Lambeth
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Southwark
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Reigate
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Guildford
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Surrey Mid
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Lambeth
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Surrey
Surrey was dominated throughout this period by the Onslow interest, which had been established relatively recently. Sir Richard Onslow* of Cranleigh and West Clandon, the first member of the family to sit for the county, commenced his parliamentary career in 1628. He had then had to take second place to Sir Ambrose Browne*, who was from an old Surrey family and about ten years his senior.
Reigate
A reasonably prosperous market town, Reigate had only 90 tenements in 1622 but 124 households within the borough were recorded in 1664 as being chargeable for hearth tax, with a further 34 not chargeable. VCH Surr. iii. 233; Surr. Hearth Tax 1664 (Surr. Arch. Soc. xvii.), p. cxxi. Well wooded, with plenty of common land and water, and with many inns, the town enjoyed regular communications with London, just over twenty miles away. VCH Surr. iii. 229, 230, 234; W. Hooper, Reigate: its Story through the Ages (1945), 148; J.