KINGSTON HUNDRED 



to tos."" the normal rent, 407 being the money equiva- 

 lent of the serjeanty. 409 Ralf Postel held this hide of 

 the queen in 1203, in which year he granted it to 

 Walkelin Rabus 409 ; later it came into the hands of 

 Peter son of Baldwin, who bought land in Kingston of 

 Gunnora widow of Matthew son of Godfrey in 1 238. 410 

 This perhaps was the Peter Baldwin who, though 

 retaining 40 acres in his hands, alienated the remain- 

 ing 50 acres of the fee for annual rents amounting to 

 33/. \d. Peter made a fine of 2O/. a year for him- 

 self and these tenants, 411 so that each of the tenants 

 answered to him for a third of the worth of his tene- 

 ment a year and Peter was responsible to the Ex- 

 chequer for the whole of the fine. 4 " Peter was dead 

 in 1279, when his son of the same name was a minor 

 and in the wardship of the queen ; she gave the 

 custody to Adam de Richmond, who in turn sold it to 

 Walter Pewtarer. 413 In 1292-3 Peter Baldwin held 

 the lands by the old tenure of collecting the queen's 

 wool; the land on his death in or about 1299 consisted 

 of 60 acres in Coombe, where he had tenants bound 

 to find him three men in the autumn. 411 He also had 

 a capital messuage and lands in Kingston held of the 

 men of Kingston, and land at Talivorth. He was 

 succeeded by his son Peter, a boy of eleven. 



Dower was assigned to Mabel widow of Peter 

 Baldwin in 1 3O2, 41S but no further mention of the 

 family has been found. Part of the land came into 

 possession of the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, 

 the warden paying I os. for ' the serjeanty of Baldwin ' 

 in the ijth century. 41 ' 



In the 1 3th century land here was held by Robert 

 Burnell and afterwards by John de la Linde, 4 " from 

 whom it passed to the family of Dymoke, and was 

 attached as a member to their manor of Wellington. 

 (q.v.). 4 " John Dymoke paid \os. to the priory of 

 Merton for his manor of Coombe Nevill in 15 36."' 



In the early 1 3th century Hugh de Coombe held 

 half a knight's fee here of the honour of Clare. 410 

 The mesne lordship of this fee was in the hands of 

 Roger de Vilers in 1227, when he exchanged the 

 homage and services of Wymund de Raleg', the 

 tenant, for lands in Somerset and Dorset. 411 



HARTINGTON (Erdinton, xii cent.; Hertindon, 

 Hartyngdon, xiii cent.) is first mentioned in 1173 

 and 1173-4, when 7 O/. were paid into the Exchequer 

 from lands there. 4 " In 1206 Adam de Dearhurst 

 and Maud his wife claimed half a hide of land here 

 against the Prior of Merton, but the jurors declared 

 that the prior had always held it, and that no ancestor 

 of Maud had ever been tenant. 4 " The prior was 

 granted free warren here and elsewhere in 1252, and 

 was returned as lord of the hamlet in I374. 4 ' 4 Mer- 

 ton retained the manor until the Dissolution, when it 



KINGSTON- 

 UPON-THAMES 



passed to the Crown. Valued at 301. in 1536, " 5 in 

 1539 it was granted for life to Ralph Annesley, the 

 ' king's servant,' with lands at Sheen and Kew. 4 ** 



In 1544 the reversion was granted to Richard 

 Taverner who, three years later, bought the manor of 

 Norbiton (q.v.). He and Margaret his wife conveyed 

 the manor to Edward, Earl of Hertford, in 1 546,"' 

 probably in trust for their younger son Peter, who in- 

 herited it on his father's death in I575- 4 * 8 Peter 

 Taverner and Frances his wife conveyed the manor in 

 I 5 8 5 to John Evelyn and Elizabeth his wife, who, with 

 George Evelyn, re-sold it in 1605 to George Cole. 

 In 1623 presentment was made at the hundred 

 court that he had not entertained the minister, church- 

 wardens, and parishioners on Monday in Rogation 

 week at the farm called Hartleton Farm as heretofore. 4 " 

 George Cole died in 1624, and was succeeded by 

 another of the same name who, with Jane his wife, sold 

 the manor in 1637 to Charles I to be added to 

 Richmond Park. 



In the 1 4th century land here, as at Kingston, 

 Norbiton, and Coombe, was held by Thomas de Lud- 

 low and descended to the family of Dymoke. 4 " 

 Hartington has been identified with Hartington 

 Coombe, 4 " and in 1372 the land held there by Sir 

 John Dymoke is called ' Hartyndencombe.' 433 In 

 l 339 the men of ' Hertindonescombe ' petitioned the 

 king for a re-assessment of the fifteenth, as their vill 

 had been lately burnt by certain malefactors, the 

 goods and chattels there plundered and destroyed, 

 and the inhabitants had for the most part with- 

 drawn. 43 * The ancient house known as Hertcomb or 

 Hercomb Place stands ' at the right hand of the road 

 at the entrance of Kingston from London,' 43S opposite 

 the end of Coombe Lane. It is said to have once 

 been in the hands of Archbishop Tillotson, 436 and in 

 the middle of the 1 8th century was used as a boarding- 

 school by Richard Woodeson, and later it became the 

 workhouse for the parish till 1836. It now forms two 

 houses. Kingston Lodge, opposite to it, was formerly 

 occupied by Mr. George Meredith. 



KINGSTON-C4NBURT (Canonbury, xiv cent.) 

 is not mentioned in 1086, but was held by Merton 

 Priory at an early period. It probably represented 

 the early endowment of the church, and followed the 

 descent of the advowson (q.v.) until 1786, when 

 George Harding sold the right of patronage, but re- 

 tained the manor, which seems to have disappeared by 

 the beginning of the igth century. The name is 

 preserved in the Canbury Gardens and Road. 



KINGSTON-UPON-TH4MES alias MILBORNE 

 is a ' manor ' occasionally mentioned. It appears to 

 have belonged to Sir Thomas Milborne, who at his 

 death in 1492 was said to hold a toft, 100 acres of 



Fife R, 11 Hen. //(Pipe R. Soc.), 107. 



W Ibid. 13 Hen. II, 203 ; 14 Hen. II, 

 216. 



* Red Bk. tfExch. (Rolls Ser.), +56. 



* Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 43, ind 

 tee Feet of F. Sum 6 John, no. 58. A 

 Ralph Postel in 1192-3 wa holding a 

 certain serjeanty of Otho de Grandison 

 (Assize R. 902, m. 2), and is last men- 

 tioned in 1299 as lord of an eyot held by 

 Peter Baldwin ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. I, 

 no. 27. 



4M Feet of F. Surr. 22 Hen III, no. n. 



411 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 228, 

 where the name is printed Rabewin. 



4 Ibid. 



4U Assize R. 876, m. 50 j 902, m. 2. 



414 Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. I, no. 27. 



414 Cal. Clotc, 1296-1302, p. 535. 



41 Lansd. MS. 226, foL 71*. 



u ' Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 180. 



411 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xiv, 44. 



419 falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.) ii, 50. 



4 *> Tetta de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219. 



411 Feet of F. Div. Co. n Hen. Ill, 

 no. 48. 



4ffl Fife. R. 19 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 

 95 ; 20 Hen. II, 5. 



4M Abbrev. flat. (Rec. Com), 52 ; 

 Heales, Rec. of Merton, App. p. cxv. 



411 Co. Plac. Surr. xxiii, no. II. 



4 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 48. 



4M L. and P. Hen. fill, xiv (i), 594. 



W Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 38 Eliz. 



503 



438 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 92. 



Add. MS. 6167, fol. 51; Lysonn, 

 op. cit. i, 241. 



430 Feet of F. Surr. Hit 12 Chas. L 



481 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 

 1 08 ; Cal. Pat. 1334-8, p. 3085 1391-6, 

 p. 649. See Wellington, V.C.H. Surr. iv. 



481 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 404. 

 There was a family of Hertcombes in 

 Kingston in the 1 5 th century, and a brass 

 to John and (Catherine Hertcombe may 

 be seen in the church. 



488 Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill, no. j6. 



** 4 Cat. Close, 1339-41, p. 202. 



484 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 404. 



486 Merryweather, op. cit. 25, where 

 the house is figured. 



