FARNHAM HUNDRED 



Ecclesiastical Commissioners took over the estates 

 of the see in 1869. 



The Local Government Act, 2i & 22 Victoria, 

 c. 98, was adopted at Farnham 27 July 1866. By 

 the subsequent Act, 57 Victoria, c. 73, the place 

 became an urban district, with a council of 

 twelve members, the parish being divided into 

 urban and rural districts. In 1902 the urban 

 district was slightly extended into the rural dis- 

 trict. 53 



One of the earlier acts of the local board of 1866 

 was to pull down the old Market House. The 

 market is now in the hands of a company. The 

 rights of the bishop had been conveyed, with the 

 assent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, on 

 8 February 1858, to the Farnham Market House 

 and Town Hall Company, Limited, under the 

 Ecclesiastical Leasing Act of 1857. In 1875 the 

 date of the fair, formerly held on Holy Thursday, 

 was changed to 10 May, and the fair held on 13 

 November was changed to 10 November.^* 



The old Market House stood at the bottom of 

 Castle Street, in the middle of the road. It was 

 open underneath, supported on brick and timber 

 arches. It is supposed to have been built by John 

 Clark, 5' who was senior bailiff of the corporation 

 under the charter given by Bishop Home in 1566.66 

 The inscription upon it, remembered by living 

 people, — 



You, who don't like me, give money to mend me. 

 You, who do like me, give money to end me, 



seems to point to its being built by private liber- 

 ality. It is said to have been put up by Clark to 

 silence critics at the time of its erection. No 

 charge for the building appears in the town 

 accounts. The old Market House was unfor- 

 tunately pulled down in 1866, having been just 

 replaced by the present Exchange, at the corner 

 of the street, built by the Market House and Town 

 Hall Company, Limited. The clock on this was 

 given by Mr. S. Nicholson of Waverley. 



The old TowTi Hall, where the bailiffs and bur- 

 gesses met, is in the borough, nearly opposite the 

 Bush Inn. It shows some rather elegant seven- 

 teenth century brickwork in the upper part, in the 

 walls at right angles to the street. The upper 

 rooms are now occupied as a meeting-place for the 

 Plymouth Brethren. The front is quite modern- 

 ized. It is said to have borne the date 1657. 

 In 1604 the borough accounts show that some 

 extensive building was done at the Town Hall, 

 but the general style of the brickwork is of later 



FARNHAM 

 date._ No later-record of its building appears how- 

 ever in the accounts. The Bush Inn has long been 

 the inost considerable inn in Farnham, and part 

 o It IS ancient. In 1618, though it was not one 

 of the four old inns (vide supra), the innkeeper 

 Harding pleaded that it was an inn by prescription 

 when Sir Giles Mompesson, patentee of inns' 

 proceeded against him for keeping an inn without 

 a licence. The King's Bench decided against 

 Harding, but the judgment was reversed a' few 



The Bush Hotel, Farnham. 



years later. The case became a leading one in 

 old licensing law, on the point of the extension of 

 the buildings of a licensed house.^' 



The corporation seal is probably of the date of 

 Bishop Home's charter, and the revival of the 

 corporation then. It is one inch and three- 

 eighths in diameter, and bears a castle, with the 

 inscription, 'Sigill coe Ball Burg et Ville De 

 Farneham.' The impression is on some of the 

 town documents preserved at the castle. 



In the seventeenth century the want of copper 

 money was met by the issue of tokens by the 

 tradesmen, and more especially by the innkeepers 

 of the borough.5'5 



83 Land. Gaz. i April, 1902. 



" Ibid. 13 April, 1875, 2087. 



65 Manning and Bray, iii. 131. 



" Corporation papers at Farnham 

 Cattle. 



6' Vyner, Abridgement of the Statutes, 

 vol. xiv. Inns. 



68 The following are known to 

 exist, issued at Farnham (see Boyne^s 

 Tokens, ed. Williamson) ; they are all 

 farthing tokens, bearing the following 

 impressions and inscriptions : — 



O. At Farnham. I.M.D. 



R. In Surrey, 1658, Blacksmith's 

 Arms in centre (a chevron between 

 Three Hammers). 



O. Robert Frior of Farnum. A 

 Fleur de Lys. 



R. Oat Meale Maker. R.I.F. 



A Robert Fryer was churchwarden 

 in 1682. 



O. John Genang, 1669. 

 wainers' Arms. 



R. In Farnham in Surry. 



O. John Goddard of — 

 loaf. 



The Cord- 



I.I.G. 



A sugar 



R. Farnham in Surrey. I.B.G. 



O. John HoUoway. A row of 

 candles. 



R. In Farnhame, 1658. I.M.H. 



O. James Hunt in — A castle 

 (the Borough Seal). 



R. Farnham in Surry. I.H. A 

 Fleur de Lys. 



O. James Hunt ; otherwise the same 

 on obverse and reverse as the preced- 

 ing. 



O. Richard Lunn at the — A Fleur 

 de Lys. 



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