A HISTORY OF SURREY 



The borough was represented in Parliament 

 twice only. In 1 31 1 Thomas le Tyghelere and 

 Thomas de Sutton were members for Famham. 

 In the same Parliament, re-summoned after pro- 

 rogation, they appear as Thomas le Tyghelere and 

 Thomas de Sottone." In 1460 Henry Tudenham 

 and Richard Beaufitz were members for Farnham. 

 The dates are interesting. There can be no doubt 

 that the members for Farnham were in reality 

 members for the Bishop. In the Parliament of 

 131 1 the struggle of the earls and of the archbishop 

 against Edward II. came to a crisis. Woodlock, 

 the Bishop of Winchester, was a partisan of Win- 

 chelsey the Archbishop, and the Commons were 

 reinforced by members from his pocket borough. 

 The adminisuation was in the hands of the earls 

 and the archbishop, and the parliament met to 

 ratify the ordinances which they had drawn up 

 for the regulation of the icingdom. The Parlia- 



MANOR 



The Bush Hotel, Farnham. 



ment of 1460 met to consider the claim of the 

 Duke of York to the Crown. The Yorkist party 

 had mastered the king for the time. The Lan- 

 castrian Chancellor, Waynflete, Bishop of Win- 

 chester, had been replaced in the previous July by 

 a Yorkist, but his influence was apparently still 

 recognized, and his members were summoned, 

 probably by arrangement with him, as he made his 

 peace with the Yorkists. 



When FARNHAM was first granted to 

 the church of Winchester is uncertain. 

 In 688 it appears by a charter that 

 Cedwalla granted 60 cassati of land in Farnham 

 for building a monastery." <• So far as we know a 

 monastery never existed here, but the charter does 

 not exclude the meaning of the land being for the 

 support of a monastery elsewhere. In 803-5 

 Alhmund, Bishop of Winchester, apparently 

 granted 60 cassati of land at Farnham to Byrht- 

 elm in exchange for other lands." The bishop 

 possibly redeemed the lands under clauses in the 

 grant, for in 858 St. Swithun, then bishop, granted 

 to Ethelbald king of the West Saxons, probably 

 the same 60 cassati of land in Farnham for life, 

 and the king thereupon granted the reversion after 

 his death to the Bishop of Winchester 'for the 

 love of God and the health of his soul and the souls 

 of his father and grandfather.' " These lands, 

 with 10 cassati more, were in 909 con- 

 firmed to Frithstan, Bishop of Win- 

 chester, by King Edward the Elder," 

 and again at the end of the tenth 

 century by King Edgar,** who further 

 granted the bishop freedom from all 

 earthly services."' This grant was pos- 

 sibly the origin of the bishop's liberty 

 at Farnham. 



At the time of the Domesday survey 

 the manor was held by the bishop, ' St. 

 Peter always held it.' »« Then it was 

 assessed for 40 hides, whereas in the 

 time of King Edward it was assessed for 

 60. Of these 40 hides Ralph, William 

 and Waso held 4 hides less I virgate, 3 

 hides and a virgate, and half a hide re- 

 spectively. Moreover Osbern de Ow 

 held the church of the manor with I 

 hide in Hampshire, probably in Bent- 

 ley." 



From the Survey onwards the bishops 

 of Winchester held Farnham manor." 

 That Farnham was a very profitable 

 possession is proved by the Ministers' 

 Accounts for the Winchester diocese. 

 These are almost continuous from 1207."' Be- 

 sides the necessarily important rents from demesne 

 lands, the various rents from the six mills on the 

 Wey and its tributaries, especially from Mill 

 Bourne and Willey Mill, were a profitable source 

 of income. Moreover the particular conditions 

 under which the bishop held enhanced the value 

 of the manor. In 1279, in answer to a Quo War- 

 ranto exhibited against the bishop, he claimed to 



R. In FamHam in Surry. A 

 Dragon. 



Boyne calls it a Griffin, but it is the 

 sign of the Dragon Inn. 



O. Francis Mabbcrley of — F.A.M. 



R. Famham Fishmonger. The Fish- 

 mongers' Arms. 



O. Henry Morris of — The Fish- 

 mongers* Arms. 



R. Famham in Surrey. H.E.M. 



O. James Wrath, i6;8. 



R. In Farnham, I.M.W. 



There is a similar token, with the 



date 1664, in possession of the 



Rev. W. H. F. Edge, vicar of 



Tilford. 



^ Returns, printed by order of House 



of Commons, Parliamentary Blue Books, 



1878. In 1280 Thomas le Tyhelar, 



this man or his father, held le Heghe 



in Farnham (Plac. Coram Rege, 7 Edw. 



I. Rot. 39). 



•o Birch, Cart. Sax. i. 106. 

 « Ibid. i. 452. 



•2 Ibid. ii. 98, 99. 



'^ Ibid. ii. 300. 



'* Ibid. iii. 408. 



«5 Ibid. 410. 



«" y.C.H. Surr. i. 300. 



*" Ibid. Hanttf i. 463, and Surr. i. 

 283. 



<B Chart. R. 4 Rich. II. No. 1 58, m. 

 13-11, inspecting charters from William 

 I. onwards. 



"» Eccl. Com. Rent R. Bpric of 

 Winton. 



