1572 August. On Tewsday being the xix daye of this monthe of August ---- Downing wyfe to ---- Downinge gravemaker of this paryshe she was sett on a new cukking stolle made of a grett hythe and so browght a bowte the markett place to Temes brydge and ther had iij Duckinges over hed and eres becowse she was a common scolde and fyghter. Here are extracts from the burial registers:-- June 4. 1593. John Akerleye wentte too bathe hymsellfe and was drownde & buryede. August 25. 1598. William Hall was bered being shott by thefes when he was Constabl at Coblers Hol. September 28. 1623. Richard Ratlive a Londenner which was slayne. 17 January 1623/4 W^m Foster son of W^m a goer about. This is hardly a burial:-- July 11. 1629. A Bird called a Cormorant light on the top of the steeple and Aaron Evans shot, but mist it. Here are items from the churchwarden's accounts. The parish dog whipper had become an institution:-- 1561. To fawcon for di yere (half a year) whyppyng of doggs oute of the churche. viijd 1578. To wrighte for beating the dogges out of the churche, for half a yeare. vjd. But the morris dance--it was the dances that Kingston would spend money upon. There were two kinds of games which brought gifts to the church, May-games and the Kyngham. What sort of a game the Kyngham was nobody knows, but it brought the churchwardens most of their money: four or five pounds was a good collection. But the expenses could be heavy; there were shoes for the morris dancers, six pairs at 8_d._ a pair; there was silver paper for the dance, 8_d._; and there were for the feast, besides other drinking, a quarter of malt, 4_s._; 5 goce (geese), 15_d._; eggs, 6_d._; lamb, 18_d._; sugar, cloves, and mace, 11_d._; small raisins, 3_d._; saffern, 2_d._; vinegar and salt, 3_d._; 2 cocks, 18_d._; 2 calves, 5_s._ 8_d._; sheep, 12_d._; lamb, 16_d._; quarter of veal, 8_d._; quarter of mutton, 6_d._; leg of veal and a neck, 4_d._ The morris dancers did well, with silver paper and new shoes; but the church kept a feast.