KINGSTON HUNDRED 



Shoemakers were ordered to cease disturbing Thomas 

 Burchett, who had obtained a toleration in 1676."* 

 The system opened a new source of revenue to the 

 corporation, which in 1776 required the wardens to 

 make a return of all persons following trades in the 

 town who were not free or tolerated."* The search 

 for ' foreigners ' was active at this time, and even in 

 1835 tolerations were demanded of all but those 

 keeping very small shops."' The trades companies 

 were then still flourishing, though the Company of 

 Woollen Drapers had already lapsed. 



The market at Kingston was established in 1242, 

 when the men of the Bishop of London came to it 

 from Fulham."* It was included among the liberties 

 granted by the charter of 1208 until 1603, when 

 James I granted a market to be held every Saturday 

 for all animals." 9 Grain was sold in the market in 

 1551,*" and it was an important market for corn 

 in 1623 ;**' a few years later the justices of the 

 peace told with pride how they had brought down 

 the price of wheat from 91. and <)i. 6J. to ji. 

 the bushel, while the poor were served with rye at 

 5/.*** The corn market is now small and unimpor- 

 tant. The proximity of the royal household at 

 Hampton Court evidently had a stimulating effect on 

 trade at Kingston, and formed the pretext for a 

 petition in 1662 for a second market," 3 which was 

 granted for Wednesdays in the same year. 8 ** This 

 second market has not, however, flourished so well as 

 that on Saturday ; it appears to have been abandoned 

 at the close of the i8th century, 154 and though 

 revived later was 'small and unimportant' in i888. 338 

 The Saturday market on the other hand has always 

 been considerable. Beneath the new town hall, as 

 beneath the old town hall, is a covered space filled 

 with stalls, which also stand in rows without, and are 

 covered with fruit, flowers, fish, and miscellaneous 

 articles. The whole space is alive with movement 

 and colour, for the market is not only attended by the 

 townsfolk but serves the whole neighbourhood, the 

 fruit, flower, and fish markets being especially popular 

 among the housekeepers of Norbiton and Surbiton. 

 The fish market, which is perhaps the most important, 

 was well established in 1619, when George Walker 

 was paid various sums 'for whipping and cleaning the 

 Fish Market.' There is also on Saturdays a busy cattle 

 market, provided by the corporation in the middle of 

 the igth century at the request of the farmers in the 

 neighbourhood." 37 



The fairs were likewise held in the market place ; 

 the first of these was granted to Kingston in 1256 for 

 the morrow of the feast of All Souls and the seven 

 following days. 338 A second fair was ordered to be 

 proclaimed in 1 3 5 1 for Thursday in Whitsun week 



KINGSTON- 

 UPON-THAMES 



and the seven days after.* 3 * In 1555 the bailiffs 

 petitioned for a third fair which, with a court of pie- 

 powder, stallage, picage and all amerciaments, was 

 granted to them in the same year for the day and 

 morrow of the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. 3 " These 

 three fairs were still held in 1792,"' but under 

 powers obtained in 185; the November fair alone 

 was continued, and at the same time this was shortened 

 to three days and the cattle fair removed to the fair 

 field. The pleasure fair remained in the streets of 

 the town, but was abolished as a nuisance in 1889.'" 

 The manor of KINGSTON-UPON- 

 MANORS THAMES was ancient demesne of the 

 Crown in 1086, and remained in royal 

 hands until, in 1200, it passed to the freemen of the 

 town under the charter of King John.* "* 



The name of BERWELL (Berewell, xiii-xvi cent.) 

 first occurs in 1252, when Henry III granted to the 

 Prior of Merton free warren here and elsewhere.*" In 

 1290-1 the priory received lands here and in other 

 places from Richard de la Sterte, Reginald Rote, the 

 Prior of St. Mary's, Southwark, and others, 34 * and 

 Berwell was called a 'vill' in 1336.**' In 1537-8, 

 when brought to the Crown by the Dissolution it was 

 called a ' manor,' though there were no returns from 

 the perquisites of court. 348 It was granted in 1579 

 with the manor of Coombe Nevill to Thomas Vin- 

 cent and his heirs ; 349 he sold it in 1595 to Edward 

 Carleton,* 50 whose son, 351 Matthew Carleton, with 

 Margaret his wife conveyed it in 1645 to Sir Dudley 

 Carleton.* 51 He is said to have obtained unlimited 

 right of common in Surbiton and Claygate from the 

 corporation in 1636, and in 1651 sold the manor to 

 Richard Glid, senior, Richard Glid, junior, and William 

 Wright. 353 Richard Glid and Elizabeth his wife sold 

 it in 1663"* to James Davidson, who devised it to 

 his son-in-law, Richard Edes, in 1695.*" The manor 

 again changed hands in 1699 when Richard Edes and 

 Mary his wife sold it to William Letheuillier ; 3SS his 

 daughter married William Task,* 57 who sold it in 

 1771 to Charles Terry. 358 From him it was pur- 

 chased in the following year by Joseph Sales,* 4 * the 

 sale being completed in I774. 360 The new owner 

 retained it until 1788,*" when he sold it to John 

 Richardson, who in the following year conveyed it to 

 Marcus Dixon the lord in i/gg. 368 His daughters 

 were in possession in 1 804 ; * 63 one daughter Elizabeth- 

 Morris, appears to have married Archibald Blair, and 

 Maria a second was the wife of John Wales ; both con- 

 veyed fourth parts of the manor to Robert Blair, who 

 may have been a trustee.* 64 When Brayley wrote it had 

 been ' for about twenty-five years,' that is, since about 

 1818, in the hands of John Sykes of Kensington.* 65 

 It is now the property of Baron Foley. 



8J5 Ct of Assembly Bk. 8 May 1682 ; 

 ef. 6 July 1681. 



'"Ibid, 25 June 1776. 



*W Munic. Corf. Cam. Rep. iv, 2898. 



*>*Abbrev, Plac. (Rec. Com.), no. 



8M Roots, Charters, 140. 



880 Actt of P.O. 1550-2, p. 324. 



al Cal. S.P. Dam. 1619-23, p. 581. 



831 Ibid. 1629-31, p. 474. 



"Ibid. 1661-2, p. 357. 



"Ibid. pp. 358, 361 ; Roots, Char ten, 

 215. 



584 Roots, Chartert, 140 ; Royal Com. on 

 Market Rightt and Tollt, i. 207. 



** Royal Com. on Market Rights and 

 Tollt, iv, 1 3 1. 



? Under Stat 18 & 19 Viet cap. 45. 



838 Roots, Charters, 25. 

 Cal. Close, 1349-54, P- 365- 

 140 Roots, Chartert, 76-7. 

 tn Royal Com. on Market Righti and 

 Tollt, i. 207. 



""Ibid, iv, 131. 

 ***-* Ytde supra. 

 "Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 



739- 



ue Inq. a.q.d. file 1 6, no. 3. 



* 4 ' Heales, Rec. of Merton, App. p. 

 cxvi. 



848 Ibid., p. cxxrii. 



849 Pat. 21 Eliz. pt xi, m. 5. 



850 Feet of F. SUIT. East 37 Eliz. 

 "Manning and Bray, Surr, i, 403, 



669 ; ii, 806. 



SOI 



M Feet of F. Surr. Mil. 20 Chas. I ; 

 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 403. 



58 Feet of F. Surr. HiL 1651. 



Ibid. Trin. 14 Chas. II. 



846 Ly sons, Environs of LonJ. i, 241. 



* Feet of F. Surr. Hit id & 1 1 Will. III. 



85 7 Lysons, op. cit. i, 241. 



848 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 12 Geo. III. 



8W Lysons, op. cit. i, 241. 



M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 14 Geo. Ill ; 

 Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 14 Geo. Ill, m. 8. 



Ml Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 28 Geo. III. 



882 Lysons, op. cit i, 241. 



888 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 403. 



4 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 40 Geo. Ill j 

 East. 41 Geo. III. 



866 Brayley, Hiit, of Surr, iii, 1 1 2. 



