KINGSTON UPON THAMES, (Surrey) 10 cm. 12 mm. from London, whose old name was Moreford, is so called, from its having been
the residence of several of our Saxon Ks. some of whom were crowned here on a stage in the Mt.-place. It has a wooden
bridge, of 22 piers and 20 arches, over the Thames, which is navigable here by barges; and is generally the place for the
summer assizes of this Co. there being a gallows on the top of the hill that overlooks it. 'Tis a populous, trading, well-
built T. and in the Rs. of K. Edw. II. and III. sent members to Pt. Here is a fr. sc. erected and endowed by Q. Eliz. an
almsh. built in 1670 by ald. Cleave of London, for 6 men and 6 women, and endowed with lands to the value of 80 l. a year;
and a ch. sc. for 30 boys, who are all cloathed. Hircomb's-Place here, lately the seat of Mr. Wright, a bencher of the
Middle-Temple, was the house of the famous King-making E. of Warwick. Here is a spacious Ch. with 8 bells, in which,
besides the pictures of the Saxon Ks. that were crowned here, is K. John's, who gave this T. its first charter of
incorporation. Here is a good Mt. for corn, &c. on S. Fairs on Th. in Whitsun-W. July 22, and Nov. 2, the latter chiefly
for Welch cattle. The bridge was endowed by Mr. Rob. Hamon, its bailiff in 1567, with 40 l. a year in land, for its
maintenance for ever, which took off the toll that was given to support it before. There is another bridge here of brick
over a stream, that comes from a spring in a cellar 4 m. above the T. and forms such a brook, as to drive 2 mills not
above a bowshot from it, and from each other.