Surbiton.
Briwingable.
—What is briwingable, from which certain burgesses were exempted in a charter of John's? It cannot be a corruption from borough-gable, because all burgesses had to pay gable.
J. W.
Thomas Kingeston, Knt., called also Lord Thomas Kingeston.
—Can any of your correspondents give any clue or information touching this Lord Kingeston? He lived in the early part of the reign of Edward III.
In the extracts from Aske's Collections relating to the descendants of M. Furneaux, published in the first volume of Coll. Top. and Gen., at p. 248., it is stated:
"Mathew of Bitton was married unto Constantyne Kingston, daughter to the Lord Thomas of Kingston; and of the said Mathew and Constantyne came John of Bitton, which died in Portingale."
In a pedigree (Harl. MSS. 1982. p. 102.) which shows the descendants of Furneaux, the match between "Sir Math. Bitton" and C. Kingston is laid down, and her arms are marked sab. a lion ramp. or.
With regard to Mathew de Bitton, he was son and heir of John de Bitton and Havisia Furneaux. The residence of the family was at Hanham, in the parish of Bitton, Gloucestershire, at a place afterwards called "Barre's Court," from Sir John Barre, who married Joan, the great-granddaughter of the said Mathew. The house abutted on the Chace of Kingswood.