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worth 5s. per annum. There was a watermill paying 18s. per 
annum, and seven cottagers who paid 12s. 3d. per annum, and 
four other villeins who held half-virgates and did no work, and 
paid 26s. 8d. per annum. The advowson of the Church, valued 
100s. , belonged to the Manor. The total value of the Manor 
was £zi 10s. gd. (say £120 per annum of to-day’s money, 
clear). 
The Manor (of which little indeed is heard henceforward) 
continued in the possession of the Earls of Kent until 1401, 
when Miserden Manor and Advowson, together with Siddington 
(Over), Lechlade, and Barnsley Manor, were all seized into the 
King’s hands for the rebellion in favour. of Richard II. of the 
Earl of Kent, for which the latter lost his life, being summarily 
beheaded in the market-place of Cirencester at the hands of the 
loyal townsfolk there. 
From the Earls of Kent it descended down through their 
various fifteenth-century heirs to Cecilia, 1 Duchess of York, 
heiress of the Mortimers, as part of the dowry of Elizabeth, 
Queen of Henry VII. (her granddaughter), whose son, Arthur 
Prince of Wales, finally had it. From him it came to enrich 
Henry VIII., who granted it to his favourite, Sir William 
Kingston, K.G. (c. 1537), then Governor of the Tower and 
Controller of the Household, Steward of the Abbey of 
Cirencester. 2 With him and his son Anthony and John 
Dudley, that King and Anne Bullen, on their honeymoon, 
had here hunted from Prinknash House in 1535. 3 Kingston 
presently acquired and resided at Painswick Lodge, and died 
there in September, 1540, and was buried in Painswick Church 
in a grandiose monument, probably appropriated from one of 
the fifteenth-century Talbots, Lords of that Manor. Neither 
the Manor of Miserden nor that of Painswick (but much else 
in the county) passed to his son, Sir Anthony Kingston, of evil 
1 For grants of the Manor of Miserden a. i Edwd, IV. see Add. MSS. 6693 (p. 57), Add. 
Rolls 28272 and 28274 (Brit. Mus.). 
2 In 1522 he had been enriched by pickings of the Thornbury (Buckingham) Estates in this 
county. He presently had custody of Wolsey ; later still, that of Anne Bullen. 
* Cf. A Cotteswold Manor, pp. 144, 145. The King had made Kingston Warden of all the 
Hunts in the county. 
