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 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES 

 
 THE 
 
 CHARTERS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE TOIf'N 
 
 o f 
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES, 
 
 Translated into English 
 
 
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 OCCASIONAL NOTES 
 
 By GEORGE ROOTS, 
 of Lincoln's inn. 
 
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 Ex Lib r is 
 C. K. OGDEN
 
 To 
 
 The Right Honourable 
 
 LORD ONSLOW, 
 
 THE HIGH STEWARD, 
 
 THE BAILIFFS AND FREEMEN 
 
 of 
 
 The Town of Kingfton upon Thames. 
 
 THIS TRANSLATION 
 
 of 
 
 THE CHARTERS OF THE SAME TOWN, 
 
 is infcribed 
 
 by their obedient 
 
 and humble Servant, 
 
 The Author. 

 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 TO the general hiftory of Kingfton, To well 
 underftood, little or nothing new is to be 
 faid in addition. I had entertained the hope, 
 however, that the records of the town might 
 have afforded fome anecdotes relating to it, wor- 
 thy of the perufal of the reader ; but in this I 
 was miftaken, not having been fo fuccefsful as 
 to meet with any thing there either interefting 
 or curious. There are feveral old books of 
 churchwardens and ovcrfeers accounts, where- 
 in there is little worthy of notice beyond the dif- 
 ference they exhibit between the price of pro- 
 vifions and labour at the time they were written 
 and the prefent. Of this Mr. Lyfons has taken 
 notice, in his ITiftorical Account of the Environs 
 within Twelve Miles of London ; wherein he has 
 comprized mod of the particulars to be met 
 with in the different authors who have treated 
 upon Kingfton before. 
 
 Accurate
 
 2 PREFACE. 
 
 Accurate as he is in his general description^, 
 this Gentleman feems to have fallen into an 
 error in one place , where he dates that " King- 
 il fton ceafed to be a borough, in confeqnence 
 iC of a petition from the corporation (recorded 
 " in the Town-Clerk's Office) the prayer of 
 " which was, that they might be relieved from 
 " the burden of fending Members to Parlia- 
 " ment j" — and in fupport of which he refers 
 the reader to Willis's Notitia Parliamentarian 
 But this I apprehend is a miftake ; for I have 
 peril fed this author, without being able to meet 
 with any fuch paffage ; and I have fearched and 
 made enquiries, but in vain, for the petition. 
 It is more than probable, therefore, that this 
 jJHvilege was loft merely by difcontinuance, as 
 was the cafe with feveral other places ; and a 
 fhort examination of the ancient method of 
 carry in p- into execution the elective franchife 
 will doubly warrant this fuppofition. 
 
 * Neither prefcription nor the ancient char- 
 ters of any of our Kings, appear to have conflitu- 
 ted the primary and original right by which 
 cities and boroughs formerly fent citizens and 
 burgeffes to parliament. -j~ It was not till con- 
 fiderably after the union of the houfes of York 
 
 ■ Prynne's Brev. Pari. Brady's Hiitorical Trcatife. 
 r Author oi th" Translation of Sully's Memoirs. 
 
 and
 
 PREFACE. 3 
 
 and Lancafter, that it became a practice to grant 
 charters to places, empowering them with this 
 privilege. There is one inftance to the con- 
 trary noted in Willis's book, as early as King 
 Edward IV. who, by a charter dated ?.c.th of 
 November 1448, emprivilegcd Jfenlock Magna, 
 m the county of Shropfhire, to fend one burgefs 
 to parliament; which is the firft precedent, ac- 
 cording to the fame author, that occurs in the 
 charter of any borough. But it was a thins; bv 
 no means common at that time, nor became fo 
 rill the reign of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. 
 when we meet with many inftances. 
 
 * Before that period it was left wholly to the 
 merit! of each county to name and direcr whicljr 
 were boroughs, and which not, bv virtue of the 
 general and indefinite ciaufe contained in -the 
 King's writs of fummons of parliaments iffued 
 to the iheriffs of every county, prior to the af- 
 fembling of every fuch parliament. In that age 
 of our political iimplicity, when th • fpirit or 
 party and the rage of faction were -alike un- 
 known, there was not fuch a general ambition 
 of being called to the fenate as at prefent ; -f 
 but the perfons elee^cd, as well as the perfons 
 electing them, efteemed it rather a burthen and 
 
 ■ Prynne's Kiev. Pail. Brady's Hiflorical Treatife. 
 
 I Prynne's Brcv. Pari. Brady's Hiflorical Treatife, 
 
 [olmfton's rixcellencv of Monarchical Government. 
 
 r, 2 an
 
 4 PREFACE. 
 
 an inconvenience, than an honour and an ad- 
 vantage ; and therefore, after being chofen, left 
 they mould neglect to repair to the convention, they 
 had fureties (called Mann captors) for their ap- 
 pearance there. The form of the royal mandate 
 to the flieriffs was in this manner: — " Tibi 
 " prascipimus firmiter injungentes quod de co- 
 " mitatu prase 1 icto duos milites, et de quallbet 
 &c civitate ejufdem comitatus duos cives, et de 
 " quolibet bur go duos burgenfes de difcretioribus 
 " et ad laborandum potentioribus, &c. fine di- 
 " latione eligi et eos ad nos ad dictos diem et 
 " locum venire facias; ita quod, &c. dicti cives 
 " et burgenfes pro fe et pro communitate civita- 
 " turn et burgorum przedictorum divifimab ipfis 
 * f (militibus comitatus) habeant ad faciendum 
 " et confentiendum hiis quas tunc de communi 
 iC confilio contigerit ordinari," &c. — Under the 
 authority of thefe general words de quallbet civi- 
 iate, et de quolibet burgo, each fheriff, accord- 
 ing to his own will and difcretion, fent the writ 
 directed to him, or the precepts grounded on 
 it, to whatfoever cities or boroughs he pleafed, 
 ufing an arbitrary power in the execution of this 
 office, either as his judgment directed, or favour 
 and partiality fvvayed him * ; this evidently ap- 
 pears in the difference we find between their fe- 
 veral returns; ibme (heriffs returning more bo- 
 
 * Prynne's Brev. Pari. Brady's Hiftorical Treatifc. 
 
 roughs
 
 PREFACE. 5 
 
 roughs and burgefles than their predeceflbrs ; 
 others fewer ; fome omitting thofe very boroughs 
 which their predeceiTors had returned ; and 
 others again cauling elections and returns to be 
 made for fuch new boroughs as never elected or 
 fent any members either before or fince the time 
 of their (hrievaltics. 
 
 The firil returns extant of knights, citizens, 
 and burgefles, are 26 Edward I. ; and in the 
 return made for Wiltfhire, in that year, annexed 
 to the writ, there were returned two knights for 
 the county, two citizens for New Sarum, two 
 burgefles for Downton, two burgefles for the 
 Devizes, two for the borough of Chippenham, 
 and two for iMalmefbury, with their Manucap- 
 tors ; and the writ was alfo fent to the conftable 
 of Marlborough, and to the bailiffs of the liber- 
 ty of Calne and Worthe, who returned no an- 
 fwer. Thefe were the only places that the fheriff 
 of this year made his precepts to, and returns for 
 accordingly. 
 
 In the returns of knights, citizens, and bur- 
 gefles to ferve for the fame county, 12 Ed- 
 ward III. after the return of the knights, the 
 fherifT for that year returned only two citizens for 
 New Sarum, two burgefles for Wilton, and two 
 for Downton, with Manucaptors ; and then for 
 two burgefles for Marlborough, the writ was 
 b 3 returned
 
 6 PREFACE. 
 
 returned to the conftable of the caftle of Marl- 
 borough, becaufe it could not be executed by 
 the fheriff in that liberty; and the conftable gave 
 him no anfwer. The fheriff then, it appears, 
 made his precept and return for thefe two bo- 
 roughs only 3 one of which was not returned in 
 the 26 Edward I.; and then after his anfwer 
 concerning Marlborough, he clofes his return 
 thus : — " Non furit plures civitates, neque 
 ic burgi, infra ballivam meam," that is within 
 the county ; notwithftanding Bedwin, Caine, 
 Chippenham, Cricklade, Devizes, Ludgerfhall, 
 Malmefbury, and Marlborough (but efpecially 
 the two latter) had frequently returned burgeffes 
 to parliament before. 
 
 In the return of the 36th year of the fame 
 reign, after the knights for the county, and two 
 citizens for New Sarum, there were by the 
 fheriff for that \ car returned two burgeffes for 
 Wilton, two for the borough of Old Sarum, 
 two for the borough of Downton, two for the 
 borough of Chippenham, two for the borough 
 of Calne, two for the borough of Marlborough, 
 two for the borough of Devizes, two for the 
 borough of Malmefbury, two for the borough of 
 Cricklade, and two for Bedwin ; and then after 
 the names of the burgefTes for thefe ten boroughs, 
 with their Manucaptors, the lheriff clofes his 
 return with thefe words, " Et non funt plures 
 
 " civitates
 
 PREFACE. / 
 
 " civitates nee burgi in comitatu pnediefco, ideo 
 fC inde ulterius nihil aft u in eit ;" ' and there are 
 no more cities nor boroughs within the laid 
 countv, and therefore there is nothing; further 
 done in this matter,' 
 
 In this return, notwith (landing the fheriff re- 
 turned that there were no more cities nor bo- 
 roughs within his county, yet he left out Lud- 
 gcrlhall, which had lent burgeffes to parliament 
 7 Edward II.; twice in the 8th of Edward II.; 
 and the 4th, 14th, and 33d of Edward III. ; as 
 the returns of thofe years Ihew. 
 
 In the 43 Edward III. the fheriff returns only 
 the names of the knights, citizens for New Sa- 
 rum, and burgeffes for Wilton, Old Sarum, 
 Marlborough, die Devizes, Malmefbury, Crick- 
 lade, and no more ; making no return for 
 Calnc, Chippenham, Bedwin, or Ludgerfhall, 
 nor any excufe why he did not, 
 
 In the 26 Edward I. the fheriff of Bucking- 
 hamshire made this return on the dors of the 
 writ, li Nulli funt cives, nee burgenfes in com. 
 " prceJict. nee civitas nee burgus, propter quod 
 " cives nee buro;enlcs coram vobis venire iaccrc 
 £< non polliim." i There are no citizens nor 
 burgeffes in the county aforefaid, nor city nor 
 b 4 borough ,
 
 8 PREFACE. 
 
 borough; for which caufe I cannot make citizens 
 or burgefTes to come before you.' 
 
 In the 28th of the fame reign, the fheriff re- 
 turned for Agmondemam, Wy eomb, and Wen- 
 dover, two burgefTes each, who were ele&ed 
 by thofe places. 
 
 In the 30th year of the fame reign, there were 
 only two burgefTes returned for Wycomb, and 
 none for either Agmondeiham or Wendover. 
 
 In the 1 ft and 2nd Edward II. the then fhc- 
 riffs returned two burgeffes for Wycomb, two 
 for Wendover, two for AgmondeiTiam, and two 
 for Great Marlow. 
 
 And in the 6 Edward II. the fheriff returned 
 " Null^funt civitates in com. Bucks, nee etiam 
 '* burgi, piaster in villa de Wycombe." * There 
 are no cities nor boroughs in the county of Buck- 
 inghamshire, except in the town of Wycomb.' 
 
 In the 1 2th of the fame King, Wycomb alone 
 is returned in Bucks; and in the clofe of the re- 
 turn, " Nulla eft civitas, nee plures burgi inbal- 
 (i liva mea." * There is no city nor more boroughs 
 in my bailiwick ;' and fo no other boroughs were 
 returned in this county until after the reign of 
 Edward IV. or the parliament in 1641* Befides 
 
 the&
 
 PREFACE. 9 
 
 thcfe few inftances which 1 have felected, there 
 are divers omiflions of many other inconfiderable 
 boroughs for 50, 100, 150, and from that to 
 300 or more years, grounded upon the like re- 
 returns ; fome of which onlyfent burgelfes once 
 or twice before the years 1 640 — 1 *. For in- 
 ftance, Cockermouth, in the county of Cumber- 
 land, made two returns j one in the reign of 
 Edward I. and one in Edward III. ; but none 
 afterwards till 1640, fince which it has regularly 
 fent two -f. Tregony likewife, in Cornwall, made 
 two returns to parliament in the reign of Ed- 
 ward I, but no more till the 5th of Queen Eliza- 
 beth. Thus it was alfo in Yorkshire, Lincoln- 
 fhire, Dorfetfhire, Devonshire, Somerfct, South- 
 ampton, Surrey, Suflex, and moft, if not all the 
 counties in England, where there were at the 
 time of making the returns, any fmall, poor, or 
 inconfiderable boroughs ; and where the Ihenffs 
 were more or lefs kind to them, they returned or 
 omitted them at pleafure. 
 
 And to fuch a length was this practice of the 
 fhcriffs carried, that there was a law palled in 
 the 5 Richard II. that if any merirF ihoiild from 
 thenceforth be negligent in making his returns 
 of writs of the parliament, or fliould leave out 
 of the faid returns any cities or boroughs that 
 
 * Prynne's Brev. Pari. Brady's Hiftorical Treatife. 
 t Curioiities of Great Britain. 
 
 were
 
 lO PREFACE. 
 
 were bound, and of old time were wont to come 
 to parliament, he mould be punifhed in the 
 fame manner as was accultomed to be done in 
 the faid cafe in time pair. But notwithstanding 
 this law, the Sheriffs flill continued to act in 
 many inftances as they had done before. 
 
 By this then it is evident, that from the 23 
 Edward I. when the firft writs were i Slued for 
 the choice of citizens and burgeffes, and alfo 
 during the feveral reigns of Edward II. and III. 
 Richard II. Henry IV. V. and VI. and Ed- 
 ward IV. it was left folely to the difcretion and 
 judgment of the fheriffs to determine which bo- 
 roughs were fit and able to fend burgeifes, and 
 which not ; and if any borough, once able, 
 became poor and indigent, and unable to pay 
 the expences of their burgefTes, or had none fit 
 to chufe, it was considered as affording juft 
 grounds for the Sheriff to excufe them from the 
 trouble and charge of electing and fending mem- 
 hers, notwithftanding the Statutes q Richard II. 
 '.4. — 1 Henry V. c. 1. — 8 Henry VI. c, 7. 
 and 23 Henry VI. c. 1 5, 
 
 The charters of ancient boroughs (as Prynne 
 
 obferves) contained no clanfe or grant for the 
 choice or election of burgeifes to ferve in parlia- 
 ment ; and he (hues further, that he had never 
 heard of nor fcen any particular directions from
 
 PREFACE. I I 
 
 the King and Council, or others, to the iheriffs, 
 for the lending their precepts to this or that bo- 
 rough onlv, and not to others. 
 
 Nor during the whole of thefe feveral reigns 
 do we find that the boroughs ever complained 
 of the fherifTs for not returning them, or ne- 
 glecting to fend their precepts to them ; nor did 
 they ever remonfirate as being hardly tiled or 
 dealt with, not accounting it at that time any ad- 
 vantage, honour, or privilege to be bound to (end 
 burgeiles to parliament*; but, on the contrary, 
 it being reputed a burthen and grievance where 
 poor and imall boroughs -ere obliged to fend 
 them, as was the cale with Toriton, in Devon- 
 shire, that petitioned the King in parliament to 
 be diicharped from fending burgdfes ; [tanner 
 that it was a great trouble and charge, and to 
 their manifed damage and deprethon. 
 
 f This borough, as appears by the returns be- 
 iore the 42 Edward 111. had upon leveral writs 
 and precepts elected and returned burgefies to 
 ho lets than thirty-two parliaments, and had at 
 that time two burgeiles returned lor the parlia- 
 ment ol 42 Edward ill. which began the 1 it ot 
 May. No fooner was this parliament aiTembled, 
 'han the bailiffs, burgefies, and whole common- 
 
 • I'lynnc'd Brev. Pari. Brady's Hiiloiical Treatifc. 
 \ Ibid.
 
 13 PREFACE. 
 
 alty of Toriton exhibited their complaint by 
 petition to the King in parliament, fetting forth 
 that they ought not to be burthened with the 
 fending any men out of the town to parliament, 
 for the reafons expreffed in this memorable pa- 
 tent of exemption from fending burgeffes to 
 any parliaments. 
 
 Ci Rex ballivis et probis hominibus et toti 
 *' communitati villse de Toriton in comitatu 
 *"' Devon, falutcm. Ex parte veftra nobis eft 
 " monftratum quod cum villa ad mittend. ali- 
 " quos homines, pro eadem villa ad parliamenta 
 " noftra, vel progenitorum noftrorum quondam 
 " regum Anglian non miferit, nee mitteie con- 
 il fueverit ante annum regni noflri vicefimum 
 <* primum quo tempore vicecomes nofter comi- 
 " tatus pradicti qui tunc fuit, diclam villam de 
 • 4 Toriton burgum et duos homines pro eodem 
 4C burgo ad veniendum ad parliamentum nof- 
 * ; trum, dicto anno vicefimo primo tentum fum- 
 iC monitos fuifTe malitiofe in cancellaria noftra 
 "' retornavit. Et lie eadem villa de Toriton ab 
 ** eodem anno vicefimo primo ad inveniend. 
 i<: duos homines pro eadem villa in fingulis annis 
 li parliamentis noflris tentis pretextu retorni 
 <f prsdicti onerata extitit : Et vos ea occafione 
 i{ laborious et expenfis multipliciter gravati 
 " fuiftis ad veftrum dampnum non modicum 
 4t et depreffionem manifeftam, fuper quo nobis 
 
 fupplicaftis
 
 PREFACE. 13 
 
 u iupplicaftis vobis remedium adhiberi oppor- 
 " tunum. Et quia fcrutatis rotulis ct memo- 
 u randis cancellarise noflrae non eft compertum 
 " nomina aliquorum hominum pro dicta villa 
 " feu burgo de Toriton ad veniend. ad parlia- 
 " menta noftra ante dictum vicefimum primum 
 " retorn. fuifle nos nolentes dictam villam de 
 " Toriton occafione praedicla indebite onerari, 
 " vos et villam prsedictam ad inveniend. feu 
 " mittend. aliquos homines ad parliamenta nof- 
 " tra de cetero communis fummonitionis parlia- 
 " mentorum eorundem hah emus et tenemus ex- 
 " cufatos, et vos inde exoneramus per prsefcntes 
 " in perpctuum. In cujus rei teftimonium, £cc. 
 " Tefle rege apud Weiim. 18 die Martii. 
 
 Cl per petitionem de Pailiamento." 
 
 ■'• It is obfervable that, notwithstanding this pa- 
 tent, exempting the men and borough of Toriton 
 from being obliged to fend burgefles to any 
 future parliaments i yet the very next year, 
 43 Edward III. and likewife an. 46, 47, 50 
 Edward III. — 5, 6, 7, 8, and 20 Richard II. 
 and 1 and 5 Henry IV. they conftantly found 
 and fcnt two burgefles themlelvcs, or had them 
 returned for them by the iheriff; but fince the 
 5 Henry IV. till his time, the lame author ob- 
 ierves that they never had any burgefles returned 
 
 * Prynne's Brev. Parliament. Brady** Hiflorical 
 Treatile. 
 
 that
 
 14 PREFACE. 
 
 that he could find by record or hiftory. From 
 which he is induced to believe, that this mifin- 
 formation was either difproved by the fherifFof 
 Devon, or others, upon better fearch of the rolls 
 and memorials of Chancery ; and thereupon this 
 patent revoked or declared null in law, becaufe 
 grounded upon a falfe information, or clfc becaufe 
 Toriton was an ancient borough, not fit to be 
 exempted from fending burgefies to future par-- 
 liaments, as the ftatute 5 Richard II. declared 
 the old law of England to be. 
 
 Thefe circumftances confidered, will, I con- 
 ceive, afford fuflicicnt room, for belief, that the 
 true reafon of * Kinglton having difcontinued 
 to fend burgeiibs was, not becaufe of any peti- 
 tion being ever prefented for inch exemption, 
 but becaufe the fheriiF omitted, either through 
 favour or from fome other motive, to fend his 
 
 * This is not the only difcontinued borough in this 
 county that formerly feat members. The borough of 
 Farnham alio has made three returns to parliament, though 
 it has now loft that privilege. 
 
 4 Ed. II. pari, at Weft. Tho. de Tyghelere, Tho. de Sutton 
 
 5 Ed. II. pari, at Lon. Tho. deTyghelere, Tho.de Sutton 
 38 Hen. VI. pari, at Weft. H. Taddenham, Rich. Beaufitz. 
 
 This Thomas de Sutton was an anceftor of our late 
 worthy the riff, Thomas Sutton of Molefy, Efq. whole fa- 
 mily is of great antiquity, tracing its defcent, as appeals ! y 
 a pedigree through the barony of Lexington, as high as 
 the Norman conqueft, and fettled in the county of Surry 
 icveral centime;, back. 
 
 precept
 
 PREFACE. 15 
 
 precept to them tor that ourpofe, — as the 
 grou >n which thev ever elected any, may 
 
 reaibnablv be afcribed to the lame arbitrary in- 
 clination in the meritf, in compelling them to 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 ma 
 
 a return. 
 
 With regard to the number of returns ever 
 made by that place, 1 obferve Mr. Lylbns fol- 
 lows the author of the Notitia Parliamentaria, 
 who (lues only four, namely in the 4, 5, and 
 6 Edward II. and 47 Edward III. whereas 
 Prj nne, Camden, the Magna Britannia, and the 
 Hillory of Surry, make them five, by adding to 
 the above four the 26th Edward III. alio: 
 though Prynne, it is true, in his account of the 
 names of the burgelles, omits thole who ferved 
 in the latter ; which may be owing to die return 
 having been loft, or net found when the others 
 were : and the copy ot it is alio wanting in the 
 archives of the town, whore tkey have copies 01 
 the four other returns taken from the originals 
 found in the Tower. The following is a lilt ot 
 the burgcifes who were return eel by that place, 
 and the parliaments they ferved in : 
 
 4 Ed. II. pari, at Weil. Adam le Temper, ]'.:hn de Crucc 
 
 5 Ed. II. pari, at Loud. Roger k Cauieier, John Tuill 
 
 6 Ed. II. pari, at Wcam. J )hn Tcly. J ,hn atte Crouch 
 26 Ed. HI. The names oi thefe buigeiies do not any- 
 
 where appear „ A 
 47 Ed. III. par!, at V, ek H*S» T..;.rner, J hn Havcryng 
 
 making but five returns- in all, and none fmce. 
 
 Now
 
 l6 PREFACE. 
 
 Now had fuch a petition been prefented to 
 be freed from that burthen, fome trace of it, I 
 mould think, muft have been met with ; and 
 if an entire copy had not been prcferved, yet 
 minutes at leaft would have been recriftered. Be- 
 fides, fo accurate an oblerver as Prynne gene- 
 rally was, would hardly have fuffered this cir- 
 cumftance to have efcaped his notice ; and he 
 only mentions it as among thofe many places 
 which were obliged to make returns at one time, 
 and were excufed at another, merely at the ca- 
 price of the fheriff. There are feveral other * au- 
 thors too, and particularly Willis, who take no- 
 tice of this place having formerly fent members, 
 but ftate merely that the privilege is now loft, 
 without faying a word of any petition ; which, 
 had there really been any fuch, it is more than 
 likely that fome one of them would have been 
 acquainted with. 
 
 The only grounds upon which fuch a petition 
 could ever have been prefented, muft have been 
 on account of their poverty and inability to pay 
 their burgefles, and becaufe they were unjuftly 
 compelled to make a return. Now, with regard 
 to the firft part of the allegation, the truth would 
 
 ■ See Magna Britannia — Camden's Britannia— Hiflory of 
 Surry — Cmiofities of Great Britain — A Tour through 
 
 Liu Luul. 
 
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 PREFACE. iy 
 
 be at variance with the aflertion, and the plea of 
 poverty could not be fuflained by the fact ; for 
 Kingflon was always a place of fufficient wealth 
 to have afforded the expences of its burgefles 
 with much more eafe than many other places 
 which paid them from the hi ft, without the leaft 
 complaint. Indeed, from even former account, 
 it appears thai it lias much fallen from its ori- 
 ginal confequence ; and that its trade has di- 
 minilhed as well as its markets dwindled away,* 
 compared with what they formerly were. This 
 being the cafe then, what room is there to pre- 
 tend that it was not equally able to have fup- 
 ported its burgefles expences with Guildford, 
 Downton, Wilton, the Devizes, Old Sarum, 
 Calne, Chippenham, and many others, who with 
 much more propriety might have pleaded their 
 poverty in excufe ? 
 
 Such a report, notwithstanding, has certainly 
 been credited about Kingfton, that it had ceafed 
 to lend members, in confequence of a petition, 
 praying to be exempt from that burthen, which 
 it was not able to fupport. But how, or from 
 what fuch a report ever arofe, is more than I 
 could ever learn. With all the enquiry \ could 
 make, 1 have never been able to meet with any 
 one who had fecn fuch a petition, or any written 
 account or trace of it, though many who pretend 
 
 * Magna Britannia — Hiftory of Surry, 
 
 c to
 
 iB PREfACE. 
 
 to have heard of it : for which reafon I am the 
 more ftrongly induced to believe hear/ay evi- 
 dence to be the only authority that can be ad- 
 duced in fupport of it. 
 
 The following Anecdotes are added, as being 
 unnoticed by former Writers. 
 
 iC Anno Domini milleiimo 445, et anno re- 
 gis Henry V u . 23, in vigilia puiificacionis, 
 combufta eft magna pars campanilis de Kyngef- 
 ton et unus in ecclelia ex timorc vifus fpiritus 
 mortuus." 
 
 ' In the year of our Lord 1445, and in the 
 
 23d year of King Henry the Fifth, on the eve 
 of the Purification, a great part of the belfreyof 
 Kyngefton was burnt; and a perfon died in the 
 church, through fear of a fpirit which he faw 
 there/ 
 
 •' In primo die menfis Oclobris, anno Do- 
 mini 1467, et anno Regis Edwardi quarti fep- 
 timo, Rex tenuit magnum confilium cum Do- 
 minis apud Kyngiftone fuper Thamefiam, ubi 
 Domina Margareta, foror regis E„ in praefencia 
 
 Domi-
 
 PREFACE. ig 
 
 Dominorum agrcavit fe ad condudendum matri- 
 monium cum Domino Karolo Dace Burgundiae. 
 Comes Warwici non fuit ibidem, fed in partibus 
 borialibus." 
 
 4 On the firfr. day of the month of October, in 
 die year of our Lord 1467, and in the feventh 
 year of King Edward the IVth, the King held 
 a great council with the Lords at Kingfton upon 
 Thames, where the Lady Margaret, fitter of 
 King Edward, agreed to conclude a marriage 
 with Lord Charles, Duke of Burgundy. The 
 Earl of Warwick was not there, being; in the 
 north.' 
 
 If ilhelmi JVyrcefker Annul cs rerum Anglicarum. 
 
 King/ion upon Thames, 1 696. 
 Mercurii, 24° die Feb. 9 Gul. 3". 
 
 A petition of the bailiffs, lords of the manor, 
 and tenants of the fame, and other the freemen 
 and inhabitants of Kingfton upon Thames, in 
 the county of Surrey, was preferred to the 
 lioufe and read ; fetting forth. That the poor of 
 the laid town daily increafe, and are become 
 very burdenfome to the inhabitants : that there 
 are large commons belonginii to the laid town, 
 clear of timber, and of little ufe ; which it im- 
 proved by lowing fiax, hemp, 8cc. would em- 
 ploy their poor, and cafe the inhabitants, who 
 
 c ?. are
 
 ZO PREFACE. 
 
 are willing to build conveniences for teaching 
 and emplojing the poor, and their children; 
 which may not only be a comfortable fubftftence 
 to themfelves, but an advantage to the nation : 
 and praying leave to bring in a bill, empowering 
 them to enclofe as much of their commons as 
 they, from time to time, fhall find caufe to em- 
 ploy for the ufes of their poor j and that fuch 
 enclofures may be exempted from all taxes and 
 tythes. 
 
 Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill 
 to inclofe the faid commons, tythe free for fome 
 time, and to fet the poor on work ; and that 
 Sir Richard Onflow do prepare and bring in 
 the bill. Journals of the Hou/e of Commons. 
 But it was never prefented. 
 
 A fimilar idea was agitated, as I am informed, 
 about twenty or thirty years ago, but never 
 •acted upon. 
 
 •MIA RTER
 
 CHARTERS 
 
 O F 
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 
 
 CHARTER OF KING JOHN. 
 
 Grant of the Town of King/ion to the Freemen 
 of the Town. 
 
 J 
 
 OHN, by the grace of God, King of 
 England, Lord of Ireland, Duke, of" 
 
 Normandy and Aquitain, Count of ArrrTfr- 
 ff jj vm n r . To all Archbithops, Bifliops, Ab- 
 bots, Earls, Barons, J uftiees, Sheriffs, Pro- 
 volts, and all Bailiffs and faithful fubje&s, 
 greeting. Know ye That we have given, 
 granted, and by this our p relent Charter 
 confirmed to our Freemen of Kyngeiton, 
 our town of Kyngetlon, with all its ap- 
 purtenances in feefarm, to have and to 
 hold to them and their heirs of us and our 
 heirs, in their hand for ever entirely, 
 c 3 vritlv
 
 ZZ CHARTERS OF 
 
 with all the liberties and free cuftorns 
 which the fame town was accuftomed and 
 ought to have at the time in which it was 
 in our hand, yielding thence to our Ex- 
 chequer by their hand yearly fifty pounds 
 of lilver ; that is to fay, half at the Eaiter 
 Exchequer, and half at the Michaelmas 
 Exchequer ; of which fifty pounds they 
 mall pay twenty-eight pounds and ten 
 miliing) blank, which was the ancient 
 rent; and the refldue they mall pay in 
 tale. And we will not that the fhcrifFor 
 his bailiffs in any wife intermeddle with 
 the aforefaid town or its appurtenances, 
 or with the aforefaid rent, except thofe 
 things which belong to the royal crown : 
 wherefore we will and firmly command, 
 That the aforefaid men of Kingefton, and 
 their heirs, may have and hold in feefarm 
 the aforefaid town of Kingefton, with all 
 its appurtenances, for ever, well and peace- 
 ably, free and quietly, entirely, fully, and 
 honourably in all places and things, with 
 all the liberties and free cufloms belong- 
 ing to it, as is above mentioned, as long as 
 they mall well pay the aforefaid rent. 
 
 Witnefs Lord P. Bifhop of Winchester, 
 Lord J. Bifhop of Bath, William Earl of 
 
 Devon-
 
 KINGSTON UPOX THAMES. 23 
 
 DevonhYre, William Brivoerr, Hugo de 
 Neviil. Garin, the ion of Gerola, William 
 Malt-t, Thomas Ballet, RaifGernun, Geof- 
 frey Liiterel. 
 
 Given under the hand of Hugo de Well, 
 Archdeacon of Wells, at Tanton, the 23d 
 day of September, in the tenth year of our 
 reign. 
 
 CHARTER OF HENRY III. 
 
 Privilege from Arrejls. 
 
 HENRY, by the Grace of God, King, 
 
 land 
 
 Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and 
 
 Aquitain, and Count of 
 
 To all Archbimops, Biihops, Abbots, 
 
 Priors, Counts, Barons, Jufticcs, Sheriffs, 
 
 Provofts, Minifters, and all Bailiffs and 
 
 faithful fubjecls, greeting. Know ye 
 
 That we have granted, and by this our 
 
 charter have confirmed to our freemen of 
 
 Kingtton, that they and their heirs for 
 
 ever, throughout all our land and power, 
 
 may have this liberty ; that is to fay, that 
 
 they or their goods found in any places 
 
 whatfoever in our power, fliall not be ar- 
 
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 2\ CHARTERS OF 
 
 refted for any debt of which they are not 
 the fureties or principal debtors, unlefs by 
 chance thofe debtors be of their own com- 
 munity and power, having wherewith 
 they are able, in the whole or in part, to 
 make fatisfaclion, and our laid freemen 
 are wanting in jultice to the creditors ot 
 the fame debtors, and this mall reafonably 
 be made to appear. Wherefore we will 
 and iirmlj^ command for us and our heirs, 
 that our aforefaid freemen of Kingeiion, 
 and their heirs, may have the aforefaid 
 liberty for es r er throughout all our land 
 and power as is aforefaid. And we for- 
 bid, upon the forfeiture to us of ten 
 pounds, that anv (me of them be in anv~ 
 wife unjuftly vexed, ditlurbed, or dif- 
 quieted againft the liberty aforefaid. 
 
 Witnefs Guy de Leziman, Geoffrey de. 
 Leziman, and William de Vaientia, our 
 brothers ; John Maunfell, Provofl of Be- 
 verley; Archibald de S to . Romano, Walter 
 de Morton, William de Grey, William de 
 Hatintot, Barthol. Bygoe, and others. 
 
 Given under our hand at Weftmintter, 
 the joth day of December, in (lie fortieth 
 year of our reign. 
 
 CHARTER
 
 KINGSTON UFON THAMES. 2$ 
 
 l BARTER Ui- HENRY III. 
 
 Grant of an Eight Days Fair. 
 
 HENRY, by the grace of God, King of 
 England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Npr- 
 mainly and Aqiutam, and Count ot Andc - 
 |M^n.'iv To all Archbifhops, Bifhops, Ab- 
 bots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Juiticcs, She- 
 riffs, Provofts, Minifters, and all Bailiffs 
 and faithful fubjccts, greeting. Know ye 
 That we have granted, and by this our 
 charter have confirmed to our freemen of 
 Kyngcfton, that they and their heirs for 
 ever may have a Fair every year, to con- 
 tinue during eight days, at Kyngell on ; 
 that is to fay, on the morrow of All Souls, 
 and during the {even following days, un- 
 lels that fair mould be to the hurt of the 
 neighbouring fairs. Wherefore we will 
 and firmly command for us and our heirs, 
 that our aforcfaid freemen of Kyngefton, 
 and their heirs for ever, may have a fair at 
 Kyngefton every year, to continue during 
 eight days ; that is to fay, on the morrow 
 of All Souls, and during the feven follow- 
 ing days ; with all the liberties and free 
 
 cuf-
 
 2b CHARTERS OF 
 
 cuftoms belonging to fuch like fmr, unkis 
 that fair flio; Jd ! c to the hurt of the , 
 bo tiring fairs, as is aforefaid. 
 
 Witnefs Guy de Lerign, Geoffrey de 
 Lerign, and William de Valentia, our bro- 
 thers ; John Manfell, Treafuier of York- 
 {hire; Robert Walerane, Geoffrey de Geyn- 
 vill, William de Grey, Walter de Merton, 
 Matter John Manfell, Imbto Pugeys, Wil- 
 liam de S u . Ermina, and others. 
 
 Given under our hand at Weftminfter, 
 the 1 2th day of September, in the fortieth 
 year of our reign. 
 
 CHARTER OF HENRY ill. 
 
 Grant of the Return of Writs, &c. 
 
 HENRY, by the grace of God, King of 
 England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Nor- 
 mandy and Aquitain, and Count of Anrfcs 
 ffftymny . To all Archbifhops, Bilhops, Ab- 
 bots, Priors, Earls, Barons, J unices, She- 
 riffs, Provofts, Minitlers, and all Bailiffs 
 and faithful fubjecls, greeting. Know ye 
 That we have granted, and by this our 
 charter have confirmed, for us and our 
 
 heirs,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. ZJ 
 
 heirs, to our freemen of Kyngeiton, that 
 they and their heirs for ever may have the 
 return of our writs from the fummonles of 
 our Exchequer, and all other our writs 
 touching their town, fo that no ftieriff, 
 or other our bailiff or minilter, may enter 
 the town aforefaid to make diftreiles or 
 fummonles, or any other things, unlets 
 through default of the fame men or their 
 heirs. We have alio granted to the fame 
 men., that they and their heirs (men of the 
 fame town) may ehoofe from themielves 
 and create coroners to make attachment 
 of the pleas of our crown, arifmg within 
 our town aforefaid, and anfwer before our 
 jultices itinerant in thole parts of the at- 
 tachments made by them, and other things 
 pertaining to the office of coroner, as other 
 our coroners ought and are wont, to an- 
 fwer ; and that the aforefaid men, with- 
 out our precept, be not impleaded or com- 
 pelled to plead without their town, of any 
 their tenements or chattels which they 
 have within their town, or of any other 
 pleas except trefparTes, if it mall happen 
 that any have been committed by them 
 again It us or our heirs. We have alio 
 granted to the lame men of K vngcllon, 
 
 that
 
 ZB CHARTERS OF 
 
 that they may have their guild-merchant 
 in their town, as they formerly had it, 
 and as our men of Guildford had ; and 
 that they may ufe it together with their 
 other liberties and jufl laws and cufloms 
 which they have in their town aforefaid, 
 as they have ufed it in our time, and in 
 the times of our predeceilbrs, Kings of 
 England : And that the tame men, for the 
 trefpafs or forfeiture of their tenants, fhall 
 not lofe their chattels or goods found in 
 their hands, or put to any other place 
 by thole fervants, as far as thev lhall be 
 able fufhciently to prove that they are 
 their own : And alio, if the faid men, or 
 any of them, fhall die teilate or inteftate 
 within our land and power, we nor our 
 h?irs will not oaufe their goods to be con- 
 fiscated : but. their heirs may have them 
 entirely, as far as it appears that the faid 
 chattels belonged to the laid deceafed. 
 \\ herefore we Vv ill and firmly command 
 tor us and our heirs, that our aforefaid 
 freemen of Kyngetlon, and their heirs for 
 ever, may have all the liberties and free- 
 doms aforefaid; and that they may uic 
 them henceforth for ever, freely and with- 
 out the hindrance of any one, as is afore-
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 29 
 
 faid. And we forbid, upon the forfeiture 
 to us of ten pounds, that no one prefume 
 to vex, molt It, ordifquiet them againft the 
 before written grants and liberties. 
 
 Witnefs Guy de Lerign, Geoffrey de 
 Lerign, and William de Valentia, our 
 brothers ; John Maunfell, Treafurer of 
 York ; Archibald de S tc \ Romano, Robt. 
 Walerane, Will, de Grey, Walter de Mer- 
 ton, Imbto Pugeys, Will. Bonquer, Will. 
 de S ta . Ermina, and others. 
 
 Given under our hand at Weftminfter, 
 the 13th day of September, in the fortieth 
 year of our reigri. 
 
 This laft charter is confirmed bv an- 
 other of Edward the Third, dated the 31ft 
 day of January, in the 16th year of his 
 reign over England, and third over France. 
 
 King Richard II. by a charter dated the 
 2d of April, in the fir It year of his reign, 
 alfo confirms the above charter of Kin<r 
 John, and the charter of King Edward III. 
 for the return of writs. 
 
 CHAR-
 
 30 CHARTERS Of 
 
 CHARTER OF RICHARD II, 
 
 Grant of a Shop and Eight Acres of hand, 
 
 hi aid of the Payment of the feefarm 
 
 Rent of the Tozvn. 
 
 RICHARD, by the grace of God, King 
 of England and France, and Lord of Ire- 
 land. To all to whom thefe prefent let- 
 ters mail come, greeting. Know \e That 
 we, of our fpecial favour, have granted for 
 us and our heirs as much as in us is to our 
 beloved freemen of our town of Kyngcf- 
 ton upon Thames, which town aforefaid 
 they hold of us for a certain feefarm of 
 fifty-four pounds eight millings and fix- 
 pence, paid yearly to our Exchequer ; as 
 they fay, a lhop and eight acres of land, 
 with the appurtenances in the town afore- 
 faid, which belonged to Robert Hegge- 
 man, who held them of us (and which 
 lhop and land came to our hands as our 
 eicheat, as we have taken it becaufe the 
 aforeiaid Robert died without an heir) : 
 to have and to hold to the faid freemen 
 and their fucceflbrs of us and our heirs, 
 by the feryiccs therefore due and accuf- 
 
 tomed
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 3 I 
 
 tomed in the time of the aforefaid Robert, 
 in aid of the payment of their aforefaid 
 rent for ever, without any thing to be 
 paid to us or our heirs for the mop and 
 land aforefaid, beyond the faid feefarm 
 
 In witnefs whereof we have caufed 
 thefe our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnefs mvfelf at Weilminlter, the 50th 
 day of May, in the fourth year of our 
 reign. By Writ of Privy Seal. 
 
 Henry IV. by a charter dated the 29th 
 day of May, in the firft year of his reign, 
 confirms the above charter of King John, 
 and the charter of King Edward \\\. for 
 the return of writs. 
 
 Exemplification of a Trial in the Exchequer 
 with the Sheriff of the County, Whether 
 the Freemen of King/Ion ought to pay 
 Knights Fees? — Adjudged they ought not* 
 
 8 HEN. IV. 
 
 HENRY, by the grace of God, King of 
 England and France, and Lord of Ireland.
 
 $2 CHARTERS OF 
 
 To all to whom thefe prefent letters mall 
 come, greeting. We have infpecled a 
 certain plea of the term of St. Michael, in 
 the fecond year of the reign of King Rich- 
 ard the Second, after the Conqucft, in thefe 
 words : fs. Pleas before the Barons of the 
 Exchequer at Weftminfter, of the term of 
 St. Michael, in the fecond year of King 
 Richard the Second, after the Conqueft, fs. 
 Surry fs. Robert Campe, Bailiff of the li- 
 berty of the Archbilhop of Canterbury, of 
 Croydon, and Thomas Carpenter, BailifFof 
 the liberty of Kyngeiton and Emelbrigg, 
 \\ ere attached, being here now on the oc- 
 tave of St. Martin, to anfwer the King and 
 William Percy, fherifF of the county of 
 Surry. Wherefore when the Lord King, 
 by his writ of the Chancery, commanded 
 the aforefaid William Percy that he mould 
 cauie to have of the men of the county 
 aforefaid to Nicholas Carren and John 
 Kyngcsfold, late Knights elected to the 
 parliament held at Wcftmintter, in the lirll 
 year of his reign, for the commonalty of 
 the county aforefaid, a certain fum of mo- 
 ney for their expences, to be levied of the 
 men of the fame town, as well within the 
 libertlcr a-, uui, the laid William Percy 
 
 fays,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 33 
 
 fays, that although he made divers pre- 
 cepts to the aforefaid Robert Campe 
 and Thomas Carpenter for the portions 
 belonging to the feveral men of their bai- 
 liwick for the expences aforelaid ; that is 
 to far, to the aforelaid Robert Campe for 
 twenty-three {hillings for his portion ; 
 and to the aforelaid Thomas Carpenter, 
 tor tour marks for his portion, at the 
 county-court, held on Wednefdav next, 
 before the feaft of Epiphany in the fame 
 year of the Lord at Gildeford, he delivered 
 to be levied ; yet the aforefaid Robert and 
 Thomas have refuted, and ilill do refute, to 
 return their precepts aforefaid, or levy the 
 turns aforefaid to the aforefaid William 
 Percy, through which the fame William 
 paid the expences of the fame Knights to 
 the aforefaid Knights at Gildeford, the 
 fame year, on account of the default of 
 the aforelaid bailiffs, in contempt of the 
 King. Wherefore the aforelaid William 
 Percy is impoverished, and has a lofs to 
 the value of twenty pounds, and therefore 
 he produces fuit, &c. And the aforefaid 
 Robert Campe and Thomas Carpenter 
 came at. the octave aforefaid, by Robert 
 Carpenter their attorney, and defend the 
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 34 CHARTERS OF 
 
 lofs and whatfoever, &c. And they fay 
 that the expences aforefaid ought not to 
 be levied in any manner, although the 
 expences of Knights coming to the par- 
 liament of the King for the commonalty 
 of the county aforefaid have been levied, 
 and before thefe times, have been accuf- 
 tomed to be levied. And they fay that it 
 has never been the cuftom to levy any 
 fums within the liberties aforefaid for the 
 expences of fuch like Knights coming to 
 parliament. And this they are ready to 
 verify ; and they aik judgment if any in- 
 jury can be affigned againft their perfons 
 for that reafon. And the aforefaid William 
 Percy fays, that Knights were lately elect- 
 ed in the full county-court by all the 
 commonalty of the county aforefaid, as 
 well for thofe within the liberties as out ; 
 by which all men dwelling within the 
 aforefaid county, as well within the liber- 
 ties as out, are held by right to contribute 
 to the payment of their expences ; and 
 from which the aforefaid late Knights 
 were elected by the commonalty aforefaid, 
 a*, &c. And they do not deny but their 
 bailiwicks were afTeifed feparately in the 
 full county-court, as is above declared. 
 
 And
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 35 
 
 And the aforefaid bailiffs allege nothing; 
 elk for themfWves unlets this, that it has 
 not been the cuttom before thcle times 
 for any fums to be levied for the expences 
 of Knights within the liberties aforefaid. 
 The faid William Percy afks judgment, 
 &c. and that the aforefaid bailiffs may 
 pav their portions aforefaid : and the 
 aforefaid bai litis lay as before, and afk 
 judgment like wife. Therefore to judg- 
 ment. And upon this a day was given to 
 the parties aforefaid, from the day of St. 
 Hilary, in forty days to hear their judg- 
 ment aforefaid : at which day the parties 
 aforefaid came, and have a day farther 
 until the fifteenth of Eaiter; at which day 
 the parties aforefaid came, and have a day 
 further until the fifteenth of the holy Tri- 
 nity ; at which day the parties aforefaid 
 came, and alk their judgment, &c. and 
 having feen that procefs among the Ba- 
 rons, becaufe the aforefaid William Percy 
 by the la(f pleading does not deny this, 
 that he was not accuflomed before thefe 
 times to levy any fums for the expences 
 of Knights coming to the parliaments ot 
 the King within the liberties aforefaid. 
 Therefore it was coniidered that the afore- 
 D 2 faid
 
 $6 CHARTERS OF 
 
 faid William Percy mould take nothing 
 for his complaint aforefaid ; and that the 
 aforefaid Rofeert Campc and Thomas Car- 
 penter, bailiffs of the liberties aforefaid, 
 mould be in the premifes jfe die. Now 
 we have caufed the plea aforefaid to be 
 exemplified by thefe prefents, at the requi- 
 sition of John Pierg and John Lorthoim, 
 now bailiffs of the liberties aforefaid. 
 
 In witnefs whereof, we have caufed thefe 
 our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnefs, I. Cokayn. 
 
 At Weftminfler, the ill day of March,, 
 in the eighth year of our reign. Hunt. 
 
 CHARTER OF HENRY V. 
 
 Confirmation of former Charters, and a Re- 
 Jeeife of Twenty-four Pounds annually, 
 being Part of the Feefarm Rent. 
 
 HENRY, by the grace of God, King oi 
 England and France, and Lord of Ireland. 
 To all Archbimops, Bifhops, Abbots, Pri- 
 ors, Dukes, Earls, Barons, Jultices, She- 
 riffs, Provolts, Miniiiers, and all Bailiffs 
 and faithful lubjecls, greeting. (It then 
 
 recites
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 37 
 
 recites the charter of King John, of 
 King Hem y III. for the return of writs, 
 &e. f ■ protection of goods and per- 
 
 fons, :. u . the eight days fair; all which 
 it columns, and then proceeds as follows) 
 Moreover, willing to favour the laid free- 
 men in this behalf of our bountiful fpecial 
 favour, we have granted for us and our 
 heirs, and by this our charter confirm to 
 the fame freemen of the town of Kyngef- 
 ton aforelaid, that although they or their 
 antecelfors or predecellors fhall not hither* 
 to have fully ufed any one or any of the 
 gifts, grants, confirmations, liberties, and 
 acquittances aforelaid, or any others in 
 the aforelaid charters and letters contained 
 in any cafe happening, yet the fame 
 freemen, and their heirs and fucceilbrs, 
 mall fully enjoy and ufe them, and every 
 of them, from henceforth for ever, with- 
 out the hindrance or impediment of us or 
 our heirs, or of the jutlices, efcheators, 
 IherirFs, or other bailiffs or fervants of us 
 or our laid heirs whomfoevcr. And fur- 
 ther, of our bountiful favour, we have 
 granted to the aforelaid freemen of the 
 laid town of Kyngefton, and their heirs 
 and fucceilbrs, the town aforelaid, with 
 o 2 aU
 
 38 CHARTERS ^F 
 
 all the liberties and >ms and other 
 
 things abovemen tinned i >■: it, yielding 
 to us and our heirs afore fak., Ly +he year, 
 at the terms of Ealer and -t. Michael, 
 twenty andjix pounds only ot the aforefaid 
 fum of fifty pounds. And moreover we 
 have pardoned, releafed and quit-claimed 
 for us and our laid heirs to the afore- 
 faid freemen, their heirs and fucceflors for 
 ever, twenty and four pounds yearly reildue 
 of the aforefaid fum of fifty pounds, and 
 have held them exonerated for ever by 
 thefe prefents from the laid twenty-four 
 pounds yearly. Witnefs the venerable 
 fathers, Th. Archbiihop of Canterbury, 
 Primate of All England, our coufin ; H. 
 Bifhop of Winchester, our very dear uncle ; 
 our Chancellor, Th. Bifhop of Durham ; 
 N. Bifhop of Bath and Wells ; and H. 
 Bifhop of St. David ; our very dear cou- 
 fins Thos. Earl of Arundell, our Treafurer, 
 and Ric. Earl of Warwick ; Henry Ffltz- 
 hugh, our Chamberlain ; and Tho. de Er- 
 pyngham, Steward of our Houfehold; 
 Mailer John Prophetes, keeper of our 
 great fcal, and others. 
 
 Given under our hand at Weitminiter, 
 
 the
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 3$ 
 
 the 2 1 ft day of November, in the firii year 
 of our reign, 
 
 By the King himfelf, and by writ of 
 
 Privy Seal. Gaunltede. 
 
 24 HENRY VI. 
 
 Exemplification of a Certificate from the Cham- 
 berlain of the "Exchequer out of the Doomef 
 day Book, that the Demefne of Kingdon and 
 Ebnhridge is of the ancient Demefne of the 
 Crown. 
 
 HENRY, by the grace of God, King 
 of England and France, and Lord of 
 Ireland. To all to whom thefe prefent 
 letters fhall come, greeting. We have 
 mfpecled a certain certificate fent to us in 
 our Chancery, by our Treafurer and Cham- 
 berlain, by our command, in thefe words: 
 Henry, by the grace of God, King of Eng- 
 land and France, and Lord of Ireland, 
 to his Treafurer and Chamberlain, greet- 
 ing. We, willing for certain reafons to 
 be fure if the demefne of Chingeltune and 
 Amelcbrige, in the county of Surry, be 
 d 4 of
 
 40 CHARTERS OF 
 
 of the ancient demefne of the Crown of 
 our realm of England, command you that, 
 having fearched our book of Domefday, 
 which is in our treafury, under your cuf- 
 tody, as it is called, ye acquaint us in 
 our Chancery, under the feal of our Ex- 
 chequer, diflinclly and openly without 
 delay, of what ye fhall find therein, and 
 fend us back this writ. Witnefs myfelf 
 at Weliminfler, the 8th day of July, in 
 the 24th year of our reign. Hut what we 
 find in the book of Doomefday, touching 
 the demefne of Chingeilune and Amele- 
 brige in the county of Surry, we fend you 
 in the fchedule fattened to this writ. In 
 the book of Domefday, under the title of 
 the King's Land, in the county of Surry, 
 among other things, is contained thus : 
 the King holds Chingeflune in demefne 
 by the rent that was King Edward's, who 
 then defended it by thirty-nine hides*; 
 
 ; * A hide of land, or a ploughland, which is the 
 fame, in an old manufcript, is laid to he one hundred 
 and twenty acres. Sir Edward Coke holds, that it 
 does not define aDy certain number of acres. Ac- 
 cording to Shcnc, it contains as great a portion of land 
 3.b may be tilled and laboured by one plough in a year 
 and day. 
 
 now
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 41 
 
 now it is accounted as nothing of thirty- 
 two ploughlands in demefhe ; there are 
 two ploughlands and a quarter of twenty, 
 and iix villains and fourteen borderirs -j-, 
 with twenty-rive ploughlands ; there is a 
 church there ami two bondmen and five 
 mills of twenty millings, and two filherics 
 of ten millings, and a third iifhery ex- 
 tremely good; but without account there 
 are forty acres of meadow, woods for fix 
 pochers in the time of King Edward, and 
 afterwards ; and now valued at thirty 
 pounds. Of the villains of this town,, 
 Humphry the Chamberlain had and Hill 
 hath one villain in cuftody for combing 
 the Queen's wool ; of him alfo he accept- 
 ed twenty millings for a relief when his 
 father was dead. In Amelebrige, Alda, a 
 
 \ Borderers or Bordmen, Bordarii, were a fpecies 
 of bondmen or fervile tenants, differing in fome decree 
 from the Servi and Villani, Dicuntur Bordarii vel 
 quod in tuguriis (quas cottagia vocant) habitabant, 
 feu villarum Iimitibus, quafi Borderers. S/ielm. They 
 fecm to have derived their name from the Saxon 
 word bord, a houfe ; and were of a lels fervile con- 
 dition than the Servi or Villani, having a lord or 
 cottage, with a fmall parcel of land allowed them, on 
 condition of fupplying their lord with certain pro- 
 viiions for his board or table. 
 
 certain
 
 42 CHARTERS OF 
 
 certain woman, holds of the King one fal- 
 low ground of the value of three ihillings. 
 Now we have caufed the tenor of the cer- 
 tificate aforefaid to be exemplified by 
 thefe prefents, at the requeft of the men 
 and tenants of Kyngefton upon Thames 
 and Amelebrige. In witnefs whereof, we 
 have caufed thefe our letters to be made 
 patent. 
 
 Witnefs myfelf at Weftminfter, \ the 
 1 7th day of July, in the twenty-fourth year 
 of our reign. Brigge. 
 
 Henry VI. by a charter dated the 2nd 
 day of February, in the twenty-feventh 
 year of his reign, granted to the bailiffs of 
 Kingfton the cuftody of the bridge and a 
 toll, for divers goods and merchandizes 
 coming through or under the lame to the 
 town of Kingfton, for the fpace of flfty- 
 une years, towards the repair and mainte- 
 nance of the laid bridge. 
 
 i The original of this is miffing. 
 
 There
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 43 
 
 There is alfo a protection granted by 
 one of the Henrys, in a charter dated the 
 1 4th of January, in the rirft of his reign, 
 to the freemen of Kingfton, their perfons, 
 goods, and eftates for one year. 
 
 CHARTER OF EDWARD IV. 
 
 Cotifirmatton of former Charters, and Grant 
 of new Privileges. 
 
 EDWARD, by the grace of God, King 
 of England and France, and Lord of Ire- 
 land. To all Archbimops, Biihops, Abbots, 
 Priors, Dukes, Earls, Barons, Juftices, She- 
 riffs, Provofts, Minifters, and all Bailiffs 
 and faithful fubjecls, greeting. 
 
 Whereas John, lately King of England, 
 our progenitor, by his letters patent, bear- 
 ing date the 23d day of September, in the 
 tenth year of his reign, granted to his free- 
 men of Kyngetton, his town of Kyngeiton, 
 with all its appurtenances in feefarm, to 
 have and to hold to them and their heirs, 
 of him the late King, and his heirs, in their 
 
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 44 CHARTERS OF 
 
 own hands for ever entirely, together with 
 all the liberties and free cuiloms which 
 the faid town was accuftomed and ought 
 to have at the time when it was in the 
 hand of the late King, paying therefore at 
 his exchequer by their hand, yearly, fifty 
 pounds of filver ; that is to fay, half at the 
 Eafter exchequer, and half at the Michael- 
 mas exchequer ; of which fifty pounds, 
 they were to pay twenty-eight pounds 
 and ten {hillings blank, which was the 
 old rent ; and the rclidue they were to pay 
 in tale: and the faid late King willed that 
 neither the fherifF nor his bailiffs fliould 
 in any wife intermeddle with the aforefaid 
 town or its appurtenances, or the aforefaid 
 rent, excepting thofe matters which rela- 
 ted to the Royal Crown. Wherefore the 
 laid late King willed and firmly command- 
 ed, that the faid freemen of Kyngetlon, 
 and their heirs, fliould have and hold in 
 feefann the aforefaid town of Kyngetlon, 
 with all its appurtenances for ever, well, 
 peaceably, freely, quietly, entirely, fully, 
 and honourably in all places arid things, 
 with all their liberties and free cuiloms be- 
 longing to the lame, as in thofe letters are 
 more fully contained. 
 
 And
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 45 
 
 And whereas alio Lord Henry TIL 
 lately King of England, our progenitor, 
 by his letters patent, bearing date the 3d 
 day of September, in the fortieth year of 
 his reign, granted and eon firmed, for him- 
 ielf and his heirs, to his freemen of Kynge- 
 lion aforeiaid, that they and their heirs 
 lhould for ever have the return of his 
 writs from the fnmmons of his exchequer, 
 and all other writs touching their town, lb 
 that no iheriffor other bailiff, or his ier- 
 vant, mould enter the aforeiaid town to 
 dittrain, fummons, or do any thing elfe but 
 for default of the fame men or their heirs.. 
 And the laid late King granted to (lie laid 
 men, that they and their heirs, being men 
 of the faid town, mould chute from them- 
 felves, and create coroners (o hold pleas 
 of the crown, ariling and to be within 
 the faid town, and lhould anfwer before 
 his juliices itinerant in thofe parts of the 
 attachments made by them, and of other 
 matters belonging to the oihYc of coroner, 
 as his other coroners were a; cuitonied and 
 of right ou^ht to anfwer. And that the 
 aforeiaid men, without the command ot 
 the late King Henry, lhould not implead 
 or be compelled to plead without their 
 
 town,
 
 46 CHARTERS OP 
 
 town, of any of their tenements or chattels 
 which they had within their town, or of 
 any other pleas, except of trefpafs, if any 
 had been committed by them againft the 
 late King Henry or his heirs. He alfo 
 granted to the fame men ofKyngeflon, 
 that they mould have their gild-merchant 
 in their town, and in the fame manner as 
 the late King's freemen of Guildford had ; 
 and that they ihould enjoy it, together 
 with all the liberties and juft laws and 
 curloms which they had in their aforefaid 
 town, in the fame manner as they had 
 been accuftomed in the time of the faid 
 late King Henry, and in the times of his 
 predeceifors, Kings of England ; and that 
 the faid freemen, for the trefpaiTes or for- 
 feitures of their fervants, ihould not lofe 
 their goods and chattels found in their 
 hands, or placed by thofe fervants any- 
 where elfe, fo far as they could make out 
 fufficient proof of their being their own 
 property. And alfo, if the faid men, or 
 any of them, mould die teftate or inteftate 
 within the dominions and power of the 
 faid late King Henry, he the faid late 
 King Henry, nor his heirs, would not con- 
 iilcate their effecls ; but their kins ihould 
 
 have
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 47 
 
 have entire poileilion of them, as far as it 
 mould appear that they were the very 
 chattels of thofe who were deceafed; yet 
 fo as there be fufficient knowledge or 
 furety of the faid heirs. Wherefore the 
 laid Lord Henry the late King, willed and 
 firmly commanded, for himfelf and his 
 heirs, that his laid freemen ofKyngefton, 
 and their heirs, mould for ever have all 
 the liberties and freedoms aforefaid, and 
 that they mould uie them freely and 
 without the hindrance of any one for 
 ever thenceforth, as is aforefaid, and in 
 thofe letters patent is more fully con- 
 tained. 
 
 And whereas Henry V. lately Kino- of 
 England, in fact, and not by right, by his 
 letters patent, dated the * i ft day of March, 
 in the eighth year of his reign, among 
 other things, granted to the aforeiaid free- 
 men of the faid town of Kyngerlon, and 
 their heirs and fuccefTors, the faid town, 
 together with all the aforefaid liberties 
 and freedoms for ever, paving to him the 
 
 * The date of this charter is incorrectly recited : 
 
 it fhould he the 21ft day of November, in the fir ft 
 y:ar of his reign. 
 
 late
 
 48 CHARTERS OF 
 
 late King and his heirs, at the yearly terms 
 of Eaiter and Michaelmas, twenty-fix 
 pounds only of the aforefaid fum of forty 
 pounds : and moreover he pardoned, re- 
 leafed, and quit-claimed for himfelf the 
 late King and his faid heirs to the afore- 
 faid freemen, their heirs and fucceflbrs for 
 ever, the annual twenty-four pounds re~ 
 fidue of the aforefaid fum of fifty pounds ; 
 and held them exonerated from the faid 
 annual twenty-four pounds, as in thofe 
 letters is more fully contained. 
 
 And whereas, moreover, Henry VI. 
 lately King of England, in facf; and not of 
 right, by his * letters patent, dated the 
 1 8th day of March, in the nineteenth 
 year of his reign, among other things, 
 granted to the aforefaid freemen, their 
 heirs and fuceetfbrs, that the clerk of his 
 market from thenceforth mould not fol- 
 low or exercife, or caufe to be purfued, 
 followed, or cxercifed in any mode, his 
 office within the faid town of Kyngciton, 
 or the liberty of the fame town, but that, 
 the fame freemen of the fame town, and 
 
 * This charter, I fuppofe, is loll, as it is not to be 
 found anions* the others. 
 
 their
 
 KINGSTON UTON THAMES. 49 
 
 their fucceflbrs mould have the correction 
 of the ailize of bread and beer to be made 
 or done within the aforelaid town, and 
 the liberty of the fa me. And alio that 
 they fliould have the occupation and cx- 
 erciie of all other things in anvwiie 
 touching the oiiice of the clerk of the 
 market, together with the lines, iilhes, 
 and amerciaments, as fully as the town 
 of Wycombe and Wyndelbre, or any 
 other borough within the kingdom of 
 England at that time had, as in thofe 
 letters is more fully contained. Now we 
 all the gifts, grants, liberties, franchifes, 
 pardon, remiihon, quit-claim, and dis- 
 charge aforcfaid, having ratified, and 
 freely the fame for ourfclves and our heirs 
 do accept, ratify, approve, and confirm as 
 far as is in our power, and grant and con- 
 firm them to the aforcfaid men and their 
 heirs. And although they or their pro- 
 genitors or predeceil'ors mould not as yet 
 have fully enjoyed or abuied any of the 
 gifts, grants, or continuations of liberties 
 and freedoms, or anv thing clfe contained 
 in the laid letters and charters, yet the 
 laid freemen, and their heirs and fuceel- 
 f. lor?.
 
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 fors, fhall enjoy and life the fame and 
 every part thereof, from thenceforth fully 
 for ever, without the hindrance or impe- 
 diment of us or our heirs. And further : 
 Whereas the faid men were accuitomed 
 and their progenitors and predecefTors, by 
 virtue of the laid letters or charter of the 
 faid King John, our progenitor, from the 
 time of the making the fame letters patent, 
 had and were accuilomed to have and 
 enjoy within the faid town, and the liber- 
 ty of the fame, a certain court on every 
 Saturday, before the bailiffs and iieward 
 of the aforefaid town for the time being, 
 to be held in the faid town, and power of 
 hearing and determining all picas of debt, 
 covenant, account, trefpals, and other 
 contracts and perfonal matters, of what- 
 foever fort, fupportcd or defended by 
 plaint in that court in fuch like picas by 
 their attachment and arreft of their bodies 
 on account of their infufficiency by the 
 like determination, procefs, and decrees, 
 and execution of the judges, by whom ac- 
 tions of this fort at common law are ac- 
 cuilomed to be determined and fettled ; 
 
 and
 
 KINGSTON" UrON THAMES. 5 I 
 
 and alio had within the town and liberty 
 aforefaid, the demefne of the faid town 
 and hundred of* Kyngelton and Emel- 
 brigge, which (from time whereof the 
 memory of man is not) have been apper- 
 taining to the laid town all kinds of ef- 
 cheats and forfeitures of lands and tene- 
 ments, goods and chattels, treafure, trove, 
 deodands, goods and chattels called May- 
 nour, chattels ot felons, felons of them- 
 felves, condemned, convicted, attainted, 
 outlawed, or baniihed; waifs, and perfons 
 put in exigent for felony, year, day, wafte, 
 and eftrepement ; and alio all i flues, fines, 
 amerciaments, ranfoms, and punifliments 
 of all men residing and not reftding with- 
 in the town and liberty, demefne, and 
 hundred aforefaid, before the tleward and 
 marlhal of the houfehold of us, our pro- 
 genitors, and predecelfors, and before the 
 
 * Kingfton Hundred contains Kingfton, Fail 
 Molcfcy, Long Ditton, Maiden, Peterfham, Rich- 
 mond, and Tahvorth. 
 
 Emelbrigge, or Emlcy Hundred, contains Cob- 
 ham, Efher, Efhcr Watervillc, Eaft and Weft Mole- 
 Icy, Oatlands, Stoke, Dalborn, Walton, and Wey- 
 bridge. 
 
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 52 CHARTERS OF 
 
 juflices of us, our progenitor and preie- 
 ceflbrs aifigned for the peace 11: jc county 
 of Surrie; and forfeitures for arr, oh :Kes, 
 trefpalfes, or any other caufes wharu ver 
 within the town, liberty, demesne, uid 
 hundred ariiing or happening untu now 
 lately, becaufe the fame men, throng]] the 
 means of ibme of the officers belonging to 
 us and fomc of our predeceilbrs in the 
 county aforefaid, Mere hindered and in- 
 terrupted from fome of the fame, and per- 
 plexed on account of the obfcurity and 
 ambiguity of the general words in the laid 
 grant of the faid King John, our progeni- 
 tor, ipecihed to the no fmall lofs and 
 prejudice of thofe men ; we considering 
 how much the inhabitants of the afore- 
 faid town of Kyngefton, by the payment 
 of the feefarm of that town, and by the 
 great violent inundations and overflow of 
 the waters, lately Suffered in that town, 
 and other burthens opprefling the laid 
 town, are injured, deteriorated, and fo 
 much impoverished, that they cannot pay 
 that rent to us and our heirs, and bear 
 the other burthens which lie heavy on the 
 laid town ; nor will in future be able, 
 
 unlcfs
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMF.S. 53 
 
 unlefs through our favour (hewn them in 
 tliis matter, as we have it from the infor- 
 mation of thole men. We, willing that 
 thole men and their iuceelTors mould fully 
 and quietly have, ufe, and enjoy all the 
 premilfes, and that every iuch like ambi- 
 guity and obfeurity of words and terms in 
 the aforefaid grants contained mould be 
 entirely done out and made void, and fur- 
 ther to act graciouily with thefe men, of 
 our fpecial favour and certain knowledge, 
 do give, grant, and confirm for ourfelves 
 and our heirs, by thefe prcfents, to the 
 freemen of the town of Kyngeflon afore - 
 faid, that they be one body in deed and 
 name, and one perpetual corporation of 
 two bailiffs of that town, and the free- 
 men of the fame town ; and that they have 
 a perpetual fuccefnon, and that they and 
 their iuceelTors, by the names of the Bai- 
 liffs and Freemen of thetown ofKyngeiton 
 upon Thames, in the county of Surry, be 
 named and called, and by thole names im- 
 plead and be impleaded, anfwer and be 
 anfvvered, in all the courts of us and our 
 heirs, and all others whatsoever. And that 
 e \ the
 
 54 CHARTERS OF 
 
 the faid bailiffs and freemen of that town 
 and their fucceiTors, be perfons fit and ca- 
 pable in the law to purchafe lands and te- 
 nements to themfelves and their fucceiTors, 
 in fee and perpetuity ; and have a common 
 feal to ferve for the things and bufmefs 
 touching and concerning thofe bailiffs and 
 men. 
 
 And from time to time, for the whole- 
 fome regulation and government of that 
 town, do make and ordain within that 
 town ordinances and flatutes. And fur- 
 ther, we give, grant, and confirm, for us 
 and our heirs, to the laid bailiffs and men, 
 their heirs and fucceffors, that they fliall 
 have, within the town, liberty, de- 
 mefne, and hundred aforefaid, and all 
 parts of the fame, all kinds of efcheats 
 and forfeitures of lands and tenements, 
 trcafure, trove, deodands, and all and ail 
 kinds of goods and chattels, called May- 
 nour, and the goods and chattels of all 
 men entirely holding and not entirely 
 holding, reiiding and not redding within 
 the aforefaid town and demefne of Kynge- 
 tton and the hundred, and the parts and 
 appurtenances of the fame, felons, fugi- 
 tives,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. $5 
 
 thes, felons of themfelves, condemned, or 
 for any caule convicted, attainted, out- 
 lawed, banilhed, waived, and put in exigent 
 for felony ; chattels coniiicated and to 
 be coniiicated of all fuch like men hold- 
 ing, redding, and not reiiding ; efcapes of 
 felons ; alio year, day, wafte, and ellrepe- 
 ment within the lame town, its parts and 
 appurtenances, and every thing which per- 
 tains or can pertain to us or our heirs, of 
 fuch like year, day, wafte, and eltrepemcnt, 
 or of any others or other of the premifes. 
 And alio all and all kinds of iilues, fines, 
 amerciaments, ranfoms, punilhments, and 
 forfeitures of all fuch like men holding, re- 
 ading, and not refuting, or by an}" of them 
 in the courts of us and our heirs, as well be- 
 fore the juliices of us and our heirs atTigned 
 to keen the peace in the county of Surry, 
 and to hear and determine all felonies 
 and trefpatfes committed in that county, 
 as betore the other juliices or commil- 
 lioners whatlbever, of us and our heirs in 
 that county, and before the lteward and 
 marlhal of the houfehold of us and our 
 heirs, to be forfeited, loft, impofed, made, 
 undergone, aiFeered,or taxed in any mode ; 
 K -'. Jo
 
 ,56 CHARTERS OF 
 
 fo that if any of the faid men holding, 
 redding, and not refiding, fliall have com- 
 mitted any crime, or fled and would not 
 Hand in judgment, for which he ought to 
 lofe life or limb, or goods and chattels, 
 whercibever juftice ought to be done of 
 him ; or it fhould happen that any one of 
 fuch like men holding, re fi ding, and not 
 residing, mould in the aforefaid courts, or 
 any of them, forfeit, lofe, make, or undergo 
 irlues, fines, amerciaments, ranfoms, pu- 
 jiifhmcnts, and forfeitures, all the afore- 
 faid goods and chattels, efcheats, forfei- 
 tures, iiTucs, fines, amerciaments, ranfoms, 
 punimments, and forfeitures, mail belong 
 to the faid bailiffs and men of the faid 
 town of Kyngefton, and their fucccfibrs. 
 And that it be permitted the faid bailiffs 
 and men and their fuccefibrs, by them- 
 (elves and their fervants, all fuch like ef- 
 cheats, forfeitures, treaiure, trove, deo- 
 dands, goods, and chattels, illiies, fines, 
 amerciaments, ranfoms, punimments, and 
 forfeitures, to take, feize, levy, receive, 
 and have for their own life, and to take 
 pofTeiTion thereof, although fuch like 
 goods and chattels ihould have been before 
 
 taken,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 57 
 
 taken, feized, or ufed by any of the officers 
 or Tenants of us or our heirs, to have to 
 the laid bailiffs and men, and their fuc- 
 ceifors, in aid of their aforefaid rent with- 
 out the impeachment, disturbance, molef- 
 tation, or impediment of us or our heirs, 
 or the j unices, meriffs, efcheators, coroners, 
 or any other officers or iervants of us 
 and our heirs whatfoever. And moreover 
 we give and grant to the laid bailiffs and 
 freemen, and their fucceflbrs, that they 
 may have and hold within the town of 
 Kyngellon aforefaid, every week ; that is 
 to fay, on the Saturday of every fucli 
 week for ever, a court to be held before 
 thofe bailiffs and their fuccellbrs, and the 
 lie ward of that town for the time being. 
 And that in thole courts thofe bailiffs 
 and their fucceflbrs, and the Steward for 
 the time being, may hear and determine 
 by plaint to be levied in that court before 
 them, all pleas and actions as well of debt, 
 covenant, account, deceit, detinue, both of 
 charters, writings, * muniments, goods, 
 
 * Muniments or Minimcnts, Scripta authentic,?, 
 feu charts donationum ct evidential. Alio the evi- 
 dences or writings, whereby a p:rfon is enabled '.., 
 
 and
 
 58 CHARTERS OF 
 
 and chattels, as of all other things, treipafs 
 as well by force and arms as otherwife 
 done withornam, and other things to the 
 contempt of us and our heirs ; and all con- 
 tracts, matters, and perfonal things whatfo- 
 ever within that town and liberty, and the 
 members and appurtenances of the fame, 
 anting or happening, although they fhould 
 reach or exceed the fum of forty millings, 
 according to the law and cuitom of our 
 kingdom of England ; and to be defended 
 in fuch like pleas and aclions by their own 
 attachment to be levied, and on account 
 of the infufHciency of their goods and 
 chattels, lands, and tenements, through 
 which they might take their attachment 
 or diftreis, to bring them by attachment 
 and arrcft of their bodies for a plea in 
 that court, and hear all and every of thofe 
 tilings according to the law and cufiom 
 of our kingdom aforefaid : and ma v end, 
 di feu is, and terminate them by the like 
 procefles, judgments, determinations, and 
 executions of the judges, by which the 
 decrees, pleas, and aclions, in our courts 
 arc fmiihed and determined. 
 
 in
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 59 
 
 We will alio, and grant for us and our 
 heirs, to the aibreiaid bailiffs and their 
 fuccellbrs, that they may have one or two 
 ferjeants at mace within the town de- 
 mcihe, hundred, and parts aforefaid, to do 
 and execute their bulincfs and commands. 
 And moreover, we will and grant to the 
 aibreiaid m< n, their heirs and fucccfTors, 
 that none of the efcheators* of us and our 
 heirs in the aibreiaid county, nor the 
 lteward nor marfhal, nor the clerk of the 
 market, of the houfehold, of us, or of our 
 heirs, thai! in any wife enter to do, perform* 
 or exereifc any of their offices within the 
 town demefne, hundred, and parts afore- 
 laid, nor lliall intermeddle therein ; normall 
 any of them intermeddle in any thing con- 
 cerning or touching their office aforclaid, 
 in any mode whatfoever, notwithstanding 
 that exprefs mention of the true annual va- 
 lue of the premifes, or of any gifts or grants 
 made from any of oar progenitors or pre- 
 deceifors to the aforclaid men, their ances- 
 tors and predeceflbrs, before thefe times, in 
 
 * Efchcator was an c fliccr appointed by the Lord 
 Treafuier, who took cognizance of the efcheats ciuc 
 to the King in the county whereof he w;;s eft; he. it or, 
 
 thefe
 
 60 CHARTERS OF 
 
 tliefe prefents be not made, or any ftatute, 
 acT:, ordinance, or reftriction to the con- 
 trary thereof, made, done, or provided 
 notwithstanding, and without fine or fee 
 in this Lehalf, to be taken or paid to our 
 aid. Witnefles to thefe prefents, the moft 
 venerable fathers, Th. Cardinal of Can- 
 terbury, Primate of All England; and Tho. 
 of York, Primate of England , our Chan- 
 cellor of England ; Archbilhops, the vene- 
 rable fathers, John Bifhop of Lincoln^ 
 Keeper of our Privy Seal ; and Edward 
 Bilhop of Chichefter ; and our very dear 
 fons and brothers, Richard Duke of 
 York, Marmal of England ; and Richard 
 Duke ofGloucefter, great Chamberlain and 
 Conilable of England ; and our dear cou- 
 lins, Henry Earl of Eflex, our Treafurer of 
 England ; and Anthony Earl of Rymer, 
 Chief Butler of England ; and our be- 
 loved and faithful Thomas Stanley, of 
 Stanley, Steward of our Houfehold ; and 
 Will. Hattyngs of Haltyngs, our Cham- 
 berlain, knights and others. 
 
 Given under our hand at our Palace of 
 Wellminilcr, the 2,6th. day of February, in 
 the twentieth year of our reign. 
 
 ' T. Wheeler.
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 6l 
 
 Henry VII. by a charter, dated the ioth 
 day of July, in the ninth year of his reign, 
 confirms the charter of Edward IV. 
 
 Henry VIII. by a charter, dated the 
 1 2th day of March, in the firft year of 
 hjs reign, confirms the above charter of 
 Henry VII. 
 
 34 MEN II Y VII r. 
 
 Exemplification of a Warrant to the Treafury, 
 to deduct out of the Feefarm of the Town of 
 Kingston, all fuch Sums of Money as were 
 payable to the Bailiffs andFreemen ofthefaid 
 Town, out of any Manors, Lands, Tene- 
 ments, or Hereditaments then come into 
 the PoJJeffion of the Crown. 
 
 HENRY the Eighth, by the grace of 
 God, of England, France, and Ireland, 
 
 King,
 
 6% CHARTERS OF 
 
 King, Defender of the Faith, and on earth 
 the Supreme Head of the Church of Eng- 
 land and Ireland. To all to whom thefe 
 prefent letters mall come, greeting. We 
 have infpected the inrolment of a certain 
 warrant under our lignet, and flgned with 
 our hand, in our Court of Augmentation 
 of the revenues of our crown, of the term 
 of St. Hilary, in the thirty-third year of 
 our reign, inrolled in thefe words : 
 
 Memorandum, That in the term of 
 St. Hilary, that is to fay, on the fourth 
 day of February, in the thirty-third year 
 of the reign of our Lord the King, now 
 Henry the Eighth, the bailiffs and freemen 
 of the royal town of Kingfton upon 
 Thames, in the county of Surry, came 
 into the Court of Augmentation of the 
 revenues of the royal crown, and pro- 
 duced before the Chancellor and Council 
 there, a certain warrant under the fignet 
 of our Lord the King, and figned with the 
 hand of our Lord the King : And they 
 demand it to be inrolled, and it is inrolled 
 in thefe words: 
 
 " HENRY the Eight, by the grace of 
 God, King of Englonde and of Franec ? 
 
 Defender
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 63 
 
 "Defender of the feyth, Lorde of Irelonde, 
 and in erthe lupine heddc of the churehe of 
 Englond. To the Chancello', Treafourer, 
 Attorney, Solycito", Receyvours, and Au- 
 ditors of oure Courte of Augmentations of 
 the revenues of oure erowne for the 
 tyme beyng, and to all other officers and 
 mynv Iters of the fame courte, and to 
 every of them, greatyng. Wheare our 
 noble pgenitoure, King Henry the fyfte, 
 
 by his Ires patents bearyng date the fyrft 
 day of Marche, in the eight yere of his 
 reign, emongs other thyngs, graunted 
 unto the freemen of oure towne of 
 Kyngefton upon Theamys, in our countie 
 of Surrey, and to their heyres and fuccef- 
 fours, the faid towne of Kyngtlon upon 
 Theamys, with all his lybcrties and qui- 
 tances forever; yeldyng therefore ye rely 
 unto the fame late Kyng, and to his heires, 
 twenty-fix powides Jixe Jhyllyngs & eight- 
 pence * as by the fame Ires patents, emongs 
 
 other 
 
 * This fix (hillings and eight-pence is clearly a 
 miftake ; and the charter of King Henry the Fifth is 
 inccnrectly recited. The original fee farm of the 
 town was 50I. as appears by the charter of King 
 John; and this was lowered to 26I. by Henrv the 
 
 J ifth ;
 
 64 CHARTERS OF 
 
 other things therein conteyned more 
 playnly appeareth. And wheare alfo the 
 late Kyng of famous memory, Kyng Henry 
 the fixteth, one other of oure noble pge- 
 nytours, by his Ires patents, bearyng date 
 the eightene day of Marche, in the nyne- 
 tene yere of his reigne, emongs other 
 thyngs dyd graunte for hym and his 
 heires, to the freemen of the faid towne 
 of Kyngeflon, that they fiiulde be one 
 body in light and. name, and one comy- 
 naltie corporate for ev' of two baylyffs 
 of the feid towne, and the men of the 
 lame towne, and fhulde have ppetuall 
 fuccefiyon ; and that they and. their fuc- 
 ceflburs, by the names of baylyfFs and free- 
 men of the towne of Kyngefton upon 
 Theamys, in the county e of Surrey afore - 
 feid, fhulde be callyd and nomynated, and 
 by the fame name myght impleade and be 
 impleaded, anfwere and be anfwered in 
 all man courtes of the laid late Kyng 
 
 Fifth ; but there is no mention anywhere made of 
 any additional charge being impofed upon the town 
 that I can meet with. And it appears by the exem- 
 plification of Queen Elizabeth, that 26I. only was 
 «Lc amount of the fee farm with which the town thea 
 was juilly charged. 
 
 Henry
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 6"; 
 
 Henry the fixteth, his licires and fuccef- 
 iours, and of all otlier what fbev. And 
 that the leid baylyrFes and freemen of tlie 
 fame towne, and their fueeefTours, fhulde 
 oe pfons able and of capacyte in the lavve 
 to purchaie lands and tents to them, and 
 to their iuccellburs, in fee for ev; and 
 that they ihuidc have a comen/'feale for 
 thyngs and bufvnes touchyng and con- 
 cernynH: the iarne bavlvtfs and rFreemen, 
 as by the lame Ires patents, emongs other 
 things therein conteyned, more playnly 
 is (hewed and may appeare. And wheare 
 alio the laid bavlyfFs and fTreemen of 
 Kvngelton, by their 1 eve rail names before - 
 feid, and their p dicellburs, from and 
 fvthen the tyme of the feid late Kyng 
 Henry the fyveih, and longe tyme before 
 had and have uied to have and enjoye 
 certeyn rentvs goyng owte verely of 
 dyvers manos, landvs, tentis, and here- 
 ditaments in the feid eounte of Surrey, 
 towarde the verelv pavment of the feid 
 feeferme of twenty-lixe pounds pxcjhyl- 
 /; ;gs and e'ight pence, dyvers of whiche 
 kid manos, lands, tentys, and heredyta* 
 ments, whereof the leid fevcrale yereiv 
 \ rent:
 
 66 CHARTERS OF 
 
 rents were fo goyng owt by the due courie 
 and order of oure lawes, are no we of late 
 lawfully come to oure hands and pof- 
 fefTion of eftate in fee fymple, by rea- 
 fon whereof the fame feverale rentys 
 whiche before weare goyng owt of 
 the feid manors, lendys, tentis, and lie- 
 redytaments nowe come to oure handys 
 and poiTeilion as is aforefeid, by the order 
 of oure lawes be extyncfe and determyned. 
 We therefore, wyllyng that the feid bay- 
 iyfFs and freemen of Kyngevlon aforefeid, 
 
 their p dicefiburs and fucceflburs, be, nor 
 hereafter fhalbe in any wyfe dampnyfyed 
 or hurted by occafyon or meanes of any 
 of the faid manours, landys, tentys, or 
 heredytaments beyng come to oure hands 
 as is aforefeid, or that hereafter ihall come 
 to oure hands or poileflyon, whearof any 
 of the faid feverale yerelv rents or other 
 yerely pflytt nowe be, or before this time 
 were govng owte or payable to the bay- 
 lvffs and freemen of the feid towne of 
 Kyngefton upon Theamys, wyle and 
 comaunde you, and cvv, of you, by thauc- 
 torytie and warrant hereof, that ye do 
 yerelv defawlke, deducle, and allowe 
 
 unto
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 6j 
 
 unto the bailyffs and freemen/ of the faid 
 towne of Kyngelton for the tyme beyng, 
 
 their p diceflburs and fucceflburs, beyng 
 accomptaunts, before you, or any of you, 
 of or for the feid yearly rent or feeferme 
 of twentye fixe pound ys Jixe Jbyllyngs 
 and eight pence ; all iuche rents and yerely 
 pffytts as be or were goyng owte or pay- 
 able to the baylylFs and freemen of the feid 
 towne of Kyngelton, for the tyme being, 
 owt of anv of the feid manors, lands, tents, 
 or heredytaments, whiche by any man of 
 meanes be come to oure hands or pof- 
 
 feflbn, or that hereafter fhall come to 
 oure handys or poiTefiYon. And alio that 
 vou do certvfve under our great feale of 
 
 the fume Courte of Augmentations unto 
 the Chancello 1 ", Treafourer, and Barons of 
 oure Efcheker at Weilm r , the names and 
 certentes of all fuehe of the laid manos. 
 
 landys, tents, and heredytaments nowe 
 come to our hands and poiletlyon, whereof 
 any rents or other yerely ptftts were or 
 be goyng owt towarde the payment of 
 the feid yerely feeferme of twentye lixe 
 l)iK\n<\sJixeJJjyllyngs and eight pence ; and the 
 i 2 day
 
 68 CHARTERS OF 
 
 day and yere of the comyng of the fame 
 manos,landys, tents, and heredytaments to 
 our hands and poileifron, and the certentes 
 of the fame rents, for and to the intent that 
 
 the pdicefiburs of the faid no we baylyffs 
 and freemen of Kyngeiton aforefaid, 
 whiche nowe be and remayn accomp- 
 taunts in our faid courte of the Elcheker 
 for and concernyng our ieid ferme, and 
 have not yet fully fynyfhed their accompts, 
 and have their quietus eft for the fame, 
 may be abayted, defalked, deducted, and 
 alowed upon their feid aceomptes of and 
 for fuche rentes, and other yerely priitts, 
 as were before goyng owte of any of the 
 
 feid manours, lands, tents, or heredyta- 
 ments come to our poffeflyon as is afore- 
 
 feid, and payable to the p ? dicevTours of 
 the feid nowe bavlvffs and freemen of 
 Kyngefton upon Theamys for and to- 
 warde the payment of the feid feeferme : 
 And theis oure Ires of warrant dormant 
 remanyng with, you in youre cuitody 
 fhalbe verely to you and evy of youe, 
 and fuche as hereafter fhale fucceede you 
 or eny of you. in youre office or offices, a 
 
 iurficient
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 69 
 
 luffrcient warrant and discharge ageynlt 
 us, oure heires and fucceiiburs for ev in 
 that behalf. 
 
 Yoven under oure iignet at oure mano 1 
 of Grenewiche, the 58th day of Decem- 
 ber, in the thirty-third yere of oure reigne. 
 
 Now we have /eaufed the tenor of the 
 inrollment of the warrant afs d . to be 
 exempli fyed by thefe prefents. 
 
 In witnefs whereof we have eaufed 
 thefe our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnefs Rieh d . Ryc-he, Knt. 
 
 At Wetiminfter, the 29th day of June, 
 in the 34th year of our reign.* Duke. 
 
 * The following arc the Rents contained in the Cer- 
 tificate alluded to in the above Exemplification, 
 and claimed by the Town of Kingfton. 
 
 A yearly quit-rent, i (Tiling out of the 
 manor of /w/'fr, other wife Ymuiorth - 3 iS 8 
 
 Do. paid out of the manor of E/rvgatr, 
 belonging to the late monaftery of Weft- 
 minfter - - -020 
 
 Do. going out of tlie manor of Muljcy 
 Afalham, belonging to Corpus Chrifti col- 
 lege, in Oxford, and purchafec! by King 
 Henry of the maftcrs of the lame college 080 
 
 Do. paid yearly out of the manor of 
 B,rift-/l, belonging to the late priory of 
 Marton - - - 060 
 
 Carr. forw. {4 14 8
 
 JO CHARTERS OF 
 
 Brought forw. £ 4 14 8 
 Do. paid yearly out of the manors of 
 Canbury and Hatch , belonging to the faid 
 priory of Marton - - 0150 
 
 Do. paid yearly out of certain lands 
 lying at the Hoke, belonging to the faid 
 priory of Marton - - 006 
 
 Do. paid yearly out of the manor of EJie 
 Afulfey, belonging to the faid priory of 
 Marton, and purchafed by King Henry 
 the Eighth of the priory and convent of 
 the fame houfe - - - o 15 o 
 
 Do. paid yearly out of a water-mill and 
 ceitain lands belonging to the fame, lying 
 in Kingfton, and belonging to the pricry 
 of Hovvneflowe - - o 16 o 
 
 Do. paid yearly out of certaine londes 
 lying in Kingfton, and belonging to the 
 Charterhoufe in London - - 1 16 O 
 
 Do. paid yearly out of certain londes 
 lying in Long Dytton, belonging to the late 
 hofpital of our Ladye Without Byfhopef- 
 gate, London - - o 13 2 
 
 Do. paid yearly out of certain londes, 
 parcel of the manor of Sondon, belonging 
 to the late priory of Seynt Thomas's Hof- 
 pitall in Southewarke - - 0132 
 
 Do. paid yearly out of the manor of 
 Hampton Court - - 060 
 
 Do. for certain londe, belonging to the 
 feefarm of Kingfton, inclofed into the 
 King's Park at Hampton Court, called the 
 South Park - - - o 10 o 
 
 /io 19 6
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Jl 
 
 Edward VI. by a charter, dated at Green- 
 wich, the 54th day of April, in the hrft 
 year of his reign, confirms the charter of 
 Henry YUL 
 
 CHARTER Of FHILIP AND MARY. 
 
 Confirmation of former Charters — Grant of 
 a Fair — and of a F'fh Ware — with 
 ether Privileges. 
 
 PHILIP and MARY, by the grace of 
 God, King and Queen of England, France, 
 Naples, Jerufalem, and Ireland, Defenders 
 ol the Faith, Princes of Spain and Sicily, 
 Archdukes of Auilria, Dukes of Milan, 
 Burgundy and Brabant, Counts of Hai- 
 purg, Flanders, and Tirol. To all to whom 
 thefe our prefent letters ihall come, greet- 
 ing. We have infpecled the letters pa- 
 tent of confirmation of Lord Edward VI. 
 lately King of England, the brother of 
 our very dear Queen aforeiaid, made in 
 theie words: Edward VI. &c. [The char- 
 ter is here recited at length.] We, willing 
 that thofe bailiffs and freemen, their heirs 
 and fuccelfors, may fully and quietly have, 
 f 4- uie.
 
 yZ CHARTERS OF 
 
 ufe, and enjoy all the premifes of our {\>z- 
 cial favour, certain knowledge, and mere 
 motion, have given, granted, and confirm- 
 ed ; and by thefe our letters patent, for us 
 and the heirs and fucceifors of our afore- 
 faid Queen, as much as in us is, do give, 
 grant, and confirm to the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen, and their fucceifors for ever, 
 all and all kinds of the ancient cuitoms, 
 liberties, privileges, franchifes, jurifdic- 
 tions, and pardons aforefaid, and all and 
 every other the premifes aforefaid, what- 
 foever in any charters or letters patent of 
 any our progenitors aforefaid, of our 
 Queen aforefaid, whomfoever formerly 
 Kings of England before this given, grant- 
 ed, or confirmed to the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen, and their predeceifors, by 
 whatfoever name or names the lame bai- 
 liffs and freemen, or their predeceifors, or 
 any one or any of them in the fame letters 
 patent, or any of them, are eftimated, 
 named, or called, or ought or have 
 been uk-d to be eftimated, named, or 
 railed. And we accept, approve, and 
 ratify all and fmgular thole premifes 
 to the aforefful bailiffs and freemen, 
 and their fucceiTors, by thefe prefents, 
 
 ars
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 73 
 
 as fully, freely, quietly, and entirely, as 
 all and lingular contained in the laid char- 
 ters or letters patent were expreffed, recit- 
 ed, or declared in the lame charters and 
 letters patent. And farther: We will and 
 grant to the aforcfaid bailiffs and freemen, 
 and their fuecetlbrs, that the aforefaid 
 gift, grant, and confirmation, name, title, 
 and all and lingular other the premifes 
 given arid granted bv the aforefaid 
 Henry \ 1. late King of England, the pro- 
 genitor of our laid Queen, aforefaid, to 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen, be not 
 any prejudice, lots, or derogation of any 
 liberties, franehifes, acquittances, privi- 
 leges, and cultoms, contained or ipeciried in 
 any charters or letters patents of any our 
 progenitors of the aforefaid Queen, whom- 
 foever to the aforefaid bailiffs and free- 
 men, and their predeceffors, by v\ hatfoever 
 names the £ud bailiffs and freemen, or 
 their predeceffors, or any of them, have 
 been nfed to be called in times part , 
 but that the fame bailiffs and freemen, 
 and their fucceffors, may have and hold 
 all and lingular the liberties, franehifes, 
 cuitoms, privileges, and acquittances, and 
 other things whatfoever, as well con- 
 tained and fpecified in the charters and 
 
 letters
 
 74 CHARTERS OF 
 
 letters patent aforefaid, as other liberties, 
 franchifes, acquittances, privileges, and 
 euitoms whatfoever, lawfully ufed or ac- 
 euftomed by the fame bailiffs and freemen, 
 or their predeceffors, or any of them ; 
 and may enjoy and ufe the fame in the 
 fame manner and form as the bailiffs and 
 freemen of the town aforefaid, or any, or 
 any one of them before thefe times had, 
 held, or enjoyed, or ought to have, hold, 
 ufe, or enjoy them in anv lawful manner, 
 any thing, caufe, or matter whatfoever to 
 the contrary thereof in any wife notwith- 
 standing. And further: We have granted 
 for us and our heirs and fucceffors of the 
 aforefaid Queen, to the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen, and their fucceffors, that the 
 fame bailiffs and their fucceffors being; 
 about to go before ju dices of the peace of 
 * laborers and f artificers, fheriffs, eicheat- 
 ors, coroners, or before the Iteward and 
 marihal of our household, or of the houie- 
 
 * Jufliccs of laborers, formerly appointed to fu- 
 perintend the behaviour of labouring men that ei- 
 ther refufed to work, or demanded unrealbnahle 
 wages. — Sec flat. 21 Edward III. c. 1. — 2^Edw. III. 
 c. 8. — and 31 Edward III. c. 6. 
 
 4- Jufliccs of artificers, the fame. 
 
 hold
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 75 
 
 hold of our heirs and fuccelTors of the 
 aforefaid Queen, the clerk of the market 
 of the lame household, jultices of oyer and 
 terminer, juftices of alTize and of gaol de- 
 livery in the county of Surry, or other 
 officers and miniiters of us, our heirs and 
 fuccelTors of the aforefaid Queen whom- 
 ibever, as well within the town aforelaid 
 as without the fame town, be not forced, 
 held, or compelled in any manner againft 
 their wills ; but that they lhall lend the 
 ierjeant or feijeants at mace of the laid 
 town, to do and execute their precepts, or 
 any other their bufinefs before the afore- 
 faid jultices and other the aforefaid offi- 
 cers, from time to time, whenfoever the 
 cafe and matter (hall lb require, to ferve in 
 the room of the faid bailiffs and their fuc- 
 celTors. And becaufe we have heard from 
 the infinuation of the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen of the town aforelaid, who 
 now have two fairs or marts, by the grant 
 of our progenitors, that it would be more 
 ufefu] and advantageous to the aforefaid 
 bailiffs and freemen, and all the inhabit- 
 ants of the town aforelaid, and of the 
 confines and parts adjacent to the laid 
 town, and alfo the public weal of the 
 
 fame.
 
 j6 CHARTERS OF 
 
 fame, that the fame bailiffs and freemen 
 ought yearly to have three fairs within the 
 town of Kyngeilon; which bailiffs indeed, 
 and freemen and inhabitants of the laid 
 town of Kyngffon, have humbly entreat- 
 ed us, that we would extend them our 
 favour and munificence in this behalf. 
 Know ye, therefore, that we, confenting 
 to the wiih and defire of the aforefaid bai- 
 liffs and freemen, of our fpecial favour, 
 certain knowledge, and mere motion, have 
 given, granted, and confirmed, and by 
 thefe prefents, for us, and our heirs and 
 fucceffors of the aforefaid Queen, do give, 
 srrant, and confirm to the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen of the town of Kyngeflon 
 aforefaid, and their fucceflbrs, the laid two 
 fairs and marts to be held in Kyngeilon 
 aforefaid, at the days, years, and places there 
 accuvtemed, with all the profits and ad- 
 vantages which pertain, or have been ac- 
 cuflomed, to pertain to the fairs and marts 
 of the fame. And that the aforefaid bai- 
 liff? and freemen of the town aforefaid, and 
 their fucceflbrs, may have and hold, and may 
 and may be able to have and hold the 
 fame two marts or fairs in as ample a 
 manner and form, and with fuch like cuf- 
 toms, profits, and advantages, as they and 
 
 their
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 77 
 
 their predeceflbrs have been accuftomed 
 to have and take, in or by the fairs or 
 marts formerly held there in the town 
 aforefaid, or ought to have and take by 
 force, or reafon ot the letters patent afore- 
 faid. And alfo, that the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen of the town aforefaid, and 
 their fucceifors for ever, may have and 
 hold yearly in the town aforelaid, one 
 other fair there, to latt for two days, at the 
 featt of St. Mary Magdalen ; that is to lay, 
 on the day of the fame featt, and the day 
 next after the fame featt ; together with 
 a court of piepowdat the time of the fame 
 fair, and alio (tallage *, picage f, fines, 
 amerciaments, and all other profits and 
 advantages whatfoever concerning, be- 
 longing to, happening, ariling in, or touch- 
 ing fuch like fair and court of piepowd ; 
 and to he taken and converted with all 
 the liberties and free culloms pertaining 
 or belonging to fuch like fair, to the pro- 
 per aid, ufe, and utility of the laid bailirT- 
 and freemen, and their fucceilbrs, and the 
 
 ■■■ Stallage, the liberty or right of pitching or 
 creeling ftalls or booths, or the money paid for the 
 fame. 
 
 -;- Picage. a payment of money for breaking the 
 vToi;;v', in order to ered fuch ftal! or booth. 
 
 toW'fl
 
 yb CHARTERS OF 
 
 town aforeiaid, for the time being ; yet 
 fo that that fair or mart be not to the hurt 
 of the neighbouring fairs. Wherefore we 
 will and firmly command, for us, our 
 heirs, and fuccefTors, that the aforeiaid 
 bailiffs and freemen, and their fuccefTors, 
 for ever may have and hold the aforefaid 
 fairs at the town of kyngeiton aforefaid, 
 with all the liberties, free cuftoms, advan- 
 tages, and profits, belonging to or con- 
 cerning fuch like fairs or marts, without 
 any thing thenceforth to be yielded, paid, 
 or done in any manner to us, or our heirs 
 and fuccefTors of the aforefaid Queen ; 
 yet to that thole fairs be not to the hurt of 
 the neighbouring fairs as is aforefaid. And 
 farther: Know ye that we, upon the hum- 
 ble petition of the aforefaid bailiffs and 
 freemen of the town aforeiaid, and for 
 the maintenance and better fupport of the 
 fame town, and in consideration of the 
 irreat burthens which the inhabitants of 
 [he fame town daily fuftain in and about 
 the repair and maintenance of the great 
 bridge of the fame town, called the Greate 
 Ijy'hige, now being in great ruin and decay, 
 and tor other reafonable caufes and con- 
 federations :jt p relent lpecially moving us 
 
 of
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 79 
 
 of our fpecial favour,, certain knowledge, 
 and mere motion, do for us, and our heirs 
 and lucccflbrs of the aforefaid Queen, 
 grant and give leave to the aforefaid bai- 
 liffs and freemen, and their fucceifors, 
 that they and their fucceffbrs may and 
 may be able to build, let up, and ereel a 
 certain wear, called a jfiffj ware, in the 
 water of the Thames, near or next to the 
 town aforefaid. We have alio granted to 
 the fame bailitfs and freemen, and their 
 fucceflbrs, a {pace of eighty poles in the 
 aforefaid water of the Thames, for the laid 
 wear, called 'djfijb ware, which the fame 
 bailitfs and freemen, and their fueceflbrs, 
 fhall make, or caufe to be made, to catch 
 nth in the fame ; to have and to hold, as 
 well the aforefaid wear as the aforefaid 
 fpace for i\\Q.j}ijh ware, to the fame bai- 
 liffs and freemen, and (hear fueceifors, 
 and leave and liberty to catch filh in the 
 &\\\\Q£fiJb ware, together with all the liber- 
 ties, profits, and advantages, in any man- 
 ner belonging to the laid wear for ever, 
 without any account, or any thing elfe 
 therefore, in any manner to be yielded, 
 paid, or done to us, or our heirs and fuc- 
 celTors of the aforefaid Queen. Alio 
 
 granting
 
 80 CHARTERS OF 
 
 gfanting to the lame bailiffs and freemen, 
 and their fucceflbrs, that they and their 
 'fucceflbrs may, at their pleaiure, raife, 
 amend, and repair the aforefaid wear as 
 often as it ihall be needful or neceflary; 
 and may make a very great profit and 
 advantage thereof. Willing that neither 
 the faivd bailiffs or freemen, or their fuc- 
 ceflbrs or afligns, be therefore charged 
 with any payment, or molelted or grieved 
 in any thing.; nor any one of" them be 
 charged with any payment, or molelted 
 or grieved in any thing by us, or our fuc- 
 ceflbrs, or by the officers or minitiers of 
 us, or of our heirs and fucceflbrs of the 
 aforefaid Queen, provided always that the 
 common way there, commonly called the 
 faire way of the Thames, for boats, called 
 Barges, and other veflels upon the faid 
 water of the Thames, palling and failing 
 through the aforefaid wear, ihall not be 
 hurt in any manner. We will alio, and 
 by thele prefents grant to the aforefaid 
 bailiffs and freemen, and their fucceflbrs. 
 that they may and ihall have thele our 
 letters patent, under our great feal of Eng- 
 land, duly made and fealed, without fine 
 or fee, great or fmall, to us in our hanaper, 
 
 or
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Si 
 
 or elfewhere, to our ufc therefore, in any 
 man nor to be yielded, paid, or made, 
 although that exprefs mention of the true 
 vearlv value or certainty of the premifes, 
 or any of them, or of any other gifts or 
 grants bv us, or by any of our progenitors 
 to the aforcliiid bailiffs and freemen be- 
 fore thefe times made in thefe, prefents, is 
 not made, or any ftatute, act, ordinance, 
 provilion, or reitriction to the contrary 
 thereof, made, done, ordained, or provid- 
 ed, or any other thing, caufe, or matter 
 whatfoevcr in anywife notvvithttanding. 
 
 In witnefs whereof, we have eaufed 
 thefe our letters to be made patent." 
 
 Witnefs ourfelves at Greenwich, the 
 25th day of March, in the lecond and third 
 years of our reigns. 
 
 Bv writ of privy leal, &c. Naylour. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, by a charier, dated at 
 WcilminitiT, the 7th day of May, in the 
 iivil year of her reign, confirms the above 
 chartef of Philip and Mary, and all others 
 therein contained. 
 
 en;, k
 
 8* CHARTERS O? 
 
 CHARTER OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. 
 
 'Exemption of the Freemen of King/ion ( being 
 Tenants in ancient Demejhe) from paying 
 Toll, or being fummoned an Juries. 
 
 ELIZABETH, by the grace of God, of 
 England, France, and Ireland, Queen, De- 
 fender of the Faith, &c. To all and lin- 
 gular jultices, fheriffs, mayors, efcheators, 
 coroners, ftewards, conitables, minifters, 
 and all other officers and faithful fubjects, 
 as well within the liberty as out, to whom 
 thefe prefent letters fhall come, greeting, 
 Whereas, according to the cuitom of our 
 kingdom of England, hitherto obtained 
 and approved of, the men and tenants of 
 the ancient demefhe of the crown of Eng- 
 land, are and ought to be quit from the 
 payment of toll throughout all our realm; 
 and according to the cuftom aforefaid, the 
 men and tenants of the ancient demefne 
 of our crown aforefaid, have always 
 hitherto, from time whereof the memory 
 of man is not, been accuvtomed to be quit 
 from contribution of the expence of 
 
 knights
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 8$ 
 
 knights coming to the parliament of us, 
 or our progenitors, formerly Kings of 
 England, for the community of the fame 
 county. And alio, according to the fame 
 cuttom, the men and tenants of the ma- 
 nors which are of the ancient demefne of 
 the crown aforefaid, for their lands and 
 tenements which they hold of the fame 
 demefne, ought not to be put upon any 
 aiiizes, juries, or recognizances, unlets only 
 in thofe which ought to be made in the 
 court of fuch manors ; and for that, be- 
 caufe the demefne of Kyngefton and Em- 
 ley Bridge, otherwife Chingttune and 
 Amelebrige, in our county ot Surry, is 
 of the ancient demefne of our crown of 
 England, as by a certain certificate there- 
 of lent to us in our chancer v bv the trea- 
 furer and chamberlain of our exchequer, 
 by our command, is found, we enjoin 
 and command you, and each of you, that 
 you do permit all and lingular the men 
 and tenants of the demefne of Kyngefton 
 and Em/ey bridge, otherwife Chiugejlune 
 and Amelebrige aforefaid, to be quit from 
 fuch like Loll to be paid for their good.'? or 
 tilings, throughout all our realm of Eng- 
 land, aforefaid; and from the cxpence oi 
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 84 CHARTERS OF 
 
 knights aforefaid. And alio, that you do 
 not put the fame men, and the tenants of 
 the fame manor, on any alTizes, juries, or 
 recognizances to be held without the 
 court of the demefne aforeiaid, unlefs 
 only in thofe things which ought to be 
 done in the court of fuch like manors, 
 againft. the cuftom abovementioned, unlefs 
 they hold lands and tenements of another 
 tenure, for which, according to the form 
 of the ftatute of the common council of 
 our realm of England therefore provided, 
 they ought to be put upon affizes, juries, 
 or recognizances ; and ye fhall, without 
 delay, releafe to the fame the diftrefs, if 
 ye have made any, of the beforementioned 
 men and tenants of Kyngefton and Em- 
 leybridge, other wife Chingliunc and 
 Amelehrige aforefaid, on theie occafions, 
 or any of them. 
 
 In witnefs whereof we have caufcd 
 thefe our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnefs myfelf at Welbninftcr, the 5th 
 day of Augirft, in the thirty-fourth year of 
 our rei £n . P. Gerrard . 
 
 nun-
 
 KINGSTON UPON' THAMES. 8£ 
 
 CHARTER OF QUEE.N ELIZABETH. 
 
 Grant of a Free Grammar School to the Toiion 
 of Kingston. 
 
 ELIZABETH, by the grace of God, of 
 England, France, and Ireland, Queen, 
 Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom 
 thefe letters mall come, greeting. 
 
 Be it known that we, upon the humble 
 petition of our beloved lubjects the bai- 
 liffs and freemen, and inhabitants of our 
 town of Jvingtton upon Thames, in our 
 county of Surry, for a grammar feh ool to be 
 made and eftab'iihed within the pariih of 
 Kingfton aforelaid, in our laid county of 
 Surry, for the education and inlrrucfion 
 of boys and children, do, of our fpecial 
 favour, certain knowledge, and mere mo- 
 tion, grant and ordain for us and our heirs, 
 that from henceforth there be and lhall 
 be one grammar fchool in the laid town 
 of fvingtton upon Thames, which lhall 
 be called the Free Grammar School of Queen 
 Elizabeth, lor the education, teaching, and 
 inftrudion of bovs and children in the 
 a 3 gntm- 
 
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 85 CHARTERS OE 
 
 grammar, for ever in future. And we 
 erect, create, ordain, declare, and found 
 by thefe prefents, that fchool to confift 
 of one matter and one under-mafter, or 
 ufher, to continue for ever. And in order 
 that our intention mav be the better ef- 
 fecled, and that the lands, tenements, 
 rents, revenues, and other profits to be 
 granted, affigned, and appointed for the 
 z maintenance of the aforefaid fchool, may 
 the better governed for their continuation, 
 we will, grant, and ordain, for us and our 
 heirs, that the two bailiffs of the town 
 aforefaid, for the time being, mail be and 
 be called Governors of the pnfefsions, revenues, 
 and goods of 'the J aid fchool, commonly called and 
 to he called the Free Grammar School of Queen 
 Elizabeth finthetown of Kingston upon Thames, 
 in the county of Surry. And therefore, know 
 ye That we have affigned, elected, nomin- 
 ated, constituted, and declared, and by 
 thefe prefents affign, elect, nominate, con- 
 stitute, and declare, that our beloved 
 Wm. Matfon and George SneHing, the 
 now bailiffs of the town o£Kiiigfton upon 
 Thames aforefaid, be and arc the firit and 
 prefent governors of the poffefMons, re- 
 venues, and goods of the faid free gram- 
 mar
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 87 
 
 mar fchool of Queen Elizabeth, in the 
 town of kinglion upon Thames, in the 
 county of Surry, well and faithfully to 
 exereiie and fulfil the laid office, from the 
 date of thefe prefents, as long as they fhall 
 happen to be in the office of bailiff of the 
 town of Kingtlon aforeiaid. ; and that the 
 faid governors, in fact and name, from 
 henceforth be and fhall be one body incor- 
 porated and politic for ever, incorporated 
 and eltablilhed by the name of Governors 
 of the poffefsions, revenues, and goods of the 
 Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth, 
 hi the town of Kingston upon Thames, in the 
 county of Surry ; and by thefe prefents we 
 incorporate them^Jj^Lliam Matfon and 
 George SncllingJ pftp rs °f tne pofTef- 
 fions, revcndfl^^tno: goods of the Free 
 Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth, in 
 the town of Kingtton upon Thames, in 
 the county of Surry ; and really and fully 
 create, erecl:, ordain, make, contlitute, and 
 declare them by thefe prefents a body 
 corporate and politic, by the fame name 
 to continue for ever, And we will, and 
 by thefe prefents grant, for ourielves and 
 our heirs and fuccellbrs, that the faid 
 governors of the pofl'eifions, revenues, and 
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 88 * CHARTERS Of 
 
 goods of the Free Grammar School or 
 Queen Elizabeth, in the town of Kingtion 
 upon Thames, in the count v of Surry, 
 have a perpetual fucceiTIon, and by the 
 fame name be and mall be perfons tit and- 
 capable in the law to hold, receive, and 
 purchafe of us the chapel, houfes, edifices, 
 chambers, buildings, rents,. reverflons, pof- 
 feilions, revenues, and hereditaments un- 
 derwritten and below fpeeified, and other 
 lands, tenements, polfeffions, revenues, 
 and hereditaments whatfoever, of us or any 
 other perfon or perfons whatfoever. And 
 be it known that we, wifhingto carry our 
 intention and purpofe in this behalf into 
 effect, have of our fecial hV < <-• 
 knowledge, and mere motion, given and 
 granted, and by thefe prefents do for our- 
 ielves, our heirs and fnccefsors, give and 
 grant to the aforementioned prefent go- 
 vernors of the poileiTions, revenues, and 
 goods of the faid Free Grammar School, 
 all that our free chapel with the appur- 
 tenances, called Mary Magdalen Chapel, in 
 Norbitou, in Kingston upon Thames aforeiaid, 
 in our laid county of Surry ; and one 
 garden belonging to us, lying next the 
 faid chape!, on the eair tide of the faid 
 
 * chapel ;
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. So 
 
 chapel ; and one other little chapel, 
 called 67. Anne Chapel, with the appurte- 
 nances joining the free chapel aforelaid ; 
 and one chamber, covered with lead, over 
 the laid chapel, called St. Anne Chapel; and 
 one little itudv within the laid chapel; alio 
 one other inner chamber, with one Hawkes 
 Mcjcc over the lame ; and a certain little 
 chapel, in the fame place, called Saint 
 Loves Chapel, on the fouth fide of the 
 aforelaid chapel, called Mary Magdalen 
 Chapel ; and one little place under the 
 laid chapel ; and one old kitchen; and a 
 certain chamber adjoining to the faid 
 kitchen ; and one upper room, called a loft. 
 over the laid kitchen and chamber ; and 
 one other chamber under the laid kitchen, 
 on the welt fide of the aforelaid chapel, 
 called Mary Magdalen Chapel, and fitnated 
 over' the footway leading from the town 
 of Ringiton aforelaid towards London ; 
 and one dwelling next the kitchen afore- 
 laid ; alio one yard, on the north fide ot" 
 the aforelaid chapel, called Mary Magdalen 
 Chapel; and one other yard, on the weft 
 fide of the faid chapel : and one place for 
 walking in, called a gallerv, over the vard 
 aforelaid, and leading from the chamber 
 
 over
 
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 over the aforefaid chapel, called St. Anne 
 Chapel, to a certain little place ; and two 
 chambers, called the majlers lodging; and 
 one cellar and four fmall chambers under the 
 m afters lodging aforefaid ; and a certain 
 end of a certain barn, with a partition at 
 the well end, from an old barn in the fame 
 place ; and a certain liable, fituated and 
 being on the weft end of the faid barn ; 
 and one dove-cote belonging to us ; and 
 alfo free ingrefs and regrefs as well to the 
 dove-cote, liable, and barn aforefaid, as alio 
 to all the other places belonging or ap- 
 pertaining to the aforefaid chapel, called 
 Mary Magdalen Chapel ; All and lingular 
 which premifes are fituated, lying, and 
 being in Norbiton, in the pariili of King- 
 fton aforefaid ; and all which premifes 
 our very dear brother Edward VI. lately 
 King of England, by his letters patent, 
 under his great leal, lately made for the 
 care, augmentation, and revenue of his 
 crown, dated at Weltmintier, the 26th 
 day of April, in the firft year of his reign,, 
 delivered, granted, and demiled to rent, 
 among other things, to Richard Taberner, 
 Efq. his executors and afligns, for the 
 term of twent\ -one years, to commence 
 
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 at the Feair. of St. Michael the Archangel 
 then next enluing, paying annually to our 
 laid brother, his heirs and fuccerTors, for 
 the fame premifes,and for other mcliuages, 
 lands, tenements, and hereditaments in 
 the laid letters patent exprefled and fpe- 
 eifled, twelve pounds and twelve pence 
 of legal money of England, at the Featt of 
 the Annunciation of the Blelfed Virgin 
 Mary and St. Michael the Archangel ; to 
 be paid by equal portions, during the term 
 aforeiaid, as by thole letters patent, among 
 other things, is more plainly manifeft and 
 appears. We alio give, and for the con- 
 fideration aforeiaid, we grant tor us, our 
 heirs and lliccellbrs, by thefe preterits, to 
 the aforefaid now governors of the pof- 
 ieffions, revenues, and goods of the laid 
 Free Grammar School, the reversion and 
 reverfions whatfoever of all and lingular 
 thepremifes, and every parcel thereof, and 
 all that our annual rent of tvventv-one 
 (hillings, part of the aforeiaid annual rent 
 of twelve pounds and twelve millings, by 
 the aforefaid letters patent of our laid 
 brother, reierved as aforeiaid ; and alio 
 the rents, reverfions, and annual proceeds 
 whatfoever, refer ved upon any demifes or 
 
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 (JZ CHARTERS OF 
 
 grants made of the premifes, or any "parcel 
 thereof, in any manner, as fully, freely, 
 and entirely, and in as ample a manner 
 and form as any chaplain, priefi, or in- 
 cumbent of the faid late free chapel, called 
 Mary .Magdalen Chapel, or any other or 
 others hitherto having, pofleffing, or be- 
 ing feifed of the premifes, or any part 
 thereof, ever had, held, or enjoyed, or 
 ought to have, hold, or enjoy the fame, or 
 any parcel thereof; and as fully, freely, 
 and entirely, and in as ample a manner 
 and form as all and lingular thole pre- 
 mises came or ought to come into our 
 hands, or into the hands of our very dear 
 father Henry VIII. lately King of England, 
 or into the hands of our faid brother Ed- 
 ward VI. lately King of England, or into 
 the -hands of our very dear litter Mary, 
 lately Queen of England, by reafon or 
 pretext of raiy act of parliament, or any 
 other mode, right, or title, -dr,d now are 
 or ought re be in our hands : V.'hieh free 
 chapel, chamber, barn, liable, and all 
 others the prcmiics, with their appurte- 
 nances, arc now valued at the clear annual 
 value of twenty-one fhillings, to have, 
 hot ;, an 'J enjoy the aforeiaid free chapel, 
 
 and
 
 * KINGSTON CPOX THAMES. g^ 
 
 and the aforeiaid rent of twenty-one mil- 
 lings, and alio the aforeiaid chapels, houfes, 
 edifices,, chambers, barn, liable, rents, rc- 
 verlions, and fervices, and all and lingular 
 other the premiies, with the appurte- 
 nances, to the aforeiaid pretent governors 
 of the polTeliions, revenues, and goods of 
 the laid Free Grammar School, and their 
 lucceilbrs for ever ; to hold of us, our 
 heirs and lucceilbrs, as of our Honour of 
 Hampton Court, in our county of Middle - 
 lex, by fealty only, in free foccage and 
 not in chief, for all rents, fervices, and de- 
 mands whatfocver. And farther, of our 
 abundant grace, we have given and grant- 
 ed, and by thefe preients do give and 
 grant to the aforeiaid governors, all the 
 iilues, rents, revenues, and profits of the 
 aforeiaid chapel, and the reit of the pre- 
 miies, from the Fealt of St. Michael the 
 Archangel lalt pair, to hold to the laid 
 governors, as our gift, without anv account 
 or anv thing elfe to be vieldcd, paid, or 
 done thereout, in any manner, to us, our 
 heirs or fucceflors. And farther : We will 
 and grant for ourfelves, our heirs and fuc- 
 celTors, to the aforeiaid governors and their 
 fuceeUbrs, that they have tor ever henee- 
 
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 94 CHARTERS OF 
 
 forth a common feal to ferve for their bu~ 
 finefs .aforefaid, exprefled and fpecified 
 in thefe letters patent, or only touching 
 or concerning anj part thereof ; and that 
 the fame governors, by the name of the 
 Governors of the poffeJJio?is , revenues, and good? 
 of the Free Grammar School of Queen Eliza- 
 beth, in the town of Kingston, in the county 
 of Surry, may plead and be impleaded, 
 defend and be defended, anfwer and be 
 anfvvered, in any courts and places, and 
 before any judges and jullices in any 
 caufes, actions, cafes, fuits, complaints, 
 pleas, and demands whatfoever, of what- 
 ibever nature or condition they be. And 
 farther : Of our abundant favour, we have 
 given and granted, and by thefe prefents 
 do give and grant for ourfelves, our heirs 
 and fucceflbrs, to the aforefaid prefent go- 
 vernors of the aforefaid fchool, and their 
 lucceiTors, that they and their fucceflbrs, 
 with the advice of the Bifhop of Whi- 
 chever for the time being, mall have full 
 power and authority of nominating and 
 appointing the mailer and undermafiier of 
 the aforefaid fchool, as often as the places 
 of the laid mailer or undermailer of the 
 laid ichool fhall become vacant ; and that 
 
 the
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 9$ 
 
 the fame governors, with the advice of the 
 Biiliop of Winchester aforefaid, for the 
 time being, mall make, and be able and 
 competent to make, fit and falutary written 
 ftatutes and ordinances concerning and 
 touching the ordering, governing, and di- 
 rection of the mailer and undermafter, and 
 the fchool aforefaid, for the time being ; 
 and the ftipend and fhlary of the faid 
 mailer and undermaiter, and other things 
 touching and concerning the faid fchool ; 
 and the ordering, governing, prefervation, 
 and difpofal of the rents and revenues ap- 
 pointed, and to be appointed, for the 
 maintenance of the faid fchool : Which 
 itatutes and ordinances lb to be made, 
 we will and grant, and command by thefc 
 prelents to be inviolably obferved from 
 time to time for ever. And be it further 
 known, that, in conilderation that the faid 
 governors and their fucceffors may be the 
 better enabled to fuftain and fupport the 
 ♦aforefaid fchool, and matter and under- 
 maiter thereof, of our abundant favour, 
 we have given and granted, and bv theie 
 prelents do give and grant to the aforefaid 
 governors of the poffellions, revenues, and 
 goods of theiaid grammar lchool,and their 
 
 fuc-
 
 g6 CHARTERS OF 
 
 fucceflbrs, as much as in our power, ipe*- 
 cial licence, free and lawful means, power 
 and authority to have, receive, and pur- 
 chafe to them and their fuccelTors for ever> 
 as well of us, our heirs and fucceflbrs, as 
 of any other perfon or perfons whomfo- 
 ever, any manors, mefluages, lands, te- 
 nements, rectories, tythes, and other here- 
 ditaments whatfoever, within the kingdom 
 of England, or elfewhere within our do- 
 minions, fo that they do not exceed the 
 clear annual value of thirty pounds, be- 
 tides the laid chapel, houfes, edifices, and 
 Hie reil of the premifes, to the aforefaid 
 governors and their fucceflbrs, as by us is 
 already fhewn in the aforefaid form of 
 grant ; the ftatute of lands and tenements 
 not to be put in mortmain, or any other 
 liatutc, act, ordinance, or provition, or 
 r.ny other caufe or matter whatfoever, 
 had, made, done, ordered, or provided to 
 the contrary thereof in any wife notwith- 
 standing, although exprefs mention of the. 
 true annual value, or of any other value 
 ■or certainty of the premifes, or any of 
 them, or of an v gifts or grants by us, or any 
 of our progenitors to the aforefaid prefent 
 governors of the fchool aforefaid, made 
 before thef* times, in iheie prcfents, be 
 
 nut
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. ijj 
 
 not made, or any itatute, act, ordinance, 
 provilion, proclamation, or reitriction 
 made, done, ordained, or provided to the 
 contrary thereof, or any other thing., 
 caule, or matter in anywiie notwith- 
 ilanding. 
 
 In witneis whereof we have cauied 
 thefe our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witneis mvl'elf at Welt mi niter, the 
 lit day of March, in the third year of 
 our reign. P. Condell. 
 
 I 8TII JUNE, FIFTH OF ELIZABETH. 
 
 'Exemplification of a Releafe to the Bailiffs 
 and Freemen of King/Ion, from the Pay- 
 ment of certain Sums with which they 
 had been improperly charged. 
 
 ELIZABETH, by the grace of God, or 
 
 England, France, and Ireland, Queen, 
 
 Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to 
 
 whom thefe prefents ihall come, greeting. 
 
 We have inlpected the great roil of the 
 
 5th and 6th years of Philip and Mary, 
 
 late king and Queen, in the item, Suifex, 
 
 where, among other things, is contained 
 
 thus ; that is to fay, The men of kinglion 
 
 owe four hundred and fixty-lix pounds 
 lour (hillings and lixpenee, of a certain 
 
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 98 CHARTERS OF 
 
 rent of twenty-leven pounds eight {hil- 
 lings and iixpence by the year, of the fee- 
 ^flrm of their town ; that is to lay, of the 
 faid rent of the 30th, 3 itt 33d, 33d, 34th, 
 5.5th, 36th, 37th, and 38th years of the 
 late King Henry VII i ; the ill, 2d, 3d, 4th, 
 5th, and 6th of the late King Edward VI ; 
 and ill and 2d of King Philip and Queen 
 Mary, as is contained in the former item, 
 SufTex. But they do not owe four hun- 
 dred and forty pounds feven {hillings and 
 iixpence, which is of the laid feefarm of 
 the 30th, 3 1 it, 33d, 33d, 34th, 35th, 36th, 
 37th, and 38th years of the late King 
 Henry VIII ; and the ill, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 
 and 6th of the late King Edward VI. be- 
 eaufe it was enacfed in the parliament of 
 Lord Henry VIII. late King of England, 
 father of our Lady the now Queen, began 
 at Weftmintter the 28th day of April, in 
 the faid thirty-firft year of the reign of 
 the fame late King, and continued in 
 the fame place until the 28th day of June 
 in the lame thirty-firft year, concerning 
 the Manor and Honour of Hampton Court, 
 tor certain caufes and considerations in 
 the tame act declared, among other things, 
 by the authority of the fame parliament, 
 ThrU the whole feefarm, annual rent, or
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. QO. 
 
 annuity of the borough or town of King- 
 iron upon Thames, in the aforefaid county 
 of Surrv, ihould be from thenceforth for 
 ever united, annexed to, called, reputed, 
 and accepted to be parcel and member of 
 the aforefaid Manor of Hampton Court ; 
 and that the lame Manor of Hampton 
 Court, together with the aforeiaid fee- 
 farm, annua! rent, or annuity of the bo- 
 rough or town aforefaid, among other 
 things, fo united and annexed to the 
 fame Honour of Hampton Court at that 
 time, mould be named, called, and ac- 
 cepted the Honour of Hampton Court. And 
 further, by the aforeiaid act it was enacted, 
 among other things, by the authority afore- 
 faid, That the aforefaid Honour of Hamp- 
 ton Court, and the aforeiaid annual fee- 
 farm rent or annuity of the borough or 
 town aforefaid, among other things, at 
 that time ihould be in the order, furvey, 
 rule, and governance of the late Court of 
 Augmentation of the Revenues of the Royal 
 Crown, and ihould be granted, delivered, 
 and demited to farm by the officers and 
 fervants of the fame late court: And that 
 all rents, iiiues, revenues, and profits - arii- 
 ing and growing out of the premifes, and 
 every parcel thereof, Ihould be taken and 
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 100 CHARTERS OF 
 
 received to the ufe of the King, by the 
 minifters and officers of the fame late 
 court, an)' ttatute, act, ordinance, cuitom, 
 or ufe had, made, or ufed to the contrary 
 thereof notwithstanding, as in the laid 
 act is more fully contained. And by the 
 procefs thereof had, and the grant of the 
 Barons noted in the memorandums on the 
 part of the Treafurer Remembrancer of the 
 firft year of our now Queen Elizabeth ; 
 that is to fay, among the records in the 
 rolls of Michaelmas term, where it is 
 granted, that the aforeiaid bailiffs and 
 freemen lliould be exonerated from the 
 aforeiaid feefarm, exacted from them in 
 form aforefaid; and from all and lingular 
 arrears due, and fums of money exacted 
 from them, or for the fame rent ; that is 
 to fay, from the aforefaid time of the 
 making the act above-mentioned, until 
 the difTolution of the laid late Court to- 
 wards our laid Lady the Queen, and be 
 freed by virtue of the premifes : And they 
 ought not from henceforth to be bur- 
 thened with the fum of fiftv-feven fliil- 
 lings, which are parcel of the laid fee- 
 farm of t wen ty-feven pounds eightihillings 
 and fixpenee of the fir ft year of the late 
 
 Queen
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. IOI 
 
 Queen Mary, and firffc and lecond of King 
 Philip and Queen Mary; nor of twenty - 
 eight lhillings and fixpence, by the vear, 
 parcel of the laid fee-farm of tvventy-feven 
 pounds eight Shillings and lixpence, from 
 the time of the dirlblution of the late 
 Court of Augmentation of the Revenues 
 of the Royal Crown, becaufe the bailiffs 
 and freemen of the town aforefaid are not 
 jultly burthened with * twenty-eight ihil- 
 
 * This ferves in fome degree to elucidate the mif- 
 take occafioned by the exemplification of a warrant 
 to the Treafury in the thirty-fourth year of the reign 
 of Henry VIII. where it ftates the feefarm of the 
 town to be 261.6s. 8c!.; whereas in fact it was only 26I. 
 a- appears by the charter of Henry V. who lowered 
 it to that funi. And by this prelent exemplification 
 we find, that it was afterwards rai fed to 27I. 8s. 6d. 
 but by whatmeans, we arc in the dark ; only we know 
 that it was unji'/?Jv, as this exemplification declares ; 
 and accordingly it relcafes 28s. 6d. which reduces it 
 to the original fum of 26I. Mr. Lyfons ftates, in 
 his account of this place, that Queen Mary remitted 
 a further part of this 26I.; but as he prefefics to have 
 derived his information from a cartulary in the Town 
 Curb's Office, and as I have not been able to trace 
 cut any fuch charter of Queen Msfy, we may fairly 
 conclude him to have been deceived in this point, 
 md particularly as a iuLlcquent charter ftates it to be 
 r.hcn 26I, 
 
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 lings and fixpence yearly, parcel of the 
 faid feefarm of twenty-feven pounds eight 
 {hillings and lixpence by the year, by the 
 proceedings and grant of the Barons, 
 noted in the fame place, where it is granted 
 That the bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 aforefaid, and their fucceffors, fhould be 
 exonerated by reafon of the premifes from 
 the aforefaid twenty-eight millings and 
 fixpence, parcel of the laid feefarm of 
 twenty-feven pounds eight lliillings and 
 lixpence yearly, from the time of the dif- 
 folution of the faid late Court of Augmen- 
 tation of the Revenues of the Royal Crown 
 towards our faid Lady the now Queen : 
 And they do not owe the mm of fifty-two 
 pounds, which are parcel of the faid fee- 
 farm of twenty-ieven pounds eight mil- 
 lings and lixpence for the firr! year of 
 Queen Mary, and firll and fecond of King 
 Philip and Queen Mary, becaule Robert 
 Hamond, bailiff of the town of Kingfton 
 upon Thames, accounted for twenty- 
 feven pounds thereof, beyond a certain 
 fum of thirty pounds eight millings and 
 ten pence, as is contained in his account 
 thereof in the roll of the accounts of the 
 miniiters, not ingroiTed, of the firft and 
 
 fecond
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I03 
 
 lecond 5 ear of the laid King Philip and 
 Queen Mary : And alio, becaufe Walter 
 Walker, bailiff of the laid town, accounted 
 for twenty-fix pounds refidue, beyond a 
 certain fum of thirty pounds eight fliil- 
 lings and tenpence, as is contained in his 
 account thereof in the roll of the accounts 
 of minillers, not ingro'fied, of the iccond 
 and third years of the faidKing and Queen. 
 And they are freed, all and lingular, which 
 we have caufed to be exemplified at the 
 mltance and requeit of our beloved and 
 faithful fubjeel William Matt efon, yeoman. 
 
 In witnefs whereof we have caufed 
 thefe our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnefs our verv dearCouiin andCoun- 
 fellor William Marquis of Winchester, 
 our Treafurer of England. 
 
 At Werlmintrer, the 1 8th Day of June, 
 in the fifth year of our reign. Smyth. 
 And b\ the Barons. 
 
 C II A R T EK O [• u_ L E I ■: .\ E 1 . 1 Z \ B E T H . 
 
 (Want to the Bailiffs and Vreemen of King/Ion 
 of divers Lands, Tenements, and Rents, 
 towards the Maintenance of the Free School. 
 
 ELIZABETH, by the grace of God, of 
 
 England. France, and Ireland, Queen, 
 
 ir a. Dci'cndcr
 
 104 CHARTERS OF 
 
 Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to 
 whom thefe prefent letters ihall come, 
 greeting. Whereas we, upon the hum- 
 ble petition of our beloved fubjects the 
 Bailiffs and Freemen of our town of 
 Kingiton upon Thames, in our county of 
 Surry, for a Grammar School to be erected 
 and fet up, within the parilh of Kingiton 
 aforefaid, in our faid county of Surry, for 
 the inftruclion of Boys and Youths, by 
 letters patent hgned under our great teal 
 of England, bearing date at Weftmfcifter, 
 the firtl day of March, in. the third year 
 of our reign, willed, granted, and ordained, 
 for us and our heirs, that there lliouid be 
 thenceforth in future a Grammar School 
 in the faid town of Kingston upon Thames, 
 which thai! be called The Free Grammar 
 School of Queen Elizabeth, for the Edu- 
 cation, Institution, and Initruction of 
 Boys and Youths in the Grammar, to con- 
 tinue in all future times. And we erected^ 
 created, ordained, declared, and founded 
 by the fame letters patent, that School 
 of one Pedagogue or Mailer, and one Un- 
 dcrmaiier or Cfher, to continue for ever; 
 as by the fame letters patent, among other 
 things, is more plainly manifell and ap- 
 pears.
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 10^ 
 
 pears. And whereas alio, our very dear 
 Father Ilenrv the Eighth, late kinir of 
 England, by a certain indenture, bearing 
 date at Weftminfter, the 5th day of May, 
 in the twenty-eighth year of his reign, 
 made between himfelf the late King, on 
 the one part ; and Richard Tavern er, of 
 London, Efq. of the other part, delivered, 
 granted, and to farm demited to the afore- 
 laid Richard Tavcrner, all thole his mef- 
 fuages and tenements, with the appur- 
 tenances folio wing, lituate, lying, and 
 being in the town of Ringlf on upon 
 Thames, in the county of Surry ; that is 
 to fay, One inn, called the George, with 
 one garden and a barn, lituate and being 
 in the Back Lane of Kingtton a foresaid, 
 near an old corn mill : And one clofe or 
 croft of land, containing bv ellimation 
 fix acres, lying between Hoggs Mill on 
 the eaftern tide, and parcel of lands, cal- 
 led the Bitton, on the wettern fide : And 
 one acre of arable land, called the Tenter 
 Aire, lying in the common field of Kin- 
 gelt on aforelaid, called Tenter Field ; and 
 eleven tenements, three gardens, and one 
 barn, whereof one tenement is in Sur- 
 pleton, with one barn and one pightell, 
 
 con-
 
 I06 CHARTERS OF 
 
 containing one acre of land; by eftimation 
 eighty acres of land, with the appurte- 
 nances belonging to the fame : Another 
 tenement, called the Berchoufe, with an 
 orchard and liable belonging to the fame 
 tenement : Another tenement, in which 
 John Gage at that time dwelt : Another 
 tenement, in which John Standon at that 
 time dwelt: Another tenement, in which 
 William Trewman at that time dwelt : 
 Another tenement, in which Alice Beke- 
 wythe, widow, at (bar time dwelt : Ano- 
 ther tenement, in which Henry Edington 
 at time dwelt : Another tenement, in 
 -which John Onam at that time dwelt, 
 with ten acres of land belonging to the 
 fame: Another tenement, in which John 
 Palmer at that time dwelt, with one Imall 
 barn and one acre of land belonging to 
 the fame : Another tenement, in which 
 Thomas Fyite at that time dwelt: Ano- 
 ther tenement, in which John Chapman, 
 barboure, at that time dwelt : One barn, 
 at that time in the pofTerlion of John 
 fobfon : Two gardens, or pightells, at 
 that time in the pollution of Agnes Smith : 
 One garden, at that time in the tenure of 
 Robert Webb : And one pightell, at that 
 
 time
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. JO^ 
 
 time in the porTelTion of William Bonde ; 
 except, however, and always entirely re- 
 ferred to our laid Father Henry the Eighth, 
 his heirs and fuccerTois, all great trees and 
 woods growing and being in and upon 
 the premiies,to have and to hold the afore- 
 faid meiiuages, lands, tenements, and all 
 other and lingular the premifes above ex- 
 preiled and lpecified, with their appur- 
 tenances, except as before excepted, to 
 the before-mentioned Richard Taverner 
 and his affigns, from the Feall of St. Mi- 
 chael the Archangel at that time next to 
 be, to the end and during the term of 
 twenty-one years from thence next ea- 
 rning, and fully to be completed ; yield- 
 ing therefore yearly to our laid late Fa- 
 ther Henry the Eighth, his heirs and fuc- 
 cefibrs, fourteen pounds of legal money 
 oi England, at the Fcail of the An- 
 nunciation of the Blcfled Virgin and 
 St. Michael the Archangel, or within one 
 month after each of thole Fealts, at the 
 late Court of Augmentation of the Reve- 
 nues ot the Royal Crown, to be paid b\ 
 equal portions during the term aforefaid, 
 as by the lame indenture made to the 
 aforefaid Richard Taverner, as is aforefaid, 
 
 is
 
 108 CHARTERS OF 
 
 is more plainly manifeft and appears, 
 And moreover, whereas our very dear 
 brother Edward VI. late King of England, 
 by his letters patent, under his great feal 
 of the late Court of Augmentation of the 
 revenues of his crown, bearing date at 
 Wcftrninfter, the i ith day of May, in the 
 fourth year of his reign, delivered, granted, 
 and demifed to form at that time to his be- 
 loved fiibjecr, John Good, one toft belong- 
 ing to him, at that time lately built, called 
 Draggers, containing by eltimation half an 
 acre ; and alfo fix acres of arable land be- 
 longing to him, and one rood of land be- 
 longing to the fame toft ; whereof three 
 acres are lying and being in a certain 
 field, called Coomhcfeild, and clivers parcels; 
 and another acre thereof are lying and 
 being m a held, called the Little Fetid, in, 
 Brohfurlong ; and another acre thereof is 
 lying and being in the fame field, at the 
 
 Chipbele Style: and another acre thereof is 
 it - - 
 
 lying and being in the fame field, in three 
 parts ; and the aforefaid rood of land is 
 lying and being in a certain field, called 
 Thy filings Clofe : all which, and lingular 
 lafi. exprefied prcmiies, at that time were 
 in the tenure or occupation of the lad 
 
 John
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES IOG 
 
 John Good, and are iituated, lying, and 
 being in Ringfton upon Thames, or elfe- 
 where, in our laid county of Surry ; and 
 were lately parcel of the pollcliions of the 
 late priory of Marton, and at that time 
 were parcel of his Honour of Hampton 
 Court, in our county of Middlefex ; ex- 
 cept however, and always wholly referred 
 to our laid late brother, his heirs and 
 iucccilbrs, all large trees and woods in 
 and upon the premifes, growing and be- 
 ing ; to have and to hold the aforefaid 
 lands, and all and lingular other the pre- 
 miies lalt expreiled and fpecitied, with all 
 their appurtenances, except as before ex- 
 cepted, to the aforefaid John Good, his 
 executors and afiigns, from the Featl of 
 St. Michael the Archangel, at that time 
 next to be, to the end, and during the 
 term of twenty-one years from thence 
 next eniuing, and lullv to be completed: 
 Yielding thence yearly to our laid late 
 brother, his heirs and fucccilbrs, twentx- 
 fix millings and eight-pence (if lawful 
 money of England, at the Vc:\U of the An- 
 nunciation of the jJlelied Virgin Mary 
 and St. Michael the Archangel, or within 
 one month after each of thole feaits, to 
 
 be
 
 HO CHARTERS OF 
 
 be paid to the hands of the bailiffs or re- 
 ceivers of the premiies for the time being, 
 by equal portions during the term afore- 
 faid, as by the fame letters patent made 
 to the fame John Good, as is aforefaid, 
 among other things like wife, is more 
 plainly manifeff, and appears the rcverfion 
 and reversions of all and lingular the pre- 
 miles and every parcel thereof lawfully 
 belonging and pertaining to us. Know 
 ye that we, of our ipecial favour, certain 
 knowledge, and mere motion, and alfo 
 for the augmentation of the iiipend and 
 living of the pedagogue or matter of the 
 fchool aforefaid, for the time being, and 
 on account of the better fupport, mainte- 
 nance, and continuation of the laid fchool. 
 to be had for ever, according to the in- 
 tention and ordinance expreiled and de- 
 ( hired in thefe letters patent, and accord- 
 ing to the foundation of the fame fchool. 
 have given and granted, and by thefe 
 preterits for us, our heirs and fucceflbrs, 
 do give and grant to the faid bailiffs and 
 freemen of our laid town of Kingilon 
 upon Thames, in our faid county of Surry, 
 the rcverfion and reverfiors of all and 
 lingular the aforefaid meffuages, lands, 
 
 tenements,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. Ill 
 
 tenements, and all and lingular other 
 the premiies demited to the aforefaid 
 Richard Taverner as aforefaid, and every 
 parcel thereof, with the appurtenances ; 
 and the aforefaid yearly rent of fourteen 
 pounds, for the fame premifes, referved by 
 the aforefaid indenture, made to the afore- 
 faid Richard Taverner, as is beforemen- 
 tioned. And alio, th^ reversion and re- 
 verfions of all and lingular the premifes 
 demifed to farm to the above-mentioned 
 John Good, as is aforefaid, and every 
 parcel thereof, with the appurtenances; 
 and the aforefaid annual rent of twenty- 
 fix millings and eight-pence, referved by 
 the aforefaid letters patent, made to the 
 aforefaid John Good, as is beforemention- 
 ed. And alio, all that our mefiiiage, te- 
 nement, and inn, called the George; with 
 one garden and one barn, fituatod in the 
 Buck Lune of Kingfton, near an old corn- 
 mill there: And one dole of land, contain- 
 ing bv eilimation fix acre*;, Iv'mg be- 
 tween Hopvs Mill, en the call fde, and 
 parcel of the land, called the BiU-.x, on 
 the weft tide : And one acre of arable iand 
 lying iii the common field, called Tenter- 
 Veil J : And alio, all thole eleven tenements,
 
 I I 2, CHARTERS OF 
 
 three gardens, and one barn, with their 
 appurtenances ; whereof one tenement 
 is htuated in Surpleton, with one barn, 
 and one pightell of land, containing by 
 eitimation one acre, and eighty acres of 
 land belonging to the fame: One other 
 tenement, called the Berehoufe, with an 
 orchard and liable belonging to the lame 
 tenement: One tenement, now or lately in, 
 the tenure of John Gage : One other tene- 
 ment, now or lately in the tenure or oc- 
 cupation of John Standon : One other 
 tenement, now or lately in the tenure or 
 occupation of William Trewman : One other 
 tenement, now or lately in the tenure or 
 occupation of Alice Bekewythe, widow : 
 One other tenement, now or lately in the te- 
 nure or occupation ot Henry Ellington : 
 One other tenement, now or lately in the 
 tenure or occupation of John Onam, with 
 ten acres of land belonging to the fame : 
 One other tenement, now or lately in the te- 
 nure or occupation of John Palmer, with 
 one in 1a 11 barn, and one acre of land be- 
 longing to the lame : One other tenement, 
 now or lately in the tenure or occupation 
 f Thomas Fvite: One tenement, now or 
 at.H v in the tenure; or occupation ot lohn 
 
 Chapman, 
 
 i i
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 1 ij 
 
 Chapman, Barber: On-? lam, in the tenure 
 of John Joblbn : T'jco gardens, or fight ells, 
 in the tenure of Agnes Smith : One garden 
 in the tenure of Robert Webb : And one 
 fightcll, in the tenure of William Bond: 
 And alio, all that our annual quit-rent of 
 thirty-fix (hillings, annually irluing and 
 to be paid out of divers our lands and te- 
 nements in Kingfton ; all which and lin- 
 gular the premifes lalt expreiled, and be- 
 fore granted and demifed to the aforefaid 
 Richard Taverner, are lying and being in 
 the parilh of Kingtton upon Thames, in 
 our faid county of Surry, and formerly 
 were belonging and appertaining to the 
 late dcmelhe or priory of the Carthulian 
 Monks of London, now diilblved, and 
 were lately parcel of the poiiellions there- 
 of: And alio, all that our toft, lately built, 
 called Draggers, containing by eltimation 
 half an acre : And alfo, Jlx acres ot our 
 arable land, and one rood of our land be- 
 longing to the lame toft, of which three 
 acres of land thereof are lving and being 
 in a certain field, called Voomhe-feild, in 
 divers parcel^: and another acre thereot 
 : is lvin<r and being in the fame field, in 
 j three parts ; and the aforefaid rood ot 
 land is lying and being in a certain field. 
 
 i ' called
 
 214 CHARTERS OF 
 
 called Thlflings Clofe ; all which and lin- 
 gular the premiies are now or lately were 
 in the tenure or occupation of John Good, 
 and are fituated, lying, and being in King- 
 ston upon Thames, or elfewhere, in our 
 faid county of Surry ; and were lately 
 parcel of the poifefTions of the late priory 
 of Marton, and now are parcel of our 
 Honour of Hampton Court, in our faid 
 county of Middlefex : And alio, all that 
 our fet rent of four Jbillings ', annually iiTu- 
 ing from the meifuage or inn in Kingfton 
 aforefaid, called the Crane, now or lately 
 in the tenure of Jacob Ware : And all that 
 our rent of eighteen -pence, yearly iifuing 
 from a tenement in Kingfton aforefaid, 
 of a certain George Snellinge, fenior, and 
 now or lately in the tenure or oecupation 
 of John Cooke : And all that our rent of 
 fixpence, yearly iifuing from lands of the 
 late John Weftbroke, lying in a certain 
 clofe at Gadbridge next to Berefeld, within 
 the pariih of Kingfton aforefaid, now or 
 lately in the tenure or occupation of 
 George Sneliing, fenior : And all that 
 our rent of twenty-pence, annually iiTuing 
 from a tenement of the late William Col- 
 lins, in Norbiton, within the faid parilb of 
 Kingfton aforeiaid : Ana n\\ that our rent 
 
 oi
 
 KINGSTON UFON THAMES. 115 
 
 or eight-pence, yearly iiliiing from a tene- 
 ment of Henry Grooer, in Kingiton afore- 
 laid, now or lately in the tenure or occu- 
 pation of William Whitfield : And all 
 that our rent of 'jive /hillings, yearly iiluing 
 from two tenements in Kingiton afore- 
 laid, of a certain John Amo, of which one 
 is an inn, and is called the Ojiridge Fethers ; 
 and the other is called the Vyne : And all 
 that our rent of eight JhilTings, yearly lim- 
 ing from a tenement in Kingiton afore - 
 faid, of a certain William Bayer, now or 
 lately in the tenure or occupation of Alice 
 Elliot, widow : And all that our rent of 
 ffteen-pence, yearly ilfuing from a tenement 
 of the heirs of William Hawkins, in 
 kingtton aforefaid, now or lately in the 
 tenure or occupation of Henry Padbury : 
 And alio, all that our rent ofjivejhillings, 
 yearly iiluing from a tenement in Kingiton 
 aforefaid, of a certain William Stevens, 
 late of Cecilia Bolton, and now or lately 
 in the tenure or occupation of the afore- 
 faid William Stevens : And all that our 
 rent of tvecnty -pence, yearly iiluing from a 
 tenement in Kingiton aforefaid, of a cer- 
 tain Thomas Benjbn, now or lately in the 
 tenure of Adrian Johnfon : And all that 
 
 1 2 our
 
 1 I 6 CHARTERS OF 
 
 our rent of feven fallings, yearly hTuing 
 from a tenement of the heirs of Auguitin 
 Skerne, in Kingston aforefaid, now or 
 lately in the tenure or occupation of Ro- 
 bert Newens : And all that our rent of 
 three /hillings, yearly ifiuing from a tene- 
 ment of a certain John Robinfon, 
 widower, in Kingiton aforefaid, in the 
 market-place there, now or lately in the 
 tenure or occupation of George Snelling, 
 junior : And all that our rent of 'four fal- 
 lings, yearly ifiuing from a tenement now 
 or late in the tenure or occupation of Ag- 
 nes Sterr, widow, iituate and being in Tal- 
 worth, in the parifh of Long Ditton, in 
 the faid county of Surry : And alfo, all 
 that our garden, with the appurtenances 
 in Kingiton aforefaid, now or lately in 
 the tenure or occupation of George Snell- 
 ing, fenior, or his afligns : And alfo, all 
 that our garden, with the appurtenances 
 in Kingiton aforefaid, late in the tenure 
 or occupation of John Sepham : And all 
 that our garden, with the appurtenances 
 in Kingiton aforefaid, now or lately in 
 the tenure or occupation of John Robin- 
 fon, widower : And all that our cottage or 
 tenement, with the appurtenances, iituate, 
 
 lvin°"
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 11/ 
 
 lying and being in Kingfton aforefaid, in 
 ii certain itreet there, called Giggb'ril Strete, 
 now or lately in the tenure or occupation 
 of the laid John Sephani, or his affigns ; 
 all which and lingular lalt exprefTed pre- 
 mifes were formerly belonging and apper- 
 taining to the late free chapel of the bleiled 
 Virgin Mary Magdalen, near Kinglton 
 upon Thames, in the laid county of Surry, 
 now diflblved, and were lately parcel of 
 the pofTelfions thereof: And alfo, all that 
 our tenement, with the appurtenances, 
 fituatcd and being in Ham aforefaid, with- 
 in the laid pariih of Kinglton aforefaid : 
 And alfo, all that our arable land belong- 
 ing to the fame tenement, containing by 
 eftimation two acres, whether more or lefs, 
 now or lately in the tenure or occupation 
 of John Sepham or his alligns, tor a long 
 time belonging and appertaining to the 
 late monastery of Shenein our laid county 
 of Surrv, now diilblved, and were lately 
 parcel of the pofleflions thereof. We alfo 
 give, and for the coniidcration aforefaid, 
 grant by thele prefents for us, our heirs 
 and fuccelfors, to the aforefaid bailiffs and 
 freemen of our laid town of Kinglton 
 upon Thames, in the county of Surry, all 
 i 2 and
 
 Il8 CHARTERS OF 
 
 and all manner of woods, underwood-, 
 and trees whatfoever, belonging to us, 
 growing and being out of, in, or upon the 
 premifes, or any parcel thereof : And alio 
 the reverfion and reverlions whatfoever 
 of all and lingular the premiies, and every 
 parcel of the fame ; And alio the rents, 
 revenues, and annual profits whatfoever, 
 referved upon any demifes and grants of 
 the premifes, or any parcel thereof, in 
 whatfoever manner made, as fully, freely, 
 and entirely, and in as ample a manner 
 and form as any former abbots, priors, 
 chaplains, or other governors of the laid 
 late priories, chapels, or religious houfes, 
 or any other or others formerly having, 
 poUeifmg, or being feifed of the premifes, 
 or any parcel thereof, ever had, held, or 
 enjoyed, or ought to have had, held, or 
 enjoyed the fame, or any parcel thereof; 
 and as fully, freely, and entirely, and in 
 as ample a manner and form as all and 
 lingular thofe premifes came or ought to 
 have come to our hands, or to the hands 
 of our faid very dear father, Henry VIII. 
 late King of England ; or to the hands of 
 our very dear brother, Edward VL late King 
 of England ; or to the hands of our very 
 
 dear
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I IQ. 
 
 dear fitter Mar v, late Queen of England, 
 by reafon or pretext of any act of parlia- 
 ment, or by any other manner, right, or 
 title, and now are or ought to be in our 
 hands : all which melliiages, lands, tene- 
 ments, meadows, feedings, paltures, and 
 all other the prcmiies with the appurte- 
 nances, are onlv valued at the clear an- 
 nual rent of eighteen pounds nine 
 millings and feven-pence : to have, hold, 
 and enjoy the aforefaid mefluages, lands, 
 tenements, houfes, barns, ltables, gardens, 
 lands, woods, underwoods, rents, revenues, 
 fervices, hereditaments, and all and other the 
 prcmiies, with all their appurtenances, to 
 the aforefaid bai lilts and freemen of our 
 laid town of Kingfton upon Thames, and 
 their fucceflbrs for ever, according to the 
 intention and ordinances by us expreiled, 
 ipecitied, and declared in thele our letters 
 patent, to be held of us, our heirs and 
 fucceflbrs in fecfarm; that is to fay, in free 
 foccage as of our manor of Eaft Greenwich, 
 in our county of Kent ; and yielding 
 therefore to us, our heirs and fuccet.brs, 
 eighteen pounds nine fliillin<rs and feven- 
 pence oi legal money of England, to the 
 hands of the Receiver General of us, oi.r 
 1 4 heirs
 
 I 23 CHARTERS OF 
 
 heirs and fucceflbrs of our faid county of 
 Surry for t lie time being, at the Feafls of 
 St. Michael the Archangel, raid the An- 
 nunciation of the Bleiled Virgin Mary, to 
 be paid by equal portions every year for 
 all other fervices, rents, and demands 
 whatfoever to be yielded, paid, or done 
 therefore m any manner to us, our heirs 
 and fucceiTors. And flirt her, we declare 
 and will and for us, our heirs and fuccef- 
 fors, by thefe prefents, firmly ordain and 
 determine, that, in confideration of our 
 prefent grant, twenty marks * yearly of 
 good and lawful money of England, do 
 iifue for ever and from time to time, be- 
 yond and betides the aforcfaid rent of 
 eighteen pounds nine millings and feven- 
 pence referved to us, our heirs and fuc- 
 ceiTors, as aforcfaid ; and lliall be paid, 
 converted, and expended by the aforefaid 
 bailiffs and freemen of our town of King- 
 
 * A mark of filver, in the reign of Henry I. was 
 only fix (hillings and a penny in weight, but is now 
 thirteen fhillings and four-pence. There was alio a 
 mark of gold, which, according to S tow's Annals, weighed 
 eight ounces, and was valued at fix pounds in filver ; 
 or, as others write, fix pounds thirteen fhillings and 
 four-pence, 
 
 lion
 
 K.I HUSTON UPON THAMES. 121 
 
 lion upon Thames aforefaid, and their 
 fucceifors for the time being, for the fup- 
 port and maintenance of the ichool afore- 
 laid, and of the matter of the fame ichool 
 for the time being;, at the four yearly 
 terms ; that is to lay, at the Featf of the 
 Nativity of St. John the Baptift, St. Mi- 
 chael the Archangel, the Birth -day of 
 our Lord, and the Annunciation of the 
 Bleifed Virgin Mary, by equal portions 
 yearly, from time to time, for ever, al- 
 though that exprefs mention of the true 
 yearly value, or of any other value or cer- 
 tainty of tlit premifes, or any of them, or 
 of any gilts or grants by us. or any of our 
 progenitors to the aforefaid bailiffs and 
 freemen of our town of Kingfton afore- 
 faid, before thefe times, made in thefe 
 prclents, is not made, or any ltatute, act, 
 ordinance, provilion, proclamation, or re- 
 ft ridion to the contrary thereof hitherto 
 had, made, done, ordained, or provided, 
 or any other thing, caufc, or matter w hat- 
 foever in any wile notwithstanding. 
 
 In witnefs whereof, we have caufed 
 their our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnef? m\ fell" at We ft mi niter, the 17th 
 
 dav
 
 122 CHARTERS OF 
 
 day of May, in the fixth year of our 
 
 reign *. 
 
 By writ of privy feal, and of the date 
 aforeiaid, by authority of parliament. 
 
 P. Cordett. 
 
 CHARTER OF KING JAMES I. 
 
 Grant of divers Privileges, and a Weekly 
 Market every Saturday. 
 
 JAMES, by the grace of God, of Eng- 
 land, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, 
 Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom 
 thefe prefent letters mall come, greeting. 
 Whereas our town of Kingfton upon 
 Thames, in the county of Surry, is a very 
 
 * Much of the premifes granted by this charter 
 have been conrcrted into private property, and by 
 tome means or other made away with ; and this is 
 what the Magna Britannia alludes to in the following 
 paffage, where it f;-ys u the Free School at Kingfton 
 ** was creeled by Queen Elizabeth, who well endowed 
 " it with good annual rents ; but they are fo much 
 " impaired and embezzled, that there is no more re- 
 iC maining than thirty pounds per annum." 
 
 ancient
 
 KING: TON CPON THAMES. I 2J 
 
 ancient and populous town : And where- 
 as alio Lord Edward IV. late King of 
 England, by his letters patent under the 
 great leal of England, dated the 26th day 
 of February, in the twentieth year of his 
 reign, of his fpecial favour and certain 
 knowledge, granted and confirmed for 
 himfelf and his heirs to the freemen of 
 the town of Kinglton aforefaid, that they 
 Ihould be one body in deed and name, 
 and one perpetual community, incorpo- 
 rated of two bailiffs of that town and the 
 men of the fame town ; and that they 
 ihould have a perpetual fucceffion ; and 
 that they and their fucceiTors Ihould be 
 called and named by the names of the 
 BailiiFsand Freemen of the Town of Kin<r- 
 iton upon Thames, in the County of Surry ; 
 and by thole names might plead and be 
 impleaded, anfwer and be anfwered, in 
 whatsoever courts of him or his heirs, or 
 any others whomfoever. And that the 
 aforefaid bailitis and freemen of that town, 
 and their fuccefibrs, fhould be perfons fit 
 andx capable in law to purchafe lands and 
 tenements to thcmlelves and their heirs in 
 fee and perpetuity, and Ihould have a 
 common leal to ferve tor the bufinefs and 
 
 affairs
 
 154 CHARTERS OF 
 
 affairs touching and concerning thofe 
 bailiffs and men ; and from time to time 
 may make and ordain ordinances and fta- 
 tutes within the fame town, for the 
 wholefome rule and governance of that 
 town. And moreover he, the late Ring 
 Edward IV. granted and confirmed by the 
 fame letters patent, to the fame bailiffs 
 and men, and their fucccffors, that they 
 might have and hold within the town of 
 Kingiton aforcfaid, every week, that is to 
 fay, on the Saturday of every fuch week 
 for ever, a court to be h olden before thofe 
 bailiffs and their fucccffors, and the lie- 
 ward of that town for the time being ; and 
 that in the fame courts thole bailiffs and 
 their fucceffors, and the fleward for the 
 time being, may hear and determine before 
 them all manner of pleas and actions, 
 both of debt, covenant, account, deceit, 
 detinue, as well of charters, writings, 
 muniments, goods and chattels, as of 
 other things whatfoever, trefpaffes both 
 by force and arms, as otherwife done 
 withernam, and other things to the con- 
 tempt of the aforcfaid King and his heirs, 
 and of the ftatutes ; and of all perfonal 
 contracts, matters, and things whatfoever 
 
 anting
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 1^5 
 
 arifing or happening within that town 
 and the liberties, members, and appurte- 
 nances of the fame, although they mould 
 reach or exceed the turn of forty lliil lings, 
 by plaint, to be brought in that court, ac- 
 cording to the law and cuftom of the king- 
 dom of England, and defend in fuch like 
 pleas and actions, the diitrenes by their 
 attachment ; and, on account of the infuf- 
 ficieney of goods and chattels by which 
 they ma}' be fummoned, attached, or dif- 
 trained, to bring them by attachment and 
 arret! of their bodies to plead in that 
 court ; and may hear all and lingular thofe 
 thinps according to the law and cuftom 
 of our realm aforefaid, and difeufs and de- 
 termine them by the like procefs, conil- 
 derations, judgments, and executions of 
 the judges, that the like pleas and actions 
 are brought to a termination in the courts 
 of the laid King ; with divers other liber- 
 ties, grants, immunities, privileges, and 
 pre-eminences in the fame letters patent 
 contained, as by the fame letters patent, 
 among other tilings, is more plainly mani- 
 fest and appears. 
 
 Know ye that we, dehring the improve- 
 ment of the fume town, and confidering 
 
 the
 
 1^6 CHARTERS OF 
 
 the good and laudable fervices hitherto 
 often done to and bellowed upon us and 
 our progenitors by the bailiffs and free- 
 men of the town of Kingfton upon Thames 
 aforefaid, of our fpecial favour, certain 
 knowledge, and mere motion, do for us, 
 our heirs and fucceflbrs, give, grant, and 
 confirm to the aforefaid bailiffs and free- 
 men of the town aforefaid, and their fuc- 
 ceflbrs for ever, that it may and mall be 
 lawful for the fame bailiffs and freemen, 
 and their fucceflbrs for ever, that they or 
 the major part of them for the time being, 
 of whom we will that the bailiffs of the 
 town of KingUon aforefaid, for the time 
 being, be two, as often as it mall feem to 
 them fit and neceffary, may call together 
 and hold within the Guildhall of the town 
 aforefaid, and may and may be able to 
 have and hold there, in all future times, 
 a certain court or convocation of the fame 
 bailiffs and freemen, or of the major part of 
 them, of whom we will that the bailiffs 
 of the town of Kingfton aforefaid, for the 
 time being, be two ; and in the fame 
 court or convocation may and may be 
 able to confer, treat, decree, and confult 
 upon iiatutes, laws, article*, and ordi- 
 nances
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 12/ 
 
 nances touching and concerning the town 
 of Kingtfon upon Thames aforefaid, and 
 the liberties thereof, and the good regu- 
 lation of the lame, according to their 
 found difcretions, or according to the 
 found difcretions of the major part of the 
 lame, aflembled in the laid Guildhall for 
 the time being; of whom we will that the 
 bailiffs of the town of Kingflon aforefaid, 
 for the time being, be two ; and that the 
 bailiffs and freemen of the town aforefaid 
 and their fucceifbrs, for the time being, 
 or the major part of the fame, of whom 
 we will that the bailiffs of the town of 
 Kingtfon aforefaid, for the time being 
 be two ; being aflembled and gathered to- 
 gether in the court or convocation afore- 
 faid, may and mail have from time to time, 
 and at all future times, full authority, 
 power, and faculty to form, conlfitute, 
 ordain, make, ami decree, fuch and fuch 
 like laws, intfitutions, ordinances, and 
 conftitutions which to them, or the major 
 part of the fame, of whom we will that 
 the bailiffs of the town of Kinglfon afore- 
 faid, for the time being be two, lhall feem, 
 according to their llmnd difcretions to be 
 good, falutary. ufeful, honcll, and necci- 
 
 larv
 
 128 Charters of 
 
 fary for the keeping of our peace, and for 
 the good rule and governance of th 
 faid town of Kingfton upon I'hr.rce?. and 
 the bailiffs and freemen, and all other 
 officers, miniflers, artificers, and others 
 inhabiting or reading within the town 
 aforefaid, and the liberties of the lame, 
 for the time being ; and for a declaration 
 in what manner and order the fame bai- 
 liffs and freemen, and all and lingular 
 other the minifters, officers, artificers, in- 
 habitants, and thole redding in the town 
 aforefaid, and others being there, fhall 
 conduct, behave, and employ themfelves 
 in their offices, functions, fervices, trades, 
 and bufinefs with id the town aforefaid, 
 and the liberties of the fame, for the time 
 being ; and otherwife, for the further good 
 of the republic, common utility, and good 
 regulation of the town and liberty afore- 
 laid, and the victuallers of the fame town 
 and liberty ; and alio for the better preier- 
 vation, governance, difpoiition, letting, 
 and derailing of lands, tenements, poifef- 
 lions, revenues, and hereditaments, for- 
 merly or by thefe prcfents given, granted, 
 
 1 OCT 
 
 or affigned, or hereafter to be given or 
 afligned to the aforefaid bailifls and free- 
 men.
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 129 
 
 men, and their fucceflbrs, and other 
 things and caufes whatfoever, touching, 
 or in any manner concerning the town 
 aforelaid, or the State, right, and interest 
 of the fame town, and the liberty of the 
 lame : And that the bailiffs and freemen 
 of the town aforelaid for the time being, 
 and their fuccesTors, or the major part of 
 them, of whom we will that the bailiffs 
 of the laid town of Kingston for the time 
 being be two, as often as they fhall have 
 formed, made, ordained, or decreed, fuch 
 like laws, institutions, decrees, ordinances, 
 or constitutions, in form aforelaid, may 
 make, ordain, limit, and provide fuels and 
 fuch like pains, punifhments, and penalties, 
 by imprifonment of their bodies, or by 
 fines, and amerciaments, or by both of 
 them, on the part of and upon all offenders 
 ngainft fuch like laws, institutions, decrees, 
 ordinances, and constitutions, or any one, 
 or any of them, as and which to the fame 
 bail iris and freemen for the time being, 
 or the major part of them, of whom we 
 will that the bailirFs of the laid town of 
 Kinglton upon Thames for the time being 
 be two, fhall bell ieem neceliary, iit, and 
 requisite for the oblerving and preferring 
 
 k the
 
 l$Q CHARTERS OF 
 
 the aforefaid laws, ordinances, and con- 
 stitutions : And that the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen, and their fucceffors for ever, 
 may and may be able to levy, recover, 
 take, and have the fame punifhments, 
 fines, and amerciaments to the proper aid 
 and ufe of the aforefaid bailiffs and free- 
 men, and their fucceffors for ever, for the 
 time being, without the hindrance of us, 
 our heirs or fucceffors, or any officers or 
 ministers of us or our heirs or fucceffors, 
 and without any payment or any account 
 therefore to be paid, yielded, or made in 
 any manner to us, our heirs or fucceffors: 
 All and lingular which laws, ordinances, 
 institutions, and constitutions fo to be 
 made as aforefaid, we will be obierved, 
 under the punifhments in the fame con- 
 tained, yet fo that the aforefaid laws, 
 ordinances, constitutions, punifhments, 
 penalties, fines, and amerciaments, nor 
 any of them, be not repugnant nor con- 
 trary to the laws, ftatutes, rights, or cus- 
 toms of our kingdom of England : And 
 further we will, and by thefe prefents for 
 us, our heirs and fucceffors, grant to the 
 fame bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 aforefaid. and their fucceffors, thatthcyand 
 
 their
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. l^I 
 
 their fucceffors from henceforth for ever 
 
 may have and hold, aiid may and may be 
 able to have and hold w iihin the town of 
 Kingiton upon Thames aforefdd, a cour t ^^^ 
 of record every Saturday in vxecy wee k &<:e*tf/*££* 
 through the year for ever., before the bai- 
 liffs of the town afore laid, and the 1 toward 
 of the court of the town atoreJud for the 
 time being; and in the abfenceof the afore - 
 faid fteward of that court, before the bai- 
 liffs of the town aforefaid, and the re- 
 corder of the town aforefaid for the time 
 being, or two ot them ; and that they 
 may hold in that court, by plaint, to be 
 levied in the fame court, all and all kinds 
 of pleas, aclions, huts, and perfonal de- 
 mands, of whatsoever perfonal trcfpaiies, 
 by force and arms, and of whatfoever other 
 trefpanes done, committed, anting, happen- 
 ing, or perpetrated, or hereafter to be done, 
 committed, arife, happen, or be perpetrated 
 within the town aforefaid, the fuburbs, 
 limits, and precincts of the lame, and the 
 hundred of Kingfton and Elmebridge : and 
 of all and all manner of debts, pleas upon 
 the cafe, deceit, account, covenant, detinue 
 oi charters, writings and muniments, and 
 chattels, captions and detinues of cattle 
 k 2, and
 
 l$2 CHARTERS OF 
 
 and chattels, and other contracts whatio- 
 ever, anhng, or in future happening to 
 arife, from whatfoever caufes or things 
 within the town aforefaid, the fuburbs, 
 limits, and precincts of the fame, and 
 within t\m hundred of Kingftori, and 
 Elmebridge aforefaid, or any of them, 
 although the fame trefpafles, debts, ac- 
 counts, covenants, deceits, detinues, or 
 other contracts, mould reach or exceed 
 the fum or value of forty ih ijhngs ; and 
 that fuch like pleas, plaints, fuits, and ac- 
 tions may be heard and determined there, 
 before the bailiffs of the town afore&id, 
 and the fteward of that court for the time 
 being; and in the abfence of the aforefaid 
 steward of the faid court, before the bai- 
 liffs of the town aforefaid, and the recorder 
 of the town aforefaid for the time being, 
 or two of them, by fuch and the like pro- 
 cefs, modes, and manners, according to 
 the law and cullom of our kingdom of 
 England, as is agreeable to our law, and in 
 as ample a manner and form as is ufed 
 and accutlomcd in any other court of re- 
 cord in an}' city, borough, and town incor- 
 porated within this our realm of England : 
 And we will by thefe prefects, and of our 
 
 bou :;
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I33 
 
 bountiful fpecial favour, and certain know- 
 ledge,and mere motion, do for us, our heirs 
 and fuccelTors, grant to the aforefaid bai- 
 liffs and freemen of the town aforefaid, 
 and their fucceffors, that they may for ever 
 have, enjoy, and take, and may be able to 
 have, enjov, take, and levy, to the proper 
 life and profit of the aforefaid bailiffs and 
 freemen, all and all kinds of fines, iffues, 
 amerciaments, forfeitures, and profits to 
 be impofed, proceed, fall, arife, happen, 
 or be forfeited in the court aforefaid, be- 
 fore the aforefaid bailiffs and the fteward 
 of the court aforefaid, or before the bailiffs 
 of the town aforefaid and the recorder of 
 the town aforefaid, in the abfence of the 
 faid fteward of that court, or before two 
 of them in that court : And that it may 
 and fhall be lawful for the aforefaid bai- 
 liffs and freemen of the town aforefaid, 
 and their fucceffors, for the better having 
 and enjoying the fame fines, iffues, amer- 
 ciaments, forfeitures and profits, from time 
 to time to collect and levy all and lingular 
 fuch like hues, iffues, amerciaments, for- 
 feitures, and profits, by the proper minif- 
 tcrs of the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen 
 
 k ^ of
 
 134 CHARTERS OF 
 
 of the town of Kingfton upon Thames 
 aforefaid, according to the law and cuf- 
 tom of our kingdom of England. And 
 farther, We, gracioufiy providing for the 
 good ride and governance of the town 
 aforefaid in this behalf, of our fpecial fa- 
 vour, certain knowledge, and mere mo- 
 tion, have given and granted, and by 
 thefe prefents do for us, our heirs and 
 fucceifors, give and grant to the aforefaid 
 bailiffs and freemen of the town of Kii g- 
 ilon upon Thames aforefaid, and their 
 fucceifors for ever, that the aforefaid bai- 
 liffs of the town aforefaid for the time 
 being-, and the lie ward of the court of the 
 town aforefaid, and the recorder of the 
 town aforefaid for the time, may, and 
 each of them may, and ihall be a juttice of 
 the peace for us, our heirs and fnccelfors, 
 within the aforefaid town of ivingtton 
 upon Thames, and the precincts and li- 
 berties of the fame town, and alio with- 
 in the village or hamlet ofSurpeton, Ham, 
 and Hatch ; and to keep, and caufe to be 
 kept, all the ordinances and fratutes made 
 for the good of our peace, and for the 
 preferving of the fame, and for the quiet 
 rule and governance of our people in all 
 
 their
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I35 
 
 their articles within the aforefaid town of 
 Kingllon upon Thames, and the aforefaid 
 village or hamlet of Surpeton, Ham, and 
 Hatch aforefaid, and the precincts and 
 liberties of the fame town of Kingfton 
 upon Thames, according to the form and 
 effect of the fame; and to chaftife and 
 punilTi all offenders againit the form of 
 thole ordinances or ltatutes, or any one 
 of them, within the town of Kingfton 
 upon Thames aforefaid, and the village or 
 hamlet of Surpeton, Ham, and Hatch 
 aforefaid, and the precincts and liberties 
 of the aforefaid town of Kingtton upon 
 Thames, as according to the form of thofe 
 ordinances and Ihitutes lliall be to be 
 done ; and to caufe all thole within the 
 aforefaid town and the village, hamlet, 
 precinct, and liberties of the town afore- 
 faid, who lhall have threatened any one, 
 or any of our people, cither concerning 
 their bodies or the burning their houfes, 
 to come before them, or any of them, to 
 find fuiricient fecurity for the peace, or for 
 their good behaviour towards us and our 
 people. And if they lhall refufe to find 
 i'uch like fecurity, then they lhall caufe 
 them to be lately kept in prilun until 
 k 4 1 he>
 
 I36 CHARTERS OF 
 
 they mall have found fuch like fecurity. 
 And that the aforefaid bailiffs and fteward. 
 of the court aforefaid, and recorder of the 
 town of Kingiton aforefaid for the time 
 being, or any three of them, of whom we 
 will that the bailiffs of the aforefaid town 
 of Kingiton upon Thames for the time 
 being be two, have from henceforth for 
 ever full power and authority to enquire 
 of, hear, and determine within the afore- 
 faid town of Kingiton upon Thames, and 
 the aforefaid village or hamlet of Surpe- 
 ton, Ham, and Hatch aforefaid, and the 
 precinefs and liberties of the fame town, 
 all and all manner of felonies, murders, 
 homicides, robberies, maihems, intuits, 
 riots, routs, forcible entries on lands or 
 tenements, trefpaifes againit the peace of 
 us, our heirs and fucceiTors, unlawful af- 
 femblies, embraceors, confpiracies, con- 
 tempts, concealments ; and alfo all other 
 mifpriilon, mifdeeds, defaults, neglecls, 
 caufes and articles which belong, or from 
 henceforth can belong, to the authority or 
 power of a juftice or keeper of the peace ; 
 and alfo the correction of all and lingular 
 malefactors or offenders againil the fta- 
 tutes already made, or in future to be 
 
 made.
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES I 37 
 
 made, concerning laborers, artificers, inn- 
 keepers, victuallers, foreitallcrs, rcgrators, 
 and alio all and all kinds of things what- 
 foever within the town, village, and ham- 
 let aforefaid, and the bounds and precincts 
 of the fame, or any one of them, done, 
 had, made, or ariilng, or to be done, had, 
 made, or arife againft the form of any 
 itatute or ftatutes already made or here- 
 after made, which in any manner belong 
 or pertain to the office of ajultice of the 
 peace, in as ample a manner and form as 
 the juftiees or keepers of the peace of us, 
 our heirs or fucceflbrs, within the laid 
 county of Surry, may or can hear or de- 
 termine offences and faults done or per- 
 petrated in our laid county of Surry, or in 
 any parcel thereof, or make correction 
 thereof, any Itatute a6t, ordinance, or 
 provillon to the contrary thereof hitherto 
 made, done, ordained, or provided in any- 
 wife notwithstanding ; yet lb that they do 
 not in any manner proceed to the deter- 
 mination of any murder or felony, or any 
 other offence touching the lofs of life or 
 limb, without the fpecial command of us. 
 our heirs or fucceflbrs : and that the 
 aforefaid bailiffs, lleward of the court of 
 
 the
 
 I38 CHARTERS OF 
 
 the town aforefaid, and recorder of die 
 town of Kingfton upon Thames for the 
 time being, or any three of them, of whom 
 we will that the bailiffs of the town of 
 Kingfton upon Thames aforefaid for the 
 time being be two, lawfully may and may 
 be able to attach by their bodies, all and 
 ftngular perfons who (hall or might be 
 indicted by the inquefr, by their fervants, 
 or mini tiers, and deliver them all to the 
 gaol of the town aforefaid ; to ftay there 
 until thence delivered, according to the 
 law and cuftom of our kingdom of Eng- 
 land. And farther we will, and by thefe 
 prefents do for us, our heirs and fuccerTors, 
 grant to the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen 
 of the town of Kingfton upon Thame* 
 aforefaid, and their fuccerTors, that the 
 fame bailiffs and freemen of the town of 
 Kingfton upon Thames aforefaid, and 
 their fucceftbrs, may have within the faid 
 town of Kingfton, or the precincts and 
 liberties of the fame, one prifon or gaol 
 for the fate cuftody of all and lingular 
 perfons attached and to be attached, or to 
 be font or adjudged to prifon or gaol in 
 any manner whatfoever, within the town 
 of Kingfton aforefaid, and the liberties of 
 
 the
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 139 
 
 the laid town, and the village and hamlet 
 aforeiaid, or the precincts of the fame, or 
 anv one of them for whatsoever caufe, 
 which ihall be to be enquired of, prolecu- 
 ted, punifhed, or determined in tlie town 
 aforeiaid, or in the aforeiaid village or 
 hamlet ; to ltay there until delivered in a 
 lawful manner : And that the aforeiaid 
 bailiffs for the time being, or their Suffici- 
 ent deputies or deputy, may and ihall be 
 keepers of the gaol or prifon aforeiaid. 
 And farther we will, and for us, our heirs 
 and SuccefTors, give and grant to the afore- 
 iaid bailiffs and freemen of the town of 
 Kingtton aforeiaid, and their SuccclTors, 
 that the aforeiaid bailiffs, ire ward of the 
 court of the town aforeiaid, and recorder of 
 the town aforeiaid, and their fucceiTors for- 
 ever, or anv two of them, by warrant in 
 writing, Signed witli their hands or the 
 hands of any two of them, may and may 
 be able to fend to the common jraol of 
 our county of Surrv, all Such perlons as 
 ihall in future be taken, arretted, attached, 
 or found in the aforeiaid town of King- 
 ston upon Thames, or in the aforeiaid 
 village or hamlet of Surfr/ou, Ham, and 
 llaid\ or in anv one of them, or within 
 
 the
 
 I4O CHARTERS OF 
 
 the precincls and liberties of the town of 
 Kingiton aforefaid, for any felony done, 
 or on fufpicion of any felony; to continue 
 there until delivered in a lawful manner. 
 And further, we will and grant for us, our 
 heirs and fuccefibrs, to the aforefaid bai- 
 liffs and freemen of the town of Kingiton 
 upon Thames aforefaid, and their fuccef- 
 ibrs, that they and their fucceiibrs for 
 ever henceforth may have, hold, and 
 keep, and may and may be able to have, 
 hold, and keep within the town of King- 
 iion aforefaid yearly for ever, a * marke t, 
 
 cz/fct ut<eiM . ————— 
 
 j j>Jh to be held on the Saturday in every 
 week within the fame town of Kingiton 
 aforefaid : and that during the time of 
 that market, all and lingular perfons 
 coming and reforting to that market, may 
 and may be able for ever henceforth to 
 fell, buy, and expofe to tale all and all 
 kinds of animals and live cattle, as well 
 
 * This market was formerly of much more confe- 
 rence than at prefent, and ufecf to be held in fomc 
 field (perhaps Little Field) as appears by the follow- 
 ing extract from the Magna Britannia, and the Hijiory 
 of Surry : "The market is held here weekly on Satur- 
 " day; it is kept in a great field, and is fo big, as it 
 *' may indeed pafs for a fair." 
 
 horfes,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 14! 
 
 horfes, marcs, colts, fat oxen, lean oxen, 
 bullocks, cows, calves, heifers, fheep, 
 iambs, hogs, as other living animals of 
 whatsoever kind, nature, or fpecies they 
 may or Ilia 11 be, at their pleafure, accord- 
 ing to the laws and Statutes of our kino-- 
 dom of England : and that the fame bai- 
 liffs and freemen of the town aforefaid, 
 and their fucccllbrs for ever, may have 
 and take lb much and iuch like ufual toll, 
 tollage, pruiits, advantages, and cultoms 
 as and iuch as, and in as ample a manner 
 and form as is accuitomed and ufed, or as 
 lawfully can or ought to be had or taken 
 in anv other market within this our realm 
 of England. And further , wc have granted, 
 and of our bountiful fpecial favour and 
 certain knowledge, and mere motion, do 
 for us, our heirs and iucceflors, grant to 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of the 
 town of Kingiton upon Thames aforefaid, 
 and their fucccllbrs for ever, all and all 
 manner of iifues, fines, amerciaments, 
 ranfoms, punilhments, and forfeitures of 
 all and lingular the tenants whomfocver, 
 entirely holding and not entirely holding, 
 reiiding and not reliding within the afore- 
 faid town and demefne ot Kingiton and 
 
 hundred
 
 142 CHARTERS OF 
 
 hundred aforefaid, and the precincts and 
 liberties of the fame, to be loft, impofed, 
 made, undergone, affeered, or afligned in 
 any manner by any of them before the 
 juflices of oyer and terminer of us, our 
 heirs and fucceflbrs, within the aforefaid 
 county of Surry; and before the juflices 
 of affize of us, our heirs and fucceflbrs, in 
 our fame county of Surry ; and before the 
 juflices of gaol delivery of us, our heirs 
 and fucceflbrs in the faid county of Surry , 
 afligned or to be afligned ; and before the 
 jufiiccs of us, our heirs and fucceilbrs, 
 afligned or to be afligned to keep the 
 peace in the fame county of Surry ; and 
 to hear and determine divers felonies, 
 trefpafles, and other mifdeeds in that 
 count v ; and before the clerk of the mar- 
 ker of us, our heirs and fucceilbrs, in the 
 aforefaid county of Surry ; and before the 
 juitir.es or commiilioncrs itinerant of us, 
 our heirs and fucceilbrs, in the lame coun- 
 ts' of Surry, aiiigned or to be afligned ; 
 and before the jutlices or eommillioners 
 of lowers of us, our heirs and fucceilbrs, 
 within the aforefaid county of Surry, 
 aiiigned or to be aiiigned ; and before the 
 bailiffs \)i the town of Kiugfton upon 
 
 Thames
 
 KINGSTON CJPON THAMES. I 43 
 
 Thames aforeliiid, and their fucceiTors, 
 and the iteward of the court of that town 
 for the time being, and the recorder of the 
 fame town for the time being, or three or 
 two of them, being jultices of the peace 
 of us, our heirs and lucceilbrs, within the 
 town aforcfaid, and within the village 
 and hamlet of Surpeton, Ham, and Hatch 
 aforeiaid ; and before the bailiffs of the 
 town of Kinglicn upon Thames aforeiaid, 
 and the clerk of the market of us, our 
 heirs and lucceilbrs, within the fame 
 town and the hundred of'Kingiton and 
 Eimebridgc aforeiaid, and the precincts 
 and liberties of the fame; and before the 
 iteward and marlhal of our houiehold, 
 and of the houiehold of our heirs and fuc- 
 celibrs, within the aforeiaid countv of 
 Surry ; and before the bailiffs and free- 
 men of the town of Kingiton upon 
 Thames aforcfaid ; and before the dedica- 
 tor of us. our heirs and iucceiTors, of our 
 aforeiaid countv of Surry ; and alio before 
 all other jultices, commilTIoners, or mi- 
 nilters of us, our heirs and lucceilbrs 
 whomfoever, within the aforcfaid countv 
 of Surry ; and that it may and ihall bo 
 lawful lor the lame bailiii's and freemen, 
 
 and
 
 144 CHARTERS OF 
 
 and their fucceffors, by themfelves or by 
 their own proper officers and miniiters, 
 to take, feize, levy, and have all fuch like 
 iffues, fines, amerciaments, ranlbms, pu- 
 nifhments, and forfeitures to the proper 
 ufe, advantage, and profit of the aforefaid 
 bailiffs and freemen, and their fucceflbrs 
 for ever, and to take pofTeflion thereof 
 without account, to be yielded, paid, or 
 done therefore, or for any part or parcel 
 thereof to us, our heirs or fucceflbrs ; to 
 have to the fame bailiffs and freemen, and 
 their fucceflbrs, without the hindrance, 
 dilturbance, moleftation, or impediment, 
 of us, our heirs and fucceflbrs, or of the 
 juitices, fherifFs, efcheators, coroners, or 
 any other officers or minifters of us, our 
 heirs and fucceiTors whom foe ver. And 
 further, Of our bountiful fpecial favour, 
 certain knowledge, and mere motion, we 
 do for us, our heirs and fucceflbrs, grant 
 and confirm to the aforefaid bailiffs and 
 freemen of the town of Kingffon upon 
 Thames aforefaid, and their fucceflbrs, the 
 aforefaid town of Kingilon upon Thames, 
 with all its rights, members, and appurte- 
 nances ; and alio fo many fuch the fame 
 and the like lands, tenements, and heredi- 
 taments,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I45 
 
 laments, ck rks of the market, efcheators, 
 coroners, macebearers, and other officers 
 and minifrers whomlbever. And alio, ib 
 many inch the lame and the like efcheats 
 and forfeitures of lands and tenements, 
 goods and chattels, trcafure-trove, deo- 
 dands, goods and chattels called Mainour, 
 chattels of felons and fugitives, felons of 
 themfclves, condemned, convicfed, at- 
 tainted, outlawed, baniilied, waived and 
 put in exigent for felony, chattels con- 
 hfcated, year, day, wade, and eftrepement, 
 ifiues, lines, amerciaments, ranfoms, li- 
 berties, franchifes, immunities, exemp- 
 tions, acquittals, and jurifdiclions what- 
 foever, which the bai litis and freemen of 
 the town of Kingiton aforefaid, or any- 
 one or any of them, by whatsoever name 
 or names, or by whatsoever incorporation, 
 or by pretext of whatsoever incorporation 
 formerly had, held, uted, or enjoyed, or 
 ought to have, hold, ufe, or enjoy by rea- 
 fon or pretext of any charters or letters 
 patents by our progenitor Lord John, for- 
 merly King of England ; en* by our pro- 
 genitor Edward the Fourth late King of 
 England ; or by reafon or pretext of any 
 charters or letters patents by the Lady 
 
 l Elizabeth,
 
 J46 CHARTERS OF 
 
 Elizabeth, late Queen of England ; or by 
 any one of our progenitors in any man- 
 ner formerly made, confirmed, or granted, 
 or formerly lawfully ufed, bad, or accuf- 
 tomed in any other manner, or by any 
 other right, cuftom, life, prefcription, or 
 title wliatfoever, yielding and paying 
 yearly to us, our heirs and fuccefTors, fo 
 many and fucli rents, firms of money, and 
 demands wliatfoever, as they were for- 
 merly accuftomed to yield or pay us for 
 the fame. Willing moreover, and by 
 thefe prefents ordering and commanding 
 as well the treafurer, chancellor, and ba- 
 rons of our Exchequer at Weitminiter, 
 and other the juftices of us, our heirs and 
 fucceflbrs, as our attorney and folicitor- 
 generai for the time being, and each of 
 them, and all other the officers and mini- 
 sters of us, our heirs and iuocefTors whom- 
 foevcr, that neither they, nor any one, 
 nor any of *hem, profecute or continue, 
 or make or caufe to be profecuted or con- 
 tinued, any our writ orprocefs whatfoever 
 againft the bailiffs and freemen of the 
 town aforcfaid, or the men or inhabitants 
 of the town of Kingfton aforcfaid, or any 
 one, or any of them, for any things, mat- 
 ters,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I 47 
 
 tcrs, offences, claims, or ufurpations, or 
 
 any of 1 hem, bv them or anv of them due, 
 
 w y * 
 
 claimed, attempted, uied, had, or ufurped 
 bch re the day of the making of thefe pre - 
 ients. Willing alio that the fame bailiffs 
 and freemen, and inhabitants of the town 
 aforefaid, or any of them, be not molefled 
 or troubled by anv, or any one of the jus- 
 tices, officers, or miniilers aforefaid, in or 
 for any debt, ufe, claim, or abufe of any 
 liberties, franehifes, or jurifdidtions within 
 the town aforefaid, and the liberties and 
 precincts of the fame, before the day of 
 the making of thefe our letters patent, 
 or be compelled to anfvver to them, or any 
 one of them. JVe alfo will, and by thefe 
 prefents grant to the aforefaid bailiffs and 
 freemen of the town of Kinglion upon 
 Thames aforefaid, that they may and lhall 
 have thefe our letters patent under our 
 great leal of England duly made and lealed, 
 without fine or fee, jrrcat or fmall, there- 
 fore to be yielded, paid, or done in any 
 manner to us in our -Ifanaper, or elfe- 
 
 * Hanapcr, an office in Chancery, wherein are 
 paid all monies clue to the King lor the teal oi "charters, 
 pat' nt*, o.c, and to the officers tor enrolling the lame. 
 
 i. 2, where
 
 I48 CHARTERS OF 
 
 where for our ufe, although that exprefs 
 mention of the true yearly value, or of 
 any other value or certainty of the pre- 
 mifes, or of any of them, or of any other 
 gifts or grants by us, or by an y of our pre- 
 deceffors or progenitors to the aforefaid 
 bailiffs and freemen, or any of them, be- 
 fore thefe times, made inthefe prefents, is 
 not made, or any ftatute, act, ordinance, 
 provision, proclamation, or reltriction to 
 the contrary thereof hitherto had, made, 
 done, ordained, or provided, or any other 
 thing, caufe, or matter whatfoever in any- 
 wife notwithstanding. 
 
 In witnefs whereof we have caufed thefe 
 our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnefs my felf at Wettm in tier, the 17th 
 day of November, in the firft year of our 
 reign over England, France, and Ireland^, 
 and thirtieth over Scotland, 
 
 CHARTER
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I 49 
 
 CHARTER OF KING CHARLES THE FIRST. 
 
 Confirmation and Fxplanation of former 
 Charters, 
 
 Grant of a Jurifdid'rni to the Bailiffs and 
 Freemen of Kinglhn, over the Hundred of 
 Cs.pthorne and F m, on their releas- 
 
 ing the furifdiction of their ancient Court 
 Led ; and Tlrzv >f Frankpledge over the 
 Manor f Richmond and Hamlet of Rich- 
 mond, Fcterfkam, Kew, and Ham ; with 
 divers other Privileges. 
 
 CHARLIE, by the Grace of God, of 
 England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, 
 King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all 
 to whom thefe prefent letters lhall come, 
 greeting. Whereas our town of Kingfton 
 upon Thames, in our county of Surry, is 
 a very ancient and populous (own, and 
 fituated on the banks of the celebrated and 
 navigable river the Thames, from whence 
 alio it derives it name; from v, hich town, 
 bv means of that river, diilerent goods and 
 merchandizes, laden in \\ berries and boats. 
 are dailv tranfported backwards and for- 
 wards to our city of London, and the ad- 
 l -1 iaeent
 
 t$0 CHARTERS dtf 
 
 jacent parts : And the men of that town 
 have had, ufed, and enjoyed different li- 
 berties, franchifes, immunities, cuitoms, 
 prefcriptions, and pre-eminences, as well 
 by virtue and reafon of different charters 
 and letters patent formerly made and 
 granted by our very dear late Father, King 
 James of happy memory ; and by divers 
 others our progenitors and anceilors, late 
 Kings and Queens of England, to them 
 and their heirs, by different names of in- 
 corporation, as by reaibn or pretext of 
 different prefcriptions, ufages, and cuitoms 
 ufed and accullomed in the town afore- 
 laid. And whereas our beloved fubjects 
 the bailiffs and freemen of our town of 
 Kingiton upon Thames aforciaid, have 
 very humbly entreated us to confirm to 
 the laid bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 of Kingiton aforciaid, and their fucceifors, 
 the former charters and grants of our pro^ 
 genitors and predeceffors, and the afore - 
 laid liberties, franchifes, immunities, cui- 
 toms, prefcriptions, and pre-eminences; 
 and alio to explain the defects, ambiguities, 
 and doubts ariiing in thole grants, and il- 
 lustrate the things expreffed therein in 
 inapt and unfit expreflions, and reduce 
 
 them
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES, I -I 
 
 them into a certainty. And that for the 
 better ruling, governing, and improve- 
 ment of the town aforefaid, we would 
 vouch late to make, reduce, and create by 
 our letters patent the laid men and in- 
 habitants of the laid town of Kingfton 
 upon Thames, by whatsoever name or 
 names of incorporation they have hitherto 
 been incorporated, and whether they have 
 hitherto been incorporated or not into 
 one body corporate and politic, by the 
 name of the Bailiffs and Freemen of the 
 Town of Kingfton upon Thames, as fhall 
 feem moll expedient to us. We there- 
 fore, willing that for ever henceforth 
 there continually be in the laid town of 
 Kingfton upon Thames one certain and 
 undoubted method of and for the cuftody, 
 peace, rule, and government of the people 
 there; and that the afore laid town for 
 ever henceforth be and remain a town of 
 peace and quiet, to the dread and terror 
 of the bad, and the reward of the good, 
 and that our peace and other acts uf Juitiee 
 may be the better kept there ; and hoping 
 that if 'the faid men and inhabitant:; of 
 the town aforefaid, and their fuccelibrs, 
 fliould enjoy fuller liberties and privileges 
 
 t. 4 bv
 
 TgZ CHARTERS OF 
 
 by our grant, they would think them- 
 {elves more ipecially and ltrongly bound 
 to do and perform ail the fervice they are 
 able to us and our heirs, of our fpeciai 
 favour, certain knowledge, and mere mo- 
 tion, have willed, ordained, constituted, 
 declared, and granted, and by thefe pre- 
 fents do will, ordain, confhtu'e, declare, 
 and grant for ourfelves, our heirs and fuc- 
 celTors, that the men reliding in and iriha - 
 bitants of the town aforeiaid of King .on, 
 and their fucceffers, for ever henceforth 
 be, and mall be by force of thefe preients, 
 one body corporate and politic, in fact and 
 name, by the name of the Bailiffs and 
 Freemen of the Town of Kingston upon 
 . v . J£hames ; and by thefe preients we erecl", 
 * ^'"V 'make, ordain, constitute, confirm, and de- 
 clare them, for ourfelves, our heirs and 
 
 rr/.sna/t^ fucceffors, one body corporate and politic, 
 in fact and name, really and fully by the 
 name of the Bailiffs and Freemen of the 
 Town of Kingtion upon Thames ; and 
 that, they by tlie name of the Bailiffs and 
 Freemen of the Town of Kingllon upon 
 Thames be, and mall be in all times to 
 come, perfons fit and capable in the law 
 
 itV/Jl^/^X-V have, purchafe, receive, and pollers 
 
 manors,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 1^3 
 
 manors, lands, tenements, liberties, pri- 
 vileges, jurifdictions, franchifes, and here- 
 ditaments of what fort, nature, or kind 
 ibever they be, to them and their fuc- 
 cellbrs in fee and perpetuity, or for the 
 term of a year or years, or in any other 
 manner ; and alio goods and chattels, and 
 any other things of whatsoever kind, name, 
 nature, quality, fort, or fpecies they be; 
 and alio to give, grant, demife, alien, ailign, 
 and difpofe of manors, lands, tenements, 
 hereditaments, and to do and perform all 
 and lingular other acts and things bv the 
 name aforefaid ; and that they, by the laid 
 name of the Bailiffs and Freemen of the 
 Town of Ringlion upon Thames, may 
 and may have power to plead and be im- &**>*+ & 
 pleaded, aniwer and be aniwered, defend 
 and be defended in any courts and places 
 whatfoever, and before any judges and 
 jultices whatfoever, and other perfons and 
 officers of us, our heirs and fuccellbrs, and 
 any others whomfoever, in all and lingular 
 actions, pleas, fuits, plaints, caufes, mat- 
 ters, and demands whatfoever, of what- 
 foever fort, nature, or kind they may or 
 ihall be, in the fame manner and form as 
 a/iy other of our liege fubjects of this our 
 
 kin«'do:ii
 
 154 CHARTERS OF 
 
 kingdom of England, being perfons fit 
 and capable in law, or any other body 
 corporate and politic within our kingdom 
 of England, can and are able to have, pur- 
 chafe, receive, pofleft, enjoy, retain, give, 
 grant, demife, alien, affign, and difpofe 
 of, plead and be impleaded, anfvver and 
 be anfw ered, defend and be defended, do 
 permit and execute ; and that the afore- 
 faid bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 aforefaid, and their iucceiibrs, may have 
 ^^ for ever a common leal to ferve for the 
 caufcs and bulmefs to be done by them 
 and their iucceiibrs ; and that it be and 
 mall be lawful lor the laid bailiffs and 
 freemen of the town aforefaid, from time 
 to time, to break, change, and new make 
 that lea!, as ihall feem molt lit to them. 
 And whereas Lord Henry the Third, late 
 Ring of England, our progenitor, by his 
 letters patent bearing date the 13th day 
 of September, and the fortieth of his reign, 
 among other things, granted to his free- 
 men of Kingfton aforefaid, that they and 
 their heirs, being men of the town, might 
 elect, and create coronersj'or the attach- 
 ment of pleas of his crown ariling within 
 the town aforefaid, and ihould anfvver be- 
 fore
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 1 55 
 
 fore his jultices itinerant in thole parts of 
 the attachment made by them, and of 
 other tilings pertaining to the office of 
 coroner, in the fame manner as other his 
 coroners ought and were accultomed to 
 anfvver. And whereas alio Lord Henry 
 the Sixth, lately King of England, by his 
 letters patent dated the 1 8th day of March, 
 and the nineteenth year of his reign, among 
 other things, granted to the aforefaid free- 
 men of Kingtton, their heirs and fucceilbrs, 
 That the clerk of his market lhould not 
 for ever henceforth follow or exereife, or 
 eaufe to be purfued, followed, or cxcrcifcd 
 in any mode his office in their the afore - 
 laid town ot Kingtton, or the liberty of 
 the laid town ; but that the laid freemen 
 of the laid town, their heirs and fuc- 
 celfors, ihould have the correction of bread, 
 and the aliize of bread and ale, to be made 
 or done within the town aforefaid, and 
 liberty of the laid town : and alio, that 
 they fhould have the ufe and exereife of 
 all thefe things in anvwile touching the 
 office of clerk of the market, with the 
 lines, ilfues, and amerciaments as entirely 
 as the town 1 - of \\ yeombe and Windfor, 
 or any oilier borough within the kingdom 
 
 of
 
 1^6 CHARTERS OF 
 
 of England then had. And wheres, more*, 
 over, Lord Edward the Fourth, lately King 
 of England, by his letters patent done un- 
 der the great feal of England, dated the 
 26th day of February, in the twentieth 
 year of his reign, among other things, 
 grafted and confirmed, for himfelf and 
 Lis heirs, to the freemen of the town 
 of Kingilon aforefaid, that they mould be 
 one body, m facf and name, and one per- 
 petual community, incorporated of two* 
 bailiffs of that town, and men of the faid 
 town, and mould have a perpetual iuc« 
 cefhon; and that they mould have within 
 the town and liberty aforefaid, the de- 
 melne of the laid town and hundred of 
 Kingvton and Emelbrigg, and their appur- 
 tenances, the different efcheats and for- 
 feitures, iflues, fines, and amerciaments 
 fpecified in the fame letters patent. And 
 that they might have and hold within the 
 town of Ringfton aforefaid every week, 
 tli at is to fay, on (lie Saturday of every luch 
 week for ever, a court to be held before the 
 fame bailitfs and tFcTr fueeeilbrs, and the 
 lteward of the faid town for the time 
 being; and that in thole courts they the 
 faid bailiffs and their fueeeilbrs, and the 
 
 fteward
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 1 57 
 
 fteward for the time being, mould hear and 
 determine, according to the lawand cuitom 
 of the kingdom of England, before them 
 divers pleas and actions a riling or happen- 
 ing for perfonal matters and tilings within 
 that town, and the liberty, parts, and ap- 
 purtenances of the fame : and that the faid 
 bailiffs, and their fucceflbrs, mould have 
 one or two ierjeants at mace within the 
 town, demefne, hundred, and part afore- 
 faid, to do and perform their bufinefs and 
 commands. And whereas alfo our very 
 dear Father, Lord James, lately King of 
 England, by his letters patent, dated at 
 Winchester the irth of November, in the 
 hrft year of his reign over England, France, 
 and Ireland, and thirty-feventh over Scot- 
 land, among other things, willed, and for 
 him! elf, his heirs and fucceflbrs, granted 
 to the bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 aforefaid, and their fucceflbrs, that they 
 and their fucceflbrs for ever thenceforth 
 ihouki have and hold, within the town of 
 Kingfton upon Thames aforefaid, a court 
 of record on every Saturday in every 
 week, yrarT\ , for ever, before the bailiffs 
 of the town aforefaid, and the lleward of 
 the court of the to'vn aforefaid for the 
 
 time
 
 I58 CHARTERS OF 
 
 time being; and in the abfehce of the 
 aforefaid fteward of that court, before the 
 bailiffs of the town aforefaid and the re- 
 corder of the town aforefaid for the time 
 being, or two of them, as by thofe feveral 
 letters patent aforefaid, among other things, 
 is more fully manifeil and appears ; in 
 which feveral letters patent refpective 
 mention is made of the officers and offi- 
 ces of coroner, clerk of the market, bai- 
 liffs, fie ward of the court, fcrjeants at 
 mace, recorder, and freemen of the town 
 aforefaid ; but there is not in the fame 
 letters patent any diftinct declaration or 
 certain appointment by whom or in what 
 
 -manner, of what fort of perfons reiped> 
 ively, to execute thofe oflices, the election 
 was to be made, nor before which of 
 whom any who mould be refpeclively 
 chofen into thofe offices fho aid take the 
 
 \oaths concerning fuch like offices; nor are 
 any other circumflances neceffary for the 
 well appointing of the faid oificers laid 
 down in the fame ; and yet it has been, 
 and flill is the cuitom, that the lame offi- 
 cers of the town aforefaid, are and have 
 been there chofen by continual uie ; and 
 being io chofen, have refpe&ively exe- 
 cuted
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 1^9 
 
 cuted and exercifed thole oilices, as like 
 officers in other boroughs or towns of the 
 lame kind have refpectively been accus- 
 tomed to perform and exereife. We there- 
 fore, gracioully willing entirely to remove 
 all quettions, ambiguities, and doubts con- 
 cerning the premifes ; and alio to approve 
 and confirm the cuftom and ufe aforefaid 
 for and concerning the election of the 
 officers aforefaid, of our fpecial favour, 
 certain knowledge, and mere motion, will 
 and declare, and by thefe prefents for us, 
 our heirs and fueceilbrs, give and grant to 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of King- 
 lion upon Thames, and their fucceffors, 
 that the freemen of the town aforefaid 3&*4***e+t 
 now being, and as many and fuch others 
 as henceforth, according to the cuitom 
 and ufage in t lie fame place hitherto ufed 
 and approved of, mall be elecled from time , jf?^ 
 to timetrom the tree tenants of the manor &?>*a~/r<> 
 of Ivingiton upon Thames, in our county S& < 6<*x 
 of Surry, into the freemen of the afore- 
 faid town, thall be and be called Freemen 
 of the Town of Ivingflon upon Thames 
 aforefaid, as hitherto was aneientlv the 
 ufage of the fame place. And we give 
 and grant to the aforefaid bailiffs and free- 
 men
 
 l6o CHARTERS OF 
 
 men of the town of Kingfton upon Thames 
 aforefaid, that it may and ihall be lawful 
 for them at their pleafure to elecl from 
 the free tenants of the manor aforefaid, 
 as many and fuch freemen of the town 
 aforefaid as mall feem neceifary to them; 
 i^dtfdSc* and if any, or any one fo chofen at any 
 ^ future time, mall refufe upon fuch election 
 
 to become a freeman of the town afore- 
 faid, that then and fo often the bail iris 
 and freemen of the town aforefaid, or the 
 . major part of them, may have power by 
 r ^^*f~thefe prefents to impofe any reafonable 
 '* ** fine upon fuch perfon or perfons fo refil- 
 
 ling for the public life of the town afore- 
 faid, and to levy the aforefaid fine fo ini- 
 pofed in a due manner. And that there 
 be and ihall be within the town aforefaid, 
 two of the freemen of that town, accord- 
 ing: to the form there hitherto ufed to be 
 chofen and appointed, who mail be and 
 *±/*/j4 be called Bailiffs of the Town of Kingfton 
 upon Thames aforeiaid. And that the 
 bailiffs of the laid town for the time be- 
 S^^^ing, (hall be clerks of the market within 
 W<£ - the town of Kingfton aforefaid, and the 
 liberty of the fame, and within the hun- 
 dred of Kingfton and Emelbrigg, other- 
 
 wiie
 
 KINGSTON CPON THAMES. iGl 
 
 wife Elmbridge, and the precinct thereof, 
 to do and perform in a due manner all 
 offices incumbent on them, as in pall times 
 was there ufed and aeeuftomed. And that 
 there be and ihall be for ever afterwards 
 within the town aforefaid, two others of 
 the freemen or other officers of that town 
 in manner there hitherto ufed to be chofen 
 and appointed, who fhall be and be called ^y 
 the Coroners of us, our heirs and fue- <^r^,<^ 
 celTors, within the town, hundred, and 
 liberties aforefaid, who jointly or fepa- 
 ratel v, and either of them, may do and per- 
 form all the offices duly incumbent on a 
 coroner within the town, hundred, and 
 liberties aforefaid; and in this behalf we 
 give and grant them full power by theie 
 prefents to perform in a due manner the 
 office of coroner within the town, liberty, 
 and hundred aforefaid : And that our 
 attorney-general , and the attorney-general &#/• £** 
 ot our heirs and fuccevTors for the time 
 being, be and fhall be, from time to time, Xr~Jt<s 
 lie ward of the court of the laid town oi «/fev#>u£ 
 Kingiton upon Thames, as hitherto has "^ c '* rcJ1 
 been there aeeuftomed. And that they 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of the 
 town aforefaid, and their fueceilbrs, may 
 and fhall always have one other man 
 m lkilled
 
 I 6" 2 CHARTERS OF 
 
 Skilled in the laws of this realm of Eng- 
 land, to be chofen from time to time, and 
 at all future times, by the bailiffs and free- 
 men of the town aforelkid, who fhall be 
 J^v^^v-* and be called Recorder of the Town of 
 Kingfton aforefaid; to which recorder for 
 the time being, we give and grant by 
 thefe prefents, power to do and perform 
 all the offices whatfoever appertaining to 
 the fame. We will alio, and by thefe 
 prefents give, grant, and confirm for us, 
 our heirs and fucceflbrs, to the aforefaid 
 bailiffs and freemen of the aforefaid town 
 of Kingfton upon Thames, and their fuc- 
 ceffors, that it be and mall be lawful for 
 the fame bailiffs and freemen, and their 
 fucceiibrs for ever, that they, or the major 
 part of them, for the time being (of whom 
 we will that the bailiffs of the town of 
 Kingfton aforefaid for the time being be 
 two) as often as it fhall feem to them to 
 be fit: and neceffarv, may and may have 
 
 power at all future times to call together 
 o / - 
 ^, \» .and hold within the Guildhall of the town 
 
 :^y^^^^viforefaid, a certain court or con vocation 
 
 of the dime bailiffs and freemen, or the 
 
 major part of them (of whom we will 
 
 that the bailiff- of the town of Kingfton 
 
 aforefaid for the tune bciii2"be two) ; and 
 
 in
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. } 6 q 
 
 in the fame court or convocarion may and 
 may have power to confer, treat, confult, 
 and decree upon the ftatutes, laws, arti- 
 cles, and ordinances of the town of King- 
 fton upon Thames aforefaid, and the li- 
 berties of the fame, and of the good go- 
 vernance touching and concerning the 
 fame, according to their found difcretions, 
 or according to the found diferetion of the 
 major part of them in the laid Guildhall 
 from time to time aliembled (of whom 
 we will the bailiffs of the town of King- 
 lion aforefaid for the time being to be 
 two); and that the bailirfs and freemen of 
 the town aforefaid, and their fucceffors 
 for the lime being, or the major part of 
 them (of whom we will the bailiffs of 
 the town of Kingfton aforefaid for the 
 time being to be two) being affembled 
 and gathered together in the court or 
 convocation aforefaid, may and lhall have, 
 from time to time, and at all future times, 
 full power, faculty, and authority to in- 
 ftitute, conftitute, ordain, make, and eita- 7^y^A 
 bliih fuch and fuch like laws, inftitutions, "*"^ 
 ordinances, and conftitutions as to them, 
 or the major part of them (of whom we 
 will the bailiffs of the town of Kingfton 
 aforefaid for the time being to be two) 
 m : (hall
 
 1&4 CHARTERS OF 
 
 ihall feem to them according to their found 
 difcretions good, falutary, ufeful, honeit, 
 and neceffary for the keeping of our peace, 
 and for the good rule and governing of 
 the aforefaid town of Kingfton upon 
 Thames, and the bailiffs and freemen, and 
 all other officers, fervants, artificers, and 
 others inhabiting or refiding in the town 
 aforefaid, and the liberty of the fame, 
 for the time being, and of others meeting 
 together there ; and to declare in what 
 manner and order the lame bailiffs and 
 freemen, and all and fingular other the 
 fervants, officers, artificers, and others in- 
 habiting and refiding in the town afore- 
 faid, and others being in the fame, fhall 
 behave, conduct, and employ themfelves 
 in their offices, functions, employments, 
 and bufinefs within the town aforefaid, 
 and the liberty of the fame, for the time 
 being; and otherwife for the further good 
 of the commonwealth and common uti- 
 lity, and for the good ordering of the 
 town and liberty aforefaid, and the fellers 
 of provisions of the faid town and liberty ; 
 and alfo for the better preservation, go- 
 verning, difpofmg of, letting and demiting 
 of lands, tenements, pofleffions, revenues, 
 and hereditaments, either before or by 
 
 thefe
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I 6^ 
 
 thefe prefents, given, granted, or affigned, 
 or in future to be given or affigned to the 
 aforefiud bailiffs and freemen, and their 
 fucceffors, and other matters and things 
 whatlbever of the laid town, touching or 
 in any wife concerning the condition, right, 
 and interelt of the laid town, and the li- 
 berties thereof. And that the bailiffs and 
 freemen of the laid town for the time 
 being, and their fucceffors, or the major 
 part of them (of whom we will that the 
 bailiffs of the laid town of Kingflon for 
 the time being be two) as often as they 
 mall have made, ordained, or decreed iucli 
 like laws, inltitutions, decrees, ordinances, 
 or conftitutions in manner aforefaid, may 
 have power to make, ordain, limit, and &*<"^ A~ 
 provide fuch and fuch like pains, punifh-/ "'" 
 ments, and penalties, either by imprifon-^;^^ 
 incut of their bodies, or by fines and 
 amerciaments, or both of them, of and 
 upon the offenders again It fuch like laws, 
 inltitutions, decrees, ordinances, and con- 
 stitutions, or any or either of them, as to 
 them the faid bailiffs and freemen for the 
 time being, or the major part of them (of 
 whom we will that the bailiffs of the faid 
 town of Kingllon upon Thames for the 
 m -? time 

 
 j66" charters of 
 
 time being be two) mail feem to be moil 
 neceffary, fit, and requifite for the ob- 
 ferving and preferving the aforefaid laws, 
 ordinances, and conftitutions. And that 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen, and. 
 their fucceilbrs for ever, may and may 
 have power to lew, recover, receive, and 
 4U,^ have the fame penalties, fines, and amer- 
 i % ciaments, for the fo'e ufe and help of the 
 
 aforefaid bailiffs and freemen, and their 
 fucceilbrs for the time being for ever, 
 without the hindrance of us, our heirs or 
 fucceilbrs, or any of the officers or fervants 
 of us our heirs and fucceilbrs, and without 
 any payment or account thereof to be 
 paid, rendered, or made in any manner to 
 us, our heirs or fucceilbrs: All and lingular 
 which laws, ordinances, inititutions, or 
 conftitutions, fo to be made as aforefaid, 
 we will to be obferved, under the penalty 
 in the lame contained ; yet fo as that 
 the aforefaid laws, ordinances, conftitu- 
 tions, punitliments, penalties, lines, amer- 
 ciaments, nor any of them, be not repug- 
 nant or contrary to the laws, ftatutes, 
 rights, or cuftoms of our kingdom of Eng- 
 land. And whereas there already are 
 m the aforefaid town of Kingflon upcn 
 
 Thames,
 
 K IXC ST OX UPON THAMES. ID/ 
 
 Thames, two bailiffs of the faid town, and 
 uifu two coroners, one recorder, one com- 
 mon clerk, and clerk of the peace, who is 
 called prothonotarv of the court of the 
 town aforefaid, and two ier jean ts at mace, 
 and certain other freemen of the town 
 aforefaid, formed v ejected and chofen into 
 thole offices according to the life and enf- 
 tom hitherto ufed and approved of in that 
 town for the electing llich bailiffs, co- 
 roner, recorder, common clerk, and clerk 
 of the peace, freemen, and ferjeants at 
 mace ; we, graciouflv approving of thofe 
 elections of the new bail ills, coroners, re- 
 corder, common clerk and clerk of the 
 peace, freemen, and ferjeants at mace, 
 will that they be reflectively continued 
 in their laid offices, according to the life 
 and cuilom aforefaid, and by thefe prefents 
 declare and confirm the fame for us, our 
 heirs and fucceffors. And whereas by ufe 
 and cuilom in the aforefaid town of 
 Kingfton upon Thames, for a long time , 
 hitherto continued and approved of a cer- . 4U 
 tain fixed, conftant, and undoubted mc-Oy/,^ 
 tliod of deeding, continuing, and removing ^ ^ f ^ 
 of the bai litis of the laid town and other ^/^ 
 officers, there has been ufed and obicrved, grr^jnai 
 M 4 together
 
 1 68 CHARTERS OF 
 
 together with all the circum fiances of 
 time, place, and other formalities and 
 things accompanying and belonging to 
 elections of this kind, as well in : hc an- 
 nual election of officers of this kind re- 
 newed and to be renewed every year, as 
 in cafe of removal or death of any or any 
 one of them whenever they happen ; we 
 approve, ratify, and confirm, by thofe pre- 
 terits, for us, our heirs and fuccelfors, to 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of the 
 fame town, and their fuccelfors, fuch like 
 nfe and cuftom in chootlng, continuing, 
 and removing the officers of the aforefaid 
 town of Kingfton upon Thames, in man- 
 ner and form there continued by ufe afore- 
 faid. We will, however, and by thefe 
 prefents for us, our heirs and fuccelfors, 
 command, appoint, and ordain, that thofe 
 
 ai/tjfs two of the freemen of the town afore- 
 faid, who, as is above fhewn, fhall after 
 this in future be elected and nominated 
 according to the cuftom and ufe aforefaid, 
 before they be admitted to fulfil thofe 
 offices, fhall, and each of them fhall take 
 
 £ */s**r,i- their corporal Oath before the lafl and next 
 preceding bailiffs of the town aforeiaid, 
 and the fteward of the court of the laid 
 
 town,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. T 6~Q 
 
 town, and the recorder of the town afore- 
 faid for the time being, or three or two ot 
 them in the pretence of as many of the 
 freemen ot the town aforefaid as fhall 
 then chuie to be prctcnt, to fulfil the office 
 of the bailitFs of that town rightly, well, 
 and faithfully, in all other duties touching 
 the fame: To which foregoine; bailiffs, 
 and the aforefaid lie ward of the court and 
 recorder of the town aforefaid for the time 
 being, or three or two of them, we give 
 and grant by thefe prefents for us, our 
 heirs and fucceiTors, full power and autho- n 
 ritv to admmiiter, in manner aioreiaia, /Ra ^» < ^« 
 fueh like oath to the bailiffs of the town 0-txStL- 
 aforefaid, from time to time, fo to be 
 choien in future ; and that thofe two 
 others who, as beforementioncd, ihali in 
 future be elected and nominated for en- ^ 
 roners from time to time, according to the 
 cutlom and life aforefaid, before they lhali 
 be admitted to fulfil that office, thall, and 
 each of them ilia 11 take their corporal oalii /^^ r /^» -& 
 before the bailiffs of the laid town, fo in <*«s+r*i.. 
 tut ure to be choien, appointed, and fworn, 
 and before 1 the ircward of the court of the 
 laid town, and the recorder of the fame 
 town for the time being, or before three 
 
 or
 
 I/O CHARTERS OF 
 
 or two of them in the prefence of as many 
 of the freemen of the laid town as mall 
 then chufe to be prefent, jointly and fe- 
 verally, rightly, well, and faithfully to 
 fulfil the office of coroner of that town, 
 and the liberty thereof, in all the duties 
 touching the fame. To which bailiffs, 
 ileward of the court, and recorder of the 
 town aforefaid for the time being, and any 
 three or two of them, we give and grant 
 by thefe prefents, for us, our heirs and 
 fucceflbrs, full power and authority to ad- 
 minister in manner aforefaid fuch like 
 nath to the coroner of the town, liberty, 
 and hundred aforefaid, from time to time 
 ... .^ ■. fo to be chofen in future. And that he 
 who, as is beforementioned, mail be elected 
 ^(tsre/tr and appointed recorder of the town afore- 
 faid. before he mall be admitted to fulfil 
 that office, fhall take his corporal oath be- 
 fore the bailiffs of the town aforefaid for 
 the time being, and in the prefence of as 
 many of the freemen of the town afore- 
 faid as ihall then chufe to be prefent, 
 rightly, well, and faithfully to fulfil that 
 office of recorder of the fame town in all 
 the duties touching the fame : To winch 
 bailiffs of the town aforefaid, we give and 
 
 grant 

 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. j;l 
 
 grant by thefc prefents, for us our heirs 
 and fucceilbrs, full power and authority 
 to adminiller in manner aforefaid fucli 
 like oath to the recorder of the town 
 aforefaid, from time to time, fo to be 
 chofen in future. We will alio, and of 
 our bountiful fpecial favour, bv thefe pre- 
 fents grant for us, our heirs and fuccelfors, 
 to the bail iris and freemen of the town 
 of Kyngfton upon Thames aforefaid, and 
 their fuccelfors, that they and their fuc- 
 celfors at all future times may and {hall 
 have within the town aforefaid, and the 
 liberty and precinct of the fame, fucli and 
 fo many ferjeants at mace, not exceeding jiw* *>/, 
 together and at the fame time the num- «*/- >Ww 
 ber of four in the whole, to exercile and 
 fulfil all the duties touching or concern- 
 ing the office of ferjeant at mace within, 
 the town aforefaid, and the liberty and 
 precinct of the fame, and within the afore- 
 laid hundred of Kingtton and Emelbrigg, 
 otherwife Elmebrigg, and alfo within the 
 hundred of * Copthorne and Effingham, 
 
 '■ The hundred of Copthorne and Effingham con- 
 tains Ev.cl, Afhted, Great and Little Bookham, 
 Effingham, Epfom, Fetcham, Hedlcy, Leatherhcad, 
 Mickleham, Sorbury, and Walton on the Hill. 
 
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 173 CHARTERS OF 
 
 in our faid county of Surry, as {hall feem 
 molt expedient to the bailiffs of the town 
 aforefaid for the time being, and at their 
 will and pleafure, from time to time to 
 elect, continue, and remove in the fame 
 manner as any of the ferjeants at mace 
 of the fame place have hitherto been ac- 
 cuflomed to be chofen, continued, and re- 
 moved : And that the faid bailiffs for the 
 time being may nominate and appoint 
 'tt/&r- under -bailiffs to execute the royal writs 
 ^ ft* and other commands of the bailiffs of the 
 town aforefaid. within the town aforefaid, 
 and the liberty of the fame, and within 
 the aforefaid hundred of Kingfton and 
 Emelbrig, other wife Elmebridge, Cop- 
 thorne, and Effingham, or any or either of 
 them, as to them mall fecm molt fit. And 
 y/a+t/r*/) that every one of the aforefaid ferjeants at 
 *^ mace mall carry and bear, and may and 
 
 ~r<*>>.-y & may be able to carry and bear a illver mace, 
 *W yj^ass engraved and marked with the iign of the 
 arms belonging to us, our heirs and fuc- 
 eeiTors, and the arms of the town afore- 
 faid or otherwife, everywhere within the 
 town aforefaid, and the limits, precincts, 
 and liberty of the fame, before the bailiffs 
 of the fame town for the time being, or 
 
 cither
 
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I 73 
 
 either of them, according to the ufage and 
 culloni there anciently uled. And alio 
 that the bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 aforefaid, and their fucceflbrs, may and 
 fhall like wife have within the town afore- 
 faid and the limits, precinct, and liberty 
 of the lame, lb many and fuch officers */>W Jtt 
 rcipectfully, to execute and perform all 
 Inch like offices belonging to or concern- 
 ing the fame, and to elect, continue, and 
 remove them in fuch manner and form 
 from time to time, as have been accuf-^< /£&, & 
 tomed to be elected and appointed, con-^" 
 tinued and removed, within that town, 
 and the limits, precinct, and liberty of the 
 fame. And that thev the fame ferjeants ■ 
 at mace, and other the officers of theAJLo^* 
 town aforefaid, fo as above mentioned, to^"" y 
 be elected and nominated, before they or 
 any of them be admitted to execute thole 
 offices, fhall, and every one of them fhall 
 take their corporal oath, right! v, furelv/1 
 and faithfully to execute their offices \\\ Afer> ftf* 
 all things, and through all things relpccV^'V"'' 
 tively, touching or concerning thole 
 offices before the bailiifs of the town 
 aforefaid for the time being, or inch 
 other perfons as iliall have been there 
 
 hitherto 
 
 J J U£ <f Aft
 
 *74 CHARTERS OF 
 
 hitherto nfed for like offices. To which 
 "bailiffs and other perfons aforcfaid, we 
 give and grant by thefe prefents, for 
 us, our heirs and fuccefTors, full power 
 and authority to adminitter fuch like oath 
 to the faid ferjeants at mace and other 
 officers aforefaid, according to the form 
 and cutlom hitherto ufed in the town 
 aforefaid. And further, of our bountiful 
 favour, certain knowledge, and mere mo- 
 tion, we will, and by thefe prefents for 
 us, our heirs and fuccefTors, give and 
 
 "bar-AJfci grant to the faid bailiffs and freemen of 
 the town aforcfaid, and their fuccefTors, 
 that they and their fuccefTors for ever 
 henceforth may and may have power to 
 
 ^r/w^ have and hold within the town of King- 
 lion upon Thames aforefaid, a court of 
 "*jj record on every Saturday in every w r eek, 
 
 s?yi£/«*2*yyeniiy for ever, before the bailiffs of the 
 town aforefaid, and the iteward of the 
 court of the town aforcfaid for the time 
 being, or any three or two of them ; and 
 that they may hold in that court, by 
 plaint to be fet up in the lame court, all 
 and all kinds of pleas, actions, fuits, and 
 demands, as well real as perfonal and 
 mixed, of all perfonal trefualTes by force 
 
 and
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES \J£ 
 
 and arms whatsoever, and all other tref- 
 palfes whatibever within the town afore- 
 faid, and the liberty and precinct of the 
 fame, and within the aforefaid hundred 
 of Kin«lton and Emelbrigsr, other wife 
 Elmbridge, Copthorne, and ErBngham, or 
 any or either of them, done, committed, 
 anting, had, or perpetrated, or hereafter 
 to be done, committed, arife, be or be 
 perpetrated ; and of all and all kinds of 
 debts, pleas upon the cafe, deceit, cove- 
 nant, detinue of charters, writings, and 
 muniments, and chattels, and the taking 
 and detaining of eattlc and chattels, and 
 other contracts whatibever, ariling or in 
 future to a rile or happen from whatib- 
 ever raules or things within the town 
 aforefaid, and the liberty and precinct of 
 the fame, and within the hundred of 
 Kingfton and Emclbrigg, othcrwife Elm- 
 bridge, Copthorne, and Effingham afore- 
 laid, or anv or either of them, although 
 the laid trefpalfes, debts, accounts, 
 covenants, deceits, detinues, or other 
 contracts mould amount to or exceed 
 the fum or value of forty millings ; 
 and that inch like pleas, plaints, fuits, and M~j<i& 
 i-.ciions may be obtained, profecuted,^ *' ***' 
 
 heard
 
 176 CHARTERS OF 
 
 / 
 
 J^J&o heard and determined there before the 
 *llcffj t<-> bailiffs of the town aforefaid, and the 
 
 «>*»w y fteward of the court of that town for the 
 
 time being, ana the recorder or the town 
 
 «« aforefaid for the time being;, or before 
 
 /A*+~- • an y three or two of them by iiich and 
 fuch like procefTes, methods, and modes, 
 according to the law and cuftom of our 
 kingdom of England, as and to which 
 our liege fubjects have been accuitomed, 
 and in as ample a manner and form as 
 hitherto has been ufed in the court of the 
 town aforefaid, or as in any other court 
 of record in any city, borough, or town 
 incorporate within this our kingdom of 
 England, has been ufed and accuftomed ; 
 and that the laid bailiffs and freemen of 
 the town aforefaid, and their fucceifors, 
 may have cognizance of the laid pleas, as 
 well real as pcrfonal and mixed, and of 
 all other pleas whatfoever, of all things 
 a riling or happening within the town 
 aforelaid, and the liberty of the lame, 
 and within the precinct of the fame, 
 and within the aforelaid hundred ol 
 Kingfton and Emelbrigg, other wile Emcl- 
 bridge, Copthorne, and Eifingham, or any 
 or cither of them. We alio will, and by 
 fhcfe w r:ri\ nfs for u--, our heirs and fuccei- 
 
 fors,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. IJJ 
 
 fbrs, grant to the aforciaid bailiffs and 
 freemen of tlie town aforefaid, and their 
 fuccelfors, that the ferjeants at mace and 
 under-bailifFs aforefaid, or any or either 
 of them, may and may have power to 
 execute their offices, and all the buiinefs 
 and commands touching the court afore- 
 faid, within the town and liberty afore- 
 faid, and within the hundred of Kinglton 
 and Emelbrigg, other wife Elmebridge, 
 Copthorne, and Effingham aforefaid, or 
 any or either of them, and within the 
 limits or precincts of them, or any of them, 
 as is agreeable to our law, and in fuch 
 and the like manner, and by fuch and 
 the like proceffes, methods, and modes 
 as and by which the ferjeants at mace of 
 the town aforefaid have hitherto been 
 ufed and accultomed to execute fuch and 
 the like offices, buiinefs, and commands 
 within the town of Kinglton aforefaid, 
 and the liberty of the fame, or within the 
 aforefaid hundred of Kinglton and Emel- 
 brigg, otherwife Elmebridge, according 
 to the cuttom of the fame town there 
 ufed and approved of. And further we 
 will, and by thole prefents, of our boun- 
 tiful fpecial favour, and of our certain 
 % knew-
 
 77& 
 
 CHARTERS CF 
 
 tv/c- / £***** 
 
 knowledge and mere motion, for our- 
 i^ctrfc^Mv felves, our heirs and fucccilors, grant tc 
 >^^^r the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of the 
 town aforeiaid, that they may have, en- 
 joy, and take for ever, and may be able 
 to have, enjoy, take, and levy to the pro- 
 per ufe and profit of the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen, all and all maimer of fines, 
 iiTues, amerciaments, and profits to be 
 impofed, proceed, fall, ariie, happen, or be 
 forfeited in the aforefaid court before the 
 above-mentioned bailiffs and fieward or 
 the court, and recorder of the town afore- 
 faid, or any three or two of them in the 
 court aforefaid. And that it may and 
 mall be lawful for the laid bailiffs and 
 freemen of the town aforeiaid, and their 
 fuccefibrs, for the better having and en- 
 joying the lame fines, iifucs, amerciaments 
 forfeit ares, and profits, to collect and Icvy 
 in a due manner all and fuch like fines. 
 iifucs and amerciaments, forfeitures and 
 profits, from time to time, by the hand-; 
 of the proper tenants of the aforeiaid 
 bailiffs and freemen of the town of Kino- 
 it 0:1 upon Thames aforefaid, as well- 
 within the town aforeiaid and the liberty 
 oi the fame, as within the aforefaid hun- 
 dred 
 
 V*V67^ 70 
 
 7 
 
 TTL-e+1
 
 KINGSTON UFON THAMES. I JQ 
 
 drcd of Kingfton and Elmebrigg, other- 
 wife Eimb ridge, Copthorne, and Elring- 
 ham, and any of them. And farther, we 
 in this behalf gracioufly providing for the 
 good rule and government of the town 
 aforefaid, and of the men living there and 
 within the hundred of Ringfton, or re- 
 forting to the fame, of our fpecial favour, 
 lure knowledge, and mere motion, have 
 given and granted, and by thefe p relents 
 tor us, our heirs and fuecellbrs, do give 
 and grant to the aforefaid bailiffs of the 
 town of Ringlton upon Thames aforefaid, 
 and their fuecellbrs, that as well John 
 Goldwyer and John Thome, \\ ho were 
 the la.lt" and next foregoing bailiiis of the 
 town aforefaid, for the relidue of tills 
 prcfcnt unfinilhcd year, when lirlt they 
 lately quitted that orfice, as Thomas duel- 
 ling and Read Cordrey, the prelcnt bailiiis 
 of the town aforefaid, and the bailiiis of 
 the laid town to be in future as well 
 during the whole time of their baililhip 
 as alio for one whole year next after 
 they have relpectivelv quitted their of ice ; 
 xwA alio the lie ward oi our tow n alore- 
 faid, and the recorder oi the lliid town lor 
 the time being, at all future time- may 
 N 2 ulid
 
 l8o CHARTERS OF 
 
 and lhall be our ji if! ices, and every of 
 them mav and mail be the iuftice of us. 
 
 ml J ' 
 
 our heirs and fitcceffors, to prcferve and 
 keep, and caufe to be preferred and kept 
 the peace of us, our heirs and fucccffors, 
 within the town of Kingiton upon 
 Thames aforefaid, and the precinct of the 
 lame town, an<i within the village or 
 hamlet of Surpeton, ptherwife Surpeton, 
 Ham, and Hatch, and alio within all our 
 hundred ot Kingiton aforefaid (except 
 only our village of Richmond, in which 
 our royal palace is iituated) ; and to keep 
 and caufe to be kept, all ordinances and 
 lfatutes for the good of our peace, and for 
 the maintenance of the fame, and for the 
 quiet rule and government of our people 
 in all their articles within the aforefaid 
 towm of Kingiton upon Thames, and the 
 aforefaid village or hamlet of Surpeton, 
 Ham, and Hatch, and the aforefaid hun- 
 dred of Kingfion, and within the precinct 
 of the fame (except as before excepted) 
 according; to the form and effect of the 
 fame; and to chaftife and punim all who 
 offend againft the form, ordinance, and 
 rlatutes of then"!, or any of them, within 
 the aforefaid town of Kingfion upon 
 
 Thames,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I 8 I 
 
 Thames, and the village or hamlet of 
 Surpeton, Ham, and Hatch aforelaid, and 
 the aforcfaid hundred of Kinglton and the 
 precinct of the fame (except as before ex- 
 cepted) as according to the form, ordi- 
 nance, and ftatutes of them ihall be to be 
 done ; and to caufe all thole within the 
 aforelaid town, village, hamlet, precinct, 
 liberty, and hundred (except as before ex- 
 cepted) who have threatened any one or 
 any of our people concerning their bodies, 
 or the burning of their houfes, to come 
 before them, or any one of them, to find 
 fufneient fecurity of the peace, or for their 
 good behaviour towards us and our peo- 
 ple ; and if they lhall refufe to rind fucli 
 like fecurity, then to caufe them to be 
 kept fafely in prifon until they ihall have 
 found fucli fecurity. And that the afore- 
 faid John Goldwyer and John Thome, 
 the late bai lilts of the town aforelaid, for, 
 the aforcfaid reildue of the prefent year; 
 and Thomas Snelling and Read Cordrey, 
 the prefent bailiffs of the town aforcfaid, 
 and the future bailiffs of the laid town, 
 henceforth to be during all the time of l i^V ^ 
 
 their baililhin, and during one entire vear 
 
 . \ C- f ;iC - yet 
 
 next after their reipective departure from ^ w^ 
 
 
 7
 
 jSz charters of 
 
 ^^fcw^that office, and the a fore fa id lie ward of 
 a ~ tl ie court aforefaid, and the recorde r of 
 the faid town for the time being, or an y 
 a+*y/£t*& three or more of them (of whom we will 
 *&»+*- that the bailiffs of the town aforefaid of 
 Kingfton upon Thames for the time be- 
 ing, or either of them, be one) have for 
 ever henceforth full power and authority 
 ^^ to enquire of, hear, and determine within 
 'db?mc*<.> the aforefaid town of Kingfron upon 
 Thames, and the aforefaid village or ham- 
 let of Surpeton, Ham, and Hatch, and the 
 aforefaid hundred of Kingfton, and with- 
 in the precinct of the fame (except as be- 
 •frttcttf fore excepted) all and all kinds of felonies, 
 -' murders, homicides, robberies, mayhems, 
 
 intuits, riots, routs, forcible entries on 
 lands or tenements, trelpafl.es againit the 
 peace of us, our heirs and fuccellors, un- 
 lawful afTemblies, embraceors, confpira- 
 " cies, contempts, concealments ; and alio 
 
 of all other mifprifions, mifdeeds, defaults, 
 neglects, caufes and articles pertaining, or 
 rfaoi^tjh which henceforth may pertain to the au- 
 * /? ^^^5t.hority or power of jullices or keepers of 
 the peace ; and alfo the correction of all 
 ' and lingular malefactors and delinquents 
 
 againft the tfututes already made, or in 
 
 future
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 10^ 
 
 future to be made concerning labourers, 
 artificers, landlords, victuallers, foreltallers, 
 regrators and ingroifeus ; and alio all and 
 all kinds of things whatfoeveu within the 
 town, village, hamlet, precinct, and hun- 
 dred of Kingtton aforefaid (except as be- 
 fore excepted) done, had, committed, or 
 ariling, or to he dime, had, committed, or 
 arile agair.lt the form of any itatute or 
 itatutes already made or hereafter to be 
 made, or againft the common law which. 
 belong or pertain to the offices of any 
 j uft ices of the peace whatsoever, in as 
 ample a manner and form as the jultices 
 or keepers of the peace of us, our heirs 
 and fuccelibrs in our count v of Surry, can 
 and are able to hear, determine, and pu- 
 nifli tor offences and crimes done or 
 committed in our county of Surry, or any 
 part thereof; any Itatute, act, ordinance, 
 or provillon to the contrary thereof 
 hitherto made, ordained, or provided in 
 anywife, notwithstanding lb however that /^/-/W/ 
 they do not in anywife proceed to the ***/*'*""" 
 determination ot any murder or rolony, /, , 
 or any other oltcnce touching the lofs of/^^/f &. 
 life or limbs, without the fpeeial com- rf t$jk ^ r 
 jnand of us, our heirs and luceefTors. &■***£* 
 N 4 .VLoie- , , 
 
 *sif-*i-6f 
 
 l -^< £4?M**.
 
 384 CHARTERS OF 
 
 Moreover, we will, and by thefe prcfents, 
 for us, our heirs and iiicceflbrs, grant to 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of the 
 town of Kingfton upon Thames aforefaid, 
 and their fuccelTors, that the laid bailiffs 
 and freemen of the town of Kin<riton 
 aforefaid, and their fucccifors, may have 
 within the laid town of Kingfton, or 
 within the precinct and liberty of the 
 fame, a prifon or gaol for the fafe cuitody 
 of all and lingular pcrfons attached or to 
 be attached, or to be lent or adjudged to 
 prifon or gaol, within the town of King- 
 Hon aforefaid, and the village, hamlet, 
 precinct, liberty, and hundred of King- 
 fton, Emelbrigg, otberwife Elmebridge, 
 Copthorne, and Effingham, or any of 
 them aforefaid, or within the jurifdiction 
 of the court aforefaid, for any caufe 
 whatfoever which can be enquired of, 
 profecuted, puniihed, and determined in 
 the town aforefaid, or in the aforefaid 
 village, hamlet, precinct, liberty, and hun- 
 dred aforefaid, or within the jurifdietion 
 of the court aforefaid, and detain thrift 
 there until they are delivered in a lawful 
 -6fts *r* manner ; and that the bailiffs of the town 
 "^ aforefaid for the time being, or their Suf- 
 ficient
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 1 8^ 
 
 ficient deputies or deputy, may and fliall fab A** 
 be keepers or keeper of the prifon or gaol ^^ jr a 
 aforefaid. And further we will, and by 
 theie preients for us, our lieirs and fuccef- 
 fors, give and grant to the aforelaid bailiffs 
 and freemen of the town of Kinglton 
 aforefaid, and their liicceflbrs, that the 
 lait aforelaid late bailiffs of the town fi>a ( &* 
 aforelaid, for the aforelaid reiidue of the 
 prefent year, and the above-mentioned 
 prefent bailiffs of the town aforefaid, and 
 the bailiffs of the laid town to be in fu- 
 ture henceforth, during the whole time of 
 their bailiffihip, and during one whole 
 year next after their reipective departure 
 from that office, and the aforelaid lie ward/ «/W<* 
 of the court of the town aforelaid, and^^ ^ 
 the recorder of the fame town for the/J&w< 
 time being, or any of them, lawfully may 
 and may have power by themfelves, thcirfr /?<*<*<: A 
 terrains, or officers to arreft the bodies of ^ r <*^« r < 
 all and lingular fuch perlbns as fliall or 
 may be taken by the inqueff before them 
 as above mentioned, to be judged for anv 
 of the offences aforefaid, and deliver and 
 commit them to the gaol of the town *c+*<~+ 
 aforelaid, to flay there until thence de-^'/^ 
 Jivered according to the law and cuftom 
 
 of
 
 1 86- CHARTERS OF 
 
 of our kingdom of England. And that: 
 **£^v the laid late bailiffs of the town aforeiaid, 
 during the remainder of the prefent year, 
 and the above-mentioned prefent bailiffs of 
 the town aforeiaid, and the baiiirfs of the : 
 laid town henceforth, to be, during the 
 whole time of their bailifhip, and 'during 
 one whole year next after their respective 
 departure from that office, and the afore- 
 ^^/^ faid fteward of the court of the town 
 *%**** aforeiaid, and the recorder of the faid 
 town i or tlie time being, or any two ot 
 them, by warrant given under their Ii&nd, 
 t*<4>/&* <)r figned with the hand of any two of 
 them, may and may have power to fend 
 y«/u**</io the common gaol of our faid county 
 jUU&u*fo£ Surry , all fuch peribns as mall in fu- 
 ture be taken, arretted, attached, judged, 
 or found in the aforefaid town of King- 
 lion upon Thames, or within the pre- 
 cinct and liberty of the fame, or in the 
 aforefaid village or hamlet of Surpeton, 
 Ham, and Hatch, or any of them, or 
 within the aforefaid hundred of King- 
 ston aforeiaid (except as before excepted) 
 for any felony committed, or on fuipicion 
 of any felony; to continue there until 
 thence delivered in a lawful manner.. 
 
 And
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 187 
 
 And that the keeper and keepers of thai 
 <-aol for the time being may receive and 
 fate keep thole who are thus put into 
 their cutiody until they are delivered ac- 
 cording to law, and the cultom of our 
 kingdom of England, we will, and firmly 
 enjoining, command by thefe prefents, that 
 they, or any one, or any of them, by a 
 like written warrant, llgned with the hand . /La & 
 or hands of any one, or any of them, may <***<*'*' 
 
 fa 
 
 
 / 
 
 and mav have power to fend to the public , 
 houfe of correction (in Englifh the Houfe ' 
 
 of Correction) of our laid county of Surry. r 1? 
 
 ' - -j ' • /<* rut n* 
 
 all fuch perfons taken or found, or to be ^ JW^e* 
 taken or found within the aforelaid vil- 
 lage, hamlet, precinct., liberty, and hun- 
 dred of Kingtton aforcfaid (except as be- 
 fore excepted) as ought to be imnritbned 
 there or punilhcd for any crime, fault, or 
 offence committed by them, according to 
 the laws and itatutes of this oar kingdom 
 of England, in as ample a manner and 
 form as any Jul! ices of the peaee of us, 
 our heirs and fueeeliors, in the aforelaid 
 county of Surry, or an} 7 one of them, can 
 or has power lo fend fuch or fuch like 
 perfons to the fame houfe of correction. 
 } w\ that the keepers, mailers, and go- 
 vernors
 
 1 88 CHARTERS OF 
 
 vernors of the laid houfe of correction, 
 and every and any of them, may receive, 
 keep, and detain thofe thus fent to them, 
 according to the law of our kingdom of 
 England ; now we will, and by thefe 
 prefents for us, our heirs and fucceflbrs, 
 command, appoint, and ordain, that the 
 before-mentioned John Goldwyer and 
 : /bcuZ/f/John Thome, the late bailiffs of the afore- 
 U<*d/r f^j town of Kingfton ; and Thomas Snel- 
 ling and Read Cordrey, the prefent bailiffs 
 of the fame town ; and Robert Hatton, efq. 
 the prefent recorder of the laid town, be- 
 fore they or any of them be admitted to 
 (<r*< &v execute the office of juftices of the peace 
 within the town, village, hamlet, precinct, 
 , / liberty, and hundred aforefaid, (except 
 fa*** as before excepted) fhall, and every of 
 L-€k<fffx- *h em fliall take their corporal oath upon, 
 the holy Gofpel of God, well and faith- 
 fully to execute the office of juftice of the 
 peace within the town, village, hamlet, 
 precinct, liberty, and hundred of King- 
 fton aforefaid (except as before excepted) 
 in and by all things and duties touching 
 the fame ; and alfo the oaths in this behalf 
 provided by the laws and flatutcs of this 
 realm of England, and required to be taken 
 
 by
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I So 
 
 by justices of the peace before our beloved 
 
 and very faithful coufin, Charles Earl of JJv^^, 
 
 Nottingham, the prefent fleward of the 
 town aforefaid ; and our beloved and faith- 
 ful Robert Heath, Knight, our attorney-^ ^ ^ 
 general, the ftevvard of the court of the 
 arorciaid town of Kingfton, or before either 
 of them: to which Charles Earl of Notting- 
 ham, and Robert Heath, Knight, and each 
 of them, we give and grant by thefe pre- 
 ients, full power and authority to admi- 
 niltcr llich like oath to the aforefaid John 
 Goldwyer, John Thorne, Thomas Sncl- 
 ling, Read Cordrey, and Robert Hatton, 
 without any other warrant or commifTion 
 in that behalf to be procured or obtained 
 from us, our heirs or fucceflbrs. AVc alio 
 v\ ill that thofe two of the freemen of the 
 town aforefaid, who as above mentioned 
 lhall in future henceforth be chofen, pre- vy y 
 ferred, and fworn as bailiffs of the fame /^^/^L 
 town, according to the cultom and uie 
 aforefaid, before they or any of them be 
 admitted to execute the office of juttice 
 of the peace within the town, village, 
 hamlet, precinct, liberty, and hundred 
 aforefaid (except as before excepted) fliall, 
 and each of them mall take their corporal /a /*/t* 
 oath upon the holy Gofpel of God, well
 
 ig'O CHARTERS OF 
 
 and faithfully to execute the office of ju£- 
 tice of the peace within the town, village, 
 hamlet, precincl;, liberty, and hundred 
 aforeiaid (except as before excepted) in 
 all things, and by all the duties touching 
 the fame ; and alio the oaths in that be- 
 half provided by the laws and ftatutes of 
 this our realm of England, and required 
 to be taken by juitices of the peace be- 
 
 /rx* ^ fore the lair, and next preceding bailiffs 
 /' of the town aforeiaid, and before the ti^» 
 
 d/6&a*> ward of the court of the faid town, and 
 
 , z the recorder of the fame town for the time 
 being, or before any three or two of them ; 
 
 JS**//^t° which lait and next preceding bailiffs 
 of the town aforeiaid, and the Iteward of 
 the court, and recorder of the lame town 
 for the time being, or three or two of 
 them, we give and grant by theie prefents 
 lull power to adminiiier fuch like oath to 
 the laid bailiffs lb from time to time to 
 be chofen and preferred, without any 
 other commidion or warrant to be pro- 
 cured or obtained from us, our heirs or 
 fuceeiibrs. Moreover, we will whenfo- 
 ever in future it mall happen that the lie- 5 
 ward of the court of the town aforeiaid, 
 or the recorder of the lame town for the 
 time being, mail die. or refpeclivcly de- 
 part
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. igl 
 
 part or be removed from thole offices, fo 
 that others lhall be elected and appointed 
 to thole offices reflectively, according to 
 the ufe and cuftom aforefaid, that then 
 they who lhall be thus reflectively anew 
 elected and appointed lie ward of the court 
 of the faid town, and recorder of the 
 aforefaid town of Kingfton upon Thames, 
 before the;, bo reflectively admitted to ex- 
 ecute the office of jullices of the peace 
 within the town, village, hamlet, pre- 
 cinct, liberty, and hundred aforefaid (ex- 
 cept as before excepted) fliall, and each of 
 them respectively lhall take their corpora! 
 oath upon the holy Gofpel of God, well 
 and faithfully to fulfil the office ofjuftice 
 of the peace within the town, village, 
 hamlet, precind, liberty, and hundred 
 uforelaid, in and bv all things touching 
 that office; and alio the oaths in that be- 
 half provided by the laws and ftatutes of 
 this our realm of England, and required 
 to be taken by jultiees of the peace; to 
 which bailiffs indeed of the town afore - 
 faicTror the time being, or either of them, 
 we give and grant by thefe p relents full 
 power and authority to ad minilter l'u ch 
 li ke oa th to tlic faid fteward of the court 
 ut the to v. u aforefaid. and recorder of the
 
 igZ CHARTERS OF 
 
 fame town, or either of them, fo to be re* 
 ipectively elecTed or appointed anew to 
 thofe offices, without any other commii- 
 fion or warrant for that purpoie to be 
 procured or obtained from us, our heirs 
 or fucceiTors. We have alio granted, and 
 by thefe prefents for us, our heirs and fuc- 
 ceiTors, grant to the aforefaid bailiffs and 
 freemen of the town of Kingiton upon 
 Thames, and their fucceiTors, that the 
 bailiffs of the fame town for the time be- 
 ing, fhall not be forced, held, or com- 
 pelled, nor mall either of them be forced, 
 held, or compelled in any manner againll 
 their wulls to go and appear before any 
 juiticcs or commiilioners of the peace, or 
 of labourers and artificers, iheriffs, efcheat- 
 ors, coroners, or before the lie ward or 
 marfhal of our houfehold, or that of our 
 heirs or fucceiTors, or before the clerks or 
 clerk of the market of the fame houfehold, 
 or before any of the jufticcs of us, our 
 heirs or fucceiTors, affigned or to be af- 
 iigned, of oyer and terminer, or jufticcs 
 of affize, or for the delivery of the gaol 
 or gaols belonging to us, our heirs and 
 fucceiTors, in the county aforefaid, or be- . 
 fore any other officers and fervants what- 
 foever of us, our heirs and fi,ieceftbrs, as 
 
 well
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. I 93 
 
 well within the town aforelaid as with- 
 out the fame town ; but that they the 
 lame bailiffs for the time being, from time 
 to time, lliall fend, or either of them mall 
 fend the ferjeant or ferjeants at mace of 
 the faid town for the time being, to do or 
 execute their commands, or anv other 
 their bullnels whatfocver, for or in refpecl 
 or, or in any way touching or concerning 
 the aforelaid town of Kingfton upon 
 Thames, or the liberty of the fame, or the 
 aforelaid hundred of Kingfton, Emelbrigg, 
 other wife Elmebridgc, Copthorne, and Ef- 
 fingham, or the fame town or liberty of 
 the fame, or the' hundred aforelaid, or any 
 of them, before the afore laid jullices or 
 commifTioners, fheriffs, coroners, and other 
 officers aforelaid, or any or any one of 
 them, whenfoever chance and circum- 
 ftances mall ib require, to ferve in the 
 room and place of the fame bailiiis, and 
 each of them. And whereas, within the 
 town aforelaid, a market is held every 
 week often enough for the common ad- 
 vantage as well of the men of the afore - 
 laid town as of the neighbouring people, 
 of our fpecial favour, lure knowledge, and 
 mere motion, we do for ourfelvcs, our 
 
 o heirs
 
 ?94 CHARTERS OP 
 
 heirs and fucceflbrs, grant to the fan*** 
 bailiffs and freemen of the laid, town of 
 Kingfion, and their fucceflbrs, that no 
 <rM,,^ other market ihall from henceforth in 
 jg^ a, tuture be created anew, or in any man-* 
 l£*f ^ ner appointed, or any way held in any 
 place whatsoever within the diftance of 
 ieven miles from the aforefaid town 
 of Kingfion upon Thames, either through 
 us, or any one, or any of our heir* 
 or fucceflbrs. And further we have 
 granted, and of our bountiful fpecial fa- 
 vour, and of our certain know ledge and 
 mere motion, do for ourfelves, our heirs 
 ra^A & . and fucceflbrs, grant to the aforefaid 
 u. &< ffl' k a ;ijfp s anc [ freemen of the town of King- 
 / flon upon Thames aforefaid, and their 
 fucceflbrs for ever, all and all manner of 
 '*'//*"** iflues, fines, amerciaments, ranfoms, pu*- 
 "^ " nifhments, and forfeitures, as well of thofe 
 bailiffs and freemen, and their fucceflbrs. 
 as of all and lingular the tenants, entire 
 tenants and not entire tenants whomfo- 
 ever, redding and not reliding within i\w 
 laid town and demefhc ofKingfton, and 
 hundred of Kinsrllon and £melbrip;<r, other- 
 wife Elmebridge aforefaid, and the pre- 
 cinct, and liberty of the fame, by them or 
 
 a 1 1 v
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 10^ 
 
 any one of them, before the juilices of 
 over and terminer of us, our heirs and luc- 
 ceflbrs, aliigned or to be aliigned within 
 the aforefaid county of Surry, and before 
 thejufliccs of ailize of us, our heirs and 
 iucccflbrs, in our faid county of Surry; 
 and before the juftices of gaol delivery 
 of us, our heirs and iucccflbrs, in the faid 
 countv of Surry ; and before the juftices 
 of us, our heirs and fucceilbrs, aliigned 
 or to be aliigned to keep the peace in 
 the laid count)' of Surry, and to hear 
 and determine divers felonies, treipafles, 
 and other offences in that county; and be- 
 fore the clerk of the market of us, our 
 heirs and fucceilbrs, in the laid county of 
 Surry ; and before the juftices or com- 
 miiiioncrs itinerant of us, our heirs or 
 fucceilbrs, aliigned or to be aliigned, in 
 the (aid countv ; and before the juftices 
 or commillioners of us, our heirs and fuc- 
 ceilbrs, according to the itatutes of fewers 
 aliigned or to be aliigned, within the afore- 
 faid countv of Surrv ; and before the 
 bailiffs of the town of Kingiton upon 
 Thames, and their fucceilbrs, and the itc- 
 ward of that court for the time bcrn°:, and 
 the recorder of the fame town for the 
 o 2 time
 
 I96 CHARTERS OF 
 
 time being, or before three or two of the 
 juftices of the peace of us, our heirs and 
 fucceflbrs, within the town aforefaid, and 
 within the village of Surpeton, Ham, and 
 Hatch aforefaid, and the hundred of King- 
 iron aforefaid, and the precincf of the fame 
 f except as before excepted) ; and before the 
 bailiffs of the town of Kingfton aforefaid, 
 and the clerk of the market of us, our 
 heirs and fucceflbrs, within the fame vil- 
 lage and hundred of Kingfton and Emel- 
 brigg, otherwife Emelbrige aforefaid, and 
 the precincf and liberty of the fame ; and 
 before the fleward and marfhal of our 
 houfehold, and the honiehold of our heirs 
 and fucceflbrs, within the aforefaid county 
 of Surry; and before the bailiffs and free- 
 men of the town of Kingfton upon Thames 
 aforefaid ; and before the efcheator of us, 
 our heirs and fuccefTors, belonging to our 
 county of Surry aforefaid ; and alio be- 
 fore all other juilices, commifTioners, or 
 fcrvants whomfoever belonging - to us, our 
 heirs and fuccefTors, within the aforefaid 
 county of Surry, to be loft, iinpofed, done- 
 paid, affeered, or anywiie afligned; and 
 that it may and fhall be lawful for the 
 tame bailiffs and freemen, and their fuc- 
 ceflbrs,
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. IO* 
 
 ceilbrs, cither by themfelves or by their 
 own officers or fervants, to feize, levy, 
 take, and have all inch like fines, iiiiies, 
 amerciaments, ranfoms, punithments, and 
 forfeitures to the proper ufe and profit of 
 the aforcfaid bailiffs and freemen, and 
 their iucceilbrs, for ever; and take poi- 
 fellion thereof, without any account to be 
 rendered, paid, or made thereof, or of 
 any part or parcel thereof, to us, our heirs 
 or fuccclfors, to have to the laid bailiffs 
 and freemen, and their fuccelfors, with- 
 out the impeachment, dilturbance, or im- 
 pediment of us, our heirs or fuccelfors, or 
 of the jultiees, fherirls, efcheators, coro- 
 ners, or any other the officers or fervants 
 of us, our heirs and fueccflbrs whomfoever. 
 And whereas alio the abovementioned 
 late Ring Henry the Third, by his letters 
 patent aforcfaid, granted and confirmed 
 for himfelf and his heirs to his freemen 
 of Kingtton aforcfaid, that they and their 
 heirs lhould have for ever the return of $ ?/#*>* 
 his writs from the luminous of his Ex- "'"*'* -' 
 chequer, and all other his writs touching 
 their laid town ; and from the time of the 
 completion of that charter, the freemen 
 of the town aforcfaid, and the bailiffs and 
 o 3 freemen
 
 I98 CHARTERS OF 
 
 freemen of the fame town have bad the 
 returns as well of fummonfes from the Ex- 
 chequer as of all the other writs, precepts, 
 and commands of the laid late King Henry 
 the Third, and his fuccelibrs ; and the ex- 
 ecutions of the fame, as well within the 
 town aforefaid as within the hundred of 
 Kingtlon and Emelbrigg, other wife Elme- 
 b ridge, which are and, from time whereof 
 the memory of man is not to the contrary, 
 w r ere members and parcels of the demefne 
 of the town aforefaid, and belonging to 
 the faid town from the time above-men- 
 tioned, by virtue of the general words: 
 Know ye that we, in order to take away 
 all ambiguity in this behalf, and alfo in 
 order to manifeil our ample and royal 
 munificence towards the bailiffs and free- 
 men of our town of Kingilon upon 
 Thames aforefaid, do of our bountiful 
 favour, certain knowledge, and mere mo- 
 tion for ourfelves, our heirs and fucceffors, 
 give, grant, and confirm to the aforefaid 
 bailiffs and freemen, and their fuccelibrs, 
 and according to the tenor of thefe pre- 
 terits, we will that the faid bailiffs and 
 freemen, and their fucceffors, for ever 
 henceforth have the returns and execu- 
 tion s
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. IQO. 
 
 tions of all writs, precepts, and com- 
 mands of us, our heirs and fueceilbrs, 
 and the linn monies from the Exchequer 
 of us, our heirs and fuccetfors, as well of 
 the green wax as the iummonfes of the 
 pipe and other fummonies of the Exche- 
 quer and of aflize and attaint, and of 
 juris utrum, writs of elegit, extent, and li- 
 bertate, and of all other writs, fummonies, 
 warrants, and precepts, although touch- 
 ing us or our people, as well within the 
 town aforefaid of Kingfton upon Thames 
 and the aforefaid hundred of Kinglton 
 and Emelbrigg, otherwife Emelhridge, 
 and moreover within the aforefaid hun- 
 dred of Copthorne and Effingham, in our 
 laid county of Surry, and every part and 
 parcel thereof, lb that no fheriif, bailiff, 
 or tenant of us, our heirs or fucceffors, 
 may enter the town or hundred of King- 
 (ton and Emelbrigg, otherwife Elmebridge, 
 Copthorne, and Effingham aforefaid, or 
 any or cither of them, or anv way in- 
 (rude in the fame, or any or either of 
 them, to do or execute any thing touch- 
 ing or concerning fuel) like writs, fum- 
 monies, precepts, warrants, or mandates, 
 unlefs through the default of the faid 
 o 4 bailiris
 
 'ZOO CHARTERS OF 
 
 bailiffs and freemen. And whereas alio, 
 the abovementioned late King Henry the 
 Fourth, by his aforelaid letters patent, 
 willed and granted to the aforefaid free- 
 men and their fucceffors, that no efcheator 
 of the laid King or his heirs, nor iteward 
 nor marfhai, nor clerk of the market, of 
 his houfehold or the houfehold of his heirs, 
 mould in any wife enter to do or execute 
 any of their duties within the town, dc- 
 mefne, hundred, and parts aforefaid, nor 
 mould they or any of them in any way 
 intrude in any things concerning or 
 touching their duties aforefaid. 
 
 And whereas, moreover, Philip and 
 Mary, late King and Queen of England, 
 by their letters patent, dated at Green- 
 wich, the 5th day of March, in the and 
 and 3d year of their reign, for the conside- 
 ration mentioned in the fame letters pa- 
 tent for themfelves, and the heirs and fuc- 
 celfors of the laid late Queen, among other 
 tilings, gave, granted, and confirmed to 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of the 
 tow n of Kingtton aforefaid, and their fuc- 
 eeifors, thole two fairs and marts, which 
 the fame bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 aforelaid, by the grant of fome of the pro- 
 genitors
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. oqI 
 
 genitors of the iliid late Queen then hud, 
 to hold the fame at the days, years, and 
 places there accuftomed, with all the pro- 
 fits and advantages which belong to or 
 have been accuftomed to belong to the 
 fame fairs and marts. And that the afore - 
 laid bailiffs and freemen of the town afore- 
 faid, and^ their iucceilbrs, might have and 
 hold, and might be able to have and hold 
 the fame two fairs or marts, in as ample 
 a manner and form with inch like cuf- 
 toms, profits, commodities, and advantages 
 as they and their prcdccelfors were accul- 
 tomed, or ought to have and take in the 
 tow n aforefaid, in or by the fairs or marts 
 before that time held there, by force or rea- 
 fon of the letters patent aforefaid. And 
 alio that the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen 
 of the town aforefaid, and their fucceflbrs 
 for ever, ihould have and hold yearly in 
 the town aforefaid, one other fair there 
 to continue two days, at i\\c FeairofSt. 
 \farv Magdalen: that is to lay, on the day 
 of the lame feaft, and vn the day next 
 after the fame feaft, together with a court 
 <> ; piepowd at the time ot the fame 
 iair, and alio ttailage and pioagc, fines, 
 amerciaments, and all other profits, com- 
 modities,
 
 ZO% CHARTERS OF 
 
 modities, and emoluments whatfocver, 
 concerning, pertaining to, happening, arif- 
 ing in, or belonging to fuch like fairs and 
 the court of piepowd ; and together 
 with all the liberties and free cutloms' be- 
 longing or appertaining to fairs of this 
 kind, to be taken and converted to the pro- 
 per aid, ufe, and aniitance of the laid bai- 
 liffs and freemen of the town aforefaid, 
 and their fuceefTors for the time being ; 
 but neverthelefs, fo as that thofe fairs or 
 marts be. not to the hurt of the neigh- 
 bouring fairs. We, willing that thole 
 bailiffs and freemen of the town aforefaid, 
 and their fuceefTors, fhould have, hold, en- 
 joy, and life the aforefaid three fairs, or 
 marts, and the reft of the premifes, freely, 
 well, and quietly, according to the tenor 
 of the aforefaid feveral letters patent, have 
 of our fpecial favour, hire knowledge, and 
 mere motion, given, granted, and con- 
 firmed, and by -thefe p relents, do for our- 
 (clves, our heirs and fuceefTors, give, grant, 
 'tanh and confirm to the aforefaid bailiffs and 
 */ '**ireeinen of the aforefaid town of Kingf- 
 ton upon Thames, and their fuceeffors, as 
 3/**/v well the aforefaid three fairs or marts, to- 
 gether with all the profits and emolu- 
 ments
 
 ments belonging to the fame, and all and 
 lingular the profits of the lame, as all 
 other privileges, jurifdiclions, executions, 
 immunities, and grants aforeiaid, in as 
 ample a manner and form as they are all 
 contained or fpecilied in the aforeiaid fe- 
 veral letters patent, or as the aforeiaid 
 bai litis and freemen of the town aforefaid 
 of Kingllon upon Thames hitherto had, 
 held, ufed, or enjoyed all and lingular the 
 fame, and every or any of them. And 
 further : Of our bountiful fpecial favour, 
 (lire knowledge, and mere motion, we 
 have granted, and by thefe prefents 
 do for ourfelvcs, our heirs and fuccef- 
 lbrs, grant ipecial and free licence, and 
 give lawful means, power, and authority 
 to the aforefaid bail iris and freemen of the 
 town aforeiaid, and their fucceflbrs, to 
 have, take, and purchafe to them and 
 their fucceflbrs for ever, manors, meiiiia- 
 ges, lands, tenements, meadows, paitures, 
 feedings, woods, underwoods, rectories, 
 tithes, rents, revenues, and other heredi- 
 taments whatfoever, within our kingdom 
 of England, which are not immediately 
 '\\c}'\ . ; us, our heirs and fucceflbrs in 
 
 chief,
 
 £04 CHARTERS OF 
 
 chief, nor by military fervice, fo that the 
 fame manors, meifuages, lands, tenements, 
 meadows, partures, feedings, woods, un- 
 derwoods, rectories, tithes, rents, revenues, 
 fervices, and other hereditaments fo to 
 be held, received, and purchafed by them, 
 do not exceed in the whole clear annual 
 value one hundred pounds a year, beyond 
 all charges and deductions, the ltatute of 
 mortmain, or any other itatute, act, ordi- 
 nance, or provision hitherto had, made, 
 ordained, or provided, or any other caufe 
 or matter whatfoever to the contrary there- 
 of in any wife notwithflanding. We alio 
 give, and by thele prefents for ourfeives, 
 our heirs, and fuccedbrs, grant to every 
 one of our fubjecls, and the fubjecls of our 
 heirs and fucceiTors,fpecial and free licence, 
 and lawful power, means, and authority 
 for them, or any or any one of them, to 
 <r : ve, grant, fell, bequeath, or alienate to 
 the above-mentioned bailiffs and freemen 
 of the aforelaid town of Kingfton upon 
 Thames, and their fucceflbrs, manors. 
 mefTuagcs, lands, tenements, meadows, 
 paltures, feedings, woods, underwoods, 
 rectories, tithes, rents, revenues, fervices, 
 
 and
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 2Q$ 
 
 and other hereditaments whatsoever, 
 which are not immediately held of us, our 
 heirs or iuccellbrs in chief, or otherwife, by 
 military Service ; lb that all the aforclaid 
 manors, melSuagcs, lands, tenements, 
 meadows, pastures, feedings, woods, un- 
 derwoods, rectories, tithes, rents, revenues, 
 tervices, and other hereditaments fo to 
 be given, granted, bequeathed, or alien- 
 ated to the fame bailiffs and freemen of 
 the town aforefaid, and their Succeilbrs, do 
 not exceed in the whole the clear annual 
 value, of an hundred pounds a year, be- 
 yond all charges and deductions, the Sta- 
 tute of mortmain, or any other Statute, 
 act, ordinance, or proviiion hitherto had, 
 made, ordained, or provided, or any other 
 thing, cauie, or matter whatibever to the 
 contrary thereof in any wife notwithstand- 
 ing. And further, of our bountiful favour. 
 Sure know ledge, and mere motion, we do 
 tor ourfelves, our heirs and iuccellbrs, 
 grant and confirm to the aforefaid bailiits 
 and freemen of the town of KingSton upon 
 Thames aforefaid, and their fucceilbrs. the 
 aforefaid town of Kingtton upon Thames, 
 with all its rights, members, and appur- 
 tenances,
 
 ZCb CHARTERS 0# 
 
 tenances, and all the premifcs, and alio a% 
 many fuch the fame and fuch like lands, 
 tenements, and hereditaments, clerks of 
 the market, coroners, and other officers 
 and lervants whatfoever, and alfo as many 
 fuch the fame and fuch like efchcats and 
 forfeitures, lands and tenements, goods 
 and chattels, treafure - trove, deodands, 
 goods, and chattels, called Maynour, chat- 
 tels of felons and fugitives, felons of them- 
 felves, condemned, convicted, attainted, 
 outlawed, banifhed, waived, and put in 
 exigent for felony, chattels confifeated, 
 year, day, watte, and eftrepement, ifmes, 
 fines, amerciaments, rantbms, liberties, 
 franchifes, immunities, exemptions, ac- 
 quittances and jurifdiclions whatfoever, 
 which the bailiffs- and freemen of the town 
 of Kingfton aforefaid, or any one, or any 
 of them hitherto had held, ufed, or en- 
 joyed, or ought to have had, held, ufed, 
 or enjoyed, or ought to have, hold, uie, 
 or enjoy, by whatfoever name or names, 
 or by whatfoever incorporation, or by pre- 
 text of whatfoever incorporation, or re- 
 ceived the iillics or profits thereof by rea- 
 fon or pretext of any charters or letters 
 
 patent,
 
 KINGSTON L'l'O^ THAMES. 20 
 
 / 
 
 patent in any manner hitherto made, eon- 
 firmed, or granted, by our progenitor, 
 John, formerly King of England ; or by 
 our progenitor, Edward the Fourth, late 
 King of England; or by reafon or pretext 
 of the charter or letters patent of Philip 
 and Mary, late King and Queen of Eng- 
 land ; or by any one or any of our pro- 
 genitors or ancestors; or by any other per- 
 fon or perfons whomsoever; or by any 
 other manner, right, cultom, ufe, pre- 
 scription, or title hitherto lawfully ufed, 
 had, and accullomed, yielding and pay- 
 ing yearly to us, our heirs and fuccef- 
 fors, inch and lo many fums of money 
 ::nd demands whatsoever as they now 
 yield or pay to us, and for the ifpace of 
 twenty years lait el'apfed have been accuS- 
 tome.d to \ ield or pav in any one rear : 
 \\ iliing. moreover, and by thefe prefents 
 commanding and ordering as well the 
 treaSurer, chancellor, and barons of our 
 exchequer at \\ tliminiier, and other the 
 p. Slices oi us, our heirs and Suceeli'ors, as 
 our attorney and Solicitor-general for th<: 
 
 time
 
 208 CHARTERS OF 
 
 time being, and every one of them, and 
 all other the officers and fervants of us, 
 our heirs and fucceflbrs, that neither they 
 nor any one, nor any of them, mail profe- 
 cute or continue, or make or caufe to be 
 profecuted or continued, any writ or pro- 
 cess belonging to us whatfoever, again ft 
 the bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 aforefaid, or the men or inhabitants of 
 the town of Kinglton aforefaid, or any 
 or any one of them, for any things, mat- 
 ters, offences, claims, or ufurpation, 
 or any of them, by them, or any of them 
 due, claimed, attempted, ufed, had, or 
 ufurped before the day of the comple- 
 tion of thefe prefents. Willing alio that 
 the fame bailiffs and freemen and inhabit- 
 ants of the town aforefaid, or any of 
 them, be not molelted or hindered by any 
 one or any of the juftic.es officers or fer- 
 vants aforefaid, or be compelled to anfwer 
 to them, or any of them, in or for any 
 debt, uie, claim, orabufe of any of the li- 
 berties, franchifes, or jurifdidtions within 
 the town aforefaid, and the liberty or pre- 
 rinrt of the fame, before the day of the 
 
 com-*
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 200. 
 
 completion of thefe letters patent. A?id 
 whereas we, of our royal munifieence to- 
 wards the bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 of King-lion upon Thames, and their luc- 
 ceffors, have by thefe our letters patent, 
 not only graciouily vouchfafed to con- 
 firm to the fame bailiffs and freemen, and 
 their fucceffors, their ancient privileges, 
 jurifdicfions, cultoms, immunities and li- 
 berties, and to explain and reduce to a 
 certainty all thp doubts in the former 
 grants and charters thereof to them made, 
 but alfo, of our abundant ipecial favour, 
 have caufed and granted that the juris- 
 diction of their court of record and libertv 
 for the return and execution of the writs 
 of us, our heirs and fucceflbrs, and the 
 precepts and commands thereupon, be 
 enlarged and extended into the hundred 
 of Copthorne and Effingham ; and have 
 given and confirmed other privileges, 
 jurifdicf ions, and liberties to the lame bai- 
 liffs and freemen, and their fucceflbrs, as 
 by thefe prefents is more plainly manifeft 
 and appears. And whereas we require 
 and expect, as a compenfation and due 
 retribution for all thefe things, nothing 
 p elfe
 
 2IO CHARTERS OF 
 
 elfe of the laid bailiffs and freemen of our 
 town aforefaid, than that the faid bailiffs 
 and freemen mould quit and releafe to us, 
 our heirs and fucceffors, only that part of 
 the jurifdi&ion of their ancient court leet 
 and view of franckpledge, which now 
 extends within our manor of Richmond, 
 and hamlet of Richmond and Kew, 
 and Peterfliam, and within the manor 
 of Ham, part of or belonging to the 
 manor of Richmond aforelaid ; therefore 
 the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of our 
 faid town of Kingflon upon Thames, 
 as a fatisfaclion of our faid royal expec- 
 tation, and in token of their duty towards 
 us, and. as a monument of their due gra- 
 titude, and in order that our will and de- 
 fire in that behalf mav be the better ef- 
 feeled, mall for themfelves and their fuc- 
 ceffors, covenant and grant to and with 
 our heirs and fucceffors, that the bailiffs 
 and freemen of our faid town of Kingfton 
 upon Thames for the time being, will 
 treely appear upon any writ of iummons 
 of a quo warranto to be obtained againfl 
 them at any time, within the fpace of 
 teven years next to come, on behalf of us, 
 our heirs or fucceffors, or to be profecuted 
 
 in
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 311 
 
 in the name of the attorney -general of us, 
 our heirs or fuccefTors, for or concerning 
 only that part of the jurifdiction of the 
 court leet and view of frankpledge afore- 
 laid, which extends within our manor 
 of Richmond, and Hamlet of Richmond, 
 Peterfham, and Kew, and Ham aforefaid, 
 and will willingly releale and yield up to 
 us, our heirs and fucceflbrs, by their plea 
 to be levied and made in due form of law, 
 that part of the jurifdiction of that court, 
 being within the precinct and liberty of 
 the manor and hundred aforefaid; and will 
 agree that judgment thereof be duly given 
 and entered for us, our heirs and fuccef- 
 lbrs, fo that it may and mall be lawful for 
 us, our heirs and lucccilbrs, to have, hold, 
 ufe, and enjoy thenceforth for ever, 
 againll the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen 
 of the town of Kingiton upon Thames, 
 and their lucccilbrs, the court leet and 
 view of frankpledge, and all things be- 
 longing or pertaining to Inch like view of 
 frankpledge within the limits and pre- 
 cinct of our laid manor of Richmond, and 
 Hamlet of Richmond and Kew, Peterfham, 
 and Ham only ; and that the aforefaid 
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 bailiffs and freemen, and their fucceflbrs, 
 after fuch judgment to be obtained againft 
 them, mall be entirely excluded from all 
 jurifdiction of the court or leet and view 
 of frankpledge within the precincl: and 
 limits of the aforefaid manor of Richmond, 
 and Hamlet of Richmond and Kew, and 
 within Peterfham and Ham only, thefe 
 letters patent, or any thing contained or 
 fpecified in the fame, or any ufe, cuftom, 
 or prescription to the contrary thereof 
 notwithstanding. We will, however, and 
 by thefe prefents for ourielves, our heirs 
 and fucceflbrs, grant to the aforefaid bai- 
 liffs and freemen of the aforefaid town 
 of Kingfton upon Thames, and their fuc- 
 ceflbrs, that the bailiffs and freemen of the 
 fame town, and their fucceflbrs, may and 
 may be able for ever to have, hold, and 
 enjoy a court and courts leet and view of 
 frankpledge, and all other things belong- 
 ing to fuch view of frankpledge ; and alio 
 may have, exercife, and ufe all and all 
 kinds of jurifdictions, courts leet, and 
 view of frankpledge, as well within the 
 aforefaid town, liberty, and precinct of 
 the fame, as within the hundred of King- 
 fton
 
 KINGSTON tfPON THAMES. 2Jj 
 
 itori and Elmebridge, other wile EJmebrigg, 
 and within all the villages, hamlets, and 
 places within the precinct of the lame 
 hundreds aforefaid, the manor of Rich- 
 mond, and hamlet of Richmond and Kew, 
 Pcterfham, and Ham only excepted, as 
 fully, freely, and entirely, and in as ample 
 a manner and form as any bailiffs and 
 freemen of the town aforefaid, in any of 
 their courts leet or view of frankpledge 
 at any time before the completion of thefe 
 our letters patent were accuitomed to 
 have, hold, enjoy, ufe, or exercife the afore- 
 faid judgment to be given upon the afore- 
 faid writ of quo warrranto in form afore- 
 faid, or any other thing above fpecified 
 in thefe preients, or any other thing, caule, 
 or matter whatsoever notwithstanding. 
 We will alio, and by thefe prefents grant 
 to the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of the 
 aforefaid town of Kinglton upon Thames, 
 that they may and iliall have thefe our 
 letters patent, duly done and fcaled under 
 our great leal of England, without fine or 
 fee, great or iinall therefore, in any man- 
 ner to be rendered, paid, of made to us in 
 our hanaper, or elfewhere, for our ufe, 
 p 3 although
 
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 although exprefs mention of the true an- 
 nual value, or of the certainty of the pre- 
 mifes, or any of them, or of the other gifts 
 or grants by us or any of our progenitors 
 or predeceflbrs, to the aforefaid bailiffs 
 and freemen of the aforefaid town of 
 Kingfton upon Thames before thefe times, 
 made in thefe prefents, be not made, or 
 any itatute, act, ordinance, proviiion, pro- 
 clamation or reftriction to the contrary 
 thereof hitherto had, made, fct forth, or- 
 dained, or provided, or any other caufe 
 or matter whatfoever in any wife notwith- 
 standing. 
 
 In witnefs whereof we have caufed 
 thefe our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnefs my felf at Weft mi niter, the 13th 
 day of December, in the fourth year of our 
 reign. 
 
 By writ of privy leal. 
 
 Worlefev. 
 
 CHARTER
 
 KINGSTON UPON THAMES. 2I£ 
 
 CHARTER OF KING CHARLES THE SECOND. 
 
 Grant of a Wcdncfdays Market. 
 
 CHARLES the Second, by the grace 
 of God, of England, Scotland, France, and 
 Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. 
 To all to whom thefe prefent letters lliall 
 come, greeting. Whereas by a certain 
 inquifition by our order taken at South- 
 warke, in the county of Surry, certified 
 into our chancery, and remaining there 
 by the oath of good and lawful men of 
 the county aforefaid, it is found that it 
 will not be to the lots or prejudice of us 
 or others, nor to the hurt of the neigh- 
 bouring markets, if we grant to the bailiffs 
 and freemen of our town of Kingltone 
 upon Thames, and their fuccelfors, that 
 rhev and their fucceflbrs may have and 
 hold a market in and upon Wedneiday in 
 every week, by the year, at the town of 
 Kingtlon upon Thames aforefaid ; and to 
 take to them and their fuccerlbrs the toll, 
 profits, and advantages proceeding and 
 ariling therefrom, as by the inquifition 
 aforeiaid is more plainly manifell and ap- 
 pears. jSow know ye, that we, of our 
 
 fbecial
 
 
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 fpecial favour, fure knowledge, and mere 
 motion, have given and granted, and by 
 theie prefents for us, our heirs and fuc- 
 ceilbrs, do give and grant to the afore- 
 faid bailiffs and freemen of our town of 
 Kingfton upon Thames aforefaid, and their 
 fuccefTors, that they and their fucceflbrs, 
 from henceforth for ever, may have, hold, 
 and keep, and may and may be able to 
 have, hold, and keep a market in and 
 upon Wcdnefday in every week, by the 
 year, at the town of Kingiion upon 
 Thames aforefaid, in our county of Surry 
 aforefaid, for ever to be held, together 
 with all the liberties and free cuftoms, 
 toll, tollagc, tallage, picagc, fines, amer- 
 ciaments, and all other profits, advantages; 
 and emoluments whatsoever in anywife 
 concerning, belonging to, ariling, or pro- 
 ceeding from fuch like market, or which 
 the fame ufually had or enjoyed, to have, 
 hold, and enjoy the aforefaid market, li- 
 berty, free cuftoms, toll, tollagc, itallage, 
 picagc, fines, amerciaments, and all and 
 lingular the premifes by thefe prefents 
 above granted, or mentioned to be granted 
 to the aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of 
 our town of Kingtton upon Thames afore- 
 faid,
 
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 fuid, and their fucccflbrs for ever, to the 
 on! v and proper aid and ufe of them the 
 bailiffs and freemen of our town aforefaid, 
 and their fucceifors for ever, and this with- 
 out account, or anv thin"; elfe to be 
 vielded, paid, or done therefore to us, 
 our heirs or fucceifors ; wherefore we will 
 and by thefe prefents for us, our heirs and 
 fucceifors, iirmly enjoining, command and 
 order, that the aforefaid bailiffs and free- 
 men of our town aforefaid, and their fuc- 
 ceifors, by force of thefe prefents, may 
 well, freely, lawfully, and quietly have> 
 hold, and keep, and may and may be able 
 to have, hold, and keep for ever, at our 
 town of Ringlton upon Thames afore- 
 laid, the market aforefaid, in and upon 
 the day aforefaid, together with all and 
 all kinds of liberties, cultoms, toll, and 
 profits proceeding therefrom, or in the 
 fame ufed or enjoyed, according to the 
 tenor and true intention of thefe our 
 letters patent, without the molcllation, 
 difturbanee, grievance, or contradiction 
 of us, our heirs or fuecetlbrs, or anv fhe- 
 rifls, efcheators, bailiffs, officers, or mi- 
 nilters of us, our heirs or fucceifors whom- 
 foever; and this without any warrant, 
 
 writ
 
 
 218 
 
 writ, or procefs from us, our heirs or fue- 
 ceffbrs in future, in that behalf to be pro- 
 cured or obtained, although exprefs men- 
 tion of the true yearly value, or of the cer- 
 tainty of the premiies, or any of them^ 
 or of any gifts or grants by us, or any of 
 our progenitors or predeceifors to the 
 aforefaid bailiffs and freemen of the town 
 of Kingfton upon Thames aforefaid, be- 
 fore thefe times, made in thefe prefents, be 
 not made, or any ftatutc, act, ordinance, 
 provision, proclamation, or reitrietion to 
 the contrary thereof hitherto had, made, 
 let forth, ordained, or provided, or any 
 other thing, caufe, or matter whatfoever 
 in any wife notwithstanding. 
 
 In witnefs whereof we have caufed 
 thefe our letters to be made patent. 
 
 Witnefs myfelf at Weitminiler, the 
 13th day of May, in the fourteenth year 
 of our reign. 
 
 By writ of privy feal. 
 
 Howard. 
 
 Ah The above powers, franchifes, liber- 
 ties, privileges, and authorities, were by 
 ; deed of furrender, under the common 
 feal of the bailiffs and freemen of King- 
 
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