FARNHAM HUNDRED ,,,^„,„ 



were forbidden to call these tenants to account on any articles save those 

 upon which they had not been already charged before the bishop's 

 steward." 



It is difficult to discover when Bentley was separated from Farnham 

 hundred and became again a liberty in Hampshire. Bentley had been 

 originally in Hampshire. At the time of the Domesday Survey the 

 one hide held of the bishop, with the church of Farnham, by Osbern de 

 Ow, was Bentley, and was in Hampshire." Before this, circa 909, the 

 charter by Edward of Wessex had distinguished the 60 cassati ' st 

 Fernham in Sudrian,' and the 10 cassati ' ast Beonaet in Hamtunscire.'" 

 The boundaries given with this charter certainly run through part of 

 Hampshire. Also in Testa de Nevill^^ half a hide in 'Benetleg ' in Hamp- 

 shire appears held of the king in serjeanty by Richard de Briheville, and 

 no other Bentley in Hampshire seems to be known. But as late as 

 1573 Bentley, or part of Bentley, was considered to be in Surrey for 

 some purposes, for the Bentley tithingmen presented with the other 

 Surrey tithings.'* The curious point is that in the same roll Bentley is 

 also given among the Hampshire tithings. The population abstract of 

 1 8 1 1 gives it as a liberty in Hampshire. By this time also Frensham, 

 Seale and Elsted had been separated from Farnham parish for civil pur- 

 poses, though not ecclesiastically, and the hundred and the parish were 

 no longer co-extensive in all respects. 



From the earliest date the hundred followed the 'descent of the 

 manor of Farnham, that is, it was in the hands of the bishop until it 

 passed with the manor to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, on the 

 resignation of the see by Bishop Sumner in 1869. 



FARNHAM 



Feraeham (li. cent, et seq.) Farnham, Badshot and Runfold, Runwick, Culver- 



The original parish of Farnham comprised the land and Tilford, Wrecdesham and Bourn. Of 



tithings of Dogflud or Dogfleet, Compton, Wrec- these Culverland is identical with the Compton 



clesham, Badshot, Runfold or Runvale, Runwick, tithing of an earlier date, and includes the Manor 



Tilford, Seale with Tongham, Elsted, Frensham of Moor Park. 



or Fernesham, which extended into Hampshire, It seems evident that Frensham and probabh- 



and Cherte, Churt or Charte. Elsted were chapelries of Farnham as early as the 



The modern parish, according to the popula- middle of the thirteenth century. The Arch- 



tion abstract of 1831, includes the tithings of deacon of Surrey, as rector of Farnham, held ' the 



secundum legem et consuetudinem regni Anglise ; quodque Prior et Convcntus pra:dicti ipsorumve 

 successores, aut alii quocunque nomine censeantur, tenentes ipsos super articulis de quibus coram senes- 

 callo prifati Episcopi vel successorum suorum in Visu Franciplegii praedicto onerati fucrint nuUatenus 

 iterate dcbeant onerarc' 



12 Winton. Epis. Reg., Wykeham, ii. f. cccxxiv. 



13 See y.C.H. Sun: i. 284., 300. 

 >< Birch, Cart. Sax. ii. 300. 



n Testa de Nevill {R.£c. Com.), 104. 



" Eccl. Com. Ct. R. Winton. 15 & 16 Eliz. bdle. 87, No. 6. 



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