THE HUNDRED OF KINGSTON 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



KEW 

 KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES 



LONG DITTON 



MALDEN 



PETERSHAM 

 RICHMOND ' 



In the Domesday Survey Kingston, Petersham, Long Ditton, Thames 

 Ditton, and Maiden are entered under Kingston Hundred, 3 Richmond and Kew 

 then forming part of Kingston. Southwark s and West Horsley * are also 

 entered under it, evidently by an error. Chessington, which was a member 

 of Maiden, occurs under the hundreds of Kingston and Wallington 5 and 

 was reckoned in Kingston Hundred in 1428'; it was in Copthorne Hundred 

 in i6io 7 and afterwards. In a Subsidy Roll of 1333 the vills assessed in 

 this hundred were Sheen, Ham and Petersham, Hartington and Combe, 

 Maiden and Talworth, Thames Ditton and 

 Long Ditton. 8 Part of Thames Ditton is still 

 in Kingston Hundred. 



In 1199 the hundred of Kingston was 

 said to pertain, and always to have pertained, 

 to the lordship and vill of Kingston. 9 Probably 

 a court of ancient demesne, 10 originally held for 

 the manor of Kingston, had gradually extended 

 its jurisdiction over the neighbouring vills. 11 

 The hundred court was held before the bailiffs 

 on Saturday once every three weeks. In 1628 

 the manors of Richmond, Petersham, and Ham 

 were removed from the jurisdiction of this 

 court, and separate courts leet constituted for 

 them. According to the Municipal Corpora- 

 tions Report of 1835 the hundred court had then fallen into disuse. A 

 recovery had been suffered in it as late as 1609, and a fine levied in 161 1. 



Population Ret. 1831. 



V.C.H. Surr. i, 2974, 3054, 306/7, 308^, 3174, 3194, 3234. 



Ibid. 3054. ' Ibid. 32318, 325^. * Ibid. 317^. 



Feudal Aids, v, 132. ' V.C.H. Surr. i, map facing p. 444. 



Subs. R. (6 Edw. Ill), bdle. 184, no. 4. 



Abbrcv. Plat. (Rec. Com.), 25, see also 29. 



10 See Municipal Corp. Rep. 1835, p. 2900. 



11 The court was called in old court books ' curia cum hundredo.' 



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