. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY The borough was represented in Parliament twice only. In 1311 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 ; 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 1311 the struggle of the earls and of the archbishop agai
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY The borough was represented in Parliament twice only. In 1311 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 ; 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 1311 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 ; <• 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 ; The bishop possibly redeemed the lands under clauses in the grant, for in 858 St. Swithun, then bishop, gr
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