THE HUNDRED OF ELMBRIDGE 



(OR EMLEYBRIDGE) 



COBHAM 



ESHER 



EAST AND WEST MOLESEY 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



STOKE D'ABERNON 

 THAMES DITTON (MANORS OF 

 IMBKR COURT AND WSSTON) 



WALTON UPON THAMES 

 WEYBRIDGE 



The boundaries of this hundred have remained practically unchanged 



since 1086, when, however, Ember Court in Thames Ditton was part of the 

 hundred of Kingston, 1 and the holding of Chertsey in Weybridge was 

 ' attributed to Copthorne. It is not certain at what date the hundred passed 



into the hands of the men of Kingston, but 



it seems later to have been regarded as one 



of the liberties granted to them by King 



John in 1200, and was held at fee farm. 2 



In 1280 it was said to be in the hands of 



their tenant Reginald de Imworth, 8 with 



whose manor of Imworth it descended until 



1499, when Richard Ardern died seised of 



the manor of Imworth and half the hundred 



of Elmbridge, held of the men of Kingston/ 



Within the hundred there were several 



exempt jurisdictions. In 1253 John D'Aber- 



non was successful in his claim to view of 



frankpledge in Stoke, 6 and Avelina, daughter 



of Geoffrey de Cruce and wife of Roger de 



Legh, also claimed the right in Walton. 6 At 



a later date Sir Thomas Henneage obtained 



a grant of Molesey Prior with view of frank- 

 pledge from Henry VIII, 7 and John Druell 



also had a view on his manor here. 8 



In a Subsidy Roll of about 1334 the hundred was valued at 24 os. 6d.f 



and it was assessed for ship-money at ^34 in i636. 10 The name by which 



it is known is derived from the bridge by which the road from London to 



Chertsey crosses the Mole or Emlyn on its way west, and here probably the 



hundred court was held. 



V.CM. Surr. \, 305*. ' Assize R. 898, m. 5. ' Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. I, no. 23. 



4 Ibid. 15 Hen. VII (Ser. 2), xiv, 101. 4 Plac. de Que Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747. 



' Ibid. 747. ' L. and P. Hen. Vlll, ii, 1 104. ' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), , 51. 



* y.C.H. Surr. \, 443. w S.P. Dm. Chas. I, cccxlviii, 82. 



3 44' 56 



HUNDRED 



OF 

 ELMBRIDGE 



