From a date before the
Tudor period until its end it was connected with
Copthorne Hundred, and so was sometimes styled and treated as the Half-hundred of Effingham. It contained the smallest amount of land in Surrey, at 47 to 50
hides. In the
Domesday Book of 1086, Effingham Hundred included the above and two unknown settlements of
Driteham and
Pechingeorde. It was a royal hundred, and in a document of the reign of
Edward I is stated to have been farmed by all its various owners altogether formerly for half a mark per annum, but then for 10
10s. In minor civil dispute settlement, in 1628 the
borough of Kingston received a grant of jurisdiction within the "hundred of Copthorne and Effingham" in compensation for their loss of the privilege of
court leet in Richmond and Petersham and this grant was confirmed by Charles I to in 1638, and as the last vestige of the hundred's influence held good until late 19th century reforms. ==See also==