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��to tos."" the normal rent, 407 being the money equiva- lent of the serjeanty. 409 Ralf Postel held this hide of the queen in 1203, in which year he granted it to Walkelin Rabus 409 ; later it came into the hands of Peter son of Baldwin, who bought land in Kingston of Gunnora widow of Matthew son of Godfrey in 1 238. 410 This perhaps was the Peter Baldwin who, though retaining 40 acres in his hands, alienated the remain- ing 50 acres of the fee for annual rents amounting to 33/. \d. Peter made a fine of 2O/. a year for him- self and these tenants, 411 so that each of the tenants answered to him for a third of the worth of his tene- ment a year and Peter was responsible to the Ex- chequer for the whole of the fine. 4 " Peter was dead in 1279, when his son of the same name was a minor and in the wardship of the queen ; she gave the custody to Adam de Richmond, who in turn sold it to Walter Pewtarer. 413 In 1292-3 Peter Baldwin held the lands by the old tenure of collecting the queen's wool; the land on his death in or about 1299 consisted of 60 acres in Coombe, where he had tenants bound to find him three men in the autumn. 411 He also had a capital messuage and lands in Kingston held of the men of Kingston, and land at Talivorth. He was succeeded by his son Peter, a boy of eleven.

Dower was assigned to Mabel widow of Peter Baldwin in 1 3O2, 41S but no further mention of the family has been found. Part of the land came into possession of the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, the warden paying I os. for ' the serjeanty of Baldwin ' in the ijth century. 41 '

In the 1 3th century land here was held by Robert Burnell and afterwards by John de la Linde, 4 " from whom it passed to the family of Dymoke, and was attached as a member to their manor of Wellington. (q.v.). 4 " John Dymoke paid \os. to the priory of Merton for his manor of Coombe Nevill in 15 36."'

In the early 1 3th century Hugh de Coombe held half a knight's fee here of the honour of Clare. 410 The mesne lordship of this fee was in the hands of Roger de Vilers in 1227, when he exchanged the homage and services of Wymund de Raleg', the tenant, for lands in Somerset and Dorset. 411

HARTINGTON (Erdinton, xii cent.; Hertindon, Hartyngdon, xiii cent.) is first mentioned in 1173 and 1173-4, when 7 O/. were paid into the Exchequer from lands there. 4 " In 1206 Adam de Dearhurst and Maud his wife claimed half a hide of land here against the Prior of Merton, but the jurors declared that the prior had always held it, and that no ancestor of Maud had ever been tenant. 4 " The prior was granted free warren here and elsewhere in 1252, and was returned as lord of the hamlet in I374. 4 ' 4 Mer- ton retained the manor until the Dissolution, when it

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passed to the Crown. Valued at 301. in 1536, " 5 in 1539 it was granted for life to Ralph Annesley, the ' king's servant,' with lands at Sheen and Kew. 4 **

In 1544 the reversion was granted to Richard Taverner who, three years later, bought the manor of Norbiton (q.v.). He and Margaret his wife conveyed the manor to Edward, Earl of Hertford, in 1 546,"' probably in trust for their younger son Peter, who in- herited it on his father's death in I575- 4 * 8 Peter Taverner and Frances his wife conveyed the manor in I 5 8 5 to John Evelyn and Elizabeth his wife, who, with George Evelyn, re-sold it in 1605 to George Cole. In 1623 presentment was made at the hundred court that he had not entertained the minister, church- wardens, and parishioners on Monday in Rogation week at the farm called Hartleton Farm as heretofore. 4 " George Cole died in 1624, and was succeeded by another of the same name who, with Jane his wife, sold the manor in 1637 to Charles I to be added to Richmond Park.

In the 1 4th century land here, as at Kingston, Norbiton, and Coombe, was held by Thomas de Lud- low and descended to the family of Dymoke. 4 " Hartington has been identified with Hartington Coombe, 4 " and in 1372 the land held there by Sir John Dymoke is called ' Hartyndencombe.' 433 In l 339 the men of ' Hertindonescombe ' petitioned the king for a re-assessment of the fifteenth, as their vill had been lately burnt by certain malefactors, the goods and chattels there plundered and destroyed, and the inhabitants had for the most part with- drawn. 43 * The ancient house known as Hertcomb or Hercomb Place stands ' at the right hand of the road at the entrance of Kingston from London,' 43S opposite the end of Coombe Lane. It is said to have once been in the hands of Archbishop Tillotson, 436 and in the middle of the 1 8th century was used as a boarding- school by Richard Woodeson, and later it became the workhouse for the parish till 1836. It now forms two houses. Kingston Lodge, opposite to it, was formerly occupied by Mr. George Meredith.

KINGSTON-C4NBURT (Canonbury, xiv cent.) is not mentioned in 1086, but was held by Merton Priory at an early period. It probably represented the early endowment of the church, and followed the descent of the advowson (q.v.) until 1786, when George Harding sold the right of patronage, but re- tained the manor, which seems to have disappeared by the beginning of the igth century. The name is preserved in the Canbury Gardens and Road.

KINGSTON-UPON-TH4MES alias MILBORNE is a ' manor ' occasionally mentioned. It appears to have belonged to Sir Thomas Milborne, who at his death in 1492 was said to hold a toft, 100 acres of

��Fife R, 11 Hen. //(Pipe R. Soc.), 107.

W Ibid. 13 Hen. II, 203 ; 14 Hen. II, 216.


 * Red Bk. tfExch. (Rolls Ser.), +56.

tee Feet of F. Sum 6 John, no. 58. A Ralph Postel in 1192-3 wa holding a certain serjeanty of Otho de Grandison (Assize R. 902, m. 2), and is last men- tioned in 1299 as lord of an eyot held by Peter Baldwin ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. I, no. 27.
 * Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 43, ind

4M Feet of F. Surr. 22 Hen III, no. n.

411 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 228, where the name is printed Rabewin.

4 Ibid.

4U Assize R. 876, m. 50 j 902, m. 2.

��414 Chan. Inq. p.m. 27 Edw. I, no. 27.

414 Cal. Clotc, 1296-1302, p. 535.

41 Lansd. MS. 226, foL 71*.

u ' Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 180.

411 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xiv, 44.

419 falor Eccl. (Rec. Com.) ii, 50.

4 *> Tetta de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 219.

411 Feet of F. Div. Co. n Hen. Ill, no. 48.

4ffl Fife. R. 19 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 95 ; 20 Hen. II, 5.

4M Abbrev. flat. (Rec. Com), 52 ; Heales, Rec. of Merton, App. p. cxv.

411 Co. Plac. Surr. xxiii, no. II.

4 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 48.

4M L. and P. Hen. fill, xiv (i), 594.

W Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 38 Eliz.

503

��438 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxv, 92.

Add. MS. 6167, fol. 51; Lysonn, op. cit. i, 241.

430 Feet of F. Surr. Hit 12 Chas. L

481 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 1 08 ; Cal. Pat. 1334-8, p. 3085 1391-6, p. 649. See Wellington, V.C.H. Surr. iv.

481 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 404. There was a family of Hertcombes in Kingston in the 1 5 th century, and a brass to John and (Catherine Hertcombe may be seen in the church.

488 Inq. p.m. 46 Edw. Ill, no. j6.


 * 4 Cat. Close, 1339-41, p. 202.

484 Manning and Bray, Surr. i, 404.

486 Merryweather, op. cit. 25, where the house is figured.

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