TOPOGRAPHY 



THE HUNDRED OF FARNHAM 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 

 FARNHAM SEALE WAVERLEY (Extra Parochial) 



ELSTED FRENSHAM 



THE hundred originally included the ancient parish of Farnham 

 with the chapelries of Frensham, Elsted, Bentley and Scale, 

 These formed probably the 60 cassati of land granted by Cedwalla 

 in 688 to the bishops of Winchester," over which, and over 10 

 cassati more. King Edgar in the latter part of the tenth century granted 

 such liberties and jurisdictions as would warrant the erection by the 

 bishops of a separate hundred court/ Whether this was the origin of 

 the hundred or only the confirmation of then existing rights it is difficult 

 to say. 



Though not called a hundred in the Domesday Survey, these 60 

 cassati, the 60 hides of Domesday composing the manor of Farnham, 

 were apparently considered a hundred, since they are not included in any 

 other hundred in Surrey.* Hence the manor and the hundred were co- 

 extensive. 



The bishop took all the profits of the hundred court and was not 

 accountable for them to the sheriff.^ The court of' Farnham Blackheath,' 

 as the hundred court was termed, was held in Blackheathfield * in Farnham 



' This list represents the extent of the hundred at the time of the Population Abstract ol 1831. 



2 Birch, Cart. Sax. i. 106. 



' Ibid. iii. 410. ' Ego Edgar . . . quandam ruris particulam id est xxx mansas loco qui celebri 

 aet Farnham nuncupatur onomate predictae episcopatus cathedrae ob Sanctae Trinitatis apostolorumque 

 Petri et Pauli reverentiam aeterna libertate uti priscis data fuerat temporibus renovando humili restituo 

 devotione. Hanc itaque libertatem prefatus pontifex Adelwold domini cooperante gratia cum magna 

 obtinuit humilitate. Sit igitur prefata terra cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus omni terrenae servi- 

 tutis jugo libera tribus exceptis rata videlicet expeditione pontis arcisve restauratione.' The alleged 

 charter of Cedwalla speaks of sixty ' cassati,' including ten ' in Bintingum,' perhaps ' in Bentley ' ; 

 Edgar's charter speaks of ' rus Ixx mansis spaciose dilatatum,' sixty at Farnham, ten 'at Beontleh,' 

 certainly ' Bentley.' Compare the charter of Edward in 909. The actual acreage of the present 

 hundred is given as 26,250 acres. The sixty hides of Domesday are therefore very obviously geldable 

 hides or reputed hides. 



• y.C.H. Sun: i. 300. 



= Assize R. No. 877, m. 53. 



" The boundaries of the land given in King Edward's charter of circa 909 run from Hampshire 

 'out on to the Heathfield,' and so on past Aldershot. The , Heathfield is no doubt this Blackheath 



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