The following list of Discoveries1 of Surveys missing from the Surrey collection in the Augmentation Office Series will be of interest: iv. Traced within the Series: (1) No. 16, Chertsey. Found united with No. 18; now detached and re-covered. (2) King John's House, Redrith, Jan. 1651. Found (3) Oxted (Honour of Bonon, Hagnett and Peveril), (5) Longfield (Honour of Mandeville), 30 May, 1650, v. Traced to State Papers, Domestic Series: (6) Commonwealth, Vol. XVI, No. 140, Oatlands Park Timber. Certificate, 1651. vi. Traced to Webb MSS. (Duchy of Cornwall): (7) Manor of Sale, Sept. 1649. A bound Volume (Baynes Papers), referred to in Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. 7, I, p. 688; purchased by Duchy of Cornwall, 25 June, 1913. Folios 97-114, but two sheets are missing of the original 21 folios, and the foliation is faulty, moreover. vii. Traced to the Land Revenue Office Series: (8) Vol. 297, ff. 9-11, Field Farm, Walton-uponThames. Certificate (1650). (9) Vol. 297, ff. 15-22, Hundred of Godly. Survey and Rental, 15 June, 1652. (10) Vol. 297, ff. 105-112. Oatlands House (Q. Henrietta). June, 1650. (11) Vol. 297, ff. 113-118. Oatlands Park. June, 1650. 1 These were traced by means of clues provided by Add. MSS. 21327, 21328, 23749, 30206, 30207, the printed 1787 List, D.K.P.R. 8 Rep., App. II, and Hist. MSS. Com. (Webb MSS.), 7 Rep. I, p. 688. (12) Vol. 298, ff. 25-26. Oatlands Manor. Certificate, 20 Oct. 1653. (13) Vol. 297, ff. 194-202. Sayes Tenement, Chertsey, May, 1650. (14) Vol. 298, ff. 32-33. Redrick Wood, Egham. Certificate, 24 Oct. 1653. Two only of earlier references to Surrey Surveys remain untraced. These relate to the Manor of Byfleet and Weybridge, namely, a Survey of 1650 and a Certificate of 1653.1 It will be useful also to record the fact that some of the Surrey Surveys have appeared in print since 1779 and 1791, when they were first published in Archeologia. The printed Surveys are Nos. 30, 39-43, 46, 49-51, 54 and 72, all of which will be found in Surrey Archæological Society Collections.3 Although the "Parliamentary Surveys" are so called because they were taken under the authority of Parliament by Acts of various dates, nevertheless some of the documents are not Surveys at all, but merely Certificates of Surveyors relating to premises or their title deeds. Thus, of 87 separate items, 73 are Surveys, and 14 Certificates. "additional to Surveys." In some cases the Surveys are accompanied by Rentals, as in the case of Nos. 31 (a), 33, 45, 46, 55, 63 (a), 70 and 72. The Surrey Surveys comprise examples of every type of royal ownership specified in the Acts for Sale of the Crown Lands. Thus the Queen's lands are included in Chertsey, Egham, Ham, Nonsuch Park, Walton-uponThames, Petersham, and Wimbledon (Nos. 9b, 25, 31, 39– 41, 44-45, 71-72). The lands of the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, in Kennington are recorded in Nos. 33 and 34. All the rest of the Surveys relate to the lands of King Charles I. 1 References will be found in Add. MSS. 23749, f. 91, and 30207, f. 16. It is almost certain that the date is wrongly quoted, and should be 1650; in which case it will be traced to Land Rev. Series, Vol. 296, f. 57, as an insertion in No. 7 of Surrey Surveys. 2 Wimbledon House and Park, Vol. V, 429–439 and X, 399–448. 3 See Vols. V, XIV and XVIII, with miscellaneous references in XIII, 39 and XXII, 192–195. If the Surveys and Certificates be classified according to type of premises or rents, we have this arrangement: (a) Surveys of Hundreds: Brixton, Wallington, Copthorne, Effingham Tandridge and Reigate (Nos. 1-3). (b) Surveys of Manors: Chertsey Beamond, Chertsey and Thorpe, Egham, Ham, Hardwich, Kennington, East Moulsey, Petersham, Richmond, Walton Leigh, Worplesden, Weston als. Barking, and Wimbledon (Nos. 9, 24-25, 31-34, 38, 45-47, 55-57, 70, 72). (c) Surveys of Castles: Guildford (No. 30). (d) Surveys of Parks: Bagshot, Nonsuch (Nos. 5, 39-40). (e) Surveys of former Church and Monastic Lands: Cheane, Chertsey, Egham, Sheene, Wimbledon (Nos. 8, 12, 28-29, 53, 71). Surveys of Rivers, Mills and Quays: Richmond, Southwark, Seale (Thames), (Nos. 48-50, 52). (g) Surveys of Woods: Chertsey, Egham, Long Ditton (Nos. 19, 21-22, 36). (h) Surveys of Warrens: Chertsey, Byfleet and Weybridge (Nos. 4, 6-7). The remainder consist of Surveys of houses and small tenements, and various parcels of lands connected with the foregoing manors. The references to Sales upon the Surveys are few. Major Lewis Awdley is mentioned in connection with the Hundreds as purchaser, May 21st, 1656 (Nos. 1-3), and an early sale of 6 Chas. I is referred to in No. 63 (b) in connection with Sir Charles Harbord. But in Add. MS. 21327 and Add. 30208 there are about 200 references to Sales, Particulars and Conveyances.1 1 See folios 94-97 and 113-114 respectively. Several entries occur in the Surveys relating to discoveries of concealed lands; these will be found in Nos. 35 36, 42, 49-50, 54 and the transferred "Kent, No. 53, the discoverers' names being duly entered both here and in the Surveyor-General's books, where they include Edw. Bushell, Jn. Clarke, Capt. Cleer, Walt. Coules, Wm. Hart, Wm. Hobby, Wm. Moyes, Thos. Smith, Nic. Willis and Major Geo. Wither. One unusual feature of these remarkable Surveys is the introduction of coloured titles and plans, as well as the Arms of the Commonwealth, in some of the Surrey documents; they will be seen, for example, in Nos. 5, 9(5), 27, 41 and 72, and their attractiveness is such as to lend additional interest to the careful and methodical work accomplished by the Commonwealth surveyors. THE SAXON CHURCH AT KINGSTON. BY W. E. ST. LAWRENCE FINNY, M.D., M.CH., Barrister-at-law. The Deputy High Steward of Kingston-upon-Thames. INGSTON-UPON-THAMES has the distinction of K being the crowning-place of the first Kings of all England. More than a thousand years ago "that famous place called Kingston in Surrey" (as it was described in a charter dated A.D. 838), was the crowning-place of the English Kings. Beginning with Edward the Elder, the son and successor of Alfred the Great, seven Kings of England were crowned at Kingston, the ceremony in each case, then as now, being performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. These Kings were Edward the Elder, who was crowned A.D. 902; his sons Athelstan, Edmund, Edred, and Edwy, in succession, afterwards Edward the Martyr and Ethelred II. In addition to these, Edgar and Edmund Ironsides are stated by some historians to have been crowned at Kingston also. The Saxon Coronation Service used at Kingston by the archbishops a thousand years ago still exists, and the same prayers are still in use in our Coronation Service of to-day. There are two recensions of the pre-Conquest Coronation Service; the earliest is inscribed in a manuscript of the ninth or tenth century, and is known as the "Recension of Egbert," the other is known as "The Coronation Order of Ethelred II." These two services are almost the same, the main difference being in the rubrical directions; each consists of three divisions-the Anointment of the King by the Archbishop of Canterbury, after he has taken the oath and been chosen by the people, his Coronation, and the gifts to |