KINGSTON HUNDRED 



was pulled down after 1830. A Mr. A. S. Douglas 

 resided in part of it in 1842,*" and Commander 

 Lambert, R.N., in 1852. 



In the 1 2th century HAM (Hamma, xii cent.) was 

 included in the royal demesne as a member of King- 

 ston, and in 1 1 68 contributed 43^. \d. towards 

 the aid for marrying the king's daughter Matilda. 4 " 

 In 1 1 74 land to the value of ^ 1 9 13*. \d. in Ham 

 was bestowed by Henry II upon Maurice de 

 Creon," 3 a powerful baron of Anjou, whose English 

 estates lay chiefly in Lincolnshire, by whom it 

 appears to have been granted with his daughter to 

 Guy de la Val. 474 The latter forfeited his estates for 

 taking arms against the king, 4 " and Ham next appears 

 as an escheat of the Crown, part of which was granted 

 to Godfrey de Lucy, Bishop of Winchester ; and is 

 described in the Testa de Nevill as the vill of Ham, 

 worth 6 per annum. 476 The bishop died in 1204,"' 

 and in the next year the king granted it to Roger de 

 Mowbray, who already enjoyed a rent of 4 there in 

 virtue of a previous grant 4 "' of the rest of the manor 

 of Ham. Later it was granted in farm to the men 

 of the manor who, in 1215 when the king decided to 

 restore it to Peter son of Maurice de Creon, were 

 ordered to render obedience to the latter as to their 

 lord. 4 " 



Peter mortgaged the manor to William Joynier 

 who, upon the death of the former in 1221, was con- 

 firmed in his tenure by Aumary, brother of Peter, 

 who had inherited this estate. 480 Aumary appears to 

 have died or forfeited before 1227, in which year 

 this, with other of his estates in Surrey, was bestowed 

 upon Ralph Nevill, Bishop of Chichester, to hold 

 until the king should restore it to the heirs of Aumary, 

 either of his free will, or by a peace. 4 " 



The bishop died in February I244, 48> and three 

 months later his lands in Ham and elsewhere were 

 conceded for life to Imbert de Salinis to hold by the 

 service of rendering yearly a bow of dogwood," 3 but 

 in 1248 Imbert granted a five years' lease of the 

 manor to Peter de Genevre, 434 which in 1252 was 

 held by Geoffrey de Geynville who had married the 

 widow of Peter. 485 About this time the manor 

 appears to have been restored to the Creon family in 

 the person of Maurice de Creon, who married Isabel 

 half sister of Henry III, and died before 1 25 1, 48 * 

 in the year after which his widow was granted the 

 wardship of the manor.* 8 ' Maurice de Creon, the 

 son and heir, 488 described as a knight of the province 



KINGSTON- 

 U PON-THAMES 



of Anjou, granted the manor to Sir Robert Burnell, 

 afterwards Chancellor to Edward I and Bishop of 

 Bath and Wells, who was confirmed in his title to 

 it in iz72, 48 * and, dying in 1292, was succeeded by 

 his nephew Philip son of Hugh Burnell, 490 then aged 

 twenty-five. Philip married Maud daughter of 

 Richard Earl of Arundel, and died in 1294, leaving 

 Edward his son and heir, then aged twelve years, 4 " 

 who in 1307 had livery of his father's lands. 491 Edward 

 Lord Burnell married Aliva daughter of Hugh le 

 Despenser, and died in 1315 without issue. He was 

 succeeded in the manor by Maud his sister, 495 who in 

 1332 jointly with her husband, John de Handle, paid 

 20 marks for licence to settle this estate upon them- 

 selves and their heirs. 4 * 4 Upon the death of John de 

 Handlo in 1 346, Nicholas his second 4M son by the 

 said Maud, who afterwards assumed the name of 

 Burnell, had livery of his lands in Ham, 4 " and died 

 seised of the same in 1383, leaving Sir Hugh Bur- 

 nell his son and heir, aged thirty-six. 4 " 



Sir Hugh Burnell 498 died in 1420 without male 

 issue, and from this date the connexion of the Burnells 

 with Ham is lost sight of; 4 " it appears to have 

 escheated to the Crown shortly after, being included 

 in 1466 in the dowry of Elizabeth Woodville, queen 

 of Edward IV, 600 together with Sheen and Petersham ; 

 and with those estates was bestowed by Henry VIII 

 on Anne of Cleves in 1540 ; MI by James I on Henry 

 Prince of Wales, 501 and, upon the death of the latter, 

 on Charles afterwards Charles I, 405 who in 1639 

 granted it to William Murray, whose descendants, 

 the Earls of Dysart , hold it at the present day. (See 

 Petersham.) 



A rent of jo/, in this manor was bestowed by 

 King John on the abbey of Clermund, 604 and an 

 equal sum by Guy de la Val on the abbey of 

 Savigny ; Ml both of these subsequently passed to 

 the Abbot of Waverley, 50 * who claimed in 1279 to 

 hold them by a charter from Guy de la Val. 40 ' 



Some idea of the early extent of the manor may 

 be gathered from inquisitions taken at various times : 

 in 1253 it comprised a capital messuage worth 

 zos. per annum ; 200 acres of arable land worth 

 ifd. per acre ; J\ acres of meadow at 3/. per 

 acre ; common pasture for 200 sheep, but if the lord 

 of the manor had no sheep he could take nothing from 

 it ; a weir in the Thames worth i6t. SJ. per annum ; 

 rents of assize 2 lot. ^J. ; labour of customary 

 tenants i lot. \d. ; the total yearly value amounting 



n Brayley, Sxrr. iii, 57. 



Pi ft R. 14 Hen. It (Pipe R. Soc.), 

 210 ; Madox, Hist, of the Exch. i, 589. 



' Fife R. 10 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 3. 



4 " 4 Dugdale, Baronage, i, 615 ; Assize 

 R. 876. 



4 Harl. MS. 5804. 



< Tata di Nevill (Rec. Com.), 127. 



01 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



4 " Rot. Lit. Clam. (Rec. Com.), i, 37, 

 40 ; Tetta tie Nevill, 216. 



* Rot. Lit. Pat. (Rec. Com.), i, 142 j 

 Rot. Lit. Claui. (Rec. Com.), i, 222*. 



480 Rot. Lit. Clam. (Rec. Com.), i, 479, 

 482 ; Exeerfta t Rot. Fin. (Rec. ComA i, 

 64,88. 



181 Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, pp. 54, 

 86 $ Tetta de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 227. 



488 Diet. Nat. Biog. ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 28 Hen. Ill, DO. 20. 



488 Cal. Chart. R. 1226-57, P- *77- 



484 Cal. Pat. 1247-58, p. 15. A leae 

 made the fear before to the Abbot and 



convent of Waverley (Cal. Pat. 1232-4, 

 p. 519) was apparently revoked. 



4 < Cal. Pat. 1247-58, p. 218. 



48 Ibid. p. 167. 



4 W Ibid. pp. 218, 314. 



488 See Cal. Chart. R, 1257-1300, 

 p. 181, where he it called the king's 

 nephew. 



489 Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 180. 



490 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. II, no. 50. 

 According to this inquisition the bishop 

 had enfeoffed Otto de Grandison of the 

 manor, who after holding it for two years 

 had granted it back to Burnell on setting 

 out for the Holy Land. See also Assize 

 R. 902, m. 5. 



491 Dugdale, Baronage, i, 60. 

 IM Cal. Close, 1307-13, p. n. 

 498 Cal. Pat. 1330-4, p. 75. 



4M Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 60 i Cal. Pat. 1330-4, p. 75 5 Feet of F. 

 Div. Co. 5 Edw. Ill, no. 1 10. 



495 For settlement on Nicholas see Cal. 



505 



Pat. 1330-40, p. 302 and Feet of F. Div. 

 Co. 14 Edw. Ill, no. 92. 



49t Cal. Clue, 1346-9, p. 113 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 51. 



"" Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Ric. II, no. 20. 



498 See Chan. Inq. p.m. 9 Ric. II, no. 



7- 



499 It possibly passed to William, Lord 

 Lovel, descended from Maud Burnell by 

 her first husband. His son John Lord 

 Lovel was a Lancastrian, and died in 1464, 

 which would accord with the date of 

 the grant to Elizabeth Woodville if his 

 estate was confiscated after 1461. 



400 Cal. Pat. 1461-7, p. 525. 



s L. and P. Hen. fill, xvi, p. 717. 



SM Pat. 8 Jas. I, pt. xli, no. 2. 



*" Ibid. 14 Jas. I, pt, x. 



W 4 Tetta de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 226. 



404 Dugdale, Man. yi, 1 102. 



"* Esch. Inq. 37 Hen. Ill, no. 54. 



<W Assiie R. 876. 



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