KINETON, (Warwickshire) 61 cm, 89 mm. from London, was, as the name imports, the Kings-Town, and held by our Ks. if not before, yet certainly by Edw. the Conf. and Will. the Conq. K. John, who kept his court in a castle here, granted the manor in fee-farm to Stephen de Segrave, and his heirs, who obtained of Hen. III. a charter for its Mt. on Tu. with the addition of its Fair on June 29. It afterwards came, by marriage, to the Marquis of Berkley, and continued in that family to the R. of Q. Eliz. in whose time Fran. Aylworth purchased it of Henry Ld. Berkley; and his son Peter Aylworth sold it, in the R. of James I. to Sir Fulk Greville, ancestor of the Ld. Brook, in whose family it still continues. Its Ch. which was given to the canons of Kenilworth by Hen. I. was rebuilt in the R. of Edw. II. The Mt. here is chiefly for black cattle, the Fairs June 14 and Sept. 21.