A troute given to the Lorde Ad To Mr. Ball for a white stallion to bestow on S'Anthony Ben.......... xj "1623. A couple of pheasants for the earl of Holderness "1626. A salmon for the judges . . . . . 0 viij x 0 BOOK VI. "1572. The making of the cucking stool* 0 * The cucking-stool was an instrument of punishment for scolds and unquiet women. 1623. To the prince's players by Mr. Bailiff's appointment "1625. To the king's players because they should not play in the town hall nor in CHAP. II. 0 x 0 the towne for the space of five yeares. 0 x 0 "1626. To the king's players to forbeare A hospital was built in Norbiton, in 1309, by Edward Hospital. Lovekyn, with a chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, and endowed with ten acres of land, one acre of meadow, and five marks annual rent.* His son John, who was four times Lord Mayor of London†, and who is erroneously called the founder and builder of this hospital by Leland and some later authors, augmented it with considerable endowments. In 1334, it was valued at £34. 19s. 7d. At the dissolution this house was seized by the crown. school. Queen Elizabeth founded a free grammar-school upon Grammar the site, and endowed it, with the premises, consisting of St. Mary Magdalen's chapel, and two small chapels adjoining, called St. Anne's and St. Loye's; and some houses and lands which had been leased by the crown to Richard Taverner. The bailiffs of the town were constituted governors, with power to purchase lands to the amount of £30 per annum. § William Cleave, Esq., alderman of London, who Alms died in 1667, founded an alms-house in this town, for house. BOOK VI. the building of which he left £500, and endowed it with lands for the support of twelve poor persons. Chapels. Conduit Bridge. The Presbyterians, Baptists, and Quakers, have meeting-houses in this town. On the side of Comb hill, where it declines towards Kingston, is a conduit, from which Hampton - court palace is supplied with water by means of leaden pipes carried under the river Thames. It was the work of Cardinal Wolsey. Dr. Hales observes, that this water left no incrustation on a boiler in the coffee-house which had been in constant use for fourteen years; and that it is softer, and will wash linen with a less quantity of soap than either the Thames water, or that of the river which crosses Hounslow heath to Hampton court.* Kingston bridge (as a passage from one side of the river to the other) is undoubtedly the most ancient on the river Thames, except that of London. It is mentioned in a record of the eighth year of Henry III.,† when a grant of the bridge and house was made to Matthew de Kingston. This bridge being almost the only passage over the Thames, was frequently liable to be destroyed, during the time of any intestine commotions, to cut off the communications between Surrey and Middlesex. This is known to have happened in the wars between the houses of York and Lancaster, and in Wyatt's rebellion, when it was broken down by order of the privy council, to prevent his passing into Middlesex. Several records are extant of a toll being Statistical Essays, ii. p. 240. + Pat. Hen. III. m. 28. Grant of the bridge and a house to Matthew de Kyngston. Pat. 50 Edw. III. pt. 1. m, 26. Pat, 5. 1 Hen, IV. pt. 5. m. 25. Pat. 27 Hen. VI. pt. 1. m. 7. &c. &c. |