KINGSTON HUNDRED 



in the churchyard? in '7 88 > third to Elizabeth 

 Countess of Der' D y daughter of Thomas Earl of 

 Ossoryand granddaughter of James Duke of Ormond, 

 who died in JF 7 ' 7 5 an< ^ a f urtn to Francis Bauer, 

 F.R.S., &c.,/ ' ootanical painter to George III and 

 ;htsm:m at Kew Gardens, who died in 



resident drau 

 1840. 



The churc 

 of Kew Grei 



hyard, which is at the south-east corner 

 surrounds the building and contains 



many grave 



The ply^te comprises a silver cup, paten, flagon, and 

 almsdish* of 1713, a cup and paten of 1892, and a 

 cup ofj' 1898. The only existing old register book is 

 one Containing baptisms and burials from 1714 to 

 1785 and marriages 171410 1781. The book fol- 

 lowing this to 1812 has been lost. 



In 1522 Fox, Bishop of Win- 

 ADYOWSON Chester, at the request of Thomas 

 Byrkis and Anne his wife, granted 

 licence to the inhabitants of Kew to have divine 

 service in a chapel there during the lives of Thomas 

 and Anne, reserving to the vicar of Kingston, in 

 whose parish it lay, all customary rights, profits, 

 &c. m This chapel was possibly the stable described 

 as formerly a chapel and granted with the capital 

 messuage in the 1 6th century. In the i8th century 



KINGSTON- 

 U PON-THAMES 



Queen Anne gave a piece of land for a chapel of ease 

 to Kingston (q.v.), and a church was built at the 

 expense of the wealthier inhabitants and was conse- 

 crated in 1714 as St. Anne of Kew." 8 By Act of 

 Parliament, 1 769, the chapelry or curacy of Kew with 

 Petersham was separated from Kingston, and a 

 vicarage was constituted there. 1 " The right of 

 presentation was reserved to the impropriator and 

 patron of Kingston, then George Hardinge, who in 

 1786 sold it to King's College, Cambridge. 1 " 



The living was separated from Petersham in 

 1891, and is now a ricarage in the gift of the 

 Crown."* 



Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, who 

 CHARITIES died at Kew in 1717, left 500, now 

 represented by 763 consols, for the 

 use of the poor. 



There is an educational charity left by a Mr. Charles 

 Jones, producing about j a year. Lady Capell, who 

 died in 17*1, left one-twelfth of her estate at Lud- 

 denham, Kent, for a charity school in Kew, or, failing 

 that being established, to apprentice poor boys. She 

 had also left one-twelfth to the Richmond Charity 

 School, and 10 a year to the minister of Kew chapel 

 so long as her family should be allowed two pews in 

 the chapel and the family vault which she had built. 



KINGSTON-U PON-THAMES 



Cyningestun (xi cent.) ; Cyngestun (x cent.) ; 

 Chingestun (xi cent.); Kingeston (xiicent.). 



The town of Kingston is built on the river-bank ; 

 behind it is alluvium through which the Hogsmill 

 river flows. On either hand are hills, those to the 

 north-east carrying the ancient ridgeway to Wimble- 

 don and along the slopes above the Thames valley, 

 those to the south with roads to Mid-Surrey, South- 

 ampton, and the southern shires. All these converge 

 at Kingston, for here in early times was one of the 

 two great passages into Surrey from the north, at 

 first by a ford near which the place probably first 

 grew, then by the mediaeval bridge. Though the 

 bridge now has fellows, and trade comes and goes by 

 the branch line of the London and South Western Rail- 

 way, completed in 1889, yet the river still influences 

 the town, and brings the many pleasure-seekers who 

 have made Kingston one of their favourite haunts 

 by the river-side. Kingston is first mentioned in 836 

 or 838 as the meeting-place of the council at which 

 King Egbert and the Archbishop Ceolnoth made 

 their league. 1 This points to its being already a 

 place of some importance, and the alliance here made 

 between the West Saxon Crown and the Metropolitan 

 See, which did so much to confirm their respective civil 

 and ecclesiastical primacies in Britain, is the only 

 reasonable explanation for the crowning here of the 



West Saxon kings in the loth century.' Edward 

 the Elder was crowned here in 902.* Athelstan in 

 925,' Edmund and Edred in 940 and 946.* In 

 955 Edwig was elected at a gemot held here and 

 crowned ; at the coronation feast the young king 

 left the hall and sought two ladies, ^Ethelgifu 

 and her daughter Elfgifu, with the latter of 

 whom he had formed an uncanonical marriage, and 

 was dragged back to the feast by Dunstan and 

 Bishop Cynesige.' In 958 Ethelred 'was very read- 

 ily and with great joy ' crowned here by Dunstan.' 

 All these kings are said to have been crowned on the 

 ' coronation stone ' now preserved in the market-place.* 

 This stone is not mentioned by Leland or Camden, 

 but is traditionally said to have been preserved in 

 the ancient chapel of St. Mary, which fell down in 

 1730.' It was then placed outside the town hall 

 and used as a mounting-block until 1850, when the 

 mayor, a local antiquary, placed it on its present 

 pedestal and unveiled it with much ceremony on a 

 public holiday. 1 * 



Kingston was a demesne manor of the West Saxon 

 kings. Edward the Confessor let it out to farm and 

 had a stud-farm in its neighbourhood." It was its 

 ' great bridge ' over the Thames that gave it special 

 importance, as in the 1 3th century, this was the 

 most easterly of the bridges before London Bridge 



*** Manning nd Bray, Hist, of Surr. I, 

 448 ; Egerton MSS. 2031-2034, IT. 



116 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 

 448 ; Aubrey, Nat. Hist, and Antij. of 

 Surr. v, 335 ; Eccl. To fog. no. 26. 



W Prirate Act, 9 Geo. Ill, cap. 65. 



118 Manning and Bray, Hist, if' Surr. i, 

 451 ; Int. Bk>. 



119 Clergy List, igio. 



1 Kemble, Cod. Difl. no. cccl, xiii. 



V.C.H. Surr. i, 338. 



Diceto, Opera (Rolls Scr.), i, 140. 



4 Diceto, op. cit. i, 44; Anglo-Sax. 

 Chron. (Roll* Sen), i, 139. 



* Diceto, op. cit. i, 146} Kemble, Cod. 

 Difl. no. ccccxi. 



* Diet. Nat. Biog. xvii, 140. 



1 Anglo-Sax. Ckron. (Roll. Ser.), 138, 

 239; Diet. Nat. Biog. xviii, 27. 



487 



' Biden, Hist, of Kingston, 10. 



9 N. and Q. (Ser. 9), v, 392. In the 

 rebus of the name of the town on the seal 

 of the court of record, the last syllable is 

 represented not by a stone but by the usual 

 tun. 



10 Merryweather, Half* Cnt. of King- 

 ston Hist. 13. 



11 y.C.H. Surr. i, 297, 325. 



