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��Shoemakers were ordered to cease disturbing Thomas Burchett, who had obtained a toleration in 1676."* The system opened a new source of revenue to the corporation, which in 1776 required the wardens to make a return of all persons following trades in the town who were not free or tolerated."* The search for ' foreigners ' was active at this time, and even in 1835 tolerations were demanded of all but those keeping very small shops."' The trades companies were then still flourishing, though the Company of Woollen Drapers had already lapsed.

The market at Kingston was established in 1242, when the men of the Bishop of London came to it from Fulham."* It was included among the liberties granted by the charter of 1208 until 1603, when James I granted a market to be held every Saturday for all animals." 9 Grain was sold in the market in 1551,*" and it was an important market for corn in 1623 ;**' a few years later the justices of the peace told with pride how they had brought down the price of wheat from 91. and <)i. 6J. to ji. the bushel, while the poor were served with rye at 5/.*** The corn market is now small and unimpor- tant. The proximity of the royal household at Hampton Court evidently had a stimulating effect on trade at Kingston, and formed the pretext for a petition in 1662 for a second market," 3 which was granted for Wednesdays in the same year. 8 ** This second market has not, however, flourished so well as that on Saturday ; it appears to have been abandoned at the close of the i8th century, 154 and though revived later was 'small and unimportant' in i888. 338 The Saturday market on the other hand has always been considerable. Beneath the new town hall, as beneath the old town hall, is a covered space filled with stalls, which also stand in rows without, and are covered with fruit, flowers, fish, and miscellaneous articles. The whole space is alive with movement and colour, for the market is not only attended by the townsfolk but serves the whole neighbourhood, the fruit, flower, and fish markets being especially popular among the housekeepers of Norbiton and Surbiton. The fish market, which is perhaps the most important, was well established in 1619, when George Walker was paid various sums 'for whipping and cleaning the Fish Market.' There is also on Saturdays a busy cattle market, provided by the corporation in the middle of the igth century at the request of the farmers in the neighbourhood." 37

The fairs were likewise held in the market place ; the first of these was granted to Kingston in 1256 for the morrow of the feast of All Souls and the seven following days. 338 A second fair was ordered to be proclaimed in 1 3 5 1 for Thursday in Whitsun week

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and the seven days after.* 3 * In 1555 the bailiffs petitioned for a third fair which, with a court of pie- powder, stallage, picage and all amerciaments, was granted to them in the same year for the day and morrow of the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. 3 " These three fairs were still held in 1792,"' but under powers obtained in 185; the November fair alone was continued, and at the same time this was shortened to three days and the cattle fair removed to the fair field. The pleasure fair remained in the streets of the town, but was abolished as a nuisance in 1889.'" The manor of KINGSTON-UPON- MANORS THAMES was ancient demesne of the Crown in 1086, and remained in royal hands until, in 1200, it passed to the freemen of the town under the charter of King John.* "*

The name of BERWELL (Berewell, xiii-xvi cent.) first occurs in 1252, when Henry III granted to the Prior of Merton free warren here and elsewhere.*" In 1290-1 the priory received lands here and in other places from Richard de la Sterte, Reginald Rote, the Prior of St. Mary's, Southwark, and others, 34 * and Berwell was called a 'vill' in 1336.**' In 1537-8, when brought to the Crown by the Dissolution it was called a ' manor,' though there were no returns from the perquisites of court. 348 It was granted in 1579 with the manor of Coombe Nevill to Thomas Vin- cent and his heirs ; 349 he sold it in 1595 to Edward Carleton,* 50 whose son, 351 Matthew Carleton, with Margaret his wife conveyed it in 1645 to Sir Dudley Carleton.* 51 He is said to have obtained unlimited right of common in Surbiton and Claygate from the corporation in 1636, and in 1651 sold the manor to Richard Glid, senior, Richard Glid, junior, and William Wright. 353 Richard Glid and Elizabeth his wife sold it in 1663"* to James Davidson, who devised it to his son-in-law, Richard Edes, in 1695.*" The manor again changed hands in 1699 when Richard Edes and Mary his wife sold it to William Letheuillier ; 3SS his daughter married William Task,* 57 who sold it in 1771 to Charles Terry. 358 From him it was pur- chased in the following year by Joseph Sales,* 4 * the sale being completed in I774. 360 The new owner retained it until 1788,*" when he sold it to John Richardson, who in the following year conveyed it to Marcus Dixon the lord in i/gg. 368 His daughters were in possession in 1 804 ; * 63 one daughter Elizabeth- Morris, appears to have married Archibald Blair, and Maria a second was the wife of John Wales ; both con- veyed fourth parts of the manor to Robert Blair, who may have been a trustee.* 64 When Brayley wrote it had been ' for about twenty-five years,' that is, since about 1818, in the hands of John Sykes of Kensington.* 65 It is now the property of Baron Foley.

��8J5 Ct of Assembly Bk. 8 May 1682 ; ef. 6 July 1681.

'"Ibid, 25 June 1776.


 * W Munic. Corf. Cam. Rep. iv, 2898.


 * >*Abbrev, Plac. (Rec. Com.), no.

8M Roots, Charters, 140.

880 Actt of P.O. 1550-2, p. 324.

al Cal. S.P. Dam. 1619-23, p. 581.

831 Ibid. 1629-31, p. 474.

"Ibid. 1661-2, p. 357.

"Ibid. pp. 358, 361 ; Roots, Char ten, 215.

584 Roots, Chartert, 140 ; Royal Com. on Market Rightt and Tollt, i. 207.

Tollt, iv, 1 3 1.
 * Royal Com. on Market Rights and

? Under Stat 18 & 19 Viet cap. 45.

��838 Roots, Charters, 25. Cal. Close, 1349-54, P- 365- 140 Roots, Chartert, 76-7. tn Royal Com. on Market Righti and Tollt, i. 207.

""Ibid, iv, 131. "Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.),
 * -* Ytde supra.

739-

ue Inq. a.q.d. file 1 6, no. 3.

cxvi.
 * 4 ' Heales, Rec. of Merton, App. p.

848 Ibid., p. cxxrii.

849 Pat. 21 Eliz. pt xi, m. 5.

850 Feet of F. SUIT. East 37 Eliz. "Manning and Bray, Surr, i, 403,

669 ; ii, 806.

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��M Feet of F. Surr. Mil. 20 Chas. I ; Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 403.

58 Feet of F. Surr. HiL 1651.

Ibid. Trin. 14 Chas. II.

846 Ly sons, Environs of LonJ. i, 241.


 * Feet of F. Surr. Hit id & 1 1 Will. III.

85 7 Lysons, op. cit. i, 241.

848 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 12 Geo. III.

8W Lysons, op. cit. i, 241.

M Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 14 Geo. Ill ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 14 Geo. Ill, m. 8.

Ml Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 28 Geo. III.

882 Lysons, op. cit i, 241.

888 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 403.

4 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 40 Geo. Ill j East. 41 Geo. III.

866 Brayley, Hiit, of Surr, iii, 1 1 2.

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