40 Kington St. Michael. 



In 1266 the King granted to the Abbot and his successors in 

 their Manor of Kington a Market every week on Tuesday, and a 

 Fair there every year for three days, viz. : — on the eve, on the day, 

 and on the morrow of St. Michael. Also Free Warren in all his 

 demesne lands of the Manor of " Kington," so that no one should 

 enter those lands to hunt therein, or to do ought which to the 

 right of warren pertains, without the consent of the said Abbot or 

 his successor, under a penalty of £10. "Witnesses, WiUiam (Bitton) 

 Bishop of Bath and "Wells ; and others. The grant is dated at 

 Kenilworth, 6 Nov. 51 H. III.i 



In 1287 the Manor having again fallen into hand (probably by 

 the expiration of Robert Pentone's term for life above mentioned), 

 the Abbot and Convent applied to their own use the produce of 

 their grange at Kington. Besides the sum of £160 a j^ear allowed 

 out of their general rental for the uses of the kitchen, the cook was 

 to take 20s. a year out of the Manor of Kington, to be divided 

 between himself and the " Pittancer." The total annual consump- 

 tion of grain at the Abbey was 360 quarters of wheat, 338 of 

 barley, and 920 of oats : of which quantity the bailiwick of King- 

 ton supplied dui'ing the six winter months 240 of wheat and barley 

 and 50 of oats : during the summer 50 quarters of oats a week. 



The Abbot of Glastonbury had certain jurisdiction and franchises 

 throughout the scattered Hundred of which North Damerham 

 forms a part. There was a chief Bailiff for the whole Hundred, to 

 whom the Bailiff of North Damerham was responsible. These 

 franchises were granted by charter of King Henry III.- : before 

 which time the four parishes of Kington, Nettleton, Grittleton, 

 and Christmalford (forming the principal part of North Damer- 

 ham) seem to have been considered as in the Hundred of Chip- 

 penham. In 1321 Edmund Gascelyn, Lord of the Hundred of 

 Chippenham formally by deed quitclaimed to the Abbot, all rights 

 and profits of summons and distraint, &c., in these four parishes. 



1 Printed in New Monast. I. p. 45 : also Harl. Chart. 58. J. 22. Many of 

 these notices of Kington are to be found in Bishop Tanner's Collection, Bodl. 

 Lib. Oxford ; marked T.T. 342. 



2 Plac. dc Q. W. p. 802. 



