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 THE HUNDRED OF ELMBRIDGE

(OR EMLEYBRIDGE)

��COBHAM

ESHER

EAST AND WEST MOLESEY

��CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF

STOKE D'ABERNON THAMES DITTON (MANORS OF IMBKR COURT AND WSSTON)

��WALTON UPON THAMES WEYBRIDGE

��The boundaries of this hundred have remained practically unchanged

since 1086, when, however, Ember Court in Thames Ditton was part of the hundred of Kingston, 1 and the holding of Chertsey in Weybridge was ' attributed to Copthorne. It is not certain at what date the hundred passed

into the hands of the men of Kingston, but

it seems later to have been regarded as one

of the liberties granted to them by King

John in 1200, and was held at fee farm. 2

In 1280 it was said to be in the hands of

their tenant Reginald de Imworth, 8 with

whose manor of Imworth it descended until

1499, when Richard Ardern died seised of

the manor of Imworth and half the hundred

of Elmbridge, held of the men of Kingston/

Within the hundred there were several

exempt jurisdictions. In 1253 John D'Aber-

non was successful in his claim to view of

frankpledge in Stoke, 6 and Avelina, daughter

of Geoffrey de Cruce and wife of Roger de

Legh, also claimed the right in Walton. 6 At

a later date Sir Thomas Henneage obtained

a grant of Molesey Prior with view of frank- pledge from Henry VIII, 7 and John Druell

also had a view on his manor here. 8

In a Subsidy Roll of about 1334 the hundred was valued at 24 os. 6d.f

and it was assessed for ship-money at ^34 in i636. 10 The name by which

it is known is derived from the bridge by which the road from London to

Chertsey crosses the Mole or Emlyn on its way west, and here probably the

hundred court was held.

V.CM. Surr. \, 305*. ' Assize R. 898, m. 5. ' Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. I, no. 23.

4 Ibid. 15 Hen. VII (Ser. 2), xiv, 101. 4 Plac. de Que Warr. (Rec. Com.), 747.

' Ibid. 747. ' L. and P. Hen. Vlll, ii, 1 104. ' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2),, 51.


 * y.C.H. Surr. \, 443. w S.P. Dm. Chas. I, cccxlviii, 82.

3 44' 56

��HUNDRED

OF ELMBRIDGE

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