KINGSTON HUNDRED 



in 1846-7. It was here that many members of the 

 Orleans family were married. It was shut up for 

 some years, but was re-opened to the public in 

 1908. 



New Maiden and Coombe, 2 miles east of King- 

 ston, is a newly created Urban District, formed by 

 the great growth of new houses in the neighbourhood 

 during the last forty years. It was constituted an 

 ecclesiastical parish, being separated from the new 

 ecclesiastical parish of St. Peter's, Norbiton, in 1867, 

 and in the same year a Local Board was formed. In 

 1 895, under the Local Government Act of the previ- 

 ous year, it was constituted a civil parish under an 

 Urban District Council. It is divided into three 

 wards, Coombe, New Maiden, Old Maiden (q.v.). 

 The total area is 3,220 acres, and the population in 

 1901 was 6,233, f w h m only S3 were in Old 

 Maiden. There is a railway station on the main London 

 and South Western Railway, the junction also for 

 the Kingston line. The Baptist chapel was opened 

 in 1862; the Congregational chapel in 1880. 

 There is also in the parish a Wesleyan chapel, a Free 

 Church of England chapel, and a Roman Catholic 

 chapel of St. Egbert, opened in 1908. The Lime 

 Grore (Church) School for girls and infants was 

 built in 1870; the Christchurch Elm Road Boys' 

 Schools in 1896, and the County Council (mixed) 

 School was opened in 1908. 



Hook (Hoke, xiv cent.) is an ecclesiastical parish, 

 in the part of Kingston old parish which divides 

 Long Ditton into two parts. It was constituted an 

 ecclesiastical parish in 1839, the inhabitants then 

 being mostly cottagers in small houses on the road 

 from Kingston to Letherhead. A considerable 

 number of better houses have now been built. Part 

 of the ecclesiastical parish was made a civil parish in 

 1895 under the Act of the previous year, but the 

 northern part is in the Urban District of Surbiton. 



There is an iron Wesleyan chapel in the parish. 

 The schools (National) were built in 1860. 



The ecclesiastical parish of St. Andrew, Ham, wa 

 formed in 1834 ; it had formerly been a chapelry to 

 Kew. 



The earliest mention of organized 

 BOROUGH government in Kingston is in 1086, 

 when the royal manor was under 

 the control of bedels, or elected officers."' 

 They are not again mentioned, but the name was 

 preserved until the 1 5th century in the ' Bedelsford." 4 * 

 In or about 1195 the men of Kingston claimed to 

 have held their town at farm by a charter of King 

 Henry which had been burnt by misfortune, and 

 they gave I oot. for holding their vill until the coming 

 of the king, and offered 30 marks for a charter 

 under which they might pay the same farm a 

 before." 1 This farm appears to have been 28 lo/., 1 " 



KINGSTON- 

 UPON-THAMES 



the amount granted here in 1199 and 1 200 to 

 Joscelin de Gant.' Accordingly, on paying a 

 further 60 marks in 1200,'" the men received their 

 first extant charter which confirmed the previous 

 grant, and gave the vill to the freemen of Kingston, 

 at the rent of 12 beyond the farm owed and cus- 

 tomary." 4 They continued to hold the town at this 

 farm until 1 208 when King John granted it to them 

 at the fee farm 1<s of 50 yearly. In 1222 this fee 

 farm had been granted to John de Atia for his 

 maintenance in the royal service, 1 " and he drew it 

 until 1226.'* 8 In 1236 the town was assigned to 

 Queen Eleanor as part of her dower, 1 ' 9 and in 1281 

 was said to be of the yearly value of 5 1 %s. 6d. l! * 

 In 1290 the manor of Kingston was extended at 

 52 8/. 6J. ln and was still in the hands of the queen- 

 mother. The extra sum above the amount of the 

 fee farm perhaps represents the money service from 

 Postel's land, 141 serjeanties, and purprestures which 

 are expressly mentioned with Kingston in 1 299 when 

 the town was assigned in dower to Queen Margaret. 11 " 

 In 1300 the custody of Kingston was granted to the 

 local merchant Edward Lovekin that he might 

 reimburse himself from the farm and other issues ot 

 that town for .5 lent to the king. 14 * The farm 

 was granted to Queen Isabel in 1327."* Under 

 Richard II in 1378 began a long series of grants 1 * of 

 portions of the fee farm to various officers and persons 

 connected with the royal household. It is possible 

 that the freemen of Kingston at this time had made 

 considerable purprestures, for which they paid addi- 

 tional rent, as in 1381 the farm was said to be 

 54 8/. ioJ., lH and in aid of this the king granted 

 them, in 1 392, a shop and 8 acres of land which were 

 escheats to the Crown. 148 Part of the farm was 

 assigned in the middle of the 1 5th century to the 

 expenses of the royal household, 149 and in 1507 the 

 manor of Kingston was farmed by Thomas Lovell, 

 who committed waste of timber in Walton-on- 

 Thames. 160 On the formation of the honour of 

 Hampton Court in 1 540 the fee farm was annexed to 

 it, 1 * 1 and part remitted in consideration of the fact 

 that much of the land paying quit-rent towards the 

 farm was novr inclosed in the royal parks."* The 

 abatement was questioned, but ratified in I563. 1M 

 The farm of Kingston was assigned as part of the 

 dower of Queen Catherine in 1665-6,"" but was 

 alienated in 1670, and in 1794 was only about 

 8. M 



The greater part of mediaeval Kingston was held in 

 burgage in aid of the fee farm, a quit-rent of zJ. 

 being paid on the acre, and sums varying from 2O/. 

 to a farthing on tenements. 167 Quit-rents were also 

 paid by lands throughout the manor, and were received 

 in the 1 6th century from the manors of Imworth, 

 Clay Gate, East Molesey, Molesey Matham, Berwell, 



" y.C.H. Srr. i, 308*. 



Lanid. MS. 226, fol. 64. 



141 Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 94 ; 

 Cur. Reg. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 15. 



> Cart. Antiq. K. 18. 



l< * Pipe R. i John, m. 5 ; 2 John, m. 

 15 d. 



144 Ibid. 1 John, m. 1 5 d. 



" Chart. R, I John, m. 7 ; Cart. Antiq. 

 SS. 8. 



" Cart. Antiq. K. 18. 



"" Rot. Lit. Claut. (Rec. Com.), i, 544, 

 634. 



148 Ibid. 6 10, 565 ; ii, 65, 109 ; Devon, 

 Isiues of the Exch. 7. 



149 Cat. Chart. 1226-57, p. 218. 

 uo Cal. Pat. 1272-81, p. 438. 

 161 Ibid. 1281-92, p. 368. 



1H See below under Coombe. 



" Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 452; 



'37-'3. P- "6- 



IM Ibid. 1292-1301, p. 501. 



" Ibid. 1327-30, p. 69 j 1330-4, pp. 



'95. 53 i 1343-5. P- 447- 



1M Cal. Pat. 1377-81, pp. 193, 150; 

 1381-5, pp. 391, 157 ; 1385-9, pp. 146, 



495 



521 5 1388-92, p. 481 ; 1391-6, pp. 70, 

 258, 509, 619, 717, &c. 



"7 Ibid. 1381-5, p. 6. 



1M Roots, Charters, 6 1. 



169 Parl. R. v, 174 ; vi, Sozh, 5000. 



160 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxi, 4?. 



"1 L. and P. Hen. yill, XT, 498 (36). 



lti Rooti, Char ten, 61 et seq. 



1M Ibid. 97 et seq. 



164 Pat. 1 7 Chas. II, pt. ix, no. I. 



" Ibid. 22 Cha. II, pt. ii, n NOT. 



IM Lysons, Environs of Lond. i, 235. 



W Lansd. MS. 226, fol. 79. 



