Charles I at the Palace
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1625/34
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Sir Edward Zouch abandons the Palace and builds himself a new manor house at Hoe Place
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1627
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sermon preached before Charles I in St Peter’s
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1649
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execution of Charles I
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1685
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death of Charles II
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1688
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death of James II
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1702
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death of William III
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1709
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Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, a mistress of Charles II becomes the Lord of the Manor
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1714
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death of Queen Anne
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1810
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Estate map showing Palace site in the occupation of William Garment
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1823
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John Hassell water colour of the remains of the King’s Hall and barrel vault
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1874
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members of the Surrey Archaeological Society visit the Palace site
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1917
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report on the condition of the barrel vault
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1988
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Woking Borough Council purchase the Palace site
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Updated 9 December 2009
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