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��in the churchyard? in '7 88 > third to Elizabeth Countess of Der' D y daughter of Thomas Earl of Ossoryand granddaughter of James Duke of Ormond, who died in JF 7 ' 7 5 an< ^ a f urtn to Francis Bauer, F.R.S., &c.,/ ' ootanical painter to George III and
 * htsm:m at Kew Gardens, who died in

��resident drau 1840.

The churc of Kew Grei

��hyard, which is at the south-east corner surrounds the building and contains

��many grave

The ply^te comprises a silver cup, paten, flagon, and almsdish* of 1713, a cup and paten of 1892, and a cup ofj' 1898. The only existing old register book is one Containing baptisms and burials from 1714 to 1785 and marriages 171410 1781. The book fol- lowing this to 1812 has been lost.

In 1522 Fox, Bishop of Win- ADYOWSON Chester, at the request of Thomas Byrkis and Anne his wife, granted licence to the inhabitants of Kew to have divine service in a chapel there during the lives of Thomas and Anne, reserving to the vicar of Kingston, in whose parish it lay, all customary rights, profits, &c. m This chapel was possibly the stable described as formerly a chapel and granted with the capital messuage in the 1 6th century. In the i8th century

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Queen Anne gave a piece of land for a chapel of ease to Kingston (q.v.), and a church was built at the expense of the wealthier inhabitants and was conse- crated in 1714 as St. Anne of Kew." 8 By Act of Parliament, 1 769, the chapelry or curacy of Kew with Petersham was separated from Kingston, and a vicarage was constituted there. 1 " The right of presentation was reserved to the impropriator and patron of Kingston, then George Hardinge, who in 1786 sold it to King's College, Cambridge. 1 "

The living was separated from Petersham in 1891, and is now a ricarage in the gift of the Crown."*

Elizabeth, Countess of Derby, who CHARITIES died at Kew in 1717, left 500, now represented by 763 consols, for the use of the poor.

There is an educational charity left by a Mr. Charles Jones, producing about j a year. Lady Capell, who died in 17*1, left one-twelfth of her estate at Lud- denham, Kent, for a charity school in Kew, or, failing that being established, to apprentice poor boys. She had also left one-twelfth to the Richmond Charity School, and 10 a year to the minister of Kew chapel so long as her family should be allowed two pews in the chapel and the family vault which she had built.

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��Cyningestun (xi cent.) ; Cyngestun (x cent.) ; Chingestun (xi cent.); Kingeston (xiicent.).

The town of Kingston is built on the river-bank ; behind it is alluvium through which the Hogsmill river flows. On either hand are hills, those to the north-east carrying the ancient ridgeway to Wimble- don and along the slopes above the Thames valley, those to the south with roads to Mid-Surrey, South- ampton, and the southern shires. All these converge at Kingston, for here in early times was one of the two great passages into Surrey from the north, at first by a ford near which the place probably first grew, then by the mediaeval bridge. Though the bridge now has fellows, and trade comes and goes by the branch line of the London and South Western Rail- way, completed in 1889, yet the river still influences the town, and brings the many pleasure-seekers who have made Kingston one of their favourite haunts by the river-side. Kingston is first mentioned in 836 or 838 as the meeting-place of the council at which King Egbert and the Archbishop Ceolnoth made their league. 1 This points to its being already a place of some importance, and the alliance here made between the West Saxon Crown and the Metropolitan See, which did so much to confirm their respective civil and ecclesiastical primacies in Britain, is the only reasonable explanation for the crowning here of the

��West Saxon kings in the loth century.' Edward the Elder was crowned here in 902.* Athelstan in 925,' Edmund and Edred in 940 and 946.* In 955 Edwig was elected at a gemot held here and crowned ; at the coronation feast the young king left the hall and sought two ladies, ^Ethelgifu and her daughter Elfgifu, with the latter of whom he had formed an uncanonical marriage, and was dragged back to the feast by Dunstan and Bishop Cynesige.' In 958 Ethelred 'was very read- ily and with great joy ' crowned here by Dunstan.' All these kings are said to have been crowned on the ' coronation stone ' now preserved in the market-place.* This stone is not mentioned by Leland or Camden, but is traditionally said to have been preserved in the ancient chapel of St. Mary, which fell down in 1730.' It was then placed outside the town hall and used as a mounting-block until 1850, when the mayor, a local antiquary, placed it on its present pedestal and unveiled it with much ceremony on a public holiday. 1 *

Kingston was a demesne manor of the West Saxon kings. Edward the Confessor let it out to farm and had a stud-farm in its neighbourhood." It was its ' great bridge ' over the Thames that gave it special importance, as in the 1 3th century, this was the most easterly of the bridges before London Bridge

��*** Manning nd Bray, Hist, of Surr. I, 448 ; Egerton MSS. 2031-2034, IT.

116 Manning and Bray, Hist, of Surr. i, 448 ; Aubrey, Nat. Hist, and Antij. of Surr. v, 335 ; Eccl. To fog. no. 26.

W Prirate Act, 9 Geo. Ill, cap. 65.

118 Manning and Bray, Hist, if' Surr. i, 451 ; Int. Bk>.

119 Clergy List, igio.

1 Kemble, Cod. Difl. no. cccl, xiii.

��V.C.H. Surr. i, 338.

Diceto, Opera (Rolls Scr.), i, 140.

4 Diceto, op. cit. i, 44; Anglo-Sax. Chron. (Roll* Sen), i, 139.

Difl. no. ccccxi.
 * Diceto, op. cit. i, 146} Kemble, Cod.


 * Diet. Nat. Biog. xvii, 140.

1 Anglo-Sax. Ckron. (Roll. Ser.), 138, 239; Diet. Nat. Biog. xviii, 27.

487

��' Biden, Hist, of Kingston, 10.

9 N. and Q. (Ser. 9), v, 392. In the rebus of the name of the town on the seal of the court of record, the last syllable is represented not by a stone but by the usual tun.

10 Merryweather, Half* Cnt. of King- ston Hist. 13.

11 y.C.H. Surr. i, 297, 325.

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