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"  AJsTIQriTATES  SEU  HISTOETAEUM  EELIQUIiE  S0NT  TANQUAM  TABULJE 
KATJFRAGII  ;  CUM,  DEFICIENTE  ET  FEEE  SUBMEESA  EEEXJM  MEMOEIA, 
KIHILOMINTJS  HOMINES  INDUSTEII  ET  SAGACES,  PEETINACI  QUADAM  ET 
SCRUPULOSA  DILIGENTIA,  EX  GENEALOGIIS,  FASTIS,  TITULIS,  MONUMENTIS, 
NUMISMATIBUS,  NOMINIBUS  PROPEIIS  ET  STYLIS,  VERBOEUM  ETYMOLOGIIS, 
PEOVEEBIIS,  TEADITIONIBUS.  AECHIVIS,  ET  INSTEUMENTIS,  TAM  PUBLICIS 
QUAM  PEIVATIS,  HISTOEIAEUM  FEAGMENTIS,  LIBEOEUM  NEUTIQUAM  HISTOEI- 
COEUM  LOCIS  DISPEESIS,— EX  HIS,  INQUAM,  OMNIBUS  VEL  ALIQUIBUS, 
NONNULLA  A  TEMPOEIS  DILUVIO  ERIPIUNT  ET  CONSEEVANT.  RES  SANE 
OPEEOSA,  SED  MOETALIBUS  GRATA  ET  CUM  REVEREXTIA  QUADAM  CON- 
JUNCT A." 

"  ANTIQUITIES,  OE  REMNANTS  OP  HISTOEY,  AEE,  AS  WAS  SAID,  TANQUAM 
TABULA  NAUFRAGII  ;  WHEN  INDUSTRIOUS  PERSONS,  BY  AN  EXACT  AND 
SCRUPULOUS  DILIGENCE  AND  OBSERVATION,  OUT  OF  MONUMENTS,  NAMES, 
WORDS,  PEOVEEBS,  TEADITIONS,  PRIVATE  RECORDS  AND  EVIDENCES,  FRAG- 
MENTS OP  STORIES,  PASSAGES  OF  BOOKS  THAT  CONCERN  NOT  STOEY,  AND 
THE  LIKE,  DO  SAVE  AND  EECOVER  SOMEWHAT  FROM  THE  DELUGE  OP 
TIME." — Advancement  of  Learning,  ii. 


3irclui*0lD|ia  Ofanttaua : 


TRANSACTIONS 


OP   THE 


KENT   ARCH^OLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 


VOLUME  XIV. 


Hontion : 

PRINTED  FOR  THE  SOCIETY 


MITCHELL  &  HUGHES,    140  WAEDOUR  STREET,   OXFORD   STREET. 

1883. 


The  Council  of  the  Kent  ArchaoJogical  Society  is  not  answerable 
for  any  opinions  put  forwardin  this  Work.  Each  Contributor  is  alone 
responsible  for  his  own  remarks. 


THE  GETTY  RESEARCH 

IMO-riTI  ITir     I    IDOADV 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

Proceedings,  1880-81: — 

23bd  Aknfal  Meeting  and  Eepoet  (Tenteeden)  . . .  xxxix 
24th  Annual  Meeting  and  Eepoet  (Canteebtjet)...  xliii 
Canons'  Houses  at  Wingham 1 

1.  The  Pamilt  of  GtUldeford.     By  t]ie  Eev.  Canon  B.  G. 

Jenhins 1 

2.  Smaeden  Church.     'Qj  ihe'Rev.  Francis  Saslewood     ...       18 

3.  EoMAN  Leaden   Copein  discoveeed  at  Canteebuby. 

'Bj  a  EoacTi  Smith,  F.S.A 35 

4.  The  Eaelt  History  op  Tenteeden.     By  Bohert  Furley, 

F.S.A 37 

5.  Beiep  Notes  on  the  Hales  Pamily.     By  the  Eev. 

B.  Cox  Hales    61 

6.  On   some  "Weought   Flints   found   at  "West  Wick- 

ham.     By  George  Clinch     85 

7.  Appledoee  Chuech.     'Bj  t\e  "Re^v.  E.  M.  Muriel 91 

8.  The  Church  op  Stone  in  Oxney.     By  the  Eev.  E.  M. 

Muriel  98 

9.  EoMAN  Foundations    at    St.  Pancras,   Canteebuey. 

By  the  Eev.  Canon  Boutledge 103 

10.  St.  Maetin's  Chuech,  Canteebuey.     By  the  Eev.  Canon 

Boutledge 108 

11.  IcKHAM  Church,  its  Monuments  and  its  Eectoes, 

By  the  Eev.  Canon  Scott  Bohertson   113 

12.  A  EoMAN  Villa  at  "Wingham.      By   George  Bowher, 

F.G.S 134 

13.  St.  Eadegund's  Pe^monsteatensian  Abbey.     By  W. 

H.  St.  John  Hope,  B.A 140 

14.  EicHARD    Tichbourne's    House    of    Crippenden,    in 

CowDEN.     B^  t\e'Sie\.  Cajion  Scott  Bohertson    153 

15.  Adisham  Chuech.     By  the  B^eY.  H.  Montagu  VilUers...     157 

16.  FoETY  Eectoes  of  Adisham.     By  the  Eev.  Canon  Scott 

Bohertson  162 


VI  CONTENTS. 

FlOB 

17.  Pateioksbouene  Chtjech,  and  Bifeons.     By  the  llev. 

Canon  Scott  Robertson 109 

18.  Municipal  Aecuives  of  Faveesuam.      By  Francis  F. 

Qiraud  185 

19.  Briefs  in  the  Paeisii  of  Ceanbeook.     By  W.  Tarhutt    206 

20.  Wills  and  otiiee  Eecoeds  eelating  to  the  Family 

OF  HoDSOLL.     'Rj  James  Greenstreet  223 

21.  Kent  Fines,  10-15  Edwaed  II.     By  James  Greenstreet    241 

22.  Cueist  CnuEcn,  Canterbuey  ;  a  Cheonological  Con- 

spectus OF  its  Aechitectuee.     By  the  Rev,  Canon 
Scott  Bohertson     281 

23.  Intentoeies    of    Paeish    Chuech    Goods    in    Kent 

A.D.  1552.     By  the  late  Rev.  Mackenzie  Walcott  and 

the 'Rex.  Canon  Scott  Robertson     290 

24.  Queen  Maey's   Responsibility   foe   Paeish  Chueck 

Goods    seized  in   1553.      By  the  Rev.    Canon  Scott 
Robertson  313 

25.  ToNBEiDGE  Peioey.     By  James  F.  Wadjnore,  A.R.I.B.A.     326 

26.  Chuech  of  All  Saints,  Woodchuech.     By  the  Rev. 

S.  B.  Wells  344 

27.  Rectors  of  Woodchuech.     By  the  Rev.   Canon  Scott 

Robertson  354 

28.  Haelakenden    Family.      By    the    Rev.    Canon    Scott 

Robertson  358 

29.  Smallhythe  Chuech.     By  the  Rev.  Francis  Haslewood    362 

30.  Chapel  at  Hoene's  Place,  Appledoee.     By  the  Rev. 

Canon  Scott  Robertson 363 

31.  On  a  Hoaed  of  Roman  Coins  found  in  the  Sand  Hills 

near  Deal.     By  C.  Roach  Smith,  F.S.A 368 

32.  On  Kentish  Rood-screens.     By  the  Rev.  Canon  Scott 

Robertson  370 

33.  Chuech    of    All   Saints,  Eastchuech,   Shepey.     By 

the  Rev.  Canon  Scott  Robertson 374 

Index    389 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 

♦ 

PAGB 

1.  Old  Houses  at  Wingham to  face    1 

2.  Pedigree  of  G-uldef ord     , hettoeen  4  and  5 

3.  Smarden  Church,  after  restoration    18 

4.  Sinarden  Church,  before  restoration 19 

5.  Ancient  Fresco  in  Smarden  Church  20 

6.  Low-side  Window,  Sedilia,  Piscina,  and  Perfusorium 24 

7.  Grrotesque  Head  in  Smarden  Church 29 

8.  Altar  Presco  31 

9.  Nave  Reredos,  Smarden  Church 32 

10.  Roman  Coffin  of  Lead,  found  at  Canterbury  to  face    35 

11.  Tenterden  Place toface    61 

12.  At  Tenterden  Place  : — the  Well  House,  and  Garden 

Arbour     toface    62 

13.  Portrait  of  old  Sir  Edward  Hales  (the  first  baronet)  toface    64 

14.  Portrait  of  young  Sir  Edward  Hales  (the  second 

baronet)  toface  68 

15.  Flint  Celts  from  West  Wickham,  Fig.  1.  and  Fig.  2  86 

16.  Flint  Arrowhead    87 

17.  Flint  Spearhead     87 

18.  An  Ovoid  Flint  from  West  Wickham    88 

19.  Appledore  Church,  Altar  Tomb    toface  91 

20.  Appledore  Church,  Western  Doorway toface  92 

21.  Two  Views  of  the  Ruins  of  St.  Pancras  Chapel,  Can- 

terbury       toface  103 

22.  Plan  of  the  Site  of  St.  Pancras  Chapel,  Canterbury  toface  104 

23.  Two  Views  of  St.  Martin's  Church,  Canterbury toface  109 

24.  Font  and  Piscina  in  St.  Martin's  Church,  Canter- 

bury       toface  110 

25.  Tomb  of  a  Knight  in  the  South  Transept  of  Ickham 

Church     toface  119 

26.  Roman  Bath    (at  Wingham)  having  walls  covered 

with  mosaic toface  135 


Vlll  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

PIGS 

27.  Plan  of  Bath,  and  adjacent  Eooins,  of  a  Eoman 

Villa  at  Wiugham   between  136  and  137 

28.  Plan  of  St.  Eadegund's  Abbey    behveen  144  and  145 

29.  Plan  of  the  Abbey  Church  of  St.  Radegund  to  face  147 

30.  View  of  the  Hall  at  Crippeuden,  in  Covvden to  face  153 

31.  Ancient  Reredos  of  Wood,  in  Adisham  Church to  face  159 

32.  North  side  of  Adisham  Church  (exterior) 161 

33.  Pedigree  of  HodsoU between  224  a)id  225 

34.  Patriarchal  Chair  of  the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury  to  face  284 

35.  Plan  of  the  Site  of  Tonbridge  Priory  to  face  326 

36.  Exterior  of  Priory  Ruins,  Tonbridge,  a.d.  1838 to  face  336 

37.  Interior  of  Priory  Ruins  at  Tonbridge,  a.d.  1838  ...  to  face  339 

38.  Church  of  All  Saints,  "Woodchurch  (interior)  344 

39.  Church  of  All  Saints,  "Woodchurch  (exterior) 353 

40.  Plans,  and  View  of  the  east  end  of  Chapel  at  Home's 

Place,  Appledore    to  face  363 

41.  Details  of  Architecture  in  the  Chapel  at  Home's 

Place    tofaceS64< 

42.  North  and  South  Walls  of  the  Chapel  at  Home's 

Place    to  face  365 

43.  Rood-screen  at  Eastchurch,  in  Shepey to  face  S72 

44.  Interior,  and  Exterior,  Views  of  AU  Saints,  East- 

cburch to  face  374 

45.  Stone  Abns-basin,  on  an  Eastern  Sepulchre,  at  East 

Kirkby  Church,  in  Lincolnshire     377 


^ent  ^Ircfjaeologtcal  ^ociet^. 


OFFICERS,  EULES,  AND  MEMBERS. 

1882. 


prcftiUntt. 

THE  EARL  AMHERST. 

FicC'lJrfsititnts. 

HIS  GRACE  THE  ARCHBISHOP  OF  CANTERBURY. 

TPIE    LORD    LIEUTENANT   OF   KENT— THE    EARL    SYDNEY,   G.C.B. 

THE  MARQUESS  CONYNGHAM. 

THE  EARL  OF  DARNLEY. 

THE  EARL  OF  DARTMOUTH. 

THE  EARL  GRANVILLE. 

THE  EARL  SONDES. 

THE  EARL  STANHOPE. 

THE  VISCOUNT  CRANBROOK. 

THE  VISCOUNT  FALMOUTH. 

THE  VISCOUNT  HARDINGE. 

THE  VISCOUNT  HOLMESDALE. 

THE  VISCOUNT  LEWISHAM,  M.P. 

THE  RIGHT  REV.  THE  LORD  BISHOP  OF  ROCHESTER. 

THE  LORD  DE  L'ISLE  AND  DUDLEY. 

THE  LORD  HARRIS. 

THE  LORD  BRABOURNB. 

THE  LORD  HOTHFIELD. 

THE  RIGHT  REV.  THE  LORD  BISHOP  OF  DOVER. 

THE  HONOURABLE  J.  M.  O.  BYNG. 

SIR  E.  C.  DERING,  BART. 

SIR  EDMUND  FILMER,  BART.,  M.P. 

SIR  WALTER  JAMES,  BART. 

SIR  WYNDHAM  KNATCHBULL,  BART. 

SIR  JOHN  LUBBOCK,  BART.,  M.P. 

SIR  CHARLES  H.  MILLS,  BART.,  M.P. 

SIR  DAVID  LIONEL  SALOMONS,  BART. 

SIR  WALTER  STIRLING,  BART. 

SIR    SYDNEY  H.  WATERLOW,  BART.,  M.P. 

LIEUT.-GENERAL  SIR  EDWARD  SABINE,  K.C.B. 

THE  VERY  REV.  THE  DEAN  OP  CANTERBURY. 

THE  VERY  REV.  THE  DEAN  OF  ROCHESTER. 

THE  VENERABLE  THE  ARCHDEACON  OF  MAIDSTONE. 

THE  RIGHT  HON.  ALEXANDER  J.  B.  BERESFORD-HOPE,  M.P.,  F.S.A. 

A.  AKERS-DOUGLAS,  ESQ.,  M.P. 

GEORGE  CUBITT,  ESQ.,  M.P. 

THOMSON  HANKEY,  ESQ.,  M.P. 

SAMUEL  MORLEY,  ESQ.,  M.P. 

HENRY  BRINSLEY  SHERIDAN,  ESQ.,  M.P. 

JOHN  GILBERT  TALBOT,  ESQ.,  M.P. 

JAMES  WHATMAN,  ESQ.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

i^Ottorarg  Secretary  anO  ©Uttor. 

THE  REV.  W.  A.  SCOTT  ROBERTSON,  M.A.  (Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury), 
W/i itchall,  Sittinghourne. 

(ALL  THESE  GENTLEMEN  ARE   EX-OFFICIO  MEMBERS  OF  THE  COUNCIL.) 


LIST   OF    OFFICERS.  XI 


<!l?Icctcir  l^emlievg  of  tije  Council. 

Eev.  J.  A.  Boodle West  Mailing. 

Eev.  R,  p.  Coates Darenth,  Dartford. 

Kev.  R.  Dkake StourmoMth. 

R.  FuELEY,  Esq.,  f.s.A Ashford. 

F.  F.  GiRAUD,  Esq Favershavi. 

J.  E.  Hall,  Esq TxmlHdge  Wells. 

G.  E.  HAi^NAM,  Esq Bamsgate. 

J.  J.  Howard,  Esq.,  ll.d.,  p.s.a BlacMieath. 

R.  C.  HusSEY,  Esq.,  f.s.a UarlledoKn. 

Rev.  Canon  R.  C.  Jenkins Lyminge. 

Rev.  E.  H.  Lee Chiddingstone. 

Jno.  Monckton,  Esq 3Jaidstone. 

G.  W.  Norman,  Esq Bromley. 

Rev.  a.  J.  Pearman MerstMm. 

C.  R.  C.  Petley,  Esq • Riverhead. 

Charles  Powell,  Esq Speldhurst. 

Rev.  Canon  J.  C.  Robertson Canterlury. 

Flaxman  C.  J.  Spurrell,  Esq Belvedere,  Lessness  Heath. 

J.  Fremlyn  Streatfeild,  Esq London. 

Captain  Tylden  Pattenson Blddenden. 

George  Payne,  Esq.,  Jun Sittingboume. 

Henry  Bacheler  Walker,  Esq JVew  Romney. 

W.  Walter,  Esq Rainham. 

S^rustees. 

The  Earl  Amherst. 
The  Lord  Brabouune. 
James  Whatman,  Esq. 
Matthew  Bell,  Esq. 

^uBitors. 

R.  C.  HussEY,  Esq.,  f.s.a. 
Canon  Edward  Moore. 

Clerlt  anU  Curator  at  piatOstonf. 

Me.  Edward  Bartlett,  The  Museum,  Maidstone. 

iSauHcris. 

Messrs.  Wigan,  Mercer,  and  Co.,  Maidstone. 

(London  Correspondents,  Messrs,  Smith,  Payne,  and  Smiths.) 

Messrs.  Hammond  and  Co.,  Canteriury. 

(London  Correspondents,  Messrs.  Glyn  and  Co.) 


(     xii     ) 
HONORARY    LOCAL    SECRETARIES. 


^sflfot'^  Dtstt'tcl. 
J.  D.  Norwood,  Esq Ashford. 

ISIachfieatf)  anii  HetDisfiam  JBiiXtitX. 

Me.  W.  Hughes 140  Wardour  Street,  w. 

SAMUEL  EDWARDS,  ESQ ^i  EUiot  Parh,  LcwisMm, 

JSronilej)  Utstiict, 

J.  W.  ILOTT,  Esq BeecJifieU,  Bromley. 

CantciIiurB  IStstrict. 

K-.H.G.EOLT rStciS„^"'*- 

Craiitroofe  IBtstnct. 
Mr.  T.  J.  Dennett Cranbrook. 

JBartfovlr  IBtstrict. 
F.  C.  J.  Spurrell,  Esq Belvedere,  Lessness  Heath. 

Pober  2Btstrtct. 
Edward  Fereand  Astley,  Esq.,  m.d.     .     .     .    Marine  Parade,  Dover. 

<!5astfg    JBtstrtct. 

SIR  WALTER  James,  BART ^BeUeshmiger  Park,  Sand- 

jfaberstiam  district. 

F.  F.  GiRAUD,  Esq South  House,  Favershum. 

jfolfeestone  litfitrict. 
Wm.  Wightwick,  Esq Folkestone. 

(Krabefieni  Jlistrtct. 

G.  M.  Arnold,  Esq Gravesend. 

Ssle  of  Cl^anet  IBtstrtct. 

n    Tf    TT.-.T-VT.,,    -c^^  ( Brojnstoie    House,   Rams- 

G.  E.  Hannam,  Esq ■[    ^^^^_ 

ILotilron, 

Mr.  W.  Hughes 140  Wardour  Street,  w. 

^atlrstone  Htstttct. 
Mr.  Edward  Bartlett Maidstone  Museum. 

iHalltng  IBistrict. 
Rev.  J.  A.  Boodle West  Mailing. 

NetD  Komnes  Jiistrtrt. 
John  Humphery,  Esq New  Romney. 

<Koc]&eBtci-2IIBt6trict. 
A,  A,  Arnold,  Esq Tlie  Precincts,  Rochester. 


SOCIETIES    IN   UNION.  XIU 

SanitDic]&  ©istrirt. 

Rev.  W.  F.  Sha-w Eastry, 

Sebeiioafes   IBistiict. 
George  F.  Carnell,  Esq Sevenoaks. 

Stttingioiinie  Histrtct. 
Geo.  Payne,  Esq.,  Junior Sittingbotime. 

Centertreti  district. 
Rev.  S.  C.  Tress  Beale       Tenterden. 

©unifttrge  Histrtct. 
J.  F.  Wadmore,  Esq Tunhridge. 

JTuntrftigc  51S3en6  Wi^XxitX. 
„  f  Speldhurst,   Tnnhridge 

Charles  Powell,  Esq -j     Wells. 

21iaaf6terl&am  ZBtstttct. 
J.  Board,  Esq Westerham. 


SOCIETIES    IN    UNION. 

For  Interchange  of  Publications,  etc. 


The  Society  of  Antiquaries, 

The  Royal  Archaeological  Institute  of  Great  Britain. 

The  British  Archteological  Association. 

The  Society  of  Antiquaries  of  Scotland. 

The  Architectural  Museum,  18  Tufton  Street.  Westminster. 

The  Numismatic  Society. 

The  London  and  Middlesex  Arch^ological  Society. 

The  Historic  Society  of  Cheshire  and  Lancashire. 

The  Kilkenny  and  South-east  of  Ireland  Archajological  Society. 

The  Lincoln  Diocesan  Architectural  Society. 

The  Norfolk  and  Norwich  Archaeological  Society. 

The  Suffolk  Institute  of  Archseology. 

The  Surrey  Arch^ological  Society. 

The  Sussex  Archaeological  Society. 

The  Wiltshire  Archaeological  and  Natural  History  Society. 

The  Somersetshire  Archjeological  and  Natural  History  Society,  Taunton  Castle. 

Soci6t6  Ai'ch^ologique  de  Dunkerque. 

The  Society  of  Antiquaries,  Normandy. 

The  Society  of  Antiquaries,  Picardy. 

The  Society  of  Antiquaries,  Poitiers. 

The  Abbeville  Society  of  Emulation. 

The   Bristol   and   Gloucestershire  Archaeological   Society   (Rev.    W.    Bazeley, 

Matson  Rectory,  Gloucester). 
The  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Society  (Rev.  S.  S.  Lewis,  Corpus  Christi  College). 
The  Powysland  Club,  Morris  C.  Jones.  Esq.,  Gungrog,  near  Welshpool. 
Societa  Romana  di  Storia  Patria,  Biblioteca  Chigiana,  Palazzo  Chigi,  Roma. 
The  Derbyshire  Archaeological  Society  (Arthur  Cox,  Esq.,  Mill  Hill,  Derby). 


.ules  of  t^e  l^eut  ^rc^ieological  cS'Oxutg. 


1.  The  Society  shall  consist  of  Ordinary  Members  and  Honorary 
Members. 

2.  The  afl'airs  of  the  Society  shall  be  conducted  by  a  Council  consist- 
ing of  the  President  of  the  Society,  the  Vice-Presidents,  the  Honorary 
Secretary,  and  twenty-four  Members  elected  out  of  the  general  body  of 
the  Subscribers  :  one-fourth  of  the  latter  shall  go  out  annually  in  rotation, 
but  shall  nevertheless  be  re-eligible ;  and  such  retiring  and  the  new  elec- 
tion shall  take  place  at  the  Annual  General  Meeting  :  but  any  intermediate 
vacancy,  by  death  or  retirement,  among  the  elected  Council,  shall  be  filled 
up  either  at  the  General  Meeting  or  at  the  next  Council  Meeting,  which- 
ever shall  first  happen.  Five  Members  of  the  Council  to  constitute  a 
quorum . 

3.  The  Council  shall  meet  to  transact  the  business  of  the  Society  on 
the  second  Thursday  in  the  months  of  March,  June,  September,  and 
December,  and  at  any  other  time  that  the  Secretary  may  deem  it  expe- 
dient to  call  them  together.  The  June  Meeting  shall  always  be  held  in 
London  ;  those  of  March,  September,  and  December  at  Canterbury  and 
Maidstone  alternately.  But  the  Council  shall  have  power,  if  it  shall 
deem  it  advisable,  at  the  instance  of  the  President,  to  hold  its  meetings 
at  other  places  within  the  county  ;  and  to  alter  the  days  of  Meeting,  or  to 
omit  a  quarterly  meeting  if  it  shall  be  found  convenient. 

4.  At  every  Meeting  of  the  Society  or  Council,  the  President,  or,  in 
his  absence,  the  Chairman,  shall  have  a  casting  vote,  independently  of  his 
vote  as  a  member. 

5.  A  General  Meeting  of  the  Society  shall  be  held  annually,  in  July, 
August,  or  September,  at  some  phice  rendered  interesting  by  its  antiquities 
or  historical  associations,  in  the  eastern  and  western  divisions  of  the 
county  alternately,  unless  the  Council,  for  some  cause  to  be  by  them 
assigned,  agree  to  vary  this  arrangement ;  the  day  and  place  of  meeting 
to  be  appointed  by  the  Council,  who  shall  have  the  power,  at  the  instance  of 
the  President,  to  elect  some  member  of  the  Society  connected  with  the 
district  in  which  the  meeting  shall  be  held,  to  act  as  Chairman  of  such 
Meeting.  At  the  said  General  Meeting,  antiquities  shall  be  exhibited, 
and  papers  read  on  subjects  of  archasological  interest.  The  accounts  of 
the  Society,  having  been  previously  allowed  by  the  Auditors,  shall  be 
presented ;  the  Council,  through  the  Secretary,  shall  make  a  Report  on 
the  state  of  the  Society ;  and  the  Auditors  and  the  six  new  Members  of 
the  Council  for  the  ensuing  year  shall  be  elected. 

6.  The  Annual  General  Meeting  shall  have  power  to  make  such 
alterations  in  the  Eules  as  the  majority  of  Members  present  may  approve : 
provided  that  notice  of  any  contemplated  alterations  be  given,  in  writing, 
to  the  Honorary  Secretary,  before  June  the  1st  in  the  then  current  year, 
to  be  laid  by  him  before  the  Council  at  their  next  Meeting;  provided, 
also,  that  the  said  contemplated  alterations  be  specifically  set  out  in  the 
notices  summoning  the  Meeting,  at  least  one  month  before  the  day 
appointed  for  it. 

7.  A  Special  General  Meeting  may  be  summoned,  on  the  written 
requisition  of  seven  Members,  or  of  the  President,  or  two  Vice-Presidents, 
which  must  specify  the  subject  intended  to  be  brought  forward  at  such 
Meeting  j  and  such  subject  alone  can  then  be  considered. 


RULES   AND    REGULATIONS.  XV 

8.  Candidates  for  admission  must  be  proposed  by  one  member  of  the 
Society,  and  seconded  by  another,  and  be  balloted  for,  if  required,  at  any 
Meeting  of  the  Council,  or  at  a  General  Meeting,  one  black  ball  in  five  to 
exclude. 

9.  Each  Ordinary  Member  shall  pay  an  Annual  Subscription  of  Ten 
Shillings,  due  in  advance  on  the  ist  of  January  in  each  year ;  or  £5  may 
at  any  time  be  paid  in  lieu  of  future  subscriptions,  as  a  composition  for 
life.  Any  Ordinary  Member  shall  pay,  on  election,  an  entrance  fee  of  Ten 
Shillings,  in  addition  to  his  Subscription,  whether  Annual  or  Life.  Every 
Member  shall  be  entitled  to  a  copy  of  the  Society's  Publications ;  but 
none  will  be  issued  to  any  Member  whose  Subscription  is  in  arrear.  The 
Council  may  remove  from  the  List  of  Subscribers  the  name  of  any  Mem- 
ber whose  Subscription  is  two  years  in  arrear,  if  it  be  certified  to  them 
that  a  written  application  for  payment  has  been  made  by  one  of  the 
Secretaries,  and  not  attended  to  within  a  month  from  the  time  of  applica- 
tion. 

10.  All  Subscriptions  and  Donations  are  to  be  paid  to  the  Bankers  of 
the  Society,  or  to  one  of  the  Secretaries. 

IL  All  Life  Compositions  shall  be  vested  in  Government  Securities, 
in  the  names  of  four  Trustees,  to  be  elected  by  the  Council,  The  interest 
only  of  such  funds  to  be  used  for  the  ordinary  purposes  of  the  Society. 

12.  No  cheque  shall  be  dravvn  except  by  order  of  the  Council,  and 
every  cheque  shall  be  signed  by  two  Members  of  the  Council  and  the 
Honorary  Secretary. 

13.  The  President  and  Secretary,  on  any  vacancy,  shall  be  elected  by 
a  General  Meeting  of  the  Subscribers. 

14.  Members  of  either  House  of  Parliament,  who  are  landed  pro- 
prietors of  the  county  or  residents  therein,  shall,  on  becoming  Members 
of  the  Society,  be  placed  on  the  list  of  Vice-Presidents,  and  with  them 
such  other  persons  as  the  Society  may  elect  to  that  office. 

15.  The  Council  shall  have  power  to  elect,  without  ballot,  on  the 
nomination  of  two  Members,  any  lady  who  may  be  desirous  of  becoming 
a  Member  of  the  Society. 

16.  The  Council  shall  have  power  to  appoint  as  Honorary  Members 
any  person  likely  to  promote  the  interests  of  the  Society.  Such  Honorary 
Member  not  to  pay  any  subscription,  and  not  to  have  the  right  of  voting  at 
any  Meetings  of  the  Society ;  but  to  have  all  the  other  privileges  of 
Members. 

17.  The  Council  shall  have  power  to  appoint  any  Member  Honorary 
Local  Secretary  for  the  town  or  district  wherein  he  may  reside,  in  order 
to  facilitate  the  collection  of  accurate  information  as  to  objects  and  dis- 
coveries of  local  interest,  and  for  the  receipt  of  subscriptions. 

18.  Meetings  for  the  purpose  of  reading  papers,  the  exhibition  of 
antiquities,  or  the  discussion  of  subjects  connected  therewith,  shall  be 
held  at  such  times  and  places  as  the  Council  may  appoint. 

19.  The  Society  shall  avoid  all  subjects  of  religious  or  political  con- 
troversy. 

20.  The  Secretary  shall  keep  a  record  of  the  proceedin2;s  of  the  So- 
ciety, to  be  communicated  to  the  Members  at  the  General  Meetings. 


(     xvi    ) 


HONORARY    MEMBERS. 


Matthew  Holbech  Bloxam,  Esq.,  f.s.a.,  Rugby. 

The  Lord  Denman, 

James  Fergusson,  Esq.,  f.r.i.b.a.,  f.r.a.s,,  20  Langham  Place,  W. 

Augustus  W.  Franks,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  British  Museum,  w.c. 

John  Henry  Parker,  Esq.,  C.B.,  F.S.A.,  Oxford. 

M.  le  Grande  Reulandt,  Membre  honoraire  de  la  Soci6t6  d'Histoire  de  la  Flandre 
maritime  de  France,  Membre  correspondant  de  la  Societe  Imp6riale  des 
Sciences  de  Lille,  Controleiu"  dans  I'Administration  des  Finances  de 
Belgique,  etc. 

J.  B.  Sheppard,  Esq.,  23  Old  Dover  Road,  Canterbury. 

Rev.  W.  W.  Skeat,  m.a.  (Professor  of  Anglo-Saxon  in  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge), Salisbury  Villas,  Cambridge. 

C.  Roach  Smith,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Hon.  Member  of  the  Societies  of  Antiquaries  of 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  Scotland,  France,  Normandy,  the  Morini,  Abbeville, 
Picardy,  Copenhagen,  and  Spain,  Temple  Place,  Strood. 

The  Lord  Talbot  de  Malahide,  F.s.A.,  Malahide  Castle,  Dublin. 

The  Right  Rev.  Edward  Trollope,  d.d.,  f.s.a..  Bishop  Suffragan  of  Nottingham, 
Leasingham,  Sleaford,  Lincolnshire. 


(     xvii     ) 

MEMBERS. 

COREECTED    TO    JANUAEY,    1882. 


DENOTES   LIFE   COMPOUNDEES. 


y  

Abbott,  John  0.,  Esq.,  6  Whitehall.  London,  S.w. 

Acton,  Samuel  Poole,  Esq.,  Lyuton  House,  Bromley.  Kent. 

Akers- Douglas,  Aretas,  Esq.,  M.P.,  Chilston  Park,  Maidstone. 

Akers,  Mrs.,  Mailing  Abbey,  West  Mailing,  Maidstone. 

Alcock,  Rev.  John  Price,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  The  College,  Ashford. 

Alcock,  Rev.  John  Price,  juu.,  m.a.,  P>ircliington  Vicarage,  Margate. 

Alexander,  Horace  A.,  Esq.,  16  King  William  Street,  E.c. 

*Alexander,  W.  Cleverley,  Esq. 

*Alexander,  R.  H.,  Esq.,  Mount  Mascal,  Bexley. 

Alexander,  Robert,  Esq.,  C.B.,  Holwood,  Bromley,  Kent. 

Amherst,  The  Earl,  President,  Montreal,  Sevenoaks. 

*Amherst, William  Amhurst  Tyssen,  Efsq..  M.P..  Didlington  Hall,  Brandon, Norfolk . 

Andrews,  Mr.  Henry,  Court  Lodge,  Great  Chart,  Ashford. 

Arnold,  Augustus  A.,  Esq.,  The  Precincts,  Rochester. 

Arnold,  G.  M.,  Esq.,  Milton  Hall,  Gravesend. 

AiTan,  The  Earl  of,  27  Chesham  Street,  s.w. 

Ash,  Rev.  Jarvis  Holland,  D.C.L.,  10  Hungershall  Park,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Aslat,  E.  A.,  Esq.,  C.E.,  8  Naval  TeiTace,  Bheerness. 

Astley,  Edward  Ferrand,  Esq.,  M.D.,  Marine  Parade,  Dover. 

Athenaeum  Club,  The,  Pall  Mall,  s.w. 

*Austen,  Francis,  Esq.,  Capel  Manor,  Horsmonden,  Staplehurst. 

Austin,  Henry  George,  Esq.,  F.K.i.B.A.,  Canterbury. 

Aveling,  Stephen,  Esq.,  Restoration  House,  Rochester. 

Ayers,  Parker,  Esq.,  High  Street,  Charlton,  Dover, 

Baggally,  Sir  Richard  (Lord  Justice),  Cowden,  Edenbridge. 

Bailey,  Rev.  Henry,  d.d.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  Vicar  of  West  Tarring, 

Worthing. 
•  Bailey,  Rev.  J.  Sandford,  M.A.,  Nepeiker  House,  Wrotham. 
Baker,  Brackstone,  Esq.,  21  Belmont  Hill,  Lee,  Kent. 
Baker,  T.  H.,  Esq.,  Owletts,  Cobham,  Gravesend. 
Baldock,  Rev.  William,  Brookland,  Folkestone. 
Ball,  John  Howell,  Esq.,  Strood,  Rochester. 

Balston,  Ven.  E.,  D.D.,  Archdeacon  of  Derby,  Bakewell  Vicarage,  Derbyshire. 
Balston,  W.,  Esq.,  Springfield,  Maidstone. 
Bannan.  James,  Esq.,  New  Romney.  Folkestone. 

*Barrou.  Edward  Jackson,  Esq.,  10  Endsleigh  Street,  Tavistock  Square,  w.c. 
*Barrow,  Francis,  Esq.,  3  Phillimore  Gardens,  Kensington,  w. 
Barrow,  John  S.,  Esq.,  Holmwood,  Speldhurst,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
Bartlett,  Edward,  Esq.,  The  Museum,  Maidstone. 
Bartlett,  W.  J.,  Esq.,  Manstou,  Ramsgate. 
Bass,  E.  T.,  Esq..  Lydd,  Folkestone. 
Bassett,  .James,  Esq.,  Rochester. 

Batem.an,  Wm.,  Esq.,  32  Albion  Terrace,  Sandgate  Road,  Folkestone. 
*Bathurst,  Henry,  Esq. 
Batten,  James,  Esq.,  Highfield,  Bickley,  Bromley,  Kent. 

YOL.   XIT.  6 


XVlll  KENT   ARCHJEOLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 

Battye,  Kcv.  W.  W.,  Hevcr  Rectory,  Edenbridge. 

*Baxtcr,  Wynne  E.,  Esq.,  208  High  StrccJ;,  Lewes. 

Bayden,  Thomas,  Esq.,  llythe. 

Baylcy,  Francis,  Esq.,  (UJ  Cambridge  Terrace,  Hyde  Park,  w. 

Beach,  Fletcher,  Esq.,  M.B.,  Metropolitan  Asylum,  DareuLh,  Dartford. 

Beale,  Rev.  S.  C.  Tress,  M.A.,  Eastgate,  Tcnterden,  Ashford, 

Bcalc,  William,  Esq.,  King  Street,  Maidstone. 

*Bean,  Alfred  Wm.,  Esq.,  Danson  Park,  Welling. 

Bcattic,  Alexander,  Esq.,  47  RedclyfFe  Square,  South  Kensington,  S.W. 

♦Beaumont,  Charles,  Esq.,  Tunljridge  Road,  Maidstone. 

Beeby,  W.  T.,  Esq.,  M.D.,  JBromley,  Kent. 

Beechcno,  Re^.  J.,  Whitwell  Rectory,  Oakham. 

Becching,  Alfred  T.,  ]<]sq.,  Ferox  Hall,  Toubridge. 

Bell,  Major,  Thor,  Birchington,  Margate. 

Bell,  Matthew,  Esq.,  F.G.S.,  Bourne  Park,  Canterbury. 

Benham,  Rev.  W.,  b.d..  The  Vicarage,  Marden,  Staplehurst. 

*Benock,  Francis,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  M.R.S.L.,  19  Tavistock  Square.  W.C. 

Benstcd,  Hubert,  Esq.,  14  Mill  Street,  and  Rockstow,  Maidstone. 

Berens,  Henry  Hulse,  Esq.,  Sidcup,  Chiselehurst. 

Berens,  Rev.  R.  M.,  Sidcup,  Chislehurst. 

Beresford-Hope,   Right  Hon.  Alexander  J.  B,,  M.P.,  d.c.l.,  F.S.A.,   Bedgbury 

Park,  Cranbrook. 
Best,  Major,  Boxley,  Maidstone. 
Bingley,  Rev.  J.  G.,  Suodland  Vicarage,  Rochester. 
Birch,  Rev.  C.  G.  R.,  Brancaster  Rectory,  Lynn  Regis. 
*Bishop,  William,  Esq..  8  Prince  of  Wales  Terrace,  Kensington,  w. 
Blair,  Mrs.,  Finchcox,  Goudhurst. 
Blake,  Thomas,  Esq.,  The  Grange,  Gravesend. 
Blashill,  Thomas,  Esq.,  10  Old  Jewry  Chambers,  E.c. 
Bligh,  The  Lady  Isabel,  Fatherwell  House,  West  Mailing. 
Bliss,  Rev.  J.  W.,  M.A.,  Betteshanger  Rectory,  Sandwich. 
Blomfield,  Rev.  G.  J.,  m.a..  Aldington  Rectory,  Hythe. 
Blore,  Rev.  G.  J.,  D.D.,  King's  School,  The  Precincts,  Canterbury. 
Bloxam,  Richard,  Esq.,  Eltham  Court,  Kent. 
Board,  John,  Esq.,  Springfield,  Westerham,  Edenbridge. 
Bodleian  Library,  The,  Oxford. 
Body,  W.,  Esq.,  Wittersham  Hall,  Ashford. 
Boissier,  Alnutt  R.,  Esq.,  The  Grove,  Penshurst. 
Bolton,  Mr.  Joseph,  King  Street,  Dover. 

*Boodle,  Rev.  John  Adolphus,  M.A.,  West  Mailing,  Maidstone. 
Bottle,  Mr.  Alexander,  Dover. 
Bottle,  Edward,  Esq.,  St.  Martin's  Hill,  Dover. 

Bowyear,  Rev.  Thomas  Kyrwood,  M.A.,  Harbledown  Rectory,  Canterbury. 
*Boys,  Rev.  H.  J.,  m.a.,  St.  John's  Rectory,  Chatham. 
Brabourne,  The  Lord,  The  Paddock,  Smeeth,  Ashford. 
Brabrook,  Edward  W.,  Esq,,  F.s.A.,  M.K.S.L.,  28  Abingdon  Street,  S.W. 
Bradnack,  S.  W.,  Esq.,  Sutherland  House.  The  Leas.  Folkestone. 
Bradstreet,  Rev.  William,  M.A.,  Theberton  Rectory,  Saxmundham,  Suffolk, 
Bramah,  Mrs.,  Davingtou  Priory,  Faversham. 
Bramston,  Rev.  William,  Vicar  of  Minster,  Sheppey. 
Brenan,  Rev.  James  Eustace,  M.A.,  Christchurch  Vicarage,  Ramsgate. 
Brent,  Algernon,  Esq.,  Audit  and  Exchequer  Office,  Somerset  House,  'W.C. 
Brent,  Cecil,  Esq.,  F.s.A.,  37  Palace  Grove,  Bromley,  Kent. 
Brent,  Francis,  Esq.,  19  Clarendon  Place,  Plymouth. 
Brent,  John,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Dane  John  Grove,  Canterbury. 
Briant,  Alfred  J.,  Esq.,  The  Larches,  Northfleet,  Gravesend. 
Bridges,  Rev.  Sir  Brook  G.,  Bart.,  Goodnestone  Park,  Wingham. 
Briggs,  Rev.  Thos.,  Capel  Lodge,  Folkestone. 
Bristowe,  William,  Esq.,  Greenwich,  S.E. 

Brock,  B.  P.  Loftus,  Esq.,  19  Montague  Place,  Russell  Square,  W.C. 
Brockman,  Mrs.  Tatton,  Gore  Court,  Otham,  Maidstone. 
Brooke,  F.  C,  Esq.,  Ufford,  Woodbridge,  Suffolk. 


LIST   OF   MEMBERS.  XIX 

Broom,  Herbert,  Esq.,  ll.d.,  The  Priory,  Orpington,  Chislehurst. 

Brothers,  Mr.  Francis,  Ashford,  Kent. 

Browell,  William  Faulkner,  Esq.,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

*Brown.  James  Koberts,  Esq.,  P.R.G.S.,  14  Hilldrop  Road,  Camden  Road.  N.w. 

Brown,  Wm.,  Esq.,  Quarry  Hill  House,  Tunbridge. 

Browne.  Rev.  Alfred  T.,  m.a.,  Reculver,  Heme  Bay. 

Bryant,  Rev.  G.,  m.a..  Trinity  Vicarage,  Sbeerness. 

Bubb,  Mr.  Robert,  Minster,  Ramsgate. 

Buckingham,  John,  Esq.,  The  Elms,  St.  Peter's,  Ramsgate. 

Bullard,  Miss  Ann.  Strood,  Rochester. 

Bullard,  Charles,  Esq.,  196  High  Street,  Rochester. 

Bullard.  Thomas,  Esq.,  46  Burnt  Ash  Hill,  Lee,  Kent,  S.E. 

Bunyard,  Mr.  F.,  Week  Street,  Maidstone. 

*Burgess,  Major,  Hythe,  Southampton. 

Buri'a,  James  S.,  Esq.,  Ashford. 

Burrell,  Godfrey.  Esq.,.  Rocky  Hill,  Maidstone. 

Burton,  John  M..  Esq.,  19  Lee  Park.  Lee,  S.E. 

*Buttanshaw,  Rev.  John,  M.A..  22  St  James's  Square,  Bath. 

Byng.  The  Honourable  James  M.  0.,  Great  Culverden,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

*Bywater,  Witham  M.,  Esq.,  M.R.Inst.,  5  Hanover  Square,  w. 

Caffin,  Edward,  Esq.,  4  Fenchurch  Street,  E.G. 

Calvert.  Rev.  Thomas.  M.A.,  92  Lansdowne  Place,  Brighton. 

Campbell,  Rev.  E.  J.,  M.A.,  King's  School,  Canterbury. 

Candy,  Rev.  Thomas  Henry,  b.d.,  Rectory,  Swanscombe,  Dartford. 

*Canterbury.  His  Grace  the  Archbishop  of,  D.D.,  Lambeth  Palace,  S.E. 

Canterbury,  The  Very  Rev.  the  Dean  of.  The  Precincts,  Canterbury. 

Cape,  G.  A.,  Esq.,  Utrecht  House,  Abbey  Wood. 

Carnell,  George  F.,  Esq.,  Sevenoaks. 

Carr,  Rev.  J.  Haslewood,  M.A.,  Adisham  Rectory,  Wingham. 

Carr,  Rev.  T.  A.,  M.A.,  Vicarage,  Cranbrook. 

Carr,  Rev.  T.  W.,  M.A.,  Barmiug  Rectory,  Maidstone. 

Carter,  T.  J.,  Esq.,  Charlton,  Dover. 

Castle.  Major,  Bridge  Hill  House,  Canterbury. 

Cave,  Amos,  Esq.,  F.R.G.S.,  Grove  House,  Cornwall  Road,  Brixton  Hill. 

Cazalet,  E.,  Esq..  Fairlawn,  Shipbourne,  Tunbridge. 

•Chalmers,  David.  Esq.,  p.e.s.e.,  f.s.a.  Scot.,  Redhall,  Edinburgh. 

Chambers,  G.  F.,  Esq.,  Northfield,  Eastbourne.  Sussex. 

Charlesworth,  F.,  Esq.,  Widmore,  Bromley.  Kent. 

Chignell,  R.,  Esq.,  Castle  Mount,  Dover. 

Christian,  Ewan,  Esq.,  Ecclesiastical  Commission  Office,  Wliitehall  Place,  s.w. 

Chubb,  Hammond.  Esq.,  Home  Lea,  Bickley,  Bromley,  Kent. 

Clabon,  John  Moxon,  Esq.,  F.G.s.,  21  Great  George  Street,  Westminster,  s.w. 

Clarke,  Chas.  Harwood,  Esq.,  f.s.a.,  Westfield,  Bromley,  Kent. 

Clarke,  G.  Somers,  Esq.,  Walpole,  Chislehurst. 

Clarke,  Joseph,  Esq..  f.s.a.,  13  Stratford  Place,  W. 

Claydon,  Rev.  E.  A.,  M.A..  Luton  Rectory,  Chatham. 

Clements,  George.  Esq.,  Catford  Bridge,  Kent. 

Clements,  Mrs.  William,  St.  Margaret's,  Canterbury. 

Clifford,  Mr.  James,  Maidstone. 

Clift,  Edward,  Esq..  71  Granville  Park,  Lewisham,  S.E. 

Coates,  Rev.  R.  P.,  M.A.,  Darenth  Vicarage,  Dartford. 

Cobb,  Robert  Lake,  Esq.,  Higham,  Rochester. 

Cobb,  Rev.  W.,  M.A.,  Newchurch  Vicarage,  Romney,  Folkestone. 

*Cock,  Ed^vin,  Esq.,  The  Court  Lodge,  Appledore. 

Cockerton,  Richard,  Esq.,  Harnden  House,  Eastry,  Sandwich. 

*Cokayne,  G.  E.,  Esq.,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Lancaster  Herald,  College  of  Arms.  London, 

E.G. 
Coke,  Harriot,  Esq.,  Surgeon,  Ashford,  Kent, 
Coleman.  William,  Esq.,  The  Priory,  Dover. 
Collett,  Rev.  Anthony,  m,a.,  Braboume,  Ashford. 
*Collins,  Breutou  H.,  Esq.,  Dunorlan,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

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XX  KENT   ARCH.Ti:OLOGICAL   SOCIETY. 

Collis,  Kev.  Henry,  M.A,,  St.  Philip's  Vicarage,  Maidstone. 

Colpoys.  A.  A.  G..  Esq.,  2."}  Carisbrodk  Koad.  St.  Leonard's-on-Sea. 

Colson,  R(>v.  Charles.  M.A..  Hon.  <  'anon  of  Kochester,  Cu.\ton  llectory,  Rochester. 

Congress  Library,  Washington,  U.S.A.  (per  Mr.  Allen.  Covent  Garden). 

Oonyngham,  The  Marquess.  Hifrons  Park,  Canterbury. 

Cooke.  George  Nothercoat.  Esq.,  The  Croft,  Debtliug,  Maidstone. 

Cook,  Kev.  .John  Russell,  B.A.,  Preston.  Faversham. 

Cooper,  G.,  Esq.,  4  George  Street,  Croydon. 

Cooper,  Robert.  Esq.,  90  Southwark  Street.  S.E. 

*Corner,  Mr.  John,  Kingston  Villa,  Sydenham  Park,  S.E. 

Gotham,  Rev.  Geo.  Tonlson,  M.A.,  St.  John's  House,  Birchington,  Margate. 

Cotton,  Horace,  Esq.,  Quex  Park,  Birchington,  Margate. 

Couchman,  Mr.  J.  B..  High  Street,  Ramsgate. 

Court,  Percy,  Esq.,  Dover. 

Courthope,  George,  Esq.,  Whiligh,  Hurst  Green. 

*Co\vell,  George.  Esq.,  F.R.C.S.,  1!)  George  Sti-eet,  Hanover  Square,  w. 

Cox,  Lieut.-Colonel  C.  I.,  Q.G.,  Fordwich,  Canterbury. 

Cox,  Frederick  John,  Esq..  Ferndene,  Sidcup,  C!hislehurst. 

Cox,  Homersham,  Esq.,  Marl  Field  House,  Tunbridge. 

Coxhead,  Mr.  Henry,  South-Easteru  Railway,  Ramsgate. 

Cradock,  R.  W.,  Esq..  Myitle  Villa,  Belvedere,  Lessness  Heath,  Kent. 

Crafer,  T.  N.,  Esq.,  Hillside,  Ravensbourne  Road,  Bromley,  Kent. 

Craik,  IMrs.  George.  Shortlands,  Bromley,  Kent. 

Cramp,  Lieutenant  Robert.  Barclay,  Gray,  and  Co.,  Shad  Thames,  S.E, 

Cranbrook,  The  Viscount,  Hemsted,  Cranbrook. 

Cripps.  Wilfred  Joseph,  Esq.,  Farleigh  House.  Saudgate,  Folkestone. 

Cranbrook  Literary  Institute,  Cranbrook. 

Croft,  Rev.  Percy  J.,  M.A.,  Kingstone  Rectory,  Canterbury, 

Cronk,  Mr.  H.  H.,  Dyott  House,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

"'Cubitt,  George,  Esq..  M.P..  Denbies,  Dorking. 

Curling,  Henry,  Esq.,  Augusta  Lodge,  Ramsgate. 

Curteis,  Rev,  T,  S.,  M.A.,  The  Rectory,  Sevenoaks. 

Curtis,  J.  Llewelyn,  Esq..  34  Old  Broad  Street,  E.C. 

Cust,  Lady  Elizabeth,  13  Eccleston  Square,  S.W, 

Cuthell,  Andi-ew,  Esq.,  61  Warwick  Square,  S.W. 

Dampier,  H.  L.,  Esq.,  Friudsbiuy,  Rochester. 

Daniel,  James,  Esq.,  Ramsgate. 

Daniel-Bainbridge,  R.  P.,  Esq.,  Holly  Brake,  Chislehurst. 

Daniel-Tysseu,  see  Tyssen. 

*Danvers,  Juland,  Esq.,  Woodside,  Caterham,  Red  Hill. 

Darbishtre.  H.  A.,  Esq.,  Oakdene.  Edeubridge. 

Darnley,  The  Earl  of,  Cobham  Hall,  Gravesend. 

Dartmouth,  The  Earl  of,  40  Grosvenor  Square,  W. 

Davis,  Edmund  F.,  Esq.,  St.  Peter's,  Ramsgate. 

Dawson,  Mr.  F.  J.,  Rochester. 

De  L'Isle  and  Dudley,  The  Lord.  Penshurst. 

Denne,  Denne,  Esq.,  Elbridge,  Canterbury. 

Denne,  Herbert  Henry,  Esq.,  Elbridge,  Canterbury. 

Dennett,  Mr.  T.  J.,  Cranbrook. 

Dering,  Sir  E.  C,  Bart.,  Surrenden  Dering,  Ashford. 

Devas.  Charles  F.,  Esq.,  Pickhurst  Green,  Hayes,  Beckenham. 

Devaynes,  Miss,  1.5  Dalby  Square.  Cliftonville,  Margate. 

*Devey,  George,  Esq.,  123  New  IJond  Street,  w. 

Dickeson,  Richard,  Esq.,  Market  Lane,  Dover. 

Dickson.  Rev.  R.  H.,  M.A.,  Eastchurch  Rectory.  Sheerness. 

Dixon,  Lieut. -General,  Wood's  Gate,  Pembury,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

*Dobson,  Charles,  Esq.,  Broome  Park,  Betchworth,  Reigate. 

Dodgson,  W.  H.,  Esq..  Hayes  Ford,  Bromley,  Kent. 

"'Dodgson,  W.  O.,  Esq.,  Manor  House,  Sevenoaks. 

Doke,  Wm.  Woodford.  Esq.,  Woodleigh,  Broadwater  Down,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Donne,  Rev.  Charles  Edward,  M.Aj.,  The  Vicarage,  Faversham. 


ADDENDA 


LIST   OF   MEMBERS. 

Prosser,  Mr.  D.,  Sheeruess 

Ronk,  James,  Esq.,  Clare  House,  Tonbrid-e. 


XX  KENT   AKCH.T50L0GICAL   SOCIETY. 

Collis,  Eev.  Henry,  M.A.,  St.  Philip's  Vicarage,  Maidstone. 

Colpoys.  A.  A.  G..  Esq.,  23  Carisbrook  Road,  St.  T.eonard's-on-Sea. 

Colson,  Rov.  Charles,  M.A..  Hon.  Canon  of  Rochester,  Cuxton  Rectory,  Rochester. 

Congress  Library,  Washington,  U.S.A.  (per  Mr.  Allen,  Covent  Garden"). 

Conyugham,  The  Marquess,  Bifrons  Park,  Canterbury. 

Cooke,  George  Nethcrcoat.  Esq.,  The  Croft,  Debtling,  Maidstone. 

Cook,  Rev.  John  Russell,  B.A.,  Preston.  Favcrsham. 

Cooper,  G..  Esq.,  4  George  Street,  Croydon. 

Cooper,  Robert,  Esq.,  90  Southwark  Street,  S.E. 

*Corner,  Mr.  John,  Kingston  Villa,  Sydenham  Park,  s.E. 

Gotham,  Rev.  Geo.  Toulson,  M.A.,  St.  John's  House,  Birchington,  Margate. 

Cotton,  Horace,  Esq.,  Quex  Park,  Birchington,  Margate. 

Couchman,  Mr.  J.  B.,  High  Street,  Ramsgate. 

CoUl't.   Porcv.  F.fifi      Dnvpr 


Cuthell,  Andrew,  Esq.,  61  Warwick  Square,  s.w. 

Dampier,  H.  L.,  Esq.,  Friudsbury,  Rochester. 

Daniel,  James,  Esq.,  Ramsgate. 

Daniel-Bainbridge,  R.  P.,  Esq.,  Holly  Brake,  Chislehurst. 

Daniel-Tysseu,  see  Tyssen. 

'''Danvers,  Juland,  Esq.,  Woodside,  Caterham,  Red  Hill. 

Darbishii'e.  H.  A.,  Esq.,  Oakdene,  Edenbridge. 

Darnley,  The  Earl  of,  Cobham  Hall,  Gravesend. 

Dartmouth,  The  Earl  of,  40  Grosvenor  Square,  W. 

Davis,  Edmund  F.,  Esq.,  St.  Peter's,  Ramsgate. 

Dawson,  Mr.  F.  J.,  Rochester. 

De  L'Isle  and  Dudley,  The  Lord.  Penshurst. 

Denne,  Denne,  Esq.,  Elbridge,  Canterbury. 

Denue,  Herbert  Henry,  Esq.,  Elbridge,  Canterbury. 

Dennett,  Mr.  T.  J.,  Cr'anbrook. 

Dering,  Sir  E.  C,  Bart.,  Surrenden  Dering,  Ashford. 

Devas,  Charles  F.,  Esq.,  Pickhurst  Green,  Hayes,  Beckenham. 

Devaynes,  Miss,  15  Dalby  Square.  Cliftouville,  Margate. 

*Devey,  George,  Esq.,  123  New  l^ond  Street,  W. 

Dickeson,  Richard,  Esq.,  Market  Lane,  Dover. 

Dickson,  Rev.  R.  H.,  M.A.,  Eastchurch  Rectory,  Sheerness. 

Dixon,  Lieut.-General,  Wood's  Gate,  Pembury,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

*Dobson,  Charles,  Esq.,  Broome  Park,  Betchworth,  Reigate. 

Dodgson,  W.  H.,  Esq..  Hayes  Ford,  Bromley,  Kent. 

*Dodgson,  W.  O.,  Esq.,  Manor  House,  Sevenoaks. 

Doke,  Wm.  Woodford.  Esq.,  Woodleigh,  Broadwater  Down,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Donne,  Rev.  Charles  Edward,  M.Ai.,  The  Vicarage,  Faversham. 


LIST  OF   MEMBERS.  XXI 

Dorman,  Thomas.  Esq.,  Sandwich. 

Dove,  J.,  Esq.,  12  Trelover  Road,  South  Kensington. 

Dover,  The  Bishop  of,  The  Precincts,  Canterbury. 

Dover  Proprietary  Library,  The,  Castle  Street,  Dover. 

Dowker,  George,  Esq.,  F.G.S.,  Stourmouth  House,  Winghani. 

D'Oyly,  Rev.  Charles  J.,  M.A.,  Rectory,  Great  Chart,  Ashford. 

D'Oyly,  W.,  Esq. 

Drake,  Mr.  John.  High  Street,  Rochester. 

*Drake,  Rev.  R.,  M.A.,  Stourmouth  Rectory,  Wingham. 

Drakeford,  Rev.  D.  J..  M.A.,  Elm  Grove,  Sydenham,  S.E. 

Dudlow,  Miss,  West  Mailing. 

Dunkin,  Miss.  Dartford. 

Dyke,  Rev.  John  Dixon,  M,A.,  21  Holland  Road,  Brixton,  s.w 

Eastes,  James  S.,  Esq.,  Fairlawn,  Ashford. 

Ebsworth,  Rev.  J.  W.,  M.A..  F.s.A.,  Molash  Vicarage,  Ashford. 

*Eden,  Rev.  Arthi;r,  M.A.,  Ticehurst  Vicarage,  Hawkhurst. 

Edge,  Rev.  \V.  J.,  m.a..  Trinity  Vicarage,  Upper  Tooting,  Surrey. 

Edlmann.  Frederick  J..  Esq.,  Hawkswood.  Chislehurst. 

Edmeades,  Rev.  William  Henry.  M.A.,  Nursted  Court,  Gravesend. 

Edmonds,  William  Curtis.  Esq.,  5  Wrotham  Road,  Gravesend. 

Edwards,  Samuel,  Esq.,  25  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  W.C..  and  4  Eliot  Park,  Lewisham. 

T5dwards,  Mr.  Thos.,  Saracen's  Head  Hotel,  Ashford. 

Elers,  W.  S..  Esq.,  Broomhill  Cottage,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Elliott,  Frank,  Esq.,  New  Hall,  Dymcliurch,  Folkestone. 

Elliott.  G.  E.,  Esq.,  13  Station  Street,  Sittingbourne. 

Elliott,  Henry,  Esq.,  99  Strand,  W.C. 

Elliott,  Mr.  Robert,  The  Cedars,  Ashford. 

Elliott,  Rev.  William  Foster,  M.A. 

*Ellis,  Rev.  J.  H..   m.a.,  Stourton  Rectory,  Bath. 

Ellis.  William  Smith,  Esq.,  Hydecroft,  Charlwcod,  Surrey. 

Elt,  C.  H.,  Esq.,  1  Noel  Street,  Islington,  N. 

Elwes,  Valentine  D.  H.  Cary,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Billing  Hall,  Northampton. 

Elwyn,  Rev.   Richard.  M.A..  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  The  Vicarage,   East 

Farleigh,  Maidstone. 
Elyard,  S.  Herbert,  Esq.,  Holmwood,  South  Norwood  Park,  S.E. 
Essell.  George,  Esq.,  The  Precincts,  Rochester. 
Essell,  George  Ketchley,  Esq.,  The  Precincts,  Rochester. 
Etherington,  Charles,  Esq.,  Temple  Lodge,  Hammersmith,  w, 
Evans,  Francis  O'Grady,  Esq.,  Ramsgate. 
♦Evans,  John,  Esq.,  d.c.l.,  f.r.s.,  f.s.a.,  Nash  Mills,  Hemel  Hempsted. 

Fagge,  Charles.  Esq.,  Hythe. 

*Falmouth,  The  Viscount.  Mereworth  Castle.  Maidstone. 

*Falmouth,  The  Viscountess  (Baroness  Le  Despenser),  Mereworth  Castle,  Maid- 
stone. 
Farnall,  Liei;t.-Colonel.  Wingfield  House,  Manor  Lane,  Lee.  S.E. 
Fellows,  Frank  P..  Esq.,  8  The  Green,  Hampstead,  N.W. 
*Fergusson,  Sir  James  Ranken,  Bart.,  F.S.A.,  Hever  Court,  Gravesend. 
♦Fernandez.  Albert  Henry.  Esq. 

Field.  George  Hanbury,  Esq.,  Ashurst  Park,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
Filmer,  Sir  Edmund,  Bart.,  M.P.,  East  Sutton  Park,  Staplehurst. 
Finn,  Arthur,  Esq.,  Westbrook,  Lydd,  Folkestone. 
Finn.  Edwin,  Esq.,  Lydd,  Folkestone. 
Fisher,  Mr.  Henry,  High  Street,  Ramsgate. 
Fitzgerald,  C.  E..  Esq.,  M.D.,  10  West  Terrace,  Folkestone, 
Fletcher,  Lady  Frances,  Kenward,  Yalding. 
Fletcher,  William,  Esq.,  Bycliffe.  Gravesend. 
Flint,  Rest  W..  Esq.,  .5  St.  George's  Place,  Canterbury. 
Flower,  Rev.  Walker,  M.A..  Worth  Vicarage,  Sandwich. 

*Foljambe,  Cecil  G.  Savile,  Esq.,  m.p.,  2  Carlton  House  Terrace,  Loudon,  S.W. 
Fooks,  E.  J.,  Esq.,  Torquay  Villa,  Milton,  Gravesend. 


Xxii  KENT   ARCHiEOLOGICAL   SOCIETY. 

Fooks,  Octavius  E.,  Esq.,  Wcstcroft,  GravcBcnd. 

Fooks,  W.  C'racrol't,  Esq.,  Howman'a  I'lacc,  Dartford. 

Foord,  CHiarlcs  Ross,  Esq.,  Satis  House.  Kochcster. 

Foord,  Wm.  Wildash,  Escj.,  Aconi  House,  Rochester. 

Forstcr,  W.  Samuel.  Esq.,  8  Eower  Berkeley  Street,  Portman  Square,  W. 

Fox.  Thomas.  Es(].,  Castle  Terrace,  Dover. 

*Foystcr,  llev.  G.  Alfred,  M.A.,  All  Saints'  Rectory,  Hastings. 

Frarapton,  Rev.  T.  Shipdem,  m.a.,  St.  IVIary's,  Piatt,  Sevenoaks. 

Francis,  George,  Esq.,  Birchctts,  Speldhurst,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Franklyn,  Thos.  P.,  Esq.,  Maidstone. 

Frascr,  James,  Esq.,  Solicitor,  Ashford. 

Frecth,  Evelyn,  Esq.,  o  Kcmplay  Road.  Pilgrims'  Lane,  Hampstead,  N.W. 

Fremlin,  R.  J.,  Esq.,  Heathfield,  Maidstone. 

Frend,  Mr.  G.  R.,  St.  George's,  Canterbury. 

♦Friend,  Frederick.  Esq.,  Woollett  Hall,  North  Cray. 

Friend,  James  Taddy,  Esq.,  Northdown,  near  Margate. 

Fry,  Edward  Wickens,  Esq.,  St.  Martin's  House,  Dover. 

Fry,  Miss,  Plashet.  Essex,  E. 

*Fuller,  Rev.  John  Mee,  m.a.,  Bexley  Vicarage. 

Fuller,  Mr.  Samuel,  Queen  Street,  Ramsgate. 

Furley.  Charles  John,  Esq.,  Ashford. 

Furley,  Edvrard,  Esq.,  M.D.,  St.  Leonards-on-Sea. 

Furley,  George,  Esq.,  Canterbury. 

Furley,  Robert,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Ashford. 

Furley,  Walter,  Esq.,  Canterbury. 

Fynmore,  R.  J.,  Esq.,  4  Bluusdon  Buildings,  Sandgate, 

Gardner-Waterman,  Rev.  W.,  Bicknor  Rectory,  Maidstone. 

Garling,  Henry  B.,  Esq.,  Folkestone. 

Gibson,  F.  G.,  Esq.,  Sittingbourne. 

Gibson,  Geo.,  Esq.,  Pencester  Street,  Dover. 

Gilder,  Rev.  Edward,  m.a.,  Ickham  Rectory,  Sandwich. 

Gilling,  Rev.  J.  C,  m.a.,  St.  Mark's  Vicarage,  Kosherville,  Gravesend. 

Giraud,  F.  F.,  Esq..  Town  Clerk,  Faversham. 

Goddard,  Rev.  G.  F.,  M.A.,  Hon.    Canon    of   Rochester,   Southfleet    Rectory, 

Gravesend. 
"'Godfrey-Faussett,  Edmund  G.,  Esq.,  Oaten  Hill,  Canterbury. 
*Godfi-ey-Faussett,  John  Toke,  Esq.,  49  Pall  Mall,  s.w. 
Godfrey-Faussett-Osborue,  H.  B.  G.,  Esq.,  Hartlip  Place,  Sittingbourne. 
Gorham,  Wm.,  Esq.,  Tunbridge. 
Gould.  John,  Esq.,  Gravesend. 

Gow-Steuart,  Herbert,  Esq.,  Fowlers  Park,  Hawkhurst. 
Graburn,  E.  B.,  Esq.,  West  Lodge,  Windmill  Road,  Croydon,  Surrey. 
Grant,  Thomas,  Esq.,  Shirley  House,  Maidstone. 

Granville.  The  Earl,  Walmer  Castle,  and  18  Caiiton-house  Terrace,  s.w. 
*Graves,  Edmund  Robert,  Esq.,  B.A.,  British  Museum,  w.C 
Graves.  W.  T.,  Esq.,  Westfield,  Canterbury. 
Gray,  Mrs.,  Birchington  Hall,  Margate. 
Grayling,  Francis,  Esq.,  Sittingbourne. 
Grayling,  John,  Esq.,  M.D.,  Sittingbourne. 
Green,  Henry  B..,  Esq.,  Ashford,  Kent. 
^Griffiths,  Rev.  John,  D.D.,  Keeper  of  the  Archives,  Oxford. 
Guy,  Mr.  Albei't  L.,  195  High  Street,  Lewisham. 

Hague,  Jenken,  Esq.,  Biddenden,  Staplehurst. 

*  Hales,  Rev.  R.  Cox,  M.A.,  Woodmancote  Rectory,  Hurstpierpoiut. 

Hales,  Mrs.  Ada  Young,  Woodmancote  Rectory,  Hurstpier point. 

Hall,  Charles  T.,  Esq.,  2  Featherstone  Road,  Southall,  Middlesex. 

Hall,  James  Edward,  Esq.,  Brathay  House,  Broadwater  Down,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Hall,  Josiah,  Esq.,  Queenborough. 

Hall,  Rev.  T.  G.,  M.A.,  Hythe  Vicarage. 

Hall,  Rev.  W.  J.,  M.A.,  St.  Martin's  Rectory,  Cannon  Street,  E.G. 


LIST   OF   MEMBERS.  XXIU 

Hallward,  Rev.  T.  W.  0.,  M.A.,  Frittenden  Kectory,  Staplehurst. 

Hambrook,  J.,  Esq.,  Dover. 

Hammond,  William  Oxenden,  Esq.,  St.  Albau's  Court,  Wingham. 

Hankey,  Thomson,  Esq.,  m.p.,  Sbipbourne  Grange,  Tunbridge. 

Hannam,  George  Emilius,  Esq.,  Bromstone  House,  Eamsgate. 

Harcourt,  Cyril  B.,  Esq.,  4  Marloes  Road,  Kensington. 

Hardcastle,  Edward,  Esq.,  New  Lodge,  Hawkhurst. 

Hardinge.  Tiie  Viscount,  South  Park,  Penshurst. 

•Harris,  The  Lord,  Carlton  Club,  s.w. 

Harris,  Dr.,  Minster,  Ramsgate. 

Harris,  John,  Esq.,  Belvedere,  Lessness  Heath. 

Harris,  Thomas  Noel,  Esq.,  Pegwell,  Ramsgate. 

Harris,  Mrs.  S.  T.,  lU  South  Hill  Park,  Hampstead,  N.W. 

Harrison,  The  Venerable  Benjamin,  m.a.,  f.s.a.,  Archdeacon  of  Maidstone,  Canon 

of  Canterbury,  The  Precincts,  Canterbury. 
*Harrison,  James,  Esq.,  Dornden,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
Han-ison,  W.  G.  S.,  Esq.,  To%vn  Clerk,  Folkestone. 
Harrison,  Rev.  Henry.  M.A.,  Kilndown,  Goudhurst. 
Harrison,  Rev.  J.  B.,  m.a.,  Great  Mongeham  Rectory,  Deal,   . 
Hartley,  Colonel  Joseph,  Hartley,  Dartford. 
*Hartridge,  Wm.,  Esq..  Addelam,  Upper  Deal,  near  Walmer. 
Harvey,  James,  Esq.,  Belgrave  Villa,  49  Tufnell  Park  Road,  N. 
*Haslewood,  Rev.  F.  G.,  ll.d.,  Chislet  Vicarage,  Canterbury. 
♦Haslewood,  Rev,  Francis,  A.K.C.,  St.  Matthew's  Rectory,  Ipswich. 
*Hattield,  Capt.  Charles,  Hartsdowu,  Margate. 
Hawkins,  Rev.  E.,  D.D.,  Canon  of  Rochester,  The  Vines,  Rochester. 
Hay  ward,  William  Webb,  Esq..  Rochester. 
Hazlitt,  Wm.,  Esq.,  9  Tavistock  Square,  London,  ■W.C. 
Head,  Walter  Geo.,  Esq.,  Ingress  Cliff,  Greenhithe,  Kent. 
Heale,  Rev.  J.  N.,  M.A.,  Addington  Rectory,  Maidstone. 
Heisch,  Charles,  Esq.,  F.C.S..  Holly  Lodge,  South  Park  Hill  Road,  Croydon. 
Hellicar,  Rev.  A.  G.,  M.A.,  Bromley  Vicarage,  Kent. 
Henderson,  John,  Esq.,  Upton  House,  Sandwich, 
Heywood,  S.,  Esq.,  171  Stanhope  Street,  Hampstead  Road,  N.w. 
Hicks,  Robert,  Esq.,  Ramsgate. 
Hicks,  Mr.,  Parrock  Street,  Gravesend. 

Higgs,  Rev.  Albert  Chas..  M.A.,  Lansdowne  Villa,  Stodart  Road,  Penge,  S.E. 
Hill,  Henry,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  2  Curzon  Street,  Mayfair,  w. 
Hill,  Miss,  Asby  Lodge,  Carlton  Road,  Putney  Hill,  s.w. 
Hill,  Samuel,  Esq.,  2.33  Camden  Road,  London,  K.w. 
Hill,  Rev.  W.  S.,  M.A.,  St.  Nicholas  Vicarage,  Rochester. 
Hillier,  Jas.  T.,  Esq.,  4  Chapel  Place,  Ramsgate. 
Hilton,  S.  Musgrave,  Esq.,  Bramling,  Wingham. 
Hilton,  Captain  Thomas,  Selling,  Faversham. 
Hilton,  T.,  Esq.,  M.D..  Deal. 
Hinds,  H.  T.,  Esq. 

Hingestone,  Charles  Hilton,  Esq..  30  Wood  Street,  E.G. 
Hirst,  Rev.  Thomas,  m.a.,  Bishopsbourne  Rectory,  Canterbury. 
Hoar,  Edward,  Esq.,  King  Street,  Maidstone. 
Hobbes,  Robert  George,  Esq.,  H.M.  Dockyard,  Chatham. 
Hoblyn,  "Richard  A.,  Esq.,  2  Sussex  Place,  Regent's  Park,  s,w, 
Hodgson,  Rev,  Canon  John  George,  M.A.,  Saltwood  Rectory,  Hythe. 
Hodsoll,  J.  H.,  Esq.,  Loose  Court,  Maidstone. 
Hodsoll^  Charles  M.,  Esq.,  Loose  Court,  Maidstone. 
HoUingworth,  John,  Esq.,  Turkey  Court,  Maidstone. 
HoUingworth,  Thos.,  Esq.,  Turkey  Court,  Maidstone. 
Holmes,  Rev.  J.  R.,  m.a.,  Eastry  House,  near  Sandwich. 
*Holmesdale,  Viscount,  M.P.,  Linton  Park,  Maidstone, 
Homewood,  Chas.  E.,  Esq.,  Ufton,  Sittingbourne, 
Homewood,  Mr.  William  Joseph,  Gravesend. 
Hooker,  Ayers,  Esq.,  Lessness  Heath,  Kent. 
*Horner,  Edward,  Esq.,  May  Place,  Crayford. 


XXIV  KENT   AllCHiEOLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 

Horrocks,  Major,  Mascals,  Brenchley,  Staplehurst. 

Hothficld,  tbe  Lord,  Hothfield.  Ashford. 

♦Hnvciidcii,  RolxTt.  Esq.,  llcathcote,  I'ark  Hill  Road,  Croydon. 

Howard,  Joseph  Jackson.  K.sq..  ll.d.,  K.S.A.,  3  Dartmouth  Kow,  Blackhcath,  8.E. 

Hughes,  George,  Esq.,  0  Canipdcn  House  Road,  Kensington,  w. 

Hughes,  Henry,  Esq.,  G7  Frith  Street,  Soho,  w. 

Huglies,  W.,  Esq.,  81)  Alexandra  Koad,  South  Hampstead,  N.W. 

Hughes-Hallett.  llev.  James,  Higham  House,  Canterbury. 

Hulburd,  Mr.  James,  High  Street,  Sittingbourue. 

Humphery.  John,  Esq.,  New  Roniney.  Folkestone. 

Hunt,  Rev.  Robert  Shapland,  Jl.A.,  ^Fark  Beech,  Edcnbridge. 

Hussey,  Re\\  Arthur  Law,  M.A.,  Dui'ham  House,  Folkestone. 

Hussey,  Edward,  Esq.,  Scotney  Castle,  Lamberhurst. 

*Hussey,  Edward  Law,  Esq.,  F.R.C.S.,  Oxford. 

Hussey,  Heury  Law,  Esq.,  10  New  Square,  Lincoln's  Inn,  W.C. 

Hussey,  Rev.  William  Law,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester,  Ringstead  Rectory, 

Lynn,  Norfolk. 
Hussey,  Richard  C,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Harbledown,  Canterbury. 
Huxley.  Rev.  Thomas  Scott.  M.A. 
Hyde.  Mrs.  Moore.  77  Cambridge  Gardens,  North  Kensington,  w. 

Igglesden,  Mr.  Charles,  Gore-hill  House,  Ashford. 
Hott,  James  William,  Esq.,  Beechfield,  Bromley. 

Jackson,  Captain,  The  Deodars,  Meopham,  Gravcscnd. 

Jackson,  John  Flower,  Esq.,  Bourne  House,  Bexley. 

James,  Francis,  Esq.,  Edgeworth  Manor,  Cirencester. 

James,  J.  B.,  Esq.,  London  and  County  Bank.  Canterbury. 

James,  Sir  Walter.  Bart..  Betteslianger,  Sandwich. 

James.  Mrs.  W..  Wormdall,  South  Fields,  Putney,  S.W. 

Janson,  E.,  Esq.,  Etherton,  Speldhurst,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Jarflinc,  John  Lee,  Esq.,  Capel.  Dorking. 

JeafEreson,  W.  J.,  Esq.,  15  Clifton  Gardens,  Folkestone. 

*Jeffery,  Counsell.  Esq.,  30  Tredegar  Square,  Bow,  E. 

*JefIreys,  Rev.  H.  A..  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  The  Vicarage,  Hawkhurst. 

Jenkins.  Rev.  R.  C.  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury.  Lyminge  Rectory.  Hytlie. 

Jenkiusou,  F.  J.  H.,  Esq.,  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 

Jeuner,  Mr.  W.  M.,  Sandgate,  Folkestone. 

Johnston,  Rev.  W.  A.,  Thorndean,  Swingtield.  Canterbury. 

Jones,  Francis,  Esq.,  Scott's  Wharf,  Dockhead,  S.E. 

*Jones,  Herbert,  Esq.,  Montpelier  Row,  Blackheath. 

Jones,  Herbert  Francis,  Esq.,  Bryn  Teg,  Sidcup. 

Jones,  R.  H.,  Esq..  Clyde  House,  Maison  Dieu  Road,  Dover. 

Jones,  Rev.  Wm.  Taylor,  M.A.,  Heme  House,  Cliftonvillc,  Margate. 

Joy,  Henry  Winkles,  Esq..  Maidstone. 

Jupe,  G.,  Esq.,  Duchy  of  Cornwall  Office,  1  Buckingham  Gate,  S.W. 

Keith,  Rev.  William  A.,  M.A.,  Burham.  Rochester. 

Kennard,  Stephen  P.,  Esq.,  17  Kensington  Palace  Gardens,  w. 

Kennett.  John,  Esq.,  Nether  Court  Farm,  Ramsgate. 

Kersey,  Dr..  1  Temple  Villas.  Maison  Dieu  Road,  Dover. 

*Keyser,  Charles  E.,  Esq.,  Merry  Hill  House,  Bushey,  Watford. 

Kibble,  Thomas,  Esq.,  Green  Ti-ees,  Tunbridge. 

Kiddell,  John  Dawson.  Esq.,  48  Mark  Lane,  E.G. 

King,  S.  H.,  Esq.,  Hiiden  Grange,  Tunbridge. 

Kingsford.  Kenneth,  Esq.,  Littlebourne  Lodge,  Sandgate. 

Kingsford,  Cottenham,  Esq.,  Buckland,  Dover. 

Kirkpatrick,  Major  John,  Horton  Park,  Hythe. 

Knatchbull,  Sir  Wyndham,  Bart.,  Mersham  Hatch,  Ashford. 

Knight,  D..  Esq.,  Davenport  Lodge,  Grave.send. 

*Knill,  Stuart,  Esq.,  The  Crosslets  in  the  Grove,  Blackheath,  S.E. 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS.  XXV 

Knocker,  Colonel  E.  W.,  Castle  Hill  House,  Dover. 

Knocker,  Edward,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Cameron  Lodge,  St.  John's,  Ryde. 

Kuollys,  Rev.  W.  F.  Erskine,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  Wrotham. 

*Kuyvett,  Felix,  Esq.,  Asliwellthorpe,  Watford,  Herts,  and  St.  Stephen's  Club,  s.w. 

Lake,  George  H.,  Esq.,  43  Pevensey  Road,  St.  Leonard's-on-Sea. 

Lake,  James.  Esq.,  Monkton,  Ramsgate. 

Lambard,  Multon,  Esq.,  Beechmont,  Sevenoaks. 

♦Lambert,  George,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  11  Coventry  Street,  W. 

Lang,  E.  A.,  Esq.,  Sheeruess. 

Laughorne,  Rev.  John,  m.a.,  The  Grammar  School,  Rochester. 

Laugston,  John.  Esq.,  Strood. 

Larking,  John  Wingfield,  Esq.,  The  Firs,  Lee,  S.E. 

Larking,  Miss,  The  Firs,  Lee,  S.E. 

Latham,  Albert,  Esq. 

Latter,  Robinson,  Esq.,  Pixfield,  Bromley,  Kent. 

Laurence.  William,  Esq.,  Maidstone. 

*Lavers,  Nathaniel  Wood,  Esq.,  Endell  Street,  Bloomsbury,  w.c. 

Laurie.  Colonel,  Mystole  Park,  Canterbury. 

Law,  Miss,  Osborne  House,  Cliftouville,  Margate. 

Law,  Edward,  Esq.,  Grosvenor  Place,  Margate. 

*Layton,  Thos.,  Esq.,  22  Kew  Bridge  Road,  Kew  Bridge,  Middlesex,  w. 

*Leathes,  Rev.  Stanley,  d.d.,  Rector  of  CliiJe-at-Hoo,  Rochester. 

Lee,  Rev.  Edward  Henry,  B.A.,  Chiddingstone  Rectory,  Edenbridge. 

*Legg,  J.  Wickham,  Esq.,  m.d.,  47  Green  Street,  Park  Lane,  W. 

Legge,  The  Hon.  and  Rev.  Augustus,  Hon.  Canon  of  Rochester,  The  Parsonage, 

Sydenham,  S.E. 
*Legge,  The  Hon.  and  Re!.v.  H.,  d.c.l..  The  Hollies,  Blackheath,  S.E. 
Lendon,  E.  E.,  Esq.,  Fire  Office.  Maidstone. 

Lennard,  Colonel  Sir  John  Farnaby,  Bart.,  West  Wickham  Court,  Beckenham,  S.E. 
*Levesou-Gower,  Granville,  Esq.,  F.s.A.,  Titsey  Place,  Limpsfield,  Surrey. 
Lewis.  Rev.  Gerrard,  M.A.,  St.  Paul's  Vicarage,  Cliftonville,  Margate. 
Lewisham,  Viscount,  m.p.,  40  Grosvenor  Square,  w. 
Lias.  Hy.  John,  Esq.,  Greville  House,  Ferndale  Park,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
Library  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Canterbury. 
Lister,  — ,  Esq. 

Little,  Rev.  J.  R.,  M.A.,  Park  House,  Tunbridge. 
Little,  W.  R.,  Esq.,  18  Park  Street.  Grosvenor  Square,  W. 
Liverpool  Free  Public  Library.  Liverpool. 

Lloyd,  Rev.  lorwerth  Grey,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Hersham  Vicarage,  Walton-on-Thames. 
Lloyd,  Rev.  S.  W.,  ii.A.,  Barham  Rectory,  Canterbury. 
*Loyd,  Edward,  Esq.,  Lillesden,  Hawkhurst,  Kent. 
Loader,  Ricliard  A.  C.  Esq.,  18  Buckland  Crescent,  Belsize  Park,  N.W. 
Lobb,  Rjv.  S.  B.,  M.A.,  Kennardiugtou  Rectory,  Ashford,  Kent. 
Lochec,  Alfred,  Esq.,  M.D.,  Canterbury. 

Loftie,  Rev.  W.  J.,  B.A..  3«  Sheffield  Terrace,  Campden  Hill,  Kensington. 
London,  The  Librarian  {pro  tern.)  of  the  Corporation  of  the  City  of,  Guildhall. 
Jjoudon  Library,  The.  12  St.  James's  Square.  S.W. 

*Lowndes,  G.  Alan,  Esq.,  Barrington  Hall,  Hatfield  Broad  Oak,  Harlow,  Essex. 
Lowry,  Thomas  Harvey,  Esq.,  M.D.,  West  Mailing,  Maidstone. 
*Lubbock,  Sir  John,  Bart.,  M.P.,  High  Elms,  Farnborough. 
Lucey.  Rev.  E.  C,  m.a.,  St.  Margaret  at  Cliffe,  Dover. 
Luck,  Everard  T.,  Esq.,  Went  House,  West  Mailing,  Maidstone. 
*Luck,  F.  G.,  Esq.,  The  Olives,  Wadhurst,  Sussex. 

Mace,  J.  Ellis,  Esq.,  jun.,  Tenterden. 

Mace,  W.  G.,  Esq.,  Town  Clerk,  Tenterden. 

Mackay,  Hy.  Ramsay,  Esq.,  Petham  House,  Canterbury. 

Mackeson,  H.  B.,  Esq.,  F.G.S.,  Hythe. 

Mac  Lachlan,  Rev.  E.  H.,  M.A.,  Monkton  Vicarage,  Ramsgate. 

MacMorland,  Edward,  Esq.,  Courtfield  Gardens,  South  Kensington. 

MacQueen,  General,  Tintock  House,  Canterbury. 


XXVI  KENT   ARCniEOLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 

*Malcolm,  John,  Esq.,  Caltonmoor,  Argyllshire. 

Miuiscl,  Lady,  The  Heath,  Wrutliam. 

MiirshiiU,  Dr.,  l.'J  Liverpool  Street,  Dover. 

Miirsham,  Miss  Jones,  Haylc  Place,  Maidstone. 

]\L'irsliam,  Rev.  .1.  Jacob,  Ji.A.,  Shornc  Vicarage,  Gravescnd. 

Marten,  John,  Esq.,  Ensdon,  Chilham. 

Masou,  G.,  Esq.,  Kenley,  K.8.O.,  Surrey. 

Master,  Kev.  G.  S..  M.A.,  West  Dean  llectory,  Salisbury. 

Matthews,  — ,  Esq.,  U.S.A. 

May.  William,  Esq..  Northfield,  Orpington,  Chislchurst. 

Mercer,  Richard,  Esq.,  I\Iaidstone. 

Mercer.  Samuel,  Esq.,  Maidstone. 

Mercer,  W.  F.,  Esq.,  ]3oxlcy,  Maidstone. 

Mercer,  W.  J.,  Esq.,  12  Marine  Terrace,  Margate. 

Mercer,  R.  A.,  Esq.,  32  Albion  Terrace,  Saudgate  Road,  Folkestone. 

Metcalfe,  Rev.  F.,  M.A.,  Upper  ILardres  Rectory,  Canterbury, 

Miller,  Dr.,  Heath  End,  Blacklicath,  S.E. 

Mills,  Sir  Charles  H.,  Bart.,  M.P.,  VVildernesse  Park,  Sevenoaks. 

Milne,  Alexander,  Esq.,  The  Courtyard,  Eltham. 

Minton,  Robert.  Esq.,  7  College  Gardens,  Dulwich,  S.E. 

Mitchell,  B.,  Esq. 

Mold,  W.  H.,  Esq.,  Bethersden,  Ashford. 

Molony,  Rev.  C.  A.,  M.A.,  St.  Lawrence  Vicarage.  Ramsgate. 

Molyneux,  Hon.  Francis  George,  Tuubridge  Wells. 

Moiickton,  Herbert,  Esq.,  Town  Clerk,  Northgate,  Maidstone. 

Monckton,  John,  Esq.,  King  Street,  Maidstone. 

♦Moore,  Rev.  Edward,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  The  Oaks,  Ospringe, 

Faversham. 
*Moore,  Rev.  Edward,  M.A.,  Boughton  Malherbe,  Maidstone. 
*Moore,  Rev.  George  B.,  M.A.,  Tuustall  Rectory,  Sittingbourne. 
Morgan,  Thomas,  Esq.,  Hill  Side  House,  Palace  Road,  Streatham  Hill. 
Morley,  C,  Esq.,  Coopers,  Chislehurst. 
Morley,  Samuel,  Esq.,  M.P.,  Hall  Place,  Leigh,  Tunbridge. 
Mostyn,  The  Lady  Augusta,  Leybourne  Grange,  Mailing. 
Mudford,  Mr.  Frederick,  St.  George's,  Canterbury. 
Mullens,  Robert  Gordon,  Esq.,  Fair  View,  Bromley,  Kent. 
Mummery,  J.  R.,  Esq.,  P.L.S.,  10  Cavendish  Place,  Cavendish  Square,  W. 
Mummery,  Mr.  W.  P.,  7  Strond  Street,  Dover. 

Murdoch,  Henry  Hunter,  Esq.,  Calverley  Lodge,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
Miiriel,  Rev.  Edward  Morley,  M.A.,  Ruckinge  Rectory,  Ashford. 
Murray,  Rev.  F.  H.,  M.A.,  The  Rectory.  Chislehurst. 
Murray,  R.  Hay,  Esq.,  Codington  Park,  Ashford. 
Murray,  G.  J.,  Esq.,  Wootton  Court,  Canterbury. 
Murton,  Walter,  Esq.,  Meadow  Croft,  Chislehurst. 

Nathan.  B.,  Esq.,  6  Albert  Square,  Clapham  Road. 

Neale,  James,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  10  Bloomsbury  Square,  w.c. 

Neame,  Mrs.  Edwin,  Harfield,  Selling,  Faversham. 

*Neame,  E.  B.,  Esq.,  North  Court,  Lower  Hardres,  Canterbury. 

*Neame,  Frederick,  Esq.,  Macknade,  Faversham. 

Neve,  Charles,  Esq.,  Amberfield,  Chart  Sutton,  Staplehurst. 

Neve,  W.  T.,  Esq.,  Cranbrook. 

Nevill,  The  Lady  Caroline,  West  Mailing,  Maidstone. 

Nevill,  The  Honorable  Ralph,  Birling  Manor,  West  Mailing,  Maidstone. 

Nevill,  Ralph,  Esq.,  Langham,  Godalming. 

*Newington,   Alexander    Thurlow,   Esq.,    The    Highlands,    Ticehm-st,    Hurst 

Green. 
Newman,  Miss,  care  of  Mr.  Quaritch,  15  Piccadilly,  w. 
Nicholson,  Joseph,  Esq.,  St.  Leonards,  South  Norwood  Park. 
Nickalls,  Patteson,  Esq.,  Fallowfield,  Chislehurst. 
*Noakes,  J.  T.,  Esq.,  Brockley  Hill,  Lewisham,  S.E. 
*Norman,  Charles  Loyd,  Esq.,  Oakley,  Bromley,  Kent. 


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*Norman,  George  Warde,  Esq.,  Bromley  Common,  Bromley,  Kent. 

*Norman,  Philip,  Esq.,  Bromley  Common,  Kent. 

Norwood,  Charles  Morgan,  Esq.,  M.P.,  Billiter  Street,  E.G. 

Norwood,  John  Dobree.  Esq.,  Ashford,  Kent. 

Norwood,  Rev.  Curteis  H.,  M.A.,  Chilworthy  House,  Chard. 

*Norwood,  Edward,  Esq.,  Charing,  Ashford,  Kent. 

Oakden,  Ralph,  Esq.,  Freshwater,  Isle  of  Wight. 

Oakley,  Christopher,  Esq.,  10  Waterloo  Place,  S.W. 

Ogle,  J.,  Esq.,  Sevenoaks. 

♦Oliver,  Edm.  Ward,  Esq.,  Orleston,  Ashford,  and  11  Kensington  Square. 

Onslow,  Rev.  Middleton,  M.A.,  East  Peckham  Vicarage,  Tunbridge. 

Orger,  Rev.  E.  R.,  m.a.,  Hougham  Vicarage,  Dover. 

Ortou,  R.,  Esq.,  1  Lower  John  Street,  Golden  Square,  w. 

*Ouvry,  Frederic.  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  M.E.S.L.,  F.Z.S.,   etc.,    12    Queen  Anne   Street, 

Cavendish  Square,  w. 
Oyler,  T.  H.,  Esq.,  Hawkenbury,  Staplehurst. 

Page,  William,  Esq.,  Maidstone. 

Paine,  Cornelius.  Esq.,  9  Lewes  Crescent,  Brighton. 

*  Paine,  W.  Dunkley,  Esq.,  Reigatc. 

Palmer,  Wm.,  Esq.,  Elmstead,  Chislehurst. 

♦Parker,  Major  F.  G.,  Westbere  House,  near  Canterbury. 

Parkes,  Mr.  George  T.,  Church  Street.  Dover. 

Parkes,  Rev.  S.  H.,  m.a.,  Wittersham  Rectory,  Ashford. 

Parsons,  John,  Esq.,  Ashurst  Lodge,  Ashurst.  Tunbridge  Wells. 

*Pasley,  Colonel,  C.B.,  e.e.,  7  Queen  Anne's  Grove,  Bedford  Park,  Chiswick. 

Patent  Office  Library  (Triibner  and  Co.,  57  Ludgate  Hill,  E.G.). 

Payne,  George,  Jun.,  Esq.,  25  High  Street,  Sittingbourne. 

Peacock,  T.  F.,  Esq.,  12  South  Square,  Gray's  Inn,  W.C. 

Pearman,  Rev.  A.  J.,  m.a.,  Merstham  Rectory,  Surrey. 

Pearman,  Rev.  M.  T.,  M.A.,  Bobbing  Place,  Sittingbourne. 

Pearson,  Rev.  G.  C,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  Canterbury. 

Peckham,  Thomas  Gilbert,  Esq.,  Hall  Place,  Harbledown,  Canterbury. 

♦Pembroke,  G.  P.  Amos,  Esq.,  The  Yew  Trees,  Wye. 

*Penfold,  Hugh,  Esq.,  M.A.,  Rustington,  Worthing. 

Penfold,  Henry,  Esq.,  M.D.,  Rainham,  Sittingbourne. 

Perry-Ayscough,  Rev.  G.  B.,  B.A.,  Brabourne  Vicarage,  Ashford. 

Perry,  J.  Tavenor,  Esq.,  9  John  Street,  Adelphi,  W.C. 

Peterson,  Edward.  Esq.,  26A  Bury  Street,  St.  James's,  S.W. 

Petley,  C.  R.  C.  Esq.,  Riverhead,  Seveuoaks. 

Pettit,  D.  S.,  Esq.,  Taunton  Lodge,  Elgin  Road,  Addiscombe,  Croydon. 

Philpot,  Rev.  John,  M.A.,  Hinxhill  Rectory,  Ashford. 

Pigot,  R.  Turtle,  Esq.,  LL.D.,  Manor  Park,  Lee.  Kent. 

Pittock,  Dr.,  Margate. 

Plowden,  Miss,  The  Cottage,  Chislehurst. 

*Plowes,  John  Henry,  Esq.,  39  York  Terrace,  Regent's  Park,  K.w 

Polehampton,  Rev.  J..  M.A.,  Ightham  Rectory,  Sevenoaks. 

Polhill,  Kev.  Henry  VV.  0.,  M.A.,  Ashurst  Rectory,  Tunbridge. 

Pollock,  Dr.,  The  Postern,  Tunbridge. 

Poole,  David  Charles,  Esq.,  26  Liverpool  Street,  Dover. 

Poole,  Mr.  Hem-y,  Sandgate  Road,  Folkestone. 

Pope,  P.  M.,  Esq.,  M.D.,  West  Mailing,  Maidstone. 

*Porter,  Frederick  W.,  Esq.,  Hythe,  Kent. 

Powell,  Rev.  Arthur  Herbert,  B.A.,  50  Calvert  Road,  East  Greenwicli,  S.E. 

*Powell,  Charles,  Esq.,  Speldhurst,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Powell,  Rev.  W.,  M.A.,  Newick  Rectory,  Uckfield,  Lewes. 

Poynter,  Ambrose,  Esq.,  Marine  Place,  Dover. 

Prall,  Richard,  Esq.,  Town  Clerk,  Rochester. 

Pratt,  The  Lady  Frances,  The  Grove,  Seal,  Sevenoaks. 

Prentis,  George,  Esq.,  Maidstone. 

Price,  John  E.,  Esq.,  F.s.A.,  60  Albion  Road,  Stoke  Newington,  N. 


XXVlll  KENT   AllCHiEOLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 

Price,  Miss,  Hooper's  Hill  House,  Margate. 

*Price,  David  S.,  Esq.,  PL.  Doc,  Marg.ite. 

Puckle,  Ivev.  John,  M.A..  lion.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  Victoria  Park,  Dover. 

Pucklo,  iStanley,  Esq.,  'J'lic  Hollands,  Spcldhurst,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Pullun,  Mr.  Jesse,  Elliuj,'hani  Street,  Ramsgate. 

Punnett,  Mr.  George,  Tunbridge. 

Rammell,  Rev.  W.  H.,  M.A.,  Rose  Cottage,  Barnes,  s.w. 

Ramsden,  A.  C,  Esq.,  Stoueness,  Ashurst,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Randolph,  Rev.  C.  M.A.,  Chartham,  Canterbury. 

Rawcs,  Mrs.,  Boughton  Lodfjc,  Frant  Road.  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Rcdpath,  Peter,  Esq.,  The  Manor  House,  Chislehurst. 

Reed,  F.  H.,  Esq.,  'J  John  Street,  Adelphi,  W.C. 

Reeves,  James  Bowles,  Esq.,  Danemore  Park,  Speldhurst. 

Reid,  Captain  Francis.  Buxt'ord,  Great  Chart,  Ashford. 

Reid,  James,  Esq.,  St.  George's,  Canterbury. 

Rcyner,  Rev.  G.  F.,  D.D.,  The  Rectory,  Staplehurst. 

Richards,  Rev.  F.  J.,  M.A.,  Boxley  Vicarage,  Maidstone. 

Richards,  Rev.  John,  M.A.,  Ash  Vicarage,  Sandwich. 

Richardsun,  John,  Esq.,  Ravensfell,  Bromley,  Kent. 

♦Richardson,  Christopher  T.,  Esq.,  13  Nelson  Crescent,  Ramsgate. 

Richardson,  Walter,  Esq.,  VViltou  House,  Eltham. 

Richardson,  Rev.  John,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Rochester,  169  The  Grove,  Cam- 
berwell. 

Ricketts,  E.  Bengough,  Esq.,  The  Grange,  Chislehur.st. 

Riddell,  Sir  W.  B.,  Bart..  M.A.,  50  Queen's  Gate,  S.W. 

Roberts,  Lieut.-Colonel  Thomas  Walton,  Glassenbury,  Cranbrook. 

Robertson,  Rev.  J.  C,  M.A.,  Canon  of  Canterbury,  The  Precincts,  Canterbuiy. 

Robertson,  James,  Esq.,  f.l.s..  Wanderers'  Club,  Pall  Mall,  s.w. 

Robertson,  Rev.  W.  A.  Scott.  M.A.,  Honorary  Secretary,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canter- 
bury, Whitehall,  Sittingbourne. 

Robertson,  John  C,  Esq.,  St.  Machars,  Chislehurst. 

Robinson,  Alexander,  Esq.,  The  Lodge,  St.  Peter's,  Ramsgate. 

Robinson,  Rev.  Thomas,  M.A.,  Chart  Sutton  Vicarage,  Maidstone. 

♦Rochester,  The  Right  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of,  Selsdon,  Surrey. 

*  Rochester,  The  Very  Rev.  the  Dean  of.  The  Deanery,  Rochester. 

Rogers,  John  Thornton,  Esq.,  Riverhill,  Sevenoaks. 

Rolt,  Rev.  H.  G.,  Sacombe  Lodge.  Harbledown,  Canterbury. 

*Rosher,  W.  Burch,  Esq.,  AVanderers'  Club,  Pall  Mall,  S.W. 

*Rosher,  Alfred,  Esq.,  The  Grange,  Rosherville. 

Ross,  Henry,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Chestham  Park,  Henfield,  Sussex. 

*Ross,  Major  Alex.  A.,  m.p.,  29  Portland  Place,  w. 

Routledge,  Rev.  C.  F.,m.a.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbiiry,  St.  Martin's,  Canterbury. 

Rouch,  Rev.  F.,  M.A.,  The  Precincts,  Canterbury. 

Rowe,  Rev.  Theo.  B.,  Tunbridge  School. 

Rowe,  Thomas  Smith,  Esq.,  M.D.,  Union  Crescent,  Margate. 

Royal  Institution  of  Great  Britain,  The  Library  of,  Albemarle  Street,  W. 

Ruck,  F.  W.,  Esq.,  County  Surveyor,  Maidstone. 

Russell,  Francis,  Esq.,  Gaddesdeu  House,  Wateriugbury,  Maidstone. 

Russell,  Mr.  Ebeuezer,  Cranbrook. 

Russell,  Rev.  John  Fuller,  B.C.L.,  F.S.A.,  -1  Ormonde  Terrace,  Regent's  Park. 

Russell,  J.  M.,  Esq.,  Fern  Villa,  Milton  Street.  Tunbridge  Road,  Maidstone. 

Ruxton,  Captain,  Chief  Constable  of  Kent,  Broad  Oak,  Brenchley,  Staplehurst. 

"'Rycroft,  C.  A.  W.,  Esq.,  Everland,  Sevenoaks. 

Rye,  W.  Brenchley,  Esq.,  late  Keeper  of  Printed  Books  in  the  British  Museum, 
11  Clifton  Hill,  Exeter. 

Saint,  Rev.  J.  J.,  M.A.,  Groombridge,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
*Salomons,  Sir  David  Lionel,  Bart.,  Broom  Hill,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
Sams,  G.,  Esq.,  Home  Mead,  Gravesend. 
Sandon,  R.  F.,  Esq.,  Rutland  Lodge,  Mason  Hill.  Bromley. 
Sangster,  John,  Esq.,  St.  Peter's,  Ramsgate. 


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Sankey.  H.  T.,  Esq.,  Canterbury. 

Sankey,  Percy,  Esq.,  St.  Peter's,  near  Ramsgate. 

Saunders,  Sibert,  Esq.,  The  Bank,  Whitstablt;. 

*Saunrlers,  W.  H.  Demain,  Esq..  Brickendon  Grange,  Hertford. 

Sayer,  John,  Esq.,  Pett  Place,  Charing. 

Seaton,  Sampson,  Esq.,  5  Chapel  Street,  Devonport. 

Scott,  Rev.  F.  T.,  M.A.,  Hartlip  Vicarage,  Sittingbourue. 

Scott.  Benj.  J.,  Esq.,  Addiscombe,  Croydon. 

Scott,  J.  R.,  Esq..  F.S.A..  Clevelands,  Marsh  Street,  Walthamstow,  Essex. 

Scratton,  John,  Esq.,  Shorne,  Gravesend. 

Scudamore,  Frederick,  Esq.,  Maidstone. 

Selwyn,  Rev.  E.  J..  M.A.,  Pluckley  Rectory,  Ashford. 

Sharland,  George  Edward,  Esq.,  The  Laurels,  White  Hill,  Gravesend. 

Shaw,  John,  Esq.,  34  Arundel  Square,  Barnsbury,  N. 

Shaw,  Rev.  W.  F.,  M.A.,  Eastry  Vicarage.  Sandwich. 

Shepherd,  Rev.  C.  W.,  M.A.,  Trottescliffe  Rectory.  Maidstone. 

*Sheridan.  Henry  Brinsley.  Esq..  m.p.,  10  Colville  Gardens,  Kensington  Park. 

Shirley,  W.  P.,  Esq.,  West  Bank,  Sutton  Valence,  Maidstone. 

Sikes.  Rev.  Thomas.  M.A.,  Chevening  Rectory.  Sevenoaks. 

Sikes,  Rev.  Thomas  Burr,  M.A..  Bnrstow  Rectory.  Crawley,  Sussex. 

Silva,  F.,  Esq.,  97  Westbourne  Terrace,  Hyde  Park,  w. 

Simmonds,  Henry,  Esq.,  Aylesford  House,  Heme  Hill,  S.E. 

Simmons.  G.,  jun.,  Esq..  Chertsey,  Surrey. 

*Simms,  Frederick,  Esq..  M.D.,  6  Mandeville  Place,  Manchester  Square,  w. 

Simpson,  W.  F.,  Esq.,  Palace  Gardens  Terrace,  Kensington,  W. 

Skipwith,  Fulwar,  Esq.,  Avon  House,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

*Sladen,  Rev. HenryEdward  Mainwariug,  M.A.,  P.R.G.S.,  The  Gore,  Bournemouth. 

Slater,  Frederick,  Esq.,  Grays,  Chislet,  Canterbury. 

Smallfield,  Mr..  269  Stanhope  Street,  Mornington  Crescent,  N.W, 

Smith.  Arthm',  Esq.,  The  Shrubbery,  Walmer. 

Smith,  Rev.  B.  F.,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  Crayford  Rectory. 

Smith,  G.  S.  Fereday,  Esq.,  Grovehurst,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Smith-Masters,  W.  A.,  Esq.,  Camer.  Gravesend. 

Smith,  John  William.  Esq..  3  Furnival's  Inn,  E.c. 

Smith,  R.  H.  Soden,  Esq.,  Museum  of  Science  and  Art,  Kensington,  w. 

Smith,  William  E.,  Esq.,  Waterloo  Villa,    Ramsgate,  and   3  Upper  Bedford 

Place. 
Smith,  Haskett,  Esq.,  Trowswell,  Goudhurst. 
Smith,  Wm.  Woodriff,  Esq.,  Surgeon,  Sittingbourne. 
Smith,  Fredk.  T.,  Esq.,  2  Beaufort  Villas,  Picton  Road,  Ramsgate. 
Smith,  Rev.  Robt.  Cox,  M.A.,  29  Wellington  Street,  Strand,  w.c. 
Smythe,  Algernon  S.,  Esq.,  Maidstone. 
Smythe,  Mr.  John,  London  Road,  Maidstone. 
*Soanes,  Temple,  JEsq.,  Crosby  House,  London,  E.C. 
Solly,  G.  B.,  Esq.,  Monkton  Court,  Ramsgate. 
Sondes,  The  Earl,  Lees  Court,  Faversham. 
South,  Rev.  R.  M.,  m.a.,  New  Romney  Vicarage,  Folkestone. 
Southee,  A.  P.,  Esq.,  West  Cliii  School,  Ramsgate. 
Southgate,  Rev.  Frederick,  Northfleet  Vicarage,  Gravesend. 
Sparvel-Bayly,  John  A.,  Esq.,  F.s.A.,  Bursted  Lodge,  Billericay,  Essex. 
Spencer,  Frederick,  Esq.,  2  Houlston  Villas,  Pembury  Road,  Tunbridge. 
Sperling.  J.  H.,  Esq.,  M.A.,  Cranhill,  Bath. 
Springett,  Augustus,  Esq.,  Hawkhurst,  Kent. 
Spurrell,  F.  C.  J.,  Esq.,  Belvedere,  Lessness  Heath. 
Stamford,  Dr..  Collingwood  House,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
*Stanhope,  The  Earl,  Chevening  Place,  Sevenoaks. 
Stanhope,  The  Hon.  Edward,  Chevening,  Sevenoaks. 
Stephenson,  Chas.  OfEerton,  Esq.,  St.  Margaret's  Bank,  Rochester. 
Stilwell,  James,  Esq.,  Dover. 

Stilwell,  James,  Esq.,  Killinghurst,  Haslemere,  Surrey, 
Stirling,  Sir  Walter,  Bart.,  P.E.S.,  Burr's  Wood,  Tunbridge  Wells, 
Stokes,  Mr.  Thomas  Stanger,  Cranbrook. 


XXX  KENT   ARCHAEOLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 

Stone.  Frauk  W.,  Esq.,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Stone,  the  late  Rev.  W.,  M.A.,  Canon  of  Canterbury. 

Streatfeild,  Mrs.  Champion,  Chart's  Edge.  Edonbridge. 

Streatfcild,  II.  D.,  Esq..  Chiddingstonc,  Edenljridge. 

*  Streatfeild,  J.  Frcnilyn,  Es(i.,  15  Upper  Urook  Street.  Grosvcinor  Square,  W. 

Streatfeild,  Sydney  K.,  Esq. 

Streatfeild,  llev.  W.  Champion,  M.A.,  Howick  llectory,  Bilton,  Northumberland. 

Streeter,  E.  W.,  Esq.,  18  New  Bond  Street,  W. 

Streeter,  Kev.  T.  G.  P..  Derwent  House.  Leyland  Road,  Lee,  S.E. 

Strettell,  Rev.  A.  B.,  M.A.,  Old  Dover  Road,  Canterbury. 

Strickland,  R.  A.,  Esq.,  Hastings  Villa,  Bexley  Road,  Erith. 

*Stride,  Edward  Ernest,  Esq.,  British  Museum,  w.c. 

Stringer.  Henry,  Esq.,  New  Romncy,  Folkestone. 

*Stroud,  Rev.  J.,  m.a.,  South  Perrott  Rectory,  Crewkerne. 

Stubbs,  Mr.  Samuel,  263  Hampstead  Road,  N.w. 

Stunt,  Walter  C,  Esq.,  Lorrendeu,  Faversham. 

♦Styan,  Miss  Anne,  27  Norfolk  Crescent,  Edgeware  Road,  w. 

Style,  Albert  F.,  Esq.,  Loose,  Maidstone. 

Surtees,  F.  R.,  Esq.,  Boxley  Abbey,  Saudling,  Maidstone. 

Swanzy,  Frank,  Esq.,  The  Quarry,  Sevcnoaks. 

Swithinbank.  George  Edwin,  Esq.,  ll.d.,  Ormleigh,  South  Laurie  Park,  S.E. 

Sydney,  Free  Public  Library  at,  (Triibner  and  Co.,  Ludgate  Hill). 

Sydney,  The  Earl,  G.C.B.,  Lord  Lieutenant,  Frognall,  Chislehurst. 

Syms,  Mr.  William,  Rochester. 

Talbot,  John  Gilbert,  Esq.,  m.p.,  Falconhurst,  Edenbridge. 

Tarbutt,  Mr.  W.,  Craubrook. 

Tasker,  Henry,  Esq.,  Maidstone. 

*Tayler,  W.  H.,  Esq.,  m.d.,  Tudor  House,  Anerley,  S.E. 

Temple,  Rev.  W.,  m.a.,  Eastbridge  Hospital,  Canterbury. 

*Terry,  John,  Esq.,  Holly  House,  Boro'  Green.  Sevenoaks. 

Thomas,  Rev.  J.,  D.C.L.,  Canon  of  Canterbury,  The  Precincts,  Canterbury. 

Thomasi  R.  C.  F.,  Esq.,  Manor  Office,  Manor  Road,  Folkestone. 

Thompson,  Mr.  George,  Cranbrook. 

Thomson,  Richard  Edward,  Esq.,  Kenfield,  Canterbury. 

Thorpe,  Rev.  John  Frederick.  The  Vicarage,  Hernhill.  near  Faversham. 

*Tiarks,  H.  F.,  Esq.,  Foxbury,  Chislehurst. 

Timins,  Rev.  J.  H.,  m.a..  West  Mailing,  Maidstone. 

Toke,  Major,  Heathcote,  Cambridge  Town,  Surrey. 

Tonbridge  Book  Society  (Rev.  J.  R.  Little.  Secretary). 

Tremlett,  Admiral,  Bellevue,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Trist,  John  W.,  Esq.,  Sydenham. 

Triibner  and  Co.,  Messrs.,  Ludgate  Hill,  B.C. 

Tuke,  Rev.  Francis  E.,  M.A.,  Borden  Vicarage,  Sittingbourne. 

Tunbridge  Wells  Literary  Society  (Mr.  H.  H.  Cronk). 

Turmaine,  Mrs.,  Bank,  Canterbury. 

Turner,  J.  H.,  Esq.,  Kentish  Bank,  Maidstone. 

Twigg,  Mrs.,  7  Liverpool  Street,  Dover. 

*T\sdsden,  Thomas,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Bradbourue  Park,  East  Mailing,  Maidstone. 

Twopeny,  Edward,  Esq.,  Woodstock  Park,  Sittingbourne. 

Tye,  Mr.  James,  Cranbrook. 

Tylden-Pattensou,  Captain,  Biddeuden,  Staplehurst. 

Tyrwhitt,  Rev.  Beauchamp  St.  John,  M.A.,  Upchurch  Rectory,  Sittingbourne. 

*Tyssen,  John  Robert  Daniel,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  9  Lower  Rock  Gardens,  Brighton. 

*Tyssen,  Amherst  Daniel,  Esq.,  Lincoln's  Inn  Chambers,  Chancery  Lane. 

Dmfrevile,  Samuel  C,  Esq.,  Ingress  Park,  Greenhithe. 

Upton,  Rev.  Archer,  M.A.,  Stowtiug  Rectory,  Hythe. 

Ussher,  Richard,  Esq.,  10  Augusta  Gardens,  Folkestone  (Catton  Hall,  Burton- 

on-Trent). 
Utting,  R.  B.,  Esq.,  97  Gaisford  Street,  Kentish  Town,  N.w. 


LIST   OE   MEMBERS.  XXXI 

Vaughan,  Evan,  Esq.,  Dartmouth  Point,  Blackhcath. 
Vian,  W.  J.,  Esq.,  Faii-view,  The  Knoll,  Beckenham. 
Vickers,  Rev.  V.  S.,  Rolls  Court,  Whitfield,  Dover. 
Vine,  Rev.  F.  T.,  M.A.,  Patrick sbourue  Vicarage,  Canterbury. 
Vinten,  J\Ir.  Henry  George,  Clarendon  Gardens,  Ramsgate. 
Vye,  Mr.  Henry,  Clarendon  Gardens,  R.amsgate. 

Wadmore,  James  Foster,  Esq.,  Dry  Hill,  Tunbridge. 

*"W"agner,  Henry,  Esq.,  1,3  Half  Moon  Street,  Piccadilly,  w. 

Walker,  Henry  Bacheler,  Esq.,  New  Romney,  Folkestone. 

Walker,  Edward  Bachelor,  Esq.,  New  Romney.  Folkestone. 

Walter,  William,  Esq.,  Berengrave,  Rainham,  Sittingbourne. 

Ward,  Mr.  Horatio,  Fleur-de-Lis  Hotel,  Canterbury. 

Ware,  John  Geo.,  Esq.,  Northfleet,  Kent. 

Wastall,  Mr.  E.  G.,  Brookland  House,  Ramsgate. 

Waterlow,  Sir  Sydney  H..  Bart.,  M.P.,  Fairseat  House,  Highgate,  N. 

Waters,  Mr.  George,  Cranbrook. 

Watson.  John  William,  Esq.,  2  Water  Lane,  Tower  Street,  e.g. 

Watts.  Rev.  J.,  M.A.,  Crimdale  Rectory,  Canterbury. 

Wanton,  Charles  J.  M.,  Esq.,  Torbridge  Castle,  Kent. 

Webb,  Geo.,  Esq.,  Tunstall  House,  Sittingbourne. 

Webb,  Dr.  Robert,  Westwell,  Tenterden. 

Weir,  Harrison,  Esq.,  Weirleigh,  Brenchley,  Staplehui'st. 

Welldon,  Rev.  Jas.  I.,  d.d.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Canterbury,  Kennington  Vicarage, 
Ashford. 

Wells,  Edward  J.,  Esq.,  Sandown  House,  Mallinson  Road,  Wandsworth  Com- 
mon, s.w. 

Wells,  R,,  Esq.,  Randolphs,  Biddenden,  Staplehurst. 

Weston,  Mrs.,  13  Manor  Road,  Folkestone. 

Weston,  Lambert,  Esq.,  Waterloo  Crescent,  Dover. 

Whatman,  James,  Esq..  F.E.S.,  F.S.A.,  Vintners  Park,  Maidstone. 

Wheelwright,  J.,  Esq.,  Meopham  Court,  Gravesend. 

Whichcord,  John,  Esq.,  F.s.A..  Palace  Chambers,  9  Bridge  Street,  Westminster. 

Whiston,  Rev,  Robert,  Bi.A.,  The  Palace,  Rochester. 

*White,  Thomas,  Esq.,  Wateringbury,  Maidstone. 

*White,  Mrs.  Thomas,  Wateringbury,  Maidstone. 

*White,  Frederick,  Esq.,  Q.C.,  Paper  Buildings,  Temple,  E.G. 

White,  Edward,  Esq.,  43  Athelstane  Road,  Margate. 

Whitehead,  Rev.  A.,  M.A.,  St.  Peter's  Vicarage,  Thanet. 

*Whitehe,ad.  Charles,  Esq.,  F.S.A. ,  f.e.g.s.,  Barmiug  House.  Maidstone. 

Whitehead,  Thomas  Miller,  Esq.,  8  Duke  Street,  St.  James's,  s.w. 

Whitelock,  Rev.  B.,  m.a.,  Groombridge,  Tunbridge  Wells. 

Whittle,  Miss,  Star  Hill,  Rochester. 

Wickham,  Humphry,  Esq.,  Strood. 

Wigan,  Rev.  Alfred,  M.A.,  Luddesdown  Rectory,  Gravesend. 

*Wigan,  James,  Esq.,  Cromwell  House,  Mortlake,  Surrey,  S.W. 

Wigan,  L.  D.,  Esq.,  Oakwood  House.  Maidstone. 

Wightwick,  T.  N.,  Esq.,  Canterbury.' 

Wightwick,  William,  Esq.,  Bouverie  Square,  Folkestone. 

Wiidash,  H.  C,  Esq.,  M.D.,  Luton  House,  Hythe. 

Wilkie,  Rev.  Christopher  Hales,  M.A.,  Edburton,  Hurstpierpoint, 

Wilkie,  Kenyon  Woods,  Esq.,  Ellington,  Ramsgate. 

*Wilkinsou,  F.  Eachus,  Esq.,  m.d.,  etc..  Battle  College,  Sydenham,  S.E. 

Wilks.  G.,  Esq.,  Hythe. 

Williams,  Alfi-ed,  Esq.,  C.E.,  F.G.S.,  18  Great  George  Street,  Westminster. 

*  Williams,  Captain  Bigoe,  Dover. 

Williams,  ilrs.,  Peushurst,  Tunbridge. 

Williamson,  Rev.  Joseph,  m.a.,  Stanford  Rectory,  Hythe. 

Willsher,  Mr.  Stephen  Henry,  Tenterden. 

*Wilmott,  Edward  W.,  Esq.,  Milbrae,  Chislehurst. 

Wilson,  Archibald,  Esq.,  Last  Lane,  Dover. 

*Wilson,  Cornelius  Lee,  Esq.,  Beckenham. 


XXXU  KENT   ARCII^OLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 

Wilson,  R.  P.,  Esq.,  5  Cumberland  Terrace,  Regent's  Park,  N.w. 

♦Wilson,  Samuel,  Ksq.,  Beckcnham. 

Wilson,  Thomas,  Esq.,  Rivers  Lodge,  Harpenden,  St.  Albans. 

Winch,  Charles,  Esq.,  Chatham. 

Winham,  Ifev.  Daniel,  M.A.,  Western  House,  Brighton. 

Winning.    Kev.   Robert,  ai.A.,   Vicar  of   Gre<at   Washbourne,   Gretton   Fields, 

Winchcomb,  Gloucestershire. 
Winton,  Edwin  W.,  Esq.,  Etherton  Hill,  Speldhurst,  Tunbridge  Wells. 
Wodchouse,  Rev.  Walker,  M.A.,  Elham  Vicarage,  Canterbury. 
Wolley,  Rev.  H.  F.,  M.A.,  Shorthands  Vicarage,  Bromley,  Kent. 
Wood,  Humphrey,  Esq.,  Chatham. 
Wood,  John.  Esq.,  Chatham. 

Wood,  J.  Lambert,  Esq.,  Bury  Place  House,  near  Gosport,  Hants, 
Wood.  Robert,  Esq.,  Margate. 
Woodder,  W.  W.,  Esq.,  Station  Road,  Margate. 
Woodford,  Mrs.  H.  P..  The  Grove,  Gravesend. 
Woodruff.  Rev.  C.  E.,  Skeyne  House,  Pulborough,  Sussex. 
Woodruff,  C.  H..  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  Old  Manor  House,  Wallington,,  Surrey. 
Woods.  Sir  Albert,  Garter  King  at  Arms,  College  of  Anns,  Queen  Victoria  Street, 

E.c. 
Wright,  B.  McMurdo,  Esq.,  F.G.S..  F.R.H.S.,  Hesket    House,  Guildford  Street, 

Russell  Square,  w.c. 
Wybrow,  Wm.,  Esq.,  Ravensbourne  Jjodge,  Bromley  Common. 

*^*  Should  any  errors,  omissions  of  honorary  distinctions,  etc.,  be  found  in 
this  List,  it  is  requested  that  notice  thereof  may  be  given  to  the  Honorary 
Secretary,  Whitehall,  Sittingbourne. 


ILLUSTRATION    FUND. 


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CONTRIBUTIONS 

To  the  Fund  for  suppli/ing  Illustrations  to  the  /Society's  Volumes,  etc. 


ANNUAL   SUBSCEIPTIONS. 

£    s.  d. 

Akers-Douglas,  A.,  Esq 1  10    0 

Barrow,  J.  J.,  Esq 050 

Cranbrook,  Viscount  .         . 0  10     0 

Darbishire,  H.  A.,  Esq 0     5     0 

Edwards,  S.,  Esq 0  10     0 

Hughes,  W.,  Esq 0  10    0 

Hussey,  H.  L.,  Esq 0  11     0 

Hussey,  R.  C,  Esq 066 

James,  Sir  Walter,  Bart 0100 

Larking,  J.  \V.,  Esq 0  10     0 

Molyneux,  Hon.  F.  G 0     5     0 

Morgan,  Thomas,  Esq 0  10     0 

Onslow,  Rev.  M.           .         . 0  10     0 

Parker,  J.  H.,  Esq.,  c.B 0  10    0 

Parsons,  John.  Esq 050 

Powell,  C,  Esq. 0    5    0 

Puckle,  8.,  Esq .050 

Rammell,  Rev.  W.  H 0     5     6 

Smallfield,  Mr.             0  10     0 

Twopeny,  E.,  Esq 050 

Ward,  H.,  Esq 0  10     0 

Winton,  E.  W.,  Esq 050 


DONATIONS  FOR  ILLUSTRATING  VOL.  XIV. 


£    s.  d. 
Haslewood,  Rev.  Francis  (seven  woodcuts  of  Smarden  Church). 
Hales,   Rev.  R.  Cox  (portraits  of    Sir  Edward  Hales,  senior  and 

junior)  and  also 
Hodsoll,  J.  H.,  Esq. 
Jones,  F.,  Esq.    . 
Scott,  J.  R.,  Esq. 
Shaw,  J.,  Esq.     . 
Smith,  Arthur,  Esq. 
Smith,  C.  Roach,  Esq 

Members  willing  to  contribute  to  this  Fund  are  requested  to  signify  thidr 
intention  to  Canon  Scott  Robektson,  or  to  Mr.  W.  Hughes,  the  London 
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&    8.  d.      £     8.    d. 
T^alanccs  at  Bankers  Jan.  1st,  1880  :  — 

Wigan,  Mercers,  and  Co 98     0    0 

Hammond  and  Co 48  11     7 

140  11     7 

Dividends  upon  Stock,  which  form  the  whole  income  derived  from 

Life  Members,  of  whom  there  are  124 18     4     6 

Received  from  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Canterbury,  towards  the 

cost  of  copying  Frescoes  in  the  Crypt  Chapel  of  St.  Gabriel 20    0 

Annual  Subscriptions  for  1880  278     0 

Arrears  of  Subscriptions  due  for  1878  and  1879 104  10 

Entrance  Fees  of  Members  elected  in  1880    2.5  10 

Life  Compositions  received  in  18.*^0  50     0 

Contributions  to  the  Illustration  Fund    7     8 

Subscriptions  for  the  year  1881,  paid  in  advance  5    0 

Extra-subscriptions,    for    Royal    Octavo    copies   of    Archceologla 

Canttana    4  19     0 

Received  for  old  volumes  of  A rch ceologla  Cantiana 15     0    0 

Received  for  Chromolithographs  of  the  "  Nnming  of  St.  John  the 

Baptist'' 5  15     6 

Received,  in  November  and  December,  for  copies  of  the  Ulstonj  of 
the  Crypt  of  Cantcrhxiry  Cathedral  (in  addition  to  £15  Ifis.  6d., 

received  by  the  Printers,  and  deducted  from  their  account)  9     2     0 

The    Subscriptions,  etc.,  comprised   in   the  ten  last   entries, 
were  remitted  through  the  following  channels  : — 

The  Bankers £155     9    0 

Mr.  J.  S.  Smalltield  64  16     0 

G.  E.  Hannam,  Esq 35     1     0 

J.  D.  Norwood,  Esq 33     0     0 

J.  W.  Ilott,  Esq 27  17     2 

C.  Powell,  Esq 24     0     6 

Rev.  W.  A.  Scott  Robertson   23     8    0 

G.  M.  Arnold,  Esq 22  10     0 

Geo.  Payne,  Esq 18  10    0 

A.  A.  Arnold,  Esq 16  10     0 

J.  Humphery,  Esq 15  14     0 

Mr.  J.  F.  Dennett 14  12     0 

H.  B.  Mackeson,  Esq 12     0    0 

J.  F.  Wadmore,  Esq 9  10     0 

F.  C.  J.  Spurrell,  Esq 7     .5     0 

Rev.  S.  C.  T.  Beale  6  10    0 

F.  F.  Giraud,  Esq 3     0     0 

Mitchell  and  Hughes   4  15     0 

Rev.  J.  A.  Boodle 4     2     6 

Rev.  Canon  Moore 3  15     0 

£505     5     2 

£690     1     3 


►CIETY. 

mry  to  the  2,\st  of  December,  1880.  (^x. 


urther  cost  of  Archcsologia  Cantlana,  Vol.  XIII.  :— 

Mitchell  and  Hughes,  for  Printing   365    0  0 

Whiteman  and  Bass  (Lithographers)    31     6  6 

The  Autotype  Company  27  13  0 

Thos.  Kell  (Lithographer)  20  11  0 

Seeley  and  Co.  (Woodcuts) 2     2  0 

Parker  and  Co.  (Woodcuts)    0  15  0 

I^<^ex  5    5  0 

452  12    6 

itchell    and    Hughes    for  printing  and  binding  the 

History  of  the  Crypt  of  Canterbury  Cathedral,  in  4to 

'^'^^Svo  42  16  6 

Less,  Cash   received  by  them  for    copies  sold    in 

November  and  December   15  16  6 

27     0     0 

hn  Sayer,  Esq.,  towards  the  cost  of  excavating  the  site  of  St. 

Radegund's  Abbey  5     0    0 

lidstone  Borough  Treasurer,  rent  of  the  Society's  Eooms  for  two 

^^^^^   40    0    0 

iidstone  Curator  (Mr.  Bartlett),   Salary  for  five   quarters,  and 

mall  bills on  iq     o 

3t  of  Annual  Meeting,  in  1879,  at  Romney  :— 
Printers,  Mitchell  and  Hughes 4  10    6 

H-T.Tidy ;;;;;;;;;;;  3  g  & 

7  19     0 

it  of  Annual  Meeting,  in  1880,  at  Tenterden  :— 

Printers,  Mitchell  and  Hughes 6     9     6 

Postage  of  circulars  to  Members  3  12    0 

Local  expenses  at  Tenterden 3  19    0 

14     0     6 

T.  Tidy,  for  printing  occasional  circulars,  etc 8  17     6 

Smallfield,  London  Secretary's  Expenses    2     13 

^1 '^^^^ 16     8     0 

ances  at  the  Bankers  Dec.  31,  1880  :— 

Wigan,  Mercers,  and  Co 38    2    5 

Hammond  and  Co 43    0  10 

81     3    8 


£690    1     3 


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KENT  arch^ologica: 

jgj.^  Cash  Account  from  the  1st 


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Balances  at  the  Bankers,  Jan.  1st,  1881  :— 

Wigau,  Mercers,  and  Co 38     2     5 

Hammond  and  Co 4-'    ^  '^^ 


Dividends  upon  Stock,  which  foim  the  whole  Income  derived  from 

Life  Members   

From  Sale  of  copies  of  the  Hisforij  of  the   Cnipt  of  CatUcrbury 

Cathedral  (in  addition  to  £21  18s.  6d.  received  in  1880) 12 

From  Sale  of  old  volumes  of  Archceologia  Cantiana,  etc.,  etc 6 

Life  Compositions  paid  by  ten  Members -'^ 

Entrance  Fees  paid  by  forty  Members      20 


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Annual  Subscriptions  -(    For  previous  years 

For  1882,  paid  in  advance 

Contributions  to  the  Illustration  Fund    12  19 

Extra  payments  for  large-paper  copies  of  Archceologia  Cantiana... 

The  Subscriptions,  etc.,  were  remitted  through  the  following  Local 
Secretaries  : — 

Mr.  J.  S.  Smaimeld £60  19    6 

Dr.Astley  28  10    0 

J.  W.  Ilott,  Esq 27  1.5     1 

A.  A.  Arnold,  Esq 27     0    0 

G.  E.  Hannam,  Esq 1^  1<^'    0 

G.  M.  Arnold,  Esq 19     0     0 

C.  Powell,  Esq 18  18     6 

J.  F.  Wadmore,  Esq 18  10    0 

Rev.  W.  A.  Scott  Robertson    16     6     0 

W.  Wightwick,  Esq 15     0     0 

Mr.  T,  J.  Dennett 10    3     6 

Mr.  Bartlett  4  14     6 

J.  D.  Norwood,  Esq 4  10    0 

Rev.  J.  A.  Boodle 3  10     0 

F.  F.  Giraud,  Esq 1     *»    ^ 

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Invested    in    Three    per   Cent.   Consols   (Twenty-one   Life   Com- 
positions)      105     «    0 

Part  of  the  cost  of  Archceologia  Cantiana,  Vol.  XIV. : — 

Engraver  (R.  B.  Utting),  on  account   10    0    0 

Drawing  of  Tomb  at  Ickham 110 

Granted  towards  cost  of  excavating  Roman  Foundations  :— 

At  St.  Pancras,  Canterbury 5    0    0 

AtWingham 10     0    0 

Curator  at  Maidstone,  three  quarters'  Salary 22  10    0 

Cost  of  Annual  Meeting  at  Canterbury  :— 

Circular  Notices  of  Meeting  (Tidy) £2  15     0 

Postage  of  the  Notices  of  Meeting    B  1 2     0 

Expenses  in  Canterbury  (balance)    1     7  11 

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me  KentisJi  Garland  oiQa\\a.Cis,\o\.  1 1     1     0 

London  Secretary's  Expenses 18     6 

Printing  Postcard  Notices  of  Council  Meetings,  etc 2  15     8 

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Examined  and  approved,  RICH.  CHAS.  HUSSEY. 

Fehruary  15^/^  1882.  EDWARD   MOORE. 


ABSTEACT    OF   PROCEEDINGS,    1880-1. 

DuKiNG  the  Annual  Meeting  held  at  Tenterdeu,  on  July  28th 
and  29th,  1880,  the  programme,  printed  in  Vol.  XIII,  pp.  xlv, 
xlvi,  was  satisfactorily  carried  out. 

Members  who  reached  Headcorn  Station  by  the  early  train 
inspected  two  ancient  houses,  formerly  cloth-halls,  near  the  Church, 
now  occupied  by  Mrs.  Paige  and  Mr.  Goodwin.  In  the  latter  the 
spandrels  of  the  tie-beams,  in  the  roof,  bear  the  monogram  "i.  E." 
and  a  rebus  formed  of  the  letter  "  A.,"  and  a  chess-rook.  These 
suggest  that  the  house  was  probably  built  by  some  one  named 
Eook,  whose  initials,  coupled  with  those  of  his  wife,  were  I.  and 
A.  E. 

At  the  meeting  for  despatch  of  business,  held  in  the  Literary 
Institute,  at  Headcorn,  the  Earl  Amherst  presided  ;  and  around 
him  were  seated,  Viscount  Holmesdale,  Sir  Edmund  Filmer,  M.P., 
Sir  Walter  Stirling,  "W.  A.  Tyssen-Amherst,  Esq.,  M.P.,  Archdeacon 
Harrison,  Capt.  Tylden-Pattenson,  Canon  Jenkins,  Charles  Powell, 
Esq.,  Eobert  Furley,  Esq.,  G.  E.  Hannam,  Esq.,  J.  E.  Streatfeild, 
Esq.,  H.  B.  Mackeson,  Esq.,  Wm.  AValter,  Esq.,  Eev.  A.  J. 
Pearman,  Canon  Scott  Eobertson,  General  Dixon,  Major  Parker, 
Capt.  Hatfeild,  J.  E.  "VVadmore,  Esq.,  Canon  Weldon,  etc.,  etc. 

The  following  Report  was  read  by  Canon  Scott  Eobertson,  and 
adopted  by  the  meeting  : — 

In  presenting  the  Twenty-third  Annual  Report  of  the  Kent  Arch^ological 
Society,  the  Council  can  once  moi"e  congratulate  its  Members  upon  its  progress 
and  prospects. 

They  are  happy  in  being  able  to  announce  that  all  the  papers  for  the 
Thirteenth  Volume  of  Arclieeologia  Cnntiana  are  now  printed.  The  illustrations 
are  also  complete,  and  a  portion  of  the  Index  is  already  in  type. 

Nearly  two  years  have  elapsed  since  Volume  XIT  was  issued  ;  and  the 
Council  would  desire  to  draw  attention  to  the  fact  that,  although  the  Society  is 
now  entering  upon  the  twenty-fourth  year  of  its  existence,  the  number  of 
volumes  already  issued  is  only  twelve.  Consequently  the  average  rate  of  issue 
of  our  ArchceoJogia  has,  on  the  whole,  been  little  more  than  one  volume  in  two 
years. 


xl  KENT   ARCHAEOLOGICAL   SOCIETY. 

As  the  illustrntions  of  the  forthcoming  Thirteenth  Volume  are  forty-five  in 
number,  and  its  letterjn-ess  occupies  about  (iUO  pages,  the  value  of  thin  volume 
will  be  fully  equivalent  to  the  amount  of  two  years'  subscriptions. 

The  balances  standing  to  the  Suciety's  credit  at  the  bankers  amount  to  the 
sum  of  £2i)2,  all  of  which,  and  more,  will  be  required  to  defray  the  bill  of  the 
Society's  printers  for  printing  and  binding  'Jlo  copies  of  the  furthcoming 
volume.  The  main  cost  of  its  expensive  illustrations  has  already  been 
defrayed. 

The  Society's  numbers  continue  to  increase,  notwithstanding  the  lamented 
deaths  of  many  Members,  and  the  withdrawal  of  others.  Forty-eight  Members 
have  joined  the  Society  during  the  past  twelve  months  ;  and  fifteen  candidates 
await  election  at  your  hands  to-day. 

For  the  convenience  of  Memljcrs  who  may  desire  to  possess  an  unfolded 
copy  of  the  chromo-lithograi)h  of  the  principal  fresco  in  the  Crypt  Chapel  of 
St.  Gabriel,  in  Canterbury  Cathe  Iral,  the  Council  caused  fifty  copies  of  it  to  be 
prepared  on  larger  paper  for  sale  to  Members  at  5s.  a  copy.  About  one  half  of 
these  copies  still  remain  for  sale  to  those  who  wish  to  preserve  them  unfolded, 
in  a  portfolio  or  framed. 

The  remarkable  and  unique  early  frescoes  in  the  Crypt  at  Canterbury  being 
very  little  known,  your  Council  have  caused  fifty  sets  of  the  illustrations 
prepared  for  our  Archa'olotjid  to  be  worked  off  on  large  paper  for  publication. 
Each  set  of  plates,  being  accompanied  by  120  pages  of  descriptive  letteipress, 
will  form  a  handsome  royal  quarto  volume,  to  be  sold  to  the  public  at  £2  2s.  Od. 
each. 

During  the  early  part  of  this  year  the  site  of  the  Premonstratensian  Abbey 
of  St.  Rhadegund,  at  Bradsole,  near  Dover,  has  been  excavated  ;  and  many 
discoveries  have  been  made  respecting  the  Abbey  Church  and  buildings.  Your 
Council  gladly  assisted  by  contributing  £5  towards  the  cost  of  the  excavations. 
A  plan  of  the  Abbey  site  has  been  prepared,  and  a  copy  of  it  will  be  found  in 
our  temporary  museum  at  Tenterden. 

With  reference  to  the  earlier  and  more  important  branches  of  English 
archaeology,  very  interesting  discoveries  of  Roman  and  Saxon  remains  have 
been  made  during  the  past  twelve  months  by  an  active  member  of  our  Society, 
who  is  one  of  our  local  secretaries,  Mr.  George  Payne,  jun.,  of  Sittingbourne. 
Previous  and  similar  results  of  his  researches  have  been  described  by  him  in 
several  volumes  of  our  Arcliceolngia.  His  recent  discoveries  were  made  upon 
three  different  sites — two  in  Sittingbourne  and  one  in  Milton.  One  site 
yielded  remains  of  three  interments  of  Romans,  and  Mr.  Payne  preserved 
works  of  art  in  glass  and  in  bronze,  of  the  purest  Roman  period.  Another  site 
in  Sittingbourne  disclosed  two  interments,  one  being  that  of  the  child  of  some 
noble  or  wealthy  Roman.  The  child's  leaden  coffin  bears  ornamentation  which 
is  unique,  and  with  it  were  found  artnillce,  and  a  ring,  as  well  as  other  objects 
of  interest  and  value.  On  the  third  site,  which  is  in  Milton,  Mr.  Payne  opened 
five  Saxon  graves  ;  having  in  previous  years  noted  the  opening  of  twenty-five 
other  and  similar  Saxon  graves  in  the  same  field.  He  has  kindly  permitted 
some  of  the  Roman  remains  to  be  exhibited  in  the  temporary  museum  at 
Tenterden. 

Another  discovery  of  Saxon  interments  has  occurred  in  Cliffe  at  Hoo, 
during  the  present  month  of  July,  by  labourers  who  are  making  the  Hoo 
Railway. 

Friends  in  Tenterden,  and  its  neighbourhood,  have  evinced  a  lively  interest 
in  our  meeting,  and  have  done  all  they  can  to  promote  its  success.  Although 
little  or  nothing  remains  of  the  monastic  house  at  Mottenden,  in  Headcorn  ;  or 
of  the  Abbey  of  Losenham,  in  Newenden  ;  and  although  the  original  mansions 
of  the  great  families  of  Hales,  Harlakenden,  and  Guldeford,  have  for  the  most 
part  gone  to  such  decay  that  they  would  not  repay  the  trouble  of  a  visit ;  yet 
there  are  interesting  churches  which  will  be  inspected,  and  the  Council  believe 
that  Members  will  enjoy  the  meeting.  They  will,  at  all  events,  be  enabled  to 
examine  the  height,  the  symmetry,  and  the  solidity  of  that  steeple  at 
Tenterden,  which  has  been  proverbially  associated  with  the  origin  of  Goodwin 
Sands. 


PROCEEDINGS,    1880.  xli 

Mr.  G-eorge  Payne,  junior,  was  added  to  the  Council ;  Mr.  R.  C. 
Hussey  aud  Canon  E.  Moore  were  re-appointed  as  Auditors ;  and 
nineteen  gentlemen  were  elected  Members  of  tlie  Society. 

The  Churclies  of  Headcorn,  Smarden,  and  Woodchurcli  were 
then  visited.  Papers  read  there  are  printed  in  this  volume,  or  will 
be  inserted  in  the  next  volume. 

The  Annual  Dinner,  held  in  the  Town  Hall  at  Tenterden,  under 
the  presidency  of  Sir  Edmund  Eilmer,  M.P.,  was  attended  by  129 
ladies  and  gentlemen. 

After  dinner,  the  Evening  Meeting  was  held  in  Freeman's 
Auction  Eoom,  where  an  admirable  museum  had  been  kindly 
arranged  with  great  labour  and  care  by  the  Eev.  Erancis 
Haslewood,  Mr.  J.  Ellis  Mace,  Mr.  AVillsher,  and  other  gentlemen. 
There  was  a  fine  collection  of  coins,  charters,  municipal  maces, 
pictures,  etc.  At  the  Evening  Meeting  the  chair  was  at  first 
occupied  by  Captain  Tylden  Pattenson,  and  afterwards  by  the 
Mayor  of  Tenterden.  Papers  were  read  by  Mr.  Eurley  {On  the 
Early  History  of  Tenter  den),  the  Eev.  E.  Cox  Hales  {On  the  Rales 
Family),  Canon  Jenkins  {On  the  Guhleford  Family),  and  the  Eev, 
A.  J.  Pearmau  {On  Tenterden  Church). 


On  the  second  day  Appledore  Station  was  the  place  of  rendez- 
vous, whence  visits  were  made  to  the  Churches  of  Appledore,  Stone 
in  Oxney,  and  "Wittersham.  Luncheon  was  held  in  Wittersham 
G-irls'  Schoolroom,  under  the  presidency  of  the  Eector  and  Eural 
Dean,  the  Eev.  S.  H.  Parkes.  Thence  one  party  drove  to  Small- 
hythe  Church,  and  back  to  Appledore  Station.  The  greater  part 
of  the  company,  however,  visited  the  Churches  of  Eolvenden  and 
jSTewendeu,  and  were  entertained  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Selmes  at  tea  on 
their  lawn  at  Losenham  Abbey,  whence  Mr.  Selmes  conducted  the 
party  to  inspect  the  Newenden  earthworks.  They  then  drove  over 
the  marshes  by  Maytham  Wharf  back  to  Appledore  Station. 


On  Tuesday,  Sept.  28th,  1880,  the  Council  met  at  Canterbury 
at  the  house  of  Canon  James  Craigie  Eobertson,  who  kindly  per- 
mitted its  Members  to  assemble  in  his  library.  Twelve  of  the 
Council  attended,  and  the  Earl  Amherst  presided. 

The  Secretary  laid  on  the  table  the  earliest  copy  of  Archceologia 
Cantiana,  Volume  XIII,  stating  that  it  contained  papers  wi-itten  by 
twenty-eight  different  authors,  that  it  was  illustrated  by  fifty 
plates  and  woodcuts,  extended  over  630  pages,  and  was  the  fifth 
volume  which  Canon  Scott  Eobertson  had  enjoyed  the  privilege  of 
editing  for  the  Society. 

The  Secretary  reported  that,  on  the  24th  of  September  instant, 

Mr.  Neale's  facsimile  drawing  (made  at  the  Society's  expense  from 

a  wall  painting  in  Canterbury  Cathedral  Crypt),  representing  The 

Naming  of  St.  John  the  Bajytist,  had  been  placed,  duly  framed  and 

VOL.  XIV.  d 


xlii  KENT   AKCHiEOLOGICAL   SOCIETY. 

glazed,  in  the  Library  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter.  Subsequently 
the  Council  passed  a  resolution  authorising  the  Secretary  to  deliver 
to  tlie  liev.  Canon  James  C.  Kobertson  (Librarian  of  the  Chapter 
Library)  the  other  drawings  made  by  Mr.  Neale,  and  used  in  the 
illustrations  of  Archd'olojin  Cdutiana,  Volume  Xlll,  upon  the  dis- 
tinct condition  that  the  said  drawings  shall  be  exhibited  within  the 
Library,  in  perpetuity,  and  shall  on  no  account  be  removed  from 
the  Cathedral  precincts.  Canon  James  C.  Eobertson  guaranteed 
that  this  condition  should  be  complied  with. 

Votes  of  Tbanks  for  assistance  rendered  at  the  Society's 
Annual  Meeting,  at  Tenterden,  were  then  accorded  to  Captain 
Tylden-Pattenson,  for  making  all  the  preliminary  arrangements 
respecting  carriages  and  the  dinner;  to  Mr.  Furley,  Canon 
Jenkins,  the  Eev.  F.  Haslewood,  the  Eev.  E.  C.  Hales,  the  Eev.  A. 
J.  Pearman,  the  Eev.  W.  B.  Staveley,  the  Eev.  E.  M.  jMuriel,  and 
the  Eev.  M.  D.  French,  for  Papers  read  by  them  ;  to  the  Eev.  F. 
Haslewood,  the  Eev.  S.  C.  Tress  Beale,  Mr.  J.  Ellis  Mace,  junior, 
and  Mr.  S.  Willsher,  for  much  help  with  the  Museum  ;  to  Mr. 
Outram,  of  the  London  and  County  Bank  at  Tenterden,  for  kindly 
issuing  the  tickets ;  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Selmes,  of  Losenham  Abbey, 
for  hospitality  and  great  assistance  at  New  en  den  ;  to  Eev.  F.  B. 
Wells  and  Mrs.  Wlielau,  for  hospitality  ;  to  Mr.  T.  H.  Oyler,  for 
much  valuable  assistance  at  Headcorn ;  to  Mr.  George  Payne, 
junior,  for  directing  the  carriages  during  both  days ;  to  Sir  Edmund 
Filmer,  for  presiding  at  the  Dinner. 

It  was  resolved  that  the  Secretary  should  investigate  and  report 
upon  the  feasibility  of  holding  the  next  Annual  Meeting  at  Can- 
terbury with  a  view  to  visiting  Wingham. 

Mention  was  made  of  the  discovery  of  wall  paintings  in  Brooke 
Church,  near  Wye,  and  of  the  Archbishop's  desire  that  something 
might  be  done  to  rescue  the  ruins  of  the  chancel  of  St.  Pancras 
Chapel  (near  St.  Augustine's  College,  Canterbury)  from  the  degra- 
dation it  now  suffers  at  the  hands  of  its  owner. 

The  Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford,  and  seven  other  applicants  for 
membership  of  the  Society,  w^ere  then  elected  to  that  privilege. 


On  Thursday,  Dec.  30th,  1880,  the  Council  met  at  Maidstone, 
in  the  Society's  Eooms.  The  Earl  Amherst  presided,  and  ten 
members  of  Council  attended. 

It  was  resolved  that  the  next  Annual  Meeting  shall  be  held  at 
Canterbury,  and  that  Wingham  shall  be  visited  on  the  second  day. 

Seventeen  new  Members  were  elected. 


On  the  21st  of  March,  1881,  the  Council  met  at  Canterbury,  in 
the  Library  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter.  The  Dean  of  Canterbury 
presided,  and  ten  members  of  Council  were  present, 


PROCEEDINGS,  1881.  xliii 

The  Report  o£  the  Local  Committee  for  arranging  the  Annual 
Meeting  was  fully  discussed. 

Nine  new  Members  were  elected. 


On  the  21st  of  June,  1881,  the  Council  assembled  at  the  house 
of  the  noble  President  in  Grosvenor  Square.  The  Earl  Amherst 
took  the  chair,  and  nine  JNI  embers  were  present. 

The  Secretary  reported  that  he  had  visited  Eeculver,  and  in 
response  to  his  representations,  the  Director  of  Admii'alty  works, 
Colonel  Pasley,  C.B.,  had  courteously  ordered  that  the  work  neces- 
sary for  protecting  the  newly  exposed  portion  of  the  core  of  the 
wall  of  the  Roman  Gastrum  at  Reculver,  shall  be  so  arranged  as  to 
leave  visible  the  greater  portion  of  the  ancient  work. 

He  reported  likewise  respecting  the  excavations  at  St.  Pancras 
Chapel,  Canterbury,  which  the  Bishop  of  Dover  and  Canon  Rout- 
ledge  are  conducting. 

The  programme  of  the  Annual  Meeting  was  finally  settled. 

Nine  new  Members  were  elected. 


On  Wednesday,  July  27th,  1881,  the  Twenty-fourth  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Society  was  commenced,  at  Canterbury,  by  holding 
the  Business  Meeting  in  the  Schoolroom,  or  ancient  upper  hall  (of 
the  time  of  Richard  II  or  Henry  lY),  in  the  Hospital  of  St. 
Thomas,  at  Eastbridge.  The  Earl  Amherst  presided,  and  around 
him  were  seated  the  Bishop  of  Dover,  Sir  Walter  Stirling,  Arch- 
deacon Harrison,  Canon  J.  C.  Robertson,  General  MacQueen, 
Robert  Eurley,  Esq.,  Gr.  E.  Hannam,  Esq.,  the  Rev.  W.  Temple 
(Master  of  Eastbridge  Hospital),  Lionel  Fletcher,  Esq.,  W.  O. 
Hammond,  Esq.,  Captain  Hatfeild,  the  Rev.  T.  A.  Carr,  Mrs.  Carr 
and  Lady  Oakeley,  Colonel  Hartley,  G-eneral  Dixon,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Reyner,  the  Rev.  W.  Benham,  Canon  Scott  Robertson,  etc.,  etc. 

The  following  Report  was  read  and  adopted  : — 

The  Twenty-fourth  Annual  Report  of  the  Kent  Archfeological  Society  is 
being  read  at  Canterbury,  where  the  First  and  Eleventh  Annual  Meetings  were 
held  in  1858  and  1868.  This  fact  reminds  us  that  the  Society  has  now  visited 
almost  every  ancient  town  in  Kent  which  possesses  accommodation  sufficient 
for  the  numbers  that  annually  attend  its  meetings.  In  future,  therefore,  the 
Society  will  probably  find  it  needful  to  meet  again  at  towns  which  its  members 
have  already  examined.  Nevertheless,  as  during  the  present  meeting  a  route 
entirely  new  to  the  Society  will  be  taken  for  the  excursion,  so  around  many  of 
the  other  towns  already  visited  many  villages  not  yet  explored  by  the  Society 
can  be  found  which  are  worthy  of  attention. 

Since  the  last  Annual  Meeting  the  Thirteenth  Volume  of  Arclicpologla 
Cantiana  has  been  issued  ;  its  entire  cost  has  been  defrayed  ;  the  sum  of 
£10.5  has  been  invested  in  Consols  ;  and  the  Society  now  has  standing  to  its 
credit  at  the  bankers  the  sum  of  £275  15s.  4d.  The  Council  therefore  feel  fully 
justified  in  preparing  to  issue  another  volume  of  Arcliceologia  Cantiana. 
Several  sheets  of  the  Fourteenth  Volume  are  already  printed,  and  it  is  hoped 
that  the  whole  may  be  ready  for  issue  about  Christmas. 

It  is  satisfactory  to  the  Society  to  know  that  its  volumes  are  sought  for  not 


Xliv  KENT   ARCHiEOLOGICAL   SOCIETY. 

only  by  Kentish  antiquaries  but  by  great  libraries  at  home  and  abroad.  Since 
the  last  Annual  Meeting  the  cntrauce  fee  has  been  given  and  the  Annual  Sub- 
scription paid  Ijy  the  Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford  and  by  the  Sydney  Free 
Library  in  Australia. 

The  number  of  new  Members  who  have  joined  the  Society  since  last  July  is 
considerably  above  the  average.  Sixty-two  have  already  been  elected,  and 
sixteen  await  election  at  your  hands  to-day. 

Interesting  discoveries  of  foundations  containing  Roman  masonry  have  been 
recently  made  at  St.  Pancras  ruins,  in  the  cemetery  of  the  ancient  Abbey  of  St. 
Augustine,  outside  the  city  of  Canterbury.  These  will  be  shown  by  the  Society 
to-day.  Other  discoveries  have  been  made  near  Canterbury  and  Wingham  by 
Mr.  Dowker,  who  will  explain  them  this  cvcuiug  and  to-morrow.  The  fruits  of 
other  discoveries  made  at  Faversham  and  Canterbury  will  be  seen  in  the  tem- 
porary museum,  where  they  have  been  placed  by  Mr.  Brent  and  Mr.  Shejjpard. 
At  the  Roman  castrum  of  Reculver,  the  demolition  of  certain  wooden  outbuild- 
ings has  exposed  to  view  a  portion  of  the  core  of  the  Roman  wall,  not  before 
seen.  Owing  to  a  slight  landslip,  this  masonry  needs  to  be  underpinned.  The 
Admiralty  had  resolved  to  underpin  it  and  to  face  it  with  new  brickwork. 
Your  Secretary  having  represented  the  state  of  the  case  to  Colonel  Tasley,  the 
Director  of  Works,  who  is  a  member  of  our  Society,  that  gentleman  has  most 
kindly  ordered  that  instead  of  a  complete  masking  wall,  nothing  more  than 
piers  necessary  for  support  shall  be  placed  over  the  old  wall-core.  At  the 
same  time  he  expressed  his  pleasure  in  being  able  to  comply  with  the  wishes  of 
vour  Council. 

The  retiring  Members  of  Council  were  re-elected ;  Mr.  R.  C. 
Hussey  and  tlie  E-ev.  Canon  E.  Moore  were  again  reappointed  as 
Auditors ;  and  the  Rev.  H.  Gr.  Eolt  was  elected  Honorary  Local 
Secretary  for  Canterbury,  in  place  of  Canon  E.  Moore  "(who  is 
leaving  Canterbury),  to  whom  the  thanks  of  the  Society  were 
accorded  for  his  kindly  services. 

Sixteen  gentlemen  were  elected  Members  of  the  Society. 

The  crypt  of  Eastbridge  Hospital,  the  groining  piers  of  which 
have  round  abacuses,  of  about  a.d.  1180,  was  then  inspected  ;  and 
Mr.  James  Neale,  F.S.A.,  described  a  good  fresco  (of  about  the 
same  date)  discovered  last  year  when  a  modern  fireplace  and  chim- 
ney, within  the  lower  hall  of  the  Hospital,  were  removed. 

St,  Martin's  Church  was  visited  under  the  guidance  of  Canon 
Eoutledge,  whose  paper  (printed  in  this  volume)  was  supplemented 
by  some  remarks  from  Mr.  Loftus  Brock,  F.S.A.,  Secretary  of 
the  British  Archaeological  Association.  At  the  ruins  of  St.  Pancras 
Chapel,  within  the  grounds  of  the  Kent  and  Canterbury  Hospital, 
Canon  Eoutledge  described  the  Eoman  foundations  of  the  walls  of 
the  western  porch,  nave,  and  south-western  chantry.  His  paper  is 
printed  in  this  volume.  Mr.  Loftus  Brock  drew  attention  to  the 
base  of  a  Eoman  column  in  situ,  first  noticed  by  him  this  morning, 
in  the  southern  pier  of  the  chancel  arch.  TheEev.  E.  E.  Oger  drew 
attention  to  a  mound  (south  of  St.  Pancras)  on  which  he  said  the 
campanile  had  stood.  The  high-way  once  ran  between  it  and  St. 
Pancras.  Passing  into  the  garden  immediately  behind  the  Kent 
and  Canterbury  Hospital,  the  Members  inspected  the  Norman 
north  wall  of  the  north  aisle  of  the  Church  of  St.  Augustine's 
Abbey.  The  Eev.  E.  E.  Orger  (lately  Sub-warden  of  St.  Augustine's 
College)  and  the  Eev.  Canon  Bailey  (lately  Warden  of  that  College) 
described  the  ruins  of  the  Abbey  Church,  of  which  there  remain 


PROCEEDINGS,    1881.  xlv 

much  of  one  moiety  o£  the  western  walls,  and  the  base  of  the 
north-west  tower  (called  Ethelbert's).  The  Rev.  E.  F.  Taylor  and 
some  students  of  the  College  had  dug  away  the  soil,  and  exposed  to 
view  an  original  tiled  floor  of  the  north  aisle  ;  the  tiles  being  of  the 
fifteenth  century  probably. 

Passing  through  a  doorway  in  the  north  wall  forming  the  base 
of  Ethelbert's  tower,  the  company  entered  the  Courtyard  of  the 
Missionary  College  of  St.  Augustine.  There  on  the  eastern  ter- 
race Mr.  Orger  gave  a  vivid  description  of  the  ancient  Abbey. 
Subsequently  he  led  the  Members  up  the  ancient  staircase  to  in- 
spect the  old  Guesten  Chapel  (now  restored  and  enlarged  as 
the  Chapel  of  the  College),  and  to  the  antique  Guesten  Hall,  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  staircase,  which  has  been  restored  and  is  now 
used  as  the  College  Dining  Hall.  Thence  Mr.  Orger  led  them 
down  another  staircase  into  the  ancient  gateway  built  by  Abbot 
Fyndon  circa  a.d.  1308. 

From  St.  Augustine's  Gateway  the  Members  passed  directly 
across  Lady  Wootton's  Green  to  the  postern  gate  (of  the  precincts) 
in  the  ancient  city  wall.  Through  the  kindly  arrangements  of 
Archdeacon  Harrison  and  his  nephew  Mr.  Thornton  the  Society's 
progress  was  thus  greatly  facilitated.  On  the  bowling-green  of 
the  Chapter,  which  is  bounded  by  the  city  wall  and  one  of  its 
towers  (fitted  up  as  a  dove-cot),  Archdeacon  Harrison  delivered  a 
discourse  upon  the  ancient  history  of  the  spot,  and  thence  con- 
ducted a  large  party  to  the  Cathedral  Church  entering  by  the 
south-west  door.  The  Rev.  Canon  J.  C.  Robertson  kindly  received 
another  party  upon  the  lawn  of  his  Canonical  house,  where  he 
pointed  out  the  mound  upon  which  formei'ly  stood  the  campanile  of 
Christ  Church  directly  south  of  the  central  tower.  Emerging  from 
his  garden,  Canon  Robertson  courteously  guided  his  party  to  the 
south-west  gate  of  the  cloisters,  and  having  described  the  scene  of 
Becket's  murder,  led  them  through  the  Cathedral  Church,  explaining 
the  various  points  of  interest  in  the  able  manner  so  characteristic 
of  him. 

A  third  party  was  led  by  Canon  Scott  Robertson  to  the  north- 
east door  of  the  Crypt.  Upon  their  entrance  the  Crypt  was  at 
once  illuminated  by  gas  jets,  which  the  Dean  and  Chapter  had, 
through  their  able  and  active  Surveyor,  Mr.  H.  G.  Austin,  caused 
to  be  inserted  specially  for  the  visit  of  the  Society.  The  entire 
Crypt  was  inspected,  including  the  French  Church  and  the  Black 
Prince's  Chantry.  Canon  Scott  Robertson  drew  attention  to  the 
westernmost  wall  of  the  Crypfc,  scraped  clear  of  plaister  and  white- 
wash specially  for  this  visit,  and  stated  Mr.  James  Parker's  belief 
that  in  the  rubble  wall  thus  exposed  to  view  some  part  of  Augus- 
tine's original  building  may  remain.  Attention  was  likewise  drawn 
to  the  huge  masonry  of  two  coigns  north  and  south  of  the  crypt, 
about  seven  feet  from  the  same  west  wall.  The  difference  between 
the  masonry  of  these  coigns,  and  all  the  other  masonry  of  the  Crypt, 
was  discovered  last  year  by  Canon  Scott  Robertson,  who  first 
called  attention  to  the  matter  in  the  Preface  to  his  History  of  this 


xlvi  KENT   ARCH^OLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 

Crypt,  pages  v,  vi,  and  in  Archceologia  Gantiana,  XIII,  p.  25,  note, 
and  on  tlie  plate  opposite  thereto  representing  a  plan  of  this  part 
of  the  Crypt. 

At  three  o'clock  there  was  Divine  Service  in  the  Choir,  which 
was  attended  by  a  large  number  of  tlie  Members  and  their  friends. 

The  dinner  was  provided  in  the  Music  Hall,  St.  Margaret's 
Street,  at  -i.l5  p.m.  The  Earl  Anilierst  presided,  and  was  supported 
by  the  Dean  of  Canterbury  and  Mrs.  Watkin,  Lady  Oakeley,  Sir 
Walter  Stirling,  Archdeacon  Harrison,  Canons  Bailey,  Coison, 
Koutledge,  Griffin,  and  Jenkins,  Generals  Dixon  and  MacQueen, 
Colonel  Hartley,  Major  Parker,  Captains  Tylden-Pattenson  and 
Hatfeild,  Canon  Scott  Robertson,  Robert  Furley,  Esq.,  Dr.  Furley, 
etc.,  etc.,  the  company  numbering  about  250. 

After  dinner  tlie  Dean  of  Canterbury  and  Mrs.  Payne  Smith 
hospitably  received  the  Members  at  a  garden  party,  refreshments 
being  served  in  the  large  dining-room,  the  walls  of  which  are  hung 
with  porti'aits  of  former  Archbishops  and  Deans.  A  large  number 
of  ladies  and  gentlemen  availed  themselves  of  the  opportunity 
afforded  by  the  Dean's  courtesy  for  inspecting  the  city  walls  which 
bound  his  garden,  and  examining  the  pictures  within  the  Deanery. 

The  Evening  Meeting  was  held  within  the  Library  of  the  Dean 
and  Chapter,  which  had  been  temporarily  lighted  with  gas  for  the 
occasion.  The  thanks  of  the  Society  were  especially  due  to  Mr. 
H.  G.  Austin,  the  Chapter's  surveyor,  for  the  very  skilful  and  in- 
genious manner  in  which  this  temporary  introduction  of  gas-pipes 
was  so  rapidly  and  effectively  carried  out.  A  temporary  museum 
of  very  great  interest  had  been  arranged  in  the  Library,  under  the 
courteous  superintendence  of  Canon  James  C.  Robertson,  by  Mr. 
J.  Brigstocke  Sheppard  and  Mr.  John  Brent,  F.S.A.,  ably  assisted 
by  Mr.  J.  Russell  Hall. 

Amidst  the  bright  accessories  of  this  museum  the  Evening 
Meeting  was  held  under  the  presidency  of  the  Dean  of  Canterbury. 
Canon  Jenkins  enunciated  an  opinion  that  close-jointed  masonry 
was  introduced  into  England  by  Archbishop  Lanfranc.  His  argu- 
ments were  met  by  others  advanced  by  Mr.  Loftus  Brock  and  Mr. 
Wadmore,  Archdeacon  Harrison,  and  others,  who  took  an  opposite 
view. 

Mr.  James  Neale,  E.S.A.,  then  read  a  long  paper  upon  the  wall 
paintings  in  the  Cathedral,  refei'ring  to  the  various  copies  of  them 
made  by  himself,  which  were  displayed  in  the  room. 

Mr.  George  Dowker,  F.G.S.,  described  a  camp  found  by  him  in 
Fish  Pond  Wood,  east  of  Canterbury,  and  drew  attention  to  a 
Roman  villa  at  Wingham,  of  which  he  had  uncovered  the  fragment 
of  a  bath-wall  encrusted  with  mosaic  of  black  and  white  tesserae. 


On  Thursday,  July  28th,  the  Society  left  Canterbury  in  the 
morning  and  proceeded  to  Ickham  Rectory,  where  they  were  most 
hospitably  received  by  the  Rev.  Edward  and  Mrs.  Gilder,  who  had 


PROCEEDINGS,    1881.  xlvii 

provided  coffee  and  light  refreshments  for  the  company  on  their 
lawn.  The  ancient  portion  of  the  E,ectory-house  was  inspected.  It 
consists  of  two  storeys,  each  containing  one  large  room.  The  lower 
room,  now  used  as  a  kitchen,  has  a  good  square-headed  window,  of 
three  lights,  with  shafted  stone  mullions  of  about  the  time  of 
King  Henry  VII.  The  ceiling  shews  a  large  number  of  moulded 
joists  and  beams  of  similar  age.  The  upper  room,  Mrs.  Gilder's 
nursery,  has  a  window  of  still  earlier  chai^acter.  This  fragment  of 
the  ancient  manse  is  complete  in  itself,  but  is  now  flacked  and  en- 
closed by  more  modern  portions  of  the  house. 

Ickham  Church  was  described  by  the  Eector,  the  Eev.  E. 
Grilder.     A  paper  thereon  is  printed  in  this  volume. 

At  AVingham  Church  Canon  IScott  Eobertson  read  a  paper, 
which  has  been  crowded  out  of  the  present  volume,  but  it  is  in- 
tended to  print  it  in  the  next  volume.  Walking  south-west  from 
the  Church  to  a  field  on  Mr.  Eobinson's  farm,  the  members  in- 
spected Mr.  Dowker's  discovery  of  a  Koman  wall  encrusted  with 
mosaic  work.  A  paper  descriptive  of  the  results  of  further  excava- 
tions here  will  be  found  in  this  volume. 

Two  old  houses  formerly  inhabited  by  Canons  of  Wingham 
were  visited  before  luncheon  was  obtained  in  the  garden  of 
one  of  them,  now  occupied  as  an  inn.  The  Red  Lion.  A  sketch  of 
these  old  houses,  with  a  history  of  them,  will  be  found  three 
pages  hence  (pp.  1-lii). 

From  Wingham  the  Society  went  to  Adisham  Church,  where 
the  Eev.  H.  M.  Villiers  welcoming  the  Members  to  his  Church 
begged  them  all  to  kneel  and  say  with  him  the  Lord's  Prayer,  before 
he  described  the  building.  This  was  reverently  done.  Mr.  Villiers' 
paper  descripti\e  of  his  Church  is  printed  in  this  volume. 

Proceeding  to  Bifrons,  the  seat  of  the  Marquess  Conyngham, 
the  Society  was  welcomed  there  by  the  Vicar,  the  Eev.  F.  T.  Vine, 
and  by  Lord  Conyngham's  worthy  steward,  Mr.  Eobert  Smith. 
The  house  (named  from  its  having  two  handsome  fronts)  is  not  yet 
a  century  old,  but  in  its  side  hall  there  is  a  fine  collection  of  Saxon 
antiquities  which  were  excavated  from  a  Saxon  cemetery  in  the 
Park  a  few  years  ago.  After  inspecting  them  the  Members 
walked  through  the  dining-room,  the  drawing-room,  and  the 
conservatory.  The  pictures  by  Holbein,  Rembrandt,  and  Watteau, 
and  many  curious  examples  of  Flemish  art  and  Venetian  furni- 
ture were  duly  seen  and  admired.  Through  the  garden  access 
was  obtained  to  Patricksbourne  Church,  which  was  described  by 
the  Eev.  F.  T.  Vine.     A  paper  thereon  is  printed  in  this  volume. 

After  a  charming  drive  through  Bifrons  Park,  Bridge,  and 
Bourne  Park,  Bishopsbourne  Church  was  reached.  The  Eev.  T. 
Hirst  kindly  exhibited  the  Parish  Eegister,  signed  at  the  foot  of 
many  a  page  by  the  "judicious  "  Eichard  Hooker.  The  autographs 
were  examined  with  great  interest  by  many,  but  by  none  with 
greater  zest  than  by  Master  Eichard  Hooker,  the  young  son  of  Sir 
Joseph  Hooker  of  Kew,  who,  with  Lady  Hooker,  had  accompanied  the 
Society  to  this  scene  of  the  great  Hooker's   labours    and    death 


Xlviii  KENT   ARCHAEOLOGICAL    SOCIETY. 

His  mural  monument  on  tlie  south  wall  of  the  cliancel  was  pointed 
out.  Its  inscription  is  often  misunderstood  ;  but  it  correctly 
states  that  Hooker  died  in  A.n.  IGOO.  The  tablet  itself  was  not 
erected  until  1(533,  when  AVilliatn  Cowper,  l^sq.,  was  at  the  cost  of 
placinfi;  it  here.  The  Churcli  was  restored  under  tlie  superintendence 
of  the  hite  Kector,  Dr.  Sandford,  who  is  now  Bishop  of  (libraltar.  In 
the  tower,  the  west  window  has  been  filled  with  stained  glass  by 
Dr.  Sandford's  pupils,  as  a  memorial  of  their  regard. 

In  Bishopsbourne  Eectory  Mr.  and  j\Irs.  Hirst  kindly  admitted 
the  Members  to  their  dining-room,  which  was  Hooker's  study 
in  which  he  died.  The  ceiling  (decorated  under  Dr.  Sandford's 
auspices)  is  of  similar  character  to  that  seen  in  the  morning  at 
Ickham  Rectory  ;  but  this  at  Bishopsbourne  is  of  later  date,  and  its 
beams  are  rather  more  elaborately  moulded.  In  the  Rectory- 
garden  Mrs.  Hirst  gave  tea  and  coffee  to  her  visitors,  at  a  table 
placed  beside  a  thick  hedge  of  yew  which  had  been  planted  by  the 
"judicious"  Hooker  little  less  than  three  centuries  ago. 

This  was  the  last  place  visited  by  the  Society,  and  on  leaving, 
the  Members,  incited  by  Mr.  Robert  Furley,  gave  three  hearty 
cheers  for  Canon  Scott  Robertson  and  Messrs.  Payne,  Spurrell, 
and  Thornton,  who  had  successfully  conducted  the  Society's  two  days' 
excursions  to  a  happy  termination. 

In  the  museum  arranged  in  the  Chapter  Library  at  Canterbury 
by  Mr.  Sheppard,  Mr.  Hall,  and  Mr.  Brent,  was  seen  the  large 
collection  of  miscellaneous  articles  brought  home  from  the 
Continent  of  Europe  in  the  reign  of  Charles  II  by  Prebendary 
Bargrave,  and  bequeathed  by  him  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter.  A 
large  and  varied  collection  of  Manuscript  Illuminations  of  the 
twelfth  and  thirteenth  centuries  was  arranged  by  Mr.  Sheppard  ; 
Roman  and  Saxon  antiquities  were  contributed  by  Mr.  John 
Brent  and  others ;  and  a  large  number  of  prints  and  pictures 
illustrative  of  ancient  Canterbury  and  its  Cathedral  added  much  to 
the  interest  of  the  museum. 


The  Council  met  on  the  80th  August,  1881,  at  Maidstone,  in 
the  Society's  Rooms.  Earl  Amherst  presided,  and  six  Members  of 
Council  were  in  attendance. 

Thanks  were  voted  to  Mr.  J.  B.  Sheppard,  for  his  untiring 
services  in  issuing  the  tickets,  arranging  the  museum,  and  facili- 
tating the  proceedings  in  various  ways  ;  to  the  Dean  of  Canterbury, 
the  Rev.  E.  Gilder,  and  the  Rev.  Thos.  Hirst, for  kindly  hospitality; 
to  Canon  J.  C.  Robertson  and  Archdeacon  Harrison,  for  much 
help  in  various  matters  ;  to  the  Chapter,  for  the  use  of  the  Library  ; 
to  Canon  Routledge,  the  Rev.  H.  M.  Villiers,  the  Rev.  F.  T.  Vine, 
and  Lord  Conyngham,  for  admitting  the  Society  to  their  Churches 
and  to  Bifrons  ;  to  Mr.  Greo.  Payne,  Mr.  Spurrell,  Mr.  H.  Thornton, 
Mr.  J.  R.  Hall,  and  Mr.  George  Dowker,  for  their  kindly  help. 


PROCEEDINGS,    1882.  xlix 

Votes  of  money  for  costs  of  excavations  were  made,  viz.,  to 
Canon  Routledge  £5,  for  excavations  at  St.  Pancras  Cliurch,  Can- 
terbury, upon  which  he  and  the  Bishop  of  Dover  have  expended 
three  times  that  sum  ;  and  £10  at  once  to  Mr.  George  Dowker  to 
enable  him  to  prosecute  the  exploration  of  a  Eoman  Villa  at 
"Wingham.  If  needed,  it  was  resolved  that  a  second  sum  of  £10 
might  be  contributed,  if  the  Secretary  of  the  Society  thought  fit, 
after  at  least  £30  raised  from  other  sources  had  been  expended 
upon  the  work. 

It  was  referred  to  the  Secretary  to  examine  and  report  upon  the 
desirability  of  holding  the  next  Annual  Meeting  at  Maidstone. 

Two  new  Members  were  elected. 


On  the  31st  of  January,  1882,  the  Council  met  at  the  Society's 
Eooms,  Maidstone.  The  Earl  Amherst  presided,  and  ten  Members 
of  Council  were  in  attendance. 

It  was  resolved  that  the  Annual  Meeting  shall  this  year  be  held 
at  Maidstone;  and  that,  on  the  second  day,  visits  shall  be  paid  to 
Leeds  Castle  and  Lenham.  The  days  suggested  for  the  meeting 
were  Wednesday  and  Thursday  the  2nd  and  3rd  of  August. 

The  Secretary  reported  that  Mr.  Uowker,  having  uncovered  two 
tessellated  floors  and  the  t  tes  of  four  rooms  of  the  Roman  Villa  at 
Wingham,  stopped  his  excavations  for  the  winter,  after  he  had 
expended  about  £20.  Consequently  no  further  grant  of  money 
was  yet  required.  In  the  spring  of  this  year,  however,  more  ex- 
tended excavations  will  be  undertaken  around  the  same  site. 

Eleven  new  Members  were  elected. 

The  plates  and  all  the  printed  sheets  of  Arcliceologia  Cantiana, 
Vol.  XIV,  were  laid  on  the  table.  It  contains  33  Papers  by  18 
different  writers,  with  45  Illustrations,  and  will  extend  over  450 
pages.  It  is  the  sixth  volume  which  has  been  edited  for  the 
Society  by  Canon  Scott  Robertson. 


VOL.    XIV. 


(  1  ) 


CANONS'  HOUSES  AT  WINGHAM. 


The  old  liouscs,  so  admirably  sketched  by  Mr.  Wadmore  for  the 
annexed  plate,  are  the  only  visible  remains  of  those  ancient  dwell- 
ings which  were  occupied,  during  250  years,  by  members  of  the 
Mediaeval  College  of  Wingham.  They  stand  on  the  south  side  of 
the  village  street,  at  its  eastern  end,  and  were  erected  in  the  four- 
teenth or  fifteenth  century,  as  residences  for  Canons  of  Wingham. 
Hence,  in  the  last  century,  they  were  called  Canon  Row. 

The  house  of  the  Provost,  since  called  The  College,  stood  north- 
west of  them  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  village  street.  The  Manor- 
house  of  the  Archbishop  was  situated  still  further  towards  the 
north-west.  In  that  Manor-house  at  least  three  of  our  kings  had 
been  entertained.  Edward  I  was  there,  the  guest  of  Archbishop 
Winchelsey,  during  three  days  Sept.  28-30,  in  1295  ;  Edward  II 
there  visited  Archbishop  Eeynolds  in  the  summer  of  1324 ;  and 
Edward  III  was  entertained  by  Archbishop  Meopham  on  the  20th 
of  April  1331.  Not  a  vestige,  however,  can  now  be  seen  of  the 
archiepiscopal  residence. 

The  ancient  gabled  dwelling  of  the  Provost,  called  the  College, 
which,  after  the  Dissolution,  became  the  seat  of  the  Palmer 
baronets,  remained  standing  until  the  middle  of  this  century,  when 
it  was  pulled  down  and  a  new  house  was  built  upon  its  site.  Its 
destruction  snapped  another  link  between  the  modern  village  of 
"Wingham  and  its  ancient  glory.  That  Provost's  House  had  been 
at  various  epochs  the  residence  of  ecclesiastics,  Avho  eventually  dis- 
tinguished themselves  in  the  state,  and  attained  high  honours  in 
the  Church.  One  of  the  earliest  Provosts  in  the  reign  of  Edward  I 
was  Amadeus,  son  of  the  powerful  Lord  St.  John.  Among  his 
successors  were  William  Eeade,  who  became  Bishop  of  Chichester 
in  1369 ;  Thomas  Eotherham,  Archbishop  of  Tork  ;  and  five  Arch- 
deacons, four  of  whom  were  closely  related  to  Archbishops.  One 
of  them,  Thomas  Morton,  was  Archdeacon  of  Ely  ;  three  were 
Archdeacons  of  Canterbuiy,  viz.,  Thomas  Chicheley,  William 
Warham,  and  Edmund  Cranmer  ;  one  Henry  Ediall,  was  Arch- 
deacon of  Rochester.  The  Canons'  houses  had  been  occupied  by 
men  who  subsequently  achieved  still  higher  honours.  Archbishop 
Whittlesey,  and  Archbishop  Kemp  ;  Richard  Courtenay,  Bishop  of 
Norwich  (1413-16)  ;  and  Philip  Morgan,  Bishop  of  Worcester 
(1419-25),  and  of  Ely  (1425-37)  ;  John  Stopyndon,  Master  of  the 
Rolls  (1438-46)  ;  John  Prophet,  Dean  of  York  (1416)  ;  Vincent 
Clement,    Archdeacon    of     Huntingdon,    Wilts,    and  Winchester 


canons'  houses  at  wingham.  li 

(1458-72);  and  several  ecclesiastical  judges  who  dispensed  justice, 
as  Dean  of  the  Arches  or  as  Chancellor  of  the  Archbishop,  had  occu- 
pied Canons'  stalls  and  houses  at  Wingham. 

From  traces  o£  important  ruins  discovered  in  the  garden  of  the 
modern  Vicarage-house,  we  may  infer  that  the  residences  of  the 
Canons  extended  southward  from  the  street  for  a  consider- 
able distance.  Probably  they  may  have  been  erected  around  a 
quadrangular  close,  of  which  the  north  side  stood  in  the  present 
street,  and  the  eastern  side  abutted  upon  the  high  road  which  leads 
to  Adisham.  It  is  a  very  singular  fact  that  these  Canonical  houses 
in  Wingham  were  accounted  to  stand  within  the  liberty  of  the 
Cinque  Port  of  Hastings. 

There  were  six  Prebendaries  or  Canons,  and  each  of  them'  was 
bound  by  the  College  statutes  to  reside  here  during  at  least  four 
months  of  every  year.  In  1511  there  were  also  four  Yicars 
Choral,  one  Stipendiary  Chaplain,  four  Choral  Clerks,  and  two 
Choristers  attached  to  the  College.  Nor  was  this  the  full  com- 
plement of  the  staff  comtemplated  by  the  statutes  of  foundation. 
The  nnmber  of  Vicars  Choral  should  have  been  eight,  each  of  them 
in  Priest's  or  Deacon's  ordei's  ;  and  there  should  have  been  four 
trained  choristers.  Consequently  the  Collegiate  buildings  must 
have  occupied  a  considerable  area.  When  the  College  was  finally 
dissolved  in  1547-8,  pensions  for  life  were  assigned  to  the  officials  ; 
and  no  less  than  fourteen  of  them  survived  until  the  reign  of  Queen 
Mary,  when  they  were  still  receiving  these  annual  allowances. 

In  the  Prebendal-house  attached  to  his  Wimelingwelde 
Canonry,  Dr.  William  de  Heghtresbury  made  his  will  in  the  year 
1372.     Yet  he  was  buried  in  Ickham  Church,  of  which  he  was  Eector. 

Private  Chapels  were  attached  to  some,  at  least,  of  the  Canons' 
houses  here.  This  fact  has  been  made  memorable  by  a  curious 
incident  which  occurred  about  the  year  1360.  Dugdale*  narrates 
how  a  niece  of  Edw.  Ill,  the  Lady  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  the 
Marquess  of  Juliers,  Earl  of  Cambridge,  became  a  veiled  nun  after 
the  death,  in  1352,  of  her  husband,  John,  Earl  of  Kent,  brother 
of  the  fair  Joan  of  Kent  who  married  the  Black  Prince.  Neverthe- 
less, she  subsequently  forsook  her  vows,  and  was  secretly  married 
to  Sir  Eustace  D'Aubrichecourt  in  the  Chapel  of  the  dwelling-house 
of  Robert  atte  Brome,  a  Canon  of  Wingham. 

Which  of  the  Prebendal  houses  was  occupied  by  him  we 
cannot  clearly  ascertain ;  but  it  was  either  that  of  the  Pedding  or 
of  the  Bonington  Canonry.  Eobert  atte  Brome,  no  doubt,  derived 
his  name  from  an  estate  in  Barham.  which  gives  its  name  to  Brome 
Park  the  chief  seat  of  the  Oxenden  family.  He  remained  in  posses- 
sion of  his  Canonry  and  Prebendal-house  here  until  1372,  when  he 
was  buried  in  Wingham  Church.  His  will  is  preserved  at 
Lambeth ;  in  it  he  remembered  all  his  colleagues  here,  bequeathing 
to  each  Canon  five  marks  (£3  6s.  8d.)  ;  13s.  4d.  to  each  Vicar,  and 
20s.  to  the  Little  Clerks  {parvis  clericis). 

''^  Baronage,  ii.,  9.5. 


Hi  canons'  houses  at  wingham. 

"Whether  he  shared  in  the  punishments  awarded  for  the 
clandestine  marriao;e,  we  cannot  say  ;  but  the  lady  who  broke  her 
relii^ious  vows,  and  lier  luisband,  were  both  of  them  subjected  to 
severe  penances  duriug  the  whole  subsequent  course  of  their 
lives. 

llespecting  the  dwelling  attached  to  the  Chilton  Canonry, 
which  Archbishop  "Whittlesey  once  occupied,  it  is  recorded  that,  in 
1511,  when  Ambrose  Payne  was  its  incumbent,  the  house  so 
greatly  needed  repair  as  to  be  nearly  ruinous.  Canon  Payne  had 
obtained  the  Chilton  Prebend  in  April,  1499,  and  he  held  it  until 
1521,  when  he  exchanged  it  for  a  Canon's  stall  in  the  Collegiate 
Chui'ch  of  Hastings.  Whether  he  repaired  the  dwelling-house,  or 
suffered  it  to  fall  down,  we  are  not  informed. 

Mr.  Parker  says,  in  his  Domestic  Architecture  of  the  Middle 
A(/es,  that  at  Wingham  there  are  several  timber  and  half-timber 
houses  of  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  centuries,  and  one  of  the 
fourteenth.*  He  ascribes  tlie  latter  to  the  reign  of  Edward  III,t 
and  gives  an  engraving  of  the  well-moulded  barge-board  in  its 
gable. J  One  of  the  fifteenth  century  houses  at  Wingham, 
which  Mr.  Parker  engraves, §  seems  to  be  identical  with  that 
Prebendal-house  which  stands  nearest  to  the  spectator  in  Mr. 
Wadmore's  sketch  here  given.  This  house  contains  on  the  ground 
floor,  a  panelled  ceiling,  identical  with  or  very  similar  to  that  of  the 
fifteenth  century  which  Mr.  Parker  has  engraved  upon  an  earlier 
page  of  his  work.||  The  remoter  dwelling-house  shewn  in  Mr. 
Wadmore's  sketch  is  now  the  Eed  Lion  Inn,  much  frequented  by 
artists  and  tourists,  where  the  Bench  of  Magistrates  sits  once  a 
month,  and  where  the  members  of  the  Kent  Archaeological  Society 
obtained  their  luncheon  on  the  28th  of  July,  1881.  Many  of  its 
rooms  are  of  great  interest  to  the  Antiquary  ;  and  one  of  the 
smaller  windows  in  the  upper  storey  of  its  front  seems  to  be  of  a 
date  almost  as  early  as  the  reign  of  Richard  II. 

W.  A.  Scott  Robertson. 


*  Vol.  iii.,  308.  f  Vol.  il.,  288.  J  Vol.  ii.,  30. 

§  Vol.  iii.,  308.  ||  Vol.  iii.,  127. 


Jrrltaj0l0jjia  djantiana* 


THE  PAMILY  OE  GULDEFOED.* 

BY   THE    REV.    CANON    R.    C.    JENKINS. 

Ip  the  district  of  East  Kent  is  interesting  to  us,  from 
its  representing  the  scene  of  our  earliest  recorded 
history,  and  bringing  back  to  us  the  memories  and 
traditions  of  that  proud  isolation  which  our  county 
once  enjoyed,  as  the  most  ancient  of  the  kingdoms  of 
the  Heptarchy — if  the  country  of  North  Kent  claims 
our  interest,  on  the  ground  of  the  close  and  early  con- 
nection in  which  it  places  us  with  the  Metropolis,  and 
from  the  manner  in  which  it  fills  up  the  intermediate 
portion  of  our  history,  and  that  of  the  eminent  families 
who  were  connected  with  its  feudal  period — that  im- 
portant division,  in  the  county,  which  we  traverse 
during  our  Tenterden  Congress,  has  the  distinctive 
advantage  of  introducing  us  to  the  most  stirring  and 
eventful  period  in  the  annals  of  our  country ;  a  period 
from  which  the  domestic  and  social  history  of  England 
may  be  said  to  begin.  This  period  is  as  marked  in  its 
architectural  features,  as  it  is  in  the  spiritual  and 
ecclesiastical  changes  it  witnessed ;  and  is  covered  by 
the  reigns  of  the  only  family  of  our  kings  which  has 
a  native  name  and  an  English  origin.  The  records  of 
the  Tudor  dynasty,  which,  unlike  any  previous  one, 
was  English,  not  only  in  its  origin  but  in  its  many 
and  varied  alliances,  bring  before  us  almost  a  romance 
*  A  Paper  read  at  Tenterden,  on  July  28,  1880. 

TOL.    XIV.  B 


2  THE   FAMILY   OF    GULDEFORD. 

of  history ;  carry  us  into  almost  every  scene  of  English 
life,  whether  puhlic  or  private,  from  the  grand  pageant 
of  the  Field  of  the  Cloth  of  Gold,  to  the  progresses  of 
Elizabeth  from  house  to  house  among  her  people ;  and 
present  to  us  the  first  and  grandest  type  of  that  strange 
and  composite  social  system,  which  no  other  country 
has  ever  realised  ;  in  which  every  class  and  every  in- 
dividual has  his  necessary  and  appointed  place  in  the 
great  framework  of  society;  which  might  well  be 
likened  to  a  splendid  mosaic  work,  in  which  the  rarest 
stones  and  the  brightest  colours  are  blended  with  the 
humbler  ground- work,  whose  subdued  tints  give  them 
increased  beauty  by  their  very  contrast,  but  in  which 
every  stone  is  equally  necessary,  both  to  the  safety  and 
the  completeness  of  the  work.  It  is  thus  that  from 
this  memorable  period  every  class  of  society,  and  every 
member  of  it  from  the  highest  to  the  lowest,  have 
found  their  proper  place,  without  rivalry  and  without 
disturbance.  The  sanguinary  and  ruinous  campaigns 
in  Erance,  and  the  still  more  fatal  and  fratricidal  civil 
war  which  depopulated  England,  had  almost  destroyed 
all  the  ancient  nobility;  whose  memories  are  from  time 
to  time  revived  among  us,  in  the  titles  called  out  of 
abeyance  from  among  the  descendants  of  their  female 
heirs ;  and,  out  of  the  social  fabric  thus  shattered  and 
all  but  destroyed,  the  first  of  the  Tudors  had  to  build 
up  a  new  aristocracy  and  new  counsellors.  It  seems 
as  though  the  Weald  of  Kent  was  destined  to  be  almost 
the  seed-plot  of  this  new  plantation.  In  the  mansions 
that  surround  us,  some  still  in  existence  though  re- 
taining the  venerable  features  of  antiquity,  others  in 
ruins,  and  others  again  rebuilt  to  represent  a  later  age 
and  its  higher  requirements,  we  recognise  the  homes 
of  some  of  the  most  historic  families  of  the  Tudor 


THE    FAMILY   OF    GULDEFORD.  3 

period  ;  many  of  them  the  near  relatives,  and  too  often 
for  that  very  reason  the  inevitable  victims,  of  one  of 
the  greatest  and  yet,  perhaps,  the  very  worst  of  our 
kings.  Por  we  are  in  the  country  of  the  Boleyns,  of 
the  Guldefords,  of  the  Sydneys,  of  the  Auchers,  of 
the  Colepepers,  of  the  Hales,  the  Roberts,  the 
Mayneys,  the  Harlackendens,  the  Bakers,  and  a  host 
of  kindred  families,  whose  memorials  fill  the  churches 
around  us,  and  whose  public  and  private  life  is  inter- 
woven with  that  of  the  most  touching  and  romantic 
period  of  our  national  history.  I  wish  that  I  had 
but  the  grouping  and  colouring  skill  of  the  painter,  or 
the  descriptive  power  of  a  word-painting  historian,  or 
the  fire  of  a  dramatist,  that  I  might  bring  before  your 
imagination,  as  vividly  as  I  could  wish,  the  more 
illustrious  of  the  members  of  these  great  historic 
houses ;  but  it  would  need  almost  the  wand  of  a  ma- 
gician to  conjure  up  the  many  scenes  of  stirring  interest 
in  which  they  took  part,  and  the  strange  vicissitudes 
which  were  witnessed  in  their  ever-changing  fortunes. 

But  there  is  one  family  among  the  number  which 
stands  out  from  the  rest  more  conspicuously  than  any 
other  ;  and  whose  name  gathers  around  it  some  of  the 
noblest  memories  and  most  affecting  incidents  of  the 
period — that  of  the  Guldefords  of  Hempsted  in  Benen- 
den,  and  of  Halden  in  Bolvenden  ;  eminent  from  a 
much  earlier  age  than  that  which  witnessed  its  con- 
nection with  royalty  ;  illustrious  in  the  person  of  the 
great  Duchess  of  Northumberland,  whose  maiden 
name  is  read  in  that  of  the  unfortunate  Lord  Guide- 
ford  Dudley,  the  husband  of  Lady  Jane  Grey,  "  who 
were  lovely  and  pleasant  in  their  lives,  while  in  their 
deaths  they  were  not  divided." 

The  little  parish  of  East  Guldeford  in  Sussex,  in 

B    2 


4  THE    FAMILY   OF   GULDEFORD. 

the  near  neiglibourliood  of  Hye,  a  cheerless  marshland, 
numbering  about  a  hundred  and  fifty  inhabitants,  gave 
its  name  to  this  ancient  house — a  name  which  has  almost 
perished  as  a  patronymic,  while  it  survives  in  that  of  the 
parish,  which  forms  thus  a  "  magni  nominis  umhra.^^ 
I  do  not  find  any  mention  of  it  in  Domesday  ;  and,  if  a 
conjecture  may  be  hazarded  in  regard  to  its  derivation, 
I  might  suggest  that  it  marked  the  limit  of  the  juris- 
diction of  the  guilds  connected  with  the  Cinque  port 
of  E/ye.  Or,  it  might  represent  to  us  the  ford  at 
which  a  toll  or  payment  was  exacted,  from  those 
travelling  from  Kent  into  Sussex ;  an  early  form  of  the 
name  being  Geldeforde,  which  occurs  in  13-17.*  In 
this  case,  its  origin  would  be  analogous  to  that  of  the 
village  which  gave  name  to  the  illustrious  family  of 
Zintzendorf,  and  to  the  castle  which  gave  a  still  higher 
title  to  the  imperial  house  of  Hohenzollern. 

I  shall  not  attempt  to  carry  up  the  pedigree,  of  the 
family,  to  that  period  which  every  herald  vaguely  as- 
sumes to  be  the  only  possible  starting-point,  of  every 
house  which  has  made  itself  famous  in  English  history ; 
whether,  in  Shakespeare's  words,  it  was  "  born  great, 
achieved  greatness,  or  had  greatness  thrust  upon  it." 

The  origin  of  the  family  is,  fortunately,  sufficiently 
remote,  and  venerable,  to  enable  us  to  dispense  with  a 
reference  to  the  fabulous  list  of  the  followers  of  the 
Conqueror.  From  E;ichard  Guldeford,  its  earliest 
ascertained  ancestor,  who,  according  to  the  ordinary 
reckoning  of  descents,  must  have  been  born  about 
the  year  1186,  the  pedigree  merely  records  the  names 
of  its  successive  links,  until  we  reach  the  first  member 
of  it  who  gave  it  celebrity  and  a  distinguished  rank 
in  the  county — that  of  William  de  Guldeford,  who 

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Kdwatd  (iuldefortl  of  Hempsted,  Kwi.=j=Catherine,  da,  of  Thomas  I'e 


n  of  John,  let  Lord  Petrc. 


Samuel  Tuke  ot      of  Rotbenv. 


,  Hart.       1717,  J 


n.  O.  S.  H.,  died  at  I'o 


t  Poiitoiso,  0.  S.  B., 


Guldeford,  Esq.,  of  Hempstcd,  created  a  Baronot=CInrc,  da.  and  coheir  of  Anthony  Mi 


by  JamesII.  an.  lUgfi.     Died  without 


1718.       of  Nofthorpin  Lincolnshin: 


[From  1/aiI.  MS.  1082,  fo.  IIG.     Shropshire  PedigrccH  by  R.  Holm 

Sir  Jo.  Guldufortl^Dorotby,  da.  of  John  Copley  by  Annv. 
of  Kent,  Km.  dHu;;htci-  of  the  Lord  ffoo. 

Sir  Thomas  Guldcfonl. 


THE    FAMILY   OF    GULDEFORD.  5 

lived  in  the  eleventh  year  of  Richard  II  (1388).     In 
that  year,  this  William  (who  had  obtained  by  a  grant 
from  the  Crown  the  manor  of  Hempstcd  in  Benenden 
on  the  attainder   of   Sir  Hobert  Belknap)    kept   his 
shrievalty  at  that  ancient  seat.     He  married  Joane, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  John  de  Halden,  in  whose 
right  he  became  possessed  of  the  ancient  inheritance 
of    Lambin,    otherwise    Halden,     in    the    adjoining 
parish   of   Holvenden.     He   was   grandfather   of   Sir 
John    Guldeford,    Comptroller   of   the  Household  to 
King  Edward  IV.    In  the  following  reign,  he  espoused 
the  cause  of  the  Earl  of  Richmond,  for  which  both 
himself  and  his  son  Sir  Richard  were  attainted  in  the 
first  Parliament  of   Richard   III.     After  the   great 
event  of  Bosworth,  and  the  settlement  of  the  crown 
upon  Henry  VII,  the  attainders  of  both  the  father  and 
the  son  were  reversed;  and  the  fortunes  of  the  family 
flowed  on,  in  full  tide,  until  tliey  reached  their  highest 
point  in  the  following  reign.     Sir  Richard,  who  liad 
fled  on  his  attainder,  returned  with  the  Earl  of  Rich- 
mond ;  and  was  knighted  by  him  at  Milford  Haven. 
After  the  accession  of  the  Earl  as  Henry  VII,  he  was 
sworn  of   the    Privy   Council,    made    Master  of  the 
Ordnance,  and   created  a   Knight   Banneret  for  his 
services  against   the   Cornish  rebels   at   Blackheath. 
In  the   ninth   year  of  the   same  reign,  he  held  his 
shrievalty  at  Halden,  and  was  made  Knight  of  the 
Garter.     This  eminent  person  left  two  sons  ;  JEdward^ 
the  elder,  who  carried  on  the  succession  at  his  seat  of 
Halden ;  and  George,  the  second  son,  who  carried  on 
the  junior  line  at   Hempsted,   which,    although   tlie 
original  settlement  of  the  Guldcfords,  became,  by  tlie 
will  of    Sir  Richard,  the   residence  of   the  younger 
branch.     This  line,  distinguished  by  a  baronetcy  in 


6  THE    FAMILY   OF    GULDEFORD. 

1685,  is  believed  to  have  become  entirely  extinct  in 
the  early  part  of  the  last  century. 

I  must  now  ask  you  to  concentrate  your  attention 
upon  the  elder  l)ranch,  which  was  seated  at  Ilalden ; 
that  of  Sir  Edward  Guldeford  whose  monument  (we 
trust  an  imperishable  one)  is  the  south  chapel  of  the 
present  Church  of  Rolvenden,  which  he  founded  on 
April  14th,  1444.  He  married  Eleanor,  the  daughter 
of  Thomas  Lord  Delawarr,  and  had  issue  an  only  son. 
Sir  Eichard,  who  died  in  Spain  childless ;  and  here,  as 
a  passing  observation,  we  may  note  the  early  con- 
nection of  the  family  with  Spain,  which  was  begun 
by  the  half-brother  of  Sir  Edward  Guldeford,  Sir 
Henry,  who  was  created  a  Knight  of  the  Garter,  and 
distinguished  himself  in  the  wars  of  King  Eerdinand 
of  Spain  against  the  Moors,  being  present  at  the 
taking  of  Grenada.  Eor  this  service,  he  received  from 
that  monarch  a  picturesque  addition  to  the  arms  of 
the  family,  in  the  form  of  a  canton  charged  with  the 
pomegranate  (the  apple  of  Grenada),  which,  as  it  was 
borne  by  his  collateral  descendants,  was  apparently 
given  to  his  family  as  well  as  to  himself.  He  died 
without  issue  in  the  23rd  year  of  Henry  VIII.  This 
intimate  connection  with  the  Spanish  Court  was,  as 
we  shall  see  hereafter,  not  unfruitful  in  its  results  to 
the  family  in  the  day  of  trial  and  misfortune.  We 
revert,  from  this  passing  digression,  to  the  family  of 
Sir  Edward,  the  elder  half-brother  of  the  Spanish 
crusader  (if  we  may  so  term  him),  and  our  eye  falls 
first  upon  that  member  of  the  family  which  forms  the 
central  point  of  interest  and  attraction,  in  its  long  and 
chequered  history.  The  Lady  Jane  Guldeford,  who 
became  the  heiress  of  her  brother  Sir  Eichard,  was 
early  married  to   one   whose   political  intrigues  and 


THE   FAMILY    OF    GULDEFORD.  7 

exalted  position  placed  him,  from  the  first,  in  the  most 
conspicuous  and  therefore  the  most  perilous  position ; 
in  the  day  when  the  life  of  the  humblest  peasant  was 
safer  than  that  of  the  most  dignified  courtier,  however 
he  might  be  loaded  with  titles  and  ensigns  of  nobility 
— for  these  became  in  truth  mere  pondera  ad  rumam 
to  men  who,  like  John  Dudley,  Duke  of  Northumber- 
land, were  too  near  the  throne  to  be  for  a  single  day 
beyond  the  peril  of  a  fall.  I  think  (and  you  will 
doubtless  think  with  me)  that  we  can  hardly  conceive  a 
more  touching  picture  than  that  of  Jane  Guldeford, — 
whose  father,  though  he  filled  the  high  offices  of 
Marshal  of  Calais,  Lord  Warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports, 
Constable  of  Dover  Castle,  and  Master  of  the  Ord- 
nance, appears  to  have  brought  up  his  family  in  the 
quiet  seclusion  of  country  life,  far  from  the  struggles 
and  intrigues  of  the  city  and  the  court, — suddenly 
brought  out  into  the  full  glare  of  royalty,  and  passing 
on  into  a  life  of  constant  fear  and  anxiety,  more 
terrible  and  unendurable  than  the  overwhelming 
afflictions  in  which  it  culminated.  The  contrast 
between  the  tranquil  scene,  in  which  we  have  met 
to-day,  and  the  great  city  with  its  seething  multitudes ; 
between  the  quiet  country  home  and  the  gaieties  of 
the  court,  is  great  even  now.  What  must  it  have 
been  then?  But  Jane  Guldeford  had  a  far  higher 
nature,  and  a  far  more  real  nobility,  than  her  powerful 
and  ambitious  husband.  Of  her  earlier  years,  indeed, 
we  know  little  or  nothing ;  but  as  we  gather  the 
ripened  fruits  of  her  later  life,  we  may  well  realise  in 
imagination  how  bright  and  beautiful  must  have  been 
its  seed-time — how  fair  a  spring  must  have  preceded 
its  autumn  season.  In  her  descendant,  the  great  Sir 
Philip  Sydney,  we  seem  to  read  the  character  of  his 


8  THE   FAMILY   OF   GULDEFOUD. 

ancestress ;  while  the  touching  words  of  her  will,  as 
well  as  the  constancy  of  her  life  during  the  storms 
which  fell  upon  her,  help  us  to  fill  up  a  portrait 
hardly  equalled  in  beauty  by  that  of  any  of  her 
contemporaries.  But  we  proceed  to  note,  briefly,  the 
strange  vicissitudes  which  made  her  name  so  memo- 
rable, and  connected  it  so  closely,  with  the  annals  of 
her  country;  first  making  mention  of  her  children, 
through  one  of  whom  that  connection  was  made  at 
once  so  near  and  so  fatal.  Henry,  the  eldest  son  of 
the  Duchess,  fell  at  the  siege  of  Boulogne,  less  for- 
tunate than  his  companion  in  arms.  Sir  William 
Hardres,  who  (as  many  here  present  will  remember) 
escaped  in  safety  from  the  scene  of  that  fruitless 
victory,  receiving  one  of  the  gates  of  the  town  as  the 
trophy  of  his  bravery  and  success.  The  second  son, 
John,  died  unmarried — Ambrose,  the  third,  acquired 
the  Earldom  of  Warwick — Bobert  was  the  famous 
Earl  of  Leicester — Henry  was  slain  at  St.  Quinton — 
Charles  died  young — Mary  was  married  to  Sir  Henry 
Sydney,  and  was  the  mother  of  the  Sir  Philip  Sydney 
of  a  later  and  brighter  day — and  four  other  daughters 
married  into  the  houses  of  the  greater  gentry  of  the 
period.  I  reserve  for  the  last,  in  this  illustrious  roll, 
the  name  which  is  to  all  of  us  more  familiar  than 
any,  that  of  the  Lord  Guldeford  Dudley  (wrongly 
called  in  our  popular  histories  Lord  Guilford  Dudley)  ; 
whose  fatal  ambition  and  untimely  end  connected  the 
name  of  his  mother's  house  with  the  most  touching 
and  romantic  period  of  our  history.  Having  thus 
placed  before  your  eye  the  members  of  that  great 
house,  which  was  destined  so  soon  to  share  the  fate  of 
the  kindred  houses  of  Suffolk  and  Somerset,  and  but 
for  its  perpetuation  in  distant  and  female  lines  to  be 


THE    FAMILY    OF    GULDEFORT).  9 

utterly  extinguishecl,  I  will  proceed  to  direct  your 
attention  to  the  circumstances  which  led  on  to  the 
denouement  of  this  tragedy  of  real  life.  And  here  I 
will  derive  my  narrative  from  a  remarkable  tract, 
published  in  the  year  1553,  by  an  eye-witness — a 
foreigner,  and  probably  one  of  the  German  or  Elemish 
exiles  who  had  taken  refuge  in  England,  under  the 
protection  accorded  by  Edward  VI — a  tract  of  which 
a  copy,  presumed  to  be  unique,  was  possessed  by  my 
late  friend  Mr.  Inglis  (whose  library  was  so  well 
known  as  probably  the  richest  in  England  in  such 
rarities),  and  was  by  him  translated  and  printed. 
This  writer,  after  describing  the  death  of  Edward  YI 
under  circumstances  which  could  not  but  lead  to  the 
suspicion  of  poison,  proceeds  thus  : — 

"  The  suspicion,  as  well  as  the  chief  repute  of  so  gi'eat  a  crime,  fall 
upon  John  Dudley,  Duke  of  Northumberland,  whose  father  was 
beheaded  by  Henry  VIII,  and  whose  son  Guldeford  was  at  this  time 
married  to  Jane,  grand-daughter  of  Mary,  youngest  sister  of  Henry 
VIII,  and  daughter  of  Frances,  Mary's  eldest  daughter.  This  John 
Dudley,  after  the  death  of  his  father,  being  deprived  of  all  succession, 
property,  and  dignity,  addicted  himself  to  the  military  profession,  in 
which  he  proved  himself  a  valiant  man,  surpassing  others ;  being  noted 
everywhere,  and  at  last  also  becoming  endeared  to  the  King  himself, 
who  created  him  first  a  Baron,  afterwards  an  Earl,  and  at  last  (as  he 
was  one  of  the  twelve  guardians  of  the  young  King  appointed  by  his 
father)  made  him  Duke  of  Northumberland.  Having  thus  obtained 
the  highest  offices,  without  trouble ;  being  agitated  by  vindictive 
feelings  against  the  royal  children,  on  account  of  their  father ;  and 
being  stimulated  by  the  motive  of  transferring  the  royal  dignity  to 
himself  and  his  own  family ;  he  first  of  all  caused  the  Duke  of 
Somerset  (the  uncle  of  King  Edward),  who  was  called  the  Protector, 
to  be  convicted  under  a  false  charge  of  treason ;  making  the  young 
King  believe  that  he  was  legally  put  to  death.  This  most  faithful 
guardian  of  the  King  being  thus  removed,  the  said  Dudley  doubted  not 
that  when  he  had  given  Jane  in  marriage  to  his  son,  the  kingdom,  by 
some  colour  or  pretence  of  legitimate  succession,  might  easily  be  trans- 
ferred to  his  daughter-in-law  upon  the  death  of  Edward  VI." 


10  THE    FAMILY    OF    GULDEFORD. 

After  describing  the  circumstances  of  the  deatli  of 
the  King,  which  left  no  doubt  of  poison,  tlie  secrecy 
observed  during  his  illness,  and  the. suspicious  haste 
of  his  funeral,  our  writer,  who,  it  must  be  remem- 
bered, was  an  eye-witness  of  the  scenes  he  describes, 
proceeds  thus  : — 

"  The  King  being  now  removed  from  among  the  living,  the 
Duke  of  Northumberland  convoked  a  council  of  the  leading  men ; 
he  set  forth  the  magnitude  of  the  dangers  that  usually  attended 
a  protracted  interregnum,  and  proved  that  after  Mary  and  Eliza, 
royal  daughters  indeed,  but  born  in  marriages  doubtful,  suspected,  and 
prohibited,  the  succession  to  the  crown  reverted  to  his  daughter-in-law 
Jane,  as  well  by  right  of  legitimate  birth  as  by  the  laws  of  the 
kingdom.  There  were  not  wanting  some  (for  the  wits  of  the  English 
are  very  acute)  who  sufficiently  understood  what  the  advice  and 
endeavours  of  the  Duke  tended  to,  namely,  that  his  son,  who  had 
married  Jane,  being  raised  to  the  regal  eminence,  the  whole  government 
of  England  might  be  easily  transferred  to  the  Dudleys  ;  nor  was  it  to 
be  concealed  that  the  event  would  lead,  not  only  to  a  nefarious 
massacre  of  the  royal  children,  but  also  to  the  oppression  of  many 
others.  Indeed,  the  Duke  had  already  sometimes  given  vent  to  words 
full  of  threatening  and  terror,  as  of  expelUng  foreigners  out  of  every 
part  of  Britain  and  cruelly  slaughtering  many.  Thus  Jane  was 
declared  Queen,  and  publicly  proclaimed  forthwith  on  the  10th  day  of 
July,  not  indeed  without  contumely  towards  the  royal  daughters,  but 
without  the  applause  of  the  nobles  or  of  any  individual  among  the 
people.  It  is  the  custom  in  England  for  the  people  to  approve  the 
solemn  proclamation  of  a  new  King  or  Queen  by  the  acclamation, 
'  God  save  the  King  or  Queen.'  As  nothing  of  the  kind  was  to  be 
heard  here,  and  men's  countenances  were  sorrowful  and  averted,  it  was 
easily  conjectured  that  what  was  passing  was  little  approved  by  the 
people.  Jane  was  now  in  *  the  London  palace  called  the  Tower, 
attended  indeed  by  no  great  retinue,  but  was  introduced  by  a  certain 
solemn  pomp,  her  mother  Frances  holding  up  the  train  of  her  robe. 
In  the  meantime  Mary,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Henry  VIII,  perceiving 
what  was  going  on  in  London,  had  removed  from  that  place  and  retired 
into  the  interior  parts  of  the  kingdom.  Here  so  great  a  multitude  of 
people  suddenly  flocked  about  her,  that  in  a  short  space  of  time  it  grew 
to  the  amplitude  of  a  complete  army.     But  the  Duke  of  Northumber- 


THE    FAMILY    OF    GULDEFORD.  11 

land,  having  heard  that  the  forces  of  Mary  daily  increased  by  the 
concourse  of  the  people  to  her  from  all  quarters,  resolved  to  make  war 
upon  her  as  quickly  as  possible.  Having  therefore  left  the  care  of  the 
Tower  of  London  to  the  Lords  of  the  Council,  he  marched  out  of 
London  on  the  14th  of  July  with  an  army  and  a  train  of  artillery. 
Meantime  the  nobles  of  the  city,  who  had  hitherto  dissembled  their 
sentiments  through  fear  of  the  Duke,  proclaimed  on  the  19th  of  July 
Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Henry  VIII,  Queen  of  England.  The  Duke, 
readily  conjecturing  how  this  game  was  likely  to  end,  took  his  counsel 
according  to  the  time.  Turning  to  his  adherents  and  feigning  a 
grievous  sorrow,  he  said,  '  Is  this  the  fidelity  of  colleagues  who  were 
privy  to  all  my  transactions  ?  But  be  it  so,  we  can  cast  the  same 
sheet-anchor  :'  and  forthwith  he  commanded  Mary  to  be  proclaimed 
with  great  pomp  Queen  of  England,  first  in  the  camp  and  afterwards 
at  Cambridge  on  the  20th  of  July." 

But  this  posthumous  kind  of  loyalty,  our  author 
proceeds  to  shew,  was  paraded  before  the  country  in 
vain.  Being  taken,  with  his  four  sons,  some  nobles, 
and  about  twenty  servants,  he  was  brought  ignomin- 
iously  to  London  and  imprisoned  in  the  Tower  on  the 
26th  of  July.  After  the  accession  of  the  Queen  and 
the  obsequies  of  Edward  VI,  which  she  ordered  to  be 
solemnised  immediately,  the  writer  of  this  remarkable 
tract,  who,  as  a  foreign  Protestant,  feared  naturally 
that  the  asylum  given  to  the  exiles  on  account  of 
religion  would  be  inevitably  withdrawn,  passed  over 
into  the  Netherlands,  the  last  words  of  his  narrative 
running  thus : — 

"  After  that.  I  departed  from  England;  but  remaining  sometime  at 
Bruges  I  saw  a  letter  to  our  resident  there,  Herrmann  Falco,  doctor 
of  laws,  in  which  it  was  stated  that  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  with 
some  of  his  accomplices  had  paid  the  forfeit  of  their  crimes,  shewing, 
in  the  terrible  spectacle  of  their  punishment  and  by  their  example,  that 
the  avenging  eyes  of  God  will  not  suffer  any  wickedness  to  be  of  long 
duration  or  to  go  unpimished." 

It  would  appear  from  the  subsequent  history  that 


12  THE    FAMILY   OF   GULDEFOUD. 

the  Duchess,  herself,  was  not  only  innocent  of  any 
complicity  in  this  treasonable  attempt,  to  erect  a 
throne  for  her  daughter-in-law,  but  that  (a  fact  wliich 
is  still  more  notable)  she  escaped  the  terrible  ven- 
geance of  that  age  of  bloodshed,  which  (as  now  in 
Oriental  kingdoms)  made  a  holocaust  of  an  entire 
family  to  atone  for  the  guilt  of  one  of  its  members. 
Her  daughter-in-law  was  less  fortimate  ;  though,  as 
we  learn  from  every  trustworthy  historian,  she  was, 
in  fact,  equally  guiltless. 

But  the  tragic  end  of  the  Lady  Jane,  the  helpless 
victim  of  the  ambition  and  treason  of  her  father-in- 
law,  is  too  fresh  in  the  memory  of  every  Englishman 
to  need  it  to  be  dwelt  upon  here.  Her  husband,  the 
unfortunate  Guldeford  Dudley,  appears  to  have  fatally 
seconded  the  ambitious  desires  of  his  father.  Perhaps, 
but  for  the  proclamation  which  Northumberland 
rashly  put  forth  in  the  name  of  his  daughter-in-law, 
in  which  the  illegitimacy  of  both  Mary  and  Elizabeth 
was  declared,  the  new  Queen  might  have  been  tempted 
to  spare  almost  the  only  innocent  party,  in  this  perilous 
attempt  to  grasp  a  crown  over  the  heads  of  three  at 
least  who  were  prior  in  the  succession.  The  Duke  of 
Northumberland  died,  as  he  had  lived,  a  traitor  and  a 
hypocrite  to  the  very  last.  According  to  Bishop 
Burnett,  he  professed  that  he  had  been  always  a 
Papist,  but  the  tardy  profession  could  not  save  him. 
He  exhorted  the  people  to  adhere  to  the  Roman  faith, 
and  to  reject  that  of  a  later  date,  which  he  declared 
to  have  caused  all  the  misery  of  the  previous  thirty 
years.  He  exhorted  them  to  cast  out  all  the  new 
preachers,  by  which  he  meant  (as  we  gather  from  the 
tract  quoted  before)  the  foreign  reformers  whom 
Edward  VI  had  so  piously  protected.     It  may  be  here 


THE   FAMILY   OF    GULDEFORD.  13 

observed  that  the  only  hlot  on  the  character  of  our 
great  reformer,  Eidley,  is  his  sermon  at  St.  Paul's  in 
vindication  of  Queen  Jane's  title,  as  she  was  then 
called.  It  is  said  that  Queen  Mary  was  greatly  opposed 
to  her  death ;  and  that  Judge  Morgan,  who  had  pro- 
nounced the  sentence,  soon  after  went  mad,  and  in  all 
his  ravings  still  called  to  take  away  the  Lady  Jane 
from  him. 

The  effect  of  these  successive  calamities,  upon  the 
mind  of  the  good  and  innocent  Duchess,  may  be  well 
imagined,  but  can  be  ill  indeed  described. 

"  She  was,  indeed"  (as  Lysons  observes,  after  his  description  of  her 
monument  in  the  Church  of  Chelsea),  ''  a  singular  instance  of  the 
vicissitudes  of  fortune.  Having  been  the  wife  of  one  of  the  greatest 
men  of  that  age,  she  lived  to  see  her  husband  lose  his  life  upon  the 
scaffold ;  to  see  one  son  share  his  father's  fate,  another  escape  it  only 
by  dying  in  prison  ;  and  the  rest  of  her  children  living  but  by  permis- 
sion. Amidst  this  distress,  which  was  heightened  by  the  confiscation 
of  her  property,  she  displayed  great  firmness  of  mind,  though  left 
destitute  of  fortune  and  friends,  till  the  arrival  of  some  of  the  nobility 
from  the  Spanish  Court,  who  interested  themselves  so  warmly  in  her 
favour  that  they  prevailed  upon  the  Queen  to  reinstate  her  in  some  of 
her  former  possessions  ;  and  she  conducted  herself  with  such  wisdom 
and  prudence  as  enabled  her  to  restore  her  overthrown  house,  even  in  a 
reign  of  cruelty  and  tyranny.  Her  surviving  progeny  were  no  less 
remarkable  for  their  prosperity,  than  their  brethren  were  for  their 
misfortunes.  Ambrose  was  restored  to  the  title  of  Earl  of  Warwick, 
and  enjoyed  many  other  honours  and  preferments  ;  Robert  was  created 
Earl  of  Leicester,  and  became  one  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  prime  ministers, 
and  her  daughter  Mary  was  the  mother  of  Sir  Philip  Sydney."* 

As  the  Duchess  died  in  1555,  in  the  second  year 
of  Mary,  she  had  but  little  time  to  set  her  house  in 
order ;  far  less  to  rebuild  it.  The  co-operation  of  the 
great  Spanish  nobles,  whose  advent  preceded  so 
naturally  the  marriage  of  the  Queen,  might  have  been 

*   Lysons's  Environs  of  London,  under  Chelsea^  p.  64. 


14  THE    FAMILY    OF    GULDEFORD. 

well  anticipated,  from  the  honourable  place  which 
several  members  of  her  family  had  filled  in  the  settle- 
ment of  that  kingdom ;  and  doubtless  the  influence 
of  Philip  himself  was  not  wanting  at  such  a  moment. 
The  Duchess  lies  buried  in  the  Church  of  Chelsea, 
having  died  at  her  manor  house  there,  her  epitaph 
closing  with  the  suggestive  words, — 

"  After  she  had  lived  yeres  46  she  departed  this  transitory  world 
at  her  Manor  of  Chelse  the  22nd  day  of  January,  in  the  second  yere  of 
the  reigne  of  our  Sovereigne  Lady  Queen  Mary  the  first,  and  in  an. 
1555,  on  ■whose  soule  Jesu  have  mercy." 

It  was  indeed  a  "short  life,"  and  we  may  well  add 
"and  full  of  misery,"  and  as  a  worthy  sequel  to  it 
she  charged  her  executors  in  her  will  in  the  words, 

"  My  will  is  that  little  solempnitie  be  made  for  me,  for  I  had  ever 
have  a  thousand  foldes  my  debts  to  be  paid  and  the  poor  to  be  given 
unto,  than  any  pompe  to  be  shewed  upon  my  wretched  carkes  :  there- 
fore to  the  wormes  will  I  goe  as  I  have  before  written  at  all  poyntes 
as  you  will  answer  yt  afore  God."  She  orders  "  such  devyne  service  as 
her  executors  shall  thinke  mete  with  the  whole  armes  of  father  and 
mother  upon  the  stone  graven." 

This  last  direction,  which  was  carried  out  on  her 
tomb,  is  not  a  little  remarkable ;  it  seems  to  indicate 
that  the  arms  of  her  husband  were  forfeited  by  his 
attainder,  and  that  she  bore  in  her  widowhood  only 
the  coats  and  quarterings  of  Guldeford  and  Delawarr. 

The  terrible  blow,  which  had  been  struck  at  the 
very  existence  of  the  great  family  of  the  Dudleys, 
almost  recoiled  upon  the  throne  of  Mary.  The 
cruel  executions  (eighty  at  a  time),  which  followed  the 
rebellion  of  Wyatt,  were  only  closed  by  the  solemn  re- 
monstrance of  the  House  of  Lords,  conveyed  by  the 
Lord  Paget ;  in  which  the  vindictive  Queen  is  sugges- 
tively reminded  that  "already  too  much  blood  has 
been  shed.     The  noble  house  of  Suffolk  was  all  but 


THE    FAMILY   OF    GULDEFORD.  15 

destroyed ;  and  he  said  distinctly  that  if  more  blood 
were  shed,  he  and  his  friends  would  interfere ;  the 
hideous  scenes  had  lasted  too  long."*  We  may  here 
gratefully  remember  that,  among  the  latest  descendants 
of  the  elder  branch  of  the  Guldefords,  and  of  the 
illustrious  family  of  the  Dudleys,  tracing  through  the 
unfortunate  Duchess  of  Northumberland  herself,  is  a 
nobleman  who  entertained  our  Society,  with  munifi- 
cent hospitality,  on  a  former  occasion  of  our  meeting 
in  West  Kent,  Lord  de  Lisle  and  Dudley. 

The  last  chapter  of  our  narrative,  or  we  might 
almost  say  the  last  act  of  our  historic  drama,  leads  us 
back  into  those  quiet  scenes  of  rural  life,  from  which 
Jane  Guldeford  passed  so  early  into  the  glare  and 
tumult  of  a  court,  where  the  struggle  for  rank  and 
power  was  so  urgent,  and  the  misery  even  of  success  so 
certain.  We  fall  back,  with  a  sense  of  relief,  on  the 
humbler  path  of  the  second  branch  of  the  Guldefords, 
which  carried  on  its  succession  at  Hempsted ;  in  which 
that  beautiful  prayer  of  Arias  Montanus  was  fulfilled  : 

"  Instar  ut  lymphse  in  mare  defluentis 
Redde  me,  ut  semjDer  sequai*  ima,  semper 
Praibeam  prudens  humilem  me,  et  alta 
Summaque  vitem."t 

George  Guldeford,  who  kept  his  shrievalty  at 
Hempsted  in  the  16th  of  Henry  VIII,  married  Eliza- 
beth, the  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Hobert  Mortimer 
by  Isabella,  daughter  of  John  Howard  Duke  of 
Norfolk.  Their  son.  Sir  John  Guldeford,  allied  himself 
anew  with  the  family  of  Delawarr,  and  by  his  wife 

*  Froude's  Hist.,  vol.  v.,  p.  384. 

f  ''  Make  me  as  stream  descending  to  the  sea; 

Following,  from  pride  and  high  ambition  free, 

The  lowly  pathway  of  humility, 

Which  leads  us.  Lord,  to  Thee  !  " 


16  THE    FAMILY    OF    GULDEFORD. 

Barbara,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lord  Dclawarr,  had 
three  sons.  Thomas,  their  heir,  had  the  honour  of 
entertaining  Queen  Elizabeth  at  his  mansion  of 
Hempsted,  during  one  of  her  famous  progresses,  on 
August  10th,  1575.  From  Bedgebury  in  Goudhurst, 
the  then  seat  of  the  Colepepers,  the  Queen  proceeded 
to  Hempsted,  accompanied  by  the  Lord  Treasurer 
Burleigh,  who,  in  a  letter  to  Lord  Shrewsbury  from 
this  place,  describes  the  Queen's  journey  through  the 
Weald  of  Kent  as  more  perilous  even  than  that  she 
undertook  in  the  Peak.  The  present  made  by  Sir 
Thomas  Guldeford  to  the  Queen  on  this  occasion  was 
a  bowl  of  silver,  gilt,  with  a  cover  with  her  Majesty's 
arms  crowned.  He  had  by  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Shelley,  Esq.,  of  Michelgrove  (the  ancestor  of  the 
poet),  an  heir,  Sir  Henry,  who  married  Lady  Elizabeth 
Somerset,  daughter  of  Edward  Earl  of  Worcester,  and 
their  son  Edward  married  the  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
Thomas  Petre,  third  son  of  the  first  Lord  Petre. 
Edward  their  son  married  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Throckmorton,  and  dying  in  1678  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  heir,  Bobert  Guldeford  of  Hempsted, 
created  a  baronet  in  1685  by  James  II.  He  married 
Clare,  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Anthony  Thomson, 
Esq.,  but  leaving  no  heir  the  baronetcy  became  extinct. 
The  estate  of  Hempsted  was  sold  under  an  act  of 
Parliament  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Anne,  to  pay  the 
debts  of  this  last  of  the  Guldefords,  with  whom  the 
glories  and  the  very  name  of  this  great  historic  house 
sank  into  oblivion. 

It  appears  from  the  later  alliances  we  have 
mentioned,  as  well  as  from  the  favour  bestowed  upon 
Sir  Bobert  Guldeford  by  James  II,  so  shortly  before 
his  exile,  that  the  later  generations  of  the  family  had 


THE    FAMILY    OF    GULDEFORD.  17 

too  well  remembered  the  last  words  of  the  author 
alike  of  their  highest  glories  and  of  their  deepest 
misfortunes,  and  had  returned  to  the  church  to  which 
he  so  vainly  attempted  to  lure  hack  his  own  descend- 
ants. Our  great  authority  on  genealogical  matters, 
Sir  Bernard  Burke,  appears  to  doubt  whether  the  race 
is  actually  extinct ;  and  we  may  well  imagine  that,  like 
the  Pogges,  still  grander  in  their  earliest  history,  some 
distant  scions  of  the  house  may  yet  be  found  in 
humbler  life,  illustrating  in  their  lowlier  fortunes 
those  strange  vicissitudes  which  attended  it  from  the 
very  beginning.  However  this  may  be,  we  may  feel 
thankful  that  one  at  least  of  the  historic  mansions  it 
occupied,  through  so  many  eventful  generations,  is  now 
possessed  by  a  family  which  will  leave  its  mark  in  the 
records  of  the  county,  and  of  the  empire  itself ;  and 
that  the  "  lihro  cVoro  "  of  our  own  century  will  still 
indicate  Hempsted  as  the  dwelling-place  of  statesmen, 
and  men  fitted,  like  the  Guldefords  of  old,  to  serve 
their  Queen  and  their  country ;  and,  I  may  add,  to  be 
also  the  faithful  protectors  of  that  Church  to  which  in 
the  days  of  Elizabeth,  the  Warwicks,  the  Leicesters, 
and  the  Sydneys  so  nobly  and  faithfully  ministered. 


VOL,   XIV. 


(     IS     ) 


SMARDEN  CHURCn. 

BY  THE  llEV.    FRANCIS    nASLEWOOl). 


SMAKDEN   CHUECil  :    AFTER   RESTOUATIOX. 

Smarden  Church  consists  only  of  a  nave  and  clian- 
cel,  with  north  and  south  porches,  and  a  square  em- 
battled tower  at  the  west  end,  of  three  stories  divided 
by  strings,  having  large  buttresses,  and  an  octagonal 
stair  turret,  at  the  N.E.,  rising  above  the  parapet. 

It  is  dedicated  to  St.  Micliael,  and  popularly  known 
as  "The  Barn  of  Kent,"  on  account  of  the  singular 
construction  of  its  roof;  the  nave  being  thirty- six  feet 
wide,  without  any  side-aisles,  and  with  no  tie-beams 
to  support  it.  Perhaps  there  is  no  building,  of  equal 
size,  like  it  in  the  county ;  with  the  exception  of  some 
remains  of  the  ancient  Abbey  of  Boxley,  near  Maid- 
stone, now  used  as  a  barn.     The  roof,  formerly  covered 


SMARDEN    CHURCH. 


19 


with  shingles,  was  ceiled  in  about  a  hundred  years  ago, 
and  remained  concealed  till  the  plaster  was  removed 
and  the  timbers  again  exposed  to  view  in  1869,  when 
the  whole  fabric  underwent  thorough  restoration. 


SMABDEN   CHURCH  :   BEFORE   RESTORATION. 

The  style  of  architecture  points  to  the  Edwardian 
or  Decorated  period,  and  indicates  thirteenth  or  four- 
teenth century  work.  Though  traces  of  an  earlier 
period  do  not  appear,  there  must  have  been  a  church 
prior  to  that  date,  for  though  Smarden  is  not  mentioned 
in  Domesday,  yet  we  find  King  John  presented  one 
Adam  of  Essex  to  the  vacant  benefice  in  1205  ;  and 
there  is  another  early  reference  to  the  church,  when  a 
certain  Allan  de  Hadingate,  having  been  guilty  of 
theft,  fled  hither  for  sanctuary,  in  1250.* 

When  noting  the   various  objects  of   antiquarian 
interest,  found  within  the  sacred  edifice,  let  us  begin 
*  Furley,  Hist,  of  the  Weald  of  Kent ,  ii.,  33. 

c  2 


20 


SMARDEN    CHURCH. 


with  the  cliauccl.  Its  windoAvs  arc  in  the  Decorated 
style,  and  of  unusual  design  ;  the  tracery  of  the  east 
window  being  of  the  same  character  as  that  found  in 
the  south  chancel  of  E-uckinge  Cliurch. 

AVhilst  the  church  was  undergoing  restoration, 
several  interesting  mural  frescoes  were  discovered ; 
tracings  of  which  are  preserved. 


^.^^*<^^^^ 


ANCIENT  FRESCO. 


I.  One  was  found  to  the  left  of  the  chancel  window, 
at  about  eleven  feet  from  the  ground.  The  colours 
were  still  bright,  but  speedily  peeled  off  when  touched. 
The  subjects  depicted  Avere  the  instruments  of  the 
Crucifixion.     The  cross  measured  two  feet  by  one  foot 


SMARDEN    CHURCH.  21 

ten  inches,  and  was  painted  green ;  the  hoard  for  the 
superscription  was  of  a  hrownish  colour.  To  the  right 
of  the  transverse  heam,  and  over  it,  was  the  "  crown 
of  thorns,"  sprinkled  with  blood,  as  were  also  the 
three  nails  on  the  opposite  side.  Below  these,  and 
beneath  the  left  arm  of  the  cross,  were  "the  sponge 
on  a  reed,"  and  also  "  the  spear,"  the  head  of  which 
was  covered  with  blood  spots.  To  correspond  with 
these  two  instruments,  on  the  other  side  were  two 
.scourges,  besprinkled  with  blood.  The  inscription 
round  this  fresco  was,  "  Credo  in  Deum  Fair  em 
Omnipotentem,  creator  em  coell  et  terrce  :'''  the  first 
clause  of  the  Apostles'  Creed :  "  I  believe  in  God  the 
Pather  Almighty,  Maker  of  heaven  and  earth." 

II.  On  the  same  wall,  but  on  the  other  side  of  the 
window,  was  a  repetition  of  the  same  group,  but  with 
no  inscription  visible. 

III.  On  the  north  wall,  between  the  windows,  was 
the  same  subject,  and  a  mutilated  inscription :  "  et 
vitam.  .  .  .  Amen,^^  being  distinct ;  also  three  letters 
"res;'^  possibly  the  last  part  of  the  Creed  abbre- 
viated, "  Carnis  resurrectionem,  et  vitam  cBtemam. 
Amen ;  "  "  I  believe  in  the  resurrection  of  the  body, 
and  the  life  everlasting." 

IV.  The  fourth  was  on  the  opposite  wall,  the 
painting  was  repeated,  and  the  almost  perfect  inscrip- 
tion was,  "  Qui  conceptus  est  de  Spiritu  Sancto,  natus 
ex  Maria  Virgine ; "  "  Who  was  conceived  by  the 
Holy  Ghost,  born  of  the  Virgin  Mary." 

Easter  SEPrLCHRE. 
The  arched  recess  in  the  north  wall  was  opened 
twenty  years  ago,  when  we  discovered  a  framework  of 
wood,  which  speedily  fell  to  pieces ;  and  also  several 


22  SMAUDEN  cnuRcn. 

carved  embattled  stones  with  colouring  upon  them. 
There  have  been  different  opinions  expressed  as  to 
what  this  recess  was  originally  intended  for ;  some 
affirm  it  was  the  tomb  of  the  founder  (which  was 
frequently  in  this  part  of  the  church) ;  but  it  was 
evidently  the  Easter  Sepulchre. 

This  theory  seems  confirmed  upon  turning  to  the 
Glossary  of  Architecture,  which  says  that  the 
sepulchre  was  a  representation  of  the  entombment  of 
our  Saviour,  set  up  in  the  Roman  Catholic  church  at 
Easter,  on  the  north  side  of  the  chancel,  near  the  altar. 
In  this  country  it  was  most  commonly  a  wooden  erec- 
tion, and  placed  within  a  recess  in  the  wall.  The 
crucifix  was  placed  in  the  sepulchre,  with  great 
solemnity,  on  Good  Eriday,  and  continually  watched 
from  that  time  till  Easter-day,  when  it  was  taken  out 
and  replaced  upon  the  altar. 

Eosbroke,  in  his  Antiquities,  mentions  a  procession 
in  Passion  week,  with  a  wooden  tomb  of  Christ,  and 
the  Paschal  candle.  Our  old  church  book  of  Smarden, 
which  dates  from  28  Henry  VIII,  1536,  throws  addi- 
tional light  upon  the  subject,  serving  to  prove  the 
theory  already  advanced  ;  thus  : — 

1547,  leyde  owte  for  ix  li.  of  new  waxe  to  renew  thepaskall. 
1554,  paid  for  makinge  the  pascall  iiij  d. 

1556,  paid  to  Christopher  Mills  ffor  makinge  the  sepulcre  and  other 

things  against  Ester,  iij  s.  viij  d. 

1557,  to  Richard  Ricard  for  makinge  the  pascall  iiij  d. 

The  Low- SIDE- Window,  directly  opposite  the  sepul- 
chre, was  opened  at  the  same  time.  The  Glossary 
of  Architecture  states  that  "these  windows  were  never 
glazed,  but  closed  by  wooden  shutters,  and  iron  grat- 
ings." Such  was  the  case  here;  saddle  bars  were 
found,  and  also  hinges  for  a  shutter. 


SMARDEN    CHUHCH.  23 

It  is  evident  that  this  low-side-window  served  some 
purpose,  connected  with  the  service  of  the  Church, 
which  ceased  at  the  Reformation.  But  what  was  the 
exact  use  of  it  is  unknown;  and  at  least  twelve 
theories  are  advanced  in  the  fourth  volume  of  the 
ArcTicBological  Journal.  A  probahle  one  is  that  it 
was  used  to  administer  the  sacrament  to  lepers,  and 
others  afflicted  with  infectious  disorders. 

Remarkable  Drain  in  the  East  Wall. 

The  latter  theory  seems  to  be  confirmed  by  the 
position  of  a  water-drain  (also  recently  discovered),  low 
down  in  the  east  wall,  close  to  the  pavement,  shewn 
in  a  woodcut  on  the  next  page.  This  was  probably 
the  Ferfusorium,  connected  with  the  ablutions  neces- 
sary for  the  priest,  after  ministering  to  leprous  or  in- 
fectedpersons.  A  strong  iron  hook  willbe  observed  fixed 
in  the  arch  of  the  vaulted  recess  of  this  water-drain. 

The  Piscina  is  cinquefoil-headed.  It  was  used  by 
the  priest  for  rinsing  his  hands  and  the  sacred  vessels 
during  mass.  The  bowl  slightly  projects ;  but  happily 
it  has  escaped  the  zeal  of  the  Heformers,  who,  in  too 
many  instances,  cut  the  stone  flush  with  the  wall. 
There  is  both  a  stone  and  wooden  shelf,  which  served 
the  purpose  of  a  credence  table,  to  receive  certain  of 
the  sacred  vessels,  that  were  used  during  mass,  previous 
to  their  being  required  at  the  altar :  such,  for  example, 
as  the  "  ij  sylver  cruytts "  mentioned  among  the 
church  goods  here  in  the  time  of  Henry  YIII. 

There  are  three  sedilia,  intended  for  the  priest  and 
his  attendants,  the  deacon  and  sub-deacon.  The  seats 
are  all  on  the  same  level ;  but  the  most  eastern  sedile 
is  cinquefoiled,  and  rather  higher  than  the  other  two, 
which  are  trefoil-headed. 


24i 


SMARDEN   CHURCn. 


SEDILIA,   PISCINA,   LOW-SIDE-WINDOW,   AND   PEEFUSOBIUM. 

The  masonry  over  the  sedilia  has  an  unfinished 
appearance,  and  as  some  embattled  stones  were  dis- 
covered in  the  sepulchre  when  opened,  possibly  they 
originally  formed  part  of  the  sedilia,  which,  if  so, 
must  have  resembled  those  at  Willesborough. 

A  little  to  the  right  of  the  sedilia  is  a  circular 
stone  bracket,  and  another  on  the  opposite  wall  to 
correspond.  They  may  have  been  intended  for  lamps 
or  images. 

The  Dog  Whipper. 

Perhaps  the  Altar  Rails  were  made  of  their 
present  height,  and  so  enclosed,  to  exclude  the  canine 
race ;  which  in  olden  time  must  have  been  very  nume- 
rous (no  dog  tax  being  imposed  till  1796),  for  in  the 
church  book  are  frequent  references  to  an  official 
known  as  a  dog  whipper  ;  thus  : — 


SMAHDEN    CHURCH.  25 

1573,  John  Quested  for  kepinge  oiit  of  the  dogges  iiij  d. 
1576,  John  Quested  for  whipping  dogges  out  of  the  church  xij  d. 
1619,  To  Sotherden  for  whipping  the  doges  out  of  ye  churche  iiij  d. 
To  Thomas  Hopper  for  the  whip  iij  d. 

Chancel  Arch. 

Many  ancient  churches  have  lost  their  chancel  arch, 
but  from  what  cause  it  is  not  always  known.  Here, 
however,  there  is  no  mystery  ;  for  the  external  walls 
evidently  suffered  from  the  outward  thrust,  in  sup- 
porting the  immense  roof;  and,  when  the  walls  gave 
way,  of  course  the  arch  and  gable  fell.  A  low  brick 
arch  of  mean  character  was  at  some  period  erected  to 
support  the  original;  this  modern  one  partially  shut 
in  the  chancel,  and  gave  the  whole  building  an  un- 
sightly appearance.  This  obstruction  was  removed  in 
1869,  and  also  an  ugly  tie-beam,  which  was  replaced 
by  an  iron  rod.  The  new  arch  is  an  exact  reproduction 
of  the  old,  being  built  upon  the  original  springings. 

Dividing  the  chancel  from  the  nave  is  the  lower 
portion  of  the  original  Chancel  Screen.  It  formed 
the  backs  of  pews  until  the  recent  restoration. 

The  Pulpit  came  from  Halden  Church,  having 
been  purchased  from  that  parish,  and  adapted  to  its 
present  position.  It  stands  upon  a  raised  dais,  which 
originally  existed. 

Reredos  in  the  Nave. 

Beneath  the  reredos,  on  the  south  side  of  the 
chancel  arch,  may  be  seen  the  remains  of  an  altar 
stone,  which  had  evidently  been  built  into  the  wall, 
and  not  merely  placed  against  it,  as  was  usually  the 
case.  The  churchwardens'  books  throw  light  upon 
the  matter  ;  thus  : — 


26  SMARDEN   CHURCH. 

"1550,   Eeccived  of  -lolni  Woulton   for  a  stone  xij  d.  (doubtless  this 
altar  stone). 
I'aid  John  llarncden  for  takingc  doune  of  the  altare  stone,  and 

makinge  iip  of  the  church  wall  iij  s. 
Paid  to  Thomas  Iloppare  for  whyttinge  where  as  the  sydc 
altares  was  iiij  d." 
"  rd.  for  drinke  to  y'"  that  had  out  the  altare  stones  ij  d." 

Then,  again,  in  Queen  Mary's  reign,  when  the 
Romish  ceremonies  were  restored,  we  find  this  entry  : 

"1554,  Pd.  ffor  makinge  the  aulter  iij  s. 
Pd.  ffor  a  load  of  sand  viij  d. 

Pd.  ffor  carreinge  the  aulter  stone  and  setting  it  up  xviij  d. 
Pd.  for  havinge  in  the  altare  stone  out  of  the  strete  viij  d." 

EooD  Loft. 

The  church  books  supply  several  particulars 
respecting  the  rood  loft;  the  original  staircase  to 
which  still  remains.  It  was  erected  in  1508,  for  in 
that  year  Stephen  Frenche  of  Bidynden  in  his  will 
says,  "  I  bequeth  to  the  making  of  the  newe  Roode 
loft  of  Smerden  vj  s.  viij  d."  In  1546  we  find  this 
among  the  church  accounts  : — 

Eec.  of  James  Lake  and  John  Pell  for  xix  ells  of  whyte  clothe  of  ye 
roode  lofte  viij  s.  viij  d. 

1548,  leyd  owt  fore  whytting  over  the  roode  lofte  xs. 

1549,  Received  for   an  olde   dore  soulde    to   Edwarde   Pellande  v  d. 

(This  was  probably  that  leading  to  the  rood  loft.) 

Upon  Queen  Mary's  accession  to  the  throne,  when 
the  E-omish  ritual  was  restored,  we  find  : — 

1555,  Paid  to  the  carvar  of  Asshefforthe  ffor  the  rood  Mary  and 
John  and  for  caringe  of  them  home  xxvij  s.  viij  d. 
paid  to  Pelland   ffor  iron  to  ffasten  the  crosse  in  the  roode 
lofte  iiij  d. 

Again,  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  reign,  when  Protes- 
tantism was  restored,  we  observe  the  following  entry : 

1560,  Received  of  Thomas  Norton  for  part  of  the  Rod  loft  xx  s. 


SMARDEN    CHURCH.  27 

Eox  relates,  in  his  "  Book  of  Martyrs  "  :  — 

How  one  Drayner,  bearing  a  grudge  against  Gregory  Doddes, 
parson  here,  made  on  the  roode  lofte  nine  holes,  that  he  might 
look  about  the  church  in  mass  time.  In  which  place  alvvay,  at  the 
sacring,  he  would  stand  to  see  who  looked  not,  or  held  not  up  his 
hands  thereto,  which  persons  so  not  doing  he  would  trouble  and 
punish  very  sore.  Whereby  he  purchased  a  name  there,  and  is  called 
to  this  day  Justice  Nine  Holes.  It  so  fell  out,  the  said  Drayner  came 
to  the  Printer's  house  demanding,  Is  Fox  here?  To  whom  answer  was 
given  that  Master  Fox  was  not  within.  Is  the  printer  within  ?  quoth 
Drayner.  It  was  answered  Yea.  Mary,  saith  he,  you  have  printed 
me  false  in  your  book  : — It  is  false,  I  made  but  five  holes  with  a  great 
auger,  and  the  parson  made  the  rest.  It  was  answered,  I  have  not 
read  that  a  Justice  should  make  him  a  place  in  the  Roodlofte  to  see  if 
the  people  held  up  their  hands.  He  said.  It  is  untrue,  for  I  set  as  little 
by  it,  as  the  best  of  you  all. 

Indeed,  saith  the  printer,  so  we  understand  now,  for  your  being  at  a 
supper  in  Cheapside  among  certain  honest  company,  and  there  bur- 
dened with  the  matter  said  then,  that  you  did  it  rather  to  look  upon 
fair  wenches  than  otherwise.     And  so  he  parted  in  a  rage. 

The  present  door  hangs  upon  the  original  iron 
staples  found  built  into  the  wall. 

The  following  entry  informs  us  when  the  doorway 
was  closed : — 

1597,  To  Thomas  Hopper  for  makinge  up  the  dore  which  hath  gone 
to  rodelofte  ij  s. 

The  Aumbry  and  Niches  were  no  doubt  used  in 
connection  with  altars  close  by.  There  were  formerly 
several  side  altars  in  different  parts  of  the  church,  old 
records  mentioning  the  image  of  St.  Michael  the 
patron  Saint,  the  altar  of  the  Blessed  Virgin,  John 
the  Baptist,  and  others.  The  niche  was,  of  course,  for 
one  of  the  images.  A  stone  seat  may  also  be  ob- 
served occupying  the  recess  of  the  window. 

Windows. 
As  to  the  windows  of  the  nave,  it  would  appear 


28  SMARDEN  cnuRcn. 

that  three  Decorated  windows,  similar  to  those  in  the 
chancel,  originally  gave  light  on  each  side  of  the 
nave ;  hut  one  on  the  north,  nearest  the  east  end,  and 
two  on  the  south,  have  been  since  enlarged  to  three 
and  four-light  Perpendicular  windows  to  give  addi- 
tional light  to  this  part  of  the  church,  possibly  when 
the  tower  was  built.  The  north  wall  had,  at  some 
time,  been  banded  together  by  iron  clamps ;  it  was 
deemed  necessary,  therefore,  when  the  church  was 
under  restoration,  to  fill  in  the  two  most  western 
window-splays,  which  had  been  imprudently  cut  away 
in  the  olden  time. 

Stoups  for  holy  water  were  found  near  the  two 
porch  entrances,  and  restored  after  the  original  design. 

The  EoNT  is  octagonal,  of  Bethersden  marble.  It 
formerly  was  plastered  over  from  top  to  base.  Upon 
opening  it  the  central  shaft  was  found,  and  a  portion 
of  one  of  the  oris'inal  columns  ;  eisiht  new  ones  were 
therefore  made  after  the  old  pattern. 

The  Poor  Box  with  its  Enamel  is  of  remarkable 
character,  having  three  locks,  and  being  fastened  by 
strong  iron  clamps  to  a  pedestal  of  solid  oak.  A  box 
of  this  sort,  called  the  Poor  Men's  box,  was  enjoined 
by  Edward  VI.  It  is  first  mentioned  here  in  1553, 
thus  : — 

"  Mending  a  lock  of  the  pore  mans'  box  ij  d." 

To  the  lid  is  attached  a  curious  enamel  upon 
copper.  There  are  small  holes  which  originally 
fastened  it  to  its  place.  This  plate  once  formed  part 
of  a  series  of  subjects,  relating  to  the  life  of  a  saint, 
fixed  on  a  shrine.  The  enamel  represents  a  baptism. 
The  priest  is  about  to  take  the  infant  from  its  mother, 
and  the  third  person  is  evidently  a  sponsor.      The 


SMAEDEN    CHURCH. 


29 


ornament  round  the  font  terminates  in  a  trefoil,  em- 
blematic of  the  Trinity,  which,  with  the  space  within 
the  nimbi  that  surround  the  heads  of  the  figures,  is  of 


a  green  colour. 


The  rich  blue  and  general  workman- 


ship lead  us  to  suppose  it  was  made  at  the  celebrated 
works  of  Limoges.  In  the  museum  of  Cluny,  at 
Paris,  are  some  elaborate  shrines,  of  the  thirteenth 
century,  which  were  manufactured  at  Limoges.  Some 
of  the  enamelled  plates  are  similar  to  this  at  Smarden, 
even  to  the  minute  bordering ;  suggesting  that  they 
probably  came  from  the  same  manufactory,  and  were, 
perhaps,  the  work  of  the  same  hands.  The  hole  for 
money,  which  is  by  no  means  unusual  in  shrines,  most 
likely  suggested  the  idea  of  placing  this  plate  upon 
the  Alms  Box  here. 


GKOTESQUB  HEAD,  ON  NOETH  WALL  OP  NAVE. 


30  SMAllDEN    CHURCH. 

Grotesque  Head  {see  precediny  page). 
In  the  north  wall  of  the  nave  near  the  eastern 
end,  at  about  oig'ht  feet  from  the  ground,  is  a  curious 
panel  supported  by  tAvo  corbels  of  early  character;  and, 
above  it,  a  grotesque  figure  pulling  its  mouth  open. 
On  its  arms  are  bracelets.  The  whole  is  carved  in 
Bethersden  marble.  We  could  find  nothing  in  the 
wall  bctAveen  the  shafts.  This  curious  head  has 
puzzled  several  antiquaries,  and  no  satisfactory  ex- 
planation has  yet  been  suggested.  It  may  have  had 
some  reference  to  the  Whitsun  ales.  There  is  a 
grotesque  figure  on  the  porch  of  Chalk  Church,  sup- 
posed to  illustrate  the  humours  of  a  church-ale : 
possibly  this  may  have  been  also  intended  for  the 
same  purpose. 

Altar  Tresco. 

On  the  reredos  in  the  nave,  north  of  the  chancel 
arch,  we  found  traces  of  an  altar  fresco.  Upon  the 
removal  of  sundry  coats  of  whitewash,  several  faces 
and  figures  were  brought  to  light,  representing  the 
entombment  of  the  Saviour.  He  was  being  borne  by 
a  female  figure  (evidently  the  Virgin),  whose  counte- 
nance and  tears  bespoke  grief.  Christ's  head  and  robe 
were  besprinkled  with  blood.  There  were  one  or  two 
flowers  in  the  foreground,  apparently  to  indicate  "  the 
garden  "  where  the  burial  took  place.  This  pieta  may 
have  been  intended  to  represent  one  of  those  festivals 
of  Passion  week  which  commemorate  the  participation 
of  the  Virgin  in  the  sufferings  of  her  Son :  and  per- 
haps several  green  flowers,  found  at  regular  intervals 
on  the  surrounding  stone  work,  may  have  been  in- 
tended for  passion  flowers. 

Hasted,  quoting  from  Weever,  says  that  one  of  the 


32 


SMARDEN    CHURCH. 


great  family  of  the  Gulclefords  founded  a  chai)el  here 
in  this  cliurch  in  1444,  but  his  reference  prohahly 
relates  to  llolvenden  (Eounden),  not  Smardcn.  How- 
ever, some  individual  seems  to  have  beautified  the 
north-east,  or  Romden,  corner  of  the  nave,  by  carving 
heads  and  foliage  upon  the  stone  corbels,  and  painting 
this  altar-piece.  The  reredos  on  the  south  side  of  the 
chancel  arch  was  never  finished,  whilst  that  on  the 
north  must  have  been  highly  decorated. 


NICHE  AND   REREDOS,   AT  NORTH-EAST  CORNER   OF  NAVE. 


Tower. 
The  fine  old  embattled  steeple   consists  of  three 
stages,  and  is  in  the   Perpendicular  style ;  and  of  the 
same  character  and  date  as  Egerton,  and  others  in  the 


neighbourhood. 


SMARDEN    CHUHCH.  33 

We  are  able  to  fix  the  exact  date  of  its  erection 
from  the  following  bequests  :* — 

1447,  John  Eytherst  of  Smarden  left,   ad  ojius  ecclesise  de  Egerton 

xiij  s.  iiijd.,  ad  opus   ecclesiae  de  Smerden  xxs.,  ad  opus 

ecclesia3  de  Charryng  xiij  s.  iiij  d. 
1464,   William  Marlar  de  Smerden,  left,  ad  novum  campanile  13s.  4d. 

(for  a  new  belfry),  also  money  "  ad  novam  campanam  " 

(for  a  new  bell) . 
1477,  Richard  Borne,  fabricae  ecclesise  de  Smerden,  xl  s.,  etc. 

Two  of  our  sovereigns  have  visited  Smarden. 
Edward  I,  on  the  18th  June,  1299,  was  at  the  Archi- 
episcopal  manor  house  at  Charing,  and  the  followiiDg 
day  we  trace  his  progress  towards  Sussex,  through 
Smarden  to  Cranbrook;  taking  up  his  quarters,  we  may 
suppose,  at  Sissinghurst. 

Queen  Elizabeth  also  visited  Smarden  during  her 
progress  through  Kent,  in  August,  1573,  on  her  way 
from  Sissinghui'st  to  Boughton  Malherb.  To  the  truth 
of  this  fact  our  records  testify,  thus  : — 

"  1573,  laid  out  for  the  ringers  when  the  queues  grace  was  here  ij  s.  xd." 

This  was  three  years  before  she  granted  the  charter 
for  a  market.  The  document  is  signed  by  the  great 
queen  herself,  having  been  previously  drawn  up  and 
presented  to  her  by  Martin  James,  Ptemembrancer  of 
the  Coiu't  of  Exchequer,  who  then  OAvned  the  estate 
of  Romden  in  this  parish. f 

The  charter  referred  to  was  a  confirmation  of  a 
former  one  granted  to  Archbishop  Mepham  by  Edward 
III,  who  has  been  called  the  "  Eather  of  English 
commerce,"  because  he  encouraged  the  Elemish  cloth- 
workers,  who  settled  in  this  neighbourhood  about  1331, 
Cranbrook  being  their  chief  town.     At  Smarden  also 

*    Wills  at  Canterbury/,  i.,  38 ;   A,  i.,  5 ;  iii.,  6. 
t  Haslewood's  Antiquities  of  Smarden,  p.  25. 

VOL.    XIY.  D 


34  SMARDEN   CUURCn. 

the  manufacture  of  broadclotli  was  carried  on,  and 
within  tlic  memory  of  living  persons  a  picturesque 
house,  still  standing  in  the  village,  with  carved  gable, 
was  used  for  the  manufacture  of  linen. 

We  must  now  quit  Smarden,  which,  according  to 
Philipot,  signifies  "fat  valley."  Though  low,  the 
locality  is  healthy,  the  registers  mention  many  who 
reached  their  threescore  years  and  ten ;  whilst  stones  in 
the  churchyard  record  lives  of  91,  96,  and  even  104 
years. 

Hasted  describes  Smarden  as  very  unpleasant  and 
watery,  and  the  road  hardly  passable  through  the 
parish,  even  for  waggons.  Old  parishioners  remember 
when  they  stuck  fast  in  the  middle  of  the  town,  and 
horses  sank  into  the  mud  up  to  their  knees.  Goods 
were  then  conveyed  by  trains  of  packhorses,  upon 
paved  foot-paths,  some  of  which  still  remain;  and,  as 
late  as  1814,  corn  was  thus  carried  to  Maidstone 
market.  To  the  badness  of  the  roads  in  former  times, 
we  attribute  the  fact  that  Smarden  has  been  so  little 
explored  by  archaeologists. 

However,  another  remarkable  event  may  now  be 
added  to  our  annals,  for  though  Smarden  has  more 
than  once  been  visited  by  royalty,  yet  it  could  never 
before  boast  of  what  future  historians  may  now  record, 
namely,  that  it  was  visited  in  July,  1880,  by  the 
members  of  the  Kent  Archaeological  Society. 


ROMAN       COFFIN      OF     LEAD,    FOUND     AT      CANTERBURY 


Yiew  of  the  Coffin. /-id; 
The  lead. (oast) yi$"^ of anAnolvtfdch,. 


The,  Rose'}  or  centre  OrncaneTct. 

Jiazsed/K  ^^  of  Oft  -incJvattke  fullest  part. 

ActuaL  svx,e. 


The  Circaleur  OmarrtenZ 
ActtuxL  sixA-  (4  in-  number-J 


J 


A-.. 


^^5^S^^^^ 


Cante-rbiiry. 

Discovered.  1868. 


Section  of  the  Circular  Ortictmenis. 


James  PiUirow.  1873. 
SeeJlrohceolo^uovoL  43,  p.  16i 


"Wlatemaii/icfca.ss.  itt^a  [oncLon 


(35) 


ROMAN  LEADEN  COEEIN   DISCOVERED 
AT    CANTERBURY. 

My  dear  Sir, — In  1869  Mr.  Pilbrow  communi- 
cated, to  the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  an  account  of 
"  Discoveries  made  during  Excavations  at  Canterbury 
in  1868."  This  included,  among  other  interesting 
matters,  a  description  of  a  leaden  coffin,  to  which  I 
now  draw  your  attention,  in  connection  with  a  sketch 
kindly  given  me  by  Mr.  Pilbrow,  and  my  brief 
remarks. 

Mr.  Pilbrow  thus  describes  the  coffin : — 

"  In  Bridge  Street,  at  the  upper  part,  were  found  four 
skeletons,  four  feet  deej).  Still  nearer  the  top  of  this  street, 
a  leaden  coffin  was  found  entire,  lying  north  and  south, 
having  a  skeleton  within  it,  head  to  the  north.  The  coffin 
was  six  feet  below  the  present  surface ;  but  when  placed 
there  it  could  not  have  been  more  than  three  feet  below, 
as  was  proved  by  the  natural  and  made  ground.  This 
coffin  was  four  feet  eight  inches  long,  very  sound,  and  of 
thick  cast  lead ;  ornamented  at  the  top  only,  which  was  a 
parallelogram,  by  two  diagonal  lines  or  cords  crossing  in  the 
centre,  at  which  place  there  was  a  rose  ornament ;  and  four 
other  simpler  circular  ones  half  way  up  the  lines  towards 
the  corners.  This  centre  ornament  and  one  of  the  others 
will  be  seen  in  the  specimens  exhibited,  as  also  the  thickness 
and  quality  of  the  lead.  The  skeleton  was  that  of  a  female, 
not  more  than  twelve  to  thirteen  years  of  age.  The  body 
appeared  to  have  been  laid  within  the  coffin  on  a  thick  bed 
of  lime,  and  then  packed  closely  round  with  clay.  The  coffin 
had  also  been  coated  thickly  on  the  exterior  with  whitewash. 
No  ornament  of  any  kind  was  within  the  coffin." 

D  2 


36      ROMAN  LEADEN  COFFIN  DISCOVERED. 

As  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  lias  passed  over  tliis 
interesting  work  of  Homan  art,  I  forward  to  you  Mr. 
Pilbrow's  drawing,  feeling  that  it  is  quite  worthy  of 
being  engraved,  and  placed  by  the  side  of  other 
examples  given  by  the  Kent  Archasological  Society. 
There  was,  at  first,  some  hesitation  in  appropriating 
this  coffin  to  its  proper  class.  This  was  dispelled, 
beyond  doubt,  by  the  discovery,  a  few  years  since,  of 
a  similar  coffin  in  a  Roman  cemetery  attached  to  the 
castrum  at  Irchester,  near  Wellingborough.  Sir 
Henry  Dryden  kindly  sent  to  me  a  drawing  and  rub- 
bings of  the  ornaments  upon  the  Irchester  coffin ; 
they  are  precisely  similar  to  those  upon  the  Can- 
terbury example,*  which  is,  I  hope,  preserved  in  the 
museum  of  our  Metropolis. 

Believe  me,  my  dear  Sir, 

Yours  most  truly, 

C.  Roach  Smith. 

To  the  Rev.  Canon  Scott  Robertson. 


*  Engraved  iu  Plate   xixr/,    Collectanea  Antiqiia,  vol.  vii.,  figs. 
Ito  3. 


(    37     ) 


THE  EAELY  HISTORY  OP  TENTEEDEN. 

BY    ROBERT    FURLET,    F.S.A. 

I  HAVE  undertaken  to  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Early  His- 
tory of  Tenterden ;"  a  somewh.at  difficult  task,  especi- 
ally as  the  most  ancient  and  learned  of  our  Kentish  topo- 
graphers (Lambarde)  never  even  mentions  the  place  ;  and 
when  speaking  of  the  district,  he  states  that  it  cannot  be 
shown  from  any  of  our  ancient  chronicles  that  "there  is 
remaining  in  the  Weald  of  Kent  any  one  monument  of 
great  antiquity."  As  this  was  written  more  than  300  years 
ago,  I  must  crave  your  indulgence  in  my  attempt  to  record 
the  early  history  of  this  pretty  country  town,  which  has  been 
now  a  member  or  limb  of  the  Cinque  Ports  for  upwards  of 
400  years ;  for  I  shall  have  but  little  I  fear  to  say  which  is 
likely  to  attract  the  antiquary,  beyond  pointing  out  the 
marked  distinction  between  the  Weald  and  the  rest  of  Kent 
in  the  early  tenure  of  the  land. 

The  district,  as  is  well  known  to  most  of  you,  was  in 
bygone  times  part  of  a  vast  forest,  "bringing  forth  thorns 
and  thistles  unbid,"  the  resort  of  wild  animals,  and  of  deer 
and  swine,  and  rarely  trodden  by  the  foot  of  man. 

Camden  published  his  Britannia  shortly  after  Lambarde 
wrote  his  Perambulation,  and  all  he  says  of  it  is,  "  In  a 
woody  tract  are  Tenterden,  Cranbrook,  Benenden,  and  other 
neighbouring  towns,  wherein  the  cloth  trade  flourished  in 
the  time  of  Edward  III." 

This  woody  tract  was  one  of  the  largest,  if  not  the 
largest,  of  our  British  forests.  In  Csesar's  time  it  formed 
part  of  three  kingdoms,  Cantii  (Kent),  Regni  (Sussex  and 
Surrey),  and  Belgse  (Hants,  Wilts,  and  Somerset).  It  had 
a  city  and  station  during  the  occupation  of  Britain  by  the 
Romans  (the  site  of  which  has  long  been  the  subject  of 
controversy) . 


38  THE   HISTORY   OP   TENTERDEN. 

The  only  Eoman  remains  that  have  been  discovered 
during  the  present  century,  in  this  locality,  to  my  know- 
ledge, were  found  by  Mr.  Stephen  Judge  while  draining 
a  field  in  Tenterden,  near  Reading  Hill,  and  consisted  of 
a  Eoman  nrn  and  coins  and  a  quantity  of  ashes  deposited 
in  a  bank  which  had  evidently  been  raised. 

In  Saxon  times  this  district  extended  over  the  south- 
western extremity  of  the  Kentish  kingdom,  and  parts  of  the 
South  Saxon  and  West  Saxon  kingdoms.  It  was  in  King 
Alfred's  time,  according  to  the  Saxon  Chronicle,  120  miles 
or  longer  from  east  to  west,  and  30  miles  broad. 

The  Limen  or  Bother  flowed  out  of  it,  and  its  western 
confines  were  near  Privett  in  Hampshire. 

Many  places  now  bear  very  different  names  from  those 
they  once  bore.  What  is  now  known  to  us  as  the  Weald, 
which  signifies  in  Saxon  a  woody  country  or  forest,  was 
known  to  the  Britons  as  Coed-Andred,  Coed  being  the 
Bi'itish  word  for  wood.  The  Romans  called  it  Silva- 
Anderida.  The  Saxons  called  it  Andred,  Andredsley,  and 
Andredsweald,  and  it  retained  the  name  of  Andred  for 
centuries  after  the  Romans  abandoned  Britain.  In  our 
earliest  Anglo-Saxon  charters  it  is  called  sometimes  Saltus- 
Andred  (a  country  of  wooded  glades),  Silva-Andred,  Saltus- 
Communis,  and  Silva-Regalis.  The  name  Andred  was 
given  to  it,  according  to  Lambarde,  from  its  vast  extent ; 
Andred  is  in  British  "  great  or  wonderful."  One  of  our 
modern  writers,  Dr.  Guest,  says  it  signifies  "  the  uninhabited 
district,"  from  "  an,"  the  Celtic  negative  particle,  and  "  dred," 
a  dwelling ;  another  modern  wi'iter  (the  late  Mr.  Lewin) 
says  Anderida  signifies  "  the  black  forest,"  from  "  an,"  the, 
"  dern,"  oak  forest,  and  "  dy,"  black ;  while  a  third  (Mr. 
Edmunds)  says  Andred  is  often  met  with  as  an  owner's 
name.  All  this  shews  what  little  dependence  is  to  be  placed 
on  nomenclature. 

The  earliest  notice  of  Andred  in  Saxon  times,  that  I 
have  met  with,  is  in  the  eighth  century,  when  the  chronicles 
record  that  Sigebert,  a  deposed  king  of  the  West  Saxons, 
having  committed  murder,  fled  into  "Andred,"  and  was 
there   slain.     During   the   remainder   of   our   Anglo-Saxon 


THE  FOREST  OF  ANDRED  ;    OR  ANDREd's  WEALD.    39 

history,  we  meet  with  charters  containing  royal  grants  of 
land  in  different  parts  of  Kent,  especially  in  its  south- 
eastern locality,  to  which  was  attached  "the  use  of  the 
woods  in  Andred;"  again  "the  right  of  pasturage  and 
feeding  of  a  herd  of  swine  in  th6  Andred's  Weald ;"  again 
"  Pasturage  for  Swine  which  in  our  Saxon  tongue  we  call 
denbera;"  and  again,  "In  the  woods  called  Andred  120 
waggons  of  wood  to  support  the  fires  for  preparing  Salt." 

The  possessions  to  which  this  right  of  pannage  attached 
were  granted  to  the  heads  of  the  Church  and  the  religious 
houses,  as  well  as  to  the  military  followers  of  the  King, 
called  thanes,  from  whom  it  has  been  conjectured  that 
Tenterden  derived  its  name.  There  were  three  kinds  of 
thanes, — (1)  Those  who  served  the  sovereign  as  his 
attendants,  and  were  succeeded  by  the  Norman  barons ; 
(2)  those  who  served  under  dukes,  earls,  and  the  digni- 
taries of  the  Church,  who  afterwards  became  lords  of 
manors,  with  a  limited  jurisdiction ;  and  a  third  class,  com- 
posed of  freeholders  of  an  inferior  degree. 

We  have  no  evidence  that  Andred  was  originally  a  royal 
forest  of  chase,  but  while  Kent  continued  a  distinct 
kingdom  its  sovereign  enjoyed  a  paramount  control  over  it, 
including  the  timber  and  other  royalties. 

In  process  of  time,  with  an  increasing  population,  a  limit 
was  put  to  the  general  right  of  pannage,  and  we  find  grants 
to  the  freemen  of  the  laths  of  Limen,  Wye,  and  Burg,  now 
Shipway,  Scray,  and  St.  Augustine,  sometimes  conferred  by 
the  sovereign  with  the  consent  of  "the  princes  and  great 
men,"  at  other  times  with  the  consent  of  "  the  Wittan  "  or 
councillors  of  the  nation,  and  these  rights  at  last  became 
limited  to  certain  defined  districts  called  "  denes,"  being  the 
wooded  valley  of  the  forest  yielding  both  covert  and  mast. 
Names  were  now  given  to  them  ;  among  the  earliest  we  trace 
Frittenden,  Benenden,  Biddenden,  Surrenden,  etc.  These 
denes  sometimes  also  bore  the  name  of  the  occupier,  as  our 
modern  farms  have  subsequently  done.  While  these  denes 
were  all  situate  within  the  Weald,  the  possessions  which 
conferred  them  were  scattered  over  different  j)arts  of  Kent, 
especially  the  eastern  portion  of  it.     They  were  approached 


40  TEE   HISTORY   OF   TENTERDEN. 

by  di'of-ways,  and  watclied  over  by  drof-men  or  forest  lierds- 
men,  to  whom  j)ortions  were  sometimes  allotted  for  their 
services.  These  drovers  soon  made  the  Weald  their  perma- 
nent abode,  while  more  entei-prising  men,  anxious  to  till  the 
soil,  joined  them,  and  paid  rent  for  permission  to  grub  and 
plough  j)ortious  of  them,  known  as  danger  or  lef silver.  The 
boundaries  at  length  became  more  clearly  defined,  and  gates 
were  set  up.  This  state  of  things  must  have  existed  long 
anterior  to  the  Norman  Conquest,  which  we  are  now 
approaching. 

Tenterden,  from  its  position,  must  have  been,  at  this  time, 
a  place  of  some  imj)ortance,  yet,  strange  to  say,  we  find  no 
mention  of  it  even  in  the  eleventh  century,  nor  of  Tunbridge 
or  Cranbrook.  Its  nomenclature  affords  conclusive  evidence 
of  its  existence  before  the  Conquest.  Philipot,  who  has 
been  followed  by  other  writers,  says  it  was  originally  written 
"  Theinwarden,"  being  the  Thane's  ward  or  guard  in  the 
wood  or  valley.  Edmunds  is  also  of  opinion  that  it  is  of 
Anglo-Saxon  origin,  from  "  thegn "  and  "dene,"  "the 
nobleman's  hollow."  I  find  Tenterden  first  written  as  in 
the  present  day  about  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  century, 
sometimes  with  the  addition  "  alias  Tentwarden." 

In  the  Survey  of  Domesday  there  is  no  mention  of  many 
of  the  hundreds  now  in  the  centre  of  the  Weald,  and  only 
eight  places  are  referred  to,  four  of  which  are  returned  with 
churches.  Now  it  should  be  remembered  that  this  Survey 
was  compiled  twenty  years  after  the  arrival  of  the  Conqueror, 
that  he  might  know,  amongst  other  things,  the  names  of  his 
landowners,  and  the  situation  of  their  possessions.  How 
then,  it  may  be  asked,  does  it  happen  that  we  fail  to  find 
Tenterden  and  Cranbrook  in  it  ?  I  will  endeavour  to  give  a 
reason.  The  Survey  returns  forty-four  entire  denes  (some  of 
them  containing  perhaps  500  acres  each  according  to  Spelman), 
also  nine  small  ones  and  two  halves,  and  no  names  are  given 
to  any  of  them.  In  this  Survey  the  Norman  term  "  manor  " 
is  substituted  for  prcecUum  or  possession  ;  but  in  the  Weald 
the  denes  represented  the  manors.  The  ecclesiastics, 
religious  houses,  and  laity,  who  held  no  less  than  seventy 
manors  under  a  newly  created  feudal  system,  held  the  right 


THE    SEVEN    HUNDREDS.  41 

of  pannage  over  tlie  denes  in  respect  of  these  manors,  to 
wliicli  they  were  appendant ;  and  as  the  manors  are  referred 
to  by  name,  there  was  no  necessity  to  notice  the  denes  further; 
at  least  so  the  Norman  scribes  might  consider. 

It  may  therefore,  I  think,  be  fairly  inferred  that  modern 
Tenterden,  at  the  time  of  the  Conquest,  only  comprised  denes 
appendant  to  those  distant  manors.  Subinfeudation  soon 
followed ;  the  tenure  of  many  of  them  (including  parts  of 
Tenterden)  was  changed  into  lesser  manors,  and  some  of  them 
were  held  by  military  service,  such  as  guarding  Dover  Castle, 
etc.  Those  which  were  still  preserved  as  denes  were  chiefly 
held  by  the  Church  and  the  religious  houses.  From  the 
examination  of  the  Court  Rolls  which  I  have  had  access  to, 
I  am  of  opinion  that  originally  there  were  not  less  than 
thirty  denes,  or  parts  of  denes,  in  Tenterden  as  it  is  now 
known  to  us,  viz. : — Tenterden  itself,  Pitlesden,  Heronden, 
Prestone,  Ridgeway,  Housney,  Dumborne,  Meusden,  West 
Cross,  Chepperegge,  Reading,  Igglesden,  Eldershurst,  Strench- 
den,  Elarndine,  Godden,  Gatesden,  Morgue,  Boresile,  Bug- 
glesden,  Saltkendine,  Finchdene,  Twisdene,  Haldene,  Little 
Haldene,  Dovedene,  Haffendene,  and  Brissendene.  The  manors 
to  which  these  denes  were  appendant  were  situate,  with  one  or 
two  exceptions,  in  the  eastern  part  of  Kent,  viz.  : — Alding- 
ton, Boughton  Malherbe,  Brook,  Fridd  in  Bethersden,  Great 
Chart,  Northbourne,  Reculver,  Westwell,  Wye. 

Let  us  now  turn  to  the  mode  by  which  justice  was 
administered  here.  When  Kent  first  became  a  kingdom,  it 
was  divided  into  laths  (peculiar  to  it) ;  those  in  the  Weald 
were  known  as  Limowart  and  Wiwarlet ;  the  next  division  was 
into  hundreds,  and  the  third  into  boroughs  (called  tithings  in 
most  other  counties).  In  the  Weald  we  also  meet  with 
quarters,  such  as  Haffenden  Quarter. 

Both  hundreds  and  tithings  were  doubtless  of  Roman 
origin,  but  these  words  have  so  long  floui-ished  apart  from 
their  roots  that,  as  a  modern  writer  (Milman)  states,  those 
roots  and  the  modes  of  growth  therefrom  have  been  utterly 
forgotten. 

We  first  meet  with  Tenterden  as  a  hundred  about  the 
twelfth  century,  and  we  find  it  classed  with  six  neighbouring 


42  THE    HISTOUT    OF   TENTERDEN. 

ones  for  municipal  purposes,  viz. : — Cranbrook,  Barkley,  Barn- 
field,  Blackbourne,  Rolvenden,  and  Selbrittenden.  All  our 
historians  are  silent  respecting  the  origin  of  this  union  of 
"  The  Seven  Hundreds,"  which  I  consider  the  most  ancient 
civil  institution  in  the  Weald.  The  sovereign  had  the  power 
not  only  to  create  hundreds,  but  also  to  change  and  consoli- 
date them.  I  believe,  from  various  authorities  which  I  must 
pass  over,  that  this  consolidation  was  effected  towards  the 
close  of  the  reign  of  the  Conqueror.  It  was  of  the  first  im- 
portance that  the  laws  which  he  had  introduced  for  the 
government  of  other  parts  of  the  shire,  should  be  extended 
to  this  district.  His  followers,  especially  Odo,  Bishop  of 
Baieux,  and  Hugh  de  Montfort  (who  had  dispossessed  many 
a  Saxon  of  his  inheritance  in  and  about  the  Weald),  were  now 
interested  in  its  tranquillity.  The  area,  though  large  in  extent, 
was  but  sparsely  inhabited,  and  justice  was  here  adminis- 
tered by  an  assembly  of  "  The  Seven  Hundreds  "  held  by  the 
sovereign,  forming  one  courtfor  judicial  purposes,  andpresided 
over  by  a  Norman  bailiff,  who  had  now  become  the  substitute 
for  the  Saxon  reeve.  This  court  was  originally  held  every  three 
weeks,  in  the  open  air.  A  levy  was  made  for  the  support  of 
the  office,  which  was  called  the  Hundred  Penny.  The 
sovereign  was  entitled  to  the  profits  of  the  courts,  derived 
from  fines  and  amerciaments  ;  and  he  exercised  a  military 
jurisdiction,  through  the  high-constables  of  each  hundred, 
and  the  subordinate  borsholders.  The  seven  hundreds,  thus 
formed  into  a  bailiwick,  were  charged  with  an  annual  pay- 
ment of  <£10  towards  the  garniture  of  Dover  Castle.  Each 
of  these  hundreds  elected  its  own  constables  and  borsholders  ; 
and  as  they  were  formed  and  grouped  long  after  the  laths  of 
Kent,  I  have  always  been  of  opinion  that  for  centuries  they 
were  not  subject  to  lath  law,  including  lath  silver.  The 
hundredof  Tenterdenwas  divided  into  six  boroughs;  five  being 
within  what  has  since  constituted  the  parish  of  Tenterden, 
at  present  known  as  Town,  Castweasle,  Boresisle,  Dumbourne, 
and  Shrubcote ;  the  sixth  was  Eeading  in  Ebony.  The  juris- 
diction extended  over  murders,  manslaughters,  and  robberies, 
with  a  power  of  appeal  to  Penenden,  and  thence  to  the 
sovereign.      Henry  II  introduced  the  practice  of  hanging 


ADMINISTRATION    OF   JUSTICE — SCOT   AND   LOT.     43 

thieves  ;  aud  a  gallows  was  set  up  in  Tenterden  (which  has 
still  its  gallows  green)  and  in  all  the  principal  hundreds.  In 
the  thirteenth  century  the  powers  of  these  local  jurisdictions 
were  materially  curtailed ;  and  judges  were  sent  into  each 
county,  who  held  assizes  for  Kent  at  Canterbury  and  Roches- 
ter, and  occasionally  at  Tunbridge, 

A  brief  notice  taken  from  the  earliest  Plea  Rolls,  of  some  of 
the  proceedings  at  these  courts,  during  the  thirteenth  and 
early  part  of  the  fourteenth  centuries,  including  the  reigns 
of  Henry  III,  Edward  I,  and  Edward  II,  will  shew  how  justice 
in  matters  affecting  Tenterden  was  administered  at  that 
time,  and  will,  I  think,  be  of  interest.  Tenterden  had  now 
gradually  emerged  from  a  dene  and  a  borough,  and  had 
become  a  ville  or  town. 

From  the  Plea  Rolls  I  find  it  was  adjudged  that  every 
holder  of  a  tenement  in  Tenterden  was  bound  to  do  suit  and 
service  at  the  Hundred  Court,  every  three  weeks,  when  sum- 
moned by  the  borsholder. 

Then  the  hundred  was  gildable,  and  subject  to  scot  and 
lot,  which  was  a  customary  contribution  laid  on  all  the  in- 
habitants according  to  their  ability.  This  burden  appears 
to  have  been  levied  on  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  seven 
hundreds  now  brought  under  "  Hundred  Law,^'  but  I  have 
not  met  with  it  in  the  more  ancient  hundreds  of  Kent.  The 
justice  of  such  a  payment  is  obvious,  as  portions  of  the 
district  still  remained  unreclaimed.  The  hundred  was 
relieved  from  this  burden  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VI,  when 
Tenterden  was  united  to  the  Cinque  Ports. 

The  fair  at  Tenterden  was  then  held  on  the  eve  and  day 
of  the  Feast  of  St.  Mildred ;  it  had  been  hitherto  exempt  from 
tolls,  but  the  King's  bailiff  had  recently  exacted  them  and 
was  to  answer  for  it. 

The  bailiffs  of  the  hundred  of  Tenterden  and  of  the 
liberties  of  the  archbishop  and  the  prior  of  Christ  Church, 
Canterbury,  were  accused  of  amercing  offenders,  for  breaking 
the  assize  of  bread  and  ale,  instead  of  punishing  the  delin- 
quents by  pillory  and  tumbril.  Henry  III  had  passed  a 
statute  that,  if  the  offence  was  grievous,  the  baker  should  go 
to  the  pillory,  and  the  brewer  to  the  tumbril. 


44  THE    HISTOEY   OF   TENTERDEN. 

Alexander  de  Tenwardine  and  two  others  had  been  guilty 
of  purpresture,  or  encroacliment  on  the  King's  highway,  by 
the  erection  of  three  shoj)s;  the  jury  decided  that  these 
erections  were  not  a  nuisance  to  the  highway,  and  they  were 
permitted  to  remain  on  the  payment  of  a  fee-farm  rent  of 
twelve  horseshoes  ! 

A  little  later,  it  is  recorded  that  seven  more  shops  had 
been  erected  in  the  High  Street  of  Tenterden,  worth  yearly 
3s.  5d.,  and  the  sheriff  was  directed  to  levy  this  sum  for  the 
King  as  lord  of  the  seven  hundreds.  In  the  next  reign  these 
shops  are  again  presented  as  a  nuisance;  but,  as  rent  had  been 
paid  to  the  King  for  them,  they  were  suffered  to  remain. 

A  common  path,  from  the  ville  of  Tenterden  to  the  ville  of 
Eeding,  had  been  wrongfully  enclosed  with  a  ditch  and  hedge, 
and  another,  from  Reding  to  Woodchurch  and  Halden,  had 
been  also  stopped,  and  the  sheriff  was  ordered  to  "de-obstruct" 
them.  He  was  also  ordered  to  pull  down  a  house  built  partly 
on  the  highway  in  Tenterden. 

A  woman  had  sold  eight  butts  of  wine  in  two  years,  and  a 
man  had  sold  forty  butts,  contrary  to  the  assize,  and  they 
were  amerced  for  it. 

The  archbishop's  bailiff,  Robert  de  Cherringe  (Charing), 
had  made  an  illegal  distress,  and  was  amerced. 

Ralph  de  la  Burn,  being  accused  of  larceny,  was  appre- 
hended, but  escaped  from  the  frankpledge  or  borough  of 
Waren  de  Burwarsile,  and  Waren  was  amerced  for  the 
escape.  Here  let  me  pause  a  moment  and  ask  whether  the 
modern  Boresisle  is  not,  like  many  similar  ones,  a  corruption? 
and  whether  we  ought  not  to  look  for  its  derivation  from 
hurh,  a  hill,  or  hoeryi,  a  grove  with  water  round  it,  rather  than 
the  derivation  which  tradition  has  given  to  it  as  a  favoured 
spot  for  wild-boar  hunting. 

Certain  persons  were  indicted  for  robbery  and  fled.  Tljey 
were  outlawed,  but  being  strangers  and  not  in  any  borough, 
the  hundred  was  not  liable. 

A  quarrel  took  place  in  a  tavern  at  Tenterden,  and  one 
man  struck  another  on  the  head  with  a  staff,  so  that  he  died. 
The  offender  fled,  and  the  borough  was  amerced  because 
the  "  hue  and  cry  "  was  not  raised. 


THE    CHURCn.  45 

A  man  killed  another  with  a  knife  in  coming  from  Teu- 
terden  Chui'ch. 

A  man  killed  a  girl  in  shooting-  with  an  arrow  at  the 
Assize  butt,  in  the  borough  of  Bourwarsile. 

A  return  is  made  that  Thomas  de  Tenwardine  held  an 
entire  knight's  fee,  that  he  was  of  full  age,  and  not  yet  a 
knight.  To  meet  the  expense  of  a  foreign  war,  Edward  I 
compelled  those  who  possessed  land  of  the  value  of  £20  to 
take  up  their  knighthood,  which  bound  them  to  attend  their 
sovereign  to  the  Avars,  at  their  own  expense,  forty  days  in 
every  year.  It  was  afterwards  commuted  into  a  money  pay- 
ment, called  "  escuage." 

I  have  thus  briefly  shown  how  justice  was  adminis- 
tered in  Tenterden  six  hundred  years  ago,  the  hundred  and 
its  boroughs  being  made  responsible  for  the  good  behaviour 
of  its  inhabitants. 

Let  us  now  leave  the  municipal  proceedings  of  Tenterden, 
and  dwell  for  a  few  moments  on  its  ecclesiastical  history. 

I  have  failed  to  ascertain  at  what  period,  and  by  whom, 
the  first  Christian  church  was  founded  in  Tenterden. 

The  unappropriated  portions  of  the  forest  belonged  to 
the  sovereign  as  Lord  Paramount,  and  with  them  an  eccle- 
siastical prerogative  over  the  tithes,  and  the  King  might 
promote  the  erection  of  churches,  endow  them  with  tithes, 
and  form  j)arishes  without  the  concurrence  of  the  Pope  or 
Bishop.  The  first  church,  whenever  erected,  had  a  newly 
created  manor  appendant  to  it,  which  at  first  could  only  have 
comprised  a  small  part  of  the  present  parish.  It  no  doiibt 
stood  on  the  site  of  the  i^resent  one,  and  was  made  of  ruder 
materials ;  we  know  that  a  church  was  in  existence  a.d.  1242, 
for  the  Plea  Eolls  of  that  date  refer  to  it,  and  a  priest  was 
provided  by  the  Abbot  of  St.  Augustine's,  to  whom  an  annual 
pension  was  paid.  Thirteen  years  later  we  have  evidence 
that  the  right  of  patronage  was  in  dispute.  For  it  would 
appear,  from  the  Plea  Rolls  of  1255,  that  a  serious  affray  took 
place  in  Tenterden  Church,  which  ended  in  the  loss  of  life  of 
one  Henry  de  Smaleide.  Two  distinguished  men  of  that  day 
were  involved  in  it,  the  great  pluralist  John  Maunsell,  Pro- 
vost of  Beverley,  and  Henry  de  Wingham  (a  man  of  acknow- 


46  THE    HISTORY    OF   TENTERDEN. 

leclg-ed  merit,  who  aftenvards  became  Chancellor  of  England 
and  Bishop  of  London).  Maunsell  had  authority  from  the 
Pope  to  induct  Henry  de  Wingham  ;  but  the  inhabitants 
resisted  the  apj)ointment,  and  assembled  an  armed  band  in 
the  church  to  eject  the  i^romoters  of  the  nominee.  A  con- 
flict ensued,  which  terminated  fatally.  Henry  III  was  ap- 
pealed to,  nnd  he,  by  letters  patent,  pardoned  the  offenders, 
and  directed  the  justices  not  to  interfere. 

This  affray  possibly  led  to  the  final  appropriation  of  the 
church  to  the  monastery  of  St.  Augustine,  subject  to  the 
maintenance  of  a  perpetual  vicar,  which  took  place  four 
years  later  (a.d.  1259).  So  it  remained  until  the  dissolution 
of  that  monastery,  when  the  right  of  advowson  passed  to 
the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Canterbury,  with  whom  it  still 
remains.  The  present  church  has  been  ably  described  by  my 
friend,  the  Eev.  A.  J.  Pearman.  It  is  one  of  the  four 
Kentish  churches  dedicated  to  St.  Mildred,  and  one  of  six- 
teen parishes  with  "  den  "  as  its  suffix. 

The  whole  of  the  Weald  of  Kent  had  been  formed  into 
parishes  by  the  end  of  the  thirteenth  century,  which  is 
proved  by  the  Taxatio  Ecclesiastica  granted  to  Edward  I 
by  Pope  Nicholas  IV. 

I  will  next  refer  to  the  Hundred  Roll  prepared  at  the 
commencement  of  the  reign  of  Edward  I  (a.d.  1274),  being  a 
return  made  to  this  King  by  a  jury  assembled  in  each  hun- 
dred, who  were  directed  to  inquire  into,  and  report  on,  the 
conduct  of  the  sheriffs,  bailiffs,  etc.,  who  were  accused  of 
defrauding  the  Crown  and  oppressing  the  people.  The 
farming  out,  to  the  highest  bidder,  of  the  emoluments  of 
civil  offices  led  to  great  extortion,  and  was  contrary  to  the 
provisions  of  Magna  Charta,  and  often  drove  the  inhabitants 
from  their  hundreds.  In  this  Roll,  Tenterden  is  returned  as 
one  of  the  Seven  Hundreds,  which  belonged  to  the  King, 
and  was  held  by  Stephen  de  Peneshurst,  subject  to  the  yearly 
payment  of  £10  to  the  castle  of  Dover.  Roger  de  Benyn- 
dene  was  then  the  bailiff,  and  Hugh  de  Wy  the  clerk,  against 
whom  there  is  a  long  list  of  complaints  from  the  good  people 
of  Tenterden  and  others ;  and  his  death,  which  is  recorded 
shortly  afterwards,  must  have  been  a  great  relief  to  them. 


EDWARD   I  AND  THE  VICAR.  47 

The  right  of  the  archbishop  and  the  prior  of  Christchurch 
to  make  a  warren  at  Appletre  and  Hibbene  [Appledore  and 
Ebony]  is  qnestioned.  There  is  also  a  complaint  that  their 
tenants  had  withdrawn  from  the  suits  of  the  lath,  and  from 
the  sheriff's  tourn,  to  the  loss  of  the  King  of  thirty-six 
marks.  "  The  jury  know  not  by  what  warrant.'^  These 
tenants  were  at  this  time  the  occupiers  of  the  denes  belonging 
to  the  manors  of  Aldington^  Brook,  etc.  The  manorial  rights 
of  the  abbot  of  Battle  are  also  referred  to  in  respect  of  the 
dene  of  Chepperegge,  belonging  to  the  royal  manor  of  Wye, 
then  held  by  that  abbey.  Time  will  not  permit  me  to  dwell 
longer  on  these  ancient  records. 

During  the  reign  of  Edward  I  there  were  frequent  strug- 
gles between  him  and  his  prelates  and  clergy.  He  wanted 
money  to  carry  on  a  war  against  France,  and  demanded  of 
his  clergy  a  moiety  of  their  goods,  spiritual  as  well  as  tem- 
poral. The  clergy  mutinied,  for  they  were  then  groaning 
under  a  double  taxation,  one  imposed  by  the  King,  and  the 
other  by  the  Pope.  Boniface  issued  a  Bull  excommunicating 
all  rulers  who  should  impose  taxes  on  the  Church,  and  all 
clergymen  who  should  pay  them.  Edward's  anger  became 
great  when  they  informed  him  that  it  was  out  of  their  power 
to  pay,  and  he  put  out  of  the  pale  of  the  law  all  who  refused 
to  contribute.  A  conference  was  appointed  between  the 
King  and  Archbishop  Winchelsea,  which  took  place  in  1299 
at  Maidstone  ;  and  so  determined  was  the  King  that  the 
clergy  should  not  escape,  that  on  the  primate's  arrival  in  the 
county  town  the  royal  officers  actually  seized  his  horses. 
Most  of  the  clergy  at  last  submitted  ;  but  amongst  those  who 
still  held  out  was  "  John,  Vicar  of  the  Church  of  Tenterden," 
and  he  with  sixteen  other  Kentish  rectors  and  vicars  were 
excommunicated,  arrested,  and  conveyed  to  the  prison  at 
Canterbury ;  and  they  only  obtained  their  release  by  giving 
bail  for  their  appearance. 

Edward  I  had  selected  for  the  companion  of  his  son  (the 
first  Prince  of  Wales)  a  handsome  youth  of  Gascony  named 
Piers  de  Gaveston.  As  the  boys  grew  up,  dissipation  cemented 
the  attachment.  The  Prince,  it  is  said,  instigated  by  Gaves- 
ton,  broke  down  a  bishop's  fence  and  killed  his  deer.     The 


48  THE   HISTORY  OF   TENTERDEN. 

King  was  resolved  that  the  laws  should  be  respected,  regard- 
less of  the  rank  of  the  offender,  and  he  coini)elled  Gaveston 
to  quit  England,  and  prohibited  the  yonng  Prince  from 
approaching  the  Court  for  some  months ;  so  he  spent  a  por- 
tion of  his  time  in  Kent,  keeping  at  a  respectful  distance 
from  his  royal  father,  who  had  then  (1305)  a  country  seat 
at  Newenden,  and  was  fishing  and  shooting  in  Kent.  The 
Prince  remained  for  some  days  at  Tenterden,  and  there 
wrote  five  or  six  letters  *to  his  family  and  friends,  which  have 
been  preserved.  In  them  he  shews  great  anxiety  to  obtain 
the  King's  forgiveness.  One's  curiosity  is  aroused  respect- 
ing the  spot  where  he  dwelt. 

Tradition  says  that  Pitlesden  (standing  on  the  northern 
side  of  the  present  High  Street)  once  belonged  to  the  re- 
nowned Earl  Godwin,  who  resided  there  (?) ;  and  that 
there  the  Prince  took  up  his  abode.  My  informant  was 
my  late  respected  friend,  Mr.  Joseph  Munn,  to  whom  it  had 
been  handed  down. 

The  necessities  of  the  sovereign  were  now  supplied  by 
Aids,  being  assessments  upon  those  who  held  of  him  or  some 
inferior  lord,  by  knight,  or  military  service.  Edward  II 
caused  a  return  to  be  made  of  the  hundreds,  and  the  villes 
or  towns  in  them,  for  the  purpose  of  a  military  levy.  This 
return  is  called  "  Nomina  Villarum."  In  it,  the  King's 
name  appears  as  lord  of  the  hundred  of  Tenterden,  and 
the  archbishop,  the  prior  of  Christ  Church,  Canterbury,  and 
Sir  John  de  Segrave,  and  Sir  Richard  de  Eokesle  as  lords 
of  the  ville  or  town.  The  last-named  persons  were  at  this 
time  two  of  the  leading  gentry  of  Kent. 

I  propose  next  to  notice  some  of  the  principal  estates  in 
Tenterden  and  their  earliest  proprietors. 

Heronden  (which  belonged  to  an  old  family  of  that  name, 
passed  into  the  family  of  Curteis,  and  is  now  held  by  Mrs. 
Croughton)  may,  I  think,  be  classed,  with  Pitlesden,  amongst 
the  first  of  the  dene's  which  possessed  family  residences. 
More  interest,  however,  attaches  to  Pitlesden  already  re- 
ferred to,  from  the  fact  that  Sir  John  Dudley,  afterwards 
Duke  of  Northumberland  (who  was  attainted  and  beheaded 
in  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary),  inherited  it  (with  Kenchill)  in 


FINCHDEN,    HALES   PLACE,    ASHERINDEN.  49 

rig-lit  of  liis  wife,  Jane,  a  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Guldeford; 
and  he  with  the  license  of  Henry  VIII  conveyed  it  to  Sir 
Thomas  Cromwell  (created  Earl  of  Essex  for  his  services  in 
suppressing  the  religious  houses,  afterwards  attainted  and 
executed).  He  sold  it  to  Henry  VIII,  and  it  remained  in 
the  hands  of  the  Crown  until  the  next  reign,  when  it  was 
granted  to  Sir  John  Baker,  of  whom  I  shall  again  speak. 

On  Leigh  Green  (which  also  gave  the  name  to  a  dene) 
stood  Finchden,  which  I  am  disposed  to  think  was  lield 
by  one  family  for  a  longer  continuous  period  than  any 
other  property  in  Tenterden  ;  say  for  more  than  400  years. 
"  Dene  "  appears  to  have  been  a  suffix  to  the  original  name, 
and  afterwards  dropt.  One  of  this  family,  William  de 
Fynchdene,  was  Chief  justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  (not 
King's  Bench,  as  stated  by  Hasted)  in  the  reign  of  Edward 
III.  Elardendene,  or  Elarndene,  was  held  of  the  manor  of 
Erid,  in  Bethersden,  and  belonged  to  the  Maneys  of  Bidden- 
den  in  the  fourteenth,  century. 

The  Hales  family,  owners  of  Hales  Place,  at  one  time 
held  about  one-sixth  of  the  town ;  and  the  Guldefords 
were  possessed  of  Kenchill  and  East  Asherinden  ;  but  these 
families  were  comparatively  modern  owners,  who  flourished 
during  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  centuries.  Mention  of 
them  will  be  made  by  the  Rev.  E..  Cox  Hales  and  Canon 
Jenkins.  I  will  therefore  close  my  account  of  the  early 
owners  and  their  estates  with  a  reference  to  Light-Notin- 
den,  Gatesdene,  East  Asherinden,  Godden,  and  Morgue ;  and 
I  trust  I  shall  succeed  in  attaching  a  little  more  interest  to 
some  of  these  places  than  the}^  have  hitherto  possessed. 

Light 's-Notingden  and  East  Asherinden  (a  forgotten 
name)  were  two  small  manors,  and  before  that  denes.  Our 
three  Kentish  historians,  Philipot,  Harris,  and  Hasted,  all 
class  them  together,  and  tell  us  that  they  belonged  partly  to 
a  chantry  in  Tenterden  founded  by  John  Light,  and  partly 
to  the  manor  of  Brook,  near  Wye,  held  by  the  priory  of 
Christ  Church,  Canterbury,  and  were  granted  by  Henry  VIII, 
on  the  supj)ression  of  the  chantry  and  priory,  to  his  Attorney- 
General,  Sir  John  Baker,  of  Sissinghurst,  who  was  also  the 
Attorney-General  of  Edward  VI  and   Queen  Mary.     Here 

VOL.   XIV.  E 


50  THE   HISTORY  OF  TENTERDEN. 

Philipot  stops.  Dr.  Harris  (a  later  writer)  adds  : — "  This 
chapel  or  chantry  of  Light's,  I  believe  was  formerly  a  little 
clnirch,  and  is  so  described  in  the  old  maps  ;  in  Dugdale's 
Map  of  Romney  Marsh  it  is  called  Sniall  Light,  and  now 
Smallhythe  in  Symondson's  Map.'^  While  Hasted  takes  no 
notice  of  the  chapel,  and  tells  us  that  he  has  been  unable  to 
ascertain  how  long  they  were  held  by  the  Bakers  ;  but  that 
Light' s-Notinden  was  in  his  day  the  property  of  Mr.  Wm. 
Mantell,  and  East  Asherinden  then  belonged  to  Mr.  Wm. 
Children,  who  had  built  a  house  there,  in  which  he  resided. 

Now  as  I  shall  have  occasion  to  speak  of  another  chan- 
try, let  me  in  a  few  words  explain  their  origin. 

When  the  taste  for  founding  monasteries  declined, 
chantries  supplied  their  place.  They  were  instituted  for 
keeping  up  a  succession  of  prayers  for  the  prosperity  of  the 
founder  while  living,  and  the  repose  of  his  soul,  and  the 
souls  of  his  relatives,  when  dead.  They  were  usually  built 
in,  or  added  to,  existing  churches,  and  lands  were  purchased, 
with  the  license  of  the  sovereign,  for  the  support  of  the 
officiating  priests,  and  other  expenses  of  the  chantry. 

At  the  Reformation  these  chantries,  like  the  religious 
houses,  were  all  suppressed. 

Then  as  to  Godden,  Gatesdene,  and  Morgue,  I  am  disposed 
to  think  that  Godden  and  Gatesdene  were  one  and  the  same 
place ;  the  names  having  been  changed  with  a  change  of 
owners.  Godden  was  held  of  the  manor  of  Northbourne. 
All  traces  of  both  Godden  and  Gatesdene  have  now  dis- 
appeared. I  find  Gatesdene  called  a  borough  in  the  reign  of 
Edward  II.  Hasted  tells  us  that  in  his  day  there  were  some 
marshes  called  Gatesdene,  "  near  the  river  between  May- 
hamme  and  Smalhide."  The  ownership,  as  I  shall  now 
shew,  of  Gatesdene  and  Morgue  became  united,  and  the 
name  Morgue  alone  has  been  preserved. 

Edward  III  had  committed  the  charge  of  the  Seven 
Hundreds  to  Henry  de  Valoygnes  (an  important  family  at 
this  time),  whose  residence  was  at  Rij)ton  in  Ashf ord ;  and 
an  Aid  having  been  granted  to  the  King  to  make  the  Black 
Prince  a  knight,  Tenterden  is  returned  for  one  fee  in  respect 
of  lands  which  "  Thomas  de  Gatesdene  held  at  Gatesdene  in 


ST,  Paul's  cathedral  and  morgue  manor.  51 

Tenterden,  of  tlie  manor  of  Beaumundestone,"  now  called 
Beamstone  in  West  well.  Here  we  meet  with  an  original 
dene,  converted  by  subinfeudation  into  a  lesser  manor  (the 
only  one  in  Tenterden  then  held  by  knight  service),  and  held 
of  a  distant  manor  granted  by  the  Conqueror  to  Odo,  Bishop 
of  Baieux ;  the  demesne  and  lands  of  which,  in  the  present 
day,  form  part  of  East  well  Park.  This  supports  my  theory 
with  respect  to  the  nameless  denes  in  the  Survey  of  Domes- 
day. But  I  must  try  and  keep  your  attention  fixed  for  the 
present  on  Gatesdene  and  Morgue,  which  I  am  about  to 
connect  with  old  St.  Paul's  Cathedral  and  Somerset  House, 
London.  In  the  old  Cathedral,  there  were  no  less  than 
forty-seven  chantries  or  chapels ;  one  of  the  most  important 
stood  next  the  north  door,  and  was  founded  by  Walter 
Sherrington,  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  VI ;  and  in  1454  an  Inquisition  was  taken  at 
Cranbrook  before  the  King's  Escheator,  when  it  was  decided 
that  it  would  not  be  to  the  prejudice  of  the  Crown  to  grant 
a  license  to  the  chaplains  of  this  chantry  to  purchase  the 
manors  of  Morgue  and  Gatesdene  otherwise  Godden  in 
Tenterden,  held  of  Sir  Walter  Moyle  of  Eastwell  by  fealty, 
who  held  of  the  King.  In  this  chantry  two  priests  used  to 
celebrate  Divine  service  for  the  soul  of  the  founder,  and  all 
Christian  souls  for  ever. 

So  matters  remained  until  the  suppression  of  this  and 
other  chantries,  in  the  first  year  of  Edward  YI,  when  this 
property  was  sold  to  Sir  Miles  Partriche  and  another,  to 
hold  in  capite  by  knight  service.  It  afterwards  passed  to 
the  Colepepers,  the  Curteis',  the  Pomfrets,  and  is  now  held 
by  Mr.  W.  Pomfret  Burra.  In  1549  the  chapel  in  St.  Paul's 
was  pulled  down,  with  the  library  attached  to  it ;  and,  strange 
to  say,  the  materials  were  carried  into  the  Strand  and  used 
in  the  building  of  that  stately  fabric,  Somerset  House. 

Now,  setting  aside  the  iron  fencing  round  the  present  St. 
Paul's,  which  was  manufactured  in  the  Weald,  and  which 
never  ought  to  have  been  placed  there,  I  think  I  have  said 
enough  to  satisfy  you  that  Gatesden  and  Morgue  in  Tenter- 
den had  quite  as  much,  if  not  more,  to  do  with  old  St.  Paul's 
Cathedral  and  the  present  Somerset  House,  than  anything 

E  2 


52  THE    HISTORY   OF    TENTERDEN. 

that  can  be  advanced  in  favour  of  the  paradoxical 
tradition  that  "Tenterden  Steeple  was  the  cause  of  the 
Goodv^rin  Sands."  Besides  the  chantries  already  referred 
to,  there  was  one  in  Tenterden  Church  called  Peter 
Marshall's  Chantry,  which  I  don't  remember  to  have  been 
noticed  by  any  of  our  topographers.  Here  certain  houses 
and  land  in  Tenterden  and  Woodchurch,  including  the 
Woolsack  (I  suppose  the  present  Woolpack),  were  given  for 
the  use  and  support  of  a  chaplain  in  the  church,  for  cele- 
brating Divine  service,  as  well  as  for  teaching  in  the 
Grammar  School.  The  south  chancel  of  the  church  was 
appropriated  to  the  use  of  the  school,  during  the  last 
century.  A  fraternity  also  existed  here,  called  "  Our  Lady's 
Brotherhood."  There  were  also  three  obit  rents  ;  and  a  light 
rent,  for  two  tapers  before  the  high  altar. 

Durino-  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centuries  an  indus- 
trious,  if  not  a  wealthy,  population  became  the  inhabitants 
of  this  district.  Noble  oaks  were  felled,  charcoal  burnt  and 
exported,  while  the  application  of  marl,  with  an  increase  of 
light  and  air  from  the  clearing  of  the  woods,  led  to  a 
gradual  improvement  in  the  cultivation  of  the  soil,  but  the 
roads  remained  as  bad  as  ever.  Like  the  rest  of  the  county, 
Tenterden  had  now  its  acknowledged  owners  either  of  denes, 
or  lesser  manors  which  had  been  formed  out  of  them.  As, 
however,  the  timber  was  still  often  claimed  by  the  sovereign 
or  the  religious  houses,  it  operated  prejudicially  to  the 
occupiers,  who,  like  the  inhabitants  of  the  New  Forest,  took 
advantage  of  their  secluded  position,  regardless  of  the  law 
of  "  meum  and  tuum."  This  was  carried  to  such  an  extent, 
that  Archbishop  Winchelsea,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  II, 
obtained  a  special  commission  to  ascertain  what  timber  had 
been  wrongfully  cut  down,  and  carried  away  b}^  the  tenants, 
in  no  less  than  fifteen  places,  in  his  denes  held  of  the  manor 
of  Aldington,  which  included  Herendene  in  Tenterden,  where 
seventy-eight  oaks  and  beeches  had  been  carried  off.  His 
grace's  right  was  established,  and  verdicts  given  in  his 
favour. 

A  similar  claim  was  set  wp,  about  the  same  time,  by  the 
Prior  of  Christ  Church,  Canterbury,  in  respect  of  the  denes 


MANUFACTURE    OF    CLOTH — IRON— CINQUE   PORTS.  53 

in  Tenterden  belonging-  to  that  church,  and  held  of  the 
manor  of  Apj)ledore,  Brook,  and  Ickham,  which  ended  in  a 
composition  by  which  new  yearly  rents  were  charged,  as  a 
substitute  for  the  timber.  Still  the  boundaries  of  some  of 
the  denes  were  preserved,  by  treading  them,  as  late  as  the 
reign  of  Henry  VII. 

Until  the  fourteenth  century  Kent  does  not  appear  to 
have  acquired  any  reputation  for  its  wool ;  but  Edward  III 
ha-vdng  invited  the  industrious  Flemings  and  others  to  settle 
in  England,  as  weavers  and  clothworkers,  the  Weald  of  Kent 
was  fixed  upon  for  the  seat  of  the  manufacture  of  broad- 
cloths. Cranbrook  appears  to  have  been  its  centre  ;  and 
though  it  gave  employment  to  many,  and  laid  the  founda- 
tion of  modest  fortunes,  it  never  at  any  time  assumed  any 
very  large  proportions  in  this  locality.  The  interesting 
paper  on  this  subject,  read  by  Mr.  William  Tarbutt  at  Cran- 
brook, in  1873,  and  to  be  found  in  Vol.  IX  of  the  Archmo- 
logia  Cantiana,  renders  it  unnecessary  for  me  to  dwell  longer 
upon  it  now ;  though,  before  I  close  this  paper,  I  may  have 
occasion  to  refer  to  the  successful  career  of  the  family  of 
Skeetes,  who  were  at  a  later  period  engaged  in  this  pursuit. 
Then,  as  to  the  manufacture  of  iron,  I  do  not  find  any 
reference  to  furnaces  in  Tenterden,  similar  to  those  we  meet 
with  at  Biddenden  and  other  parts  of  the  Weald.  The 
grazing  of  Shirley  Moor,  and  Romney  Marsh,  conduced,  in 
my  opinion,  more  to  the  wealth  and  prosperity  of  Tenterden 
than  the  manufacture  of  either  iron  or  cloth. 

This  leads  me  to  an  important  period  of  its  history,  viz., 
the  severing  of  it  from  the  jurisdiction  of  the  County  and 
its  Seven  Hundreds,  and  the  transfer  of  it  to  the  Cinque 
Ports,  as  a  limb  of  Eye ;  this  was  done  by  Henry  VI,  by 
letters  patent,  which  recite  that  the  barons  and  trusty  men 
of  the  Cinque  Ports,  in  return  for  the  privileges  they  enjoyed 
by  charters,  granted  to  them  by  former  Kings  of  England, 
were  bound  to  find  fifty-nine  ships  at  their  own  charges 
every  year  for  fifteen  days  at  the  summons  of  the  sovereign. 
That  the  town  of  Rye  was  one  of  its  most  ancient  ports, 
where  the  entry  of  enemies  and  rebels  into  the  kingdom  of 
England  frequently  happened.     That  not  only  the  property 


64)  TUE    UISTORY    OF   TENTERDEN. 

in  Rye  was  so  reduced  in  value,  but  also  its  inhabitants  were 
so  impoverished,  that  neither  the  town  nor  its  barons  and 
trusty  men  could  find  and  provide  their  quota  of  such  navy 
as  they  ought  to  do.  The  King  therefore  granted  to  the 
Mayor  and  Barons  of  Rye,  and  "  to  the  inhabitants  and 
tenants  resident  and  not  resident  in  the  Town  and  Hundred 
of  Tenterden,  that  they  should  be  of  one  Bailiff  and  Com- 
monalty of  the  same  Town  and  Hundred  of  Tenterden, 
perpetual  and  corporate  for  ever,  and  be  a  body  corporate 
by  the  name  of  the  Bailiff  and  Commonalty  of  Tenterden." 
Then  follow  directions  for  the  election  of  the  bailiff,  and 
for  the  holding  of  courts  fortnightly,  according  to  the 
custom  of  the  Cinque  Ports.  Also  the  exemption  of  the 
inhabitants  from  the  tolls,  levies,  and  burdens  of  the  shire 
and  hundred,  and  from  attending  the  Shire  Courts  at 
Penenden  Heath,  the  Hundi'ed  Courts  of  the  Seven  Hun- 
dreds, and  before  Justices  in  Eyre  and  Commissioners  of 
Sewers ;  and  a  command  that  the  Bailiff  and  Commonalty 
of  Tenterden  should  contribute  with  the  Barons,  each 
according  to  his  means,  to  the  service  of  ships  for 
the  many  when  required  so  to  do.  And  that  all  pleadings 
should  be  in  the  court  before  the  Bailiff  of  Tenterden,  or  in 
the  court  of  the  Cinque  Ports  called  Shipway. 

Rye  was  no  doubt  glad  to  be  relieved  of  a  portion  of  its 
burdens,  by  its  more  prosperous  neighbour  Tenterden. 
Later  on  (8  Henry  VII),  a  composition  was  entered  into 
between  the  two  towns  for  apportioning  the  services  to  be 
rendered,  and  the  payments  to  be  made  by  each.  The  next 
corporate  change,  at  Tenterden,  took  place  in  the  reign  of 
Queen  Elizabeth,  when  that  sovereign  added  to  its  import- 
ance by  substituting  a  Mayor  for  a  Bailiff ;  and  from  that 
time  until  the  passing  of  the  Municij)al  Corporations  Act,  its 
corporation  under  the  charter  of  Queen  Elizabeth  was  styled, 
"  The  Mayor,  Jurats,  and  Commons  of  the  Town  and  Hundred 
of  Tenterden  "  (which  included  part  of  Ebony),  John  Hales 
being  its  first  Mayor.  The  maces  and  seals  of  the  Corpora- 
tion should  be  inspected.  There  is  a  bailiff's  seal  (brass),  also 
two  mayor's  seals  (one  silver  and  the  other  brass).  The 
Corporate  seal  is  an  elaborate  one,  and  bears  the  arms  of 


REGISTERS — ROYAL  VISITS — SCHOOL — SMALLHYTHE.  55 

the  Cinque  Ports,  and  a  figure  of  St.  Mildred  with  a  coronet, 
also  a  shield  with  the  family  arms  (as  Boys  supposed)  of  the 
Pitlesden  family,  who  presented  the  seal  to  the  Corporation. 

The  Parish  Registers  date  from  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII 
(1544),  and  appear  to  have  been  re-copied  in  the  reign  of 
Elizabeth  (1599). 

When  Henry  VIII  became  enamoured  of  the  gay  and 
accomplished  Ann  Boleyn,  he  paid  frequent  visits  to  Hever 
Castle,  and  on  one  occasion  he  visited  Tenterden.  During 
his  reign  "  a  marvellous,  abominable,  and  seditious  sermon  " 
was  preached  in  Tenterden  upon  one  Easter  Wednesday, 
and  an  information  was  laid  by  certain  of  the  inhabitants 
and  presented  to  the  Privy  Council,  who  gave  directions  for 
the  arrest  of  the  priest.  This  sermon  was  possibly  against 
the  supremacy  of  the  King.  I  have  been  unable  to  trace  any 
more  about  either  the  priest  or  the  sermon. 

On  the  2nd  of  May,  1511,  six  men  and  four  women  (most 
of  them  from  Tenterden)  appeared  before  Archbishop 
Warham  at  Knole,  and  abjured  their  errors,  ten  in  number ; 
and  later  in  the  day  two  other  inhabitants  did  the  same. 
By  way  of  penance,  the  Archbishop  enjoined  them  to  wear 
on  their  clothes,  until  dispensed  Avith,  the  badge  of  a  fagot 
in  flames,  and  in  procession  at  their  own  parish  church,  and 
in  the  Cathedral  at  Canterbury,  they  were  directed  to  carry 
a  fagot  on  their  shoulders,  as  a  public  confession  that  they 
deserved  burning. 

A  Free  Grammar  School  was  founded  here,  by  an  ancestor 
of  Sir  Henry  Heyman,  which  was  endowed  by  the  Rev. 
William  Marshall  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII,  and  subse- 
quently by  John  Mantel.  The  income  of  these  endowments 
is  now  applied  towards  the  support  of  the  ISTational  School. 

Halden  Park  at  this  time  belonged  to  Sir  Edward  Guide- 
ford,  and  was  enlarged  by  the  enclosure  of  some  adjoining- 
lands  in  Tenterden.  Lambarde  returns  it  as  disparked  in 
his  time. 

I  must  say  a  few  words  about  Smallhythe  and  its  chapel, 
situate  within  the  borough  of  Dumborne,  in  the  southern 
extremity  of  Tenterden,  near  the  Rother.  Like  Tenterden 
Church,  we  have  no  reliable  authority  as  to  when  and  by 


56  TUE    UISTOllY   OF   TENTERDllN. 

wlioui  this  chapel  was  built.  Kilburne  says  it  is  supposed  to 
have  been  founded  by  one  Sheplierde.  It  was  possibly  erected 
for  the  accommodation  of  the  inhabitants  there,  who  had  to 
keep  it  in  rej)air.  We  are  told  that  the  upper  part  of  the 
road  leadinj^  from  Tenterdeu  to  Smallhythe  was  known  as 
Broad-Tenterden^  and  at  one  time  formed  the  most  populous 
part  of  it.  This  chapel  \vas  dedicated  to  St.  John  the 
Baptist,  and  licensed  by  a  faculty  from  Archbishop  Warham 
(May  5, 1509),  on  the  petition  of  the  inhabitants,  on  account 
of  the  distance  from  the  parish  church,  the  badness  of  the 
roads,  and  periodical  floods.  In  this  faculty  (on  the  eve  of 
the  Reformation)  there  is  a  grant  of  forty  days'  indulgence 
to  all  who  should  contribute  towards  the  support  of  the 
chapel  and  chaplain.  The  right  to  present  to  it  was  at 
first  vested  in  the  Vicar  of  Tenterden,  but  it  is  now  enjoyed 
by  the  householders  of  Dumborne.  The  chaplain  (now 
incumbent)  is  maintained  by  the  rent  arising  from  a  small 
farm,  and  in  bygone  times  a  room  was  erected  over  the 
farmhouse  for  his  residence.  There  appears  to  have  been  a 
haven  at  one  time  at  Smallhytlie,  for  we  find  a  precept  from 
Edward  III  to  the  bailiff  complaining  that  the  masters  and 
mariners  of  shij^s  coming  there  cast  the  lastage  of  their 
vessels  into  the  port,  whereby  the  passage  had  become 
so  narrow  that  ships  could  not  enter.  The  sea  came 
up  here  as  late  as  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII ;  as  a  faculty  was 
granted,  in  1509,  to  bury  in  the  ancient  chapel  yard  at 
Smallhythe  the  bodies  of  those  who  were  cast  by  shij)wreck 
on  the  sea-shore. 

Amongst  the  few  records  possessed  by  the  Corporation,  is 
a  minute  book,  in  which  passing  events  appear  to  have  been 
entered  in  chronological  order.  Here  we  find  this  entry : 
"6  Henry  VIII  [a.d.  1514-5],  the  which  year  Smalithe  was 
burnt  on  the  last  day  of  July."  Did  the  fire  include  the 
chapel,  which  had  only  been  erected  six  years  ?  About  thirty- 
five  years  after  the  fire,  and  in  the  reign  of  Edward  VI,  inter- 
rogatories were  issued  (which  may  be  seen  amongst  the 
papers  of  the  Court  of  Augmentation)  to  ascertain  whether 
this  was  a  chapel  of  ease  or  not,  its  distance  from  Tenterden, 
and  other  particulars. 


SMALLHYTHE    CHURCH.  57 

About  ten  witnesses  were  examined,  and  tlie  result  of 
their  evidence  may  be  thus  summed  up  : — 

They  all  agreed  that  it  was  not  a  chapel  of  ease.  Accord- 
ing- to  one  witness,  there  were  then  sixty  "houseling  people" 
in  the  hamlet,  eighty  according  to  another,  and  100  accord- 
to  a  third.  That  there  was  no  haven  there,  save  only  a  creek 
of  salt  water,  frequented  only  by  lighters  to  fetch  wood ; 
though  a  little  pinnace  of  the  King's  had  been  brought  there 
to  be  repaired  {thus  connecting  Tenterden  with  the  Cinque  Ports 
and  Royal  Navy).  That  mass  had  been  said  in  the  chapel  for 
the  last  two  years  by  one  Peter  Hall ;  and  no  other  sacra- 
ments administered  but  mass,  matins,  even  song,  holy-bread, 
and  holy- water,  all  which  was  done  with  the  license  of  the 
vicar ;  that  lands  called  chapel  lands,  including  a  mortuary- 
garden,  had  been  left  for  the  support  of  a  priest. 

Within  a  few  months  of  this  inquiry,  I  find  amongst 
the  particulars  for  grants,  one  to  two  brothers,  Robert  and 
John  King,  of  London,  merchant  tailors,  of  "  the  late  free 
chapel  called  Smallhythe,"  then  vacant.  "  The  lead,  lights, 
and  advowson  excepted."  This  sale  appears  to  have  been 
effected  about  the  time  the  chantries  were  sold,  but  I  am 
rather  in  a  fog  as  to  this.  If  it  was,  then  it  is  obvious  that 
a  fresh  trust  must  have  been  created,  based  on  the  principles 
of  the  Reformed  Church.  It  is  now  a  separate  ecclesiastical 
district, 

I  must  hasten  on ;  the  threatened  invasion  during  the 
reign  of  Elizabeth,  first  by  the  Roman  Catholics,  with  the 
sanction  of  Pope  Pius  V,  with  a  view  to  overthrow  the 
Queen's  government,  and  afterwards  by  the  Spaniards,  led 
to  the  mustering,  arming,  and  training  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Tenterden,  as  a  limb  of  the  Cinque  Ports,  and  they  had  to 
provide  twenty-four  men  and  four  horses.  A  beacon  or  fire 
signal  was  hung  at  the  top  of  the  church,  on  a  pole  eight 
feet  long.  It  resembled  an  iron  kettle.  Watchmen  were 
stationed  near  it  at  night,  while  during  the  day  a  light  horse- 
man, called  an  hobiler,  was  in  readiness  to  communicate  with 
Cranbrook  and  the  neighbouring  stations.  Muster  rolls 
were  also  preserved,  of  the  trained  bands  of  the  town  and 
hundred. 


58  THE    HISTORY   OF   TENTERDEN. 

The  Corporation  minute  book,  wlien  recording  the  visit 
of  Queen  Elizabeth  at  Bartholomew-tide  in  1571-2  to  Rye, 

Hempsted,  and  Sissiughurst,  makes  no  mention  of  Tenterden. 
Her  Majesty  visited  the  Weald  on  two  or  three  occasions, 
since  which  time  royal  visits  here  have  been  few  and  far 
between. 

At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  a  landing  of  the  sup- 
porters of  Charles  I  took  place  at  Rye  (a.d.  1642),  and  orders 
were  issued  by  the  Parliament  to  intercept  and  seize  the 
horses  of  all  "  malignants"  that  might  be  found  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood ;  but  the  great  Kentish  rising  did  not  take  place 
until  1C48. 

The  surveys  of  Crown  lands,  and  possessions  of  the 
Church,  which  were  ordered  by  the  Commonwealth  to  be  made 
with  a  view  to  a  sale,  included  "  the  Seven  Hundreds  "  (now 
the  property  of  Viscount  Cranbrook),  and  the  rectory  of  Ten- 
terden, let  on  lease  to  Sir  Edward  Hales,  Bart.  Amongst  the 
royalists  whose  estates  at  Tenterden  were  sequestered,  and 
who  were  heavily  mulct  for  their  loyalty,  were  those  of  the 
Colepepers,  the  Guldefords,  the  Argalls,  Sir  Peter  Richards, 
and  Sir  Robert  Pointz. 

The  manors  of  Morgue  and  Godden  were  still  held 
together,  and  had  passed  from  an  Essex  family  named  Argall 
(who  held  at  this  time  Kenchill)  to  Sir  John  Colepeper. 
The  Parliamentary  Commissioners  sold  Sir  John's  interest  in 
Morgue  and  Godden  to  his  relative  Sir  Cheney  Colepeper, 
and  an  interest  attaches  to  the  notice  in  these  Parliamentary 
papers  of  a  breach  of  the  sea,  whereby  156  acres  of  the 
Morgue  lands  were  returned  as  "  drowned  lands,"  since 
the  breaking  in  of  the  sea  in  Wittersham  level ;  and  that  in 
four  .years  (1644  to  1648)  the  water  scots  in  the  Morgue  and 
Gatesden  lands  amounted  to  £1025,  and  there  was  but  little 
hope  of  their  returning  to  their  former  value,  without  great 
care  and  expense.  The  Parliamentary  Commissioners,  how- 
ever, declined  to  make  any  allowance  for  these  heavy  scots, 
and  the  fine  was  assessed  at  £200. 

Within  two  months  of  the  restoration  of  Charles  II  (19 
March,  1660)  Tenterden  Court  Hall  was  burnt  down,  and 
the  Corporation  chest  with  its  charters  and  ancient  docu- 


THE    SKEETS — SLAVERY.  59 

ments  were  destroyed.  An  exemplification  of  the  charters 
was  obtained  in  the  reign  of  George  III. 

I  promised  before  I  closed  this  paper  to  refer  to  the 
Skeets  family,  who  were  influential  clothiers  in  Tenterden 
during  the  seventeenth  century,  and  carried  on  business  for 
three  generations  at  Westcross.  By  the  kindness  of  the 
widow  of  the  late  Mr.  Talbot,  formerly  of  Tenterden,  I  have 
seen  the  lecture  he  delivered  and  the  memorandum  he  made 
respecting  this  family.  James  Skeets  was  Mayor  of  Tenterden 
in  1643,  and  on  two  other  occasions.  There  are  entries  in 
old  waste  books  shewing  the  extent  of  the  business  he  carried 
on.  The  factory  business  was  not  then  known,  and  the 
making  of  cloth  was  a  domestic  employment.  John  Tylden 
was  another  influential  clothier  at  that  time  at  Tenterden, 
and  carried  on  business  as  you  enter  Tenterden  from  Cran- 
brook.  The  cloth  made  was  despatched  to  London,  and  to 
the  neighbouring  fairs.  Most  of  the  leading  clothiers  were 
also  graziers  ;  the  Skeets  held  Morgue  under  the  Colepepers. 
The  leading  shopkeeper  at  this  time  was  Susan  Butler ;  she 
was  a  general  dealer,  and  had  a  well-stocked  shop. 

By  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  century  the  manufacture  of 
iron  and  cloth  in  the  Weald  had  ceased ;  the  former  trade 
was  transferred  to  Merthyr  Tydvil,  Aberdare,  etc.,  and  the 
latter  to  Leeds,  Bradford,  etc. ;  and  as  to  the  land,  its 
original  and  peculiar  tenures  had  been  converted  or 
abolished. 

From  its  earliest  history  we  rarely  meet  with  personal 
servitude  in  this  locality,  and  when  we  do  it  is  of  the  mildest 
form ;  the  reason  is  obvious.  It  was  first  known  as  a  forest, 
and  it  was  the  last  portion  of  the  shire  that  was  brought 
into  cultivation,  and  this  was  effected  when  civilization  was 
making  rapid  advances,  when 

"  Custom  in  Kent,  encouraging  the  brave, 
Distinguished  well  the  brother  from  the  slave." 

The  inhabitants  of  the  Weald  were  amongst  the  earliest 
and  foremost  to  expose  the  errors  of  the  Eomish  Church, 
notwithstanding  the  sanguinary  laws  passed  against  the  Lol- 
lards ;  and  with  the  aid  of  the  Flemish  clothiers,  they  fostered 


GO  THE    HISTOllY    OF   TENTERDEN. 

the  Reformation.  Zeal  sometimes  carried  them  beyond  discre- 
tion, for  amongst  the  prominent  leaders  of  Wat  Tyler's 
rebellion  were  men  from  Tenterden  and  Smallhytlie.  Richard 
Owen  of  Tenterden  was  one  of  those  who  were  excepted  from 
the  general  pardon  ;  and  as  might  be  expected,  this  district 
supplied  its  full  quota  of  the  followers  of  Jack  Cade. 

In  Archbishop  Laud's  return  to  Charles  I  of  the  state  of 
his  diocese,  under  Tenterden  he  says  : — "  There  are  some  re- 
fractory people  here,  but,  by  the  aid  of  the  archdeacon,  I 
hope  to  keep  them  in  order." 

Though  I  have  not  nearly  exhausted  my  subject,  I  fear  I 
have  exhausted  your  patience.  I  have  given  you,  from  the 
best  materials  I  could  collect,  a  hasty  sketch  of  Tenterden  in 
bygone  times,  and  I  have  only  to  express  my  hope  that 
modern  Tenterden  may  be  prosperous,  and  its  inhabitants 
happy.  A  few  years  ago  it  gave  a  title  to  Charles  Abbot,  a 
native  of  Canterbury  and  Chief  Justice  of  England,  created 
Lord  Tenterden  in  the  year  1827  ;  and  as  an  incentive  to  the 
rising  generation,  I  will  conclude  in  the  words  of  a  late  dis- 
tinguished member  of  our  Society  : — "  Lord  Tenterden's 
career  will  prove  to  future  generations  that  in  England  the 
most  lowly  born  may  attain  the  highest  honours  by  the 
exercise  of  industry,  application,  patience,  and  intelligence." 


(     61    ) 


BRIEF  NOTES  ON  THE  HALES  FAMILY. 

BY   THE    KEY.    R.    COX    HALES,    M.A. 

AcconDiNG  to  the  most  reliable  information  which 
I  have  been  able  to  obtain,  the  original  ancestor  of  the 
family  was  Tonne,  Lord  of  Hale  and  Luceby,  in  the 
time  of  Edward  the  Confessor.  Among  his  descend- 
ants there  is  no  one  calling  for  particular  notice  till 
we  come  to  Sir  Robert  de  Hales,  Prior  of  the  Hospital 
of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  in  England,  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  III ;  Admiral  of  the  King's  Fleet,  and 
Treasurer  of  the  King's  Exchequer,  in  the  fourth 
year  of  Richard  II.  The  hard  fate  which  befell  him 
is  well  known.  During  the  rebellion  of  Wat  Tyler, 
when  the  King,  who  had  previously  been  fortified  in 
the  Tower,  was  induced  to  go  out  and  meet  the  insur- 
gents, the  rebels  broke  into  the  fortress  and  pillaged 
it;  beheading  Sudbury,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  (who 
had  abused  them  as  "shoeless  ribalds,")  Sir  Robert  de 
Hales,  the  Treasurer,  and  others  whom  they  found 
there. 

Sir  Robert  de  Hales  appears  to  have  died  childless, 
and  the  family  was  represented  by  his  brother.  Sir 
Nicholas  Hales,  whose  grandson,  John  Hales,  built 
Hales  Place,  Tenterden.  Among  his  descendants  was 
Sir  Christopher  Hales,  Attorney- General  and  Master 
of  the  Rolls,  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII ;  he  died 
in  1542. 

Thomas  Hales,  brother  of    the    above-mentioned 


62  BRIEF    NOTES   ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY. 

John  Hales,  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Coventry  hranch 
of  tlic  family.*     Ilis   descendant,   John  Hales,  was 


*  Nicholas  rialcs.T=  .  .  . 


I  I 

Sir  Robert,  Knt.  of  St.  John  Sir  Nicholas.=f 

of  Jerusalem,  o.  s.p.  | 


Thomas  (of  Halden).= 


1.  John.=p  ...  3.  Henry.  2.  Thomas.^ 

^1  M/  

A  quo  I 


Henry,  of  Ten-=pJuliana  Capell  Thomas,  of  James; 

terden.  I  of  Tenterden.  Romford. 


r 


I  I  I 

Thomas.^f^Elizabeth  John.=p  .  .  .  John,  Alderman  of=p 

I  Cawnton.  I  Canterbury.  I 


I  I 

Sir  Christopher,  Master  of=p  .  .  .  John,  Baron  of  the=f=Elizabeth 

the  Rolls,  ob.  15i2.  I  Exchequer.  Harry. 


Ill  I 

3  daughters.  1.  Sir  James  (of  the  Dun-=^  .  .  .  dau.  &  heir 

geon),  a  Justice  of  the        of  Thos.  Hales  of 
Common  Pleas.  Henley. 


Humphry .=T=  .  .  .  Atwater. 


I  I  I 

Mildred.=Johu  Honywood  2.  Thomas.        3.  Edward,  of=pMargaret 

of  Seen.  \|/  Tenterden.    |  Honeywood. 

A  quo  \|/ 

the  baronets  of  A  quo 

Bekesbourne.  the  baronets  of  Wood- 

church,  Tunstall,  and 
St.  Stephens. 


I 

Thomas.: 


Thomas  of  Halden,=p 
ob.  at  Canterbury.     I 


1.  John.        2.  Sir  Christopher       3.  Bartholomew.        4.  John.        5.  Stephen, 
of  Coventry. 


BKIEF   NOTES    ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY.  63 

created  a  baronet  25  Aug.  1660.  This  branch  of  the 
family  being,  as  I  believe,  quite  extinct ;  and  having, 
moreover,  no  particular  connection  with  Kent,  I  here 
leave,  and  go  on  to  the  Woodchurch  and  Bekes- 
bourne  branches. 

Sir  John  Hales,  great-grandson  of  the  original 
builder  of  Hales  Place,  was  a  baron  of  the  Exchequer, 
and  lived  at  the  Dungeon — now  the  Dane  John — 
Canterbury. 

His  second  son,  Thomas  Hales,  of  Thanington,  and 
his  third  son,  Edward  Hales,  of  Tenterden,  were  the 
ancestors  of  the  Bekesbourne  and  Woodchurch 
branches  respectively. 

Sir  Eobert  Hales,  great-grandson  of  Thomas  Hales, 
of  Thanington,  was  created  a  baronet  12  July  1660. 
His  descendants  are  all  extinct,  so  I  will  leave  this 
branch  also ;  although  there  were  several  persons  of 
note  among  this  family,  one  of  whom  was  Stephen 
.Hales,  well  known  for  his  researches  and  experiments 
on  plants.  Liebig  says,  "  They  remain  to  this  day  as 
a  pattern  of  an  excellent  method,  and  are  unsurpassed 
in  the  domain  of  vegetable  physiology." 

I  proceed,  then,  with  the  ancestry  of  the  first  Sir 
Edward  Hales,  of  "Woodchurch. 

Edward  Hales,  the  third  son  of  Baron  Hales,  was 
married  to  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Honeywood, 
of  Seen,  by  whom  he  had  a  numerous  family.  His 
two  eldest  sons  (namely,  John  Hales,  who  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Eobert  Home,  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester ;  and  Edward  Hales,  of  Chilham,  who  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Stephen  Eord,  of  Tenterden)  having 
both  died  issueless,  his  third  son,  William  Hales,  of 
Tenterden,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Paul 
Johnson,  of  Eordwich,  became  his  heir. 


Gl 


BRIEF  NOTES  ON  THE  HALES  FAMILY. 


There  were  also  two  daughters,  Jane  and  Eliza- 
beth ;  married,  respectively,  to  Sir  Thomas  Honey- 
wood,  of  Elmstead,  and  William  Austen,  of  Tenterden. 

William  Hales,  of  Tenterden,  had  by  his  wife 
Elizabeth  three  sons,  Edward  (of  whom  presently) ; 
William  of  Bowley  and  Chilston;  and  Richard  of 
Hunsdon.    The  pedigree  will  be  found  on  pages  75-77. 

Sir  Edward  Hales,*  Knt.,  the  eldest  son  of  William 
and  Elizabeth  Hales,  of  Tenterden,  was  created  a 
baronet  29  June  1611.     He  married,  firstly,  Deborah, 


Sir  Jiis.  Orowmcr.=f^jMartha  Care\v.:=*Sij'  Edward  Hales,^Deborah  Har 
I  1st  bart.,  ob.  165i.     lackcndcn. 


Christian  =T=Sir  John  Hales, 
Crowmcr.  I  Knt.,  o.  v.p. 


Samuel,  ob.=pMartha  Heron- 
1G38.  I  den. 


Sir  Edward,=pAunc,  dau.  &  cob. 


2nd  bart. 


of  Thos.  Lord 
Wotton. 


Edward.^Elizabeth,  dau. 
j  of  Sir  John 
I  Evelyn. 


I    I    I 
Christiana. 

Deborah . 

Martha. 


Sir   Edward-rFrances    John. 


(Earl  of  Ten- 
terden), ob. 
169.-). 


Winde-        — 
bank.        Charles. 

Thomas. 


II  II 

Ed\Yard,      Thorn  asinc.=pGerard  Elizabeth, 
o.  s.p.                               I  Gore.  — 

\|/  Frances. 


Edward,  killed  at         Helen  Bagnal.=i=Sir  John  (4th=f:Mary  Bealing         Other 
battle  of  Boyne.  I  bart.),ob.l7-J4.  I  (1st  wife).  issue. 


0.  s.p. 


Edward,=^Ann  Bulstrode. 
0.  v.p.       I 


Frances. 


Mrs.  Palmer.=Sir  Edward=j=Barbara,  dau.  &heir    Ann. 


(.5th  bart.), 
ob.  1802. 


of  Sir  John  Webb        — 
(1st  wife).  Barbara. 


Mary.T=  .  .  .  De 
Morlain- 
court. 


Sir  Edward  (last  bart.).=Lucy  Darell. 
ob.  1829,  s.p. 


Mary  Barbara  F^licit^  Hales. 


vSiR  EDWAMi^  Hales, 


BRIEF    NOTES    ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY.  65 

daughter  and  heiress  of  Martin  Harlackenden,  of 
Woodchurch,  in  the  county  of  Kent.  At  the  time  of 
her  father's  death  she  Avas  aged  only  one  year  and 
three  months ;  consequently  it  may  be  presumed  that 
there  were  great  accumulations  during  her  minority. 
By  this  marriage,  Sir  Edward  acquired  the  Wood- 
church  estates  and  was  styled  "  Lord  of  Woodchurch." 
He  married,  secondly,  Martha,  daughter  of  Sir 
Matthew  Carew,  and  relict  of  Sir  James  Cromer, 
Knt.,  of  Tunstall,  Kent.  By  his  first  marriage  Sir 
Edward  had  two  sons,  both  of  whom  predeceased  him. 
Sir  John  Hales,  Knt.,  the  elder  son,  married  Chris- 
tiana, daughter  of  Sir  James  Cromer,  Knt.,  of 
Tunstall.  By  these  three  marriages  the  father  and 
son  acquired,  in  addition  to  their  Tenterden  property, 
very  considerable  estates  at  Woodchurch  and  Tunstall, 
and  to  them  might  be  applied — parvis  componere 
magna — the  well-known  distich  respecting  the  Haps- 
burgs : 

"  Bella  geraut  alii  tu  felix  Austria  niibe." 

Their  great  possessions  were;  however,  dissipated 
in  the  wars  of  the  Stuarts,  as  the  sequel  will  prove. 

Sir  Edward  Hales  had  bv  his  first  marriasre  a 
second  son,  Samuel  Hales,  for  whom  Sir  Edward 
purchased  the  lands  of  his  younger  brother,  William 
Hales,  of  Bowley  and  Chilston. 

Samuel  Hales  married  Martha,  daughter  of 
Stephen  Heronden,  of  Staple  Inn,  Middlesex;  who 
was,  I  believe,  of  an  old  Kentish  family,  formerly 
seated  at  Benenden  and  Biddenden.  At  his  death 
Samuel  Hales  was  seised  of  lands  in  the  parishes  of 
Preston,  Luddenham,  Davington,  Eaversham,  and 
Owre  in  Kent.  He  died  at  Davington,  13  June 
1638,   and  left  behind  him  a  son  and  heir,  Edward 

VOL.    XIV.  F 


66  BllIEF   NOTES   ON    THE    HALES   FAMILY. 

Ilalcs,  (who  was  aged  eight  years,  one  month,  and 
twenty-eig-lit  days  at  his  father's  death,)  and  also  three 
daugliters,  Christiana,  Deborah,  and  Martha. 

This  Edward  Hales,  who  is  generally  called  Edward 
Hales  of  Chilston,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
John  Evelyn,  of  Lee  Place,  Godstone,  M.P.  for 
Bletchingley.  By  this  marriage  lie  had  a  son,  Edward, 
and  three  daughters,  Thomasine,  Elizabeth,  and 
Erances.  Thomasine  married  Gerard  Gore,  Esq.,  of 
Tunstall,  and  an  inscription  to  her  memory  may  be 
seen  in  Tunstall  Church.  Edward,  the  only  surviving 
son,  died  issueless,  and  then  the  line  became  extinct. 
His  widowed  mother,  Elizabeth,  and  her  three  'daugh- 
ters all  joined,  28  Jan.  1698,  in  a  deed  of  sale  where- 
by the  estates  were  diverted  from  the  family. 

I  may  note,  in  passing,  that  the  branch  of  the 
Evelyns  into  which  Edward  Hales  married,  seems,  like 
the  Hales'  to  have  dissipated  their  family  property. 
The  two  families  lived  in  great  intimacy  with  each 
other;  some  of  the  children  of  Edward  Hales  and 
Elizabeth  Evelyn  were  baptized  at  Godstone,  as  the 
registers  shew ;  while  only  one  son,  Edward,  was 
baptized  at  Boughton  Malherbe.  Sir  John  Evelyn, 
Knt.,  by  his  will,  dated  20  April  1663,  amongst  other 
gifts,  devises  as  follows  : — 

"  To  my  good  son-in-law,  Edward  Hayles  (sic)  of 
Boughton  Malherb,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  Esquire, 
£40  for  piourning  for  himself  and  wife."  This  I  sup- 
pose was  all  he  could  afford.  The  money  spent  on 
elections,  and  the  civil  wars,  had  doubtless  reduced 
his  exchequer. 

The  celebrated  Evelyn,  author  of  "  Silva,"  appears 
to  have  visited  Chilston  in  1666.  In  his  Diary  (Bray's 
Edition)  he  says  : — 


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May  8,  1666.  ''Went  to  visit  my  cousin  Hales  at 
a  sweetly  watered  place  at  Chilston,  near  Bocton." 
As  Edward  Hales,  the  son  and  heir,  was  baptized  20 
March  1666,  there  probably  were  great  rejoicings  and 
festivities  about  this  period,  whereat  so  noted  a  per- 
son as  Evelyn  of  Sayes  Court  would  undoubtedly  be 
exceedingly  weJcome.  That  he  was  upon  very  inti- 
mate terms  with  Edward  Hales  is  pretty  clear.  I  may 
here  introduce  an  extract  from  the  "  Book  of  Ex- 
pences  "  kept  by  George  Glanville,  Esq.,  brother-in-law 

of  the  author  of  "  Silva  :"— 

£     s.    d. 

April  2.  169^.  Pajd  for  going  to  see  my  cousin  Hales...  00  02  00 

July    4.  169f .  Frank,  servant  to  Chilson  05  00  00 

Aug.  14.  Spent  in  my  journey  to  Cbilson  03  14     0 

Given  to  Mary    00  02     6 

Givento  James 00  01     0 

Oct.  21.  Kent,  the  liousekeeper's  journey  to  Chilson  ...  00  10     9 

Dec.    1.  Frank  charges  from  Chilson 10  00     0 

1694. 

Nov.    9.  Sir  Tho^  Hales' man  00     2     6 

1694-5. 

Jan.  3.     Betty  Hales' silk  stockins 00  12     0 

Father  Hales' tobacco  00  04     0 

Jan.  17.  Mr.  Hales' man  for  venison 0     5     0 

Feb.    8.  Sir  Tho«  Hales' man  0     10 

Mar.  25.  Sir  Tho«  Hales' man 0     16 

June     .  Sir  T.  H.  Gardiners  0     2     0 

When  the  hospitable  owner  of  Chilston  died,  so 
profusely  hospitable  as  to  leave  his  family  in  difficul- 
ties, I  do  not  exactly  know,  but  it  was  evidently  about 
1697.  Here  I  must  leave  them,  and  go  on  to  speak 
more  minutely  respecting  the  baronet's  family. 

The  old  Sir  Edward  Hales,  like  many  grandfathers, 
seems  to  have  been  somewhat  jealous  of  the  young 
heir  who  was  to  succeed  him  ;  and  not  the  less  so  from 
the  contrariety  of  their  opinions.     Let  us  transport 

F  2 


68      BRIEF  NOTES  ON  THE  HALES  FAMILY. 

ourselves  hack  to  the  year  1618,  when  King  Charles  I 
was  a  prisoner  in  Carishrook  Castle.  Young  Edward 
Hales,  who  had  married  Lady  Anne,  daughter  of 
Lord  Wotton,  seems  upon  a  sudden  impulse  to  have 
taken  up  the  cause  of  the  King ;  his  vanity  heing  flat- 
tered hy  an  idea  of  the  great  results  likely  to  follow 
from  his  doing  so. 

Referring  to  the  trustworthy  statements  of  Claren- 
don, we  find  (vol.  vi.)  that  there  were  at  this  time 
some  commotions  in  Kent,  and  one  Mr.  L'Estrange, 
who  had  heen  taken  prisoner  hy  the  Parliament,  and 
hy  a  court  of  law  condemned  to  die,  contrived  to  in- 
gratiate himself  with  the  weak  young  Edward  Hales. 
L'Estrange  had  heen  set  at  liberty  at  the  end  of 
the  war,  as  one  no  longer  dangerous ;  but  he  re- 
tained his  old  affection,  and  more  remembered 
the  cruel  usage  he  had  received  than  the  fact 
that  he  had  got  off  scot-free.  "  He  had,"  says 
Clarendon,  "  a  great  friendship  with  a  young  gentle- 
man, Mr.  Hales,  who  lived  in  Kent,  and  was  married 
to  a  lady  of  noble  birth  and  fortune,  he  being  heir  to 
one  of  the  greatest  fortunes  in  that  country ;  but  was 
to  expect  the  inheritance  from  an  old  severe  grand- 
father, who  for  the  present  kept  the  young  couple 
from  running  into  any  excess.  The  mother  of  the 
lady  being  of  as  strict  and  sour  a  nature  as  the  grand- 
father, and  both  of  them  so  much  of  the  Parliament 
party  that  they  were  not  willing  that  any  part  of  their 
estates   should   be  hazarded  for  the   King.     At  the 

house  of  this  Mr.  Hales,  L'Estrange  was 

when  the  report  did  first  arise  that  the  fleet  would 
presently  declare  for  the  King,  and  those  seamen  who 
came  on  shore  talked  as  if  the  City  of  London  would 
join  with  them.     This  di'ew  many  gentlemen  of  the 


From  tHa'p  OTieliM-al  at  Sir  E-rllw  ^  Hsiil.p3  laear  i'siiiiterlhiuiy, 
lublished  ly  Edward  Jeffhiy.  FaU  Ma.ll.182b . 


BRIEF  NOTES  ON  THE  HALES  FAMILY.      69 

country  to  visit  the  ships,  and  they  returned  more 
confirmed  of  the  truth  of  what  they  had  heard.  Good 
felloAvship  was  a  vice  generally  S23read  over  that  coun- 
try, and  this  young  great  heir,  who  had  been  always 
bred  amongst  his  neighbours,  affected  that  which  they 
were  best  pleased  with,  and  so  his  house  became  a 
rendezvous  for  those  who  delighted  in  that  exercise 

and  all  men's  mouths  were  full  of  the 

general  hatred  which  the  whole  kingdom  had  against 
the  Parliament  and  the  army." 

Mr.  L'Estrange  observed,  by  the  good  company 
that  came  to  the  house,  that  the  affections  of  many  in 
that  large  and  populous  country  were  for  the  King. 
So  he  began  to  tell  Mr.  Hales  that  though  his  grand- 
father did  in  his  heart  wish  the  King  well,  yet  his  car- 
riage had  been  such,  in  conjunction  with  the  Parlia- 
ment, that  he  had  more  need  of  the  King's  favour  than 
of  his  grandfather's  to  be  heir  of  that  great  estate  ; 
and  that  certainly  nothing  could  be  more  acceptable 
to  his  grandfather,  or  more  glorious  to  him,  than  to  be 
the  instrument  of  both ;  and  therefore  advised  him  to 
put  himself  at  the  head  of  his  own  country,  which 
would  willingly  be  led  by  him,  and  that  so  doing  he 
should  have  a  great  share  in  the  honour  of  restoring 
the  King. 

The  weak  young  man  fell  into  the  snare,  and  being 
seconded  by  his  wife  and  by  the  company  that  fre- 
quented the  liouse,  he  took  up  an  enormous  sum  of 
money,  £80,000,  (and  we  must  remember  what  £80,000 
must  have  been  in  those  days,)  in  order  to  defray  the 
expenses  of  raising  a  Kentish  army.  The  extraordinary 
thing  was  his  delivering  himself  blindly  to  the  counsels 
of  L'Estrange;  and,  as  Clarendon  here  well  remarks, 
"  the  young  gentleman  had  not  been  enough  conver- 


70  BRIEF    NOTES   ON    THE    HALKS    FAMILY. 

sant  with  the  allairs  oi"  the  Avorld  to  apprehend  the 
hazard  and  danger  of  the  attempt,  and  so  referred 
himself  and  the  whole  business  to  he  governed  and 
conducted  by  one  whom  they  believed  by  his  discourse 
to  be  an  able  soldier." 

Maidstone  was  I  believe  appointed  as  their  rendez- 
vous, and  immense  numbers  resorted  thither  on  the 
appointed  day.  Whereupon  Mr.  L'Estrange  made  an 
address  inveighing  against  the  Parliament,  and  assert- 
ing— which  he  had  no  authority  for  doing — that  his 
Majesty  was  willing  to  have  a  gentleman  of  their  own 
country  well  known  to  them  to  be  their  general,  and 
named  Mr.  Hales,  who  was  then  present.  No  ques- 
tions were  asked ;  but  they  one  and  all  expressed  their 
readiness  to  join,  and  to  march  as  General  Hales  should 
direct.  Shortly  afterwards  Mr.  Hales,  as  General,  made 
out  the  commissions,  and  after  two  more  general 
gatherings,  they  agreed  to  keep  together  till  they 
could  march  to  London. 

It  is  not  difficult  to  imagine  the  effect  which 
these  tidings  would  have  on  the  dominant  Parliament. 
The  gentlemen  of  Kent,  indeed,  who  sat  in  the  Par- 
liament, utterly  disbelieved  and  denied  the  facts 
asserted ;  and  Sir  Edward  Hales,  who  was  present,  told 
them  he  was  confident  that  his  grandson  could  not  be 
engaged  in  such  an  affair.  But  when  it  appeared  that 
the  meetings  were  continued,  and  the  declarations 
published,  together  with  the  fact  that  young  Hales 
was  their  general,  the  Parliament  sent  two  or  three 
troops  of  horse  into  Kent  to  suppress  "  that  seditious 
insurrection,"  as  it  was  called ;  Sir  Edward  Hales 
now  exercising  himself  with  revilings,  threats,  and 
detestations  of  his  grandson,  who,  he  protested,  should 
never  be  his  heir. 


BRIEF    NOTES    ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY.  71 

All  ended  as  might  have  been  anticipated.  It 
was  not  likely  that  a  plain  country  gentleman,  like 
young  Hales,  could  be  suddenly  fitted  to  command  the 
newly  raised  troops ;  or  that  such  as  they  could  cope 
with  the  Parliamentary  veterans. 

The  new  levies  were  plainly  told  by  those  who  had 
the  management  of  the  King's  affairs  that  Mr.  Hales 
was  not  equal  to  his  work ;  and  the  Earl  of  Norwich, 
better  known  as  Lord  George  Goring,  was  sent  to 
supersede  him. 

To  quote  again  the  language  of  Clarendon :  "  Mr. 
Hales,  upon  the  news  of  another  General  to  be  sent 
thither,  and  upon  the  storms  of  threats  and  rage 
which  fell  upon  him  from  his  grandfather  on  the  one 
side,  and  on  his  wife  by  her  mother  on  the  other  side, 
and  upon  the  conscience  that  he  was  not  equal  to  the 
charge,  though  his  affection  was  not  in  the  least  de- 
clined, found  means  to  transport  himself  and  his  wife, 
together  with  his  friend  Mr.  L'Estrange,  into  Holland, 
resolving,  as  soon  as  he  had  put  his  wife  out  of  the 
reach  of  her  mother,  to  return  himself  and  to  venture 
his  person  in  the  service  which  he  could  not  conduct, 
which  he  did  quickly  after  very  heartily  endeavour 
to  do." 

It  is  not  necessary  for  me  to  trace  further  the  for- 
tunes of  this  misguided  young  man.  He  appears, 
about  1651,  to  have  retired  finally  to  Erance  ;  and  in 
1654  he  succeeded  to  his  grandfather's  title,  but  never 
resided  in  England,  and  died  abroad. 

I  must  now  go  on  to  his  son  and  successor,  Edward 
Hales,  third  baronet,  who  was  born  in  1645.  He  is 
very  much  mixed  up  with  contemporary  history,  and 
was  held  in  especial  favour  by  James  11. 

Perhaps  the  most  remarkable  incident  in  his  life  is 


72  BRIEF    NOTES    ON     IMll-:    HALES    FAMILY. 

the  trial,  in  whicli  lie  pleaded  the  King's  dispensing 
power,  for  having  neglected  to  take  the  Sacrament 
after  receiving  a  military  commission.  A  mock 
action  Avas  l)rought  against  him  by  one  Godden,  his 
servant,  to  recover  a  penalty  of  £500,  and  Sir  Edward 
being  convicted  at  Rochester  Assizes,  moved  the  case 
into  the  King's  Bench,  and  a  majority  of  the  judges, 
eleven  to  one,  decided  that  the  King  might  for  reasons 
of  State  lawfully  dispense  with  penal  statutes  in  par- 
ticular cases.  Eor  a  full  and  particular  account  of 
this  case  I  may  refer  to  Lord  Macaulay's  History 
and  also  to  Evelyn's  Diary. 

He  continued  to  advance  in  Royal  favour,  and 
was  appointed  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower,  a  Lord  of  the 
Admiralty,  and  a  Privy  Councillor,  and  Avas  in 
constant  attendance  on  King  James  11.  When  that 
monarch  visited  Oxford,  in  1687,  particular  notice  was 
taken  of  his  oldest  son,  Edward  Hales,  Gentleman  Com- 
moner of  University  College,  fuller  details  of  which 
will  be  found  in  Antony  a  Wood's  AthencB  Oxonienses. 

This  young  man,  who  seems  to  have  been  of  un- 
usual promise,  was  afterwards  killed  at  the  Battle  of 
the  Boyne. 

The  connection  of  Sir  Edward  Hales  with  King 
James's  flight  and  abdication  is  well  known.  He 
brouglit  a  hackney  coach  and  went  away  with  James, 
when  that  monarch  flung  the  Great  Seal  into  the 
Thames,  and  so  travelled  with  him  to  Elmley  Ferry, 
near  Sheerness,  where  a  hoy  was  waiting.  Had  they 
sailed  immediately  they  might  have  got  safely  across 
the  Channel,  but  the  master  of  the  vessel  refused  to 
weigh  without  more  ballast,  and  thus  a  tide  was  lost 
and  the  vessel  could  not  float  before  midnight. 

By  this  time  the  news  of  the  King's  flight  had 


BRIEF    NOTES    ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY.  73 

travelled  down  the  Thames,  and  the  rude  fishermen 
of  the  Kentish  coast  viewed  the  hoy  with  suspicion 
and  with  cupidity.  Eifty  or  sixty  boatmen,  animated 
at  once  by  hatred  of  Popery  and  by  love  of  plunder, 
boarded  the  hoy,  just  as  she  was  about  to  make  sail. 
The  passengers  were  told  that  they  must  go  on  shore 
and  be  examined  by  a  magistrate.  The  King's  ap- 
pearance excited  suspicion.  "It  is  Pather  Petre," 
cried  one  ruffian ;  "I  know  him  by  his  lean-faced 
jaws."  "  Search  the  hatchet-faced  old  Jesuit,"  be- 
came the  general  cry.  He  was  rudely  pulled  and 
pushed  about.  His  money  and  his  watch  were  taken 
from  him.  He  had  about  him  his  coronation  ring,  and 
some  other  trinkets  of  great  value  ;  but  these  escaped 
the  search  of  the  robbers,  who  were,  indeed,  so  igno- 
rant of  jewellery  that  they  took  his  diamond  buckles 
for  bits  of  glass. 

At  length  the  prisoners  were  put  on  shore  and 
carried  to  an  inn.  A  crowd  had  assembled  to  see 
them ;  and  James,  though  disguised  by  a  wig  of  diffe- 
rent shape  and  colour  from  that  which  he  usually 
wore,  was  at  once  recognised.  Por  a  moment  the 
rabble  seemed  to  be  overawed,  but  the  exhortations  of 
their  chiefs  revived  their  courage,  and  the  sight  of  Sir 
E.  Hales,  whom  they  well  knew  and  bitterly  hated,  in- 
flamed their  fury.  His  park  was  in  the  neighbour- 
hood, and  at  that  very  moment  a  band  of  rioters  was 
employed  in  pillaging  his  house  and  shooting  the  deer. 

Sir  Edward  Hales  was  imprisoned  in  Maidstone 
jail  for  about  a  year,  and  then  rejoined  James 
II  in  Prance.  He  was  impeached  by  the  House  of 
Commons,  as  appears  by  their  journals,  26  Oct. 
1689,  and  was  adjudged  a  traitor.  He  died  in  1695, 
and  is  buried  at  St.  Sulpice,  in  Paris. 


74<  BRIEF    NOTES   ON    THE    HALES   FAMILY. 

Undorstanding  that  there  was  a  monument  erected 
to  his  memory,  I  took  the  liberty  of  applying  to  the 
present  cure  of  that  church,  M.  Meritan,  who 
obligingly  informs  me  that  the  church  having  been 
entirely  rebuilt  since  1G95,  the  monument,  if  ever 
there  was  one,  no  longer  exists. 

Before  finally  taking  leave  of  Sir  Edward,  I  may 
mention  that  King  James  II  created  him  Earl  of 
Tenterden  and  Viscount  Tunstall — titles  which  were 
not  recognized  by  William  and  Mary.  The  patent 
thereof  is  in  the  possession  of  my  relative.  Miss  M.  B. 
E.  Hales,  lately  of  Hales  Place,  Canterbury,  who 
obligingly  shewed  it  to  me  there,  in  1879. 

The  third  baronet  was  succeeded  by  his  second 
surviving  son.  Sir  John  Hales.  Of  him  I  have  very 
little  to  say,  except  that  he  was  offered  a  peerage  by 
George  I,  but  declined  it,  because  he  was  not  allowed 
to  claim  the  Earldom  of  Tenterden.  He  died,  after  a 
somewhat  strange  life,  in  1744,  and  was  buried  at 
Tunstall. 

His  grandson,  the  fifth  baronet,  Sir  Edward  Hales, 
of  Woodchurch,  succeeded  him  and  died  in  1802  ;  and 
he  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Sir  Edward  Hales,  sixth 
and  last  baronet,  who  married  in  1789  Lucy,  daughter 
of  Henry  Darell  of  Calehill.  When  he  died  issueless, 
in  1829,  the  baronetcy  became  extinct,  and  his  exten- 
sive^ estates  devolved  eventually  upon  his  great-niece, 
Mary  Barbara  Eelicite,  granddaughter  of  his  sister, 
Madame  de  Morlaincourt,  whose  son  assumed  the  name 
of  Hales. 

It  may  not  be  out  of  place  to  record,  that  although 
the  immediate  male  descendants  of  the  first  baronet  are 
all  deceased,  the  old  family,  which  was  settled  for  cen- 
turies in  the  neighbourhood  of  Tenterden,  is  not  ex- 


BRIEF  NOTES  ON  THE  HALES  FAMILY.      75 

tinct,  but  is  now  represented  by  the  humble  individual 
who  writes  this  paper. 

The  first  baronet  had  two  brothers,  the  elder  of 
whom,  William  Hales  of  Bowley  and  Chilston  (a  place 
now  owned  by  Aretas  Akers-Douglas,  Esq.,  M.P.,  a 
member  of  our  Society),  was  married  to  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Kalph  Heyman,  of  Tenterden.  His 
elder  son  John,  being  impecunious,  sold  those  estates 
to  the  baronet's  family.  The  descendants  of  William 
Hales,  of  Bowley  and  Chilston,  subsequently  became  so 
much  reduced,  that  Samuel  Hales,  his  great-grandson 
(who  seems  to  have  visited  at  Hales  Place  in  early  life), 
was  obliged  to  go  to  sea,  as  a  ship's  carpenter.  He 
died  at  sea,  on  board  H.M.S.  "Suffolk"  in  1695. 
Subsequently,  the  fortunes  of  this  branch  of  the 
family  considerably  revived,  and  Major  James  Hales, 
my  father,  was  of  the  opinion  that  this  Samuel  was  a 
descendant  of  Samuel  Hales,  of  Chilston,  a  son  of  the 
first  baronet.  Sir  Edward.  A  rigid  examination  shews 
that  this  is  not  so.  For  the  sake  of  my  children,  I 
have  had  the  most  searching  inquiry  made,  and  the 
result  of  it  proves  that  we  are  descended  in  a  direct 
line  from  William  Hales,  of  Bowley  and  Chilston, 
next  surviving  brother  of  the  first  baronet  Su'  Edward 
Hailes. 

The  pedigree  of  this  branch  of  the  family  has  been 
officially  investigated  by  the  present  Chester  Herald 
(Mr.  C.  Murray  Lane),  who  is  the  Registrar  of  the 
College  of  Arms.  He  certifies  that  the  following 
sketch  of  it  is  correct : — 

Edward  Hales.=pMargaret  Houeywood, 


Other        William  Hales,=j=Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Paul  Johnsou,of 
issue.         of  Teuterdeu.      |  Nethercourt,  in  Thanet. 
A 


7G 


BRIEF    NOTES   ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY. 


Sir    Edwaiil 
Hales,  ob. 
1G54. 


William   IIalcs,=^i\Iargaret         ]^Iaiy.=S.  Smith.         Richard. 


of  Bowlcy  and 
Chilstou,  2ud 

SOD. 


Ilej'mau. 


Kliza-=li.  Ken  wrick, 
beth. 


John,  of  Chilston,^Margarct 
which  he  sold 
to  his  uncle. 
Sir  Edward. 


I 
Samuel,  o[= 
Coldecote, 
Herts. 


Deborah ,=Richard,  eldest  son,: 
1st  wife,      bapt.  at  Boughton 
ob.  1066.      Malherbe,  6  Nov. 
1629  ;  ob.  1672. 


=Jane 


Other 
issue. 


Samuel,^Mary  Ljgo, 
o.  s.p.  of  Bccken- 
1674-5.       ham. 


Samuel,  of  Chatham,  1st  son,' 
ob.  8  Aug.  1695. 


^Elizabeth  Oxley,  married 
30  Jan. 1673. 


I 
Other  issue. 


I  I 

William,  of  Deptford,=f:Elizabeth  Beckett,  of  Wes-     Other 
2nd  son  ;  born  1689  ;        terham,  married  there,  1712  ;     issue, 
ob.  Dec.  1779,  buried      ob.  7  Oct.  1761,  buried    at 
Deptford. 


Samuel,  1st  son, 
o.  s.p.,  buried  at 
Chatham. 


at  Deptford.     M.I. 


1  I 
Joseph,  of  Deptford,  bapt.  there,  19=pElizabeth  .  .  .  ob.  6 
Feb.     1719-20;    ob.    25   Oct.    1801,     Nov.  1775,  buried 
buried  at  Deptford.     M.I.  at  Deptford. 


James,  rector  of 
Limehouse. 


Joseph,  of  Great  Marlow, 
living  s.p.,  1833. 


William,  ob.  ■l=pAnne  ....  ob.  31 
Nov.  1826.  I  May  18.32. 


Susanna. 


Joseph,  ob.  8  May 
1819. 


Joseph  Drake,  buried  24 
June  1783. 


Two  daughters. 


William,  of=pSusan  Snee,  ob.  14  Feb.  1779, 
Deptford.      I  buried  at  Deptford. 


Other  issue. 


Sarah,  1st  wife,=f=l.  James,  of  Deptford,=pSophia  Cox,  married  at  St. 


buried  at  Dept- 
ford, 17   Oct. 
1781. 


buried    there.  22   Nov. 
1791. 


James  William, buried  at 
Deptford,  17  Feb.  1780. 

Joseph,  buried  at  Dept- 
ford, 23  Dec.  ]780. 


Clement's,  Clement's  Lane, 
Lombard  Street,  London, 
19  Oct.  1784  ;  ob.  Sept. 
1842.     (Second  wife.) 


Other 
issue. 


James,  only  son.  Major  21st^Frances  Charlotte, 
Bengal  Native  Infantry,  born     eldest  dau.  of  Thos. 
1  Dec.  1785  ;  bapt.  at  St.  Nich., 
Deptford ;    ob.    at    Calcutta, 
18  Dec.  1820,  buried  there. 


Blair,  of  Welbeck 
Street ;  married 
1814  ;  ob.  18  Nov. 
1871. 


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77 


Esther  Fliillips,  dau.  of=pRichard  Cox  Hales,^Ada  Young,  dau.  of 
Thos.  Williams,  of  Cow-    rector  of  Woodman-     Jas.   Fredk.   Elton 
ley  Grove.  Uxbridgc  ;         cote,   Sussex  ;    only     (H.M.   40th    Ees 
married  21  April  1846;     surviving  son  &  ment),  married  10 

ob.  27  Feb.  1847.  heir  ;  born  29  Sept.     Aug.  1871. 

1817  ;  living,  1881. 


Edward  Bouverie=Esther  Elliott 

Pusey,  Command-     Cox  Hales, 

er,  R.N.  born   14  Feb. 

1847  ;  married 

28  June  1870. 


Other 

issue, 

died 

young. 


James   Elton 


Hales,    born 
1872. 


Eichard  Waite  Cox  Hales, 
born  1874. 


Ada  Matilda 
Mary  Hales, 
born  24  Dec. 
1878. 


WILL  OF  SIE  EDWAED  HALES  (Fiest  Baronet). 

{Extraeted  from  the  Principal  Registry  nf  the  Probate  Dicision  of  the  High 

Court  of  Jvstice.') 

In  tlie  Name  of  God  Amen  I  S'"  Edward  Hales  of  Tunstall  in  the 
Countie  o£  Kent  Knight  and  Baronett  being  in  the  threescore  and 
fifteenth  yeare  of  my  age  And  in  reasonable  healthe  praised  be  God 
for  the  same  And  knowing  (though  not  how  soone)  that  I  must  dye 
Doe  make  this  my  last  Will  and  Testament  in  manner  and  forme 
followiuge  First  I  bequeathe  my  Soule  to  Allmightie  God  wholly 
relyeing  on  his  sure  Mercies  in  Christ  Jesus  my  Lord  and  onlie 
Saviour  for  a  ioyfull  Resurrection  And  my  Bodye  I  desire  may  be 
decentlie  interred  in  the  Parish  Church  of  Tunstall  aforesaid  with- 
out any  pompe  or  ceremonies  at  all  no  Funerall  sermon  no  vaine 
com'emoracon  no  Invitation  Strangers  or  Friends  farr  of  but 
such  friends  onlie  as  are  neare  at  hand  my  honest  neighbours  of 
the  Parish  of  Tunstall  afoi*esaid  and  servants  No  Escutcheons  or 
vanity  of  heraulds  only  forty  Escutcheons  to  be  provided  within  a 
monthe  after  my  decease  and  disposed  to  freinds  as  my  Executor 
shall  thiuke  fitt  Item  I  give  to  the  Poore  of  the  Parish  of  Tenter- 
den  the  sume  of  twentie  pounds  and  to  the  poore  of  the  severall 
parishes  of  Tunstall  aforesaid  Chart  next  Sutton  Yallence  and 
Ebbony  the  siune  of  tenne  pounds  the  Parish  to  be  paied  to  the 
Churche  Wardens  and  other  the  Overseers  of  the  Poore  there 
respectively  within  halfe  a  year  after  my  decease  to  be  by  them  or 
the  greater  part  of  them  in  cache  parrish  respectively  with  the 
assent  of  the  Maior  of  Tenterden  aforesaid  for  that  time  being  for 
the  said  parishes  of  Tenterden  and  Ebbony  and  wth  the  assent  of 
the  Incumbent  and  lawfull  Ministere  of  the  other  Parishes  of  Tun- 
stall and  Chart  next  Sutton  Yallence  respectivelie  distributed  to  the 
honest  poore  persons  there  And  not  to  such  as  inhabitt  or  dwell  in 
cottages  illegalie  erected  on  wastes  or  in  the  high  waies  or  live 
idlely  by  freeboothing  beggiug  filching  or  stealing  or  otherwise 
dissorderlie  in  theire  lives  the  weeke  before  Christmas  next  after 
the  payment  thereof     Item   I  will  and  give  to  Anne  my  loving 


78  BRIEF   NOTES    ON    THE    HALES   FAMILY. 

Daugliter  or  (jranddaughlcr  wife  ol'  Eilward  llalca  my  jijrandsonne 
and  only  sonno  of  S''  John  Hales  Knight  my  Sonne  deceased  by 
Dame  Cliristian  his  wife  one  of  the  foure  daughters  and  coheires  of 
S"'  James  Cromer  late  of  Tuustall  aforesaid  Knight  deceased  being 
one  of  the  foure  daughters  and  coheires  of  Thomae  Lord  AV^otton 
Baron  of  Marley  deceased  by  Dame  Mary  his  wife  one  of  tlie  foure 
daughters  and  coheires  of  Sir  Arthur  Throckmorton  late  of  Paules- 
perry  in  the  Countie  of  Northampton  Knight  deceased  my  best 
Jewell  at  her  choyce  my  cheine  of  pearles  and  all  other  the  pearles 
which  are  in  her  or  the  said  Edward  Hales  her  husband  his  custodye 
by  the  delivery  of  Mary  Mabb  late  the  wife  of  George  Hyndly 
deceased  and  now  the  wife  of  John  Eo])erts  the  number  whereof  are 
specified  in  a  paper  under  my  handwriteing  kept  with  them.  Item 
I  will  and  give  to  Edward  Hales  my  grandsonne  alsoe  and  sonne  of 
my  sonne  Samuell  Hales  deceased  by  IMartha  his  wife  sole  daughter 
and  heire  of  iStephen  Heronden  late  of  Staple  Inne  in  the  County 
of  Middlesex  Esq''  deceased  being  otherwise  well  provided  for  from 
mee  (if  he  be  well  dealt  withall  and  a  iust  account  made  him  by  his 
Gruardian  in  Soceage)  an  hundred  pounds  at  his  age  of  foure  and 
twenty  yeares  to  be  bestowed  in  plate  and  then  to  be  delivered  vnto 
him  as  a  further  remembrance  from  me  Item  I  will  and  give  unto 
Christian  and  Deborah  my  grandchildren  and  daughters  of  my  said 
sonne  Samuell  Hales  the  sume  of  Five  hundred  pounds  apeece  (if 
in  my  lifetime  I  shall  not  have  given  or  secured  to  be  given  the  like 
su'me  or  more  to  the  said  Christian  and  Deborah  or  either  of  them) 
that  then  the  legacie  now  hereby  intended  to  be  given  to  such  of 
them  to  cease  and  be  voide  at  the  severall  dales  of  theire  marryage 
or  at  their  severall  ages  of  two  and  twentie  yeares  which  shall  first 
happen  respectively  (tlieire  said  marryages  being  with  the  full 
consent  and  likeinge  of  my  Executor  my  very  loving  friend  and 
kinsman  John  Austen  of  Bexley  Esq''*'  hereafter  named  And  the 
said  Edward  Hales  theire  brother  And  the  survivors  or  survivor  of 
them  Provided  alwaics  that  before  any  payment  or  delivery  of  the 
said  hundred  pounds  in  plate  to  the  said  Edward  Hales  and  payment 
of  the  said  Eive  hundred  pounds  apeece  to  the  said  Christian  and 
Deborah  or  either  of  them  as  aforesaid  my  said  Executor  be  firstfully 
discharged  and  released  of  and  from  any  Bond  or  Bonds  or  other 
securitie  which  I  the  said  S''  Edward  Hales  and  the  said  Sir  John 
Hales  my  sonne  or  either  of  vs  ioyutly  or  severallie  have  formerlie 
entred  into  in  the  Ecclesiasticall  Court  at  Canterburie  together  w"^ 
theire  Mother  or  as  suretie  for  her  or  on  her  behalfe  or  at  her 
request  or  otherwise  vpon  her  takeing  Letters  of  Administrac'on  of 
the  goods  and  chattels  of  the  said  Samuell  Hales  her  late  husband 
my  sonne  deceased  and  for  truly  administring  and  payment  of 
theire  portions  allotted  by  the  said  Court  (which  are  six  hundi'ed 
and  thirty  pounds  apeece  to  the  said  Christian  and  Deborah  and 
either  of  them  and  twenty  pounds  to  the  said  Edward  Hales  theire 
brother  out  of  the  goods  and  chatels  of  the  said  Samuell  Hales 
theire  Father)  as  by  the  Eecords  of  the  said  Court  may  more  plainlie 
appeare  And  further  Provided  alsoe  that  my  said  Executor  be  like- 


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wise  fully  satisfied  and  paicd  all  the  rent  and  arrearages  of  rent 
now  due  to  niee  and  arreare  and  unpaid  being  three  thousand  and 
three  pounds  at  the  Feast  of  St.  Michaell  last  1651  out  of  which 
the  taxes  by  me  payable  according  to  order  of  the  new  yearly 
amount  have  not  beene  deemed  to  be  deducted  And  which  shalbe 
more  due  to  mee  arreare  and  vnpaid  at  the  time  of  my  deathe  from 
theire  Mother  or  her  now  husband  or  whomsoever  issueing  and 
goeing  out  of  a  messuage  and  lands  called  Bellaviewe  and  the 
iJemeasnes  of  the  Manor  of  Willopp  and  other  lands  in  the  said 
County  of  Kent  by  me  voluntarilie  setled  and  stated  by  Deed  or 
Deeds  vpon  my  said  sonne  tSamuell  Hales  and  his  heires  males 
And  by  mee  then  reserved  out  of  the  same  payable  halfe  yearely 
during  my  life  according  to  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  the  said 
Deed  or  deeds  by  me  voluntarily  made  as  aforesaid  together  with 
damages  for  uon  paiment  of  the  said  rent  at  the  time  for  paiment 
thereof  when  it  was  due  and  payable  Item  whereas  William 
Barham  my  late  servant  is  by  mee  made  the  Keeper  of  my  chiefe  and 
mansion  house  at  Tenterden  aforesaid  And  hath  alsoe  the  custodie 
and  care  of  my  goods  and  household  stuff  in  my  said  hovse  co'mitted 
to  him  And  is  by  me  there  imployed  in  collecting  my  rents  over- 
sight of  my  Estate  in  those  parts  and  in  the  Marsh  and  other 
affaires  of  mine  thereabouts  in  the  Wold  of  Kent  and  in  the  Marshe 
wherein  if  the  said  Edward  Hales  my  Executor  and  heire  or  those 
which  shall  inheritt  my  said  house  and  lands  in  Tenterden  aforesaid 
&c.  shall  not  thinke  titt  to  employ  him  in  such  kind  of  service  as  I 
have  done  and  now  doe  and  vpon  those  or  like  tearmes  or  condic'ons 
then  I  will  and  give  to  the  said  William  Barham  the  sume  of  tenne 
pounds  yearlie  to  be  paied  to  him  halfe  yearlie  by  my  Executor  out 
of  my  personall  Estate  at  the  Feasts  of  the  Annunciacon  of  St. 
Mary  the  Virgin  and  St.  Michaell  the  Archangell  by  equall  portions 
during  his  naturall  life  The  first  payment  thereof  to  beginne  at 
that  Feast  of  the  aforesaid  Feaste  next  after  his  being  dischai'ged 
from  keeping  my  said  house  and  goods  and  other  imployments  and 
not  being  imployed  as  aforesaid  (which  I  wish  should  not  be)  hee 
carryeing  and  behaving  himselfe  honestlie  and  faithfully  as  (I  con- 
ceave)  he  hath  ever  done  towards  me  Item  I  will  and  give  to  John 
Grove  and  Clifton  Hilton  my  servants  and  either  of  them  twentye 
pounds  apeece  Item  I  will  and  give  to  every  other  of  my  meniall 
and  covenant  servants  dwelling  in  my  house  at  my  deathe  men 
maides  and  boyes  to  cache  of  them  five  Markes  apeece  to  be  paied 
within  three  monthes  after  my  decease  Item  I  will  and  give  to  my  sister 
Kenwrick  and  my  sister  Curtis  being  my  sisters  of  whole  blood 
tweutie  pounds  apeece  and  to  my  sister  Meriott  and  my  sister 
Dowman  being  my  sisters  of  halfe  blood  by  my  Mother  only  daugh- 
ter of  Paull  Johnson  late  of  Fordwich  in  the  said  Countie  of  Kent 
Esq®  deceased  the  sume  of  tenne  pounds  apeece  to  be  by  them 
bestowed  in  blacke  or  otherwise  at  theire  pleasure  to  be  paied  with- 
in a  monthe  after  my  decease  Item  I  make  constitute  and  appoint 
the  said  Edward  Hales  my  grandsonne  and  heire  sonne  of  S'"  John 
Hales  Knight  my  sonne  by  Dame  Christian  his  wife  deceased  sole 


80  BRIEF    NOTES    ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY. 

Executor  of  tliis  iny  last  AVill  and  Testament  Item  1  will  and  give 
to  the  sayd  Edwam  Hales  my  sayd  Executor  and  licire  (my  debts 
and  le<i;aL'ics  being  paiud  and  diHcliarged)  all  my  leases  liouseliold 
stuft'e  and  all  my  goods  and  eliatels  whatsoever  Jtem  1  make 
and  ordeine  the  said  John  vXusten  my  kinsman  Overseer  ot"  this  my 
last  A\^ill  and  Testament  And  I  will  and  give  him  as  a  remendjrance 
of  my  love  and  kynd  respecte  towards  him  the  same  of  fortie  pound 
to  be  paied  within  three  monthes  after  my  decease  Item  not 
having  any  lands  convenient  and  fitting  in  my  power  freelie  to 
dispose  nor  more  then  formerlie  estated  and  settled  and  by  this  my 
Will  hereafter  given  and  disposed  of  I  will  and  give  to  Edward 
Hales  eldest  sonne  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  soune  of  S^  John 
Hales  my  sonne  by  the  said  Anne  his  wife  my  great  grandsonne 
being  six  yeares  old  the  eiglit  and  twentith  day  of  September  last 
1651  the  sume  of  Tw'oe  hundred  pounds  at  his  age  of  foure  and 
twentie  yeares  And  I  w^ill  that  after  hee  hath  attained  his  age  of 
Twelve  yeares  hee  should  have  tenne  pounds  yearlie  paied  him  for 
consideracon  of  the  said  twoe  hundred  pounds  halfe  yearlie  at  the 
Eeaste  of  the  Annunciacon  of  St.  Mary  the  Virgin  And  St.  Michaell 
the  Arcliangell  by  eqiiall  portions  the  first  paimeut  thereof  to  beginn  at 
the  Feast  of  the  An'unciacon  next  after  his  said  age  of  twelve 
yeares  as  a  small  remembrance  of  mee  and  to  encourage  him  in 
learning  his  booke.  Item  I  will  and  give  to  John  Hales  my  great 
grandsonne  alsoe  and  second  sonne  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  by  the 
said  Anne  his  wife  being  three  years  old  the  second  day  of  March 
last  1650  the  sume  of  one  hundred  pounds  at  his  age  of  foure  and 
twentie  yeares  And  I  will  that  after  hee  hath  attained  the  age  of 
twelve  yeares  he  should  have  five  pounds  yearlie  paied  him  for  con- 
sideracon of  the  said  hundred  pounds  halfe  yearlie  at  the  Feaste  of 
the  Annunciacon  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  and  St.  Michaell  the 
Archangell  by  equall  porcons  the  first  payment  thereof  to  beginne 
at  the  Feast  of  the  Annunciacon  next  after  his  said  age  of  twelve 
yeares  as  a  small  remembrance  of  mee  and  to  encourage  him  in 
learning  his  booke  Item  I  will  and  give  to  Charles  Hales  my  great 
graudsone  likewise  and  third  soniae  of  the  sayd  Edward  Hales  by 
the  said  Anne  his  wife  being  a  yeare  old  the  thirtieth  day  of 
December  last  1650  the  sume  of  one  hmidred  pounds  at  his  age  of 
foure  and  twentie  yeares  And  I  will  that  after  hee  hath  attained  the 
age  of  twelve  yeares  hee  should  have  five  poundes  yearlie  paied  him 
for  consideracon  of  the  said  hundred  pounds  halfe  yearlie  at  the 
Feaste  of  the  Annunciacon  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  and  St. 
Michaell  the  Archangell  by  equall  portions  the  first  paiment  thereof 
to  heginn  at  the  Feast  of  the  Annunciacon  nest  after  his  said  age 
of  twelve  yeares  as  a  small  remembrance  of  mee  and  to  encourage 
him  in  learning  his  Booke  And  if  either  the  said  Edw\ard  Hales 
John  Hales  and  Charles  Hales  my  said  great  grandsonnes  die  before 
theire  said  ages  of  foure  and  twentie  yeares  respectively  then  the 
legacy  of  him  soe  dyeing  to  be  paied  to  the  eldest  of  them  then 
living  at  his  age  of  foure  and  twentie  yeares  soe  then  the  survivor 
of  them  after  twelve  yeares  of  age  as  aforesayd  to  have  fifteene 


BRIEF    NOTES    ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY.  81 

pounds  yearlie  paid  halfe  yearlie  at  the  Fcasto  of  the  Annunciacou 
of  the  blessed  Virgin  Mary  and  St.  Michael  the  xlrchangell  as  afore- 
said for  consideracou  of  the  said  three  hundred  poundes  vntill 
paiment  thei'eof  And  if  twoe  of  my  said  great  grandsonnes  should 
die  before  theire  said  ages  of  foure  and  twentie  yeares  then  the 
survivor  to  have  twentie  pounds  yearlie  paied  liim  at  the  said  Feasts 
of  the  blessed  Virgin  Mary  and  St.  Michaell  the  Archaugell  as  afore- 
said for  consideracon  of  the  said  foure  hundred  pounds  vntill 
payment  thereof  And  I  hope  that  the  said  Edward  Hales  theire 
Father  will  take  care  both  of  the  Estate  to  be  left  to  the  said 
Edward  Hales  his  eldest  soune  w***  improvement  thereof  and  to 
provide  convenient  portions  for  the  said  John  Hales  and  Charles 
Hales  his  youngest  sonnes  And  what  children  else  it  shall  please 
God  to  blesse  withall  and  to  bring  them  vp  in  the  feare  of  Grod  and 
good  Litterature  which  I  heartilie  wish  and  much  desire  And  soe 
I  pray  God  blesse  them  all 

Touching  The  Disposicon  of  all  my  maun°''^  messuages  rents 
Tythes  lands  tenements  and  hereditaments  with  the  appurtenances 
whatsoever  I  have  First  I  doe  hereby  confirme  all  Estates  of  any 
mannors  messuages  rents  tythes  lands  tenements  and  hereditam'* 
w''i  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  by  mee  formerlie  made  and 
executed  by  any  Deed  or  Deeds  to  or  to  the  vse  of  my  said  sonne 
S'"  John  Hales  deceased  and  to  his  heires  or  to  his  heirs  males  And 
to  or  to  the  vse  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  my  said  grandsonne  and 
Sonne  of  the  said  S""  John  Hales  my  sonne  deceased  vjDon  his  marryage 
with  the  said  Anne  being  one  of  the  foure  daughters  and  coheires 
of  Thomas  Lord  "Wotton  aforesaid  according  to  the  true  intent  and 
meaning  of  the  said  Deed  or  Deeds  respectivelie  And  whatsoever 
Mannors  messuages  rents  tythes  lands  tenements  and  hereditaments 
w*^^  the  appurtenances  I  am  now  possessed  of  in  lawe  or  Equitie  or 
whereof  I  have  the  Eevertion  and  not  formerlie  disposed  of  in  a 
legall  way  I  will  give  and  bequeath  the  sayd  Mannors  messuages 
rents  tythes  lands  tenements  and  hereditaments  with  the  appurten'cs 
whatsoever  and  the  revertion  and  reverc'ons  thereof  to  the  said 
Edward  Hales  my  said  grandsonne  my  heire  and  Executo'  and 
Sonne  of  my  said  sonne  S''  John  Hales  deceased  to  be  had  to  him 
during  his  naturall  life  And  after  his  decease  I  will  give  and 
bequeath  the  said  mannors  messuages  rents  tithes  lands  tenements 
and  hereditaments  with  the  appurtenances  wliatsoever  And  the 
revertion  and  Revertions  thereof  to  Edward  Hales  before  named 
my  great  grandsonne  and  eldest  sonne  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  by 
the  said  Anne  his  wife  and  to  the  heires  males  of  his  body  And  if 
the  sayd  Edward  Hales  my  great-grandsonne  die  without  heires 
males  of  his  body  begotten  then  I  will  give  and  bequeath  the  said 
mannors  messuages  rents  tythes  lands  tenements  and  hereditaments 
with  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  And  the  revercon  and  revertions 
thereof  to  the  said  John  Hales  my  great  grandsonne  and  second 
sonne  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  by  the  said  Anne  his  wife  And  to 
the  heires  males  of  his  body  begotten  And  if  the  said  John  Hales 
die  without  heires  males  of  his  bodie  then  I  will  give  and  bequeath 

VOL.    XIV.  G 


82  BRIEF   NOTES   ON    THE    HALKS    FAMILY. 

the  said  inanno"'  messuages  rents  tjtlies  lands  tenements  and 
hereditaments  with  the  api)iirlenances  whatsoever  And  therevertion 
and  I'evertions  thereof  to  Charles  Hales  my  greate  grandsonne  alsoe 
And  third  sonne  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  by  the  said  Ainie  his 
wife  and  to  the  hcires  males  of  his  Bodie  And  if  the  said  Charles 
Hales  dye  without  heires  males  of  his  body  begotten  then  I  will 
give  and  bequeath  the  said  manors  messuages  rents  tythes  lands 
tenements  and  hereditaments  with  the  appurtenances  whatsoever 
And  the  revertion  and  revcrtions  thereof  to  the  next  sonne  and 
heire  male  of  the  body  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  sonne  of  S''  John 
Hales  my  sonne  and  to  his  heires  males  of  his  body  begotten  And 
soe  if  that  next  sonne  die  without  heires  males  of  his  bodie  then  I 
will  give  and  bequeath  the  said  manners  messuages  rents  tythes 
lands  tenements  and  hereditaments  with  the  ai)purtenances 
whatsoever  and  the  reverc'ou  and  reverc'ons  thereof  to  every  other 
the  sonne  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  sonne  of  S''  John  Hales  my 
sonne  deceased  in  seniority  one  after  another  and  to  the  heires 
males  of  theire  bodies  before  given  to  Edward  John  and  Charles 
sonnes  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  son  of  S^'  John  Hales  my  sonne 
And  the  heires  males  of  theire  bodyes  begotten  and  if  the  said 
Edward  Hales  sonne  of  S"^  John  Hales  my  sonne  dye  without 
any  heires  males  of  his  body  begotten  then  I  will  give  and  be- 
queath the  said  manno''^  messuages  rents  tythes  lands  tenements 
and  hereditaments  with  the  appurtenances  whatsoever  and  the 
reverc'on  and  reverc'ons  thereof  to  the  right  heires  of  the 
said  Edward  Hales  sonne  of  S''  John  Hales  my  sonne  and  to  theire 
heires  forever  And  whereas  the  sayd  Edward  Hales  sonne  of  the  said 
S'  John  Hales  my  sonne  was  vpou  his  Father's  deathe  for  lands 
holden  in  Capite  by  mee  estated  upon  him  at  his  Marriage  and 
other  lands  discended  to  him  from  his  Father  (which  came  to  him 
from  Dame  Deborah  his  grandmother  whereof  part  held  in  Capite 
or  Knight's  service)  served  ward  to  the  late  King  Charles  for 
composicou  of  which  his  w^ardshipp  I  then  presentlie  paied  twoe 
thousand  pounds  to  his  then  Maiesties  vse  in  the  Court  of  Wards 
and  Liveries  And  then  enticed  Bond  there  with  sureties  (whereof 
my  said  kinsman  John  Austen  was  one)  to  pay  more  three  thousand 
pounds  at  my  deathe  for  which  three  thousand  pounds  (that  I 
might  disengage  my  Sureties  in  my  lifetime)  I  compounded  wth 
the  then  Masters  of  the  "Wards  and  Liveries  to  pay  in  full 
discharge  thereof  twoe  thousand  three  hundred  pounds  which  said 
sume  of  twoe  thousand  three  hundred  pounds  was  paied  accordingly 
(the  Wardshipp  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  being  com'itted  to  the 
said  Dame  Christian  his  Mother  my  said  kinsman  John  Austen  his 
Grodfather  and  myselfe)  And  a  lease  of  his  Father's  said  lands 
granted  to  the  said  com'ittees  during  his  minoritie  at  the  yearly 
rent  of  Three  score  six  pounds  thirteene  shillings  foure  pence 
And  whereas  at  the  death  of  the  said  Dame  Christian  his  Mother 
another  Lease  of  her  lands  (where  of  parte  holden  of  his  then 
Ma^y  in  Capite)  was  granted  to  my  sayd  kinsman  John  Austen  and 
myselfe  the  surviving  Com'ittees  of  the  Wardshipp  of  the  said 


BRIEF    NOTES    ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY.  83 

Edward  Hales  during  his  minoritye  at  the  like  yearlie  rent  of  three 
score  six  pounds  thirteeue  shillings  and  foure  pence  which  said 
rents  I  have  paied  accordingly  in  the  said  Court  of  "Wards  and 
Livex'ies  vntill  and  from  S'  Micliaell  the  Arch  Angell  one  thousand 
six  hundred  fortie  and  five  and  further  vntill  the  foure  and  tweutith 
Day  of  February  following  1645  (it  being  then  ordered  by  the  then 
Parlyament  that  no  more  rents  or  payments  should  be  made  in  the 
said  Court  of  Wards  and  Liveries  after  the  said  foure  and  tweutith 
day  of  Februarie  1615)  I  doe  now  fully  and  whollie  remitt  to 
the  sayd  Edward  Hales  his  sayd  "Wardshipp  and  all  benefitt  thereof 
which  I  might  have  had  towards  my  reimbursiuge  what  I  have  laied 
out  and  paied  for  him  as  aforesaid  Item  Whereas  for  the  benefitt 
aud  advancement  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  sonne  of  the  said  S"^ 
John  Hales  my  sonne  deceased  and  out  of  my  love  and  respect  to 
him  I  have  made  my  selfe  tenant  onlie  for  life  in  the  chiefe  part  of 
my  Estate  whereby  I  cannot  legallie  make  any  Lease  thereof  to 
endure  longer  then  my  life  yett  I  have  taken  upon  mee  to  make 
some  leases  thereof  And  where  I  was  tenant  onlie  by  courtesie  I 
have  alsoe  made  Leases  for  some  yeares  yet  enduring  not  for  lesse 
rent  than  formerlie  nor  to  the  prejudice  of  the  said  Edward  Hales 
or  his  heires  or  the  said  Anne  his  wife  I  doe  hereby  therefore 
desire  the  said  Edward  Hales  and  Anne  his  wife  my  sonne  and 
daughter  or  grandsonne  and  granddaughter  soe  farr  to  respect  mee 
and  my  actions  tending  to  theire  good  that  such  leases  by  mee 
made  as  aforesaid  may  not  be  questioned  or  avoided  by  them  or 
either  of  them  if  the  lessees  of  the  said  leases  respectivelie  shall 
williuglie  take  new  leases  for  the  tearme  not  expired  of  them  the 
said  Edward  Hales  aud  Anne  his  wife  and  either  of  them  vpon  the 
same  tearmes  aud  condicons  being  tendred  vuto  them.  Touching 
the  lands  of  the  said  Dame  Deborah  my  late  deare  aud  loiug  wife 
deceased  and  grandmother  of  the  said  Edward  Hales  my  heire  and 
Executor  sole  Daughter  and  heire  of  Martin  Herlackenden  late  of 
Woodchurch  in  the  said  County  of  Kent  Esq*'  by  Deborah  his  wife 
one  of  the  Daughters  of  Thomas  Whetenhall  of  Peckham  in  the 
said  Countie  of  Kent  Esq''  deceased  and  afterwards  wife  of  S'^' 
Edward  Waterhouse  knight  deceased  And  which  by  reason  of  the 
alteracon  of  the  nature  of  G-avelkynd  by  Act  of  Parliament  for  the 
same  discended  aud  came  wholly  to  the  sayd  S""  John  Hales  mine 
and  her  eldest  sonne  (whoe  with  my  selfe  vpon  occasion  sould  part 
thereof  lyeiug  in  the  Parishes  of  Petham  Snave  and  Lydd  in  Kent 
aforesaid)  aud  from  him  discended  vnto  the  said  Edward  Hales  his 
only  sonne  I  never  challenged  or  had  further  interest  in  them  in 
such  part  thereof  as  the  said  Dame  Deborah  was  possessed  of  and 
not  in  joincture  or  otherwise  given  by  Will  for  life  to  the  said  De- 
borah afterwards  the  Lady  Waterhouse  her  mother  for  my  life  only 
by  curtesie  neither  I  doe  medle  with  any  disposicon  of  them  other- 
wise then  by  Lease  for  short  tyme  as  aforesayd  And  whereas  my 
sonne  Samuell  Hales  did  purchase  of  my  Cozen  John  Hales  late  of 
Boughton  Malherbe  near  Lenham  in  the  said  Countie  of  Kent 
deceased  the  Manner  of  Bowley  and  Lands  in  Boughton  Malherbe 

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84  BRIEF    NOTES    ON    THE    HALES    FAMILY. 

aforesaid  niakeing  nice  ioyiit  jmrcliasor  with  liiiii  wlicrehy  an  E.slat( 
in  Liewe  of  the  said  jMannoi-  and  land  is  vested  in  nie  by  survivor- 
sliipp  I  doe  now  licreby  will  give  and  bequeathe  the  said  Maniioi- 
of  Bowley  and  other  lands  purchased  tlierew"'  as  aforesaid  to  the 
said  Edward  Hales  my  grandsonne  alsoe  and  sonne  of  my  said 
Sonne  Samuell  Hales  deceased  to  be  had  to  him  and  his  heires  for 
ever  in  fee  simple  In  witness  thereof  I  the  said  !S''  Edward  Hales 
to  this  my  last  Will  and  Testament  consisting  of  six  sheets  of 
paper  written  w"'  my  owne  hand  being  filed  and  ioned  together  at 
the  topp  with  a  faire  sheet  of  paper  to  cover  them  and  sealed  there 
with  twoe  sealcs  have  subscribed  my  name  to  every  of  the  said  sheetes 
and  sett  my  scale  to  the  last  of  them  Hated  the  fifteenth  day  of 
October  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand  six  hundred 
fiftie  and  one  1651 — Edward  Hales— Signed  sealed  published  and 
declared  by  the  within  named  S"'  Edward  Hales  to  be  his  last  Will 
and  Testament  in  the  presence  of — Thomas  Dynely — Robert  Dixon 
— Robert  Younge — Clifton  Hilton 

This  Will  was  proved  at  Westminster  the  first  day  of  November 
1654  before  the  Judges  for  Probate  of  Wills  and  granting 
Administrations  lawfully  authorized  by  the  Oaths  of  Edward 
Hales  the  grandsonne  and  sole  Executor  of  the  said  deceased  to 
w^home  the  Administrac'on  was  com'itted  of  all  and  singular  the 
goods  chatles  and  debts  of  the  said  deceased  hee  being  first  legally 
sworne  faithfully  to  administer  the  same. 


(     85     ) 


ON    SOME    WROUGHT    FLINTS    EOUND    AT 
WEST  WICKHAM  IN  KENT. 

BY    GEORGE    CLINCH. 

In  the  year  1863  a  small  piece  of  wood-land,  con- 
taining a  little  over  two  acres,  was  grubbed  up  at 
West  Wickham  in  Kent.  This  land  was  subsequently 
planted  with  fruit-trees,  but  it  still  bears  its  old 
name  of  "  Moll  Costen."*  In  the  autumn  of  1878 
my  attention  was  directed  to  it  in  consequence  of 
finding  a  neatly  worked  flint  spear-head.  Stimu- 
lated by  this  discovery,  I  have  made  a  careful  ex- 
amination of  the  ground,  both  in  Moll  Costen  and 
also  in  the  adjoining  fields.  My  search  has  been 
rewarded  by  the  discovery  of  about  three  hundred 
worked  flints  of  various  kinds,  and  apparently  designed 
for  various  uses.  Many  of  these  flints  bear  evidence 
to  a  great  deal  of  labour  having  been  bestowed  on 
them  in  order  to  render  them  of  a  convenient  size 
and  shape  for  the  purposes  to  which  they  were  de- 
signed. 

Two  polished  celts  of  rather  curious  shapes  were 

*  There  was  a  traditional  belief  among  the  people  of  West  Wick- 
ham and  Foxhill,  Keston,  that  a  certain  ISloW  Costen  many  years 
ago  committed  siiicide  by  hanging  upon  one  of  the  trees  in  this  little 
wood.  This  tradition  seems  to  have  died  out  during  the  last  few 
years,  but  it  was  well  known  at  about  the  time  when  the  wood  was 
grubbed. — G.  C. 


86 


ON    SOME   WROUGHT   FLINTS   FOUND    AT 


found ;  one,  made  of  black  flint,  2J  inches  long  (IFig. 
1),  has  apparently  been  chipped  into  form,  and  after- 


FlG.   1. 


wards  carefully  rubbed  down  to  an  edge  I5  inch  long, 
and  Y2  inch  thick.  The  outline  of  this  edge  is  the 
segment  of  a  circle,  the  radius  of  which  is  1|  inch. 
This  celt  weighs  nearly  2  ozs.,  and  it  is  evident  that 
it  was  originally  hafted  into  a  horn  or  wooden  socket. 
The  other  celt  (Fig.  2)  measures  3|  inches,  and  was 

Fig.  2. 


probably  rubbed  down  to  a  point,  which  would  make 
the  original  length  about  4f  or  5  inches.  This  point 
has  unfortunately  been  broken  off,  but  much  of  the 
smoothed  surface  remains.  This  celt  is  formed  of 
tough  grey  flint,  and  weighs  nearly  half  a  pound.  I 
have  also  found  three  arrow-heads,  two  of  which  are 
nearly   perfect   specimens   of    the   leaf-shaped   type, 


WEST   WICKHAM   IN   KENT. 


87 


originally  measuring  3  inches  (Pig.  3)  and  2^  inches 
respectively,  and  also  the  lower  part  of  what  once 


Pig.  3. 


was  a  very  delicately  wrought  example  of  the  acutely- 
tapering  variety.  The  last-mentioned  and  one  of 
the  former  arrow-heads  are  of  black  flint,  the  other  of 
yellowish-grey  flint. 

The    spear -head    (Pig.    4),    already    mentioned, 

Fia.  4. 
.A 


measures  in  its  present  condition  3^  inches,  hut  it  has 
been  broken  at  both  ends,  and  probably  measured  at 
least  5  inches  in  its  complete  state.  The  workman- 
ship is  very  good,  and  the  surface  has  been  made 


88 


ON    SOME    WROUGHT    FLINTS    FOUND    AT 


remarkably  even  and  uniform.  Anothcn'  (lint  of  con- 
siderable interest  I  had  the  good  fortune  to  find  in 
1879.  This  is  an  example  of  a  class  of  flints  termed 
•'ovoid-flints."      My   specimen   (Fig.   5)    is   3    inches 


Fig.  5 


^~%,^-" 


long  and  2  inches  wide,  and  is  chipped  to  a  thin  and 
tolerably  regular  edge  all  round.  It  is  worked  into 
an  oviform  shape  on  both  sides  with  a  considerable 
amount  of  care. 

Upwards  of  thirty  specimens  of  "  thumb-flint,"  or 
"scrapers,"  have  from  time  to  time  been  picked  up. 
They  are  of  various  sizes  from  1  inch  to  2  inches  across, 
and  are  of  as  many  shapes  and  varieties  of  workman- 
ship. Most  of  them  have  been  greatly  damaged  by 
the  plough-share  and  the  spade,  but  others,  from  their 
appearance,  do  not  seem  to  have  been  broken  recently, 
but  indicate  that  they  were  worn  out  and  thrown  away 
as  useless  by  the  men  who  made  or  used  them. 

The  purposes  for  which  they  were  used  may  have 
been  such  as  to  render  them  useless  after  a  short  time  ; 
such,  for  instance,  as  the  fashioning  of  wooden  bowls 
or  plates,  or  the  making  of  articles  of  horn,  bone,  jet, 
or  even  the  softer  kinds  of  stone.  They  were  probably 
used  for  several  other  purposes,  such  as  scraping  skins 
which  were  undergoing  the  process  of  tanning,  and 


WEST  WICKHAM    IN    KENT.  89 

also  for  scraping  or  reducing  to  pulp  such  roots  or 
vegetables  as  were  of  any  service  for  food,  etc.,  and 
even  for  assisting,  when  such  instruments  as  our 
modern  knives  and  forks  were  yet  unknown,  in  the 
services  of  the  feast. 

The  class  of  worked  flints  usually  known  as 
"flakes"  is  well  represented  among  the  implements 
of  West  Wickham.  Many  of  them  have  been  wrought 
with  great  care,  one  or  two  specimens  in  particular, 
which,  formed  of  black  flint  and  beautifully  glazed  by 
age,  present  a  very  similar  appearance  to  implements 
of  obsidian. 

I  have  several  "  cores  "  of  precisely  the  same  kind 
of  flint  as  the  flakes  which  have  been  struck  from 
them.  Besides  these,  a  multitude  of  other  flints  have 
been  found  of  less  importance,  yet  all  bearing  evidence 
of  having  been  "worked."  There  is  good  reason  to 
think  that  some  of  them  are  flakes  spoiled  in  the 
making,  but  others  which  have  semicircular  indenta- 
tions chipped  out  of  the  edge  were  probably  used  for 
scraping  bone  needles,  arrow-shafts,  fishhooks,  etc., 
and  others  are  occasionally  found  which  have  been 
chipped  to  a  point,  and  which  would  make  really  good 
substitutes  for  awls  or  drills  of  metal.  I  have  also 
found  a  quantity  of  chips  of  flint,  which,  from  their 
shape  and  size,  might  easily  have  done  service  as 
minute  arrow-heads. 

The  following  facts  deserve  to  be  duly  considered 
before  passing  any  judgment  upon  these  remains  at 
West  Wickham : — 

1.  All  the  worked  flints  were  found  in  groups  of 
from  ten  to  twelve  within  a  radius  of  about  5  feet. 
May  not  these  spots  be  the  sites  of  former  huts  or 
habitations,  all  other  traces  of  which  have  perished  ? 


90  WROUGHT    FLINTS — WEST   WICKHAM. 

2.  I  have  found  a  few  small  fragments  of  rude 
partially  haked  pottery,  which  in  texture  and  colour 
exactly  resemble  Celtic  ware. 

3.  A  quantity  of  pebbles  thoroughly  reddened  by 
fire  are  scattered  about  on  the  surface  of  the  ground, 
and,  strange  to  say,  the  other  stones  (with  few  excep- 
tions) bear  no  marks  of  fire  or  heat  whatever. 

In  these  facts  I  think  we  have  evidence  which, 
though  not  conclusive,  renders  it  at  least  very  pro- 
bable that  domestic  habitations  at  some  time  existed 
here.  The  proportion  of  "scrapers"  (which  were 
distinctly  domestic  implements)  is  too  great  to  allow 
us  to  think  that  this  was  merely  a  hunting-ground, 
and  this  fact,  togetlier  with  the  occurrence  of  burnt 
pebbles  (probably  used  for  heating  water  in  wooden 
vessels)  and  pottery,  certainly  favours  the  idea  that 
this  was  the  site  of  a  village  or  collection  of  dwellings 
of  some  sort. 

I  have  found  worked  flints  not  only  in  West 
Wickham,  but  also  in  the  parishes  of  Hayes  and 
Keston,  which,  together  with  the  supposed  British 
pit-dwellings  on  Hayes  Common,  seem  to  render  it 
extremely  probable  that  this  settlement  may  have  had 
some  connection  with  the  British  Oppidum  in  Holwood 
Park,  Keston.  The  discovery  of  these  worked  flints 
is  of  considerable  interest  to  the  antiquary,  as  West 
Kent  has  not  hitherto  yielded  many  relics  of  this  kind. 

The  upper  chalk  is  found,  not  far  below  the 
surface,  at  Moll  Costen ;  and  outcrops  of  chalk  occur 
within  a  quarter  of  a  mile. 


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APPLEDORE   CHURCH. 

BY   THE   REV.    E.    M.    MURIEL,    M.A. 

This  Church,  dediccated  to  St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul,  is  situated 
on  the  south-east  side  of  the  village,  and  stands  on  a  knoll 
of  ground.  It  consists  of  a  nave ;  south  aisle ;  chancel,  with 
a  chapel  on  either  side  ;  and  a  tower  at  the  west  end.  There 
are  four  arches  between  the  nave  and  aisle,  supported  by 
octagonal  pillars,  with  plain  though  rather  heavy-looking 
capitals,  of  Perpendicular  character.  The  nave  is  lighted  on 
the  north  side  by  four  Decorated  windows  of  two  lights  each — 
all  perfect  except  one,  which  has  lost  its  tracery  and  has  a 
common  wooden  frame  inserted  instead.  There  are  five 
windows  in  the  aisle,  three  of  which  are  similar  to  those  in  the 
nave;  the  other  two  are  Perpendicular  of  three  lights.  The 
east  window  of  the  south  chapel  is  also  Perpendicular :  on 
the  south  side  of  this  chapel  is  another  window,  with  a 
wooden  frame  in  the  place  of  its  mullions  and  tracery.  In 
the  base  of  this  window,  under  a  foliated  arch,  is  an  ancient 
altar  tomb,  the  front  of  which  is  sculptured  with  quatre- 
f oil  panels ;  the  top  is  a  slab  of  Bethersden  marble,  7  feet  9 
inches  by  3  feet  2  inches,  which  in  all  probability  sustained  a 
sculptured  effigy.  There  are  no  traces  of  an  inscription  nor 
indents  of  brass.  In  the  spandrels  of  the  foliated  arch  are 
quatrefoils  with  heads  aj)parently  of  ecclesiastics ;  the 
whole  is  now  thickly  covered  with  whitewash.  By  the  side 
of  this  tomb  is  a  large  trefoil-headed  piscina,  with  very 
narrow  stone  shelf. 

Leaning  against  the  east  wall  of  the  south  chapel  is  an 
altar  stone  with  two  of  its  five  crosses  visible ;  it  is  broken 
at  one  end,  and  measures  5  feet  4  inches  by  2  feet  8  inches. 
A  Decorated  screen  separates  the  chapel  from  the  south 
aisle.  The  Perpendicular  rood  screen  also  remains,  and 
the  stone  corbels  which  supported  the  loft,  the  approach  to 
which  is  still  open  on  the  south  side.     On  each  side  of  the 


92  APPLEDORE   CHURCH. 

chancel  is  an  arch  opening-  into  the  chapels,  but  there  is  no 
chancel  arch,  nor  any  arch  at  the  west  end  of  either  chapel, 
the  screen  bein<i^  the  only  mark  of  division. 

The  north  chapel  is  now  divided ;  the  larger  and  western 
portion  has  its  arch  and  Decorated  screen  blocked  up,  and  is 
used  for  a  Sunday-school ;  the  smaller  eastern  portion  is 
now  a  vestry,  the  entrance  to  which  is  by  a  small  Perpen- 
dicular door  on  the  north  side  of  the  altar. 

The  Font  is  octagonal,  with  moulded  base ;  the  upper 
half  of  the  bowl  is  plain,  but  on  the  lower  half,  which  is 
splayed,  there  are  three  shields  ;  one  is  charged  with  a  cross, 
another  with  two  keys  in  saltier,  and  the  third  with  two 
swords  also  in  saltier,  the  symbols  of  St.  Peter  and  St.  Paul, 
to  whom  the  church  is  dedicated. 

The  Tower  is  very  picturesque  and  much  overgrown  with 
ivy ;  it  stands  at  the  west  end  of  the  nave,  to  which  it  opens 
with  a  low  massive  arch,  under  which  on  the  north  side  is 
a  curious  stoup  with  foliated  head. 

The  west  door  is  a  fine  example  of  the  Perpendicular 
style ;  the  drip-stones  terminate  with  angels  holding  plain 
shields.  Above  are  three  shields,  that  on  the  dexter  side 
is  charged  with  a  cross ;  the  one  in  the  centre  bears  the 
arms  of  Prance  and  England  quarterly,  and  the  other  has 
the  arms  of  Archbishop  Warham. 

The  south  side  of  the  bell  chamber  is  pierced  with  two 
quatref oiled  circular  windows,  and  the  north  side  with  one, 
and  also  with  a  square  labelled  Perpendicular  window. 
Another  of  the  same  character  as  the  last  is  on  the  west  side. 

The  dimensions  of  the  various  parts  of  the  church  are  as 
follows : — 

LENGTH.  WIDTH. 

ft.      in.  ft.      iu. 

Nave 56  0  x  44  0 

Aisle 34  0  x  15  6 

Chancel 32  0  x  17  4 

South  Chapel 24  0  x  15  6 

North  Chapel  (now  Vestry)  21  0  x  15  0 

Tower 17  9  x  14  9 

There  are  six  bells,  but  one  of  them  is  cracked.     Four 


APPLEDORE    CHURCH.  93 

of  tliem  bear,  each,  the  following  inscription  : — John  Hod- 
son  made  me  1685.  John  Owen  and  Henry  Richardson, 
Churchwardens . 

The  fifth  bell  is  inscribed : — Joseph  Hatch  fecit  me  1620. 

The  sixth  bell  is  older ;  it  bears  this  prayer : — Sancte 
Nicholas  ora  pro  nobis. 

All  the  existing"  Registers  are  contained  in  one  book, 
and  commence  at  the  same  date,  viz.  1700,  though  there 
appears  to  have  been  an  earlier  one  dating  from  1600 
which  is  now  lost.  The  following  is  a  copy  from  the  first 
leaf  of  the  present  register  book  : — 

The  following  particulars  relating  to  the  church  are  copied 
verhatim  et  literatim  from  a  page  in  the  Register  book  for  1600. 

In  the  east  window  of  the  great  Chancell  there  is  a  person  painted 
on  the  glass  in  a  religious  habit,  on  his  knees ;  out  of  his  mouth 
comes  a  labell  wherof  the  inscription  (remaining  this  June  9, 1700) 
here  follows  viz. : — Newnam  (?  animam)  miserere  Joliannis  JPrideiix  ; 
Dovorensis  algz  (?  ahquando)  Prioris  (this  was  taken  away  or  lost  in 
1701)  ;  and  underneath,  Priore'  Dovoricce  Benefac. 

And  on  the  second  window  on  the  north  side  of  the  church,  there 
are  several  persons  painted,  praying  to  the  B.  Virgin,  every  one 
with  this  labell,  ^S'"  Maria  ora  pro  nobis.  Underneath  : — Johannis 
Hoorn. 

The  B.  Virgin  is  painted,  as  the  Queen  of  Heaveu,  in  a  very 
small  pannell  of  glass  on  the  top  of  this  window. 

In  the  3rd  north  window,  the  name  of  John  "Wolbald  is  legible  ; 
and  over  the  said  name  a  man  and  woman  on  their  knees. 

The  Scotts  arms,  being  three  Katherine  wheels  (but  without  a 
Bordure),  are  in  the  south  side  window. 

And  there  seems  likewise  in  the  uppermost  window  of  the  south 
isle  to  be  some  remains  of  the  Empei'or  Maximine,  in  hell,  fastened 
to  such  a  wheel  as  he  had  put  St.  Katherine  to  death  upon,  and  that 
Saint  (in  all  probability)  stands  above  Maximine,  in  the  same 
window. 

In  the  east  window  of  the  South  Chancell  are  some  remains  of 
the  Crucifixion,  and  the  women  standing  at  a  distance. 

In  the  very  highest  pannel  of  glass  on  the  top  of  the  uppermost 
window,  low  in  the  north  Isle,  is  a  little  picture  of  the  fictitious  St. 
Christopher. 

Philipot,    in    his    Church    Notes    (now  in   the    British 


91  APPLEDORE    CHURCH. 

Museum),  gives  tlie  following  particulars  respecting  this 
cliurcli : — 

[Two  shields  are  tricked  by  Philipot,  one  shewing  argent  a 
pile  gules,  over  all  a  bar  gtdes ;  tlie  other  bears,  Avithin  a  bordure 
argent,  paly  wavy  of  six  or  and  gnhs.'\ 

Written  in  a  Avindow  under  these  arms — "  W.  de  Ilortie  ct 
Morgareta  vxor  eics." 

In  another  window  John  Home,  w^''  y''  same  arms,  are  written 
in  y^  same  character  [black-letter  capitals].  Their  ancient  seat 
was  at  Homes  Place  up  too  y°  hill  syde  Nere  to  w<=^'  is  Goosebornc, 
of  whose  Lords  there  is  mention  in  j^  north  window,  w^''  these 
arms  viz.: — Sable  a  fesse  or  between  three  geese  argent. 

lu  another  window  written  :  "  Jolies  et  EUzahetha  uxor  eius.'^ 

In  the  south  window  [are  two  shields  one  bearing  the  arms  of 
Scott  impaling  those  of  Lewknor  ;  the  other  bears  Peckham  impal- 
ing Culpeper]. 

Thomas  "Woolball  kneelinge  in  a  windovr  at  y«  west  end  of  y" 
church  in  y°  lowest  of  y'^  north  syde. 

In  ye  Chancell  wyndow  y^  Prior  of  S*  Martens  at  Dovor  kneelinge 
in  ye  vestments  of  his  order  to  w'^'^  Place  this  Place  belonged,  being 
a  part  of  there  Demeanes  and  since  y®  Disolutiou  it  came  w-''^  y« 
rest  of  ye  lands  of  that  house  unto  y^  Archbishops  of  Canterbury 
who  now  are  Lords  of  y^  same. 

The  steple  of  this  Church  was  once  A  Munition  Tower  aud  by 
Bishop  Warham  made  convenient  with  a  sauve  door. 

The  only  Register  Book  now  left  contains,  on  the  first 
leaf,  extracts  from  the  old  Saxon  Chronicles  translated 
by  Mr.  Johnson,  Vicar,  but  as  they  are  given,  by  Hasted  they 
need  not  be  repeated  here. 

The  following  are  extracts  from  the  Register  of 
Christinings  (so  spelt). 

1700.     Oct.  13.     John   Souningwell,  born  in  the  City  Bore,  upon 
the  Gold  Coast  in  Guinea.     Bap. 

1703.     July  V.       John,   son  of  Thomas   &  Mary   Adams,   at   the 
Hoath,  bapf^  in  articulo  mortis  domi. 
(Several  others  are  mentioned  in  this  form.) 

1712.     Peb.  8.       Peter  Woodman,  a  Clinic,  upwards  of  30,  in  ex- 
tremis. 

1715.     June  19.    Mary  daughter  of  two  travellers  who  call  them- 
selves William  &  Anne  Critteor. 


APPLEDOEE    CHURCH.  95 

1720.  Oct.  21.     Thomas  Wood,  an  adult,  in  ipso  articiilo  mortis, 

domi,  bapizatus. 
Nov.  !).       Mary  "Weller,  widow  de  vita  periclitam  domi  bap'. 
1723.     May  29.     Five  children,  Alice,  Jane,  Thomas,  Bichard,  and 
Lydia,  ivere  baptized  the  same  day,  toith  the 
followincj  note  appended. 

T*^  Parents,  Eicbard  &  Anne  Russell,  of  y'^  above,  adhered  for 
some  time  to  a  certain  sect,  called  Shakers.  Richard  Russell  the 
father  during  his  Life  time  would  never  consent  to  have  them  bap- 
tized ;  and  after  his  decease  y''  wddow  was  w*"^  great  difficulty 
prevailed  upon  to  let  them  be  baptized — a  sort  of  Mongrel  Inde- 
pendants.  N.B. — Russell,  whose  Father  was  a  Quaker,  was  a 
desciple  of  one  Skeats  of  Tenterden. 

1721.  July  3''.     Thomas  son  of  Thomas  &  Elizabeth  Boan  de  vita 

periclitam  domi  baptizat.  This  child,  sur- 
viving y®  Danger,  was  received  into  y^  Church 
w^''  due  solemnity  July  28,  1721. 

1722.  Feb.  17.     John  son  of  John  Day  (Glover  in  the  Town)  and 

Anne  his  wife. 
1725.     Mar.  25.     John  son  of  Thomas  &  Elizabeth  Sharp.     IS'.B.— 
This  Child  was   y^  Fruit  of   Ante-Nuptial 
Fornication  being  born   March    6   about  5 
weeks  &  3  days  after  marriage. 
[Several  other  cases  of  this  kind  occur.     One  on  March  4,  1725, 
of  two  couple  who  afterwards  performed  Public  Penance  for  the 
same  in  Appledore  Church  Nov.  28,  1725.] 

No  marriage  took  place  in  tbe  years  1743-1741. 

^uryings. 

1704.  May  13.  John  Grigsby,  an  ancient  Housekeeper,  Ana- 
baptist, Bur*^. 

1707.  May  14.  Richard  Fuss,  Carpenter,  aged  80  years,  a  very 
vigiorous  old  man. 

1727.  Mar.  22.     Thomas  Beere,  an  honest,  sober,  pious  old  man  who 

lived  upwards  of  thirty  years  in  the  Vicar- 
age house. 

1728.  April  29.    Mr.  Francis  (son  of  Mr.  Samuel  &  Jane)  Croswell 

a  modest,  sober  &  virtuous  young  Gentleman 
aged  30  y.  10  m.  he  was  buried  in  the  Chan- 
eell. 
1753.     Feb.  7.       Willian  Lunt  a  Dragoonman. 


96  APPLEDORE    CHURCH. 

1753.     April  27.     Peter  Hock,  Parisli  Clerk,  who  drop'' down  dead 
in  the  Churcli  as  He  was  repeating  the  Con- 
fession. 
1783.     Feb.  2i.     William  Crust  1  vir  et  uxor  in  codem 

Feb.  24.     Phoebe  Crust     J  tumulo  consepulti. 
1787.     Jan.  13.      Mary    Harman,  wife  of  R''  Harman  75.     Eheu  ! 
quantum   jactura?   buic    Vico    Accidit    ejus 
morte  !     Per  annos  viginti  et  plures  munus 
doccndi  maxima  fidelitate  obibat ;    et  bene, 
omnium  testimonio   hie    habitantium   novit 
teneram  Uteris  imbuere  juveutam. 
Hactenus,  J.  Jefferson  Scpeliendi  Munus  obiit,  Ecclesife  hujusce 
quatenus  Minister.  Post  hac,  aliquantam  saltern  in  Temporis  raunere 
fungatur  letliali. 

Jos.  Natterhouse  A.M.  e.  Coll.  B.eg.  Oxon. 
[It  appears  from  the  Register  that  Mr.   Jefferson  quitted  the 
Cure  of  Appledore  July  1787,  and  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Natter- 
house, who  lived  only  till  the  Dec.  following.] 


MONUMENTAL    INSCRIPTIONS    IN    APPLEDORE 
CHURCH. 

0)1  a  dark  slab  in  tlie  Chancel. 
Here  lieth    tbe   body   of   Mr.    Francis  Crosswell   son  of   Mr. 
Samuel  and  Mrs.  Jane  Crosswell,  who  departed  this  life  Aprill  22, 
1728,  £etat.  30. 

Mors  Janua  Vitse. 

Here  lieth  also  tlie  body  of  the  aforesaid  Mrs.  Jane  Crosswell, 
who  departed  this  life  y^  28  July,  1732,  in  the  76  year  of  her  age. 

Samuel  Crosswell,  son  of  the  Rev.  Francis  Crosswell,  sometime 
Rector  of  Wittersham,  died  April  y^  25th,  1742,  aged  82. 

Arms. — A  fesse  ....  in  chief  two  mullets  ;  impaling  quarterly, 
1st  and  4tli,  a  chevron  between  three  mullets ;  2nd  and  3rd,  a 
chevron  between  three  escallops. 

Slab  loose  against  the  East  Wall. 
Here  lyeth  ye  body  of  Samuel  Crosswell,  son  of  Samuel  Cross- 
well,  grocer,  and  Jane  his  wife,  of  Appledoor,  who  departed  this 
life  10  August,  1701,  aged  9  years  and  9  months. 


APPLEDOIIE    CHURCH.  97 

Slab  loitliin  the  Altar  Rails. 
Here  lieth  the  body  of  Eobert  Combs,  wbo  was  born  the  second 
day  of  January,  1635,  and  died  the  nineteenth  day  of  March,  1G94-5, 
and  buried  the  26th  day  of  the  same  month. 

Slab. 

In  memory  of  Margaret  Munk,  wife  of  Jeffery  Munk,  Gent., 
who  died  the  14th  of  March,  1807,  aged  81  years. 

Also  in  memory  of  Jeffery  Munk,  Gent.,  of  this  parish,  who 
died  October  14,  1817,  in  the  eighty-sixth  year  of  his  age. 

In  the  North  Chapel  is  a  small  tablet  of  dark  stone  now  broken 
and  used  to  stop  up  a  fire-place,  with  this  inscription  : — 

Philadelphia,  the  widow  of  Samuel  Fremoult,  and  daughter  of 
Samuel  Crosswell,  died  April  y^  21st  1754. 


VOL.   XIV.  '  H 


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THE  CHURCn  OP  STONE  IN  OXNEY. 

BY   THE   UEV.    E.    M.    MURIEL,    M.A. 

This  Church,  dedicated  to  St.  Maiy,  consists  of  nave,  north 
and  south  aisles,  chancel,  north  and  south  chapels,  and  a 
square  embattled  tower  of  three  stages  with  a  beacon  turret 
at  the  west  end,  from  the  top  of  which  a  fine  view  of  the 
suiTounding  country  is  obtained.  The  entire  church  is  Per- 
pendicular. The  best  feature  internally  is  the  colonnade  on 
each  side  of  the  nave,  consisting  of  three  good  arches,  sup- 
ported on  pillars,  which  are  graceful  and  lofty.  The  Tudor 
arch  between  each  chapel  and  the  chancel  is  very  flat ; 
under  that  on  the  north  side,  are  the  remains  of  a  late 
Perpendicular  screen  ;  and  in  the  windows  of  the  same 
chapel  we  may  observe  specimens  of  canojDy-work  in  the 
painted  glass,  rather  spoilt  by  the  insertion  of  some  pieces 
of  modern  glass.  The  south  chapel  is  the  oldest  part  of  the 
church ;  in  the  south-west  corner  of  it  are  the  stone  steps, 
now  blocked  up,  which  led  to  the  rood-loft.  There  are 
some  remains  of  painted  glass  in  the  east  window  of  this 
chapel,  one  diaper  is  left,  and  other  portions  which  probably 
were  on  the  outside  of  a  figure  with  flowing  robes.  In  this 
chajjel's  south  wall,  under  a  niche,  is  a  projecting  bowl  like 
a  plain  piscina,  but  some  doubt  whether  it  had  any  orifice 
for  a  drain.  The  chancel  itself  and  the  pillars  supj)orting 
it  are  very  massive ;  and  above  the  arch  are  two  large  niches, 
which  I  at  first  thought  had  contained  statues  in  connection 
with  the  rood-loft ;  but  when  the  chancel  roof  was  raised, 
under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Christian,  at  the  expense  of 
the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Canterbury,  it  was  found  that  they 
were  only  plain  windows.  The  font  is  octagonal  and  quite 
plain.  Under  the  tower  arch  is  a  screen  of  balustraded  work, 
vdth  the  following  initials  and  date  carved  on  the  front : — 

WP     IS     CWS     1705. 


THE    CHURCH    OP    STONE    IN    OXNEY.  99 

The  whole  of  the  church  has  been  recently  restored 
Tinder  the  immediate  superintendence  and  greatly  to  the 
credit  of  the  Eev.  H.  P.  Edridge,  the  Yicar,  who  personally 
assisted  in  the  work,  carefully  restoring  each  part  according* 
to  the  original  design. 

The  earliest  register  is  that  of  burials ;  it  is  complete 
from  1567  to  the  present  time  5  that  of  baptisms  begins  in 
1573.  No  marriage  took  place  during  the  years  1714  to 
1717. 

I  wiU  mention  a  few  of  the  entries  made  in  the  Registers, 
or  facts  derived  therefrom  : 

1625     George  Harnett,  householder,  excommunicate. 
1628     Mary,  wife  of  Thos.  Fowler,  excommunicate. 
1630     Margery  Harper,  excommunicate. 
-1635     John  Tomas,  excommunicate. 
1638     An  Irish  travelling  man,  whose  name  we  cannot  learn. 

1658  Buried  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Thomas   Swift,  with   her 

unchristened  child  in  the  same  coffin. 

1659  May  11     Henry  Wood,  young  man. 
May  21     Henry  Wood,  old  man. 

North-east  of  the  south  door  there  is  a  stone,  poiDularly 
supposed  to  be  that  on  which  persons  stood  to  do  penance, 
but  I  differ  from  the  general  opinion.  Walcott,  in  his  Sacred 
Archceology,  says,  "  The  penitents,  in  haircloth  and  ashes, 
stood  before  the  ambon,  and  from  it  the  Bishop  laid  hands 
upon  them,  after  being  entreated  by  his  clergy  in  set  forms 
of  address."  Now  the  ambon  was  an  elevated  desk  or  pulpit 
used  for  reading  the  Holy  Scriptures,  placed  in  the  centre 
of  the  nave,  either  in  the  middle  or  on  one  side ;  the 
ambon  was  in  fact  the  orio-inal  from  which  the  lectern  eao-le 
was  derived.  I  think  that  this  stone  was  the  pedestal  of  the 
poor-box  (ordered  by  Edward  VI) ;  or,  earlier,  of  a  holy 
water  stoup. 

A  list  of  those  who  did  penance  here  is  given  in  the 
Register  : 

George  Holden  did  penance  20  July  1620. 
Dorothy  Venell  „  „  18  Sep.  1622. 
Margery  Harper  „         „         1627. 

H  2 


100  THE    CHURCH   OF    STONE    IN    OXNET. 

Thomas  —  and  Lydia  his  wife  did  penance  21  June  1C34. 
John  Tomas  „         „         M-  Doc.  1G34. 

Thomas  Young  &  Am}' his  wife  „         „         10  Jiine  103G. 
John  Nunnington  &  Margeret  his  wife  „         19  June  1G36. 

I  may  mention  that  the  two  latest  instances  of  public 
penances  in  England  occurred  at  Bristol  in  1812,  and 
Ditton,  Cambridgeshire,  in  1849. 

"  Oliver  Fidge  and  three  others,  of  Wittersham  Oxney, 
weare  drowned  Oct.  21,  1633,  in  the  watry  marishes  betweene 
Peasmarsh  and  "Wittersham ;  Knell  dam  breaking,  and  the 
waters  overflowing  all  the  marishes  very  deepe,  even  to  the 
channel. 

"Testis  Thos.  Martin  tunc  Vic.  de  Stone,  cum  multis  aliis." 

"Mem.:  That  on  June  10,  1720,  at  an  Archiepiscopal 
Visitation,  then  holden  at  Ashford  by  the  most  Eev.  Father 
in  God,  Dr.  W.  Wake,  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  sixty- 
four  persons  and  upwards,  inhabitants  of  this  Parish,  were 
confirmed  by  the  Rev.  Father  in  God,  Dr.  Wjmn,  Lord 
Bishop  of  St.  Asaph  ;  the  Eev.  Culpeper  Savage,  Vicar;  and 
the  same  year  the  treble  bell  was  new  cast." 

"  Mem.  :  That  the  gallery  at  the  west  end  of  the  Church 
was  erected  by  the  unanimous  consent  and  at  the  charge  of 
the  Parish,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1721,^ 

"  Robert  Beale  and  Richard  Emery,  Ch.  V/ardens." 

"  The  week  before  Aistor  (Easter),  1699,  Stone  Church  was 
robbed  of  a  good  new  surplice,  and  a  good  new  Communion 
purple  table  cloth,  and  ye  silver  cup  and  cover,  also  ye  linnen 
table  cloth  and  napkin."  This  was  pi'obably  one  of  the 
weightiest  chalices  in  the  county,  weighing  over  thirtj^-one 
ounces ;  one  larger  is  mentioned  in  the  Inventory  of 
Church  Goodsjt  at  Holy  Cross,  Canterbury,  which  weighed 
thirty-four  ounces  and  three-quarters.  In  Archceologia  Can- 
tiana,  XI,  p.  415,  an  inventory  of  the  parish  church  goods 
of  Stone  mentions  that  there  were  five  bells  in  the  steeple, 

*  Now  pulled  down. 

f  Inventories  of  Parish  Goods  in  Kent,  1552.  A  very  interesting 
Paper,  by  Canon  Scott  Robertson,  in  Vol.  Vlll,  p.  88,  of  Archceologia 
Cantiana. 


THE    CHURCH    OF    STONE    IN    OXNEY.  101 

and  one  over  the  cliancel.  That  may  account  for  the  hole 
which  we  observe  in  the  beam  over  the  chancel  arch,  through 
which  the  rope  for  ringing  the  sanctus  bell  probably 
passed.  There  are  six  bells  in  the  present  peal ;  the  second 
bell  is  thus  inscribed,  "  Vox  Agtisiini  sonet  in  aure  Dei."  The 
others  were  cast  by  W.  and  P.  Mears,  in  1786,  1787  (two), 
1788,  and  1795. 

It  appears  that  many  of  the  churches  in  this  neighbour- 
hood were  destroyed,  or  injured  by  fire.  The  Vicar  of 
Stone  informs  me  that  when  this  church  was  restored,  in 
laying  down  the  chancel  pavement,  pieces  of  molten  lead 
were  found,  affording  proof  that  this  church  also  suffered 
from  fire  about  the  seventeenth  century.  Pieces  of  the 
molten  lead  are  still  preserved. 

The  Roman  altar,  which  is  in  the  vicarage  garden,  was 
removed  from  the  church  and  made  a  horse  block,  by  which 
means  it  was  much  defaced  and  cracked  asunder ;  but  Mr. 
GostHng,  who  was  Vicar  from  1753  to  1777,  had  it  repaired 
and  placed  it  upright  in  the  vicarage  garden.  The  altar  is 
of  stone,  with  a  basin  hollowed  in  the  top,  and  the  figure  of 
an  ox  carved  on  the  four  sides  ;  one  side  is  now  tolerably 
perfect,  the  others  are  much  defaced.  The  iron  ring  at  the 
foot  of  the  altar  is  supposed  to  have  been  used  for  securing 
thereto  the  victims  for  sacrifice. 


MONUMENTAL  INSCRIPTIONS  IN  THE  CHURCH  OF 
STONE  IN  OXNEY. 

A  Monument  in  the  North  Chapel  against  the  East   Wall  has  this 

inscription : — 

In  Memoiy  of  John  CoojDer  late  of  this  Parish  who  died  10  Dec. 
1790. aged  56  years,  also  o£  Ami  bis  wife  who  died  11  May  1771 
aged  31  years,  likewise  of  Hannah  his  second  wife  who  died  6  Sept. 
1791  aged  44  years.  This  monument  was  erected  as  a  tribute  of 
respect  by  his  three  nephews. 

On  a  flat  stone. 
Here  lyeth  the  body  of  Mr.  Stephen  Tighe  son  of  Mr.  Robert 
Tighe  of  this  parish  who  departed  this  life  Jan.  7,  1733,  in  the  50 
year  of  his  age,  who  left  issue  one  daughter. 


102  THE   CnURCH    OF    STONE    IN    OXNEY. 

On  n  large  hhte  shih. 

Here  lies  the  body  of  Sarah  dauf^litcr  of  Stephen  Tighc  Gent, 
and  Martlia  Ijis  wife.  She  married  George  Carter  of  Iveunington 
Esq.,  by  whom  she  had  issue  G  children  of  which  4  survived  her, 
Sarah,  Martha,  Ann,  and  George.  She  died  Jan.  30,  17G5,  aged 
41  years.  Also  the  body  of  George  Carter  Esq.,  who  died  27  Feb. 
1782  aged  G8  years. 

Small  marhJe  slab  hij  the  side  of  ill c  last. 
William  Son  of  George  and  Sarah  Carter  died  the  3  day  of 
October  1748  aged  18  mouths. 

On  a  blue  slab. 
Here  lieth  interred  y^  Body  of  Mr.  John  Waters,  He  died  Jan. 
17,  1838,  aged  36  years. 

On  a  bine  slab. 
Here  lyeth   the  body   of  the  wife  of  John   Hall,  once  Mary 
Odiarne,  deceased  the  4  day  of  December  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
1677. 

[^This  is  in  capitals,  and  there  is  a  dot  after  every  icord.'] 


DIMENSIONS  OE  STONE  CHUECH. 

(^Communicated  by  the  Rev.  H.  P.  Edridye.^ 

Tower,  14  feet  square ;  62  feet  high. 
Nave,  with  its  Aisles,  40  feet  square. 
Width  of  Nave,  20  feet. 

„      of  each  Aisle,  10  feet. 
Chancel,  30  feet  long ;  20  feet  wide. 
Chancel  chapels,  each,  20  feet  long,  13  feet  wide. 
Porch,  11  feet  by  10  feet. 

Mr.  Edridge  states  that  in  the  north  and  south  walls  of  the 
chancel  there  are  traces  of  mural  arcades  formerly  existing. 


i^^^l^^Stes^Jii^ 


STUKLEVS  VIEW  OFTHE  SITE  &  RUINS  OFSTPANCRAS  (SOurH   SIDE) 
IN  A. D. 1722. 

(mZL^TTERS  C;D,E,  F,  ARE  BXPLAINLO  UPON   THE  PLAN  J 


RUINS   OF  ST  PANCRA8    IN   A. D. 1784. 

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EOMAN    FOUNDATIONS    AT    ST.   PANGEAS, 
CANTERBURY. 

BY  THE  REV.  CANON  C.  F.  ROTJTLEDGE. 

The  accidental  re-interment  in  this  spot  of  some  bones  dug 
up  under  tlie  Kent  and  Canterbury  Hospital  led  to  the 
finding  of  a  few  coloured  tiles ;  and  further  search,  prose- 
cuted without  any  preconceived  plan,  has  resulted  in  what 
bids  fair  to  be  an  interesting  archaeological  discovery. 

The  only  authentic  traditions  with  regard  to  St.  Pan  eras 
Church,  which  I  have  been  able  to  meet  with  after  an 
investigation  of  the  early  chroniclers,  are  fitly  summed  up 
in  the  following  passage  of  Thorn,  a  Benedictine  monk  of 
St.  Augustine's  at  the  end  of  the  fourteenth  century :  "  There 
was  not  far  from  the  city  (of  Canterbui-y)  towards  the  east, 
as  it  were  midway  between  the  church  of  St.  Martin  and 
the  walls  of  the  city,  a  temple  or  idol-house  where  King 
Ethelbert  according  to  the  rites  of  his  tribe  was  wont  to 
pray,  and  with  his  nobles  to  sacrifice  to  his  demons  and  not 
to  God  :  which  temple  Augustine  purged  from  the  pollutions 
and  filth  of  the  Gentiles  ;  and,  having  broken  the  image 
which  was  in  it,  changed  it  into  a  church,  and  dedicated  it 
in  the  name  of  the  martyr  St.  Pancras — and  this  was  the 
first  church  dedicated  by  St.  Augustine." 

The  x^assage  which  immediately  follows  I  will  quote  here- 
after. 

Before  advancing  any  theory  about  the  remains  that 
have  been  discovered,  I  will  say  at  once  that  we  have  been 
able  to  trace  them  only  partially,  as  the  owner  of  the  ground 
on  the  other  side  of  the  wall  has  declined  to  allow  any 
diggings  to  be  carried  out  there. 

Let  me  then  give  a  brief  account  of  the  excavations, 
beginning  at   what   I   will   call    (for   clearness'    sake)    the 


104  ROMAN   FOUNDATIONS    AT 

western  porch.  There  are  still  standing  (as  you  may  see) 
portions  of  a  Avail  bnilt  Avitli  Roman  tiles  and  sea-shore 
moi-tar,  considered  by  Mr.  Parker  and  many  others  to  be  a 
veritable  Romano-British  wall,  with  apparent  traces  of  the 
spring  of  an  arch  at  right  angles  to  it. 

This  wall  is  about  9  feet  long,  and  8  feet  high  above 
ground,  with  buttresses  of  16  and  18  inches.  We  have 
uncovered  the  foundations  of  a  wall  and  buttresses  exactly 
corresponding  on  the  other  side — forming  a  porch  10  ft.  6  in. 
long,  and  Oft.  Sin.  wide,  with  an  opening  at  the  west  end 
of  6  ft.  6  in. 

Below  the  surface,  at  an  average  depth  of  14  inches, 
there  are  parts  of  a  pavement  consisting  of  coloured  and 
patterned  tiles.  These  tiles  are  mostly  of  the  date  of  the 
latter  end  of  the  fourteenth  or  beginning  of  the  fifteenth 
century.  They  have  been  found  in  all  parts  of  the  building, 
and  some  of  the  earlier  ones  apparently  formed  the  pave- 
ment of  that  church,  of  Avhich  the  east  window-arch  and  the 
chancel's  south  wall  are  still  remaining. 

At  a  depth  of  about  15  inches  below  this  pavement,  on 
the  north  side  of  the  porch,  as  well  as  on  the  south  side  and 
at  the  western  entrance,  there  are  some  rather  remarkable 
tombs,  in  one  of  which  was  a  perfect  skeleton,  in  the  others 
fragmentary  bones.  The  body  in  each  case  has  been  laid  on 
the  bare  earth,  then  built  round  with  stones  accurately 
following  its  shape,  and  covered  with  large  chamfered  slabs 
of  what  looks  like  Portland  oolite,  somewhat  similar  in 
character  to  the  so-called  sarcophagus  of  Queen  Bertha  in 
St.  Martin's. 

On  the  eastern  side  of  the  porch  is  a  doorway,  2  ft.  8  in. 
wide,  of  Norman  workmanship,  splayed  internally,  and 
leading  into  the  nave  of  the  church. 

The  wall  trends  southward  for  a  distance  of  12  feet  from 
this  doorway  ;  then  eastward,  till  at  a  little  over  1 6  feet  from 
the  turn  we  come  to  a  slab  of  Bethersden  marble  and  some 
fifteenth  century  work,  forming  part  of  a  doorway  leading 
into  the  southern  chapel,  chantry,  or  aisle  (which  I  will 
describe  hereafter)  ;  then  on  for  24  feet,  till  we  have  reached 
the   end   of  the   nave,   where   we   find   a   lateral    buttress 


GarAavleLonging  to  MTHorne. 


ST   PANCRAS 


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ST.    PANCRAS,   CANTERBURY.  105 

extending  3  ft.  5  in.  to  the  south,  and  a  mediaeval  wall  or 
buttress  reaching-  6  ft.  9  in.  to  the  east.  Here  also  imbedded 
in  the  wall  is  a  massive  circular  Eoman  pillar,  at  the  foot  of 
which  -has  been  found  the  upper  portion  of  an  apparently 
Eoman  phial. 

The  foundations  of  the  old  chancel  wall  (on  which  that 
of  the  later  church  has  not  been  evenly  and  symmetrically 
placed)  start  10  inches  farther  in  than  those  of  the  nave 
wall,  and  can  be  traced  for  12  or  13  feet  more  till  we  detect 
something-  like  the  commencement  of  an  apse ;  but  at  this 
interesting  point  we  are  warned  off  by  the  owner  of  the 
adjacent  ground. 

We  will  now  return  to  the  southern  chantry  or  aisle, 
which  is  of  identically  the  same  size  as  the  western 
porch. 

Thorn  goes  on  to  say,  after  the  passage  I  have  already 
quoted,  "  There  is  still  extant  an  altar  in  the  southern 
porticus  of  the  same  church,  at  which  the  same  Augustine 
was  wont  to  celebrate,  where  formerly  had  stood  the  idol  of 
the  king — at  which  altar,  while  Augustine  was  celebrating 
mass  for  the  first  time,  the  devil,  seeing  himself  driven  out 
from  the  home  which  he  had  inhabited  for  long  ages,  tried 
to  overturn  from  the  foundations  the  aforesaid  church :  the 
marks  of  which  thing-  are  still  apparent  on  the  exterior 
eastern  wall  of  the  abovementioned  jyorticus.^' 

In  an  engraving,  bearing  the  date  1784,  the  so-called 
devil's  marks  are  shewn  ;  and  I  have  little  or  no  doubt  that 
the  porticus  mentioned  by  Thorn  is  the  same  which  we  have 
excavated.  We  cannot  call  it  2i porch,  as  there  are  no  traces 
of  an  external  door. 

Now  the  walls  of  this  porticus  are  built  chiefly  of  Roman 
tiles,  coated  in  the  lower  part  with  a  facing  of  concrete,  and 
in  the  upper  parts  with  thick  plaster.  In  it  are  the  remains 
of  a  rude  altar,  with  the  pavement  of  fifteenth  century  tiles 
complete  on  either  side:  the  altar,  4  ft.  4  in.  by  2  ft.  2  in.  in 
size,  of  an  uncertain  date,  possibly  contemporary  with  the 
pavement,  but  built  on  older  foundations.  In  addition  to 
the  later  fifteenth  century  doorway  on  the  northern  side, 
there  are  close  to  it  distinct  traces  of  an  earlier  entrance 


106  ROMAN   FOUNDATIONS    AT 

(most  likely  of  the  pre-Norman  period),  3  ft.  3  in.  wide,  and 
3  ft.  from  either  end ;  the  jambs  not  si^layed  but  running 
straight  through  at  right  angles  to  the  walls.  Among  the 
debris  in  this  porticus  were  found  several  pieces  of  glass  and 
of  fused  bronze,  and  portions  of  a  door  and  late  Tudor  win- 
dow ;  and,  deeper  down,  two  or  three  fragments  of  Roman 
pottery.  Under  a  close  layer  of  brick  earth,  seven  or  eight 
inches  below  the  tile  pavement,  is  a  floor  of  concrete,  shew- 
ing in  jDarts  marks  of  fire.  This  concrete  floor  seems  to/ 
extend  beneath  the  present  altar,  and  is  also  traceable  in 
adjacent  portions  of  the  nave,  and  again  at  the  approach  to 
the  chancel,  where  we  discover  something  like  steps.  I  need 
only  add  that  the  floor  of  the  porticus  was  originally  on  the 
same  level  as  that  of  the  rest  of  the  nave,  but  was  raised 
one  step  above  it  when  the  later  church  was  built. 

Everywhere  throughout  the  excavations  are  evident 
traces  of  burnt  earth  and  other  calcined  substances. 

It  is  to  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  foundation-walls 
throughout  (being  twenty  inches  wide)  are  composed  of 
Roman  tiles  bound  together  in  some  places  by  salmon- 
coloured  mortar,  in  others  by  mortar  made  from  sea-shells 
and  pebbles,  and  even  later  material. 

These  are  the  facts  and  the  data.  What  conclusion  then 
are  we  to  draw  ?  That  there  was  on  this  spot  some  early 
Roman  building,  whether  of  a  secular  or  religious  character, 
is  indisputable.  There  is  a  vague  tradition  that  there  was 
once  here  a  Romano-British  church,  and  this  having  fallen 
into  decay  may  have  been  partially  restored  and  used  by 
Ethelbert  for  a  heathen  temple.  We  have  Thorn's  story, 
written  500  years  ago,  and  it  is  of  course  possible  that  he 
had  consulted  earlier  records.  It  seems  to  me  incredible 
that  he  should  have  written  as  he  has  done  if  the  first 
church  on  that  spot  had  been  of  Norman  work,  built  only 
some  200  or  300  years  before  his  own  time;  for  he  was 
a  monk  of  St.  Augustine's,  and  had  free  access  to  their 
chronicles.  His  testimony  therefore  (though  not  to  be  im- 
plicitly received)  must,  I  think,  be  entitled  to  some  weight. 

But  we  must  chiefly  rely  on  the  excavations  themselves. 
The  Roman  tiles  are  pronounced  to  be  of  a  good  time,  and 


ST.    PANGEAS,    CANTERBURY.  107 

Mr.  Roach  Smitli  says,  "  There  can  be  no  doubt  of  the  foun- 
dations being-  those  of  a  rather  extensive  Roman  building — 
upon  which  the  later  edifices  were  built." 

The  concrete  floor  found  at  different  parts  of  the  nave 
and  in  the  southern  porticus  is  apparently  Roman  or  Saxon  ; 
the  lower  portion  of  the  walls  of  the  same  porticus  are  also 
faced  with  early  concrete  regularly  and  evenly  laid.  The 
fact  of  the  existing  chancel-wall  being  placed  on  an  interior 
Kne  ten  inches  within  the  foundation  of  Roman  tile  seems 
to  me'  so  extraordinary  that  it  has  been  suggested  that  the 
foundations  are  at  this  point  of  double  thickness  :  in  which 
case  the  existing  wall  would  have  been  placed  in  the  middle 
of  them ;  and  thus  the  foundations  of  the  chancel  would  form 
part  of  the  very  oldest  building. 

Prudence  would  here  bid  me  stop;  but,  not  being  an 
expert,  I  may  be  suffered  to  hazard  some  conjectures,  subject 
to  correction  from  the  opinions  of  cleverer  men,  and  to 
evidence  that  may  be  derived  from  further  excavations. 

I  would  picture  to  myself  a  small  Roman  church,  possibly 
with  other  buildings  adjacent.  These  would  fall  into  par- 
tial ruin  after  the  evacuation  of  Britain.  One  portion  of 
these  ruins  (perhaps  the  southern  porticus)  might  be  restored 
by  Ethelbert  as  a  heathen  temple,  which  St.  Augustine  would 
purify  from  pollution  and  consecrate  to  Christian  worship. 
He  would  also  take  in  the  remaining  site  of  the  destroyed 
Roman  church,  using  the  original  materials,  and  re-erect  a 
building  there  to  provide  for  his  numerous  converts.  The 
actual  foundation-walls,  as  well  as  the  existing  wall  above- 
ground  of  Roman  tiles,  would  (from  this  point  of  view)  date 
from  Saxon  times ;  and  I  suggest  this  date  because  of  the 
sea-shore  mortar  with  which  the  wall  is  built,  and  which 
appears  to  me  most  probably  post-Roman.  Following  the 
fortunes  of  this  Roman-Saxon  church,  we  can  easily  fancy 
it  (like  St.  Martin's)  ravaged  by  the  Danes ;  then  restored  by 
the  Normans,  who  would  after  their  manner  introduce  their 
own  doorways ;  till  in  its  turn  it  would  fall  into  decay,  and 
be  superseded  by  the  early  English  church,  of  which  some 
ruins  still  remain ;  and  the  flooring,  as  it  wore  out,  would 
gradually  be  replaced  by  later  tiles. 


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ST.  MARTIN'S  CHURCH,  CANTERBURY. 

Bl'    THE    REV.    CANON   C.    F.    HOUTLEDGE. 

The  well-known  sentence  of  Bajda,  "  There  was  near  the 
city,  towards  the  east,  a  church  built  of  old  in  honour  of 
St.  Martin  while  the  Romans  inhabited  Britain,"  repeated 
with  variations  by  many  after- chroniclers,  is  the  first  authen- 
tic record  of  this  venerable  church.  It  forms  a  prelude  to 
an  enumeration  of  historical  incidents  which  time  now  for- 
bids me  to  dwell  upon,  though  among  various  conjectures 
which  I  may  put  forward  it  would  be  some  satisfaction  to 
rest  on  the  undoubted  fact,  that  this  very  spot  was  trodden 
by  the  feet  of  Bertha,  sanctified  by  the  masses  and  preaching 
of  St.  Augustine,  and  (in  all  probability)  witnessed  the 
baptism  of  Ethelbert,  King  of  Kent. 

Not  myself  a  professed  archaeologist,  but  imbued  with  a 
deep  love  and  reverence  for  every  stone  of  this  building,  I 
would  invite,  by  a  brief  summary  of  its  architecture  and 
probable  history,  your  careful  opinion  and  discussion  on 
points  which  do  not  seem  to  have  ever  yet  received  due 
attention  from  this  or  any  other  Society. 

The  original  church,  allowed  to  fall  into  partial  ruin  after 
the  Roman  evacuation  of  Britain,  was  probably  restored 
towards  the  end  of  the  sixth  century,  to  serve  as  an  oratory 
for  Queen  Bertha  and  her  attendant  Bishop  Leotard  or 
Liudhard,  and  re-dedicated  to  St.  Martin  of  Tours.  And 
portions  of  this  building  are,  I  would  fain  think,  existing 
even  in  the  present  day. 

It  is  evident  at  the  most  cursory  glance  that  the  church  has 
suffered  from  frequent  partial  destructions  and  restorations. 
Windows  put  in  at  uneven  levels,  doorways  and  porches 
stopped  up  here  and  there,  and  the  irregularity  and  incon- 
gruity of  the  masonry,  all  testify  to  its  varied  fortunes. 
There  is  a  perfect  mine  of  wealth  for  the  geologist  to  be 


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ST  MARTIN'S  CHURCH,  CANTERBURY, (JOwrHJ/DE) 
I  N  A.D.  1722 


(north  side   in  a  0.  I7SI.) 


TWbiteman*Bas3,-?l<ioft-2io'«,Lt)iido 


ST.  martin's  church,  canterbury.        109 

found  in  its  walls,  as  samples  of  whicli  I  would  point  to 
Roman  tiles,  travertine,  tertiary  sandstone,  Kentish  ra^, 
Purbeck,  red  and  green  sandstone,  Caen  stone,  flint,  and 
doubtless  many  others. 

It  is  very  likely  that  the  Romano- Saxon  building  suffered 
from  the  fierce  and  general  ravages  of  the  Danes.  It  still 
however  maintained  sufficient  reputation  to  have  given  a 
title  to  suffragan  bishops  for  a  period  of  350  years  according 
to  one  tradition  (at  any  rate  for  fifty  years),  till  they  finally 
became  merged,  in  the  time  of  Lanfranc,  into  Archdeacons 
of  Canterbur}^ 

The  interior  of  the  church  assumed  its  present  general 
shape  at  the  end  of  the  twelfth  or  the  beginning  of  the 
thirteenth  centurj^,  though  alterations  and  additions  have 
been  made  in  several  succeeding  generatio2is. 

Of  the  building  as  it  now  stands  we  may  roughly  assign 
the  different  portions  to  the  following  periods  : — 

(1)  Roman. — General  prevalence  of  tiles,  some  of  them 
almost  undoubtedly  in  situ  in  parts  of  the  chancel  wall. 

(2)  Saxon  or  Pre-Norman. — The  font ;  the  priest's  door 
(six  feet  high)  on  south  of  chancel ;  traces  of  another  door 
S.E.  of  nave,  which  from  measurement  I  have  discovered  to 
be  necessaril}'  anterior  to  the  Norman  piscina ;  and  large 
portions  of  wall  masonry  of  a  chequy  pattern,  i.e.  square 
stones  with  large  interstices  of  sea- shore  mortar. 

(3)  Norman. — Probably  the  buttresses ;  and  a  piscina 
(measuring  twenty  inches  by  twelve),  said  to  be  the  earliest 
and  most  complete  existing  in  England,  with  two  holes  above 
it  for  the  supports  of  the  canopy. 

(4)  Early  English. — Chancel  arch,  roof  of  nave,  and 
blocked  porch  or  door  S.W.  of  the  church. 

(5)  Fourteenth  Century,  Decorated. — The  tower ;  and  the 
single-light  windows  of  the  nave. 

(6)  Beginning  of  Fifteenth  Century. — The  window  over  the 
font,  which  is  clearly  half  of  a  former  two-light  window. 

(7)  End  of  Fifteenth  Century. — The  aumbry. 

There  are  a  few  objects  deserving  somewhat  longer  expla- 
nation. 

(a)  The  early  Roman  church  probably  occupied  the  site 


110        ST.  martin's  church,  canterbury. 

only  of  the  present  cliancel.  It  appears  to  me  that  we  can 
distinctly  trace  the  point  at  which  the  old  wall  ended  and 
the  apse  began. 

{b)  I  would  call  special  attention  to  the  convex  buttress 
on  the  south  side  of  the  nave.  It  is  very  peculiar.  It  can- 
not have  been  a  staircase  in  later  times,  as  there  seems  to  be 
no  reason  whatever  for  a  staircase  at  that  particular  place  in 
a  building  of  the  same  size  as  the  present.  It  is  not  unlike 
circular  projections  in  the  Saxon  towers  of  Sompting  and 
Brixworth. 

There  is  probably  little  foundation  for  the  conjecture  that 
the  old  church  might  have  ended  somewhere  near  this  point, 
and  then  the  buttress  might  have  had  something  to  do  with 
the  support  of  the  western  front,  or  have  been  a  staircase  up 
to  the  old  belfry. 

(c)  What  some  have  called  the  "  Leper's  Window  "  on 
the  S.W.  of  the  chancel.  Is  it  a  window  or  a  door?  If  a 
window,  is  it  in  situ  ?  or  has  it  been  moved  there  from  some 
other  part  of  the  church  ?  It  is,  in  my  opinion,  a  door 
occupying  the  place  of  (if  not  itself  actually)  the  entrance  to 
the  early  Roman  building.  Its  component  materials  argue 
great  antiquity. 

{d)  Last,  and  most  interesting  of  all,  is  the  font,  which 
is  almost  irnique,  being  built  up  of  various  stones  in  different 
tiers.  It  is  circular  or  tnb-shaped,  about  two  feet  six  inches 
high,  and  consists  of  a  rim,  three  tiers,  and  a  modern  base. 
The  three  tiers  are  made  up  of  some  twenty-four  distinct 
stones  rounded  externally  and  fitted  in  their  place.  The  lower 
tier  is  embellished  with  a  continuous  pattern  of  scroll- 
work ;  the  second  with  groups  of  circles  intertwining  with 
one  another  (what  Hasted  calls  a  kind  of  hieroglyphical  true- 
lovers'-knot),  with  the  exception  of  one  stone  which  has 
carved  on  it  six  comparatively  plain  circles ;  the  third  tier 
is  of  a  completely  different  character,  exhibiting  arches  inter- 
secting one  another.  At  the  top  is  a  rim,  the  ornamenta- 
tion of  which  corresponds  with  that  of  the  two  lower  tiers, 
except  one  pa.rt  on  which  there  is  a  kind  of  dogtooth-work, 
like  stars  cut  in  half.  It  has  been  suggested,  with  great 
probability,  that  the  outer  half  of  the  upper  rim's  thickness 


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ST.  maetin's  chuech,  cantekburt.        Ill 

was  cut  away  to  form  a  ledge,  on  which  a  tall  cover  might 
firmly  rest. 

The  controversy  as  to  the  date  of  this  interesting  relic  is 
too  prolonged  to  be  entered  into  on  the  present  occasion. 
The  character  of  the  carving  naturally  suggests  at  first  that 
it  is  of  the  later  Norman  period.  But  it  does  not  necessarily 
follow  that  the  carving  is  contemporary  with  the  structure  of 
the  font ;  the  fact  of  it  being  chiselled  in  a  sketchy  manner 
would  suggest  that  it  is  not.  I  cannot  but  think  that  what 
1  may  call  the  composition  of  the  font  {i.e.  its  being  built  of 
various  stones,  laid  in  an  irregular  manner)  is  inconsistent 
with  its  alleged  Norman  date.  And  it  is  more  than  probable 
that  the  whole  font  is  Saxon,  chiselled  out  into  the  present 
patterns  during  the  eleventh  century ;  nor  is  it  absolutely 
impossible  that  it  is  .the  very  font  in  which  Ethelbert,  King  of 
Kent,  was  baptized. 

Finally,  among  the  miscellanea,  I  may  mention  that  the 
length  of  the  present  chancel  is  about  the  same  as  that  of 
the  nave,  i.e.  about  forty-two  feet. 

The  only  monument  of  any  interest  in  the  church  is  that 
of  Sir  John  Finch,  who  was  Baron  of  Fordwich,  Chancellor 
of  Queen  Henrietta  Maria,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons, 
and  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal. 

In  the  pavement  close  to  the  altar-rails  is  a  small  white 
cross  of  a  curious  character,  about  eighteen  inches  long  and 
two  inches  wide.  The  lower  half  of  it  corresponds  with  an 
illustration  that  appears  in  Hasted. 

Of  brasses  there  is  one  of  the  beginning  of  the  sixteenth 
century  in  the  middle  of  the  passage  up  the  nave,  inscribed 
with  the  name  of  Stephen  Falkes  and  Alys  his  wife.  There 
is  also  the  effigy  of  Thomas  Stoughton,  of  the  date  1591,  in 
the  chancel ;  and  another  of  Michael  Fraunces  and  Jane  his 
wife,  who  died  in  1687. 

The  bells  are  three  in  number.  One  has  no  inscription  ; 
the  second  bears  the  date  1641 ;  and  on  the  third,  in  old  English 
characters,  is,  "  Sancta  Caterina,  ora  pro  nobis." 

The  registers  begin  from  the  year  1662;  they  contain  no 
entries  of  interest. 

Some  Saxon  beads  have  been  found  in  the  churchyard,  as 


112  ST.    martin's    church,    CANTERBURY. 

well  as  a  gold  mccliil,  enfrravccl  with  tlie  name  of  Bishop 
Liudhard,  and  now  deposited  in  the  British  Musenra. 

A  ehrisniatory,  or  amjniUa,  for  holding  the  consecrated 
oil,  Avas  found  on  the  wall-f»late,  at  the  last  restoration, 
about  forty  years  ago.  It  is  probably  of  the  fourteenth 
century. 

The  so-called  tomb  of  Queen  Bertha  is  interesting.  It 
can  hardly  be  an  Easter  tomb,  as  it  is  not  within  the  altar- 
rails.  The  chamfered  slab,  covering  the  sarcoi)liagus,  is 
formed  of  (perhaps)  Portland  oolite,  a  stone  certainly  rare 
in  Canterbury.  It  must  (if  a  coffin),  from  its  position  in  the 
church,  have  covered  the  remains  of  some  distinguished 
person. 

Let  me  say,  in  conclusion,  that  every  detail  (which  want 
of  time  has  compelled  me  to  sketch  thus  baldly  and  briefly) 
is  worthy  of  consideration  and  reverence,  as  connected  with  a 
church  where  the  functions  of  religion  were  "  irradiated  (in 
the  words  of  an  old  chronicler)  by  the  apostolic  life  and 
doctrine  of  St.  Augustine,  and  by  an  abundance  of  miracles"; 
the  "  Mother-church  of  England,"  as  it  is  called  by  the  late 
Dean  Stanley,  who  loved  it  well,  who  illustrated  its  history 
by  a  graphic  picturesqueness  of  detail,  and  whose  name  and 
memory  will  never  be  forgotten  by  all  worshijDpers  at  St. 
Martin's  who  take  to  heart  his  lessons,  and  to  whom  "  the 
view  from  this  hillside  is  still  one  of  the  most  inspiriting 
that  can  be  found  in  the  world." 


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ICKHAM   CHURCH,    ITS   MONUMENTS  AND 
ITS  RECTORS. 

BY   W.   A.    SCOTT    ROBERTSON. 

This  cruciform  clmrcli  (with  a  western  tower)  is  dedicated 
to  St.  Jolin  the  Evangelist,  and  seems  to  have  been  founded 
during  the  Norman  period.  Its  aisles  were  added  towards 
the  close  of  the  twelfth  century;  the  chancel  assumed  its 
present  form  during  the  thirteenth  century ;  and  chantries 
were  founded  in  its  transepts  late  in  the  fourteenth  century, 
when  the  well-sculptured  effigies  of  a  knight  and  of  a  priest 
were  deposited  in  the  south  and  north  transepts  respectively. 
It  is  remarkable  that  so  handsome  a  church,  only  five  miles 
from  Canterbury,  was  overlooked  by  Sir  Stephen  Glynne ; 
merely  mentioned,  without  any  description,  by  the  Rev.  A. 
Hussey ;  and  passed  without  any  notice  by  the  Rev.  Philip 
Parsons,  in  his  Monuments  in  One  Hundred  Churches  of  East 
Kent,  1 794.  Murray's  Handbook  of  Kent  also  omits  to  mention 
Ickham. 

The  Tower  and  Bells. 
A  church  existed  here  in  a.d.  1086,  when  the  Domesday 
survey  was  taken ;  but  of  Norman  architecture  the  western 
doorway  of  the  tower  is  the  only  discernible  relic  ;  and  it  can 
scarcely  be  considered  to  be  of  earlier  date  than  the  twelfth 
century.  It  has  small  angle  shafts,  and  its  arch  is  carved 
with  an  embattled  moulding,  surmounted  by  the  billet.  The 
tower  itself  seems  to  have  been  reconstructed  (when  aisles 
were  added  to  the  nave)  about  the  end  of  the  twelfth  century. 
It  has  neither  stair-turret  nor  buttresses  ;  its  windows  are  of 
lancet  shape,  and  its  eastern  arch  is  pointed.  The  clock 
and  the  shingled  spire,  which  cost  £534,  were  added  in  1870, 
at  the  expense  of  Mr.  S.  Musgrave  Hilton,  of  Bramling. 
Sixty  years  ago,  there  was  a  very  small  spire  on  the  tower  ; 

VOL.    XIV.  I 


114  ICKUAM    CHURCH, 

but  in  1825,  being  in  a  dangerous  state,  it  was  pulled  down; 
and  the  top  of  the  tower  was  embattled,  and  roofed  with 
lead.  The  cost  of  this,  amounting  to  :tl65,  was  defrayed 
by  a  church  rate  of  Is.  Cd.  in  the  pound.  At  Archbishop 
Warham's  visitation,  held  in  1511,  it  was  "presented"  that 
the  body  of  this  church  and  the  bells  needed  repair.  Pro- 
bably the  bells  were  not  thoroughly  repaired  until  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty  years  later.  The  four  bells  which  now  hang 
in  the  tower  were  all  cast  in  1641,  by  John  Palmer  of  Can- 
terbury ;  when  the  churchwardens  were  John  Fayerman  and 
Michael  Trapps.  Their  names  ajDpear  upon  -each  bell ;  and 
upon  the  largest  there  is  also  this  ejaculatory  prayer : 
"  Lord  :  Jeus  :  Christ  :  re  :  seve  :  each  :  sol  :  for  :  home  : 

THIS  :    BELL  :    SHAL  :    TOL  :" 

The  Nave. 

The  nave  is  separated  from  its  aisles  by  arcades  of  four 
bays  each,  unequally  spaced.  No  columns  were  introduced  ; 
but  portions  of  the  original  outer  walls  were  left,  as  piers,  to 
support  the  pointed  arches  which  were  pierced  through  them. 
The  character  of  these  piers,  and  of  the  unequally  spaced 
arches,  proves  that  these  aisles  were  added  late  in  the  twelfth 
century.  One  of  the  arches,  on  the  north  side,  is  nearly  or 
quite  a  semicircle,  and  its  edge  is  formed  into  a  small  round 
moulding.  The  angles  of  the  piers  of  the  southern  arcade 
seem  to  have  been  chamfered  at  a  much  later  period ;  as  the 
chamfer-stop  used  upon  them  is  of  a  pattern  known  as  the 
small  "Perpendicular  dagger,"  which  did  not  come  into 
general  use  until  the  fifteenth  century.  The  arches  by 
which  the  transepts  open  to  the  nave  are  similar  to  those  in 
the  nave  arcades.  Probably  the  transepts  were  not  added 
until  late  in  the  fourteenth  century,  and  the  nave  aisles  were 
originally  of  five  bays  each,  when  there  were  no  transepts. 

Much  has  been  done  in  the  nave  during  the  jDresent 
century.  A  gallery  was  built  in  1841,  when  the  pewing  of 
the  two  -transepts  was  rearranged.  Extensive  repairs  were 
carried  out  in  1845-6,  under  the  superintendence  of  Mr. 
Marshall,  an  architect  in  Canterbury,  at  a  cost  of  £1167. 
One  of  the  churchwardens  defrdiyed  three-fourths  of  that 


ITS   MONUMENTS   AND    ITS    RECTORS.  115 

expense.  A  new  font  was  given  by  Mrs.  Howlej,  the  Arch- 
bishojj's  wife ;  and  Mr.  George  Gipps  substituted  a  raised 
platform  with  seats  for  children,  singers,  and  others,  instead 
of  the  western  gallery,  in  1846.  The  new  pulpit  (designed 
by -Mr.  Blomfield,  architect),  and  the  handsome  new  eagle 
lectern,  of  brass,  were  presented  to  the  church  by  Mr.  S. 
Musgrave  Hilton  at  a  cost  of  £150,  in  1875. 

The  High  Chancel. 

The  lofty  and  spacious  chancel  has,  in  its  east  wall,  a 
triplet  of  noble  lancets ;  united  by  a  small  continuous  hood 
moulding.  Of  the  five  windows  which  pierce  each  of  its 
side  walls,  the  westernmost,  on  either  side,  is  of  two  lancet 
lights,  surmounted  by  a  simple  quatrefoil.  All  the  others 
are  plain  lancets,  somewhat  broad.  Beneath  the  whole  of 
these,  both  on  the  exterior  and  on  the  interior,  runs  a  con- 
tinuous stringcourse,  which  entirely  embraces  the  chancel 
walls.  It  makes  two  rectangular  descents  in  its  course  from 
east  to  west ;  a  slight  one,  beneath  the  first  lancet  from  the 
east ;  and  a  deeper  descent,  beneath  the  two-light  western- 
most window  in  each  wall.  The  interior  string-course  has  a 
deeply  cut  hollow,  surmounted  by  a  bold  circular  moulding. 
The  exterior  string  has  three  flat  surfaces,  the  face  is  ver- 
tical, and  from  it  the  other  sides  slope,  (one  upward,  and  the 
other  downward,)  to  meet  the  wall. 

The  piscina  in  the  south  wall  has  two  basins,  beneath  a 
well-moulded  and  boldly  trefoiled  arch,  which  sprang  from 
circular  detached  shafts,  but  they  are  gone.  The  priest's 
door,  in  the  middle  of  the  south  wall,  opens  beneath  the 
stringcourse  and  is  of  simple  character.  The  roof,  ceiled 
between  the  rafters,  has  been  very  recently  opened  by  the 
rector,  the  Rev.  E.  Gilder,  who  caused  the  ceiling  to  be 
removed ;  it  had  been  similar  to  that  now  in  the  nave. 
Remnants  of  two  stali-elbows,  now  used  to  support  seats, 
shew  that  in  the  fifteenth  century  this  chancel  was  fitted 
with  stalls.  They  were  eighteen  in  number ;  and  they  re- 
mained here  until  the  beginning  of  the  last  century,  but 
they  had  disappeared  before  1759.  In  the  chancel  floor  is 
a  tombstone,  long  ago  robbed  of  its  brass,  commemorating 

I  2 


IIG 


ICKHAM   CHURCH, 


a  rector  named  Martin  de  Hampton.*  He  was  instituted  to 
this  benefice  in  Januury  1285  (modern  style),  and  was  inducted 
to  it  by  Richard,  Eector  of  Adisham  (Archbishop  Peckham's 
Register,  folio  30").  He  was  a  canon  and  prebendary  of 
Wiuj^^ham  ;  and  he  died  in  November  1306.  A  graceful  flo- 
riated cross,  in  brass,  adorned  this  stone.  The  inscription, 
in  Lombardic  capitals,  can  still  be  deciphered. 

Two  other  rectors  were  probably  commemorated  by 
slabs  yet  remaining,  which  bear  each  the  matrix  of  a  brass 
that  represented  the  small  effigy  of  a  priest.  They  appear 
to  belong  to  the  fifteenth  century. 

Another  large  slab  commemorates  Sir  Richard  Head, 
Baronet,  who  died  in  1721,  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-seven. 
It  likewise  mentions  his  brothers  George  and  Henry,  and  his 
sisters  Sarah  and  Margaret,  who  lie  beside  him.f  Beneath 
this  stone  there  is  a  large  vault  about  thirteen  feet  long,  and 
nine  feet  wide,  which  contains  at  least  eighteen  coffins. 
When  it  was  opened  in  July  1767,  for  the  burial  of  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Geekie,J  sixteen  coffins  were  already  there;  his  brother- 
in-law  Archdeacon  Sir  John  Head  was  interred  in  it  two 
years  later.  Sir  Richard  Head,  whose  family  sprung  from 
the  city  of  Rochester,  §  was  the  elder  brother  of  Sir  Francis 

*  Orate  pro  anima  Martini  de  Hamptona  quondam  rectoris  liuius  ecclesias  et 
Prebendarii  de  VVengham  cuius  corpus  hie  requiescit  et  [?]  obiit  iiii  kl'  Decembris 
Anno  dni.  MCCCVI. 

t  Corpus  Ricardi  Head  baronetti  filii  uatu  maximi  Francisci  Head  bar"  et 
Margarettse  uxoris  sua3  subtus  depositum  jacet.  Obiit  decimo  octavo  die  Maii 
vicesirao  septimo  anno  fetatis  Annoque  Domini  1721. 

Subtus  etiam  duo  fratres  et  duse  sorores  ejusdem.  Georgius  et  Henricus,  Sara 
&  Margaretta  obdormiunt. 

X  Tlie  Rev.  William  Geekie,  D.D.,  was  Archdeacon  of  Gloucester  1738-67, 
and  held  the  first  Prebend  at  Canterbury  1731-67. 

§  Head,  of  Rochestek  and  Higham. 
ElizabethnpSir  Richard  Head,  M.P.=FElizabeth=Ann,dau.of  Arch-=pJohn  Boys 


Merrick. 


for  Rochester,  ob.  1689, 
ait.  80.     Son  of  Ric. 
Head  of  Rainham. 
(Had  11  children.) 


Willey. 
2nd  wife. 


deacon  Kingsley, 
ob.  1711.     iixl  ' 
wife. 


Francis,  =pSarah,  d.=f:Sir  Paul     Henry. 
nat.1641,       "     ' 
ob.  1678. 


of  Sir 
Geo.  Ent, 
ob. 1711. 


^ 


Barrett. 


Merrick. 


John, 
a  quo  Sir 
Edmund 
Head, 
6th  Bart. 


Elizabeth 
married  — 

SirR.Faunce.  Richard 


Jane,  ob.= 
1717,  1st 
mar.  H. 
Price. 

Frances. 


of  Hoad 
Court,  ob. 
1661. 


2  I 
=Col.  Jno. 
Boys,  ob, 
1710,  bro- 
ther of  Sir 
W-"  Boys, 
M.D. 


Ann.      \1/ 


ITS   MONUMENTS   AND   ITS   RECTORS. 


117 


Head  (who  built  the  existing  house,  called  Hermitage  in 
Higham,  and  died  in  1768);  and  of  Archdeacon  Sir  John 
Head,  who  was  Kector  of  Ickham  from  1760  to  1769,  and 
Archdeacon  of  Canterbury  from  1748  to  1769.  These  baro- 
nets were  brought  into  connection  with  Ickham  by  the  mar- 
riage of  their  widowed  grandmother,  Mrs.  Sarah  Head,  with 
Sir  Paul  Barrett  of  Canterbury,  who  purchased  the  Lee 
estate  in  this  parish.  At  Lee  she  brought  up  the  six  young 
children  left  by  her  first  husband,  Mr.  Francis  Head  of 
Rochester;  and  she  was  buried  here  in  1711. 

The  Parish  Eegister  contains  a  list  of  eighty-eight 
inhabitants  of  Ickham  who  in  March  1670-1  contributed 
£5  18s.  3d.  towards  a  fund  for  the  redemption  of  English- 
men captured  and  reduced  to  slavery  by  the  Turks.  The 
rector,  Dr.  Meric  Casaubon,  and  the  Lady  Boys,"^  head  the 


Sir   Francis-T-Margaret,  d.  of 


Head, 
nat.  1670, 
ob.  1716. 
2nd  baronet. 


Jas.  Smithsby, 
ob.  1733. 


Sarah,=pJohn  Lynch, 
ob.l710.  I  ob.  1733. 


John  Lynch,  Dean 
of  Canterbury. 


Other 
issue. 


I    I    I    I 
Samuel. 

Thomasine. 
Other  issue. 


Sir  Richard  George.     Sarah.           Sir  Francis^^Mary,  d.  of  Sir    James, 

Head,  nat.  — 

1694,  ob.  Henry. 
1721. 


Margaret. 


Head,  ob. 

1768. 

4th  baronet. 


William  Boys,        o.  s.p., 
M.D.,  ob.  1792.       1727. 


Mary  ■Wil-=Hon.  Harry       Anne=p  (  1.  Moses  Mendes.     Elizabeth=Dr.  Lill. 


helmina 
Head. 


Roper,Lord    Gabriel 
Teynham.      Head. 


^  2.  Hon.  John  Campbell 

Roper,  ob.  s.p.     Head. 


Jane=Rev.    Sir   John  Head,   nat.::=Jane  Geekie,     Ann,  nat.=f=Rev.  Wm. 
Leigh.     1701,  ob.  1769.    5th  baronet,     ob.  1780.  1704.         I  Egertou. 


2|  1| 

James       Roper=f=Frances  Ann     Francis  Meudes= 
Mendes  [Head]  I  Burges.  [Head], 

of  Hermitage.     | 
I 


Jemima=pEdward 
Brydges. 


Sir  Francis  Bond  Head,  Bart.,  1838.       Frances.       Sir  S.  Egerton  Brydges. 

*  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Fotherby,  widow  first  of  Sir  Nathaniel 
Finch,  and  then  of  Sir  John  Boys,  son  of  Edward  Boys  of  Bonington.  He  was 
baptized  at  Chillenden  in  1607,  and  died  at  Goodneston  in  1664. 


118  ICKHAM   CHURCH, 

list  with  £1  each.  Lower  down,  wc  are  told  that  "  Robert 
Petmau  "  contributed  2s.  6d.  A  monumental  stone  in  the 
floor  of  this  chancel  informs  us  that  "  Robert  Pettman  "  was 
a  brewer  in  Ickham,  who  died  in  1685,  aged  seventy  years."*^ 
The  entry  recording  the  delivery  of  the  sum  collected  to  the 
authorised  receiver  is  very  quaint :  "  Colected  for  this  Brefe 
in  the  parishe  of  Ikham  by  Mr.  Lee,  curat,  and  John  Word 
and  Robert  Beake  church wardenes  of  y'=  said  parish,  the  sume 
of  five  pounds  fifteene  shillings  and  five  pence,  and  ivee  say 
colected  towards  y"=  Redemsihon  of  y"  captives  in  Argier  the 
sume  above  writen,  and  paide  it  the  11*^''  of  March  1670  imto 
M''  Peter  Hardes,  Receuer ;  in  witness  hearof  we  have  set 
our  handes."  The  curate  himself,  Samuel  Lee,  contributed 
2s.  6d.,  Mr.  Moyes  5s.,  Madame  Mansel  5s. 

The  only  other  monumental  stone  in  this  chancel  floor 
commemorates  Admiral  Charles  Knowler,t  who  married  the 
heiress  of  John  Paramore,  and  obtained  with  her  a  house  at 
Bramling,  which  Paramore  had  built.  The  Admiral  died 
there  in  1788  ;  and  therein  also  died  his  widow,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Knowler,  four  years  later.  The  Admiral  seems  to  have  been 
a  son  of  John  Knowler,  whose  wife,  Elizabeth  Jeffery,  brought 
to  him  in  dowry  the  manor  of  Well-court,  in  this  parish, 
which  they  sold  to  Robert  Daines. 

The  South  Transept. 

This  is  called  the  Baa  or  Bay  Chancel,  and  it  formerly 
belonged  to  the  owner  of  the  Bay  Farm  Estate.  From  its 
eastern  wall  a  recess  for  an  altar  projects  into  the  churchyard. 
This  projection  is  clearly  an  afterthought,  as  it  partially 
blocks  the  light  from  the  westernmost  chancel  window,  which 
was  already  somewhat  crowded  by  the  transept's  east  wall. 
On  the  exterior,  the  east  wall  of  the  recess  is  carried  up, 
above  the  level  of  the  wall  plate  of  the  transept,  and  termi- 
nates in  a  pointed  gable.     In  it  there  is  a  window,  of  three 

*  Here  lietli  y'=  body  of  Robert  Pettman  late  of  this  parish,  Brewer,  who  left 
issue  5  sons  and  one  daughter  hee  departed  this  life  y<=  8">  day  of  June  in  y« 
yeare  of  our  Lord  1685  aged  seuenty  yeares. 

f  In  memory  of  Admiral  Charles  Knowler,  who  died  March  26,  1788,  aged 
81  years. 

Also  of  Elizabeth  his  wife,  who  died  20th  Jan>-  1792,  aged  77  years. 


ITS   MONUMENTS   AND   ITS   EECTOUS.  119 

liglits,  having  in  its  head  a  St.  George's  Cross  inscribed  in  a 
circle.  Beneath  the  window,  on  the  exterior,  runs  a  string- 
course, somewhat  like  a  roll  moulding ;  but  it  and  the  window 
are  of  a  style  verging  closely  upon  the  Perpendicular  or 
Third  Pointed  style.  A  similar  window  appears  in  the  south 
wall  of  this  transept,  and  beneath  it  stands  the  tomb  of  a 
knight,  whose  effigy  represents  him  without  a  shield,  but 
wearing  a  full  suit  of  armour,  of  about  the  middle  of  the 
fourteenth  century.  His  head  rests  on  two  cushions,  and  at 
the  junction  between  his  bascinet,  and  the  camail  of  chain 
mail,  a  scalloped  band  of  lapj)ets  appears ;  upon  his  breast- 
plate are  two  ornamental  bosses ;  the  coutes,  or  elbow-pieces, 
are  shaped  like. lions'  heads.  Below  the  scalloped  edge  of  his 
jupon,  appears  the  bottom  of  the  hawberk  of  chain  mail. 
His  legs  seem  to  be  enveloped  in  plate  mail,  and  the 
genouillieres  are  handsomely  floriated.  The  sollerets  are 
pointed,  and  the  feet  rest  upon  a  dog  or  lion.  The  swordbelt 
lies  straight  across  the  hips. 

The  front  of  this  altar  tomb  is  ornamented  with  a  band 
of  many  quatref oiled  lozenges,  well  moulded.  Over  the  tomb 
there  is  a  crocheted  canopy,  above  a  doubly  cusped,  seven- 
foiled  arch,  which  is  flanked  by  buttresses  with  crocheted 
finials.  The  name  of  the  knight  is  not  known,  but  it  has 
been  conjectured  that  the  effigy  may  represent  Thomas  de 
Baa,"^  whose  name,  written  under  his  coat  of  arms  {Or,  a  lion 
rampant  sable,  crowned  argent),  was  formerly  to  be  seen  in 
one  of  the  windows  of  this  church.  As  a  chapel  in  Ickham 
Church  was  dedicated  to  St.  Thomas,  we  may  suggest  that 
St.  Thomas's  altar  stood  in  the  south  transept.  A  piscina- 
arch  remains  in  its  east  wall.  This  transept  became  the 
property  of  Archbishop  Warham,  when  he  purchased  the 
Bay  estate  in  1509.  He  bequeathed  Bay  to  his  youngest 
brother  Hugh ;  whose  daughter  Agnes  Warham  received  it 
as  her  dowry  when  she  married  the  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland, 
Sir  Anthony  St.  Leger.  It  soon  passed  into  the  possession 
of  the  family  of  Austen  several  generations  of  whom  dwelt 

*  In  1305  Walter  de  Ba,  one  of  the  same  family,  was  admitted  to  the 
privileges  of  a  layman  "  in  fraternity  ''  with  the  monks  of  Christ  Church,  Can- 
terbury (Harleian  MS.  2044,  fol.  62'). 


120  iCKHAM  cmjRcn, 

at  Bay.  The  register  teems  with  entries  of  their  baptisms, 
marriages,  and  burials.  Two  epitaphs  commemorative  of 
them  remain  in  the  floor.'^ 

The  North  Transept. 

In  the  north  transept,  an  altar-recess,  carried  up  exter- 
nally to  a  pointed  gable-end,  similar  to  that  in  the  south 
transept,  was  inserted  during  the  fourteenth  century.  The 
east  window  in  this  recess,  however,  seems  to  be  of  a  rather 
earlier  type  than  that  in  the  other  transept;  as  does  the 
external  stringcourse  beneath  it,  and  the  hoodmould  above  it, 
terminating  in  well-carved  female  heads,  with  characteristic 
head -gear.  Above  the  three  (cinquef  oiled)  lights,  a  six-foiled 
circle  forms  the  head  of  this  window.  On  the  site  of  the 
altar,  now  stands  the  ancient  parish  chest,  bound  with 
broad  bands  of  iron,  and  having  three  fastenings.  Its  semi- 
circular lid  is  hollowed  out  of  one  tree's  trunk.  South  of 
the  east  window  a  piscina  remains,  in  the  east  wall,  beneath 
a  small  ogee  arch  trefoiled. 

From  the  character  of  the  east  window,  and  of  the  piscina- 
niche,  we  may  be  inclined  to  believe  that  the  altar  here  was 
that  of  a  Perpetual  Chantry,  dedicated  to  the  Blessed 
Virgin  and  to  St.  Katherine,  which  was  founded  in  Ickliam 
Church,  by  John  Dennis  of  Apulton.  He  was  Sheriff  of 
London  in  a.d.  1360.  This  chantry,  being  endowed  in 
perpetuity,  the  office  of  chantry  priest  therein  became  a 
benefice,  to  which  each  successive  priest  was  instituted  by 
the  Archbishop.t  Apulton,  or  Appleton,  is  an  estate  south 
of  Bramling,  in  the  south-east  part  of  this  parish. 

*  On  a  flat  stone,  partly  hidden  by  a  pew,  in  the  south  transept : — "  Here 
lieth  the  body  of  Eichard  Austen  ....  Baye  at  Ickham  ....  county  of  Kent 
....  who  had  ....  the  second  ....  M.  Vincent ....  of  Wymingwold  ....  afore- 
said ....  by  whome  ....  5  sonnes  ....  whereof  ....  daughter  ....  this  life  y* 
19^''  of  ...  .  aged  62,  164  .  Here  also  in  her  father's  grave  lieth  ....  Elizabeth 
eldest  daughter  of  Richard  ....  was  the  wife  and  widow  of  Michael  ....  by 
whome  sbee  had  issue  l  sonnes,  ....  of  which  2  sonnes  and  1  daughter  .... 
living  at  hir  death.  Shee  was  baptised  ....  of  May  1615  and  shee  died  Aprill 
.  .  .  .  '  Oh  that  they  were  wise,  oh  that  they  would  ....  that  they  would 
consider  their  ....'" 

On  aflat  stone,  in  the  south  aisle: — "  Heere  lyeth  the  body  of  Robert 
Austen,  son  of  Richard  Austen,  late  of  Ickham,  at  the  Bay  ;  who  died  a 
batchelor  the  12"*  of  October  in  y"^  yeare  1652,  of  his  age  21  yeares." 

f  The  patronage  was  vested  in  "  John  Denys  of  Ikham  "  during  the  first 
quarter  of  the  fifteenth  century.     To  the  office  of  chaplain,  to  serve  at  the  altar 


ITS   MONUMENTS   AND   ITS   RECTORS.  121 

The  north  transept,  however,  belonged  to  the  owners  of  the 
Lee  Priory  estate,  and  has  ever  been  called  the  Lee  chancel. 
In  its  north  wall  lies  the  effigy  of  a  priest,  in  simple  eucharistic 
vestments  ;  his  feet  rest  upon  a  dog.  On  his  head  he  wears 
a  close  round  cap,  but  his  hair  appears  beneath  it,  falling  a 
little  lower  than  his  ears. 

Hasted^  erroneously  suggests  that  this  tomb  may  com- 
memorate Richard  de  la  Legh,  who  held  the  Lee  estate  in 
1385  (13  Edward  I).  He  did  not  observe  that  the  effigy 
represents  a  priest. 

It  is  impossible  now  to  determine  with  accuracy  the  name 
of  this  priest ;  but,  from  the  period  to  which  the  effigy  seems 
to  belong,  we  may  suggest  the  possibility  that  it  may  represent 
a  Eector  of  Ickham  named  William  Heghtresbury.  He  was 
instituted  to  this  benefice  in  October  1354.  His  will,  proved 
in  November  1372,  directed  that  he  should  be  buried  in 
Ickham  Church ;  without  specifying  that  his  tomb  should  be 
made  in  the  high  chancel,  or  in  any  particular  spot.  He 
was  a  man  of  some  distinction ;  canon  of  Salisbury,  canon 
of  Wingham,  and,  in  1371,  Chancellor  of  Oxford  University. 
Another  possible  suggestion  is  that  this  effigy  may  com- 
memorate Thomas  at  Le,  priest  of  Dennis's  chantry  here. 
His  name  points  to  a  connection  with  Lee  by  birth;  and 
the  fact  that  he  exchanged  the  Rectory  of  Goodneston  for 
this  chantry  proves  his  attachment  to  the  place- 
William  Heghtresbury,  the  rector  mentioned  above,  be- 
queathed to  this  church  a  Portiphory  with  silver  gilt  clasps, 
containing  the  musical  notation  from  which  to  sing  the  ser- 
vice ;  and  also  two  Missals,  one  called  his  Red  Missal,  and  the 
other  his  First  Missal  with  silver-gilt  clasps.     In  addition  to 

of  this  perpetual  chantry  of  St.  Mary  the  Virgin  and  St,  Katherine,  he  presented 
Stephen  Cherlesfeld,  who  resigned  in  1410.  The  priests  who  succeeded  Cherles- 
feld  were  Thomas  Braborne  in  September  1410  ;  John  Sergant  in  April  1420  ; 
John  Wymbeldon  in  February  1420-1  ;  John  Kervylein  October  1427  ;  Laurence 
Verdon  in  July  1428  ;  and  Thomas  at  Le  (Rector  of  Goodneston)  in  May  1429. 
This  gentleman  was  evidently  a  native  of  Ickham,  born  on  the  Lee  estate.  At 
length,  the  endowment  of  this  chantry  became  so  diminished  in  value,  that  it 
would  not  maintain  a  chantry-priest.  Consequently,  on  the  Sth  of  August 
1483,  Archbishop  Bourgchier  issued  a  commission,  to  Nicholas  Bulfinch.  rector 
of  Ickham,  by  which  the  rector  was  authorized  to  sequestrate,  to  his  own  use, 
the  endowment  of  the  chantry  on  account  of  its  small  value  (^Bourgchier' s 
BcgUter,  n&>). 

*  Ristory  of  Kent,  vol.  ix.,  pp.  172,  178, 


122  ICKHAM    CHURCn, 

these  service-books,  lie  bequeathed  for  the  use  of  this  church 
a  vestment,  a  chalice,  two  hand-towels,  a  pair  of  corporals, 
and  twenty  shillings  in  money.  For  the  expenses  of  his 
funeral  he  left  five  marks,  directing  that  to  every  poor 
man  who  attended  it  the  sum  of  one  penny  should  be  given 
in  alms. 

MOKUMENT    OF    SiR    W.    SOUTHLAND. 

Uj)on  the  east  wall  of  the  north  transept  is  a  singular 
mural  monument,  commemorating  the  right  worshipful  Sir 
William  Southland,  Knight,  who  dwelt  at  his  house  of  Lee  in 
this  parish.  He  was  born  in  1578,  the  son  of  William  South- 
land of  New  Romney,  and  died  in  1688.  He  purchased  the 
Lee  estate  during  the  reign  of  James  I ;  and  his  son  Thomas 
was  baptized  here  in  1614.  His  grandson  sold  Lee  in  1676  to 
Paul  Barrett.  This  monument  strives  to  remind  all  beholders 
of  the  fleeting'  nature  of  life  and  of  time.  At  the  top,  are 
carved  two  bells,  susj)ended  above  an  hour-glass ;  below  which 
stands  a  clock-face,  with  the  sun  in  its  centre.  Underneath 
is  a  skull,  or  death^s  head,  flanked  by  a  pair  of  wings.  A 
shield  of  arms,  reversed  by  the  mason  who  repaired  the  monu- 
ment, bore  the  Southland  Coat  {or,  a  wyvern  vert,  on  a  chief 
gules  three  spearheads  argent)  impaling,  quarterly  1  and  4  sable 
a  lion  rampant ;  2  and  3  a  chevron  between  three  pheons. 
Below,  appear  two  hands  clasping  each  the  other.  The  dexter 
hand  represents  that  of  Sir  William  Southland,  and  seems 
to  spring  out  of  his  armorial  coat ;  the  sinister  hand  is  that 
of  his  wife,  Anne  daughter  of  Michael  Beresford,  out  of 
whose  armorial  shield  it  seems  to  spring.* 

*  The  inscription  is  as  follows  : — 

M.S. 
Heere  in  this  chancell  lyeth  interred  y"  Right  Wor"  S""  Willia'  Southland  of 
Lee  in  this  Parish  K'  who  married  Anne  daughter  of  Michael  Berisforde  of 
Westerham  in  Kent  Esq  and  left  issue  by  her  two  sonns  ;  y'  one  surviveing  w'^'' 
is  Thomas  Southland  Esq  (who  married  Mary  y^  daughf  of  S''  Tho*  Springate 
of  the  Broyle- Place  in  Sussex  Kn')  &  y^  yonger  deceased  &  left  9  daughf',  6 
surviveing  &  3  deceased 

Natus  18  Octobris  1578 
Obiit  prime  Maii  1638 
Terram  terra  premit,  conclusus  carcere  career, 
Templum  templa  tenent,  Urnula  corpus  habet. 
Invigilat  terrte  cselum  mens  claustra  reviset, 
Spiritus  et  templum  ;  quid  faces,  urna,  cave. 
Depositum  sanctum  est ;  servato  fideliter  ;  instat 
Judicis  adventus  ;  cum  vocat  Ille  date. 
Usq.  quo,  Domine  ? 


ITS  MONrMENTS  AND   ITS   RECTORS.  123 

Memorials  op  the  Barrett  Family. 

Over  the  arcb  by  which  the  north  transept  opens  to  the 
north  aisle  there  is  a  carving-  representing  the  armorial  coat* 
of  Thomas  Barrett  (grandson  of  Sir  Paul  Barrett)  impaling 
that  of  his  first  wife  Anne  Boys,  who  was  his  first  cousin,  being 
a  daughter  of  Sir  William  Boys,  M.D.,  by  his  wife  Ann  Barrett. 
This  transept  passed  into  the  possession  of  that  family  when 
Thomas  Southland  sold  Lee,  in  1676,  to  Paul  Barrett,  Re- 
corder of  Canterbury,  who  was  afterwards  knighted.  Sir 
Paul  was  buried  in  the  Church  of  St.  Mary  Bredman,  at 
Canterbury,  in  1685-6;  but  his  second  wife  lies  here;  and  so 
does  his  third  wife,  Mrs.  Sarah  Head,  widow,  whom  he 
married  a  few  years  after  he  had  purchased  Lee.  She  sur- 
vived him  for  twenty-six  years.  Her  paternal  coat  of  arms, 
impaling  that  of  Barrett,  appears  in  a  lozenge  upon  her 
tombstone.t 

She  was  a  remarkable  woman,  who,  being  left  a  widow  at 
the  age  of  thirty,  with  six  young  children,  admirably  ad- 
ministered the  wealth  bequeathed  by  their  grandfather.  Sir 
Richard  Head,  who  died  in  1689.  For  them  she  purchased 
estates  in  Woodchurch,  Graveney,  and  Stalisfield,  which  were 
added  to  the  original  estate  of  the  Heads  at  Hermitage,  in 
Higham,  near  Rochester.  Her  second  marriage  and  residence 
at  Lee  caused  her  children  to  be  brought  up  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Canterbury,  where  her  son  Sir  Francis  subse- 
quently lived.  He  was  buried  in  St.  Mildred's  Church  there 
in  1716.  One  of  her  grandsons.  Dr.  John  Lynch,  Rector  of 
Ickham  from  1731  to  1760,  became  Dean  of  Canterbury  ;  and 
another  of  them.  Sir  John  Head,  rector  here  from  1760  to 

*  0)%  on  a  chevron  sMe.  3  Hoqs  passant  of  the  fiekl.  between  3  mullets 
pierced  of  the  second  ;  impaling  or,  a  griffin  segreant  snble,  within  a  bordure 
gules. 

■[•  Arms,  in  a  lozenge  : — Barrett,  imj^aling  Ent :  {nz  :  a  chevron  between  3 
falcon's  bells,  or). 

Here  lieth  y**  body  of  Dame  Sarah  Barret  danghf  to  S""  George  Ent,  Knight, 
wife  to  Francis  Head  of  Rochester  Esq.,  and  to  S"'  Paul  Barret  of  Canterbury 
Kn'.  fehe  had  4  sons  and  two  daug'^  by  the  former,  and  by  the  latter  whom 
she  survived  had  1  son  &  a  daughter.  She  departed  this  life  Oct  :  j"  6"'  1711 
aged  63  years. 

In  the  nave  just  outside  this  transept  is  a  portion  of  a  stone  commemorating  the 
second  wife  of  Mr.  Paul  Barrett,  who  died  on  the  26th  of  August  1677  aged  23  ; 
thus :  ■    J.T.  c  \  saluac'on  1-677 ) 

mtheyeareofJ_j^g^^g^23        j 


121 


ICKHAM   CHURCH, 


1769,  was  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury;  one  of  licr  f^reat- 
grandsons  (another  John  Lynch)  was  also  Archdeacon  there. 
Sir  Paul  Barrett's*  descendants  possessed  Lee,  and  this 
transept,  durin<^  nearly  two  hundred  years.  Mr.  Thomas 
Ban-ett,  the  last  of  his  name,  who  died  in  1803,  was  lord  of 
Kincfston  Manor  and  M.P.  for  Dover.  He  was  a  friend  of 
Horace  Walpole,  who  visited  him  in  1780  at  Lee  Priory, 
which  James  Wyatt  the  architect  was  employed  to  improve. 
Horace  Walpole  likewise  induced  the  two  Misses  Berry  to 
visit  Mr.  Barrett  at  Lee,  in  1794;  he  has  left  a  flattering 
description  of  the  house,  its  library  and  its  pictures.  Mr. 
Barrett's  niece,  Elizabeth  Byrche,  married  Sir  Egerton 
Brydges,  of  Denton  Court ;  and  to  her  son,  Thomas  Barrett 
Brydges,  who  died  before  his  father,  Lee  Priory  was  be- 
queathed by  Mr.  Barrett.  Her  third  daughter,  Charlotte 
Katherine  Brydges,  who  married  Mr.  Frederic  Dashwood 
Swann,  is  buried  in  this  church,  where  she  is  commemorated 
by  a  mural  tablet.  A  few  books,  printed  by  Sir  Egerton 
Brydges  at  a  press  set  up  in  Lee  Priory,  are  now  classed 
among  the  rarities  for  which  Bibliophiles  give  large  prices. 

*  Bakeett,  of  Lee  in  Ickham. 

Mary,  d.  &  h.  of=pSir    Paul    Barrett,   Sergeant-=p  (2 ob.  1677. 

Thos.  Stanley,        at-Law,  nat.  1633,  ob.  1685-6.       (  3.  Sarah,  widow    of  Fras. 
ob.  1672,  Head,  ob.  1711. 


Paul, 

nat. 

1656. 


George,^Susan,  d.  of        Other 
ob.  1709,  *  Thos.  Green,        issue. 


set.  46. 


ob.  1711, 
49. 


set. 


Ann,=pSir  Wm.  Boys, 

ob.        " "  " 

1753. 


Other 
M.D..  nat.  issue. 

1657,  ob. 1744. 


4.  Katherine,  d.=pThomas,=pAnne  Boys,=pElizabeth=:B.  Sarah 
of  Humphry     ob.  1757.     1st  wife,  Peters,  Baker. 

Pudner.  nat.  1694.       2nd  wife. 


Thomas,  son  &  heir,  ob. 
1803,  friend  of  Horace 
Walpole. 


Thomas,  nat. 
and  ob.  1723. 


Elizabeth,: 
ob.  1798. 


:Rev.  Wm. 

Dejovas 

Byrche. 


Elizabeth=pSir  Saml.  Egerton  Brydges,^M ary  Robinson, 
Byrche.      I  of  Denton,  F.S.A.,  ob.  1837.     I  2ud  wife. 


Thomas 
Barrett 
Brydges. 


Sir  Wm,  Egerton 
Barrett  Brydges, 
of  Lee  Priory, 


Charlotte=Frederick 
Katherine  Dashwood 
Brydges.      Swann. 


Ferdinand 

Stanley 

Head  Brydges. 


ITS   MONUMENTS  AND   ITS   RECTOES.  125 

There  was  here  a  curious  endowment,  for  a  man  who 
should  nightly  ring  the  curfew  bell.  It  was  founded  by 
Eiichard  Townley,  who  in  his  will,  dated  1525,  left  a  house 
and  garden,  in  Ickham,  for  the  curfew  ringer.  A  bequest  of 
6s.  8d.  left  by  "  Jaffary  Led's  widow  "  was  the  subject  of  a 
"  presentment  "  made  in  1511  at  Archbishop  Warham's 
visitation,  John  Beke,  of  Well,  was  therein  charged  with 
wrongfully  retaining  the  bequest. 

To  increase  the  number  of  sermons  in  this  church  Richard 
Denne,  in  1616,  by  his  will  left  a  house  and  lands  in  Ickham  ; 
out  of  the  rent  of  which  £1  was  to  be  given,  for  two  addi- 
tional sermons  every  year.  He  directed  that  the  residue  of 
the  rent  should  be  distributed  among  the  poor  people  pre- 
sent, after  the  sei'mon  was  finished. 

In  the  rectory  house,  which  was  much  altered  by  the 
Rev.  J.  A.  Wright,  a  portion  of  the  ancient  building  still 
remains.  This  portion  is  built  of  stone,  in  two  storeys. 
The  lower  room,  which  is  large,  and  is  now  used  as  a 
kitchen,  has  an  early  Tudor  window  of  good  design  with 
shafted  mullions,  and  in  its  ceiling,  many  well-moulded 
beams  ;  probably  of  the  time  of  Henry  VII.  The  upper 
room  has  a  window  of  still  earlier  character. 


INTEEIOR  MEASUEEMENTS  OF  THE  CHURCH. 

(Communicated  by  the  Rev.  E.  Gildee.) 

ft.  in. 

Length  of  Churcli  (including  Chancel  and  Tower)     126  9 

Length  of  Chancel  42  10 

Length  of  Nave  (including  Tower)  83  11 

AVidth  of  Nave  (including  its  Aisles)   39  9 

Width  of  North  Aisle     8  7 

Width  of  South  Aisle     7  10 

Height  of  Chancel  (to  the  wall  plate)    19  6 

Height  of  the  Chancel  x\rch  24  0 

North  Transept — 

Erom  North  to  South 21  8 

East  to  West 1.5  2 

South  Transept — 

Erom  North  to  South 19  8 

East  to  West 16  8 

Height  of  Tower 58  0 


126  ICKHAM    CHURCH, 


RECTORS  OF  ICKHAM.* 

(1)  Walteh  de  CiiELECUMB    IS  tlic    fii'st   wliosG  iianiG   we   liave 

been  able  to  learn.  In  October  1283  he  was  appointed 
joint  auditor  of  the  accounts  of  Roger  Burt,  Treasurer  of 
the  Chamber  (ArcJibp.  PeckJiam's  Register,  153'').  Ho 
died  in  December  1284. 

(2)  Maktin  de  Hampton,  who  succeeded  Chelecumb,  was  insti- 

tuted on  8  kal.  Feb.  1284-5,  and  was  inducted  by  Master 
Richard,  the  Rector  of  Adisham.  Hampton,  who  was  a 
Canon  of  Wiugluim,  died  in  1300,  and  was  buried  in  the 
chancel  of  Ickhaui  Church.  Tlie  matrix  of  his  monumen- 
tal brass  remains. 

(3)  William  de  Beitall  may  or  may  not  have  been  Hampton's 

immediate  successor.  We  only  know  that  in  1322  he  was 
"  deprived"  of  his  benefice  by  "definitive  sentence." 

(4)  Robert    de    Norton,  a   great  ecclesiastical  lawyer,  held   the 

benefice  for  a  few  months,  from  November  1322  to 
July  1323,  when  he  was  Rector  of  Ivjchurch.  In  vacat- 
ing this  living,  and  that  of  Merstham,  in  Surrey,  he  made 
a  written  protest  that  if  the  rectory  of  Ivychurcli  involved 
him  in  litigation  he  would  return  to  his  former  benefices. 
He  had  been  Rector  of  Woodchurch  from  1314  to  1315  ; 
and  was  collated  to  Merstham  in  January  132^  by  Arch- 
bishop Reynolds,  "  intuitu  caritatis  ;"  he  acted  as  Proctor, 
at  the  Court  of  Rome,  for  that  Archbishop  in  1322. 

(5)  Thomas  de  Howe  received  the  benefice  "  in  commendam"  in 

July  1323. 

(6)  Robert  de  Solbury,  who  obtained  this  preferment  in  April 

1324,  retained  it  dm"ing  twenty-seven  years.     A  special 

commission  of  jurisdiction  here   was  granted  to   him   in 

July  1326.     He  became  Provost  of  Wingham  College  in 

July  1351 ;  and  he  seems  then  to  have  exchanged  this 

benefice  for  the  rectory  of  Eynsford.     He  lived  until  1358. 

*  The  income  of  the  Rector  of  Ickham  was  valued,  in  A.D.  1292,  at  4.5  marks 
per  annum.  In  1.5:3.5,  it  was  said  to  be  £29  13s.  4d.,  mainly  from  tithes,  but 
£1  10s.  Od.  of  that  total  was  derived  from  20  acres  of  glebe  land.  As  the  Rector 
was  bound  to  provide  a  priest  to  serve  Well  Chapel,  at  a  stipend  of  £.3  6s.  8d. 
per  annum  ;  and  to  pay  los.  at  every  visitation,  for  "  proxies  and  synodes,"  the 
net  value  of  the  benefice  was  said  to  be  £25  lis.  8d.  in  1.535.  Fifty-three  years 
later  its  annual  value  was  £150  ;  in  1640,  it  was  £250  ;  in  1800  it  had  increased 
to  £450 ;  and  its  tithes  at  the  Commutation  were  converted  into  a  rent  charge  of 
£997  per  annum. 


AND    ITS   RECTORS.  127 

(7)  William  Brodele,  who  was  Eector  of  Eynsford,  was  admitted 
to  this  benefice  in  July  1351,  but  he  retained  it  not  long. 

(S)  William  Hegiitresbukt,  "  Professor  of  the  Sacred  Page,"  a 
man  especially  learned  in  Holy  Scripture,  was  instituted 
to  Ickliam  in  October  1354.  He  was  a  Canon  of  Sarum, 
and  also  Canon  of  Wimelingwold  in  Wingham  Collegiate 
Church.  Some  of  the  parishioners  here  subtracted  from 
and  detained  parts  of  his  tithes,  so  that  in  November  1359 
the  Provost  of  Wingham,  John  Severleye,  received  from 
Archbishop  Islip  a  commission  to  inquire  into  the  matter. 
Heghtresbury  died  here  in  1372,  having  been  Chancellor 
of  Oxford  in  the  previous  year.  By  his  will  (in  Archbishop 
Whittlesey's  register,  fol.  126'')  he  bequeathed  several  books 
and  vestments  to  Ickham  Church,  wherein  he  was  buried. 

(9)  John  Colthorp  of  Denford,  in  Lincoln  diocese,  was  instituted 

in  November  1372,  but  in  less  than  four  years  he  exchanged 
with 

(10)  Walter  de  Fortndon  (or  Farndon),  Rector  of  Whitchurch, 

then  in  the  diocese  of  Lincoln,  who  was  admitted  to  this 
benefice  on  June  27,  1376.  After  holding  it  for  ten 
years  he  exchanged  with 

(11)  William  Blankpatn,  Eector  of  Orset,  whose  name  seems  to 

mean  White-bread,  or  Whitbread.  He  was  instituted  on 
the  15th  of  September  1386,  having  already,  for  some  years, 
held  a  Canon's  stall  at  Winglmm.  He,  like  his  predeces- 
sor Heghtresbury,  was  learned  in  the  Scriptures,  "  Professor 
of  the  Sacred  Page." 

(12)  Philip    Eoggers,    who  was  Archbishop    Courteuay's   cross- 

bearer,  succeeded  to  this  benefice  on  the  3rd  of  June 
1390.  How  long  he  held  it  we  do  not  discover.  It  is  not 
probable  that  he  retained  it  for  forty-two  years  ;  neverthe- 
less we  know  not  the  name  of  any  other  rector  until  1432. 

(13)  EiCHARD  ViKCENT  was  instituted  by  Archbishop   Chicheley, 

May  22,  1432 ;  he  was  also  a  Canon  of  Wingham.  He 
retained  this  rectory  for  forty-one  years,  and  died  in  1473. 

(14)  Nicholas  Buletkch,  in  Decretis  Baccalaureus,  who  had  for 

a  few  months  already  been  a  Canon  of  Wingham,  was 
admitted  to  Ickham  by  Archbishop  Bourgchier  on  the  5th 
of  Nov.  1473.  He  retained  this  benefice  for  nearly  fifteen 
years,  and  then  he  effected  an  exchange  with 

(15)  John  Hertt,  another  learned  lawyer,  in  Dec.  Bar.,  who  was 

Eector  of  St.  Michael  in  Crooked  Lane,  London.    This 


128  ICKIIAM    CUURCII, 

worthy  was  instituted  by  Arclibishop  Morton,  June  23, 
1488.  He  became  Uean  of  the  Arches,  and  also  held  a 
Canonry  at  Wingham.  lie  resigned  tliis  benefice  in  1492. 
(IG)  TJicnvRD  Martin  (styled  "  a  Bishop  in  the  Universal  Church") 
was  instituted  May  31,  1492,  upon  Ilervy's  resignation, 
and  held  this  benefice  for  nearly  seven  years,  until  his  death. 
Twenty  years  before,  he  had  obtained  from  the  Pope  a 
dispensation  enabling  him  to  hold  three  incompatible  bene- 
fices in  plurality,  and  had  in  consequence  held  the  rectory 
of  St.  Peter  in  Guisnes  from  Feb.  1472-3  to  Sept.  1475.  This 
dispensation  was  probably  obtained  through  liichard 
Martin's  influence  at  the  Court  of  King  Edward  IV.  That 
monarch  admitted  him  to  be  one  of  his  Council  of  State 
in  1471  (11  Ed.  IV),  and  appointed  him,  for  life.  Chan- 
cellor of  the  County  of  the  King's  Marches  (Gancenarius 
Comitaf  Reg^  3farch') ;  at  that  time  he  was  a  Prebendary 
of  St.  Paul's,  and  Archdeacon  of  London  ;  four  years  later 
he  became  Chancellor  {GanceUariiis  Regis),  and  in  1477 
was  made  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  for  life,  and  Chaplain  to 
the  King.  He  obtained  Prebeudal  Stalls  at  Hereford  and 
Salisbury,  in  1473  ;  and  was  Archdeacon  of  Berks  (1478), 
and  of  Hereford  (1476).  At  the  close  of  Edward's  reign, 
in  the  twenty-second  year  thereof,  he  was  consecrated 
Bishop  of  St.  David's,  and  is  then  spoken  of,  on  the  Patent 
Roll,  as  "  Cancellarius  Regis."  Eor  some  reason,  probably 
political,  on  the  usurpation  of  the  crown  by  Richard  the 
Third,  he  did  not  retain  the  bishopric  of  St.  David's,  but 
seems  to  have  acted  henceforth  as  a  suffragan  helpful  to 
other  Bishops,  Bishop  Martin  held  the  vicarage  of  Lydd 
from  June  1474  until  1498.  He  enjoyed  the  rectory  of 
Woodchurch  during  some  years ;  but  he  resigned  it,  in 
1492,  for  this  benefice  of  Ickham.  He  was  Custos  of  the 
Franciscan  House  of  Grey  Friars  or  Minorites  in  Canter- 
bury, of  which  he  w^as  a  benefactor,  and  there  he  was  buried 
in  November  1498.  Dugdale  and  subsequent  writers  have 
erroneously  stated  that  this  bishop  of  St.  David's  died  in 
or  about  1483  ;  some  actually  describe  his  "  large  marble 
tomb  before  the  crucifix  nearest  the  north  door"  of  St. 
Paul's  Cathedral.  His  continuous  occupation  of  prefer- 
ments in  Kent,  from  1474  to  1498,  disproves  such  erro- 
neous statements.  Somner  and  H.  "Whartoii  did  not  know 
that  this  Richard  Martin  was  consecrated  to  St.  David's ; 


AND    ITS    RECTORS.  129 

"Somner  was  therefore  much  puzzled  by  the  title  given  to, 
and  claimed  by  him,  o£  "  bishop  in  the  universal  church." 

(17)  John  Frankeltn  was  instituted  by  Archbishop  Morton  on 

the  loth  of  February  1498-9,  and  held  this  benefice  during 
thirty-six  years.  He  died  here  in  1535,  and  left  a  legacy 
to  Well  Chapel.  When  Archbishop  Warham  held  his 
visitation  in  1511,  complaint  was  made,  by  some  one  con- 
nected with  Well  Chapel,  that  the  "  Parson  of  Ikham"  with- 
held a  chantry.  The  record  states,  however,  that "  Sir  John 
Fraukelyn "  appeared,  and  producing  the  foundation 
charter  proved  that  he  did  nothing  contrary  to  the  terms 
of  the  foundation.  At  the  same  time  it  was  stated  that 
the  churchyard  fence  at  Well  required  mending,  and  that 
the  bell-frames  there  needed  repair.  Also,  from  Ickham, 
the  wardens  complained  that  the  chancel  of  Ickham  Church 
was  not  repaired.  John  Frankelyn's  will,  dated  9th  Sept, 
1535,  is  preserved  at  Canterbury.  He  seems  to  have  been 
a  native  of  Warwick,  where  he  directed  that  10  masses 
should  be  said  for  the  souls  of  himself,  his  father  Eobert, 
and  his  mother  Alice  Frankelyn,  of  my  lord  John  Morton, 
Mr.  Thomas  Maddies,  and  Sir  Thomas  Typpis.  He  be- 
queathed 20s.  towards  the  paving  or  other  repair  of  Ickham 
Churcli ;  to  which  he  also  left  a  silver  gilt  clialice,  a  cor- 
poras,  a  superaltare,  altar  clothes,  cruets,  a  mass-book, 
and  a  surplice,  which  he  had  used  in  his  chapel.  He 
directed  that,  every  fourth  week,  throughout  the  year, 
the  three  curates  of  Ickham,  AViekham,  and  Littlebourne, 
with  their  clerks,  should  meet  in  Ickham  Church,  and  all 
sing  Dirige  with  the  whole  service,  for  his  soul ;  and  also 
on  the  same  day  or  the  next,  they  should  sing  3  masses  of 
the  Trinity,  Our  Lady,  and  Eequiem. 

(18)  Thomas  Baeok,  M.A.,  v/as  collated  to  this  living  by  Arch- 

bishop Cranmer  on  the  21;th  of  September  1535. 

(19)  Edmund  Cranmer  was  collated  hither  by  his  brothei*,  the 

Archbishop,  on  the  2nd  of  September  1547.  He  had  been 
Archdeacon  of  Canterbury,  and  Provost  of  Wingham 
from  the  9th  of  March  1533-4;  he  likewise  held  the 
rectory  of  Cliff-at-Hoo,  and  1549-54  the  sixth  prebendal 
stall  in  Canterbury  Cathedral.  In  1542  he  contributed 
£20  towards  the  loan  granted  in  that  year  to  King  Henry 
VIII.  Archdeacon  Cranmer  retained  this  benefice  until 
March  1553-4  ;  when,  under  Queen  Mary,  he  was  deprived 

YOL.    XIV.  K 


130  ICKHAM  cnuucH, 

of  this  and  all  his  other  preferments,  because  he  was  a 
married  man.  The  sentence  of  deprivation  was  issued  in 
the  Cliapter  House  at  Canterbury,  by  Dr.  Henry  Harvey, 
Vicar- General,  and  Richard  Thornden,  Bishop  Suffragan 
of  Dover.  The  descendants  of  Archdeacon  Cranmer  re- 
mained for  some  generations  at  Canterbury,  in  St.  Mildred's 
Parish.  His  son  Thomas,  who  was  Registrar  of  tbe  Arch- 
deaconry, was  buried  there  in  1G04. 

(20)  Robert  Marsh  was  appointed  Rector  of  Ickham  on  the  12th 

of  April  1554  by  Queen  Mary. 

(21)  Henry  Latham  was  rector  in  1555. 

(22)  AViLLiAM  Ptat,  "  parson  of  Ickham,"  was  buried  here  21st 

of  September  1568. 

(23)  Samuel  Harlestone  was  admitted  to  this  benefice  by  Arch- 

bishop Parker  on  the  2ud  of  Nov.  1568,  and  held  it  for  the 
long  period  of  forty-eight  years.  By  his  will,  made  in 
1616,  he  bequeathed  £20  to  the  poor  of  the  parish,  to  be 
so  invested  as  to  provide  for  distributing  twenty  shillings 
per  annum. 
(2-1)  William  Kingsley,  S.T.P.,  Fellow  of  All  Souls,  Oxford,  and 
rector  of  Great  Chart,  which  he  resigned  for  Ickham,  suc- 
ceeded Harlestone.  He  was  collated  to  this  rectory  on 
the  25th  of  January  1616-7  by  Archbishop  Abbot,  whose 
niece,  Damaris  Abbot,  became  his  wife.  By  her  he  had 
sixteen  children.  He  was  appointed  Archdeacon  of  Canter- 
bury in  1619,  and  retained  these  preferments  for  moi'e 
than  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  also  Rector  of  Salt- 
wood  with  Hythe.  On  the  29th  of  January  1647-8  he 
died,  and  was  buried  in  the  Cathedral,  where  in  1614  he 
had  succeeded  Isaac  Casaubon  in  the  eighth  stall,  which 
he  held  for  twenty-nine  years.  His  daughter  Ann,  widow 
of  John  Boys,  became  the  third  wife  of  Sir  Richard  Head 
of  Rochester,  whose  grandchildren  passed  their  childhood 
and  youth  in  Ickham,  at  Lee  Priory  ;  Sir  Richard's  great- 
grandson,  Sir  John  Head,  became  Rector  of  Ickham  and 
Archdeacon  of  Canterbury.  Archdeacon  Kingsley  wit- 
nessed the  beginning  of  the  troublous  times  of  the  Rebel- 
lion. One  of  the  numerous  petitions  sent  up  to  Parliament 
in  May  1643  alleges  that  Archdeacon  Kingsley  preached 
poisonous  doctrine  in  Ickham  Church.  Parliament,  he  was 
alleged  to  have  said,  sat  for  nothing  but  to  undo  the  kingdom ; 
and  the  laity  were  not  all  competent  to  search  the  Scriptures. 


AND   ITS   RECTORS.  131 

(25)  John  Swan,  "  Minister  o£  Ikham,"  in  October  1642,  made 

an  affidavit  setting  forth  the  opposition  raised  by  the 
Mayor  and  Churchwardens  of  St.  Clement's,  Sandwich, 
against  the  induction  of  the  Eev.  Hope  Sherrard.*  The 
Ickham  Register  states,  that  "  Anne  Swan  wife  of  John 
Swan  minister  of  this  parish  was  buried  here  March  20, 
164f."  At  the  death  of  Archdeacon  Kingsley,  in  1648, 
there  was  no  Archbishop,  and  John  Swan  seems  to  have 
remained  here  until  1662  ;  when  he  was  ejected  for  Non- 
conformity. 

(26)  Meric  Casaubon,  who  was  born  at  Greneva  in  1597,  but  came 

to  England  with  his  father,  Isaac  Casaubon,  in  1610,  and 
was  early  appointed  Rector  of  Minster  in  Thanet,  and  of 
Monkton,  succeeded  to  this  benefice  after  the  Restoration. 
His  collation  to  it  by  Archbishop  Juxon  took  place  Oct.  4, 
1662.  He  had  been  presented  to  the  ninth  prebendal  stall 
in  Canterbury  Cathedral  in  1628,  when  he  was  thirty-one 
years  of  age ;  and  he  occupied  it  during  forty-three  years. 
His  epitaph  in  the  Cathedral  erroneously  states  that  he 
held  a  canon's  stall  for  forty-six  years  ;  it  points  with 
admiration  to  his  great  erudition,  and  to  his  descent  from 
Robert  Stephens,  his  great-grandfather,  and  Henry 
Stephens,  his  grandfather.  He  died  in  July  1671,  in  the 
seventy -fifth  year  of  his  age.  His  mind  and  temper,  with 
regard  to  the  controversies  of  the  time  of  Laud,  may  be 
gathered  from  his  reply  to  a  petition  from  Minster  against 
him  in  1641.  He  said,  "  My  curate  refused  to  administer 
the  communion  to  two  that  would  not  come  up  to  the 
rails ;  which,  when  I  heard,  I  disliked  ;  and  he  did  it  no 
more ;  at  Christmas  1639  I  was  there  myself,  and  adminis- 
tered unto  all  those  that  did  not,  as  well  as  those  that 
came  up  to  the  rails.  I  was  at  the  charge  of  decent  rails. 
As  for  bowing,  I  never  used  it  till  we  were  commanded  it 
in  our  cathedral  of  Christ  Church,  and  that  I  saw  it 
generally  practised  by  others." 

(27)  Samuel   Parker,    S.T.P.,   a  learned   Fellow   of   the   Royal 

Society,  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury  1670-88,  and  Rector 
of  Chartham  1667-71,  was  collated  to  Ickham  in  1671 
by  Archbishop  Sheldon,  whose  chaplain  he  was.  Born  in 
1640,  the  son  of  a  learned  Serjeant-at-Law,  John  Parker, 

*  Sixth  Report  of  Historic  MS.  Commissiin,  207*. 

K  2 


132  ICKHAM    CHURCH, 

wlio  sided  Avitli  ilio  rarliamoiit,  lio  died  prematurely  at 
Oxford,  March  20,  1G87-8,  having  been  conBecrated  Bif^hop 
of  Oxford  only  seventeen  niontlin  before,  on  Oct.  17,  16SG. 
He  held  the  second  prebcndal  stall  in  Canterbury  Cathedral 
from  Nov.  IG72  until  1G85,  when  he  resigned  it.  Tckham 
he  retained,  with  his  bishopric. 
(2S)  George  Titorpe,  S.T.P.,  who  was  already  Eector  of  Eishops- 
bonrnc,  and  held  the  fifth  stall  in  Canterbury  Cathedral 
1G80-1710,  was  collated  to  Ickham,  after  the  death  of 
Bishop  Parker,  in  1688.  He  was  a  benefactor  to  Emmanuel 
College,  Cambridge,  whereat  he  endowed,  with  lands  at 
Ash  near  Sandwich,  five  scholarships  for  Divinity  students. 
He  was  buried  in  the  Cathedral  1719,  Nov.  28.  The 
entrv  of  his  burial  in  the  Cathedral  register  describes  him 
as  "  the  Eeverend  and  Hospitable  George  Thorp,  D.D." 

(29)  Charles  Beak  succeeded  to  this  benefice  and   to   that   of 

Bishopsbourne,  January  17,  1720,  and  held  them  both  for 
ten  years.  He  had  been  Vicar  of  Lydd  from  1711  to 
1720,  and  while  there  in  1715  his  wife  Lucy  {nee  Session) 
died;  but  she  was  buried  at  Barham.  Mr.  Bean  was  sub- 
sequently buried  in  the  same  church ;  he  died  March  30, 
1731,  in  the  fifty-sixth  year  of  his  age. 

(30)  John  Lynch,  D.D.,  was  one  of  the  nineteen  children  borne 

to  John  Lynch,  Esq.,  of  Staple,  by  his  wife  Sarah  Head, 
whose  childhood  had  been  passed  at  Lee  Priory  in  Ickham, 
her  mother's  third  home.  Dr.  Lynch  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  Archbishop  Wake,  and  by  that  primate  he 
was  prefei-red  to  the  rectory  of  Sundridge  in  1727,  and  to 
the  fourth  prebeudal  stall  in  the  Cathedral,  in  April  1728. 
Three  years  later,  he  was  collated  both  to  Ickham  and  to 
Bishopsbourne  in  May  1731.  The  deanery  of  Canterbury 
was  likewise  held  by  Dr.  Lynch  from  1734  to  1760 ;  and 
he  was  Treasurer  of  Salisbury  Cathedral  1735-60.  He 
died  in  the  latter  year,  and  was  interred  beside  his  mother, 
in  his  own  family  chancel,  which  is  on  the  north  side  of 
Staple  Chui'ch,  in  a  vault  which  he  had  prepared  during  his 
lifetime,  beneath  the  east  window. 

(31)  Sir  Jonisr    Head,   D.D.    (fourth   son   of   Sir   Francis   Head, 

whose  childhood  was  passed  at  Ickham),  succeeded  his  first 
cousin,  Dean  Lynch,  in  this  benefice,  in  1760.  He  had 
in  1730  been  appointed  Eector  of  St.  George  and  St.  Mary 
Magdalen,   Burgate,  in   Canterbury ;    he  held  a  Prebend 


AND    ITS    RECTOES.  133 

at  Hereford  from  1738  to  1769  ;  and  was,  from  1748  to 
1769,  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury,  and  from  1759  to  1769, 
fifth  Prebendary.  He  married  Miss  Jane  Geekie  ;  and,  in 
the  year  preceding  his  death,  he  succeeded  to  the  baronetcy, 
owing  to  the  deaths  (without  male  issue)  of  his  three 
elder  brothers.  He  died  in  Dec.  1769,  and  was  buried  in 
the  chancel  of  Ickham  Church,  in  the  large  vault  of  the 
Head  family.  There  is  here  no  epitaph  nor  other  memorial 
of  him  ;  nor  of  fifteen  other  members  of  the  family  who 
lie  with  him  in  that  vault. 

(32)  The  Honourable  James  Coekwallis    (a  nephew  of    Arch- 

bishop Cornwallis),  the  successor  of  Sir  John  Head  in  this 
benefice,  held  it  for  one  year  only.  He  had  been  Eector 
of  Boughtou  Malherb,  a  Prebendary  of  Westminster,  and, 
for  a  few  months  only,  Eector  of  Adisham  ;  he  became 
Eector  of  Wrotham  in  1770 ;  Dean  of  Canterbury  in 
1775  ;  Bishop  of  Lichfield  in  1781 ;  and  Dean  of  "Windsor 
1791-4.  He  succeeded  his  nephew,  the  second  Marquess 
Cornwallis,  in  the  Peerage,  as  fourth  Earl  Cornwallis,  in 
1823,  and  died  in  1824.  He  was  a  son  of  the  first  Earl 
Cornwallis,  and  was  the  father  of  the  fifth  and  last  Earl. 

(33)  William  Backhouse,  D.D.,  was  collated  to  Ickham  in  1771. 

He  became  Hector  of  Deal  in  1776,  and  was  Archdeacon 
of  Canterbury  from  1769  to  1788,  when  he  died. 

(34)  HousTOUNE  Eadcliffe,  D.D.,  Chaplain  to  Archbishop  Moore, 

Vicar  of  Gillingham,  and  fourth  Prebendary  of  Canter- 
bury 1795-1822,  succeeded  to  this  living  in  1788.  He  held 
the  Archdeaconry  of  Canterbury  from  1803  until  his  death 
in  1822.  He  had  been  Eector  of  Merstham  1786-90 ;  a 
Prebendary  of  Ely  from  1787  to  1795  ;  and  was  Sub-dean 
of  Wells  from  1812  to  1822. 

(35)  Nicholas  Simoi^s,  M.A.,  Vicar  of  Minster  in  Thanet. 

(36)  John    Adolphus   Weight,    M.A.,    held   the   benefice  from 

1839  to  1874,  when  he  resigned,  under  34  and  35  Victoria, 
cap.  44.     He  died  16  June  1881. 

(37)  Edwaed    Gilder,    M.A.,    Eural  Dean,    and   Eector   of   St. 

Dunstan's,  Canterbury,  succeeded  Mr.  Wright  in  1874, 
and  is  now  the  Eector. 


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A  EOMAN  VILLA  AT  WINGHAM. 

BY    G.    DOWKER,    F.G.S. 

WiNGHAM  was  certainly  a  place  of  importance  in  early  times ; 
several  roads  converge  into  it.  It  was  near  or  on  the  Roman 
road  from  Richborough  to  Canterbury,  during  the  period 
of  the  Roman  occupation  of  Britain ;  and  at  a  later  period, 
when  Sandwich  rose  into  importance,  Wingham  formed  a 
half-way  resting-place  between  it  and  Canterbury.  At 
Domesday  Wingham  gave  the  name  to  the  Hundred,  which 
also  contained  the  parishes  of  Ash,  Goodnestone,  Nonington, 
and  part  of  Womenswold.  Mr.  J.  B.  Sheppard  some  years 
ago  had  discovered  a  roadway  of  faggots,  leading  across  the 
Marsh  to  Little  Briton,  and  constituting  part  of  the  road 
from  Richborough  to  Canterbury.  To  the  south-east,  the 
road  from  Staple  to  Wingham  passes  by  the  Saxon  burial- 
place  at  Witherden  Hall,  opened  by  Lord  Londesborough  and 
the  late  Mr.  Ackerman.  To  the  north-east,  lay  the  Roman 
burial-place  I  discovered  at  Dearson,  described  in  the  twelfth 
volume  of  Archceologia  Cantiana.  Hasted  mentions  that  in 
1710,  "behind  Wingham  Court,  in  a  field  called  the  Vine- 
yard, the  tenant  of  the  Court-lodge  farm,  being  at  plough 
on  his  lands,  observed  the  plough  to  strike  on  something 
hard,  and  found  it  to  be  a.  chest  or  coffin  of  large  thick 
stones  joined  together,  and  covered  with  one  on  the  top. 
The  stones  were  about  four  feet  in  length,  two  in  breadth, 
and  four  in  thickness.  It  was  about  a  foot  deep ;  at  the 
bottom  were  some  black  ashes,  but  nothing  else  in  it ;  the 
place  round  about  was  searched,  but  nothing  whatever  was 
found.""^  Such  another  was  found  near  Goshall,  in  Ash, 
not  long  before,  t 

These   coffins  were  in  all  probability   Roman.      It   has 

*  Hasted's  History  of  Kent,  folio  edition,  vol.  iii.,  p.  709. 
f  Harris's  History  of  Kent,  p.  335. 


TU)MAN  BATir.  AT  AVINGHAM. 


SHEWING   THE   WALLS   COATED   WITH  MOSAIC   WOBK  OF    BLACK   AKD   WHITE 

TESSERA   (BENEATH   THE   FOOT   OF   THE  STANDING    FIGURE).   AND  THE 

TESSELLATED   PAVEMENT   OF   A   ROOM    ADJACENT  TO  THE   BATH. 


A   HOMAN   VILLA   AT   WINGHAM.  135 

been  long  known  that  traces  of  foundations  of  walls  might 
be  seen  in  tbe  field  called  "  The  Vineyard,"  during  dry 
seasons,  in  the  corn.  Mr.  Sheppard  had  seen  Roman  tiles 
exposed  in  the  fields,  and  along  the  stack-yard  some  years 
ago  ;  and  the  late  Mr.  Ackerman  had  obtained  Roman  coins 
from  the  same  fields.  Stimulated  by  these  reports,  I,  by  the 
courtesy  of  the  present  tenant,  Mr.  John  Robinson,  made 
several  trial  holes  all  along  the  fence  of  the  Vineyard  field, 
next  the  stack-yard,  and  was  rewarded  on  July  22,  1881,  by 
the  discovery  of  Roma  n  buildings,  which  I  will  now  describe. 

About  half-way  between  the  stack-yard  and  the  stream 
from  Wingha  m  Well,  skirting  the  western  side  of  the  field, 
I  came  on  the  foundation  of  a  concrete  floor,  which,  oh 
further  excavating,  proved  to  be  that  of  a  Roman  bath,  with 
walls  covered  with  a  tessellated  mosaic,  the  upper  part  white, 
and  the  lower  half  of  a  slate  colour.  The  bottom  had  like- 
wise had  a  tessellated  floor  of  simila.r  material,  but  had  been 
broken  up,  and  a  small  portion  next  the  sides  alone  remained. 
The  wall  of  this  bath  was  of  Roman  tile  and  eighteen  inches 
thick ;  the  whole  had  been  filled  with  broken  tile  and  flint, 
and  contained  bones  of  animals  a,nd  charcoal.  Having  ob- 
tained permission  from  the  tenant,  and  from  his  landlord 
the  Earl  Cowper,  to  continue  the  excavation,  and  having 
received  a  grant  of  £10  from  the  Kent  Archaeological  Society, 
and  £20  from  Earl  Cowper,  we  enclosed  the  site  with  a  high 
pole  fence ;  and  our  work  since  harvest  has  resulted  thus 
far  in  exposing  the  buildings  described  below. 

In  this  and  nearly  every  excavation  I  have  made  on  a 
Roman  site,  the  foundations  have  been  covered  with  much 
superincumbent  earth,  and  much  cha  rcoal  has  been  found. 
The  walls,  of  all  the  rooms  found  here,  had  been  levelled  to 
the  surface  of  the  soil ;  and  their  debris  had  been  thrown 
down  upon  the  tessellated  floors.  The  soil  since  accumulated, 
above  the  whole,  is  the  joint  effect  of  rain- wash  and  of 
worms.  The  presence  of  a  millstone  (of  uncertain  da.te),  and 
the  absence  of  any  mediaeval  remains,  point  to  an  early 
period. 

The  bath,  whichfor  the  sake  of  distinction  I  shall  call  Room 
No.  1,  measures  inside  8  ft.  4  in.  east  to  west,  and  6  ft.  5  in. 


136  A    ROMAN    VILLA   AT   WINGHAM. 

noi-tli  to  south.  The  height  of  the  south  wall  left  standing 
is  about  2  ft.  8  in. ;  the  bottom  of  this  bath  is  paved  with  a 
concrete  composed  of  broken  tiles  in  mortar,  and  formed  the 
ground  on  which  the  tesserae  were  laid.  These  have  been 
almost  entirely  removed,  except  a  portion  some  three  or  four 
inches  wide,  next  the  walls,  where  there  are  some  of  the  grey 
tessera)  remaining.  The  south  and  west  walls  of  this  bath, 
as  well  as  portions  of  the  east  side,  are  covered  with  a  tessel- 
lated mosaic ;  the  lower  fifteen  inches  in  dark  grey  or  slate- 
coloured  tesRer8e,and  the  upj)er  portion  with  white;  the  tesserae 
being  cubes  some  half-inch  square.  These  wall  tesserae  are 
smaller  than  those  found  at  the  bottom;  they  are  embedded 
in  a  very  compact  concrete  of  mortar  and  pounded  tile,  about 
two  inches  in  thickness.  The  east  and  west  walls  of  the 
bath  are  composed  entirely  of  Eoman  tiles,  and  are  eighteen 
inches  wide ;  the  south  wall  appears  to  have  been  two  feet 
thick,  but  at  each  corner  has  been  much  broken,  probably  at 
the  time  the  posts  of  the  fence  were  put  down.  In  the 
centre  of  this  wall  are  two  large  Roman  tiles,  which  project 
outward  from  the  wall  six  inches,  and  appear  as  if  they  led  to 
some  more  southerly  room.  In  the  south-west  comer  of  the 
bath  is  a  drain  leading  thi'ough  the  wall.  The  north  of  this  bath 
has  some  steps  leading  up  into  another  apartment ;  the  steps 
appear  to  have  been  seven  inches  wide,  but  the  tiles  of  which 
they  were  composed  have  been  partly  broken  away,  at  four- 
teen inches  in  height  from  the  bottom.  These  steps  are  four 
feet  long,  the  north  two  feet  being  a  wall  of  boulders  ;  but 
at  the  east  and  west  of  these  steps  was  a  projection,  that  on 
the  east  (the  most  perfect)  was  eighteen  inches  wide,  seven- 
teen inches  deep,  and  nine  inches  high ;  the  inner  surface 
being  tessellated  with  a  continuation  of  the  tesserae  of  the 
east  side  of  the  bath,  and  rounded  off  at  each  corner.  The 
corner  next  the  succeeding  apartment  had  white  marble 
tesserae,  and  the  same  appear  to  have  paved  a  seat,  the  red 
brick  concrete  of  which  alone  remains  ;  the  west  side  of  this 
step  is  much  more  broken.  The  bottom  floor  of  this  room  is 
about  4  ft.  9  in.  from  the  surface  of  the  field.  The  steps  led 
up  to  an  apartment  No.  2.  In  the  south-west  corner  was  a 
drain  leading  through  the  wall. 


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Eoom  No.  2,  9  ft.  9  in.  east  to  west  by  10  ft.  10  in.  north 
to  sontli,  had  a  floor  thirteen  inches  higher  than  the  bottom 
of  No.  1,  and  was  tesseUated  with  a  pattern  of  alternate  large 
diamonds  and  small  squares,  with  a  banded  border  in  dark 
grey  and  white  tesserae.  The  south  and  west  walls  had  each 
a  projecting  cornice  of  red  concrete  at  base"^  next  the  floor, 
and  the  sides  of  the  walls  were  covered  with  the  same;  it  had  a 
remarkably  smooth  surface,  as  if  to  receive  colour.  The 
south-west  corner  of  this  room  had  a  drain  leading  parallel 
with  the  outside  of  the  west  wall  of  Room  No.  1,  and  having 
a  recess  in  the  south  wall  2  ft.  8  in.  long  and  8  in.  deep; 
the  wall  above  this  recess  had  white  tesserae  on  it.  The 
east  wall  had  no  cornice,  or  set  off^  of  concrete  at  the  bottom, 
and  was  about  two  feet  high  towards  the  centre ;  the  west 
wall  was  broken  up,  level  with  the  pavement.  Toward  the 
north-west  corner  of  this  apartment  was  a  doorway  through 
the  wall,  paved  with  white  tesserae,  leading  into  Room  No.  4, 
hereafter  to  be  described.  The  walls  of  No.  2  are  two  feet 
thick,  and  composed  of  flint  stones.  Near  the  centre,  but 
touching  the  north  wall,  was  found  a  large  mill-stone,  lying 
flat  on  the  tessellated  floor,  with  no  debris  under  it.  It 
may,  or  it  may  not,  be  a  Roman  mill-stone  ;  but  its  presence 
here  is,  in  any  case,  remarkable.  It  was  2  ft.  6  in.  in 
diameter,  and  five  inches  deep,  with  a  hole  of  six  and  a  half 
inches  in  the  centre ;  scored  and  made  exactly  similar  to 
mill-stones  now  in  use,  but  of  dift'erent  stone.  At  one 
foot  from  the  north-east  corner,  and  for  the  space  of  about 
three  feet,  the  wall  was  broken  down  to  the  level  of  the 
floor.  There  may  have  been  a  step  here  leading  into  Room 
No.  3  (next  to  be  described),  which  was  fifteen  inches  higher 
than  Room  No.  2.  Here  was  seen  the  section  of  the  con- 
crete on  which  the  tesserse  of  Room  No.  3  was  laid ;  this 
was  composed  of  coarsely  pounded  tile  and  mortar  six  inches 
deep.  The  tessellated  floor  of  Room  No.  2  was  tolerably  per- 
fect excepting  towards  the  south-east,  where  a  portion  had 
been  destroyed. 

Room  No.  3  has  a  tessellated  floor  of  a  different  pattern, 
consisting  of  a  central  portion  of  fret  labyrinth,  with  three 
*  This  red  concrete  cornice  was  visible  in  other  parts  along  the  west  wall. 


138  A   ROMAN   VILLA    AT   TVINGHAM. 

bands  of  alternate  black  and  white  forming  a  margin ;  the 
south-east  and  north-west  corners  are  broken  up  ;  the  walls 
of  this  room  on  the  west  were  entirely  destroyed  down  to  the 
foundations,  as  was  also  the  north  wall,  traces  only  of  which 
can  be  seen.  Eoom  No.  3  was  11  ft.  4  in.  by  11  ft.  11  in.  The 
entrance  to  it  was  probably  from  the  north-east  of  Room 
No.  2,  where  the  wall  is  broken.  Excavations  outside  the  walls 
shewed  no  appearance  of  there  having  existed  any  rooms 
either  north,  east,  or  west  of  this. 

A  doorway  near  the  north-east  of  No.  2  led  into  a  hypo- 
caust.  Room  No.  4.  This  had  a  concrete  floor  2  ft.  10  in. 
lower  thaii  Room  No.  2.  On  this  were  laid  blocks  of  masonry 
having  fire  passages  between  -,  the  blocks  were  covered  with 
overlapping  tiles,  on  which  was  sprea.d  the  concrete  of 
broken  tile,  similar  to  that  on  which  the  tesserse  in  Rooms  2 
a.nd  3  a.re  laid.  It  a,ppeared  as  if  the  tessellated  floor  of 
No.  2  had  been  continued  into  this  hypocaust.  Most  of  the 
suspended  floor  had  fa  lien  in,  and  was  found  in  the  debris  at 
the  bottom.  The  b^ock  of  masonry  near  the  north-east  corner 
of  this  building  was  best  preserved ;  and  from  its  structure 
we  can  see  the  plan  adopted.  A  central  fire-flue,  sixteen 
inches  wide,  extended  the  whole  length  of  the  building,  and 
was  crossed,  a.t  right  angles,  by  two  other  fire-flues  lead- 
ing through  the  south  wall  of  the  hypocaust.  The  blocks  of 
masonry  were  faced  with  tiles,  the  cent  ral  part  being  filled 
in  with  loose  large  flint  stones,  into  which  the  fire  found 
its  way,  as  wa.s  shewn  by  their  being  bla.ckened  by  smoke ; 
and  to  diffuse  the  heat  more  readily  hypocaust  flue-tiles 
were  laid  through  the  blocks  next  the  wall.  These  tiles 
v/ere  nine  inches  deep  and  five  inches  wide,  scored  on  the 
outside  to  hold  mortar.  Large  tiles,  one  foot  wide  and 
two  and  a  half  inches  thick,  were  laid  overlapping  on  the  top, 
so  as  to  form  an  arch,  which  also  spanned  the  fire  spaces 
between  the  blocks.  The  central  fire-flue  communicated  with 
the  lateral,  by  passing  over  some  rows  of  tiles,  forming  a  sill. 
The  hypocaust  room  is  11  ft.  2  in.  wide,  and  extends  westerly 
twenty-eight  feet  as  far  as  at  present  excavated.  The  farther 
half  was  built  after  a  different  plan  from  the  first ;  it  had 
several  smaller  flues  separated  by  8-inch  tiles;   but  as  we 


A   ROMAN   VILLA   AT   WINGHAM.  139 

have  not  completed  the  excavation  of  this,  I  shall  leave  the 
description  for  some  future  paper.  This  hjpocaust  had  ori- 
ginally been  divided  by  a  cross  wall,  leaving-  the  east  part 
11  ft.  2  in.  square;  the  remains  of  this  broken  wall  are  seen 
on  either  side  of  the  hjpocaust  room,  all  the  walls  of  which- 
are  built  of  yellow  tiles,  eleven  inches  in  length.  The  con- 
crete bottom  is  laid  under  the  blocks  and  tiles.  Beyond  the 
first  half  the  fire  action  had  been  most  destructive  to  the 
tiles,  and  this  poi-tion  appears  to  have  been  paved  with 
tesserse  of  cubes  of  tile  one  inch  or  more  square. 

The  cross  fines,  where  they  penetrated  the  south  wall, 
had  been  blocked  up  with  masonry,  a.nd  the  soil  a.bove  the 
debris  of  a  fallen  fioor  was  dark  earth,  in  which  was  found 
Upchurch  pohtei"y,  a  coin  of  Antoninus  Pius  with  a  hole 
bored  through  it  as  if  to  suspend  it  by,  and  a  minimus  of 
Constantine.  The  evidences  are  in  favour  of  its  being  used 
by  the  Saxons,  when  the  fire-fiues  were  blocked  up. 

It  will  be  impossible  to  say,  from  the  portions  of  this  villa 
already  excavated,  of  what  size  it  is  likely  to  prove.  At 
present  we  seem  to  have  met  only  with  the  buildings  con- 
nected with  the  bath,  and  these  are  not  of  large  size,  but  we 
have  not  yet  found  the  entrance,  nor  the  atrium.  The  build- 
ings discovered  appear  to  have  been  those  at  the  north-eastern 
extremity  of  the  villa.  Traces  of  wails  some  yards  to  the 
south  are  indicated  by  the  trial  probe  of  iron,  and  foundations 
of  walls  are  discernible  in  the  arable  field  some  hundred 
yards  or  more  south-east  of  the  present  excavation.  The 
bath  with  tessellated  sides,*  and  the  two  tessellated  floored 
rooms  adjoining,  bespeak  a  villa  of  the  better  sort. 

The  situation  is  that  usually  selected  by  the  Romans : 
a  spot  sheltered  from  the  east  and  north  winds,  and  open  to 
the  south-west.  A  beautiful  spring  of  water,  that  of  Wing- 
ham  Well,  runs  close  by  and  turns  a  water-mill  beyond.  At 
Tckham,  the  adjoining  parish,  and  almost  within  sight  of 
this  spot,  another  Roman  villa  exists.  It  is  hoped  that  suf- 
ficient funds  will  be  found  to  make  a  thorough  exploration 
of  this  villa. 

*  For  an  example  of  similar  mural  decoration,  found  near  Caistor,  Mr.  Eoach 
Smith  refers  us  to  Artis's  Durobrivm  Identified. 


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ON  THE  PR/EMONSTRATENSIAN  ABBEY  OF 

ST.  RADEGUND,  BRADSOLE  IN  POLTON, 

NEAR  DOVER. 

BY   W.    H.    ST.    JOHN    HOPE,    B.A. 

The  Prsemonstratensian  Order  of  Canons  Regular  derives 
its  name  from  Premontre  in  France,  wliere  it  was  founded 
in  11 20  by  St.  Norbert,  Bishop  of  Magdeburg.  Its  members 
were  sometimes  called  Norbertiues,  after  their  founder,  or 
White  Canons,  from  the  colour  of  their  habit. 

The  order  was  first  introduced  into  England  in  1143  by 
the  foundation  of  the  Abbey  of  SS.  Mary  and  Martial  at 
Newhouse,  Lincolnshire,  and  at  the  suppression  of  the 
monasteries  in  1538  its  houses  were  thirty-six  in  number. 

Of  these,  two  were  in  Kent,  viz.,  the  Abbey  of  SS.  Maiy 
and  Thomas  of  Canterbury,  at  West  Langdon,  which  was 
colonized  from  Leiston  in  1190  ;  and  that  of  St.  Radegund 
at  Bradsole,  colonized  directly  from  the  mother  Abbey  of 
Premontre  in  1191, — an  honour  it  shares  with  Bay  ham. 

There  is  much  confusion  amongst  historians  as  to  the 
founder  of  Bradsole.  Weever  says  the  Abbey  was  founded 
by  Hugh,  first  Abbot  of  St.  Augustine's,  who  died  1124,  but 
this  would  be  prior  to  the  introduction- of  the  Preemonstra- 
tensian  Order  into  England.  Philpott  (p.  278)  says  the  first 
Abbot  was  Hugh,  who  was  before  a  monk  of  the  Priory  of 
Christ  Church,  Canterbury,  in  the  reign  of  Stephen. 
According  to  Tanner,^  the  foundation  was  due  to  King 
Richard  I,  or  Geoffry,  Earl  of  Perche,  and  Maud  his  wife,  or 
"  some  other  charitable  and  pious  persons." 

The  early  history  of  this  Abbey  is  somewhat  obscure. 

Shortly  after  its  foundation  it  appears  to  have  fallen  into 

great  distress,  for  the  General  of   the  Order  proposed   to 

unite  the  Abbeys  of  Bradsole  and  Langdon.     There  seems 

*  JSfotitia  Monastica, 


ST.  radegtjnd's  abbey.  141 

also  to  have  been,  in  1207  (9  John),  a  design  of  translating 
it  to  River,  near  Dover. 

After  the  settlement  of  its  troubles,  St.  Eaclegund's 
increased  in  wealth  and  reputation ;  and  many  were  the 
notable  personages  who  desired  to  be  buried  in  its  church 
after  their  decease. 

In  September  1302,  King  Edward  I  received  the  Great 
Seal  with  his  own  hands  in  the  King's  Chapel^  at  St. 
Radegund's  ;  and  delivered  it  to  William  Greenfield,  his 
chaneellor.f 

Little  or  nothing  has  come  down  to  us  of  the  later 
history ;  but,  towards  the  end  of  the  fifteenth  century,  a  ray 
of  light  is  thrown  upon  it  from  a  Visitation  Book, J  between 
the  years  1472-1501,  of  Richard  Redman,  Bishop  of  St. 
Asaph,  §  and  Commissary-General  of  the  Prsemonstratensian 
Order  in  the  British  Isles. 

We  have  not  space  for  the  entire  series  of  visitations,  but 
it  is  evident  that  successive  Abbots  and  Priors  had  allowed 
the  buildings  to  fall  into  a  sad  state  of  decay.  In  ]  482  the 
Visitor  reports  : 

Aug.  31.  Distinctissime  precipimus  Abbati  ut  pro  toto  posse 
et  oinni  celeritate  reparare  et  sustentare  festinet  tain  Ecclesiam 
claustrum  quam  omnes  alias  domos  interiores  et  exleriores  que  vero 
modo  verisiinile  usque  ad  terrain  ruitura  videutur. 

Fratres  a  mane  usque  ad  vesperam  faciaut  opus  in  ortis 
(?  hortis). 

Doubtless  this  latter  mandate  points  to  the  incompati- 
bility of  devotion  and  meditation  with  the  noise  and  bustle 
of  building  operations. 

In  1488,  the  Abbot  is  again  urged  to  hasten  on  the 
reparation  of  the  buildings,  and  a  list  of  the  names  of 
the  brethren  is  given  : 

Henricus,  abhas  ;  Thos.  Raypese,  'prior;  Will.  Kyrkeby  ; 

*  Perhaps  one  of  the  chapels  in  the  church,  which  had  been  endowed  by 
one  of  the  three  previous  sovereigns. 

f  Lord  Campbell's  Lh-cs  of  the  Lard  Chancellors,  i.,  182. 

X  Ashmolcan  Library,  Oxford,  MS.  1519. 

§  The  Order  was  exempt  from  all  episcopal  jurisdiction,  and  Bishop  Eedman 
was  Commissary-General,  not  from  his  cffice,  but  because  when  first  appointed 
he  was  Abbot  of  the  Monastery  of  8.  Mary  Magdalene  at  Shap,  in  Westmore- 
land. 


142       ON    THE    PHiEMONSTRATENSIAN    ABBEY   OF 

Tliom.  Canterbury  ;  Thorn.  Howlett,  vicarms  ;  Robt.  John- 
son, vicarius  ;  Will.  Heysted  ;  Dominiis  Jiigerinus,  quondam 
ahbas  j  Joh.  Newyngton  ;  Rich.  Belton  ;  Will.  Bylloke ; 
Thorn.  Martyn. 

Three  years  later,  the  following  are  the  Nomina 
Canonicorum :  Dominus  Johannes  Newyngton,  ahhas ; 
Dominus  Jugeriiuis  Franceys,  quondam  ahhas  (Vicarius  de 
River)  ;  Fr.  Willielmus  Kyrkeby,  supprior ;  Fr.  Thomas 
Howlett,  vicarius  de  Schepivold  j  Fr.  Thomas  Canterbury ; 
Fr.  Willielmus  Wyngham,  presbiter ;  Fr.  Edmundus  Nor- 
wich, preshiter ;  Fr.  Gylbertus  Babram,  accolitus. 

The  indefatigable  Leland  also  visited  (in  another  sense) 
the  Abbey  a  few  years  before  its  suppression,  and  recorded  :* 

"  S.  Radigundis  standeth  on  the  toppe  of  a  hille  iij  litle  niyles 
by  west  and  sumwhat  by  sowth  from  Dovar.  There  be  white 
chanons  and  the  quier  of  the  chyrche  is  large  and  fayr.  The 
monastery  ys  at  this  time  netely  mayntayued,  but  yt  appereth  that 
yu  tymes  past  the  buildings  have  bene  ther  more  ample  than  tliey  be 
now.  There  ys  on  the  hille  fayre  wood,  but  fresch  w^ater  lakyth 
sumtyme." 

The  Abbey  was  suppressed  in  1538,  with  tbe  lesser 
monasteries  ;  its  clear  annual  value  being  £98  9s.  2id.  ;  and 
its  total  value  £142  8s.  9d.  The  house  was  then  under  the 
rule  of  Thomas  Dale,  j)rior ;  the  abbacy  being  vacant.f 

The  sitej  was  granted  by  the  King  to  Archbishop 
Cranmer,  but  shortly  afterwards  returned  by  him  to  the 
King,  by  way  of  exchange.  Leases  for  lives  were  subse- 
quently granted  to  various  tenants,  but  Hasted's  account  of 
the  grant  to  the  Earl  of  Essex,  and  its  forfeiture,  is  an  error. 
Queen  Elizabeth,  by  deed  dated  Jan.  31st,  in  the  32nd  year 
of  her  reign,  sold  and  granted  the  Abbey  and  its  appur- 
tenances to  Simon  Edolph  in  fee,  he  having  previously  been 
a.  lessee  for  life.  This  grant  and  the  subsequent  title-deeds 
are  now  at  Pett  Place,  Charing.  Simon  Edolph  altered 
the  buildings  and  resided  there.      The  flint  chequer-work, 

*  Itin.,  vii.,  p.  127. 

f  Or  perhaps  the  Abbot,  like  his  brethren  at  Glastonbury.  Reading,  etc., 
refused  to  surrender  the  Abbey,  and  was  turned  adrift  in  the  world  without 
losing  his  life,  as  they  did. 

J  For  these  notes  I  am  indebted  to  the  owner  of  St.  Radegund's,  John 
Sayer,  Esq.,  of  Pett  Place,  Charing. 


ST.  RADEGUND,  BRADSOLE,  NEAR  DOVER.   143 

and  the  picturesque  porch  and  carved  door  on  the  north  side 
of  the  Fratry,  are  his  work.  The  Abbey  continued  in  the 
Edolj)h  family  until  1719,  when  it  passed  by  purchase  to 
Sir  Peter  Eaton ;  and  subsequently,  by  marriage  with  one 
of  his  descendants  in  1750,  to  George  Sayer  of  Pett  Place, 
Charing,  Kent;  whose  great-grandson,  John  Sayer  of  the 
same  place,  is  the  present  owner. 

The  remains  of  the  Abbey  occupy  a  prominent  position, 
on  a  hill,  about  three  miles  eqvii-distant  from  Dover  and 
Folkestone,  Visitors  are  doubtless  familiar  with  the  ivy- 
clad  ruins  of  what  has  hitherto  been  called  the  gatehouse, 
but  which  is  really  the  tower ;  also  with  the  remains  of 
the  nave,  transept,  chaj)ter  house,  cellarer's  buildings,  and 
the  refectory,  with  its  quaint  sixteenth-century  alterations. 
The  extent  of  the  church  was,  however,  quite  unknown ; 
and  in  order  to  ascertain  this  point  excavations  were  com- 
menced, in  the  spring  of  1880,  by  myself  and  Mr.  Richard 
Ussher ;  the  cost  being  defrayed  by  the  owner,  assisted  by 
Canon  Jenkins,  Mr.  Robert  Furley,  and  others. 

Operations  were  commenced  on  March  29th  with  four 
men,  and  the  first  day's  work  sufficed  to  discover  and  lay 
bare  the  foundations  of  the  east  end  of  the  church.  In  the 
course  of  the  next  three  days  the  whole  of  the  walls  of  the 
eastern  arm  and  transept,  excepting  a  small  portion  of  the 
south  aisle  where  a  tree  intervened,  had  been  traced  out. 
The  east  and  south  w^alls  of  the  chapter  house  were  also 
defined  and  the  extent  of  the  infirmary  hall.  Many  of  the 
doors  and  other  details  had  become  obscured  by  the  accumu- 
lation of  soil  and  debris ;  this  was  removed,  and  part  of  the 
tower  area  cleared,  to  shew  the  bases  of  the  arches.  The 
arch,  from  the  latter  into  the  transept,  had  been  much 
mutilated  and  then  blocked  up ;  the  material  was  all  removed 
and  many  of  the  stones  found  to  be  portions  of  tombs, 
floriated  Transitional  or  early  English  capitals,  and  arch 
voussoirs  with  dog-tooth  ornament.  A  beginning  was  also 
made  on  the  extreme  western  range  of  buildings,  but  this 
portion  still  needs  excavating. 

In  the  following  November,  the  balance  of  the  excavat- 
ing fund  having  been  increased  by  a  grant  from  the  Kent 


144       ON    THE   PRyEMONSTRATENSIAN    ABBEY    OF 

Arcliseological  Society,  operations  were  resumed,  binder  Mr. 
Ussher's  superintendence ;  the  work  undertaken  being  chiefly 
the  clearance  of  the  area  of  the  church.  Amongst  the  more 
important  discoveries  were  the  bases  of  the  reredoses  of  the 
altar  of  our  Lady  and  of  the  high  altar ;  together  with  the 
base  and  part  of  the  platform  of  the  high  altar  itself.  In 
the  middle  of  the  choir  was  also  found  the  rough  foundation 
of  the  base  of  a  tomb ;  in  all  probability  that  of  Thomas  de 
Poynings,  who,  by  will  dated  6  Edw.  Ill,  directed  his  body 
to  be  buried  in  the  Abbey  of  St.  Radegund's,  "  q'est  de  ma 
fundacion  droit  en  my  le  coer  devant  le  haut  alter ;"  and  a 
tomb  to  be  placed  over  his  grave  with  the  image  of  a  knight 
thereon  made  of  alabaster.  John  Criol  of  Lympne,  by  his 
will  dated  1504,  directs  his  body  to  be  buried  in  this  church, 
next  to  the  sepulchre  of  Bertram  de  Criol,  in  the  high 
chancel. 

During  both  excavations  numerous  tiles  and  other  orna- 
mental details,  such  as  mouldings,  fragments  of  carved 
work,  and  portions  of  tombs,  and  marble  shafts  and  capitals, 
were  discovered ;  all  of  which  are  carefully  preserved  at 
the  Abbey. 

The  whole  of  the  existing  buildings  date  from  the 
foundation  in  1191,  and  are  of  the  earliest  type  of  pointed 
architecture.  Much  of  the  work  is  exceedingly  simple  in 
design,  and  in  some  parts  plain  to  a  degree.  There  is 
also  a  marked  absence  of  ornamental  details,  although  the 
beautiful  fragments  discovered  shew  that  some  portions 
of  the  buildings,  at  any  rate,  were  adorned  with  carved 
work.  The  walls  are  of  flintwork  with  ashlar  quoins.  The 
jambs,  etc.,  of  windows,  doors,  and  arches,  are  also  of  ashlar. 

The  ground-plan  exhibits  a  long  and  narrow  church, 
consisting  of  an  eastern  limb  of  six,  with  aisles  of  four, 
severies;  north  and  south  transepts,  each  of  two  severies, 
one  severy  opening  into  the  choir  aisle,  the  other  into  a 
square  eastern  chapel;  and  an  aisleless  nave  of  four  se- 
veries, having  on  its  north  side  a  square  tower  with  singular 
east  and  west  adjuncts.  On  the  south  of  the  nave  is  the 
cloister  quadrangle,  with  the  chapter  house,  parlour,  and 
common    house    on    its    eastern    side ;    on   the    south   the 


^ 


ST.  RADEGUND,  BRADSOLE,  NEAR  DOVER.   145 

refectory  above  an  undercroft,  and  tlie  kitchen,  etc. ;  and 
on  the  west  the  cellarer's  buildings  of  two  stories.  From 
this  there  extends  westwards  a  long  series  of  chambers, 
perhaps  part  of  the  accommodation  for  guests.  The  infirmary- 
lies  to  the  south-east. 

Of  the  Abbey  Church  considerable  remains  exist.  The 
nave  walls,  and  the  west  and  south  walls  of  the  transept 
are  more  or  less  entire,  and  the  north  tower  with  its  wings 
is  still  standing^  to  a  heio^ht  of  40  or  50  feet.  The  eastern 
limb  was  laid  bare  during  the  excavations. 

The  most  singular  feature  about  the  church  is  the 
tower.  Instead  of  being  placed  over  the  crossing  or  at 
the  west  end  as  is  more  usual,  it  stands  on  the  north  side 
of  the  nave,  at  a  distance  of  six  feet  from  the  west  wall 
of  the  transept.  This  peculiar  position  has  a  parallel  in 
several  Kentish  churches,  e.g.,  Rochester  Cathedral,  Offham, 
Orpington,  Thanington,  Dartford,  Chelsfield,  Brookland, 
St.  Mildred's  in  Canterbury,  Godmersham  ;  but  a  singularity 
here  is  the  addition  of  a  flanking  wing  on  the  east  and  west 
side.'^ 

It  is  difficult  to  find  a  satisfactory  reason  to  account  for 
this  ;  perhaps  the  builders  adopted  these  means  to  mask  the 
huge  buttresses  which  were  necessitated  by  the  material — 
flint;  or  the  lack  of  aisles  to  the  nave  rendered  it  desirable 
to  provide  a  processional  path  through  the  basement. 

In  suj)port  of  this  latter  theory  it  should  be  observed 
that  the  lowest  stories  of  all  three  divisions  were  vaulted, 
and  open  into  each  other  and  into  the  nave  and  transept  by 
arches,  not  doors,  thus  forming  one  continuous  passage.  It 
has  been  suggested  that  the  entire  block  was  also  used  for 
defensive  purposes. 

Owing  to  the  destruction  of  the  upper  part  of  the  tower, 
the  three  divisions  are  now  all  of  equal  height,  but  the 
unfortunate  luxuriant  growth  of  ivy  with  which  the  whole 
is  mantled  makes  it  impossible  to  say  whether  the  side 
portions   retain   their    original   altitude,    or    nearly   so,    or 

*  The  western  tower  of  St.  Nicholas  Church,  New  Eomney,  has  a  low  lean- 
to  aisle  on  each  side,  but  not  of  such  importance  as  the  wings  here.  See  Mr. 
Scott  Robertson's  Paper  in  Arch.  Cant.,  XIII.  Mr.  Scott  Robertson  informs 
me  that  similar  appendages  are  found  on  each  side  of  Sandhurst  tower, 

YOL.  xrv.  L 


146       ON   THE   PRyEMONSTRATENSIAN    ABBEY   OF 

■\vliethcr  tlicy  wore  carried  up  to  the  same  licif,^lit  as  the  central 
portion.  The  latter  has  the  loAver  part  of  a  window  remain- 
ing on  its  northern  summit,  and  the  west  wing  has  two 
blocked  windows  (visible  internally)  on  its  west  side.  Above 
the  arch  opening  from  the  east  wing  into  the  transept  is 
another  of  large  size,  now  completely  blocked,  which  may 
have  been  the  west  window  of  the  transept  before  the  wing 
was  built.  The  openings  visible  on  the  north  and  south 
sides  of  the  basement  are  comparatively  modern,  and  did 
not  exist  originally. 

It  has  been  already  stated  that  the  lowest  stories  of  the 
tower  were  vaulted,  but  there  is  no  staircase  giving  access 
to  the  floor  above,*  and  at  first  it  is  not  apparent  how  it  was 
reached.  There  is,  however,  a  gap  in  the  south  wall  at  the 
first-floor  level,  which  proves  on  examination  to  have  been  a 
doorway.  Now  this  door  can  only  have  been  reached  in  one 
way,  namely  from  the  pulpitum,  or  place  from  which  the 
gospel  was  sung  at  the  high  mass  on  festivals,  the  staircase 
to  which  thus  served  a  double  purpose,  as  the  ascent  by 
which  the  gospeller  and  epistoler  gained  the  loft,  and  the 
sacrist  the  tower  to  ring  the  bells. 

The  nave,  as  at  Cokersand,  Eggleston,  Titchfield,  Beau- 
chief,  and  other  Prsemonstratensian  abbeys,  is  without  aisles. 
It  has  a  west  door,  and  the  two  usual  doors  opening  into  the 
cloister.  The  walls  are  now  too  much  reduced  in  height  to 
shew  traces  of  the  windows,  but  there  must  have  been  two 
on  the  north  side  and  four  on  the  south — these  last  suffi- 
ciently high  up  to  clear  the  cloister  roof — and  probably 
a  western  triplet.  In  the  middle  of  the  north  wall  is  a 
pointed  arch  (not  a  door)  leading  into  the  basement  of  the 
west  wing  of  the  tower. 

The  nave  opened  into  the  crossing  by  an  arch,  supported 
on  short  circular  shafts  ending  in  corbels  at  some  height 
from  the  floor.  It  is  evident,  from  this,  that  the  two 
screens  usual  in  our  old  collegiate  and  monastic  churches 
existed  here ;  the  one,  a  solid  structure  of  stone,  beneath 
the  arch  of  the  crossing,  against  which  the  canons'  stalls 

*  This  is  a  point  in  favour  of  the  tower  being  a  defensive  structure. 


ST.  RADEGUND,  BRADSOLE,  NEAR  DOVER.   147 

were  returned ;  the  other,  some  distance  farther  west 
against  which  was  erected  the  rood  altar  between  two  door- 
ways. These  two  screens  were  ordinarily  distinct ;  the 
eastern  one,  the  'pidpitum,  being  provided  with  a  loft,  from 
which  the  gospel  was  sung,  and  on  which  the  organs  stood  ; 
the  western  one  merely  serving  as  the  reredos  to  the  nave 
altar.  There  are  instances,  however,  where  the  whole  space 
between  the  two  screens  appears  to  have  been  floored  over, 
and  from  the  existence  of  the  upper  door  in  the  tower  wall 
this  seems  to  have  been  the  plan  adopted  here.  The  cloister 
door,  owing  to  the  absence  of  aisles,  must  have  opened  into 
the  space  between  the  two  screens.^ 

We  now  come  to  the  eastern  arm,  and  its  ritual  arrange- 
ments. The  stalls  probably  occupied  the  space  under  the 
crossing ;  which  would  allow  room  for  at  least  ten  on  each 
side,  making,  with  three  on  either  side  the  screen  door,  a 
total  of  twenty-six.  At  the  east  end  of  the  stalls,  beneath 
the  arch,  the  gradus  chori  would  be  placed.  Eastward  of 
this,  at  a  distance  of  thirty  feet,  our  excavations  disclosed 
the  base  of  the  reredos  of  the  high  altar.  This  base,  which 
is  constructed  of  well-built  ashlar,  is  1  ft.  3  in.  broad,  and 
extends  to  within  1  ft.  6  in.  of  the  side  walls.  Originally, 
I  think,  it  reached  from  wall  to  wall.  Three  feet  distant 
from  its  western  face  is  the  base  of  the  high  altar  itself, 
measuring  8  ft.  by  2  ft.  6  in.  Doubtless  the  reredos  was 
pierced  with  side  doors,  as  at  St.  Albans  and  Winchester, 
opening  into  the  Lady  Chapel  behind.  The  Lady  Chapel 
was  47  ft.  long,  and  extends  from  the  high-altar  reredos  to 
the  east  end.  It  still  retains  the  broad  base  of  its  altar 
reredos,  the  west  face  of  which  is  distant  1 7  ft.  from  the  wall. 

The  side  walls  of  the  presbytery  appear  to  have  been  solid 
as  at  Eochester  and  St.  Albans,  with  the  ostia  preshyterii  in 
the  most  western  severy.  The  Lady  Chapel  must  also  have 
had  two  side  doors,  opening  into  the  aisles,  to  provide  the 
usual  processional  path. 

Outside  the  church,  opposite  each  of  the  three  buttresses 

*  To  assist  those  who  are  not  conversant  with  the  arrangements  of  monastic 
churches,  I  have  drawn  a  plan  of  the  church  of  this  Abbey,  shewing  the  probable 
disposition  of  its  principal  fittings,  etc.,  at  the  time  of  the  Suppression. 

L   2 


148       ON    THE    PRiEMONSTRATENSIAN    ABBEY   OF 

between  tlie  last  four  severies,  is  to  be  seen  a  mass  of  masonry 
of  extraordinary  solidity.*  These  masses  mark  the  position 
of  six  flying  buttresses  built,  as  at  Rievaulx,  to  carry  the 
thrust  of  the  roof. 

The  aisles  to  the  presbytery,  the  north  transept,  and  tran- 
septal  chapels,  do  not  present  any  remarkable  features.  The 
south  transept,  on  the  other  hand,  exhibits  a  most  singular 
and,  so  far  as  I  know,  unique  arrangement.  It  will  be  seen 
that  the  west  wall  has  two  doors,  both  communicating  with 
the  cloister.  The  northern  one  occurs  at  Torre,  Bayham,  Shap, 
and  Dale — Praemonstratensian  abbeys — and  in  most  houses  of 
Regular  Canons  ;t  the  southern  one,  however,  is  not  found 
elsewhere,  and  must  therefore  have  been  for  some  special 
purpose.  Now  it  was  generally  considered  necessary  that 
the  dormitory,  when  in  its  normal  position  over  the  eastern 
range  of  buildings,  should  be  provided  with  two  staircases  ; 
one  leading  directly  into  the  church,  to  enable  the  canous  to 
descend  for  the  nocturnal  offices  ;  the  other  for  ordinaiy  use 
in  the  day-time,  communicating  with  the  cloister.  In  the 
south  wall  of  the  transept,  at  the  level  of  the  first  floor,  is  an 
irregular  opening  which  has  been  formed  by  tearing  out  the 
ashlar  jambs  of  a  doorway ;  and  at  the  same  floor  line,  ex- 
tending along  the  wall  the  width  of  the  transept,  is  a  row  of 
holes  in  which  have  rested  the  ends  of  wooden  joists ;  but 
upon  what  did  the  opposite  ends  rest  ?  In  the  west  wall, 
7  ft.  6  in.  from  the  south-west  angle,  is  one  of  the  iron  hooks 
from  which  a  door  has  been  hung,  and  in  the  south-east 
angle  are  the  remains  of  an  ample  circular  staircase,  or  vice, 
which  was  carried  up  to  the  roof  of  the  transept,  but  has  no 
doors  opening  out  of  its  south  side.  Erom  these  data  we  are 
able  to  learn  what  the  peculiar  arrangement  was,  and  what 
purpose  it  served.  Across  the  south  end  of  the  transept  was 
a  screen  or  partition  which  carried  a  gallery.  This  gallery 
was  reached  by  the  circular  stair,  through  upper  and  lower 

*  Only  shewn  in  outline  on  the  plan. 

t  This  door  is  invariably  found  in  monastic  churches  which  are  destitute  of 
an  aisle  on  the  side  of  the  nave  adjoining  the  cloister,  and  was  probably  used  to 
enable  processions  to  pass  down  the  cloister  alley,  through  the  western  cloister 
door,  and  up  the  nave  in  the  usual  way.  Other  instances  than  those  named 
above  are  Dorchester,  Brinkburn,  Bolton,  and  Newstead — all  houses  of  Austin 
Canons,  who  frequently  built  churches  with  but  one,  or  no  aisles. 


ST.  RADEGUND,  BRADSOLE,  NEAR  DOVER.   149 

doors  both  in  its  ivest  side,  and  had  a  door  opening  on  to  it 
from  the  room  over  the  chapter  honse,  -which  was  either  a 
part  of  the  dormitory  itself,  or  an  intervening  chamber  also 
used  as  a  passage.  When  the  canons  left  their  beds  to  go 
and  say  the  night  offices,  they  passed  through  this  last-named 
door,  along  the  gallery,  down  the  staircase,  and  through  a 
door  in  the  screen  to  which  the  iron-hook  belongs,  into  the 
church — returning  to  their  beds  by  the  same  way.  In  the 
morning,  when  they  had  to  descend  into  the  cloister,  they 
used  the  same  gallery  and  staircase,  but  instead  of  passing 
into  the  church  the  southern  of  the  two  west  doors  of  the 
transept  admitted  them  into  the  eastern  cloister-alley. 

Immediately  adjoining  the  transept  is  the  chapter  house, 
which  was  a  fine  apartment  of  three  bays,  34  ft.  by  21  ft., 
doubtless  divided  into  two  alleys  by  two  piers  supporting  the 
vaulting."^  The  west  and  north  walls  are  entire,  but  the 
others  remain  to  the  height  of  but  a  few  feet.  The  doorway 
and  its  flanking  windows  are  unfortunately  blocked. 

South  of  the  chapter  house  is  an  apartment  22  ft.  long  by 
12  ft.  wide,  which  may  have  been  the  regular  or  common 
parlour,  where  conversation  was  allowed. t 

Running  southwards  from  this  is  the  common  house, 
which  was  provided  with  a  fire-place ;  hence  its  other 
name — calefactory.  As  a  modern  kitchen  and  several 
cisterns  encumber  the  site  of  this  portion  of  the  buildings, 
it  is  not  possible  to  ascertain  how  it  was  reached  from  the 
cloister,  what  was  its  extent  southwards,  or  whether  the  way 
to  the  "  farmor}'- "  and  cemetery  led  through  it.  For  this 
latter  purpose  a  slype  is  often  provided,  on  either  side  of  the 
chapter  house,  but  though  at  first  sight  this  seems  to  have 
been  the  case  here,  it  was  not  really  so,  for  there  is  no  door 
in  the  east  end  of  the  parlour,  and  the  two  parallel  walls 
which  run  eastwards  from  it  evidently  belong  to  the 
necessarium.^ 

*  This  need  not  necessarily  have  been  the  case,  but  the  existence  of  a  wall 
above  between  the  two  eastern  severies,  seems  to  require  a  pier  beneath  to  carry 
the  weight.     The  chapter  house  at  Dale  was  preciselj'  similarly  arranged. 

f  The  statutes  of  the  Prajmoustratensian  Order  strictly  enjoined  silence  in 
the  church,  cloister,  refectory,  and  dormitory. 

J  Called  the  "  Third  dormitory "  at  Canterbury  and  the  "  Rere-dorter " 
at  Westminster. 


150   ON  THE  PR.EMONSTRATENSIAN  ABBEY  OF 

Over  the  whole  of  this  eastern  range  the  dormitory  ex- 
tended, commnnicating  with  the  church  and  cloister  by  the 
gallery  and  stair  at  its  north  end.  Some  remains  of  its 
western  windows  may  be  seen  over  the  chajjter  house  and 
parlour.  The  space  over  the  most  eastern  severy  of  the 
chapter  house  was  divided  off,  by  a  wall,  from  the  dormitory ; 
and  perhaps  served  as  the  muniment  room  and  treasury. 

At  a  distance  of  47^  ft.  from  the  east  wall  of  the  common 
house,  and  parallel  with  it,  are  the  remains  of  the  infirmary 
hall,  which  was  a  large  apartment  47  ft.  by  27  ft.  This  hall 
forms  one  side  of  a  quadrangular  court,  of  which  the  common 
house  and  necessarimn  formed  the  west  and  north  sides.  The 
south  side  was  bounded  by  a  wall,  which  perhaps  had  a  pentice 
communicating  with  the  common  house.  North  of  the  in- 
firmary was  the  canons'  cemetery.  Other  portions  of  the 
infirmary,  south  of  this  hall,  still  await  the  spade  and  pick 
of  the  excavator. 

The  cloister  quadrangle,  72  ft.  3  in.  by  70  ft.  5  in.,  is 
nearly  complete  ;  the  south-west  angle  being  the  only  portion 
quite  destroyed.  The  north  wall  has  at  present  four  open- 
ings, of  which  the  most  western  is  the  procession  door,  and 
the  most  eastern  the  cloister  door ;  the  other  two  are  recent 
gaps  in  the  masonry,  which  ought  to  be  filled  up.  The 
east  wall  is  quite  complete,  and  pierced  by  four  doors ;  one 
into  the  transept ;  a  second  for  the  quasi-daystairs  ;  a  third 
into  the  chapter  house,  having  a  window  on  each  side  with 
marble  jamb-shafts  ;  and  a  fourth  into  the  regular  parlour. 
On  the  south  side  is  what  looks  like  a  modern  farm-house, 
with  a  very  picturesque  Elizabethan  porch ;  but  which,  on  ex- 
amination, proves  to  be  the  refectory  or  fratry.  This  very 
necessary  apartment  is,  unlike  the  other  buildings,  raised 
upon  an  undercroft  of  four  severies,  which  were  vaulted  with 
quadripartite  groins,  of  which  only  the  springers  now  remain. 
The  easternmost  severy  is  walled  off,  apparently  to  form  a 
slype,  but  its  entrances  are  now  blocked.  There  is  another 
curious  feature  about  the  refectory.  While  the  undercroft 
is  only  20  ft.  wide,  the  apartment  above  it,  which  was  the 
fratry  proper,  was  24  ft.  wide  and  extended  for  about  42  ft. 
from  the  west  wall  of  the  common  house.     The  increased 


ST.    RADEGTJND,    BRADSOLE,    NEAR    DOVER.        151 

width  was  gained  by  carrying  the  south  wall  upon  arches, 
constructed  between  the  buttresses,  which  have  a  projection 
at  the  base  of  9  feet.  The  two  middle  severies  extend  yet 
farther  south,  to  provide  the  necessary  space  for  the  refec- 
tory pulpit,  from  which  the  weekly  lector  read  during  meals. 
This  appendage  is  I  believe  quite  complete  ;  but  it  cannot  be 
made  entirely  visible  without  sweeping  away  several  of  the 
many  partitions,  which  now  block  up  the  interior.  The 
buttery  and  kitchen  were  placed  at  the  west  end  of  the  f  ratry, 
with  an  undercroft  beneath,  in  continuation  of  the  one  still 
existing.  This  undercroft  was  most  likely  used  as  cellar- 
age ;  hence  its  being  provided  with  an  entrance  archway  on 
its  south  side  wide  enough  for  carts  to  enter  from  the  outer 
or  base  court.  This  part  of  the  Abbey  is  unfortunately  much 
destroyed,  and  it  is  difficult  to  say  how  the  refectory  and 
other  buildings  above  the  undercroft  were  approached.  The 
west  wall  of  the  cloister  is  only  standing  for  a  portion  of  its 
length,  but  retains  the  lower  courses  of  the  jamb  of  a  door 
opening  into  the  western  range  of  buildings."^  With  the 
exception  of  the  south-east  angle,  this  range  is  fairly  complete 
on  the  ground  floor.  It  is  divided  by  a  cross  wall  into  two 
apartments.  The  north  one  is  lighted  by  a  single  lancet  in 
the  north  end,  and  two  others  on  the  west.  There  is  also  a 
doorway  into  the  Abbey  precinct,  and  another  in  the  south 
wall  into  the  southern  apartment.  This  latter  is  twice  as 
long  as  the  other,  its  dimensions  being  49  ft.  by  19  ft.  9  in. 
In  its  east  wall  is  a  fire-place,  and  opposite  this  a  row  of  four 
elegant  lancets.  These  lancets  are  square-headed,  but  those  of 
the  north  chamber  are  pointed.  A  most  effective  feature  is 
the  segmental  rear-vault  over  each  light.  The  windows 
were  not  glazed,  but  protected  by  iron  bars,  and  furnished 
with  shutters.  Beyond  the  group  of  lancets  is  a  considerable 
interval  of  blank  wall  ;t  then,  quite  in  the  angle,  a  doorway 
with  a  small  spying-loop  on  the  right.  The  north  wall  has  the 
remains  of  a  square  almery  or  niche.  The  upper  range, 
which  I   think  was   gained   by    a   staircase   in   the  south- 

*  This  door  appears  to  have  been  inserted  by  Simon  Edolph  in  lieu  of  the 
Early  English  one. 

t  Caused  by  the  western  extension  abutting  here. 


152       ST.    EADEGUND,    BRADSOLE,   NEAR   DOVER. 

west  ctamLer,  is  nearly  all  destroyed ;  its  floor  was  supported 
by  beams,  not  by  groining.  The  north  gable,  however,  re- 
mains, and  portions  of  the  west  windows,  which  were  pointed 
lancets.  From  the  good  character  of  the  work  in  this  block, 
as  well  as  the  existence  of  a  fire-place  and  outer  doors,  it 
seems  most  reasonable  to  suppose  we  have  here  the  cellarer's 
buildings  ;  the  larger  apartment  being  the  hall  of  the  guests. 
The  smaller  room  has  been  conjectured  to  be  the  forensic 
parlour. 

Extending  westwards,  from  the  south  end  of  this  range, 
is  a  long  series  of  small  chambers.  These  may  have  formed 
part  of  the  cellarer's  lodgings  for  guests.  Only  a  portion  of 
this  building  has  been  excavated. 

It  only  remains  to  mention  in  our  survey  the  outer  or 
base  court.  There  are  some  fragments  of  buildings  on  the 
east  side,  but  on  the  south  we  have  a  very  perfect  specimen 
of  a  tithe  barn.  This  is,  like  the  rest  of  the  Abbey,  of  twelfth 
century  date,  with  long  narrow  slits  widely  splayed  within  in 
its  ends.  The  projecting  entrance  porch  is  in  the  middle  of 
its  north  side,  and  has  had  a  living  room  over  it,  with  a  fire- 
place, gained  by  a  stair.  The  roof  does  not  appear  to  be 
original. 

There  are  also  remains  of  two  gatehouses.  One  stands  a 
few  paces  to  the  north  of  the  church  and  retains  some  traces 
of  the  almonry  and  porter's  lodge.  The  other  is  placed  south- 
east of  the  Abbey  at  a  distance  of  about  200  yards. 

The  accompanying  ground-plan  was  drawn  by  me  from 
measurements  taken  during  the  progress  of  the  excavations. 

Dimensions  of  the  Buildings, 

Church — total  interior  length — 183|  ft.  x    26\  ft. ;  width 

across  transept  98|  ft. 
Cloister— 721  ft.  x  70i  ft.     Chapter  House— 34  ft.  x  21  ft. 
Parlour— 22  ft.  x  12  ft.    Common  House—?  52^  ft.  x  22  ft. 
Cellarer's  Buildings— 24  ft.  x  19^  ft.,  and  49  ft.  x  19f  ft. 
Eefectory— 42  ft.  x  24  ft.     Infirmary  Hall— 47  ft.  x  27  ft. 
Infirmary  Court — 54  ft.  x  46^  ft. 


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EICHARD  TICHBOURNE'S  HOUSE  OF 
CllIPPENDEN,  IN  COWDEN. 

BY   THE    REV.    W.    A.    SCOTT    ROBERTSON. 

The  fine  old  mansion  called  Crippenden,  or  Crittenden,*  in  the 
parish  of  Cowden,  was  built  by  Mr.  Richard  Tichbourne,  in  1G07. 
The  annexed  view,  of  the  interior  of  its  panelled  Hall,  is  reduced 
from  au  admirable  drawing  made  by  Mr.  J.  F.  Wadmore,  and  kindly 
contributed  by  him  to  Archwologia  Gantiana. 

Over  the  mantelpiece  there  are  two  series  of  inscriptions.  One, 
which  ran  closely  beneath  the  cornice  of  the  ceiling,  is  now  imper- 
fect ;  it  commenced  thus  :  "  These  be  the  names  of  y*^  children  of 
Richard  Tichbourn,  born  before  y*^  building  of  this  house,  1607 
.  .  .  ."  The  names  have  disappeared.  The  other  inscription  runs 
immediately  above  the  mantelshelf,  and  is  arranged  in  double  lines, 
regardless  of  the  rhymes  which  ought  to  terminate  each  line. 

("WHEN  WE   ARE   DEAD  |  AND 

(  LAYD   IN   GRAVE  ]  AND  THAT 

(  OURE   BONNES   BE   ROTTEN  | 

(  BY  THIS  SHALL   WE  |  REMEMBRED 

C  BE  I  WHEB  ELSE   WE   WHER 

(.FORGOTTEN  |  AN"  DOM.    1607. 

Within  the  spandrels  of  the  carved  mantelpiece  are  the  initials 
R.  T.  and  D.  T.,  for  Richard  Tichbourne  and  Dorothy  his  wife. 

The  fire-back  was  made  at  the  Tichbournes'  iron  foundry  here, 
during  the  lifetime  of  John  Tichbourne  (the  father  of  Richard), 
whose  initials  appear  upon  it  in  the  left-hand  corner  at  the  top, 
while  the  initials  of  Richard  and  Dorothy  are  twice  repeated,  in  the 
corners  at  the  bottom.  A  cannon,  cast  at  the  foundry  of  John 
Tichbourne,  here,  is  still  preserved  on  land  adjacent  to  the  Rectory. 

Over  the  centre  of  the  fireplace,  is  carved  the  armorial  coat  of 

*  Hasted,  History  of  Kent  (8vo  ed.),  iii.,  206,  says,  "  The  Manor  of  St.  John 
of  Jerusalem  ....  is  now  with  the  ancient  mansion  of  Crittenden,  in  the 
possession  of  Mrs.  Sophia  Streatfeild,  the  widow  of  Thomas  Streatfeild  of  Oxsted, 
Esq."  The  Post  OfBce  Directory  of  Kent  for  1862  likewise  spells  this  place 
Crittenden.  On  the  Tithe  Map  of  the  parish,  however,  and  on  that  of  the 
Ordnance  Survey,  the  name  is  spelt  Crippenden.  It  may  be  identical  with  the 
Manor  of  Grippindenne  which  was  purchased  by  Godfrey  le  Waleys  in  A.D. 
1311.  {Arch.  Cant.,  XL,  3i7.)  Perhaps  it  came  to  Richard  Martin  as  the 
portion  of  his  wife,  a  Wallis  ;  and  passed  with  Martin's  daughter  to  her  husband, 
John  Tichbourne  of  Edenbridge. 


154  RICHARD    TICHBOURNE  S    HOUSE    OF 

the  Tichbournc  family  : — Vair,  on  a  chief  o/',  a  crescent  for  dif- 
ference. The  8ame  coat  in  emWazoncd  upon  an  escutcheon  on  the 
wall. 

An  offshoot  of  the  ancient  Hampshire  family  of  Tichbourne 
settled  in  Edeubrid<j;e  during,  or  soon  after,  the  reign  of  Henry  VI. 
One  John  Tichbourne  then  married  the  daughter  and  heir  of  llichard 
Martin*  of  Edenbridge  ;  her  mother  was  an  heiress  named  Wallis. 
The  sons  issuing  from  this  match  (Morice,  Nicholas,  and  Martin) 
quartered  the  arms  of  Martin  (argent,  a  chevron  gules  between  3 
talbots  passant  sahle)  and  "Wallis  {gules,  a  fess  eronine').^  Crip- 
penden  had  probably  belonged  to  the  heiress  of  "Wallis. 

Of  the  sous  of  Morice  Tichbourne,  llichard,  the  eldest,  seems  to 
have  had  no  sons.  He  contributed  £5  towards  the  royal  loan  levied  for 
Henry  VIII  in  1542  ;  and  his  daughters  Margaret  and  Mary  Tich- 
bourne married  Bertram  Calthrop  and  Thomas  Potter  respectively. 
Eichard  Tichbourne's  granddaughter,  Dorothy  Potter,  became  the 
wife  of  Sir  John,  son  of  Sir  George  Rivers,  of  Chafford. 

John,  a  younger  son  of  Moi'ice  Tichbourne,  probably  settled 
first  at  Cowden.  At  all  events,  his  second  son  (likewise  named 
John),  who  resided  at  Cowden,  but  was  not  buried  there,  was  the 
father  of  Eichard  Tichbourne  who  built  Crippenden  House  ;  and 
of  Eobert  Tichbourne,  of  London,  citizen  and  skinner,  whose  son, 
Sir  Eobert,  became  Lord  Mayor  in  1657. 

The  second  John  Tichbourne's  elder  brother  (uncle  of  the 
builder  of  Crippenden)  was  named  Morice  after  his  grandfather. 
The  pedigree  of  this  Morice  Tichbourne  appears  in  the  Herald's 
Visitation  of  1574.  The  brothers  Morice  and  John  seem  to  have 
married  sisters,  Jane  and  Mary,  daughters  of  Thomas  Challoner  of 
Lyndfield. 

With  courteous  kindness,  the  Eev.  E.  A.  Tindall,  Eector  of 
Cowden,  has  carefully  copied  from  his  parish  registers  every  legible 
entry  relating  to  the  Tichbourne  family,  J     Hence  we  know  that 

*  Richard  Martin  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Martin  ;  and  the  nephew  of  John 
Martin,  a  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas  1420-36.  In  Edenbridge  Church  a  tomb 
commemorates  both  Richard  Martin  and  his  father. 

t  Harleian  MS.  1548,  fol.  123.  On  the  tomb  of  Thomas  Potter  (ob.  1611)  in 
Westerham  Church,  these  quarterings  of  his  wife,  Mary  Tichbourne,  are  impaled 
with  the  quartered  coat  of  Potter. 

%  EXTRACTS  FROM  PARISH  REGISTERS  OF  COWDEN  ;   WHICH 

COMMENCE  IN  A.D.  1566. 

{Communicated  by  tlie  Bev.  B.  Abbey  Tindall.) 

1567,  baptized  Robert  Ticliburne  the  5  of  October. 
1569,  baptized  John  Tichburne  the  27  of  November. 


CRIPPENDEN,   IN    COWDEN.  155 

George  Tichbourne,  gentleman,  a  brother  of  John  Tichbourne,  was 
buried  there  in  1614  ;  and  that  Eobert,  John,  and  Martin  Tich- 
bourne (younger  brothers  of  the  builder  of  Crippenden)  were  bap- 
tized there  in  1567,  1569,  and  1573  respectively. 

The  builder  of  Crippenden,  Eichard  Tichbourne,  was,  no  doubt, 
born  before  the  year  1566,  in  which  the  registers  commence.  He 
married  Dorothy,  daughter  of  John  Saxbie,  and  by  her  had  tezi 
children,  five  sons  and  five  daughters.  He  lived  until  1637,  and  was 
then  buried  at  Cowden  on  the  18tli  of  October.  His  wife  did  not 
long  survive  him  ;  she  was  interred  at  Cowden  on  the  25th  of  April 
1640. 

Two  of  Eichard  Tichbourne's  sons  (John  and  Benjamin)  died 
young,  in  1605.  Nine  years  later  another  son  of  his  was  likewise 
ba])tized  John  in  1614. 

The  eldest  son  Thomas,  who  was  25  years  of  age  in  1619,  was 
apprenticed  to  his  uncle  Eobert,  of  London,  citizen  and  skinner,  on 
May  1,  1607  ;  as  Mr.  Wadmore  kindly  informs  me.  He  was 
buried  at  Cowden  in  1642,  and  the  register  does  not  mention  any 
wife  or  children  of  his. 

1572,  buried  John  Tichburne  the  30  of  March. 

1573,  baptized  Martin  Tichburne  the  28  of  June. 
1592,  baptized  Friswid  Tichburne  4  of  Februarie. 
1595,  baptized  Anne  Tichburne  the  10  of  August. 
1598,  baptized  Richard  Tichburne  the  9  of  Aprill. 

At  the  end  of  the  entries  for  a.d.  1600  the  register  is  signed  by 

Richard  Tichbourne,")  ^<^...,.^^..^n,.r^^r,^ 
John  Knight,  ]  Chuichwardens. 

1601,  baptized  Beniamin  Tichburne  the  29  of  March. 

1603,  Dorothy  the  daughter  of  Rychard  Tichborne  was  baptized  the  viij*** 
day  of  January. 

1605,  Beniamyn  the  sonne  of  Rychard  Tichborne  gentle,  was  buryed  the 
xxij"»  day  of  July. 

1605,  John  the  sonne  of  Rychard  Tichborne  gent,  was  buried  the  xiiij"' 
day  of  August. 

1607,  Marie  the  daugliter  of  Richard  Tichborne  gentleman  was  baptized 
the  xxvij"*  day  of  September. 

1611,  baptized  Joanna  the  daughter  of  Richard  Tichborne  gent,  the  ii  of 
August. 

1614,  baptized  John  the  sonne  of  Rychard  Tichborne  gent,  the  iij  of  July. 

161-1,  buried  George  Tichborne  gentlema'  the  8"'  of  September. 

1616,  Thomas  Wickenden  and  Friswide  Tichborne  was  maried  {sic)  the  xvj"^ 
day  of  December  1616. 

1637,  buried  Richard  Titchborne  sen'  gent.  October  y^  IS*''. 

(Seven  entries  of  baptisms  in  1639  are  illegible,  also  four  entries  in  16-10.) 

1640,  buried  Dorothy  Titchboume  widd.  j"  relict  of  Rich.  Titchbourne  sen. 
gent.  Aprill  y«  25"*. 

1642,  buried  Thomas  Titchborne  gent.  August  y<=  22*''. 

1644,  baptized  Joanna  y'^  daugh.  of  Richard  Tichborne  gent.  July  21"*. 

1644,  baptized  John  y"^  sonne  of  Jo.  Titchborne  gent.  March  y'^  6"'. 

1646,  buryed  flfrances  y^  wife  of  Richard  Titchbourne  gent.  Jan.  4*''. 

1648,  buryed  Richard  Titchbourne  gent.  Nov.  2V\ 


156  HOUSE    OF    CRIPPENDEN,    IN    COWDEN. 

The  second  son  was  named  Richard,  after  his  father.  Born  in 
April  1598,  he  married  a  lady  whose  christian  name  was  Frances ; 
and  they  had  a  daughter  christened  Joanna  in  1614.  His  wife, 
however,  died  in  1G4G,  and  lie  himself  was  buried  here  in  1G18. 

The  third  sui-viving  son  of  the  builder  of  Crippenden  was  his 
youngest  boy,  John  Tichbourne,  whose  son  of  the  same  name  was 
baptized  at  Cowden  in  1644-5. 

Mr.  AV^admore  had  believed  that  Sir  Robert  Tichbourne,  who  was 
Lord  Mayor  in  1657,  had  resided  at  Crippenden.  The  registers, 
however,  and  the  pedigrees*  make  no  mention  of  him  whatever.  At 
my  suggestion,  Mr.  Wadmore  has  kindly  made  further  search  among 
the  records  of  the  Skinners'  Company.  The  result  shews  that  the 
Lord  Mayor  was  a  Londoner  ;  not  a  Kentish  man  by  birth.  He 
was  a  nephew  of  the  builder  of  Crippenden  ;  being  the  son  of 
Robert  Tichbourne,  of  London,  citizen  and  skinner.  The  future 
Lord  Mayor  was  apprenticed,  on  the  4th  October  1631,  to  Gilbert 
"Ward,  citizen  and  skinner. 

Crippenden  is  now  the  property  and  the  residence  of  John 
Thomas  Morton,  Esq. 

It  is  remarkable  that  no  mention  is  made  of  Crippenden,  nor  of 
the  Tichbournes  of  Edenbridge  and  Cowden,  by  Philipot,  nor  by 
Harris  in  his  History  of  Kent,  nor  by  Hasted  in  the  folio  edition  of 
his  History  of  Kent.  Only  in  the  later,  octavo,  edition  of  his  book 
does  Hasted  insert  the  short  notice  which  I  have  quoted  in  a  note 
at  the  beginning  of  this  paper. 

*  Harleian  MS.  1548,  fol.  123,  and  Berry's  Genealogies  of  Kent,  p.  M\. 


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ADISHAM  CHUECH. 

BY   THE    HEV.  H.  MONTAGU  VILLIERS. 

The  history  of  Adisham  dates  back  to  a.d.  616,  when  we  find  that 
the  Manor  o£  Adisham  or  Edisham  was  given  by  Eadbald,  King  of 
Kent,  son  of  King  Ethelbert,  to  the  Monks  of  Christ  Church, 
Canterbury,  "  ad  cibum,"  free  from  all  secular  services  and  fiscal 
tribute  except  the  well-known  "  trinoda  necessitas,"  the  exception 
usually  made  in  all  the  Saxon  grants  of  church  lands.  This  explains 
the  L.  S.  A.  which  frequently  occurs  in  the  grants  made  to  the 
church  of  Canterbury,  where,  instead  of  enumerating  the  privileges 
and  liberties  intended  to  be  granted,  it  was  usual  to  insert  the 
letters  L.  S.  A.,  that  is,  "  Libere  Sicut  Adisham." 

The  church  itself  is  full  of  architectural  interest.  It  is  cruciform, 
with  a  central  tower,  and  has  been  admirably  restored  in  1869 
under  the  direction  of  William  White,  Esq.,  E.S.A.;  and  it  may 
be  here  mentioned  as  of  special  interest  to  the  Kent  Archaeological 
Society  that  their  former  Secretary,  T.  Godfrey  Faussett,  Esq.,  gave 
great  attention  to  the  work  of  restoration  throughout  its  whole 
progress.  A  painted  glass  window  has  been  placed  to  his  memory  in 
the  chancel  bearing  the  following  inscription  written  by  the  Ven. 
Archdeacon  Denison : — 

"  Thomae  Gr.  Godfrey  Eaussett  Cantuariensis  A.M.  Coll  :  Corp : 
Ch  :  Oxonife  olira  socii  viri  penitus  exquisiti  et  perspecti  ingenii  qui 
pro  suo  erga  christum  amore,  operi  hujus  domus  renovandse  reficiendse 
que,  Sagaciter  et  diligenter  incubuit  Posuit  Amicus  mdccclxxyii." 

The  church  is  dedicated  to  the  Holy  Innocents,  and  one  of  the 
first  features  to  attract  attention  is  the  fall  from  the  west  door  to 
the  first  steps  of  the  altar,  the  descent  to  the  floor  of  the  nave  is  by 
four  steps  ;  the  floor  itself  then  falls  by  a  slight  incline  to  the 
chancel,  into  which  there  is  a  further  descent  by  two  steps.  It  will 
be  remembered  perhaps  by  some  how  Duraudus,  "speaking  of  churchea 
so  built,  says  that  it  was  done  "  to  denote  the  greater  humility  of  the 
clergy : "  in  a  more  prosaic  age  we  are  inclined  to  attribute  it  to 


158  ADISHAM    CHURCH. 

siicli  cluirt'lies  being,  as  is  the  case  at  Adisham,  built  on  tlie  slope  of 
a  hill,  and  following  the  natural  fall  of  the  grouftd. 

Examining  the  church  more  closely,  we  see  at  once  traces  of 
Norman  work  in  the  lower  stage  of  the  tower,  and  tlie  north-west 
angle  has  the  remains  of  an  original  vaulting  shaft,  the  drip  courses 
shewing  the  position  of  the  roofs  of  the  Norman  church  still  remain 
beneath  the  present  roofs.  About  a.d.  IIGO  the  arches  of  the  tower 
were  rebuilt  in  a  pointed  form,  with  square  soffites  slightly  recessed  ; 
the  present  nave  was  apparently  built  at  the  same  time ;  then  came 
the  building  of  the  chancel  and  of  a  north  aisle  parallel  with  the 
nave,  which  evidently  gabelled  over  three  early  pointed  windows  in 
its  east  wall,  and  so  included  the  space  formerly  occupied  by  the 
north  transept  of  the  Norman  church.  There  were  three  lancet 
windows  in  the  length  of  its  north  side  wall,  two  of  which  remain. 

To  connect  the  nave  with  the  north  aisle  there  is  a  pointed  arch 
with  plain  soffite  and  chamfered  quoins,  and  over  this  is  a  small 
lancet  window  of  a  date  slightly  previous  to  the  erection  of  this 
aisle,  being  then  of  course  an  external  window.  In  the  jambs  of  the 
window  are  two  painted  figures  in  frescoe — the  one  crowned,  and 
with  three  arrows  in  his  hand,  is  undoubtedly  St.  Edmund  ;  the  other 
represents  a  bishop  in  the  act  of  blessing.  The  west  wall  of  this  aisle 
is  abutting  to  the  wall  of  the  nave,  shewing  that  the  nave  itself  is 
of  earlier  date. 

The  chancel  was  built  on  a  grand  scale  in  the  twelfth  century  and  is 
very  beautifully  proportioned  ;  it  contains  thirteen  lancet  windows, 
the  triplet  at  the  east  end  being  graduated.  All  these  windows  are 
now  filled  with  stained  glass,  the  execution  of  w-hich  has  been 
entrusted  to  Messrs.  Lavers,  Barraud,  and  Westlake,  and  has  been 
admirably  carried  out.* 

The  next  change  of  importance  was  the  rebuilding  of  the  south 
transept  in  the  thirteenth  century,  and  the  restoration  of  the  north 
transept  by  cutting  across  the  eastern  half  of  the  aisle  already 
mentioned  and  throwing  up  its  gable  flush  with  the  north  wall,  and 
the  insertion  of  the  lofty  three-light  traceried  window  in  the  place 
of  the  third  lancet  light.  The  history  of  this  architectural  change 
may  be  very  distinctly  read  in  the  roof,  the  arrangement  of  which 
is  very  interesting.     The  south  transept  has  a  gabled  projection  on 

*  A  very  beautiful  window,  the  work  of  the  same  firm,  has  also  been  placed 
in  the  nave  to  the  memory  of  the  late  Lady  Victoria  Villiers,  wife  of  the  present 
Rector,  and  daughter  of  John  first  Lord  Russell,  "by  two  who  loved  her,  and  wish 
gratefully  to  acknowledge  her  gentle  influence  on  their  lives." 


Wtntfeiriaxi  SrB3iS5.I'hctp'-J^tt/u>,LoTidoTi. 


ADISHAM   CHURCH.  159 

its  eastern  wall,  forming  internally  a  recess  for  an  altar,  near  to 
wticli  is  a  piscina  richly  moulded  and  cusped. 

In  the  recess  stands  a  very  remarkable  specimen  of  early 
mediaeval  wood-frame  work  ;  it  has  two  massive  oak  posts  with 
carved  tops,  and  these  posts  have  been  morticed  in  front  as  though 
to  receive  other  frame  work  or  a  cauopy.  It  was  brought  to  this 
church  from  Canterbury  Cathedral  by  Archdeacon  Battely.  In 
between  the  posts  was  a  painting  of  the  four  Evangelists  on  a  thin  deal 
board,  which  on  being  removed  revealed  the  original  rich  diaper  work 
on  which  there  had  been  evidently  figures  of  the  four  Evangelists, 
which  at  some  time  had  been  chipped  off,  and  the  deal  board  and  its 
paintings  (now  placed  at  the  foot  of  the  structure)  fastened  over 
the  diaper  background.  This  woodwork  is  undoubtedly  amongst 
the  oldest  extant  in  England,  and  is  of  special  interest  to  archaeo- 
logists. Before  this  recess  is  the  stone  coffin  of  Thomas  de  Upton, 
Eector  in  a.d.  1290 ;  the  brass  has  been  removed,  but  the  beautiful 
impression  of  the  cross  remains. 

The  western  half  of  the  north  aisle  is  divided  from  its  eastern 
half,  which,  as  we  have  seen,  has  now  become  the  north  transept,  by 
a  skreen  of  timber  framing  which  reaches  to  the  height  of  the  walls 
and  then  is  carried  up  to  supjiort  the  roofs  of  aisle  and  transept  at 
their  intersection,  the  lower  part  being  filled  with  panels  and  tracery. 
There  is  a  doorway  in  the  centre  of  this  skreen,  but  no  indication 
of  its  having  been  enclosed  with  doors. 

In  the  fourteenth  century  the  piers  of  the  tower  needed  strength- 
ening, they  were  accordingly  under-pinned  and  partially  rebuilt  and 
supported  by  other  massive  piers,  these  were  weathered  into  the  form 
of  buttresses,  and  a  sub-arch  of  segmental  pointed  form  was  in- 
troduced beneath  the  old  pointed  arches  to  aff'ord  a  counter  thrust 
to  the  piers.  The  sub-arch  between  the  tower  and  chancel  was 
removed  at  the  restoration  in  a.d.  1869,  to  the  great  improvement  of 
the  interior  effect  of  the  church. 

At  this  period  (fourteenth  century)  the  old  windows  of  the  nave, 
except  the  one  already  spoken  of  which  opens  into  the  aisle,  were 
taken  out,  and  windows  of  the  Decorated  period  were  inserted,  they 
were  placed  in  somewhat  difierent  positions  in  the  nave  ;  the  stone 
work  of  the  old  south  doorway  inside  and  out  was  likewise  removed, 
and  the  opening  built  up  with  flint ;  the  large  west  doorway  was 
now  made.  In  certain  lights  the  outlines  of  the  old  windows  and 
door  may  still  be  traced  in  the  flint  work.  The  cradling  which  sup- 
ports the  bell  cage  appears  to  be  of  the  same  date,  blocking  as  it  does 


160  ADiSHAM  cnuRcn. 

the  small  windows  of  the  middle  stage  of  the  tower.  An  ugly 
upper  stage,  void  of  windows,  was  added  to  the  tower  several 
eeuturies  later  and  Hnrmounted  by  a  battlemejited  parapet  ;  on  re- 
moving this  to  build  the  ])resent  pyramidal  roof  the  rotten  wall 
plates  were  found,  shewing  that  such  a  roof  had  originally  crowned 
the  tower. 

There  are  four  bells,  on  three  of  them  are  inscribed  the  words, 
"  Thomas  Palmer  made  me  Peter  du  Moulin  U.D.  Hector  of  Adis- 
ham  1(570 ;  "  and  on  the  fourth  or  large  tenor  bell  is  the  following, 
"  Magdalena  nonien  campana  certe  melodiic." 

The  pavement  at  the  time  of  restoration  was  in  a  very  dilapidated 
condition,  but  the  mediaeval  encaustic  tiles  scattered  over  the  church 
have  been  collected,  and  sufficient  were  found  to  make  up  some  very 
perfect  patterns  of  the  original  design  ;  they  are  now  laid  within  the 
sanctuary.  A  few  fragments  of  the  old  chancel  skreen  remained, 
and  they  have  been  carefully  retained,  the  rest  of  the  new  skreen 
being  worked  up  from  what  was  left.  The  colour  of  the  woodwork 
sufficiently  indicates  to  the  antiquary  the  old  and  the  new  work.  A 
long  account  is  given  in  Blomfield's  '  History  of  the  Martyrs'  of  a 
dispute  between  Mr.  Bland,  Rector  of  Adisham  (afterwards  burnt 
by  Thornden,  Bishop  Suffragan  of  Dover)  and  Mr.  Austen,  churcb- 
warden  of  Adisham  in  1553,  in  which  reference  is  made  to  part  of 
the  old  skreen. 

The  old  bench  table  is  still  found  running  round  the  walls  of  the 
nave,  a  seat  of  wood  has  been  placed  upon  it,  and  it  now  serves  as  a 
bench  for  the  children. 

The  font  is  the  old  Norman  font  of  the  original  church  ;  it  is 
square  and  of  simple  form,  with  a  central  shaft  and  four  pillars. 

There  are  a  few  points  of  interest  to  be  noted  in  the  Registers. 
The  baptismal  registers  begin  in  the  year  a.d.  1539,  they  are,  how- 
ever, copied  by  one  William  Smith  to  the  year  a.d.  1598,  the  copied 
pages  being  witnessed  to  by  Jno.  Oxenden. 

It  is  noted  that  in  1570  Valentine  Austen  "  dyed  of  ye  plage," 
and  the  same  misfortune  befell  James  Austen  in  1572. 

Against  the  year  1625  are  found  the  words,  "  Anno  prime  regis 
Caroli  quern  Deus  pro  iufinita  sua  dementia  quam  diutissime  in- 
eolumem  conservet  ad  ejus  gloriam  et  ad  hujus  reipublica^  flurentis- 
sime  tutelam."  A  little  later  we  read,  "  1660  May  29  King  Charles 
the  2**  being  happily  returned  to  his  rights  Dr.  Du  Moulin  restored 
the  Rectory  of  Adisham  to  Dr.  Oliver  the  true  owner  of  the  same." 
But  on  Oct.  20  "  Dr.  Oliver  dyed  at  Oxford  and  Peter  du  Moulin 


ADISHAM    CHURCH. 


161 


had  the  Rectory  o£  Adishain  cum  Staple  collated  upon  him  by  my 
Lord  Grace  of  Canterbury  Juxon." 

In  the  year  a.d.  1588  there  were  in  Adisham  116  communicants, 
i.e.,  adults,  above  the  age  for  confirmation,  who  were  capable  of 
receiving  the  Holy  Conimuuion  ;  at  the  present  time,  a.d.  1881,  the 
actual  communicants  number  168. 

Perhaps  I  may  conclude  this  short  paper  in  the  following  words 
of  a  great  preacher — words  of  practical  import  to  archaeologists. 
Speaking  of  just  such  noble  churches  as  this  which  I  have  been  de- 
scribing he  says  :  '*  We  have  not  lost  all  while  we  have  the  buildings 
of  our  forefathers.  Happy  they  who  when  they  enter  within  their 
holy  limits  enter  in  heart  into  the  court  of  heaven  !  and  most 
unhappy  who  while  they  have  eyes  to  admire,  admire  them  only  for 
their  beauty's  sake  and  the  skill  they  exhibit ;  who  regard  them  as 
works  of  art  only  not  fruits  of  grace,  bow  down  before  their  mate- 
rial forms,  instead  of  worshipping  in  spirit  and  in  truth ;  count 
their  stones  and  measure  their  spaces,  but  discern  in  them  no 
tokens  of  the  invisible,  no  canons  of  truth,  no  lessons  of  wisdom 
to  guide  them  forward  in  the  way  heavenward." 


THE    XOUTH    SIDE    01'    ADISliA.\l    cm   ilCU. 


TOL.     XIY. 


IVI 


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EOUTY    TLECTORS    OE    ADISHAM.* 

BY   THE   REV.    W.    A.    SCOTT   ROBERTSON. 

Masteb  RicnARD  was  Rector  in  12S5  (Peckham's  Refjiatei^^o). 

Thomas  de  Upton,  who  held  this  benefice  in  128S,  was  ordained 
priest  at  Croydon  in  March  1288-9  by  Archbishop  Peckham 
{Register,  i3.'5^).  One  of  the  Prebendal  Stalls  at  Winghani 
was  conferred  upon  him  in  1299,  and  he  occupied  it  until 
1311.     He  is  buried  in  xldisham  Church. 

EiciiARD  DE  Norwich  was  Rector  in  February  1349-50 ;  when 
•Archbishop  Islip  {Register,  12'')  gave  him  permission  to 
celebrate  divine  worship  in  the  Rector's  Manse  here. 
Perhaps  the  church  was  then  under  repair.  In  September 
1356  the  same  Primate,  at  Tenham,  issued  a  commission 
granting  jurisdiction  here  to  Ric.  de  Norwich  and  Master 
William  Groudwyne  '^jtiris  peritus"  jointly  and  severally 
{Register,  I'^/'O-  He  was  presented  to  the  Prebendal  Stall 
or  Canonry  of  Pedding  at  Wingham  in  1352.  King 
Edward  III  appointed  him  a  Prebendary  of  St.  Paul's  in 
1354,  and  Archdeacon  of  Norwich  in  1355.  He  died  in 
1361. 

John  Codtnton  made  his  will  in  1369,  desiring  to  be  buried  in 
the  chapel  of  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr  here.  ("Wittlesey's 
Register,  107'',) 

Richard  de  "WaemingtojST,  Canon  of  Chilton  in  "Wingham  College, 
whose  will  was  proved  in  1378,  desired  to  be  buried  in  the 
chancel  here,  next  to  the  grave  of  Roger  Dygge,  who  may 
have  been  a  previous  Rector.     (Sudbury's  Register,  ioo'\) 

William  Dapab  was  instituted,  March  8,  1378-9,  in  succession 
to  Warmington  ;  but  he,  on-  the  following  day,  effected  an 
exchange  with  the  Rector  of  Peushurst.  He  subse- 
quently became  Rector  of  St.  Mary  Moisy,  Friday  Street, 
London  ;  and  in  1386,  Rector  of  Woodchurch. 

John   Ovtng,   Rector  of   Penshurst,   and  Canon   of   Pedding   at 

*  In  1292,  the  value  of  this  benefice  (with  the  chapehy  of  Staple)  was  80 
marks  (£53  6s.  8d.)  per  annum.  The  valuation  made  in  1535  puts  the  tithes  at 
£35  14s.  8d.,  and  the  rent  of  glebe  at  8s.  per  annum  ;  out  of  which  income, 
£6  13s.  4d.  per  annum  was  paid  to  a  priest  serving  at  Staple  ;  26s.  8d.  for 
proxies  and  synodes  ;  and  20d.  to  the  manor  of  Adisham  for  rent ;  leaving  a  net 
income  of  £28  Is.  Od.  It  was  valued  at  £160  per  annum  in  1588,  and  in  1640 ; 
and  at  £500  in  1800.  The  tithes  of  Adisham  were  commuted  at  £719  ;  and 
those  of  Staple  at  £592.  The  latter  parish  was  made  a  separate  benefice  upon 
the  death  of  Mr.  Dickins  in  1862. 


RECTORS   OF   ADISHAM.  163 

"Wingham,  became  Eector  of  Adisham  March  9,  1378-9, 
by  exchange.     He  had  been  Chantry  Priest  at  Lukedale. 

John  Prophet,  Chaplain  to  Archbishop  Courtenay,  occupied  this 
benefice  for  four  years,  from  13S2  to  1386  ;  holding,  also, 
a  Prebendal  8tall  at  Wingham.  He  became  a  Prebendary 
of  Lincoln  in  1387,  and  was  preferred  to  the  Kectory  of 
Orpington  in  1392,  but  vacated  it  for  the  Deanery  of 
Hereford  in  1393.  Enjoying  the  favour  of  King  Henry  IV, 
he  became  a  Secretary  of  State  and  a  Prebendary  of  York 
both  in  (G  H.  IV)  1404 ;  and  Prebendary  of  Leighton 
Buzzard  at  Lincoln  in  1405.  Henry  V  made  him  Keeper 
of  the  King's  Privy  Seal  in  1411.  In  1407  he  was  called 
to  preside  over  York  Cathedral ;  and  while  Dean  of  York 
he  died,  in  141G.  A  very  fine  monumental  brass  marks 
his  grave,  in  the  Church  of  liingwood,  Hants. 

"William  Lte,  who  was  Eector  of  Hasely,  in  the  diocese  of  Lin- 
coln, obtained  this  benefice,  May  20,  1386,  by  exchang- 
ing with  Dr.  Prophet.  There  is,  however,  another  record 
of  his  institution  in  1389,  May  18.  He  held  the  Cauonry 
and  Prebendal  Stall  of  Wimelingwold  at  "Wingham.  In 
December  1390,  he  exchanged  that  stall  together  with  this 
benefice  for  the  Eectoxy  of  Northfleet. 

Eegiis'ALD  de  Cobeham,  one  of  the  illustrious  house  of  Cobham, 
became  Eector,  December  2,  1390,  by  exchange  with  "Wm. 
Lye.  He  was  a  brother  of  Thomas  de  Cobham  of  Beluncle ; 
of  whose  will,  made  in  1367,  Eeginald  was  an  executor. 
He  held  the  Eectory  of  Cowling*  from  1364  to  1380  and 
probably  longer.  In  1377  he  obtained,  in  Salisbury 
Cathedral,  the  Canonry  and  Prebendal  Stall  of  "Writtlyngton 
and  Pordington.  That  dignity  he  exchanged  in  Pebruary 
1378-9  for  the  Eectory  of  IS'orthfleet,  which  in  1390  he 
exchanged  for  the  Canonry  of  Wimelingw^old  at  Wingham, 
and  this  rectory.  He  died  in  1402  ;  and  over  his  grave,  in 
the  north  aisle  of  Cobham  Church,  there  is  a  monumental 
brass  representing  him  in  a  processional  cope  standing 
upon  a  long-stemmed  bracket. 

John  Bolde  was  instituted  March  22,  1430-1,  by  Archbishop 
Chichele  (jSp''). 

ViNCEKT  Clement,  S.T.P.,  who  was  collated  November  23, 1444,  by 
Archbishop  Stafford  (8 1"),  held  the  benefice  only  a  few  years. 
He  obtained  the  Prebendal  Stall  of  Twitham  at  Wingham, 
which  he  held  at  his  death  in  1475.  He  likewise  held 
Prebends  at  Hereford  (1452),  Lincoln  (1452),  and  Lich- 
field (1458)  ;  and  he  was  Archdeacon  of  Wilts,  Winchester, 
and  Huntingdon. 

*  Another  Reginald  de  Cobham,  son  of  Henry  1st  Lord  Cobham,  was  Rector 
of  Cowling- from  1318  to  April  25,  lH2o,  when  he  is  said  to  have  died  {licgist. 
Sj)irif.  Rojfcn.,  F,  folio  73^).  In  October  1320  this  Reginald  was  still  a  minor, 
under  age,  and  only  in  subdeacon's  orders.  Possibly  Reginald  the  Rector  of 
Adisham  was  born  after  the  death  of  the  former  Reginald  Cobham. 

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164  RECTORS   OF   ADISUAM. 

Walter  Eston  died  in  ll'A),  lioldiiifj;  tin's  benefice. 

])a\ii)  I)I,()d\vkll  (liicoiiliate  in  Jiaws)  was  inHtifutod  May  4,  l-i56, 
by  Ai'cld)i.slu)])  IJoufLjchier  (63''),  in  succession  to  Eston.  " 

AVfllfam  Saunoir  was  Rector  of  Adishani  when  lie  died,  in  1472. 
He  held  the  I'rebend  of  Chand)erlain  AVood,  in  St.  Paul's 
C^ithedral,  from  1456  to  1472. 

John  Parmexteh  (Licentiate  in  Laws)  was  instituted  March  19, 
1472-3,  by  Archbishop  Bourf^chier  (107'').  He  had  been 
Rector  of  Newchurch  until  Eebruary  1472-3,  and  he  held 
the  Canonry  of  Twilham  at  Winghani  for  one  month, 
June  2G  to  July  24,  1475.  He  died  in  1501,  and  was 
buried  at  St.  Alphege  Church  in  Canterbury,  of  which  he 
was  then  Rector.  An  inscription  on  brass  commemorates 
him  there. 

Dayid  Williams  was  Rector  of  Adisham  Avhen  he  died  in  1491. 

Henry  Cowper,  Bachelor  of  Law,  was  collated  here  December  31, 
1491,  by  Archbishop  Morton  (151").  He  obtained,  in 
1493,  a  Canonry  at  Wingham,  but  he  died  in  1500,  holding 
this  benefice. 

Robert  Woodward  (Doctor  in  Decrees)  was  instituted  September 
9_,  1500,  by  Archbishop  Morton  (168'').  During  twenty- 
six  years  he  held  the  Prebeudal  Stall  of  Retliug  at 
Wingham  (1505-31),  but  he  resigned  this  rectory  in  1523, 
when  a  pension  of  £24  per  annum,  out  of  its  proceeds, 
was  reserved  to  him,  for  his  life.  It  was  paid  by  three  of 
his  successors.  He  was  Warden  of  All  Souls'  College, 
Oxford,  from  1528  to  1533.  While  he  was  incumbent 
here.  Archbishop  Warham  held  his  Visitation  in  1511, 
when  it  was  "  presented  "  that  the  Lady  Chancel  was  not 
tiled,  and  the  cliurchwardeiis  were  directed  to  tile  it.  The 
churchyard  walls  needed  repair,  and  a  gutter  spoiled  a 
north  wall  of  the  church  by  its  droppings. 

Thomas  Welles,  S.T.P.,  Bishop  of  Sido-i  and  Prior  of  St.  Gre- 
gory's, Canterbury,  was  instituted  December  7,  1523,  by 
Archbishop  Warham  (38/5'*),  whose  chaplain  he  was,  but 
he  did  not  retain  this  benefice  more  than  two  years.  A 
native  of  Hampshii-e,  and  a  Wykehamist  scholar,  he 
became  a  Eellow  of  New  College,  Oxford,  in  1484.  He 
entered  St.  Gregory's  Priory  at  Canterbury,  and  as  a 
Canon  there  he  was  ordained,  in  June  1490,  by  the  Bishop 
of  Ely.  From  1499  to  1505,  he  held  the  Rectory  of 
Heyford  Warren.  Before  1511,  he  became  Prior  of  St. 
Gregory's,  and,  in  1515,  Bishop  of  Sidon.  In  April  1508 
he  had  entered  on  the  Rectory  of  Chartham.  He  likewise 
occupied  the  post  of  Arch-presbyter  in  L^lcombe  Church 
until  he  exchanged  it  in  1512,  March  31,  for  a  Canonry  at 
South  Mailing.  In  1514  he  was  admitted  A^icar  of  Lydd ; 
he  also  held  the  Rectory  of  AVoodchurch.  In  1522  he 
was  A'^icar  of  Holy  Cross,  Westgate,  Canterbury. 

John  Alesse  resigned  the  Rectory  of  Adisham  in  1526. 


IIECTOKS   OP   ADISHAM.  165 

Egbert  Chalnee  (Doctor  of  Laws)  was  instituted  Marcli  29,  1526, 
by  Archbishop  AVarham  (390'').  He  held  the  Prebendal 
Stall  of  Pedding  at  Wingham  ;  and  died  in  1541. 

John  Bland,  a  Protestant  martyr,  succeeded  Chalner.  He  held 
the  Eetling  Canoury  at  Wiugham  from  March  14,  1542-3 ; 
for  which  at  the  dissolution  a  pension  of  £6  13s.  4d.  was 
awarded  to  him.  Upon  the  accession  of  Queen  Mary  he 
was  undisturbed  here  until  the  3rd  of  September  1553, 
when  John  Austen  took  the  top  of  the  Communion  Table 
of£  its  tressels,  and  laid  it  aside  on  a  chest,  setting  the 
tressels  together.  On  the  26th  of  November  Eichard  and 
Thomas  Austen  came  to  him  after  the  Communion  Service 
was  ended,  and  charging  him  with  having  pulled  down 
the  altar  of  the  church  (in  former  years),  and  the  taber- 
nacle in  which  hung  the  rood,  declared  they  would  have 
Mass  there  next  Sunday.  Nothing  of  the  kind,  however, 
Avas  done,  until  the  28th  of  December,  the  Feast  of  the 
Holy  Innocents,  and  of  the  dedication  of  Adisham  Church, 
when  the  Priest  of  Stodmarsh  was  intruded,  to  say  Mass. 
The  Eector,  Bland,  addressed  the  congregation  at  Sermon- 
time,  standing  in  the  chancel  door  (i.e.  the  door  of  the 
rood  screen).  After  a  considerable  time,  he  was  inter- 
rupted by'the  churchwarden  and  the  constable,  who  shut 
him  up  in  a  side  chapel  until  Mass  was  ended.  Ulti- 
mately, sureties  for  Bland's  abstinence  from  px'eaching  and 
duty  were  taken  ;  but  at  the  end  of  February  1553-4,  he 
was  sent  to  Canterbury  gaol,  whence  he  was  not  permitted 
to  be  bailed  until  the  5th  of  May  1554.  He  was  examined 
in  the  Chapter  House  of  the  Cathedral,  as  to  his  belief, 
(respecting  the  mode  of  Christ's  presence  in  the  Lord's 
Supper,)  before  Archdeacon  Harpsfield  and  Commissary 
Collins,  on  the  18th  and  on  the  21st  of  May;  a  multitude 
of  people  being  present  on  the  second  day.  At  the  Sessions, 
held  in  Cranbrook  in  July,  Sir  Thomas  Moyle  ordered  him 
to  be  put  in  the  stocks,  and  confined  in  Maidstone  gaol. 
There  he  was  imprisoned  until  February  1555,  when  he 
appeared  in  irons,  at  the  G-reeuAvich  Assizes,  before  Sir 
John  Baker,  Mr.  Petit,  and  Mi\  Webb,  who  ordered  him 
to  be  delivered  to  the  Ordinary.  He  was  therefore  sent 
to  Canterbury  Castle  until  the  2nd  of  March  1554-5, 
when,  in  the  Cathedral  Chapter  House,  Justices  Oxenden, 
Petit,  Webb,  and  Hardres,  presented  him  to  the  Bishop 
of  Dover,  Commissary  Collins,  and  Mr.  Mills,  as  one 
strongly  suspected  of  heresy.  Eemitted  to  Westgate 
prison,  he  was  again  brought  before  the  Ecclesiastical 
tribunal,  in  the  Chapter  House,  in  March  and  in  June, 
until  he  and  four  others  were  finally  condemned  on  the 
25th  of  June  1555,  and  delivered  to  the  secular  arm 
for  punishment  as  heretics.  Accordingly,  at  Canterbury, 
ou  the  12th  of  July  1555,  the  Eector  of  Adisham  was 


166  RECTORS   OF   ADISHAM. 

burned  at  tlie  stake.     His  prayer  before   his   execution, 
and  his  letter  to  his  father,  ii:irratin<f  the  whole  of  the 
sad  proceedings  against  him,  during  1554-5,  are  preserved 
ill  Fox's  '  Acts  and  Monuments  of  the  Church,'  chapter  xi. 
lliCHAEU  TiiORNEDON,   Bishop-sulfragau   of    Dover,   obtained  the 
benetice    from    which    Mr.    Bland   had   been   dragged   to 
prison.    He  had  been  a  monk  of  Christ  Church,  Canterbury, 
receiving  the  ton.sure  in  1512.     He  received  Subdeacon's 
Orders  March  26,  1513.     At  the  Dissolution  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  Henry  VIII,  in  154-2,  to  the  First  Prebendal 
Stall  in  tbe    Cathedral,   which  he   held   as  a  Protestant 
Divine   througliout   the  reign  of    Edward   VI.      On   the 
accession  of  Queen  Mary,  his  Protestantism  evaporated, 
and  he  actively  persecuted  his  former  colleagues.     In  Can- 
terbury  Hall   at    Oxford   he   had   filled   the   position   of 
Gustos,  circa  1528.      He  was  consecrated  Bishop-suffragan 
of  Dover  in  1545,  or  154G,  and  he  secured  the  benefices 
of  Teuterden  (1550-5),  Lydd,  Wrotham  (1546),  Bishops- 
bourne  (1546),  Grreat  Chart,  and  Adishain,  the  last  five  of 
which  he  held  when  he  died  in  1557-8. 
William  Deacon,  who  had   been  Thornedon's  curate  here,  was 
collated  March  12,  1557-8,  by  Archbishop  Pole  (76'').     He 
held  this  benefice  for  21  years,  but  resigned  it  November 
4th,  1579. 
William   Smith   succeeded   Deacon  in   1579.     In   his   time   the 
Hegisters  were  fair-copied  upon  parchment,  for  the  sixty 
years  1539-98.     He  vacated  this  benefice  in  1602. 
Maetin.Fotheebt,  a  younger  brother  of  Dean  Fotherby,  was  col- 
lated January  24,  1602-3,  by  Archbishop  Whitgift,  w^hose 
chaplain  and  kinsman  he  was.     He  had  been  a  Fellow  of 
Trinity  Coll.,  Camb.,  Vicar  of  Chislet  1592-4,  Eector  of 
St,    Mary  le    Bow,    London,  1594  ;  Rector  of  Chartham 
1596-1618;  Canon  of  the  Eleventh  Prebendal  Stall  at  Can- 
terbury 1596-1618.     He  became  Chaplain  to  James  I,  and 
was  Bishop  of  Salisbury  from  1618  to  March  1619,  when  he 
•  died,  and  was  buried  in  London  at  All  Hallows,  Lombard 

Street. 
Walter  Balcanquell  was  presented  to  this  benefice  by  King 
James  I,  and  instituted  by  Archbishop  Abbot  (i.,  435'') 
October  7,  1618.  In  1625  he  entered  in  the  Register  a 
notice  of  the  accession  of  Charles  I,  with  a  prayer  for  his 
long  life  and  preservation  for  the  glory  of  Grod.  He  was 
Rector  of  Kingstone  1632,  as  well  as  Master  of  the  Savoy 
in  London,  and  had  been  promoted  in  1624-5  to  the 
Deanery  of  Rochester,  which  he  held  together  with  these 
benefices.  Ultimately  he  became  Dean  of  Durham  in 
1639 ;  and  dying  on  Christmas-day  1645  w^as  buried  at 
Chirk. 
John  Oliver,  D.D.,  who  succeeded  Dr.  Balcancjuell,  became  Pre- 
sident of  Magdalen  College,  Oxford,  in  1644,  whence  he 


RECTORS   OF   ADISHAM.  167 

was  ejected  in  1648.  In  1660  he  petitioned  the  House 
of  Lords  for  restoration  to  it  May  18,  and  for  this 
rectory  on  June  20.  The  Parliamentary  Committee  of 
Eeligiou  on  January  5,  164-0-1,  directed  him  and  other 
Licensers  of  the  Press  to  be  summoned  before  them  for 
licensing  unorthodox  books.  Dispossessed  by  the  Parlia- 
ment, in  1643,  he  lived  just  long  enough  to  see  the  Restora- 
tion both  of  Charles  II  and  of  his  own  benefice.  In  July 
1660  he  was  made  Dean  of  Worcester,  but  he  died,  at 
Oxford  in  October  1661. 

Peter  du  Moulin  (whose  father  of  the  same  name  was  a  French 
Refugee  for  the  sake  of  religion,  whom  Archbishop  Abbot 
collated  to  a  Prebendal  Stall  at  Canterbury)  succeeded  his 
father  in  the  Fourth  Prebend  at  Canterbuiy,  and  was 
instituted  to  the  Eectory  of  Adisham  in  November  1661. 
It  would  seem  to  have  happened,  that  when  Dr.  Oliver 
was  dispossessed,  in  1643,  Dr.  Du  Moulin  became  minister 
here  ;  although  one  Charles  Nichols  is  mentioned  by  Lewis, 
as  being  dispossessed  here  in  1662.  Du  Moulin  died  in 
October  1684,  and  w^as  buried  at  Canterbury  Cathedral, 
where  his  wife  Ann  had  been  interred  January  19,  1680. 
His  curate,  Mr.  Eobert  Dalechampe,  had  been  buried  in 
the  Cloisters  there  on  the  11th  January  1678. 

John  Battelt,  S.T.P.,  who  was  born  November  11,  1646,  in  the 
parish  of  St.  James's,  Bury  St.  Edmunds,  and  obtained  a 
Fellowship  in  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  succeeded  Dr. 
Du  Moulin  here  November  19,  1684.  In  1688,  on  the  5th 
of  November,  he  was  collated  to  the  First  Prebendal  Stall 
in  Canterbury  Cathedral ;  having  previously  been  installed 
as  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury  on  the  24th  of  March 
1687-8.  It  is  said  that  he  brought  from  the  Cathedral 
that  Early  English  carved  panelling  which  formerly  con- 
stituted the  reredos  of  the  high  altar  in  Adisham  Church, 
but  is  now  in  the  south  transept.  He  died  October  10, 
1708,  and  was  buried  in  the  Cathedral  on  the  14th. 

John  Geeene,  S.T.P.,  held  this  benefice  for  eight  or  nine  years 
from  November  1708.  He  resigned  it  upon  his  promotion 
to  the  Eectory  of  St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields,  London,  in 
February  1717;  whence  he  was  preferred  to  the  See  of 
Norwich  in  1721. 

Balthazar  Eec+is,  S.T.P.,  was  Eector  of  Adisham  during  forty 
years,  from  March  1717  to  January  5,  1756-7.  With  this 
benefice  he  held  the  Eectory  of  Little  Mongeham  and  a 
Canonry  at  Windsor. 

Francis  Walwtn,  S.T.P.,  1756-7.  He  was  educated  at  Maidstone, 
and  from  the  grammar  school  there  he  obtained  in  March 
1716-7  a  Scholarship  on  Mr.  Grunsley's  Foundation  at 
University  College,  Oxford.  He  became  Eector  of  Grreat 
Mongeham,  and  was  from  1745-57,  Eector  of  St.  Mary 
Bredman,  Canterbury,  with  which  he  held  (1752-6)  the 


168  IIECTOIIS    or   ADISHAM. 

Vicarage  of  East  Peckhani.  Upon  IiIh  iiiatitutiou  to 
Acli.sliaiii  he  resi<;iied  East  Peckhani.  He  lield  tlie  Seventh 
Prebeud  in  Canterbury  Cathedral  from  174 i  until  liis 
death  on  the  19th  of  May  1770.  To  Maidstone  Church 
his  body  was  carried  for  interment,  and  tliere  his  remains 
lie. 

The  Hok.  James  Cornwallis  held  this  benefice  for  five  months, 
from  May  to  October  1770,  when  he  resigned  it,  and 
became  a  Prebendary  of  AVestmiuster  Abbey  and  Hector 
of  AVrotham.  He  had  held  the  benefices  of  Ickham  (17G9- 
78),  and  Boughton  Malherb.  He  was  appointed  Dean  of 
Canterbury  in  1775  ;  Bishop  of  Lichfield  1781 ;  Dean 
of  AVindsor  1791-4 :  and  he  succeeded  to  the  Earldom 
of  Cornwallis  in  1823. 

John  Lynch,  LL.D.,  second  and  youngest  son  of  the  Dean  of 
Canterbury,  held  this  benefice  for  ten  years  1771-81. 
When  Dr.  llichard  Palmer  resigned  the  Fifth  Prebendal 
Stall  at  Canterbury  in  1781,  it  was  arranged  that  Dr. 
Lynch  should  have  that  stall,  and  that  Dr.  Palmer's  son 
should  have  this  benefice.  Dr.  L3'nch,  after  he  was  a 
Canon,  became  likewise  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury  (1788- 
1803),  and  Eector  of  St.  Dionis  Backchurch,  London. 
His  elder  brother.  Sir  William  Lynch,  K.B.,  was  M.P. 
for  Canterbury  1768,  but  died  in  1785.  Their  mother 
was  a  daughter  of  Archbishop  AV^ake. 

John  Palmee,  B.A.  (who  thus  obtained  the  Rectory  of  Adisham 
through  his  father's  resignation  of  a  Canonry  at  Canter- 
bury), was  inducted  on  the  29th  of  April  1781,  and  held 
the  benefice  during  many  years. 

W.  W.  DiCKiNS  was  Eector  from  1818  to  1862. 

Henet  Montagu  Villiees,  M.A.  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  son 
of  a  late  Bishop  of  Durham,  was  collated  to  this  benefice 
in  1862,  and  held  it  until  the  end  of  1881,  when  he  was 
appointed  A-^icar  of  St.  Paul's,  Kuightsbridge. 

James  Haslewood  Caee,  M.A.,  and  formerly  a  Fellow,  of  the 
Univei'sity  of  Durham,  was  collated  to  this  rectory  in 
December  1881.  He  had  held  the  benefice  of  Broadstairs, 
in  Thauet,  from  1866  to  1881. 


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PATF.ICKSBOURNE  CHURCH,  AND  BIERONS. 

BY   THE    REV.    W.    A.    SCOTT   ROBERTSON. 

PATRiCKSBouEifE  was  iuliabited  at  a  very  early  period,  quite  as 
thickly  as  it  now  is.  This  fact  is  proved  by  the  number  of  early 
graves  discovered  in  an  extensive  Saxon  cemetery  on  Patricksbourne 
Hill,  within  Bifrons  Park.  They  were  situated  on  the  east  side  of 
the  road  from  Bridge  to  Patricksbourne,  not  more  than  200  yards 
distant  from  the  great  Eoman  road  to  Dover.  By  the  favour  of 
the  late  Marquess  Conyngham  the  cemetery  was  explored  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Kent  Archgeological  Society  during  the  years 
1866-8.* 

The  Says  and  the  Cheneys  were  manorial  lords  here,  from  the 
twelfth  century  to  the  sixteenth  ;  and  the  family  of  Isaak  possessed 
the  Hothe  estate,  here,  during  the  fifteenth  century.  In  14:50  both 
Sir  John  Cheney,  and  John  Isaak  "  armiger,  of  Patrykesbourne," 
joined  Jack  Cade's  insun*ectiou. 

A  church  existed  here  in  a.d.  1086,  when  the  Domesday  Survey  was 
taken ;  but  this  place  was  then  called  simply  "  Bourne."  Almost 
every  church  was  rebuilt  after  the  twelfth  century  commenced ;  and 
the  architectural  details  woidd  lead  us  to  believe  that  this  church 
was  rebuilt  in  the  second  half  of  that  century.  It  is  quite  possible, 
however,  that  some  of  the  earlier  masonry  may  still  remain,  especially 
in  the  chancel. 

Early  in  the  thirteenth  century  half  a  knight's  fee  here  was 
given  to  the  Priory  of  Augustine  Canons,  at  Beaulieu  {Bello  Loco) 
in  the  forest  of  Preaulx  in  Normandy.  Two  or  three  canons  of 
that  monastery,  coming  here  to  serve  the  church,  formed  a  small  cell 
of  Augustine  Canons,  as  an  offshoot  of  their  priory.  Thus,  in  1254, 
when  an  Aid  was  granted  to  King  Henry  III,  the  owners  of  one 
knight's  fee  here  were  registered  upon  the  Aid  Eoll  as  "  "William  de 
Say  and  the  Canons  of  Patrikkesbourne."t 

*  Archceoloffia  Cantiana,  VI.,  329  ;  X.,  298  ;  XIII.,  552. 

f  Agues  de  Say  carried  halJE  this  knight's  fee  in  dower  to  her  husband 
Alexander  Cheny.  Subsequently  the  entire  fee  was  held  by  William  de  Cheuy 
and   the  Caucus  of  Beaulieu.   from  Geoffrey   de  Say  ;  and   in  1347  the  Aid 


170      PATRICKSBOURNE   CHURCH,   AND   BIFRONS. 

Four  years  later,  on  llic  Vigil  of  St.  John  the  Baptist  a.d.  1258, 
a  more  convenient  arrangement  was  made,  by  which  this  church 
was  appropriated  to  tlie  Prioi*y  of  Merton  in  Surrey  ;  so  that  from 
that  time  forward  it  was  served  cither  by  canons  of  Merton,  or  by 
chaplains  presented  by  their  priory.  The  Priory  of  Beaulieu  retained 
possession  of  the  manor  here  until  a.d.  1410,  when  that,  likewise, 
was  alienated  to  Merton  Priory. 

In  1317  the  Latin  form  of  the  name  Patricksbourne  was  written 
as  "  Bourne  Patricii."  We  may  therefore  infer  that  before  this 
manor  was  given  to  Beaulieu  Priory,  its  owner  had  borne  the 
surname  of  Patrick.  When  Hasted  says  that  the  owner's  name  was 
John  de  Pratellis  or  Pratis,  he  may  have  mistaken  the  abbreviated 
form  in  which  the  true  name  was  written. 

The  Tower,  and  its  Norman  Doorway. 

The  most  remarkable  feature  of  this  church  is  a  richly  moulded 
Norman  doorway,  by  which  it  is  entered,  through  the  tower,  in  the 
middle  of  the  south  side  of  the  nave  aisle.  It  is  one  of  the  most 
richly  moulded  Norman  doorways  in  Kent.  Its  archway  is  doubly 
recessed ;  with  cylindrical  shafts,  having  carved  capitals,  in  each 
recess.  The  mouldings  springing  from  these  shafts  are  nicely 
carved  ;  but  the  principal  carving  is  lavished  upon  the  hood-moulding 
above  them,  and  on  the  tympanum  below  them.  The  tympanum 
shews  our  Lord  in  majesty  ;  on  His  right  hand  are  three  figures, 
two  of  whom  seem  to  be  angels  ;  the  third,  kneeling  in  the  corner, 
does  not  appear  to  have  wings.  On  our  Lord's  left  hand,  the  figures 
are  not  easily  distinguishable.  Beneath  our  Lord  and  His  attendants, 
there  is  a  course  of  stone,  carved  with  foliage  and  birdlike  monsters. 

The  mouldings  of  the  arch-hood  are  very  elaborate,  and  are 
surrounded  by  an  edge  of  dog-tooth  ornament.  In  one  moulding 
pairs  of  circles,  linked  together  vertically,  alternate  with  slanting 
bands,  which  may  perhaps  be  supposed  to  bind  them  to  the  arch. 

received  from  it  is  thus  recorded  :  "  De  Roberto  de  Cbeny,  et  Canonicis  Prioratus 
de  Bello  Loco  in  mauus  Margarete  de  Boiirne  ex  dimissione  Regis  existentis, 
xls." 

The  family  of  Bourne  long  retained  property  at  Higham  in  Patricksbourne 
and  at  Boracre.  In  1254  Thomas  de  Bourne  held  of  William  de  Say,  three- 
quarters  of  a  knight's  fee  in  Hegham  ;  one  quarter  thereof  lying  at  Beracre. 
iSubscquently  the  same  land  was  held  of  Geoffrey  de  Say,  by  John  de  Bourne 
and  William  de  Hegham.  In  1347  it  had  passed  to  the  heirs  of  Sir  Thomas 
de  Bourne,  jointly  with  James  de  Hegham. 

In  1254  three  ladies  {Jil'ie  tnme)  held  of  William  de  Say,  one  quarter  of  a 
fee  in  "  Patrikesbourne."  Probably  they  were  Dionisia  de  Beracre  and  her 
sisters,  who  subsequently  held  half  a  fee  in  Beracre  from  Geoffrey  de  Say.  In 
1347  their  land  was  held  by  John  Petit  and  Richard  de  Beracre. 


PATRICKSBOURNE    CHURCH,    AND    BIFRONS.       I7l 

Above  the  whole  archway  rises  a  tall  pointed  canopy  ;  within 
which  is  a  ronnd-headed  niche,  carved  with  the  Agnus  Dei  or  "  Lamb 
and  Flag."  This  design  cannot  well  be  of  a  date  earlier  than  1170  ; 
and  it  may  be  ten  years  later.  The  tower  (of  which  it  occupies  the 
soutli  wall)  is  oddly  placed,  and  forms  a  porch  in  the  middle  of  the 
south  aisle,  not  projecting  from  it.*  Tliis  tower  opens  to  the  nave, 
and  to  the  south  aisle,  by  pointed  arches  on  the  north  and  east, 
but  by  half  of  a  round  arch  on  the  west. 

In  the  tower  hang  three  bells ;  one  is  ancient  and  inscribed 
"Ave  Maria  ffracia  plena."  Two  bells  were  recast  in  1674.  The 
stone  clock-face,  now  seen  above  the  great  doorway,  was  inserted 
by  the  present  Marquess  Conyngham,  when  he  gave  the  clock.  It 
is  a  reproduction  of*  the  original  design,  which  was  ancient.t 

The  small  portion  of  south  aisle  which  stands  to  the  west  of  the 
tower,  opens  to  the  nave  by  a  round-headed  arch  ;  and  to  the  tower 
by  half  of  a  round  arch. 

The  north  aisle  was  added  about  182-1,  when  Mr.  Hughes 
Hallett  was  the  vicar.  The  windows,  and  the  JN^orman  north  door- 
way were  then  removed  from  the  oj'igiual  north  wall  to  their  present 
position  in  the  north  aisle.  The  arms  of  Fogge  were  formei'ly 
emblazoned  in  the  westernmost  window  of  the  original  north  wall. 

The  Chajs'cel. 

The  chancel  arch,  which  is  of  simple  and  massive  design,  and  of 
horseshoe  shape,  is  probably  of  earlier  date  than  the  great  south 
doorway.  Its  cylindrical  shafts  are  remarkably  small  and  slight. 
The  priest's  door,  south  of  the  chancel,  may  also  be  of  like  earlier 
date.  It  has  good  mouldings,  and  is  surmounted  by  a  small  statue, 
probably  of  St.  Mary,  the  patron-saint  of  the  church. 

In  the  east  wall  of  the  chancel  we  see  a  triplet  of  Norman 
windows ;  the  central  one  is  higher  than  the  others,  and  above  it  is 

*  Sir  Gilbert  Scott  thought  that  this  entrance  was  quite  unique — a  porch  in 
a  tower, — but  Eythorne  church  tower  is  over  the  north  porch.  He  considered 
that  when  the  tower  was  built  the  porch  here  was  allowed  to  remain,  as  it  had 
done  before  ;  being  too  beautiful  to  be  touched. 

t  Before  the  church  was  restored,  two  huge  buttresses  of  brick,  built  to 
support  the  tower,  hid  much  of  the  mouldings  of  the  handsome  doorway.  With 
respect  to  the  bells  in  the  tower,  the  Rev.  F.  T.  Vine  has  kindly  copied  for  me 
the  following  extract  from  the  parish  registers  : — 

"  The  20"^  Anno  Domini  1674.     Palmer  at  St.  Dunstans  in  the  suburbs  of 
Canterbury  cast  anew  fn-o  of  the  three  ^(^7/*' belonging  to  Patricksborue  Parish 
Church,  in  the  Diocese  of  Canterbury.     The  third,  or  biggest,  bell  when  cast 
anew  weighed  529  Q.     The  first,  or  least,  bell  when  new  cast  weighed  333  Q. 
"John  Mackallar,  Vicar  of  Patrixburne. 
"  Christophee  Sympson,  sen^  (a  mayson.)  oh.  warden." 


172       PATRICKSBOUllNE    CKUllCU,    AND   UIFllONS. 

a  inari<^okl  window  of  ciylit  lights  radiating  from  a  central  circle. 
There  are  two  small  unmoulded  Norman  windows*  in  the  north 
Avail  of  the  chancel ;  and  two  in  its  south  wall.  The  eastern  triplet 
was  walled  up  until  the  church  was  restored  iu  1849,  by  Mr. 
Marshall,  an  architect  in  Canterbury,  at  Lady  Conyngham's  ex- 
pense, when  these  three  W' iudows  were  filled  with  Flemish  painted 
glass,  of  some  antiquity.  It  had  been  collected  on  the  Continent 
with  much  care,  by  the  first  Marchioness  Conyngham.  Mr. 
Marshall's  restoration  of  the  chancel  w^as  well  spoken  of  by  Sir 
Gilbert  Scott,  when  he  came  in  1857  to  restore  the  whole  building. 

The  central  scene  in  the  eastern  windows,  representing  the 
Virgin  and  Child,  with  shepherds  adoring,  is  dated  1589.  Beneath 
it  is  a  representation  of  the  Crucifixion.  In  the  north  window,  of 
the  triplet,  the  subject  at  the  top  is  the  Transfiguration  of  our  Lord. 
Below  it  is  the  Crucifixion,  dated,  apparently,  1532,  with  two  figures, 
one  bearing  a  flagon,  the  other  a  chalice  (?).  Underneath  that  scene, 
Samson's  exploit  wnth  the  jawbone  of  an  ass  appears ;  upon  this 
subject  the  date  1538  is  placed. 

In  the  south  window  of  the  triplet,  the  subject  at  the  top  is 
dated  1602  ;  beneath  it,  appears  the  scene  of  our  Lord's  agony  in 
the  garden,  dated  1589.  Below  that,  David  is  seen,  rescuing  his 
sheep  from  a  lion. 

There  are  in  the  chancel  tw^o  aumbries  or  lockers,  and  a  remark- 
able piscina.  The  arch  above  the  piscina  is  surmounted  by  a 
mutilated  triangular  pediment  or  cauopy  of  the  thirteenth  ceutury. 

At  the  south-west  angle  of  the  chancel  there  is  a  "  squint,"  or 
hagioscope,  by  which  persons  sitting  in  the  south  aisle  could  see 
the  elevation  of  the  host  at  the  high  altar. 

The  floor  of  the  chancel  is  paved  with  red  and  yellow  tiles,  some 
of  which  bear  the  family  crest  of  Lord  Conyngham. 

Beneath  is  the  family  vault  of  the  Couynghams.  The  first  and 
second  Marquess  and  Marchioness  Conyngham  are  here  buried. 

The  tablets  commemorating  them  are  thus  inscribed  : — 

"  Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Henry  Marquess  Conyngham  Earl 


*  The  subjects  delineated  in  the  glass  of  the  easternmost  windows  (given 
by  the  Marchioness  Conyngham  in  1849)  are  : — 

In  the  north  wall  nearest  the  east  J  ^?^'!t  i  f  "*'^  into  Jerusalem, 
gj^^j  <  Christ  blessing  little  children. 

|_  Christ  raising  the  widow's  son. 

In  the  south  wall  nearest  the  east  J  J|^^J^S^?*"^t\?gyP*-  ,,      , 

^  ■^  ihe  baviour  m  the  lemple  at  twelve  years. 


L  The  raising  of  Jairus'  daughter. 


PATRTCKSBOTJRNE    CHTJRCn,    AND    BIFRONS.      173 

of  Moimtcharles  Viscount  Slaiae  and  Baron  Minster  of  Minster 
Abbey  in  this  county  K.P.  G-.C.H.  Born  December  xxvi 
MDCCLxvr.     Died  December  xxTiri  mdcccxxxii. 

"  Elizabeth  Marchioness  Conyngham  Wife  of  Henry  First  Mar- 
quess Conyugham.     Born  March   xxix  mdcclxx.     Died    October 

XI    MDCCCLXI. 

"  Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Francis  Nathaniel  2^'^  Marquis 
Conyugham,  Knight  of  S*  Patrick,  Knight  of  the  Guelphs  of  Han- 
over, Knight  of  the  Tower  &  Sword  of  Spain,  Privy  Councillor, 
Major  General  in  the  Army,  Formerly  M.P.  for  Donegal,  Under 
Secretary  for  Foreign  Aifairs,  1823-G,  Lord  of  the  Treasury 
1827-30,  Postmaster  Greneral  183^-5,  and  Lord  Chamberlain  to 
King  William  the  Fourth  and  Queen  Victoria  1835-9.  Born  June 
11«''  1799.     Died  July  17"'  1876. 

"  Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Jane  Marchioness  Conyngham,  wife 
of  IVancis  Nathaniel,  2"*^  Marquis  Conyngham,  2"'^  Daughter  of 
Henry  1^*  Marquis  of  Anglesey.  Born  Oct  13"'  1798.  Died  June 
28^^'  1876." 

Notices  of  other  tablets,  commemorating  members  of  this  family, 
will  be  found  on  a  subsequent  page. 

The  Bifrons  Chapel. 

In  the  south  cliapel  (now  fitted  up  as  the  Bifrous  pew),  the 
soutli  window  was  filled  witli  Flemish  glass  by  the  first  Marchioness 
Conyngham.  The  oldest  portion,  dated  1550,  represents  some 
personage  bearing  a  flag.  Another  scene,  the  descent  from  the 
cross,  bears  the  date  1589.  Four  other  subjects,  executed  in  a 
brownish  neutral  tint,  are  dated  1670. 

The  monuments  within  the  church  chiefly  commemorate  the 
owners  of  Bifrons,  a  mansion  which  was  first  built  by  John  Bar- 
grave,  eldest  brother  of  Isaac  Bargrave,  Dean  of  Canterbury.  Their 
family  had  been  settled  for  many  years  in  the  adjoining  parish  of 
Bridge,  whicli  is  appended  as  a  chapelry  to  that  of  Patricksbourne. 
The  Bridge  Eegister  spells  their  name  as  Bargar ;  and  so  does  the 
Register  of  the  Cathedral  in  1626  and  1628.  Thus  the  name  may 
be  derived  from  a  manor,  in  Bridge  parish,  called  Baracre,  Beracre 
or  Bargar.  The  Dean's  baptism  is  thus  recorded  in  the  Bridge 
Register :  "  1580,  Isacke  Bargar  was  baptized  the  12  daye  of  June 
anno  supra."  To  this  entry  a  note  has  been  subsequently  appended  : 
"Afterwards  Deane  of  Canterbury." 

The  Patricksbourne  Register  records  the  marriage  of  his  sister 


174       PATRICKSBOURNE    CnURCH,    AND   BIFRONS. 

to  the  Ecctor  o£  Betteshangcr,  who  afterwards  became  Dean 
of  Canterbury :  "  1G04,  4-  October,  M''  Jolm  lioyrs  dark  and 
M'^  Angcll  Bargar  virgine."  She  was  buried  in  tlic  Catlieilral, 
Nov.  13,  lG-15,  having  for  twenty  years  survived  her  husband  Dean 
Boys,  who  died  Sept.  30,  1G25.  She  had  the  comfort  of  remaining 
at  the  Deanery  during  most  of  her  widowhood,  her  brother  having 
succeeded  to  her  husband  as  Dean.  He,  however,  died  in  January 
1643,  two  years  before  his  sister.  In  the  previous  August,  Dean 
Bargrave  had  been  seized  by  the  Parliamentary  forces,  and  was  in 
prison  for  three  wrecks.  This  treatment  seems  to  have  affected  his 
health  so  much  that  he  died  within  six  months  after  it. 

An  epitaph  in  this  church  records  that  in  the  Civil  War  the 
Bargrave  family,  whose  ashes  are  scattered  over  the  whole  of  the 
little  south  chapel,  stood  and  fell  with  the  royal  cause  of  Charles  I. 
It  commemorates  John  Bargrave,  the  builder  of  Bifrons,  and  his 
Avife,  wdth  their  son  Robert  Bargrave  and  his  wife.  They  lie  buried 
beneath  a  stone  which  was  placed  in  the  floor  of  this  south  chapel, 
in  1663,  by  John  Bargrave,  son  and  heir  of  Eobert.*  This  young 
owner  of  Bifrons  (John  Bargrave)  had  been  compelled,  by  his 
circumstances,  to  sell  the  house  and  estate  to  Sir  Arthur  Slingsby 
in  the  previous  year,  1662.  The  inscription  on  the  stone  was  com- 
posed by  the  young  squire's  uncle,  the  Eev.  John  Bargrave,  son 
of  the  builder  of  Bifrons,  a  prebendary  of  Canterbury,  rector  of 
Harbledown  1660-70,  and  rector  of  Pluckley  1662-76. f  The  word- 
ing and  arrangement  of  the  ej)itaph  is  unique  and  very  quaint.  Irs 
author  died  in  1680. 

Against  the  south  wall  there  is  a  tablet  commemorating  John 


*  In  the  chancel  of  Bridge  Church  hangs  a  portrait  of  another  Robert 
Bargrave  who  died  in  16i9,  aged  65.  He  was  a  brother  of  the  Dean  of 
Canterbury. 

f  The  epitaph  alluded  to  is  as  follows  : — 

Per  totum  hoc  sacellum    j  ^^"erosa 

sparsa  est  1  Bargraviana 

^  (      terra 

Cuj  us  familiar  armiger  &  1 

Johannes  Bifi'ontis  Conditor         I  . 

Et  H^res  ejus  Robertus  sub  hoc  (  ^^^^^^ 

Marmore  una  cum  uxoribus  I 

Bello  civili  ex  p'tibus  regiis  |   . 

Stetit  et  cecidit  familia      )  ^men 
Lugens  Scripsit  filius ")  eccles  x"    ■ 

Et  Frater  Johan.     ]      Cant  Pr«b 
Johau  Hferes  a  ruinis  "^  An.  D.  M. 

In  ruinas  lapidem  posuit   3  DCLXIII. 
A  pedigree  of  the  family  is  printed  in  Archceologia  Cantiana,  IV.,  252. 


THE   TAYLOR   FAMILY,    OF   BIFRONS.  175 

Taylor,  Esq.,*  who  purchased  Bifrons  in  1694,  and  raised  a  beautiful 
garden  there.  Born  in  1655,  he  died  in  1729.  By  his  wife  Olive 
Tempest,  who  died  in  April,  1716,  in  her  60th  year,  and  was  buried 
here  before  him,  he  had  ten  children.  Of  them  four  sons  and  four 
daughters  alone  survived  their  father.  Mrs.  Taylor  was  a  daughter 
of  Sir  Nicholas  Tempest,  of  Durham  ;  and  upon  her  monument,  in 
this  church,  are  her  arms : — argent  a  bend  mhle  between  six 
martlets.  The  Taylor  family  bore,  gules  three  roses  argent ;  a  chief 
vaire.  In  the  year  1757  the  Rev.  Bryan  Faussett,  visiting  Patricks- 
bourne  Church,  noticed  in  the  south  window  of  the  Bifrons  Chapel 
these  two  coats  impaled.     That  coloured  glass  has  disappeared. 

Th.e  eldest  son  Dr.  Brooke  Taylor,  F.R.S.,  author  of  a  treatise  on 
Lineal  Perspective,  died  two  years  after  his  father,  and  was  buried 
in  London.  His  wife  Elizabeth  Sawbridge  of  Olantigh,  was 
buried  here  in  1729  ;  his  only  daughter  Elizabeth  became  the  wife 
of  Sir  William  Young,  Bart. 

Of  Mr.  John  Taylor's  daughters,  three  are  commemorated  here  ; 
Margaret,  who  died  in  1738 ;  Olive,  wife  of  the  vicar,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
John  Bowtell ;  and  Mary,  who  lived  to  the  age  of  91,  and  then  died 
unmarried  in  1771.  This  long-lived  lady  had  in  1753  the  right  of 
presentation  to  the  vicarage  of  Patricksbourne.  Her  brother' 
Herbert,  the  owner  of  Bifrons,  was  then  rector  of  Hunton,  and  of 
St.  Alphage,  Canterbury.  Him  she  presented  to  this  vicarage  also  ; 
and  thus  the  Rev.  Herbert  Taylor,  who  married  Mary  a  daughter 
of  Dr.  "Wake,  prebendary  of  Canterbury,  became  vicar  of  Patricks- 

*  The  tablet  to  John  Taylor  bears  the  following  inscription  : — 
In  this  vault  lies  John  Taylor 
■who  was  born  Dec.  7,  1665  and  died 
Ap.  4,  1729,  survived  by  8  of  his  children 

'/.  e.  4  sons  &  4  daughters. 

He  purchased  an  estate  in  this  Parish  8ep. 

29,  1694.     Afterwards  another  in  Bridge 

and  when  he  had  improved  them  and  raised 

a  beautiful  garden  to  Bifrons  he  settled 

the  whole  upon  his  family. 

He  gave  several  ornaments  of  value  to 

the  Church,  was  a  strict  ceconomist,  a  just 

Dealer,  &  a  friend  to  the  poor. 

His  eldest  son  Brook  LL.D.  &  F.R.S. 

dying  in  London  Nov.  29,  1731,  was  buried 

in  St.  Anne's  Churchyard  by  his  own  order. 

A  gentleman  of  Learning,  great  ingenuity, 

and  endowed  with  many  valuable  qualities 

both  natural  &  acquired,  which 

made  him  highly  esteemed  by  those  that  knew  him 

particularly  the  virtuosi 

and  his  death  much  lamented. 

He  left  no  issue  male. 


176       PATRICKSBOUKNE    CHURCH,    AND   BIFRONS. 

bounio  for  ten  years.  Dying  in  17G3,  aged  51,  he  left  iwo  sons. 
Herbert,  the  eldest,  presented  his  brother,  the  Eev.  Edward  Taylor, 
rector  of  lluckinge,  then  aged  29,  to  this  benefice.  The  new  squire, 
however,  did  not  enjoy  his  estate  for  more  than  four  years. 
Herbert  Taylor  died  in  17G7,  and  then  for  a  second  time  one  person 
became  both  squire  and  vicar.  Succeeding  to  the  Bifrona  estate  at 
the  age  of  33,  the  Rev.  Edward  Taylor  enjoyed  it  and  this  benefice 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  entirely  rebuilt  the  house  at 
Bifrons,  upon  a  new  site,  close  to  the  old  one.  His  building  is  the 
present  house,  but  its  exterior  has  been  cased,  and  it  has  been 
otherwise  altered. 

The  sons  left  by  this  vicar  and  squire  of  Patrick sbourne 
reflected  much  credit  and  lionour  upon  their  father's  training.  The 
eldest  son,  Edward  Taylor,  Esq.,  became  a  Member  of  Parliament. 
He  selected  the  Eev.  Wm.  Toke  to  succeed  his  father  in  the 
vicarage. 

The  Right  Honourable  Sir  Brook  Taylor,  K.G.H.,  another  son  of 
the  parson-squire,  became  well  known  as  Private  Secretary  of  Lord 
Grenville,  and  a  member  of  the  King's  Privy  Council.  He  died  in 
1846,  aged  69,  and  was  buried  here,  as  a  tablet  to  his  memory 
informs  us. 

Better  known  perhaps  than  either  the  Member  of  Parliament  or 
the  Privy  Councillor,  was  another  brother,  Lieut. -General  Sir  Her- 
bert Taylor.  Having  been  Private  Secretary  arid  Aide-de-Camp  to 
the  Duke  of  York,  he  became  Private  Secretary  to  King  George 
III.,  and  in  old  age  was  Master  of  St.  Katharine's  Hospital, 
Regent's  Park. 

Another  brother  is  commemorated  in  the  following  epitaph, 
here: — "Sacred  to  the  Memory  of  Captain  Bridges  Watkinson 
Taylor,  of  the  Royal  Navy  (fifth  son  of  the  Rev.  Edward  Taylor 
of  Bifrons),  born  Sept.  25"',  1777. 

"  He  served  with  distinguished  zeal  and  credit  from  the  early  age 
of  15  years  with  little  interval  till  the  period  of  his  death,  which 
was  caused  by  the  upsetting  of  his  boat  off  Brindisi  in  the  Adriatic, 
on  the  24th  February  1814,  whilst  he  was  in  the  command  of  his 
Majesty's  ship  Apollo,  and  forwarding  measures  for  a  projected 
attack  upon  the  island  of  Corfu,  then  in  the  possession  of  the 
French. 

"  He  was  not  less  conspicuous  for  the  active  and  gallant  manner 
in  which  he  discharged  his  duty  to  his  king  and  country,  than  for 
kindness  of  heart,  benevolence  of  disposition,  exemplary  and  un- 


VICARS   OF    PATRICKSBOURNE.  177 

affected  piety,  and  it  is  remarkable  that  his  meritorious  and  useful 
career  was  closed  by  a  fatal  accident  from  which,  under  Providence, 
he  had,  at  the  risk  of  his  own  life,  rescued  at  various  periods  of  his 
service  three  of  his  fellow-creatures. 

"  He  had  the  honour  of  sharing  in  the  glory  of  the  victories  of  the 
1st  June  1794,  and  of  the  Nile  on  the  1st  of  August  1798.  On 
the  18th  of  the  same  month,  when  Lieutenant  on  board  the  Leancler 
of  50  guns,  he  was  wounded  and  taken  prisoner  in  a  hard-contested 
action  between  that  ship  and  the  French  ship  Genevent  of  74  guns. 

"  In  proof  of  the  esteem  and  affection  borne  to  his  memory  by 
the  officers  of  the  Apollo,  they  have  erected  a  monument  to  him  in 
the  church  of  Portsmouth. 

"  This  tablet  is  placed  here  by  his  surviving  brothers  and  sisters 
in  testimony  of  their  attachment  to  a  most  affectionate  and  most 
beloved  brother." 

Monumental  inscriptions  here  likewise  commemorate  John 
Denne,  of  Patricksbourne  Court  Lodge,  who  died  in  1690,  aged  71, 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth,  who  died  in  1680,  aged  52  ;  also  Elizabeth, 
wife  of  their  son  Thomas  Denne,  of  Brabourne  Court  Lodge,  sole 
child  of  John  and  Ann  Alleyan  of  Stowting.  She  died  in  1701, 
aged  21.  Also  Daniel,  another  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Denne, 
who  died  Sept.  18"'  1702,  aged  39  years.  From  him  descended  the 
Dennes  of  Winchelsea  and  Lydd. 

The  Vicaes  of  Patricksbourne. 

On  the  13th  of  Kov.  1303,  Archbishop  "Winchelsea  admitted  to 
the  cure  of  the  parish  church  Adam  de  Eyton,  a  canon  of  Merton 
Priory  ;*  and  another  of  these  canons.  Brother  Peter  de  Fodryngehe, 
was  similarly  admitted  to  the  same  cure  in  October  1307.  The 
title  of  Vicar  is  first  used  in  the  record  of  the  admission  of  William 
de  Eyton,  by  Archbishop  Reynolds  (Eeg.  20''),  on  the  1st  of  June 
1317.  The  Registers  mention  no  other  vicar  until  the  end  of 
December  1349,  when  Archbishop  Islip  (Reg.  250*^)  instituted 
Simon  de  HitJie,  who  retained  this  benefice  for  nearly  twenty-three 
years,  and  then  by  exchange  took  the  adjoining  vicarage  of  Bekes- 
bourne.  His  successor,  William  Wijgge,  instituted  in  October 
1372,  was  followed  by  John  Scaldeicell,  who  in  Feb.  1379-80 
(Sudbury's  Reg.,  130'')  exchanged  with  the  rector  of  Baketon, 
Sussex,  John  Gohet. 

Eight  years  later  G-obet,  in  Feb.  1387-8,  exchanged  with  the 
*  Winchelsea's  Register,  293*. 
YOL.    XIV.  N 


178  PATRICKSBOURNE    CnURCH. 

chaplain  of  Eastbridge  Hospital,  liobcrt  atte  Churche  (Courtenay's 
Eeg.,  2G8'').  John  Touker  was  instituted  by  Archbishop  Arundel 
(Ecg.  i.  277"')  on  the  7th  of  July  1401  ;  and  the  «anie  Primate 
admitted  William  Lattyr  to  the  vicarage  on  the  3rd  of  December 
1409  (Reg.  ii.,  5G").  During  the  fifteenth  century  the  institutions 
of  several  vicars  seem  to  have  escaped  record.  One  William 
Kyndegett  was  succeeded  by  Robert  Mendon,  who  was  admitted  by 
Archbishop  Chichele  (Eeg.  211'')  on  the  16th  of  August  143(3. 
The  next  vicar  whose  name  has  come  down  to  us  is  Nicholas  Corall, 
who  resigned,  and  was  followed  by  Patrick  Gruys.  Archbishop 
Bonrgchier  admitted  him  on  the  20th  of  July  1455.  He  died  soon, 
and  was  succeeded  by  John  Clerk  on  the  19th  of  May  1459  (Eeg. 
76"). 

Within  a  year,  a  chaplain  named  William  Flete  followed  him 
(April  14,  1460),  being  presented  by  Archbishop  Bourgchier, 
through  lapse  of  the  patronage  to  him  (77^').  Flete  resigned  during 
the  same  year,  and  Laurence  Yerdherst,  who  was  instituted  on  the 
30th  of  November  1460  (79''),  held  the  benefice  for  nearly  six 
years.  For  what  reason  we  cannot  ascertain,  but  the  fact  is 
recorded  that  Yerdherst  was  deprived  ;  and  in  his  place  John 
Loughton  was  instituted  July  28,  1466  (93'').  Death  carried  off 
the  new  vicar  within  eight  months,  so  that  Wm.  Preston  suc- 
ceeded him  on  the  26th  of  March  1467  (96").  Preston  resigned, 
and  then  Walter  Walsh  was  admitted  to  the  benefice  on  the 
23rd  of  Nov.  1470  (103").  He  died  within  six  months,  and  into  his 
place  came  William  Dardes  on  the  14th  of  July  1471  (104"). 
Dardes  held  the  vicarage  for  nearly  nine  years.  Upon  his  death 
Walter  Bristoio  was  instituted  on  the  29th  of  May  1480  (125). 

Cardinal  Morton  instituted  Malcolm  Ramsey,  M.A.,  on  the  7th 
of  August  1494,  but  others  must  have  held  the  benefice  during 
that  century,  whose  names  are  not  recorded.  Very  few  incumbents 
retain  a  living  for  so  long  a  period  as  Eamsey  did.  He  died  in 
1538,  having  been  vicar  of  Patricksbourne  for  forty- four  years,  and 
was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  Bridge  Church.  A  memorial  of  him 
is  carved  in  relief  on  the  south  wall  of  that  chancel. 

All  these  vicars  (save  one)  had  been  presented  to  the  benefice 
by  the  Prior  and  Convent  of  Merton  in  Surrey,  but,  during 
Eamsey's  long  incumbency,  the  Priory  sold  or  otherwise  alienated 
the  next  presentation  to'  one  John  Bowie.  Accordingly,  on  the 
death  of  Eamsey,  Mr.  Bowie  presented  to  this  vicarage  a  chaplain 
named  John  Grene,  who  was  instituted  by  Archbishop  Cranmer 


VICARS   OF   PATRICKSBOIJRNE.  179 

(3G5«)  on  the  5tli  of  July  1538,  after  tlie  Priory  of  Merton  had 
been  dissolved. 

The  new  vicar  Grene  died  after  he  had  enjoyed  his  preferment 
little  more  than  three  years.  Then  Sir  Thomas  Cheney,  who  had 
obtained  those  lands  which  Merton  Priory  held  here,  adjacent  to 
his  own,  exercised  the  right  of  patronage  and  presented  Johi  Shaive, 
who  was  instituted  on  the  24th  of  March  1541-2  by  Archbishop 
Cranmer  (380«).  On  the  death  of  Shawe  in  1546,  Sir  Thos. 
Cheney,  K.G-.,  presented  Won.  JVbhs  or  Noivell,  who  was  instituted 
on  the  1st  of  May  (Cranmer'sReg.,400*).  At  that  period  a  fatality 
seemed  to  attach  to  the  place.  Nowell  died  within  five  years,  and 
his  successor  John  Fysslier  was  admitted  to  the  benefice  on  the  6th 
of  January  1550-1  (Cranmer's  Reg.,  413'').  On  the  death  of  Richard 
Fountayne,  a  new  patron,  named  William  Partheryche,  presented 
Bohert  Ecnoson  to  the  vicarage,  in  December  1589  ;  and  afterwards 
John  White,  also,  in  May  1594.  Edward  Partridge  was  the  patron 
in  1640. 

After  James  Colehy  (1644)  ;  James  Shipton  (1659)  ;  and  John 
Fige,  who  was  presented  by  Arnold  Braems  in  Peb.  166f ,  and  died 
in  1667,  we  find  John  MacTcallar  holding  the  vicarage  for  thirty-one 
years,  from  Nov.  7,  1667,  to  Jan.  27, 1698-99,  when  lie  died.  Among 
the  Archiepiscopal  archives  at  Lambeth  there  is  a  petition  from 
thirty-three  parishioners  of  Patricksbourne,  including  the  two 
churchwardens,  John  Andrews  and  John  Dutton,  in  May  1695, 
against  Mr.  Mackallar's  oppression,  vexations,  misdemeanours,  and 
miscarriages.  In  the  forefront  stand  disputes  about  tithes  left  long 
unsettled,  and  then  overcharged.  The  vicar's  absence,  for  some 
weeks  from  Patricksbourne,  and  for  eight  weeks  from  Bridge 
(January  to  March  1694-5),  is  likewise  mentioned.  The  petitioners 
allege  that  he  sometimes  sat  while  reading  prayers  and  preaching. 
They  say  that  he  detained  the  offertory  amounting  to  about  £l  per 
annum,  pretending  that  he  himself  was  "  the  poor."  Also  that  he 
neglected  to  pay  his  proportion  of  the  poor  rates  and  the  King's 
taxes.  The  tenour  of  the  petition  evinces  much  petty  irritation  about 
trivial  matters,  but  we  can  readily  account  for  it  when  we  remember 
that  Mr.  Mackallar  had  then  been  vicar  for  twenty-eight  years,  and 
was  evidently  getting  old  and  infirm.  He  lived  four  years  longer. 
In  his  earlier  years  he  had  been  active  and  useful,  as  many  entries 
in  the  Registers  testify.  His  successor  Dr.  John  Botvtell,  who  was 
presented  to  the  living  by  Margaret,  widow  of  Walter  Braems, 
held  this  benefice  for  the   long  period  of   fifty-five   years  ;   from 

N  2 


180       PATEICKSEOTJUNE   CHTTRCH,   AND   BIFEONS. 

February  169f  to  January  1753.  He  was  likewise  rector  of  Staple- 
hurst,  His  wife  Olive,  daughter  of  John  'I'aylor,  E8(|.,  restw  beside 
him,  here,  beneath  a  tomb  in  Patricksbouruc  churchyard.  Duriug 
one  entire  century  there  were  but  three  incumbents  of  Patricks- 
bourne.  After  Dr.  Bowtell's  death,  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Herbert 
Taylor  held  the  benefice  for  ten  years  ;  and  that  gentleman's  son, 
Edward  Taylor,  occupied  it  for  thirty-five  years.  Thus,  three  vicars, 
alone,  enjoyed  this  living  during  the  very  long  period  of  one  hundred 
years.  The  Rev.  William  Toke  was  instituted  in  May  1799,  He 
was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Win.  Payler,  who  held  the  benefice  until 
1813 ;  and  after  him  it  was  occupied  by  the  Kev,  Charles  Hughes- 
Sallett  1813-46 ;  and  the  Rev.  John  Stevenson,  D.B.,  1846-74 ; 
whose  successor,  the  Rev.  Francis  Thomas  Vine,  is  the  present 
Vicar. 

During  the  incumbency  of  Mr.  Mackallar,  some  curious  entries 
were  made  in  the  Registers  ;  they  have  been  kindly  copied,  for  me, 
by  Mr.  Vine,  who  has  likewise  sent  to  me  the  following  notes  of 
monumental  tablets  omitted  above  : — 

On  a  tablet  in  tTie  Bifrons  Chapel. 

In  memoiy  of  Lord  Francis  Nathaniel  Conyngham,  R.N.,  M.P.  for  the 
County  Clare,  who  died  in  Scotland  September  llth,  1881,  aged  48  years.  He 
served  in  the  Royal  Navy  in  the  Baltic  and  Black  Seas,  and  at  the  bombardment 
of  Bomarsund  and  Sebastojaol,  and  received  two  medals  and  the  order  of  the 
Medjidic.  Erected  by  his  brother  the  Marquis  Conyngham.  "  Him  that  cometh 
to  me  I  will  in  no  wise  cast  out,"  John  vi.  37. 

There  is  also  a  tablet  to  the  memory  of  two  sisters  of  Francis  Nathaniel 
2nd  Marquis  Conyngham  ;  namely,  Elizabeth  Henrietta,  married  to  the  Earl 
of  Aboyne,  died  August  24,  1 8.39  ;  and  Harriet  Maria,  married  to  Sir  William 
Somervile,  Bart.,  died  Dec.  3,  1843. 

There  are  also  tablets  erected  to  the  memory  of  the  Eev.  Charles  Hughes- 
Hallett  of  Higham,  formerly  vicar  of  the  parish  ;  also  that  of  his  wife  and 
other  members  of  his  family. 

FROM  THE  REGISTERS. 

A  stranger,  being  an  antient  man,  a  supposed  Papist  by  his  Rosary.  Beads 
and  Crucifix,  who  died  at  Higham  Farm,  was  buried  in  woollen  only.  As  the 
affidavit  doth  appear  on  the  .5  November  a.d.  1678. 

A  memorandum  that  John  Mackallar,  vicar  and  minister  of  Patricksbourne. 
did  cause  some  ash  trees  to  be  planted  in  the  churchyard  of  Patricksbourne  on 
Dec.  19,  1668.  At  the  same  time,  or  two  or  three  days  before  that,  was  two 
very  old  rotten  ash  trees  taken  down. 

A  Memorial,  viz.  : — 

That  John  Mackallar,  Vicar  of  Bridge,  Kent,  notified  on  November  the 
30tb  ^j^o  iggi  ^Q  Richard  Poore,  ch  :  warden  of  the  same,  that  no  affidavit  was 
brought  (within  the  time  limited)  that  the  body  of  Sir  Arnold  Brcems.  Kt., 
interred  November  the  2P'  inst.,  in  the  east  chancel  of  the  Church  of  Bridge,' 
was  wrapped  in  woollen  only  according  to  the  statute  made  and  provided. 

An  account  how  the  fifty  shillings  (being  the   one  moiety  of  the  forfeiture 


PATRICKSBOURNE    ilEGISTEKS   AND    BRIEFS.      181 

for  burying  Sir  Arnold  Broems  iu  linnen)  was  distributed  to  the  poor  of  the 
chapelry  of  Bridge. 

[Here  follow  the  names  of  recipients.] 
The  other  moiety  of  the  forfeiture  being  due   to  the  minister  (as  the  most 
proper  informer)  was  remitted  by  me,  Jo  :  Mackallar. 

Richard  Pooke  and  John  Eldrid,  ch  :  wardens. 

A  similar  memorial  was  made  in  1685  respecting  the  burial  of  Richard 
Spaine,  of  Canterbury. 

In  perpetuam  rei  Memoriam. 
Anno  Domini  1681. 
Sir  Arnold  Broems,  Kt.  (born  in  Dover  and  baptized,  as  in  the  register  of  St. 
Mary's  in  that  town  doth  appear,  October  the  3rd  An.  Dom.  1602),  departed 
this  life  in  his  mansion  house,  called  Blackmansbury  alias  Bridge  Place,  on 
Sunday  morning,  ten  o'clock,  November  the  13th,  Anno  Domini  1681,  in  the 
80th  year  of  his  age,  and  was  buried  on  the  one  and  twentieth  of  the  same 
month  in  the  east  chancel  of  the  chapel  of  Bridge,  close  to  the  tomb  which  he 
iu  his  life  erected  there  in  memory  of  his  two  deceased  ladies. 

In  the  Bridge  Register  occurs  this  entry  :— 

John  Levingston,  a  private  soldier  in  Major  General  Jeffery's  Regiment  of 
Foot  (No.  14),  who  was  accidentally  killed  \>j  a  bread  or  forage  waggon,  be- 
longing to  the  camp  at  Barbara  Down,  going  over  his  body,  whereby  he  was 
crushed  to  death,  was  buried  Aug.  17,  1760. 

BRIEFS. 

From  the  end  of  Patriclishourne  General  Register  Booh. 

(Communicated  to  me  by  the  Rev.  F.  T.  Vine.) 

An  account  of  the  almes  and  charitable  benevolence  of  the  householders, 
servants,  strangers,  and  others  inhabiting  in  the  parrish  or  mother  church  of 
Patricksbourne,  in  the  deanery  of  Bridge,  and  diocese  of  Canterbury,  collected 
at  several  times  in  March,  April,  May,  An°  1671,  towards  the  raising  of 
£30,000  (as  it  was  represented  to  a  Committee  of  his  Majesty's  Privy  Council) 
for  the  redemption  of  a  very  great  number  of  their  fellow  Christians  and 
countrymen  fi'om  that  miserable  Turkish  and  inhuman  slavery  and  bondage 
they  now  groan  under. 

Collected £2     7s. 

An  account  of  the  names  of  the  persons  inhabiting  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Mary,  Patrixbourne,  in  the  deanery  of  Bridge  and  diocese  of  Canterbury,  as  also 
of  the  sums  of  money  which  they  have  subscribed  and  contributed  (in  Decem- 
ber An"  Dom.  1678)  towards  the  rebuilding  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  St. 
Paul,  in  London. 

Collected  £1     10s. 

s.  d. 

1670.  For  loss  by  fire  (£400)  of  Cliff  in  Kent 1  6 

ditto             (£950)  Laysdowne  in  Kent  5  0 

ditto             (£2600)  at  Thetford  in  Norfolk 1  4 

ditto             (£500)  at  Paddington,  Middlesex 10 

ditto             (£400)  at  Gt.  Chart  in  Kent 2  2\ 

1671.  For  loss  by  fii-e  (£6770)  at  Isleham  in  Cambridgesh 2  2 

ditto             (£774  14s.)  at  Ripley  in  Sm-rey    9 

For  the  redemption  of  William  Masey  and  John  Jessup  from 

slavery  in  Sally,  collected  1  2 

1672.  For  loss  by  fire  (£2946)  at  Luton  in  Bedfordshire,  collected 2  0 

1673.  For  loss  by  fire  (£695  7s.  3d.)  Stoake  next  Guildford,  Surry  1  0 

ditto             (£659)  at  Ham  in  Surry 10 

ditto            (£425)  at  Westbeer  in  Kent  (Parsonage  House)  1  0 


182  PATRICKSBOURNE    BRIEFS. 

s.     d. 

107,].    For  loss  by  fire(£ll,488  2s.  Od.)  at  Russell  St.,  Covent  Garden  3    IJ 

1G74.     For  loss  by  fire  (£108(0  at  Ilcston  in  Middlesex  1     4| 

ditto  (£1481)  at  St.  Miugarct's  at  Cliffe,  collected 1     7 

ditto  (£1159  us.)  at  Littleton  in  Middlesex,  collected...  4 

ditto  (£70,(»00)   by    Matbew    Sbeppavd,    John    Tunn, 

Geneu,  Edward  I'robea,  refiners  of  sugar  and 

bakers  of  the  City  of  London,  collected  1     6J 

ditto  (.£309  Os.  2d.)  at  Nettlestead,  Kent 11 

For  loss  (£3920  14s.)  by  fireing  the  parish  church  of  Bcnnenden, 
with  several  houses  adjacent,  in  the  county  of 

Kent  by  lightning    2     2 

ditto  (£13,033  9s.  9(1.)  at  Fordiugbridge,  Southampton  4     4 

ditto  (£775G)  at  Neither  Wallopp,  Southampton    .5     6 

ditto  (£25,355  OS.)  St.  Katherine  nigh  ye  Tower  London  2     8 

1675.     For  loss  by  fire  (£165)  at  Otford  in  Kent 1  10 

ditto  (£1948)  at  Eedborne  in  Hertford 3     0 

For  repair  of  Oswestree  In  Salop 1     6 

ditto        Wolverhampton  and  Milldenhall 8  10 

An  accompt  of  the  almes  and  charitable  benevolence  of  ye  householders, 
servants,  and  strangers,  &c.,  inhabiting  in  the  parish  of  St.  Mary  Patrixbourne, 
in  ye  deanry  of  Bridge,  and  diocess  of  Canterbury,  collected  from  house  to 
house  (according  to  his  Majesties  Letters  Patent)  by  the  minister  and  church- 
wardens at  several  times  in  ye  months  of  September  and  October,  a.d.  1G80, 
towards  the  redemption  of  their  fellow  Christians  and  countrymen  from  that 
miserable  Turkish  cruel  and  inhuman  slavery  and  bondage  they  now  groan 
under. 

Collected £2  10s. 

An  accompt  of  ye  chaiitable  contribution  of  the  inhabitants  of  Patrikes- 
bourne,  in  Kent  (upon  his  Majesty's  Letters  Patent)  for  and  towards  the  repair 
of  ye  great  parish  church  of  St.  Alban's,  in  the  county  of  Hertford. 

Feb.  24,  1682,  collected   18s.  5d. 

Three  separate  entries,  dated  respectively  Feb.  24,  1682.  Aug.  5.  1686,  and 
Nov.  5,  1688,  record  the  collection  of  moneys  towards  the  relief  of  the  poor  per- 
secuted Protestants  of  France  (according  to  his  Majesties  Letters  Patent)  there 
collected  from  house  to  house,  altogether  a  total  of  £7  8s.  9|d. 

A  collection  of  £3  15s.  8d.  for  and  towards  the  relief  of  the  poor  Irish 
Protestants. 

1694.     For  loss  by  fire  (£1799)  at  Churchill  in  Oxon. 

ditto  (£1650)  at  EUesworth,  Cambridgesh. 

ditto  (£5470)  at  Chagford  in  Devonshire. 

ditto  (£3600)  at  Ludbury  in  Hereford. 

ditto  (£6000)  at  Bruridg,  Widdington  and  Chibborn,  North- 

umberland. 

ditto  (£5240)  at  Havant,  Southampton. 

ditto  (£900)  at  Dennis  Gunton  in  Norfolk. 

ditto  (£2950)  at  Wooler  in  Northumberland, 

ditto  (£2450)  at  Lambeth,  near  the  saw  mill. 

ditto  (£19,000)  at  the  city  of  York. 

ditto  (£4390)  at  Chester,  a  church. 

ditto  (£4590)  at  Netherhavon  and  Fiddleton. 

ditto  (£1500)  at  Yalding  in  Kent. 

Collected  in  May  1695  for  the  borough  of  Warwick,  in  the  county  of  War- 
wick, a  loss  by  fire  in  the  said  towne  of  Warwick  amounting  to  £90.600  and 
upwards,  besides  goods  of  trade  and  household  goods  not  included  in  the  said 
sum,  which  said  fire  was  on  Wednesday  the  5th  day  of  September  last  past  (or 

Collected   £1  is.  5d. 


PATRICKSBOURNE    BRIEFS.  183 

1697.     For  loss  by  fire  (£400)  at  Twyford  in  Southampton, 
ditto  (£15(50)  als  Brou.^hlon  in  Hampshire, 

ditto  (£31)00)  at  Gillingham  in  Dorsetshire, 

ditto  (£4990)  at  St.  Olave.  Southwark. 

ditto  (£21 70)  at  Wisbeach,  Ely. 

From  the  last  leaves  of  Bridge  Eegister. 
1678.  An  account  of  a  collection  towards  the  relief  of  poor  sufferers  in  the 
parishes  of  St.  Saviour's  and  St.  Thomas,  in  the  borough  of  Southwark,  in 
which  parishes  were  consumed  by  fire  on  the  2fith  of  May  1676,  the  houses  and 
habitations  of  above  500  families,  together  with  great  breaches  and  damages 
to  the  church  of  St.  Saviour's,  with  the  loss  of  the  free  school  and  school  house. 
The  total  amounted  to  £84,375  13s. 

Collected 12s.  8d. 

s.  d. 

1664.     Great  Grimsby,  Line,  for  a  harbour 0  7 

of  West  Kirby  in        Worcester 1  0 

Barham,  Kent 1  0 

?1694.     Chigford    2  0 

1663.  Cromer  Church,  Norfolk 2  2 

1664.  Laurence  Holden,  of  Clacton,  Essex 1  7 

1666.     Est  Hendred  0  5 

1664.     [John]  Rodolph  Zeller  and  Isaac   [Aime]  delegates  of  the  Re- 
formed Church  of  Strasburg  in  Alsatia 2  0 

1669.     For  loss  by  fire  at  Bradraoor  in  Devon. 

Memorandum  that  2s.  6d.  which  was  collected  in  Bridge  Church  for 
Michael  Fowler,  of  Great  Chart,  in  Kent,  his  loss  of  £400  by  fire  was  paid  by 
E/ichard  Castle,  churchwarden,  ignorantly  to  two  men,  who  collected  it 
fraudulently. 

1676.  Towards  the  loss  of  £2000  by  the  fall  of  Newent  church  Gloucester. 
For  loss  by  fire  (£1567  5s.  9d.)  at  Topsham  in  Devon. 

ditto  (£7450)  at  Watton  in  Norfolk. 

1677.  For  loss  by  fire  (£152,008  4s.  6d.)  at  Northampton. 

ditto  (£13,342  5s.)  at  Cottenham  in  Cambridge. 

1678.  For  loss  by  fire  at  Blandford-forum  in  Dorset. 

ditto  (£822)  at  Rickmansworth  in  Hertford. 

ditto  (£23,677)  at  Wem  in  Salop. 

ditto  (£1046)  at  Harlington  in  Middlesex. 

1679.  For  loss  by  fire  (£2000)  at  Bermondsey  in  Surrey. 

ditto  (£1292)  at  Lugarshall,  alias  Lurgishall,  in  Wilts. 

1680.  For  loss  by  fire  (£469  7s.)  at  Ampthill  in  Bedfordshke. 
1678.     For  rebuilding  St.  Paul's  Cathedral  in  London. 

1680.  For  redemption  of  Christians  fi-om  Turkish  slavery. 

1681.  For  loss  by  fire  (£660)  at  Horsham,  St.  Faith's,  in  Norfolk. 

ditto  (£2251  19s.  6d.)  at  East  Budley  in  Devon, 

ditto  (£770  4s.  4d.)  at  East  Peckham  in  Kent. 

1682.  For  loss  by  fire  (£19,443)  at  East  Dearsham  in  Norfolk. 

ditto  (£1865  19s.)  at  Dugford  in  Cambridgeshire. 

ditto  (£2176  16s.)  at  Bishton  in  Stafford. 

For  repair  of  parish  church  of  St.  Alban's. 
For  persecuted  Protestants  of  France. 

1683.  For  loss  by  fire  (£6786)  at  Caistor  in  Lincoln. 

ditto  (£2600)  at  Diershall,  London. 

ditto  (£5135)  at  Windsor  in  Bucks. 

ditto  (£6150)  at  Presteigne  in  Radnor. 

ditto  (£1276)  at  Preston  Caudover  in  Southampton. 

ditto  (£1149)  at  Hansworth  in  Yorkshire. 

ditto  (£9263)  at  Collumpton  in  Devon. 

ditto  (£1330)  at  Ensham  in  Oxford. 

ditto  (£4799)  at  St.  Katherine's,  London. 

ditto  (£1100)  at  Stoke  by  Clare  in  Suffolk. 


184  PATllICKSBOUllNE    BRIEFS. 

For  loss  by  inundation  (£718)  at  Braintford,  Middlesex. 

1684.  For  loss  by  fire  (£r>C>,MG)  at  Wapping  in  Middlesex. 

ditto  (£7222)  at  Chanel  Row. 

ditto  (£*.•(;;{)  at  Hassingborn,  Cambridgeshire. 

By  inundation  (£1200)  at  lluuswick  in  Yorkshire. 

1685.  For  loss  by  iire  (£2390)  at  Cawston  in  Norfolk. 

ditto  (^240."))  at  Alrewas  in  Stafford, 

ditto  (£144y)  at  Bajsden  in  Oxford, 

ditto  (£1780)  at  Ely,  St.  Mary's, 

ditto  (£1529)  at  Shaxby  in  York. 

1686.  For  loss  by  fire  (£1.3,864)  at  Bc.nminster  in  Dorset. 

ditto  (£2010)  at  Stavertou  in  Northampton. 

ditto  (£249.5)  .at  M.arket  Deeping  in  Lincolnshire. 

ditto  (£2023)  at  Sirkling-hall  in  York. 

ditto  (£16,300)  at  Kirksauton  in  Cumberland. 

ditto  (£1332)  at  Allfriston  in  Sussex. 

ditto  (£16,053)  at  Bullford  in  Wilts. 

Collection  for  relief  of  the  French  Protestants. 
For  loss  by  fire  (£8939)  at  Whitechappel  and  Stepney  near  ye  Hermitage. 

ditto  (£016)  at  Merriton  in  Salop. 

1687.  Loss  (£1118)  by  f.all  of  the  steeple  of  Eynsbury  in  Hunt. 
Loss  by  inundation  (£16,300)  at  Kirksauton  in  Cumberland. 
Loss  by  fire  (£1118)  at  Stanton  in  Suffolk. 

1688.  Collection  for  the  relief  of  persecuted  French  Protestants. 

1689.  Collection  for  the  relief  of  poor  Irish  Protestants. 

1691.  For  loss  by  fire  (£29,898)  at  Bungay  in  Suffolk. 

ditto  (£11,072)  at  St.  Ives,  Huntington. 

ditto  (£24,000)  at  New  Alresford  in  Hampshire. 

1692.  For  loss  by  fire  at  East  Smithfield  in  Middlesex. 

ditto  at  Southwark. 

ditto  at  Stafford. 

ditto  at  Bishops  Lavingtou  in  Wilts. 

1692.     For  loss  by  fire  at  Morpeth  in  Northumberland. 

ditto  at  Thirsk  in  ye  North  Hiding  of  I'ork. 

ditto  at  Tunbridge  Wells. 

ditto  at  Hedou  in  Yorkshire. 

Collection  in  the  month  of  May  169.5,  for  ye  borough  of  Warwick  in  the 
county  of  Warwick,  a  loss  by  fire,  in  ye  said  towue  of  Warwick,  amounting 
unto  £90,600  and  upwards,  besides  goods  of  trade  and  household  goods  not 
included  in  the  said  sums,  which  said  fire  was  on  the  Wednesday  ye  fifth  day 
of  September  last  year  (in  1694). 

Collected 6s.  lOd. 

1696.     For  loss  by  fire  at  the  hospital  of  Trinity  House  in  Kingston  upon  Hull. 


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MUNICIPAL  AECHIVES  OE  TAVERSHAM, 
A.D.  1304-24. 

BY    FRANCIS   F.    GIRAUD    (TOWN    CLERK). 

Six  documents  are  printed  in  tlie  following  pages.  They 
are : — 

No.  1.  "Compotus''  from  30  Nov.  1304  to  1  Aug.  1305 
(33  and  34  Ed.  1).  Since  the  publication  of  a  portion  of 
these  Accounts  in  the  Tenth  Volume  of  Arcliceologia  Cantimia, 
a  more  complete  statement  of  them  has  been  found  amongst 
the  Eecords  of  the  Town  of  Faversham,  embodying  the  items 
set  forth  in  Vol.  X.,  pp.  222  to  227,  and  containing  others 
also. 

No.  2.  Arrears  of  Tallage,  20  Nov.  1321  (15  Ed.  II).  This 
list  contains  the  names  of  seventy-three  persons,  twenty- 
four  of  whom  appear  to  derive  their  names  from  places  of 
which  some  may  be  still  identified  in  the  immediate  neigh- 
bourhood of  the  town. 

No.  3.  "  ComjJotus"  of  Tallage  made  in  July  1322  (16 
Ed.  II).  This  Tallage  was  applied  to  the  service  of 
shipping,  due  from  Faversham  as  -being  within  the  liberties 
of  the  Cinque  Ports ;  to  gifts  to  the  Lord  Warden  on  his 
visiting  the  town  ;  and  to  the  cost  of  litigation. 

No.  4.  Arrears  of  the  last-mentioned  Tallage.  This  also 
contains  seventy-three  names,  but  some  few  are  illegible. 

No.  5.  Arrears  of  Fine  m,ade  in  April  1323  (16  Ed.  II). 
This  list  has  twenty-four  names,  and  a  sum  (illegible) 
assessed  on  the  King's  Mill  belonging  to  the  Manor  of 
Faversham. 

No.  6.  Arrears  of  Tallage  made  August  1324  (18  Ed. 
II).      This    contains     103    names.      It   will    be    observed 


186       ARCHIVES   OF    FAVERSHAM,    A.D.    1304-24. 

that  the  Abbot  and  the  Almoner  of  Faversham  are  jointly 
charged. 

The  Accounts  in  No.  1  {Comi^otus,  1304-5)  are  fairly- 
copied  on  three  annexed  slips  of  parchment,  and  seem  to 
have  been  written  shortly  after  those  already  published.  A 
copy  of  them  is  now  given,  omitting  the  items  between 
1  Dec.  1304  and  22  July  1305  already  printed,  except 
a  few  which  in  the  later  copy  have  been  made  more  in- 
telligible. 

A  writ  of  capias  was  issued  against  Thomas  Everard^^ 
(the  Mayor),  Eobert  Dod,i3  Mcolas  de  Brenle,i2  John  de  Wen, 
Walter  Bealde,^**  Simon  Baldok,^^  Nicolas  Yue,  Wolmer  le 
Bealde,^^  John  de  Wingham,  Walter  de  Upmanton,^°  Stephen 
ate  Melle,si  Walter  le  Marischal,^  Stephen  Glanvyle,^^  Thomas 
de  Upmanton^*^  (son  of  Walter),  William  Blakeman,  Thomas 
de  Copeton,*^  Walter  Ostreman,^^  John  Homan,  Adam  Ship- 
man,25  Hamo  Dagh,^^  and  Alfred  Dagh^^  to  appear  on  the 
morrow  of  S.  John  the  Baptist,  and  answer  Philip  de  Jute- 
bergh  on  a  plea  of  trespass.  Some  of  the  expenses  in  con- 
nection with  this  Action  are  set  forth  in  the  items  contained 
in  Vol.  X.,  p.  226,  and  are  not  now  reprinted. 

A  writ  of  distringas  and  capias,  dated  2  June  33  Ed.  I, 
and  attested  by  R.  de  Brabazoun^^  at  Westminster,  was  issued 
in  the  same  suit,  against  some  of  the  same  persons,  together 
with  Henry  Andreu,^^  Thomas  Oystreman,^^  and  John  son 
of  Walter  de  Upmantone.^*'  An  action  was  also  proceeding 
against  the  men  of  Faversham,  at  the  suit  of  the  Abbot  of 
the  Monastery  of  S.  Saviour,  Lords  of  the  Manor  of  Faver- 
sham, on  account  of  refusal  to  observe  manorial  customs  and 
services.  The  defendants  were  required  to  appear  and  shew 
cause  at  Westminster  by  two  of  their  number.  The  Barons 
of  the  Cinque  Ports  thereupon  petitioned  the  King,  and 
pleaded  their  Charters,  which  exempted  them  from  pleading 
elsewhere  than  at  Shepwey.  The  Abbot  afterwards  issued  a 
writ  against  Thomas  de  Basinge,!^  Thomas  de  Everinge,65 
Eoger  Orre,i  Henry  Blobbere,27  Wolmer  Bealde,i8  Alfred 
Dagh,38  John  de  Selling,  Stephen  de  Molesse,^^  and  Simon 
Baldok^i  for  removing  chattels  which  he  had  distrained. 
At  length  the  disputes  appear  to  have  been  terminated  by  a 


ARCHIVES  OP  FAVERSHAM,  A.D.  1304-24.   187 

release,  dated  13  Dec.  1310,  of  certain  manorial  customs  in 
consideration  of  £10  annual  rent  payable  to  the  Abbot  and 

convent  haK-yearJy. 

Francis  F.  Gikaud. 

No.  1. 

Compoius  Rogeri  Orre,^  Maioris  de  Faversham,  a  festo  Sti.  An- 
dree  Apostoli  anuo  regui  regis  Edwardi  xxxiij  usque  ad  festum  ad 
viucula  Sti.  Petri  proximum  sequeus. 

Idem  respondet  de  xlj  s.  x  d.  oh.  receptis  aWaltei'oMariscliaP  de 
arreragio  compoti  tempore  maioratus  sui.  Et  de  x  s.  ix  f/.  receptis 
de  arreragio  quos  predictus  Walterus-  dicto  Rogero^  libera vit  ut  patet 
per  eedulam  appeudeutem. 

Item  respondet  de  Ixxiiij  //.  xvj  s.  ix  d.  oh.  de  tallagio  facto  die 
Jovis  proxima  post  fegtum  beati  Thome  martiris  anno  supradicto. 

Summa  Ixxvij  li.  ixs.  v  d. 

lude  Expensse. 

In  j  equo  locato  ad  opus  Eogeri  Orre^  versus  Cantuariam  in 
festo  Apostolorum  Simonis  et  Jude  ad  loqueudum  cum  Roberto  de 
Stureye^  iiij  d.  Item  in  j  equo  locato  ad  opus  ejusdem  Rogeri  versus 
Cautuariam  in  die  beate  Kateriue  ad  loquendum  cum  Constabu- 
lai'io*  una  cum  ballivo^  m]d.  et  in  expeusis  eiusdem  Rogeri  ibidem 
tunc  ij  d. 

Item  dedit  cuidam  Nuncio  de  Scacarii^  in  festo  sancte  Lucie 
virginis  iij  d.  Item  in  expeusis  circa  recordum  faciendum  inter 
Adam  Shipman"^  et  Rogerum  ate  Doune^  in  percameno  vino  et  aliis 
iiijf^.  {Here  follow  items  printed  in^  Archceologia  Oantiana^  Vol.  X., 
pp.  222,  223.) 

Item  in  expeusis  Ballivi  et  Maioris  apud  Nyeweton  propter 
returuum  brevium  Vicecomitis  Kancie^  die  martis  proxima  ante 
festum  Sti.  Vincentii  martiris  viij  d.  {Otlier  items  printed  in  Vol.  X., 
p,  2jTd,  follow  here.) 

Item  in  vj  millibus  allecum  emptis  xsiij  s. ;  et  pro  portagio 
earum  j  d.  oh. ;  de  quibus  millibus  iij  millia  missa  f  uerunt  Constabu- 
lario  apud  London'  in  navicula  Johannis  Note^"^  et  mille  dabatur 
W.  Bernefeld^  et  mille  Willelmo  de  Hokimere.* 

Item  allocates  G-ilberto  le  Nortlieren^^  de  tallagio  per  assentum 
xij  Juratorum  xij  d.* 

Item  in  expeusis  clerici  magistri  Jolianuis  de  Cbarn^^  Yd.  oh.* 

Item  solutam  Johanui  de  Tilton  sei'vienti  pro  stipendio  suo  j 
mar  cam.* 

Item  in  expensis  maioris  apud  Cantuariam  die  lune  in  septimana 
Pascbe  x  d.,  una  cum  equo  suo  locato. 

Summa  xxiiij  li.  iiij  s.  x  d.  q'^. 

t  Item  allocates  Waltero  de  Upmauton*^  de  tallagio  suo  x  s.  quos 
idem  Walterus  solvit  Gralf  rido  de  Hertpol.    Item  in  expensis  Roberti  de 

*  Other  items  printed  in  Vol.  X.,  p.  224,  follow  here, 
■f  Other-items  printed  in  Vol.  X.,  p.  225. 


188         ARCHIVES   OF    FAVEllSEAM,    A.U.    1304-5. 

Stureye,  Thome Everard,i^Rogeri  Orre,  Nicholai  de  Brenle,^^  Walter! 
Marcselual,''^  Eoberti  Dod,^'^  Thome  filii  ciusdem,  Rogeri  Batekok,^* 
Lawrenc'ii  le  Heare,^''  A\^illeh)ii  Ic  Carpenter/'''^  ct  hcrodis  Kogeri 
Pelliparii,  apud  Loudon,  a  doininica  in  quindena  Pasche  per  j 
mensem  et  duos  dies  sequentes  vj  U.  viij  s.  ix  d.  Item  in  exeuniis 
missis  dominis  Rogero  le  Brabasou/"  et  Gilberto  de  Robery,'" 
xxviij  s.  iiij  d.  oh.  q'^.* 

Item  liberates  cuidam  homini  deferenti  quamdam  litteram  apud 
Dovor'  dominica  proxima  post  festum  tSti.  Johanuis  ante  Portam 
Latinam  iiij  d* 

Item  in  expensis  Andree  de  Batlescombe^'^  per  Walterum 
Bealde^^  vij  d.  Item  liberates  Johanni  de  Basinge^^  Ballivo  ward' 
castri  Dover'  per  manibus  Johaunis  de  Upmanton  xl  d.,  et  garconi 
sue  vj  d.,  et  in  viuo  pro  eodem  j  d.  oh. 

Item  solutes  pro  j  pare  sotularum  ad  opus  filii  Rogeri  Pelliparii 
cum  £uit  versus  London  iij  d. 

Item  datam  Willelmo  de  Bernefeld  die  veneris  proxima  ante 
festum  Nativitatis  Sti.  Johanuis  Baptiste  pro  brevibus  retornandis 
prout  ordinatum  f  uit  per  consilium  ville  j  marcam. 

Summa  xxv  //.  xvij  s.  viij  d.  q'Kf 

Item  allocates  Roberto  Dod  pro  Stephano  Grlanvyle^^  iiij  s.  vj  d.'\ 

Item  in  percameno  empto  pro  rotulo  faciendo  et  litteris  tran- 
scribeudis  j  d.  oh.f 

Item  allocates  Henrico  Hereword^^  pro  j  sacho^^  detento  per 
ministros  domini  principis  apud  Osprenge  vj  d.  Item  Stephano  le 
Mellere^^  pro  eodem  vj  d.     Item  in  stipendio  maioris  pro  anno  xl  s. 

Item  remanent  in  arreragio  xxxix  s.  v  d.  oh. 

Summa  iiij  ]i.  \  d.  oh. 
Stjmma  sfmmaeum  iiij-"^^'  li.  ij  d.  oh.  q^. 

Et  sic  exedit  summa  expensarum  summamreceptarum  \s.  ixd.oh. 

Memorandum  quod  iste  compotus  redditus  fuit  in  domo  Robert! 
Dod  die  lune  proxima  ante  festum  Sti.  Valentin!  anno  regn!  regis 
Edward!  xxxv''  coram  Thoma  Everard  tunc  Ballivo,  Roberto  Dod, 
Waltero  Mareschal,  Jacobo  de  Brenle,  Nicholao  Tue,  Wolmero 
Bealde,  Simone  Baldok,^^  Tristrammo  le  Groldfynch,^'^  Jacobo  le 
Chapman,  Andrea  Mercator,  Willelmo  Eyneghe,  Laurencio  le 
Heare,^^  Henrico  le  Blobbere,^'^  Ricardo  le  Foghelere,  Johanne 
Dreyland,^^  Roberto  Tinctor,  et  Johanne  G-oldwyne^^  clerico. 

{2nd  Memhrane.) 
Memorandum  quod  Johannes  Goldwyne  debet  ma! or!  xjd.,et  W. 
Bil.  ij  d.,  et  W.  Mareschal,  apud  Loudon  x  d. 

Expense  facte  de  talJagio  facto  in  crastino  decoUationis  Sti.  JoJiannis 
Baptiste  anno  regni  regis  Edioardi  xxxi!j°  per  manihns  Rogeri 
Orre  tunc  maioris. 
Solutes  marischallo  mensurarum  domin!  regis  xls.,  de  fine^°  facta 
anno  regn!  regis  Edward!  xxx°. 

Item  solutos  eodem  marischallo  pro  hominibvis  Dovor'  xvj  s.  :s.d. 
Item  in  cc.  melvellis  emptis  a  Nicholao  Tue  iiij  li.  xvj  s.  de  quibus 

*  Other  items  printed  in  Vol.  X.,  p.  225. 
f  Other  items  printed  in  Vol.  X.,  p.  226. 


ARCHIVES   OF    FAVERSHAM,    A.D.    1304-5.         189 

misso  (sic)  custodi  quinque  Portuiim  iij  qiiartarii,  et  domino  Johanni 
de  Northewod'^i  tunc  Yicecomiti  Kancie  iij  quartarii,  et  Willelmo  de 
Beruefeld  j  quartarius,  et  Roberto  de  Stureye  j  quartarius.  lu 
dicto  melvello  loiidaudo  j  J.  In  deuario  dei''^'^  pro  dicto  nielvello 
emendo  j  d. 

Item  in  j  quartario  melvellorum  empto  et  misso  Waltero  de 
Horsele,^"^  et  Willelmo  de  Okyntore  vij  s.  vj  d.  In  londagio  et  por- 
tagio  eiusdem  j  d.  In  salo  ad  idem  j  d.  Item  iu  cariagio  melvello- 
rum ad  Dovor  et  Ilorton  ij  s. 

Item  in  expeusis  apud  Sandwys  videlicet  Ballivi,  maioris,  Johannis 
de  Upmantou,  die  Jovis  proxima  ante  festum  Assumptionis  beate 
Marie  ij  s.  iij  (/.  o5.,  et  pro  ij  equis  locatis  xvj  </.  Item  in  expensis 
Ballivi,  ]\Iaioris,  Eoberti  Dod,  et  Walter!  Bealde  apud  Cantuariam 
die  sabbati  in  vigilia  Assumptionis  beate  Marie  xiiij  d.,  et  pro  equis 
eorum  xvj  d. 

Item  solutas  domino  Roberto  de  Burgherssbe  x  U.  die  lune  in 
vigilia  Sti.  Bartliolomei. 

Summa  xviij  li.  viij  s.  ix  d.  oh. 

c.  Item  in  expensis  maioris  et  Walteri  Mareschal  apud  Cantu- 
ariam die  Sti.  Bartholomei  et  in  vino  pro  Edmundo  de  Passele,'^ 
Roberto  de  Stureye,  et  Thoma  Dod  ix  d.,  et  pro  equis  locatis  viij  d. 

Item  in  expensis  eoruudem  ibidem  die  Jovis  proxima  post  dictum 
festum  j  d.  ob.  q'K,  et  pro  equis  eorundem  viij  d. 

Item  in  expensis  maioris  Walteri  Marescbal  et  Walteri  Bealde 
apud  Cantuariam  die  sabbati  proxima  post  festum  Sti.  Bartliolomei 
commorando  ibidem  per  j  noctem  ij  s.  iij  d.  et  pro  equis  xij  d. 

a.  Item  allocates  Waltero  Bealde  pro  divei'sis  expensis  apud  Can- 
tuariam, Bobbinge,  Patricksbourne  et  alibi  v  s.  ix  d.  oh. 

h.  Item  in  expensis  Ballivi,  Maioris,  Roberti  Dod,  Walteri  Maris- 
chal,  Walteri  Bealde,  et  aliorum,  apud  Cantuariam  diebus  Mer- 
curii,  Jovis,  et  Veneris,  proximis  ante  festum  Sti.  Bartliolomei 
dimidium  marce  preterea  equos  ;  et  pro  equo  maioris  per  predictos 
dies  xij  d. 

Item  in  expensis  die  martis  proxima  post  festum  decollationis 
Sti.  Johannis  scilicet  maioris   apud  Cantuariam  iiij  d.  et  pro  equo 

Item  in  expensis  maioris  apud  Cantuariam  die  Jovis  proxima 
post  dictum  festum  v  d.  et  pro  equo  iiij  d. ;  eodem  die  pro  transcri- 
beudis  billis  ij  d.  pro  hominibus  Sti.  Augustini.  Item  in  expensis 
maioris  apud  Cantuariam  dominica  proxima  ante  festum  Nativitatis 
beate  Marie  v  d.,  et  pro  equo  iiij  d. 

Item  traditos  magistro  Johanni  Everard  ad  impetrandum  breve 
dedimus  potestatem  vj  d. 

Item  in  expensis  maioris  apud  Cantuariam  die  Veneris  proxima 
post  festum  Nativitatis  beate  Marie  j  d.  oh.  et  pro  equo  iiij  d. 

Item  in  expensis  maioris  apud  Cantuariam  die  Martis  in  festo 
exaltationis  Ste,  crucis,  et  diebus  Mercurii,  Jovis,  et  Veneris 
proximo  (sic)  sequentibus  iij  s.  vj  d.  una  cum  equis  locatis.  Item 
dates  Ade  de  Rodewelle  clerico  domini  Willelmi  de  Bereford-^'^  xl  d. 

Item  Willelmo  de  Wytefeld  armigero  eiusdem  domini  Willelmi 
xlJ. 


190    ARCHIVES  OF  FAVERSHAM,  A.D.  1304-5. 

Item  in  expeusis  maioris  apud  Cantuariara  die  dominica  proxima 
ante  festiim  8ti.  Matlitn  apostoli  die  lune  iu  vigilia  et  martis  in 
festo  eiiisdem  xxj  d.  una  cum  cquo  locato. 

Item  iu  expeusis  maioris  apud  Cautuariam  die  Veneris  proxima 
post  festum  8ti.  Matliei  apostoli  vj  d.  oh.,  et  pro  equo  locato  iiij  d. 
oh.  Item  datos  uuuciis  de  Dover'  delereutibus  litteras  pro  auro 
Regiue  domiuica  proxima  ante  festum  Sti.  Michaelis  iiij  d.  Item 
pro  cera  per  Jaeobum  de  Brenle  oh. 

Item  liberates  Stephano  Grlanvyle  ad  expensas  suas  versus 
Dover'  ad  peteudum  bi^eve  de  ballivo  per  custodem  liberandum  x  d. ; 
et  pro  equo  sue  locato  viij  d. 

Item  in  expeusis  apud  London'  scilicet  Eoberti  de  Stureye, 
Thome  Dod,  et  maioris,  incipieutibus  die  martis  proxima  ante 
festum  Sti.  Michaelis  per  xj  dies  sequeutes  iiij  li.  xviij  s.  vj  d.  oh.  ; 
una  cum  vino  misso  domiuo  Willelmo  de  Bereford,  et  brevibus  im- 
petrandis  ut  patet  per  quaudam  cedulam,  etista  fiebatur  ad  loquen- 
dum  cum  predicto  domino  Willelmo  de  Bereford  super  illis  que 
locuta  f  ueruut  eidem  apud  Cautuariam. 

Item  solutes  pro  quadam  misericordia  apud  Boclaude  pro  maiore, 
scilicet  quia  occupatus  commuuibus  negociis,  et  uon  potuit  venire 
coram  escahetore  domini  Regis,  prout  summonitus  fuit  vj  d. 

Item  iu  expeusis  Thome  Everard,  "Walter!  Mareschal,  R.  Dod,  S. 
Baldok,  Jacobi  Mercatoris,  "Walteri  Bealde,  T.  Aurifabri,  S.  Glau- 
vjle,  W.  Ostreman,^^  et  R.  Orre,  apud  Loudon'  a  die  lune  proxima 
post  festum  Sti.  Deonisii  commorando  ibidem  super  placitum  quidem 
eorum  per  quindenam,  et  quidem  per  viij  septimanis  et  in  exenniis 
scilicet  uluis  et  aliis  et  in  stipendio  servientis  curie,  et  in  ex- 
peusis factis  per  eos  per  plures  vices  xx  li.  viij  s.  viij  d.  oh.  qn,  ut 
patet  per  j  cedulam.  Item  allocates  Waltero  Bealde  pro  j  creko 
communi  ad  ignem  emendum  ij  d.  Item  in  expeusis  Maioris  versus 
Dover'  ad  loqueudum  cum  Constabulario  die  {sic)  martis  et  mercurii 
proxima  post  festum  Sti.  Nicholai  iij  s.  ;  et  pro  equo  sue  locato 
viij  d. 

Item  iu  j  equo  locato  pro  maiore  versus  Oluesbocton  ad  loqueu- 
dum cum  dicto  domiuo  Roberto  die  martis  proxima  post  festum 
couceptionis  beate  Marie  iiij  d.,  et  eodem  die  liberates  Robulard 
eonti  apud  Dover'  iij  d.  Item  dat'  Thome  de  Basinge  pro  labore 
suo  et  expeusis  pro  distriuxionibus  quas  Abbas  ceperat  liberandum 
die  sabbati  proxima  ante  festum  Beati  Thome  apostoli  xl  d.  ;  et 
servienti  suo  vj  d.,  et  gai'coui  suo  ij  d.,  et  iu  vino  pro  eisdem  ij  d. 

Item  in  j  equo  pro  maiore  versus  Cautuariam  in  vigilia  beati 
Thome  apostoli  ad  loqueudum  cum  constabulario  et  vicecomite 
Kaucie  iiij  d.  Item  in  expeusis  maioris  apud  Cautuariam  die 
beate  Thome  martiris  ad  loqueudum  cum  Constabulario  et  Roberto 
de  Stureye,  vij  d.  oh.,  et  pro  equo  suo  locato  iiij  d.    ' 

Item  in  j  equo  locato  pro  maiore  versus  Oluesbocton  [BougJiton 
Aluph)  in  crastino  circumcisionis  domini  iiij  d. 

Summa  xxvij  li.  xiiij  s.  vij  d.  q^. 

Item  solutes  pro  auro  regine  de  fine  millium  marcarum  pro  quin- 
dena"^^  quiuque  portuum  vij  li.  viij  s.  ij  d. 

Item    in    expeusis    hominis    defereutis    dictos   denarios   apud 


ARCHIVES  OF  FAVEKSHAM,  A.D.  1304-5.    191 

London  iij  s.  Item  in  factura  cuiusdam  script!  facti  Nicholao  de 
Brenle  pro  dictis  denariis  iij  d.  oh.  Item  liberates  Thome  Everard 
ad  expensas  suas  versus  Dovor'  ad  loqueudum  cum  Constabulario 
pro  px'edictis  denariis  xij  d.  Item  liberates  David  eonti  versus 
Londou  pro  sotulariis  vj  d.,  et  pro  expeusis  suis  iij  d.  Item  liberates 
"Waltero  Bealde  ad  inquirendum  ubi  custos  asset  et  ad  loquendum 
cum  ipso  pro  predictis  denariis  ij  s.  Item  datos  Thome  de  Basinge 
Ballivo  AV^ard  Uovor'  quum  veuiebat  ad  faciendas  distrinxiones  pro 
predictis  denariis  ut  siipersederet  iij  s.,  et  garconi  suo  vj  d.  Item 
liberates  Stephano  Glanvyle  ad  expensas  suas  vei'sus  Brodhelle  pro 
vinis  promissis  domino  principi  ij  s.  viij  d.  omnia  ista  fiebant  per 
Jacobum  de  Brenle,  dum  mane  fuit  apud  London. 

Sinnma  viij  li.  xvj  d.  oh. 

Item  datos  garconibus  Willelmi  de  Bernefeld''  et  Elye  clerici  die 
lune  proxima  post  festum  Epiphanye  domini  vj  d.  Item  in  expensis 
pro  Thoma  le  Eerster  deminica  proxima  post  festum  Sti.  Vincentii 
martiris  vij  d.  oh.,  per  visum  Thome  Everard  et  N.  de  Brenle. 

Item  in  expeusis  Maieris  et  Stephani  Grlanvyle  et  garconis 
eerum  versus  London'  eoudo  commorando  et  redeondo  a  die  Martis 
proxima  post  festum  conversionis  Sti.  Pauli  videlicet  in  expensis 
dicti  Stephani  per  xv  dies  et  in  expensis  predict!  maieris  per  xix 
dies  una  cum  exenniis  ibidem  missis  et  una  cum  expensis  factis  pro 
Nicholao  Tue  et  E/oberto  BrembeP^  et  aliis  pro  censuetudinibus  ab 
eis  rogatis  et  in  expensis  pro  denariis  domini  Regis  solvendis 
xxxix  s.  X  d.  oh.  ut  plenius  patet  per  j  cedulam. 

Item  solutes  Eoberto  de  Stureye  de  pensione  sua  de  termino 
Sti.  Michaelis  ij  marcas. 

Item  solutes  domino  Eoberto  de  Wardelby  de  pensione  sua  de 
termino  predicto  xx  s. 

Item  solutes  Edmunde  de  Passele  de  pensione  de  predicto  ter- 
mino Nativitatis  domini  xx  s. 

Item  solutes  apud  London'  ad  complendam  solutionem  xx  li. 
domini  Regis  de  termino  Sti.  Michaelis  Iv  s.  ij  d. 

Item  iu  iiij  millibus  allecum  emptis  et  missis  vicecomiti  Kancie 
XXV  s.  et  pro  pertagio  earundem  j  d. 

Item  allocates  Alicie  Seraan^  pro  locatieue  domus  eiusdem^^  de 
terminis  Sti.  Michaelis  et  Nativitate  domini  xl  d. 

Item  in  expensis  maieris  A^ersus  Wy  in  festo  Sti.  Gregorii  ad  lo- 
queudum cum  domino  Constabulario  vij  d.  oh.,  cum  equo  locate.  Item 
in  expensis  Ballivi  et  maieris  versus  Hethe,  ad  audiendum  ibidem 
mandatum  domini  Regis  et  ad  alia  negocia  cum  Constabulario 
expedita  die  lune,  martis  et  mercurii  proximis  post  festum  Sti. 
G-regorii  ij  s.  xj^?.,  et  pro  equis  eerum  locatis  xvj  d. 

Sum  ma  ix  li.  xvj  s.  j  d.  oh. 

Item  solutes  Galfrido  Dagh^^  de  denariis  ques  maior  recepit  ab 
eo  apud  London  de  ordeo  ibi  vendendo  per  eundem  Galfridum  iiij  li, 
iiij  s.  j  d.  oh.     Item  in  percameno  empto  pro  rotulo  compoti  j  d.  oh. 

Item  allocates  Roberto  Ded  de  expeusis  factis  apud  Cantuariam 
die  sabbati  proxima  ante  festum  Sti.  Bartholemei  in  pisce  mulett' 
xvj  d.  Item  ibidem  in  vigilia  Sti.  Bartholemei  in  allece  v  </. ;  in 
equis  locatis  pro  eodem  per  vj  vices  apud  Cantuariam  ij  s. 


192     AHCHTVES  OP  FAVERSHAM,  A.D.  1305  AND  1321. 


Item  allocatos  eidem  ])ro  j  equo  ad  opus  Nicholai  do  Brenle 
versus  Dovor  per  ij  vices  xvj  d. 

Item  datos  Thome  de  l^awinge  ballivo  Ward  pro  distrinxionibus 
liberandis  die  Jovis  in  vi,ii;ilia  Anuuneiationis  domine  iijs.,ct8er- 
vienti  suo  vj  d. 

Item  datos  cuidam  adferenti  litteras  a  custodo  die  sabbati 
proximapost  festum  iit\.  Ambrosii  ij  cl. 

Item  in  exponsis  Koberti  Dod  et  maioris  apud  Ilethe  diebus  mer- 
curii  et  Jovis  proximis  post  clausum  Pasche  ad  audiendum  ibidem 
mandatum  domiui  Jiegis  xiij  d.,  et  pro  equis  eorum  locatis  ij  s. 

Item  datos  cuidam  j^uncio  adferenti  litteras  de  servicio  domini 
Regis  dominica  proxiina  ante  festum  Sti.  Elphegi  ij  d.  Item  in 
expensis  maioris  et  Nicholai  de  Brenle^^  versus  13rodhelle  die 
dominica  et  lune  proximis  ante  festum  Sti.  Elphegi  pro  servicio 
domini  Regis  xx  d.,  et  pro  equis  eorum  locatis  ij  s.  Item  datos 
Nuncio  domini  Regis  adferenti  litteras  de  servicio  domini  Regis  die 
mercurii  proxima  post  festum  Sti.  Elphegi  iiij  d, 

Summa  c  5.  iij  d. 
SuMMA  SuMMARUM  Ixix  H.  xiij  d.  oh.  q^.     Item  iiij  d. 

Item  pro  misericordia  dimidium  marce  et  pro  W.  Ostreman  v  d. 
Item  in  ij  copis  vise'  emptis  ad  equos  constabularii  die  Jovis 
proxima  post  festum  Sti.  Elphegi  xiij  d. 

No.  2. 

Arreragia  de  tallagio  facto  die  lune  in  festo  Sti.  Edmundi  con- 
fessoris  Anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  Regis  Edwardi  xv°  et  de  aliis 
tallagiis  precedentibus. 


Eegioald  le  Perker  ,  . 
Joh'es  ate  Welle  .  . 
Thorn.  Maycle  .  .  . 
Eelicta  Wil'mi  ate  Gate 
Kobtus.  Pin  .... 
Adam  Sheawere  .  .  . 
Johes.  Seriant  .  .  . 
Laur'  le  Heare  .  .  . 
Adam  Shipman  .  .  . 
Eelicta  Henr'  Blobber'  . 
Alanus  Dagh^*  .  .  . 
Vicar'  de  Faversham^"  , 
Osbtus.  le  Eopere  .  . 
Thom'  de  Brenle'-  .  . 
Eobtus.  Goldfinch"  .  . 
heredes  Himo'is  Baldok-' 
Eobtiis.  le  Hert39  .  .  . 
Joh'es  Dokyn  .  .  . 
Walt'  ate  Eye  .  .  . 
Steph'us  de  Upmanton'° 
Stephiis.  Yne  .... 
Thorn'  de  Sendeheauede 
Eobtus.  de  Crescebrok  . 
Eelicta  Fort  .... 
Joh'es  Seman^^      .     .     . 

Eic'us  Mas 

Johes.  Godard  .  .  . 
Johes.  de  Makenhauede^" 


iiij  d. 

iij  d. 

vj  d. 

's.d. 

'.  ij  d. 

.     _       inj  d. 

,  iij  s.  viij  d. 

■     ij-^-   vj^Z. 

XV  iij  d. 

xij  d. 

xid. 

iiij  d. 

vj  d. 

iiij  d. 

iiij  d. 

Is. 

xij  d. 

viij  d. 

xxiiij  s. 

xviij  d. 

xij  d. 

i  j  s. 

nj  d. 

iij  d. 

xrZ. 

viij  d. 

x\d. 


Gilbertus  de  Brenle 
Thom'  Sutor  .  . 
Eeginald  Sutte.  .  , 
Will'us.  de  Cantuar« 
Hamo  Dagh  .  . 
Matild'  de  Dovoi"^" 
Julyana  Gravene'*' 
Barth'us  de  Sutton 
d'ns  Eobtus.  Bil 
Will'us  Gyulph 
Will'us  Warde 
Walt'  Bealde's 
Hamo  de  Molesse''' 
Adam  Forbisseur 
Chicheli  Politt  . 
Will'us  Scarregge 
Lecia  Baldok"' 
Henr'  Cope  .  . 
Eelicta  Not  .  . 
Philippus  Sutor  . 
Petr'  ate  Wode?' 
Thom'  ate  Stapele''^ 
Alicia  Batekoc 
Philipp'  de  Grenhamme 
Eelicta  Chubbe 
Will'us  de  Badelesmer''^ 
Walt'  Strood  . 
deonisia  de  Stopesdone^^ 


xxijd. 

iij  d. 

viij  d. 

iiij  s. 

viij  s. 

ij  s.  vij  d. 

iij  5.   xjd. 

xviij  d. 

ixd. 

iijd. 

xij  d. 

xijd. 

iiij  d. 

xij  d. 

viij  d. 

xij  d. 

viij  d. 
xiiij  d. 

viij  d. 

_  viij  d. 

iijs.  yd. 

XX  d. 

ij*. 

xij<^. 

ijd. 

viij  d. 


ARCHIVES   OF    FAVERSHAM,    A.T).    1321-2. 


193 


Willus.  Damage  . 
Bronn  robyn  .  . 
Jacobus  de  Breule 


heredes  Joh'is  Ilymau 


maj,'!-'  dom'  Dei''^ 
Ric'ub  Fotemaii     .     . 
Joh'es  Kelftre        .     . 
Joh'es  Soriant  jnuior 
Robtus.  de  Popiudane 


iiij  (I. 

viij  d. 

.  xvj  s.  iiij  d. 


Thorn'  de  Copetone'""' 
Ilelicta  Joh'i.s  de  London' 
Stathius  Triturator    .     . 


I>i  dorso. 
.  XV  s.  viij  d.  I   heredes  Joh'is  de  Bronston''^ 

OSPRENGE. 


iij  .1.  V  d. 

xxij  d. 

ij*.  vjd. 

vj  d. 

yjd. 

Sdmma  ixlib.  ixs.  ]d. 


Johes.  le  Rok    .     . 
Hamo  Asketyn 
Ric'us  ate  Sindane" 
Frater  Robti.  Lullo 


vj  d. 
vj  d. 
XV  d. 


xi]d 


xij  d. 
xij  d. 
iiij  d. 
viij  d. 


No.  3. 

Compotus  Johanuis  Groldwyne  de  tallagio  facto  pro  servicio 
doniini  Regis  die  Luue  proxima  post  festum  trauslationis  Eeati 
Thome  niartiris  anno  Eegni  Regis  Edwardi  filii  Eegis  Edwardi 
sexto  decimo,  tempore  Roberti  le  Hert  tunc  maioris. 

Arreragia. — Idem  respoudet  de  vij  //.  xj  d.  q.'^  de  arreragiis 
temporum  precedeutium. 

Et  de  xxi  II.  xvij  s.  de  tallagio  supradicto.  Et  de  iij  s.  iij  d.  receptis 
a  Ricardo  Gravene  ad  deiiarium  solutum  domino  Priore  die 

Et  de  vij  s.  ix  d.  de  Laurencio  Tannatore^^  de  tallagio  facto  die 
martis  proxima  ante  festum  Sti.  Augustini  in  anno  quinto  decimo  de 
quo  Robertus  de  Silgrave^*^  collector. 

Et  de  xl  d.  receptis  de  Roberto  Dod  nomine  Jobannis  le 
Wronghe^''  de  tallagio  predicto. 

Et  de  dimidia  marca  recepta  de  magistro  domus  Dei*^-  tallagii 
predict!  tallagio  facto  die  martis  predicta. 

Summa  totalis  receptorum  xxix  U.  xix  s.  j  d.  oh. 

EXPEJSTS  AS : — liberates  Jobanui  le  Barbour  juniori^^ ad  expeusas 
suas  versus  Sandwycum  ad  sciendum  qualiter  homines  eiusdem  ville 
se  habebant  pro  servicio  domiui  Regis  faciendo  ij  s.  per  manus 
Johannis  Seman. 

Item  solutos  Petro  Hanyn^^  iij  s.  iiij  d.  sibi  a  retro  de  fara 
Scotbie  precepto  maioris  &c.  per  visum  Roberti  de  Silegrave. 

Item  solutos  Thome  Dagb  in  vigilia  Apostolorum  Petri  et  Pauli 
xij  s.  vij  d.  per  tall  que  continet  xlij  «. 

Item  solutos  Thome  Celrer  pro  j  malo  et  j  virga  ad  batellum  vij  s. 
vj  d.  precepto  maioris.     Item  solutos  pro  j  remige  ad  batellum  vj  d. 

Item  solutos  Thome  Bealde  ij  s.  vj  d.  precepto  maioris  et  per  j 
tall'  que  attinet  xix  s.  vj  (^.  Item  datos  cuidam  nuncio  adferenti 
litteram  a  Willelmo  Le  Rou^^  propter  deuarios  sibi  promissos  iiij  d. 
Item  solutos  Waltero  Copyn  pro  posto'e  cordar'  ad  navem  xij  d. 

Summa  xxix  s.  viij  d. 

Item  solutos  Thome  Dagb  dominica  proxima  post  festum  Traus- 
lationis beati  Thome  martiris  iiij  li.  v  s.  vj  d.  per  visum  maioris  ad 
expensas  nautarum. 

Item  solutos  Roberto  Dod  ])ro  ciser'  ab  eo  sumpto  ad  navem  versus 
Skothiam  xxxvij  s.  j)er  visum  maioris.  Item  in  j  exenuio  misso 
domino  Nicholao  de  Cryel  Constabulario  in  Abbathiam  die  veneris 

TOL.   XIT.  O 


194    AECniVES  OF  FAVERSHAM,  A.D.  1322. 

proxima  ante  festum  beate  Margarete  iu  pane  xviij  d.,  in  vino  ij  s. 
iij  d.  oh. 

Item  dates  cuidam  Cartario  dueenti  Anctualia  usque  la  sliore  iijd. 

Item  dates  duobus  nunciis  domiui  Regis  die  Jovis  proxima  aute 
festum  Sancti  Petri  ad  vincula  vj  d.  ex  loculo  Roberti  de  Silegrave. 
Item  misso  AVillelmo  le  Ron  per  parvum  Johannem  die  veneris 
proxima  ante  predictum  festum  xx  s. 

Item  liberates  dieto  Johanni  pro  expeusis  suis  deferenti  predictos 
denarios  ad  Dover'  iiij  d.  Item  dates  cuidam  nuncio  Domini  Regis 
adferenti  breve  propter  grosser'®*'  die  sabbati  proxima  ante  festum 
Sti.  Petri  ad  vincula  vj  d.  in  jantaculo  eiusdem  ad  tabernam  ij  d.  oh. 
precepto  maioris. 

Item  in  j  exenuio  misso  domino  Nicholao  de  Criol*  in  Abbatliiam 
die  sabbati  in  crastino  sancti  salvatoris  in  pane  xij  d.  in  vino  xx  d. 
Item  dates  cuidam  nuncio  domini  Regis  adferenti  breve  domini 
Regis  propter  grosser'  ad  festum  decollationis  Sancti  Johannis  vj  d. 

Item  liberates  Waltero  Marischal  et  Stephano  ate  Melle  pro 
expensis  suis  coram  Arcliiepiscopo  apud  Cantuariam  die  veneris 
proxima  ante  festum  Sti,  Martini  ij  s.  Item  in  uno  exennio  misso 
domino  Nicholao  de  Cryel  constabulario  die  lune  proxima  ante 
festum  Sti.  Edmundi  Regis  ad  domum  Nicholai  de  Brenle  iu  pane 
xij  d.,  in  vino  xx  d. 

Item  in  expensis  Willelmi  le  Barber  versus  Sandwycum  ad 
sciendum  qualiter  naute  se  habebaut  versus  flotam  xx  d.  Item 
dates  cuidam  Massatori  de  Dover'  vj  d.  per  maiorem. 

Item  solutes  Abbati  de  Faversham  de  termino  Sti.  Michaelis  cs. 

Siimma  xij  U.  xvij  s.  j  d. 

Item  in  nave  La  Barge  ducenda  ex  marisco  usque  ad  Warvam 
iiij  d.  Item  liberates  Willelmo  Le  Barber  servienti  ad  unam 
tunicam  v  s.  precepto  maioris. 

Item  datos  cuidam  nuncio  de  Dover  adferenti  transcriptum 
breve  domini  Regis  quod  passagium  melius  custodietur*^^  die  Lune 
proxima  ante  festum  Sti.  Petri  in  cathedra  vj  d. 

Item  in  cera  empta  ad  sigillandam  litteram  ad  dominum  Regem 
propter  Petrum  Hanyn  et  alios  j  d. 

Item  datos  cuidam  nuncio  domini  Regis  adferenti  breve  domini 
Regis  die  lune  proximo  post  festum  Sti.  Gregorii  quod  haberemus 
duos  homines  coram  ipso  domino  Rege  vj  d. 

Item  datos  ij  nunciis  domini  Regis  die  martis  proximo  post 
dictum  festum  iij  d.  Item  liberates  Johanni  Wade  ad  expensas 
suas  versus  Sandwycum  ad  sciendum  diem  quando  homines  de 
Sandwyco  transirent  versus  dominum  Regem  apud  York  iiij  d. 
Item  liberates  Heurico  Andreu^i  et  Ade  Shipman  ad  expensas  suas 
versus  dominum  Regem  apud  York  die  veneris  proximo  ante 
dominicam  Palmarum  Ix  s.  Item  datos  cuidam  nuncio  adferenti 
breve  domini  Regis  propter  pacem  inter  dominum  Regem  et  Flan- 
driam  in  vigilia  Pasche  vj  d.  Item  datos  ij  nunciis  domini  Regis 
dominica  Pasche  iiij  d. 

Item  datos  nuncio  domini  Regis  adferenti  breve  domini  Regis 
die  lune  in  festo  Sti.  Ambrosii  quod  haberemus  duos  homines  apud 
London   coram    domino    Rege   vj  d.      Item    liberates    Ricardo   le 


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Taylur  die  sabbati  proximo  post  dictimi  festum  pro  expensis  suis  et 
Eoberti  de  Silegra^-e  versus  London  et  ibidem  x  s. 

Item  in  stipendio  Johannis  Goldvvyne  clerici  a  festo  Nativitatis 
Sti.  Johannis  Baptista)  usque  in  idem  festum  per  annum  xxvj  s.  viij  d. 
etejusdcm  Jolianuis  a  festo  Nativitatis  Sti.  Johannis  Baptista)  usque 
in  ferstum  Nativitatis  domini  j  marcam. 

Item  allocates  Thome  de  Brenle  pro  denariis  solutis  apud  Jerne- 
muwe  V6".  xd.  oh. 

Summa  vj  //.  iiij  s.  ij  d.  oh. 

Summa  omnium  expensarum  et  liheratorum  xx  li.  x  s.  xj  d.  oh. 

Summa  omnium  arreragiorum  xiij  U.  xj  s.  iiij  d. 

Summa  summaeum  omnium  expensarum  et  liberatorum  et 
arreragiorum  xxxiiij  li.  ij  s.  iij  d.  oh. 

Et  sic  rcmanet  communitas  in  debito  Johannis  Groldvpyne^^  clerici 
de  isto  compote  iiij  U.  iij  s.  ij  d. 

Memorandum  quod  iste  compotus  redditus  fuit  coram 
Henrico  Andreu  maiore,  Eobto  le  Hert,  Eobto  de  Silegrave,  Ricardo 
Gravene,  Johanue  de  Wyngham,  Roberto  de  Crossebrok,  Eicardo 
le  Tayleir,  Thoma  Batekoc,  Ricai'do  Dreyland,  Philippe  Note,  et 
aliis,  die  veneris  proxima  ante  festum  Sti.  Gregorii  anno  Eegis 
predicti  xviijo. 

No.  4. 

Arreragia  de  tallagio  facto  die  lune  proximo  post  festum  trans- 
lationis  beate  Thome  Martiris  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  Eegis 
Edwardi  xvj°. 

Joh'es  de  Upmanton'"  iiij*.  vs.(l.  oh.  q" 


heredes  Willi,  ate  — 
Willus.  Kelle    .     . 
heredes  Johis.  Brest 
Eobtus.  Pin  .     .     . 
heredes  Rog'i  Orre' 


ix  d. 

.     .  ij*. 

• .   •  .  .        "^J  '^• 
ij  s.  iij  d.  oh.  qa 

.    ivij  d.  oh.  q" 


Vicar'  de  Faversham""   .     .  xij  d. 

Will'us  de  Dovor'^"    ...  vj  d. 

Petr'  de  Capella^''  ....  xij  d. 

Audr'  Mercator \d.  oh. 

Will'us  Pate ii]d. 

Walt'  Mareschal-  ....  xxj<?. 

Mabilia  Bealde'^   ....  iij  d. 
heredes  Walteri  de  Upmanton'o     vj  d. 

Relicta  Rid.  Hockele     .     .  iij  d. 

Joh'es  Weliwer     ....  xij  d. 

heredes  Thome  Everard"    .  vj  d. 

Johes.  Jokyn di'  marc' 

Rad'ns  Note--' vj  d. 

heredes  8imo'is  Baldok-'     .  xxj  d. 

Joh'es  le  Barbour^^     _     _     _  xviij  d. 

Steph'us  de  Upmanton'"     .  iiij .?. 

Thorn,  et  Ric'us  Bealde'*    .  ix  d. 

Robtus.  de  Cressebrok    .     .  iij  s.  vj  d. 

heredes  Steph'i  Everard"    .  xij  d. 

Simon  ate  Stocke       ...  ij  d. 

Lenerd  de  Stapeya''^  ...  iij  d. 

Thorn'  Dagh^^ xxj  d, 

Petr'  Hanyn^^ vj  r/. 

Gilbtus.  de  Brenle'"  ...  iij  d. 

Ric'us  Digou iiij  d. 


Will'us  Chandeler      ...  iij  d. 

Ric'us  le  Taylur     ....  7id.  oh. 

Osbtus.  Seman'*^    ....  vj  r^. 

Hamo  Dagh^^ xv  rf. 

Thorn'  Cherlman   ....  ij  d. 

Matild'  de  Dovor^"     .     .     .  xij  d. 

Juliana  Fineghe     ....  vj  rf. 

Rog'  de  Brunston  ....  xxj  d. 

Ric'us  ate  Lavendc    .     .     .  iij  d. 

Bartholomeus  de  Suttoue  .  iij  d. 

Joh'es  le  Taylur    ....  iij  d. 

Jaket  de  Makenhauede  .     .  vj  d. 

Gylbod  Noreys iij  d. 

Steph'us  Lynethe  ....  v  d.  q" 

Thorn'  Tegulator  ....  ix</. 
Cecilia  Wlobestu'  et  parcenar'  sui  v  d. 

Petr'  iSeman ij  s.  vj  ^. 

Relicta  Robti.  Chinalor  .     .  iij  d. 

Robtus.  Brembel   ....  ix^. 

Will'us  Grenehelde    ...  vj  d. 

Johes.  Brembel      ....  vj  r^. 
Agnes  raanens  juxta  domum 

Robti.  Dod      ....  \\d. 

Walt'  Bealde vij  (^.  oh. 

Ric'us  Haroward  ....  iij  s.  iij  d. 

Hugo  Skot iiij  d.  oh. 

Allauus  ate  Forde.     .     .     .  di'  marc' 

heredes  Robti.  le  Re  we  .     .  vj  ^. 

Alicia  Batekoc       .     .     .     .  iij  s.  iij  d 

O   2 


19G        AllCniVES    OF    FAVERSHAM,    A.D.    1323-4. 


Thorn'  Batckoc      .     . 
Wiirus  Coreour     .     . 
Emma  ate  rirye?' 
I'hilippns  dc  Grenlcve 


hercdcs  .  .  . 
heredcs  .  .  . 


xij  d. 
iiij  d. 
iiij  d. 
Yjd. 


Adam  dc  Broctouc 

Will'us .     . 

Walt' us .     . 

Osbcrtus  .     . 


In  dorno. 


V]  *. 

ij  d.  (f 

s\d. 


mag  r  — 
Johes  — 
Math'us 


iij  d. 

xij  d. 

v]d. 

iiij  d.  oh. 


ij .«.  j  d. 
ixd. 


SUMMA  iiij  IL  iij  .s.  iij  d. 


Arreragia  de  fine  facta 
proximo  post  festum  8ti 
filii  Eegis  Edwardi  xvj 

Rob' t  us  Goldfinch 
Simon  Sikoc      .     .     . 
Jlagera.  de  Brenle     . 
Andr'  Mercatoi*      .     . 
.Toh'es  de  Makeuhauede 
Joh'es  de  Wynchelse 
yteph'us  de  Upmauton 
Thorn'  dc 


Will'us  ate  Forstall 
Rog'  de  Bromstou 
Will'us  de  Chollok 
Will'us  de  Greuehelde 


No.  5. 

coram  marischal  domini  Eegis  die  sabbti 
.  Ambrosii   anno   regni   regis     Edwardi 


\]d. 
iij  d. 
iij  d. 
xij  d. 
xviij  d. 
vj  d: 

vj  d. 

xij  d. 

iiij  d. 
iiij  d. 


iij  d. 

Rob'tus  Dod      .     .     . 

viij  d. 

Joh'es  Frere  junior    . 

id. 

Henr'  Frere  senior     . 

vj  d. 

Matild'  de  Dovor  .     . 

\jd. 
iiij  d. 

Joh'es  Dreylond    .     . 
Thorn'  Batekoc      .     . 

xviij  d. 
vid. 

Joh'es  Gylward      .     . 
Allanus  ate  Forde 

vj  d. 
V]  d. 
vj  d. 

Steph'us  ate  Wode     . 
Kyugesmelle^'^  .     . 
Laur'  Tannator 

vj  d. 

Mabel  de  Brokedele"* 

iij  d. 

SUMM. 

Summa  de  arreragiis  Johannis  Goldwyne  de  unotallagio  deanno 
xv°,  et  de  anno  xvj",  de  duobus  tallagiis  ;  et  de  arreragiis  de  fine 
domini  Regis  de  anno  xvj"  que  continet  xiij  U.  xviij  s.  x  d.  q^. 

Item  de  tallagio  Thome  Dagh  anno  xviij"  que  continet  vij  li. 
vij  s. 

Summa  summarum  xx  li.  xix  s.  v  d.  q°-  preter  arreragia  Ricardi 
de  Grravene. 

Summa  de  arreragiis  Johannis  Gromer'  de  fine  domini  Regis 
anno  decimo  nono  et  continet  xxv  s.  j  d. 

Summa  de  Arerag'  Ricardi  de  G-ravene  anno  xvj°  et  continet 
X  Ji.  vij  s.  iiij  d. 

No.   6. 

Arreragia  tallagii  f acti  die  lune  proximo  post  festum  Sti.  Bartho- 
lomei  anno  regni  regis  Edwardi  filii  Regis  Edwardi  octavo  decimo  ; 
tempore  tuncMaioris  Ricardi  de  Gravene,  per  dominum  Robertum  de 
Kandale  militem,  et  constabularium  castri  Dovor',  custodemque  quin- 
que  portuum,  electi  et  coram  ipso  pro  domino  Rege  jurati ;  et  per 
dictum  maiorem  et  communitatem  Thomas  Dagh  electus  dictum 
tallagium  colligendum,  quecapiendum  compotum  eisdem  reddendum. 


Abbas  de  Faversham 
Elemosinar'  de  Faversham 
Will'us  Coneyire'*'.     .     . 
Petr'  Schipman      .     .     . 


}' 


xiiJ5.  vj^-^. 

iij^. 
xs-d. 


Rob'tus  Pyn  .  .  . 
hered'  Rog'i  Urre  .  . 
Adam  Schipman  .  . 
hered.  Thome  Hauyn 


ix5.  vr7.  oh.  q" 
.  iiij  A',  ixrf.  (lb. 
,     .  XX  d. 

.     .  iij  d. 


AUCHIVES   OF   FAVERSHAM,    A.D.    1324.  197 


Walt'us  Poynaunt     .     . 

X  (1. 

Thorn.  Celrer     .... 

xij  d. 

Rog's  Upeknyne    .     . 

\\  d. 

Wiirus  de  Creaston  .     . 

ij  d 

Note  Fordyng  .... 

ij  d. 

Adam  Page 

j  d.  oh. 

Henr'  ate  Forde    .     .     . 

iij  d. 

lielicta  Kob'ti  Carpenter 

ii'j  d. 

Juliana  de  CapellaS*  .     . 

■    iij  .»•  vj  d. 

Thom'  de  Brenle   .     .     . 

xviij  d. 

Johanna  Mareschal    .     . 

y]d. 

hered.  Walt'i  Mareschal 

iij  d. 

WillV  le  Carpenter     .     . 

V  s. 

Mabella  Bealde      .     .     . 

iij  d. 

Eelicta  Puc"i  Hokkele     . 

iij  d. 

iSteph's  de  Makenhauede 

.  vj  s.  viij  d. 

Et  pro  tenemento .     .     . 

vj  d. 

Kob'tus  le  Hert     .     .     . 

.     xl  s.  q'ss' 

ITer.  Thome  Everard 

vj  s. 

Job's  Dikyn      .... 

.  vj5.  viij^Z. 

hered'  Simonis  Baldok   . 

ix  d. 

Stepb'n  de  Upmanton    .  ■> 

s'ij  s.  in]  d.ob. 

Thom'  Bealde    .... 

ix  d. 

Ric's  Bealde      .... 

xij  d. 

Hered'  Steph'i  Everard 

X,f. 

Petr'  Hanyn      .... 

vj  d. 

Gilb'tus  le  Bray     .     .     . 

iii  d. 

Thom'  de  Stokis     .     .     . 

ij  d,. 

Gilb'tus  de  Brenle     .     . 

xviij  d. 

Et  de  gracia  sua    .     .     . 

.  vj  s.  viij  d. 

premiss'  coram  maiore  e  a 

;ri  carlo 

de  Faversham  et  cete 

■is  fide 

dignis  Summa  iiij  IL 

vij  s.  iij  d.  q" 

Hered.  Job's  de  Upman- 

ton     iiij 

s.  ix  d.  ob.  qc- 

Ric'us  le  Tayllour      .     . 

.  Ys.  ^d.  ob. 

Oscbertus  Seman  ....  vj  d. 

Hcnr'  Andreu ij  *•  vj  d. 

Will'ns  Tannator  ....  i]  d. 

Job's  Poynaunt      ....  jd.  ob. 

Arnoldus  Faber      ....  jd.  ob. 

Will's  Owwyne      ....  iij  ^Z. 

Berth's  de  Suttone     ...  xv  d. 

Joh'es  Taylour       ....  iij  d. 

Simon  le  Webbe    ....  iij  d. 

Thom'  Eyolf iij  d. 

Job's  le  Wronge    ....  ij «.  ij  d. 

Matild's  Lynche    ....  iij  ^. 
Eob'tus  Lulle    ....      xij  d.  ob.  q" 

Steph'ns  Lynche    ....  \  d.  q"* 

Thom.  le  Teghelere    ...  vj  d. 

Rob'tus  Niele iij  d. 

Will'ns  Hottewelle    .     .     .  iij  (/. 

Hered.  Job 'is  le  Reade  .     .  iij  d. 
Celestris  Blobber'  et  parcenar'  sui   vj  s. 

P]mma  Sadeleris    ....  iij  d. 

Will's  de  Ikham    ....  iij  d. 

Relicta  Steph'i  Caldelot.     .  j  d.  ob. 

Edmundus  de  Horapoldre  .  ij  d. 

Job's  de  Molesshe  capellanus  vj  d. 
Robtus.  de  Selgrave  ...    xij  s.  vj  d. 

Job's  Johnet ]d.  ob. 

Job's  Godyer v]d. 

Rob't  Dod xiiij  s. 

Matild'  de  Dover  ....  xviij  d. 

Relicta  Joh'is  Dreilond  .     .  iiij  s. 

Job's  de  Berewell       ...  iij  d. 

Ric'us  Foghelere    ....  xx  rf. 

Relicta  Tristrammi  Aurifabri  iij  d. 

Job's  Coreour iij  d. 

AUanus  ate  Forde      ...  x  ^. 

Rob'tus  Morecok  ....  iiij  d.  oh. 

Summu  iij  IL  viij  s.  viij  d.  ob.  q". 


In  dorso. 


Adam  .     .     . 

Rob'tus  le  Hert»9  .     .     . 

Will'us  .     .     . 

Philippus  de  Grenhamme 

Will's  Syon 

Edmundus  Carnifex  .     . 
Jacobus  de  Brenle^^   .     . 


d. 

\]d. 

xviij  d.  ob. 

vj  d. 

iiij  d. 

vj  d. 

xij  d. 

iij  d. 

vs.  xd. 


Rog's  Tanoige  .... 

Thom'  .... 

Margaret'  de  Yoklete''^  . 
Statius  Triturator  .  . 
Hered'  Joh"is  Homan  . 
hered'  Job's  de  Creaton' 
Alicia  Scoshis  .... 
Her'  Joh'is  de  Bronston'*^ 


iijd. 
XV  d. 
iijd. 
iij  d. 
vjd. 
xij  d. 
ix  d.  ob.  q" 
vj  d. 


ij*- 


V]  .S'. 


Summa  xxvj  *.  ij  d. 


Magister  domus  Dei  de  Os- 

prenge        .     .     , 
Ric'us  Poteman     .     , 


hered.  Joh'is  Ledel 
Matheus  Carnifex 
Adam  Caperoun    . 


vj  s.  ix  d. 

iij  d. 

ixd. 
xvj  d.  ob. 

iij  d. 

iiij  d. 


OSPEENGB. 

Michael  de  Brokedale 
Ric'us  Askctyn  .  . 
Job's  Rener  .  .  . 
Heur"  Longestep 


Joh"s  Seriaunt  senior 
Job's  le  Rok      .     .     . 


vj<^. 
iiij  d. 
iiij  d. 
iiij  d. 
iiij  d. 
xij  d. 


Swmna  xij  s.  vj  d. 

Summa  summarum  totius  arreragii  ix  li.  xiiij  s.  viij  d. 


198   ARCHIVES  OF  FAVERSUAM,  A.D.  1304;-24. 


NOTES. 

(1)  liiu/rr  Orrr.     See  Arch.  Cant.,  Vol.  X..  p.  227  («). 

(2)  Widtrr  Miirhchal.  «ee  ^l;'t'/(.  t'rt?if.,  Vol.  X.,  p.  230  (0-  Johanna  and 
the  heirs  of  Walter  arc  mentioned  in  the  arrears  of  tallage  of  18  Ed.  II.  Dionis 
Merchalis  is  named  in  a  list  of  brewers  at  Faversham,  in  a  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III. 

(8)  Jlvbert  dc  Stvrey  received  from  the  men  of  Faversham  an  annual 
pension  for  his  help.  Geoffrey  de  Sturey  was  a  Juror  on  Inquests  held  by  the 
Sheriff  of  Kent  and  bailiffs  of  Canterbury,  3o  Hen.  III.  Kich''  de  Sturey  was 
Member  of  Parliament  for  Salop  23  Ed.  I.,  and  for  Shrewsbury  29  Ed.  I.  and 
6  Ed.  II.  Henry  de  Sturey  was  Member  of  Parliament  for  Canterbury,  and 
John  de  Sturey  was  Member  for  Barnsta})le,  15  Ed.  II.  Sir  Thomas  Sturey 
possessed  the  manor  of  Lee  from  the  time  of  Rich''  II.  until  the  reign  of  Hen.  VI. 
{Arch.  Cant.,  II.,  pp.  303,  304  ;  Hastcd's  Hist,  of  Kent,  i.,  p.  04  ;  Farliamintary 
Jt^turn,  1878.) 

(4)  Constahularhis.  Sir  Robert  de  Burghersshe  was  Constable  of  Dover 
Castle,  and  Warden  of  the  Cinque  Ports,  29,  80,  31,  33,  and  34  Ed.  1.  He  is 
descriiaed  in  one  of  the  Faversham  Records  as  Lieutenant  of  Sir  Step,  de 
Pencester,  Constable  and  Warden  in  25  Ed.  I.  He  summoned  Jeffery  Bocton, 
Abbot  of  Faversham,  to  appear  at  Shipwey  and  answer  for  trespasses  com- 
mitted. As  the  Abbot  declined  to  attend,  he  was  arrested  and  sent  to  Dover 
Castle.  The  Archbishop  thereupon  cited  the  Warden  in  his  ecclesiastical  court, 
and  on  Sir  Robert  refusing  to  plead  he  was  condemned.  The  King,  however, 
compelled  the  Archbishop  to  reverse  his  sentence.  Bartholomew,  son  of  Sir 
Robert,  lived  at  Plumstead.  He  was  knighted  at  the  taking  of  Caerlaverock  in 
1300,  and  was  Warden  of  the  Ports  in  the  1st,  23rd,  and  28th  of  Ed.  III. 
Another  Robert  de  Burghersshe  appears  to  have  succeeded  Edmund  of  Wood- 
stock as  Warden,  4  Ed.  III.  Sir  Jiobert  de  Kendjile  is  named  in  the  Faversham 
tallage  arrears  as  Warden  and  Constable,  18  Ed.  II.  Sir  Nicholas  de  Criol 
was  Constable,  16  Ed.  II.  In  19  Ed.  II.  he  was  appointed  Admiral  from  the 
Thames  westward,  with  orders  to  prevent  all  suspected  persons  from  sailing 
out  of  the  kingdom.  While  the  Queen  was  preparing  to  land,  the  fleet  sailed 
to  the  westward  and  took  170  sail  fi'om  the  French,  and  brought  them  safe  into 
harbour.  (Farley's  Weald  of  Kent,  ii.,  pt.  1,  p.  227  ;  Hist.  MSS.  Commission, 
IV.  Rep\  p.  425  b.  ;  Knocker's  Court  of  Shijjwai/,  pp.  109  to  112.) 

(5)  Ballivus.  See  Arch.  Cant..  X.,  p.  228  (^).  Wm.  de  Chepstede  was 
bailiff  in  1292  ;  VVm.  de  Makenhauede  in  1295  ;  Thomas  Everard  1306  ;  Walter 
le  Osterman  before  1306  ;  and  Stephen  de  la  Dane  in  1321. 

(6)  Nnncio  de  Scaccarii.     See  Arch.  Cant.,  X.,  p.  22S  (&). 

(7)  Roger  ate  Doune.  The  name  of  Roger  ate  Doune  does  not  appear 
amongst  those  of  inhabitants  of  Faversham.  In  1227  Hamon  de  la  Downe  had 
land  in  or  near  Yalding.  He  also  held  Downe  Com-t  in  Lenham,  as  half  a 
knight's  fee  ;  as  did  Lawrence  heir  of  Robert  de  la  Downe,  20  Ed.  III.  John 
Downe  lived  there,  and  died  possessed  6  Ed.  IV.  and  left  issue,  by  his  wife 
Isabella,  two  sons,  John  and  Thomas.  Thomas  and  Gilbert  ate  Dune  were 
Jurors  on  an  inquest  as  to  lands  of  Robert  de  Sevantz,  33  Hen.  III.  Robert  ate 
Doune  held  half  a  knight's  fee  in  Lenham,  38  Hen.  III.  John  ate  Doune  was 
Member  of  Parliament  for  Seaford.  19  Ed.  II.  Downe  Court  Manor  in  Downe 
parish  belonged,  in  the  reigns  of  Ed.  I.  and  II.,  to  Rich''  de  Downe,  who,  with 
his  wife  Margery,  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of  Downe  Church.  The  family 
was  extinct  there  before  the  middle  of  Edward  III.'s  reign.  In  20  Ed.  HI., 
John,  son  of  John  de  la  Doune,  paid  aid  at  making  the  Black  Prince  a  knight, 
for  the  10th  of  a  knight's  fee  in  Byerlynges.  (Hasted's  Hi.'^t.  of  Kent,  i.,  p.  116, 
ii.,  pp.  200,  374,  449  ;  Arch.  Cant.,  II.,  p.  297,  XII.,  p.  232.) 

(8)  Vicecomes  KancicB.  Warretius  de  Valoignes,  who  had  possessions  at 
Newington  near  Hythe,  was  Sheriff,  32  and  33  Ed.  I.  (to  Mich.  1804)  ;  and  he 
was  succeeded  by  John  de  Northwode,  who  held  office  for  two  years  in  34  and 
35  Ed.  L 

C9)  W.  Bernefeld.  William  Bernefeld  was  locum  tcncns  of  the  Constable 
of  Dover  Castle.  In  the  Weald  of  Kent  there  are  the  hundreds  of  Great  or 
East  Barnfield,  and  Little  or  West  Barnfield. 


ARCHIVES  OF  TAVERSHAM,  A.D.  1304-24.   199 

(10)  Dc  Upmnnton.  See  Arch.  Cant.,  X.,  p.  229  (^;).  "Walter,  and  his  two 
sons,  Thomas  and  John,  arc  mentioned  in  the  Writs  of  1305  ;  Stephen  and 
John,  and  the  heirs  of  Walter,  are  named  in  the  arrears  of  the  tallage  of  1322  ; 
and  Stephen,  and  the  heu's  of  John,  in  the  arrears  of  the  tallage  of  1324:.  The 
wife  of  Stephen  is  described  as  a  brewer  in  a  tallage  of  1327.  Stephen  was 
Mayor  in  1343.  John  was  defendant  in  a  fine  of  lands  in  Davington,  Murston, 
lAiddenham,  Stone,  and  Hernhill,  (J  Ed.  II.  Alice,  John,  and  Richard  are 
mentioned  in  an  Inquest  as  to  the  Kentish  rebellion  in  1382.  There  is  a  hamlet 
in  Be.xley  parish  called  Upton.  The  Manor  of  Sibbertswold  has  also  been 
known  as  Upton  Wood  ;  a  farm  called  Upton  is  in  the  borough  of  Felderland, 
and  parish  of  Word. 

(11)  Evrrard.  See  Arch.  Cant.,  X.,  p.  229  (»).  Thomas  Everard  was 
bailiff  of  Faversham,  35  Ed.  I.  Stephen,  and  Johanna  his  wife,  and  Stephen 
their  son,  were  plaintiffs  in  a  fine  of  land  in  Norton  and  Buckland,  2  Ed.  II.  ; 
Thomas,  son  of  Thomas,  and  Johanna  were  plaintiffs  in  a  fine  of  lands  in 
Davington,  Murston,  Uuddenham,  Stone,  and  Hernehill,  6  Ed.  II.  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Thomas,  was  defendant  in  a  fine  of  messuage,  land,  and  rents  in 
Davington.  Jlurston,  Lnddenham,  Eavershara,  and  Stone;  and  Johanna, 
widow  of  Thomas,  was  wife  of  Walter  Copyn,  7  Ed.  II.  Thomas  was  chai'ged 
for  the  half  of"  Kynges  mille."  in  faversham,  in  a  tallage,  1  Ed.  III.  Thomas 
was  Member  of  Parliament  for  Canterbury,  2  Ed.  III.  ;  Edmund,  for  Somerset, 
34  Ed.  I.;  6  and  7  Ed.  II.  ;  and  John  for  Eochester,  4Hen.  VI.  {Arch.  Cant., 
XT.,  pp.  317.  356  ;  XII.,  p.  298.     Parliamentary  Betnrn,  1878.) 

(12)  Be  Brcnle.  See  Arch.  Cant.,  X.,  p.  231  {e),  where  the  name  is  misspelt 
"  Brenle."  Nicholas  is  mentioned  in  Computi  of  33  Ed.  I.,  and  16  Ed.  II.  ; 
James  in  Computus  of  33  Ed.  I.,  tallage  arrears  of  15  and  18  Ed.  II. ;  Thomas 
and  Gilbert,  in  Computus  of  16  Ed.  II,  and  tallage  arrears  of  15  and  IS  Ed.  II. ; 
and  Blagera,  in  Computus  of  16  Ed.  II.  Nicholas  was  a  Jurat  in  1292  ;  and 
James  was  Mayor  in  1303.  Thomas  is  named  in  a  tallage  at  Faversham, 
1  Ed.  III.,  as  a  taverner.  Henry  and  Lawrence  were  named  in  an  Inquest  as 
to  the  Kentish  rebellion  in  1881.  Brenley,  in  the  neighbouriug  parish  of 
Bough ton-under-Blean,  gave  name  to  a  family,  one  of  whom,  Sii"  Lawrence  de 
Brinlcy,  flourished  there  in  the  reign  of  Ed.  I.,  and  in  his  descendants  it  con- 
tinued, till  one  of  them  sold  it  to  .John  Eoper,  who  died  in  1489.  (Hasted's 
JTwit.  Kent,  iii.,  p.  2  ;  Arch.  Cant.,  III.,  p.  89.) 

(13)  Dod.  See  Arch.  Cant.,  X..  p.  228  (J).  Robert,  and  Tho"  his  son,  are 
mentioned  in  the  Computus  of  33  P^d.  I.,  and  Robert  alone  in  Computus  16  Ed. 
II.,  and  tallage  arrears  16  and  18  Ed.  II.  In  the  seventh  year  of  Ed.  II., 
Thomas,  of  Faversham.  Johanna,  his  wife,  and  John,  his  son,  were  plaintiffs, 
and  Robert  Dod,  of  Faversham,  and  Simon  de  Chilton,  chaplain,  defendants, 
in  a  fine  of  a  messuage  and  thirty-six  acres  in  Faversham  ;  Robert  Dod,  and 
Thomas,  his  sou,  were  plaintiffs  in  a  fine  of  land  in  Ospringe ;  Robert  was 
plaintiff,  and  Thomas  defendant,  in  a  fine  of  land  in  Ospringe,  Faversham,  and 
Preston.  In  a  tallage  at  Faversham.  1  Ed.  III.,  the  wife  of  Rob.  Dod  is 
charged  in  the  list  of  brewers.  Galfrid  Dod  was  Member  of  Parliament  for 
Warwick  Borough,  in  1314  ;  and  Roger  for  New  Romney,  in  1378.  Lady  dc 
Roos,  John  Dode,  John  Fleming,  and  their  coparceners,  paid  aid  for  one 
knight's  fee.  in  20  Ed.  III.,  which  Rich''  de  Chilham  before  held  in  Witherling, 
in  Moldash  parish.  Robert  Dodde  was  seised  of  Southouse,  in  Selling,  4  Eliz. 
{Arch.  0?«^.  XII.,  pp.  293,  29.5,  300;  Hasted's  Hist.  Kent.,  iii.,  pp.  24,  144  ; 
Parliamentary  Pctnrn,  1878.) 

(14)  Batecok.  See  Arch.  Cant.,  X..  p.  231  (.//").  Roger  and  Thomas  are 
mentioned  in  Computus  of  33  Ed.  I.  ;  Thomas,  in  tallage  arrears,  of  16  Ed.  II. ; 
and  Alicia,  in  tallage  arrears,  of  15  and  16  Ed,  II.  ;  Elena,  Alicia,  and  the  wife 
of  Thomas  are  charged  as  brewers  in  a  tallage,  1  Ed.  III. 

(15)  Le  Heare.  Walter  le  Heare  was  Juror  in  an  Inquest  as  to  land  in  Dene, 
37  Hen.  III.     {Arch.  Cant.,  II.,  p.  310.) 

(16)  Boger  le  Brabazon  and  Gilbert  dc  Bobcry  were  Judges  at  West- 
minster. 

(17)  Andrew  de  BatJcscomhc.  Andrew  docs  not  appear  as  an  inhabitant  of 
Faversham.  William  was  a  Juror  in  an  extent  of  the  lands  of  the  Earl  of 
Albermarle,  in  Kent,  44   Hen.  III.     Thomas  was  Member  of   Parliament  for 


200     AucnivES  OF  faversham,  a.d.  1304-24. 

Eochcstcr,  2fi  Ed.  I.,  and  Robert  29,  33,  34  Ed.  I.,   1,  2,  r,,  6,  7,  and  11    Ed.  II. 
{Arch.  Cant.,  III.,  p.  21;)  ;  Pnrliamcn^ary  Return,  1878.) 

(IS)  JJcalde.  See  Arch.  Cunt.,  X.,  p.  231  (//).  Walter  was  a  Jurat  of 
Faversham,  in  1292.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  Computus  of  33  Ed.  I.,  and 
tallage  arrears  of  1(5  Ed.  II.  Wolmer  is  named  in  the  Computus  of  33  Ed.  I. ; 
Tliumas  in  the  computus  and  tallaj^e  arrears  of  1(5  and  18  Ed.  11.  ;  Alabilia  and 
Richard  in  the  tallat^e  arrears  of  l(i  and  IS  Ed.  II.  ;  and  Rich''  amonfrst  the 
tipplers  in  a  tallage  1  liil.  III.  In  1534,  Tho»  Bealde,  of  Godmer.sham,  died, 
seised  of  Rhodes  Court,  in  Selling,  leaving  issue  by  Godleafe,  his  wife,  two 
daughters,  to  whom  he  devised  that  Manor  in  tail  general.  (Hasted's  Hist. 
Kent,  iii..  p.  24.) 

(19)  Dc  Banhifie.  John  and  Thomas  arc  described  in  the  Computus  of  33 
Ed.  I.  as  bailiffs  of  the  Guard  of  Dover  Castle.  John  de  Basinge  was  M.P.  for 
Southampton  county  5  Ed.  II.  :  William  de  Basinge,  of  Kennardington.  was 
knighted  at  Caerlaverock  in  1300  ;  was  Sheriff  of  Kent  7  Ed.  II.  ;  M.P.  for  Kent 
8  Ed.  II.,  and  died  in  that  year,  leaving  Margaret  his  widow,  only  daughter  and 
heiress  of  Sir  Thomas  de  Normanville.  Through  her  he  became  entitled  to  the 
Manor  of  Kennardington  and  a  large  inheritance  in  Rutlandshire.  He  was 
descended  from  Solomon  de  Basinge,  Sheriff  of  London,  in  the  last  year  of 
King  John,  and  from  Adam  de  Basinge,  Lord  ]\Iayor  of  London,  3')  Hen.  III., 
on  the  site  of  whose  house  Blackwell  Hall  was  afterwards  built,  and  from  whom 
the  adjoining  street  and  Ward  were  called  Basinghall  Street  and  Basing  Ward. 
Several  Basings  were  afterwards  Sheriffs  of  London.  Sir  Tho^,  son  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam and  Margaret,  died  23  Ed.  III.  He  left  a  son,  John,  then  eight  years  old, 
who  was  afterwards  knighted,  and  died  7  Rich.  II.,  leaving  a  son,  Thomas, 
who  died  without  issue.  Sir  John  de  Basing,  his  uncle,  succeeded  to  his  in- 
heritance, and  died,  24  Hen.  VI.,  without  issue.  Alice  Marworth,  his  sister, 
then  became  entitled.     (Hasted's  7//^^.  Kent,  i.,  cviii  ;  iii.,  115,  116.) 

(20)  Heremord.  Henry  Hereword  is  mentioned  in  the  Computus  of  33 
Ed.  I.  ;  and  Richd.  Hareword  in  the  tallage  arrears  of  IG  Ed.  II.  ;  the  wife  of 
Richard,  in  a  list  of  brewei's,  in  a  tallage  of  I.Ed.  III.  Rich.  Hereword  held 
one  quarter  of  a  knight's  fee  in  Barfi'eston,  38  Hen.  III.  William  was  owner  of 
laud  in  Eastling,  46"Hen.  III.  John  was  M.P.  for  Arundel,  30  Ed.  I.  Wm. 
Hereword,  knt.,  was  M.P.  for  Devon,  14  Ed.  II.,  and  Wm.  was  M.P.  for  Corn- 
wall, 17  Ed.  11.  Thomas  was  Mayor  of  Faversham  in  1473.  {Arch.  Cant..  III., 
p.  252 ;  XII.,  p.  210  ;  Parliamentary  Betvrn,  1878.) 

(21)  Baldok.  Simon  is  named,  with  other  townsmen,  as  defendant  in  a 
writ  of  Capias,  at  the  suit  of  Philip  de  Jutebergh,  2  June,  33  Ed.  I. ;  in  the 
Computus  of  33  Ed.  I.  ;  in  a  writ  at  the  suit  of  the  Abbot  of  Faversham,  16 
June,  34  Ed.  I.,  for  removing  chattels  which  the  Abbot  had  distrained  ;  the 
heirs  of  Simon  are  referred  to  in  the  tallage  arrears,  15,  16,  and  18  Ed.  II.  ;  and 
Lecia,  in  the  tallage  arrears  of  15  Ed.  11. 

(22)  Goldrinch.     See  Arch.  Cant.,  X.,  p.  228  (?). 

(23)  Dreylond.  The  family  of  Dreyloud,  or  Dryland,  held  an  important 
position  in  the  town  and  neighbourhood  of  Faversham,  and  resided  at  Cooks- 
ditch,  in  Faversham,  from  the  time  of  Ed.  III.  until  the  reign  of  Hen.  VII. 
Wyuand  de  Dryland  was  Rector  of  Snodland,  in  1295.  Robert  Dreyland  held 
a  tenement  in  Sheldwich,  1305.  John  is  mentioned  in  the  Computus  of  33 
Ed.  I.,  and  the  fine  arrears  of  16  Ed.  II.  ;  and  his  widow  in  the  tallage  arrears 
of  18  Ed.  II.  Richard  is  named  in  the  Computus  of  16  Ed.  II.  John  was 
M.P.  for  Kent  in  1425.  James  Dryland  was  of  Davington  ;  he  possessed 
Royton  manor  in  Lenham  in  the  reign  of  Hen.  VI.  His  daughter  and  sole 
heiress,  Constance,  married,  1st,  Sir  Thomas  Walsingham,  2ndly,  John  Grene, 
Esq.  By  her  first  marriage,  she  had  three  sons  and  one  daughter.  She  died  in 
1476.  In  1486,  Robert  Drilond,  gent.,  and  John  Driloud  of  Loudon,  draper, 
with  other  feoffees,  granted  in  pursuance  of  the  will  of  James  Drilond  deceased 
a  rent-charge  of  6s.  8d.,  out  of  lands  in  Davington,  Preston,  Ospringe,  Oare, 
Stone,  Luddenham,  and  Faversham,  to  be  bestowed  by  the  Churchwardens  of 
Faversham  on  the  annual  obit  and  commemoration  of  James  Driland.  Richard 
Dryland  lies  buried,  with  Catherine  his  wife  (daughter  of  Sir  Maurice  Brune, 
knt.),  in  St.  George's  Church,  Botolph  Lane.  London.  He  died  1487.  In  5 
Hen.   VIIL,   Reginald   Dryland   married    Christian,    daughter   and   coheir   of 


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George  Hant  of  Phickley,  and  widow  of  John  Bering.  He  died  2.3  Hen.  VII. 
William  Dryland,  21  Heu.  VII.,  died  seised  of  144  acres  in  Favershatn  and 
Prestou  ;  and  Kichard  and  Matthew  were  his  sons  and  heirs.  Richd.  Dryland, 
senr.,  was  Mayor  of  Favershara  in  1515,  1519,  1524,  15.31  ;  Kichard  in  1532-3-4, 
1541-2-3  ;  John  in  1553  ;  John,  junr.,  in  1555. 

(24)  Not'i.  John  is  mentioned  in  the  Comj)utus  of  33  Ed.  I.  ;  Philip  in  the 
Computus  of  16  Ed.  IT. ;  llalph  in  the  tallage  arrears  of  16  Ed.  II.  ;  the  widow 
of  llalph,  and  the  wife  of  Philip,  as  brewers,  in  a  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III. 

(25)  Shipman.  Adam  is  named  in  the  Computus  of  33  Ed.  I.,  the  tallage 
arrears  of  15  Ed.  II.,  the  Computus  of  16  Ed.  II.,  and  the  tallage  arrears  of 
18  Ed.  II.  Peter  is  named  in  the  tallage  arrears  of  18  Ed.  II.,  and  his  wife  is 
mentioned,  as  a  brewer,  in  a  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III. 

(26)  Stephen  Glanryle.  His  wife  IMabilia  is  named  as  plaintiff  in  an  action 
of  trespass  at  Faversham,  31  Ed.  I. 

(27)  Lc  Blohbrrc.  Henry  is  mentioned  in  the  Computus  of  33  Ed.  I.  ;  his 
widow,  in  the  tallage  arrears  of  15  Ed.  II.  ;  Celestris  in  the  tallage  arrears  of 
18  Ed.  II.  ;  and  the  wife  of  Robert,  as  a  brewer,  in  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III. ; 
Lawrence  was  one  of  the  assessors  of  the  tallage.  -1  Ed.  III. 

(28)  Goldwync.  John  is  named  as  Town  Clerk  in  a  Computus  of  33  Ed.  I., 
and  of  16  Ed.  II.  ;  his  widow  is  mentioned  amongst  the  brewers,  and  Galfi'id 
amongst  the  tipplers,  in  the  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III. ;  Walter  was  a  Juror  in  an 
Inquest  as  to  the  land  of  the  King's  Hospital  at  Ospringe,  36  Hen.  III.  Gilbert 
and  John  were  together  Members  of  Parliament  for  Rochester,  17  Ed.  II. ;  and 
Gilbert  alone  was  Member  in  1  and  4  Ed.  III. 

(29)  Pro  j  sacho.  This  word  is  partly  obliterated  by  damp.  It  probably 
means  a  sack  of  corn,  appropriated  by  the  Purveyors  of  the  Prince,  during  his 
stay  at  the  Maisou  Dieu,  at  Ospringe. 

(  "<  )  Finijt  facta  Anno  Ecgni  Rcf/is  Edivardi  xxx°.  The  following  appears 
to  be  the  record  of  the  Fine  here  referred  to  : — Barones  de  Favereshara  finem 
fecerunt  cum  Rege  coram  venerabili  patre  W.  Coventrie  et  Lychfield  Episcopo 
Thesaurario  Regis  pro  quiugentas  marcas  pro  carta  Regis  habenda  de  dirersis 
libertatibus  per  Regem  concessis  et  pro  perdonatione  amerciamentorum  in  que 
inciderunt  coram  Rege  et  coram  Roberto  de  Burgh  ersh  custode  quinque  por- 
tuum  et  etiam  pro  perdonatione  transgressioniim  per  ipsos  R.  factarum  occa- 
sione  quarundam  libertatum  regalium  quas  sibi  presumptuose  usarpabant  unde 
solvei'unt  in  Garderoba  Regis  Johanni  de  Drokenesford  Custodi  eiusdem  Gar- 
derobe  centum  marcas  et  de  I'esiduis  quadringentis  marcis  solvent  ad  scaccarium 
Regis  in  festo  pasche  anno  domini  m^ccciiij  viginti  libras  et  in  festo  Sti. 
Michaelis  proximo  sequent!  viginti  libras  et  sic  de  anno  in  annum  ad  eosdem 
terminos  quadraginta  libras  quousque  jiredicte  quadringente  marce  Regi  ibidem 
persolvantur  Teste  Rege  apud  Westm.  xv  die  Novembris  anno  regni  Regis 
Edwardi  xxx°. 

(31)  Dns.  Johannes  de  Northenod.  See  "  On  the  brass  of  Sir  John  de 
Northewode  and  Lady  in  Minster  Church,  Sheppey,"  Arch.  Cant..  IX.,  p.  148. 

(32)  Walter  de  Horsele.  Walter  de  Horsele  was  clerk  of  the  iSheriif  of 
Kent.  Richard  de  Horseley  was  M.P.  for  Northumberland,  from  28  Ed.  I.  to 
10  Ed.  IL 

(33)  Edmund  de  Passcle.  See  Arch.  Cant.,  X..  p.  231  {gh).  Edmund  de 
Passele,  afterwards,  became  a  Baron  of  the  Exchequer.  He  was  plaiutiii  in  a 
fine  of  land  and  rent  in  Mid  dele  and  Old  Romney,  7  Ed.  II.  ;  Robert  de  Passele 
was  M.P.  for  Sussex  23  and  28  Ed.  I. 

(34)  Dns.  W'"  de  Bercford.  Rich<*  de  Bereford,  clerk,  was  Lord  Treasurer, 
34  Ed.  I.  One  William  Bereford  became  possessed  of  Sutton  Manor,  in  Borden 
parish,  10  Ed.  IV.     (Hasted's  Hist.  Kent.,  ii.,  p.  565.) 

(35)  Walter  Ostreman.  Walter  Ostreman  was  Town  Sergeant  and  one  of 
the  Keepers  of  the  Market,  32  Ed.  I.  Matilda  is  mentioned  in  the  tallage  of 
1  Ed.  in. 

(36)  J9«.9.  Rohcrtns  de  Wardelbij.  By  indenture,  dated  at  Faversham,  on 
Saturday  next  after  the  Feast  of  S.  Barnabas  the  Apostle,  the  Jiayor  and 
Barons  of  Faversham,  for  his  counsel  and  assistance  against  their  adversaries, 
bound  themselves  to  pay  Sir  Robert  de  Wardell>y  40s.  per  annum,  by  equal 
half-yearly  instalments,  at  Michaelmas  and  Easter. 


202       ARCHIVES    OF    FAVEIISHAM,    A.D.    1301-24. 

(37)  Bovma  Alicie  Seman.  Pleas  were  held  in  the  house  of  the  heirs  of 
Simon  Seman  and  also  in  the  market  and  in  the  churchyard  of  Faversham,  in 
:]1  VA.  1. 

(3.S)  BiKjli.  Sec  Arcli.  Cant.,  X.,  p.  229  (It).  Hamo  is  named  in  Computus 
H3  Ed.  I.,  and  in  tallage  arrears  15  and  16  Ed.  II.  ;  Galfrid,  in  Computus  33 
Ed,  I.  ;  Alanus,  in  tallage  arrears  15  Ed.  II.  ;  Thomas,  in  Computus,  and  in 
tallage  arrears,  16  Ed.  II. 

(3!))  Le  llcrt.  Robert  le  Hert  was  Mayor  in  1323  and  1327,  and  was 
charged  In  a  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III.  in  respect  of  half  of  Kings  mill,  in  Faversham. 
One  Rich''  Ic  Hurt  was  M.P.  for  Lewes,  5  Ed.  II. 

(40)  Dc.  Makrnhaucdc.  The  manor  of  Macknade  is  in  the  adjoining  parish 
of  Preston.  William  de  Makcnhauede  was  bailiff  of  Faversham  in  21  Ed.  I. ; 
John  is  mentioned  in  the  tallage  arrears  15  Ed.  II.,  fine  arrears  K!  Ed.  II.,  and 
tallage  1  Ed.  III. ;  Jaket,  in  tallage  arrears  16  Ed.  II.  ;  Stephen,  in  tallage 
arrears  18  Ed.  II.  In  26  Ed.  III.,  William  was  released,  by  the  Mayor  and 
Commons  of  Faversham,  from  payment  of  tallages  during  his  life.  In  15  Rich. 
II.,  William  dc  Makcnade  had  a  grant  from  Tho"  Chieche  of  20"  rent  out  of  a 
messuage  in  the  Woolmarket  at  Faversham. 

(■41)  Dc  Grnvcnc.  Graveney  is  the  name  of  an  adjoining  parish  and  manor. 
John  de  Gravene,  described  as  one  of  the  Jurats  of  Faversham  in  21  Ed.  I., 
was  grantee,  in  23  Ed.  I.,  of  a  messuage  in  Church  Lane,  near  the  cemetery  of 
the  Blessed  Mary  at  Faversham.  In  24  Ed.  I.,  the  title  of  Richard,  son  of  John, 
to  a  house  in  Faversham,  was  acknowledged  in  Halimot,  before  Nicholas  de 
Dover,  steward,  Walter  Marchal,  mayor,  12  jurats,  and  others  of  the  Commons 
then  present.  Juliana  de  Gravene  is  named  in  the  tallage  arrears,  15  Ed.  II.  ; 
Richd.,  in  the  Computus  of  16  Ed.  II.  ;  and  the  wives  of  Thos.  and  Richard  are 
taxed,  as  brewers,  in  the  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III.  Rich''  was  witness  to  a  grant  of 
land  in  Faversham,  16  Rich.  II. 

(42)  Dp  Molf'fise.     Molash  is  a  parish  adjoining  Chilham. 

(43)  Ate  Stapvle.     Staple  Street  is  in  the  neighbouring  parish  of  Hernhill. 

(44)  De  Badlramer.     Badlesmere,  a  neighbouring  parish  and  manor. 

(45)  Dc  iitopciidone.  Stuppington,  formerly  esteemed  a  manor,  is  in  the 
neighbouring  parish  of  Norton.  Diouesia  de  Stopesdone  is  named  in  the 
tallage  arrears.  15  Ed.  II. ;  and  Henry  Stopyndene,  in  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III. 

(46)  De  Copeton.  Copton  is  the  principal  manor  in  the  adjoining  parish  of 
Preston. 

(47)  Dc  Bronston.  Brinnyston  is  a  borough  in  the  manor  of  Faversham. 
The  heirs  of  John  de  Bronston  are  referred  to  in  tallage  arrears,  15  and  18 
Ed.  II.  Roger  is  named  in  the  tallage  and  fine  arrears,  16  Ed.  II.  ;  and  his 
widow  is  charged,  with  the  brewers,  in  the  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III. 

(48)  Seman.  Pleas  were  held  in  the  house  of  the  heirs  of  Simon,  31  Ed.  I. 
Alice  and  the  heirs  of  Simon  are  mentioned  in  the  Computus  33  Ed.  I.  ;  John 
in  the  tallage  arrears  15  Ed.  II.,  and  Computus  16  Ed.  II. ;  Osbert  and  Peter  in 
tallage  arrears,  16  Ed.  II.  ;  Osbert  in  tallage  arrears,  18  Ed.  II.  The  wives  of 
Osbert  and  Peter  occur  amongst  the  brewers,  in  tallage  1  Ed.  III. 

(49)  De  Cantuaria.  In  23  Ed.  I.,  William  de  Cantuaria  and  Godelend  his 
wife,  daughter  of  Thos.  le  Draper,  sold  a  messuage  in  Church  lane,  Faversham, 
to  John  de  Gravene.  Wm.  de  Cantuaria  is  named  in  the  tallage  arrears,  15 
Ed.  IL 

(50)  Dc  Borer.  Nicholas  de  Dovor  was  Steward  of  Faversham,  21  Ed.  I. 
In  the  pleadings  at  Faversham,  31  Ed.  I.,  is  the  following  : — Memo''  quod  die 
martis  proximo  post  festum  Sti.  Laurencii,  Gilbertus  de  Dovor  venit  coram 
Maiore  ballivo  et  Juratis  et  dixit  quod  homines  de  Galleys  ipsum  ceperunt  in 
nave  sua  per  costcram  Anglic  ex  opposite  de  Drewelle  et  ipsum  duxerunt  usque 
Galleys  et  ibidem  ipsum  imprisonaverunt  et  bona  et  catalla  sua  per  diversas 
particulas  ad  valeutiam  xliij  librarura  x  solidorum  et  viij  denariorum  ceperunt 
et  asportaverunt  et  adhuc  cadem  bona  iujuste  ei  detinent  ad  dampnum  suum  xx 
marcarum  et  hoc  probavit  super  sancta  evangelia  una  cum  comprobatoribus 
subscriptis  videlicet  per  Stephanum  filium  Stei^haui  le  Taylur,  Gilbertum 
Hughelotj  Willelmura  de  Herteye,  Willelmum  Hughclyn,  et  Simonem  de 
Tenham,  qui  omncs  una  cum  predicto  Gilbcrto  sacramenta  prestiterunt.  In  34 
Ed.  I.,  this  Gilbert,  described  as  a  Baron  of  Faversham,  gave  to  John  le  Packer, 


ARCHIVES  OF  FAVERSHAM,  A.D.  1304-24.   203 

a  baron  of  Sandwich,  a  general  power  of  attorney  to  recover  his  goods  and 
debts,  etc.  Wm.,  brother  of  Gilbert,  is  mentioned  in  pleadings  at  Faversham, 
32  Ed.  I.,  and  in  tallage  arrears,  10  Ed.  II.  Matilda  is  mentioned  in  the 
tallage  arrears,  15,  16,  and  18  Ed.  II.,  and  fine  ari'ears  10  Ed.  II.,  and  the  wife 
of  William  is  taxed,  amongst  the  brewers,  in  the  tallage  of  I  Ed.  III. 

(51)  Ate  Mdlc.     See  Arch.  Cant.,  X.,  p.  228  (Ji). 

(52)  Le  Carpenter.  William  is  named  in  the  Computus  33  Ed.  I.,  and 
tallage  arrears  18  Ed.  II.;  and  amongst  the  "  rotiatrices "  in  the  tallage  of 
1  Ed.  III.  ;  Robert,  in  pleadings  32  Ed.  I. ;  and  his  widow,  in  the  tallage 
arrears,  18  Ed.  II. 

(53)  Bremhel.  Robert  is  named  in  Computus,  33  Ed.  I.  ;  Robert  and  John 
in  tallage  arrears,  IG  Ed.  II.  ;  and  amongst  the  sellers  of  fish  in  tallage,  1 
Ed.  III. 

(51)  Rich''  ate  Sindnne.  Sindane,  now  called  Syndale,  is  a  valley  in  the 
adjoining  parish  of  Ospringe. 

(55)  Tannator.  Laurence  is  mentioned  in  the  Computus  and  fine  arrears, 
16  Ed.  II.,  and  amongst  the  Tanners  in  tallage,  1  Ed.  III.  ;  his  wife  is  in  the 
list  of  brewers,  1  Ed.  III.  William  is  mentioned  in  the  tallage  arrears,  18 
Ed.  II.  ;  Robert  amongst  the  tanners,  and  his  wife  with  the  brewers,  in  tallage 
1  Ed.  III.  ;  and  John  amongst  the  tanners,  1  Ed.  III.  Eight  persons  were 
taxed  as  tanners  in  that  year. 

(56)  De  SUfjrave.  Selgrave  is  a  manor  and  borough  in  the  adjoining 
parishes  of  Preston  and  Sheldwich.  Robert  was  collector  of  the  tallage,  15 
Ed.  II.  ;  and  is  named  in  tallage  arrears,  18  Ed.  II,  John  is  named,  with  the 
butchers,  in  tallage  1  Ed.  III. 

(57)  Le  Wronghe.  John  is  mentioned  in  Computus  of  16  Ed.  II.  ;  John  and 
Robei  t,  butchers,  in  tallage  1  Ed.  III. 

(58)  Le  Barber.  William  is  named  in  the  Computus  of  16  Ed.  II.  ;  and 
William,  senr.,  amongst  the  '■  Potiatrices,"  in  the  tallage,  1  Ed.  III.  John, 
junr.,  is  mentioned  in  the  Computus  16  Ed.  II.  ;  and  John  in  the  tallage 
arrears,  16  Ed.  II. 

(59)  Ilanyn.  Peter  is  mentioned  in  the  Computus  16  Ed.  II.,  and  tallage 
arrears  of  16  and  18  Ed.  II.  ;  Peter,  and  Elena  his  wife,  were  plaintiffs  in  a 
fine  in  the  Halimot  Court,  at  Faversham,  15  Ed.  II.,  of  3s.  4Jd.  rent,  from  two 
messuages  of  Robert  le  Deghere  in  Faversham.  The  widow  of  Peter  is  charged, 
with  the  brewers,  in  the  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III.  The  heirs  of  Thomas  are 
referred  to  in  the  tallage  arrears,  18  Ed.  II. 

(60)  Wm.  le  Run.  Wm.  le  Rou.  Clerk  of  Dover  Castle,  on  18  Oct.  15  Ed.  II., 
acknowledged  receipt  of  23s.  lid.  from  the  Mayor  and  Barons  of  Faversham, 
for  their  contingent  due  to  the  Lord  Warden. 

(61)  Henry  Andreii.  Henry  Andreu  was  defendant  in  an  action  at  suit  of 
Philip  de  Jutebergh,  33  Ed.  I.  ;  he  is  named  in  the  Computus  16  Ed.  II.,  and 
tallage  arrears  18  Ed.  II.     He  was  Mayor  in  132-1. 

(62)  BoDius  Dri.  The  Domus  Dei,  or  Maison  Dieu,  in  Ospringe.  partly 
within  the  municipal  limits  of  Faversham,  was  founded  by  Hen.  III.  It  con- 
sisted of  a  Master,  three  regular  and  two  secular  clergy  of  the  Order  of  the 
Holy  Cross.  The  house  contained  a  "  Camera  Regis,"  and  had,  attached  to  the 
foundation,  a  hospital  for  lepers.  The  remains  of  the  buildings,  facing  the 
London  road  or  Watling  street,  are  separated  by  a  mill  stream.  A  modern 
water-mill  marks  the  site  of  one  evidently  standing  there  in  the  reign  of  Ed.  I. 

(63)  Transcriptinn  breve  d'nl  JL  gd.  jjassayium  meliii.<i  cvstodktur.  As  Icur 
chers  confreres  conbarons  &  amys.  A  meyre  &  as  barons  de  Feuershum  le  meyre 
&  les  barons  de  Dovor  salutz  &  fraternelcs  amistez  Cheres  sires  le  mandement 
nostre  seign'  le  Roy  qi  dieu  gard  avoins  rescu  en  ceteforme.  Edward  par  la  gi-acc 
de  Dieu  roy  Dengletcrre  seigneur  Dirlaund  &  Ducks  Daquitaine  a  uoz  chers  & 
foialx  meyre  &  barons  de  nostre  port  de  Dovre  salutz  par  ceo  que  nous  avoins 
entendu  par  gentz  dignes  de  foi  que  plusors  malfcsours  de  diverses  terres  mal- 
voillantz  a  nous  &  a  vous  &  a  tut  nostre  roialme  se  sount  issutz  sur  mer  en  grant 
flote  de  navie  par  faut  a  nous  &  a  nostre  poeple  &  as  marchauntz  venauntz  one 
victailles  dev'  nostre  roialme  en  eide  &  contort  de  nous  &  de  vous  &  de  nostre 
dit  poeple  les  maly  qu  preront  enennablement  queles  choses  nous  ne  p'roms  si 
come  ne  devoins  suffrir  pour  qe  nous  avoins  que  chescun  de  noz  cynk 


201   AKCHIVES  OF  FAVERSHAM,  A.D.  1304-24. 

portz  &  totes  Ics  gcntz  dcs  villcs  flcs  havencs  snr  les  costeres  de  l;i  mccr  en 
iiostre  roialniG  saiintz  deplafaccnt  adrestcr  &.  apparailler  totes  Icur  iiefcs  que 
sont  es  ditcs  havcues  cue  dublc  cskipesoim  bone  Kufficiauuoe  &  defciisable  & 
maudcr  qucre  les  autres  ou  que  eles  soient  &  on  niesnie  la  manere  Icsajjparailler 
si  que  eles  soient  prestes  a  sigler  qucle  beure  qils  soient  sur  ceo  garntez  de  par 
nous  par  noz  aniirails  a  ce  depute  vous  par  ouis  come  ceux  des  queux  nous  nous 
lioins  espcciahnent  en  anaiste  &  chargoins  sur  la  foi  &  la  ligeaunce  a  vous 
nous  dcvetz  &  sur  vous  porrcz  forfans  dev's  nous  vie'  &  member 

femme  cnfauutz  terres  &  tenementz  biens&,  chatcux  que  venes  cetes  lettres  totes 
autres  cboscs  lessees  fates  adrester  totes  voz  nefes  qore  sont  en  ditz  portz  & 
liastinement  quere  totes  les  autres  ou  qu'  eles  soient  &  en  la  manere  sudite 
apparaler  sauntz  endi'  apescher  ou  autre  chose  en  mound  si  q'eles  suffis- 
samment  eskipecs  soient  preestes  si  come  nous  entendoins  q'  eles  sont  par  les 
autres  maundemeutz  que  nous  en  avoins  eiuz  ccs  cures  a  vous  maundez  qucle 
heure  bien  amez  Robt.  Bataille  nostre  Amirail  vous  fera|savoir  dep'  no' 

&  adonqes  ailleut  issi  afforcecs  pour  refrener  la  malice  de  noz  ditz  &  pour 

cux  damager  a  tut  votre  poer  a  la  defense  &  sauvete  de  nostre  roialme  &  de 
noti'e  poeple  &  de  vous  &  de  noz  subgitz  &  amys  dit  port  soit  contrariaunt 

ou  rebel  a  ce  faire  ou  daler  en  afForcement  des  dites  nefes  nous  voloins  & 
mandoms  qil  soit  par  vous  en  tiele  manere  chastiez  en  corps  &  en  chateux  q' 
autres  puisseut  prendre  ensaumple  &  se  chastier  par  lui  car  nous  bionis  estroctre- 
ment  prendre  a  vous  si  defaucte  en  aveigne  que  dieu  defende  Et  voloins  que  quant 
nule  ueef  sera  prise  sur  meer  ele  soit  meuee  a  la  tere  saine  &  sauue  oe  les  geutz 
leurz  trouvetz  &  sauuement  gardetz  tanque  homme  sache  queux  &  doinct  ils  soient 
pour  escliure  les  mals  qui  purroicnt  par  cas  avenir  legei'cmcnt  en  tien  point  as  noz  & 
a  noz  amis  Et  quant  ceste  besoigne  sera  oeleyde  de  dieu  bieu  csploites  nous  voloins 
que  vous  vous  treetz  parlavis  de  notre  dit  amirail  vers  les  parties  detiote  adamager 
noz  enemys  illoeqes  par  totes  les  voies  qu'  entre  vous  sancretz  &  p'retz.  Et  ce  en 
nule  manere  ne  lessez  sur  les  charges  susdites  donne  souz  noti'e  prive  seal  a 
Everwyk  le  jour  de  maii  Ian  de  notre  regne  quinzisirae  cest  commaudement 
veullez  acomplir  de  tout  votre  poer  &  f acez  apparailler  hastinement  quatre  nefes. 
A  dieu  que  vous  gare  par  le  porteur  de  cetes  no'  entierement 

votre  volente  sanz  deslay. 

(6-1)  Dc  Chpella.  Gilbert  was  one  of  twelve  Jurats  of  Faversham,  21 
Ed.  I.  Peter  is  named  in  the  tallage  arrears,  16  Ed.  II.  ;  and  Juliana,  in  the 
tallage  arrears,  18  Ed.  II.  ;  and  in  the  tallage  of  1  Ed.  III.  she  is  charged  as  one 
of  the  "  Potiatrices." 

(65)  Be  Evcvinge.  Thomas  was  defendant  in  an  action  at  the  suit  of  the 
Abbot  of  Faversham  for  removing  distrained  chattels,  33  Ed.  I.  In  38  Hen. 
III.,  the  heirs  of  Henry  de  Everinge  held  one  Knight's  fee  in  Everiuge,  of  the 
barony  de  Albriucis,  in  Folkestone  Hundred.     {Arch.  Cant.,  XII.,  p.  21.5.) 

(66)  Be  Selling.  In  8  John.  8imou,  son  of  Nicholas,  acknowledged  to  his 
brother  Ralph  lands  in  Faversham  and  Selling.  In  33  Ed.  I.,  John  was  defend- 
ant, at  suit  of  the  Abbot  of  Faversham,  for  removing  distrained  chattels.  In  3 
Ed.  II.,  John,  son  of  John,  and  Ralph  and  Richard,  his  brothers,  were  plaintiffs 
in  a  fine  of  a  messuage,  land,  and  rents  in  Selling,  Sheldwich,  and  Badlesmere  ; 
and  in  6  Ed.  II.,  John  was  defendant  in  a  fine  of  a  messuage  and  land  in 
Selling.     {Arch.  Cant.,  IV.,  p.  308  ;  XI.,  pp.331,  350.) 

(67)  Eyngesmille.  A  mill  and  manor  belonging  to  the  Abbey  of  Faversham. 
The  manor  formerly  extended  over  several  houses  in  West  Street,  East  Street, 
and  Abbey  Street.  The  mill  was  in  Tanner  Street,  over  a  stream,  and  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  VI.  the  Abbot  held  bis  prison  there. 

(68)  Le  Nurthercn.  Gilbert  is  named  in  Compotus  33  Ed.  I.  In  81  Ed.  I. 
be  was  sued  at  Faversham  by  ]\latthew  le  Wellse,  butcher,  for  five  pigs,  which 
the  wife  of  Gilbert  had  sold  him  for  ten  shillings  ;  and  he  was  also  sued 
by  Walter  Bealde,  for  5s.  6d.,  which  he  bad  kept  back  fi-om  him  for  two 
years. 

(69)  Be  Cham.  John  de  Campania,  of  the  rieighbouring  parish  of  Newn- 
ham,  with  other  nobles,  was  summoned  to  the  Coronation  of  Ed.  II.  John  de 
Chaumpaigne  was  M.P.  for  Oxford  City  8  and  9  Ed.  II..  and  for  Southampton 
county  10  and  12  Ed.  II. 

(70)  Vicar'  de  Farersham.  Robert  de  Honiton  was  appointed  Vicar  in 
1305,  and  was  succeeded  by  Richard  Wokesbrigg. 


ARCHIVES  OF  FAVERSHAM,  A.D.  1304-24.   205 

(71)  Ate  Wode.  Peter  is  named  in  tallage  arrears  15  Ed.  II.  ;  Steplien  in 
fine  arrears  10  Ed.  TI.  Thomas  de  Wode  was  juror  in  an  Inquest  as  to  a  tene- 
ment in  Ospringe.  20  Hen.  III. 

(72)  Walter  Copijn.  In  7  Ed.  II.,  Walter  Copyn  and  Joanna,  his  wife 
(formerly  wife  of  Thomas  Everard),  were  defendants  in  a  fine  of  lands  and 
rents  in  Daviugton,  Murston,  Luddenham,  and  Stone.  (Arch.  Cant.,  XII., 
p.  298.) 

(73)  De  Scajxya.     The  isle  of  Sheppej. 

(74)  Ate  Pirije.  Perry  Court  is  nn  estate  and  reputed  manor  in  Preston 
next  Faversham.  In  2  John,  Rich''  de  Pirie  acknowledged  half  a  yoke  of  land 
in  Pirie  to  Reginald  de  Faversham  and  Gloria,  his  wife,  for  which  acknowledg- 
ment they  granted  it  to  Rauulf,  his  son.  Wm.  de  Pirye  held  a  Knight's  fee  at 
Buckland.  in  Faversham  Hundred,  3S  Hen.  III.  {Arch.  Cant.,  II.,  p.  254  ; 
XII.,  p.  218.) 

(75)  De  Broh'delc.  Brogdale  is  a  farm  in  Ospringe.  Robert  de  Brokedele 
is  named  in  Pleadings  at  Faversham,  31  Ed.  I. ;  Mabel  in  fine  arrears,  16  Ed. 
II.  ;  and  Michael  in  tallage  arrears,  18  Ed.  II. 

(76)  Concylre.  On  a  creek  in  the  Teynham  marshes  is  a  quay  called 
Conyer. 

(77)  De  Yoklete.     Yorkletts  is  a  farm  in  Heruhill. 

(78)  Denarius  Del.  Earnest  money  given  and  received  by  parties  to  con- 
tracts. The  penny  was  so  called  because  it  was  bestowed  on  the  church  or  on 
the  poor. 

(79)  Quindena.  Fifteenth,  so  called  because  it  amounted  to  a  fifteenth 
part  of  the  sum  at  which  the  town  was  valued. 

(80)  Breve 2}ro2)ter  grossor'.  This  may  refer  to  the  crime  of  ''engrossing," 
which  consisted  in  obtaining  and  holding  large  quantities  of  com  or  other  dead 
victuals  with  intent  to  sell  them  at  unreasonable  prices.  8ee  Blackstonc's 
•'  Commentaries,"  iv.  160. 


INDEX  TO  THE  ABOVE  NOTES  ON  SUENAMES. 


Andreu,  61. 
Ate  Doune,  7. 
Ate  Mclle,  51. 
Ate  Pirye,  74. 
Ate  Sindane,  54. 
Ate  Wode,  71. 
Badlesmere,  44. 
Baldok,  21. 
Barber,  58. 
Basing,  19. 
Batecok,  14. 
Batlescomb,  17. 
Bealde,  18. 
Bereford,  34. 
Bernefield,  9. 
Blobbere,  27. 
Brabazon,  16. 
Brembel,  53. 
Brenle,  12. 
Brokedale,  75. 
Bronston,  47. 
Burghersh,  4. 
Campania,  69. 
Cantuaria.  49. 
Capella,  64. 
Carpenter,  52. 
Cham,  69. 


Chepstede,  5. 
Coneyire,  76. 
Copeton,  46. 
Copyn,  72. 
Cryol,  4. 
Dagh,  38. 
Dane,  5. 
Dod,  13. 
Doune,  7. 
Dovor,  50. 
Dryland,  23. 
Everard,  5,  11. 
Evering,  65. 
Glanvyle,  26. 
Goldfinch,  22. 
Goldwyne,  28. 
Gravene,  41. 
Hanyn.  59. 
Heare,  15. 
Hereword,  20. 
Hert,  39. 
Horsele,  32. 
Kendal  e,  4. 
Makenhauede.  40.  5. 
Marischal,  2. 
Melle,  51. 


Molesse,  42. 
Northeren.  68,  8. 
Northwode,  31. 
Note,  24. 
Orre,  1. 

Ostreman.  35,  5. 
Passele,  33. 
Pirye,  74. 
Robery,  16. 
Ron,  60. 
Scapeya,  73. 
Selling,  66. 
Seman,  37,  48. 
Shipman,  25. 
Silgrave,  56. 
Sindane,  54. 
Stapele.  43. 
Stopesdon,  45. 
Sturey,  3. 
Tannator,  45. 
Upmanton,  10. 
Valoignes.  8. 
Wardelhy,  36. 
Wode,  71. 
Wronghe,  57. 
Yoklete,  77. 


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BUIEFS   IN   THE   PAEISH  OE  CRANBROOK. 

COMPILED   BY   W.    TARBUTT. 

The  accounts  of  the  churchwardens  of  Cranbrook  contain  a 
very  full  list  of  the  sums  collected,  upon  no  less  than  550 
Briefs,  from  a.d.  1652  to  1780.  As  it  may  be  of  use  to  put 
the  details  upon  record,  I  have  epitomised  them  from  the 
Parish  Books.  The  lirst  notice  of  money  collected  by  a 
Brief  is  thus  recorded  : — 

"  1652.  Paid*  to  Daniel  Pierce  for  having  a  brief  to  gather, 
being  driven  out  of  Ireland,  his  loss  being  £1000^£600,t  by  tbe 
advice  of  the  minister,  5s." 

The  majority  of  these  Briefs,  however,  were  issued  to 
assist  those  who  had  suffered  losses  by  fires. 

List  of  I* er sons  and  Flacesfor  lohich  Collections  icere 
made  in  the  Church  or  Fairish  of  Cranbrook. 

■  £     s.    d. 
1659. 

Jonathan  Taylor  of  St.  Bride's,  London,  and 

divers  others 1  4 

Jime  12.  Reginald  Bexter  o£  Ightliam  in  Kent  15     7^ 

Aug.  Inhabitants  of  Soutbwold,  Suffolk 1  17     5 

1660. 

Sep.      9.  Inhabitants  of  Pakenhain,  Norfolk     8     4| 

Sep.    16.  Inhabitants   of   Wapping   in   the  parish   of 

Whitecbapel     16  10 

Nov.  25.  Inhabitants  of  St.  Bartholomew  by  Exchange, 

London 1  10     4^ 

Dec.     9.  Inhabitants  of  St.  Margaret,  "Westminster...  13     6|- 

Jan.  Inhabitants  of  Milton  Abbas,  Dorset 1     4     43- 

Mar.  10.  Inhabitants  of  East  Haybourne,  Berks 14     7i 

1661. 
Mar.  30.   Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Somersetshire......       1     6     2^ 

April  14.  Inhabitants  of  Chertsey,  SuiTey  10     4 

June    9.  Inhabitants    of    Scarborough,  Torks,  where 
churches  of  St.  Mary  and  St.  Thomas  were 

much  injured    16     3 

July  28.  Inhabitants  of  Elemeley    Castle,  Worcester  12     6 

*  By  the  chiirchwardens.  j-  i.e.  £1600. 


BRIEFS    IN    THE   PARISH   OF   CRANBROOK.         207 

£     s.    d. 

Aug.  11.  Inhabitants  of  Pontefract,  Yorks 12     7 

Ang.  25.  Christopher  Spice  and    John    Simmonds  of 

Wateringbury  in  Kent    10     1 

Kathcrine  Uawkes  of  Dover  (shipwreck)     ...  G 

Sep.      1.  Phillip  Dandulo  {A  Maliomctan  Turh)   G 

Sep.    22.  The  Church  of  Bolingbroke,  Lincolnshire...  5 

Sep.    22.  Inhabitants  of  Great  Drayton  G 

Sep.    22.  Eich'' Dutton,  Esq.,  of  Chester 5 

Oct.      6.  Inhabitants  of  Bridgnorth,  Salop 7     1 

Oct.      G.  Inhabitants  of  Buckingham  6 

1G62.     Sami  Mereday  of  Mortlake  in  Surrey 8     3 

May     4.  Henry    Beckley    of    Heston    in    Middlesex, 

husbandman 3     5 

May     4.  Eose  Wallis,  widow,  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen, 

Oxford  3 

May     4.  John  Casyer,  tallow  chandler,  of  Evarsh  in 

Kent 3 

June    8.  Henry  Harrison  (shipwrecked)  on  a  Voyage 

from  Portugal  4     3 

June     8.  Inhabitants  of  Sowerby  in  Thirsk,  Torks  ...  3 

June     8.  Priscilla  Fielder  of  Dartford  in  Kent 2 

June  15.  Inhabitants   of   "Watchet   in   Somersetshire, 

for  houses  destroyed  by  tempestuous  seas  2     G 
July  27.  Mayor  and  Jurats  of  Gravesend  for  repair  of 

the  church ■. G     5 

16G3. 

Church  and  Pews  of  Cromer,  jSTorf oik    12 

1664. 

Will"^   Hamwell,  mariner,  in  the  county  of 

Middlesex,  for  loss  by  Sea  5 

Sandwickham  Serl  and  John  Joan,  shopkeepers, 

Withiham,  Sussex    12     8^ 

Aug.     7.  Tho^  Burchett,  butclier,  AVeybridge,  Surrey  7     9 

Oct.    23.  Inhabitants  of  Fordingbridge,  Southampton  4     9 

Oct.    23.  Lawrence  Holden  of  Clacton  in  Essex 3 

Oct.    23.  For  the  Eeformed  Church  of  Strasburgh  in 

Germany  11  7i* 

Thomas  Weller  received  of  Tho^  Boorman,  sexton,  for  six  briefs 
as  follows  : — 
1G65. 

April  29.  For  Withiham  in  Sussex    5 

Eobert  Ensdell    2 

r  2     6 

No  particulars     \  o 

L  5     G 
July   10.  John  Trimmer  of  Warehorne    [received  by 

Tho^Hogben]  2 

Dec.  16.  For  five  briefs  [received  by  John  Mosman]  14     6 
*  Received  by  John  Playle,  deputy. 


208        BRIEFS   IN   THE    PAllISII   OF    CRANBROOK. 

£     .1.    d. 
1666. 
June    1.  East  Heudred,  Berks  [received  by  W"' Ansty]  3 

1668. 
Nov.     8.  Inhabitants  of  Newport,  Salop   [received  by 

John  Sharpe,  constable] 1  1 

Dec.     6.  Will™  Hollands,  sen''  (poor  and  almost  blind)       15     8 

1669. 
Aug.  29.  For  redemption  of  captives  in  Turkish  slavery 

[received  by  Jno.  Bodham]    19     2 

Oct.    10.  Inhabitants  of  Thetford,  Norfolk   [received 

by  Jonah  Fuller,  constable]    11     6 

1670. 

July         For  Cliff  in  Kent    9 

July  Marshall  Fowler  of  Great  Chart  in  Kent  ...  5     2 

Aug.  28.  A  town  in  Cambridgeshire    8 

Aug.  28.  For  redemption  of  6  persons  in  slavery  4 

Aug.  28.  The  town  of  Ripley  [received  bj' John  Mosmau]  4     3 

Nov.  13.  A  town  in  Huntingdonshire 6  11 

1670. 
Feb.   26.  The  charitable  contributions  of  the  parish- 
ioners of  Cranbrook  upon  His  Majesty's 
brief  for  raising  thirty  thousand  pounds  in 
order  to  the  ransoming  of  English  captives 

out  of  Turkish  slavery     14     1  10* 

Signed,  Cbas.  Buck,  Vicar. 

„      Alexander  G-roombridge  1  />ci       i         j 
„      Isaac  Walter  "     j  Churchwardens. 

1671. 
Mar.  26.  Four  persons  of  Ashford  [received  bv  Jonah 

Fuller]  ". 5     8 

July  23.  For  repair  of  the  Parish  Church  of  Waltham, 

Essex 8 

Jul V  23.  For  Meere  in  Wiltshire 8     5^^ 

Nov.  26.  A  parish  in  Oxford 11 

1672. 
June  16.  Persons  in  a  sugar  house,  Allhallows,  Loudon       19     6 

Sep.    15.  A  town  in  Bedfordshire 10 

Sep.    15.  Mary  Pearson  of  Nettlested,  Kent  10 

1673. 

April  20.  Heston  in  Middlesex      9 

April  20.  A  tallow  chandler  of  Guildford,  Surrey  5 

April  20.  Tho^  Cox  of  Kingston  upon  Thames     5 

April  20.  The  inhabitants  of  Fordingbridge    14     6 

Sep.    28.  The  parish  church  of  West  Beere 10 

*  At  this  collection  the  name  of  every  contributor  is  recorded ;  there  are 
two  hundred  and  seventy-five  persons  in  this  list.  The  Lady  Roberts  gave 
twenty  shillings,  and  Sir.  Charles  Buck,  Vicar,  ten  shillings ;  Willm.  Butcher, 
gent.,  ten  shillings ;  three  persons  5s.  each,  one  4s.,  one  3s.  6d.,  two  3s.  each, 
fifteen  2s.  fid.  each,  four  2s.  each,  nine  Is.  6d.  each,  eighty-two  Is.  each,  one 
hundred  and  one  Gd.  each.  The  remaining  fifty-five  in  smaller  sums,  but  only 
one  person  gave  so  small  a  sum  as  one  penny. 


BRIEFS    IN    THE    PARISH    OF  CRANBROOK.         209 

A     s.    d. 

Sep.    28.  Tho«  Gibbon  of  St.  Margaret  at  ClifFe    8     1* 

Jan.     4.  Nether  Wallop  near  Southampton  G 

Jan.     4.  Edmund  Singer  of  Littleton,  Middlesex 4 

Jan.  4.  For  losses  occasioned  by  a  fire  which  began 
at  the  house  called  the  Theatre  Royal,  near 
Russell  Street,  in  the  parish  of  St.  Martin's 

in  the  field,  London 4     1 

1G74. 

Oct.      1.  For  St.  Catherine's     14  10| 

Nov.     1.  Inhabitants  of  Redborne  in  Hertfordshire  ...  10 

1G75. 

April  18.  RoV  Butler  of  Hawkhurst    17  10 

Aug.  29.  Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Norfolk 14     3 

1G76. 
July  30.  For  rebuilding  Oswestree  church  in  Salop  ...  7 

July  30.  For  i-ebuilding  a  church  in  Gloucestershire  7     7 

1G77. 
Aug.  12.  Inhabitants  of   Cottenham,   Cambridgeshire  9  11 

Aug.  12.  Inhabitants  of  Topham,  Devonshire     9     3^ 

Aug.  2G.  A    distressed    Protestant    Minister   of    the 

Gospel,  a  native  of  Hungary 17     5^ 

Mar.  10.  A  town  in  Buckinghamshire 12     1 

1G78. 
Sep.    15.  Inhabitants  of   St.    Mary   Magdalene,   Ber- 

mondsey    6     6 

Sep.    15.  "Wem  in  Salop     12 

1679. 
Sep.    28.  Repairing    the    church   of    Windlesham    in 

Surrey   9     6 

Sep.    28.  Inhabitants  of  Arapthill,  Beds  5     6 

Oct.  29.  The  collection  made  in  the  town  of  Cranbrook 
towards   rebuilding   the   Cathedral   of   St. 

Paul's,  London 3     8     2* 

1G80. 

Oct.   10.  The  charitable  collection  made  in  the  parish 

of  Cranbrook  towards  the  redemption  of 

English  captives  out   of  Turkish    Slavery 

upon  his  Majesty  brief  set  forth  for  that 

purpose 8  16       f 

Jan.  Inhabitants  of  East  Dereham,  Norfolk    2  IG 

1G81. 
July  31.  Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Cambridgeshire     ...  9     9 

July  31.  William  Durrant  and  John  Hayraau  of  East 

Peckham  10 

*  At  this  collection  there  were  thirty -nine  contributors.  The  Lady  Roberts 
twenty  shillings,  Sir  Thos.  Roberts,  Bart..  10s.  :  Mr.  Chas.  Buck,  Vicar,  10s.  ;  the 
rest  in  small  sums,  none  less  than  id.  each. 

t  At  this  collection  there  were  one  hundred  and  forty-four  contributors. 
Mr.  John  Cook  21s.  6d..  Chas.  Cook  10s.,  the  Lady  Roberts  10s.,  Sir  Thos. 
Roberts  10s..  Mr.  Chas.  Buck,  Vicar,  10s.  ;  six  persons  gave  5s.  each  ;  the  re- 
mainder in  small  sums  from  2s.  6d.  each  down  to  2d.,  none  less. 

VOL.    XIY.  P 


210    BRIEFS  IN  THE  PARISH  OF  CRANBROOK. 

£    s.    d. 
1682. 
April  23.  The  Collection  made  in  the  parish  o£  Cran- 
brook,   upon   his  Majesty's   brief  for   the 

relief  of  French  Protestants 7  13     5* 

June  18.   Divers  inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Staffordshire  G  11 
June  18.  An  innkeeper  aud  other  inhabitants  at  Staf- 
ford, in  Staffordshire 6  10 

July  16.  For  repair  of  the  Parish  Church  of  St.  Albans  10 

July  30.  Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Lincolnshire 16     2^ 

Aug.  27.  A  parish  in  the  borough  of  Southwark   15     4 

Sep.    27.  Inhabitants  of  Colomptou  in  Devonshire    ...  16     2 

1683. 
July  19.  Inhabitants  of  St.  Catherine,  near  the  Tower 

of  London     1     5 

Aug.  12.  Inhabitants  of  Enshain,  Oxfordshire 17     8 

Aug.  12.  Inhabitants  of  Stoke,  Suffolk 17 

Feb.    25.  The  Collection  for  the  fire  at  Wapping  4  16     Sf 

1684. 
April  16.  The  Collection  made  upon  his  Majesty's  brief 

for  the  fire  at  Newmarket 2     6     2J 

May  11.  A  town  in  Cambridgeshire 6  11 

May  11.  The  Cluirch  and  Vicarage  House  of  a  parish 

near  Southampton   10     0 

July  13.  Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Devonshire 10       i 

July  13..  The  town  of  E-usswick,  in  the  North  Riding 

of  Yorkshire     11 

Sep.    21.  To  rebuild  the  Church  of  Portsmouth  14     4i 

Sep.    21.  Inhabitants  of  a  tow^n  in  jS ottinghamshire  ...  10 
Oct.    19.  Chanwell  Row,  St.   Margaret's,  Westminster  11 
Oct.  19.  Inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Brentford  suffer- 
ing loss  by  the  overflow  of  the  river  there  7     7 
1685. 

May   10.  Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Oxfordshire  7     li 

May  10.  Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Staffordshire 8 

May  31.  Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Dorsetshire  12 

May  31.  Inhabitants  of  a  town  in  Lincolnshire  (Mar- 
ket Deeping)    6 

May  31.  Inhabitants  of   a  town  in  Northamptonshire  6 

Aug.  30.  Inhabitants  of  Bulford  in  "Wiltshire 10 

Aug.  30.  Inhabitants  of  a  parish  in  Ely  10     6 

*  Thei'e  were  thirty-five  jiersous  contributed  at  this  collection.  Sir  Thos. 
Eoberts,  Bart.,  40s.  ;  Lady  Roberts,  21s.  6d. ;  Mr.  Edmund  Trench,  21s.  6d.  ; 
Mr.  Thos.  Brand,  20s. ;  Mr.  Chas.  Buck,  Vicar,  10s.  ;  three  at  .5s.  each ;  the  rest 
in  small  sums,  none  less  than  4d. 

f  There  are  no  less  than  one  hundred  and  ninety-two  contributors  recorded 
for  this  collection.  Sir  Thos.  Roberts,  Bart.,  5s. ;  Mr.  Edmund  French,  2s.  6d.  ; 
Widow  Hovenden,  2s.  6d.  ;  Mrs.  Bridgett  Rolfe,  3s.  6d.  ;  Mrs.  Ann  Sharp,  2s. ; 
no  other  contributor  above  Is. ;  and  the  far  greater  portion  only  Gd.  and  less. 

J  At  this  collection  eighty-one  names  are  recorded.  Sir  Thos.  Roberts,  Bart., 
5s.  ;  Mr.  Chas.  Buck,  Vicar,  2s.  6d. ;  and  Abraham  Walter.  2s.  6d. ;  no  other 
contributor  above  Is.  ;  and  by  far  the  largest  number  Gd,  and  less. 


BRIEFS   IN    THE    PARISH    OF    CRANBROOK.         211 

£      s.      d. 

Sep.   20.  Inliabitants  of  a  town  in  the  North  Eiding 

of  Yorkshire    10 

Sep.   20.  Inhabitants  of  Alfriston,  Sussex   11  10 

1686. 

May  9.  A  collection  made  in  the  parish  of  Cran- 
brook  for  the  relief  of  the  French  Pro- 
testants            5  12     6* 

July  25.  Inhabitants  of  Kirksanton,  in  Cumberland, 
where  sand  stoj)ped  up  the  river,  and  300 
acres  were  overflowed 14     2 

July  25.  Inhabitants  of  Secklinghall  in  Yorkshire 10 

Sep.      5.  Inhabitants  of  Stanton  in  Suffolk 7     6 

Sep.  5.  For  rebuilding  the  steeple  of  the  Church  of 
Eynsbury,  in  Huntingdonshire,  which  fell 

down 8 

1687. 

June  19.  Inhabitants  of  Merriton,  Salop 11     3 

\_Date  not  recorded  hut  I  tliinh  in  this  year.'] 

Another    collection  for  the  French    Protes- 
tants            8  18     2t 

1689. 

July  14.  Collected  for  the  relief  of  present  sufferings 

of  the  Irish  Protestants 21  17  10 

1690. 

April  12.  Poor  people  of  Bungay  in  Suffolk 3 

April  26.  Poor  people  of  a  town  in  Hampshire    1 

Sep.    28.  Collected  for  relief  of  Irish  Protestants 7 

Nov.  16.  Poor  people  of  East  Smithfield,  London  

Nov.  30.  Poor  people  of  St.  Ives,  Huntingdonshire  . . . 

Dec.  14.  Poor  people  of  Bishop  Lavington,  in  Wilt- 
shire   

Dec.   14.  Poor  people  of  Stafford,  in  Staffordshire 

Dec.    31.  Poor  people  of  St.  George's  in  the  Borough, 

Southwark    2 

Mar.  22.  Poor  people  of  Morpeth  in  Northumberland 
1691. 

Sep.    25.  Poor  persons  at  Teignmouth  and  Sheldon  in 

Devonshire    3 

Oct.      4.  John  Clopton  of  Norwich  

Oct.  4.  Poor  persons  of  Thirsk,  in  the  North  Riding 
of  Yorkshire 

Mar.  20.  Poor  persons  of  Bealt,  Brecon  

*  There  were  one  hundred  and  eleven  contributors  to  this  collection.  8ir 
Thos.  Roberts,  Bart.,  20s.  Three  friends  at  the  mansion,  5s.  each,  and  the  maid- 
servants collected  2s. ;  Mr.  Chas.  Buck,  Vicar,  5s.  The  rest  in  small  sums  from 
2s.  6d.  down  to  2d. 

f  At  this  collection  sixty-five  names  are  recorded.  Sir  Thos.  Roberts,  Bart., 
43s.  Three  fi-iends  at  the  mansion  10s.  each.  Mr.  John  Cook,  20s. ;  Mr.  Chas. 
Buck,  Vicar,  10s. ;  six  contributors  5s.  each.  The  rest  from  2s.  6d.  down  to  2d. 
each. 

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212        BRIEFS    IN    THE    PARISH   OF    CRANBROOK. 

£     s.      d. 

1G02. 

Mar.  27.  Poor  persons  of  a  town  in  Torksliire    10     1^ 

July  17.  Poor  persons  of  Havant  in  Southampton  ...  13 
Dec.     4.  Poor  persons  of  Ledbury  in  Iferetbrdshire  ...  8 
Jan.    22.  Poor  persons  of  several  places  in  Northum- 
berland damaged  by  fire  and  by  the  French  11     3 
Feb.   12.  Poor  persons  of  Elseworth  in  Cambridgeshire  8     2 

1693. 

April  16.  Poor  persons  at  a  saw  mill  yard  in  Lambeth  9     4 

July      9.  Poor  persons  of  Churchill,  in  Oxfordshire ...  12     4 

Aug.     6.  Poor  persons  of  Dennis  Gruuton,  in  Norfolk  11     4 

Jan.      7.   Poor  persons  of  Wooler,  in  Northumberland  9     9 

1694. 

May  27.  Poor  persons  at  Yalding     7     9 

June  23.  Collected  for  relief  of  French  Protestants...       4  3 
Sep.    30.  For  rebuilding  the  Church  of  St.  Bridget  in 

Chester 10     7 

1695. 
Mar.  31.  Poor  sufferers  by  fire  at  Warwick 5 

1704. 

Mar.     3.  Poor  persons  of  South  Moulton    7     6 

1705. 

April  29.  For  the  Church  at  Menshall  10     5i 

Sep.   16.  John  Sainton  9     7| 

Sep.    30.  Beverley  Church 9     4^ 

Feb.   10.  SamiAlliu    5     9^ 

Mar.  17.  All  Saints  Church,  Oxford 7     6^ 

1706. 

May  12.  Bradmoor  Bridge     6     8^ 

June  23.  Chatteris,  Isle  of  Ely 6  10^ 

Aug.     4.  St.  Saviour's,  Southwark    5       ^ 

Oct.    13.  Morgan's  Lane,  Southwark    10     8|- 

1707.  [N.B.— _Frow  A.D.  1707  to  1727  the  entries  are 

extremely  ct(,rt.~\ 

May  29.  Touches,  loss  by  fire    6     8 

June    8.  Shireland 5     7f 

June  29.  Spilsby 6    9^ 

July  20.  North  Marston  Bridge   8 

Aug.  10.  Littleport,  Isle  of  Ely    8     4 

Dec.  14.  Haviltree  8     9| 

Dec.  21.  Dursby  Church 7  10| 

Dec.  28.  Oxford  Church     7     5^ 

Feb.   22.  Sufferers  from  fire  in  Charles  Street,  "West- 
minster   9     5^ 

Feb.  29.  Southampton    9     9 

1708. 

May    17.  Lisbourne  in  Ireland  4     8     3 

July     7.  Bewdley   7     9i 

July   11.  Doruey 7     3 

Oct.    10.  Persons  at  Alconbury,  Huntingdonshire 8  10^ 


BRIEFS    IN    IHE    PARISH   OF    CRANBROOK.        213 

&       s.      d. 

June    6.  Great  Yarmouth 

June  13.  Shadwell   

June  20.  Wincauton   

June  27.  The  Protestant  Church  in  the  Dutchy  of  Berg 
Mar.  13.  The  Parish  Church  of  Brenchley 

1709. 

April  12.  Cannongate,  Edinburgh 1 

May  29.  St.  Mary,  Eedcliffe  Church,  Bristol 

July  10.  Harley  Bridge 

Aug.  28.  Llanvilling   

Sep.    18.  Market  Eayson    

Oct.  18*  For  the  suffering  inhabitants  of  The  Palati- 
nate        12 

Oct.   22.  Stock     

Oct.   22.  Holt  Market 1 

Nov.     1.  Stroud  1 

1710. 

April  IG.  Mittan  

June  18.  Ashton  Super  Mersey 

Sep.    17.  Stockton  Church 

Sep.   24.  Northfleet  and  Durant  [Darenth]     

Oct.     8.  Eotherhithe  Wall    

Nov.  19.  Clusson  St.  Peter's  Church  

Feb.     4.  Twyford    

Feb.   18.  Ensham     

Feb.   25.  Cardigan  Church     

Mar.  11.  On  Hangley 

Mar.  11.  Eotherhithe  Church    

1711. 

May     8.  Cockermouth  Church 

July     8.  St.  Mary's  Church,  Colchester 

July  15.  Loss  by  fire  at  Edinburgh 

Aug.  12.  Wishen  Church  and  Steeple 

Aug.  19.  St.  Helen  alias  Edington    

Sep.     9.  Cha^  Empson    

Feb.  17.  Woolwich  Church   

Mar.  16.  Longmelford  Church 

1712. 

Mar.  30.  Fadmore  and  Market  Poyson    

June    2.  Little  Brickhill    

July     5.  White  Church 

Aug.  10.  Clement's  Church    

Aug.  24.  Thames  Street 

Sep.    14.  West  Tilburv  Church 

Sep.    28.  Eich'^  Salter'. 

Jan.    21.  Alderly  Church    

Feb.    22.  Coleorton  Church 

Mar.  22.  Pensford  Church 

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21i        BRIEFS    IN    THE   TARISn   OF    CRANBROOK. 

£      5.    d. 

1713. 

Mar.  27.  Battle  Bridge  13  11 

June    6.  Burton  Church    9     9^ 

July  18.  Southwell  Church    9     9-^ 

July   26.  Woodham  Ferrers  Church 6 

Aug.     9.  Will'"  Adams   B     H 

Sep.     6.  Rudgley    C  11 

Sep.   27.  Wariningham  Church 2     7f 

Dec.  27.  Leighton  Church 3     4^ 

Jan.    17.  St.  Mary  Church 5     1 

Feb.   28.  Qualf or d  Church 2     9^ 

Mar.  21.  St.  Margaret  at  Cliffe  Church  3     3 

1714. 

April   4.  Witheridge  and  Chilton 2  lOi 

April  18.  Sheepwash  Church 3     6f 

1715. 

Jan.   22.  Dryneton  and  Slimbridge  3     6 

Feb.     5.  Blimhill  Church  1     6^ 

Feb.   12.  Eentford  in  Sufeolk    3     2 

July  10.  St.  Giles'  Church,  Newcastle-under-Liue    ...  2     2^ 

July  24.  St.  Peter's  Church,  Chester  7 

Sep.      4.  St.  Marv's  Church 1     4^ 

1716. 

Mar.  25.  Mitcham  and  Lithwood 3     7^ 

April  15.  Walkerwith  aud  Eldersham  '. 2     7^ 

May     6.  Liverpool 5     3^ 

May   13.  John  Aron  ?     4     8} 

June    3.  New  Church,  Sunderland  2     7 

June  16.  Cowkeepers 16     3 

Oct.    28.  Upton  and  Teuipsford   5       ^ 

Nov.  18.  Thames  Street 6     5^ 

Dec.     9.  Burton 1  lOf 

Jan.   13.  Spalding   8     7 

Feb.   16.  Chetmarsh  and  Ryton     6       ^ 

Mar.  10.  Eidgmont 3     7^ 

1717. 

April28.  Ottery  St.  Mary 4     5^ 

May  12.  Houudsditch    4     5f 

June  21.  The  Reformed  Church  of  Poland 9     1 

1727.        [N.B.— iVb  record  of  Briefs  hetween  1717  and  1727.] 

May   14.  Little])ort,  Cambs.,  and  Baddeley,   Cheshire  8     If 
A  Brief  for  Craubrook  Church,  but  never  read  [here]. 

July  16.  Gibson  Church,  Leicestershire 5     1^ 

July  30.  St.  Peter's  Church,  Oxford    5     7^ 

Aug.  27.  Stamford,  Lincolnshire  7     2^ 

Jan.    14.  Barden  Joyce  Church 4     4^ 

Mar.  17.  Great  Wilbraham,  Cambridgeshire   ,  4     4^ 

1728. 
Mar.  28.  Collected  from  house  to  house  for  Alecester 

Church,  Warwickshire    14     9 


BRIEFS   IN   THE    PARISH   OF    CRANBROOK. 


215 


June  23 


July 

21. 

Aucr. 

11. 

Sep. 

29. 

Oct. 

20. 

Jan. 

19. 

Feb. 

9. 

Mar. 

9. 

1729. 

Mar. 

30. 

April 

'13. 

May 

19. 

June  15. 

July 

20. 

Aug. 

17. 

ISep. 

28. 

Oct. 

19. 

Nov. 

9. 

Nov. 

30. 

Feb. 

8. 

Mar.     8 


1730. 

May 
June 

31. 
19. 

July 

26. 

Aug. 
Sep. 
Oct. 

30. 
20. 
10. 

Jan. 

17. 

Jan. 

30. 

Feb. 

28. 

1731. 

Mar. 

28. 

April 
June 

25. 

20. 

July 

11. 

July 
Aug. 

25. 

8. 

Aug. 

29. 

Sep. 
Oct. 

26, 
10. 

£      *.  d. 
.  Collected  from  house  to  house  for  St.  John, 

AV^apping 1     4  11 

Hiutou  in  the  Hedges,  Northamptonshire  ...  6  2^ 

,  Yarme  Church,  Yorkshire 5  4^ 

Trinity  Church,  Chester 4  8 

Graveseud  (estimated  loss  by  fire  £21,232) 

collected  from  house  to  house    5  6^ 

St.  Hylda's  Chapel,  Durham 5  8 

.  Branston  Church,  Rutlandshire     6  4 

.  Whitegate  Church,  Chester  4  7 

,  St.  Swithen  Church,  "Worcester    5  9 

,  St.  Andrew's  ir(7/'5o2^r,  Scotland   10  1 

.  Fulborne,  Cambridgeshire 5  4|- 

Rickinghan  and  Batesdale  in  Suffolk    6 

,  Napston  Church,  "Warwickshire    7  3 

,  Tamworth  Church,  "Warwickshire     7  4 

.  Collected  from  house   to   house  for  Stilton, 

Huntingdonshire 1     7  4 

Pershore  Church,  "Worcestershire     5  10;^ 

St.  John  Baptist  Church,  Gloucester    5  7 

Melbourne,  Cambridgeshire   7 

Horneck   and   Wheelock   in  Middlesex   and 

Chester 5  1 

"\Yorthenbury  Church,  Flintshire 3  6 

Estimated 
Loss  or  Cost. 
£ 

1207     Bearly,  "Warwickshire   5  8 

2685     Wroot,  Lincolnshire  (inundated)    ...  5  8 
1220     Eepair  of  Chapel  at  Bilston,  Stafford- 
shire       5  1^ 

,     3424     Hinckley,  Leicestershire  7  10    . 

,     1325     Colnbrook  Chapel,  Buckinghamshire  6  2 

,     4766     St.  Michael's  Church,  Southampton...  7 

1100     Landdullwas  Church,  Denbigh     5 

.     1016     Yarborough,  Lincolnshire     5  5 

,     1112     Kidderminster,  "Worcestershire   4  10 

,     1461     Ouston  Church,  Ebor    4  9 

1186     Denbigh  Chapel,  Denbighshire    4  6 

Frigh  Church,  Derbyshire    7  2 

Mistly  Church,  Essex  6  2 

Landaff  Cathedral,  Glamorganshire  .  8 
Tetbury  Church,  Gloucestershire    ...  7- 
Broughtou  Sulney  Church,  Notting- 
hamshire   6  1^ 

Endsham  Church,  "Worcestershire  ...  7  Ij 

Wiersdale  Chapel,  Lancaster  5 


216        BRIEFS    IN   THE    PARISH    OP    CRANBROOK. 


Estimated 
Loss  or  Cost. 

£                                                                                       &    s.    d. 
Nov.  19.     6787     Newton  Castle,  Stur minster,  Dorset- 
shire      6 

Dec.    12.     1249     All  Saints  Church,  Sussex    5     3 

Jan.      9.     2097     Bozeat,  Northamptonshire  7 

Feb.    13.     1085     Wooton  under  Edge,  Gloucestershire  5     3 

1732. 

Mar.  25.     1009     Calcott,  Gloucestershire  6     6 

June  11.     12G9     Maunton,  Rutlandshire    5     6 

June  25.     1147     Draycott  Church,  Staffordshire  G     6 

July   16.     1417     Newbold  upon  Avon,  Warwickshire.  6     3 

July  30.  11776     liamsey,  Huntingdonshire    2     2     8 

Aug.  27.     2000     Stowerbridge  Church,  Worcestershire  8     5-^ 

Sep.    24.     1100     Abbey  Lanor  Church,  Cumberland...  7     9 
Oct.      8.     1006     Bishop  Norton  Church,  Lincolnshire 

Oct.    20.     1369     Barton  upon  Humber,  Lincolnshire...  5     8 

Nov.  19.     1201     Well  Church,  Lincolnshire  3     6 

Dec.    10.     1293     North  Stonham,  Southampton 5     2 

Dec.    31.     1500     Austerfield,  Yorkshire  5     2 

Jan.    14.     1053     Wood  Plumpton,  Lancashire  4 

Feb.    11.     2097     Dudley  Church,  Worcestershire 4     2 

1748. 

June  28.     3555     Wellington  Church,  Salop    1     2     9* 

Aug.  25.     1145     Snareston  Chapel,  Leicester    3  10 

Oct.      3.     1335     Weyhill,  Soutliampton 17     8* 

Oct.      9.     1246     Woodplumpton  Chapel,  Lancaster ...  4     2 

1749.         [N.B.— A^o  record  of  Briefs  between  1732  and  1748.] 
June  18.     1177     Berkley  Church,  Gloucestershire     ...  3     2^ 
July     9.     1442     Chadsley  Corbett,  Worcestershire  ...  6     4^ 
Sep.    10.     1366     Sutton  Coldfield  and  Benbrook,  War- 
wickshire   9     8 

Oct.      8.     1006     Denbigh,  Denbighshire 4     6 

1750. 
May   13.     1014     Bishop Thornton,Torkshire ;  Audlem, 

Cheshire;  and  Adlington, Lancaster  4  10|- 

June  24.     1392     Hanley  Chapel,  Yorkshire    5     1^ 

July   15.     1076     St.  Nicholas  Church,  Warwick    4     6 

July  29.     1135     Hatton  Grafton  and  Saxton,  York- 
shire      6     3| 

Aug.  26.     1681     Kelvedon  Hatch  Church,  Essex 5     5 

Oct.      4.     1625     Rebuilding   of   Sterrington    Church, 

Sussex 16     1* 

Dec.  17.     4228t  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  Bermondsey  ...  14     2* 

Jan.    13.     1036     Thurston  and  Harden,  Yorkshire  ...  8     3 

1753. 

Jan.   21.     1530     Greasly  Church,  Notts 4     6 

Feb.     1.     1060     Seighford  Church,  Staffordshire 6     2 

*  Collected  from  house  to  house. 

•)•  The  loss  was  occasioned  by  a  great  storm  of  hail. 


BRIEFS    IN    THE    PARISH    OF   CRANBROOK.         217 

Estimated 
Loss  or  Cost. 

£  £    s.      d. 

Mar,     4.     1115  Effingham  Cliurcli,  Surrey   

Mar.  25.     1200  Fordyke  Chapel,  Lincolnshire 

May   13.     1050  Eanville  and  Dawlish  in  Southampton 
1754. 

June  16.     1135  Addmgton  Church,  Yorkshire 

July  14.     1030  Rushock  Church,  AVorcestershire   ... 

July  28.     1057  Flocton  Chapel,  Yorkshire  

Aug.  18.     1032  Newborough  Chapel,  Staffordshire... 

Sep.      8.     10G6  Hale  Chapel,  Lancaster    

Oct.    20.     1145  Ampleforth,  Sussex  

1755. 

Jan.    19.     1070  Dorsiugtou  Church,  Gloucestershire 

Feb.    16.     1650  Harbourne  Church,  Staffordshire   ... 

Mar.  16.     1145  Marsden  Chapel,  Yorkshire 

April  13.     1030  Coppult  Chapel,  Lancaster  

May  11.     1120  Kingston  Church,  Derbyshire 

June  15.     1030  Newnham  Church,   Gloucestershire 

July  13.     1170  Gorton  Chapel,  Lancaster    

Aug.  10.     1030  Rastack  Chapel,  Yorkshire 

Sep.    22.  11890  Hindon,  Wiltshire     8 

jSTov.     9.     1320  Ruthin  Church,  Denbighshire     

1756. 

Jan.    25.     1020  Morton  Church,  Nottingham 

Feb.   15.     1248  Robert  Town,  Yorkshire  ;  Holbeton, 

Devonshire    

Mar.  28.     1195  Hemsley,  Yorkshire 

April  25.     2250  Penton  Meavesey,  Southampton     ...       1 

July  11.     1023  Lightliffe  Chapel,  Yorkshire   

Aug.  22.     1004  Heathfield  Church,  Sussex  

Sep.  12.     1130  Prief  Church,  Shropshire     

Sep.    26.     1420  Clunn  Church,  Shropshire  

Oct.  25.     2212  JS^ewenden  and  Rolvenden  in  Kent 

and  in  Sussex    2 

1757. 

June  19.     1053  Ellenhall  Church,  Staffordshire  

July  14.     1005  Corely  Church,  Shropshire 

Aug.  14.     1040  Wallaza  Church,  Chester 

Sep.    18.     1271  Dwygyfylchi    Church,      Carnarvon- 
shire      4     9 

Oct.    25.     2250  Fortifications     at    Brighthelmstone, 

Sussex    15     0^ 

1758. 

Jan.     8.     1169  North  Hayling,  Southampton 8     8 

Feb.  19.     1439  Kuockin,  Salop 7  llf 

April   9.     1012  Wick  and  Monk  Sherborne,  in  Berk- 
shire and  Southampton 7  11|- 

Aug.  13.     1049  Anstey  Church,  Warwick    7     9f 

Aug.  20.     1062  Woodbridge  Church,  Shropshire    ...  5     4f 

Aug.  27.     1180  Wellington  Church,  Staffordshire  ...  7     2i 


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218        BRIEFS    IN    THE    PAUISH    OF    CRAKBllOOK. 

Estimated 
Loss  or  Cost. 

£  £    .?.    d. 

Sep.    10.     10G9     Stoke  Talmie  Church,  Oxfordshire...  7     4 

Sep.    17.     1220     Edgware  Church,  Middlesex    6     3 

Sep.    27.     11-1'7     Briid^wortli  Church,  AViltshire;  Can- 
ford  Church,  Dorsetshire     10     2\ 

15.     1107     Dorchester,     Dorsetshire ;      Temple 
Farm,       Staffordshire ;       Earith, 

Huntingdonshire  10     2\ 

1759. 

Jan.   14.     1160    Acton  Church,  Chester 

Eeb.  11.     1131     Norburry  Church,  Staffordshire 

Mar.  18.     1066     Sulcoates  Church,  Yorkshire  

Aprils.     2776     St.  Warburg  Church,  Bristol  

April  22.     1326     Wapping,  Middlesex    

May  22.     1376     Audirly  Church,  Lincolnshire 

June  17.     1162     Lutterworth  Church,   Leicestershire 

July  15.     1257     Windlebury  Church,  Oxfordshii-e  ... 

Aug.  19.     1089     Tadcaster  Church,  Yorkshire 

Sep.      9.     1077*  Iping  Church,  Sussex  

Oct.      2.     1231*  Chalk  Church,  Kent 

Oct.   22.     3100     Eor  the  Church  in  the  kingdom  of 

Wesphalia 1 

Nov.  25.     1058     Sandford   Mills    in   Berkshire    and 

Southampton 

1760. 

Feb.  24.     1088     Landf  air,  Montgomery     

Mar.  23.     1086     BryonEglevy  Church,  Denbighshire 

April  13.     1254     Wroxeter  Church,  Shropshire 

April  27.     1200     Eastwood  Church,  Nottinghamshire 

June    8.     1110     Stokeferry  Church,  Norfolk    

July  13.     1198     Bunhill    Eow,    Middlesex;     North- 
sway,  Southampton  

Aug.  10.     1200     Kingswood,  Wiltshire  

Sep.    28.     1183     Trowlesworth  Church,  Leicestershire 

Sep.    14.     1122     St.    Peter's     Church,     WaUingford, 
Berks 

Oct.    19.     1042     Orton  Church,  Leicestershire 

1761. 

Feb.  18.     1333     Standford  in  the  Vale,  Berkshire     . . . 

Mar.    8.     1151     Bengeworth,  Worcestershire;  Fear- 
by,  Yorkshire 

Mar.  29.     1016     Warden  Church,  Northumberland... 

April  12.     4293     Haddenham,  Bucks  2 

1764. 

Nov.  18.  12798     Damage  done  in  Kent  by  a  hailstorm       5 
1765. 

Feb.   10.     1077     Penu  Church,  Staffordshire 

Mar.  17.     1373     Leytham  Church,  Lancaster    

April  21.     1446     Collingboui'ne  and  Abbotsford    

*  Loss  by  fire. 


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BRIEFS   IN   THE   PARISH    OF    CRANBROOK.        219 


Estimated 
Loss  or  Cost. 

June    9.     1119  Claybrook  Church,  Leicestershire  ... 

May  19.     1500  Ilalghton,  Flintshire     

June  30.     1030  Yorkshire  (hailstorm)  

July  14.     1205  Chaltou     Church,    Northumberland 

(hailstorm) 

Aug.  11.     7040  Berkshire  (liailstorm)  

Sep.      8.     1786  Sankey  Chapel,  Lancaster  - 

Sep.    29.     1125  Tudely  Church,  Kent  1 

Oct.   20.     1022  Hampshire  (hailstorm) 

Nov.  23.     1635  Alne  Church,  Yorkshire  

1766. 

Jan.  26.     1000  Lulliugton  Church,  Derbyshire  

Feb.   16.     1102  Croft  Church,  Leicestershire  

Mar.  16.     1200  Raudwick  Church,  Grloucestershire... 

April  13.     1318  Alston  Church,  Cumberland    

June    8.     2271  St.  Martin's  Church,  "Worcester 

June  22.     1441  Doddleston  Church,  Chester    

July  13.     1121  High  Offley  Church,  Staffordshire... 

July  27.     1270  L.  Pendegle  Church,  Denbighshire... 

Aug.  10.     1070  Kilby  Church,  Leicestershire  

Sep.   21.     1020  Dewsbury  Church,  Y'orkshire 

Aug.  31.     1043  Kirby  Church,  Lancaster 

Oct.   12.     1036  Bransby  Church,  Yorkshire 

Nov.  19.  87580  Fire  at  Montreal,  in  the  Province  of 

Quebec,  America 5 

Dec.  14.     1165  Thursfield  Chapel,  Staffordshire 

1767. 
Mar.     8.     1009  Brinkburn  Chapel,  Northumberland 
April  12.     1025  Aberavon  Church,  Glamorganshire... 
1019  East  Haddon  Church,  Northampton- 
shire     

1236  Carwin  Church,  Merionethshire 

1048  Wiltshire  and  Yorkshire  (hailstorm) 

1332  Todmordeu  Chapel,  Lancaster 

1190  Kimberton  Church,  Salop    

7617  Hey tesbury,  Wiltshire 1 

1768. 

June  12.     1517  Llanyny  Church,  Denbighshire  

July  10.     1566  Warwickshire  (hailstorm)   

July  31.     2402  Cromer  Church,  Norfolk 

Aug.  28.     1028  Tixall  Church,  Staffordshire     

Sep.   25.  Vaudois  Protestants  in  Piedmont  and 

Savoy •       3 

Oct.    23.     1145  Easington  Church,  Yorkshire 

1769. 

Jan.     8.     1108  Sheepey  Magna  Church,  Leicester  ... 

Feb.   19.     1125  Bullwill  Church,  Nottinghamshire... 

Mar.  16.     3554  Yorkshire  Inundations 1 

April   9.     1076  Market  Bosworth  Church,  Leicestersh. 


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220        BRIEFS    IN   THE    PARISH   OF    CRANBROOK. 

Estimated 
Loss  or  Cost. 

£,  £    s.  d. 

April  IG.     1050     Nugcrly  Church, Buckinghamshire...  5  7\ 

April  30.     1525     Sufferers  from  Fire  in  Oxfordshire...  5  5^ 

June  11.       000     Honiton,  Devonshire    7  3^ 

July   10.     1105     Lanymonedely   Church,    Merioneth- 

sliire    4  3 

Aug.  20.     1549     Llangower  Church,  Merionethshire  5  9| 

Sep.    10.     1453     Llandrillo  Church,  Merionethshire...  4  8 

Oct.      8.     1164     Clynog  Church,  Carnarvonshire 3  7f 

Oct.    15.     1063     Malmsbury  Chapel,  Lancaster    4  6i 

1770. 

Aug.  12.     1135     Farnhara  Church,  Yorkshire  3  3i 

Aug.  26.     1050     Lin  dale  Church,  Lancaster 7 

Sep.    16.       906     Imber  and  Wakefield,  Yorkshire    ...  7  7^ 

Sep.    30.     1010     Shenton  Church,  Leicestershire 5  7 

Oct.    14.     1354     Nonmonkton,  Yorkshire  5  9f 

Oct.    28.     1005     Llanferres  Church,  Denbighshire  ...  3  Hi 

Dec.     9.     1027     Higgle waite  Church,  Leicestershire...  5  1 

1771 

Feb.  24.     1053     Pannal  Church,  Yorkshire  4  2 

Mar.  19.     1130     Ewhurst  Church,  Sussex  12  3 

April  14.     1232     Kinnerly  Church,  Salop  3  7 

Dec.  22.     1039     Tilehurst  Church,  Berkshire    3  6^ 

1772 

Feb.  23.     1074     Besley  Chapel,  Cheshire 3  8^ 

Mar.  29.     1005     Lupley  Church  and  Chapel  of  Ease, 

Staffordshire  3  6 

April  26.     1347     Inundations  at  Melverly  and  Shra- 

wardine,  Salop  5  10 j 

May  10.     1009     Broughton  A  stley  Church,  Leicester- 
shire     3  llf 

Nov.  22.     1194     Chapelthorpe,  Yorkshire ^.  3  6 

1773. 

Jan.  24,     1092     Kimcote  Church,  Leicestershire 3  4|- 

Mar.  28.     1000     St.  Peter's  Church,  Cambridgeshire...  4  9f 

April 25.     1013     Leire  Church,  Leicestershire 4  1 

June  13.     2185     St.  Alphage   Church,  London  Wall, 

Middlesex 10  9^ 

July  11.     1087     Tweedmouth  Chapel,  Durham     4  10 

Sep.     5.     1157     Warehorne  Church,  Kent    18  2 

Sep.   12.     1033     Sharnford  Church,  Leicestershire  ...  3  9 
Sep.   26.     1256     St.   Lawrence    Church,  Ayot,   Hert- 
fordshire       2  6^ 

Oct.  10.     1449     Hastingdon  Chapel,  Lancaster    4  1^ 

Nov  28.     1030     St.Peter's  Church, Walling£ord,Berts  4  8^ 
1774. 

Feb.  20.     1055     Ey ther  Church,  Yorkshire  3  5^ 

Mar.  13.     1028     Birkley  and  Appleton  Churches 3  5^ 

April  10.     1050     Gratwick  Church,  Staftordshire  4  3| 


BRIEFS    IN    THE    PARISH    OF    CRANBROOK.         221 

Estimated 
Loss  or  Cost. 

&  & 

April  24.     3572     Battersea  Church,  Surrey     1 

Aug.  14.     1005     St.  German's  Chapel,  Denbighshire... 

Aug.  28.     1490     Madely  Church,  Staffordshire 

Sep.   25.     1030     King's  Norton  Church  and  Whithal 
Chapel,  Worcestershire    

July  17.     1024     Nantlyu  Church,  Denbighshire  

Oct.  31.     1650     Billericay  Chapel,  Essex  

1775. 

July     2.     5175     "West  "Wycombe,  Bucks,   (hailstorm)       2 

Aug.   13.     1904     Herefordshire  (hailstorm)    

Oct.      8.     1218     Barby  Chapel,  Yorkshire 

Oct.    29.     1017     Bradshaw  Chapel,  Lancaster  

1776. 

Feb.    11.     1052     Chaltou  Church,  Salop     

Mar.    10.     1020     Thornhill  Church,  Yorkshire  

April  21.     1322     Edenfield  Chapel,  Lancaster    

May    12.     1328     Stony   Stratford   Church,   Bucking- 
hamshire      

July    23.     1508     Long  Ditton  Church,  Surrey  

July    14.     1030     Betters   Gwerfil  Goch  Church,  Me- 
rionethshire     

Aug.   11.     1019     Broom  Church,  Staffordshire   

Sep.    28.     1019     East  Shilton  Chvu-ch,  Leicestershire 

Sep.     29.     1121     Ipstones  Church,  Staffordshire   

Oct.    20.     1612     Lainsaintfraid  Glyn  Geiriog  Church, 
Denbighshire 

Dec.    15.     1362     St.   Nicholas    Church,    Borough    of 

Warwick    4    5 

1777. 

Mar.     9.       506     Westmorland 

April  13.     1061     Thurlaston  Church,  Leicestershire  . . . 

May    11.     4040     Savoy,  Middlesex  1 

June  22.     1438     Butterton  Church,  Staffordshire     ... 

July    27.     1293     Holmfirth  Chapel,  Yorkshire  

Aug.   10.     1068     Westward  Church 

Aug.   31.     1006     Horwich  Chapel,  Lancaster 

Sep.     21.     1100     Rowley  Eegis  Church,  Staffordshire 

Oct.     12.     1788     Waterfall  Church,  Staffordshire 

Dec.    14.     1262     Tardebigg  Church,  Warwickshire  ... 

1778. 

Mar.  15.  1513  Hamley  Green  Chapel,  Staffordshire 

May  10.  2030  Wheaton  Aston,  Staffordshire    1 

June  21.  3089  St.  Mary's  Church,  Staffordshire    ... 

Aug.  16.  1001  Orleton  Chapel,  Worcestershire 

Sep.  27.  1026  South  Reston  Church,   Lincolnshire 

Oct.  26.  4322  Kirkburton,  Yorkshire  (inundation)       1 

1779. 

Feb.    14.       696    Easingwold,     Yorkshire ;      Gnosall, 
Staffordshire 


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222        BRIEFS    IN   THE    PARISH    OF    CRANBROOK. 

Estimated 

Loss  or  Cost. 

Mar.    U.     1028     Kirkhalliiin  Church,  Derbyshire 

April  18.     1G62     Wlieldrake  Church,  East  Riding  o£ 
Yorkshire   

May    19.     1450     Ashley  Church,  Staffordshire 

Aug.   22.     IGOO     St.  Ni'cliolas  Church,  Harwich    

Oct.    17.     2120     West  Mailing  Church,  Kent    

Oct.    26.  On    His   Majesty's   Letter   for   the 

Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the 

Gospel    3  17    7 

1780. 

Feb.    21.     1040     Silston  Chape],  Northampton 

Mar.   19.     1133     Stapenhill  Church,  Derbyshire    

April  23.       830     Honiton,  Devonshire    

June     1.     2690     "Wandsworth  Church,  Surrey  


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Sv/mmary  of  the  foregoing  550  Briefs. 

£     s.  d. 

For  losses  by  fire  at  various  places    122     4     4| 

For  losses  by  fire  at  Grraveseud  5  6^ 

For  losses  by  fire  at  Montreal,  America  5     3  11^- 

For  repairing  and  rebuilding  various  churches  65     1  5^ 

For  rebuilding  St.  Paul's  Cathedral  (1679) 3     8  2 

For  rebuilding  Cannongate,  Edinburgh  (1709)    1   19  4 

For  Protestants  in  Ireland  and  the  Continent 79  19  4^ 

For  redemption  of  captives  in  Turkish  slavery     24     1 

For  Philip  Dandulo,  a  Turk  (1661)  6 

For  an  Hungarian  being  a  Gospel  Minister     17  S^- 

For  a  poor  and  almost  blind  man  15  8 

For  the  cowkeepers' brief  16  3 

For  fortifications  at  Brighton,  in  1757 15  -i" 

For  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  iu  Foreign  Parts  ...  3  17  7 

For  inundations  at  various  places 4  13  11| 

For  hailstorms  at  various  places     5  17  5i 

For  hailstorms  iu  Kent  1764  5  14  ^ 

For  purposes  not  specified  (in  various  places)  35  11  ^ 

For  shipwrecked  mariners  4  3 


Total  {fully  equivalent  to  £1000  of  our  money) ... £366  17 


*  Collected  from  house  to  bouse. 


(     223     ) 


WILLS  AND  OTHEE  EECOEDS  RELATING 
TO  THE  FAMILY  OE  HODSOLL. 

BY    JAMES    GREENSTREET. 

"Will  of  John  Hodsoll  ;  proved  14|f . 

Hegister  of  Prerogative  Court  of  Ganterlury  {Somerset  Souse), 
'  Luffnam^  2. 

"  In  DEI  NOMINE  Amen — Ego  Joliannes  Hodesole,  sxvij"  die 
meusis  Januarii  anno  domini  millesimo  cccc™°  xxiij,  sanus  mente, 
condo  testameutum  meum  iu  hunc  modum.  In  -primis  lego  animam 
meam  deo,  beate  Marie  et  omnibus  Sanctis  ejus,  et  corpus  meum  ad 
sepeliendum  in  ecclesia  de  Asscbe  coram  cruce  ibidem.  Item  lego 
summo  altari  ibidem  pro  paruis  decimis  oblitis,  et  ad  rogandum  pro 
anima  niea,  vj  s.  et  viij  d.  Item  lego  lumini  beate  Marie  ad  emen- 
dum  vnam  vaccam  ad  manutenendum  lumine  predictum  x  s.  Item 
lego  ad  manutenendum  le  Trendil  ibidem  x  s.  Item  lego  lumini  ar- 
deuti  coram  cruce  ibidem  ad  emendum  vnam  vaccam  xs.  Item  lego 
lumini  sancti  Nicbolai  ibidem  iij  s.  iiij  d.  Item  lego  operi  ecclesie 
de  Kemsyngge  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  Item  lego  summo  altari  pro  paruis 
deciraie  {sic)  oblitis  xl  d.  Item  lumini  beate  Marie  ibidem  xl  d.  Item 
summo  altari  de  Stansted'  iij  s.  iiij  d.  Item  lumini  coram  cruce 
ibidem  iij  s.  iiij  d.  Item  lumini  beate  Marie  ibidem  iij  s.  iiij  d. 
Item  operi  ejusdem  ecclesie  xl  s.  Item  cuilibet  filiolorum  et  filio- 
larum  meorum  xij  d.  Item  lego  fratribus  Carmelitis  de  Aylysforde 
ad  celebrandum  pro  anima  mea  Triutallium  sancti  Gregorii  sin', 
fraude  et  decepcione  pro  anno  post  obitum  meum,  xiij  s.  iiij  d., 
et  dimidium  quarterium  frumenti.  Item  lego  Ca2)ellano  ydoneo, 
seu  Capellauis,  ad  celebrandum  pro  anima  mea  et  amicorum 
meorum,  in  ecclesia  de  Assche,  per  duos  annos,  xx  marcas.  Item 
"Willelmo  Cogger',  seruienti  meo,  x  s.,  (et)  vnam  togam  nigram.  Item 
Willelmo  Cotyer'  vnam  togam  veterem.  Item  Johanni  Hewe, 
seruienti  meo,  xl(7.,  et  vnam  togam  nigram.  Item  lego  in  expensis 
meis  funeralibus  et  Trigiutalibus  x  libras.  Item  lego  pauperibus 
venientibus  ad  elemosinam  in  diebus  funeralibus  et  trigiutalibus,  et 
aliis  elemosinis,  vij  marcas.  Item  lego  ad  distribuendum  inter 
famulos  meos,  secundum  discrecionem  executorum  meomim,  xx  s. 
Item  lego  Johanni  Tedeley  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  Residuum  vero  omnium 
bonorum  non  legatorura,  debitis  meis  primitus  persolutis,  si  quid 
fuerit  tunc  remauens,  do  et  lego  et  assigno  Margarete  vxori  mee  et 
Willelmo  filio  meo,  ut  ipsi  equaliter  participent  inter  eos  ;  et  euudem 
"Willelmum  et  Thomam  Barbour  facio  executores  meos  in  premissis, 
et  eidem  Thome  lego  pro  labore  suo  xiij  s.  iiij  d.     In  cujus  rei  testi- 


224  WILLS   AND   OTHER    RECORDS 

monium  sigillum  meum  present!  vltime  Voluntati  mee  est  appensum. 
Datum  die  ct  anno  domini  supradictis. 

"  Prohatiim  fuit  prcsona  teatamentuni  coram  Magistro  Johanne 
Lyndefold',  Commissario  etc.,  xx  die  fFel)rnarii  anno  domini  siipra- 
dicto  et  commiesa  est  administracio  bonorum  etc.,  Executoribus  in 
prefato  testamcnto  nominalis.  Et  consequenter,  videlicet  xx  die 
Marcii  anno  vt  supra,  acquietati  fuerunt  Executores,  etc." 

"Will  of  "William  Hodsoll  ;  dated  1455. 
Register  of  Consistory  Court  of  Rochester,  Book  2,  folio  xxxj. 

(In  Latin.) 
Dated  8  Oct.  1455.     "  Ego  Willelmus  Hodesole  "—To  be  buried 
in  the  Church  of  St.  Nicholas,  ilochester — to  Thomas  Hodesole  my 
son — Joan  my  wife. 

"Will  of  "William  Hodsoll,  of  Ash  ;  dated  1499. 
Register  of  Consistory  Court  of  Rochester,  Book  6,  fo.  122''. 

Abstract  of  Testament,  whicli  is  in  Latin : — 6  July  1499 — I 
William  Hodsole  of  Asch'.  To  be  buried  in  the  churchyard. 
Tsabeir  my  wife. 

Signed:  ""Willelmus  Hodsole,  Laberour." 

"  This  is  the  last  "Wyll'  of  me  "William  Hodsole,  of  and  vpon  the 
disposicione  of  my  laudes  and  tenementes  in  the  parish',  of  Asch  or 
els  where :  jf-rst  I  wul  Y  Isabell  my  wyfe  have  the  ocupacon  of  my 
howsyng',  &  landes  ther  to  belongyng'  as  longe  as  she  leuyth  sole 
wydow." — "  John  Hodsole  my  yongyst  sone"  to  have  a  crofte  of  four 
acres  called  Chalke,  in  Asch,  "late  purchasid'  of  Master  "Wombewell', 
and  40  s.  in  money  of  Thomas  &  Wylliam  his  brederyii  "  at  age  of 
eighteen  years.  "  Also  I  wull'  Y  Thomas  &  "Wylliam  my  sones 
ocupie  my  place  &  lande  yf  my  wyfe  Isabell'  goo  owte  of  them." 
Either  to  be  other's  heir.  "  Also  I  wul  neyther  of  them  sell'  the 
tenementes  &  landes  aboueseyde  to  no  persone  but  He  \i.e.  "  one- 
lie,"  equivalent  to  "  only  "]  to  his  breder." 

[No  probate  clause.) 

"Will  of  Thomas  Hodsoll,  of  Ash  ;  proved  1537. 

Register  of  Consistory  Coiort  of  Rochester,  Book  9,  fo.  240''. 

"Thomas  Hodsall',  of  Assche."  Dated  29  July  1536.  "I 
Thomas  Hodsall',  of  Asche  " — To  be  buried  in  churchyard  of  Asshe. 
""William  my  soil" — "Joone  my  doughter  " — "'Christian  my 
doughter."     Prohate  granted  2  June  1537. 

AViLL  OF  "William  Hodsoll,  of  Denton  ;  proved  1550. 

Miscellaneous  Wills  proved  in  the  Consistory  Court  of  Rochester. 

Original  "Will  (  ?  or  copy  for  registration)  endorsed : — "  Testa- 
mentum  Willelmi  Hadsoll,  de  Dentoii." — Prohate  granted  19  Dec. 
1550. 


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John  Hodsoll  (of  Cowfold,  8us80x).=Faitl, 
Will  {P.  C.  a,  '■  Weldou,"  101)  of . . . 

dated  1  Aug.  1617  ;  prored  16  Nor,    Bacon, 


nd  Ridley.    8ho  wiu  born 


li.„ 


Rlcbnril  Heater  Si^ylinrd,  oldcut: 


H.,  "dnugh-    HMter  H.    De-    Henry  H.,=Pi 


jC/'.C.C,  "Broco.'MB).  I 


ter  of  William 

acribod  a§  under 

Hodwll."bftp.  30 

24inl010.  "M" 

May,  iai)2  (.1.  R.). 

miimcd  li'"  Feb. 

[.-.c.  1623-24] 

ruary.  1013  ■  j,.c. 

Hodsoll,"     M'll. 


ofThos.  HodKilI." 
\in\i.  29  JunOt  1002 
(i.fl.).  "John.wn 
of  Thoe.  Hodsoll," 


u  Fob.'r —  ■■ 

(/.  R.) 


S-6         U  Fob.  1607-8 


bap.  30  Mofa.  I6DII 
{T.RX  "QuUcl. 
muBHodioU"  bur. 
1619  (i.  /f.], 


..  24  Oot.       Iloflcr 


Steplion  Uodjoll,  Boniy  Ho«tK>ll,  Blltabotb  Hod- 
"  non  of  Thoa.  "  aon  of  Tho..  mU,  ■■  dan.  of 
noil«oll,"bap.        Hod«oll,"  bap.     Tbo«.  HodBoll," 


Noll,  '■  8on=?=Mftry  ElU 
IliamHod-  Butcher,  "da 
>.  31   Mcb,    dau.  of      of  ^ 


Ai.r.  10:t3 
(X.R.). 
Dedcribed 


..l^Kliiinbeth  fitone-  William  11.,  Anne  H. 

I     J"  .  only  dan.  "boh  of  M'  Descrilwd 

\h-.    Store-  Williomand  inl6G3n8 

- ,  Citi«en  Elizabeth  <th  older 

,\ liothocary,  Hodsoll,"  dan. 

M  ii'iidoii.  bap.  U  Jnn. 


Francia  Hod-    IlBXnt  FIoDSOLiPFMary     John  Hodioll,  under  31     Maxf)'-M 


bur.  13  June,  1700 
(/.«.).    Wil 
1720  (/./?.).    dated!  Doc.l 


"  Vtmk\»    Hwlwll,   of    Iln.l' 


1  H«l«oll,  of  Ship.    (/.   It.). 


■baro    of     Uodxa 


bia  mother'*  pro[>orly, 
which  ilueunuod  to  her 
from  bor  father  "  OilOi* 


1712  (/.  It.).      Will 


proved  17  Doc.  1712, 


Chancery  Proceed Ingti.) 


Cbnrlpsn,.  Thomaa  H., 

"  g,  of  M'  "  s.  of  M'  J» 

J-Hodrol.'"  Hod«ol4: 

bap.  10  Mary,"bftp. 

July,ll!(i2;  3  Hep.  1663 

bom  3  July  (IK.i?.). 

(IK.  i/.).  Living  in 


Sept.i665.    bap.  .11  Auy 
Rob.  a.  of      10fi8(Il'.fl.), 


M'  J"  Hodsol," 
bant.  22  Oot. 
£)  (  W.  It.). 


3  1710.        Hudso 


HmiBY  Hodsoll  (of^BHia-    Thomoi  Hod- 


I  H.,  the  wife  of  Capt. 


Capt.  of  H.M.S,    WilliamPasscogcriuUlO. 


MEKBY   nODBOLL  ^OI^. 

HAdlow),  "  Bon  of  1 

Uenrr  HadwU,''  bnp. 

1  No».  1673  («■  «.).    I 


7  Sep.     Hodwll,"    "  Son  of  Henry 


,lobn  Hodsoll,  described  as    Edmund  HodGoll,  described 


under  21  in  1710. 


«  under  21  in  1710. 


William  Hodsoll,        Bliaabcth  Hod-        Moiy  Hodnotl,        Henry  Hotl»ll,YMargnrct 


Ileniy  k  Eli- 
>ab.  Hodnoll," 
bap.  22  Deo. 
1703  (5.  J?.). 


of  Hcuiy    "  17.13,  Margat 


July,  1705  bur.  21  Sep.  iS.  i 

i&R,).  \r.).  Seehersou-al 

burial  on  the 


ThomMUodEoll,"i 
of  Henry  Hadacl." 
bnp.  25  June,  170" 
(//.  S.). 


John  Hodsoll,        RBtiiiBK  HODSOLL  (of^Annc  Barr.^Mary  Stone.        Thomaa  Hodsoll, 


t  Henry  Haiisol,        17oa  (//.  R.-). 


Died  29 
Jan.  1783, 
aged  67 


a  Hodscll,"  hap.  fi  Mch. 


Ill   Henry   Hodsoll,  of 
'  from  Hannidi   Maria 


Fuller,  ot  FrtndoburT 


Hannah  ("youngcat 
dnu.").  The  wife  of 
William  Wimble,  of 
Chatham,  in  1710, 


of  Mazflold  k  IsftboUa 


i;  ^slli'uS-  il?.^'l-''^?V"'.''?)/''i^^,'- 1 


Mary  HodeoU.  born= 
21  Mch.  178S. 
When  mitrried, 


Hadsel,!'  bap. 
8  Jnly.  1743 
ill.  A.). 


htm.  21 


Hadflol." 
ng.  1744 


1  of  Uunry 
(li.Ji,).    Living,  and    Dec.l7fil(//.B.). 


(,rtdfUwl.)    of  Hadlow  in  17KS. 


Mcb.  1768  Cridf 
Deed),  and  dcMribcd 
as  of  Kentish  Toira, 
OlBccr  of  Excise. 


Henry  Ilodsoll,7Anne  Hodsoll,    William  Hodsoll.?. . 
of  61  V      •       ^  ' •■^-~"    '*'--'  ""•'•   — ' 


of  St.  Mary' 
Wrotham. 


EHiabeth  HodsoU.=. . 
Bom  22  Slay,  sn 

1790.  When  mar- 
ried, lived  in  the 
Pariah  of  Hoo. 


idsoll,  born  11  June.^Mary  Jones,  William  Hodsoll. 

VuB  sent  to  sea  when  j  second  wif«.  Wu  a  soldier 

id  lost  sight  of.  bnt '  Died  1878.  (J  in  India), 

cic  and  worked  as  a  ;  Supposed  to  have 

D  the  Isle  of  Qrain.  '.  died  unmoniwl. 


Thomas  Hodsoll. 
William  HodaoU. 
Henry  Hodsoll. 


Bookseller  and 
ScTcnooks. 


Wa<y. . 


MAiriBLD  HODSOLLTSarah 
(of  Wrolhnm).    Bom     "    " 
II  Jan.  1764;  died  21 
Jaly,  1837  (<?»■»  at 


Hackvtl,      Died  1 


Anno  Hodsoll.    I.iTing=sHi 


SJ. 


IJTing,  1878,  at  Salt  Pa 


Elisabeth  Hodsoll.= 
Living,  If 
Ashford, 


William  Hod*oH.=Mary 
Living,  1878.10  Brirtow 
tbc  Isle  of  Groin. 


Martha  Hodsoll.=Willia 
Living,  1878.  at     Fry. 
Bochcatcr. 


Hannah  HodsolL 
li  Uvine  1878,  and  married. 


Living,  1878 
in  London. 


Joseph  Hodsoll. 
(f  Seomoo). 


Jameu  HAOKarr   HoD60LL,-rriusannB  Spencer,  grand-daoghter  of 
bum  18  May,  1818.  JotcphBpcncer.of  ParkPorm.Wrolham. 

MAXnKl.J>=faeorglana  Mary  Pollock,  eldest       Uura  Hodsoll. 
Hodsoll,  bom  16         dau.  of  Ocorge  Kcnnot  PoUwk,  ,.  ~„  .    „ 

ind  grand-dan.  of  Bir  David  CarolmoHodsoU. 


7  Oct.  1870.        Goo^hmn  Katharine  H.,  bom  21  Oct.  1871.        Cbarica  Wilfred  I 


It  H.,  bom  29  Nov.  1873.        George  Bertnus  Pollock  R.,  bom  18  Jnt 


Hoiold  Edward  Pollock  H.,  bom  30  Apr.  1877. 


"  From  this  point  the  pedigree  of  the  yoangcr  li 
t  The  pcdigieo  of  the  elder  line  from  thi^  point 


to  me  by  above  James  Hackbtt  Hodsoll  and  Cbablm 

IT  ststementa  of  abo*c  Jouk  Hoosoll  and  HRX&r  Pocooi^  made  l 


RELATING  TO  THE  FAMILY  OF  KODSOLL.    225 

"  I  Wyllyam  Hudsoll  " — "  my  brother  Jemes  Fremle  " — to  "  my 
brotlier  Tomas  Hudsoll — xxs."  Meutions  "my  Lady  Erowke  " — 
"  Wyllyam  Dall  to  receive  my  wagys  for  the  halffe  yere,  the  whyclie 
ys  iiij  li.  xj  .v.,  and  whythe  yt  to  paye  my  skores  &  detes." 

Dated  "  Thurdaye  {i.e.  3)  of  Octtober  "  A"  4  Edw.  VI. 

"Will  of  John  Hodsoll,  of  West  Malling  ;  dated  155G. 

JReqister  of  Consistory  Court  of  Rochester,  Book  12,  fo.  Ixviij 
{modern  pencil  £o.  69/"). 

Dated  3  Dec.  1550.  "  I  Johu  Hodsele  [above  this  is  written  : 
"  Hodsoll"],  of  West  Mailing — To  be  buried  iu  the  churchyard  of 
West  Malliug.  "  Item  I  will  that  John  Hodsoll  uiy  eldest  son  shall 
have  vj  //.  xiij  s.  iiij  d.,  to  be  payed  to  him  at  the  age  of  xviij.  Item 
I  will  y'  William  Hodsoll  my  son  shall  have  vj  U.  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  leke 
wise  at  th'age  of  xviij,  and  every  one  to  be  others  heyre." 
"  Alice  my  doughter  "  at  age  of  18,  or  marriage,  to  have  3Z.  Qs.  8d. 
"  Jone  my  doughter "  ,,  „  ,,  ,, 

"  Elsabeth  my  doughter "  ,,  ,,  „  „ 

"  Margaret  my  doughter "  ,,  „  ,,  „ 

The   child   that   his   wife   goeth  w^  all,  if  a  man  chiide,   to  have 
6  /.  13  s.  4  d.     If  it  be  a  mayd.  Si.  6  s.  8  d.  at  age  of  18,  or 
marriage. 
"  Alice  my  wif '  "  sole  executrix. 

Prohnte  granted  21  Jan.  155... 

Will  of  AVilliam  Hodsoll,  of  Ash  ;   dated  1616. 

Rochester  Court.  Original  Will  {.''or  copy  for  registration)  — 
three  sheets,  the  last  damaged. 

Dated  30  Sept.  1616.  "  I  William  Hodsoll'  th'elder,  of  Ashe 
neere  Kingsd  .  .  .  .  ,  in  the  County  of  Kent,  gentleman  " — "  Item  I 
give  vnto  EUenor  my  wyt'e  one  Annuitye  or  yearly  rente  of  fiftye 
poundes  " — "  yssuynge  &  goinge  out  of  my  Manner  of  Sou  ....,& 
out  of  all  the  landes,  tenementes  &  hereditamentes  thervnto  belong 
"  etc.,  etc. 

"  Item  I  give  vnto  my  sayd  wyfe  the  summe  of  twenty  seaven 
poundes  two  sliillinges  &  sixpence  w*^''  her  sonne  M''  Richard 
Parker  dooth  owe  vnto  me,  to  bee  payd  to  her  by  the  sayd  Richard  " 
— Gives  to  his  wife,  inter  alia,  "  my  ridinge  nagge  or  geklinge  &  y® 
ridinge  furniture  w''''  my  sayd  wyfe  doth  vse  when  shee  rydeth  oi* 
iornyth  abroad."  She  to  board  his  "sonne  William."  Gives  to 
his  "  Sonne  John  "  300  /.  upon  condition  that,  at  or  on  the  Feast  of 
St.  Michael  1618,  he  makes  release  by  sufficient  conveyance  to  said 
"  sonne  William  "  of  all  right  and  title  "  of  &  in  all  my  Manners, 

messuages  "  etc. — *'  my  sonne  Hewe "to  have  300  Z.  at  or  on 

29  Sept.  1620.  Executor  to  pay  "  my  sayd  sonne  Henry  "  10  /.  a 
year  upon  his  making  similar  release  to  "  my  sayd  sonne  William  " 
— "his  sisters  here  vndernamed" — {much  of  it  is  gone) — "my 
daughter  Hester,"  at  age  of  24—"  Elleuor  "  100  Z.,  at  age  of  20— 
daughter,  at  age  of  24. 

YOL.   XIV.  .  q 


226         WILLS  AND  OTHER  RECORDS 

Will  of  Thomas  Hodsoll  ;  dated  1GG5. 

Peculiars  of  Lo7idon,  Shoreham  and  Croydon,  Rngister  Book  of 
Wills  proved  between  16G4  and  1080,  folio  24. 

Dated  20  Maivli  A"  17  Clias.  II.,  and  a.d.  16G5.  "  I  Thomas 
Hadsall,  of  Ightliam,"  co.  Kent,  "  shearman," — to  "  Maundy  Had- 
sall  my  brother  "  5 /. — to  "ffrancis  lladsall  my  brother  "  10 /. — to 
"John  lladsall  my  brother"  10/.,  at  age  of  21— to  "  .Maxfeild 
Hadsall  my  brother"  10/.,  at  age  of  21.  ''Item  I  will  and  give 
vnto  Henry  Hadsall,  of  8oan  street,  in  the  parish  of  Scale,  my 
kinsman,  ffive  pounds  " — "  Henry  Munck  my  brother  in  law  " — 
Eesidue  of  goods,  etc.,  to  "William  Hadsall  and  Henry  Hadsall  my 
brothers  equally  betweene  them  " — and  he  makes  them  his  executors. 

Probate  granted  to  William  Hadsall  and  Henry  Hadsall,  the 
executors,  on  19  April,  1GG5. 

Will  of  Elizabeth  Hodsoll,  widow  ;  proved  1G71. 

Peculiars  of  Londo7i,  Shoreham  and  Croydon,  Register  Boole  of 
Wills  proved  between  1G04  and  1680,  folio  311''. 

"  I  Elizabeth  Hodsoll,  of  the  parish  of  Stansted,  in  the  county  of 
Kent,  widdovv,  and  relict  of  William  Hodsoll,  of  South  Ash,  in  the 
parish  of  Peters  Ash,  in  the  said  county,  gent." — to  my  four 
daughters  Ellen,  Anne,  Susan  and  Margaritt  Hodson  {sic),  six 
months  after  my  decease — Susan  married  to  Richard  Wodden, 
yeoman,  and  living  in  the  parish  of  Ash — "  my  house  called  Bakers 
wherein  I  now  dwell  " — "  my  ueice  Anne  Gratwicke  the  daughter 
of  my  brother  Eichard  Grratwicke " — my  son  in  law  M''  John 
Gossage,  of  Plumsted — my  sisters  Tecta  Challener  and  Jane  Bur- 
tenchar — "my  youngest  sonne  William  Hodsoll" — my  sonn 
Edmund  Hodsoll  (makes  him  her  executor).     Dated  6  April  1G71. 

Probate  granted  to  Edmund  Hodsoll,  son  and  executor ,  on  10  July 
1G7G. 

Will  of  Henry  Hodsoll,  of  Shipbourist  ;  proved  1700. 

Register  of  Consistory  Court  of  Rochester,  Book  27,  fo.  17G. 

Dated  1  Dec.  A"  11  Wm.  III.,  and  a.d.  1699.  Henry  Hodsoll, 
of  Shipborn,  yeoman.  His  land  at  Ivy  Hatch,  in  the  parish  of 
Ightham, — his  son  John  Hodsoll  to  have  it — "  my  second  son 
William  Hodsoll  " — wife  Mary  Hodsoll  to  have  possessions  in 
Addiugton  and  Eyarsh  for  her  life,  then  to  go  to  his  son  Thomas 
Hodsoll.  Eesidue  of  goods,  chattels,  etc.,  to  "  my  third  son  Henry 
Hodsoll  "  whom  he  appoints  his  executor. 

Probate  granted  24  June  1700  to  Henry  Hodsoll,  son  and 
executor. 

Will  of  Captain  James  Hodsoll  ;  proved  17°^. 

Register  of  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  (Sotnerset  House), 
'  Smith,'  68. 

"  I  Cap*^   James   Hodsoll,   commander   of   Her   Majesties  Ship 


RELATING    TO    THE    FAMILY    OF    HODSOLL.        227 

Squirrell," — "  imto  my  loveing  brother  M""  Henry  Hodsoll"  100  Z. 
within  six  months  after  payment  of  wages  etc. ; — "unto  my  loveing 
brother  M'"  Thomas  HodsoU"  100/.,  as  above  ; — "unto  my  loveing 
sister  M'^  Mary  Hodsoll,  wife  to  my  brother  M^"  James  As"  100/., 
as  above  ; — "  unto  my  loveing  sister  Madam  Ann  Hodsoll,  wife  to 
Captain  William  Passenger  "  100  /.,  as  above  ; — "  unto  my  nephews 
John  and  Edmond  Hodsoll,  sons  to  my  brother  M""  Edmond  Hodsoll 
deceased,"  50  /.  each,  at  age  of  21 ; — "  unto  my  nephew  James  Hodsoll, 
son  to  my  brother  M''  William  Hodsoll  deceased,  all  such  wages  and 
table  money  as  shall  become  due  to  him  for  the  time  he  shall  be 
with  me  as  a  Voluntier  in  her  Majesties  Shipp  SquirriU  aforesaid  ;" 
— "  unto  my  loveing  brother  M"^  John  Baynard,  husband  to  my 
sister  M'^  Jane  Hodsoll,  all  the  remainder  of  my  wages  and  money," 
as  above. 

Dated  23  January  1709  (i.e.  17^|)  ;  probate  granted  18  March 
1709  (i.e.  17ff). 

Will  of  Edmund  Hodsoll,  gent.,  of  St.  Maet  Cray  ; 
PROVED  1711. 

Register  of  Prerogative  Court  of  Cantcrhury  (Somerset  Souse), 
'  Toimg;  186. 

"I  Edmund  Hodsoll,  of  Saint  Mary  Cray,  in  the  county  of 
Kent,  gentleman,  being  aged,  but  of  a  sound  and  disposeing  mind 
and  memory" — "my  loving  wife  Elizabeth,  whom  I  doe  make  and 
ordaine  full  and  sole  executrix  of  tliis  my  last  Will  and  Testament" 
— "  my  three  daughters  Hellena,  Mary  and  Jane  Hodsoll  " — "  my 
four  daughters  Hellena,  Mary,  Elizabeth  and  Jane  " — "  my  son 
John  Hodsoll  "• — "  all  that  my  messuage,  fiarme  and  lands,  being 
about  fifty  acres,  now  in  the  occupation  of  Thomas  Carrier,  which  I 
formerly  purchased  of  M''  Alexander  Haddon  the  younger,  scituate 
and  being  in  Saint  Mai-y  Craj^e  aforesaid,  being  about  fifty  acres  of 
land  and  orcharding" — "my  messuage,  farme  and  lands  called 
Bakers,  lying  in  Stansted,  in  the  said  county." — "  Item  1  doe  give 
and  devise  vnto  my  said  son  John  Hodsoll  all  my  goods  that  shall 
be  in  his  chambers  in  Cliftbrds  Inne,  in  London " — "  my  good 
friend  and  kinsman  Thomas  Gratwick,  esquire  " — Item  I  do  give  to 
every  one  of  my  said  four  daughters  Hellena,  Mary,  Elizabeth  and 
Jane,  the  sume  of  six  hundred  pounds  a  peice  of  lawfull  money,  to 
be  paid  to  them  severally  by  my  said  executrix  within  three  months 
next  after  my  decease" — "vnto  my  sister  Susan  Woodden '" — 
"  vnto  my  three  nephews  Samuel  Atwood,  clerke,  John  Hodsoll,  of 
South  Ash,  gent.,  and  William  Hodsoll,  goldsmith,  brother  of  the 
said  John  Hodsoll" — "vnto  my  said  sister  Woodden,  and  to  her 
daughter  Susan  Woodden  " — "  vnto  my  cousin  Gratwick,  esquire," 
—Dated  28  Sept.  1710. 

Probate  granted  25  Sept.  1711  to  Elizabeth  Hodsoll,  relict  and 
executrix. 

Q  2 


228  WILLS    AND    OTIIEll    llECOUDS 

Will  of  Maxfielu  Uousoll,  of  Wkotham  ;  pkoved  1712. 
Peculiars  of  London,  SJiorcham  and  Croydon,  Register  No.  5. 

Dated  10  Aug.  A"  9  Anne,  and  a.d.  1710.  "I  Ma.xfeild 
Hodsoll,o£  Wi'otliam,"  co.  Kent,  "yeoman," — "my  eldest  daughter 
Jane,  now  wife  of  David  Polley,  of  "VVilhnington,"  eo.  Kent, — "  my 
second  daughter  Mary,  wife  of  Phillip  Ifuller,  of  ffriiisbury," — "  my 
youngest  daughter  Hannah,  wife  of  William  Wimble,  of  Chatham," 
CO.  Kent, — Contract  of  marriage  "  between  me  and  my  loving  wife 
Mary  Scale" — "John  Graunsden,  of  East  Mailing,"  co.  Kent, 
"ffatherof  my  said  loving  wife." — "  Itcvi  I  give  and  devise  unto 
my  sonu  Maxfeild  Hodsoll  all  my  messuages,  lands,  tenements  and 
hereditaments,  whatsoever  and  wheresoever." 

Probate  granted  to  Maxfeild  Hodsoll,  son  and  executor,  17  Dec. 
1712. 

GrRANT    OF    LeTTEES    OF    AdMINISTEATION    OF    THE    EFFECTS  OF 

John  Hodsoll,  gent.,  of  St.  Maet  Ceat  ;   dated  1719. 

Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  (Somerset  House),  Administra- 
tion Act  Boole,  August  1719. 

The  4th  day  administration  of  the  effects  of  John  Hodsoll,  late 
of  St.  Mary  Cray,  co.  Kent,  bachelor,  deceased,  granted  to  ins  only 
sister  Helena  Hodsoll. 


Extract  from  Deed  by  which  the  Hodsolls  granted  a  Lease 
OF  2000  Years  in  eespect  of   certain   Property  in  Ight- 

HAM  ;    DATED    1788. 

{The  above  Deed  is  tJie  property  of  Mr.  John  Hodsoll,  of  Salt- 
pans, in  the  Isle  of  Grean.) 

"  This  Indenture  made  the  twenty  eighth  day  of  March  in  the 
twenty  eighth  year  of  the  reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lord  George  the 
Third"  etc.,  "And  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven 
hundred  and  eighty  eight,  Between  John  Hodsoll,  of  Hadlow,  in 
the  county  of  Kent,  yeoman,  William  Hodsoll,  of  Hadlow  aforesaid, 
yeoman,  Masfield  Hodsoll,  of  Braisted,  in  the  said  county  of  Kent, 
yeoman,  and  Easton  Hodsoll,  of  Kentish  Town,  in  the  county  of 
Middlesex,  officer  of  Excise  (which  said  John  Hodsoll,  William 
Hodsoll,  Maxfield  Hodsoll,  and  Easton  Hodsoll,  were  the  four  Bro- 
thers and  co-heirs  in  Gavelkind,  for  Gavelkind  lands  used  in  the 
said  county  of  Kent,  of  Henry  Hodsoll  their  late  Brother  deceased, 
who  died  a  Batchelor,  and  intestate,  and  which  said  John  Hodsoll, 
William  Hodsoll,  Maxfield  Hodsoll,  and  Easton  Hodsoll,  were  the 
five  Sons  and  co-heirs  in  Gavelkind,  as  aforesaid,  of  Henry  Hodsoll, 
late  of  Hadlow  aforesaid,  ffarmer,  their  late  ffather  deceased)  of  the 
one  part,"  etc.,  etc. 


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Co7isistory  Court  of  Rochester,  Administration  Act  Booh,  July  1791. 
Hodsoll,  formerly  Tassell,  Frances. 

The  21st  day  administration  of  the  effects  of  Frances  Hodsoll, 
formerly  of  Town  Mailing,  co.  Kent,  spinster,  but  late  of  Hadlow, 
same  county,  deceased,  granted  to  William  Hodsoll  her  lawful  hus- 
band.    Sworn  under  5  I. 


CHANCERY   PROCEEDINGS. 

CoLLixs,  Bills  and  Answers  befoee  1714,  No.  140. 

Michaelmas  1G58,  Hodsoll  versus  French. 

Bill  of  Comj)laint,  dated  2  3tay  1657. 
"  To  the  Eight  Honorable  the  Lords  Commissioners  for  the  custody  of  the 
greate  Seale  of  England. 
"In  most  Humble  manner  Complaining  doe  shew  vnto  your  good  Lordshipps 
your  daly  poore  distressed  Orat.  William  Hodsoll  and  Thomas  Hodsoll  two  of 
y''  eldest  sonnes  and  coheirs  in  Gauelkinde  according  to  y"  Custome  of  Kent 
of  William  Hodsoll,  late  of  Igtham  in  y^'  said  Countie  of  Kent,  gentlem.,  and  of 
Jane  his  wife,  as  well  on  their  owne  behalfes  as  on  the  parte  and  behafe  of 
Manly,  fErancis,  Henry,  John  and  Maxfeild  Hodsoll,  five  more  of  y<=  sonnes  and 
coheirs  in  Gauellkinde  of  them  y''  said  William  and  Jane,  beeing  yett  vnder  y*^ 
age  of  21  yeares,  and  to  w'''  five  the  said  William  and  Thomas  are  Gardivus 
specially  admitted  that  whereas  Thomas  Hodsoll  late  of  Igtham  aforesaid,  your 
Oratours  Grandefather  about  16  or  17  yeares  agoe  was  lawfully  seized  in  bis 
demesne  as  of  fee  of  and  in  a  certaine  Capitall  Messuage  or  Tenements  w"'  y'= 
appurtenance  called  Georges  and  of  and  in  60  acres  of  laude  meadow  pasture 
and  woodgrounde  therevnto  beelonging  and  therew"'  vsually  occupied  and 
enioyed  of  y^  cleare  yearely  valine  of  40 11.  a  yeare.  besides  all  charges,  scituate 
lying  and  beeing  in  Igtham  aforesaid,  and  beeing  soe  seized  as  aforesaid  and 
wanting  money  to  supply  his  necessity  did  repaire  vnto  one  Anthony  Hobbes  of 
Orpington  in  the  said  Countie  of  Kent  gen  "  etc. 

••  The  joynct  and  severall  Answres  of   Anne  French,  widdowe,  and 
ffrancis  fErench  the  younger,  by  ffrancis  ffrench  th'elder,  guardian 
to  ffrancis  the  younger,  dcfcndanfit  to  the  bill  of  Complainte  of 
William   Hodsall  and  Thomas    Hodsall   in   their  owne   behalfes 
coiiiplahiants.  as  well  as  Mandy,  ffrancis.  Henry,  John  and  Max- 
field  Hodsall,  by  their  guardians,  comjjJfiinants.'^ 
"  theis  defend  ant  St'" — "say,  that  they  doe  beleive  that  Thomas  Hodsall.  late  of 
Ightham  in  the  county  of  Kent,  gent.,  mencioned  in  the  said  bill  of  Complainte 
to  be  the  complainants'  grandfather,  was  in  his  life  time,  that  is  to  say.  about 
twenty  and  nyne  yeare  since,  seized  in  his  demeasne.  as  of  fee  simple,  or  of 
some  other  estate  of  inheritance,  of  and  in  one  messuage  or  tenement,  with  the 
appurtenances,  called  or  knowne  by  the  name  of  Georgies,  scituate,  lyeing  and 
being  at  Heavy  Hatch  in  the  said  parishe  of  Ightham  ;  and  of  and   in  two 
barnes.  one  gatehowse,  one  malthowse,  anil  other  buildings  and  edifices  to  the 
said  messuage  or  tenement  belonging,  and  reputed  parte  or  parcell  thereof  ; 
and  alsoe  of  and  in  fower  orchards  and  twelve  parcells  of  land  and  wood  con- 
teineing    in    them    all  by  estimacion  fForty  acres  more  or  lesse  to  the  said 


230  WILLS   AND    OTIIEll   RECORDS 

messuage  or  tcncraeut  neerc  adjoyneint,'  and  lyeing,  and  being  togcathcr  in 
Igbtham  aforesaid  ;  and  alsoe  of  and  in  one  other  l)arne  called  fl'ui-iiiiieliers 
\jihonl(l  he  ^\ffur))nnchcrs'''\,  with  the  appurteTiances,  scitnate  and  being  in 
Igbtham  aforesaid,  over  against  the  aforesaid  messuage  ;  and  of  and  in  one 
herbe  garden  and  two  parcells  of  land  contcining  by  estimacion  seaven  acres, 
more  or  Icsse,  lyeing  togeather  in  Igbtham  aforesaid  ;  and  alsoe  of  and  in  six 
other  several!  parcells  of  laud  and  wood  called  or  knowne  by  the  names  of 
Peckbam,  Broomcs.  and  l^ichers,  or  by  what  other  name  or  names  they  or  any 
of  them  are,  or  have  bine  called  or  knoM^ne,  conteineing  in  the  whole,  by 
estimacion,  twenty  and  fewer  acres,  Which  said  premisses  or  parte  thereof 
theis  defendants  take  to  be  the  messuage,  lands,  and  premisses  mencioiied  in 
the  said  bill  of  Complainte,  And  being  thereof  soe  seized,  the  said  Thomas 
Hodsall,  as  theis  defendants  Ibeleive,  and  soe  hope  to  prove,  did,  by  the  name  of 
Thomas  Hodsall,  of  Igbtham,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  gent.,  and  Dorothy  his 
wife,  by  their  deed  dated  the  sixteenth  of  October  in  the  ffif the  yeare  of  the 
reigne  of  our  late  soveraigue  Lord  Kinge  Charles  over  England  etc.,  for  the 
consideration  of  one  hundred  and  flEower  score  pounds  of  lawful!  money  of 
England,  to  them  in  hand  by  Anthony  Hobbs  of  Ightham  aforesaid, 
gent.,  well  and  truely  paied.  Did  alsoe  give,  grante,  bargaiue,  and  sell  unto  the 
said  Anthony  Hobbs  the  said  messuage,  landes,  and  premisses,  and  the  reverciou 
and  revercious,  remainder  and  remainders  of  all  and  evei'y  the  said  premisses 
and  of  every  part  and  pai'cell  thereof,  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  messuage," 
efc,  "unto  the  said  Anthony  Hobbs,  his  heirs  and  assigues,"  <';"(:•.,  "for  ever, 
With  a  Provisoe  therein  conteiued,  that  if  the  said  Thomas  Hodsall,  bis  beires, 
executors  or  administrators,  or  any  of  them  should  well  and  truely  content  and 
pay,  or  cause  to  be  paied  unto  the  said  Anthony  Hobbs,  his  heii's,''  etc.,  "At 
or  in  the  then  dwellinghouse  of  the  said  Thomas  Hodsall,  scituate  in  Igbtham 
aforesaid,  the  full  sume  of  one  hundred  flouer  score  fouertene  pounds  and  eight 
shillings  of  lawfull  Englisbe  mony  on  the  eighteenth  day  of  October  which 
was  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  tbirtye,  that 
then  the  said  Indenture  of  bargaine  and  sale,  guifte,  and  graunte  should  be 
utterly  void  to  all  intents  and  purposes  whatsoever,  witli  divers  others  covenants 
therein  conteined  (as)  more  at  lardge  may  appeare.  And  doe  beleive  that 
within  some  short  time  after  the  makeing  of  the  said  Conveyance  be  the  said 
Thomas  Hodsall  dyed,  baveing  yssue  of  his  body,  as  theis  defendants  are 
informed,  at  the  tyme  of  bis  decease,  William  Hodsall,  the  complainants'' 
ffather,  whoe  was  bis  eldest  sonue,  and  Stephen  Hodsall  and  Henry  Hoilsall,  unto 
whome  the  equitie  of  redempcion  did  pertcyne  as  being  brothers,  and  beires  in 
Gavelkinde  unto  the  said  Thomas  Hodsall  their  late  ffather.  And  theis 
defendants  doe  further  say,  that  they  doe  beleive  that  the  conqdainants^  Sather 
was  lefte  in  debt  by  the  cumplainants''  grandfather,  and  that  be  the  said 
William  Hodsall  could  not  tell  well  howe  to  redeeme  the  said  messuage  and 
lands ;  and  baveing,  as  theis  defendants  verily  beleive,  about  the  time  of  bis 
father's  decease,  marryed  with  one  of  the  daughters  of  Henry  Maundy  the 
elder,  of  Suudrishe,  in  the  said  county,  yoman,  with  wbome  be  bad,  as  these 
defendants  beleive,  a  good  furtune,  And  the  said  Henry  Maundy  finding  the 
said  messuage,  landes,  and  premisses,  ingaged  and  forfeited,  did,  as  theis 
defendants  have  heard,  paie  in  the  raonyes  due  unto  the  said  Anthony  Hobbs, 
And  thereuppon,  as  theis  defendants  beleive,  the  said  William  Hodsall  and 
Anthony  Hobbs.  by  their  Conveyance  good  in  Lawe,  beareiug  date  the  ffirst  day 
of  October  in  the  tenth  yeare  of  the  raigne  of  our  late  soveraigne  Loi'd  Kinge 
Charles  over  England  etc.,  by  the  name  of  William  Plodsall,  of  Igbtham,  in  the 
county  of  Kent,  gent.,  and  Anthony  Hobbs,  of  Bromely,  in  the  said  county, 
gent.,  thereby  reciteing  that 'for  and  in  consideration  of  the  sume  of  three 
hundred  and  tbirtie  poundes  of  lawfull  Englisbe  mony,"  etc.,  "  payed  by  the 
said  Henry  Maundy  the  elder  and  Henry  Maundy  his  Sonne,  that  is  to  say,  one 
hundred  and  ffower  score  pounds  thereof  to  the  said  Anthony  Hobbs,  and  the 
residue  thereof  to  the  said  William  Hodsall,  the  receipt  whereof  they  did 
tbereby  acknowledge.  Did  grant,  alyeue,  sell,  eufeoffe,  and  confirme  unto  the 
said  Henry  Maundy  the  elder  and  Henry  Maundy  his  sonne,  their  beires  and 
assignes  the  said  messuage,  lands,  and  premisses.  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said 


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messuage  or  tenement  lands,  and  premisses,  with  the  appurtenances,  unto  the 
said  Henry  Maundy  the  elder  and  Henry  Maundy  his  souue,  their  hcires  and 
assignees  for  ever,  With  divers  other  Covenants  therein  conteincd  (as),  refen-ence 
being  thereunto  had,  more  at  lardge  may  appcare.  Which  said  deed  soe  made 
as-aforesaid  by  the  comjjlni/uinf.'i'  ffather  and  the  said  Anthony  Hobl)s  was  an 
absolute  conveyance  and  had  noe  Provisoe  or  condicion  for  redempcion  of  the 
premisses  on  the  payment  of  any  sunie  or  sumes  of  money  whatsoever,  neither 
doth  it  thercl^y  appeare  that  it  should  be  void  upon  the  payment  of  the  said 
sume  of  tlu'ce  hundred  and  thirty  pounds,  with  damage  for  forbearance,  and 
theis  dcfcndtintx  fuilher  say  that  they  have  heard  that  the  said  Henry  Maundy 
the  elder,  scone  after  the  said  deed  was  soe  made  as  aforesaid,  dyed,- And  that 
the  said  Henry  Maundy  the  younger  him  survived,  by  reason  whereof,  as  theis 
difcndanfv  are  informed,  the  said  Henry  Maundy  the  younger  became  wholely 
estated  in  the  said  premisses,  and  he  being  soe  seized  did,  as  it  is  related,  and 
as  they  hope  to  prove,  procure  the  said  Stephen  Hodsall  and  Henry  Hodsall, 
the  two  younger  souus  of  the  said  Thomas  Hodsall,  by  their  deed  Poll  beareing 
date  the  seaventeenth  day  of  Aprill  in  the  three  and  twentieth  yeare  of  the 
said  late  King  Charles  etc.,  to  graunte  and  release  all  their  estate,  tytle, 
interest,  use,  possession,  power,  possibilitie  of  redempcion,  condicion,  property, 
claime,  and  demaund,  whatsoever,  which  they  had  or  could  claime  in  the  said 
messuage  and  lands,"  etc..  "  And  theis  defendants  further  say  that  they  have 
bine  informed  that  the  said  William  Hodsall  did  much  ymportune  the  said 
Henry  ilrench  to  lend  him  three  hundred  pounds,  and  for  security  thereof  he 
would  procure  the  said  Henry  Maundy  to  convey  parte  of  the  said  premisses 
unto  him  the  said  Henry  fEreuch  ;  uppon  which  ymportunity  he  condiscended, 
And  thereuppon  it  was  agreed  that  a  conveyance  to  be  executed  by  ffync 
should  be  made  of  all  the  said  premisses,  and  parte  thereof  should  be  lymitted 
to  the  said  Henry  ffrench  and  his  heires,  and  the  other  parte  thereof  should  be 
setled  on  the  said  William  Hodsall  and  Jane  his  wife,  as  hereafter  is  expressed. 
And  for  that  purpose  an  Indenture  tripartite,  beareing  date  the  third  day  of 
May  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  forty  and  seaven,  and 
made  betweeue  the  said  Henry  Maundy  and  Anne  his  wife,  the  said  Anthony 
Hobbs,  by  the  name  of  Anthony  Hobbs,  of  Orpington,  in  the  said  county,  gent., 
and  Anne  his  wife,  of  the  first  parte,  and  the  said  William  Hodsall  and  Jane 
his  wife  of  the  second  parte,  and  the  said  Henry  flfrench  this  defendante  Annes 
husband  of  the  third  parte,  thereby  reciteing  that  in  consideracion  of  the  sume 
of  three  hundred  pounds  of  lawfull  mony  of  England  payed  by  this  defendante 
Annes  husband  according  as  therein  is  appointed  it  should  be  payed  for  the 
setling  of  a  competent  joyncture  of  some  parte  of  the  landes  on  the  said  Jane 
the  wife  of  the  said  William  Hodsall,  And  for  other  consideracions  therein 
expressed,  all  the  said  parties  did  grante,  bargaine,  sell,  enfeoffe,  and  confirme 
unto  the  said  Henry  ifrench  his  heires  and  assignes  All  the  said  premisses  soe 
first  granted  unto  the  said  Anthony  Hobbs,  To  have  and  to  hold  the  said 
messuage,  lands,  tenements,  hereditaments  and  premisses,  with  the  appurte- 
nances, unto  the  said  Henry  ffrench  his  heires  and  assignes.  To  the  severall  uses, 
intents,  and  purposes  in  the  said  deed  and  hereafter  expressed,  that  is  to  say. 
Of,  for  and  concerninge  the  said  barne  called  ffurmingers  barue,  and  all  those 
seaven  peices  or  parcells  of  land,  meddowe,  and  pasture  called  ffirmingers, 
Beards,  Ditchers,  and  the  fouer  Peckhams  Broomes,  conteining  by  estimacion 
three  and  thirty  acres,  To  the  only  propper  use  and  behoofe  of  the  said  William 
Hodsall  and  Jane  his  wife  for  and  during  the  terme  of  their  two  naturall  lives 
and  the  life  of  the  longest  liver  of  them,  for  the  joyncture  of  the  said  Jane  and 
in  satisfaccion  of  her  dower,  And  from  and  after  their  deceases  to  the  only 
propper  use  and  behoofe  of  the  right  heires  of  the  said  William  Hodsall  for  ever- 
which  are  the  eomjjlainant.s'as  these  defendants  take  it,  And  of,  for,  and  concern- 
ing the  said  messuage  or  tenement,  with  the  appurtenances,  called  Gcorgies.  to, 
geather  with  the  malthouse,  gatehouse,  workhouse,  barne,  stable,  outhouses, 
edifices,  and  buildings  thereunto  belonging.  And  also  two  yards,  one  garden,  and 
two  orchards,  thereunto  adjoyueiug  and  apperteineiog,  conteineiug  by  estimacion 
about  two  acres.  And  likewise  all  those  foresaid  eight  severall  peices  or  parcells 
of  land,  meaddowe.  pasture,  and  woodground,  commonly  called  JIarfeild,  the 


232  WILLS   AND    OTHER   llECORDS 

Old  Hopgarden,  Grcatc  Castles,  Litlc  Castles,  Sandfeild,  Sandfeild  Wood, 
Nevvland  Uottomc,  and  llighfeild,  with  their  and  every  of  their  rights,  members, 
and  appurtenances,  lyeing  and  being  togcather  at  or  neere  Ivy  Hatch  aforesaid, 
iu  the  occupacion  of  William  Love  and  William  Hodsall,  conteineing  by 
estimaciou  about  two  and  forty  acres,  sometimes  one  Christopher  I'elsautes, 
beinge  parte  of  the  lands  formerly  ingaged  to  the  said  Anthony  Hobbs.  To  the 
only  propper  use  and  Ijelioofc  of  the  said  Henry  ili'ench  and  uIl.  his  heire.s  and 
assignees  for  ever,  With  a  I'rovisoe  therein  conteined  with  this  further 
lymittacion,  power  of  redempcion  and  resumeing  the  said  messuage  and  last 
meucioned  premisses  To  the  said  William  Hodsall  and  his  heires,  on  payment 
of  fower  hundred  and  five  pounds  therein  expressed,  and  it  was  covenanted, 
granted,  concluded,  condisceuded,  and  fully  agreed  by  and  betweene  all  the 
said  parties  to  the  said  Deed,  for  themselves  respectively,  and  for  their  severall 
and  respective  heires,  that  if  the  said  William  Hodsall,  his  heires,  executors," 
etc.,  "  should,  and  did  well  and  truely  pay,  or  caused  to  be  paicd  unto  the  said 
Henry  ffrench,  his  executors,  administrators,  or  assignees  the  sume  of  ffower 
hundred  and  five  pounds  of  lawful!  Englishe  mony,  At  or  in  the  then  dwelling 
house  of  the  said  Henry  ilreuch  scituate  in  Wrotham  aforesaid  in  manner 
foUoweing,  that  is  to  say,  one  and  twenty  pounds  parcell  thereof  on  the  ffouerth 
day  of  May  which  was  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand  six  hundred 
forty  and  eight  ;  other  one  and  twenty  pounds  parcell  thereof  on  the  ffouerth 
day  of  May  which  was  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hundred  forty 
and  nyne  ;  other  one  and  twenty  pounds  thereof  on  the  ffouerth  day  of  May  which 
was  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  fifty  ;  other  one 
and  twenty  pounds  parcell  thereof  on  the  fouerth  day  of  May  which  was  in  the 
yeare  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand  six  hundred  fifty  and  one ;  and  three  hundred 
twenty  and  one  pounds,  residue  thereof,  uppon  the  fouerth  day  of  May  which  was 
in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand  six  hundred  fifty  and  two,  without 
fraude  or  covyn.  That  then  and  from  thenceforth  the  uses  before  therein  lymitted 
to  the  said  Henry  ffrench,  his  heires  and  assignees,"  etc.,  ''  should  cease  and 
determine,"  etc. ,^' But  if  default  should  happen  to  [be]  made  in  the  payment  of  the 
said  fouer  hundred  and  five  pounds  or  any  parte  or  parcell  thereof  according  to  the 
respective  times  and  place  before  lymitted,  'That  then  the  said  last  meucioned 
Deed  and  all  farther  assurances  therein  to  be  had,  made,  or  executed,  of,  for, 
or  concerning  the  said  messuage,"  etc.,  "  should  be  and  enure  to  the  only 
propper  use  and  behoofe  of  the  said  Henry  ffrench,"  etc.,  "  with  a  covenant 
therein  to  leavy  a  fyue,  and  another  covenant  therein  that  the  said  William 
Hodsall  and  his  heires  should  and  might  have,  receive,  and  take  the  rents, 
yssues  and  proffitts  of  the  said  messuage,"  etc.,  '■  untilldefaulte  should  be  made 
of  or  in  the  payment  of  the  mony  meucioned  in  the  Trovisoe  aforesaid,  or  some 
part  thereof,  and  noe  longer,"  etc.,  ''  and  theis  defendants  say  that  they  doe 
beleive  that  a  fyue  was  sued  forth  iu  exeeucion  of  the  said  Deed.  All  which 
said  meucioned  Deeds  and  Conveyances  this  defenda/ite  Anne  ftVench  hath  in 
her  hands  and  custody,  which  she  keepeth  for  defence  of  her  tytle,''  etc., 
"  Which  said  premisses  soe  sailed  uppon  the  said  Henry  ffrench  are  not  worth 
twenty  pounds  by  the  yeare  above  all  chardges  and  reprizes,  neither  can  they 
let  the  same  at  that  rate,  And  therefore  doe  deny  that  the  same  is  worth  forty 
pounds  by  the  yeare  as  is  surmised.  And  theis  defendants  doe  further  say  that 
according  to  the  Agreement  the  said  William  Hodsall  ditl  enjoy  the  protiitts  of 
the  i^remisses  soe  setled  on  the  said  Henry  tt'rench  for  security  of  the  said  three 
hundred  pounds  as  aforesaid  for  the  space  of  two  yeares,  and  never  made 
payment  of  the  said  one  and  twenty  pounds  by  the  yeare  according  to  the 
Provisoe  in  the  said  Deed,  whereby  the  lands  became  forfeited  unto  the  said 
Henry  ft'rench,  and  the  said  William  Hodsall  became  truely  indebted  unto  the 
said  Henry  ffrench  iu  the  full  sume  of  three  hundred  ffort.y  and  two  pounds, 
which  he  the  said  Henry  much  pressed  to  have  paied  him  in,  as  this  defendante 
Anne  hath  often  heard  him  say.  And  for  asmuch  as  that  the  said  William 
Hodsall  much  about  the  same  time  dyed,  and  that  there  was  noe  freinds  which 
the  widdowe  could  gaine  to  redeeme  the  same,  and  in  respect  that  the  houses  and 
buildings  much  fell  to  decay,  and  were  a  great  parte  thereof  readdy  to  dropp 
downe,  the  said  Henry  ffrench  was  forced  to  enter  into  the  saitl  messuage  and 


RELA.TING  TO  THE  FAMILY  OF  HODSOLL.   233 

premisses,  and  after  he  had  recovered  the  possession  thereof,  he  did,  as  they 
have  heard,  proffer  the  same  to  severall  teunants  and  [n]one  vpould  medle 
therewith,  or  give  him  above  sixteene  pounds  per  annum  for  the  same  unlesse 
he  would  first  put  the  same  in  repaire.  to  his  greate  damage,  in  respect 
whereof  he  was  forced  to  fall  to  repaireing  of  the  same  houses  and  m[al]t- 

howses  being  tlieu  very and  fallen  much  to  decay  in  the  tymber  workc 

and  other  works,"  rfr.,  "  And  thois  defendants  doe  denie  y'  the  said  Henry 
ffrench.  to  their  knowledges,  in  his  life  time  did  fell  downe  anie  tymber  which 
grew  on  the  premisses."  -'And  theis  defendants  further  say,  that  the  said 
Henry,  being  so  seized  as  aforesaid,  about  July  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one 
thousand  six  hundred  tifty  and  two  he  made  his  Will  in  writeing,  and  thereby 
he  gave  [the]  said  mortgaged  messuage,  lauds  and  premisses  to  this  dcfendantc 
Anne  for  and  during  the  terme  of  her  widowehood.  And  after  her  decease  or 
marriage  he  gave  the  same  unto  this  other  defendante  ffrancis  ft'rench  for  ever  ; 
and  shortly  after  he  dyed  soe  seized  as  aforesaid  ;  after  whose  decease  this 
defendante  Anne  entred  into  the  said  messuage,  lands  and  premisses,  and  hath 
ever  since  enjoyed  the  same,  and  hath  received  the  rents  and  proffitts  thereof  " 
etc. 

Sivorn  18  June,  1657. 

(A  true  copy  by  me,  James  Greenstreet,  this  30th  of  October,  1879.) 


RETXAEDsoif  Bills  and  Answers  before  1714,  No.  43. 

Michaelmas  and  Hilary  1669,  Hodsoll  versus  Mandt. 

{Bill  of  Conqtlaint.) 

'•  4  die  Novembris  1669.  To  the  Right  Hon'''''  S''  Orlando  Bridgmau,  Knight 
and  Barronet,  Lord  Keeper  of  the  Greate  Scale. 
"  In  most  humble  manner  complayneing.  Doe  shewe  vnto  your  Honor  your  daily 
Orators  flErancis  Hodsall,  of  Ightham,  in  the  County  of  Kent,  yeoman,  and  Max- 
feild  Hodsall,  of  Shippborne.  in  the  County  aforesaid,  yeoman,  that  whereas 
Gyles  Mandy.  late  of  Ightham  aforesaid,  yeoman,  was  in  his  lyfetyme  (that  is  to 
save)  aboute  the  moueth  of  March  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  God  one  thousand 
six  hundred  sixty  and  six,  as  he  pretended,  lawfully  seized  in  his  demeane,  as  of 
ffee,  of  and  in  All  that  messuage  or  tenement,  with  the  barnes,  stables,  outhouses 
and  appurtenances  therevntobelongeing,  comonly  called  by  the  name  of  Splaines 
Greene,  scituate,  standing,  lying  and  being  in  the  Parish  of  iHetching  in  the  County 
of  Sussex," — "  And  of  and  in  all  those  seaven  peices  or  parcells  of  lauds,  meaddowe, 
pasture  and  woodgrounde,  with  the  appurtenances,  ^vith  the  said  messuage  or 
tenement  vsually  held,  occupyed  or  enioyed,  comonly  called  Inholmes  Hylesses 
and  Stroade  Crofts,  conteyned  togeather  eleven  acres  more  or  lesse,  lyeing  and 
being  in  fflctching  aforesaid  " — "  And  of  and  in  all  those  three  other  peices  or 
parcells  of  land,  with  their  appurtenances,  comonly  called  Worgers,  conteyning 
by  estimation  ten  acres,  in  fflctching  aforesaid," — "being  alltogether  of  the 
cleare  yearely  value  of  twenty  pounds  or  thereaboutes  And  he  the  said  Gyles 
Mandy,  being  soe  thereof  seized,  for  good  and  valuable  Consideration,  by  his 
Indenture  beareing  date  the  sixth  day  of  March  in  the  said  yeare  of  our  Lord  God 
one  thousand  six  himdred  sixty  and  six,  and  by  flEyne  thercvppon  had  and  levyed, 
Did  graunte,  bargaine  and  sell  all  and  siuguler  the  premisses,  with  their  appur- 
tenances, vnto  your  said  Orator  Jlaxfeild  Hodsall,  and  to  John  Hodsall  his 
brother,  and  their  heii'cs,  To  the  only  vse  and  behoofe  of  your  said  Orator  Max- 
feild,  and  his  brother  John,  and  of  their  heires  and  assignes  forever,  as  in  and 
by  the  said  Indenture  and  llyne  vppon  Record,  relation  being  respectively  tliere- 
vnto  had,  it  doth  and  may  appeare.  And  your  said  Orators  doe  ilurther  shew 
that  there  was  greate  kindnessc  bctweene  him  the  said  Gyles  Mandy  and  your  said 
Orators  and  the  said  John  Hodsall  in  rcguarde  he  the  said  Gyles  was  owne 
brother  to  Jane  Hodsall  mother  of  your  said  Orators  and  of  the  said  John  Hod- 
sall, and  therevppon  your  said  Orators  did  lende  diverse  considerable  snmos  of 
mony  to  him  the  said  Gyles  Maundy,  to  supply  his  occasions,  amounting  in  the 


234  WILLS    AND    OTHER   llECORDS 

whole  to  sixtyc  pounds,  or  thereabouts,  aud  he  the  said  Gyles  did  iTaithfully 
promise  to  pay  the  same  vnto  your  said  Orators  about  May  was  two  yeares  last 
past,  and  att  or  aboute  the  moneth  of  May  one  thousand  six  hundred  sixty  and 
seaven  he  the  said  John  Hodsall.  for  good  and  valuable  considerations,  by  his  Deed 
of  ffeoffment  duely  executed,  Did  graute  vnto  your  said  Orator  ffrancis,  and  his 
hcircs,  his  moycty  parte  or  purpartye  of  all  and  singuler  the  premisses  To  the 
only  vse  of  your  said  Orator  ffrancis,  and  of  his  heires  fforever.  wherevppon  your 
said  Orator  did  both  enter  into  all  and  singuler  the  premisses,  and  for  some 
tyme  did  peaceably  and  quietly  hold  and  enioy  the  same  as  Tennants  in  Comon, 
and  of  all  right  ought  still  to  holde  and  enioye  the  same.  But  nowe  soe  it  is, 
may  it  please  your  Honour,  the  said  Giles  Mandy  being  lately  dead,  Anne 
Mandy,  the  widdowe  and  relicte  of  the  said  Gyles  Mandy,  combining  and  con- 
federating herselfe  with  Edward  Mandy  her  sonue  howe  to  defeate  your  said 
Orators  not  only  of  all  and  singuler  the  said  messuage,  lands,  tenements  and 
hereditaments,  but  alsoe  of  the  said  sume  of  sixty  pounds  lente  to  the  said  Gyles 
3Iandy  as  aforesaid,  haveing  possessed  themselves  of  all  the  Deeds  and  writeings 
belongeing  to  the  premisses,  and  of  all  the  Deeds  and  writeings  of  him  the  said 
Gyles  Mandy,  and  of  all  the  goods  and  chattells  of  him  the  said  Gyles  Mandy, 
they  the  said  Anne  Mandy  and  Edward  Mandy  have  lately  entred  into  all  and 
singuler  the  premisses,  and  liave  made  diverse  secerett  (sic)  conveyances  of  the 
premisses  to  persons  vnknowne  to  your  said  Orators,  whose  names,  as  discovered, 
your  said  Orators  humbly  prayeth  may  be  here  inserted,  and  they  made  partyes 
to  this  Bill,  And  doe  give  it  out  in  speeches,  sometimes  that  the  said  Gyles 
Mandy  longe  time  before  he  sold  the  premisses  to  your  said  Orator  Maxfeild  and 
to  the  said  John  Hodsall,  either  before  or  after  his  marriage  with  her  the  said 
Anne  Mandy,  did  settle  all  or  the  greatest  parte  of  the  premisses  vppon  her 
the  said  Anne  for  her  Joyuture,  and  that  by  vertiare  of  such  settlement  she  holdeth 
the  premisses  ;  And  at  other  times  that  he  the  said  Gyles,  by  some  Conveyance 
duly  executed,  longe  time  before  your  said  Orator  Maxfeild's  tytle  did  ffirst 
accrewe  to  any  parte  of  the  premisses.  Did  intaile  all  or  the  greatest  parte  of  the 
premisses  vppou  him  the  said  Edward  Mandy  his  sonne,  but  that  your  said  Orator 
shall  never  see  howe  the  same  arc  settled,  doe  what  he  can,  or  words  to  the  same 
effecte  ;  And  at  other  times  they  the  said  confederates  doe  give  it  out  in  speeches 
that  he  the  said  Gyles  Mandy  did  make  some  Will,  and  give  all  or  the  most 
parte  of  his  personall  Estate  to  them  or  some  one  of  them,  but  they  the  said  con- 
federates doe  refuse  to  prove  any  Will,  or  to  shew  any  Will  to  your  said  Orator, 
or  confesse  by  what  tytle  they,  or  any  one  of  them,  doe  clayme  the  personall 
Estate  of  him  the  said  Gyles  Mandy  ;  in  tender  consideration  of  the  premisses 
and  for  that  your  said  Orator(s)  have  noe  way  to  discover."  etc. 

The  defendants  Anne  Mandy  and  Edward  Mandy  in  their  Answer,  exhibited 
8  Nov.  1669,  say  that  Giles  Mandy  made  his  Will  on  or  about  24  July  1668, 
which  was  duly  proved  in  the  Prerogative  Court  of  Canterbury  by  said  Anne  his 
sole  executrix.  Also  that,  by  his  deed  Dated  22  Oct.  A°  22  Chas.  1,  in  considera- 
tion of  a  marriage  to  be  solemnised  between  him  and  the  said  Anne,  he  enfeoffed 
Thomas  Alcock  and  Thomas  Gilham  of  the  properties  in  question,  to  be  to  her 
use  after  his  decease,  by  way  of  jointure,  for  the  term  of  her  life. 


EXTEACTS  FKOM  TAX  ROLLS. 

Lay  Suhsidies,  Kent,  No.  124-187,  A"  15  Ilcn.  VIII. 
Membrane  8  dorse,  under  "  Asslw  and  Bydlcy"  : — 
Thomas  Hodsold',  in  goodes  xl  s. ;  {tax)  xij  d. 

No.  124-223,  Ann.  31-32  Hen.  VIII  {a  record  in  very  fine  condition  throughout). 

Under  "  Clicvcnyng ''  : — 
John  Hodsall'.  in  moveables  xx  li. ;  whereof  due  this  yere  x  s. 


RELATING   TO   THE    FAMILY    OF    HODSOLL.        235 

m>.  125-275,  Ann.  34-35  /fen.  VIII. 
Uudcr  "  ChcvcHijnge  "  : — 
Johannes  Hodsall',  pro  bonis  iiij  s. ;   (tax')  iiij  d.     No  Hodsolls  at  Knuxinrj. 

No.  125-282,  Ann.  34-35  Uen.  VIII. 
Under  "  Asshe  "  : — Thomas  Hodsall,'  in  landes  xl  s.  ;  {taa;)  iiij  d. 
No.  126-393,  A"  6  EUzaheth  (a  record  in  fine  condition  throughout). 
No  Hodsolls  at  Kemsing  or  Chevcnynge. 

No.  12G-424,  A<^  13  Elizuheth. 
Under  "  Stanstcdc  ''  : — John  Hodsole,  in  landes  v  11. 
No  Hodsolls  given  under  "  Ightam.'" 

No.  126-425,  A"  13  EUzahrth  (a  record  in  very  fine  condition  lluoiigliout). 
Under  ^^ Ashe  cum  Ridley"'  : — 
William  Hodsall,  in  landes x  //  ;*  (tax)  xiij  s.  iiij  d. 

No.  127-522,  A"  39  EUzaheth. 
No  Hodsalls  given  under  either  "  Sfanstede"  or  "  Ightam.'' 
No.  127-5()9,  A"  7  Jame?  I. 
Under  "  Ightam  "  : — Thomas  Hodsall.  la.  iiij  li. 
No  Hodsolls  given  under  "  Staiixtcd." 

No.  127-572,  .l"  19  Jame.t  I. 
Under  "  i^tansted"  : — John  Hodsoll,  la.  xLs-. 
Under  "  Ightam"  : — Thomas  Hodsoll,  la.  iij  li. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  PARISH  REGISTERS. 

Parish  Registers  op  Ash-by-Wrotham,  Kent. 
Copies  of  the  Registers  of  Baptisms  of  the  IlodsoU  family  at  Ash. 
William,  the  son  of  William  Hodsoll,  was  bap.  27  July,  1588. 
Margaret,  the  daughter  of  William  Hodsoll,  was  bap.  26  Julye,  1590. 
John,  son  of  William  Hodsoll,  bap.  9  April,  1592. 
Ann,  the  daughter  of  William  Hodsoll,  was  bap.  30  May,  1592. 
Henry,  sou  of  William  Hodsoll,  was  bap.  on  the  1st  of  November.  1596. 
Heleuor(/),  daughter  of  William  Hodsoll,  baj).  20  November,  1598. 
William,  sonue  of  M'  William  Hodsoll,  was  bap.  25  November,  1G17. 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  M''  William  Hodsoll,  bap.  24  October,  1619. 
John,  son  of  M''  William  Hodsoll.  was  bap.  31  March,  1622. 
EUeuor,  daughter  of  M' William  Hodsoll,  bap.  9  September,  1630. 
Jane,  daughter  of  M''  William  Hodsoll,  bap.  25  April,  1633. 
William,  son  of  M''  William  &  Elizabeth  Hodsoll,  bap.  9  January.  1642. 

On  the  dorse  : — 
Copies  of  the  Registers  of  Marriages  in  the  Hodsoll  family  at  Ash. 

William  Pocock  (?)  &  Elizabeth  Hodsoll  married  y«  (no  date,  but  between  1578 

and  1580). 
John  Miller  &  Anne  Hodsoll  married  14  February,  1613. 
Anthony  (/)  King  &  Ellen  Hodsoll  married  30  October,  1626. 

Copies  of  Burials  of  the  Hodsoll  family  at  Ash. 
Thomas  Hodsoll  buried  17  August,  1553. 

*  The  highest  assessment  in  the  parish. 


236  WILLS    AND   OTUER    IIECOIIDS 

Williiim  IIoilsoll  buried  y"  xxix  day  of  December,  1586. 

M''  William  liodsoU  was  buried  ">  October,  HilC). 

M"  Hester  Hodsoll  was  buried  14  February,  l<i23. 

M"  EUenor  HodsoU,  widdowe,  was  buried  2!)  July,  1631. 

Paruell  (?).  the  wife  of  Mr.  Hennery  Hodsoll,  was  buried  5  May,  1655. 

Written  under  the  ]5ai)tisms  :— "  I  certify  that  the  above,  as  well  as  the 
entries  on  the  other  side,  are  true  and  correct  copies  from  the  ancient  Register 
Book  of  Baptisms,  Marriages,  and  Burials  of  the  Parish  of  Ash,  Kent. 

(Signed)        "  R.  Salwey''  [the  Rector]. 

Parish  Registers  of  Hadlow,  Kent. 

1707,  Tho%  son  of  Henry  Hadsel,  bap.  25  June. 

1708,  John  Hadsells,  son  of  Henry,  bap.  9  Nov. 
1711,  Ruben,  son  of  Henry  Hadsoul,  bap.  1  Jan. 
1714,  Tho%  son  of  Henry  Hadsal,  bap.  5  May. 
1783,  John,  son  of  Henry  Hadsol,  bap.  11  Sep. 
1739,  John,  son  of  Henry  Hodsol,  bap.  10  Sep. 
1741,  Tho^  son  of  Henry  Hadsel,  bap.  30  March. 

1743,  Mary,  dau.  of  Henry  Hadsel,  bap.  8  July. 

1744,  Henry,  son  of  Henry  Hadsel,  bap.  27  Aug. 
1747,  William,  son  of  Henry  Hadsel,  bap.  8  Jan. 
1751,  Tho',  son  of  Henry  Hadsel,  bap.  27  Dec. 
1730,  Tlio",  son  of  Henry  Hadsell,  buried  9  Nov. 

1733,  Margaret,  wife  of  Heury  Hadsol  jun'^,  buried  21  Sep. 

,,     John,  son  of  Henry  Hadsol  jun',  buried  21  Sep. 
1739,  Elizabeth  Hadsol  buried  9  Oct. 
1741,  Ann  Hadsol  buried  30  May. 
1747,  Henry  Hadsoll  buried  1  Oct. 

Parish  Registers  of  Ightham,  Kent. 
(^Extracted,  and  communiccitcd,  hy  Chas.  Ma.vfield  Ilodwll^  Es(i!) 

1602,  John,  son  of  Tho'*  Hodsoll,  bap.  29  day  of  June. 

1604,  Anne,  dau.  of  Tho'  Hodsoll,  gent.,  bap.  25  day  of  March. 

1605,  Thomas,  son  of  Tho'*  Hodsoll,  gent.,  bap.  2  March. 
1607,  Henry,  son  of  Tbo*  Hodsoll.  gent.,  bap.  14  day  of  Feb. 
1609,  William,  son  of  Tho'*  Hodsoll,  gent.,  bap.  26  day  of  March. 
1611,  Stephen,  son  of  Tho^  Hodsoll,  gent.,  bap.  26  day  of  March. 
1()12,  Heury,  son  of  Tho**  Hodsoll.  gent.,  bap.  the  13  day  of  July. 
1614,  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Tho^  Hodsoll,  gent.,  bap.  19  day  of  Feb. 
1621,  Sarah  Hodsoll  married  John  Greenhcad  12  Feb. 

1624,  John,  sou  of  Tho^  Hodsoll,  gent.,  buried  1  Jan. 
1662,  Maundy  Hodsoll  married  Elizabeth  Taylor  4  Dec. 

1664,  or  3.  Tho^  son  of  William  Hodsoll,  born  11  Jan.,  bap.  26  Jan. 

1665,  Tho'  Hodsoll  buried  4  April. 

1666,  Francis,  son  of  Willi,-un  &  Martha  Hodooll,  born  27  Feb. 

1672,  Jane  Hodsoll  buried  May  1. 
„     Jane  Hodsoll  buried  Oct.  9. 

1673,  Henry,  son  of  Henry  &  JIaria  Hodsoll,  bom  27  Oct.,  bap.  1  Nov. 
1676,  fEear  God  fJiuch,  alias  Hodsoll,  sepulta  6  Feb. 

1632,  William,  son  of  William  HodsoU,  gent.,  bap.  April  2. 

1633,  Tho^  son  of  William  Hodsoll,  bap." 20  March. 
1631,  Tho*  Hodsoll,  householder,  buried  17  May, 

1636,  Maundye,  sou  of  W"'  &  Jane  Hodsoll,  bap.  18  July. 

1646,  Musgraue  [above  this  is  written  :  "alias  Maxfield"'],  fil'  William  Hadsoll 
&  vx.  Jane,  bap.  Mar.  21. 

1700,  June  12,  Henry  Hodsoll  buried. 

1701,  July  23,  Mary,  dau.  of  John  &  Eliz.  Hodsoll,  bap. 


RELATING   TO   THE   FAMILY   OF    HODSOLL.        237 

(From  1705  to  1710  there  are  no  entries  of  any  kind,  and  only  huri/ds  from  1710 
to  1724.) 

1711,  Sep.  28.  William  Hodsall.  of  Plaxtoll,  buried. 

1712,  Sep.  20,  Maxfield  Hodsall  buried. 
,,     Mar.  2,  Elizabeth  Hodsall  buried. 

1715,  May  4,  Jane  Hodsall  buried. 
1718,  Sep.  12,  Mary  Hodsall  buried. 

1720,  Oct.  14.  Mary  Hodsall  1)uried. 

1721,  Nov.  10.  Mandy  Hodsall  buried. 

1728,  May  15,  Mary  Hodsoll,  of  Plaxtol,  widow,  buried. 

1729,  June  17.  Francis  Hodsoll  buried. 

1735.  Nov.  7,  Maxfield  Hadsoll,  of  Plaxtol.  l)uried. 

1736,  Jan.  11,  Edmund  Hodsoll.  of  Plaxtol,  buried. 

1741,  Dec.  21,  William  Hodsoll,  of  Plaxtol,  buried. 

1742.  June  13,  John  Hodsoll  buried. 

1745,  Sep.  13,  Urban  Hodsoll  buried  in  linnen  ;  penalty  paid  Nov.  12. 

1746,  Jan.  22,  Elizabeth  Hodsoll,  widow,  buried. 

1754,  Nov.  9,  Maxtield  Hodsoll  buried  in  linneu. 

1755,  Feb.  22.  M'^  Hodsoll,  widow,  buried. 
1767,  Aug.  6,  William  Hodsel  buried. 

Parish  Registers  of  Plaxtol,*  by  Wroth  am,  Kent. 

1650,  July  3,  Anne,  the  wife  of  Thomas  Hadsell,  was  buried. 

1652,  Oct.  16.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Thomas  Hadsell,  was  buried. 

1653,  Jan.  6,  Thomas  Hadsell  &  Anne  Monke  were  married. 

„     Dec.  27,  Winnifred,  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Hadsell,  was  baptized. 

1699,  Oct.  15,  Martha,  y«  child  of  Will :  &  Mary  Hadsoll,  baptized. 

1700,  Nov.  22,  Thomas  Hadsoll.  widdower,  buryed. 

1700-1,  Jan.  23,  Thomas  Hadsoll  &  Ohatherine  Baldwin  was  marry 'd. 

1701-2.  Mary,  daughter  of  Tho^  &  Katheriue  Hadsoll,  baptiz'd  Aug.  10. 

1704,  May  15,  Mary  Hadsoll  bury'd. 

1706,  Jan.  (.')  1(3,  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  &  Katherine  Hadsoll,  baptiz'd. 

1711,  Jan.  30,  John,  son  of  Thomas  &  Katherine  Hodsell,  baptiz'd. 

Jan.  15,  1716-7,  Kathrine,  daughter  of  Tho^  &  Kathrine  Hodsell,  baptized. 

Mar.  5,  1718-9.  Maxfield.  son  of  Maxfield  &  Isabella  Hodsell,  baptized. 

Mar.  19,  1 720,  Edmund,  sou  of  Maxfield  &  Isabella  Hodsell,  was  baptized. 

Feb.  26,  1722.  one  Will.  Hodsell,  together  with  other  inhabitants  of  Plaxtoll, 
appears  to  have  subscribed  his  assent  to  the  request  of  certain  Parish- 
ioners "that  they  may  have  leave  to  dig  and  build  a  burying  vault 
in  the  Chapell  of  Plaxtoll  "  &c. 

Oct.  8,  1723,  Orbine.  son  of  Maxfield  &  Isabel  Hodsell,  baptized. 

Sep.  16,  1729,  Tho.  Hodsell,  buried  ;  the  Affid.  from  M""  Leigh. 

1740,  May  30.  Ann,  daughter  of  Paibeu  &  Ann  Hadsell,  baptized. 

1741,  Jan.  8,  Cathrine,  wife  of  Tho*  Hodsell,  buried;  the  Affidavit  from   M' 

flfrancis.  Curate  of  Shibourn. 

Parish  Registers  of  Shipbourn,  Kent. 

1667,  Henry  Hodsell  &  Mary  Wood,  of  Scale,  married,  by  licence  from  Tun- 

bridge,  26  Nov. 

1668,  John,  son  of  Henry  Hodsoll  of  Fairlawn,  bap.  7  Sep. 
1671,  William,  son  of  Henry  Hodsoll,  bap.  16  April. 
1673,  Henry,  son  of  Henry  Hadsell,  bap.  1  Nov. 

1680,  John  Collins  &  Winyfrite  Hadsall  married  1  Jan. 
1684.  Tho%  son  of  Henry  &  Mary  Hodsall,  bap.  31  Dec. 
1700,  John  Hodsoll  &  Elizabeth  Jeflerys  married  27  Oct.f 

*  The  Rev.  Mr.  Tait,  in  his  letter  to  J.  H.  Hodsoll,  Esq.,  dated  2  Feb.,  1878, 
says  the  search  was  made  from  1648  (their  earliest  date)  to  1760. 

f  On  reference  to  the  Rev.  A.  P.  Wbarton,  he  confirmed  the  accuracy  of 
this  entry  by  letter.— J.  G.,  8  March,  1878. 


238  WILLS    AND    OTHER    RECORDS 

1701,  William,  son  of  Henry  &  Eliz.  Hodsoll.  bap.  &  bnricd  4  Oct. 

1702,  Klizabeth,  dan.  of  Henry  &  Eliz.  lladsoll,  bap.  BO  Dec. 
170:}.  Mary.  dau.  of  Henry  &  Eliz.  Hadsoll,  bap.  22  Dec. 
170.").  Henry,  so:i  of  Henry  &  Eliz.  Had.soll,  bap.  3  July. 
1707,  Tlio»,*  son  of  Henry  Hadsol,  of  Hadlow,  buried  25  Oct. 
1719,  John  Hadscll  buried  27  Sep. 

Paeish  Registers  of  Weotham,  Kent. 

1572,  Alice  Hodsoll  married  John  Skinner  May  18. 

l.')78,  Sibell  Hodsoll  married  Tho»  Borman  Feb.  20. 

ICOd,  Hodsoll— Mother— buried  Sep.  8. 

KHl,  Hodsoll— Marg'— dau.  of  Tho%  bap.  30  Jan. 

1040,  Hodsou  (sic) — Thomas — married  Ann  Moysc  2  Feb. 

I(i7r).  Hodsall— bap.  Jane,  dau.  of  Maxfield,  Sep.  10  &  Nov.  21  {Ihorn  Sep.  10). 

1674,  W'"  Hodsoll,  at  Plaxtol,  married  Jane  Woodgate  Oct.  29. 

1744,  August  12,  Henry,  the  sou  of  Reuben  Hodsoll  &  Mary  his  wife,  was 
baptised. 

12  Juue  1764 — Be  it  known  to  All  whom  it  may  concern,  that  upon  looking 
back  to  the  Entry  of  the  Baptism  of  Ann  Hodsoll  as  it  is  written  in 
this  Book  on  the  2""'  Day  of  October  1745,  we  whose  names  are  here- 
under written,  have  found  a  mistake  made  in  the  christian  name  of 
the  mother  of  the  said  Ann  Hodsol,  and  do  therefore  testify  from  our 
personal  knowledge  of  the  Family  of  the  said  Ann  Hodsoll  that  the 
christian  name  of  the  mother  of  the  said  Ann  Hodsol,  who  is  now 
living  at  Wrotham  and  is  the  widow  of  Tho^  Hodsol,  is  not  Jane,  as  is 
there  entered  by  mistake,  but  Barbara,  and  that  the  entry  sh**  have 
been  in  this  Form  :  Oct.  2,  1745,  Ann,  the  daughter  of  Tho'  Hodsoll 
and  of  Barbara  his  wife,  was  baptized  ;  and  that  the  said  Barbara 
Hodsol  is  the  mother  also  of  Sarah  Hodsol,  whose  Baptism  was 
afterwards  rightly  entered  on  the  26th  of  July  1747. 

John  Potter,  Rector  and  Vicar  of  Wrotham. 
Tho^  Barnett,  Curate  of  Wrotham. 
Tho'  Fulljames,  Churchwarden. 

1756,  March  21,  Isaac,  son  of  Reuben  Hodsoll  &  Mary  his  wife,  was  baptised. 
1784,  March  14,  Henry,  son  of  Ann  &  Henry  Hodsoll  baptised. 
1786,  April  23,  William,  son  of  Henry  Hodsoll  &  Ann  his  wife,  baptised. 
1788,  June  1,  Thomas,  son  of  Henry  Hodsoll  &  Ann  his  wife,  baptised. 

„     Nov.  9,  James,  son  of  Maxfield  Hodsoll  &  Sarah  his  wife,  baptised. 
1814.  Baptisms,  April   18,  born  May  13,  1813,    James   Hacket,   son — parents' 
names,  James  &  Caroline  Hodsoll. 


ABSTEACTS  OF  KENT  FINAL  CONCOEDS. 

Easter  20  Jas.  I. — Between  John  Hodsoll,  gent.,  jilaintif,  and  Thomas  Hod- 
sol, gent.,  and  Dorothy  his  wife  deforciant  a,  of  20  acr.  land  and  2  acr.  wood, 
with  appurts.,  in  Stansted.     The  r^</A?.  receive  £41. 

Easter  7  Chas.  I. — Betw.  William  Hodsoll,  gent.,  i)lt.,  and  John  Hodsoll  and 
Sarah  his  wife  dcfts.,  in  respect  of  property  in  Stansted.  The  defts.  receive 
£100. 

Hilary  22  and  23  Chas.  II. — Edmund  Hodsoll  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  defts., 
in  respect  of  property  in  Kingsdowue,  Ash-next-Ridley  and  St.  Mary  Cray. 
They  receive  £120. 

Hilary  29  and  30  Chas.  II. — Betw.  Robert  Saunders  junior,  gent.,  pit.,  and 
John  Hodsoll,  gent.,  and  Mary  his  wife,  and  Edmund  Hodsoll,"gent.,  d(fts.,  of 

*  See  "  ThoS  son  of  Henry  Hadsel,  bap.  25  June  1707,"  in  Hadlow  Parish 
Register. 


RELATING  TO  THE   FAMILY  OF   UODSOLL.         239 

the  Manor  of  South  Ashe,  with  appurts.,  and  2  messuages,  4  barns,  2  stables,  2 
gardens,  2  orchards,  300  acr.  land,  2-1  acr.  meadow,  50  acr.  pasture,  50  acr. 
wood,  and  38.s\  rent,  with  appurts.,  in  Ashe,  Stansted,  Kemsing,  and  Scale.  The 
defts.  receive  £500. 

Michaelmas  i  Wm.  and  Mary. — Betw.  Henry  HodsoU  pit.,  and  Francis 
Hodsoll  and  Katheiine  his  wife  clefts.,  of  1  barn  and  8  acr.  land,  with  appurts., 
in  Igtham.     The  difta.  receive  £60. 

Easter  8  Wm.  III. — Betw.  Frances  Cart,  widow,  pU.,  and  Robert  Hodsoll 
and  Sara  his  wife  (lefts.,  in  respect  of  property  in  Sittingborne  and  Milton  alias 
Middleton.     The  (lefts,  receive  £100. 

Trinity  13  Wm.  III. — Betw.  Israel  Spencer  77?^.,  and  Jeremiah  Hodsoll  deft., 
in  respect  of  property  in  the  parishes  of  Murstou  and  Newington-next- Sitting- 
borne.     The  (left,  receives  £100, 

Easter  2  Anne. — Ambrose  Browne,  esq.,  and  Hester  Hodsoll,  widow,  defts., 
in  respect  of  property  in  Brenchley,  Marden,  Maidstone,  and  Tonbridge.  They 
receive  £100. 

Easter  3  Anne. — Betw.  William  Thisleton  2>lt-i  ^^^  Henry  Hodsoll  and  Eli- 
zabeth his  wife  defts.,  in  respect  of  property  in  Darcnth  and  Stone-next- Dartford. 
The  (Ufts.  receive  £00. 

Michaelmas  5  Anne. — Betw.  Max  vile  Hodsoll  junior,  William  Crittall,  and 
John  Athefold,  2)lts..  and  Maxvile  Hodsoll  senior  and  Mary  his  wife,  George 
Crittall  and  Ellen  his  wife,  and  William  Athefold  and  Bridget  his  wife,  (lefts., 
in  respect  of  property  in  Shipborne,  Eidley,  Sundrish,  and  Deale.  The  defts. 
receive  £100. 

Easter  10  Anne. — Betw.  William  Furner,  gent.,  pit.,  and  Maxfeild  Hodsoll 
and  Mary  his  wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess..  1  barn,  1  stable,  2  gardens,  1  orchard,  2  acr. 
land,  5  acr.  meadow,  and  2  acr.  pasture,  with  appurts.,  in  Plaxtool,  in  the  parish 
of  Wrotham.     The  defts.  receive  £60. 

Trinity  11  Anne. — Betw.  Ann  Dubois,  widow,  pit.,  and  John-Boucher  Hodsoll, 
gent.,  deft.,  of  2  mess.,  2  barns,  1  stable,  2  gardens,  2  orchards,  40  acr.  laud,  3 
acr.  meadow,  6  acr.  pasture,  4  acr.  wood,  and  common  of  pasture  for  all  manner 
of  beasts,  with  appurts.,  in  the  parishes  of  East  Farleigh  and  Loose.  The  deft. 
receives  £100. 

Easter  5  Geo.  I. — Betw.  Thomas  Hodsoll  and  Thomas  Rogers  ^^Z^s.,  and  Max- 
feild Hodsoll  and  Isabella  his  wife,  John  Reeve  and  Mary  his  wife,  and  George 
Reeve,  defts.,  in  respect  of  property  in  Addington,  Eyarsh,  and  Meopham. 
The  defts.  receive  £60. 

Easter  13  Geo.  I. — Betw.  John  Cox,  gent.,  2'lt-  ^"^^  Thomas  Hodsoll  and 
Sarah  his  wife  d(fts.,  in  respect  of  property  in  Ash-next- Ridley,  and  Fawkham. 
The  defts.  receive  £60. 

Trinity  3  and  4  Geo.  II. — John  Hodsoll  and  Elizabeth  his  \^^fe,  Thomas 
Piper  and  Sarah  his  wife,  John  Morris  and  Mary  his  wife,  and  Reginald  Crast 
and  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  defts.,  in  respect  of  property  in  Ightam,  Otford.  Seven- 
oake,  and  Wrotham.     They  receive  £200. 

Michaelmas  6  Geo.  III. — Betw.  John  Taylor,  gent.,  j-jiZ^.,  and  Thomas  Hodsoll 
and  Mai-y  his  wife  defts.,  in  respect  of  property  in  Ash-next-Ridley  and  Fawk- 
ham.    The  defts.  receive  £60. 

Michaelmas  10  Geo.  HI. — Betw.  William  Hodsoll,  gent.,  7;^^.,  and  Barbara 
Hodsoll,  widow,  Edward  Brownson  and  Rebecca  his  wife,  William  Stevenson 
and  Ann  his  wife,  and  Sarah  Hodsoll,  spinster,  d(fts.,  of  a  moiety  of  the  Manor 
of  South  Ash,  with  the  appurts.,  and  of  a  moiety  of  4  mess.,  8  barns,  8  stables, 
8  gardens,  4  orchards,  370  acr.  land,  10  acr.  meadow,  20  acr.  pasture,  and  55 
acr.  wood,  also  common  of  pasture  for  all  cattle,  with  the  appurts.,  in  Ash-next- 
Ridley,  Kingsdown,  Stansted,  Wrotham.  and  Kemsing.  The  d(fts.  receive 
£320. 

Trinity  18  Geo.  III. — Betw.  Thomas  Hodsoll  ^^Zf.,  and  James  Hodsoll  and 
Ann  his  wife  (lefts.,  of  a  moiety  of  4  acr.  laud,  4  acr.  meadow,  5  acr.  pasture, 
and  2  acr.  wood,  also  of  common  of  pasture  for  all  manner  of  cattle,  with  the 
appurts.,  in  Sevenoaks  and  Chevening.     The  defts.  receive  £60. 


2i0         WILLS  AND  OTHER  RECORDS. 
MISCELLANEA. 

Imcription  on  (irdrcstone  -in  Iladlow  churchyard,  coinmvnicdfid  in  me  31 
May,  187(5,  hy  J.  H.  Hodnoll,  Esq.,  of  Loo.w  Court. 

"  Here  lieth  the  body  of  Keuben  Hodsoll,  of  the  parish  of  Wrolham,  who 
departed  this  life  30  Dec''  1791,  aged  80  years ; 

•■Also  of  Ami  his  wife.  dauj,4itcr  of  Hob'  &  Ann  Barr  of  this  parish,  who 
departed  this  life  May  27, 1741,  in  the  25"'  year  of  her  age,  leaving  one  daughter, 
Ann." 


In  Wrofhatn  churchyard  are  inscriptions  to  '•  Mary,  wife  of  Reuben  Hod- 
soll, died  29"'  Jany  1783.  aged  67  years ;  "  and  to  "Maxfield  Hodsoll,  born  11"' 
Jany  175-1,  died  2P'  July  1837.'' 


In  lyhtham  churchyard  {Feb.  1878). — A  tomb  with  the  Hodsoll  coat  of 
arms  upon  it,  and  thus  much  of  the  inscription  just  decipherable  :  "  Maxfield 
Hodsoll,  aged  -19  ;  left  issue  3  sous,  Maxfield,  Edmund,  k.  Urbane  ;  M'"  Isabell 
Hodsoll,  wife  of  Maxfield,  died  1755,  aged  62."  Also,  on  one  side  this  inscrip- 
tion :  "  Here  lies  the  body  of  Edmund,  second  son  of  Maxfield  Hodsoll ;  "  and, 
on  the  other  side,  this  :  "  Here  also  lieth  the  body  of  Urbane  Hodsoll." 


Copied  from,  fly-leaf  of  a  ionk  (?  Family  Bible)  in  the  possession  (as  I  am 
informed)  of  Mr.  Edwin  Watson,  2>nnoi])al  water-bailiff  of  Rochester. 

Ann  Hodsoll,  daughter  of  .Tno.  Hodsoll  &  Martha  Hodsoll  his  wife,  was  born 

Dec.  29,  1780,  on  Sunday. 
John  Hodsoll,  son  of  Jno.  &   Martha  Hodsoll,  was  born  June  6,  1785.     He 

departed  this  life  Feb.  15.  1788. 
Henry  Hodsoll,  son  of  Jno.  &  Martha  Hodsoll,  was  born  March  30,  1787.     He 

departed  this  life  May  9.  1787. 
Mary  Hodsoll,  daughter  of  Jno.  &  Martha  Hodsoll,  was  born  on  Good  Friday, 

March  21,  1788. 
Elizabeth  Hodsoll,  daughter  of  Jno.  &  Martha  Hodsoll,  was  born  May  22, 1790, 

on  Saturday. 
John  Hodsoll,  son  of  John  &  Martha  Hodsoll,  was  born  June  11,  1792,  on 

Monday. 
M.H.H.N.  died  June  27,  1837.     [I  don't  know  what  this  last  entry  means — 

J.G.] 


De  Banco  Boll,  Easter  Term,  19  Edw.  Ill,  membrane  107  rt'w/w,— Kent,  To 
wit,  "  Oto  de  Grandissono,"  by  his  Attorney,  versus  Eoger,  son  of  Clement  de 
Hodesole,  and  Thomas  brother  of  the  said  Roger,  respecting  fee  of  said  Otho  at 
Esshe  next  fEaukham.  (See  Lay  Subsidy  Bolls,  Kent  J\'°  123-14,  A"  12  Edw.  Ill, 
membrane  21,  Hundred  of  "  Alkestaue." — "  Thome  de  Hodsole,  iiij  s.  ;  Clem,  de 
Hodesole,  viij  s.'") 


Close  Boll,  A"  1  Hen.  IV,2)(irt  1,  membrane  15  dorso. — 19  Feb.,  Peter  Pound, 
citizen  and  coppersmith,  of  London,  summoned  to  answer  to  John  Odeshole 
executor  of  the  Testament  of  John  Chipstede,  of  Sele,  and  to  William  Champe- 
neys  and  Joan  his  wife,  co-executrix  with  the  aforesaid  John  Odeshole  of  the 
Testament  aforesaid. 


KENT   EINES,   EDWARD   II.* 

523.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  10— Betw.  Alex- 
ander Cokyn,  of  Canterbury,  pit.,  and  Henry  de  Cliilleliam  and 
Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  a  rent  of  9  quarters  of  barley,  with 
appurts.,  in  Canterbury  and  the  suburbs  of  said  City.  Henry  and 
Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Alexander;  and, for  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive 
20  marks  for  the  concession. 

524.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  10— Betw.  Con- 
stance atte  Sole  ph.,  and  John  de  Boxle  and  Agnes  his  wife  defts., 
of  1  pool,  and  1  rood  of  mead.,  with  appurts.,  in  Maydenestane. 
John  and  Agues  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Constance  ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Agnes,  grant  to  her  and  to  her  heirs, 
and  receive  100*.  for  the  concession. 

525.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  10— Betw.  Tho- 
mas, son  of  Jordan  le  fEeure,  pit.,  and  Jordan  le  iFeure  deft.,  of  1 
mess.,  26  acr.  land,  and  8  acr.  wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Breynchesle. 
Jordan  admits  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Thomas  ;  and,  for  himself  and 
his  heirs,  grants  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receives  20  marks  for 
the  concession. 

526.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  the  Purification  of  B.  Virgin 
A"  10 — Betw.  Agnes,  dau.  of  Simon  le  Wealdissh',  pit.,  and  John 
Deyuile  and  Leticia  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in 
the  suburbs  of  Canterbury.  John  and  Leticia  admit  it  to  be  the 
Right  of  Agnes  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Leticia,  grant 
to  her  and  to  her  heirs,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

527.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A^  10— Betw. 
Matilda,  dau.  of  Robert  de  Ry,  pit.,  and  Robert  de  Ry,  of  Stokebery, 
deft.,  of  2  mess.,  and  9^  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Stokebery.  Right 
of  Matilda,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Robert  for  his  life,  by 
service  of  a  rose  at  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist.  After  his  death 
to  revert  to  Matilda  and  to  her  heirs,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  Robert. 

528.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  10— Betw.  John 
de  Chaidane  and  Agatha  his  wife  pits.,  and  John  de  Childemelle, 
senior,  and  Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  33  acr.  land,  2^d. 
rent,  rent  of  1  bushel  of  barley,  and  a  moiety  of  1  mess.,  with 
appurts.,  in  Patrikkesburne.  Right  of  Johanna;  for  which  admis- 
sion John  de  Childemelle  and  Johanna  grant  (by  service  of  a  rose 
at  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist)  to  John  de  Chaidane  and  Agatha 
and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to 

*  Contiuued  from  Vol.  XIII.,  p.  320. 
TOL.    XIV.  U 


242  KENT   FINES,    10   EDWARD   II. 

revert  to  John  de  Childemelle  and  Johanna  and  to  the  heirs  of  Jo- 
hanna, quit  of  other  heirs  of  John  de  Chaldane  and  Agatha. 

529.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Martin  A°  10— Betw. 
Clement  le  Chaundeler,  of  Eochester,  and  Isabella  h\a -wHg  pits., 
and  John  Peuerel,  of  Eyllesford,  and  Auicia  his  wife  defls.,  of  3 
shops,  and  1  toft,  with  appurts.,  except  18  feet  of  land  in  length 
and  12  feet  of  land  in  breadth,  in  Rochester.  John  and  Auicia 
admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Clement ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the 
heirs  of  Auicia,  grant  to  Clement  and  Isabella  and  to  the  heirs  of 
Clement,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

530.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  10 — Betw. 
John  Belamy  j?Z#.,  and  Peter  Belamy  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  100  acr.  land, 
and  6  acr.  wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Edelmesbrigg'.  Peter  admits  it 
to  be  the  Eight  of  John ;  and,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to 
him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receives  100?.  for  the  concession. 

531.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  10— Betw.  John 
de  Hertlepeshelle  and  Agnes  his  wife^/fo.,  and  Eoger,  Vicar  of  the 
Church  of  Borden',  deft.,  of  3  mess.,  6  acr.  land,  and  1  rood  of 
wood,  with  appurts.,  in  ISTewenton'.  Eight  of  Eoger,  who,  for  the 
admission,  grants  to  John  and  Agnes  and  to  the  heirs  of  Agnes. 

532.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A°  10— Betw. 
William  le  Eeuere,  of  Estmallyng,  'plt.,  and  John  Caremer,  of 
Eylesford',  and  Lucia  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  35  acr.  land,  30  acr. 
wood,  and  3s.  Qd.  rent,  with  appurts.,  in  Pepingebery  and  Teudele. 
John  and  Lucia  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  William  ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Lncia,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and 
receive  20Z.  for  the  concession. 

533.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  three  weeks  A°  10 — Betw. 
Eobert  le  Doust^?^.,  and  Eichard  le  Bret  and  Alice  his  wife  defts., 
of  1  mess.,  5  acr.  land,  and  a  moiety  of  1  acr.  of  pasture,  with 
appurts.,  in  Badelesmere  and  Molesse.  Eichard  and  Alice  admit  it 
to  be  the  Eight  of  Eobert ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Alice,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the 
concession. 

534.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  10 — Betw. 
William  Martyn,  of  luecherche,  ^Z^.,  and  William  Hamon,  of  Newe- 
cherche,  and  Agues  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  3^  acr.  land, 
with  appurts.,  in  the  Vill  of  luecherche.  William  H.  and  Agnes 
admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  William  M. ;  and,  for  themselves  and 
the  heirs  of  Agnes,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  aud  receive  10 
marks  for  the  concession. 


KENT   FINES,    10   EDWARD    II.  243 

535.  At  Westminster,  Octave  o£  St.  Michael  A^  10— Betw. 
William  de  Dane  and  Johanna  his  wife  (by  Nicholas  Kempe  in 
place  o£  Johanna)  pits.,  and  John,  son  of  Adam  del  Pette,  and 
Aliariora  his  wife,  and  Adam,  sou  of  John  le  Coliere,  and  Elena  his 
wife,  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  3  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Bakchild'. 
The  deforciants  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  William  ;  and,  for  them- 
selves and  the  heirs  of  Alianora  and  Elena,  grant  to  William  and  Jo- 
hanna and  to  the  heirs  of  William,  and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

536.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  10 — Betw. 
Edmund  Cok  and  Isabella  his  wife  ^/^s.,  and  William  de  Cloppehom 
deft.,  of  1  mess.,  17  acr.  land,  2  acr.  mead.,  and  3  acr.  wood,  with 
appurts.,  in  Lenham.  Eight  of  William,  who,  for  the  admission, 
grants  to  Edmund  and  Isabella  and  to  his  heirs  by  her ;  but  if  none, 
then  after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Edmund. 

537.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  10— Betw. 
John  le  Breton',  of  Maydenestane,  pit.,  and  William  Sywate,  of 
Bradested',  and  Michael  Colyn,  of  Maydenestane,  defts.,  of  1  mess., 
200  acr.  laud,  50  acr.  pasture,  32  acr.  wood,  and  43s.  rent,  Avith 
appurts.,  in  Bradestede,  and  Heure.  William  and  Michael  admit 
it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
William,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs.  For  which  concession  John, 
for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  William  an  annuity  of  10  marks 
for  his  life,  with  liberty  to  distrain  should  the  same  be  at  any  time  in 
arrear.  After  the  death  of  AYilliam,  John  and  his  heirs  to  be  quit 
of  the  payment  of  said  annuity. 

538.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A°  10— Betw. 
Simon  atte  Noke  and  Alice  his  wife  (by  Henry  Sturreye  in  place  of 
AMce)  pits.,  and  Roger,  Yicar  of  the  Church  of  Bordeune,  deft.,  of 
4  mess.,  4  gardens,  76  acr.  land,  4  acr.  mead.,  6  acr.  wood,  and  rent 
of  23  quarters  of  barley,  with  appurts.,  in  Newentou'  next  Siding- 
burn'.  Eight  of  Eoger,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Simon 
and  Alice  and  to  his  heirs  by  herj  but  if  none,  then  after  their 
deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Simon. 

539.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A°  10 — Betw. 
William  de  Tytynden'  and  Margeria  his  wife  (by  Eichard  de 
Chelesfeld'  in  place  of  Margeria)  pits.,  and  Salomon  de  Bokelond', 
of  Staple,  and  Cecilia  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  14^  acr.  land, 
with  appurts.,  in  Merton',  Northbourn',  and  Waldwarshare.  Salo- 
mon and  Cecilia  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  William  ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Cecilia,  grant  to  William  and  Margeria 
and  to  the  heirs  of  William,  and  receive  20  marks  for  the  concession. 

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241  KENT   riNES,    10   EDWARD    II. 

540.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  10— Betw. 
John  de  Hcrtlepeshell'  and  Agnes  his  wife  pits.,  and  Eoger,  Vicar 
of  the  Church  of  Bordcnne,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  and  20  acr.  land,  with 
appurts.,  in  Ilertlepc,  Xewentou',  and  Vpchirche.  Eight  of  Roger, 
who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  John  and  Agnes  and  to  the  heirs 
of  John. 

541.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A''  10— Betw. 
Thomas  Perot  pit.,  and  Thomas  Schriukling'  and  Matilda  his  wife 
defts.,  of  12  acr.  land,  2  acr.  wood,  and  5s.  rent,  Avith  appurts.,  in 
Estrye  and  Nonyngton'.  Thomas  S.  and  Matilda  admit  it  to  be  the 
Eight  of  Thomas  P.  ;  and,  for  tliemselves  and  the  heirs  of  Thomas, 
grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20  marks  for  the  concession. 

542.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  mouth  A^  10 — Betw. 
Eanulph  Miles,  of  London,  ^;/^.,  and  John  Heued',  of  Oreeuwich, 
and  Alice  his  wife  defts.,  of  2  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Green- 
wich ("  Grenewyco").  John  and  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of 
Eanulph  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  John,  grant  to  him 
and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  60s.  for  the  concession. 

543.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A°  10— Betw.  John 
de  Aldelose  and  Matilda  his  wife,  and  John  son  of  Godfrey  Aleyn, 
pits.,  and  Edmund  de  Passeleye  deft.,  of  7  marTcs  rent,  with 
aj^purts.,  in  Bilsinton'.  Eight  of  Edmund,  who,  for  the  admission, 
grants  to  the  deforciants  during  the  lives  of  Matilda  and  John  son 
of  Godfrey,  by  service  of  a  rose  at  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist. 
After  the  deaths  of  Matilda  and  John  sou  of  Godfrey,  to  revert  to 
Edmund  and  to  his  heirs,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  Matilda  and  John  son 
of  Godfrey. 

Endorsed  : — "  Godfrey  Aleyn  asserts  his  claim." 

544.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  10— 
Betw.  William  Gylemyn,  of  Canterbury,  pit.,  and  Thomas,  sou  of 
Stephen  Hauekyn,  and  Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with 
appurts.,  in  Canterbury.  Thomas  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the 
Eight  of  William ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Thomas, 
grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

545.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A^  10— Betw.  Wil- 
liam de  Welles,  of  Sandwich,  ^?A,  and  William  de  Grofherst  and 
Johauua  his  wife  defts.,  of  12  acr.  land,  and  a  moiety  of  1  mess., 
with  appurts.,  in  Wodenesbergh'  and  Estri.  Eight  of  William  de  G. ; 
for  which  admission  William  de  G.  and  Johanna,  for  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  William,  grant  to  William  de  W.  and  to  his  heirs. 

546.  At  Westminster,    Octave  of    St.  Michael  A"  11— Betw. 


KENT   FINES,    11    EDWAUD   II.  245 

Master  Edmund  dc  Newenton'  'plt.,  and  John,  son  of  Thomas 
Digge,  of  Berliam,  deft.,  of  3  mess.,  28  acr.  [  ?  land],  4  acr.  past., 
13  acr.  wood,  31s.  Q\d.  rent,  and  rent  of  5  quarters  of  barley,  1 
quarter  of  oats,  2  cocks,  22  hens  and  25  eggs,  with  appurts.,  in 
Bobbyng',  Iwede,  and  Newenton'  next  M[iddel]ton'.  Eight 
of  John,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Master  Edmund 
for  his  life,  by  service  of  a  rose  at  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist. 
After  his  death  to  revert  to  John  and  to  his  heirs,  quit  of  the  heirs 
of  Master  Edmund. 

547.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  11— Betw. 
Semannus  de  Stone  pit.,  and  John  Hungekyn,  of  Herietsham,  and 
Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  2  acr.  and  1  rood  of  land,  with  appurts., 
in  Bokloude.  John  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Se- 
mannus ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant  to  him 
and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  40s.  for  the  concession. 

548.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A°  11— Betw. 
Ealph  de  Dytton'  senior  and  Johanna  his  wife  pits.,  and  Johanna, 
dau.  of  Ealph  de  Dytton',  deft.,  of  two  parts  of  the  Manor  of  Offe- 
ham,  with  appurts.,  and  the  advowson  of  the  Church  of  Offeham. 
Johanna  dau.  of  Ealph  admits  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Ealph  ;  and,  for 
herself  and  her  heirs,  grants  to  Ealph  and  Johanna  his  wife  and  to 
the  heirs  of  Ealph,  and  receives  100  marks  for  the  concession. 

549.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A"  11 — Betw. 
Henry  With  j^Z^.,  and  John  de  Eale  and  Eobergia  his  wife  defts.,  of 
1  mess.,  140  acr.  land,  12  acr.  mead.,  10  acr.  wood,  and  10s.  rent, 
with  appurts.,  in  La  Leye,  Penshurst,  Speltherst',  and  Tonebrugg'. 
John  and  Eobergia  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Henry ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Eobergia,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  100  marTcs  for  the  concession. 

550.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  three  weeks  A"  11 — Betw. 
Michael  le  Bakere^Z^.,  and  Eobert  le  Criour  and  Johanna  his  wife 
defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Tanynton'.  Eobert  and  Jo- 
hanna admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Michael ;  and,  for  themselves  and 
the  heirs  of  Eobert,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100s. 
for  the  concession. 

551.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A°  11 — Betw. 
Eobert  Tiger,  Pelter  (?  Curriei'),*  of  London,  pit.,  and  William  de 
Blakstan  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  21  acr.  land,  and  2  acr.  mead.,  with 
appurts.,  in  Westgrenewyche.     William  admits  it  to  be  the  Eight 

*  "  Pelterer,  or  preparer  of  pelts  or  skins,  see  Peleter." — Glossary  to  Liber 
Aihis. 


246  KENT    FINES,    11    EDWARD    II. 

of  Robert ;  and,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  him  and  to  his 
heirs,  and  receives  20  marka  for  the  concession. 

552.  At  AVestminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A"  11 — Betw. 
Hamo  Caluel  |j/#.,  and  Thomas  de  Sullebiry  and  Matilda  his  -wife 
ilefts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Estgrenewych'.  Thomas  and 
Matilda  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Hamo ;  and,  for  themselves  and 
the  heirs  of  Thomas,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  10 
marks  for  the  concession. 

553.  At  "Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  11— Eetw.  John 
le  Mareschal,  of  Maydenstan,^?^.,  and  John  de  Boxle,  of  Mayden- 
stan,  and  Agnes  his  wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  May- 
denstan.  John  de  B.  and  Agnes  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John 
le  M.  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Agnes,  grant  to  him  and 
to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20  marks  for  the  concession. 

554.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A°  11 — Betw. 
Johanna,  who  was  the  wife  of  GreofCrey  de  la  Hewette,^?^.,  and  Wil- 
liam le  Carpenter,  of  Codham,  and  Amiciahis  wiie  clefts.,  of  1  mess., 
180  acr.  land,  19  acr.  wood,  and  13s.  4<d.  rent,  with  appurts.,  in 
Chelesfeld'.  William  and  Amicia  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Jo- 
hanna ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Amicia,  grant  to  her 
and  to  her  heirs,  and  receive  lOOZ.  for  the  concession. 

555.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Martin  A°  11 — Betw. 
Henry,  son  of  Nicholas  Aucher,  and  Isabella,  dau.  of  Henry  Alard' 
of  Wynchelse  (by  Martin  German  guardian  of  IsabeJla),^Z^5.,  and 
Robert,  son  of  John  Alard',  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  500  acr.  land,  100  acr. 
mead.,  100  acr.  wood,  and  52s.  5d.  rent,  with  ai:)purts.,  in  Newen- 
denn'.  Right  of  Robert,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Henry 
and  Isabella  and  to  his  heirs  by  her  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their 
deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Henry. 

556.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A''  11 — Betw. 
Ricliard  de  Mareys  and  Margaret  his  wifep/fs.,  and  John  de  Cattes- 
feld',  chaplain,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  100  acr.  land,  1  acr.  mead.,  3  acr. 
wood,  and  5s.  rent,  with  appurts.,  in  Heriettesham.  Right  of  John, 
who^  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Richard  and  Margaret  and  to  his 
heirs  by  her  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  Juliana 
Waleys  and  to  the  heii's  of  her  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  her 
death  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Richard. 

557.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  three  weeks  A°  11 — Betw. 
John  de  Suthbere^;?^.,  and  Henry  de  Suthbere  deft.,  oi  1  mess., 
and  160  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Margaret  atte 
Clyue.     Henry  admits  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  ;  and,  for  himself 


KENT   FINES,    11    EDWAED   II.  247 

and  his  heirs,  grants  to  him  and  to  his  heirs.  For  whicli  concession 
John,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  Henry  for  his  life  an  an- 
nuity of  50s.,  with  liberty  to  distrain  should  the  same  be  at  any 
time  in  arrear.  After  the  death  of  Henry,  John  and  his  heirs  to  be 
quit  of  the  payment  of  said  annuity. 

558.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  11— Bet w. 
Thomas  de  Shoppesole  and  Amy  his  wife  (by  William  de  Langeleye 
in  place  of  Amy)  pits.,  and  John  le  Tyghelere  and  Elicia  his  wife 
defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Canterbury.  John  and  Elicia 
admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Thomas  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the 
heirs  of  Elicia,  grant  to  Thomas  and  Amy  and  to  the  heirs  of 
Thomas,  and  receive  100.<?.  for  the  concession. 

559.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  11— Betw. 
Robert  de  Cylegraue,  of  ffaueresham,  pit.,  and  Richard  lue,  of 
Stalesfeld',  and  Isabella  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  20  acr.  land,  and 
3  acr.  wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Stalesfeld'.  Right  of  Robert,  who, 
for  the  admission,  grants  to  Richard  and  Isabella  for  their  lives,  to 
hold  of  Robert  and  his  heirs  by  service  of  four  quarters  of  barley. 
After  their  deaths  to  revert  to  Robert  and  to  his  heirs,  quit  of  the 
heirs  of  Richard  and  Isabella. 

560.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  Martin  Ani— Betw.  Wil- 
liam, son  of  William  Elys,  pit.,  and  Peter  de  Kyngesfeld'  and 
Matilda  his  wife  defts.,  of  5^  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Wy- 
uelesbergh'.  Peter  and  Matilda  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of 
William ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Matilda,  grant  to 
him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

5GL.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  11 — Betw. 
John  Sayer  and  Alice  his  wife  pits.,  and  Henry  le  fforester  and 
Sibilla  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  7  acr.  land,  with  appurts., 
in  Netlestede.  Henry  and  Sibilla  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of 
John;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Henry,  grant  to 
John  and  Alice  and  to  the  heirs  of  John,  and  receive  10  marks  for 
the  concession. 

562.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  AP  [11] — Betw. 

[Margaret]  [?  who  was  the  wife  of de]  Basinges  pit.,  and 

John,  son  of  William  Grodefray,  and  Stephen  de  Oteryngdene  defts., 
of  3  mess.,  4  carucates  of  land,  and  60  acr.  wood,  with  appurts.,  in 
Kenardynton',  Werehorne,  Apeltre,  Stone,  Seynte  Marie  Cherehe, 
Bilsinton',  Rokynge,  Natindon',  Boetone,  and  Elmele.  Right  of 
John,  for  which  admission  John  and  Stephen  grant  to  Margaret  for 
life,  with  remainder  after  her  death  to  Ralph,  son  of  AVilliam  de 


248  KENT   FINES,    11    EDWATID    II. 

Basinges,  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then  after  his 
death  to  remain  to  Thomas  his  brother  and  to  the  heirs  of  liis  body ; 
but  if  none,  then  after  his  death  to  remain  to  Reginald  liis  brother 
and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  his  death  to 
remain  to  Edmund  his  brother  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if 
none,  then  after  his  death  to  remain  to  AVilliam  his  brother  and  to 
the'  heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then  after  his  death  to  remain  to 
the  right  heirs  of  aforesaid  Margaret. 

563.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  11— Betw.  Se- 
mannus  de  Stone  plt.^  and  John  Bisshop'  and  Alice  his  wife  (lefts. ^  of 
1  acr.  and  a  moiety  of  1  rood  of  laud,  with  appurts.,  in  Boklond'. 
John  and  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Seraaunus ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Alice,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and 
receive  40s.  for  the  concession. 

564.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A^  11— Betw.  Se- 
mannus  de  Stone  iplt.,  and  William  Trouere  and  Beatrix  his  wife 
defts.,  of  2  acr.  and  1  rood  of  land,  with  ai:)purts.,  in  Boklonde. 
William  and  Beatrix  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Semannua  ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Beatrix,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

565.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  11— Betw. 
Thomas  Godyn,  of  Stalesfeld',  pit.,  and  William  de  Bentele  and 
Anabilla  his  wife  defts.,  of  12  acr.  land,  15^.  rent,  the  5th  part  of  1 
mess.,  and  a  moiety  of  1  acr.  of  wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Stalesfeld'. 
William  and  Anabilla  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Thomas  ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Anabilla,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  20  marks  for  the  concession. 

566.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  the  Purification  of  B.  Virgin 
A°  11 — Betw.  Adam  Attegore  and  Alianora  his  wife  j;/^s.,  and  John 
Botun  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  8  acr.  land,  6s.  rent,  and  rent  of  4  hens, 
with  appurts.,  in  Sidyngebourne,  Middelton',andMoriston'.  Right 
of  John,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Adam  and  to  his  heirs. 

567.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Purification  of  B.  Virgin 
A"  11 — Betw.  Henry  Pynewiggell'  pit.,  and  Henry  Stulloc'  and 
Alice  his  wife,  and  William  de  Patinden'  and  Cecilia  his  -wi^e;  defts., 
of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Middelton'.  The  deforciants  admit  it 
to  be  the  Right  of  Henry  P.  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Alice  and  Cecilia,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100a'. 
for  the  concession. 

568.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  11 — Betw.  John 
Pycas,  of  Northflete,  pit.,  and  Thomas  le  Corueyser  and  Mabilla  his 


KENT   FINES,    11   EDWARD   II.  249 

wife  defts.,  of  5  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Northflete.  Thomas  and 
Mabilla  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John ;  and,  for  themselves  and 
the  heirs  of  Mabilla,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  40 
marks  for  the  concession. 

5G9.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  11— Bctw. 
Ealph,  son  of  John  de  Cobeham,  of  AVesterham,^/^.,  and  John 
Charles  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  43^  acr.  land,  4^  acr.  mead.,  40s.  rent,  and 
pasturage  for  8  oxen,  with  appurts.,  in  Derteford',  Wilmyngton', 
and  Creyford',  which  Elizabeth,  who  was  the  wife  of  John  Charles 
senior,  holds  for  her  life.  John  admits  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Ralph ; 
and,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  that  the  aforesaid  tenements 
and  pasturage  which  Elizabeth  holds  for  life  of  the  inheritance  of 
John,  and  which  after  her  death  to  him  and  to  his  heirs  reverts, 
shall  after  her  death  remain  to  Ealph  and  to  his  heirs.  John 
receives  100  marks  for  the  concession.  This  agreement  was  made 
in  the  presence  of  Elizabeth,  who  thereupon  acknowledged  her 
fealty  to  Ralph. 

570.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  11— Betw. 
Moises  de  Herlakyndenn'  pit.,  and  William  de  Herlakyndenn'  and 
Amanda  his  wife  (lefts.,  of  14  acr.  and  3  roods  of  land,  with 
appurts.,  in  Werhorn'  and  Orlaweston'.  William  and  Amanda 
admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Moises ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the 
heirs  of  Amanda,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20  marks 
for  the  concession. 

571.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  11— Betw.  John 
atte  Knolle,  of  Aldynton',  and  Agnes  his  wife  (by  Richard  de 
Chelesfeld'  in  place  of  Agnes)  pits.,  and  Stephen  de  la  Dane  deft., 
of  1  mess.,  20  acr.  land,  5  acr.  mead.,  70  acr.  past.,  and  5  acr.  wood, 
with  appurts.,  in  Aldynton'  next  Hethe.  Right  of  Stephen,  who, 
for  the  admission,  grants  to  John  and  Agnes  and  to  the  heirs  of  John. 

572.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  11— Betw.  Mar- 
geria,  who  was  the  wife  of  Richard  Swyft',^Z^.,  and  Hugh  de  Can- 
tebrigg'  and  Agnes  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  May- 
deustan.  Hugh  and  Agnes  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Margeria  ; 
and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Agnes,  grant  to  her  and  to  her 
heirs,  and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

573.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Hilary  A"  11 — Betw. 
John  Petyt  and  Elena  his  v/iie  pits.,  and  John  Jordan  and  Alice  his 
wife  defts.,  of  2  acr.  and  3  roods  of  lan4,  and  a  moiety  of  1  mess., 
with  appurts.,  in  Bobbyng',  and  Newenton'  next  Sydyngbourne. 
John  Jordan  and  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Elena ;  and, 


250  KENT   FINES,    11    EDWARD    II. 

for  tlicmsclvcs  and  tlic  heirs  of  Alice,  grant  to  John  Petyt  and  Elena 
and  to  the  heirs  of  Elena,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the  conccs.sion. 
571.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  11— IJetw.  Gil- 
bert le  Eede  and  Juliana  his  viMepUs.,  and  Michael  le  Vannere  and 
Johanna  his  wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  1  acr.  land,  with  appurts., 
in  AVestgrcnewych'.  Michael  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight 
of  Gilbert ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant  to 
Gilbert  and  Juliana  and  to  the  heirs  of  Gilbert,  and  receive  10 
marks  for  the  concession. 

575.  At  "Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Purification  of  B.  Virgin 
A"  11 — Betw.  Ealph  Barry  and  Johanna  his  wife^;7(?.s.,  and  William, 
sou  of  Eobert  de  Weldysh',  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  3  gardens,  102  acr, 
land,  12  acr.  mead.,  and  3  acr.  wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Euluendenne. 
Eight  of  William,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Ealph  and  Jo- 
hanna and  to  bis  heirs  by  ber;  but  if  none,  then  after  tbeir  deaths 
to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Ealph. 

Endorsed  : — "  Isabella,  daughter  of  Henry  Alard',  and 
Johanna  her  sister,  and  Eobert,  son  of  John  Alard',  assert  their 
claim  etc." 

576.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A"  11 — Betw.  Wil- 
liam, sou  of  Thomas  de  Sheluinge,  and  Beatrix  bis  wife  'pits.,  and 
Eoger,  son  of  Eoger  de  Eeyhamme,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  90  acr.  land, 
67  acr.  marsh,  17s.  rent,  and  rent  of  2  hens  and  2  quarters  of  barley, 
with  appurts.,  in  tbe  Vill  of  St.  Nicholas  in  the  Isle  of  Thanet. 
Eight  of  Eoger,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  William  and 
Beatrix  and  to  his  beirs  by  ber ;  but  if  none,  then  after  tbeir  deaths 
to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  William. 

577.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  11 — Betw.  Peter 
de  Herlyngge,  of  London,  fit.,  and  Andrew  de  Secbford'  and  Sara 
his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  2  tofts,  60  acr.  land,  and  13s.  4(7.  rent, 
with  appurts.,  in  Orpyngton',  and  St.  Mary  Creye.  Andrew  and 
Sara  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Peter ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the 
beirs  of  Andrew,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  .607.  for 
the  concession. 

578.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A"  11 — Betw.  Gil- 
bert de  Brenle_pZf.,  and  John  le  Heyward',  of  Osprenge,  and  Agnes 
his  wife  defts.,  of  5^  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Osj^renge.  John 
and  Agnes  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Gilbert ;  and,  for  themselves 
and  tbe  heirs  of  Agnes,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive 
100s.  for  the  concession. 

579.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  11 — Betw.  Eobert 


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de  Sharstede^)/^.,  and  Henry  Legat  and  Juliana  his  wife  clefts.,  of 
1  mess.,  and  5  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Norton'  next  Newenbam. 
Henry  and  Juliana  admit  it  to  be  the  right  of  Eobert ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Juliana,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  10  marJcs  for  the  concession. 

5S0.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  11 — Betw.  Thomas 
de  Shamelesforde  and  Margeria  his  wife  pits.,  and  Benedictus  de 
Shamelesforde  and  Ada  his  wife  clefts.,  of  14^  acr.  land,  and  3^  acr. 
mead.,  with  appurts.,  in  Chartham.  Benedictus  and  Ada  admit  it 
to  be  the  Eight  of  Thomas  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Benedictus,  grant  to  Thomas  and  Margeria  and  to  the  heirs  of 
Thomas,  and  receive  20  marhs  for  the  concession. 

581.  AfWestminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°ll — Betw.  Eichard, 
son  of  Eulk  Payforer,  and  Juliana  his  wife  pits.,  and  John,  son  of 
Grilbert  de  Holegh',  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  150  acr.  land,  36  acr.  wood,  79s. 
rent,  and  rent  of  8  hens,  with  appurts.,  in  Lenham,  Herietesham, 
Wychelinge,  and  Dodintou'.  Eight  of  John,  who,  for  the  admis- 
sion, grants  to  Eichard  and  Juliana  and  to  the  heirs  of  Eichard. 

582.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  11 — Betw.  John 
de  HertlepesheU'^/^.,  and  John  Petit  and  Elena  his  wife  defts.,  of 
3  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Newenton'  and  Bobbingg'.  John  P. 
and  Elena  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Jolm  de  H. ;  and,  for  them- 
selves and  the  heirs  of  Elena,  remit  and  quit-claim  to  him  and  to  his 
heirs,  and  receive  for  the  remission  etc.  100s. 

583.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  11 — Betw.  John, 
son  of  Stephen  Gerard',  ^7/".,  and  Henry  de  Yaloins  and  Margeria 
his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  100  acr.  land,  12  acr.  past.,  10  acr.  wood, 
24s.  rent,  and  rent  of  200  eggs,  32  hens,  and  1  ploughshare,  with 
appurts.,  in  Suthleghe,  and  Elmstede.  Henry  and  Margeria  admit 
it  to  be  the  Eight  of  John  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Margeria,  remit  and  quit-claim  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive 
for  the  remission  etc.  100  marks. 

584.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  11 — Betw. 
William  de  Boxle,  of  Maydenstan,  pit.,  and  Bartholomew  le 
Coupere,  of  Maydenstan,  and  Sara  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with 
appurts.,  in  Maydenstan.  Bartholomew  and  Sara  admit  it  to  be 
the  Eight  of  William  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Bar- 
tholomew, grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100s.  for  the 
concession. 

585.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  11 — Betw. 
Eobert  de  Stanygraue  junior  and  Johanna  his  wife  pits.,  and  John 


252  KENT    FINES,    11    EDWARD    II. 

de  Derby,  chaplain,  deft.,  o£  2  mess.,  25G  acr.  land,  30  acr.  mead., 
14  acr.  wood,  26s.  rent,  and  rent  of  4  cocks,  26  hens,  and  180  eggs, 
with  appurts.,  in  Stapelherst',  Bocton'  Anulphi,  and  Magna  Chert. 
Right  of  John,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Robert  and 
Johanna  and  to  the  heirs  of  the  body  of  Eobert ;  but  if  none,  then 
after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Johanna. 

586.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  11— 
"Betw.  Elias,  son  of  William  Ine,  of  Hothfeld',  fU.,  and  John  de 
Guston',  of  Westwelle,  and  Mabilla  his  wife  clefts.,  of  1  mess., 
27  acr.  and  3  roods  of  laud,  and  2  acr.  and  1  rood  of  mead.,  with 
appurts.,  in  Hothfeld'.  Eight  of  Mabilla  ;  for  which  admission 
John  and  Mabilla  grant  to  Elias  for  life  ;  with  remainder  after  his 
death  to  Johanna  de  Aylesmersh'  for  life  ;  with  remainder  after  her 
death  to  Master  Thomas  de  Esthalle  and  to  his  heirs. 

587.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A"  11 — Betw. 
Stephen  le  Noble  pit.,  and  John  le  Mounsh'  senior  and  Agnes  his 
wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  6  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Hoo  St. 
Werburga.  John  and  Agnes  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Stephen  ; 
and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Agues,  graut  to  him  and  to  his 
heirs,  and  receive  10  onarTcs  for  the  concession. 

588.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A^  11— Betw. 
Stephen  de  Oxtegh'  and  Matilda  his  wife  pits.,  and  John  Poteuel 
and  Elena  his  wife  defts.,  of  2  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Essh'  next 
Sandwich.  John  and  Elena  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Stephen  ;  and, 
for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Elena,  grant  to  Stephen  and  Matilda 
and  to  the  heirs  of  Stephen,  and  receive  4  marks  for  the  concession, 

589.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  11 — Betw. 
Walter  de  la  Sale,  of  Estbarblenge,  ^j7^.,  and  Eobert  le  Sauser,  of 
London,  and  Eoesia  his  wife  defts.,  of  30  acr.  land,  4^  acr.  wood, 
205.  rent,  and  a  moiety  of  1  mess,  and  1  garden,  with  appurts.,  in 
Estbarblenge  next  Maydestan.  Eobert  and  Eoesia  admit  it  to  be 
the  Eight  of  Walter ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Eoesia, 
grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20/.  for  the  concession. 

590.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  11— Betw. 
John  de  Dene  and  Johanna  his  wife  pits.,  and  John  Hereward',  of 
Delebregge,  deft.,  of  32  acr.  laud,  3  acr.  mead.,  and  5  acr.  wood, 
with  appvirts.,  in  Littlebourne  and  Delebregge.  John  H.  admits  it 
to  be  the  Eight  of  Johanna  ;  and,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants 
to  John  de  D.  and  Johanna  and  to  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  and 
receives  20  marks  for  the  concession. 

591.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A"  11— Betw. 


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Henry  de  G-rof hirst'  and  Eichard  his  brother  pits.,  and  John  de 
Lenham  (left.,  of  the  Manor  of  Leneshothe,  with  appiirts.,  and  235. 
rent,  and  rent  of  2  cocks  and  11  hens,  with  appurts.,  in  Hors- 
munden',  which  Eobert  le  G-egge  holds  for  the  term  of  three  years. 
Right  of  John,  who,  for  the  admission,  for  himself  and  his  heirs, 
grants  that  the  aforesaid  tenements  which  said  Robert  holds  for 
three  years  of  the  inheritance  of  John,  and  which  at  the  expiration 
of  aforesaid  term  to  him  and  to  his  heirs  reverts,  shall  at  the 
expiration  of  said  term  remain  to  Henry  and  Richard  and  to  the 
heirs  of  Henry. 

592.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A^  11 — Betw. 
John  le  Veel  and  Johanna  his  wife,  and  "Winant  son  of  said  John  le 
Yee\,pJts.,  and  John  de  Triple  deft.,  of  the  Manor  of  Snodelond',  with 
appnrts.  And  afterwards  in  the  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  12  Edw.  II 
(subsequent  to  decease  of  said  John  le  Veel) — Betw.  aforesaid 
Johanna  and  "Winant  and  John  de  Ti'iple,  of  said  Manor,  with 
appurts.  John  le  Veel  had  admitted  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  de 
Triple,  who,  for  the  admission,  granted  to  John  le  Veel  and  Johanna 
for  their  lives,  with  remainder  after  their  deaths  to  aforesaid  Winant 
and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  bnt  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of 
Winant  to  remain  to  John  his  brother  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ; 
but  if  none,  then  after  his  death  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of 
aforesaid  John  le  Veel. 

Endorsed  : — "  John,  sou  of  John  le  Veel  senior,  asserts  his  claim 
etc." 

593.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A"  12 — Betw. 
Simon  Graliot  2)lt.,  and  Henry  de  ffrithindeune  and  Cecilia  his  wife 
defts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  4  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Lyde.  Henry 
and  Cecilia  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Simon ;  and,  for  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Cecilia,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive 
10?.  for  the  concession. 

594.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  12 — 
Betw.  Robert  de  Selegraue  pit.,  and  William  de  Kynguslonde  deft., 
of  22  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Trulegh'.  Right  of  Robert,  who, 
for  the  admission,  grants  to  William  for  his  life  by  service  of  [Pone] 
quarter  of  barley  per  annum  at  the  Eeast  of  the  Nativity  of  the 
Lord.  After  his  death  to  remain  to  John  son  of  said  William  for 
life,  to  hold  of  Robert  and  his  heirs  by  like  service.  And  after  the 
death  of  John  to  revert  to  Robert  and  to  his  heirs,  quit  of  the  heirs 
of  William  and  John. 

595.  xA.t  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Martin  A°  12 — Betw. 


25^!  KENT   FIXES,    12    EDWAUD    II. 

John  de  Lewes,  clerk,  pit.,  and  Jolui  de  Boudon'  and  Johanna  his 
wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  40  acr.  and  3i  roods  of  land,  7d.  rent,  and 
rent  of  2  hens,  with  appurts.,  in  Nonyngton'  next  Wengeham. 
Eight  of  John  de  B. ;  for  which  admission  John  and  Johanna  grant 
to  John  de  L.  for  life  ;  with  remainder  after  his  death  to  Kobert 
Albon  for  life.  And  after  the  decease  of  Kobert  to  remain  to  John 
Benet,  of  Brightelmeston',  and  to  his  heirs. 

596.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  12— Betw.  Thomas, 
son  of  Robert  Dod,  of  ffauersham,  and  Johanna  his  wife  (by  John 
Pryket  in  place  of  said  Johanna)  pits.,  and  John,  son  of  Richard  de 
Grauene,  deft.,  of  the  Manor  of  Granene,  with  appnrts.  John  admits  it 
to  be  the  Right  of  Thomas,  and  two  parts  renders  to  Thomas  and 
Johanna  in  Court,  to  hold  to  them  and  to  tlie  heirs  of  Thomas. 
Moreover  John,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  that  the  third 
part  of  aforesaid  IManor  which  Robert  atte  Berton'  and  Matilda 
his  wife  hold,  as  of  the  dowry  of  said  Matilda,  of  the  inheritance  of 
John,  and  which  after  her  death  to  him  and  to  his  heirs  reverts, 
shall  after  her  death  remain  to  Thomas  and  Johanna  and  to  the  heirs 
of  Thomas.  John  receives  100  marks  for  the  concession.  This 
agreement  was  made  in  the  presence  of  Robert  and  Matilda,  who 
thereupon  acknowledged  their  fealty  to  Thomas  and  Johanna. 

597.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Martin  A«  12— Betw.  Simon 
Bertelot',  of  Canterbury,  pit.,  and  Thomas  de  Couebrok'  and  Agues 
his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  10  acr.  land,  20  acr.  past.,  4  acr.  wood, 
2s.  6d.  rent,  and  rent  of  1^  cocks  and  2  hens,  with  appurts.,  in 
Hakyntone,  and  the  suburbs  of  Canterbury.  Thomas  and  Agnes 
admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Simon  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs 
of  Agnes,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20?.  for  the 
concession. 

598.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  12 — Betw. 
William  de  Cheueuyng'  and  Johanna  his  wife  (by  Robert  Malemayus 
in  place  of  said  Johanna)  pJts.,  and  Matilda,  who  was  the  wife  of 
Hamo  de  Hirst,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  ISO  acr.  land,  10  acr.  mead., 
100  acr.  past.,  60  acr.  wood,  and  20s.  rent,  with  appurts.,  in 
Cheuenyng'.  Right  of  Matilda,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to 
William  and  Johanna  and  to  his  heirs  by  her  ;  but  if  none,  then 
after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  William. 

599.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Martin  A"  12 — Betw. 
William  de  Wyke^?^.,  and  Walter  de  Dunre  and  Margeria  his  wife 
defts.,  of  a  moiety  of  1  mess.,  2  tofts,  162  acr.  and  3  roods  of  land, 
and  7  acr.  and  3  roods  of  wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Wymelyngwelde. 


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Walter  and  Margeria  admit  the  aforesaid  moiety,  with  appurts.,  to 
be  the  Eight  of  William  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Margeria,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20/.  for  the 
concession. 

600.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A°  12— Betw. 
John  Petit  ^/^,  and  John  de  Hertlepeshelle  and  Agues  his  wife  clefts., 
of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Newenton'  next  Sidyngburn'.  John  de 
H.  and  Agnes  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  John  P. ;  and,  for  them- 
selves and  the  heirs  of  Agnes,  remit  and  quit-claim  to  him  and  to 
his  heirs,  and  receive  for  the  remission  etc.  10  marks. 

601.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A°  12— Betw. 
Eichard  Murimuth'  and  Alice  his  wife  pJis.,  and  Eobert  de  Acstede 
and  Milicent  his  wife  Jeffs.,  of  8  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Elham. 
Eobert  and  Milicent  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Eichard  ;  and 
Eobert,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  Eichard  and  Alice  and 
to  the  heirs  of  Eichard.  Eobert  and  Milicent  receive  10  marks 
for  the  concession. 

602.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  Martin  A^  12— Betw. 
Eoger  de  Eggerindeun'  and  Johanna  his  daughter  pits.,  and  Hamo 
de  Eemenale,  Parson  of  the  Church  of  Pette,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  1 
mill,  97  acr.  land,  8  acr.  mead.,  8  acr.  wood,  34s.  M.  rent,  and  rent 
of  2  capons,  22  hens,  and  85  eggs,  with  appurts.,  in  Westwell',  and 
Hotfelde.  Eight  of  Hamo,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Eoger 
and  Johanna  and  to  the  heirs  of  Johanna. 

603.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A^  12— Betw.  John 
Gerard  and  Lucia  his  wife  jolts.,  and  John  de  Pette,  of  Bakechilde, 
deft.,  of  1  mess.,  100  acr.  laud,  30  acr.  pasture,  10  acr.  wood,  26s.  8^/. 
rent,  and  rent  of  2  cocks,  30  hens,  200  eggs,  and  1  ploughshare,  with 
appurts.,  in  Elmestede.  Eight  of  John  de  P.,  who,  for  the  admis- 
sion, grants  to  John  Gr.  and  Lucia  and  to  the  heirs  of  John. 

604.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  12— Betw. 
Margeria,  daughter  of  Thomas  atte  Crouche,  pit.,  and  Andrew  le 
Bakere,  of  ffolkestan,  aud  Loretta  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with 
appurts.,  in  Canterbury.  Andrew  and  Loretta  admit  it  to  be  the 
Eight  of  Margeria ;  and  Andrew,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants 
to  Margeria  and  to  her  heirs.  Andrew  and  Loretta  receive  for  the 
concession  100s. 

605.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A^  12— Betw. 
Henry  Godybour  and  Alice  his  -wiiej^Its.,  and  John  Godybour  deft., 
of  1  mess.,  and  8  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Tanyntone  and  Melton'. 
Henry  and  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  John ;  and,  for  them- 


266  KENT   FINES,    12   EDWARD    II. 

selves  aud  the  heirs  of  Alice,  grant  to  him  and  to  liis  heirs,  and 
receive  20  marks  for  the  concession. 

GOG.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Micliael  A"  12— Betw. 
Hamo  Colehraund,  of  Romenal,  pit.,  and  John  Stroutard  and 
Alianora  his  wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  1  garden,  100  acr.  laud,  5  acr. 
mead.,  18  acr.  wood,  13s.  Id.  rent,  aud  rent  of  1  cock  and  5  hens, 
with  appurts.,  in  Shaddokesherst.  John  and  Alianora  admit  it  to 
be  the  Eight  of  Hamo ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Alianora,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  aud  receive  200  marks  for 
the  concession. 

G07.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A°  12 — Betw. 
Walter  le  Wyse,  of  Gillyngham,  pit.,  and  John,  son  of  Dauid  de 
Sleyhelle,  and  Alice  his  wife  clefts.,  of  1  mess.,  12  acr  land,  13  acr. 
pasture,  7s.  rent,  and  rent  of  1  cock  and  7  hens,  with  appurts.,  in 
A^pcherche.  John  aud  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Walter ; 
aud,  for  themselves  aud  the  heirs  of  Alice,  grant  to  him  aud  to  his 
heirs,  and  receive  20Z.  for  the  concession. 

608.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  12— Betw.  John 
de  Northwod'  aud  Johanna  his  wife  pits.,  aud  Master  Henry  de 
Northwod'  deft.,  of  the  Manors  of  Thoruham  and  Bengbery,  with 
appurts.  Eight  of  Master  Henry,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to 
John  aud  Johanna  and  to  the  heirs  of  John. 

609.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Purification  of  B.  Virgin 
A°  12 — Betw.  John,  son  of  Eoger  de  Heghham,^?/^.,  aud  Master 
Henry,  son  of  Eoger  de  Northwode,  deft.,  of  the  Manor  of  S wanton', 
with  appurts.  Eight  of  Johu,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to 
Master  Heuiy  for  life.  After  his  death  to  remain  to  Eaulina,  who 
was  the  wife  of  Eoger  de  Heghham,  and  to  Johanna  daughter  of 
said  Eaulina,  aud  to  the  heirs  of  Eaulina. 

610.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A^  12— Betw. 
Eobert,  son  of  Nicholas  Alderman,  and  Johu,  son  of  Annora  de 
Ofne,  pits.,  aud  John,  son  of  Walter  de  Ofne,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  and 
42  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Sellyugge,  and  Boktou'-under-Bleen. 
Eight  of  Johu  sou  of  Walter,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to 
Eobert  for  life,  with  remainder  after  his  death  to  John  son  of 
Annora,  aud  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  his 
death  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Eobert. 

611.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  12— Betw. 
Thomas  de  Boywyk'^?/^.,  aud  Master  Adam  Murimouth'  deft.,  of  1 
mess.,  1  carucate  of  land,  16  acr.  wood,  30s.  rent,  aud  rent  of  50 
hens,  with  appurts.,  in  Elham.     Thomas  admits  it  to  be  the  Eight 


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of  Master  Adam  ;  aud,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  him  and 
to  his  heirs,  and  receives  100  marks  for  the  concession. 

612.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  12— Betw.  John 
le  Barbour,  of  Bisshopesgate,  pit.,  and  Robert  Terry  and  Beatrix 
his  wife  Jeffs.,  of  1  mess.,  5  acr.  land,  and  1  acr.  wood,  withappurts., 
in  Chartham.  Robert  and  Beatrix  admit  it  to  be  Right  of  John  ; 
and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Beatrix,  grant  to  him  and  to  his 
heirs,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

G13.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Purification  of  B.  Virgin 
A"  12 — Betw.  Master  Henry,  son  of  Roger  de  'N orthw ode,  pU.,  and 
Raulina,  who  was  the  wife  of  Roger  de  Heghham,  deft.,  of  the 
Manor  of  Hei'baldoune,  with  appurts.  Right  of  Raulina,  who,  for 
the  admission,  grants  to  Master  Henry  for  life,  by  service  of  a  rose 
at  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist.  After  his  death  to  revert  to  Rau- 
lina and  to  her  heirs,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  Master  Henry. 

614.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A^  12— Betw. 
Richard,  son  of  Richard  Judelyn,^?^.,  and  William,  son  of  Ralph 
de  Easwole,  aud  Clemencia  his  wife  deffs.,  of  12  acr.  land,  and 
7  acr.  and  1  rood  of  pasture,  with  appurts.,  in  Berefreyston'. 
AVilliam  and  Clemencia  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Richard ;  and, 
for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Clemencia,  grant  to  him  and  to 
his  heirs,  and  receive  10  viarJcs  for  the  concession. 

615.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  12— Betw. 
Thomas  de  Birstou'^/^.,  and  Thomas  de  Caumuill'  and  Alice  his 
wife  defts.,  of  1  mill,  with  appurts.,  in  Huntyngton'.  Thomas  de  C. 
and  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Thomas  de  B.  ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Alice,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and 
receive  20  marks  for  the  concession. 

616.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  12 — Betw.  Roger 
le  Barbour,  of  Canterbury,  aud  Henry  son  of  John  de  Douorr', 
pits.,  and  Bertinus  de  Welmeston'  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  and  18  acr.  and 
3  roods  of  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Wengham.  Bertinus  admits  it  to 
be  the  Right  of  Roger  ;  and,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to 
Roger  aud  Henry  and  to  the  heirs  of  Roger,  and  receives  20  marks 
for  the  concession. 

617.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  12 — Betw.  John 
de  Peddyng'  and  Constance  his  wife  pits.,  and  Walter  Daulard'  and 
Margeria  his  wife  defts.,  of  5  acr.  and  1^  roods  of  land,  1  rood  of 
wood,  20J.  rent,  rent  of  2  hens,  and  a  moiety  of  1  acr.  of  mead., 
and  1  acr.  of  turf,  and  the  fourth  part  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in 
Esshe,   and  Staple  next  Wengeham.      Walter  and   Margeria,  for 

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258  KENT  FINES,   12  EDWARD  II. 

themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Margeria,  grant  to  Jolm  and  Constance 
and  to  liis  lioirs  by  her  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to 
remain  to  tlie  right  heirs  of  John.  AValter  and  Margeria  receive 
for  the  concession  20  marks. 

618.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A"  12 — Betw.  Ste- 
phen de  Ypmanton'  pit.,  and  John  Weliwer  and  Agnes  his  wife 
(lefts.,  of  7  acr.  and  1  rood  of  land,  vrith  appurts.,  in  Sellyng'  next 
Seldwych'.  John  and  Agues  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Stephen  ; 
and  John,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  him  and  to  his  heirs. 
John  and  Agnes  receive  for  the  concession  10  marks. 

619.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaiue  of  Easter  A°  12 — Betw.  Cle- 
ment Hampoller^j?^.,  and  Nicholas  Eoalf  and  Margeria  his  wife 
clefts.,  of  2  acr.  and  3  roods  of  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Patrikesburn' 
and  Bregge.  Nicholas  and  Margeria  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of 
Clement  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Margeria,  grant  to 
him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

620.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  12 — Betw. 
Bobert  fferthyng'^^Z^.,  and  William  le  Gardyuer  and  Johanna  his 
wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  1^  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  the 
suburbs  of  Canterbury.  William  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the 
Eight  of  Eobert ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna, 
grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the  concessio]i. 

621.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  12 — Betw  Henry 
Nasard  and  Isabella  his  \M\ie  pits,,  and  John  Deuery,  clerk,  deft.,  of 
1  mess.,  1  mill,  200  acr.  laud,  100  acr.  pasture,  and  120  acr.  wood, 
with  appurts.,  in  Bredeherst',  Lydesynge,  and  Gillyngeham.  Eight 
of  John,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Henry  and  Isabella  for 
their  lives,  with  remainder  after  their  deaths  to  John  their  son  and 
to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  his  death  to  remain  to 
Ealj)]!  his  brother  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then  after 
the  death  of  Ealph  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  aforesaid  Henry. 

622.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A^  12— Betw.  Wil- 
liam, son  of  Henry  Beneyt,  and  Johanna  his  \iiieplts.,  and  William 
Sharp  (left.,  of  1  mess.,  3  gardens,  18  acr.  and  1  rood  of  laud,  1  acr. 
and  1  rood  of  wood,  and  14  acr.  marsh,  with  appurts.,  in  Halghesto 
next  Sydingburn'.  Eight  of  William  S.,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants 
to  William,  son  of  Henry,  and  Johanna  and  to  his  heirs  by  her  ;  but  if 
none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Johanna. 

623.  At  Westminster,  Easter  in  three  weeks  A°  12 — Betw.  John 
de  Lewes,  clerk,  pit.,  and  Philip  de  Wyke  and  Matilda  his  wife 
defts.,  of  20  acr.  land,  8jf?.  rent,  and  the  third  part  of  1  mess.,  with 


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appurts.,  in  Nouynton'  next  AVyngeham.  Right  o£  Matilda ;  for 
which  admission  Philip  and  Matilda,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs 
of  Matilda,  grant  to  John  for  his  life,  with  remainder  after  his 
death  to  Eobert  Albon  for  his  life  ;  and  after  the  death  of  Eobert 
to  remain  to  John  Beneyt,  of  Bi'ightelmestou',  and  to  his  heirs. 

624.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaiue  of  Easter  A°  12 — Betw.  Wil- 
liam, son  of  John  de  Ore,  and  Margaret  his  wife  pits.,  and  William 
de  Bothmeshelle  and  Peter  de  Pekliam  (lefts.,  of  2  mess.,  160  acr. 
land,  6  acr.  mead.,  400  acr.  past.,  10  acr.  wood,  30s.  rent,  rent  of  18 
quarters  of  barley,  50  hens,  and  50  eggs,  and  a  moiety  of  1  mill, 
with  appurts.,  in  Middelton',  Menstre,  Shepeye,  and  Newyuton' 
next  Middelton'.  Eight  of  William  de  B.  ;  for  which  admission 
William  de  B.  and  Peter  grant  to  William  sou  of  John,  and  to  Mar- 
garet and  to  his  heirs  by  her  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths 
to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  William  son  of  John. 

625.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaiue  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  12 — 
Betw.  Michael  de  Chepstede  and  Mabilla  his  ■^'lie  pits.,  and  John, 
son  of  William  de  Sutton',  and  Agatha  his  wife  clefts.,  of  36  acr. 
land,  1^  acr.  wood,  4s.  2\d.  rent,  and  rent  of  7  hens,  1  capon,  1  cock, 
and  70  eggs,  with  appurts.,  in  Kyngesdouue  next  ffrenyngham. 
John  and  Agatha  admit  it  to  be  tlie  Eight  of  Michael ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Agatha,  grant  to  Michael  and  Mabilla 
and  to  the  heirs  of  Michael,  and  receive  20/.  for  the  concession. 

626a.  At  AVestminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  Ao  12— 
Betw.  Thomas  de  Banquell'  pit.,  and  William  de  Brampton'  and 
Alice  his  wife  clefts.,  of  21  acr.  and  3  roods  of  laud,  with  appurts.,  in 
Dentlyngg'.  William  and  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Thomas  ; 
and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Alice,  grant  to  him  and  to  his 
heirs,  and  receive  10/.  for  the  concession. 

626b.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaiue  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  12 — 
Betw.  William  de  Ho  and  Juliana  his  wife  pits.,  and  John  le 
Litletannere,  of  Maydenstan,  and  Alice  his  wife  clefts.,  of  1  mess., 
and  9  acr.  laud,  with  appurts.,  in  Est  Mallynge.  Johu  and  Alice 
admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  William  ;  and  John,  for  himself  and  his 
heirs,  grants  to  William  and  Juliana  and  to  the  heirs  of  AVilliara  ; 
for  which  concession  John  and  Alice  receive  10  marks. 

627.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  John  Baptist  Ao  12 — 
Betw.  Simon  de  Haulo  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  (by  Walter  Beuyn 
in  the  place  of  Elizabeth)  jj//s.,  and  James  de  Horle,  Parson  of  the 
Church  of  Little  Cherd',  and  John  Abel,  Parson  of  the  Church  of 
Waldwarshare,  defts.,  of  the  Manor  of  Est  Lenham,  with  a])purts. 

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260  KENT  FINES,  12    EDWAED   II. 

Right  of  James  ;  for  wliicli  iulini8.sioii  he  and  John  grant  to  Simon 
and  Eh'zabeth  and  to  his  heirs  by  her  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their 
deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Simon. 

028.  At  AVcstmi lister,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A"  12 — Betw. 
Andrew  Swyft,  Vicar  of  the  Church  of  Woteringebury,  X)^^-^  ^^^ 
Henry  de  Leibourn'  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  (lefts.,  of  3  mess.,  3 
mills,  742  acr.  land,  36  acr.  mead,  150  acr.  past.,  103  acr.  wood, 
12/.  18s.  lli«^.  rent,  rent  of  5  ploughs,  IG  cocks,  102  hens,  800  eggs, 
and  pasturage  for  700  sheep,  with  appurts.,  in  Woteringebury, 
Ealdinge,  Mereworth',  Pecham,  and  Chatham.  Eight  of  Andrew, 
who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Henry  for  his  life  with  remainder 
after  his  death  to  Juliana  daughter  of  said  Henry  and  Elizabeth, 
for  her  life.  And  after  the  death  of  Juliana  to  remain  to  the 
right  heirs  of  Henry. 

629.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  John  Baptist  A"  12— 
Betw.  Simon  Potyn,  of  Rochester,  pit.,  and  John  Godwyne,  of 
Rochester,  and  Agnes  his  wife  defta.,  of  1  mess.,  Avith  appurts.,  in 
Rochester.  John  and  Agnes  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Simon ; 
and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Agnes,  grant  to  him  and  to  his 
heirs,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

630.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A^  12— Botw. 
Edmund  de  Passeley  and  Margaret  his  wife,  and  Edmund  their  son 
(by  Durandus  de  Widmarpol  in  place  of  Margaret,  and  Robert  de 
Hair,  guardian  of  said  Edmund  son  of  Edmund,  in  his  stead),  pits., 
and  John,  son  of  William  Grodefrey,  and  Stephen  de  Oteryngeden', 
defts.,  of  the  Manor  of  Theuegate  in  Smeth',  with  appurts.,  and  1 
mess.,  1  mill,  and  150  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Smeth',  Braburn', 
and  Aldinton'.  Right  of  John  ;  for  which  admission  John  and 
Stephen  grant  the  mill  and  two  parts  of  the  Manor  and  mess., 
with  appurts.,  to  Edmund  and  Margaret,  and  Edmund  son  of  said 
Edmund,  and  to  the  heirs  of  Edmund  (senior)  by  Margaret.  More- 
over John  and  Stephen  grant  that  the  land  and  third  part  of 
the  Manor  and  mess.,  with  appurts.,  which  Amicia  de  Greley 
holds  for  her  life  in  dower  of  the  inheritance  of  John,  and  which 
after  her  death  to  John  and  Stephen  and  to  the  heirs  of  John 
reverts,  shall  after  her  death  remain  to  Edmund  de  Passe- 
ley, Margaret,  and  Edmund  son  of  said  Edmund,  and  to  the 
heirs  of  Edmund  de  Passeley  (senior).  If  it  happen  that  Edmund 
de  P.  die  without  heirs  by  Margaret,  then  after  their  deaths  and 
tl  e  death  of  Edmund  their  son  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of 
Edmund  de  Passeley  (senior).     This  agreement  was  made  in  the 


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presence  of  Amicia,  who  thereupon  acknowledged  her  fealty  to  Ed- 
mund de  P.  and  Margaret,  and  Edmund  their  son, 

031.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  12— Betw. 
John  de  Barueuile  senior  ^Z#.,  and  John  de  Barneuile  j unior  deft., 
of  1  mess.,  38  acr.  land,  6  acr.  mead.,  and  4  acr,  past.,  with  appurts., 
in  Wykham  Brewose.  Right  of  John  de  B.  junior,  who,  for  the 
admission,  grants  to  John  de  B.  senior  for  his  life,  by  service  of  a 
rose  at  jSTativity  of  St.  John  Baptist.  After  his  death  to  revert  to  John 
de  B.  junior  and  to  his  heirs,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  John  de  B.  senior. 

632.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  John  Baptist  A"  12— 
Betw.  Alice  de  Columbariis^Z/,,  and  Master  William  de  Chelesfelde 
deft.,  of  the  Manor  of  Peueshurst,  with  appurts.,  and  the  advowson 
of  the  Chapel  of  said  Manor.  Right  of  William,  who,  for  the  ad- 
mission, grants  to  Alice  for  her  life,  with  remainder  after  her  death 
to  Stephen  her  son  for  his  life.  And  after  the  death  of  Stephen  to 
remain  to  Thomas  his  brother  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if 
none,  then  after  his  death  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Alice. 

638.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  12— Betw. 
Lucia,  who  was  the  wife  of  John  de  Metyngham,^/^.,  and  John,  son 
of  William  del  Pre  junior,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  10  acr.  land,  and  4^. 
rent,  with  appurts.,  in  Vpmonyngham.  John  admits  it  to  be  the 
Right  of  Lucia  ;  and,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  her  and  to 
her  heirs.  For  which  concession  Lucia,  for  herself  and  her  heirs, 
grants  to  John  for  his  life  an  annuity  of  60s.,  with  liberty  to  distrain 
should  the  same  be  at  any  time  in  arrear. 

634.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  12— Betw. 
Richard  atte  ^o\g  pit.,  and  Richard  de  Pullethorne  and  Johanna  his 
wife,  and  James  de  Gatton'  and  Agnes  his  wife,  defts.,  of  1  mess., 
with  appurts.,  in  Canterbury.  The  deforciants  admit  it  to  be  the 
Right  of  Richard  atte  Sole ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Johanna  and  Agnes,  remit  and  quit-claim  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  for  the  remission  etc.  20  marks. 

635.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  12 — 
Betw.  Simon  Scot,  of  Romene,  pit.,  and  Robert  le  Pere  and 
Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  4  acr.  and  3  roods  of  land,  with  appurts., 
in  Romenal'.  Robert  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of 
Simon  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant  to  him 
and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

636.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  12— Betw. 
Simon  Potyn,  of  Rochester,  pit.,  and  Walter  Bretoun,  of  Rochester, 
and  Maria  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Rochester, 


262  KENT   FINES,    12   EDWARD   II. 

Walter  and  Maria  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Simon  ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  hoirs  of  Maria,  grant  to  him  and  to  hiw  heirs  ; 
and  receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

637.  At  "Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A"  12— 
Betw.  Raulina  {Raolina)  de  Ileghham^^Zi^.,  and  Roger  le  Gnat'  and 
ffelicia  his  wife  defls.,  of  17  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Mapeles- 
comp'.  Roger  and  ffelicia  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Raulina; 
and  Roger,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  her  and  to  her  heirs  ; 
for  which  concession  Roger  and  ffelicia  receive  20  marks. 

G38.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A"  12  — 
Betw.  Robert  de  Selegraue^;/^.,  and  .Tohu  de  Cornhelle,  of  Stalus- 
feld',  (left.,  of  40  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Stalusfeld'.  Right  of 
Robert,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  John  for  his  life  by 
service  of  12  quarters  of  barley  at  the  Feast  of  the  Nativity  of  the 
Lord.  After  his  death  to  revert  to  Robert  and  to  his  heirs,  quit  of 
the  heirs  of  John. 

639.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A"  12— 
Betw.  John  de  la  More  pit.,  and  Henry  Pauye  and  Margaret  his 
wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  12  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Cyppen- 
ham.  Henry  and  Margaret  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John ;  and 
Henry,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  him  and  to  his  heirs  ;  for 
which  concession  Henry  and  Margaret  receive  10/. 

610.  (Much  of  the  bottom  torn  away.  A  note  in  pencil  on  the 
margin,  by  the  Record  Office  officials,  says  :  "  Found  amongst  Kent 
Edw.  II.  A°  9  to  12."  It  commences  without  any  list  of  Justices 
or  date) — Betw.  Walter  Drew  and  Robert  de  London',  Parson  of 
the  Church  of  Littleton' Drew,  ^;/fs.,  and  William  de  Middelhope 
deft.,  of  14  mess.,  14  virgates  of  land,  40  acr.  mead.,  and  Gs.  rent, 
with  appurts.,  in  Surinden'.  William  admits  the  aforesaid  tene- 
ments, with  appurts.,  to  be  Right  of  Walter,  of  which  Walter  and 
Robert  have  1  mess.,  4<\  virgates  of  land,  and  19  acr.  mead.,  with 
appurts.,  of  the  gift  of  aforesaid  William.  And  for  this  admission 
Walter  and  Robert  grant  to  William  for  his  life  the  said  mess.,  4-j 
virgates  of  land,  and  19  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  together  with  all 
services  of  GreofErey  Seman  and  his  heirs.  Moreover  Walter  and 
Robert,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Walter,  grant  that  that 
1  mess.,  1  virgate  of  land,  and  2  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  which 
Adam  Acreman  and  Edith  his  wife  hold  for  their  lives  ;  also  that 
1  mess.,  1  virgate  o^  land,  and  2  acr.  of  mead.,  with  appurts.,  which 
Roger  le  Rede  and  Edith  his  wife  hold  for  their  lives  ;  also  that 
1  mess.,  1  virgate  of  land,  and  2  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  which 


KENT   FINES,    12   EDWARD    II.  263 

Robert  Trcndeloue  and  Edith  his  wife  hold  for  their  lives  ;  also  that 

1  mess.,  1  acr.  mead.,  and  a  moiety  of  1  virgate  of  land,  with 
appurts.,  which  Alice  Colier  holds  for  her  life  ;  also  that  1  mess., 

2  acr.  mead.,  and  a  moiety  of  1  virgate  of  land,  with  appurts.,  which 
Henry  Hogges  and  Edith  his  wife  hold  for  their  lives  ;  also  that  1 
acr.  mead.,  and  moiety  of  1  mess,  and  1  virgate  of  land,  with  appurts., 
which  John  Xorreys  and  Alice  his  wife  hold  for  their  lives ;  also 
that  1  mess.,  1  virgate  of  land,  and  2  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts., 
which  John  Bacheler  and  Isabella  his  wife  hold  for  their  lives ;  also 
that  1  mess.,  1  acr.  mead.,  and  a  moiety  of  1  virgate  of  land,  with 
appurts.,  which  John  Waryn  and  Emma  his  wife  hold  for  their 
lives  ;  also  that  1  mess.,  and  1  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  which 
William  Handsex  and  Johanna  his  wife  hold  for  their  lives ;  also 
that  1  mess.,  1  acr.  mead.,  and  a  moiety  of  1  acr.  of  land,  with 
appurts.,  which  Adam  Shereue  and  Alice  his  wife,  (and)  John 
Pa[u]y  and  Alice  his  wife  hold  for  their  lives ;  also  that  1  mess., 

,   with   appurts..   Which   Thomas  Dun   and   Alice 

his  wife  hold  for  their  lives  ;    also  that  1  mess., ,  with 

appurts.,  which  [Eichard]  Wayfer',  and  William  his  brother,  and 
Katherine  sister  of  said  Eichard  hold  for  their  lives ;  also  [that] 

acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  which  William  Hasard' 

holds  for  bis  life,  of  the  inheritance  of  aforesaid  Walter 

[the  day  of  the  making  of  this  agreement],  and  which  after  the 
decease  of  said  Adam  and  Edith  his  wife,  Eoger  and  Edith  his  wife, 
[Eobert  and  Edith  his  wife,  Alice  Colier],  Henry  and  Edith  his 
wife,  John  and  Alice  his  wife,  John  Bacheler  and  Isabella,  John 
[Waryn  and  Emma  his  wife,  William  Handsex  and  Johanna  his 
wife,  Adam  S]hereue  and  Alice  his  wife,  John  Pauy  and  Alice  his 
wife,  Thomas  and  Alice  hi.s  wife,  [Eichard  Wayfer,  and  William  his 
brother,  and  Katherine  sister  of  said  Eichard,  and  William  Hasard,] 
to  the  aforesaid  Walter  and  Eobert  and  to  the  heirs  of  Walter 
revert,  shall — after  the  deaths  of  the  said  [Adam  and  Edith  his  wife, 
Eoger  and  Edith]  his  wife,  Eobert  and  Edith  his  wife,  Alice  Colier, 
Henry  and  Edith  his  wife,  John  [and  Alice  his  wife,  John  Bacheler 
and]  Isabella,  John  Waryn  and  Emma,  William  and  Johanna, 
Adam  Shereue  and  Alice  his  wife,  John  [Pauy  and  Alice  his  wife, 
Thomas  and  Alice]  his  wife,  Eichard,  and  William  his  brother,  and 
Katherine,  and  William — remain  instead  to  aforesaid  William  de 
[Middelhope   for   his   life],   with   remainder  after   his  decease   to 

[Thomas] [and  Elizabeth]  his  [wife]  and  to  the  heirs  of 

the  bodies  of  said  Thomas  and  Elizabeth.     And  if  it  happen  that 


264  KENT   FINES,    13    EDWARD   II. 

Thomas  and  Elizabeth  die  without  [heirs  of  their  bodies, then  after] 

their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  riglit  [heirs  of] At 

the   bottom   is  : — in    Quiuzaine   of    Hilary.      And 

Walter  and   Robert   have   in   their  stead  William   Peritay ;    and 
William  has  in  his  stead  William  de  Eouton. 

641.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A"  13— 
Betw.  Robert,  son  of  James  de  Reynham,  pit.,  and  Richard  le 
Wrenek',  of  Ledis,  and  Willelma  his  wife  clefts.,  of  3  mess.,  and 
6  acr.  and  3  roods  of  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Maydenstan.  Richard 
and  Willelma  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Robert ;  and,  for  them- 
selves and  the  heirs  of  Willelma,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and 
receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

642.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A"  13— Betw. 
Nicholas  de  Criel,  Chivaler,  p/f.,  and  John  le  Coupere  and  Margeria 
his  wife  defts.,  of  12  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Shorham.  John 
and  Margeria  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Nicholas  ;  and,  for  them- 
selves and  the  heirs  of  Margeria,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and 
receive  10  marJcs  for  the  concession. 

643.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  13— Betw. 
John,  son  of  William  Elys,  of  Demecherche,  pit.,  and  Walter  le 
Wred'  and  Alice  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  7  acr.  and  1  rood 
of  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Demecherche.  Walter  and  Alice  admit  it 
to  be  the  Right  of  John  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Alice, 
grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

644.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  Ao  13— Betw. 
John  Petit  and  Elena  his  wife  pits.,  and  John,  son  of  Robert  le 
Bakere,  and  Emma  his  wife  defts.,  of  a  moiety  of  1  mess.,  with 
appurts.,  in  Neweuton'  next  Sydyngburn'.  John,  son  of  Robert, 
and  Emma  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Elena  ;  and,  for  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Emma,  grant  to  John  Petit  and  Elena  and  to  the 
heirs  of  said  Elena,  and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

645.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A"  13— Betw. 
Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  le  Blake,  of  Grren,  and  Johanna  his  wife 
pits.,  and  Walter  Richard',  of  Gren,  deft.,  of  2  mess.,  10  acr.  land, 
and  80  acr.  marsh,  with  appurts.,  in  Grren.  Right  of  Walter,  who, 
for  the  admission,  grants  to  Thomas  and  Johanna  and  to  his  heirs 
by  her ;  biit  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right 
heirs  of  Thomas. 

646.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaiue  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  13 — 
Betw.  Robert  le  Wynetere  and  Alice  his  wife  pits.,  and  Master 
Walter  de  Stone  deft.,  of  14  acr.  and  3  roods  of  laud,  1  acr.  and 


KENT   FINES,    13    EDWARD    II.  265 

1  rood  of  mead.,  4s.  G\d.  rent,  and  two  parts  of  1  mess.,  with 
appurts.,  in  Maydeuestan  and  Boxele,  which  John  Makeliayt  and 
Margaret  his  wife  hokl  for  the  life  of  said  Margaret.  Master 
"Walter  admits  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Alice ;  and,  for  himself  and 
his  heirs,  grants  that  the  said  tenements,  with  appurts.,  which  John 
and  Margaret  hold  for  the  life  of  said  Margaret  of  the  inheritance 
of  Master  Walter,  and  which  after  her  death  to  him  and  to  his  heirs 
revert,  shall  remain  instead  to  Eobert  and  Alice  and  to  the  heirs  of 
Alice.  Master  "Walter  receives  for  the  concession  100  marks.  This 
agreement  was  made  in  the  presence  of  John  and  Mai'garet,  who 
thereupon  acknowledged  their  fealty  to  Eobert  and  Alice. 

Endorsed: — "William,  son  of  Osbert  Wakerild,  and  William 
and  John  brothers  of  said  William  son  of  Osbert,  assert  their  claim." 

647.  At  York,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  13— Betw.  William 
de  Pesendeune  and  Juliana  his  wife  (by  William  de  Lang[ele]  in 
place  of  Juliana)  pits.,  and  Eobert  Curteys  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  and 
60  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Ebbe,  Stone,  AVytriccheshamme,  and 
Wyghtuccheshamme.  Eight  of  Eobert,  who,  for  the  admission, 
grants  to  William  and  Juliana  and  to  his  heirs  by  her ;  but  if  none, 
then  after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  William. 

648.  At  York,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  13— Betw.  Eoger  le 
Bakere,  of  Cherryugge,  and  Johanna  his  wufe^j^^s.,  and  William  de 
Benyndeu'  deft.,  of  2  mess.,  28  acr.  land,  and  8  acr.  wood,  with 
appurts.,  in  Cherryngge  and  Stalesfelde.  Eight  of  William,  who, 
for  the  admission,  grants  to  Eoger  and  Johanna  and  to  his  heirs  by 
her ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  tiie  right 
heirs  of  Eoger. 

649.  At  York,  St.  Michael  iu  one  month  A**  13— Betw.  Eichard 
de  Ifeld'  and  Sara  his  wiie  pits.,  and  John  de  Carletou',  Parson  of 
the  Church  of  Notstede,  deft.,  of  180  acr.  land,  12  acr.  wood,  and 
two  parts  of  1  mess,  and  of  1  mill,  with  appurts.,  in  Northflete. 
Eight  of  John,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Eichard  and  Sara, 
and  to  the  heirs  of  Eichard. 

650.  At  York,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A"  13— Betw.  Thomas 
de  liudaplt.,  and  William  Passemer  and  Agnes  his  wife  defts.,  of 
six  parts  of  a  moiety  of  1  mill,  with  appurts.,  in  Derteford'. 
William  and  Agnes  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Thomas  ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Agnes,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

651.  At  York,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A^  13 — Betw.  Henry 
de  Brutone  and  Margeria  his  wife^;/^s.,  and  Thomas  de  Somersete, 


2G6  KENT    FINES,    13    EDWARD    II. 

chaplain,  deft.,  of  2  mesa.,  20  acr.  laud,  3  acr.  mead.,  and  G  acr. 
wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Sevenok'  and  Cheuenygg'  (sic).  Eight  of 
Thomas,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Henry  and  Margeria  and 
to  the  lieira  of  Henry. 

052.  At  York,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  13— Betw.  Geoffrey  de 
Say  and  Idonia  his  wife  (by  Peter  Eys  in  their  stead)  pits.,  and 
John  Olyner'  and  Cecilia  his  wife  clefts.,  of  a  moiety  of  1  mill  and 
1  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  in  Reyeresshe.  John  and  Cecilia  admit 
it  to  be  the  Right  of  Greoffrey  ;  and  John,  for  himself  and  his  heirs, 
grants  to  Geoffrey  and  Idonia  and  to  the  heirs  of  Geoffrey ;  for 
which  concession  John  and  Cecilia  receive  100s. 

653.  At  York,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A^  13— Betw.  Margeria 
Langere  pit.,  and  Richard  de  Pypelpenne  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  with 
appurts.,  in  St.  Mary  Creye.  Right  of  Richard,  who,  for  the 
admission,  grants  to  Margeria  for  her  life,  by  service  of  a  rose  at 
Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist.  After  her  death  to  remain,  by  like 
service,  to  Matilda  daughter  of  Gilbert  Langere,  and  to  the  lieirs  of 
her  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  her  death  to  revert  to  Richard 
and  to  his  heirs,  quit  of  other  heirs  of  Margeria  and  Matilda. 

651.  At  York,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A^  13— Betw.  Geoffrey  de 
Say  and  Idonia  his  wife  (by  Peter  Rys  in  their  stead)  pits.,  and 
Philip  de  Pouenesshe  and  Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  a  moiety  of 
1  mill  and  1  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  in  Reyeresshe.  Philip  and 
Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Geoffrey  ;  and,  for  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant  to  Geoffrey  and  Idonia  and  to  the 
heirs  of  Geoffrey,  and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

655.  At  York,  Quiuzaine  of  St.  Michael  A"  13— Betw.  John 
Hayroun  and  Juliana  his  wife  (by  Henry  de  Sturreye  in  place  of 
Juliana)  pits.,  and  Thomas  Kyng'  and  Margaret  his  wife  defts.,  of 
1  mess.,  and  4  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Preston'  next  Wengeham. 
Thomas  and  Margaret  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  ;  and  Thomas, 
for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  John  and  Juliana  and  to  the  heirs 
of  John ;  for  which  concession  Thomas  and  Margaret  receive  100s. 

656.  At  York,  Quiuzaine  of  St.  Michael  A"  13— Betw.  Thomas, 
sou  of  John  ffromond,  of  La  Goldhull'  of  Haudlo,  senior,  ^Z^.,  and 
John  ffromond,  of  Goldhull'  of  Haudlo,  senior,  deft.,  of  1  mess., 
50  acr.  land,  13  acr.  mead.,  4s.  rent,  and  1  weir  in  the  water  of 
Knokewere,  with  appurts.,  in  Haudlo.  Right  of  Thomas,  who,  for 
the  admission,  grants  to  John  for  his  life,  by  service  of  a  rose  at 
Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist.  After  his  death  to  revert  to  Thomas 
and  to  his  heirs,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  John. 


KENT   FINES,    13    EDWARD    II.  267 

657.  At  York,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A"  13 — Betw.  Thomas 
de  Rokesle  <and  Alice  his  wife,  and  Eichard,  son  of  John  de  Eokesle 
(by  Hugh  le  Barber  in  place  of  said  Alice  and  R\chaxd),plts.,  and 
Hemy  de  Northwode  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  160  acr.  land,  16  acr.  mead., 
30  acr.  wood,  108  acr.  past.,  and  GOs.  rent,  with  appurts.,  in 
Cherryngge.  Eight  of  Henry,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to 
Thomas  and  Alice  and  to  the  heirs  of  the  body  of  said  Thomas. 
And  if  it  happen  that  Thomas  die  without  heirs  of  his  body,  then 
after  tlie  deaths  of  Thomas  and  Alice  to  remain  to  aforesaid  Eichard 
and  to  his  heirs. 

658.  At  York,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Michael  A«  13— Betw.  Peter  le 
Bolynger,  of  Canterbury  (by  Eichard  de  Chelesfeld'  in  his  stead), 
pit.,  and  Adam  Hurel,  of  Canterbury,  and  Gerarda  his  wife  clefts., 
of  the  fourth  part  of  3  acr.  of  meadow  1  mill  and  fifth  part  of  1  mill, 
with  appurts.,  in  Hakinton',  and  Westgate  next  Canterbury. 
Adam  and  Gerarda  admit  the  aforesaid  fourth  part,  with  appurts., 
to  be  the  Eight  of  Peter  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Gerarda,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100s.  for  the 
concession. 

659.  At  York,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  13 — Betw.  .John  de 
Boudon'  and  Johanna  his  wife  pits.,  and  Philip  de  Wyk'  and 
Matilda  his  wife  defts.,  of  the  third  part  of  the  Manors  of  Siberd- 
deswyld'  and  Eygthorne,  with  appurts.,  and  the  advowson  of  the 
Church  of  said  Manor  of  Eygthorne.  Eight  of  Matilda  ;  for  which 
admission  Philip  and  Matilda  grant  to  John  and  .Johanna  and  to 
the  heirs  of  John. 

660.  At  York,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A"  13— [Betw.  John 
de]  Sterre,  and  Thomas,  Eobert,  and  Nicholas,  his  sous,  and 
Nicholaa  daughter  of  said  John,  ^Z^s.,  and  Thomas  de  ffulham  and 

Eichard  de  Isslep'  defts.,  of land,  and  5  acr.  wood,  with 

appurts.,  in  Plumstede  and  Lesens  {J  Leslies^.  Thomas  de  E.  and 
Eichard  grant  to  John  for  his  life,  with  remainder  after  his  death 
to  Thomas  his  son  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then 
after  the  death  of  Thomas  to  remain  to  aforesaid  Eobert  and  to  the 
heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  Eobert  to 
remain  to  aforesaid  Nicholas  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if 
none,  then  after  the  death  of  Nicholas  to  remain  to  aforesaid  Nicho- 
laa and  to  the  heirs  of  her  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death 
of  Nicholaa  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  aforesaid  John.  Thomas 
de  ffulham  and  Eichard  receive  for  the  concession marks. 

661.  At  York,  Quinzaine  of  St.  Martin  A^^  13— Betw.  John  de 


268  KENT    FINES,    14   EDWARD    II. 

Hastinges  and  Juliana  his  wife  (by  Robert  de  Lalleford'  in  place  of 
John,  and  by  the  same  Eobert  as  guardian  of  Juliana)  pits.,  and 
Geoffrey,  son  of  Geoffrey  de  Lucy,  and  Katerina  his  wife  clefts.,  of 
the  Manor  of  Newynton',  with  ap])urts.  Eight  of  Geoffrey  ;  for 
which  admission  Geoffrey  and  Katerina  grant  (by  service  of  a  rose 
at  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist)  to  John  and  Juliana  and  to  his 
heirs  male  by  her ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  revert  to 
Geoffrey  and  Katerina  and  to  the  heirs  of  Geoffrey,  quit  of  other 
heirs  of  John  and  Juliana. 

G62.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A"  13— Betw. 
Thomas,  son  of  Eobert  Dod,  of  ffaueresham,^//.,  and  John  de  Bery 
and  Alice  his  wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  IS  acr.  land,  GO  acr.  past.,  and 
the  third  part  of  6/.  13s.  M.  rent,  with  appurts.,  in  Sesaltre.  John 
and  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Thomas  ;  and,  for  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Alice,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive 
20Z.  for  the  concession. 

663.  At  "Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  John  Baptist  A''  13 — 
Betw.  Adam  de  Brokkescumbe  and  Cecilia  his  wife  j-j/^s.,  and 
"William  de  Swanton',  Parson  of  the  Church  of  Cherring',  deft.,  of 
1  mess.,  150  acr.  land,  3  acr.  mead.,  24  acr.  wood,  12s.  rent,  and 
rent  of  28  hens  and  60  eggs,  with  appurts.,  in  Eggerton,  Bocton' 
Malherbe,  and  Cherriug'.  Eight  of  William,  who,  for  the 
admission,  grants  to  Adam  and  Cecilia  for  their  lives,  with  remainder 
after  their  deaths  to  John  their  son  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ; 
but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  John  to  remain  to  Eoger  his 
brother  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the 
death  of  Eoger  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  aforesaid  Adam. 

661.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  14 — 
Betw.  Thomas,  sou  of  John  Loterych',^;/f.,  and  William  le  L[en  ?]* 
and  Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  40  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in 
Seynte  Marycherche  next  Eomenal.  William  and  Johanna  admit 
it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Thomas  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of 
Johanna,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  40s.  for  the 
concession. 

665.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  14— Betw. 
Durandus  de  Wydmerpol  pit.,  and  Stephen  de  la  Dane  and  Isabella 
his  wife  (by  John  Priket  in  place  of  Isabella)  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  85 
acr.  land,  and  40  acr.  past.,  with  appurts.,  in  Petham  and  Waltham. 
Eight  of  Durandus,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Stephen  and 

*  Just  traces  of  '-eu  "'  (or  "eu  '')  where  the  file  has  gone  throngh. 


KENT   FINES,    14   EDWARD    II.  269 

Isabella  and  to  his  heirs  by  her ;  but  if  none,  then  aftei*  their  deaths 
to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Stephen. 

GGG.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  14— Betw. 
Stephen  de  la  Dane  and  Isabella  his  wife  (by  John  Preket  in  place  of 
Isabel hi)^; 7/^.,  and  John  Pope,  of  Petham,  and  Alice  his  wife  Jefts.,  of 
8^  acr.  land,  and  a  moiety  of  1  acr.  of  wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Petham. 
John  and  Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Stephen  ;  and  John,  for 
himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  Stephen  and  Isabella  and  to  the 
heirs  of  Stephen  ;  for  which  concession  John  and  Alice  receive  100s. 

667.  At  AVestminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  14— Betw.  Alan 
Toy  pit.,  and  Thomas  Say  and  Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  7  acr.  land, 
with  appurts.,  in  Eokyngge.  Thomas  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the 
Eight  of  Alan  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant 
to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  40s.  for  the  concession. 

668.  At  "Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  14— Betw.  John 
Tancray  and  Alice  his  wife  pits.,  and  Walter  de  Shorne  and  John 
de  Sancto  Nicholao,  of  the  Isle  of  Thanet,  clefts.,  of  the  Manor  of 
Betlessangre  next  Northbourn',  with  appurts.,  and  the  advowson  of 
the  Churches  of  Betlessangre  and  Brerefreyston'.  Eight  of  Waller  ; 
for  which  admission  Walter  and  John  de  Sancto  Nicholao  grant  to 
John  Tancray  and  Alice  for  their  lives,  with  remainder  after  their 
deaths  to  John  de  Marny  and  Johanna  his  wife  and  to  his  heirs  by 
her ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right 
heirs  of  John  Tancray. 

669.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  14— Betw. 
Eichard  la  Yeille  pit.,  and  John  de  Handle  and  Matilda  his  wife 
defts.,  of  40  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  AVestgrenewych'.  Right  of 
Matilda ;  for  which  admission  John  and  Matilda,  for  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Matilda,  grant  to  Eichard  for  life,  by  the  ser- 
vice of  one  marJc  per  annum.  After  his  death  to  revert  to  John  and 
Matilda  and  to  the  heirs  of  Matilda,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  Eichard. 

670.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A"  14— Betw.  John 
de  Bokloud'  and  Johanna  his  wife  (by  Walter  de  Neuill'  in  place  of 
Johanna)  pits.,  and  Edmund  Polle  deft.,  of  the  Manor  of  Boklond', 
with  appurts.,  and  the  advowson  of  the  Church  of  said  Manor. 
Eight  of  Edmund,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  John  and 
Johanna  and  to  his  heirs  by  her ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths 
to  remain  to  Laurence  son  of  said  John  and  to  his  heirs. 

671.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  14— Betw. 
Thomas  de  Dels  pit.,  and  Henry  de  Burn'  and  Egliua  his  wife 
defts.,  of  1  mess.,  203  acr.  land,  9^  acr.  mead.,  117  acr.  past.,  55  acr. 


270  KENT    FINES,    Idi   EDWARD    II. 

wood,  77a-.  lid.  rent,  and  rent  of  8^  quarters  of  barley,  21  quarters 
of  oats,  40  pounds  of  cheese,  18  cocks,  and  100  hens,  with  ajipurts., 
in  Bisshoppisburn',  Kyngeston',  Bereham,  Bregge,  Patrikesburn', 
Welle,  Litlcburne,  Sheldon',  Dele,  Monyugham,  Werehorn',  and 
Eokyngge.  Eight  of  Thomas,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to 
Henry  and  Eglina  and  to  his  heirs  by  her ;  but  if  none,  then  after 
their  deaths  to  remain  to  George  de  Burn'  and  to  the  heirs  of  his 
body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  Greorge  to  remain  to 
John  his  brother  for  his  life,  with  remainder  after  his  death  to  the 
right  heirs  of  aforesaid  Henry. 

Endorsed : — "  John  de  Bourn',  Parson  of  the  Church  of  Sner- 
gate,  asserts  his  claim,  etc." 

672.  Afc  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Hilary  A°  14— Betw. 
Thomas  de  Delce  and  George  de  Burn'  2?7ifs.,  and  Henry  de  Burn' 
deft.,  of  1  mess.,  114  acr.  land,  G  acr.  wood,  16s.  7^d.  rent,  and  rent 
of  4  quarters  and  6  bushels  of  barley,  2  quarters  of  oats,  1  cock,  23 
hens,  and  180  eggs,  with  appurts.,  in  Dodynton',  Tenham,  Milstede, 
and  Oteringgedene.  Right  of  Henry,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants 
to  Thomas  for  his  life,  to  hold  of  Henry  and  his  heirs  by  service  of 
6  marJcs  per  annum.  After  the  death  of  Thomas  to  remain  (by  ser- 
vice of  a  rose  at  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist)  to  aforesaid  George 
and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of 
George  to  remain  (by  like  service)  to  John  his  brother  for  his  life, 
with  reversion  after  his  death  to  aforesaid  Henry  and  to  his  heirs, 
quit  of  the  heirs  of  aforesaid  Thomas,  George,  and  John. 

Endorsed: — "John  de  Bourn',  Parson  of  the  Church  of  Sner- 
gate,  asserts  his  claim,  etc." 

673.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  the  Ascension  of  the  Lord 
A°  14 — Betw.  Thomas  Poucyn  pit.,  and  William  de  Wilmyntone 
deft.,  of  1  mess.,  25  acr.  land,  3  acr.  mead.,  16  acr.  past.,  16  acr. 
wood,  16s.  rent,  and  rent  of  2  cocks  and  10  hens,  with  appurts.,  in 
Chistelet.  Eight  of  Thomas,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to 
William  for  his  life,  by  service  of  a  rose  at  Nativity  of  St.  John 
Baptist.  After  his  death  to  revert  to  aforesaid  Thomas  and  to  his 
heirs,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  William. 

674.  At  Westminster,  Quiuzaiue  of  Easter  A°  14 — Betw.  Martin 
Erchebaud  pU.,  and  Juliana,  who  was  the  wife  of  William  de  Ley- 
burn',  deft.,  of  2  gardens,  52  acr.  land,  100  acr.  marsh,  and  5  marTcs 
rent,  with  appurts.,  in  Wykham  Brewose,  Vill  of  St.  Laurence, 
St.  John  in  Thauet,  Vppechirche,  Eylmerstone,  Ouerelonde,  and 
Elham.     Eight  of  Martin,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Juliana 


KENT   riNES,    14   EDWARD    II.  271 

for  her  life,  with  remainder  after  lier  death  to  John  de  Hastynges 
and  Juliana  his  wife  and  to  his  heirs  by  her ;  but  if  none,  then 
after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  aforesaid  Juliana 
who  was  the  wife  of  William  de  Leyburn'. 

675.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  14 — Betw. 
Eichard  de  AVyghtrieheshamme  and  IsabelLa  his  wife,  and  James  son 
of  said  Eichard  (by  Stephen  Donet  in  place  of  Isabella  and  James) 
pits.,  and  Thomas  de  Capella  deft.,  of  2  mess.,  3  tofts,  1  garden,  160 
acr.  laud,  30  acr.  wood,  120  acr.  marsh,  34*.  Ohl.  rent,  and  rent  of 
12  hens,  and  60  eggs,  2  pounds  of  pepper  and  2\  pounds  of  cum- 
min,* with  appurts.,  in  Wyghtricheshamme.  Eight  of  Thomas, 
who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Eichard,  Isabella,  and  James,  and 
to  the  heirs  of  the  body  of  James.  And  if  it  happen  that  James 
die  without  heirs  of  his  body,  then  after  the  deaths  of  Eichard, 
Isabella,  and  James,  to  remaiu  to  the  right  heirs  of  said  Eichard. 

676.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  14 — Betw.  Mar- 
tin Erchebaud'  pit.,  and  Johanna,  who  was  the  wife  of  William  de 
Leyburn',  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  272^  acr.  land,  20  acr.  mead.,  and  44  acr, 
wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Bocton'  Malerbe,  and  Eiarton'  {i.e.  Ejartou 
or  Egerton).  Eight  of  Martin,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to 
Juliana  for  her  life,  with  remainder  after  her  death  to  John  de 
Hastynges  and  Juliana  his  wife  and  to  the  heirs  of  said  John. 

677.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A"  14 — Betw.  John 
deMuseweir  and  Isabella  his  yaiie  pits.,  and  ffelicia  Somery  deft.,  of 
1  mess.,  40  acr.  land,  1  acr.  mead.,  11  acr.  wood,  17  acr.  heath,  and  a 
moiety  of  2  miUs,  with  appurts.,  in  Vlecumbe  and  Herietisham. 
Eight  of  flelicia,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  John  and  Isabella, 
and  to  his  heirs  by  her ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  re- 
main to  the  right  heirs  of  said  John. 

678.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  14 — Betw. 
Eobert  LajDyn  and  Johanna  his  wife  pits.,  and  Peter  Grubbe  and 
Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  acr.  of  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Hakyn- 
ton'.  Peter  and  Johanna  his  wife  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of 
Eobert ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Peter,  remit  and  quit- 
claim to  Eobert  and  Johanna  his  wife  and  to  the  heirs  of  Eobert, 
and  receive  for  the  remission  etc.  405. 

679.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  14 — Betw. 
Thomas  Groldyng'  and  Godeleua  his  wife  pits.,  and  Adam,  son  of 
Walter  atte  Ware,  and  Margeria  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  and 

*  The  herb  and  seed  called  '-011111™!!!." 


272  KENT   FINES,    14    EDWARD   II. 

10  aL'i'.  land,  with  appufl.s.,  in  Kecnluiv.  Adam  and  Margeria  admit 
it  to  be  the  Right  of  Thomaw  ;  and,  for  themBelves  and  the  heirs  of 
Margeria,  grant  to  Thomas  and  Godeleua  and  to  the  heirs  of 
Tliomas,  and  receive  10/.  for  the  concession. 

GSO.  At  AVestminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A"  14-— Bet w. 
Henry  de  Babbynge  2)lt.,  and  Richard  Hauteyu  and  Leticia  his 
wife  (lefts.,  of  4  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Natyndon'  next  Canter- 
bury. Richard  and  Leticia  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Henry  ;  and, 
for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Leticia,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

GSl.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A"  14— Betw. 
John  atte  Halle,  of  La  Newehethe,  and  Margeria  his  wife  pits., 
and  John  le  Ken,  of  Newehethe,  and  Beatrix  his  wife  defts.,  of 
1  mess.,  and  1  toft,  with  appurts.,  in  East  Mallingge.  John  le  Ken 
and  Beatrix  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  atte  Halle ;  and  John 
le  K.,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  John  atte  H.  and  Mar- 
geria and  to  the  heirs  of  said  John ;  for  which  concession  John 
le  K.  and  Beatrix  receive  10  marks. 

682.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  John  Baptist  A^  14— Betw. 
Simon  Potyn,  of  Rochester,  ^Z^.,  and  Walter  Breton'  and  Maria  his 
wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Rochester.  Walter  and 
Maria  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Simon ;  and,  for  themselves  and 
the  heirs  of  Maria,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  10 
marks  for  the  concession. 

683.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  14— Betw. 
John  Lucas,  of  Eynesford',  senior,  pit.,  and  John  Jour  and  Beatrix 
his  wife  defts.,  of  18  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Eynesford'.  John 
and  Beatrix  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  L.  ;  and,  for  them- 
selves and  the  heirs  of  Beatrix,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and 
receive  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

684.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  the  Holy  Trinity  A°  14 — 
Betw.  Geoffrey,  Parson  of  the  Church  of  Codeham,  and  William  de 
Torryng',  chaplain,  pits.,  and  Geoffrey  de  Say  and  Idonia  his  wife 
(by  Peter  Rys  in  place  of  Idonia)  defts.,  of  the  Manor  of  West- 
grenewych',  with  appurts.  Right  of  Geoffrey  the  Parson,  and  Wil- 
liam, who,  for  the  admission,  grant  to  Geoffrey  de  Say  and  Idonia 
for  their  lives,  with  remainder  after  their  deaths  to  Geoffrey,  son  of 
Geoffrey  de  Say,  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then 
after  the  death  of  Geoffrey,  son  of  Geoffrey  de  Say,  to  remain  to 
Roger  brother  of  Geoffrey,  son  of  Geoffrey  de  Say,  and  to  the  heirs 
of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  Roger  to  remain 


KENT    FINES,    14    EDWARD    II.  273 

to  Ralph  his  brother  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then 
after  the  death  of  Ralph  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  aforesaid 
Greoffrey  de  Say. 

685.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  14 — 
Betw.  Walter  de  Iluntyngfeld'  and  Johanna  his  wife,  and  John 
their  son  (by  Nicholas  de  Rysyng  in  place  of  said  Johanna,  and  by 
the  same  Nicholas,  guardian  of  said  John,  in  his  stend),  pits.,  and 
Richard  le  Walshe  deft.,  of  the  Manor  of  West  Wykham,  with 
appurts.,  and  the  advowson  of  the  Church  of  said  Manor.  Right  of 
Richard,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Walter  and  Johanna 
and  John  and  to  the  heirs  male  of  the  body  of  John ;  but  if  none, 
then  after  the  deaths  of  Walter,  Johanna,  and  John  to  remain  to 
the  right  heirs  of  Walter. 

686.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  1-1 — Betw. 
John,  son  of  Adam  le  Mareschal,  of  Middelton',  and  Margeria  his 
wiie  pits.,  and  Henry  de  Mottene  deft.,  of  3  mess.,  23  acr.  laud,  and 
pasturage  for  one  horse  and  two  cows,  with  appurts.,  in  Middelton' 
and  Bobbyng'.  Henry  admits  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John,  as  that 
which  he  and  Margeria  receive  in  Court  to  hold  to  them  and  to  the 
heirs  of  John.     Henry  receives  for  the  admission  etc.  20  marks. 

687.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  Souls  A°  14 — Betw.  Andrew 
de  Snakstou'  and  Johanna  his  wife  pits.,  and  Walter  de  fErendesbery 
and  Emma  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Maydenestan. 
Walter  and  Emma  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Andrew  ;  and  Walter, 
for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  Andrew  and  Johanna  and  to  the 
heirs  of  Andrew  ;  for  which  concession  Walter  and  Emma  receive 
20  marks. 

688.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  Souls  A°  14 — Betw.  Robert 
le  ffrensh' /)7/.,  and  Thomas  Smyth'  and  Dionisia  his  wife  defts.,  of 
1  mess.,  and  2  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Aldynton'  next  Smethe. 
Thomas  and  Dionisia  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Robert;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Dionisia,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

689.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  Martin  A"  14— Betw. 
Walter,  son  of  William  Vppehelle,  of  Wy,  pit.,  and  John,  son  of 
Roger  Heyward',  of  Wy,  and  Alice  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  13 
acr.  laud,  and  2  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  in  Kenynton'.  John  and 
Alice  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Walter ;  and  John,  for  himself  and 
his  heirs,  grants  to  him  and  to  his  heirs  ;  for  which  concession  John 
and  Alice  receive  20  marks. 

690.  At  Westminster,  Octave   of   St.   Martin   A^  14— Betw. 

TOL.    XIV.  T 


274  KENT   FINES,    14   EDWARD    II. 

Robert  Allard'^)//.,  and  Joliii  lo  Joygnour,  of  London,  and  Juliana 
his  wife  (lefts.,  of  a  moiety  of  1  mill,  with  appurtt*.,  in  Westgrene- 
wych'.  John  and  Juliana  admit  it  to  be  the  Kight  of  Kobcrt ;  and, 
for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Juliana,  grant  to  him  and  to  his 
heirs,  and  receive  10/.  for  the  concession. 

691.  At  AN^estminster,  Morrow  of  Souls  A"  14 — Betw.  Nicholas 
le  Bret',  of  Romenal,  and  Agnes  his  wife  (by  Henry  de  Stureye  in 
their  stead)  ^Z/s.,  and  Thomas  Snellyng'  and  Alice  his  wife  (lefts.,  of 
5  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Lide.  Thomas  and  Alice  admit  it  to 
be  the  Eight  of  Agnes  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Alice, 
grant  to  Nicholas  and  Agnes  and  to  the  heirs  of  Agnes,  and  receive 
100s.  for  the  concession. 

692.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  3  weeks  A"  14 — Betw. 
Thomas  de  Ispannia,  of  London,  pit.,  and  Stephen  le  Beek  and 
Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  40  acr.  land,  and  rent  of  6 
bushels  of  barley,  with  appurts.,  in  Bereham  and  Deringgeston'. 
Stephen  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Thomas ;  and 
Stephen,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  him  and  to  his  heirs  ; 
for  which  concession  Stephen  and  Johanna  receive  40  marks. 

693.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  Martin  A"  14— Betw.  John 
de  Toppesfeld'  pit.,  and  Eobert  Barun,  of  Suthflete,  and  Johanna 
his  wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  8  acr.  land,  and  12d.  rent,  with  appurts., 
in  Loudesdou'  and  Cobham.  Eobert  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be 
the  Eight  of  John ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna, 
grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  lOZ.  for  the  concession. 

694.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  14 — Betw. 
Nicholas  Malmeyns  and  Alice  his  wife  pits.,  and  Eoger  Buttetourt' 
deft.,  of  1  mess.,  2  carucates  of  land,  6  acr.  mead.,  60  acr.  wood, 
10  marks  rent,  and  rent  of  100  hens  and  500  eggs,  with  appurts., 
in  ffreuyngham,  Drent'  (read  "  Dareut'  "),  Suthflete,  Stone,  Holy- 
rode,  Shanecuntewelle,  and  ffaukeham,  and  of  the  advowson  of  a 
moiety  of  the  Church  of  aforesaid  Vill  of  ffaukeham.  Eight  of 
Eoger,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Nicholas  and  Alice  for 
their  lives,  with  remainder  after  their  deaths  to  Thomas,  son  of  said 
Nicholas,  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the 
death  of  Thomas  to  remain  to  John  his  brother,  and  to  the  heirs  of 
his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  John  to  remain  to 
the  right  heirs  of  aforesaid  Nicholas. 

Endorsed  : — "  Sara,  daughter  of  William  de  ffaukham,  asserts 
her  claim." 

695.  At   Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  3  Aveeks  A°  14— Betw. 


KENT    FINES,    14   EDWARD   II.  275 

Thomas,  sou  of  Eichard  de  Grauene,  pit.,  and  Thomas,  son  of  Eobert 
Dod,  of  ffauersham,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  70  acr.  laud,  2^.  rent,  and 
rent  of  3  quarters  of  barley,  with  appurts.,  in  Haruhulle,  Godeue- 
ston',  Lodenhara,  and  fPauersham.  Thomas  sou  of  Eobert  grants 
(by  service  of  a  rose  at  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist)  to  Thomas 
son  of  Eichard,  and  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after 
his  death  to  revert  to  Thomas  son  of  Eobert,  and  to  his  heirs,  quit 
of  other  heirs  of  Thomas  son  of  Eichard.  Thomas  son  of  Eobert 
receives  100  marks  for  the  concession. 

696.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  3  weeks  AP  14— Betw. 
"William  de  Bywyndle  and  Isabella  his  wife  pits.,  and  Nicholas  de 
Mordon',  Parson  of  the  Church  of  St.  Nicholas  of  Saundreston', 
deft.,  of  1  mess.,  30  acr.  land,  and  1  acr.  mead.,  with  appurts.,  in 
Leuesham.  Eight  of  Nicholas,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Wil- 
liam and  Isabella  and  to  his  heirs  by  her  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their 
deaths  to  remain  to  Thomas  son  of  John  de  ffoxle,  and  to  John  son 
of  said  Thomas,  and  to  the  heirs  of  said  John  (son  of  Thomas). 

697.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  14 — Betw. 
Thomas  Jordan,  of  Maydenestan,  pit.,  and  Thomas  de  Husk'  and 
Margeria  his  wife  defts.,  of  4  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Maydene- 
stan. Thomas  de  H.  and  Margeria  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of 
Thomas  J. ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Margeria,  grant 
to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  lOO^.  for  the  concession. 

698.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  3  weeks  A°  14— Betw. 
John  de  Cerne  junior  and  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  de  Leenham, 
(by  William  de  Ferret  in  their  stead)  pits.,  and  Margaret  de  Leen- 
ham deft.,  of  the  Manor  of  Case,  with  appurts.  Margaret  de  Leen- 
ham admits  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  John ;  and,  for  herself  and  her 
heirs,  grants  to  John  and  Margaret  and  to  the  heirs  of  John,  and 
receives  1001.  for  the  concession. 

699.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  3  weeks  A°  14— Betw. 
John  Parker,  pit.,  and  John  Strutard'  and  Alianora  his  wife  defts., 
of  5  acr.  land,  205.  5\d.  rent,  and  rent  of  10  hens  and  60  eggs,  with 
appurts.,  in  Werehorne  and  Orlauston'.  John  S.  and  Alianora 
admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  John  P.  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the 
heirs  of  Alianora,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20 
marks  for  the  concession. 

700.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  14 — Betw. 
Paganus  Godwyn  and  Agnes  his  wife  pits.,  and  Arnaldus  atte 
Meuth'  and  Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  10  acr.  land,  with  appurts., 
in  Seuenak'.     Arnaldus  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of 

T  2 


276  KENT   riNES,    14   EDWARD   II. 

Pagaiuis;  and  A rnaldus,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  Paga- 
nus  and  Agnes  and  to  the  heirs  of  Pagauus  ;  for  wliich  concession 
Arnaldus  and  .Tolianna  receive  10  metrics. 

701.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  14 — Bctw. 
Richard  Morcok',  Ealph  Morcok',  and  John  Morcok',  pits.,  and 
"William  Morcok'  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  and  16  acr.  land,  with  appnrts., 
in  Mereworth'.  Eight  of  Ralph  ;  for  which  admission  Richard, 
Ralph  and  John  grant  to  William  for  his  life,  to  hold  of  them  and 
of  the  heirs  of  Ralph  by  service  of  a  rose  at  Nativity  of  St.  John 
Baptist,  After  his  death  to  revert  to  Richard,  Ralph  and  John  and 
to  the  heirs  of  Ralph,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  William. 

702.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  3  weeks  A°  14— Betw. 
John  Simond',  of  Clyue,  pit.,  and  Walter  de  Crowlonde  and  Agnes 
his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  6  acr.  land,  and  the  third  part  of  1  acr. 
of  mead,  and  of  20  aer.  marsh,  with  appurts.,  in  Clyue  and  ffrendes- 
hery.  Walter  and  Agnes  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  ;  and, 
for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Agnes,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  100*.  for  the  concession. 

703.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  14 — Betw. 
Nicholas  de  Bello  Loco  pit.,  and  Master  John  de  Wynchelse,  Parson 
of  the  Church  of  Xorthflete,  and  Simon  his  brother  defts.,  of  1  mess., 
88  acr.  laud,  1\  acr.  mead.,  2  acr.  wood,  4|  acr.  marsh,  and  8s.  rent, 
with  appurts.,  in  Northflete.  Right  of  Nicholas,  who,  for  the 
admission,  grants  to  Master  John  and  Simon  for  their  lives,  with 
remainder  after  their  deaths  to  Martin  Seriant'  {Serjanf)  and  Mar- 
geria  his  wife,  and  to  the  heirs  of  said  Martin. 

Endorsed: — "  Katerina  atte  Nobright'  and  Stephen  her  son 
assert  their  claim." 

704.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  3  weeks  A°  14— Betw. 
Thomas  Colpeper  and  Margeria  his  wife  pits.,  and  Richard  de 
Headen'  and  John  Colpeper  defts.,  of  2  mess.,  2  mills,  405  acr. 
land,  20  acr.  mead.,  60  acr.  past.,  80  acr.  wood,  and  20s.  rent,  with 
appurts.,  in  Peapymbery,  Thonebregg',  and  Teudele.  Right  of  John ; 
for  which  admission  Richard  and  John  grant  to  Thomas  and  Mar- 
geria for  their  lives,  with  remainder  after  their  deaths  to  Walter 
their  son,  and  to  the  heirs  male  of  his  body ;  but  if  none,  then  after 
the  death  of  Walter  to  remain  to  John  his  brother  and  to  the 
heirs  male  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  John 
to  remain  to  Richard  his  brother  and  to  the  heirs  male  of  his  body ; 
but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  Richard  to  remain  to  the  right 
heirs  of  aforesaid  Thomas. 


KENT   FINES,   14   EDWARD    II.  277 

705.  At  "Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  Martin  A^  14— Betw. 
John  de  Graue  pit.,  and  Adam  Cundy  and  Constance  his  wife  clefts., 
of  8|^  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Lytlebourne.  Adam  and  Con- 
stance admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the 
heirs  of  Constance,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100s. 
for  the  concession. 

706.  At  "Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  14— Betw. 
William  de  "Wenderton'  and  Cecilia  his  wife  pits.,  and  "Walter  de 
Kemeseye,  of  Wengham,  deft.,  of  40  acr.  land,  and  the  third  part 
of  1  mess,  and  3s.  3f(/.  rent,  and  rent  of  25  eggs,  with  appurts.,  in 
Adesham.  Eight  of  Walter,  who,  for  the  admission,  grants  to  Wil- 
liam and  Cecilia  and  to  his  heirs  male  by  her  ;  but  if  none,  then 
after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  William. 

707.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A^  14— Betw. 
Eobert  Wateuyle  pit.,  and  John  le  Mareschal,  of  Lesnes,  and 
Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  3^  acr.  land,  with  appurts., 
in  Lesnes.  John  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Riglit  of  Eobert ; 
and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant  to  him  and  to 
his  heirs,  and  receive  101.  for  the  concession. 

70S.  At  WestmiQster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  kP  14— Betw. 
John,  son  of  Eichard  Bonho,  pit.,  and  William  Lytekyn  and  Eosa 
his  wife  defts.,  of  15  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Bonyngton'.  Wil- 
liam and  Eosa  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  John  ;  and,  for  themselves 
and  the  heirs  of  Eosa,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  101. 
for  the  concession. 

709.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  Martin  A"  14— Betw. 
Eichard  Chareman^;Z^.,  and  John  Chareman  and  Johanna  his  wife 
defts.,  of  1  mess.,  1  carucate  of  land,  12  acr.  mead.,  40  acr.  past., 
15  acr,  wood,  26s.  ^d.  rent,  and  rent  of  2  pounds  of  wax  and  3 
pounds  of  pepper,  with  appurts.,  in  AYesterham.  Eight  of  Eichard, 
who,  for  the  admission,  grants  (by  service  of  a  rose  at  Nativity  of 
St.  John  Baptist)  to  John  and  Johanna  and  to  the  heirs  of  the 
body  of  Johanna ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  deaths  of  John  and 
Johanna  to  remain  to  John  son  of  Adam  Chareman  senior,  and  to 
the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  John 
son  of  Adam  to  revert  to  aforesaid  Eichard  and  to  his  heirs,  quit 
of  other  heirs  of  Johanna,  and  John  sou  of  Adam. 

710.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A^  14— Betw. 
John  de  Boycote,  of  Vlcombe,  and  Agnes  his  wife  pits.,  and  John 
le  Knyght',  of  "Vlcombe,  junior,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  88  acr.  land,  7 
acr.  mead.,  7  acr.  wood,  and  a  moiety  of  1  mill,  with  appurts.,  in 


278  KENT   FINES,    14   AND  15    EDWARD    II. 

Vlcombe  and  Hedecron.     Eight  of  John  lo  K.,  who,  for  the  admis- 
sion, grants  to  John  de  B.  and  Agnes  and  to  the  heirs  of  said  John. 

711.  At  AVestminster,  Quiuzaiue  of  St.  Michael  A**  14 — Betw, 
John  atte  Loft,  of  Bexle,  pit.,  and  Robert  Aunsel  and  Johanna  his 
wife  (lefts.,  of  1  mess.,  and  Q\  acr.  laud,  with  appurts.,  in  Bexle. 
Eobert  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  John ;  and,  for 
themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs, 
and  receive  100*.  for  the  concession. 

712.  At  "Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  3  weeks  A"  14— Betw. 
Thomas  de  Enybrok'  and  Alianora  his  wife  ^;/^s.,  and  William  Bau- 
dethoun  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  176  acr.  land,  16  acr.  wood,  52s.  rent,  and 
rent  of  5  cocks,  57  hens,  and  350  eggs,  with  apj^urts.,  in  Swynefeld' 
next  Douorr'.  William  grants  to  Thomas  and  Alianora  and  to  the 
heirs  of  their  bodies  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  remain 
to  the  right  heirs  of  Alianora.  William  receives  100  imirks  for  the 
concession. 

713.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaine  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  15 — 
Betw.  Master  Eichard  de  Gloucestre^Z^.,  and  Eichard  Malemeyus, 
of  Berkyng',  and  Edith  his  wife  clefts.,  of  1  mess.,  80  acr.  land, 
35s.  2d.  rent,  aud  rent  of  10  hens,  and  100  eggs,  with  appurts.,  in 
Wolewych'.  Eight  of  Eichard  M. ;  for  which  admission  he  and 
Edith  grant  to  Master  Eichard  for  his  life,  with  remainder  after  his 
death  to  John,  Parson  of  the  Church  of  Herdyugton',  Adam  son  of 
Katerina  de  Sancto  Albano,  and  Nicholas  brother  of  the  said  Adam, 
and  to  the  heirs  of  the  body  of  said  Nicholas  ;  but  if  none,  then 
after  the  death  of  Nicholas  to  remain  to  Eichard  his  brother  aud  to 
the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if  none,  then  after  the  death  of  Eichard 
to  remain  to  John  his  brother  aud  to  the  heirs  of  his  body  ;  but  if 
none,  then  after  the  death  of  John  to  remain  to  Margeria  daughter 
of  John  de  Gloucestre,  and  to  her  heirs. 

714.  At  York,  Quinzaine  of  Easter  A°  15 — Betw.  William 
Symuud',  of  Clyue,  aud  Eosa  daughter  of  Henry  Stonhard',j!;/?^s., 
and  Henry  Stouhard',  of  Hegham,  aud  Alice  his  wife  defts.,  of  2 
mess.,  2  tofts,  13  acr.  3  roods  aud  7  parts  of  1  rood  of  land,  4^  acr. 
mead.,  and  3^  acr.  marsh,  with  appurts.,  in  Hegham  aud  Clyue. 
Eight  of  Henry ;  for  which  admission  Henry  aud  Alice  grant  to 
William  aud  Eosa  aud  to  the  heirs  of  Eosa.  Aud  Henry,  for  him- 
self and  his  heirs,  guarantees  it  to  William  aud  Eosa  and  to  the 
heirs  of  Eosa. 

715.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A°  15— Betw. 
Martin   G-erueys   and   Johanna  his    wife   pits.,    aud  Aruald   atte 


KENT    FINES,    15  EDWAllD    II.  279 

Meuthe  and  Johanna  bis  wife  defts.,  of  [1]  mess.,  92  acr.  land,  8 
acr.  wood,  3*.  rent,  and  rent  of  2  hens,  with  appurts.,  in  Seueuok'. 
Right  of  Martin ;  for  which  admission  Martin  and  Johanna  his 
wife  grant  to  Arnald  and  Johanna  his  wife  for  their  lives,  by  ser- 
vice of  a  rose  at  the  Nativity  of  St.  John  Baptist.  After  their 
deaths  to  revert  to  Martin  and  Johanna  his  wife  and  to  the  heirs 
of  Martin,  quit  of  the  heirs  of  Arnald  and  Johanna  his  wife, 

716.  At  AVestminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  15 — Betw. 
Henry  de  Saucta  Ositha  pit.,  and  Geoffrey  de  Ely,  chaplain,  cleft., 
of  2  gardens,  77  acr.  land,  5  acr.  mead.,  2^  acr.  wood,  and  4  acr, 
heath,  with  appurts.,  in  Derteford'  and  Wylmynton'.  Greoffrey 
admits  it  to  be  the  Eight  of  Henry ;  and,  for  himself  and  his  heirs, 
grants  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receives  60  marks  for  the  con- 
cession, 

717.  At  Westminster,  Quinzaiue  of  St.  John  Baptist  A°  15 — 
Betw.  John  Viuian  pit.,  and  Richard  de  Est  Halle  and  Margaret 
his  wife  defts.,  of  1  mill,  80  acr,  laud,  13  acr.  mead.,  20  acr.  wood, 
10  marks  rent,  and  rent  of  120  hens  and  400  eggs,  with  appurts.,  in 
Est  Hair,  St.  Mary  Creye,  Orpintou',  Doune,  Codeham,  Ocolte, 
Hese,  ffarnebergh',  Petham,  and  ffrenyngham.  And  subsequently, 
St.  Michael  in  one  month  same  year,  after  the  death  of  aforesaid 
John  Viuian. — Betw.  "William,  Henry,  Thomas,  John,  Hamo,  and 
Richard,  sons  and  heirs  of  the  aforesaid  John  Viuian,  and  the  afore- 
said Richard  de  Est  Hall'  and  Margaret,  of  the  aforesaid  tene- 
ments, with  appui'ts.,  which  are  of  "  G-auelkynd'  "  tenure.  Richard 
and  Margaret  had  admitted  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  ;  and  Richard, 
for  himself  and  his  heirs,  granted  to  John  and  to  his  heirs  ;  for 
which  concession  Richard  and  Margaret  received  100/, 

718.  At  "Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A"  15 — Betw. 
John,  son  of  "Warin  atte  Celer,  and  Isabella  his  wife  pits.,  and 
Clement  atte  Halle,  of  "Woldham,  deft.,  of  40s.  rent,  with  appurts., 
in  Speldhurst'.  Clement  admits  it  to  be  the  Right  of  John  ;  and, 
for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to  John  and  Isabella  and  to  the 
heirs  of  John,  and  receives  10  marks  for  the  concession. 

719.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A^  15— Betw. 
Thomas  de  Tonyford'  and  Isabella  his  wife  ^^Z/'s.,  and  William  de 
Kemesyng'  deft.,  of  179  acr.  and  3  roods  of  land,  2  acr.  and  a  moiety 
of  1  rood  of  mead.,  1  acr.  and  the  4th  part  of  1  rood  of  wood, 
10s.  0\d.  rent,  and  rent  of  16  hens,  1  cock,  and  the  4th  part  of  a 
rent  of  1  cock,  and  a  moiety  of  1  mess.,  with  appurts.,  in  Reculure, 
Heme,   Bisshoppeston',  Chistelet',  and  Westbere.     Right  of  Wil- 


280  KENT   FINES,    15    EDWARD   II. 

liam,  who,  for  tlie  admission,  grants  to  Thomas  and  Isabella  and  to 
the  heirs  of  Isabella. 

720.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  Souls  A°  15 — Betw.  John, 
son  of  Thomas  Bedel,  of  Snaue,  pit.,  and  John  Wynter,  of  Suaue, 
and  Johanna  his  wife  defts.,  of  7  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Snaue 
and  Orlaston'.  John  W.  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of 
John  son  of  Thomas  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna, 
grant  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  100s.  for  the  concession. 

721.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  Souls  A°  15 — Betw.  William 
atte  Childryn  pit.,  and  Roger  de  Craye  and  Juliana  his  wife  (lefts., 
of  1  mess.,  30  acr.  land,  2s.  4^/.  rent,  and  rent  of  4^  quarters  of  bar- 
ley, 1  cock,  and  15  hens,  with  appurts.,  in  Bokton'  under  the  Blen, 
Grauene,  and  Harnell'.  Roger  and  Juliana  admit  it  to  be  the  Right 
of  William ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Juliana,  grant  to 
him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20/.  for  the  concession. 

722.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A«  15— Betw. 
Roger  Sterre,  of  Loudon',  fishmonger,  pit.,  and  Hugh,  son  of 
Robert  Coteman,  and  Johanna  his  wife  clefts.,  of  3  acr.  land,  with 
appurts.,  in  Plumstede.  Hugh  and  Johanna  admit  it  to  be  the 
Right  of  Roger  ;  and,  for  themselves  and  the  heirs  of  Johanna,  grant 
to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receive  20  marks  for  the  concession. 

723.  At  Westminster,  Octave  of  St.  Michael  A"  15— Betw. 
Robert  de  Pesyndenne  jjZ^.,  and  Laurencia  de  Pesyndenne  deft.,  of 
17  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Wryghtricheshamme.  Laurencia 
admits  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Robert ;  and,  for  herself  and  her  heirs, 
grants  to  him  and  to  his  heirs,  and  receives  100s.  for  the  conces- 
sion. 

724.  At  Westminster,  Morrow  of  St.  Martin  A^  15— Betw. 
Hamo  Wymond'  and  Elena  his  wife  pits.,  and  John  Wymond',  of 
Chystelet,  deft.,  of  1  mess.,  and  8^  acr.  land,  with  appurts.,  in  Recu- 
lure,  Heme,  and  Westbere.  Right  of  John,  who,  for  the  admis- 
sion, grants  to  Hamo  and  Elena  and  to  his  heirs  by  her  ;  but  if 
none,  then  after  their  deaths  to  remain  to  the  right  heirs  of  Elena. 

725.  At  Westminster,  St.  Michael  in  one  month  A°  15 — Betw. 
Robert  Herberd',  Parson  of  the  Church  of  Boctou'  Alulphi,  pit., 
and  Robert  de  Houkynge  and  Agnes  his  wife  defts.,  of  23  acr.  land, 
and  1  acr.  wood,  with  appurts.,  in  Boctou'  Alulphi.  Robert  de 
Houkynge  and  Agues  admit  it  to  be  the  Right  of  Robert  Herberd' ; 
and  Robert  de  Houkynge,  for  himself  and  his  heirs,  grants  to 
Robert  Herberd'  and  to  his  heirs ;  for  which  concession  Robert  de 
Houkynge  and  Agnes  receive  20  marks. 


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CHRIST    CHURCH,    CANTERBURY. 

Chronological  Conspectus  of  the  existing  Architecture,  attempted, 
for  use  at  the  Meeting  of  the  Kent  Archceological  Society, 
on  the  27th  July  1881, 

BY   W.    A.    SCOTT    ROBERTSON, 

HO>fORARY  CANON. 


PEE-NOEMAN. 

In  the  Crypt,  7  feet  from  the  west  wall  of  the 
central  limb,  or  Nave,  are  two  coigns  of 
unnsnally  large  masonry,  which  face  each 
other,  north  and  sonth.  Each  coign  is 
bounded  on  the  west  by  a  vertical  joint  five 
feet  in  height. 

The  Crypt's  West  Wall  contains  some  rubble 
work,  which  Mr.  James  Parker  assigns  to 
a  very  early  period.  This  rubble  was  hid- 
den by  plaster  and  whitewash  until  the 
present  month  of  July  1881 ;  when  they 
were  scraped  off  by  direction  of  the  Dean. 

EAELY  NOEMAN. 

A.D.     In  the  Nave,  Lanfranc's  plinth  remains,  in  situ, 
^^'^  in  the  north  and  south  walls.     Above  the 

j^Qyy  plinth,    Lanfranc's  small  blocks   of   Caen 

stone  are  seen,  worked  up  into  the  walls  at 
a  later  period.  Similar  examples  of  Lan- 
franc's work  remain  in  the  Western 
Transepts. 
In  the  Crypt,  but  not  visible,  are  foundation  piers 
of    Lanfranc's  central  tower.     The  width 


282  cniiisT  cuuiiCH,   Canterbury. 

A.D.  of  liis  Crypt  is  preserved  in  a  fragment  at 

1070-7.  ^]^Q  ^gg^  gjj(j^  narrower  than  Ernulf 's  ;  but 

it  is  cased  with  Ernulf's  masonry. 

In  the  Cloister's  eastern  wall,  a  doorway  near  its 
north  end  ;  and,  above  that  doorway,  three  win- 
dows of  the  old  Dormitory  (now  the  Library), 
are  ascribed  to  Lanfranc. 


109G  In  tlie  Crypt,  the  whole  of  the  round-arched 
to  masonry    is    the   work   of    Prior    Ernulf ; 

directed  by  Archbishop  Anselm. 

1100  In  the  Choir  Aisles,  Eastern  Transepts,  and 
to  Chapels  of    St.  Andrew   (Noi-th)  and   St. 

Anselm  (South),  the  work  of  Priors  Ernulf 
and  Conrad  remains  in  the  outer  walls. 

Euins  of  the  Inpirm art's  west  gable,  and  south  arcade. 

Ernulf's  "  dark  entry  "  to  the  Cloisters,  from  the 
east ;  and  the  lower  part  of  the  gallery  over  it, 
between  the  Dormitory  (now  the  Library)  and 
the  N.E.  transept. 

Eemains  of  monastic  Kitchen,  in  the  house  of  the 
Archdeacon  of  Canterbury  (the  Bishop  of  Dover). 

LATE  NOEMAN. 

Circa    In  Ernulf's  Crypt,  sculpture  added  upon  the  piers* 

1135  Qji^  capitals  ;  the  western  doorway  inserted 

^,  gr  near  the  N.W.    Mural  paintings  added,  in 

the  Chapel  of  St.  Gabriel,  and  on  the  vault 

of  the  ambulatory  east  of  the  Lady  Chapel. 

In  St.  Anselm's  Chapel  carved  capitals  and  bases. 

The  Treasury  (now  tlie  Vestry  of  the  Dean  and 
Chapter),  furnishes  the  earliest  example,  here,  of 
diagonal  ribbed  vaulting. 

Circular  Lavatory  tower  (beneath  the  CaroHne  Font, 
N.  of  the  ISr.E.  transept),  with  early  ribbed 
vaulting ;  built  by  Prior  "Wybert. 

On  the  Transept  Towers  (attached  to  the  eastern 
transepts,  on  their  western  sides)  the  three  upper 

*  Mr.  Loftus  Brock  thinks  that  the  carved  shafts  are  Roman  work. 


CHRIST   CHURCH,    CANTERBURY.  283 

Circa  courses  were  added.     The  Infirmaet  Chapel 

-^•^■^  was  built. 

,    "*      Gri'een   Court    Gateway,    north- west    of    the   G-reeu 
to 
WQ^  Court  (the  room  above  it  was  added,  later). 

PoBCH  &  Staircase  (north  of  the  Court  Gate), lead- 
ing originally  to  the  North  Hall,  or  Aula  Nova, 
but  now  to  the  King's  Schoolroom. 

Pentise  Gate-Hall,  now  absorbed  in  the  house  of 
the  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury. 

Cemetery  Gate,  now  standing  at  the  entrance  to  the 
Bowling-green. 

TEANSITIOIST,  from  round,  to  pointed  arclies. 

1175     Choir  Arcades  and  Vaulting,  as  far  as  the  east 

*o  end  of  the  Eastern  Transepts  ;  and  all  the 

upper  portion  of  the  exterior  walls  of  the 

Choir,  are  the   work  of  William   of  Sens 

(architect).       He    likewise     made    several 

insertions  in   the    southern  chapel   of  St. 

Anselni ;  less  in  the  northern  chapel  of  St. 

Andrew ;  and  in  Ernulf's   Crypt  he  added 

four  strengthening  piers. 

1179     Trinity   Chapel    (east    of  the    Choir),   and  the 

to  Corona  or  Becket's  Crown,  with  the  crypts 

1  -I  D_i  _  '  ''  •■• 

beneath  them  in  which  the  round  abacus 
makes  its  first  appearance,  are  the  work  of 
another  architect,  "William  the  English- 
man." 

FIRST  POINTED,  or  EAELY  ENGLISH,  STYLE. 

1226     The  Cloister's  north  wall  (being  the  south  wall  of  the 

to  Eefectory),  with  its  mural  arcadiuar,  its  strins; 

12Sfi  . 

course  o£  siuik  panels,  and  its  two   handsome 

doorways,  was  built  while  John  de  Sittingbourne 

was   Prior,   when   either   Stephen   Langton   or 

Eichard    Grant   was  Archbishop.      The   triple- 

arcading  over  the   doorway  into  the  Martyrdom 

(S.E.  of  Cloisters),  overlaid  and  spoiled  by  later 

vaulting  shafts,  is  of  the  same  date. 

Stained  glass,  in  two  windows  of  the  north  aisle  of 

the  Choir,  in  Trinity  Chapel  at  the  north-east, 


284  CHRIST  CHURCn,    CANTERBURY. 

A.D.  in  the  central  window  of  Becket's  Crown,  and 

1226  detached    portions    in    the    Transepts,    Choir 

-  nnn  Clcrestory,  and  great  west  window,  are  probably 

of  this  date. 

1205.  Tomb  of  Archhishop  Hubert  Walter,  may  be  in  the  south 
wall  of  Choir ;  or  it  may  be  on  the  south  of  Trinity 
Chapel,  generally  called  the  Tomb  of  Theobald. 

Circa     The  Archbishop's    Chair,     called     the    Patriarchal 

1-wO.  Chair  of  St.  Augustine,  is  believed  to  have  been 

made  in  the  time  of  Stephen  Langtou  (probably 

for  the  great  ceremony  of  inaugurating  Becket's 

Shrine). 

1228.     Tomb  of  Archhishop  Langton  in  St.  Michael's  Chapel. 

1236     The  Infibmaet  Cloister's  south   alley,   between  the 

*°  Lavatory  tower  and  the  Infirmary,  was  probably 

built  while  Eoger  de  la  Lee  was  Prior.    Bihlio- 

theca   Hoioleiana   now   stands  over   this   alley, 

where  the  Prior's  Chapel  originally  stood. 

1254.  Western  doorway  of  the  Prior's  Chapel,  now  the 
entrance  to  Bihliotheca  Howleiaiia,  was  built ; 
probably  by  Roger  de  St.  Elphege  before  he 
became  Prior. 

SECOND  POINTED,  or  DECOEATED,  STYLE. 

1285     Ruins  of  north  end  of  Chekee  building,  spanning 
^°  the  eastern  alley  of  the  Infirmary  Cloister. 

Wall,  north-west  of  the  Deanery  garden  (adjacent 
to  the  dining-room),  formerly  part  of  the 
great  barn  for  hay. 

1292.  Tombs,  of  Archhishop  PecJcham,  in  the  north-west 
transept ;  and  of  the  Countess  of  Athol, 
south-east  of  Ernulf's  Crypt. 

1304     Choir  Screens,   north  and  south   of   the  Choir, 
^^^^  were  built  by  Prior  Henry  of  Eastry.    His 

western  screen  is  now  hidden  by  the  stalls 

of  the  Dean  and  Chapter. 
Chapter    House     doorway,    bench-table,     mural 

arcading,  and  all  the  walls  below  the  level 


\^m¥m^,X__^^ 


Bi^f^^eBniaAK: 


.HE  ARCHBISHOP'S  "PATRIARCHAL"CHAIR,  IN  CANTERBURY  CATHEDRAL. 

(   DATE  CIRCA    *^.D.I220.1 


Whjteman^Bas3,/yi<?&-ZiiAo.  London 


CHRIST    CHUECH,    CANTEEBURT.  285 

^■D.  of  the  sills  of  the  ffreat  windows  are  like- 

''^*  wise  the  work  of  Prior  Henry  of  Eastry. 

1317      Brewhouse  (now  the  Choir  School),  with   its  porch, 

to  and  its   Granary   beside  the   "  Forrens   Grate " 

1S20 

on  the  north  side  of  the  Green  Court. 

1327.  Tomb  of  Archbishop  Beynolds,  in  south  aisle  of  Choir. 
1333.  Tomb  of  Archbishop  Meop1iam,\na.\^\e  south-east  of  Choir. 
1336.     WiXDOW  in  south  wall  of  St.  Anselm's  Chapel,  S.E,  of 

the  Choir. 
1342.    Refectoet    or    the    Infiemaet,   now    divided    into 

dining  and  drawing  rooms  in  the  house  of  the 

Archdeacon  of  Maidstone. 
Ruins   of   fine   north  window  in   the    Chancel  of  the 

Infirmary   Chapel    (in   front   of    the   house   of 

Canon  Thomas). 

1348.  Tomb  of  Archbishop  Stratford,  in  the  Choir,  south  of 

the  altar-steps,  adjacent  to  carved  and  coloured 
DIAPER  work,  of  this  period,  which  adorned 
St.  Dunstan's  Shrine. 

1349.  Tomb  of  Archbishop   Bradwardine,  of  which  portions 

remain  in  the  south  wall  of  St.  Anselm's 
Chapel,  S.E.  of  the  Choir. 

THIED  POINTED,  or  PEEPENDICULAE,  STYLE. 

1370  In  the  Ceypt,  the  Black  Prince's  Chantry  (now 
^^*i  the  antechapel  of  the  French  Church) ;  and 

the  Lady  Chapel  screens  and  reredos. 
In  Trinity  Chapel,  the  tomb  of  the  Black  Prince. 

1379  Nave,  doorway  at  north-west  corner,  built  by 
Archbishop  Sudbury,  whose  arms  are  carved 
upon  the  west  corbel  of  its  hood.  Through 
him  and  Prior  John  Finch,  the  western 
bays  of  the  Nave  v/ere  likewise  erected, 
probably  by  Chillenden  before  he  became 
Prior. 

1382.  Tomb  of  Archbishop  Sudbury,  in  the  Choir,  south 
of  the  Presbytery. 


to 
1381 


286  CHRIST    CHURCH,    CANTERBURY. 

A.D.      Nave    and    Western   Transepts,    completed    by 
13S2  Prior  Cliillendon,  assisted  by  Archbishops 

1400  Courteuay  and  Arundel. 

Stained  glass  in  the  great  west  window  of  the 
Nave  is  of  this  period,  but  fragments  of 
earlier  glass  have  been  inserted. 
Chapter-house  boarded  roof,  large  windows,  and 
upper  part  of  walls  are  the  work  of 
Chillenden. 

1395-6.     Tomb  of  Lady  Moimn  of  Dunster,  erected  by  herself, 
iu  the  Crypt,  in  the  south  screen  of  the  Lady 
Chapel. 
1396.     Tomb  of  Archbishop  Courtenay,  in  Trinity  Chapel,  east- 
ward of  the  Black  Prince's  tomb. 
1397      The  Cloistees,  vaulting  and  window-like  screens,  with 
to  four  doorways  in  the  western  alley,  and  two  in 

the  eastern  alley  (one  at  Ernulf's  dark  entry, 
and  another  at  the  slype),  are  mainly  Chillen- 
den's  work  ;  one  alley  of  the  cloister  was  built 
at  the  expense  of  a  legacy  left  by  Archbishop 
Courtenay,  in  1396. 

The  Baptistery,  sometimes  called  Bell  Jesus  (erected 
over  the  circular  Norman  Lavatory  tower),  to- 
gether with  the  roof  and  windows  of  the 
gallery  by  which  it  is  approached  from  the 
Library  (originally  the  Dormitory)  and  from 
the  north-east  transept,  are  Chillenden's  work. 

In  Ernulf's  Cetpt,  Windows  with  Perpendicular 
tracery. 

St.  Michael's  Chapel  (also  called  the  Somerset,  or 
the  Warrior's  Chapel),  in  the  south-west  tran- 
sept ;  with  a  vaulted  chamber  above  it,  now 
used  by  the  organ-blower  and  bell-ringer,  for- 
merly the  Armoury,  and  at  one  time  the  Singing 
School. 

The  Infirmary's  West  Doorway  ;  and,  north  of  it,  the 
Prior's  Doorway  (with  panelled  jambs,  and 
tracery  iu  spandrels),  on  east  side  of  the 
Infirmary  Cloister. 

Western  arches  inserted  within   the  Norman  arch  of 


CHRIST    CHURCH,    CANTERBURY.  287 

A.D.  the    great   Court    Gate    (N.W.    of  the    Green 

^^'  Court)  ;  also  a  chamber  over  that  gate,  and  the 

■tA-io  Porter's  Lodge  beside  it  on  the  south,  now  form- 

ing part  of  the  Auditor's  house. 
Wooden  Pentise  (now  in  a  garden)  from  that  gate  to 
the  house  of  the  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury  ;  and, 
in  that  house,  the  chambers  called  Paradise  and 
Heaven,  over  the  Norman  Pentise  gatehall,  were 
erected  by  Chillenden. 

1425  Tomb  of  Henri/  IV.  and  Queen  Joane,  on  the  north 
to  side  of  Trinity  Chapel. 

14do.  Tomb  of  Margaret  Holland,  and  her  husbands  (the  Earl 
of  Somerset,  ob.  1410,  and  the  Duke  of  Clarence, 
ob.  1421),  in  St.  Michael's  Chapel  (S.W.  tran- 
sept). 

1433-5.     In  Trinity  Chapel's  north  wall,  the  Chantry  of 
Henry  IV.,  with  fan  vaulting. 

Circa     Western  Screen  at  entrance  of  the  Choir. 
1434-50? 

1440-3.    Tomb  of  Archbishop  Chichelei/,  north  of  the  Choir. 

1440  "  Oxford  Steeple,"  of  Archbishoj)  Chieheley 
to  (south-west  of  Nave) ;  called  also  (from  a 

bell  therein)  "  Dunstan's  Steeple." 


Circa    St.  Mary's  Chapel,  in  the  north-west  transept, 
1449 
to 
1468.  Prior  Goldston  I. 


called  also  "  The  Dean's  Chapel,"  built  by 


1454.     Tomb  of  Archbishop  Kemp,  south  of  the  Presbytery. 
Circa       Stained  glass  in  the  great   north   window   of    west 

1480-5  ?    Mural  painting   of  the  History  of  St.  Eustace,  in  the 
north  aisle  of  the  Choir,  near  the  E.  transept. 

1485.     Tomb  of  Archbishop  Bourgchier,  in  the  Choir,  north  of 
the  Presbytery. 

Circa    The  Peiob's  Gateway  built,  contiguous  to  the  Gloriet. 
1486-9.    "West  door  inserted  in  the    Martyrdom    (N.W.   tran- 
sept), and  a  north-east  door  inserted  in  Ernulf's 
Crypt. 


288  CHRIST   CHURCH,    CANTERBURY. 

A.D.      Central  Tower   (called  Angel  Steeple,  and  Bell 


1495 
to 


Harry  Tower),  raised  to  a  total  lieig'bt  of 
]^5Q3  235  feet,  with  Caen   stone  and  Mersthani 

stone.  Near  its  summit  are  carved  the 
armorial  bearings  of  Archbishops  Morton 
and  Warham.  Buttressing  arches  were 
inserted  between  the  tower  piers,  in  the 
Nave,  to  supj)ort  the  additional  weight. 
Upon  them  are  carved  the  motto  {Non  nobis 
Domine,  &c.)  and  the  badge  (two  gold  stones 
between  the  letters  T.  G.  P[rior])  of  the 
second  Prior  Goldston. 

1495      Tomb    of  Archbishop  Ilorton,  constructed  during   his 

*o  lifetime,  on  the  south  side  of  Ernulfs  Crypt. 

1500.  •'^ 

Circa    In  the  Deanery,  tlie  entrance  hall  with  an  oriel  window 

1495  in  it,  and  another  in  the  drawing-room  above  it ; 

^^  ^  one  tower  in  the  centre  of  the  east  front,  and 

another  at  the  south  end,  with  stair  turrets,  were 

built  by  Prior  Goldston  II. 
1517.     Christ  Church  Gateway,  the  principal  entrance  to 

the  Precincts,  erected  by  Prior  Goldston  II. 
A  lantern,  above  Becket's  Crown,  was  begun  about  this 

time  ;  but  the  work  was  abandoned  after  a  few 

courses  had  been  built. 
1532.     Tomb  of  Archbishop  Warham,  in  the  N.  wall  of  N.W. 

transept,  east  of  and  adjacent  to  that  of  Arch- 
bishop Peckham. 
1558.     Tomb  of  Cardinal  Pole,  in  Becket's  Crown. 
1567.     Monument  of  the  first  Dean,  NicJiolas   Wootton,  N.E. 

of  Trinity  Chapel. 

1570.  Deanery  gables  added,  and  its  upper  portion  rebuilt,  by 

Dean  Godwyn. 

Monuments. 

1571.  Udo  Coliguy,  Cardinal  Chastillon  (Trinity  Chapel,  S.E.). 
1592.     Sir  James  Hales  and  his  widow  (Nave,  N.E.). 

1597.     Dean  Bogers,  Bishop  of  Dover  (Dean's  Chapel,  N.). 
1609.     Lady  Thornhursi  (St.  Michael's  Chapel,  N.). 
1614.     Bohert  Berkeley  (Nave,  S.E.). 


CHEIST   CHURCH,    CANTERBURY.  289 

1615.  Dean  Nevil  and  his  brother  (Dean's  Chapel,  E.),  re- 
moved from  the  south  aisle  of  the  Nave. 

1619.  Dean    Fotherhy    (Dean's    Chapel,   S.W.),    carved  with 

skulls  and  human  bones. 

1620.  Dorothy,  Lady  Thornliursi  (St.  Michael's  Chapel,  N.E.). 
1625.     Dean  Boys  (Dean's  Chapel,  S.E.),  with  books  turning 

their  backs  to  the  wall  and  edges  to  the  front  on 

shelves  in  his  study. 
1627.     Sir  Thomas  TJwmJiurst  (St.  Michael's  Chapel,  N.). 
1632.     Colonel  PnuJe  (St.  Michael's  Chapel,  N.W.). 

1636.  Font  consecrated  by  the  Bishop  of  Oxford.  It  was  a 
gift  from  John  Warner,  Bisliop  of  Rochester 
(founder  of  Bromley  College),  who  had  been  a 
prebendary  of  Christ  Church.  Torn  down  by 
the  Puritans,  its  fragments  were  preserved  by 
Soraner,  and  re-erected  by  Bishop  Warner,  in 
1662,  upon  the  north  side  of  the  Nave,  near  the 
north-west  door.  It  was  removed  to  the  Bap- 
tistery in  1787. 

1662.  The  Wooden  Dooes  in  Christ  Church  Gateway  were 
made  in  the  time  of  Archbishop  Juxon,  whose 
arms  are  carved  upon  them. 

1663-77.  Stalls  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter,  at  the  west  of  the 
Choir,  were  ei'ected  in  the  time  of  Archbishop 
SJieldoii,  whose  arms  they  bear. 

1748.  The  fragment  of  a  lantern  base,  on  Becket's  Crown, 
was  finished  off  as  at  present,  at  the  expense  of 
Captain  Humphry  Pudner,  E.N.,  who  likewise 
gave  £400  for  the  improvement  of  the  Oegan. 

1828-31.  The  Archbishop's  Throne  and  the  Eeredos  of  the 
Choir  were  built  by  the  late  Mr.  George  Austin. 

1832-4.    North- West  Tower  was  rebuilt. 

1865-8.  The  new  Library  and  the  Staircase  to  the  North- 
East  Transept  were  built  from  designs  of  Mr. 
Harry  G.  Austin. 

1879.  New  Choir  Stalls  were  carved  from  the  designs  of 
Sir  G.  Gilbert  Scott. 


TOL.    XIT. 


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INVENTORIES  OE  PARISH  CHURCH  GOODS 
IN  KENT,  A.D.  1552.* 

[Stone  next  Darfford  Inventory — continued.'] 

Item  on  bible  of  the  large  volume  &  a  paraphrases  of  Erasmus 

Item  ij  pillowes  of  downe  for  th'altaer  covered  with  grene  silke 

Item  on  surples 

Memorandum  {endorsed)  : — Dertford  xxiij  Nov.  vj  Ed.  VI — 
All  goods  conteyned  in  Inventory  of  iij  Ed.  VI  are  in  this, 
and  bene  delyvered  to  the  churchwardens,  excepte  on  cope 
dun  sylke  on  other  of  black  silk,  a  vestment  of  the  same 
sute,  a  vestment  of  white  satten  on  corporax  with  the 
clothe  one  to  well  iij  alter  clothes  one  care  clothe  one  f  runte 
clothe  on  Rochett  a  crismatorie  of  tynne  and  a  Bason  &  an 
ewer  of  pewter  declared  to  be  stoUen 

STEODE— xxiiii  July  vi  Ed.  VI. 
Lyonell  Newman  and  Eichard  Medcalf,  churchwardens 

....  the  churche  goods  of  Strode  afforesaid  beyng  vewed 
and  surveyd  of  newe  by  the  said  commyssiouers  and  also 
comytted  to  the  custodie  of  the  said  churchwardens  savely 
to  be  kepte  to  be  forthcoming  at  all  tymes  when  .  .  . 
shalbe  requyryd  and  wh  .  .  .  was  praysed  by  the  said 
churchwardens  and  John  V(?)ernard  and  William  Hylton 
paryshoners  of  Strode  afforesaid  as  the  particulers  here- 
after wrytten  more  playnly  doythe  appere 

Imprimis  a  cope  of  reyd  velvett  xij  s. 

Item  a  cope  of  whyte  damaske  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  [daf  eccli'e'j 

Item  a  cope  of  blacke  velvett  iiij  s. 

Item  ij  old  coo]3es  of  sylke  viij  s. 

Item  a  vestment  of  reyd  velvett  xiij  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  two  vestments  j  for  the  deacon  and  an  other  for  the 
sub-deacon  of  rede  velvett  xxvj  s.  viij  d. 

*  Continued  from  Vol.  XI,  p.  416. 


INVENTORIES   OF    PARISH    CHURCH    GOODS.        291 

Item  an  old  vestment  of  wliyte  damaske  iij  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  an  old  vestment  of  black  velvett  ij  s.  viij  d. 

Item  an  olde  vestment  of  blew  xvj  d. 

Item  iij  old  vestments  remaynyng  in  tliands  of  John  Ffadyane 

and  Ricbard  Arcbipole  layte  churchwardens  of  Strode 

afforesaide  iij  s. 
Item  a  herse  cloyth  of  silk  iiij  s.  [daf  eccWe] . 
Item  vj  old  towells  vj  s.  viij  d.  [dat'  eccWe] 
Item  iij  old  alter  cloy  the  s  ij  s. 
Item  iiij  old  surplics  iiij  s.  [daf  ecdVe] 
Item  ij  corporas  cases  with  cloy thes  xx  d. 
Item  a  cloythe  for  the  high  aulter  of  yalow  and  blew  sylk 

vj  s.  viij  d.  [d.af  eccWe] 
Item  ij  old  latten  candilsticks  vj  d. 
Item  a  chalasse  of  sylver  and  a  cover  weyng  tenne  onnc's  di 

at  iiij  s.  viij  d.  the  ounce  xlvj  s.  viij  d. 
Item  an  other  chalasse  of  sylver  with  a  cover  parcell  gylte 

weyng-  ffourteyn  ouncs  thre  quarters  at  vs.   the  unce 

iij  li.  xiij  s.  i  d,  ob. 
Item  iiij  belles  in  the  Stepill 
Item  a  lytill  sanctus  Bell 

[Endorsed]   Out  of  the  particulers  within  wryttyn  the 
said  Commissioners  have  appoynted  and  delyvered 
unto   the   sayed    churchewardens   to   the   use   and 
behoof   of   the   said   churche   for   thadministracon 
of  the    Sacraments   and    Commyn   Prayers   to   be 
ministred  and  used  in  the  same  churche  theis  par- 
ticulers following 
First  a  cope  of  whyte  damaske 
Item  a  vestment  of  whyt  damaske 
Item  a  cope  of  reyd  velvett 
Item  a  vestment  of  reyd  velvytt 
Item  a  herse  cloythe 
Item  iij  surplics 
Item  ij  chalasses 
Item  ij  alter  cloythes 
Item  a  cloythe  to  hang  before  the  Table  of  yalowe  and  blew 

sylke 
Item  two  of  the  best  toAvelles 

u  2 


292       INVENTOUIES   OF    PARISH    CHURCH    GOODS 

SUTTON  AT  HONE— XXIII  November  vi  Ed.  VI. 
George  Alen  and  Thomas  Boreman,  cliurchwardens 

First  iij  clialic's  Avith  iij  patents  the  best  with  the  patent 
parcell  gilte  by  estymac'on  xvj  ounc's  the  second  chalice 
with  the  patent  parcell  gilte  by  estymac'on  viij  ounc's 
the  iij''*^  chalice  with  the  patent  parcell  g-ilte  by 
estymac'on  vij  ounc's 

Item  iij  bells  suted  in  the  Steple  and  a  dolly ng  bell  iij 
saeryng-  bells  in  the  Quere  and  a  platter  of  pewder 

Item  ij  cruetts  and  a  crismatory  of  led 

Item  iij  copes  on  of  white  damaske  and  red  imbrothered  with 
images  and  flowers 

Item  the  ij*^*^  of  g-rene  silk  and  blewe  swannes  imbrothered 

Item  the  third  cope  of  blacke  Russells  imbrothered  with 
white  and  red  Imagerye  on  the  back 

Item  vij  vestments  the  beste  of  satten  of  Bridgs  imbrothered 
with  swannes  and  gold  thred,  the  second  on  the  same 
coloure  embrothered  with  barnacles  heds  on  the  brest 
and  back 

Item  the  third  of  blewe  satten  silke  and  red  imbrothered 
with  the  name  of  Jesus  and  images  of  aungells  the 
iiij''^  of  blacke  chamblett  imbrothered  with  silke  and 
thred  and  ymagerie  of  the  same 

Item  the  v^i'  of  chaungeable  silk  verged  with  whit  silk  and 
blew 

Item  the  sixte  vestment  of  braunched  satten  imbrothered 
with  lyons  of  gold  and  thred,  the  vij^''  of  gold  and  thred 
very  old 

Item  vj  albes  to  the  saide  vestments  of  playne  cloth 

Item  V  hangyngs  for  thalter  the  beste  of  cremysen  velvett 
the  frenge  of  the  same  white  red  and  grene  silk  servyng 
the  nether  parte  of  the  alter  the  second  of  white  and 
grene  satten  the  frenges  of  the  same  grene  threde  and 
white  of  woUen 

Item  the  thirde  to  hange  above  the  colonres  white  and  grene 
satten  and  frenged  with  grene  and  white  woUen  thred 
with  thymage  of  the  Trinitie  embrothered  with  gold 
thred  the  iiij"^  of  blewe  satten  of  bridgs  with  thymags 


IN    KENT,    A.D.    1552.  293 

of  St.  John  om-  Ladye  and  St.  Michell  with  sterres  of 
gold  with  a  frenge  of  grene  and  whit  silk  and  ij  curteyns 
of  red  and  grene  silke 
Item  iiij  old  cusshings  ij  of  velvett  both  imbrothered  with 

gold 
Item  the  thirde  of  cloth  of  gold,  and  the  iiij^''  of  grene 
Item  V  coprax  cases,  the  beste  of  black  satten  imbrothered 
with  purfell  gold  the  second  of  tawney  satten  perled 
with   gold   the   thirde  of   cremsen   velvett  the  iiij*''  of 
tynsell  satten  with  the  Vernacle  imbrothered  with  gold 
and  silke  the  v*''  of  cloth  attisshne 
Item  iij  Corpraxes  of  playne  Ipmen  cloth 
Item  vj  alter  clothes,  ij  of  hoUand  cloth  thother  iiij  playne 

lynnen  cloth 
Item  iij  to  wells  of  diaper,  and  iiij  hand  towells  of  lynnen 

cloth 
Item  a  vayle  of   lynnen  cloth,  ij   surplesses,  ij   rochets   of 

lynnen 
Item   a   crosse   cloth   with   a   frenge  of  blewe  and  yelowe 

changeable  silk 
Item  a  herseclothe  of  black  cotton  with  a  crosse  of  white 

sarcenett 
Item  a  sepnlcre  cloth  of  red  tuke 
Item  on  Bible,  and  a  paraphrasis  of  Erasmus 
[Endorsed]  Dartford  xxiij  November  vi  Ed.  YI.     Mem  :  All 
goods  entered  in  the  former  inventory  are  in  this  and 
are  now  delivered  to  the  church  war  deiis  to  answer  the 
same 
"  Except  ij  old  hangyngs  of  grene  and  red  silke  ij  towells 
presented  unto  the  said  Commyssioners  by  the  othes 
of  the   said   churchwardens  to   be    stollen  and  also 
excepte   a   crosse   of    copper   and  somewhat  gilt  iij 
candlestikks  of  latten  and  a  candlestikke  of  vbraunches 
and  on  paire  of  censers  of  latten  presented  by  thothes 
&c.  to  be  sold  by  the  said  churchwardens  with  the 
consent  of  the  parishoners  there  &c.  for  reparacion 
of  the  chiu'che  " 


29i<       INVENTORIES    OF    PARISH    CHURCH    GOODS 

SWANNYSCOMBE— XXIII  November  vi  Ed.  VT. 

Georgo  Watson,  ciu-cate ;    William  White  and  Joliu 
Pustrell,  churchwardens 

First  one  chalice  with  the  patente  of  silver  weyiiig  xj  ounces 

Item  iij  bells  of  brasse  suted  in  the  steple 

Item  j  corse  bell  of  brasse 

Item  on  paire  of  censers  of  latteu 

Item  ij  caudlestikks  of  latten,  and  on  crosse  of  copper 

Item  ij  holywater  stokks  thone  of  latten  thother  of  lede 

Item  one  bible,  and  one  paraphrasis  of  Erasmus 

Item  one  cope  of  red  satten  imbrothered  with  grene  satten 

Item  ij  vestments,  on  of  blacke  saye  crossed  with  red  saye 

thother  of  white  ffustyan  crossed  with  red  silke  with 

stoles  phannells  and  iij  albes  to  the  same 
Item  V  old  vestments  of  silk  all  worne  and  litle  worth 
Item  ij  surplesses  of  lynnen  cloth  and  iij  clothes  for  the 

sepulcre   of  red  and  yelowe   saye  a   canapie  cloth  of 

painted  lynnen 
Item  iiij  pillowes  to  knele  upon  and  ij  cusshings 
Item  ij  crosse  clothes  thone  of  blewe  silke  and  thother  of  dun 

silke 
Item  iiij  banner  clothes  and  ij  stremers  of  painted  cloth 
Item  a  cloth  of  dornyx  to  hange  before  thalter 
Item  a  new  paynted  clothe  to  hange  before  thalter 
Item  iiij  corpraxes  and  iij  corprax  cases 
Item  on  old  herse  cloth  of  silke 
Item  a  cloth  for  the  lecturne  of  painted  lennyn  cloth 

[Endorsed]  Dartford  xxiij  Nov.  vi  Ed.  YI.     Mem :  All  the 

goods  named  in  the  inventory  taken  iii  Ed.  YI  are  also 

in  this,  and  are  now  delivered  to  the  churchwardens  to 

answer  the  same 

"  Excepte  on  cope  of  grene  satten  on  vestment  of  red 

satten  on  p  .  .  nted   clothe  ij  houselyng  towells  iiij 

dyaper  alter  clothes  ij  herse  clothes  iij  corprax  cases 

presented  to  the  saide  Commysioners  by  thothes  of 

George  Watson  curate  there  and  of  the  churchwardens 

to  be  stoUen  And  also  excepte  on  chalice  of   silver 


IN   KENT,    A.D.    1552.  295 

parcell   gilte   with   the   patente   cont.   ix   ounces   iij 

quarters declared  to  be  sold  with  the  cousente 

of  the  parishoners  and  employed  upon  the  necessarie 
reparacons  of  the  churche  " 

SWYNFELD— V  December  vi  Ed.  YI. 

Kichard   Collard   and    John  Boden,   churchwardens; 
Richard  Sjmon  and  Nicolas  Stokes,  inhabitants 
First  one  chalice  wayeng  vj  unces. 
Item  a  vestment  of  blak  velvet  embrodered  with  gold  thred 

with  thapparell 
Item  a  vestment  of  red  damaske  with  a  crosse  of  blak  velvet 

with  thapparell 
Item  a  vestment  of  red  satten  a  bredgs  with  a  crosse  of  grene 

sattjn  -vvith  thapparell 
Item  a  vestment  of  whit  Ijnen  cloth  with  a  crosse  of  blew 

say  with  thapparell 
Item  a  vestment  chekerd  with  red  velvet  and  grene  and  blew 

with  a  crosse  of  branchez  of  gold  threde 
Item  a  vestment  of  blew  say  crossed  with  sattyn  a  brydgs 
Item  a  vestment  of  whit  ffustyan  crossed  with  red  say 
Item  iij  copez  branched  with  gold  threde  the  one  blak  velvet 

another  white  fustyan  and  the  third  of  blew  and  yelow 

say 
Item  a  holy  cloth  made  of  red  and  grene  tafPeta  one  surples 

ij  rotchets  iij  alter  clothez  a  bason  and  ewer  of  lattyn 

a  holy  water   stope   ij    candelstiks   of   lattyn   iij  bells 

ij  little  bells  iij  fronte  clothez  and  an  old  lampe 
Mem  :  Stolen  one  surples 

TESTON^— IX  December  vi  Ed.  VI. 

Edward  Wotton,  vicar ;  Richard  Coveney  and  James 
Kirwen,  churchwardens.  [The  Commissioners  were 
Sir  Thomas  Wyatt,  Sir  George  Harper,  George 
Gierke,  and  Thomas  Henley.] 

Imprimis  in  the  steple  three  belles 
Item  an  olde  silke  coape 

*  Laiid  Revenue  Records,  bundle  1392,  file  69,  No.  1. 


29G       INVENTORIES    OF    PARISH    CHURCH    GOODS 

Item  a  vestymente  of  silke 

Item  twoo  other  vestyments  and  an  albe 

Item  a  crosse  cloathe 

Item  twoo  olde  canapies 

Item  one  towell  a  vaile  cloathe 

Item  a  crosse  of  coj)er 

Item  twoo  pixes  of  tynne 

Item  a  censure  of  latten 

Item  twoo  candelsticks  made  for  alters 

Item  twoo  corporaces 

Item  mony  due  to  the  churche  by  Richarde  ffoster  parochioner 
there  iij  s.  ix  d. 

Item  John  Wademan  parochioner  there  owithe  iij  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  John  Pankas  owithe  iij  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  the  late  widowe  of  Walter  Beache  nowe  the  wiff  of 
Thomas  Oliff  owithe  vij  s.  vj  d. 

Item  there  is  in  the  saide  churche  a  booke  namede  the  Bible 

Item  there  is  a  boke  of  the  newe  Service 

Item  one  other  booke  namede  the  paraphaces 

Mem :  that  in  the  fyrste  Inventary  taken  beinge  in  the 
fyvethe  of  Aprill  in  Anno  tercio  Regni  Regis  predicti 
theire  was  a  chalice  of  Silver  weyinge  eight  ounces 
whiche  saide  Chaleys  liethe  in  pledge  for  xxvj  s.  viij  d. 
that  was  borowede  to  the  paymente  of  very  nedefull 
charges  don  uppon  the  saide  Churche  and  the  steple 
theireof  as  it  ys  knowne  to  the  Inhabitants  of  the  saide 
parishe 

by  me  Edwarde  Wotton  Vicar 
Rychakd  Coveney 

"^[in  the  Hundred  of  Twyfoed]  — 

IX  December  vi  Ed.  VI. 

Christopher  Lyster,  minister ;  Thomas  Jeffery,  Michael 
Cowper,  churchwardens 

redde,    two    copes    of    whyte    damaske    with 

pyctures  thereon,  one  vestment  of  whyt  satten^  Item 

*  The  name  of  this  parish  is  now  illegible  ;  it  may  be  either  Hunton,  Yald- 
ing,  East  Peckham,  Nettlested,  Wotringbury,  West  Farleigh,  Harden,  Brenchley, 
or  Tudeley. 


IN   KENT,    A.D.    1552.  297 

one  vestm  .  .  .  . ,  Item  ....  vestment  of  cliekar,  Item 

one  vestment  of  redd  saye, ,  Item  one  blewe 

,  Item  one  vestment  of  chaungeable  blew  with 

a  whjt  crosse,  Item  one  vestment  with,  a  blew  crosse 

,  Item  one  vestment  with  a  blew  crosse  wrytten 

with  the of Walter  Sheryngton,  Item  one 

vestm with  a  whyte  crosse,  Item  two  tunacles  of 

whyte  starre   vestment ,  one   cope  of 

braunches  of  blewe  satten  of  brygs, sylke  cope 

imbrothered  with grene, of  whyte  sylke 

wroughte  work,  Item sylke,  Item  two  sylke 

Item  one  crosse   of   copper   gylt  with  a  foote 

Robert  Wells  late  chnrchwarden one  vestment 

two  tnnacles  of therof  sold  with  one  ...... 

naymed  sold  by  hym  for  tenne  pounds in  the 

handes  of  the  said  Robert accompted  for.     In 

witness  whereof,  &c.,  &c. 

WAREHORNE— II  December  vi  Ed.  VI. 
Thomas    Dane,    curate ;    William   Blacke,  Christofer 

Katerman,      churchwardens  ;      Richard      Gybson, 

parishioner 
Fyrst  two  chalesys  of  silver  xxij  ounces  Item  a  cope  and  a 
vestment  of  clothe  of  golde,  Item  a  blacke  vestment  of 
saten,  Item  a  hole  sute  of  sylke,  Item  two  copes,  and 
two  vestments  bade  gere.  Item  seven  awterclodes,  and 
eyght  towells.  Item  a  crosse  clothe  of  sylke,  and  another 
clothe  of  sylke,  and  a  clothe  of  tewke  [i.e.  tuke],  Item 
fower  surplecys,  thre  pyllowes,  and  a  lent  clothe.  Item 
a  shete  with  a  red  crosse,  and  thre  lytle  courtens  of 
whytclothe.  Item  a  corporas,  Item  two  pecys  of  torchys. 
Item  a  shete  that  coverythe  the  fonte.  Item  two  olde 
chests.  Item  two  sheners  [i.e.  censers]  of  brasse,  and  a 
basen.  Item  two  payer  of  organes.  Item  two  lattyn  can- 
delstyckes.  Item  fower  bells  in  the  Steple,  Item  a  saunce 
bell,  and  a  hande  bell,  Item  a  water  stope  of  brasse, 
Item  two  coverledds 


298        INVENTORIES   OF   PARISH    CHURCH    GOODS 

WESTWELL— III  December  vi  Ed.  VI. 
Henry  Maynwaryng,  vicar ;  John  Sliarpe  and  Robert 
Myllen,  churchwardens ;  John  Eygden,  parishoner 

Imprimis  one  chalyce  of  silver  parcel  gylt  xix  unces 

Item  a  crosse  of  coper  and  gylte 

Item  a  crosse  of  latyn 

Item  V  copes,  one  crymsyn  velvet,  one  purple  velvet,  one  of 
grene  sylke,  two  olde  copes  of  sylke 

Item  V  vestyments,  one  crymsyn  velvet,  one  purple  velvet,  ij 
of  olde  sylke,  another  of  sylke  ymbroydred  with  swannes 

Item  iij  tunacles  of  sylke 

Item  a  canape  clothe  of  grene  sylke 

Item  ij  crosse  clothes  and  one  stremer  all  iij  sylke 

Item  one  pylowe  of  sylke 

Item  ij  laten  candylstycks  called  standerrs  weying  Ix  pounds 

Item  one  braunche  of  latyn  of  v  peces 

Item  Ix  boUes  of  latyn  that  bare  the  beam  lyght"^ 

Item  one  holy  water  stop  of  laten 

Item  a  payer  of  Organs 

Item  iiij  ryngyng  bells  in  the  bell  howse 

Item  one  bellf  over  the  Chauncell 

Item  vj  aultar  clothes,  and  v  towells 

Item  ij  smalle  handbells 

Item  ij  cruetts  of  tyn  or  lede 

Item  yt  the  pyxe  was  sold  to  John  Taylor  for  five  shelyngs 
the  ounce  for  to  paye  Jerram  Oxunbrege  of  Canterburye 
for  helygge  Marye  Hovendens  legge  sold  by  John  Sharpe 
and  Robert  Myllyn  the  pyxe  weing  ix  onces  sold  for 
xlvs.  the  seconde  of  August  anno  1552 

WEST  WYKHAM— XXIII  November  vi  Ed.  VI. 
John  Brigett  and  Robert  Cawstone,  churchwardens 
Eirst  one  chalice  of  copper  all  gilt  with  a  patente  of  silver 

parcell  gilte  waying  ij  ouncs 
Item  on  other  chalice  with  the  patente  of  silver  and  parcell 
gilt  waying  x  ouncs 

*  On  the  rood-loft.  f  The  Sanctus  bell. 


IN    KENT,    A.D.  1552.  299 

Item  a  pix  of  latten  with  a  lynnen  cloth  thereto  made  after 

a  net  facion 
Item  a  crismatorj  and  on  cruett  of  pewder 
Item  a  crosse  of  latten  with  a  crosse  staffe  half  latten 
Item  iij  litle  towells  for  thalter,  a  cope  of  red  silke  with  a 

border  with  images  imbrothered  with  silke 
Item  ij  candlestikks  for  thalter  of  latten  whereof  one  broken 
Item  a  bible  of  the  greatest  volume,  and  a  paraphrasis  of 

Erasmus 
Item  iiij  grete  bells  suted  in  the  steple,  and  a  Saints  bell  of 

brasse 
Item  on  holy  water  stoppe  of  latten 

[Endorsed]    Dertforde  xxiij  November  vj  Ed.  YI.      Memo- 
randum :  All  goods  in  the  inventory  of  iij  Ed.  VI  are  in 
this,  and  are  now  delivered  to  the  churchwardens  to 
answer  the  same 
"  Excepte  iij  corprax  cases  a  vestment  of  tawney  vellet  a 
vestment  of  blewe  silke  a  vestment  of  grene  sarcenett 
on  cruell  ij  old  alter  clothes  of  diaper  iiij  j)layne  alter 
clothes  a  f  runt  clothe  of  grene  and  red  satten  a  bridgs 
a  f runt  cloth  of  white  silk  iiij  towells  a  cope  of  red 
silk  with  silk  hangyng  a  border  of  blewe  satten  a  cloth 
for  weddings   and   churchings   ij    surplesses   a   litle 
siu'ples  for  the  dark  presented  unto  the  saide  Com- 
myssioners  by  thothes  of  the  saide  churchwardens  to 
be  stoUen  and  also  excepte  one  chalice  with  a  patent 
of   silver  parcell  gilte  that   was   broken   waying   xj 
ounces  di  presented  to  be  sold  by  the  saide  church- 
wardens with  the  consent  of  the  parishoners  there 
and  employed  about  the  necessarie  reparacions  of  the 
parish  church  " 

WILLESBOEOWE— III  December  vi  Ed.  VI. 

Sir  Clement  Stapleton,  vykar ;  Eichard  Hall,  church- 
warden ;  Robert  Master,  William  Hall  the  elder, 
and  John  Norden,  parishioners 

First  one  challeys  parcell  gjlt  weying  xiij  oz.  and  quarter 

Item  one  crosse  of  copper  being  gylded 


300        INVENTORIES    OF    PARISH    CllURCn    GOODS 

Item  a  crosse  staff  of  latten  and  a  crosse  clothe  of  grene 
sylke 

Item  one  old  crosse  of  lattyii 

Item  a  cliesebyll  of  baudkyn  silk  with  a  cope  ij  tunycles  of 
the  same  and  the  vestyments  to  them  belongyng 

Item  a  cope  of  crymsyn  velvett  with  spleyd  Egleys  of  gold 
and  silk  also  a  cliesebyll  of  like  velvett  with  angells  and 
flouers  of  gold  and  silk  with  a  vestyment  therto  be- 
longyng 

Item  a  cope  of  blewe  sylke  with  byrds  of  gold  with  a  chese- 
byll  ij  tunycles  and  vestyments  to  them  belongyng 

Item  a  whyte  chesybyll  of  silke  with  byi'ds  of  sylk  and  other 
fl&owers,  one  tunycle  and  one  vestyment  theirto  be- 
longyng 

Item  a  chesybyll  of  blewe  damask  with  a  vestyment  theirto 
belongyng 

Item  fyve  old  chesybylls  of  bustyan  and  fustyan  with  vesty- 
ments theirto  belongyng 

Item  thre  old  copys  beyng  old  and  ij  old  chesybbles  and  ij 
old  tunycles 

Item  vj  altar  clothes  ij  of  dyaper  and  fouer  of  pleyn  clothe 

Item  iij  long  towells,  one  of  dyaper  and  ij  of  pleyn  clothe 

Item  ix  hand  towells  to  serve  at  the  alter 

Item  fyve  banner  clothes  of  lynen  being  paynted 

Item  a  vayle  to  serve  in  Lent  to  hang  in  the  Quyer 

Item  fyve  corperes  with  cases  for  them 

Item  ij  cuverletts  the  one  red  the  other  blewe 

Item  iij  surplycs  and  ij  rochetts 

Item  a  clothe  called  the  holy  clothe 

Item  ij  lattyn  candelstykks 

Item  a  basen  and  ewer  of  lattyn 

Item  iij  old  smalle  cochens 

Item  f  ower  great  bells  in  the  Steple 

Item  iij  small  bells  called  Sacryng  bells 

Item  one  payer  of  sencers  of  lattyn 

Item  one  bell  being  called  a  hand  bell  stollen  out  of  the 
wyndowe  of  the  churche 

Mem :  Sold  of  the  Juells  and  ornaments  in  the  Inventory 


IN   KENT,    A.D.  1552.  301 

mencyoned  by  Richard  Hall  diurchewarden  of  the  seyd 
parish  of  Willesborowe  hereafter  mencyoned 
Fyrst  sold  one  clialleys  being  doble  gilt  waying  xiiij  ounces 
and  di  to  William  Hall  thelder  for  vs.  viij  d.  le  ounce 
and  sold  to  hym  one  paxe  waying  iiij  ounces  di  for 
V  s.  viij  d.  le  ounce.  Also  sold  to  William  Hall  the 
yonger  one  altar  clothe  of  satten  of  bridges  for  x  s. 
whyche  thyngs  were  sold  for  the  reparacyone  of  the 
churche  the  xxvi*''  of  September  the  vj*''  yere  of  Kyng 
Edwarde  ye  Sixt 

The  reparacyon  of  the  churche  ys  in  Shinglyng  and  ledinge 

Syr  Clement  Stapylton  vycar 
Robert  Master  the  elder 
Jhon  Norden 
by  me  Wyll'm  Hall 

WITTERSHAM— II  December  vi  Ed.  VI. 

William  Parmenter,  curate ;  Robert  Denney  and 
Thomas  Smyth,  churchwardens  ;  John  Baker, 
inhabitant 

First  one  chalice  of  sylver  wayeng  xii  unc's 

Item  a  cope  of  red  velvet 

Item  one  vestment  of  red  velvett 

Item  a  hole  sute  of  blew  velvett 

Item  ij  vestments  of  white  damaske,  and  a  cope  of  the  same 

Item  ij  other  vestments 

Item  ij  other  copez  of  grene  and  red  bridgs  satten 

Item  iiij  albez 

Item  a  canapy  cloth  of  silke 

Item  ij   clothez  to  hang  before  the  altar,  the  one  of  silk 

the  other  of  lynen 
Item  V  altar  clothez  and  vj  towells 
Item  a  payer  of  old  organys 
Item  V  gret  bells  and  ij  handbells 
Item  ij  candilstiks  of  lattyn 
Memorandum :  there  were  stolen  out  of  the  churche  there  a 

holy  water  stop  and  a  crosse  of  lattyn 


302        INVENTORIES    OF    PARISH    ClIURCU    GOODS 

WYLMYNGTON— XXIII  November  vi  Ed.  VI. 
Vincent  Bawle  and  Anthony  Pulter,  churchwardens 

First   on   chalice   with   the  patente   of   silver  parcell  gilte 

waying  xij  ounces 
Item  on  crosse  of  copper  and  gilte  with  on  crosse  cloth  of 

grene  sarcenett  with  on  picture  of  St.  Michell  painted 

with  gold  and  silver  foyle  the  ffrenge  therof  yelowe  and 

red  silke 
Item  on  other  chalice  of  copper  and  gilte 
Item  on  vestment  with  thapparell  and   an  ames   wrought 

with  silk  and  gold  wyer,  with  a  crosse  of  blacke  silke 

powdered  with  swannes  of  silver  wyer  lackyng  thalbe 
Item  on  vestment  of  red  with  a  crosse  of  blewe  both  righte 

satten  with  all  thapparells  and  an  ames  to  the  same 

lackyng  thalbe 
Item  one  vestment  of  bawdekpi  white  and  blewe  silke  with 

one  cross  of  red  damaske  with  all  thapparell  with  albe 

and  ames  to  the  same 
Item  one  cope  of  cremsen  velvett  with  a  border  imbrothered 

with  apostles  and  prophetts  of  silke  and  venys  gold 
Item  one  corprax  case  of  grene  silke  and  gold  with  a  crosse 

of  venys  gold  on  the  foresyde,  and  on  the  baksyde  of 

red  silke  imbrothered  with  a  girdle  of  blewe  silke  and 

venys  gold 
Item   a    frunt   for   tliighe  alter  of   grene  satten  of   bridgs 

frenged  with  whit  red  and  yelowe  silke  and  embrothered 

with  flowers  of  Inks  gold 
Item   one  alter  clothe  of   diaper   in  lengthe  iiij   yards   in 

bredth  on  yard  di 
Item  one  sepulcre  cloth  of   whit  silke  lyned   with  lynnen 

cloth 
Item   one   towell   of   lynnen   wroght   with  blew   threde   in 

length  iiij  yards 
Item  iiij  bells  suted  of  brasse  in  the  Steple 
[Endorsed]  Dartford  xxiij  November  vj  Ed.  VI.  Memorandum: 

All   goods  contained  in  the  inventory  of  iij  Ed.  VI  are 

in  this,  and  are  now  delivered  to  the  churchwardens  to 

answer  the  same 


IN    KENT,    A.D.  1552.  303 

"Excepte  one  chalice  with  the  patente  of  silver  parcell 
gilte  waying  vij  ounces  ij  candlestykks  and  one  paire 
of  censers  of  latten  one  procession  bell  and  a  saints 
bell  of  brass  presented  to  the  said  Commysioners  by 
the  othes  of  the  churchwardens  to  be  stollen  " 


WOLDHAM*— IX  November  vi  Ed.  VI. 

Thys  is  te  vitaryf  of  the  parryse  of  Wolldam  made  the  ix 
daye  of  November  in  the  vj  yere  of  oure  souerent  lorde 
kynge  Edward  the  vj 

Conrade   Richardson,    curate ;    Jhon    Boweman    and 
Robert  Yates,  churchwardens 

Thys  is  the  plate  ij  challesyse  and  them  hafe  we  broken  and 
made  a  coupe  of  y'  for  the  receuynge  of  the  communion 

Item  a  cope  of  blew  dammast  the  whiche  wase  stollen  wit 
other  implements  beynge  upon  the  tabuU 

Item  two  vest}Tnents  the  one  blew  velvett  en'broderettj  and 
the  other  un'brotheryettj  solid  for  xxvj  s.  viij  d.  Item 
solid  a  cannape  clot§  of  blew  and  red  sattyn  of  bryggyse|| 
and  the  too  hangyns  of  the  allter  of  satynof  brygegyse|| 
for  xvj  s. 

Item  payde  for  Reparacyons  of  that  monny  for  iiij  lode  of 
tyll  and  ij  lode  of  lyme^^  xlj  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  solid  iiij  corporysses  w'  the  closse"^*  for  v  s.  and  for 
that  we  payde  to  the  glassier  where  ....  the  thefes 
brackeft  i^i  Item  solid  iiij  vestments  for  xvj  s.  Item  for 
the  tyllynge|J  and  wyttynge  of  the  cherche  and  for  a 
louke§§  with  a  kiey  xxxvij  s.  xd.  Item  the  seyde  parryse 
owsejl  II  uu  to  the  cherchewardens  xxi  s.  ix  d.  Thereof  we 
hafe  lefel^H  a  crosse  of  copper  a  pere  of  sensers  of  copper 
and  a  pyx  of  lattyn  wallued  at  iij  s.     And  a  sants  bell 

*  Land  Eeccnuc  Records,  bundle  1392.  file  70,  No.  1. 
f  The  inventory. 

\  One  embroidered  and  the  other  unembroidered. 

§  A  canopy  cloth.  ||   Satin  of  Bruges. 

•jl  Four  loads  of  tiles  and  two  loads  of  lime  for  the  reparation  of  the  church 
were  paid  for  with  that  money. 

**  Clothes,  i.e.  cases.  f  f  Thieves  broke  in. 

\X  Fur  tiles  on  the  roof,  and  white  wash  on  the  walls. 

§§  Lock  with  a  key.  |||J  The  said  parish  owes.        ^^  We  have  left. 


304       INVENTORIES    OF    PARISH    ClIURCU    GOODS 

y*   ia    bassellyd    awaye   by  M""  Jhon  mon   boeng   then 
person^ 
Item  there  remaynet  thre  bells  in  the  stepuU  and  of  that  we 
ow  unto  the  eherchewardons  xvij  s.  x  d. 

By  me  Conbade  Richardson  curattf 


WOLWYCHE— XVI  November  vi  Ed.  VI. 

Richard  Billyng-,  curate ;  Robert  Parker  and  William 
Clarke,  churchwardens 

First   ij    chalic's   with   the   patents   of   silver  parcell  gylte 

waying  viij  ounc's  di 
Item  3  candlestikk  of  latten 

Item  iij  bells  of  bell  mettell  suted  hanging  in  the  Steple  there 
Item  j  little  Saints  bell  of  brasse  hanging  in  the  saide  steple 
Item  j  olde  cope  of  rede  saye  and  j  vestment  of  old  bawdekyn 
Item  j  paire  of  organes 

Item  one  bible,  and  one  paraphrasis  of  Erasmus 
Item  one  newe  booke  of  the  newe  ordre  of  Service 
To  be  safelye  kepte  and  preserved  by  the  saide  churche- 

wardens,  &c.,  &c. 
Memorandum  :  One  chalyce  with  the  patente  of  silver  parcell 
gilte  apperteynyng  to  the  saide  churche  and  conteyned 
in  the  inventorye  made  A°  iij"°  of  the  kynges  majesties 
reigne  that  nowe  is  remayneth  in  the  possession  of  one 
Robert  Cokks,  here  brewer,  dwelling  in  Southwarke  the 
weighte  of  the  ounces  wherof  aperith  not  to  the  said 
comyssioners  by  reason   that  the  saide   Cokks   is   not 
....  hited  within  the  saide  countie 
Item  j  litle  crowne  of  silver  remayneth  in  the  possession  of 
Nicholas  Boughton  Esquyre  executor  unto  Sir  Edward 
Boughton  knyghte 
[Endorsed]   Estgrenewich  xvj   November  vj  Ed.  VI.      Me- 
morandum :    All  goods  in  the  inventory  of  iij  Ed.  VI 

*  A  Sanctus  bell  was  embezzled  by  Master  John  Mon  (?)  when  he  was  the 
parson  of  the  parish. 

f  This  cnrions  example  of  the  orthography  of  the  period  seems  to  be 
entirely  in  the  handwriting  of  the  parish  priest  Conrad  Richardson.  I  have 
appended  explanatory  notes  to  several  words,  although  probably  some  readers 
may  consider  them  to  be  superfluous. — W.  A.  S.  R. 


IN    KENT,    A.D.  1552.  305 

are  contained  in  tliis,   and  are   now  delivered   to  the 

chnrcli  wardens 
"  Excepte  one  pix  of  silver  iiij  copes  ij  vestments  with 
thapparell  iij  latten  candlestikks  and  one  albe  pre- 
sented to  be  sold  with  the  consent  of  the  parishoners 
for  the  reparacions  of  the  church  and  excepte  some 
other  things  that  were  stolen  " 

WYE — XXVII  November  vi  Ed.  VI. 

Thomas  Sotheybye,cnTate;  George  Hall,  Robert  AUard, 
chm'chwardens ;  Thomas  Twysden,  Thomas  Serlys, 
Richard  Martin,  William  Prowde,  Nycholas  Peers, 
Roger  K}Tigeslande,  Thomas  Tylman,  William 
Clyfton,  Chrystopher  Deale,  Symonde  London 
[parishioners  named  as  witnesses  to  the  correctness 
of  the  inventory] 
Eyrste  two  chaleses  thone  weying  xij  oncez  di,  and  thother 

xiij  oncez  di 
Item  two  copes  wherof  one  of  clothe  of  golde  and  thother  of 

clothe  of  tyssiie 
Item  a  snte  of  vestyments  of  the  same 
Item  a  cope  of  redde  velvett  with  golde 
Item  a  cope  of  blewe  velvett  with  sheffes^  angells  and  egells 

of  golde 
Item  a  redd  cope  of  bawdekyn  with  braunches  of  golde 
Item  a  cope  of  whyte  damaske  with  braunches  of  golde 
Item   iiijo'"   copes   of   bawdkyn   with   the   Maydenhedf  and 

pocockej  of  golde 
Item  fyve  copes  iij  of  them  white  bawdekyn  and  ij  grene 

bawdkyn 
Item  one  cope  of  blewe  and  whyte  with  braunches  of  gold 
Item  an  olde  cope  of  grene  bawdkyn  with  braunches  of  golde 
Item  a  sute  of  vestyments  of  blewe  damaske 
Item  a  sute  of  vestyments  of  bawdkyn  of  white  and  redde 
Item  a  sute  of  blewe  bawdkyn  with  braunches  of  golde 

*  Wheat  sheaves,  heraldically  called  "  garbs,"  which  appear  in  the  armorial 
bearins;s  of  Archbishop  Kemp,  who  founded  the  College  at  Wye. 

f  The  head  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  JIary. 

j  A  peacock.  {Sre  Lincoln  Inventories.  App*  203,  edited  by  E.  Peacock,  in 
his  book  on  Church  Furniture.) 

VOL.    XIV.  X 


306        INVENTORIES   OF   PARISE    CllUIlCn    GOODS 

Item  a  sute  of  blacke  satteii  of  brigges 

Item  a  vestymeute  of  redde  velvett  with  slieves 

Item  ij  vestyments  of  white  damaske,  thone  of  the  spleyde 
Egle,  thother  gyllowfer  flowers  of  golde 

Item  ij  cople  of  vestures  for  the  deacon,  thone  of  the  spleyde 
Egle,  thother  of  bawdkyn  with  the  lyon  of  golde 

Item  one  whyte  vestymente  of  sylke  with  the  lyon 

Item  one  vestymente  of  bawdkyn 

Item  xj  olde  vestyments 

Item  ij  vestyments  for  the  Lente 

Item  iij  albes 

Item  ij  corporas  cases  of  clothe  of  golde  with  theire  clothes 

Item  iiij°''  other  corporas  cases  with  iij  clothes 

Item  a  canape  of  blewe  satten  of  bridges 

Item  a  palle  of  blewe  damaske 

Item  one  aulter  clothe  of  blewe  and  tawney  velvett 

Item  an  aulter  clothe  of  grene  and  redde  sarcenett 

Item  an  aulter  clothe  of  whyte  fustyan 

Item  vij  aulter  clothes  of  lynnen 

Item  a  fonte  cloth  with  letters 

Item  ij  dyaper  towells 

Item  vj  playne  towells 

Item  a  lennen  vele 

Item  one  coverlett 

Item  iij  cople  of  latten  candelstycks 

Item  one  cople  of  lattyn  candelsticks  sylver  fasshyon 

Item  fyve  greate  bells,  and  a  morowe  masse  bell 

The  resydue  of  the  Churche  goods  not  comprysed  in  thys 
Inuentory  parte  therof  namely  the  monstrance  the 
pyxe  the  Crosse  and  the  paxe  of  syluer  conteynyng 
two  hundred  and  thre  unces  and  halff  and  half  a 
quarter  were  sold  by  the  parysshe  at  Whytsontyde  was 
twelue  monethe  for  v  s.  the  unce  the  sum  whereof  aboue 
xiij  unces  and  half  and  di.  quarter  deductyd  for  the 
refuse  and  yron  amowntyd  to  xlvij  li.  x  s.,  wherof  ys 
bestowed  by  the  parysshe  about  the  reparac'ons  of  the 
churche  as  folowyth — : 

Fyrst  to  the  Glasyers  for  repayryng  the  wyndowes  v  li. 

Item  to  the  Plumer  vs.  vj  d. 


IN    KENT,    A.D.  1552.  307 

Item  the  carpenters  xxx  s. 

Item  to  the  Smythe  xij  s. 

Item  to  the  Masons  and  Tylers  xlv  s. 

Item  to  the  laborers  xxiij  s.  xj  d. 

Item  to  the  Chnrche  Wardens  labors  and  ordynary  charges 
liiij  s.  V  d. 

Item  for  ropes  and  reparac'ons  of  the  Bellys  xxvij  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  for  pryggs  and  Nayles  vij  s.  iij  d.  ob. 

Item  for  tyle  and  festnes  xxxiij  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  for  Wood  and  Caryage  xxxv  s.  v  d. 

Item  for  lyme  and  Sand  xxxvj  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  for  Tymbre  and  Borde  xx  s. 

Item  for  lathe  viij  s. 

Item  for  Books  of  the  churche  xxv  s. 

Item  lost  by  the  ffall  of  suche  money  as  was  hereof  in  ower 
hands  at  the  tyme  of  the  Kyngs  two  severall  proklama- 
cons  viij  li.     Sum  xxxj  li.  iiij  s.  xj  d.  ob. 

The  resydue  therof  remayneth  towards  the  ffynyshing  of  the 
breche  of  the  Steple 

And  parte  of  the  sayd  churche  Goods  as  to  say  xij  alter 
clothes  of  dyaper  two  playne  alter  clothes  v  playne 
toweUs,  and  a  shete  were  gyven  by  the  parysshe  in  almes 
to  the  poverty 

And  parte  therof  as  to  say,  a  snte  of  red  damaske  ij  cor- 
poras  cases  of  clothe  of  gold  with  ther  clothes  iiij 
alter  clothes  of  red  damaske  an  alter  cloth  of  tawney 
damaske  and  blew  satten  an  alter  clothe  of  tawney 
and  blew  satten  vij  alter  cloths  of  bawdekyn  iij  pyllows 
of  cloth  of  bawdkyn  one  cnsshen  of  red  satten  a  cover- 
lett  and  a  carpett  were  stolen  at  suche  tyme  as  the 
vestry  was  broken  upp  by  theves. 


APPENDIX  {September  1881). 

The  foregoing  Inventories  of  Parish  Church  Goods  in  Kent, 
A.D.  1552,  have  been  collected  into  one  volume,  in  the 
Public  Eecord  Office.  This  has  been  done  since  I  wrote 
my  "Introductory  Notice"  of  them,  in  1871  {Archceologia 

X  2 


308 


APPENDIX. 


Cantiana,  VIII,  pp.  74-99).  My  expression  of  regret 
(on  the  tliird  page  of  my  paper),  that  they  had  not  been 
collected  into  a  volume,  contributed  towards  effecting 
this  happy  result.  Several  Inventories  of  earlier  date 
have  been  bound  up  with  them.  They  are  still  arranged 
in  the  order  in  which  they  were  placed  when  in  separate 
bundles ;  and  bear  the  numbers,  from  -^j-  to  ^-^j-,  shewn 
in  the  following  list.  W.  A.  Scott  Eobektson. 


13'^Beckenliam,    aud    Langley 
Park  there,  28  Hen.  VIII. 

13  St.  Elpliy,  Cauterbiuy 
1-i  St.  Paul,  Canterbury 

15  Asliford 

16  Canterbury  :  viz.,  All  Saiuts  ; 

St.  Mildred  ;  St.  Mar- 
garet ;  St.  Mary  Bredne  ; 
Holy  Cross ;  Our  Lady 
of  Northgate ;  Hospital  of 
Eastbridge,  and  Hospital 
of  St.  John 

17  St.  Martin,  Canterbury 

18  Rochester  Bridge  Chapel 

19  Strood 

20  St.  Margaret,  E-ochester 

21  Kiugsuortb;  Mersham ;  Keu- 

iugton  ;  Sevingtou  ;  Wil- 
lesboro  ;  Hinxhill 

22  Eastwell ;  Bougbton  Alupb  ; 

Crundale  ;  Brook  ;  "Wye 

23  Horton  ;  Stanford  ;    Stowt- 

ing  ;  Elmstede 

24  Chartliam  ;    Godmersham  ; 

Challock  ;  Cliilham 

25  A  Parish  in  the  Hundred  of 

Twyford 

26  Bethersdeu  ;    Shadoxhurst ; 

Hothfield  ;  Gt.  Chart 

27  Ashford,  goods  sold  (of  In- 

ventory iii  Ed.  VI)  dated 
20  Sept.  vi  Ed.  VI 


28  St.  Nicholas,  Kochester 

29  Ightham 

30  Suave;  Brenzett ;  Snargate ; 

Fairfield 

31  Lympue  ;   Sellynge  ;    Bon- 

ington 

32  Dymchurch  ;  Burmarsh 

33  Bilsington ;  Ruckinge ;  New- 

church 

34  Padlesworth  ;   Elhani ;    Ly- 

minge  ;  Postling  ;  Salt- 
wood  ;  Acryse 

35  Orlestone ;  Warehorne 

36  Brookland 

37  Aldington;  Smeeth 

38  Hastingleigh ;  Bircholt ;  Bra- 

bourne 

39  "Wittersham  ;  Stone  ;  Ebony 

40  Ivychurch ;    St.  Mary's    in 

the  Marsh  ;  Hope  ;  Mid- 
ley 

41  Cheriton;  Hawkinge;  New- 

ington ;  Alkham  ;  Capel- 
fern  ;  Swyngfield  ;  Lyden 

42  Charing  ;  Pluckley  ;  West- 

well  ;  Little  Chart ;  Smar- 
den ;  Egerton 

43  All   Parishes  in   the  Hun- 

dreds of  Bromley  ;  Beck- 
enham  ;  Aston  ;  Lesnes  ; 
Blackheath,  and  Hook- 
ysley  (49  membranes) 


INVENTORY   OF   WINGHAM    COLLEGE.  309 

*  INVENTORY    MADE    AT    THE    DISSOLUTION   OF 

WINGHAM  COLLEGE, 
j  suite  of  redd  satten  with  lyons  of  gould  the  crosse  of  the 

vestmentes  imbroidered  with   pearles  with  to   the 

same  but  not  of  the  same  worke  with  albes  and  amitts 

and  all  that  belongeth  therunto 
ij  Copes  belonging-  to  the  same  of  silke  the  ground  being 

red  with  ostrich  feathers  of  golde  and  flowers  of  greene 

the  orfrayes  of  gold  with  images 
j   suite  of  vestyments  of  white  damaske  with  the  crosse  of 

redd   damaske  braunched  with  goulde  with  all  things 

belongyng  to  the  same  with  a  coope  of  bawdkyn  clothe 

with  cyrcles  and  images 
iiij  white  copes  of  damaske  with  flowers  and  lyons 
j  suit  of  vestyments  of  yeallow  silke  with  flowers  of  greene 

and  beasts  of  gould  with  a  coope  of  the  same  and  all 

things  belonging  to  the  same 
j  suit  of  vestiments  with  a  cope  to  the  same  of  silke  with 

beadys  the  crosses  with  the  orfraryes  of  clothe  of  gould 

with  all  thinges  belonging  to  the  same 
j  suite  of  vestiments  of  silke  the  grounde  redd  with  braunches 

of  blewe  and  flowers  of  gould  with  a  coupe  of  the  same 

of  variable  braunches  and  all  things  belonging  to  the 

same 
j  suite  of  vestments  of  greene  silke  with  ostriche  feathers  of 

white  with  all  thinges  longing  to  the  same  except  ij  of 

the 

*  The  late  Eev.  Mackenzie  E.  C.  Walcott  favoured  me  with 
copies  of  two  Inventories,  one  from  Wingham  College  and  the  other 
from  Losenham  Abbey,  which,  although  they  are  not  actually  lists  of 
Parish  Church  Goods  in  a. d.  1552,  are  yet  so  similar,  and  so  illustrative 
of  the  subject,  that  I  insert  them  here.  The  Inventory  of  Wingham 
College  is  in  fact  an  inventory  of  ornaments  used  in  the  Parish 
Church  of  Wingham,  although  they  did  not  technically  belong  to 
it.  I  have  compai'ed  Mr.  Walcott's  copy  with  the  Inventory  in  the 
Lambeth  MS.,  No.  1125,  folio  222. 

The  Church  of  Losenham  Abbey  at  Newenden  has  entirely 
disappeared;  nor  does  any  fragment  remain  of  the  monastic 
buildings.  I  have  corrected  the  proof  of  that  Inventory  by  the 
original  manuscript. — "W".  A.  Scott  Robertson. 


310  INVENTOEIES   OF   WINGHAM   COLLEGE 

j  suite  of  vestments  of  blacke  velvett  with,  crosses  of  cloth  of 

silver  with  all  thinges  belonging  to  the  same  except  a  cope 

j  vestiment  and  a  tunicle  of  white  satten  with,  popingoyes  with. 

all  thinges  belonging  to  them 
j  vestyment  of  redd  velvett  with  the  crosse  of  blewe  damaske 

with  all  thinges  belonging  to  yt 
j  vestment  of  white  damaske  with  a  crosse  of  redd  velvett 

with  all  thinges  belonging  to  yt 
j  cope  of  ould  blewe  velvett  with,  starres  of  goulde 
j  vestyment  and  j  cope  of  silke  greene  and  redde  with  the 
crosse  of  blewe  with  one  albe  longing  to  it  wyth  a  tunycle 
wanting  both  the  albe  and  .... 
vestyment  of  silke  with  a  crosse  of  redd  damaske  having 
the  crucifix  upon  the  back  with  all  thinges  belonging  to  yt 
j  vestyment  of  wbite  fustian  with  all  thinges  belonging  to  it 
j  vestyment  of  redd  with  a  crosse  of  blewe  worsted  used  inLente 

ould  cope  of  white  sylke 
j  vestyment  of  redd  satten  with  a  small  crosse  of  golde  want- 
ing both  albe  and  .... 
j  ould  vestyment  with  a  crosse  of  goulde 
ij   cushions  of  ould  sarsenet  covered  with  blewe  damaske 

embroydered  with  gould 
j  aulter  clothe  of  silke  with  white  braunchis  and  fowles 

anlter  clothe  of  white  and  redd  damaske  paned 
j  aulter  clothe  painted  with  the  image  of  S''  Nicholas 
ij  anlter  clothes  of  yellow  silke 

j  aulter  clothe  of  white  silke  with  a  fruntlett  of  greene  silke 
iiij  anlter  cloths  of  lynnen 
clothe  for  the  rector's  stoole 
cross  cloth  of  greene  sarcernet  with  the  images  of  our  Lady 

and  the  Trinity 
canabye  clothe  of  redde  silke  with  birds  of  gould 
vayle  for  Lent  with  ij  Lenten  aulter  cloths  with  Jesus  and 

a  mother  with  Christ 
pillow  upon  the  high  aulter 
iiij  curtens  at  the  high  aulter  ij  of  olde  clothe  of  golde  and 

ij  of  sarcenett 
ij  banners  for  Passion  Sondaye 

ij  ould  Lenten  clothes  of  our  Lady  aulter  with  an  image  of 
our  Lady  upon  j  of  them  sowed  on 


AND   LOSENHAM   ABBEY.  311 

A  Gospell  booke  covered  with,  silver  plate  with  tlie  image  of 
Christ  and  the  iiij  Evangelists 

ij  sylver  sen  sours  with  a  shipp  of  silver 

ij  chalices  with  a  sacrament  box  of  ivory  elapsed  with,  sylver 

a  trendle  handle  of  silver 

a  silver  pax  gilte  with  the  image  of  our  Lady 

a  corporas  case  of  clothe  of  gold  with  ij  fyne  corporaces 

ij  corporas  cases  of  velvet  with  the  image  of  the  crucifixe 
with  ij  corporaces 

corporas  cases  redd  velvett  with  W.  and  B.  of  gould  with  a 
corporace 

ij  course  corporace  cases  with  their  corporaces 

a  corporace  case  of  redd  velvett  with  imagery  and  Jhesus 
wi'itten  with  goulden  letters  with  ij  corporaces 

j  crosse  of  silver  and  guilt  enamelled  with  Mary  and  John 
For  this  crosse  there  is  controversie  between  the  College 
and  the  parishe ;  for  the  CoUedge  had  the  possession  of 
the  same  crosse  unto  the  feaste  of  Corpus  Christi  iiij 
yeares  fully  past  att  which,  tyme  when  the  priest  had 
read  tlie  Grospell  in  the  Roodelofte  after  that  hee  was 
returning  with  the  said  crosse  Master  Oxenden  being 
then  churchwarden  called  the  clerke  into  the  parishe 
chancell  and  tooke  away  tlie  sayde  crosse  from  the 
possession  of  the  Colledge  unto  the  feast  of  S.  John 
Baptist  last  past.  Att  which  tyme  it  was  delyvered 
into  the  handes  of  James  Hales  Seriante  at  the  Lawe 
hee  to  order  the  matter  indifferently  both,  for  the 
Colledge  and  also  for  the  Parishe  which  as  yett  hath 
done  nothing  in  the  said  matter 

3  paire  of  organs  with,  the  Service  bookes  in  the  quier 

INVENTORY     MADE     AT     THE    DISSOLUTION     OF 
ST.  MAEY'S,  LOSENHAM,  CARMELITE  FRIARY.^ 

[Founded  by  Sir  Thomas  Fitz  Aucher,  a.d.  1241 ;  granted, 
6  &  6  P.  &  M.,  to  Edmund  and  Henry  Gilberd.] 

Thys  stuffe  longyd  to  y®  howse  of  Whyte  freers  of  Lossenam 
priseyd  by  sir  John  Wells  parson  of  Newyngton  &  John 
Twysdon  fermer  ther,  Harry  Loys,  Thos.  Julyan,  &  John 
Hope 

*  Public  Record  Office,  Cluipter  House  Boohs,  A.  fx  fol.  19  [formerly  309,  fol.  19] . 


312  INVENTORY   OF    LOSENHAM   ABBEY. 

Item  a  wliyte  vestement  syngyll  v  s.  Item  a  blewe  veste- 
ment  vj  s.  viij  d.  Item  another  vestement  with  a  chesea- 
bull  iij  s.  viij  d.  Item  ij  cheseabulls  xij  d.  Item  other 
old  hang-yngs  &  raggys  viij  d.  Item  a  chales  of  xiiij 
line,  price  xlixs.  Item  vj  small  cussheyngs  for  y'= 
antor  viij  d.  Item  one  other  cussheynge  viij  d.  Item 
iij  old  corporasses  viij  d. ,  Item  v  old  shets  ij  s.  viij  d. 
Item  a  crosse  with  y*^  pertenans  iij  s.  iiij  d.  Item  iiij 
candelsteks  vj  s.  viij  d.  Item  a  lytyll  bell  xx  d.  Item  ij 
laten  basons  &  an  ewer  xij  d.  Item  ij  candelsteks  &  a 
sokett  viij  d.  Item  ij  chests  ij  s.  Item  ij  old  nowty 
pannys  small  xij  d.  Item  a  brasse  pott  small  xx  d. 
Item  a  broken  fryyenge  pan  iiij  d.  Item  xiij  platters  & 
iiij  dyssheys  vj  s.  viij  d.  Item  a  s^^yte  viij  d.  Item  an 
old  brenyng  pan  ij  s.  vj  d.  Item  y^  bell  in  y'=  Stepull  x  s. 
Item  an  old  coverlete  xij  d.  Item  ij  old  anter  clothes 
iiij  d.  Item  ij  candelsteks  yeron  vj  d.  Item  ij  ladders 
vj  d.  Item  y"^  hangyngs  of  y"  Hall  iiij  d.  Item  an 
yearyn  ij  d.  Item  an  old  cope  vj  s.  viij  d.  Item  an 
old  canapy  stenyd  &  an  anter  clothe  with  a  frontlet 
stenyd  ij  s.  Item  a  halywater  stop  viij  d.  Item  ij  old 
f  ederbedds  with  a  bolster  nowte  vj  s.  viij  d.  Item  certayne 
old  clothes  priceyde  att  xij  d.  Item  a  cupborde  xij  d. 
Item  a  boke  of  Catholycon  iiij  d.    Item  an  old  cheyer  j  d. 

Receynyd  for  hey  xvj  d.  Item  receyuyd  for  a  tre  of  tymber 
xvj  d.     Item  receyuyd  for  y"^  londe  at  mydsomer  x  s. 

Thys  money  spent  for  a  prest  &  costs  xv  s. 

Mem.  y*^  pasture  &orcharde  lettenfor  vj  s.  viij  d.  tyll  Crystemas 

Mem.  rec**  for  y*'  londe  dewe  at  Myelmas  next  x  s.  &  yt  ys 
to  be  rememberyd  y*  j^  farmer  hathe  delyueryd  hys 
lesse  &  must  occupy  y^  grounde  tyll  Crystemas  w^^^owt 
ony  more  payment. 

Thys  ys  y<=  hoU  Inventory  &  rekeneyng  off  Lossenam  &  all 
thys   stuff e  aboue  wryttyn  restethe  in  the  handds  of 
John  Twysdeyn  except  a  chales  &  suche  reseyts   as  be 
croste  before  in  both  indentures 
thys  wytnes  : — 

S^"  John  Wells  person  ther 
Henry  Loys 
signed  Jhon  Twysden 


(     313     ) 


QUEEN  IVIAEY'S  EESPONSIBILITY  FOE  PAEISH 
CHUECH  GOODS  SEIZED  BY  KING  EDWAED'S 
COMMISSIONEES. 

Among  the  records  of  Queen  Mary's  reign,  I  find  some 
Accounts  which  shew  how  King  Edward's  Commissioners 
disposed  of  the  parish  church  goods  which  they  seized. 
These  Accounts  relate  especially  to  parish  churches  in 
Canterbury,  and  to  churches  in  the  Weald  of  Kent ;  but 
similar  accounts  were  demanded  from  other  districts  by  the 
Government  of  Philip  and  Mary.  They  issued  a  Commission, 
on  the  18th  of  March  1556,  for  inquiry  into  all  the  accounts 
of  church  goods.* 

Amongst  the  results  recorded,  we  find  that  chalices 
and  other  ornaments  of  Fraternities  and  Colleges  were  still 
in  existence,  and  had  never  been  brought  into  King  Edward's 
Treasury.  The  plate  and  ornaments  of  Milkhouse  Chapel, 
in  Cranbrook,  seem  to  have  been  actually  intact.  They  were 
granted  by  Queen  Mary  to  the  Incumbent  of  that  chapel, 
for  use  there  again. 

Other  records  of  Queen  Mary's  reign  further  illus- 
trate the  exaggerated  untruthfulness  of  allegations,  of 
spoliation  and  embezzlement  of  parish  church  goods,  made 
by  Fuller,  Strype,  Southey,  Froude,  and  a  host  of  smaller 
writers  against  Protector  Somerset,  and  the  Government  of 
King  Edward  VI. 

A  letter  written  to  Queen  Mary's  Commissioners,  in  1556, 
by  the  Commissioners  appointed  by  King  Edward  to  survey 
all  parish  church  goods  in  the  Weald  of  Kent,  is  of  great 
interest ;  as  it  narrates  their  method  of  procedure.  It  will 
be  found  below,  printed  in  extenso. 

The  sale  of  parish  church  goods,  early  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  VI,  was  a  purely  parochial  movement.  It  was 
not  set  on  foot  by  the  State,  or  King's  Council;  it  was 
a  local  proceeding,  resolved  upon  by  the  parishioners, 
of  each  place,  in  vestry  assembled.     Almost  universal  is  the 

*   Vide  Patent  Roll  2  and  3  Ph.  and  M.,  part  4,  membrane     ^^^    ,  dorso. 


314         QUEEN  mart's  responsibility  for 

endorsement  that  the  goods  were  "  sold  by  the  consent  of 
the  parishioners"  {Arch.  Cant.,  VIII,  129,  147,  150).  The 
vestries  also  directed  how  the  money  should  be  applied  for 
the  good  of  the  parish;  generally  it  was  spent  upon  the 
repair  of  the  church. 

King  Edward's  Government  stepped  in  to  control  this 
parochial  movement ;  in  order  that  the  property  might  not 
be  wasted.  The  accounts  which  are  printed  below,  shew 
that  the  major  part  of  the  church  goods  was  thereby  pre- 
served ;  and  that  much  of  the  money,  obtained  by  sales  of 
church  goods,  had  also  been  kept  in  the  hands  of  the  church- 
wardens, and  was  accounted  for  by  them  to  the  Eoyal  Com- 
missioners, as  "  stocks  of  ready  money,  in  the  church." 

King  Edward  died  on  the  6th  of  July  1553.  The  accounts, 
printed  b^low,  shew  that  the  superfluous  church  plate,  not 
required  for  the  administration  of  Divine  Service  in  the  parish 
churches  of  Canterbury,  was  delivered  to  the  Master  of  the 
King's  Jewel-house,  on  the  1st  of  June  1553 ;  that  is  to  say, 
only  five  weeks  before  the  King's  death.  The  superfluous 
parochial  church  plate  from  the  Weald  of  Kent  was  not 
delivered  to  that  officer  until  the  16th  of  June  1553;  less  than 
three  weeks  before  the  death  of  King  Edward.  These  two 
parcels  of  church  plate  contained  1331  ounces  of  silver,  of 
which  the  greatest  portion  was  also  gilt.  This  mass  of  plate 
came  from  only  two  districts  in  one  county.  As  a  vast  number 
of  other  districts,  in  this  and  other  counties,  delivered  their 
parochial  church  plate'  at  the  same  time,  the  mass  of  treasure 
.  thus  accumulated  must  have  been  enormous ;  and  a  very  long 
period  would  be  required  to  enable  the  officials  to  turn  it  to 
beneficial  account.  They  needed  special  warrants,  before 
they  could  dispose  of  it  in  any  way.  Consequently,  it  becomes 
obvious  that  the  parochial  church  plate  seized,  from  Kent 
and  many  other  counties,  was  not  disposed  of  by  the  Govern- 
ment of  King  Edward  VI.  It  fell  into  the  hands  of  Queen 
Mary ;  and  by  her  Government,  undoubtedly,  that  parochial 
church  plate  must  have  been  utilised. 

The  more  costly  vestments,  which  were  made  of  cloth  of 
gold  and  tissue,  were  treated  as  "jewels,"  and  were  not  per- 
mitted to  be  sold  in  the  various  parishes.     They  were  collected 


CHURCH    GOODS   SEIZED    IN   A.D.  1553.  315 

from  eacli  district  by  Edward's  Commissioners  in  ]  553.  From 
Canterbury  fourteen  sucb  vestments  were  sent  to  Arthur 
Stourton,  gentleman,  the  proper  official  in  London,  on  tbe  26th 
of  May  1553;  and  those  from  the  Weald  were  sent  to  him, 
somewhat  later.  That  these  costly  vestments  remained  in  the 
hands  of  Queen  Mary's  officers,  as  late  as  the  year  1556,  we 
learn  from  the  letter  of  the  Wealden  Commissioners.  Writ- 
ing in  the  third  year  of  Queen  Mary's  reign,  they  say,  "  We 
now  most  heartily  pray  you  again  to  hel]3  us  unto  them  that 
we  may  deliver  them  to  those  chui'ches  where  we  had  them ; 
for  we  do  understand  that  it  is  our  sovereign  lord  and  la.dy 
the  king  and  the  queen's  majesties  pleasures  so  to  have  it 
delivered." 

Queen  Mary's  Government  is  probably  also  responsible, 
although  to  a  less  extent,  with  respect  to  some  of  the  money 
raised  by  the  sale  of  superfluous  goods  and  ornaments  of  parish 
churches.  King  Edward's  Commissioners,  for  Canterbury, 
received  from  the  churchwardens  and  others  there  no  less  than 
£92  16s.  8d.,  which  had  been  safely  kept  by  them  from  the 
proceeds  of  ornaments  sold  by  order  of  the  various  vestries. 
The  Commissioners  themselves  sold  other  ornaments  and 
vestments  to  the  value  of  £65  19s.  2d.  They  handed  back 
to  the  various  churchwardens  £31  10s.  Od.,  and  they  sent  up 
to  Sir  Edmund  Peckham,  the  King's  Treasurer  in  London, 
£100,on  the  1st  of  June  1553;  fiveweeks  before  King  Edward's 
death.  Similarly,  the  Wealden  Commissioners  sent  up,  two 
weeks  later,  to  the  same  official  £27  2s.  8d.,  which  had  been 
delivered  to  them  by  the  churchwardens  as  the  proceeds  of 
church  goods  sold  by  order  of  the  vestries ;  and  £51  4s.  5d., 
realized  by  the  Commissioners  themselves  from  similar  sales 
of  church  goods. 

The  Canterbury  Commissioners  of  King  Edward  had  paid 
to  the  Treasury  an  even  sum  of  £100,  and  they  held  a  balance 
in  hand.  When  Wyatt's  rebellion  arose,  against  Mary's 
marriage  with  Philip,  the  Corporation  of  Canterbury  repaired 
certain  breaches  in  their  city  walls ;  and  they  considered 
that  Queen  Mary  ought  to  allow  them  to  expend  upon  this 
good  work  the  balance  in  hand,  from  the  sale  of  parish 
church  goods.     The  Government  of  Philip  and  Mary,  how- 


316  CANTEUBUllY   CHURCH    GOODS 

ever,  decidedly  refused  to  allow  this;  and  tlie  Canterbury 
Commissioners  duly  promised  to  hand  over  the  balance,  of 
£20  5s.  lOd.,  to  the  use  of  King  Philip  and  Queen  Mary,  on 
the  1 5th  day  of  Easter  terme,  in  1557. 

Thus,  even  the  ready  money,  realized  by  the  sale  of 
parish  church  goods,  did  not  all  go  into  the  coffers  of  King 
Edward's  Treasurer;  some  of  it  was  claimed  and  used  by 
Queen  Mary. 

The  list  of  sales,  of  Canterbury  Church  goods,  shews  that 
among  the  purchasers  of  the  vestments  were  the  ex-Prior  of 
Folkestone  Monastery  (Thomas  Barrett),  the  j)arson  of  St. 
Margaret's,  the  parson  of  St.  Elphj^e's,  and  two  Clerks  in 
Holy  Orders  named  William  Cartyll  and  Thomas  Smyth. 

The  small  instrument  then  called  an  organ,  or  "a  pair  of 
organs,"  is  mentioned  in  this  sale  list.  The  most  valuable 
was  sold  for  six  shillings  and  eight  pence ;  it  came  from  St. 
George's  Church.  Three  other  such  instruments  were  sold, 
at  about  live  shillings  each ;  they  came  from  the  churches 
of  St.  Margaret,  St.  Paul,  and  St.  Mary  Bredman.  The 
prices,  thus  realized,  enable  us  to  understand  what  miserable 
little  instruments  were  then  in  use. 

CANTEEBUEY.     (3  &  4  Philip  &  Mary.) 

[Land  Revenue  Eecoeds  (in  the  Public  Record  Office):  Church 
Groojis— Bundle  1392,  Jile  75,  No.  1.] 

The  vewe  of  tli'accompte  of  Thomas  Spilman  Esquyer  Thomas 
Preuche  Nicholas  Fyshe  and  G-eorge  Maye  aldermen  of  the  citie  of 
Canterbury  commissioners  for  the  sale  of  the  chm'ch  goods  there 

taken  by  William  Berners  Thomas  Myldema^  &  John 

"Wiseman  esqniers  the  Kinge  and  Q.ueiie  theyr  maiosties  commis- 
sioners for  that  pnrjiose  and  others  tlie  xxiij"*  of  Pebruarj  [a.d. 
1556-7]  the  iij^^'^  and  fourthe  yeres  of  [Philip  and  Mary^J 

Money  rysing  of  the  sale  of  thoruaments  of  parish" 

cliurches    £65  19'    2* 

Stockes  of  redy  money  received  out  of  the  said  parish 

churches    92  16     8 

Total £158  15  10 

Plate  received  iiii-^  iiij'^'^  xv  oz.  di.  art-  jgylte  224  oz. 

''      •'  ^       { parcel)  gylte  27l|  oz. 

*  The  Arabic  numerals  are  printed  for  convenience  ;  in  the  manuscript  small 
Roman  numerals  are  used  throughout. 


SEIZED    IN    A.D.  1553.  317 

Ornameuts  of  Clothe  of  Golde  and  Tyssue  (copes  vestments  & 
tunycles)  from  the  parish  churches  of 

St.  Mary  Bvedman — 1  cope  of  white  cloth  of  tissue. 

St.  Paul — 1  cope  of  greue  cloth  of  tissue. 

Holy  Cross — 1  vestment  of  red  tissue. 

St.  Mildred — 1  cope  of  red  tissue. 

All  Sai)its — 1  cope  of  red  tissue. 

St.  Margaret — 1  cope  of  blewe  tissue  ;    1  vestment  and  2 

tunacles  of  the  same  sorte. 
St.  Elphye — 1  cope  and  a  vestment  of  red  tissue. 
Our  Lady  of  Nortligate — One  old  cope  of  clothe  of  golde 

otherwise  called  Bawdekyn. 
St.  George — 1  cope  of  red  tissue  and  1  chysable  of  blewe 

tissue. 


Total  xiiij(^?^^^°^^^^'^^^'jfi^^- 
•^  [  lyssue  xiij  parcels. 


r  Money  £158  15  10. 
Sum  op  cuaeges<  Plate  495f  ounces. 

(^  Cloth  of  gold  &  tissue  14  parcels. 

"Whereof :  Payed  by  the  said  accomptauts  to  thands  of  Sir 
Edmoud  Peckeham  knight  by  Indenture  beriug  date  1  June  vij 
Edward  YI— 

Of  Stockes  of  money     40     3     ^al^inn 

Of  &  for  sale  of  ornaments 59  16     4^  / 

Allowed  vnto  tbeyin  for  so  moche  plate  delyvered  to  tliauds  of 
Sir  Frauncis  Jobson  knygbt  thenne  Master  and  Threasurer  of 
the  King's  Juells  &  plate  by  indenture  1  June  vij   Edward  YI 

488  ounces  <  ^^     *",      i.'o/^k 

[  parcel  gylt  2G5  oz. 

All  the  ornaments  of  Clothe  of  golde  and  clothe  of  Tissue  above 
charged  delivered  to  Arthur  Stourton  gentleman  26  May  vij  Ed- 
ward YI. — xiiij  : — viz.  Cloth  of  golde  j  cope  ;  Tissue  xiij  parcels. 

Also  allowed  money  redelivered  viz.  to  the  churchwardens  of  St. 
Mildred's  Ixs. ;  All  Saints'  Ixs. ;  St.  Elphye  Ixvj  s.  viij  d.  ;  St.  Mar- 
garet \\li. ;  St.  Paul  liijs.  iiij  d. ;  St.  Greorge  \xs.  ;  St.  Peter  \\s.  ; 
St.  Andrew  iv  li.  ;  Holy  Cross  Ix  s.  ;  o^'  Lady  of  Northgate  xl  s.  ;  St. 
Mary  Bredney  xxx  s.  ;  in  all  as  by  several  bills  signed  &  sealed  with 
the  handes  and  seals  of  the  churchwardens  xxxj  li.  x  s. 

Also  they  bene  allowed  for  the  expenses  of  the  Chamberlyn  of 
the  said  citie  &  others  Ryding  to  London  for  the  delyvery  of  the 
seid  goodes  money  plate  &  juells  to  the  king's  use  vij  //. 

[^Tlie  foUoioing  paragraph  (ivliich  is  historically  valuable)  has 
been  erased  by  lines  draini  through  if  toith  a  j^en  ;  shewing  that  the 
demand  teas  not  allowed.'\ 

Also  they  clemaunde  allowance  of  &  for  so  moche 
money  bestowed  and  layed  owte  uppon  the  bylding 


318  CANTERBURY    CHURCH    GOODS 

and  fortefyeng  of  certen  places  of  the  wallcs  of  the 
citie  of  Canterbry  aforeseyd  in  the  tyme  of  the 
Rebellyon  of  Wyatt  by  the  concent  of  thole  citie 
XX  li, 

rMoney £138  10    0 

„  \  Plate    488  ounces. 

Sum  of  alloavances  j  ^^^^^^  ^^  ^^^^y    ^  ^^p^_ 

(_  Tissue 13  parcels. 

And  so  remaineth  in  the  hands  of  the  said  accountants  :  Money 
£20  5s.  lOd.  ;  Plate  7f  ounces  parcel  gilte  which  is  allowed  for 
lack  of  weight  uppon  the  defacj'^ng  of  the  plate  by  th'othes  of 
th'aecomptants  AVhiche  some  of  xxli.  vs.  xd.  we  the  seid  commis- 
sioners doe  knowledge  and  confcsse  by  theise  presents  to  paye  to 
the  Kinge  and  Queues  use  the  xv*''  of  Ester  terme  next  comyug. 

In  witnes  whereof  we  have  subscribed  our  names  the  daye  and 
yere  above  written. 

Thomas  Feenshe.     Nicholas  Fysh.     Gteoege  Mate. 

[Land  Eevenue  Eecords  :  Church  Goods — JBioidle  1392, 

Jile  71,  No.  1.] 

The  sale  of  the  churche  goods  of  all  the  parishe  churches  within 

the  citie  of  Caunterbury  as  aperith  by  severall  Inventories  thereof 

taken  by  the  Mayo*'  of  the  citie  of  Caunterbury  Thomas  Spylman, 

Thomas  Freuche,  Nicholas   Pishe  and  George  Maye,  comyssioners 

thei^eunto  apoynted  the  xix*^^  day  of  May  in  the  vij*^^  yere  of  the 

reigne  of  kyng  Edward  the  sixte. 

Pirst  sold  to  John  Puller  a  sepulcre  cloth  of  red  &  blak  chamblett 
paned  &  a  payer  of  Corteus  of  grene  silk  viij  s. 

Item  sold  to  John  Puller  one  vestment  of  old  cryrasyn  velvett  &  an 
old  fronte  of  silk  for  an  aulter  vj  s. 

Item  sold  to  William  Batson  a  cope  of  blew  damask  old  &  a  vest- 
ment of  i-ed  damask  xj  s. 

Item  sold  to  the  parsone  of  Seynt  Margaretts  ij  vestments  of  white 
f ustyan  xvj  d. 

Item  sold  to  hym  a  vestment  of  old  dornyx  viij  d. 

Item  sold  to  Sir  William  Cartyll  clerk  one  vestment  with  deacon 
and  subdeacon  of  old  velvett  xj  s. 

Item  sold  to  Christofer  Dornewell  ij  old  vestments  iij  s. 

Item  sold  to  Thomas  Smyth  clerk  Comyssary  ij  coopys  of  old  white 
damask  &  a  payer  of  Corteus  of  white  silk  vj  s.  viij  d. 

Item  sold  to  John  Prenche  a  Cope  a  vestment  with  ij  Tunycles  & 
an  old  carpett  xx  s. 

Item  sold  to  William  Watson  ij  old  coopys  of  bawdkyn  viij  s. 

Item  sold  to  Eychard  Asshenton  a  cope  of  blewe  worsted  x  s. 

Item  sold  to  William  Watson  an  old  vestment  of  Dornyx  xa^  d. 

Item  sold  to  the  parsone  of  Seynt  Margarett's  a  vestment  of  Say  viij  d. 

Item  sold  to  Thomas  Pryth  a  vestment  and  ij  Tunycles  of  old  vel- 
vett xiij  s.  iiij  d. 


SOLD   IN   A.D.  1553.  319 

Item  sold  to  Christofer  Cornewell  a  cope  of  bauldkyn  ij  s. 

Item  sold  to  William  Dogrell  ij  coopys  one  of"  white  &  another  of 

grene  &  certcn  corporas  cases  vs. 
Item  sold  to  8ii'  William  Cartyll  clerk  a  vestment  of  whiteffustyau  xijd. 
Item  sold  to  Eobert  Sethyng  xxiij"  peeces  of  paynfced  lynnen  cloth 

with  ij  payer  of  Say  Corteus  vs. 
Item  sold  to  the  parson  of  Seynt  Elphyes  an  old  vestment  of  crane 

color. 
Item  sold  to  Nycholas  Bremar  a  cope  a  vestment  &  iiij  tunycles  of 

white  bawl'dkyn  ij  Cros  clothes  &  ij  old  fronts  for  aulters  xxvj  s. 

\ijd. 
Item  sold  to  Sir  William  Cartyll  Clerk  a  vestment  of  my  lord 

ffynenx  gyfte  iiij  s. 
Item  sold  to  John  Bryght  a  vestment  of  Dornyx  viij  d. 
Item  sold  to  William  Watson  an  old  vestment  viij  d. 
Item  sold  to  William  Dogrell  an  old  white  vestment  viij  d. 
Item  sold  to  hym  iiij  old  A'estmeuts  vs. 
Item  sold  to  Kobert  Scott  ij  vestments  &  one  tunycle  of  sattyn  of 

bridges  vj  s.  iiij  d. 
Item  sold  to  the  parsoue  of  Seynt  Elphyes  iij  vestments  of  old 

sattyn  of  bridges  iiij  s. 
Item  sold  to  William  Watson  a  vestment  of  fustyan  xij  d. 
Item  sold  to  Hollys  of  Sandwyche  ij  old  vestments  ij  s. 
Item  sold  to  John  a  lye  a  cope  of  blak  velvet  with  an  orpheras  of 

Bustyan  viij  s. 
Item  sold  to  William  Saunder  ij   copes  &  one  tunycle  of  velvett 

xliij  s.  iiij  d. 
Item  sold  to  Sir  William  Cartyll  clerk  iij  vestments  of  old  white 

damask  &  blak  vj  s.  viij  d. 
Item  sold  to  Nycholas  Bremar  a  cope  a  vestmeiit  &  ij  tunycles  of 

crymsyn  velvett  a  cope  &  a  vestment  of  white  damask  &  a  cloth 

of  grene  &  red  silk  1  s. 
Item  sold  to  John  Byng  ij  coopys  of  red  velvett  &■  ij  vestments  of 

white  damask  xl  s. 
Item  sold  to  Peter  Belsham  a  cope  of  white  silk  iiij  s. 
Item  sold  to  William  Dogrell  ij  old  coopys  &  vj  vestments  v  s.  iiij  d. 
Item  sold  to  William  Barnes  a  cope  xij  d. 
Item  sold  to  John  Hopkyns  a  cope  xij  d. 
Item  sold  to  William  Watsou  iiij  Cros  Clothes  a  payer  of  grene  silk 

cortens  with  .  .  .  ors  &  one  Ironte  with  a  frenge  of  silk  vj  s. 
Item  sold  to  Leonard  N orgrove  a  vestment  of  my  lord  Fyneux  gyft 

&  ij  tunycles  of  lynnen  cloth  viij  s. 
Item  sold  to  Thomas  Fryth  a  cope  of  white  silk  iij  s.  viij  d. 
Item  sold  to  Tbomas  Cotland  a  vestment  of  my  lord  Fyneux  gyft 

very  old  viij  d. 
Item  sold  to  Leonard  Norgrove  iij  old  vestments  ij  s.  vj  d. 
Item  sold  to  hym  a  cope  of  White  damask  iiij  s. 
Item  sold  to  William  Watson  an  old  vestment  vj  d. 
Item  sold  to  Thomas  Bull  &  Thomas  Eoberts  one  cope  iiij  vest- 
ments &  iiij  tunycles  &  an  old  canapy  of  yelow  sylk  xv  s. 


320  CANTERBURY  CHURCH  GOODS  SOLD  IN  A.D.  1553. 

Item  sold  to  George  Tofts  ij  coopys  of  sylk  &  ij  freiiges  for  an 
aulter  of  old  vclvett  xx  s. 

Item  sold  to  Thomas  at  AVell  an  old  cojie  xij  d. 

Item  sold  to  the  wyf  of  John  Hopkyn  one  cope  of  Bustyan  ij  s.  vj<?. 

Item  sold  to  Christofer  Evyngton  gent  a  cope  of  white  damask 
iij«.  iiij(/. 

Item  sold  to  Christofer  Scott  ij  coopys  of  blewe  velvett  &  iiij  vest- 
ments xl  s. 

Item  sold  to  John  Erenche  one  vestment  of  red  damask  iiij*. 

Item  sold  to  Eychard  Asshenton  a  cope  of  blew  velvett  x  s. 

Item  sold  to  Thomas  Barrett  ij  Cros  clothes  a  payer  of  white  silk 
cortens  a  f route  of  grene  sylk  with  letters  of  gold  &  a  corporaa 
case  of  Tyssew  vj  s.  viij  d. 

Item  sold  to  Barnard  Bounard  a  cope  a  vestment  &  ij  tunycles  & 
an  old  canapy  of  Bawldkyn  xij  s. 

Item  sold  to  Thomas  Barrett  a  cope  a  vestment  &  ij  tunycles  of 
blewe  damask  xxvj  s.  viij  d. 

Item  sold  to  John  Fuller  a  sute  of  grene  sattyn  of  bridges  a  vest- 
ment of  red  velvett  a  vestment  of  white  bawldkyn  iij  other 
vestments  of  silk  and  velvett  an  fronte  for  an  alter  of  red  & 
grene  say  another  fronte  of  red  &  grene  sylk  a  fronte  of  red 
sattyn  &  blak  velvett  embrowdered  with  a  beare  v  //. 

Item  sold  to  John  Frenche  an  old  cope  of  blak  velvett  vj  s.  viij  d. 

Item  sold  to  the  parsone  of  Seynt  Elphyes  iij  old  coopys  iiij  *. 

Item  sold  to  John  Clerkson  ij  coopys  one  vestment  &  ij  tunycles  of 
silk  XX  s. 

Item  sold  to  George  "Webbe  ij  payer  of  grene  silk  cortens  ij  cana- 
pyes  one  of  red  sylk  old  and  another  of  sattyn  of  brydges  red 
&  grene  x  s. 

Item  sold  to  hym  a  fronte  of  red  &  grene  sattyn  of  bridges  an  other 
fronte  of  red  sattyn  of  bridges  lyned  with  canvas  &  certeyne 
cortens  of  say  paned  vj  s. 

Item  sold  to  Eychard  Asshenton  two  coopys  very  old  that  were 
left  ij  s. 

Item  sold  to  John  Baker  a  pell  [pall]  of  silk  one  cros  clothe  ij 
cortens  of  white  silk  &  iiij  old  cusshens  vj  s.  viij  d. 

Item  sold  to  hym  ij  payer  of  lynnen  cortens  steyned  xvj  d. 

Item  sold  to  Jolm  Hethe  certeyne  stooles  phannells  &  corporas 
cases  vj  s.  iiij  d. 

Item  sold  to  John  Mott  iij  payer  of  organs  one  of  Seynt  Margaretts 
the  other  of  Seynt  Panics  &  the  third  of  Seynt  Mary  Bred- 
man  XV  s. 

Item  sold  to  hym  more  ij  greate  candelstyks  of  lattyn  with  dyverse 
other  small  canstycks  weying  iij  qrters  of  a  C.  &  x^'  at  ij  q"  the 
li.  xvij  s.  vij  d.  oh. 

Item  sold  to  hym  more  small  canstyks  and  crysmatories  &  holy 
water  stocks  weying  Ix^'  at  ij  d.  q"  the  li.  xj  s.  iij  d. 

Item  sold  more  to  hym  iiij  bells  to  go  before  dede  corses  &  a  payer 
of  sensours  beying  xxj^'  at  ij  d.  q"  the  li.  iii  s.  xj  d.  oh. 

Item  sold  to  hym  certeyne  peuter  weying  iiij^'  at  iiij  d.  the  li.  xvj  d. 


commissioners'  accounts,  a.d.  1553.       321 

Item  sold  to  hym  xij"  of  gylte  copper  at  iiij  d.  the  li.  iiij  s. 

Item  sold  to  Christofer  Cornewell  ot"  London  Iron  monger  xxxij*^' 
peecys  viz  :~of  coopys  vestments  and  tunycles  of  the  best  and 
one  orplieras  for  a  cope  enbrowdred  with  gold  xxx  li. 

Item  sold  to  the  Chamberleyn  of  the  citio  of  Canterbury  to  the  use 
of  the  same  citie  ij  old  coverletts  v  cusshens  &  one  canapy  of 
white  silk  with  a  red  cros  x  s. 

Item  sold  to  Thomas  Bull  a  payer  of  organs  out  of  Seyut  GTeorges 
Cliurche  \j  s.  viij  d. 

Totalis  1 XV  Z^'.  xixs.  ij  (7. 

Item  allowed  to  George  Tofts  for  his  paynes  and  wrytyng  in  this 
behalf  one  canapy  of  blew  silk  one  vestment  with  deacon  and 
subdeacon  of  damask. 

Item  sold  lo  Kychard  Asshenton  certeyne  paynted  clothes  corporas 
cases  and  old  fronts  for  aulters  for  x  s.  the  whiche  were  gevyn. 
to  six  oifycers  of  the  citie  for  their  paynes  &  attendance  upon 
the  seid  commyssioners. 

Item  sold  to  William  Dogrell  certeyne  lenten  clothes  paynted  & 
dyverse  other  old  stufte  for  vj  s.  viij  d.  whiche  were  gevyn  & 
distrybuted  among  the  brothers  and  systers  of  the  hospytall  of 
Seyut  Johns. 

Item  left  &  delyvered  by  the  said  commyssioners  in  the  hands  of 
the  churchewardens  of  every  parish  within  the  seid  citie  cer- 
teyne lynnen  as  alter  clothes  &  towells  with  dyvers  other 
ornaments  necessary  for  the  furniture  of  the  seid  churches 
according  to  the  effect  of  the  seid  commyssyon  as  it  doth 
appere  by  a  booke  of  partyclers  of  the  severall  parish  chvirches 
within  the  seid  citie  &  is  subscrybed  with  the  hands  of  the 
churche  wardens  of  every  of  the  seid  parishes. 

Item  the  resydew  of  the  seid  stuffe  sold  by  the  seid  Comyssioners  is 
all  manner  of  lynnen  bothe  albes  towells  &  aulter  clothes  & 
shetes  for  the  some  of  iiij  li.  x  s.  whiche  was  gevyn  &  distry- 
buted by  tiieir  disccressyons  amongest  the  poore  people  within 
the  seid  citie  accordyng  to  th'effect  of  their  seid  commyssyon 
over  &  besydes  certeyne  albes  paynted  clothes  &  other  lynnen 
that  was  also  gevyn  to  the  poore  people  there. 

PAEISHES    IN    THE    WEALD;    LATHE    OF    SCRAY, 
SOUTHERN  DIVISION. 

Letter,  written  in  a.d.  1556,  from  King  Edioard's  Commissioners, 
to  other  Commissioners  appointed  hy  Philip  and  Mary. 

[Land  Revenue  Records  :  Church  Goods,  ^fa"-] 

To  the  right  worshypfull  M^  Will™  Barnes  M-"  Tho«  Myldemaye  & 

M^'  John  Wyseman  Esquyres  &  to  everye  of  them  geve  this 

After  o^'  hartie  comendacons  unto  you  Where  ye  haue  sent  vnto 

us  for  the  old  Inventories  of  the  Church  goods  within  our  lymytts 

It  maye  please  you  to  be  adu'tisedd  that  they  warr'  sartified  into 

the  Chauncery  and  delyuered  vnto  M"^  Bowes  then  Master  of  the 

VOL.  xrr.  T 


322   WEALDEN  commissioners'  LETTER,  A.D.  1656. 

Rowles  so  tliat  we  cannot  sende  them  unto  you  And  if  we  had 
them  we  wold  <;ladly  send  them  unto  you  The  order  that  we  toke 
in  the  sale  of  the  ornaments  accordinj^e  to  our  comyssion  was  this  : — 
ffirst  we  comaunded  the  Curatts  Churchwardens  and  Sextens  in 
every  parishe  within  onr  lymitts  to  bringe  in  all  snche  goods  and 
plate  as  was  to  every  one  of  their  churches  wherewith  part  of  the 
best  we  did  delyver  unto  them  agayne  for  the  f urnyture  of  every  of 
their  churches  which  churches  we  thynke  were  as  well  furnyshed 
as  any  churches  in  all  Kent  for  that  we  warr  verry  lothe  to  take 
eny  thinge  from  them.  And  afore  we  did  receyve  the  commyssion 
or  wold  medle  in  it  we  withe  other  werr  rebuked  as  it  hath  apperid 
unto  you  by  the  counsells  lettre  which  we  sent  you  last  The 
residue  of  the  ornaments  of  CA^ery  of  the  sayd  churches  Except 
such  copes  and  vestments  as  warr  gold  silver  or  cloth  of  tyssue  we 
sold  in  grose  to  dyuerse  persons  moost  comenly  to  the  parishoners 
of  the  parishes  where  the  ornaments  came  from  according  to  the 
somes  in  a  booke  which  we  send  you  herewithe  with  our  hands 
subscribed  to  the  same  all  which  money  we  delyvered  to  Sir 
Edmonde  Peckham  knight  as  it  apperethe  by  his  quyttance  All 
the  copes  and  vestments  which  warr  cloth  of  gold  sylver  or  tyssue 
that  came  into  our  hands  we  did  delyver  them  to  M""  Sturton  as  it 
apperethe  by  his  quittance  made  unto  us  M'hich  as  we  have  desired 
you  in  tymes  past  so  do  we  nowe  moost  hertely  praye  you  agayne 
to  helpe  us  unto  them  that  we  maye  delyver  them  to  thoes  churches 
where  we  had  them  for  we  doo  understande  that  it  is  our  soveraigne 
lord  and  lady  the  kinge  and  the  queues  maiesties  pleasures  so  to 
have  it  delyuerid  Also  we  have  sent  unto  you  herewith  a  perticuler 
declaracon  &  accounte  of  all  such  plate  as  we  receyved  of  every 
parishe  and  the  wayght  thereof  which  is  contayned  in  our  foresayd 
boke  that  our  hands  is  unto  which  we  delyvered  to  Sir  Frauncis 
Jobson  at  that  tyme  beinge  Master  of  the  Juell  house  as  it 
apperithe  by  his  quittance,  which  if  you  doo  examyne  the  quyttance 
and  our  boke  together  it  will  appere  we  delyvered  all  the  plate  in 
unto  hym  that  we  receyved.  The  parisshioners  perceyvinge  that 
the  churche  goods  shuld  be  taken  from  them  did  sell  part  of  their 
plate  and  ornaments  of  their  churches  awaye  afore  we  sate  in 
comyssion  and  did  bestowe  the  money  thereof  uppon  reparacons  of 
the  churches  Such  money  of  the  same  as  was  not  bestowed  we  did 
receyve  of  them  unto  the  kyngs  maiesties  use  and  have  made 
accompt  thereof  accordingly  as  it  apperith  by  our  sayd  booke  that 
we  have  sent  you  herewith,  besechinge  you  to  except  this  our  true 
certificat  and  accompt  in  good  parte  assuringe  you  that  we  have 
delyvered  all  the  plate  vestments  and  copes  of  cloth  of  gold  sylver 
or  tissue  and  money  that  we  receyved  according  to  our  declaracion. 
And  this  the  blessed  trynitie  preserve  you  to  his  pleasure.  At 
Hempsted  the  xxvij*^  day  of  Maye  by  your  assuryd  lovyng 
friends 

Joh'eS    GrULDEFORD  T.    CoiEPEPTR 

Thomas  Egberts 


CHURCH    GOODS    SEIZED    IN   THE   WEALD.        323 

[Land  Revenue  Recobds  :  Church  Goods.  Bundle  lS92,JiIe  73, 

^''o.  1.] 
The  certificat  and  accountb  o£  S''  John  Guldeford  kuight 
Thomas   Collepeper    and    Thomas    Roberts   Esquyres   made   vnto 
William  Barnes  Thomas  Myldmaye  and  John  AVyesman  esquyers 

comyssioners  to  receyve  the  same  accounts  the  ....  day  of in 

the  seconde  and  thii-de  yeres  of  the  raignes  of  o''  Soueraigne  lord 
and  lady  Phillipp  and  Marye  by  the  grace  of  god  kinge  and  quene  of 
Inglond  France  Naples  Jerusalem  and  Irelande  defendars  of  the 
fayth  prynces  of  Spayne  and  Cicill  Archdukes  of  Austrye  Dukes 
of  Myllayne  Burgunde  and  Brabant  Co  mites  of  Haspurg  flanders 
and  Tirroll  of  suche  plate  money  and  ornaments  that  were  sold  by 
vertue  of  comyssion  v,'^^  was  the  goods  and  plate  of  theis  parishes 
hereafter  followiuge  over  and  besydes  such  plate  and  ornaments  as 
were  delyvered  agayne  by  them  to  the  furneyture  of  every  of  the 
same  churches  as  hereafter  followithe 


For  Ornaments 

Money  that  was  in 

Sold 

I. 

Stock  in  the  Church 

£ 

5. 

d. 

£      s.      d. 

Gowtherst     . . . 

3 

0 

0 

10  11      2 

Byddenden    . . . 

5 

0 

0 

Benynden 

1 

10 

0 

2     8     6 

Rolvynden     . . . 

2 

0 

0 

Saundherst    . . . 

6 

16 

9 

Hawkeherst  ... 

6 

13 

4 

Stapleherst    . . . 

3 

12 

8 

Apuldore 

19 

4 

Woodchurch 

1 

10 

0 

Kenerton 

3 

8 

Harden 

2 

2 

4 

Newynden     . . . 

1 

3 

0 

Fretyuden     ... 

3 

7 

2 

14     3     0 

Highalden     ... 

1 

5 

2 

Cranebroke   ... 

...       12 

0 

0 

Sum  ma  totalis         £78     7     1 

Which  sayd  some  of  £78  7s.  Id.  we  the  seid  John  Guldeford, 
Thomas  Collepeper,  and  Thomas  Roberts  have  payed  unto  S'' 
Edmonde  Peckham  knight  to  the  kings  maiesties  use  as  it  apperithe 
by  his  quittance  made  unto  us.  Exam  :  per  acquietantiam  dicti 
Edmondi  Datam  xv™°  die  Junii  a^  vij™°  Edwardi  vi*^'  remaneutem 
cum  comissioner' 

John  Guldefokde  T.  Colepepye 

Thos.  Roberts 

All    such    PLATE    &    WATGHT    WHICH    WE    HAVE    RECEIVED    of    ttose 

parishes   hereafter   written  over  &  above  those   left   for   the 
furniture  of  the  churches 
Sandherst. — 1  crosse  of  sylver  &  gilt  wayenge  47  oz. 

1  chalice  &  pattent  of  sylver  &  parcel  gylt  18i  oz. 
1  chalice  of  silver  parcel  gilt  9  oz. 

T  2 


324      GOODS    SEIZED    IN    THE   WEALD,    A.D.  1553. 

1  pair  o£   sensors  &  a  paxe  o£  silver   &  parcel  gylt 

30f  oz. 
box  of  silver  &  3  pins  of  silver  9J  oz. 
1  pyxe  of  silver  &  gilt  16  oz. 

1  ship  of  silver  parcelgylt  9^  oz. 

Sum  134f  oz. 

BEinrNDEN. — 1  clu'ismatory  silver  &  parcel  gilt  19|  oz. 

2  paxes  silver  &  parcel  gilt  7^  oz. 
2  little  bells  silver  If  oz. 

Sum  29  oz. 
Hawkeherst. — 1  box  of  silver  &  parcel  gilt  3  oz. 
High  Halden. — 1  cross  witli  a  foot  of  silver  17  J  oz. 

1  cbalice  &  patent  of  silver  parcel  gilt  Sf-oz. 
Sum  25|  i  oz. 
Kenerton. — 1  chalice  &  a  cover  of  silver  parcel  gilt  8  oz. 
1  pixe  silver  parcel  gilt  6i  oz. 
Sum  14i  oz. 
WooDCHURCH. — 1  chalice  &  patent  silver  parcel  gilt  16^  oz. 
1  paxe  silver  3f  oz. 
21  buttons  silver  &  gilt  i  oz. 
Sum  21^  oz. 
Aptjldre. — 1  cross  silver  &  gilt  48  oz. 

1  pair  sensors  silver  parcel  gilt  52^  oz. 
Sum  lOOioz. 
Btddenden. — 1  cross  silver  and  gilt  78-g-  oz. 

1  chalice  &  patent  of  silver  &  gilt  18f  oz. 
1  payer  of  seusers  silver  parcel  gilt  26  oz. 
1  pyxe  of  silver  parcel  gilt  12  oz. 
Sum  134|  i  oz. 

1'rttteis'DEis'. — 1    chalice   &   patent   &  4   bedstones   silver  &  gilt 

15i  oz. 
CBAJ!fEBROKE. — 1  monstranco  silver  &  gilt  64^  oz. 

1  cross  silver  &  gilt  88 oz. 

1  cross  silver  parcel  gilt  48|-  oz. 

1  little  pyx  silver  2^  oz. 

1  chalice  &  patent  silver  &  gilt  19  oz, 

2  chalices  of  silver  &  parcel  gilt  26^  oz. 

1  crysmatour  silver  &  parcel  gilt  15^  oz. 

2  pair  sensors  silver  parcel  gilt  45  oz. 
2  paxes  silver  &  parcel  gilt  10  oz. 

Sum  319^  oz. 

GrowTHEEST. — 1  chalice  &  patent  of  silver  &  gilt  lOi  oz. 

Marden. — 2  chalices  &  2  patents  &  a  pax  silver  &  parcel  gilt  32  oz. 

1  pair  sensors  silver  parcel  gilt  19  oz. 

1  paxe  silver  &  gilt  12  oz. 
Sum  63  oz. 

Stapleherst. — 1  chalice  &  patent  silver  parcel  gilt  9i  oz. 


CHURCHES  WHENCE  NO  SILVER  WAS  SEIZED.     325 

-p  r  Out  of  these  parishes  we  received  no  silver  for  that 

■XT  <      that  tliere  was  of  it  was  assigued  to  serve  in  the 

(_     sayd  churches 

Total  sum  881i  oz. 

This  we  delivered  to  Sir  Francis  Jobson  kn*^  then  master  of 
the  Jewelhouse  to  the  kinirs  majesty's  use  which  phate  being  defaced 
did  weigh  in  plate  (gilt  373  oz.,  parcel  gilt  320 oz.,  white  ISOoz.) 
843  oz.,  as  per  Sir  F.  Jobson's  indenture  of  discharge  dated  IG  June 
vii  Edward  VI. 

GOODS  OF  COLLEGES  AND  CHANTEIES,  still  remaining 
in  2  aud  3  Philip  and  Mary.  [Land  Revenue  Records,  Church 
Goods,  4^|-g  in  Public  Eecord  Office.] 

AccoiTNT  OF  William  Hide  gentleman  the  late  Surveyor  con- 
cerning plate  juells  ornaments  goodes  and  catalles  aud  leade  pertain- 
ing to  colleges,  chantries,  free  chapels,  guyldes,  fraternities  and 
suclie  like  in  Kent,  taken  before  William  Berners,  Thomas  Mylde- 
maye  and  John  Wiseman  Esquiers  29  April  2  and  3  Philip  and 
Mary. 

Goods  CATTALLES  and  implements  as  per  certificates    £26     0     5^ 

Plate  : — as  per  certificates  305J  oz. 

One  challes  gylte  lately  belonging  to  the  stipendiary  prieste  within  the 
parishe  of  Feversham  taken  awaye  by  Doctor  Bille  the  waight 
whereof  is  not  mencioned  in  the  said  certificates. 

Sum  : — Guylte  lOOJ  oz.  ;  parcel  guylte  41  oz.  ;  white  16J:  oz.  and  one 
chales  unweighed 
The  chardge  of  the  leade  remaynyng  upon  the  late  Colledge 

of  All  Sayntes  in  Maydestou  in  the  seid  countie  being  undef aced 

being  vewed  and  estemed  by  the  seid  surveyors  at  vj  ffoder. 

Wherewith  this  accomptant  doeth  frelye  chardge  hymself.     The 

whiche  colledge  is  in  the  custodye  of  Sir  George  Brooke  knyght 

Lorde  Cobham    vj  ffoder 

Whereof  allowed  : — Plate  and  juels  delivered  to  Sir  Anthony  Aucher  master 

of  the  juelhouse  92J  oz.  gylt  ;  41  oz.  parcel  gylt  ;  159^  oz.  white. 

Total  292|  oz. 

Costs  of  collection  &c.  £4  6  1^ 

Price  of  8  quarters  (liiij''  vj'')  of  wheat  and  certen  barley  (xij'')  of  the 
late  College  of  All  Saints  Maydeston  received  l)y  Sir  Eauff  Fane 
knight  late  atteyuted  and  convicted  of  felony  by  meanes  whereof  all 
his  lands  goods  &c.  came  to  the  king's  majesties  hands  and  possession 
£2  15  6 

Executors  of  Dr.  Bille  for  a  challes  of  the  stipendiary  priest  of  Higham 
and  a  chales  of  the  stipendiary  priest  of  Feversham. 

Paul   Sydnor  esquyer  for  a  chaliss  weighing  iiij  oz.  di.  and  other  of  a 

chantry  of  Pepingbury  (viij*)  by  him  taken  away  and  the  price  of  a 

chafer  and  a  charger  (vij*  vj'')  of  the  late  College  of  All  Saints 

Maydeston. 

Allowed  : — Price  of  goods  and  ornaments  of  Milke  house  Free  Chapel  in  the 

parish  of  Cranbrook  £2G  .5  0^  all  of  which  were  granted  by  warrant  of 

Philip  and  Mary  (dated  10  May  2  and  3  P.  and  M.)  to  the  said  chapel  for 

divine  service  to  be  used  there. 


(     326     ) 


TONBRIDGE   PRIORY. 

BY   J.    F.    WADMORE,    A.R.I.B.A. 

I  TRUST  I  may  not  be  deemed  presumptuous  in  calling  attention  to 
the  Priory  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene  at  Tonb ridge  for  Canons  Regular 
of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine,  the  history  of  which  is  more  or  less 
shrouded  in  obscurity,  and  its  site  forgotten. 

Of  its  buildings  not  a  vestige  remains ;  the  South-Eastern 
Railway  uses  the  site  for  a  Groods  Station,  and  the  land  is  cut  up 
with  rails  and  sleepers.  Here  once  stood  one  of  the  finest 
monasteries  in  the  ancient  diocese  of  Rochester  ;  consisting  of  a 
*Chapter-house,  Dormitory,  Refectory,  Church,  Vestry,  Library, 
and  other  offices,  which  were  unfortunately  totally  destroyed  by  fire 
on  fthe  11th  of  July  1337.  John  de  Stratford  being  at  that 
time  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  Hamo  de  Hethe  Bishop  of 
Rochester,  the  Prior  and  convent  at  once  appealed  to  the  King, 
and  to  their  diocesans  for  assistance.  Their  apjDcal  to  the  King 
appears  to  have  been  presented  by  JRalph  Baron  de  Stafford,  and 
was  responded  to  by  the  Chancellor,  John  de  OfBord,  Dean  of 
Lincoln,  in  a.d.  1349.  That  addressed  to  §  Bishop  Hamo  de  Hethe 
only  received  a  reply  after  John  de  Shepey  had  succeeded  to  the  See 
of  Rochester — it  is  dated  25th  of  February  1353. || 

The  prayer  of  the  memorialists  was  favourably  received,  and  the 
revenues  of  the  Church  and  Vicarage  of  Leigh  were  appropriated  to 
the  Priory,  for  the  maintenance  of  two  canons,  and  the  rebuilding 
of  the  Monastery. 

Having  thus  briefly  touched  upon  the  site  of  the  Priory,  we  may 
proceed  to  gather  from  various  sources,  something  of  its  founder, 
its  history,  and  its  possessions. 

Richard  de  Clare.  Earl  of  Hertford,  the  founder  of  the  Priory  of 

*  Rcgistruvi  Eoffense,  p.  464. 

t  Calendar  of  MSS.  in  the  Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford,  by  Messrs.  Turner 
and  Coxe,  p.  137  (ww)  (zz). 
%  Rcq.  Eoff.,  p.  463. 
§  Ibid.,  p.  464. 
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St.  Mary  Magdalene,  was  descended  from  a  natural  brother  of  the 
first  Richard,  Duke  of  Normandy,  to  whom  and  to  his  son 
Guislebert  he  gave  considerable  possessions  in  Normandy.  To 
■Richard  the  son  of  Gruislebert  the  Castle  of  Brionne  was  given.* 

Robert  de  Monte,  in  his  History  of  Henry  I,  says,  "  There  are 
many  old  people  who  say  that  Richard  Fitz  Guislebert,  Roger's 
father,  had  long  ago  received  the  town  of  Tonbridge  in  England 
in  exchange  for  this  same  Castle  [of  Brionne],  for  they  say,  that  the 
leuga  of  Brionne  in  the  first  instance  was  measured  with  a  line, 
and  that  the  same  line  was  carried  across  into  England,  where  it 
enclosed  the  same  quantity  of  land  which  formed  the  leuga  of  Ton- 
bridge,  so  that  the  district  of  Tonbridge  embraces  the  same  number 
of  miles  as  that  of  Brionne. "f 

This  statement  appears  to  be  correct ;  as  Richard  de  Tonbridge 
was  present  at  Pennenden  Heath,  when  Lanfranc  the  archbishop 
regained  all  the  possessions  of  the  See  of  Canterbury. 

It  is  at  this  distance  of  time,  and  in  the  absence  of  direct  evi- 
dence, difficult  to  give  the  exact  date  of  the  foundation.  Three  of 
the  earliest  charters  of  the  Priory,  now  preserved  in  the  Bodleian 
Library,  are  ascribed  byMessl:^.  Turner  and  Coxe  to  ci7'ca  a.d.  1135 
and  circa  a.d.  1180.  J  Pope  Celestine's  Bull  of  Confirmation,  dated 
1191,  is  printed  in  Thorpe's  Registnim  Boffe7ise.\ 

One  Roger  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Hertford,  younger  brother  and  heir 

of  Gilbert  de  Clare,  was  a  benefactor  to  the  Knights  Hospitallers 

of  Jerusalem  ;  he  granted  to  them  the  rectorial  rights  of  the  Parish 

Church  of  Saints  Peter  and  Paul,  Tonbridge.     Thorpe  has  printed 

the  charters  in  his  Begistrum  Boffense,  to  this  effect. 

II Be  it  known  to  all  sons  of  our  Holy  Mother  the  Church  that  I  Eoger  de  Clare, 
Earl  of  Hertford,  give  and  concede,  and  by  my  charter  confirm,  to  the  Brethren 
of  this  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  for  my  health  and  for  the  souls  of 

*  Stephens's  Clmrch  History,  vol.  v.,  p.  32.  f  Ihid.,  vol  v.,  p.  15. 

\  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar  of  Charters  in  the  Bodleian  Library,  p.  117, 
Charter  1  ;  and  p.  113,  Charters  2  and  3. 

§  Pages  666-8.  It  mentions  the  following  possessions  of  the  Priory,  inter 
alia : — The  churches  of  Yalding  (with  Brenchley  chapelry),  Mereworth,  and 
Stradeshelle  ;  the  •' Schafes"  of  Wetelestone  and  Smocham,  "  et  dominium  de 
mesuagio  quod  fuit  XXgRxi,  ante  port  am  castelli  [de  Thonebregge] ;  totam  terram 
de  Dudingburie  cum  pertinenciis  suis.  que  fuit  Roberti  Greclle,  totam  terram 
de  Hallo,  quam  Acius  tenuit  ;  duas  summas  frumenti  annuatim  de  Farlega  ; 
unum  messuagium  juxta  harram  in  villa  de  Tlionehreqge  ;  et  sex  denarios,  sin- 
gulis anuis,  de  domo  que  fuit  Agnetis,  jnxta pontem  de  Tlionchrcyge  ;  sex  dena- 
rios in  Pioffa  singulis  annis,  de  douacione  Eandulfi  filii  Danat ;  terram  que  fuit 
Gilbert!  le  Fi]z  Jiixta  jJortam  nostram ;  terram  de  Wicehelendenne,  que  fuit 
Willielmi  jauitoris,  et  terram  quam  teuetis  juxta  domum  vestram,  que  fuit 
ejusdem  Willielmi." 

II  Thorpe's  Begistrum  Roffetise,  p.  665. 


328  TONBRIDGE    PRIORY. 

my  ancestors  and  heirs,  the  Church  of  Tonbridge,  with  its  Chapel,  and  all 
other  things  adjacent  belonging  to  the  said  Church  all  that  I  hold,  or  could 
hold. 

I  place  this  deed  and  concession  in  the  hands  of  Richard  Turk,  their  Prior 
in  England,  for  the  use  of  the  poor  of  the  Hospital  of  Jerusalem,  in  free  and 
perpetual  alms.  Witnesses  : — Brother  Richard,  chaplain,  Brother  William  de 
Fereres,  Brother  Thomas,  Brother  llobert  dc  tStorce,  Bi-other  Waryii,  Brother 
Hugh  Fuhct,  Brother  William,  Pincerna,  Reginald  cie  Cruce,  John,  the  Prior's 
Clerk,  Robert,  the  Sacrist,  Adam,  a  Clerk,  Alan,  the  Prior's  Chamberlain, 
GeoflEry,  the  Cook,  and  others. 

This  is  followed  by  the  gift  of  the  advowson  of  the  Parish 
Church  of  Tonbridge  to  the  Brethren  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John 
of  Jerusalem. 

*To  all  sons  of  our  Holy  Mother  the  Church  present  and  future  Roger  de  Clare 
Earl  of  Hertford,  greeting  ;  Know  that  I  have  given  and  conceded  and  by  my 
Charter  confirmed  to  God  and  St.  John  the  Baptist,  and  the  Brethi-en  of  the 
Hospital  of  Jerusalem,  the  advowson  of  the  Church  of  Tonbridge,  and  all  rights 
I  have  in  it,  in  free  and  perpetual  alms  as  well  and  as  freely  as  the  advowson 
of  any  church  can  be  given.  And  I  have  given  thus  the  aforesaid  advowson 
with  all  its  ajipertinencesto  the  aforesaid  Brethren,  for  the  health  of  myself  and 
my  heirs,  and  for  the  souls  of  all  my  ancestors.  This  thus  freely  and  for  a  per- 
petual alms  gift  I  grant  and  confirm  to  the  hands  of  Richard  Turk,  their  Prior 
in  England.  These  witnessing,  Richard  de  Clare,  brother  of  the  Earl,  Richard, 
son  of  the  Earl  de  Clare,  Brother  Richard,  a  Chaplain,  Brother  Thomas,  Brother 
William  de  Fereres,  Brother  Robert  de  Storce,  Brother  Waryn,  Brother  Hugh, 
Bi'other  William,  Pincerna,  Reginald  de  Cruce,  Robert,  a  Chaplain,  John,  a 
Clerk  of  the  Earl,  Robert,  son  of  Baldewyue,  William,  sou  of  John,  Ingelram 
de  Abcrun,  Hugh  de  Walbade,  Gilbert,  son  of  Humfry,  Robert,  son  of  Hubert, 
Gerard,  son  of  David,  Theobald  Sorel,  William  de  la  Marc,  Thomas  le  Arblas- 
tier,  Gilbert  of  Flanders,  Eudo,  Paymaster,  John,  a  Clerk,  Alan,  a  Chamberlain, 
and  others. 

This  is  followed  by  a  confirmation  of  the  grant  of  the  Parish 

Church  of  Tonbridge  to  the  Brethren  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John  of 

Jerusalem  by  Walter  who  was  Bishop  of  Eochester,  from  1148  to 

1182. 

fWalter,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  Bishop  of  Rochester,  a  humble  servant  of  the 
Church,  to  all  faithful  servants  of  the  Church  residing  in  the  diocese  of  Roches- 
ter. Be  it  known  to  all  present  and  future  that  Roger,  Earl  of  Clare,  in  the 
presence  of  Richard  his  sou,  and  in  my  presence,  conceded  and  gave  the  right 
of  advowson  of  Tonbridge  Church,  and  whatever  right  he  before  had  in  "the 
aforesaid  Church,  to  the  House  of  the  Hospital  of  Jerusalem,  and  to  the  brethren 
serving  God  therein,  etc. 

I  much  wish  that  I  could  give  some  description  of  these  and 
other  documents  referred  to,  which  were  transcribed  and  edited  by 
Thorpe  in  his  Hegistnim  liojfense ;  unfortunately  I  am  unable  to 
do  so,  although,  by  the  kindness  of  the  veiy  Rev.  Dean  Scott  and  the 
Canons  of  Rochester,  I  was  permitted,  with  the  assistance  of  Mr. 
Knight  the  chapter-clerk,  to  examine  all  the  MSS.  in  their  strong 

*  Thorpe's  Registruni  Roffense,  p.  665.  f  IhUl.,  p.  666. 


T0Na3RIDGE    PRIORY.  329 

rooms,  I  failed  to  discover  this  or  any  other  MSS.  edited  by 
Thorpe. 

It  is  true  that  I  did  not  devote  more  than  a  few  hours  to  the 
search,  but  this  time  was  sufficient  for  me  to  come  to  the  conclusion 
tliat  they  were  not  to  be  found  amongst  those  which  I  saw,  and  Mr. 
Knight  himself  knew  of  no  others. 

If  so,  what  has  become  of  these  valuable  documents  since  the 
time  that  they  were  seen  by  Thorpe  ?  Are  they  in  some  hidden 
chest,  which  still  slumbers  in  a  dark  recess  ? 

In  the  year  1267  we  find  that  the  Prior  and  the  Sub-Prior  of 
Tonbridge  were  commissioned  by  the  Prior  of  the  Hospital  of  St. 
John  of  Jerusalem  to  induct  their  representative  into  corporal 
possession  of  the  Parish  Church  of  Tonbridge. 

*To  all  those  to  whose  knowledge  these  presents  may  come,  the  Brothers 

P and  R Prior  and    Sub-Prior   of   Tonbridge   acting   on   behalf 

{gcrenti'S  vices)  of  that  discreet  man.  the  Prior  of  Cruceroys,  conservator  of  the 
privilege  and  grace  conceded  to  the  Prior  and  Brethren  of  the  Hospital  of 
Jerusalem,  by  the  Apostolic  See,  health  in  the  Lord.  We  have  received  the 
mandate  of  the  aforesaid  Prior  in  these  words  :  "  The  Prior  of  Cruceroys,"  etc., 
etc.  And  having  received  that  mandate,  we  out  of  reverence  to  the  Apostolic 
See,  going  personally  to  the  Church  of  Tonbridge,  have  inducted  into  corporal 
possession  of  Tonbridge  Church,  and  its  appurtenances,  Brother  Henry,  Master 
at  Sutton  of  the  Hosjiital  of  Jerusalem  (the  lawful  Proctor  of  the  Prior  and 
Brethren  of  the  Hospital),  in  the  name  of  the  said  Prior  and  Brethren  ;  and  by 
the  delivery  of  a  chalice  and  the  key  of  the  said  church,  we  have  invested  their 
said  proctor  with  the  said  church.  And  the  said  Prior  and  Brethren,  of  the 
Hospital  so  canonically  inducted  by  us,  according  to  the  form  delivered  unto 
us,  we,  by  the  clemency  of  God,  will  defend.  There  were  present  and  assisting 
at  the  same  induction.  Master  William  de  St.  Quiutin,  our  colleague  in  this  matter 
fultilling  with  us,  the  ceremony  of  induction  ;  Sir  Hugh  de  Tonbridge,  chaplain. 
Sir  Nicholas  de  Blakenam,  Canon  of  Tonbridge,  William  Purde,  clerk,  Richard 
le  Mas,  Henry  le  Cafur,  Lewyn  Warne,  and  other  parishioners  of  the  same 
Church.  Given  and  done  at  Tonl  ridge,  in  the  said  Church,  on  the  Monday 
before  the  conversion  of  St.  Paul,  in  the  year  of  grace  1267. 

Among  documents  in  the  Bodleian  Library  calendared  as  be- 
longing to  Oseney  Abbey  (No.  28)  is  an  account  of  the  weekly  con- 
sumption of  food  within  the  Priory  of  Tonbridge  in  the  time  of 
Edward  I.  The  consumption  on  Christmas-day  appears  as  fol- 
lows:!— 

For  the  bakehouse^  On  Christmas-day  one  quarter  2  bushels  of  wheat  for 
1  quarter  6  bushels  of  I  the  bakehouse,  of  which  40  manchets  with  two 
wheat,  4  bushels  of  [  hundred  loaves.  4  bushels  for  bread  for  the 
mixtal.  J        brethren.     Two  bushels  of  mixtal,  also  2  hams. 

From  the  store  of  I  2  quarters  of  beef,  2  pigs  from  the  store  of  Ton- 
Tonbridge  two  pigs,      j        bridge  killed  for  the  larder  of  the  price  of  Gs. 

Eldin^g™  capons.°'°  °  }  ^^^^^  capons  from  the  store  of  Eldyng,  price  IT^d. 

*  Reg.  Boff.,  p.  669. 

t  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  Preface,  p.  x. 


330  TONBRIDGE   PRIORY. 

From  the  store  of")  Six  cocks  from  the  store  of  Brenchley,  price  9d.  ;  for 
Brenchley  6  cocks.        j        carriage  lOd. ;  for  veal  6fl.  ;  for  mustard  M. 

rOnc  boar  from  the  store  of  Tollbridge  killed  for  the 

From  the  store  of  J        hirder,  price  Hs.  ;  for  wine  12d. ;  on  Saturday  100 

Tonbridge  1  boar.         "l        herrings  of  the  price  of  one  mark,  of  which  price  for 

[_       carriage  4d. ;  for  cloth  Id. ;  for 7d. 

From  the  brew-")  Also  10  quarters  of  oats  for  the  brewhouse  with  6 
house  10  quarters  of  v  bushels  of  wheat  from  which  2^  casks  with  one 
oats,  6  bushels  of  wheat,  j        barrel  of  better  beer. 

Total  3s.  7d. ;  Total  store  13s.  2Jd, 

*By  a  writ  of  Edward  II,  in  tlie  eleventh  year  of  his  reign, 
addressed  to  Eoger  D'Ainmory  of  Bodegesham,  the  Prior  of  Ton- 
bridge  is  allowed  to  appear  and  plead  by  proxy.  In  1319,  John, 
the  Prior  of  Tonbridge,  appoints  in  his  place  Hichard  de  Hotou,  to 
make  suit  to  the  Court  of  his  Lord,  Sir  Eoger  de  Ammory  of 
Bodegesham,  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  King's  WTit  directed  to 
the  Bailiff  of  the  said  Court ;  this  is  dated  at  Tonbridge  on  the  Day 
of  the  Annunciation,  13  Edw.  II.  fFrom  a  letter  of  John  de  Harewell, 
addressed  to  Eobert  de  Caustone,  it  seems  possible  that  this  matter 
may  have  related  to  the  settlement  of  debts  due  to  the  Prior  of 
Tonbridge  by  Sir  Hugh  de  Audeley,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  at  the  time  of 
his  decease,  and  the  receiving  at  the  hands  of  the  Prior  the  following 
goods,  which  were  in  the  Prior's  Custody  ;  viz. : — Six  quillers  d'or  et 
de  Jaspre,  et  en  cire  oevrez  cxc  livres ;  xij  pieces  de  orailes  de  leuer 
en  amaillez  ;  viij  papilons  des  margeries,  ixn  Pyn  de  Ivoir ;  un  Tablet 
de  Ivoyr  de  ymagerie ;  ij  petitz  forceas  de  Ivoyr,  dount  jay  donez 
luu  al  Eglise  a  mettre  dedeynz  Corpus  Christi  et  altres  reliques. 

The  Prior  also  requested  the  good  office  of  the  Earl  of  Lancaster 
for  obtaining  a  licence  of  mortmain,  from  the  King,  for  the  purchase 
of  £20  worth  of  Lands  and  Bents  of  Hugh  de  Audeley  late  Earl 
of  Gloucester. 

At  Jthis  time  it  appears  that  Edward  II  issued  his  writ  to  the 
Sheriff,  and  to  Henry  de  Shipton,  who  at  that  time  held  Tonbridge 
Castle  for  his  Lord,  to  seize  the  goods,  lands,  and  possessions  of 
§Hugh  de  Audeley  jun.,  no  doubt  for  the  part  he  had  taken  in 
opposing  the  King,  and  harassing  the  Lands  and  property  of  his 
favourite  Despeuser.  In  Nov.  1326 11  we  find  a  Boyal  Writ  ad- 
dressed to  his  servant  Thomas  de  Blakebroke,  bailiff  of  the  Manor 
of  Ealding  (which  the  King  had  seized,  on  the  forfeiture  of  Hugh 

*  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  126  (mm). 

t  Ibid.,  p.  188  (coc). 

t  A.D.  1321  (li  Ed.  II). 

§  Turner  and  Coxe,  pp.  125-6. 

II  Heff.  Boff.,  p.  670. 


TONBRIDGE    PRIORY.  331 

cle  AudlcT,  junior),  authorising  him  to  pay  to  the  Prior  of  Tonhridge 
the  accustomed  allowance  of  51s.  5d.  per  annum  out  of  the  revenues 
of  the  manor. 

This  is  followed  by  a  similar  writ  of  Edward  II  to  his  beloved 
and  faitliful  Henry  de  Cobham,  custodian  of  the  .lands  and  tene- 
ments, which  belonged  to  our  enemies  and  rebels  in  the  County  of 
Kent,  now  in  our  hands. 

*Because  wc  have  received  by  the  inquisition  of  our  beloved  and  faith- 
ful friends  Thomas  de  Faversham  and  William  de  Cotes,  made  by  our 
command,  and  returned  into  our  chancery,  that  the  present  Prior  of  Ton- 
bridge  in  the  11th  year  of  our  reign,  on  the  day  of  the  nativity  of  the  blessed 
Virgin  Mary,  gave  and  granted  to  Thomas,  the  son  of  Thomas  Colepeper.  11.3 
acres  of  land  with  their  appurtenances  in  Pepingbury,  and  Chapel,  to  he  held  by 
the  said  Thomas  and  the  heirs  of  his  body  (but  if  the  said  Thomas  died  with- 
out issue,  then  the  aforesaid  lands  and  the  appurtenances  should  revert  again  to 
the  Prior,  and  his  successors),  giving  to  the  aforesaid  Prior,  and  his  successors 
yearly,  two  marks,  viz.,  at  the  feast  of  the  Nativity  of  our  Lord,  13s.  -id.,  and  at 
the  feast  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  liJs.  4d.  ;  and  that  up  to  the  time  of  his  for- 
feiture the  aforesaid  Thomas  had  satisfied  the  Prior  for  the  aforesaid  lands  ;  and 
that  the  Prior  had  not  remitted  the  ij  marks  to  Thomas,  nor  in  any  way  altered 
his  state  ;  and  that  the  aforesaid  laud  is  now  in  our  hands  through  the  forfeiture 
of  the  aforesaid  Thomas,  and  for  no  other  reason  ;  and  that  it  is  held  of  the  heir 
of  Robert  de  Gretle  by  a  fee  of  three  peppercorns  at  Christmas,  for  all  services 
and  customs,  and  that  the  whole  yearly  value  is  xxv  s.  v  d.  We  command  there- 
fore that  you  shall  deliver  to  the  same  Prior  the  aforesaid  lands,  which  he  shall 
hold  at  our  will,  on  the  payment  of  the  aforesaid  2  marks  and  henceforward  we 
hold  you  exonerated.     Tested  at  Kenilworth,  25th  day  of  April. 

Shortly  after  this  the  Prior  and  convent  of  Tonbridge  received 
a  confirmation  of  the  Charter  of  Richard  de  Clare,  Earl  of 
Hertford,  1326. 

fThe  King  unto  his  beloved  and  faithful  Henry  of  Cobham,  the  guardian  of 
certain  lands  and  tenements,  which  belonged  to  enemies  and  rebels  in  the 
County  of  Kent,  now  in  our  hands,  greeting. 

Because  we  have  received  by  enquiry  made  by  our  command,  through  the 
well-beloved  Thomas  of  Faversham  and  William  de  Cotes,  and  returned  into 
our  chancery.  That  Richard  de  Clare,  at  one  time  Earl  of  Hertford, 
FOUNDED  a  certain  Priory  in  his  Manor  of  Tonbridge,  time  out  of  mind,  and  by 
his  charters,  gave  and  granted  to  the  Canons  regular,  there  appointed,  and  to  be 
appointed,  ten  marks  to  be  received  yearly  from  the  said  Earl's  Manor  of  Ton- 
bridge,  and  5 Is.  5d.  to  be  received  yearly  from  all  the  said  Earl's  corn  lands  of 
the  old  and  new  land  of  Deunemannesbroke,  and  likewise  that  the  said  Earl 
granted,  by  his  charters,  to  the  aforesaid  Canons,  that  they  should  have 
yearl}'  one  hundred  and  twenty  swine  freely  pastured  in  the  forest  of  the  said 
Earl  at  Tonbridge.  and  likewise  that  the  said  Canons  should  have  two  wag- 
gon loads  of  dead  wood  to  be  freely  and  quietly  carried  for  them  daily  from 
the  nearest  forest  of  the  said  Earl  ;  and  like\vise  that  they  should  have  one 
buck  yearly,  for  ever,  at  the  feast  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  to  be  taken  by  the 
men  of  the  said  Earl,  and  that  the  then  Prior  of  Tonbridge,  and  all  his  successors 
have  duly  received,  and  have  been  quietly  seisetl  of  all  the  benefits  thus  granted, 
during  the  whole  time  aforesaid,  until  the  aforesaid  manor,  wood,  and  forest 

*  Bcff.  Buff.,  p.  671  ;  from  Close  Roll,  19  Edward  II,  membrane  7. 
+  Dugdale's  Monasticon  (Caley  and  Ellis),  vol.  ii..  p.  258,  and  Beg.  lioff., 
p.  671  ;  from  the  Close  Roll,  19  Edward  II,  memb.  20. 


332  TONBRIDGE    PRIORY. 

fell  into  our  hands  tlirongli  the  forfeiture  of  Hugh  de  Audley,  junior  ;  and  that 
the  said  manor  with  the  forest  is  held  of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  by  the 
service  of  aetin<x  as  seneschal  of  the  Hall  of  the  Arehbisliopat  hisenthronization, 
and  is  worth  eiKhty  pounds  per  annum,  and  the  aforesaid  corn  lands  are  portions 
of  the  demesnes  of  the  manor  of  Ealdynge  which  is  of  the  honor  of  Clare  ;  and 
that  the  said  manor  is  held  of  us  by  the  service  of  one  Knight's  Fee,  and  is 
worth  one  hundred  marks  per  annum.  And  \vc  command  that  you  pay  to  the 
Prior  and  Convent  of  Tonbridge,  whatever  arrears  there  may  be  of  the  aforesaid 
ten  marks,  and  of  the  aforesaid  51s.  ad.,  for  the  time  during  which  you  have 
had  the  custody  of  the  manor  and  corn  lands  ;  and  that  henceforward  the  said 
sums  shall  be  paid  at  the  accustomed  time  of  ])aymcnt,  and  also  that  you  shall 
allow  to  the  said  Prior  and  Convent  the  dead  wood,  in  the  quantity  before 
mentioned,  and  pannage  for  one  hundred  and  twenty  swine  in  the  forest  of 
Toubridge,  and  one  buck  every  year  at  the  feast  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene.  And 
we  will  make  due  allowance  to  you  for  these  things  in  your  account  to  our 
treasury  of  the  revenues  of  the  aforesaid  manor  corn  lands,  wood  and  forest. 
Tested  at  Chippenham  xii  day  November. 

We  have  now  reached  a  period  when  the  Priory  of  Tonbridge, 
dedicated  to  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  had  largely  increased  both  in 
wealth  and  importance.  The  mere  Calendar  of  the  title-deeds  of  its 
possessions  in  twenty-six  parishes  occupies  fourteen  pages  of  Messrs. 
Turner  and  Coxe's  book  (110-124).  Its  voice  iu  the  Chapter  of  the 
Order  of  Monks  of  St.  Augustine  was  admitted,  and  its  Prior  was 
intrusted  with  visitorial  power  for  the  regulation  of  other  monas- 
teries of  the  same  order. 

John,  who  at  this  time  held  the  appointment  of  Prior,  appears  to 
have  been  a  man  of  independence  and  ability.  Presiding  in  his 
Chapter,  he  writes  to  the  Archbishop  (Walter)  signifying  the 
appointment  of  William  de  Frend,  Canon  of  Tonbridge,  as  Proctor 
to  appear  before  him  in  the  Church  of  St.  Paul's,  in  London,  on 
Friday  next  after  the  Sunday  Quasimodo,  to  consult  for  the 
advantage  of  the  Church  of  England,  dated  at  Tonbridge,  on  the 
Ides  of  April,  1318.*  He  likewise  received  a  letter,  dated  London, 
8  June  1318,  from  the  Pope's  Nuncio,  to  provide  a  good  horse,  a 
palfrey,  and  a  sumpter  horse  caparisoned,  to  be  sent  to  his  Cham- 
berlain. 

I  may  as  well  here  remark,  that  these  and  the  following  extracts 
are  taken  from  some  valuable  MSS.,  collected  by  Anthony  A.  Wood 
and  others,  and  bequeathed  by  him  to  the  Ashmolean  Museum  at 
Oxford,  and  carefully  collated,  catalogued,  and  edited  by  William 
H.  Turner,  Esq.,  under  the  direction  of  the  Rev.  H.  O.  Coxe,  M.A., 
Librarian  of  the  Bodleian.  These  writings  belonged  to  the  twenty- 
two  religious  houses  suppressed  by  a  bull  of  Pope  Clement  VII 
dated  at  E-ome,  5  id.  March  1525  ;   the  revenues  of  which  were 

*  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  124  (e). 


TONBRIDGE   PEIORT.  333 

sequestered  for  the  purpose  of  founding  Cardinal  Wolsey's  College 
at  Oxford.  After  his  fall  divers  of  the  said  lauds  were  sequestered, 
and  given  by  the  King  to  laics ;  but  the  deeds  which  appertained 
to  the  houses  lay  in  a  careless  manner,  subject  to  wet,  at  the  mercy 
of  rats.  Many  of  them  were  printed  by  Dodsworth  and  Dugdale 
in  the  Monasticon ;  and  most  of  them  are  quoted  in  Tanner's 
2!^otitia.  A  Calendar  of  the  whole  series  was  published  by  Messrs. 
Turner  and  Coxe  in  1878.* 

At  this  time  the  Prior  and  Convent  of  Tonbridge  present 
Benedict  de  Ealdyng  to  the  Church  of  Stradeselle  in  the  diocese 
of  Norfolk.  At  which  presentation  Benedict  indemnifies  the 
Prior  against  any  suit,  and  promises  to  be  satisfied  with  the  allow- 
ances hitherto  paid.  This  letter  of  indemnification  is  dated  on 
Thursday  next  before  the  feast  of  the  Apostles  Simon  and  Jude, 
1318.t 

Simon  de  Clare,  clerk,  swears  that  he  will  be  faithful  to  the 
Church  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  Tonbridge,  and  his  lords  the  Prior, 
and  Convent  of  the  same  place,  on  the  Assumption  of  the  B.V.M., 
1316. ;{:  A  citation  is  received  from  the  Priors  of  Ledes  and  of 
CombeweUe,  visitors  of  the  Houses  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine 
within  the  dioceses  of  Canterbury  and  Rochester,  desiring  the  Prior 
of  Tonbridge  to  come  to  a  general  council,  to  be  held  in  Christ 
Church,  Londou,  1318.  §  Letters  are  received  from  Walter,  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  concerning  an  exchange  between  William, 
Rector  of  Merston,  and  the  Vicar  of  Brenchley.  John,  the  Prior, 
and  Convent  of  Tonbridge  grant  to  Sir  Thomas  Somersete,  chap- 
lain, a  corrody  of  two  white  loaves,  and  one  gallon  of  the 
better  conventual  beer,  from  their  common  cellar,  commencing 
the  Sunday  on  the  feast  of  the  exaltation  of  the  Holy  Cross, 
A.D.  1320.11 

^Claricia,  the  wife  of  Sir  Roger  Wellesworth,  Kt.,  deceased,  and 
Alice,  wife  of  Sir  John  de  Hamme,  Kt.,  deceased,  daughters  and 
heirs  of  Sir  Roland  de  Hokstede,  deceased,  present  to  the  Prior 
and  Convent  of  Tonbridge  their  faithful  clerk  Robert  Quyntyn  as 
a  Canon  of  their  house,  Aug.  14,  1319. 

In  the  following  year,  Richard  de  Holdene,  Priest,  having 
been  presented  by  the  Prior   and   Convent  of   Tonbridge  to  the 

*  These  facts  are  quoted  from  their  Preface,  pp.  iii,  iv. 

I  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  125  (u). 

t  Ihid.,  p.  125  (v).  §  Ihid.,  p.  125  (cc). 

II  Ibid.,  p.  126  (ff)  (ii).  t  IMd.,  p.  126  (kk). 


334  TONBUIDGE    PUIORY. 

Church    of    Leigh,    indemnifies    them   against   any   claim   to   the 
advowson.* 

In  1322,  John,  the  Prior  of  Toubridge,  appoints  William  de 
Mallying,  Canon  of  the  same  house,  to  be  his  Proctor  to  act  for  him 
at  the  General  Chapter  to  be  held  at  St.  Prideswide,  Oxford.!  In 
the  same  year,  the  Prior  of  St.  Gregory  of  Canterbury  and  John, 
Prior  of  Tonbridge,  are  appointed  Visitors  of  the  Order  of  St. 
Augustine  for  Canterbury  and  Eochester  dioceses,  to  cite  the  Prior 
and  Convent  of  Ledes  to  be  i)resent  at  a  visitation  of  their  house  to 
be  held  the  Monday  next  after  the  translation  of  St.  Thomas  the 
Martyr,  and  also  citing  the  Prior  to  a  General  Chapter  to  be  held 
at  St.  Frideswide,  Oxford,  on  the  2nd  day  after  the  feast  of  St.  Mar- 
garet the  Virgin.  Prior  John  appoints  "William  de  Mallying  to  be  his 
Proctor.;}: 

In  the  absence  of  John,  Prior  of  Tonbridge,  Nicholas  de 
Paversham,  the  Sub-Prior,  nominates  a  fit  clerk  to  the  Bishop  of 
Norwich  for  the  Church  of  Stradeselle  then  vacant.  § 

In  October  1329,  a  citation  is  issued  from  Wrotham  by  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  (Simon  de  Meopham)  to  the  Prior  and 
Convent  of  Tonbridge,  to  appear  at  the  court — day  after  the  feast 
of  St.  Luke  the  Evangelist,  or  to  show  their  privileges. || 

In  1329,  also  a  mandate  is  received  from  Hamo  Bishop  of 
Rochester,  for  excommunicating  certain  parishioners  of  Brenchley 
who  absent  themselves  from  and  injure  the  Church  ;  dated  at 
Hallyng.^ 

John,  the  Prior,  grants  a  licence  to  Lawrence  de  la  Wealde  to 
live  in  the  family  of  Sir  Hugh  de  Audele  and  the  Lady  Margaret 
Countess  of  Cornwall,  a.d.  1329. 

In  1330,  a  mandate  is  received  by  the  Dean  of  Mallyng,  from 
the  Official  of  Eochester,  commanding  him  to  cite  the  Prior  and 
Convent  of  Tonbridge,  to  appear,  by  themselves  or  a  proctor,  on  the 
Monday  next  after  the  feast  of  the  translation  of  St.  Thomas  the 
Martyr,  in  the  Church  of  Mallyng,  to  answer  certain  articles  of 
Robert  the  Master,  and  the  brethren  of  the  Hospital  of  Strode, 
which  appear  to  be  for  the  sub1;raction  for  three  and  a  half  years  of 
the  tithes  of  a  place  commonly  called  Horsherst  in  the  parish  of 
Aldyng.  Prom  Longefeld,  5  kl.  March  1331,  the  Archdeacon  of 
Eochester  issues  a  mandate  to  the  Dean  of  Mallyng,  commanding 

*  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  126  (oo).  f  Ihid.,  p.  127  (c). 

t  Ibid.,  p.  127  (b).  §  Ibid.,  p.  127  (k). 

II  Ibid.,  p.  128  (m).  1  Ibid.,  p.  129  (gg). 


TONBRIDGE   PRIORY.  335 

him  to  sequester  the  Churches  of  Aldyng,  Brenchley,  and  Teudeley 
for  defaults  in  not  repairing  them.* 

fPrior  John,  however,  appears,  more  than  once,  to  have  incurred 
the  ecclesiastical  censure  of  his  superiors  :  firstly,  in  1318,  for  having 
refused  to  contribute  his  portion  to  a  subsidy  for  the  prosecution  of 
a  lawsuit  against  the  Priory  of  Twynham  ;  according  to  a  mandate 
directed  to  the  Prior  of  Merton  by  the  Abbot  of  Cirencester  and 
the  Prior  of  Lanthony,  presiding  at  a  General  Chapter  of  the  Order 
of  St.  Augustine.  The  severe  sentence  of  excommunication  appears 
to  have  been  fulminated  against  him ;  but  the  greater  sentence  was 
almost  immediately  revoked,  by  William,  Abbot  of  St.  Mary  of 
Merton.  And  a  second  time  for  the  non-payment  of  Peter's  pence 
for  1320  and  1330  ;  on  this  occasion  a  mandate  was  issued,  by 
Icherus  de  Concrete,  Canon  of  Sarum,  and  Nuncio  of  the  Pope, 
to  the  Bishop  of  Eochester  and  his  Archdeacon,  promulgating  a 
sentence  of  excommunication ;  dated  at  Eochester  on  the  ides  of 
May  1331. J  A  relaxation  of  the  mandate  was,  however,  received 
ten  months  later  ;  so  that  it  is  more  than  probable  that  John 
and  his  Canons  had  made  honourable  amends  to  his  ecclesiastical 
superior. 

§In  October  1333,  the  Abbot  of  Leicester  and  the  Prior  of  Kenil- 
worth,  presiding  at  the  General  Chapter  of  the  Order  of  St.  Augustine 
within  the  province  of  Canterbury,  issued  a  mandate  to  the  Priors  of 
St.  Gregory,  Canterbury,  and  of  Tonbridge,  commanding  them  per- 
sonally to  visit  each  hoiise  of  the  above  Order  in  the  dioceses  of 
Canterbury  and  Eochester,  to  inquire  concerning  the  state,  reforma- 
tion, and  observance  of  the  Order,  whether  by  the  head  or  its  members, 
and  to  correct  and  reform  abuses,  and  in  case  of  being  themselves 
unable  to  settle  any  matters,  then  to  cite  the  heads  of  the  houses  to 
the  General  Chapter  to  be  held  at  Dunstable  on  the  octave  of  the 
Holy  Trinity  in  1334.  The  same  Abbot  also  sends  his  mandate  to  all 
the  heads  of  the  monasteries  of  that  Order  within  the  aforesaid 
diocese,  commanding  them  to  receive  the  Priors  of  St.  Gregory, 
Canterbury,  and  of  Tonbridge  in  a  suitable  manner  at  their  visitation, 
and  to  carry  out  sentences  of  excommunication,  or  suspension,  should 
they  be  promulgated;  and  N —  de  T.,  Canon  of  Tonbridge,  and  Master 
Eichard,  Eector  of  St.  Benedict  of  Wodwarf ,  in  the  diocese  of  Loudon, 
are  appointed  to  act  as  proctors  for  the  Prior  and  Convent  of  Ton- 
bridge,  conjointly  or  separately. 

*  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  130  (mi).  t    Ibid.,  p.  124  (i). 

X  Ihid.,  pp.  128  (r)  and  129  (pp).  §  Ibid.,  p.  130  (vv). 


336  TONBRIDGE    PRIORY. 

*We  have  now  arrived  at  a  period  in  the  history  of  this 
mouastery  when  a  sudden,  great,  and  unex])ected  cahunity  occurred. 
Ou  the  11th  of  July  1337, t  the  whole  of  the  conventual  buildings 
were  burnt  down  to  the  ground,  so  that  nothing  remained  for  the 
use  of  the  brethren.  The  conventual  buildings,  at  that  time, 
consisted  of  a  Chapel,  Vestry,  Dormitory,  Refectory,  and  Library. 
Together  with  the  building,  the  books,  MSS.,  ecclesiastical  vestments, 
goods,  and  furniture  were  consumed,  as  well  as  the  stores  of  hay  and 
corn.  Jin  this  emergency  the  Prior  and  Canons  appeal  both  to  the 
Bishop  and  Pope,  praying  tiiat  the  tithes,  privileges,  and  in- 
dulgences, rents,  services,  lands  and  possessions  with  their  appur- 
tenances, may  be  confirmed  to  them  under  pain  of  excommunication, 
and  requesting  that  the  Church  of  Leigh,  which  was  taxed  at  £12 
per  annum,  might  be  appropriated  and  incorporated  for  the  support 
of  two  Canons  in  the  Priory.  At  the  same  time,  a  petition  was 
presented  by  Ealph,  Baron  of  Stafford,  to  Edward  III ;  to  which 
the  King  replied  by  the  hands  of  his  Chancellor,  John  de  Offord, 
Dean  of  Lincoln,  granting  his  licence  for  the  appropriation  of  the 
Church  of  Leigh.  Letters  patent  were  accordingly  issued,  22  Edw. 
Ill,  A.D.  1349,  and  a  fine  of  twenty  marks  was  paid  into  the 
treasury.  § 

An  indulgence  of  forty  days  was  at  once  granted  by  John,  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  to  all  who  should  assist  in  rebuilding  that 
portion  of  the  Priory  buildings  which  was  destroyed.  The  Bishop 
is  also  petitioned  for  an  indulgence  to  all  who  pray  for  the  soul  of 
Sir  Richard  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Hertford,  whose  body  then  lay  in  the 
Church  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  for  the  souls  of  all  faithful  deceased, 
and  also  for  those  who  should  assist  in  the  building,  or  sustentation 
of  lights,  etc.,  of  the  said  Priory  Church.  || 

Letters  of  attorney  from  the  Prior  of  Tonbridge  are  granted 
appointing  Gr  .  .  .  de  B  .  .  .  Canon,  to  be  their  proctor,  to  receive 
in  their  name  oblations  and  gifts  for  rebuilding  their  church  ;  also 

*  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  1.S7  (ww)  (zz). 

■(■  Dugdale's  Monasticon,  vol.  vi.,  part  i.,  page  188,  states  that  this  fire 
occurred  in  1,353  ;  but  from  an  inspection  of  the  petition  to  the  Pope,  now  in 
the  Bodleian  Library,  it  appears  to  have  been  in  1337  ;  not  1327  as  given  by 
Messrs.  Turner  and  (!oxe,  p.  137. 

%  Iic(j.  Roff.,  p.  464. 

§  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  137  (uu)  (vv)  (ww).  Ralph,  Lord  Staf- 
ford, Lord  of  Tonbridge,  commanded  the  van  of  the  army  at  Cressy,  under  the 
Black  Prince  ;  he  died  A.D.  1373,  and  was  buried  in  the  Priory  Church  of  St. 
Marv  Magdalene,  and  his  estates  descended  to  his  son  and  heir,  Ealph,  Earl  of 
Stafford. 

II  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  pp.  132  (1)  and  127  (1). 


TONBRIDGE    PRIORY.  337 

notifying  indulgences  amounting  in  the  whole  to  eight  years  and 
two  hundred  and  thirty  days,  from  the  Pope,  the  Archbishops,  and 
Bishops,  to  all  benefactors,  with  participation  in  the  masses  and 
other  services  of  the  Church.*  Before  proceeding  further  it  may  be 
as  well  to  make  a  few  extracts  from  the  mandate  of  John  de  Shepey, 
Bishop  of  Rochester,  to  all  the  faithful  in  Christ. 

•f  Setting  forth  that  in  the  time  of  bis  predecessor  the  church  and  chapter- 
house, dormitory,  refectory,  as  well  as  the  library  and  vestry,  together  with 
the  books  and  vestments,  ecclesiastical  ornaments,  and  many  other  valuable  and 
precious  reliqucs,  together  with  the  splendid  and  noble  buildings  of  the  monas- 
tery, had  been  destroyed  by  a  terrible  and  unfortunate  fire  ;  and  without 
any  fault  or  want  of  care  of  the  inmates  they  were  reduced  to  ruin ;  and  their  corn 
and  hay  and  the  major  part  of  their  subsistence  destroyed.  To  add  to  these  horrors 
they  were  situated  on  the  confines  of  a  neighbouring  river,  which  was  frequently 
transft)rmed  into  a  furious  torrent,  and  the  rainfall  of  the  upper  waters  which 
were  held  back,  often  gathered  and  overflowed  the  lands,  so  that  they  were 
rendered  useless  to  the  monastery,  which  was  situated  near  and  adjoining  the 
King's  highway,  that  this  was  a  source  of  great  trouble,  as  the  road  to  the 
monastery  was  frequently  rendered  impassable  to  numbers  of  people. 

For  these  reasons  they  were  oppressed  and  overwhelmed  with  debt. 

Therefore  they  besought  that  illustrious  man  his  predecessor,  that  he  would 
give  them  the  Parish  Church  of  Leigh,  in  the  aforesaid  diocese,  the  value  of 
which  barely  amounted  to  twelve  pounds  per  annum  ;  and  that  he  would  see 
fit  to  grant  the  patronage  to  them  and  to  their  monastery. 

J'- Therefore "  (continues  the  mandate)  "we  grant  to  these  religious  men 
possession  of  the  said  chui'ch  of  Leigh,  reserving  to  us  and  our  successors  the 
obedience  of  the  Prior  and  Canons  of  the  aforesaid  Priory  and  Convent  of 
Tonbridge,  in  respect  of  the  aforesaid  Church  of  Leigh,  and  the  visitation  and 
other  rights  of  our  Church  of  Rochester,  and  what  is  due  to  the  Bishop  and 
Archdeacon,  according  to  custom  and  all  other  things  reserved  by  our  right. 
Also  reserving,  with  the  consent  of  the  Prior  and  Convent,  twenty  shillings 
sterling  in  the  name  of  our  procuration  for  the  entertainment  of  us  and  our 
household,  .as  often  as  we  or  our  successors  shall  visit  the  said  Church  of 
Leigh,  to  be  paid  within  ten  days  after  the  visitation." 

By  the  same  deed  a  Vicarage  was  ordained  at  Leigh  and  the 
rights  of  the  Vicar  are  subsequently  defined  to  consist  of — 

"A  manse  for  the  Vicar  and  his  household,  to  be  provided  at  the  cost  of  the 
Priory,  and  to  consist  of  a  hall,  with  two  chambers,  a  kitchen,  a  stable  and  one 
curtilage  all  to  such  as  befit  the  Vicar's  position,  and  also  eight  marks  of  silver 
annually  out  of  the  spiritual  oblations  made  in  the  aforesaid  Church."  Also  the 
tithes  of  certain  things,  flax,  hemp,  milk,  butter,  cheese,  calves,  wool,  etc.,  which 
I  insert  from  the  original  as  shewing  the  peculiar  and  idiomatic  expressions 
plentifully  interspersed  throughout  : — 'Lini,  canabi,  lactis,  butiri,  casei,  vitulo- 
rum,  lane,  agnorum,  aucarum,  anatan;m,  porcellorum,  ovorum,  cere,  mellis, 
pomorum,  pirorum,  columbcllorum,  piscariarum,  aucupacionum,  veuacionum  et 
negociacionum  totiusparochie  de  Leghe.  Item  indecimisfeni,herbagii,  et  silve 
cedue,  ex  parte  Occidentali,  et  Boreali,  parci  de  Pensherste,  vocati  Esshores- 
parke,  et  a  dicto  parco  per  Medeweiam,  usque  molendinum  de  Tenesfeld  et  vie 
que  ducit  a  dioto  molendino  per  mansum  Johannis  de  Polle.  et  per  cimiterium 
de  Leghe.  usque  pontem  vocatum  Bittebregge,  cum  feno  herbagio  et  silva  cedua 
de  Holyndenne.'§ 

II"  In  testimony  of  which  we,  John,  Bishop  of  Rochester,  and  also  the  Prior 

*  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  134  (k).  f  RcfJ-  Hoff.,  p.  464. 

\  Beg.  Roff.,  p.  465.  §  IMd.,  p.  466.  ||  Ih'ld.,  p."  467. 

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338  TONBRIDGE    PRIORY. 

and  Convent  of  Rochester,  have  affixed  our  seals  to  these  presents,  and  for 
greater  security  and  record  wc  have  caused  these  our  letters  to  be  strengthened 
with  the  seal  and  subscription  of  blaster  John  de  Kenj'ngtone,  notary  public  with 
apostolic  authority.  Given  at  Rochester  iu  the  Chapter  House  the  2,"i"'  day  of 
February,  A.D.  MCCCLIii.  In  the  2nd  year  of  tlic  Pontificate  of  our  Lord 
Innocent  the  VI.  In  the  presence  of  John  de  Mcleford,  John  de  Fynchyng- 
field,  Adam  Clement,  and  Nicholas  Herynge  of  the  dioceses  of  Canterbury  and 
Rochester  as  witnesses." 

John  de  Magliam,  who  up  to  this  time  held  the  living,  then 
resigned,  and  Nicholas  de  Chilham  was  appointed  his  successor  by 
the  Prior  and  Canons  of  Tonbridge. 

The  revenues  of  the  Priory,  in  1353,  were  sucli  that  a  subsidy  of 
one  halfpenny,  upon  every  mark,  produced  6s.  2id.,*  or  149  half- 
pence. Therefore  the  income  of  the  Priory  was  assessed  at  £99 
6s.  8d.  per  annum  ;  a  sum  equivalent  to  more  than  £1000  of  modern 
money.  At  about  the  same  date,  a.d.  1377,  we  find  a  list  of  the  orna- 
ments, vestments,  and  books  at  Yaldyng,  Brenchley,  Tudeley,  and 
Leigh.  Passing  over  those  of  the  three  former  parishes,  we  find  the 
parish  of  Leigh  to  have  had  the  following  : — 

f"  Primo  ij  missalia,  j  Processionale,  j  Troparium  cum  Kyrie  Sequentiis  et 
Process,  j  Baptisterium,  ij  Gradalia,  j  Antiphonarium,  ij  Portiforia  pleuaria, 
Legeuda  Sanctorum  et  temporalium  in  j  volumine,  j  Psalterium  bonum  et  j  dcbile, 
j  ordiuale,  j  Martilogium ;  Primo  iiij  Calices,  ij  Vestimeuta  principalia,  item  ij 
Dominicalia  Vestimeuta  et  ij  ferialia,  item  iij  Tuallia  cum  paruris,  et  ij  sine 
paruris  pro  altari.  Item  v  parva  Tuallia  tersoria,  j  Tunica,  j  Dalraatica.  Pannus 
de  serico,  j  capa  processionalis,  ij  Cruces.  argeutee,  j  Crux  de  laton,  ij  Super- 
pellic,  ij  Candelabra  de  piautre,  et  ij  Candelabra  de  cupro,  et  ij  ferr  et  j 
magnum  ferreum." 

The  following  interesting  accounts  of  the  dress  and  furniture  of 
the  brethren  on  entering  the  Monastery  is  given  by  Messrs.  Turner 
and  Coxe,  which  I  venture  to  transcribe,  and  this  I  gladly  do  with- 
out attempting  a  translation,  as  the  extract  would  lose  much  of  its 
inherent  interest ;  it  is  headed — 

J  Habitus  noviciorum  in  primo  adventu  et  introitu  ipsorum. 

"  Ut  Habitus  canonicorum  breviter  describatur.  In  primis,  habeant  duas 
cappas  de  AVorthestede.  et  unam  defrisonc,  quarum  duocapucia  furrentur  nigris 
pellibus  agniuis.  Item  unum  pallium  de  burneto  furratum  pellibus  aguinis 
albis.  Item  duo  superpellicia  ad  cotidianum  usum  et  tertium  de  Eylesham  ij 
rochet,  cotidian.  et  j  rochet,  de  Eylesham.  Item  duas  tunicas  de  blanketo,  et 
unam  supertuuicam  furratam  et  j  corsetum  furratum  albis  pellibus  agninis. 
Item  unam  tuuicam  teuuem  pro  estate.  Item  tria  paria  linee  tele.  Item  duo 
hunbaria.  Item  duo  paria  sotularium,  de  cordewan  et  j  par  de  coreo  boviuo  et 
j  par  nocturualium  cum  filtro  linitum.  Item  duo  paria  caligarum  lancarnm. 
Item  duo  paria  caligarum  de  kanefas.  Item  duo  paria  peduiorum  de  blanketo. 
Item  unum  par  de  pinsones.  Item  j  zonam,  cum  loculo  et  cultello  majore 
pro  mensa  et  minori  pro  pennis,  et  cum  j  pare  tabularum  cum  pectiue,  et  j 
acularium  cum  acu  et  filo.     Item  j  coclear  argeuteum  et  j  ciphum  de  mureno. 

*  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  135  (aa). 

f  Ihid.,  Preface,  p.  ix.  \  Ihid..  Preface,  p.  x. 


•jmAPMORC 


INTERIOR  OF  THE  RUINS   OF   TONBRIDGE  PRIORY, 
A. D.  1838. 


Whiteman  ABass.  Tftoto'-Zztho,  Loiido: 


TONBEIDGE    PRIORY.  339 

Item  j  capani  pluvialem  cum  capello,  ct  j  par  calcareorum.  Item  j  par 
cirotecarum  cum  zuna  quo  vocatur  Sucorej'c.  Item  ij  pcUiccas  de  pellibus 
agninis  albis.  It.  j  blodbeiul.  Item  j  almucium  dc  buriieto  furratum  nigris 
pellibus  agninis  et  j  parvam  cappam  furratum  et  aliam  non  furratam  pro 
estate    Vcxtimenta  lectualla  ;   Imprimis  habeant  tria  Thapeta,  ct  j  coopericns 

lectum  de  Yndesay.     Item  tria  paria et  unam  culcitram  punctatam  et 

j  materas  j  coopertorium  deblanketo  furratum  ct  j  kanefasdcsuper  pro  Stramine 
j  pulvinar  longum  duo  ccrvicalia,  ct  ij  siidaria."' 

Unfortunately  there  are  no  records,  as  far  as  I  have  been 
able  to  trace,  which  throw  any  light  upon  the  buildings  which  were 
erected  immediately  after  the  fire.  I  have  been  fortunate  enough 
to  retain  the  sketches  which  1  made  previous  to  the  demolition  of 
the  remains  in  ISIO ;  they  give,  I  am  sorry  to  say,  but  a  poor  idea 
of  what  the  buildings  may  ouce  have  been. 

We  have,  however,  px-eserved  amongst  the  MSS.  a  curious 
memorandum  of  the  value  and  weight  of  lead  at  this  time. 

*  Memornndum. — A  cart-load  of  lead  coutains  thirty  feet,  aud  each  foot  six 
stone,  and  each  stoue  thirteen  pounds  and  a  half,  and  oue  foot  coutains  eighty- 
one  pounds,  aud  so  a  cart-load  of  lead  contains  according  to  the  weight  used  at 
•'  le  Pek  "  2i30  pounds.  Item  according  to  the  weight  used  at  Sandwich  a 
cart-load  of  lead  ought  to  weigh  six  sacks  of  wool,  and  a  sack  of  wool  should 
weigh  fifty-two  hooks,  and  each  hook  coutains  seven  pounds,  and  so  a  sack  of 
wool  weighs  364  pounds,  and  so  a  cart-load  of  lead  weighs  by  the  weight  of 
wool  21S-I:  pounds,  and  so  each  cart-load  of  lead  at  "  le  Boles  "  exceeds  the 
Aveight  of  wool  246  pounds. 

fin  1348,  the  Prior  appears  to  have  lent  £4  to  Edward  III  for 
assisting  in  his  wars  against  the  French,  for  the  repayment  of 
which  letters  patent  are  granted. 

Jin  1358,  a  warrant  is  signed  by  Ralph,  Earl  of  Stafford,  addressed 
to  John  Froraound,  his  receiver  for  the  Lordship  of  Tonbridge,  to 
allow  the  Prior  of  Tonbridge  to  keep  sixty  pigs,  free  of  pannage, 
within  the  forest  of  Tonbridge.  §The  Prior  aud  Convent  also  peti- 
tion Lionel,  Earl  of  Ulster,  for  a  continuance  of  their  privileges  of 
a  daily  supply  of  wood,  pannage  for  60  pigs,  and  the  yearly  gift  of  a 
stag  within  the  forest.  John  Eromond  is  also  directed  by  Earl  Staf- 
ford, in  1362  (35  Ed.  Ill),  to  pay  to  the  Prior  and  Convent  ten 
marks.  II 

These  and  many  other  interesting  facts  are  to  be  found  in  the 
Calendar  of  Charters  and  Rolls,  published  by  Messrs.  Turner  and 
Coxe,  to  repeat  which  at  greater  length  would  make  this  paper  too 
long.    Sufficient  is  here  given  to  shew  the  nature  and  interest  of 

*  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar,  p.  132  (o). 

t  Ibid.,  p.  140  (yvy)  (zzz).  J  Ibid.,  p.  140  (aaaa). 

§  Ihkl.  p.  140  (hhhh).  II  Ibid.,  p.  140  (iiii). 

z  2 


340  TONBKIDGE   PRIORY. 

these  documents,  which,  as  regards  Tonbridge,  do  not  extend  beyond 
the  forty-first  year  of  Edw.  HI,  a.d.  1368. 

A  licence*  to  hokl  hmds  in  Mortmain  was  granted  by  llicliard  II, 
confirming  by  letters  patent  the  grants  of  Edward  II,  to  the  Prior 
and  Convent  of  Tonbridge,  in  the  former  inquisitions  under  John 
Osprengge,  William  Frendesbery,  and  William  Mailing,  formerly 
Priorsf  of  the  aforesaid  Convent,  in  which  mention  is  made  of 

"  Duo  messuagia,  duas  shoppas,  tria  gardina,  sexagintaet  quatuor  acras  prati, 
duo  opera  in  autumpno  decern  solidatos  redditus  et  redditum  sex  gallinarum, 
viginti  et  quinquc  ovorum  et  quatuor  ferrorum  equorum  cum  pertinenciis  in 
Tonbridge,  Breucbele,  Bitteberghe,  Legh,  Hliibourne,  de  Johanne  Sumon  de 
Osprengge,  Johe.  Grelynge,  Ricardo  Turk,  Sampson  de  Middeltone,  Stephano 
Crabbe,  Nicholao  Espeloun  de  Sandwico,  Johanne  Culpeper,  Galfrido  Culpeper, 
Johanne  Herry  de  Kyppynghale,  Ricardo  Hesdene,  Laurencio  filio  Williclmi 
Merifeld,  Rogero  Messyngleghe,  Willielmo  fratre  ejusdcm  Rogeri,  Ricardo 
Goldhelle,  Nicholas  Hemery,  Johanne  Hampson,  Emma  Mowcs  de  Tonbrigge, 
Ricardo  Eliot,  Ricardo  Barbour  de  Tonbrigge,  Johanne  Longe,  Reginaldo  Uyk, 
Galfrido  IMellere  de  Brenchcsley,  Johanne  Heseldene  de  Tonbridge,  et  Thoma 
filio  Georgii  Caun. 

"  All  which  shops  and  gardens  are  returned  at  60s.  8d.  per 
ann.  by  the  inquisition  of  William  Skyppe,  our  Surveyor  in  the 
County  of  Kent ;  and  the  said  Prior  and  Convent  have  in  perpetuity 
a  value  of  xxvi  s.  vi  d " 

"And  thus  the  said  Prior  and  Convent  or  their  successor,  or  the 
said  John  Symond,  John  Richard,  etc.,  etc.,  or  their  heirs,  shall  on 
no  occasion  be  molested  or  in  any  way  burdened  under  the  aforesaid 
statutes  by  us  or  our  heirs." 

We  have  glanced  at  the  foundation  of  this  Monastery,  its  rise 
and  prosperity,  its  destruction  by  fire,  at  the  means  taken  to  re- 
instate it,  and  at  its  benefactions  and  possessions.  We  now  turn 
to  record  its  fate,  and  disestablishment. 

Cardinal  Wolsey  appears  to  have  found  no  dilficulty  in  persuad- 
ing Pope  Clement  YIII  to  sanction  the  suppression  of  the  following 
Monasteries  for  the  foundation  of  his  proposed  College  at  Oxford, 
viz.,  Tickford,  Bradwell,  and  Eavenstone,  Bucks  ;  Daventrj, 
Northamptonshire ;  Camvell  and  Sandwell,  Staffordshire  ;  Tonbridge 

*  A.D.  1393  ;  Eeg.  Roff.,  p.  674,  pat.  16,  R.  II,  part  2,  m.  2. 

f  Prom  Turner  and  Coxe's  Calendar  of  the  Charters  I  glean  the  following 

names  of  Priors  of  Tonbridge  :— P ,  A.D.  1267  (^Rpg.  Rof.,  669)  ;  David, 

A.D.  1273  (pp.  110,  117,  134.  136)  ;  John,  A.D.  1278-1305  (pp.  114,  118)  ;  Roger, 
A.D.  1311  (pp.  125,  1.39)  ;  .lohn  (a  Bishop,  p.  128  bb),  A.D.  1320-36  (pp.  112,  11.5, 
118,  120,  126-7,  130)  ;  William  de  Frend[esbery]  (a  Canon  in  1318).  A.D.  1337 
(pp.  121,  124,  131) ;  John  de  Osprenge,  A.D.  1344-9  (pp.  Ill,  136)  ;  Nicholas,  A.D. 
1349  (p.  134)  ;  William  de  Mallyng,  A.D.  1353  (pp.  131,  139)  ;  John,  A.D.  1370-3 
(pp.  110,  122);  Robert,  A.D.  1377-97  (pp.  110-2.  il5,  122,  125)  ;  Thomas  Lewes, 
A.D.  1406  (p.  118);  Richard  Thomlyn,  A.D.  1509-25  (pp.112,  116,  119,  123); 
William,  who  surrendered  the  Priory. 


TONBRIDGE    PRIORY.  341 

and  Leslies,  Kent ;  Beigham  and  Dc  Calceto,  near  Arundel, 
Sussex  ;  AVykes,  Tiptree,  Blackmore,  Stanesgate,  Horkesley,  and 
Thoby,  Essex ;  Poghley  and  Wallingford,  Berks ;  Uodenasli  and 
Snape,  Suffolk ;  St.  Frideswide  and  Littlemore,  Oxford.  For 
this  purpose  a  bull  of  Pope  Clement  was  obtained,  dated  at 
Eome,*  on  the  fifth  of  the  ides  of  March  1525,  in  the  third 
year  of  his  pontificate,  and  confirmed  by  letters  patent,  dated  1st  of 
October,  IG  Henry  yiII,appointingacommission  which  was  presided 
over  by  Dr.  Burbank,  Archdeacon  of  Carlisle,  before  whom  we  find 
William,  the  last  of  the  Priors  of  Tonbridge,  summoned  to  surrender 
his  office  at  Westminster,  on  the  8th  day  of  February  1524,  when 
John  Cromwell,  John  Clifton,  chaplain,  lioland  Eokyn,  John  Luton, 
and  John  Payune  were  ijresent.f 

The  yearly  value  of  the  Priory  is  stated  to  have  been  assessed  at  £48  13s.  4d. 
and  the  temporalities  at  £120  16s.  lid.  ;  that  the  Prior  of  Tonbridge  had 
granted  the  Rectory  of  Yalding  for  £30,  and  the  church  lands  of  Loamstead  to 
Whetenhall  for  40s.I  The  Rectory  of  Leigh  by  the  profits  and  advantages,  £10. 
Thomas  Fane,  Smith  Land,  and  Elwood,  and  two  other  portions  of  land, 
dominzo,  and  Prior  Hammond's  of  Haysden  13s.  4d. ;  Edward  Markley,  land  and 
meadow  in  the  town  of  Tonbridge,  6s.  8d.  ;  William  Waller,  26s.  8d.  ;  Harding 
a  red  rose  or  peppercorn  rent,  now  John  Gresham's,  Bodesham,  23s.  4d. ; 
Wrotham,  £6  6s.  ;  Shipbourne,  Richard  Dyne,  13s.  4d.  ;  Bodesham  to  the 
Prior  of  Anglesea,  Is.  ;  John  Robert  Brenchley,  £14  Os.  4d.  ;  Henry  Everard, 
6s.  8d.  ;  Henry,  late  Prior,  and  half  to  Thomas  Cromwell,  glebe  lauds,  66s.  8d.  :§ 
a  grant  of  Land  was  made,  A.D.  1530,  to  the  Priory  of  Shene,  a  farm  in  the 
manor  of  Tonbridge  value  28s.  4d.     The  value  of  the  demesne  lands  £25  8s. 

On  Feb.  10th,  1526,||  Wolsey  granted  to  John  Higden,  Dean  of 
the  Cardinal's  College  at  Oxford,  the  site  of  the  late  Monastery  of 
Tonbridge,  with  the  various  manors  and  revenues  attached  thereto. 
Thos.  Cromwell  and  William  Smyth  were  appointed  Wolsey's 
attorneys  to  deliver  possession  to  the  grantee. 

In  the  18th  year  of  Henry  VIII  the  value  of  the  possessions  of 
the  Cardinal's  College  at  Oxford  is  set  down  at  the  total  yearly 
rental  of  £2051  9s.  4d. ;  the  income  at  £2041  16s.  8d. ;  the  annual 
expenditure  at  £1982  Is.^ 

The  divorce  of  Katherine  and  Henry's  passion  for  Anne  Boleyn 
soon  placed  Wolsey  in  unprecedented  difiBculty.  As  Mioister  of  the 
King  and  Cardinal  Archbishop  of  York,  the  dilatory  proceedings  of 
the  Court  of  Rome  were  imputed  to  his  agency;  his  fall  and  disgrace 
followed  not  long  after.  At  Michaelmas,  1529,  he  opened  the  Court 
with  all  his  usual  pomp  and  ceremony  ;  the  next  day  he  remained  at 

*  Turner  and  Coxe,  Preface,  p.  iii ;  State  Papers,  Henry  VIII,  vol.  x.,  pt.  3, 
p.  697. 

t  D.S.P.,  Henry  VIII,  vol.  iv.,  p.  1137.  %  Vol.  iv.,  pt.  1.  No,  2217. 

§  Ibid.,  4106.  il  Ibid.,  pt.  3,  1964.       %  Ibid.,  pt.  2,  989. 


342  TONBRIDGE    PRIORY. 

lionio,  but  no  message  came  to  liim  from  the  King,  and  on  tlie 
following  day  the  Dulces  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk  arrived,  and  required 
him  to  deliver  up  the  Great  Seal  and  retire  to  Esher.  Articles  of 
impeachment  were  drawn  up  which  passed  in  the  U])per  House,  but 
by  the  zeal  and  ability  of  his  Seci'etary,  Thomas  Cromwell,  Avere 
thrown  out  in  the  Commons,  but  a  fresh  indictment  having  been 
framed  on  the  16th  Statute  of  Eichard  II,  and  also  of  King  Edward, 
that  no  one  should  sue  for  promotion  to  the  Pope  of  Rome  or  else- 
where without  the  King's  authority,  it  was  proved  that  my  Lord 
Cardinal  obtained  both  his  legacy  and  Cardinalship  without  the 
King's  licence,  and  was  so  cast  into  premunire.  His  death  took 
place  on  Nov.  28th,  1530. 

By  reason  of  this  escheat  all  the  revenues  and  possessions  of  the 
disestablished  Monasteries  passed  into  the  King's  hand,  who,  on  the 
27th  of  Sept.,  gave  them  in  trust  to  John,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  and 
Sir  Thomas  Audeley,  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal,  for  the  use  of  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  "Windsor,  including  the  advowsons  of  Brench- 
ley,  Yaldiug,  Tewdley,  and  the  Priory  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen,  with 
the  manors  of  Tonbridge.* 

An  assignment  of  the  above-mentioned  lands,  under  the  King's 
warrant,  was  subsequently  made  to  the  King's  College  at  Oxford, 
dated  Sept.  29th,  1532. 

The  dissolution  of  the  Priory  appears  to  have  caused  much  dis- 
satisfaction in  the  town  of  Tonbridge,  although  "Wolsey  had  kindly 
and  generously  proposed  to  give  the  inhabitants  additional  educa- 
tional advantages.  A  letter  is  extant  written  by  Archbishop  War- 
ham,!  dated  June  30,  1525,  addressed  to  W^  Whetenhall,  Waller, 
and  Henry  Fane, — 

Expressing  his  surprise  tliat  they  did  not  meet  him  at  Tonbridge  with  the 
other  inhabitants,  as  he  wished  to  decide  whether  it  were  better  to  have  a  gram- 
mar school  founded  at  Tonbridge,  for  forty  scholars,  with  exhibitions  to  Oxford 
on  the  Cardinal's  foiindation,  or  the  Priory.  A  good  number  of  the  townsmen  were 
with  him  to  day,  and  stated,  both  orally  and  in  writing,  that  they  thought  the 
Priory  better  ;  and  he  requested  them  to  meet  him  by  9  A.M.  on  Monday  to  give 
their  answer,  with  the  names  of  those  wlio  agree  to  the  school,  to  be  sent  up  to 
Wolsey;  if  this  cannot  be  done  on  Monday,  then  to  meet  him  at  Maidstone,  on 
St.  Thomas  day.     Dated  Otford,  June  30,  1525. 

On  the  3rd  of  July  following  Archbishop  Warham  writes  to 
Wolsey  acknowledging  the  receipt  of  Wolsey's  letter,  complaining 
that  he  had  not  followed  Wolsey's  directions  in  explaining  his  mind 
to  the  inhabitants  of  Tonbridge,  and  desiring  him  to  come  to  London 

*  Dom.  State  Papers,  Hen.  VIII,  vol.  v.,  1351. 

■j-  Archceologia  Cantiana,  I.,  31-33  ;  D.S.P.,  vol.  iv.,  pt.  1,  m.  5,  1459. 


TONBRIDGE    PRIORY.  343 

aucl  be  present  at  an  audience  to  be  given  by   tbe  King  to  the 
President  of  Rouen.* 

When  he  was  at  Toubridge  lately,  he  told  the  inhabitants  there,  of  whom 
nut  more  than  sixteen  appeared  before  him,  that  he  and  Wolsey  had  thought  it 
would  be  better  for  themselves  and  their  children  to  have  perpetually  forty 
children  of  that  county  to  be  brought  up  in  learning,  and  afterwards  sent  to 
Oxford,  and  that  certain  priests  should  serve  there,  for  their  founder,  rather  than 
to  have  six  or  seven  canons.  To  this  all  except  three  answered  that  they 
wished  to  have  the  canons  restored,  but  desired  to  be  allowed  till  Friday  follow- 
ing to  discuss  the  matter  with  their  neighbours. 

On  that  day  they  brought  to  the  Archbishop  at  Otford  the  names  of  those 
who  desired  the  restoration  of  the  canons,  but  finally  referred  this  matter  to  the 
King  and  Wolsey,  he  docs  not  see  therefore  that  any  bruit  should  arise  of  this, 
but  some  men  in  Kent  think  that  nothing  can  be  done  without  them.  That  he 
had  written  to  tSii-  Edw.  Neville  and  the  Vicar  of  Toubridge  to  stop  the  bniit  if 
such  there  be  ;  and  has  ordered  the  Parish  Priest  of  Cranbroke,  and  Pike  of 
Toubridge,  to  come  to  him  at  Maidstone,  next  Wednesday,  that  he  may  know  what 
they  have  said  in  this  matter.  He  does  not  know  any  ground  for  Wolsey's  sus- 
picion that  some  of  those  who  raised  the  bruit,  "  should  be  towards  me."  If  he 
finds  them  he  will  not  fail  to  punish  them.  As  to  his  coming  to  Lambeth,  intends 
going  tomorrow  to  Maidstone  to  keep  the  feast  of  the  translation  of  St.  Thomas 
on  Friday.  He  had  made  great  preparation  there  of  beer,  ale,  and  wine,  and 
got  all  his  chapel  stuff  ready  ;  and  could  not  make  other  arrangements  without 
great  loss.  He  will  return  to  Otford  as  soon  as  possible,  and  remain  until  he 
hears  further  from  Wolsey,  arranging  meanwhile  for  his  coming  to  Lambeth. 

That  he  has  inquired  according  to  Wolsey's  letter  about  the  murmur  concerning 
the  Priory  of  Tunbridge,  and  finds  there  is  none,  but  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
towne,  and  others  adjoining,  had  leiver  to  have  the  said  place  not  suppressed, 
if  it  might  stand  with  the  King's  pleasure.  Henry  Fane  and  others  who  had  a 
suit  with  the  late  Prior  were  supposed  to  have  started  this  rumour  for  fear  the 
Prior  should  be  restored.  As  to  the  Parish  Priest  of  Cranbroke,  the  matter  was 
published  by  him,  by  the  desire  of  the  inhabitants  of  Toubridge,  in  order  to  get 
the  advice  of  those  of  Cranbroke,  as  it  concerned  the  interest  of  both,  with 
regard  to  the  exhibitions  at  school ;  and  those  of  Cranbroke  concurred  with  the 
men  of  Toubridge,  subject  entirely  to  the  King's  pleasure.  If  any  bad  mui'mur 
had  arisen  he  would  have  been  the  first  to  hear  of  it.  He  thinks  the  inhabit- 
ants ought  not  to  be  suspected  of  making  murmurs  on  light  persons'  letters. 

With  Wolsey's  death  and  the  grant  of  the  lands  and  possession 
of  the  Priory  at  Toubridge  by  Henry  VIII,  as  before  mentioned,  in 
the  year  1532,  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  lost  all  hope  of  the 
advantages  they  had  formerly  derived  from  the  Priory,  without 
gaining  the  school.  They  had  not,  however,  long  to  wait  before 
private  enterprise  and  liberality  enabled  them  to  obtain  the  advan- 
tages of  a  good  education  by  the  munificence  of  Sir  Andrew  Judd, 
Citizen  and  Skinner,  who  resided  some  time  in  the  neighbourhood 
of  Toubridge,  at  a  place  now,  and  then,  known  as  Bardeu.  In  1551 
he  gave,  iu  trust  to  the  Skinners'  Company,  certain  houses  and  lands 
for  this  purpose,  and,  in  1553,  obtained  letters  patent  from  Edward 
VI,  wh*ich  enabled  him  to  re-endow  and  perpetuate  iu  his  free  gram- 
mar school  those  advantages  which  the  inhabitants  and  the  county 
had  formerly  derived  from  the  disestablished  Priory  of  St.  Mary 
Magdalene. 

*  D.S.P.,  vol.  iv.,  pt.  1,  p.  656,  No,  1470  ;  Otford,  2nd  July  1525. 


THE     CHUPtCH    OP    ALL 
WOODCHURCH. 


SAINTS, 


BY   THE    REV.    F.    B.    WELLS    (eECTOR). 

I  AM  not  skilled  in  Arcliseology,  and  nothing  but  the  circumstance 
that  my  position  here  has  put  me  in  possession  o£  some  special 
knowledge  which  is  not  at  the  command  of  others,  would  have 
induced  me  to  describe  this  church.  I  shall,  I  think,  best  perform 
my  part  by  simply  drawing  attention  to  the  objects  of  interest, 
which  still  remain  ;  and  to  others  which,  although  decayed  beyond 
the  reach  of  restoration  when  the  church  was  repaired,  should  not 
be  forgotten. 

But  first  I  cannot  suppress  a  reflection  which  suggests  itself  at 
the  sight  of  such  a  building,  viz.,  how  it  came  to  be  built  at  all  of 
such  dimensions,  in  such  a  locality,  and  in  such  times.  Besides  a 
love  of  beauty  and  perhaps  a  feeling  of  laudable  ambition,  it  must  have 
required  a  liberal  heart  and  a  strong  will  to  strive  with  the  diffi- 
culties of  those  early  days,  to  bring  materials  from  the  isle  of  Port- 
land, or  perhaps  from  Caen,  in  order  to  carry  out  the  pious  design 
of  its  founder,  and  build  a  church  like  this  in  the  midst  of  wild  and 
tangled  woods — for  the  very  name  of  the  church  tells  us  the  charac- 
ter of  the  spot.  We  may  imagine  how  some  great  proprietor, 
enriched  perhaps  with  a  grant  of  land  for  military  or  other  services, 
but  looking  beyond  the  mere  gain  which  he  might  derive  from  the 
pannage  of  his  swine  in  the  wild  denes  of  this  wealden  district,  be- 


THE    CHtlKCH   OF   ALL    SAINTS,  WOODCHrRCH.    315 

thought  himself  of  the  spiritual  wants  of  his  dependants.  We  may 
imagine  how,  at  his  call  and  through  his  liberal  piety,  some  architect 
with  his  guild  of  masons  and  of  carpenters,  released,  perhaps,  from 
more  ambitious  work  at  the  mother-church  of  Canterbury,  made 
these  wild  woods  resound  with  the  axe  and  hammer,  and  raised  this 
"  Church  in  the  Wood"  to  the  glory  of  Grod,  where  many  a  genera- 
tion of  man  has  since  worshipped  during  a  period  of  some  eight 
hundred  years. 

In  sympathy  then  with  the  feelings  which  prompted  the  erection 
of  this  church,  let  ns  proceed  to  examine  it,  beginning  with  the 
belfry  and  Early  English  tower.* 

1.  Observe  on  the  exterior  the  dripstone  both  over  the  doorway 
and  the  window,  tei-minating  with  heads. t 

2.  The  west  window  is  new,  designed  by  Eerry,  who  was  em- 
ployed in  the  restoration  of  1858,  of  which  more  hereafter. 

3.  The  clock,  by  Dent,  was  a  gift  from  Mrs.  Schreiber.| 
"When  I  came  to  the  living  in  1841  I  found  the  belfry  boarded 

off  from  the  church,  and  a  huge  gallery  projected  as  far  as  the 
present  position  of  the  font.  (The  font  at  that  time  stood  near  the 
middle  of  the  nave.)  Beneath  this  gallery  was  a  balustraded  screen, 
very  ngly,  bearing  a  date,  1G97,  and  initials,  probably  those  of  the 
churchwardens,  R.  C.  and  J.  C.§  These  still  remain  on  the  present 
screen,  which  was  formed  out  of  the  old  materials.  All  this  was 
altered  shortly  after  I  came  here,  with  the  cordial  co-operation  of  the 
chiirchwardens.  At  the  same  time  a  flooring,  which  was  considered 
necessary  to  steady  the  ropes,  but  which  only  served  to  cut  the  west 
window  in  half,  was  replaced  by  the  iron  stays,  an  alteration  much 
opposed  at  the  time.  They  have  answered  the  purpose  perfectly 
well  for  nearly  forty  years,  and  the  plan  may  safely  be  adopted  in 
any  church  where  it  is  required.  I  mention  this  with  a  view  to  the 
reform  of  belfries  and  bellringing,  at  this  time  advocated  by  Mr. 
Knatchbull-Hugessen,  Rector  of  Mersham. 

Before  you  leave  the  belfry  you  should  observe  the  four  heads, 
two  again,  as  on  the  outside,  terminating  the  label  over  the  arch ;  and 

*  The  inscriptions  on  the  six  bells  are  as  follows  : — 1.  John  Clarke  and 
Gabriel  Richards,  Churchwardens,  17.55  ;  Lester  and  Pack,  fecit.  2.  1623, 
Josephus  Hatch,  fecit.  3.  Joseph  Hatch  made  me.  1608.  4.  Joseph  Hatch 
made  me.  1608.  5.  1608.  Joseph  Hatch  made  me.  6.  John  Clarke  and 
Gabriel  Richards,  Churchwardens,  17.5.3  ;  Lester  and  Pack,  London,  fecit.  The 
spire  leans  to  the  south,  about  eighteen  inches  out  of  the  perpendicular,  perhaps 
the  cause  of  the  large  buttresses. 

t  Can  any  opinion  be  given  of  these  heads?  Some  are  crowned  and 
well  executed. 

%  Date  of  gift,  August  1867. 

§  Richard  and  John  Clarke. 


346  THE   CHURCn   OF   ALL   SAINTS,  WOODCHURCH. 

two  on  the  pillars,  which  were  evidently  intended  to  terminate  a 
label  or  dripstone  over  the  S.  and  N.  blind  arches  which  was  never 
completed  ;  also  more  particularly  the  primitive  parish  chest,  which 
may  remind  the  classical  reader  of  the  "  AJjiiis  Cavnfa"  of  Virgil. 
I  only  wish  that  our  hollowed  tree  had  been  a  vessel  freighted  with 
some  documents  of  more  interest  than  a  few  old  bills  and  some 
carefully  kej)t  j)arish  books.  • 

The  FoifT, 
We  now  come  to  the  nave,  and  here  first  I  dr-aw  your  attention 
to  the  square  Early  Norman  font.  Its  sides  are  carved  with  shallow 
arcading,  and  it  stands  on  a  circular  stem  with  four  angle-shafts. 
It  was  removed  and  placed  as  it  stands  at  present  in  the  restoration 
of  1848.  At  that  time  the  whole  church  was  refloored  and  reseated 
with  oak,  besides  many  minor  repairs.  The  font  cover  was  given 
by  Mr.  Schreiber  ;  it  is  said  to  be  of  the  reign  of  Charles  II. 

The  Naye  Eoof. 
The  second  great  restoration  was  ten  years  later,  when,  in  con- 
sequence of  my  absence  from  illness,  Mr.  Arthvir  Cazenove  was 
acting  as  my  locum  tenens,  and  rendered  most  efficient  seiwice,  with 
Mr.  Eerry  as  architect,  and  Mr.  William  Smeeth  as  church- 
warden. The  nave  roof,  now  open  to  the  ridge,  was  then  entirely 
renewed,  and  the  west  window  restored. 

The  Nate  Pillaes. 
If  you  have  read  Sir  Stephen  Grlynne's  work,  or  rather  sketch,, 
on  our  Kentish  churches,  you  may  possibly  have  come  here 
with  the  expectation  of  finding  the  pillars  of  this  church  of  beauti- 
ful marble  ;  but  he  seems  to  have  been  deceived  by  appearances,  and, 
alas,  "  all  is  not  gold  that  glitters."*  I  am  obliged  to  confess  the 
truth  that  what  he  thought  to  be  marble  is  only  chart-rock,  scraped  and 
polished  some  forty-five  years  ago  with  a  preparation  of  beeswax  and 
oil  by  Mr.  W.  Smeeth,  a  most  zealous  and  indefatigable  churchwarden, 
known  for  many  good  works  of  a  less  deceptive  and  questionable 

*  Sir  Stephen  Glynne  says,  "  A  fine  churcli  ....  of  nave  with  N.  and  S.  aisles ; 
chancel  with  N.  and  S.  chapels,  of  which  the  southern  extends  wider  ;  a  west 

tower   and  north  porch The  north  porch  has  a  circular  staircase,   and 

within  it  is  a  stoup.  The  prevailing  features  are  very  good  Early  English,  and 
the  interior  is  deciderlly  grand  and  imposing.  The  nave  has  on  each  side  a 
good  arcade  of  four  arches,  with  pillars  of  black  Bethersden  marble  alternately 

circular  and  octagonal The  arches  have  hoods,  and  there  is  no  clerestory. 

....  The  north  and  south  walls  have  been  rebuilt  in  the  Perpendicular  period. 
....  The  chancel  is  a  remarkably  beautiful  piece  of  Early  English  work.     It 

has  a  fine  eastern  triplet  with  excellent  mouldings,  and  banded  shafts On 

the  north  are  three  lancets,  on  the  south  two,  set  on  a  string,  also  with  fine 
mouldings  and  shafts." 


THE    CHURCH   OF   ALL   SAINTS,  WOODCHURCH.    317 

chai'acter  than  this.  At  the  end  of  the  north-west  aisle  I  may  ask 
you  to  observe  two  small  flat-headed  lights.  AVhat  was  the  object  of 
them,  or  rather  of  the  recess  which  they  lighten  ?  "Was  it  intended 
for  a  priest's  room  ? 

In  the  south-west  aisle  the  two  lower  windows  were  copied 
exactly  from  the  originals.  The  window  (Decorated)  immediately 
to  the  east  of  the  south  door  I  must  be  responsible  for.  In  the 
north  wall  opposite,  the  doorway  leading  to  the  parvise  is  of  course 
new,  and  the  stonework  still  awaits  some  cunning  hand  to  carve  it. 

The  haudsome  north  door  was  made  in  1848  by  Mr.  Apsley  of 
Ashford,  copied  from  one  at  Peterborough  Cathedral. 
East  Exd  of  Nate;  and  the  Chajs^cel. 

I  will  now  request  your  more .  critical  attention  to  the  east  end 
and  chancel,  and  for  the  sake  of  convenience  I  will  include  the 
pulpit,  and  the  rood-loft  which  once  existed,  in  this  division  of  my 
subject.  I  must  appeal  to  the  knowledge  of  some  present  to 
correct  or  confirm  the  opinion  which  I  have  been  led  to  form  of 
this  part  of  the  structure  as  it  originally  stood,  from  certain  marks 
which  presented  themselves  in  the  walls  during  the  progress  of  the 
repairs. 

1.  But  before  I  do  this,  you  should  observe  the  beautiful  Per- 
pendicular oak  panels  (of  the  old  rood  screen)  which  now  form  the 
pulpit,  the  reading-desk,  and  organ-screen.  They  were  found  sadly 
mutilated  and  almost  concealed  beneath  the  deal  "Three-decker" 
(pulpit,  reading-desk,  and  clerk's  pew),  which  then  occupied  the 
site  of  the  present  pulpit,  and,  with  the  rector's  pew  or  room 
ojjposite,  almost  shut  the  altar  out  from  view. 

2.  I  call  your  attention  to  the  well-known  brass  of  Nicholas  de 
Gore,*  mentioned  by  Boutell  as  standing  seventeenth  in  point  of 
date  among  existing  brasses.  This  was  removed  from  the  middle 
of  the  centre  aisle  to  its  present  phice  for  the  sake  of  securit}^ 
The  stem  was  already  gone  when  I  came  here. 

Rood-loft  and  Two  Staiecases. 
Now  I  very  much  require  your  indulgence  and  assistance  as  to 
the  question  of  the  rood-loft,  of  which  the  only  parochial  tradition 

*  The  figure  of  a  priest  in  full  vestments,  standing  in  a  floriated  circle  of 
Flemish  workmanship.  Legend,  in  old  French,  in  Lombardic  characters,  a 
doggerel  rhyme,  circa  1320,  viz. : — 

Maistre  Nichol  de  Gore 

Gist  on  ceste  place 

Jhesu  Crist  prioms  ore 

Qe  Merci  lui  face. 


348  THE  ciiuiicn  of  all  saints,  woodchurch. 

that  I  ever  licard  is,  that  this  was  a  gallery  where  the  bows  and 
arrows  of  the  parish  were  kept  in  the  olden  times. 

I  must  ask  you  to  observe  closely  the  stone  steps  and  labelled 
doorway  N.W.  o£  the  chancel  arch,  which  lead  to  the  pulpit,  and 
which  were  walled  up  and  concealed ;  also  the  string  course  on 
the  wall  3|  feet  above  the  pulpit  doorway.  Now  between  this 
string  course  and  the  pulpit  door  there  were  found  in  the  wall 
distinct  marks  of  another  low  door,  such  as  a  wooden  sill  and  side 
post  with  iron  latch,  all  so  decayed  that  they  at  once  fell  to  pieces 
when  the  rubble,  which  filled  up  the  space,  was  removed.  Can  this 
lost  doorway  have  been  the  entrance  to  the  rood-loft  ?  I  must  ask 
you  to  look  carefully  at  another  door  and  staircase,  in  the  north 
wall  opposite,  which,  like  many  other  things  in  this  world,  now  lead 
to  nothing.  At  the  top  of  this  second  staircase  there  were  also 
traces  of  wood-work,  corresponding  with  those  already  mentioned 
as  existing  over  the  pulpit,  seeming  to  shew  that  a  slanting  gallery 
sprung  from  that  north  doorway  to  the  lost  doorway  above  the 
pulpit. 

On  this  point  I  should  mucli  like  the  opinion  of  experts,  as  I 
certainly  am  not  qualified  to  pronounce  an  opinion,  except  so  far  as 
I  am  guided  by  the  signs  or  traces  just  mentioned,  and  of  which  I 
can  speak  confidently,  although  they  are  now  lost  to  sight. 

Tablet  to  Mr.  Scheeibee,  in  the  N.E.  Chapel. 
Some  present  may  observe  with  interest  a  more  modern  work  in 
the  wall  of  the  N.E.  chapel.  I  mean  the  handsome  tablet  placed  to 
the  memory  of  the  late  Charles  John  Schreiber,  Esq.,  of  Henhurst, 
in  this  parish,  so  well  known  for  his  general  liberality,  but  to  be 
more  fitly  mentioned  on  this  occasion  as  the  munificent  donor  of 
the  greater  part  of  the  oak  timber,*  enabling  us  to  reseat  the 
church  with  material,  the  most  appropriate  in  this  county. 

High  Chakcel. 

We  now  proceed  to  the  high  chancel.     My   predecessor.   Dr. 

Nott,  gave  the  sum  of  £500  to  the  repair  of  this  chancel,  which  was 

all  expended  on  the  roof,  the  reredos,  and  the  altar-rail.     This  last 

is  one  of  the  happily  few  remaining  specimens  of  the  attempt  to 

*  I  understood  at  the  time  that  this  beautiful  oak  had  been  cut  into  planks 
and  seasoned  some  eleven  years  before,  and  was  intended  for  staircases,  doors, 
etc.,  in  a  new  building.  Apsley  told  me  it  was  worth  7s.  6d.  a  foot,  but  could 
not  be  purchased  anywhere  ;  he  valued  it  at  about  £80,  but  said  it  could  not  be 
valued  by  the  trade.  It  is  hard  as  metal.  I  ought  to  mention  that  Mr.  Peel 
Croughton  of  Heronden  gave  four  fine  oak-ti'ees  at  the  same  time. 


THE    CHUUCH    OF   ALL    SAINTS,  WOODCHTJRCH.    349 

supersede  the  handicraft  of  the  skilled  carver,  by  the  pressure  of 
wood  by  steam. 

lu  ^Yhat  I  have  called  the  great  restoration  of  1848,  the  old  floor 
of  the  chancel  was  removed,  and  the  ground-plan  of  the  original  floor 
then  exposed  was  followed  as  closely  as  possible  in  repaving  it  with 
the  present  encaustic  tiling.  The  large  Harlackenden  tomb,  which 
at  that  time  disfigured  the  X.  wall  of  this  chancel,  being  in  a 
very  dilapidated  stale,  was  rebuilt  in  the  S.E.  chapel ;  on  removing 
it  the  aumbry,  with  depressed  shoiilder'd  arch,  which  now  serves 
for  a  credence  table,  was  discovered ;  and  we  fitted  it  with  a  slab 
of  Bethersden  marble.  This  was  done  with  the  approval  of  Mr. 
John  Henry  Parker.  The  slab  is  a  good  specimen  of  the  difference 
between  the  Purbeck  and  the  Bethersden  or  Petworth  formation. 

The  fact  should  not  be  omitted,  in  speaking  of  the  floor  of  this 
chancel,  that  it  was  formerly  about  seven  inches  below  the  level  of 
the  nave,  from  which  it  was  descended  by  a  step.  The  line  of  this 
step  you  will  see  marked  by  a  row  of  encaustic  tiles. 

I  suppose  that  it  is  unnecessary  for  me  to  say  anything  of  the 
"  Squints,"  if  we  are  contented  with  plain  English  terms,  or 
Hagioscopes,  if  we  wish  to  display  our  learning.  In  the  centre 
window  you  will  see  the  only  remaining  piece  of  old  glass  of  any 
interest  in  this  church.  The  subject  appears  to  be  the  entomb- 
ment, probably  of  our  Lord  or  the  blessed  Virgin. 

Before  you  leave  this  chancel,  you  will  observe  the  beautiful  tre- 
foil arches  of  the  double  piscina;  and  next  to  them  the  three  sedilia. 
With  the  floor  at  its  present  level,  it  certainly  would  be  an  im- 
possibility for  any  one  with  legs  of  the  ordinary  length  to  sit  there. 

South  Chapels. 
I  speak  of  this  part  of  the  church  in  the  plural,  because  it  was 
formerly  divided  into  two  chapels.  This  is  shewn  by  the  stoup  in 
the  middle  of  the  south  wall,  and  is  further  proved  by  a  division  in 
the  roof,  which  was  originally  built  in  two  elevations.  These  chapels 
were  restored  in  the  second  or  third  year  of  my  incumbency. 

Altae-tombs. 
The  large  altar-tomb  in  the  middle  is  the  one  already  men- 
tioned as  removed  from  the  high  chancel.  It  is  raised  to  the 
memory  of  Thomas  Harlackenden,  and  on  the  top  of  the  marble 
slab  which  covers  it  (of  Purbeck,  not  Bethersden  marble)  you  will 
find  some  loose  brasses  to  the  memory  of  the  same  individual.  The 
Latin  legend  on  the  brass  border  round  the  tomb  is  modern,  and 
had  the  advantage  of  Archbishop  Howley's  valuable  criticism. 


350  THE  CHURCH  of  all  saints,  woodchurch. 

Behind  llii.s  stands  a  tomb,  in  tlic  corner,  against  the  8.  wall, 
though  not  so  handsoinc,  yet  far  more  interesting.  It  is  the  tomb 
of  Edward  A\'^at('rhouse,  of  whom  Mr.  Furley,  in  his  most  interest- 
ing history  of  the  Weald,  tells  us  that  he  was  Queen  Elizabeth's 
Chancellor  of  the  Excheqiicr.  The  legend  round  it  only  mentions 
that  he  was  one  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  Privy  Councillors  employed 
in  Ireland.*  He  died,  or  at  least  was  buried,  in  this  parish,  in  the 
year  1591.  If  I  had  time  I  could  tell  how  his  name  was  brought 
forward  in  the  House  of  Commons  during  the  discussions  on  the 
Disestablishment  of  the  Irish  Church. t  I  must  leave  the  armorial 
bearings  with  the  numerous  quarterings  over  this  tomb  to  those 
who  are  learned  in  such  matters. 

Again,  if  I  had  time,  I  should  have  wished  to  read  a  few  short 
extracts  concerning  one  Eoger  Harlackenden,  and  the  state  of  the 
parish  in  those  days,  copied  very  kindly  at  my  request  by  Canon 
Scott  Robertson  from  the  presentments  made  at  the  visitation  of 
Archbishop  AVarhara,  a.d.  1511.  I  am  afraid  they  will  not  do 
much  credit  to  the  Woodchurch  of  that  day,  and  may  possibly  dis- 
enchant some  of  our  friends  who  are  enamoured  Avith  the  supposed 
ideal  of  unity  and  concord  which  blessed  the  pre-Hef ormation  period. 

A.D.  1511. — Presentments  made  at  the  Visitation  of  ArchhisTiop 
TFarham  respecting  WoodcJmrcJi . 

That  Roger  Harlakinden  is  a  common  oppressor  of  his  neigh- 
bours whom  none  loveth. 

Item  that  he  is  meddling  of  many  matters,  and  will  check  the 
parson  and  the  priests  that  they  cannot  be  (at)  rest  for  him. 

Item  that  he  bringeth  into  his  house  regular  men  to  sing  mass 
in  an  oratory  with  him,  by  what  authority  we  cannot  tell. 

[He  denied  that  he  had  done  so  except  in  time  of  sickness, 
which,  in  his  opinion,  he  had  a  right  to  do.] 

Item  that  upon  St.  Thomas's  Day,  three  years  ago,  the  keys 
were  taken  away  by  him,  and  there  was  no  mass  nor  matins  sung 
there  that  day. 

[He  denied  that  he  was  the  person  who  withdrew  the  keys.] 

Item  that  he  jangleth  and  talketh  in  the  church  when  he  is 
there,  and  letteth  others  to  say  their  devotions. 

[He  denieth  this,  but  he  was  enjoined  that  in  time  of  service  he 

*  "  Echvardus  Waterhouse,  miles,  Eeginse  Elizabethae,  a  consiliis  Kegni  sui 
Hiberui^." 

f  He  married  Debora,  widow  of  Martin  Harlackenden,  1586,  and  lived  only 
five  years  after.    (Record  in  the  Parish  Chiirch  Register.) 


THE    CHURCH    OF   ALL    SAINTS,  WOODCHURCH.    351 

should  be  praying  sitting  in  his  scat,  and  not  talking  with  anybody 
in  the  church  under  pain  of  excommunication.] 

Item  that  the  chancel  hath  need  of  reparation  both  above  and 
beneath. 

[The  Rector  was  enjoined  to  do  all  tliat  was  necessary.] 

Item  that  the  body  of  the  church  is  unrepaired. 

[The  churchwardens  were  enjoined  to  repair  the  nave  before  the 
day  of  St.  John  Baptist.] 

Item  that  Thomas  Withersden  holdeth  two  women  suspiciously. 

[N.B.  He  has  now  left  the  diocese.] 

Item  that  the  executor  of  Wm.  Bocher  withdraweth  a  certain 
bequest  of  William  Harlackynden,  to  the  which  the  said  William 
Bocher  was  executor,  and  denieth  to  pay  it;  the  sum  of  20  marks, 
which  sum  Eoger  Harlackynden  as  executor  ought  to  pay. 

[Roger  H.  denied  his  liability,  and  the  churchwardens  failed  to 
prove  it  at  a  subsequent  court  held  at  Lydd.] 

Item  that  the  heirs  of  Margaret,  late  wife  of  John  Browne, 
withhold  a  chalice  of  40s.  and  a  lamp  of  20s.  from  the  church. 

[Paid.] 

Item  that  Robert  Scott  of  Halden,  executor  of  Robert  Typen- 
den,  oweth  for  a  bequest  of  R.  T.  £5. 

[Robert  Scott  is  dead,  and  there  is  no  hope  of  payment.] 

Item  that  the  same  Robert  Scott  oweth  for  a  bequest  of  Robert 
Brown  6s.  8d. 

The  only  other  object  to  which  I  need  draw  your  attention  is 
the  painted  window  above  you — not  so  much  however  as  a  work  of 
art,  as  a  just  tribute  to  the  memory  of  a  very  excellent  and  useful 
man,  Mr.  William  Smeeth,  and  for  thirty-five  years  our  active 
churchwarden. 

It  only  remains  for  me  to  express  the  gratification  which  your 
visit  to  this  church  has  given  us.  I  imagine  that  such  visits  must 
give  a  stimulus  to  those  Avho,  being  cut  ofl'from  the  busy  world,  may 
be  inclined  to  fall  asleep  in  these  out-of-the-way  corners  of  the 
land,  and  may  probably  excite  a  spirit  of  emulation  to  adorn,  or  at 
least  to  keep  in  ordei*,  these  sacred  edifices ;  and,  by  so  doing,  to 
promote  higher  aud  more  spiritual  feehugs  which  are  certainly  much 
needed  in  these  latter  days. 


352  THE  cuuRcn  of  all  saints,  woodchtjrch. 

NOTES. 

I  have  drawn  up  a  few  notes  relative  to  the  last  of  the  Clarke  family — 
once  famous  in  tliis  parisli  ;  and  also  a  speculation  on  the  strange  name  of  our 
inn,  the  Bonny  Cravat.     The  sign  is  unique  in  iMigland. 

Jn  the  '  Dictiounaire  de  I'Acadd'niie  '  I  find  : — "  Cravate,  sf.,  d'un  drapeau, 
rornenient  de  sole  brodu  d'or,  ou  d 'argent,  qu'on  attache  comme  une  cravate 
an  haut  de  la  lance  d'un  drapeau  ct  dont  les  bouts  sont  pendants"  (knot  of  a 
flagstaff ;  colour-knot). 

'•  Cravate,  sm.,  corruption  de  Create,  chcval  de  Croatie,  milice  a  cheval 
Ecgiment  dc  Creates." 

It  is  easy  to  infer  that  some  young  adventurer  from  Woodchurch,  a  second 
Captain  Dalgettj^  or  Butler  (see  Schiller's  "  Wallenstein,''  Coleridge's  transla- 
tion), enlisted  as  a  •'  free  lance"  in  this  Croat  Kegimont,  and  came  home  proud 
of  his  colours  and  his  service.  We  ought  to  have  as  a  sign  u  gallant  Croat, 
mounted,  bearing  the  colours,  instead  of  a  "  Neck-tie.''  "  Jenny,  come  tie  up  my 
Bonny  Cravat."  Larwood  and  Hotten,  in  their  history  of  "  Sign  Boards,"  seem 
just  to  have  missed  this  conjecture.  They  say  the  fashion  of  wearing  this 
article  of  dress  was  said  to  have  been  brought  over  from  Germany  in  the  seven- 
teenth century  by  some  of  the  young  French  nobility  who  had  served  the 
Emperor  in  his  wars  with  the  Turks,  and  had  copied  this  garment  from  the 
Croats. 

Clarke  Family. — A  few  years  ago  Lieut.-Colonel  James,  then  of  Hyde 
Park  Terrace,  called  on  me  in  company  with  Mr.  Terry,  churchwarden,  anxious 
to  discover  any  traces  of  the  Clarkes,  with  whom,  I  think  he  said,  he  was  con- 
nected by  marriage.  He  told  us  that  one  of  the  Clarke  family,  a  Royalist, 
served  with  James  II  in  Ireland,  and  afterwards  fled  with  him  to  France, 
where  he  rose  by  military  service  and  was  ennobled.  That  at  some  time 
early  in  this  century,  one  of  the  family,  I  understood  him  to  say,  the  "  Mar6- 
chal,"  visited  Woodchurch  and  inquired  about  the  family ;  that  being  a 
draughtsman  he  took  a  sketch  of  the  church,  and  that  in  the  portrait  of  this 
"  Marechal "  of  France  in  the  picture-gallery  at  Versailles,  forming  the  back- 
ground of  the  picture,  there  is  a  representation  of  this  church.*  A  probability  of 
this  story  is  found  in  the  following  circumstances  : — First,  I  found,  curiously 
enough,  in  reading  a  book  sent  to  me  unordered.  '  An  Inland  Voyage,'  by  R. 
Louis  Stevenson,  along  the  rivers  and  canals  in  S.  Belgium  and  N.  France,  the 
following  passage:  "At  Landrecies  (now  Cambray)  we  visited  the  church. 
There  lic.t  Marshal  Clarlte.  But  neither  of  us  had  heard  of  that  military  hero  ; " 
and  so  they  did  not  trouble  themselves  about  him  or  his  monument.  Judg- 
ing from  the  French  extract  below,  he  is  as  well  forgotten. 

A  Military  "  Vicar  op  Bray." 
"Clarke  (H.  Ju-Gu,  Due  de  Feltre),  homme  d'etat;  Landrecies  17G9-1818. 
II  fut  ministre  de  la  guerre  (1807)  sous  Napoleon,  qu'il  avait  et6  Charge  do  Sur- 
veiller  par  le  Directoire,  et  qu'il  abandonna  pour  Louis  XVIII,  qui  le  nomma 
une  seconde  fuis  ministre  (1815)  et  Marechal  de  France  (1816).  II  signa  I'acte 
d'accusation  centre  Ney  et  ce  fut  sous  son  miuistere  que  furent  constituees  les 
cours  prevotales." — Biographic  Portative  Unircrsclle,  Paris,  1853. 


COPIES  OF  INSCRIPTIONS. 
Thomas  Harlakynden. 
Here  under  this  tombe  restithe  in  the  mercy  of  God  the  bodyes  of  Thomas 
Harlakyuden  esquyer  Elizabeth  and  Margaret  his  wyves  trusting  on  the 
Resurrection  of  the  last  day  which  Thomas  decessyd  the  25  day  of  August 
Ann"  dom.  Mov'LVili  and  y^  said  Elizabeth  dyed  y'=  iii  day  of  Aprell  An° 
M^V^xxxix  and  Margaret  deceisid  y'  day  of  A"  M°v"^  on  whose 

soules  Jh'u  have  mercy. 

*  So  far  verified  :  in  the  autumn  of  last  year  my  sisters,  being  at  Versailles, 
at  my  request  inquired,  found  the  picture,  and  procured  me  an  engraving  of  it 
(now  in  my  possession),  with  Woodchurch  spire  in  the  distance. 


THE    CHURCH    OF   ALL   SAINTS,  WOODCHTJRCH.    353 

Legend  (modern  Latin)  round  the  tomb  (restored)  of  Thomas  Harlakynden. 

"  Hoc  monumentum  Thom?e  Harlackendeni  memorise  sacrum  vetustate  jam 
paene  dilapsum,  suis  impensis  rcficicudum  curavit  Thomas  Carolus  Burt  pi6 
solicitus,  ne,  marmore  dilapso,  veteris  ct  honestse  familiaj  mcmoria  ipsa  dilaba- 
tur." 

INSCKIPTION  ON  THE  BRASS  IN  FLOOR  OF  SOUTII  CHAPEL. 
"  Here  lyeth  the  bodie  of  Martin  Harlakiuden  esquier  whose  Christian  fayth 
was  well  approved  by  his  lyfe,  his  zeale  was  great  to  see  pure  religion  established 
with  a  full  and  perfect  reformation.  Blessed  art  thou  reader  and  whosoe  shall 
desire  the  same  to  the  Glorie  of  God,  he  died  the  vijth  of  Januarie  1584  leaving 
by  Dcbora  his  wife  y^  daughter  of  Thomas  Whetenhall,  Debora  Harlakinden 
his  only  child.'' 

Waterhouse  Inscription. 

"  Edward*  Waterhouse  Miles  Kegine  a  consiliis  regni  sui  Hibernise  Obiit  13  die 
Octobris  1591." 


WOODCHURCH   COMMUNION  PLATE. 
Communicated  to  me  by  Mr.  Wilfred  Cripps. 

I.  The  plain  chalice  (or  more  properly  the  Communion  cup)  on  conical  stem 
was  made  in  1635,  but  the  form  of  the  Hall-mark  (S.)  is  a  very  imusual  one. 
It  is  found  on  a  piece  of  plate  at  Clothmakers'  Hall,  London,  but  most  examples 
have  a  different  letter.  The  maker's  mark  is  I.A.G.  in  linked  letters,  and  is  not 
a  well-known  one.  W.  is  that  of  a  London  maker.  The  conical  foot  is,  probably, 
about  forty  years  younger  than  the  cup  ;  perhaps  it  was  repaired  about  1670  or 
1675.     The  paten  is  of  the  date  and  make  of  the  cup. 

II.  The  large  paten  on  a  foot  is  of  the  year  1707,  the  year  mentioned  in  the 
engraved  inscription.  It  was  made  by  a  silversmith  named  John  Boddington, 
who  also  made  the  flagon  at  North  Cerney  Church  near  Cirencester,  and  a 
coilee-pot  that  has  been  in  my  own  family  for  many  years.  He  was  a  well- 
known  maker.     It  is  of  the  higher  standard  silver  used  from  1697  to  1720. 

III.  The  tall  flagon  is  of  ordinary  silver,  made  in  1723,  the  year  of  the 
inscription  upon  it,  by  a  man  who  I  do  not  know,  but  who  made  an  alms  dish, 
given  in  this  very  same  year  to  St.  Margaret's  Church,  W^estminster,  and  other 
plate  of  the  same  period. 

IV.  The  dish  is,  alas,  of  pewter. 


YOL.  XIV. 


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WOODCIIURCn    NOTES. 

BY    CANON   SCOTT   ROBERTSON. 

EECTOES  OF  WOODCHUECH. 

EoBEET  DE  Norton  was  collated  to  this  rectory  by  Archbishop 
Eeyuolds  {Beg.,  £ol.  12=^)  iu  September  1314 ;  but  he 
resigned  it  in  the  following  year.  He  was  an  ecclesias- 
tical lawyer,  who  became  Dean  of  the  Arches ;  Eector  of 
Ickham  1322  ;  Eector  of  Ivycburcb  1323-25  ;  and  a  Canon 
of  Wingliam  1326. 

Egbert  de  Terrtkg  succeeded  Norton,  and  was  instituted  by  the 
same  Arcbbishop  {Beg.,  fol.  15'^)  in  July  1315.  He  died 
in  1321. 

Adam  de  Pentton,  "  medicns,''''  the  "  medical  chaplain  "  of  Arch- 
bishop Eeynolds,  was  by  him  collated  {Beg.,  fol.  28")  in 
May  1321.  He  was  promoted  to  the  rectory  of  Chartham 
early  in  the  spring  of  the  year  1323. 

EiCHARD  DE  Ktkton,  who  is  described  as  the  Archbishop's  servant 
or  household  chaplain  {familiaris  suits),  was  collated  in 
February  1322-3  (Eeynolds's  Beg.,  fol.  32'0. 

Nicholas  de  Gore,  tolwse  monumental  brass  7'emains  in  the  chancel, 
was  prohahly  Bector  here  at  about  this  period. 

EoGER  Dtggs,  Eector  of  Cuxton  (1327-33),  was  promoted  to 
Woodchurch  in  1333. 

William  de  Tunstall,  who  had  been  Eector  of  Ham,  held  the 
benefice  of  Woodchurch  for  some  time,  until  he  was 
promoted  to  the  rectory  of  Tunstall  in  October  13G1. 

*-Vf  -4^  ^  ^  ^ 

^  %/f  ^  TT  VT 

John  Satage  held  this  benefice  from  October  1375  (when  he  was 
collated  by  Archbishop  Sudbury,  Beg.,  fol.  115'')  until 
April  1386,  when  he  effected  an  exchange,  and  took  the 
Eectory  of  St.  Mary  Moses,  Friday  Street,  London. 

William  Dapur,  who  had  been  Eector  of  Adisham  for  a  day,  in 
March  1378-9,  and  then  Eector  of  Penshurst,  but  who  had 
become  Eector  of  St.  Mary  Moses,  Friday  Street,  ex- 
changed that  living  for  Woodchurch,  and  was  instituted 
by  Archbishop  Courtenay  {Beg.,  fol.  261'')  April  4th,  1386. 

John   Prien,   styled   "  magister "   because   he   had    obtained   the 


RECTORS   OF   WOODCHURCH.  355 

degree  of  Master  of  Arts,  or  one  of  higher  rauk,  held  the 
Rectory  of  Woodchurch  for  a  short  time.  He  resigned  it 
in  A.D.  1400. 

Thomas  Evekdon,  a  chajolain,  succeeded  Prien,  being  instituted  by 
Archbishop  Arundel,  January  24th,  1400-1  {Reg.,  i.,  273''), 
but  he  resigned  in  the  following  year. 

Matthew  Lytherland,  a  chaplain,  was  collated  by  Arundel  {Reg., 
i.,  282'^)  20th  of  April  1402,  and  held  the  benefice  during 
two  years.  In  those  two  years  he  proceeded  to  a  higher 
degree  at  his  University,  so  that  when  he  resigned  he  was 
styled  "  magister." 

William  Ttrell,  a  chaplain,  was  Lytherland's  successor,  being  col- 
lated on  the  9th  of  March  1403-4  (Arundel's  Reg.,  i., 
288»).     He  exchanged  with 

Hugh  Setue,  Eector  of  St.  Thomas  the  Martyr  at  Winchelsea, 
w^ho  was  instituted  Apx-il  20th,  1406  (Arundel's  Reg.,  i., 

307"). 

****** 

4E:  ^  ^  ^  ^  # 

Richard  Atkinson,  author  of  a  Commentary  on  the  Pirst  Epistle 
to  the  Corinthians,  was  Rector  of  Woodchurch  at  some 
time,  about  this  period,  but  the  date  is  uncertain. 

In  A.D.  1437,   William  Range,   a  chaplain  here,   was 
hiiried  in  the  church. 

John  Hawktns  was  collated  hither,  on  the  death  of  the  previous 
Rector,  by  Archbishop  Morton  {Reg.,  155'')  on  the  17th 
of  September  1493. 

Thomas  Mtlltng,  LL.B.,  on  tiie  death  of  his  predecessor,  was 
admitted  to  the  benefice  by  Archbishop  Warham  {Reg., 
fol.  365*^)  on  the  30th  of  April  1518  ;  but  in  the  following 
year  he  w^as  promoted  to  Chartham,  vice  Walter  Stonedean. 

Thomas  Welles,  Prior  of  St.  Gregory's,  Canterbury,  a  native  of 
Alresford,  Hants  ;  Fellow  of  New  College,  Oxford,  1484  ; 
Bishop  of  Sidon  1505,  and  for  six  years  suffragan  of  Can- 
terbury ;  became  Rector  of  Woodchurch  on  the  15th  of 
May  1519.  He  had  been  Rector  of  Heyford  Warreyn 
1499-1505  ;  Vicar  of  Holy  Cross,  Canterbury,  and  Rector 
of  Chartham  1508  ;  Arch-presbyter  of  Ulcombe  Church 
until  March  1512-13  ;  Vicar  of  Lydd  1514-23 ;  Rector  of 
Adisham  1523  ;  he  died  in  1526. 

Richard  Benger  probably  succeeded  Bishop  Welles  in  1526. 
He  died  in  1545. 

John  Ramsey  succeeded  Benger,  being  collated  by  Archbishop 
Cranmer  {Reg.,  fol.  396")  on  the  3rd  of  July  1545.  He 
died  in  September  1551. 

Thomas  Courthope  died  in  1553. 

William  G-wte  Avas  Rector  in  1554-5.  He  resided  outside  the 
diocese,  and  his  curate  was  named  John  Girdlsr. 

*  *  *  *  In  1560,  the  Rector  of  Biddenden  was  also 
Rector   of    Woodchurch.       I    cannot    clearly    ascertain 

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356  WOODCUURCH    NOTES. 

whether  this  was  Dr.  John  Leffe  (Eector  of  Biddenden 
1550-5)  or  hjs  successor. 

TuoMAS  Pett  was  collated  by  Archbishop  Parker  {Beg.,  fol.  3Gi'') 
on  the  4th  of  May  1564  ;  and  held  the  benefice  until  1579, 
when  he  resigned. 

Andrew  Dowle,  who  became  Rector  in  May  1579,  died  in  1582. 

RicuARD  Bird,  S.T.P.,  was  collated  in  1582.  He  held  the  Vicar- 
age of  Brookland  (1597-1609)  and  also  the  tenth  Pre- 
bendal  Stall  in  Canterbury  Cathedral  from  1590  until 
1609,  when  he  died. 

John  Bancroft,  S.T.B.,  succeeded  Dr.  Bird,  being  collated  by 
his  uncle  Archbishop  Bancroft  {Beg.,  fol.  291'')  on  the 
28th  of  June  1609.  During  twenty-four  years  he  held 
this  benefice.  Having  become  Bishop  of  Oxford  (June 
10th,  1632)  he  resigned  Woodchurch  in  1633.  He  re- 
tained, with  his  Bishopric,  the  Rectory  of  Biddenden 
(1610-40)  and  the  impropriate  rectorial  tithes  of  St.  Mary 
Cray,  but  he  gave  up  the  Rectory  of  Orpington  which  he 
had  held  from  a.d.  1608.  In  the  year  1633,  by  the  Pri- 
mate's license,  he  consecrated  a  chapel  in  the  dwelling- 
house  of  Sir  John  Sedley,  called  St.  Cleres,  at  Ightham,  on 
the  12th  of  October.  He  was  Master  of  University  Col- 
lege in  Oxford,  and  his  arms  impaled  with  those  of  the 
College,  and  also  with  those  of  Oxford  University,  are 
still  emblazoned  in  a  window  of  his  Rectory-house  at 
Orpington,  which  is  now  called  Orpington  Priory,  and  is 
the  residence  of  Dr.  Broome. 

Edward  Boughar  was  instituted  by  Archbishop  Abbot  {Beg.,  iii., 
201)  on  May  21st,  1633.  Mr.  William  Finch,  of  Wood- 
church,  wrote  thus  to  Sir  Edward  Dering  on  the  7th  of 
January  164^,  making  complaint  "  of  the  ministry  at 
Woodchurch,  performed  by  Mr.  Edward  Boughen,  with 
single  sermons  on  the  Lord's  days,  and  oftentimes  the 
only  reading  of  an  homily ;  and  in  his  absence,  without 
either"  ....  "his  exalting  the  Communion  Table  and 
compelling  the  churchwardens  to  rail  in  the  same,  refusing 
to  administer  to  such  as  came  not  thereunto ;  his  seldom 
warning  of  Communions,  viz.,  once  a  quarter  or  there- 
abouts ;  beside,  at  Easter  time,  his  walking  the  parish 
round  in  his  surplice  and  hood,  reading  prayers  and  psalms 
at  divers  crossways,  and  digging  crosses  in  the  earth  at 
divers  places  of  the  outbounds  of  the  same."  His  holding 
the  King's  Commission  of  the  Peace  was  made  a  matter  of 
complaint  by  the  parishioners  at  the  same  time,  and  he 
was  removed  from  his  benefice.  He  lived  until  the  Re- 
storation, and  was  then  reinstated. 
Stephen  Mun,  who  probably  succeeded  Boughen,  died  March  6, 

168f. 
Thomas  Huxley,   S.T.B.,   was  collated   by  Archbishop  Sancroft 
{Beg.,  fol.  403»)  on  the  10th  of  April  1684.     In  November 


RECTORS   OF    WOODCHURCH.  35? 

1685  the  Archbishop  issued  his  certificate  that  Stephen 
Mun  had  died  on  March  G,  16St,  and  that  Thomas  Huxley 
died  on  September  5,  1685  {Rer/.,  fol.  260^). 

John  Loye  was  collated  by  the  same  primate  {Beg.,  fol.  411*)  on 
the  1st  of  October  1685.     He  died  in  1688. 

Henet  Hughes,  Senior,  was  collated  by  the  same  Archbishop 
{Reg.,  fol.  425'>)  on  the  19th  of  January  168|. 

Henet  Hughes,  Junior,  died  in  1704. 

Edwaed  Beooke  became  Eector  September  30th,  1704.  He  died 
February  28,  1728-9. 

William  Geekie,  LL.D.  (whom  Hasted  erroneously  calls  John 
Geekie),  was  collated  3rd  March  172|.  He  was  Eector  of 
Southfleet  1729-67 ;  xlrchdeacon  of  Gloucester ;  and  Pre- 
bendary of  Canterbury  for  40  years.  Having  vacated 
Woodchurch  for  Cheveuing  in  i7|-|,  he  held  the  latter 
only  two  years.  When  he  died,  in  July  1767,  he  was 
buried  at  Ickham,  in  the  vault  of  the  Head  family  ;  his 
sister  having  married  Archdeacon  (afterwards  Sir  John) 
Head,  Eector  of  Ickham. 

Heebeet  Eandolph,  Eector  of  Upper  Deal  1726,  and  one  of  the 
Six  Preachers  in  Canterbury  Cathedral,  became  Eector  of 
Woodchurch  in  March  1729-30.  From  his  father,  who 
was  Eecorder  of  Canterbury,  he  inherited  an  estate  called 
Lessenden  in  Biddenden.  He  was  buried  September  8, 
1755,  in  Canterbury  Cathedral. 

Nicholas  Caetee,  S.T.P.,  was  collated  in  September  1755.  He 
held  also  the  Eectory  of  Ham,  together  with  this  benefice, 
and  the  Perpetual  Curacy  of  Deal  Chapel.  His  daughter, 
Elizabeth  Carter,  was  well  known  for  her  learning.  He 
died  October  23,  1774. 

John  Couetail,  Vicar  of  Burwash,  Sussex,  held  this  benefice  with 
that  vicarage  for  more  than  20  years,  being  admitted  to 
the  Eectory  of  Woodchurch  in  April  1775. 

Geoege  Mueeat,  who  succeeded  Courtail,  was  a  grandson  of  the 
Duke  of  Atholl.  He  became  Eector  of  Bishopsbourne  ; 
Dean  of  Worcester  ;  and  Bishop,  first  of  Sodor  and  Man 
(1813-27)  ;  and  then  of  Eochester  (1827-60). 

Cheistophee  Woedswoeth  ultimately  presided  over  Trinity 
College  at  Cambridge,  as  Master,  from  1820  to  1841. 

Geoege  Nott,  D.D.,  was  Eector  of  Harrietsham  and  of"  Wood- 
church from  1813  until  he  died  in  1841.  He  was  a  Fellow 
of  All  Souls,  Oxford ;  a  Prebendaiy  of  Winchester  ;  and 
Preceptor  in  English  History  to  the  Princess  Charlotte  of 
Wales.  He  resided  partly  at  Winchester,  and  partly  at 
Eome  ;  never  at  Woodchurch. 

Fkancis  Ballaeu  Wells,  the  present  Eector,  was  Private 
Secretary  to  Archbishop  Howley,  who  collated  him  to  the 
Eectory  of  Woodchurch  in  1841.  He  is  the  first  resident 
Eector  whom  the  pai'ish  had  seen  for  a  long  period ;  and 
he  has  done  very  much  for  the  fabric  of  the  church. 


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HARLAKENDEN  OF  WOODCHURCH. 

Mb.  G.  Steinman  Steinman,  witli  great  pains  and  industry,  col- 
lected all  the  evidences  which  lie  could  find  resjjecting  the  liar- 
lakendcn  family,  and  puhlished  the  complete  pedigree  in  the 
Topograplier  and  Genealogist,  vol.  i.,  pp.  228-258;  iii.,  215-223. 
He  however  had  failed  to  discover  that  in  1317  there  were  living 
Moyses  de  Harlakendeune  with  Juliana  his  wife,  and  William  de 
Harlakendeuue  with  Amanda  his  wife.  Probably  Moyses  and 
William  were  brothers.  They  had  dealings  with  Hamo  Colbraund, 
of  Eomuey,*  respecting  land  in  Hope  All  Saints  ;  and  between 
themselves  there  were  transfers  of  land  at  Shaddockshurst,  Ware- 
horn,  and  Orlestone.f  I  fear  that  the  earlier  entries  in  Mr.  Stein- 
man's  version  of  the  pedigree  require  a  good  deal  of  elucidation. 

Mr.  Steinman  says  that  the  ancient  inscription  formerly  in  the 
south  chancel  of  Woodchurch  Church,  w^hich  seemed  to  comme- 
morate William  Harlakeuden  as  having  died  April  30,  1081,  was 
really  inscribed  to  William  Harlakenden  who  died  in  1481.  His 
will  was  dated  April  20th,  and  proved  on  October  2ud,  1481.  This 
gentleman  in  1450  joined,  with  many  others,  in  Jack  Cade's 
rebellion. 

Mr.  Steinman  prints  an  inscription  from  a  monumental  brass, 
in  the  south  chancel,  which  bore  the  figure  of  a  man,  and  a  shield 
of  armorial  bearings  :  "  Hie  jacet  Eogerus  Harlakynden  Armiger 
filius  Will'i  Harlakynde'  qui  obiit  xxix  die  mens'  Martij  Anno  D'ni 
M'^  v<=  xxiij"  cujus  ai'e  p'piciet'  deus  Amen."  Against  him  com- 
plaints were  made  at  the  visitation  of  Archbishop  AV^arham,  in 
1511. 

Mr.  Steinman  thus  describes  the  tomb  of  Thomas  Harlakenden 
who  died  in  1558,  as  it  formerly  appeared,  before  the  chancel  was 
restored : — "  Against  the  north  wall  of  the  high  chancel ;  it  is  of 
Bethersden  marble.  It  has  a  canopy  over  it,  and  at  the  back  are 
figures  in  brass  of  a  man  kneeling  before  a  desk,  with  six  sons 
behind  him.  At  the  other  side  of  the  desk  are  figures  of  two  women 
kneeling,  the  first  being  attended  by  three  daughters,  the  last  by 
one.  Over  the  man  is  the  arms  of  Harlakenden.  Over  the  first 
woman,  Halakenden  impaling  (azure  ?)  a  cross  engrailed  ermine ; 
over  the  second,  Harlakenden  impaling  a  mullet  pierced." 

*  Archceoloqia  Cantiana,  XIII..  314,  .316. 
t  Ibid.,  XIIL,  315,  318. 


WOODCHURCH   NOTES.  359 

Martin  Harlakenden,  who  died  in  January  1584-5,  left  an  only 
child  and  heiress  Deborah,  who  in  May  1602  married  Sir  Edward 
Hales.  She  inherited,  from  her  father,  only  one  moiety  of  his 
estate,  together  with  the  mansion-house  called  Hendon.  The  other 
moiety  of  the  estate,  together  with  the  manor  of  Harlakenden,  aud 
Woodchurch  Place  House,  were  bequeathed  by  Martin  Harlakenden 
to  his  widow  for  her  life  (she  lived  until  1611),  and  after  her  death, 
to  his  cousin  "Walter,  son  of  Zaccheus  Harlakenden,  of  Ufton  in 
Tunstall. 

I  find  that  one  Thomas  Harlakenden  was  churchwarden  of 
Asliford  in  1552  ;  perhaps  he  was  the  gentleman  whose  tomb  at 
"Woodchurch  is  above  mentioned.  The  pedigree  does  not  enable  us 
to  identify  Henry  Harlackendeu,  whose  daughter  married  William 
Glover,  and  became  the  mother  of  Susan  Glover  who  married  John 
Phillipot,  the  herald,  in  1612. 

During  the  first  years  of  the  Great  Eebellion,  Richard  Harla- 
kenden and  bis  first  cousin  William,  both  of  Earls  Colue  in  Essex, 
were  active  supporters  of  the  Parliament.  They  were  grandsons  of 
Roger  Harlakenden  of  Kenardington,  steward  of  Edward  Earl  of 
Oxford,  from  whom  he  purchased  the  manor  of  Earls  Colne,  in 
September  1583.  Roger's  heir,  his  second  son  Richard,  who  pur- 
chased the  Priory  at  Earls  Colue  in  1592-3,  was  father  of  the  Par- 
liamentary Deputy-Lieutenant,  Richard  Harlakenden.  Roger's  third 
son,  Thomas,  was  father  of  William  Harlakenden,  of  New  House, 
Earls  Colne,  another  Deputy-Lieutenant  for  Essex.  In  August 
1613  he  was  deputed,  by  the  Essex  Committee  at  Colchester,  to 
attend  the  general  meeting  at  Cambridge.  William  Harlakenden 
was  an  active  leader,  aud  rendered  much  assistance  to  Cromwell 
during  that  month.  In  1654  the  degree  of  LL.D  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  the  University  of  Cambridge. 

Those  who  desire  to  investigate  the  pedigree  thoroughly  must 
refer  to  Mr.  Steinman's  elaborate  version  of  it.  Eor  the  conve- 
nience of  general  reference  the  following  condensed  sketch  of  it  is 
here  given : — 


360 


wooDcnuRcn  notes. 


PEDIGREE  OF  IIARLAKENDEN  OF  WOODCHURCH. 
Arms. — Azure,  a  f esse  Eriitinc  hctnrin  three  lions'  Iwads  erased  Or. 
William  narlakcudcn.=T= 

Thomas 

I 
William  (of  Woodchurcb  A.D.  1286). 

John  (A.D.  U2(\). 

I 
Thomas  (a.d.  1408). 

Moyses.=^Petronella. 


William,=:Alice  (or       3.  John  (of =p Joan        Robert,  of  Halden.=Agnes. 
ob.  1481.     Elizabeth).    Warehorn).  j  Willes.     Will  1469. 


2      I        1  I  1        _ 

Alice,  d.=^Eoger,=pl\rargaret,     Godleve.     Thomas,-T-Juliana.     John.=pJoane 


of  Ric. 

Cole- 

peper. 


ob. 
1523. 


d.  &  h.  of 
Guy  Ellis, 
ob.  1479. 


ob.  1476. 


Phillipes. 


1  2  I  I  M  1 

Thomas,=pElizabeth^Margaret      Robert.     John.     Joan.     Mildred. 


ob.l558, 
ast.  81, 


Watno, 
ob.l539. 


Draper, 
widow. 


Alice. 


I         1  2 

George,=Mary,  d.  of  Sir=Elizabeth,  d.  of 
ob.l565.   Jno.  Guldeford.     Thos.  Hardres. 


Roger.        William. 
Thomas.     Francis. 


I       1  2  1  II 

Martin,=Jaue  Cope.=^Deborah,  d.  of  Thos.     Margaret. =:  John  Letyce. 

ob.  o.  s.p.  I  Whetenhall,       ob.      o.   s.p.  Crispe,  — 

1584-5.  1611.     Remar.    Sir     1576.  of  Katharine. 

I  E,  Waterhouse.  Quex. 

Deborah,  d.  and  h..  mar.  1G02.=fSie  Edward  Hales. 


^ 


M        III 

Robert,  of^Alice,  d.  of     Peter.     Elizabeth. 


Bridge, 
ob.  1557. 


John  Seath        — 
of  Milton.      Alex. 


Anne. 
Margaret. 


Thomas,= 
of  Ware- 
horn. 


:Mary  =^Elizabeth,  d. 
Londe-  and  coh.  of 
noys,  of  Hugh  North- 
Brede.  wood  of  Cal- 
lis  Court,  in 
Thanet. 


John,  of  New=pJane  Bringbourne,     William,  of    Roger,  of    Alice. =Henry 
Romney.  of  Faversham.  Earls  Colne,    Kenard-  Thomp- 

I  ob.  1605.         ington,  son. 

]  and  Earls 

Colne  ob. 
1603. 

William  of  Little  Yeldham,  ob.  1659.  4- 

A 


George.=f= Fra.  Latham. 


HARLAKENDEN  OF  WOODCHURCH. 


361 


Bridget,  d.  of=pWalter,= 
John    Astley  |  of  Uf- 
of  Melton        j  ton,  in 
Constable  Tun- 

and  Ufton,       [  stall  ob. 
ob.  lofiy.  ,  1603. 


=Susan  Roper,=Cicely,  d.  and  h. 
sister  of  1st  of  John  Wygan, 
Lord  Teyn-  widow  of  Rio. 
ham,  ob.  1587.    Burston  of  Shorue. 


Anne.:=Christopher 
Redwood. 


Zachcus,=pMargaret  Trollop.      Dorotliy      Jonathan 
nat.  1566,     ob.  1603.  '      (o.  inf.).      (o.  inf.). 

ob. 1603. 


Janc.=:Hen.  Clifford 
mar.  1587, 
Dec.  26. 


Walter,  of  Wood-= 
church,  ob.  162-8. 


=Paulina,  d.  of  Sir  Thos.       Michael, 
Colepeper,  ob.  1625.  ob.  1596. 


Anne,       Susanna, 
ob.l603.  ob.  inf. 


Elizabeth,^Thomas,=j=Philippa,  d.  of  1st      Elizabeth.      Mary. 


ob. 1681. 


ob.  1689,  I  Lord  Colepeper. 
set.  CA. 


Katherine.     Paulina. 


Thomas, 
ob.  1675. 


George,  living=pAnne.  Rebekah,:=Rev.  Thos.     Elizabeth, 

1699.  Sold  the   I  ob.  1706.      Wrightson,    nat.  1662. 
Woodchurch      I  rector  of  E.  — 

estate.  ]  Horsley.         Walter,  liv- 

I  1  T  ing  1689. 


Gilbert,        William, 
nat.  1683,      ob.  inf. 


Katherine, 
nat.  1685. 


II  III 

Henry,        Walter,  nat.  1577,=^Jane,  d.  of  Elizabeth,  mar.     Sarah.    John, 

ob.  1601.      ob.  1620.  ]  Thos.  Proude.      Thos.  Awdley. 


Silvester  of  Ufton,=pElizabeth,     Thomas,      Roger,=:Elizabeth,  d.  of     Susanna. 
ob.  1659,  ast.  54.       I  d.  of  Thos.     nat.  nat.  Rev.  Francis 

I  Stringer.         1606.  1612.       Rogers,  D.D. 


Walter,         Silvester,  =f:Blizabeth.     Rebecca.     John.     Mary, 
ob.  inf.      nat.  16il, 

ob,  1678-9.  Martha. 


James.     Sarah. 


Thomas,  ob.  1674, 
bur.  at  Tunstall. 


I  I 

Silvester,  of  Ufton,  nat.  1676,  hanged  1704       Joel,  ob.  inf. 
for  the  murder  of  Robert  Wincoll,     He 
had  sold  Ufton,  a  few  years  before. 


(     362     ) 
SMALLIIYTnE  CHURCH. 

BY   THE    REV.    FKANCIS    HASLEAVOOD. 

Tuis  church,  dedicated  to  St.  Jolni  tlie  Baptist,  is  about  three  miles 
from  Tenterdeu.  According  to  Hasted,  it  was  first  licensed  by 
Arcbbisbop  Warhani,  5  May  1509,  on  the  petition  of  the  inhabitants 
on  account  of  the  distance  from  their  parish  church,  the  badness  of 
the  roads,  and  the  danger  from  floods.  Power  was  also  then  given 
of  burying  in  this  chapel-yard  the  bodies  of  those  who  were  cast  by 
shipwreck  on  the  shore  of  the  sea  "  infra  predictum  oppidum  de 
Smallhythe:"  from  this  it  appears  that  the  sea,  or  an  estuary  at  least, 
came  up  to  this  place  so  lately  as  the  year  1509.  There  is  als(? 
reference  to  Smallhythe  as  a  haven  as  early  as  Edward  III  (Furley, 
ii.,  338). 

The  chapel  is  an  interesting  specimen  of  brickwork,  the  mullions 
of  the  windows  are  of  the  same  material,  its  chief  feature  being  the 
two  stepped  gables,  east  and  west  of  the  building.  There  is  a  stoup 
within  the  porch,  and  a  w^ooden  screen  which  forms  the  chancel. 
The  roof  is  well  formed,  though  this,  as  well  as  the  rest  of  the 
building,  sadly  needs  the  restorer's  hand. 

Walker,  in  his  '  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy  '  (p.  378),  relates  how 
Thomas  Tournay,  rector  of  Wittersham,  was  sequestered  from  his 
living.  He  suffered  a  great  deal  of  persecution,  and  being  called  to 
Tenterden  to  answer  some  accusations  against  him,  was  obliged  to 
borrow  a  horse,  which  was  unbroken  and  unmanageable.  The  man 
who  furnished  the  animal  advised  Mr.  Tournay  not  to  ride  with 
spurs.  He  was  acquitted  on  certain  charges,  and  sent  home.  After 
his  departure  messengers  were  despatched  to  overtake  him,  the 
noise  of  whose  approach  set  the  young  horse  running  down  a  hill 
called  Small  Hith  Street ;  his  bridle  broke,  and  his  horse  threw  him, 
just  opposite  the  church. 

This  furnished  his  enemies  with  grounds  for  certain  imputations 
against  him,  the  charge  being  "  that  at  such  a  time  he  got  drunk 
at  Tenterden,  and  coming  home,  as  he  came  by  Small  Hith  Church, 
he  alighted  from  his  horse,  and  fell  down  on  the  ground,  and  wor- 
shipped the  church." 

Over  the  porch  at  the  west-end  is  a  small  niche,  possibly  in  this 
was  placed  some  image,  before  which  Tournay  was  uniustlv  accused 
of  prostrating  himself. 


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CHAPEL  AT  HOENE'S  PLACE,  APPLEDORE. 

BY    CANON    SCOTT   ROBERTSON. 

On  Appledore  Heath  stands  the  aueient  mansion  of  Home's  Place, 
now  used  as  a  farm-house.  At  its  south-eastern  angle  there 
remains,  in  fair  preservation,  a  small  domestic  chapel,  built  towards 
the  end  of  the  fourteenth  century.  It  is  now  used  as  a  barn  for 
wool. 

The  character  of  many  of  its  architectural  details  is  remarkable, 
and  they  are  probably  unique  in  England.  Sir  Grilbert  Scott  said 
that  the  architect,  who  designed  them,  was  probably  a  Frenchman, 
and  certainly  a  poet.  Sir  Gilbert  ti'aced,  in  all  the  carving,  forms 
of  the  leaves  or  flowers  of  the  Lesser  Celandine,  a  wild  plant  which 
blooms  abundantly  in  the  neighbourhood  during  the  spring.  So 
much  did  he  commend  the  beauty  of  this  very  small  chapel,  that 
Mr.  Benjamin  J.  Scott  (then  of  Sevenoaks,  now  of  Addiscombe) 
caused  careful  drawings  and  plans  of  the  building  to  be  made. 
These  he  has  generously  placed  at  my  disposal,  and  from  them  the 
accompanying  plates  have  been  prepared. 

Among-  the  domestic  chapels  remaining  in  Kent,  I  know  of  none 
which,  on  the  whole,  excelled  this  in  simple  beauty  and  originality 
of  design.  At  Leeds  Castle,  the  chapel  retains  few  of  its  original 
details  ;  in  the  Mote  at  Ightham,  the  earlier  of  the  two  chapels  has 
good  features,  but  they  liave  suffered  more  from  age  and  neglect 
than  Home's  Chapel  has  done.  Perhaps  the  chapel  at  Old  Sore 
more  nearly  resembled  this.  At  Knole,  the  chapel  is  of  much  later 
date. 

Such  domestic  chapels,  called  oratories,  were  not  uncommon  in 
the  Middle  Ages  ;  but  none  could  be  used,  for  Divine  service,  until 
the  bishop  of  the  diocese  had  granted  hia  license  to  that  effect. 
Consequently,  by  searching  the  Registers  of  the  Archbishopric,  I 
discovered  that  in  November,  1366,  Archbishop  Langham  granted 
to  William  Home,  of  "  Apoldre,"  permission  to  hear  Divine  service 
in  his  oratory  here.*  At  that  period  the  stiffer  vertical  lines,  of 
Perpendicular  architecture,  were  beginning  to  supplant  the  more 

*  Langham's  Register,  folio  48*. 


364        CHAPEL    AT    nORNE's    PLACE,  APPLEDOUE. 

flowing  and  j^raccful  lines  of  the  Decorated.  Of  this  fact  the 
chapel  at  Tlorne's  Plaee  riiniishes  an  example. 

It  stands  upon  a  crypt,  which  is  six  feet  high  in  the  clear,  lighted 
by  two  small  rectangular  windows,  deeply  splayed ;  one  at  the  east 
end,  and  the  other  at  the  west.  This  crypt  was  originally  entered, 
from  the  south  side,  by  descending  four  steps  to  a  doorway  in  the 
south-west  corner.  It  is  now  used  as  a  cellar,  and  a  doorway  from 
the  house  has  been  made  through  its  north  wall. 

The  area  of  the  interior  of  the  chapel  itself  is  about  22  feet  by 
12  ;  and  its  clear  height  is  about  23  feet,  from  the  floor  to  the  apex 
of  each  of  the  three  arched  and  moulded  principals  of  the  boarded 
roof.  The  ridge  of  the  roof  is  five  or  six  feet  higher.  The  door- 
ways are  two  ;  one  at  the  north-west  corner,  by  which  Mr.  Home's 
family  entered  the  chapel  from  the  house  ;  the  other,  in  the  west 
wall  at  its  southern  end,  is  the  external  entrance,  approached  by  an 
ascent  of  three  or  four  steps.  The  latter  doorway  is,  in  the  clear, 
about  6  feet  high  and  2^  feet  wide  ;  it  has  round  shafts,  with 
moulded  caps  and  bases.  The  segmental  arch  of  its  head  springs 
not  from  the  shaft-caps  but  from  vertical  stilts,  which  rise  a  foot 
above  the  caps. 

Of  the  four  windows,  those  in  the  north  and  south  walls  are 
alike,  and  partake  more  of  the  Decorated  style ;  while  the  large  east 
window,  and  the  small  one  in  the  west  wall,  are  decidedly  Perpen- 
dicular in  character.  The  latter  window,  placed  high  up  in  the 
west  wall,  has  two  cinquef oiled  lights,  with  a  square  head  (to  which 
the  central  muUion  runs  np),  and  on  the  exterior  a  square  label  with 
its  ends  returned. 

The  north  and  south  windows  have,  each,  three  seven-foiled 
lights,  with  shafted  mullious  of  Decorated  character.  On  the 
exterior  the  labels  are  ogeed,  but  have  rather  depressed  curves ;  on 
the  interior,  the  hood-moulding  of  each  window  is  formed  of  four 
curves,  crowned  by  afinial  which  some  consider  to  represent  a  horse- 
shoe, on  which,  instead  of  nails,  seventy-seven  round  beads  are 
carved.  This  finial,  4  inches  high  and  nearly  4  inches  broad,  is 
shewn  on  the  plate  of  details.  I  do  not  myself  think  that  the 
architect  intended  it  to  suggest  any  idea  of  a  horse-shoe.  The  stop, 
with  which  the  hood-mould  dies  away  into  a  simple  hollow,  is  ex- 
tremely peculiar.     Two  views  of  it  are  shewn  on  the  plate  of  details. 

The  eastern  window  (now  bricked  up)  has  a  central  seven-foiled 
iight,  flanked  by  two  lower  five-foiled  lights,  with  shafted  mullions, 
which  extend  through  the  tracery  (of  quatrefoils  and  triangles)  to 


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the  window  arch.  The  exterior  hood-mould  is  capped  by  a  cross 
with  round  ends  as  a  finial.  On  the  interior,  the  hood  has  only  a 
simple  hollow  moulding,  in  which,  at  the  level  of  the  mullion  caps, 
there  is  a  stop  similar  to  them.  Sir  Grilbert  Scott  traced,  in  these 
caps  and  stops,  a  resemblance  to  the  flower  of  the  Lesser  Celandine 
(when  stripped  of  its  petals)  crowning  its  slender  stem. 

The  boarded  roof  is  very  richly  moiilded.  Its  three  arched 
principals  spring  from  corbels,  of  clunch  or  fine  chalk,  on  each  of 
which,  embedded  in  a  cluster  of  the  heart-shaped  leaves  of  the 
Lesser  Celandine  (said  Sir  Grilbert  Scott),  is  carved  a  shield  (having 
ogeed  cusps  at  its  three  angles)  4  inches  high  and  3  inches 
wide,  charged  with  one  Katherine  wheel.  This  is  clearly  an  intima- 
tion that  the  chapel  was  dedicated  to  St.  Katherine,  who  in  England 
was  one  of  the  most  popular  of  Saints.  The  suggestion  that  it  bore 
some  allusion  to  the  arms  of  the  Scotts,  of  Scots  Hall,  is  quite  in- 
admissible. The  Scotts  bore,  on  their  armorial  shield,  three  Kathe- 
rine wheels  within  a  bordure.  Their  family  had  no  connection  what- 
ever with  Home's  Place,  when  this  chapel  was  built ;  nor  was  the 
Home  family  connected  by  marriage  with  the  Scotts. 

A  curious  "  squint,"  or  long  slanting  hagioscope,  is  pierced  through 
the  southern  wall  of  the  chapel,  at  about  7  or  8  feet  from  the 
ground  outside.  This  is  one  of  the  peculiar  features  of  the  build- 
ing. Its  external  aperture  is  2  feet  square ;  and  tlirough  it  venti- 
lation could  be  effected  when  none  of  the  windows  could  be  opened  ; 
through  it,  also,  the  priest  could  see,  and  communicate  with,  any 
one  outside  (which  he  could  not  do  through  the  windows,  so  high 
are  they  in  the  walls).  From  the  outside,  no  persons  could  look 
into  the  chapel,  through  this  squint,  unless  they  were  mounted  upon 
some  external  gallery  or  stage. 

The  family  of  Home  flourished  at  Eomney  and  Appledore  dur- 
ing the  thirteenth,*  fourteenth,  and  fifteenth  centuries,  but  it 
disappeared  from  that  district  before  the  end  of  the  sixteenth.  In 
Eomney  Marsh  there  was  a  bridge,  called  Home's  Bridge,  which 
was  taken  down  in  1393. 

King  Edward  I,  when  at  Eomney  in  1276,  granted  to  Matthew 
de  Home  a  piece  of  land  upon  which  he  might  construct  a  quay. 
He,  or  one  of  the  same  name,  also  possessed  the  manor  of  East  Home, 
in  the  hundred  of  Blackheath. 

"William  Home,  who  in  1366  obtained  the  Archbishop's  licence 

*  In  A.D.  12G0  Roger  de  Hornc  was  steward  of  the  Earl  of  Gloucester  for 
the  Lowy  of  Tun  bridge.     {Hundred  Boll,  Farley's  Hist,  of  the  Weald,  ii.,  128,) 


366       CHAPEL   AT    IIORNe's   PLACE,    APPLEDORE. 

to  hear  Divine  service  within  his  oratory  at  Appledore,  held  much 
land  there,  from  the  Priory  of  Christ  Church,  Canterbury.  He  was 
made  a  Justice  o£  the  Peace  in  1378,  and  perhaps  on  that  account, 
or  on  account  of  his  connection  with  the  church  lands  around,  his 
house  was  one  of  those  which  Wat  Tyler's  adherents  attacked  and 
broke  into  in  1381.  Two  figures,  formerly  painted  in  a  window  of 
Appledore  Church,  seem  to  have  represented  him  and  his  wife. 
Beneath  them  were  the  names  of  "William  Ilorne  and  Margaret  his 
wife.  We  do  not  know  how  he  was  related  to  Edmund  Home  who 
represented  Canterbury  in  Parliament  from  1382  to  140G ;  nor  to 
Richard  de  Home  who  probably  resided  at  Lenham,  and  was  a  man 
of  consideration  in  the  hundred  of  Calehill  in  1381. 

William  Home's  successor  was  Henry  de  Home  (probably  his 
son),  who  was  elected  to  represent  Kent  in  Parliament  in  October 
1404.     He  served  as  Sheriff  of  Kent  in  1406. 

The  family  seems  to  have  had  three  branches.  In  1426,  among 
the  gentlemen  of  Kent  were  numbered  Henry  Home  of  Appledore, 
John  Home  of  Lenham,  and  Eichard  Home  of  Westwell.* 
According  to  the  Digges  pedigrees,  a  few  years  later  one  James 
Home  of  Home's  Place,  dying  in  1442,  left  only  a  sister  Juliana, 
wife  of  John  Digges,  who  was  his  heir.  How  this  could  be  does  not 
appear.  Certainly,  Home's  Place  in  Appledore  continued  in  the 
Home  family  for  more  than  a  century  after  that. 

Robert  Home,  who  was  in  1455  a  trustee  for  the  transfer  of 
Eastmarsh,t  in  Appledore  and  Kenardington,  represented  Kent  in 
Parliament  in  1460.  He  served  the  office  of  Sheriff,  also,  in  1452, 
and  seems  to  have  been  the  head  of  the  family  at  Appledore.  Tet 
the  pedigrees^  place  G-ervase  Home  in  that  position  about  a.d.  1451. 
The  children  of  Gervase  were  Henry,  William,  and  Margeria,  who 
married  James  Dering  of  Lyminge.  Henry  Home  (son  of  Gervase) 
had  three  sons,  Gervase,  Robert,  and  Henry.  Gervase,  the  eldest, 
was  admitted  to  the  freedom  of  the  town  and  port  of  New  Romney, 
in  April  1478;  and  lived  until  the  14th  Feb.  151|.  His  two  sons 
were  young  children  when  he  died ;  Roger  bom  in  1505,  and  Thomas 
in  1507.  Roger,  the  elder  of  the  two,  married  Ann,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Ashburnham  (by  his  wife  Elizabeth  Dudley).  In  1525, 
while  Roger  Home  was  still  a  minor,  under  age,  John  Shery,  Rector 
of  Kenardington,   resigned   his   benefice.     Young  Roger  was  the 

*  Fuller's  Worthies,  ii,,  87. 

t  Close  Roll,  33  Henry  VI,  memh.  4. 

j  British  Museum  Additiomd  MS.  5.521. 


CHAPEL   AT    HORNE's    PLACE,  APPLEDORE.        367 

patron  ;  and  consequently  his  guardian,  Sir  Edmund  Walsingham, 
presented  Hugh  Fresell  to  the  living.  Fresell  was  instituted  by 
Archbishop  Warham  on  the  28th  of  January  1525-6.  As  the 
advowson  was  appendant  to  the  manor,  we  must  suppose  that  the 
manor  of  Kenardington  was  possessed  by  the  Home  family  before 
1525.  Hasted  says  (vii.,  26)  thatEoger  Home  purchased,  in  1533 
(24  Hen.  VIII),  that  manor  in  Kenardington  the  seat  of  which  has 
ever  since  been  called  (like  the  original  mansion  in  Appledore) 
Home's  Place;  but  he  must  be  in  error  respecting  the  date.  Eoger 
Home  seems  to  have  been  an  active  country  gentleman.  In  July 
1528  he  and  John  Bell  of  Appledore  went  to  Sir  Edward  Guldeford 
at  Eolvendeu  to  complain  of  the  lewd  sayings  of  John  Crake,  parish 
priest  of  Brenzett,  who  was  in  consequence  committed  to  Maidstone 
Gaol.*  "When  a  royal  loan  was  levied  for  Henry  VIII,  in  1542, 
Eoger  Home  contributed  £10;  and  this  was  among  the  later  acts 
of  his  life.  His  will  was  made  on  the  8th  of  June  1543.  He  died 
before  Kenardington  Church  was  ruined  by  lightning.  His  son 
Henry  must  therefore  have  been  the  lord  of  the  manor  who  contri- 
buted so  largely  (as  Hasted  says)  to  the  reconstruction  of  that 
church  in  1559-60. 

Of  the  four  children  of  Eoger  Horne  only  two  left  any  issue. 
Henry,  his  eldest  son  (who  married  Katherine  Moyle),  died  on  the 
6th  of  June  1565,  leaving  an  only  child  and  heiress  Benett  Horne, 
then  but  five  years  old.  She  married  Eichard  Gruldeforde,  a  Eomau 
Catholic,  who  refused  to  take  the  oath  of  supremacy  required  by 
the  Grovernment  of  Elizabeth  ;  he  fled  (in  1570, 12  Eliz.)  into  exile ; 
was  attainted ;  and  died  at  Eouen  in  1586.  His  wife  died  at 
Brussels  in  1597,  leaving  no  issue. 

Eoger  Home's  daughter  Katherine  survived  until  New  Tear's 
Day,  1609.  She  had  married  Thomas,  third  son  of  Sir  Walter 
Mantel),  and  she  left  issue  by  him  ;  but  the  forfeited  estates  at 
Appledore  and  Kenardington  could  not  be  regained  for  her  children. 
Home's  Place  in  Appledore  was  granted,  by  the  Queen's  Grovern- 
ment, to  Philip  Chute ;  and  Home's  Place  in  Kenardington  to 
Walter  Moyle. 

*  Fuiiey's  History  of  the  Weald  of  Kent,  ii.,  451. 


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hethospective  observations 

RESPECTING 

A   HOARD   OP  ROMAN  COINS  POUND  IN 
THE   SAND   HILLS,   NEAR   DEAL. 

By  C.  Roach  Smith,  P.S.A. 

The  late  Mr.  W.  H.  Rolfe  of  Sandwicli  had  in  his 
collections  of  local  antiquities  some  hundreds  of  small 
brass  Roman  coins,  found  in  the  sand  hills,  or  downs 
(dunes),  near  Deal,  to  which  my  attention  has  been 
lately  called  in  thinking  over  the  events  of  the  day 
when  I  first  visited  him  and  Richborough  and  Re- 
culver.  They  possess  an  interest  which  at  that  time 
I  had  not  trained  myself  to  understand ;  neither  did 
I  see  it  when,  some  years  afterwards,  a  notice  of  them 
was  printed  in  the  Numismatic  Chronicle^  vol.  ii., 
p.  259.  Mr.  Rolfe  himself  and  Mr.  Akerman  could 
never  have  thought  on  the  somewhat  important  his- 
torical and  local  value  of  the  hoard,  for  only  a  list  of 
the  reverses  of  the  coins  is  published,  without  any 
note  or  comment.  The  number  is  not  stated ;  but  it 
must  have  been  some  hundreds.  They  are  now  in  the 
cabinet  of  John  Evans,  Esq.,  LL.D.,  etc. 

I  have  lately,  in  the  Numismatic  Chronicle^  and 
elsewhere,  drawn  consideration  to  the  fact  of  the  very 
frequent  discovery  of  hoards  of  coins  ranging  from 
the  time  of  Valerian  (a.d.  254-260)  and  Gallienus  to 
that  of  Tetricus  and  Aurelian ;  the  coins  of  Tetricus 
and  of  the  young  Csesar  his  son,  as  well  as  those  of  the 


ROMAN  COINS  BURIED  NEAR  DEAL  cirCa  A.D.  271.   369 

preceding  Emperors  being  very  numerous,  while  usually 
there  are  only  a  very  few,  sometimes  only  one  or  two, 
of  Aurelian  (a.d.  270-275).*  This  from  the  Deal  sand 
hills  corresponds  with  them. 

The  inference  I  draw  is  that  all  these  hoards  were 
buried  at  one  and  the  same  time ;  and  that  was  at  the 
close  of  the  usurpation  or  reign  of  Tetricus  (a.d.  267- 
272),  when  his  army  in  Gaul  was  recruited  largely 
from  Britain.  The  soldiers  and  recruits  could  carry 
with  them  what  silver  and  gold  they  possessed ;  but 
the  copper  coinage,  being  heavy  and  cumbersome,  was 
concealed  in  the  earth  circa  a.d.  271.  The  expedient 
was  good  and  safe  provided  they  returned  to  Britain ; 
but  the  frequent  discoveries  I  allude  to  shew  that 
many  never  again  recrossed  the  channel. 

The  discovery  of  this  hoard  of  coins  has  a  local  as 
well  as  an  historical  interest.  The  district  of  the 
Deal  sand  hills  resembles  that  of  the  neighbourhood  of 
Etaplesf  on  the  northern  coast  of  Erance,  where,  some 
years  since,  an  extensive  Boman  vicus  was  found 
beneath  accumulated  sand,  the  residence,  no  doubt,  of 
an  establishment  of  fishermen.  A  close  examination 
of  the  Deal  sand  hills  would  probably  confirm  my 
belief  that  the  land  they  cover  was  also  tenanted  by 
the  Bomans.  Mr.  Bolfe  had  in  his  possession  some 
remains  collected  in  this  district  by  M.  Lejoindre 
which  indicated  habitation. 

*  Cf.  Collectanea  Antiqua,  vol.  v.,  p.  150  ;  Numismatic  Chro- 
nicle, v.,  157. 

t  Collectanea  Antiqua,  vol.  i.,  p.  4. 


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ON   KENTISn   EOOD-SCEEENS. 

BY    CANON    SCOTT    ROBERTSON. 

The  rood-screens  remaining  in  Kentish  churches  are  not  enriched 
with  pictorial  illumination,  such  as  we  find  in  Norfolk  and  Suffolk  ;* 
nor  crowned  with  graceful  rood-lofts,  like  those  at  Banwell,  Queen 
Camel,  Trent,  and  other  churches  in  Somersetshire,  nor  are  they  so 
numerous  as  those  in  Devonshire.  Nevertheless,  in  thirty  or  more 
of  our  Kentish  churches  ancient  rood-screens  are  still  to  be  found  ; 
and  good  examples  of  parclose  screens  are  numerous,  throughout 
the  county. 

It  is  true  that  Shoreham  Church  is  the  only  one  in  the  county, 
wherein  the  screen  is  still  crowned  by  the  floor  of  its  ancient 
rood-loft ;  but  to  several  of  the  existing  Kentish  rood-screens, 
peculiar  interest  attaches.  Few  rood-screens  in  England  rival  in 
antiquity  that  in  Northfleet  Church,  which  is  of  the  Decorated  period. 
Eew  churches,  again,  have  rood-screens  which  extend  completely,  and 
continuously,  across  the  entire  width  of  the  nave  and  both  its  aisles, 
(like  the  wooden  screen  at  Combe  St.  Nicholas  in  Somersetshire 
and  the  stone  screen  at  Totnes,  in  Devon,)  as  do  those  at  East- 
church  in  Shepey,  and  Leeds  near  Maidstone.  In  both  these 
Kentish  screens,  the  upper  part  of  each  bay  is  not  simply  one 
pierced  rectangular  panel,  but  a  group  of  four  or  more  cusped  and 
arched  lights,  surmounted  by  tracery,  all  combined  within  one  em- 
bracing pointed  arch  ;  thus  each  bay  resembles  a  good  window,  of 
four  lights  or  more.  This  feature  is  notable  not  only  at  East- 
church,  Leeds,  and  Shoreham,  but  also  at  Tonge,  Hernehill  by 
Faversham,  Hacking-ton  St.  Stephens,  Challock,  Heme,  and  in  such 
other  Kentish  screens  as  bear  the  most  evident  traces  of  having 
formerly  been   crowned  with  rood-lofts.      Mr.  Bloxam  has  called 

*  "  The  number  of  screens  [in  Norfolk]  which  are  gorgeously  adorned,  not 
only  in  the  ordinary  way,  that  is  with  rich  colours  in  the  tabernacle  work,  re- 
lieved l>y  white  and  gold,  but  also  with  full  length  and  very  beautiful  figures  at 
the  bases  of  the  screens,  is  very  remarkable,''  e.g.,  at  Trimingham,  Trunch,* 
Worstede,  Cawston,  Aylsham,  North  Walsham,  and  Edingthorpe.  (Geo.  A. 
Poole,  in  Yorlahire  and  other  Associuted  Architectural  Societies''  Eeports, 
1850-1,  p.  97.) 


ON    KENTISH    ROOD-SCREENS.  371 

attention  to  this  window-like  appearance,  as  a  peculiarity  of  the 
screen  at  Leeds  ;*  but  it  is  not  unusual  in  Kent,  nor  in 
Somerset. 

Ancient  rood-screens  still  remain,  in  situ,  in  the  churches  o£ 
"Wrotham,  Chislehurst,  Harrietsham,  Boughton  Blean,  "Wouldham, 
"West  Wickham,  Erith,  Stalisfield,  Harty,  Longfield,  Cuxton,  Small- 
hythe,  E-yarsh,  and  Appledore,  as  well  as  in  the  churches  abeady 
mentioned.  At  Iwade  the  screen,  although  not  mj  situ,  is  still 
preserved  in  the  south  aisle.  In  the  north  aisle  of  Challock  Church, 
and  likewise  in  the  north  aisle  of  Heme  Church,  there  is  a  screen 
of  remarkably  good  design,  the  top  of  which  bears  indubitable 
traces  of  a  rood-loft  which  has  been  removed.  We  know  that  there 
were  such  rood-lofts,  in  side  aisles  of  some  churches.  In  Ashford 
Church,  for  example,  two  such  lofts  were  erected  in  a.d.  1472 ; 
one  in  the  north  aisle,  and  another  in  the  south  aisle. f  A  screen  in 
the  north  aisle  of  the  mother  church  of  Shepey,  at  Minster,  does 
not  (I  think)  bear  such  evident  traces  of  a  loft.  The  rarningham 
rood-screen  existed  until  the  church  was  restored,  about  ten  or 
twelve  years  ago,  when  it  was  removed.  The  lower  panelling 
alone,  but  well  carved,  remains  at  Headcorn  ;  and  in  ClifBe  at  Hoo. 
The  chancel-screen  at  Wingham  (destroyed  about  ten  years  ago) 
had  never  been  a  rood-screen.  It  was  erected  about  a.d.  1682. 
At  Ivychurch,  and  at  Maidstone  All  Saints,  the  returned  stalls  of 
the  choir  divide  the  nave  from  the  chancel,  without  any  screen. 

New  chancel-screens,  modelled  from  ancient  rood-screens,  have 
been  inserted  in  the  churches  of  Adisham,  Frinsted,  Eodmersham, 
Preston  by  Wingham,  Cowden,  Q-odmersham,  and  other  parishes. 

Among  the  numerous  examples  of  Parclose  screens  in  Kent, 
rare  relics  of  Decorated  woodwork  remain  at  TIpchurch  and  at 
Newington  by  Sittingbourne ;  others  at  Swanscombe  and  Old 
Romuey  are  nearly  as  old.  Later  medieval  screen-work  is  found 
at  Eaiuham,  Dartford,  Ightham,  Heme,  Murston,  Chislehurst, 
Horsmonden,  Biddenden,  Cobham,  East  Peckham,  Lamberhurst,  St. 
Mary  Cray,  Staple,  Grill ingham,  St.  Nicholas  at  Wade,  Eodmershan, 
Erinsted,  and  elsewhere. 

*  Mr.  Matthew  H.  Bloxam  says  :  "  In  Leeds  Church,  Kent,  the  open  screen- 
work  resembles  a  series  of  pointed  arched  windows  filled  with  mullions  and 
tracery.  This  is  the  only  instance  of  the  kind  I  have  met  with  in  screenwork." 
{Proceedings  of  Lincoln  and  Associated  Architectural  Societies  for  1874, 
vol.  xii,  p.  179.) 

f  William  Whyte  of  Ashford  by  his  will,  dated  November  6th,  1472,  be- 
queathed 40s.  "  to  the  new  work  of  the  roodloft  in  the  two  aisles  of  the  said 
church  ;  20s.  for  each  aisle." 

B    B    2 


372  ON    KENTISH    ROOD-SCREENS. 

I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  a  majority  of  the  rood-lofts,  which 
formerly  existed  in  Kent,  were  erected  during  the  fifteenth  century, 
and  many  of  them  during  the  second  half  of  it.  The  stair-turrets 
and  doorways  leading  to  rood-lofts,  in  very  many  churches,  are 
evidently  insertions  made  about  that  period.  The  wills  of  Kentish 
men,  made  during  the  same  period,  abound  with  bequests  for  the 
erection,  or  adornment,  of  such  lofts.* 

After  the  accession  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  rood-lofts  were  for  the 
most  part  destroyed.  Some,  however,  remained  at  the  time  of  the 
Archdeacon's  Visitation  in  the  year  1560;  when  the  churchwardens 
"  presented  "  that  rood-lofts  still  stood  in  the  churches  of  Faver- 
sham,  Bishopsbourne,  Q-oudhurst,  Sandhurst,  Brenzett,  and  Bid- 
denden. 

Eastchurch  Eood-sceeen. 

The  screen  at  Eastchurch,  which  is  shewn  in  the  annexed  plate, 
reduced  from  an  admirable  drawing  by  Mr.  Edward  J.  Tarver,  suffers 
greatly  from  the  loss  of  its  rood-loft.  To  supply,  to  some  extent, 
the  obvious  lack,  the  present  rector,  Mr.  Dickson,  has  caused  a 
neat  cresting  to  be  affixed  to  the  top  beam.  This  screen  is  about 
46  feet  long,  and  consists  of  eleven  unequal  bays ;  five  spanning 
the  nave,  and  three  across  each  aisle.  Three  of  these  bays  are 
occupied  by  folding  doors  of  the  same  pattern  as  the  rest  of  the 
screen.  Each  bay  consists  of  a  pointed  arch  (springing  from  slender 
round  shafts  wdth  moulded  caps  and  bases),  the  upper  part  of  which 
contains  mullions  and  transomed  tracery  like  a  window.  In  each  of 
nine  bays,  there  are  four  lights,  arched  and  five-cusped ;  surmounted 
by  tref oiled  triangles  above  which  runs  a  transom,  supporting 
minute,  trefoiled,  arches.     Two  bays,  however,  one  on  each  side  of 

*  In  1464  William  Saundyrs  of  Elham  left  20s.  for  the  cost  of  painting  "  the 
rodeloft"  there.  William  Dane  of  Throwley  bequeathed  3s.  4d.  towards  making 
the  roodloft  in  his  parish  church  in  1471.  Alexander  Goddard  of  Murston,  by 
his  will,  made  in  October  1473,  left  6s.  8d.  "to  the  work  of  the  church  there, 
videlicet  le  rodeloft."  Robert  Wybarn  of  Sittingboume,  on  the  25th  of  January 
1473-4,  left  directions  for  his  feoffees  respecting  making  in  the  parish  church 
"  one  bastard  roffe,  or  painting  the  rodeloft."  The  little  church  of  Stone  near 
Faversham,  now  a  ruin  in  which  the  chancel  walls  seem  to  contain  Roman 
masonry,  possessed  a  roodloft,  and  to  its  reparation  no  less  a  sum  than  40s.  was 
bequeathed  by  Robert  Lavender  of  Stone  in  his  will  made  on  the  24th  of  May 
1474.  The  erection  of  aisle  lofts  at  Ashford  in  1472  is  mentioned  in  the  previous 
note.  In  1488  John  Fane  of  Tonbridge  left  10  marks  to  the  erection  of  a  rood- 
loft  provided  it  was  built  within  two  years.  At  the  Visitation  of  Archbishop 
Warham,  in  1511,  the  churchwardens  of  Hartlip  "presented  that  John  Adowne 
oweth  to  the  painting  of  the  roodloft  £6."  At  Smarden  a  new  rood-loft  was 
made  in  1508  ;  and  in  the  same  year  James  at  Well  bequeathed  20s.  "  to  the 
new  paynting  of  the  new  roodlofte  "  at  Wingham. 


ON   KENTISH   ROOD-SCEEENS.  373 

the  central  doors,  are  much  wider  than  the  rest ;  and  their  arches 
contain  seven  ciuquefoiled  lights,  surmounted  by  tracery  similar  to 
that  in  the  other  bays.  Tliis  feature  of  the  Eastchurch  screen  is 
unique,  in  Kent.  The  Eev.  K.  Henry  Dickson,  the  rector,  has 
caused  the  whole  screen  to  be  put  into  thoroughly  good  order  by 
Forsyth  of  London  at  a  cost  of  £160,  raised  by  subscription. 

The  Leeds  screen,  although  it  spans  all  three  aisles,  is  not  so 
handsome  as  that  at  Eastchurch.  It  has  the  same  number  of  bays, 
but  they  are  equal  in  width  (or  nearly  so)  ;  and  each  is  pierced  with 
four  lights  only,  surmounted  by  simpler  tracery  without  transoms. 
At  Tonge  the  screen  across  the  chancel  arch  has  remarkably  good 
tracery,  with  sloping  transoms  in  it,  above  the  four  lights  of  each 
bay ;  and  the  Hackington  screen  is  similar,  though  its  tracery  is  not 
so  rich. 

The  more  common  character  of  screen,  having  simple  rec- 
tangular panels  pierced  each  with  one  cusped  light,  is  found  at 
Appledore,  Ryarsh,  and  Smallhythe,  where  perhaps  there  were  no 
rood-lofts. 


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THE    CHURCH    OP    ALL    SAINTS, 
EASTCHURCH  IN  SHEPEY. 

BY    CANON    SCOTT    ROBERTSON. 

The  Church  of  All  Saints  at  Eastchurch  has  especial  interest  for 
antiquaries  and  students  of  architecture,  because  the  date  of  its 
erection  is  known.  During  the  ninth  year  of  King  Henry  VI,*  in 
November  1431,  the  chief  parishioner,  William  Cheyne,  esquire,  of 
Shirland,  obtained  the  King's  license  (needful  to  override  the  law  of 
mortmain)  to  give  three  roods  of  land,  to  the  Patronsf  of  East- 
church  E/Cctory,  in  order  that  a  new  parish  church  might  thereon 
be  built. 

The  soil  of  Shepey,  being  London  clay,  affords  no  enduring 
foundation  for  any  edifice.  Houses  and  churches  erected  on  it  are 
in  continual  peril  from  the  subsidence  of  the  soil ;  their  walls  crack 
in  all  directions,  unless  artificial  foundations  are  deeply  and  solidly 
laid  before  any  building  is  commenced.  The  royal  license  granted 
to  "William  Cheyne  mentions  the  fact  that  the  old  church  at  East- 
church  had  gone  to  ruin  "  by  reason  of  the  sudden  weakness  of  the 
foundation."  Consequently,  before  the  Abbot  of  Boxley  began  to 
build  a  new  church,  ujDon  the  fresh  site  given  by  William  Cheyne,  he 
caused  deep  and  solid  foundations  of  chalk  to  be  laid.  Wherever  a 
wall  was  to  stand,  a  wide  trench  was  dug,  some  feet  deep,  and  it  was 
filled  with  solid  blocks  of  chalk,  brought  from  the  mainland  of  Kent ; 
thus  firm  foundations  were  obtained.  Still  further  to  support  the 
walls,  diagonal  buttresses  were  constructed  at  every  angle  of  the 
building  ;  and  three  porches  (north,  south,  and  west)  were  erected, 
with  diagonal  buttresses  at  each  of  their  angles ;  aiFording  much 
additional  support  to  the  walls  and  to  the  western  tower.  Eew 
parish  churches  possess  so  many  buttresses  in  an  equally  limited 
space.  Their  number,  however,  adds  greatly  to  the  handsome  ap- 
pearance of  the  fabric,  which  stands  well,  on  that  high  ridge  of  hill 

*  Patent  Roll,  9  Henry  VI,  part  2,  memb.  4. 

f  It  should  be  noticed  that  the  land  was  not  given  to  the  parish,  but  to  the 
patrons  of  the  benefice,  namely  to  the  Abbot  and  Convent  of  Boxley. 


ALL   SAINTS,  EASTCHURCH,  SH  EPE.Y, 
IN   A.D.  1850. 


EAST    END    OF  ALL  SAINTS,  EASTCHURCH,  SHEPEY, 
I N   A.D.   I88C. 


THE    CHURCH   OF   ALL   SAINTS.  375 

which  runs  through  the  entire  length  of  the  Isle  of  Shepey.  The 
annexed  plate  shews  the  exterior  of  the  building,  as  it  appeared 
thirty  years  ago.  Through  the  efforts  of  the  late  rector,  stone 
was  given  by  R.  S.  Holford,  Esq.,  and  a  special  church  rate  being 
granted  for  the  purpose,  a  comely  wall  was  erected  around  the 
churchyard  in  1863,  instead  of  the  old  palings ;  and  the  waterbutts 
shewn  in  the  plate  were  removed  ;  they  indicated  the  great  scarcity 
of  water  which  is  felt  in  Eastchurch  at  certain  seasons. 

When  the  new  chui'ch  was  built,  in  1432,  some  windows  of  the 
old  edifice  seem  to  have  been  preserved.  The  western  porch  has 
small  windows  of  early  character ;  and  the  western  windows  of  the 
two  aisles  seem  to  be  of  the  Decorated  period,  each  of  two  lights. 
Of  the  earlier  church  and  its  site  nothing  is  known.  Late  in  the 
twelfth  century  it  had  been  appropriated  to  the  Cistercian  Abbey 
of  Dunes  in  Elanders.  Pope  Celestine's  confirmation  thereof  is 
dated  1196.  The  earliest  record  respecting  it  at  Lambeth,  is  the 
institution  of  William  de  Wylton  to  the  benefice,  on  the  presenta- 
tion of  the  Abbot  and  Convent  of  Dunes,  in  August  1279.  An 
endowment  for  a  vicar  was  granted  by  that  Abbey  in  June  1300 ; 
when  glebe  land  measuring  11^  acres  was  assigned  to  him,  together 
with  a  sum  of  8s.  per  annum.  The  benefice  had  previously  been 
sequestrated  by  Archbishop  Winchelsey ;  perhaps  he  thereby 
compelled  the  Abbey  to  endow  a  vicarage. 

The  ancient  family  of  Shirland  was  flourishing  at  that  period, 
and  the  knight  whose  tomb  is  a  chief  feature  in  the  mother  church, 
at  Minster,  was  then  resident  at  Eastchurch.  The  story  of  his  tragic 
end,  as  caused  by  his  horse's  head,  has  been  made  familiar  to  all,  by 
Barham,  in  his  Ingoldshy  Legends.  William,  Vicar  of  Eastchurch, 
was  concerned  in  some  settlements  of  the  Shirland  family,  drawn 
up  perhaps  at  the  time  of  a  marriage.  He  had  been  trustee  or 
feoffee  of  the  manor  of  Uf ton  in  Tunstall ;  which  (by  Fine  No.  144, 
4  Ed.  II)  he  granted  in  1311,  to  "  Robert  de  Shirlaunde  "  and 
Katherine  his  wife. 

A  few  years  later,  the  Cistercian  Abbey  of  Dunes  transferred 
their  rights  of  Patronage  here  to  the  Kentish  Cistercian  Abbey  of 
Boxley.  This  transfer  was  consummated  on  the  8th  of  the  ides  of 
June  1315 ;  when  Archbishop  Reynolds  caused  the  Abbot  and 
Convent  of  Boxley  to  be  duly  inducted,  into  all  the  rights  of  the 
rectory  and  advowson. 

The  Northwode  family,  at  that  period,  held  large  possessions  in 
Eastchurch,     Sir  Roger  Northwode's  chaplain,  Richard  Sheme,  who 


376  THE   CHURCH   OF   ALL   SAINTS, 

became  vicar  here  in  June  1353  was,  on  one  occasion,  required  to 
testify  that,  from  the  very  early  marriage  of  Sir  Roger  to  Juliana 
de  Say,  their  first  cliild  Sir  John  de  Nortlnvode  was  baptized,  iu 
1321,  before  Sir  Koger  had  completed  the  fifteenth  year  of  his  age. 

The  burials  of  the  Shirlauds  and  the  !Nortliwodes  in  the  mother 
church  at  Minster,  shew  that  for  a  long  period  Eastchurch  did  not 
possess  the  full  rights  of  a  parish  church.*  The  royal  licence  granted 
in  1431  to  William  Cheyne,  whose  ancestor  had  married  the  heiress 
of  Shirland,  distinctly  states  however  that  it  was  at  that  time  fully 
privileged,  as  a  distinct  parish,  church.  Yet,  in  1473,  Eobert 
Manne,  of  Eastchurch,  making  his  will,  directed  that  he  should  be 
buried  in  the  Minster  Churchyard  iu  Shepey.  His  bequests  to 
Eastchurch  are  peculiar.  To  the  high  altar  there  be  left  6d. ;  to 
the  light  of  our  Lady  in  the  High  Quire  he  bequeathed  "  a  moder 
shepe  ;"  and  likewise  to  the  High-Cross  Light  "  one  moder  shepe." 
These  ewes  were  to  be  hired  by  one  of  the  farmers  of  the  parish, 
who  would  pay  for  the  use  of  each  an  annual  rent  sufl&cient  to 
supply  with  oil  one  lamp  in  the  church  throughout  the  year.  Eobert 
Manne  also  bequeathed  one  moder  shepe  to  the  Brotherhood  and 
Light  of  "  Seynt  Jamys  of  Warden." 

The  church  built  in  1432  was,  as  we  can  still  attest,  fully 
worthy  of  a  parish  which  was  inhabited  by  the  lords  of  Shirland, 
and  connected  with  the  great  family  of  Northwode.  It  has  a  nave 
and  chancel,  each  with  two  aisles  ;  a  western  tower  and  three  porches. 
The  nave  arcades,  each  of  five  bays,  have  octagonal  shafts,  with  fluted 
sides  hollowed  to  a  concave  surface  ;  while  the  caps  and  bases  shew 
similar  laborious  curves.  The  arches  are  moulded  in  two  orders, 
with  a  deep  hollow  between.  The  chancel  arch  is  four-centred. 
The  side  chancels  do  not  extend  so  far  eastward  as  the  high 
chancel ;  provision  is  therefore  made  (by  means  of  an  ogee-arched 
squint,  or  hagioscope,  on  each  side)  for  affording  a  view  of  the  high 
altar  to  any  one  placed  near  the  side  altars.     Projecting  much  from 

*  The  importance  of  these  rights  may  be  illustrated  by  the  following  inci- 
dent. In  1355,  at  the  complaint  of  the  Abbess  of  St.  Sexburg  in  Shepey,  Wm. 
de  Riphull,  Vicar  of  Leysdown  Parish  Chapel,  was  admonished  by  Archbishop 
Islip's  legal  auditor,  and  fined,  for  burying  certain  bodies  in  his  churchyard  at 
Leysdown,  and  receiving  fees  for  so  doing.  These  fees  were  due  to  the  mother 
church  of  Minster  Abbey,  whither  the  bodies  were  ordered  to  be  canied.  The 
burial  fees  in  question  were  : — for  John  Sanders  3^d.  ;  Joan  Gamone  TJd. ; 
Juliana  daughter  of  John  Aleyn  3d. ;  Elias  Spaylard  3d.  ;  John  Feyre  4d.  ;  and 
Joan  daughter  of  John  Hauckyn  2Jd.  Nevertheless,  within  fifteen  years  this 
"  parish  chapel  of  Leysdown  "  was  described  as  the  "  parish  church  of  St.  Clement 
in  Shepey,"  when  John  Mere  of  Rainham  was  admitted  to  be  its  vicar  in 
January  1370. 


EASTCHURCH    IN    SHEPEY. 


377 


the  base  of  the  northern  hagioscope,  or  squint,  there  is  carved  iu 
the  stone  a  very  shallow  circular  basin.  Mr.  E-.  C.  Hussey  calls  it 
a  piscina,  and  thought  it  had  a  drain-hole,  but  there  has  never  been 
any  orifice,  and  the  peculiar  position  precludes  any  possibility  of  a 
drain.  Mr.  Matthew  Bioxam  has  drawn  attention  to  a  similar  shallow 
basin,  which  is  attached  to  an  Easter  sepulchre,  in  East  Kirkby 
Church,  Lincolnshire.*     He  says  that  they  were  offertory  basins 


OFFERTORY-BASIN,   ATTACHED  TO   AX  EASTER  SEPULCHRE,   IN 
EAST   KIRKBY  CHURCH,   LINCOLNSHIRE. 

wherein  the  devout  deposited  their  offerings,  upon  special  occa- 
sions, for  special  objects.  At  Eastchurch  the  basin  is  gone  from 
the  south  chancel,  which  was  for  many  years  used  as  a  day-school ; 
it  must  have  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  altar  there,  attached  to 
the  squint ;  but  in  the  north  chancel,  its  relation  to  the  squint  places 

*  "  I  shall  conclude  by  a  few  brief  remarks  on  a  curious  stone  ofEertory 
basin  in  East  Kirkby  Church,  Lincolnshire.  This  is  fixed  to  and  forms  a  portion 
of  the  structure  called  the  Holy  Sepulchre,  placed  on  the  north  side  of  the  chan- 
cel ;  and  this  basin,  which  as  a  fixture,  is  a  singular,  perhaps  unique,  appendage, 
was  for  the  purpose  of  receiving  ofEeriugs  called  the  creeping  silver,  made  there- 
at at  Easter."  (Matth.  H.  Bioxam,  iu  the  Rejm-t  for  1850-1  of  the  Northamp- 
ton and  Associated  Architectural  Societies,  p.  22.) 


378  THE    CHURCH   OF   ALL    SAINTS, 

it  on  tho  south  side  of  the  altar.  At  Stone  in  Oxney  there  is,  in  the 
south  wall  of  the  south  chancel  a  basin  similarly  shallow,  which 
may  likewise  have  been  an  offertory  basin.  In  its  centre,  however, 
inquisitive  observers  have  so  urgently  striven  to  find  an  orifice, 
that  tliey  have  made  a  slight  indentation  wliicli  mars  the  surface  of 
the  bottom  of  the  basin. 

The  roofs  at  Eastchurch  are  nearly  flat,  and  are  panelled  with 
wood  throughout.  This  panelled  ceiling  was  painted  in  1730 ; 
when  the  two  chandeliers  of  brass  w^ere  made,  each  of  them  with 
twelve  branches.  The  tiebeams  (chamfered  slightly  on  the  under 
side,  and  more  acutely  above)  are  continued  down  the  side  walls  with 
curved  brackets,  which  rest  on  angel  corbels  in  the  nave  and 
chancel,  but  stop  square  in  the  aisles.  There  are  also  central  bosses 
with  angels  having  outspread  wings.  On  the  exterior  the  leadwork 
of  the  roof  was  laid  in  1693. 

The  Tower  is  not  groined,  but  it  was  prepared  for  groining.  In 
eacb  angle  of  the  interior  there  is  the  springing  of  vaulting  arches. 
Perhaps  the  treacherous  nature  of  the  soil  induced  the  architect  to 
avoid  the  additional  weight  which  groining  would  have  entailed. 
There  are  in  the  tower  five  bells  ;  all  cast  in  Kent.  Number  4,  the 
oldest,  was  made  by  Joseph  Hateb  of  Ulcombe  and  Broomfield  in 
1605  ;  Nos.  2,  3,  and  5,  by  John  Wiluer  of  Borden  in  1623  ;  and 
No.  1  by  the  same  John  Wilner  in  1634.  These  bells  have  been 
several  times  taken  down  and  re-hung ;  in  1665  at  a  cost  of 
£5  :  2  :  0 ;  in  1696  at  a  cost  of  £G  ;  and  again  in  1724. 

Near  the  south  door  of  the  church  stands  an  almsbox,  on  a  tall 
stem,  all  carved  out  of  solid  oak.  It  bas  three  locks,  the  keys  of  whichi 
are  held,  one  by  the  rector,  and  one  by  each  of  the  churchwardens. 

The  pulpit  is  a  handsome  example  of  those  which  were  inserted 
during  the  last  years  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  or  in  the  reign  of  James  I. 

The  church  plate  is  two  centuries  old.  On  the  larger  Paten,  are 
the  words  "  Eastchurch  in  Shepey  1675  "  ;  on  the  back  of  the 
smaller  Paten  is  the  date  1675,  within  a  wreath  of  foliage.  Un- 
dated, but  bearing  the  same  silversmith's  marks,  the  cup  is  inscribed 
"  Sacris  Fidelium  usibus  In  Ecclesia  Orientali  Ovinise  D.D.  Indig- 
nus  Christi  Minister  Thomas  White."  This  and  the  two  Patens 
were  probably  all  given  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  White,  who  was  vicar 
of  Eastchurch  from  1667  to  1682.  The  flagon  is  thus  inscribed  : 
"  This  Plaggon  was  given  to  y^  Parish  Church  of  East  Church  in  y^ 
Isle  of  Shepey  in  y^  county  of  Kent  by  William  Barrow  of  Borden 
in  y«  said  County,  Grent.  For  the  vse  of  the  Holy  Sacrament  Anno 


EASTCHUrvCH    IN    SHEPEY.  379 

Dom.  1707."  Mr.  Barrow  owned  laud  in  Eastchurch,  which  is  uow 
'the  property  o£  the  Trustees  of  Barrow's  Borden  Charities. 

In  the  chancel,  on  the  south  side,  blocking  up  the  lower  part  of 
a  window,  there  is  a  handsome  monument,  bearing  the  recumbent 
effigies  of  G-abriel  Livesey*  (who  died  in  1622)  and  bis  second  wife 
Ann,  daughter  of  Sir  Michael  Sondes.  He  resided  in  the  Parsonage 
or  Eectory,  which  had  been  purchased  in  1571  by  his  father  from 
Henry  Lord  Cheney  the  lay  impropriator. 

This  old  Parsonage  farm-house,  which  still  stands  about  one- 
eighth  of  a  mile  south  of  the  church,  bears  traces  of  Gabriel  Live- 
sey's  hand.  He  probably  rebuilt  it.  Upon  one  of  the  mantelpieces 
are  carved  the  arms  of  Gabriel  Livesey  {argent,  a  lion  rampant  gules, 
between  three  trefoils  ver£)  impaling  those  of  his  wife  Ann  Sondes 
(argent  between  two  chevrons,  three  Moors'  heads  sable). 
Gabriel  Livesey  was  the  third  son  of  Robert  Livesey  of  Streatham 
(who  was  Sheriff  for  Sussex  aud  Surrey  in  the  years  1592  and  1602) 
by  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth,  sister  and  heir  of  Thomas  Berkeley. 

*  Imcrijdion. 
D.  0.  M. 
Here  sleeps  in  y"  hope  of  Resurrection  y°  Body  of  Gabriel  Livesey  of  Holling- 
borne  in  y^  County  of  Kent  Esq.  He  first  tooke  to  wife  Anne  daughter  of  '&' 
Thomas  Crumpton  K'  who  dying  w*''out  issue  he  married  Anne  daughter  to  S' 
]\Iichael  Souds  K'  By  whom  he  had  2  sonnes  Michael  now  living  and  Robert 
deceased.  He  lived  honoured  w"'  y"  vertues  and  qualities  becoming  His  degree 
and  died  both  beloved  and  lamented  of  friends  and  neighbours.  Anno  1622. 
March  18.    ^tat.  55. 

0)1  a  corresponding  panel. 

We  thinke  not  that  true  fame  doth  rest  upon 

Each  costly  monument  of  carved  stone 

Or  that  well  polishd  ranee  or  marble  can 

Add  honor  to  the  name  of  any  man 

And  though  y'=  fashion  of  y^  world  we  borrow 

To  build  y"^  dead  these  complements  of  sorrow 

We  raise  them  not  because  it  is  conceaved 

Death  had  y^  fame  of  Livesey  els  bereaved 

But  rather  we  this  monument  provide 

To  showe  our  love  is  living  though  he  dide. 

On  the  front  of  the  tomb. 
Stay  passenger  &  marke  before  thou  passe 
Thine  owne  condition  in  death's  looking  glass. 
Thou  y'  dost  read  these  lines  shalt  lye  among 
Worms  bones  &  roten  carkesses  er  long 
Tenn  thousands  y'  are  full  of  life  today 
Shall  by  tomorrow  y'  tyme  sleep  in  clay 
And  freind  for  ought  y'  any  mortall  knowes 
Thou  maist  be  marked  out  for  one  of  those 
Let  therefor  these  dead  lynes  remember  thee 
How  well  prepared  thou  hast  need  to  be. 
So  thou  shalt  gaine  by  looking  on  y'  tombe 
A  better  life  than  from  thy  mother's  womb. 


380  THE    CHURCH    OF   ALL    SAINTS, 

Gabriel's  elder  brother  Edward  liad  a  nan  llobcrt ;  his  next  brother 
"William  died  without  issue,  and  liis  half-siater,  Martha  Livesey, 
married  Sir  Edward  Peyton.  lie  had  a  third  cousin,  named  John 
Livesey,  whose  son  Ealph  married  a  Minster  heiress,  Parnel,  daugli- 
ter  of  John  Allen,  and  settled  there,  near  Eastchurch.  Originally 
Gabriel  Livesey  resided  at  Hollingbourne  Hill,  where  he  kept  his 
shrievalty  in  the  year  1G18.  AV^hen  he  died,  on  the  18th  of  March 
1622,  he  left  an  only  son,  Michael,  then  aged  eight  years.  This  sou 
was  created  a  baronet  when  16  years  old,  and  eventually,  at  the  age 
of  34,  sat  upon  the  commission  which  condemned  to  death  King 
Charles  I.  Yet  he  was  not  the  youngest  member  of  that  sad  com- 
mission ;  for  Eobert  Tichborne,  who  also  sat  thereon,  then  numbered 
only  30  years.  Sir  Michael  Livesey  was  a  very  active  magistrate, 
by  whom  many  couples  were  married  during  the  Commonwealth, 
and  he  served  as  a  Colonel  in  tlie  Parliamentary  army  for  Kent, 
He  represented  Queenborough  in  the  House  of  Commons  under 
the  Commonwealth,  and  served  the  office  of  Sheriff. 

The  rectorial  rights  and  advowson  have  been  subjected  to  many 
vicissitudes.  At  the  beginning  of  the  sixteenth  century  so  slender 
was  the  income  of  Boxley  Abbey  that  Archbishop  "Warham  per- 
mitted the  Abbot  to  take  this  benefice  into  his  own  hands,  and  to 
send  a  secular  chaplain  to  serve  the  cure  instead  of  a  vicar.  Pope 
Sixtus  IV  having  permitted  this  appropriation  of  the  Vicarage  in 
1472.  Accordingly  on  the  30th  of  January  1511-12  the  Abbot, 
John  Crambroke,  received  the  necessary  license.*  The  consequence 
of  this  was  that  the  cure  was  henceforth  served  not  by  a  vicar 
but  by  a  curate.  After  the  Abbey  was  dissolved  the  rectorial  rights 
were  held  by  the  Cheney  family,  and  it  is  evident  that  frequently 
there  was  no  curate  at  all.  In  the  Visitations  of  1551-3  Eobert 
Browne  was  cited  as  curate  ;  in  1554  there  was  none  ;  in  1555  the 
curate  is  called  Ds.  Hugo  ;  perhaps  he  may  have  been  an  old  monk 
of  Boxley  Abbey.  The  records  of  the  curates  here  are  very  scanty 
and  obscure  throughout  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  but  we  learn  that,  in 
1580,  Thomas  Webb  was  the  curate  here.  This  fact  is  recorded  in 
the  rolls  of  the  Archdeacon's  ecclesiastical  court,  wherein  John 
Saunders  of  Eastchurch  had  been  condemned  to  excommunication, 
in  May  1579,  for  fornication.  Saunders  went  away  and  lived  at 
Sturrey.  Thither  the  court's  censures  followed  him,  and  he  was 
compelled  to  return  and  do  penance  publicly  in  Eastchurch  Church. 

*  Archbishop  Warham's  RegUter,  f  ol.  356''. 


EASTCHTJRCH   IN    SHEPET.  381 

This  he  did  upon  Sunday  the  3lst  of  January  1579-80 ;  and  the 
curate  Thomas  Webb  gave  a  certificate  of  the  fact.  It  appears  that 
during  ten  years  from  1545  to  1555  the  rectory  of  Warden  was 
vacant ;  so  in  1584,  when  E,.  Livesey  held  the  rectorial  rights,  the 
benefices  of  Eastchurch  and  Warden  were  united.  Their  union, 
however,  soon  ceased. 

At  the  Eestoration,  the  estates  of  Sir  Michael  Livesey,  forfeited 
by  his  attainder  for  high  treason,  were  granted  to  James  Duke  of 
York,  the  King's  brother  ;  but  it  is  said  that  Sir  Michael  died 
before  this  took  place.  The  Rectory  and  advowson,  after  some 
years'  delay,  w^as  granted  by  King  Charles  II,  in  the  13th  year  of 
his  reign,  to  twelve  gentlemen  and  to  the  survivor  of  them.  The 
first  named,  of  the  twelve,  was  Sir  Thomas  Peyton,  a  cousin  of  Sir 
M.  Livesey.  Meanwhile  the  King  had  himself  twice  exercised  the 
right  of  patronage.  In  March  1660-1  he  presented  Eobert  Wilkinson 
to  the  vicarage ;  and  in  February  1666-7  Thomas  White  was  pre- 
sented by  him.  Upon  Mr.  AVhite's  death,  in  1682,  the  right  of 
advowson  seems  to  have  belonged  to  the  Eev.  Eobert  Aucher  of 
Queen's  College,  Oxford,  who  had  recently  died.  Consequently  the 
administrator  of  his  goods,  Mr.  Hatton  Aucher,  presented  the  Eev. 
Anthony  Woolrich  to  the  vicarage.  He  died  within  two  years,  and 
then  we  find  that  the  trustees  exercised  the  right  of  patronage,  in 
June  1684,  presenting  to  this  benefice  Dr.  James  Jeffreys,  a  brother 
of  the  notorious  Chief  Justice  Jeffreys.  Death  had  removed  Sir 
Thomas  Peyton,  Sir  Edward  Hales,  Sir  Eichard  Hardres,  Sir 
William  Mann,  Mr.  George  Newman,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Peke. 

The  names  of  the  trustees  surviving,  in  1684,  were  Sir  Henry 
Palmer,  Sir  Anthony  Aucher,  Sir  William  Eooke,  Sir  John  Tufton, 
Sir  Francis  Clerk,  and  John  Boys,  Esq.  After  an  interval  of  five 
years,  four  of  these  gentlemen  had  ceased  to  live,  or  to  act ;  and  in 
January  1689-90  the  Eev.  Wm.  Milles  was  presented  by  Sir  Henry 
Palmer,  Sir  Anthony  Aucher,  and  Sir  William  Eooke.  Nine  years 
later  Sir  Henry  Palmer  was  the  sole  survivor,  and  on  the  death  of  Mr. 
Milles,  in  1699,  he  presented  the  Eev.  Eichard  Forster,  who  held 
the  vicarage  for  29  years,  and  was  a  benefactor  to  the  parish.  Sir 
Henry  died  in  1706,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  nephew  Sir  Thomas 
Palmer,  M.P.  for  the  county  of  Kent.  Sir  Thomas  was  the  patron 
to  whom  the  vicar,  Dr.  Forster,  by  deed  of  gift  dated  1721,  Nov.  8th, 
made  over  a  house  and  orchard  in  Leysdown,  to  form  a  perpetual 
endowment  for  teaching  poor  children  to  read,  write,  and  learn  the 


382  THE    CHURCH    OF   ALL    SAINTS, 

Church  Catechism.  Dr.  Forster  was  also  rector  of  Crundal,  where 
he  was  buried  in  January  1728-9.* 

Sir  Thomas  Palmer  never  exercised  the  rif^jht  o£  patronage,  and 
when  he  died,  in  1723,  he  bequeathed  tliat  riglit  to  Herbert  Pahner, 
his  natural  son  by  his  second  wife,  born  before  their  marriage. 
When  Dr.  Porster  died,  this  young  man  was  still  a  miuor,  and  his 
guardian  Elizabeth  Iley,  third  ^vife,  and  widow,  of  Sir  Thomas 
Palmer,  presented  the  Rev.  Alex.  Young  to  the  vicarage,  in  March 
1728-9.  The  young  patron  Herbert  Palmer  died  before  another 
vacancy  occurred  ;  and  his  widow  Mrs.  T3ethia  Palmer  having  mar- 
ried Colonel  Cosnan,  the  next  vicar  Dr.  Thomas  Hey  (eldest  son  of 
Sir  Thomas  Palmer's  widow,  by  her  last  husband,  Thomas  Hey) 
was  presented  by  Colonel  Cosnan  in  1755.  Dr.  Hey  was  both 
rector  and  vicar,  as  Miss  Prances  Palmer  bequeathed  to  him  her 
reversionary  right  of  advowson,  which  he  sold  to  the  Rev.  Henry 
Barton,  who  succeeded  to  the  benefice  upon  Dr.  Hey's  death  in  1809. 

Whether  Dr.  Hey  was  the  first  vicar  who  likewise  held  the 
Rectory,  I  am  not  certain.  In  the  burial  register,  his  predecessor, 
the  Rev.  Alex.  Young,  was  styled  "  rector  "  when  he  died  in  March 
1755. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Barton  died  in  1827,  and  was  succeeded  by  the 
Rev.  John  Barton,  who  styles  himself  vicar  before  1835,  and  rector 
after  that  date.  Prom  him  the  advowson  was  purchased  by  the 
Swaiuson  family,  who  in  1858  presented  the  Rev.  T.  B.  Dickson 
(formerly  Fellow  of  Emmanuel  College,  Cambridge),  who  married 
a  sister  of  Professor  Swaiuson,  Canon  of  Chichester,  now  Master  of 
Christ's  College,  Cambridge.  When  Mr.  Dickson  died,  in  1870, 
the  advowson  descended  to  his  second  son,  who  presented  to  the 
benefice  his  elder  brother,  the  present  rector,  the  Rev.  R.  Henry 
Dickson  ;  by  whom  th.e  church  and  the  churchyard  have  been  very 
greatly  improved. 

The  existing  Rectory -house,  beside  the  church,  was  built  (on  the 
the  site  of  a  forge,  and  a  cobbler's  shop)  in  1835.  The  old  Vicarage- 
house,  wdiich  stood  in  the  south-west  angle  of  the  churchyard,  was 
then  pulled  down,  and  its  site  now  forms  part  of  the  Rectory  garden. 

*  The  inscription  upon  his  monument  there  is  : — In  spe  Eesurrectionis  per 
Christum  beatsB  hoc  corpori  sun  dormitorium,  vivus  prEeparabat,  RiCHAEDUS 
FoESTER,  A.M.  Geuerosa  ortus  ex  familia  apud  Dumock  in  com.  Glouc.  olim 
sita.  Ad  rectorias  de  Beckley  dioc.  Cicest.  et  de  Cruudale,  Cant,  ac  tandem  ad 
vicariam  de  Eastchurch  in  Scapeia,  favente  Deo  promotus  Rectoriam  (Edificiis, 
gleba,  libris,  redituque  adauxit.  Pauperibus  aunuum  legavit  stipendium. 
Trinuno  Deo  animam  reddidit  viij°  Die  Januarii  a"  Christi  1728,  aetatis  79. 


EASTCHURCH    IN    SHEPEY.  383 

The  ancient  Parsonage  farm  (once  inhabited  by  the  Liveseys)  was 
alienated  by  the  patrons  of  the  benefice  very  many  years  ago. 

The  Eev.  R.  Henry  Dickson  has  made  copious  extracts  from  his 
Parish  Eegisters  and  Parish  Accounts,  and  by  his  courtesy  I  am 
able  to  mention  some  of  the  facts  therein  conveyed. 

Previous  to  the  year  1771  it  would  seem  that  bodies  washed  up 
by  the  sea,  were  buried  on  the  shore,  probably  without  any  religious 
service.  Thus  in  1698  four  men  were  buried  at  the  seaside,  as  an 
entry  in  the  Account  Book  (not  in  the  Eegister)  records.  The 
first  record  in  the  Eegister  of  the  regular  burial  in  the  churchyard, 
of  such  bodies  from  the  beach,  is  dated  June  20th,  1771.  In  1797, 
a  man  who  had  been  buried  on  the  beach,  was  afterwards  re-interred 
in  the  churchyard.  He  was  supposed  to  have  been  one  of  the 
victims  killed  during  the  mutiny  at  the  Nora.  Two  men,  supposed 
to  be  Eussians,  found  on  the  shore,  were  buried  in  September  1798'. 
The  long  bufFettings  endured  by  a  body  drowned  on  the  coast  are 
shewn  by  the  fate  of  Lieutenant  Thomas  Parsons,  E.IS.  He  was 
drowned  on  the  9th  of  November  1803,  off  Whitstable  Bay,  in  at- 
tempting to  get  on  board  the  Hecate  gun-brig ;  and  his  body  was 
buried  in  the  churchyard  here  on  the  2nd  of  January  1804. 

Among  the  burials  we  find  that  of  "  Captain  John  Euffin  of 
Newington,"  September  19th,  1678.  His  family  sprung  from 
East  church.*  In  March  1683-4,  Dr.  John  Dade,  of  St.  Margaret's, 
Westminster,  was  buried  here ;  and  also  in  1684  Mrs.  Bridget 
Dade,  of  Bostal  in  Minster.  The  latter,  by  her  will,  left  20s.  per 
annum,  to  be  divided  on  Christmas-day  between  four  poor  widows 
of  this  parish.  Vice-Admiral  Sir  Eichard  King  (commanding  at 
the  Nore)  died  of  cholera  in  August  1834,  and  was  buried  here 
as  a  tablet  in  the  chancel  states. 

A  curious  entry  respecting  the  burial  of  Thomas  Stevenson, 
yeoman,  in  1702,  illustrates  the  size  of  farms  at  that  time  It  states 
that  he  "  rented  about  £600  per  annum  ;"  and  that  he  and  his 
nephew,  a  youth  aged  14  years,  of  the  same  name,  died  both  within 
the  space  of  three-quarters  of  an  hour  in  the  parsonage-farm  on 
December   15th,  and  were  interred   in    one    grave   on   the    16th. 

*  Thomas  Euffin  was,  in  the  37th  year  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  one  of  the  feof- 
fees to  whom  John  Boys,  gentleman,  conveyed  ten  acres  of  land  in  Eastchurch 
for  the  benefit  of  the  poor  of  this  parish  and  of  Leysdown  and  Warden.  This 
was  done  in  fulfilment  of  the  bequest  of  £53  by  the  will  of  Stephen  Osborne,  of 
Eastchurch,  dated  29  September  1581,  to  be  vested  in  land,  from  the  rent  of 
which  8s.  per  annum  was  reserved  for  the  poor  of  Warden,  and  the  residue  to 
be  divided  equally  between  those  of  Leysdown  and  Eastchurch.  In  1662 
Nicholas  Ruffin  was  one  of  the  overseers  or  trustees  of  this  charity. 


384  THE    CHURCH    OF   ALL    SAINTS. 

Monumentiil  atones  of  llio  Bargrave  family  are  now  liidilcii  by  the 
choir  stalls  on  tlie  north  side  of  the  chancel.  Charles  Bargrave 
was  one  of  tlie  churchwardens,  in  1730,  whose  names  are  engraved 
upon  the  handsome  clumdcHers  in  the  nave  ;  and  in  1753  he,  or 
another  of  the  same  name,  was  appointed  one  of  the  trustees  of 
Stephen  Osborne's  charity.  There  is  a  flat  stone  commemorating 
Edward  Uurrant :  buried  25th  March  1640-1. 

The  Eegister  of  Marriages  shews  that  persons  from  a  distance 
sometimes  came  hither  for  their  weddings.  A  surgeon  of  Eaversham, 
Edward  Jacob,  son  of  Alderman  Edward  J.  Jacob,  chamberlain  of 
Canterbury,  was  married  here  by  license,  on  September  4th,  1739,  to 
Mrs.  Margaret  Rigden  of  St.  Margaret's,  Canterbury.  He  subse- 
quently wrote  a  history  of  Faversbam. 

The  Parisb  Accounts  shew  that  the  preacher  used  an  hour- 
glass in  the  pulpit,  up  to  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  century.  In 
1667  a  new  hour-glass  was  bought,  and  in  1671  another  was  pur- 
chased ;  each  of  them  costing  6d.  Towards  the  Brief  which  was 
read  throughout  all  the  parishes  of  England  in  1667,  to  raise  funds 
for  repairing  the  losses  occasioned  by  the  great  fire  of  London, 
Eastchurch  contributed  6s,  6d.  At  that  period  the  parish  officials 
attended  Visitations  of  the  Archdeacon  at  Eaversham,  as  we  find 
from  an  entry  dated  1670.  The  Archdeacon  came  personally  to 
Eastchurch  in  1715,  when  =£1  18s.  6d.  was  paid  for  a  dinner  given 
to  him  and  his  retinue. 

The  usual  payments  were  made  for  killing  vermin  here  as 
elsewhere.  No  less  than  7s.  6d.  went  for  hedgehogs  and  sparrows, 
in  1667 ;  twenty-five  dozen  of  vermin  were  paid  for,  in  1669,  with 
6s.  8d.  An  otter  in  1676  was  killed  for  Is.,  but  later  in  1685  no 
less  than  2s.  6d.  was  paid  for  the  slaughter  of  another  otter,  in 
Eastchurch.  The  churchwardens  waged  war  on  rooks,  in  1684,  and 
paid  4s.  for  rooks'  heads.  Of  hedgehogs,  twenty-seven  were  killed 
in  1700,  and  forty-five  in  1710.  Two  polecats  are  mentioned  in 
1701,  when  lOd.  was  paid  for  killing  them. 

The  dog-whipper  was  maintained  in  office  for  a  long  period  of 
years ;  but  in  1672  "  the  dark "  received  10s.  as  one  half-year's 
wages  for  whipping  the  dogs  ;  and  in  1676  "  the  beadle  "  got  Is.  for 
keeping  dogs  out  of  the  church. 


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VICAES  OF  EASTCHURCH. 

A  Vicarage  was  endowed  here,  in  June  1300,  with  Hi  acres  of 
laud  and  a  rent  of  8s.  per  annum.  The  Cistercian  Abbey  of  Dunes 
iu  Flanders  held  tlie  right  of  Advowson  until  June  1315,  when  it 
was  transferred  to  Boxley  Abbey,  which  was  likewise  of  the  Cister- 
cian Order. 

"William  de  Wtlton  was  instituted  by  Archbishop  Peckham 
{Recfister,  fol.  52«)  in  August  1279  (17  kal.  Sept.).  As 
the  Vicar  in  1311  was  named  William,  it  is  probable  that 
William  de  Wylton  held  the  benefice  during  more  than 
thirty  years.  This  Vicar,  William,  was  party  to  a  Final 
Concord  in  the  4fch  year  of  Edward  II  (No.  144),  by  which 
the  manor  of  Ufton,  in  Tunstall,  was  conceded  to  Eobert 
de  Shirlaunde  and  Kathei'ine  his  wife. 

Geffrey  de  Frexsthope  was  admitted  to  the  benefice  in  July 
1323. 

JoHX  DE  Maidexstone  resigned  Eastchurch  in  1352,  when  be 
became  Vicar  of  Wardone. 

Robert  Eeade  succeeded  Maideustoue  in  August  1352. 

Richard  Sheme,  who  had  been  chaplain  to  Sir  Roger  Northwode, 
was  instituted  to  this  benefice  in  June  1353.  Nearly 
sixteen  years  later,  in  February  1368-9,  Archbishop 
Langham  granted  to  him  a  license  to  act  as  Penitentiary 
or  Confessor  for  the  Deanery  of  Sittingbourne  {Beg., 
144«). 

Robert  Warrom  is  the  next  name  of  a  Rector  that  is  known  to 
us  ;  he  exchanged  this  benefice  for  that  of  Sutton  at  Hone 
in  1400. 

Henry  Mole,  Rector  of  Sutton  in  the  diocese  of  Rochester,  was 
instituted  to  Eastchurch  by  Archbishop  Arundel  on  the 
29th  of  July  1400  ;  and  held  it  until  his  death  in  1424. 

Bartholomew  attb  Woode,  a  chaplain,  was  admitted  to  this  bene- 
fice by  Archbishop  Chicheley,  at  Higham  Ferrers,  on  the 
26th  of  September  1424.     He  survived  only  two  years. 

AViLLiAM  Browne  was  instituted  by  the  same  Primate,  at  Lambeth, 
on  the  22nd  of  October  1426  ;  but  in  the  following  year 
he  exchanged  this  vicarage  for  that  of  Stoke  at  Hoo. 

John  Pocock,  Vicar  of  Stoke,  was  admitted  to  Eastchurch  by 
Archbishop  Chicheley  on  the  6th  of  July  1427.  How 
long  he  survived  we  cannot  ascertain. 

William  Nudds,  after  holding  the  benefice  for  some  time,  vacated 
it  in  1436. 

John  G-rysby,  a  chaplain,  was  the  fifth  Vicar  whom  Archbishop 
Chicheley  had  instituted  to  Eastclmrch.      The  ceremony 
took  place  at   Charing  on  the  19th  of  December  1486. 
Grysby  died  in  1446. 
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386  VICARS   OF   EASTCHURCH. 

John  Clekke  succeeded  Grysby,  being  admitted  to  this  l)en('fice  by 
Arclibisliop  StulTord,  on  the  2Sth  of  May  lllG.  There  is 
no  record  of  the  date  at  which  he  vacated  tlie  living. 

"William  Tiiornhury,  who  probably  was  Gierke's  successor, 
belonged  to  a  Faversham  family  entitled  to  bear  arms  (on 
a  bend,  engrailed,  three  roundels).  His  father  may  have 
been  John  Thornbuiy,  who  was  Sheriff  of  Kent  in  24 
Henry  VI.  He  resigned  this  benefice  in  1453,  when  he 
was  admitted  to  the  llectory  of  St.  Peter's  Church  at  Sand- 
wich. Subsequently  he  became  Vicar  of  Faversham,  and 
so  remained  from  about  1454  to  1476.  He  died  in  March 
14S0-1.  During  the  last  eight  years  of  his  life,  however, 
he  retired  from  all  duties  outside  his  church  and  lived  as  a 
recluse,  or  anchorite,  in  a  cell  within  Faversham  Church, 
from  1473  to  1481.  He  is  commemorated  by  a  handsome 
monumental  brass,  still  preserved  in  the  floor  of  the  chan- 
cel at  Faversham,  which  bears  his  effigy,  at  full  length, 
beneath  a  canopy.  The  brass  and  its  inscription  are  shewn 
in  a  plate  at  page  27  of  ArcJiceoJor/ia  Cantiana,  Vol.  XI. 
His  only  brother  Kichard  Thornbury  was  the  executor  of 
his  will ;  a  translation  of  which  is  given  on  page  29  of  the 
same  volume. 

John  William  alias  Mershfield  was  instituted  to  Eastchurch  in 
succession  to  Thornbury,  on  the  10th  of  October,  1453  by 
Archbishop  Kemp. 


During  many  years,  from  1472,  no  Vicars  were  insti- 
tuted ;  as  the  Abbot  of  Boxley  was  permitted  to  send  a 
Secular  Chaplain,  from  the  Abbey,  to  serve  this  Church. 
In  January  1511-12  the  Abbot  John  Craubroke  received 
from  Archbishop  Warham  {Reg.,  35G'')  renewal  of  the 
licence. 

SoBERT  Browne  wsiB  Curate  here  in  1551,  and  the  two  following 
years,  as  we  learn  from  the  records  of  the  visitations  of 
the  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury. 

BoMiNus  Hugo  was  Curate  in  1555. 

Thomas  Webb  was  Curate  in  1580. 

John  Eabes  is  said  to  have  been  Minister  of  Eastchurch  about  a.b. 
1640. 

William  Harley  during  the  Commonwealth  served  as  Minister  of 
Eastchurch  ;  and  to  him  the  Parliamentary  Committee 
charged  with  such  duties  granted  £15  Os.  3d.  out  of  the  Eec- 
torial  revenues  of  the  parish  of  jNIilton,  in  June  1651. 

Egbert  AVilkinson,  presented  by  King  Charles  II,  was  instituted 
to  the  benefice  by  Archbishop  Juxon,  on  the  2nd  of  March 
1660-1. 

Thomas  White,  likewise  presented  by  Charles  II,  was  admitted, 
by  Archbishop  Sheldon,  on  the  16th  of  February  1666-7. 


VICARS    OF   EASTCHURCH.  387 

He  was  a  benefactor  to  the  Church,  and  the  Communion 
plate  presented  by  him  is  still  in  use  therein.  He  died  in 
1682.  His  Curate,  Bobert  Eaton*  came  here  as  early 
as  1G72,  and  served  the  parish  during  fiilly  23  years,  under 
four  successive  Vicars  until  1G95.  liewarded  at  length 
by  promotion  to  the  Vicarage  of  Leysdown,  Robert  Eaton 
died  in  May  1702,  and  was  buried  here  at  Eastchurch. 

Anthony  Woolrich  was  presented  by  Mr.  Hatton  Aucher  (as 
administrator  of  the  goods  of  the  late  Rev.  Robert  Aucher 
of  Queen's  College,  Oxford),  and  was  instituted  on  the 
28th  of  July  1682.  He  died  in  1684.  The  family  of 
which  he  was  a  scion  has  long  been  connected  with  Kent, 
and  one  of  its  members,  the  Rev.  H.  Woolrych,  is  now, 
in  1882,  the  Vicar  of  Oare,  near  Faversham.  Anthony 
Woolrich 's  Curate  here  was  Robert  Eaton. 

James  Jeffeets,  S.T.P.,  brother  of  Chief  Justice  Jeffreys,  was 
instituted  on  the  27th  of  June  1684.  He  was  presented 
by  seven  trustees,  of  whom  Sir  Henry  Palmer  was  the 
principal,  and  the  survivor.  Dr.  Jeffreys  employed  as  his 
Curate  the  same  faithful  Robert  Eaton. 

"William  Milles  was  instituted  on  the  3rd  of  January  1689-90  ; 
having  been  presented  by  the  three  surviving  trustees  of 
the  advowson  (Sir  H.  Palmer,  Sir  A.  Aucher,  and  Sir  Wm. 
Rooke).  He  also  employed  Robert  Eaton  as  his  Curate, 
here,  during  some  years.  In  the  year  1700,  however,  we 
find  that  he  had  brought  hither  another  locum  ienens, 
named  Joen  Nicholls,  who  served  as  Curate  here  for  at 
least  four  years.  Mr.  Nicholls  was  married,  at  Ospringe 
Church,  April  Sth,  1 700,  to  ]\Iartha,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Robert  Cumberland,  Vicar  of  Chilham. 

RiCHAED  FoRSTEE,  S.T.P.,  who  was  a  considerable  benefactor  to 
the  parish,  became  Vicar  in  1702  ;  and  held  this  benefice 
(together  with  that  of  Crundal)  at  the  time  of  his  death 
in  1728.  He  employed  as  his  Curates,  here,  Charles 
FoRSTER  (1709)  ;  George  Sykes  (1713-15)  ;  William 
Sprakeling  (1715)  ;  Francis  Cull  (1716-25),  who  was  one 
of  the  attesting  witnesses  of  the  deed  by  which  Dr.  Forster, 
in  1721,  conveyed  some  land  in  Leysdown  to  the  Patron 
of  the  benefice,  as  an  endowment  for  religious  teaching  of 
the  school  children  ;  Eichard  Bichardson  (1725-27),  who 
was  buried  here  in  October  1727  ;  and  B.  Woodcock 
(1728),  who  continued  to  serve  the  cure  for  some  time 
under  the  next  incumbent  likewise. 

Alexander  Young,  S.T.B.,  succeeded  Dr.  Forster.  He  was 
instituted  by  Archbishop  Wake,  on  the  8th  of  March 
1728-9,  on  tlie  presentation  of  Elizabeth  Hey  acting  as  the 
guardian  of  Herbert  Palmer,  then  a  minor  under  age. 
Mr.   Young,  w^io  likewise  held  the  Rectory  of  Wickham- 

*  For  the  names  of  all  the  Curates  mentioned  here  and  after  this  period  I 
am  indebted  to  the  researches  and  the  kindly  courtesy  of  my  friend  the  Eev. 
E.  Henry  Dickson,  Kector  of  Eastchurch. 

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388  VICARS    OF    EASTCIITJRCH. 

brcux,  iK-ar  Canterbury,  died  on  the  2l8t  of  March  1755. 
In  the  Eastcliurc-h  register  of  burials,  there  is  a  memoran- 
dum that  "The  llev.  M''  Alex.  Young,  liECTOR,  died  2l8t 
March  1755."  He  placed  here,  as  his  Curates,  after  Mr. 
Woodcock,  J.  WoovnooFE  (1730-3)  ;  Oilbert  Allenson 
(1737)  ;  and  Ja21es  Allenson  (1739-82),  who  survived  Mr. 
Young,  and  served  many  years  under  his  successor. 
Thomas  Hey,  tS.T.P.,  was  iustituledon  the29th  May  1755.  He  suc- 
ceeded Mr.  Young  in  the  Rectory  of  Wickhambrenx  as 
•well  as  in  this  benefice.  On  the  deatli  of  Mrs.  Bethia 
Cosnan  (widow  of  Herbert  Palmer)  in  1789,  l)r.  Hey 
became  possessed  of  the  AVingham  estates  of  the  late 
Sir  Thomas  Palmer,  and  of  the  advuwson  of  Eastchnrch. 
He  took  up  his  residence  at  Wingham  College,  and  he 
endowed  the  A'^icarage  of  Wingham  with  £100  per  annum 
and  a  house.  He  was  third  Prebendary  of  Rochester 
Cathedral  from  1788  to  1809,  but  he  did  not  disdain  to 
hold  also  the  curacy  of  Swiugfield.  Dr.  Hey  married  Ethel- 
reda  Lynch,  a  daughter  of  the  Dean  of  Canterbury.  He 
sold  the  advowson  of  Eastchurch,  to  the  Rev.  Henry  Bar- 
ton, many  years  before  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1809. 
He  held  the  benefice  of  Eastchurch  for  fifty-four  years. 

Dr.  Hey's  Curates  were  (i)  James  Allenson,  who  dying 
here,  aged  65,  in  January,  1782,  after  43  years'  service 
in  this  parish,  w^as  buried  in  the  churchyard,  where  his 
tomb,  enclosed  by  iron  railings,  may  still  be  seen  ;  and 
(ii)  David  Martin,  whose  wife  Mary  was  buried  here  in 
the  year  1800,  aged  GG.  He  survived  Dr.  Hey,  and  con- 
tinued to  serve  this  cure  until  October  1821,  when  he  died, 
aged  78,  and  was  buried  here  on  the  30th  of  that  month. 
He  was  Curate  of  Eastchurch  for  more  than  32  years. 
Henet  Barton  succeeded  Dr.  Hey  in  1809.  He  died  at  Liverpool 
on  the  26th  January  1827.  David  Martin  served  here  as  his 
Curate  until  1821. 
John  Barton,  son  of  the  late  A^icar,  held  the  benefice  from  1827 
to  1858,  residing  at  first  in  a  small  old  bouse  which  stood 
in  the  south-west  angle  of  the  chiu'chyard.  He  built  the 
existing  rectory  house  in  1835  ;  pulling  down  a  black- 
smith's forge  and  cobbler's  shop  to  make  room  for  it. 
During  the  same  year  he  drew  out  a  statement  of  the 
parochial  charities,  which  was  submitted  to  the  Parlia- 
mentary Commissioner,  sitting  at  the  Half-way  House  in 
Minster,  on  the  30th  of  November  1835.  Mr.  Barton  died 
in  1858. 
Thomas  Briggs  Dickson,  B.D.,  formerly  Fellow  of  Emmanuel 
College,  Cambridge,  succeeded  Mr.  Barton  in  1858. 
During  the  twelve  years  of  his  incumbency  he  effected 
many  improvements  ;  he  died  in  1870. 
B,ICHAED  Henry  Dickson,  M.A.,  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge, 
succeeded  his  father  in  1870,  and  is  now  the  Rector  of 
Eastchurch. 


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GENERAL    INDEX. 


Abbot,  Archbp.,  130.  166-7  ;  Damaris, 

130  ;  Lord  Tenterdeu,  60. 
Abel,   Jno.,   Parson   of    Waldershare, 

259-60. 
Aberun,  Insjelram  de.  328. 
Acreman,  Adam,  262-3  ;  Edith,  262-3. 
Acstede,  Miliceut,  2.55  ;  Robt.  de,  255. 
Adams,  Jno.,  94  ;    Mary,   94 ;    Thos., 

94  ;  William,  214. 
Addington.  226,  239. 
Adesham,  277  ;   see  Adisham. 
Adisham,      Church,      157-161,     371; 

Rectors,  116,  126,  133,  162-8,  354-5. 
Akers- Douglas,  Aretas,  75. 
Alard,    Hy.,  246,  250;    Isabella,  246, 

250 ;     Johanna,    250 ;     John,    246, 

250  ;  Robt..  246,  2.50. 
Albon,  Robt.,  254,  259. 
Alcock,  Thos.,  234. 
Aldelose,  Jno.  de,  244  ;  Matilda,  244. 
Alderman.  Nicholas,  256  ;  Robt.,  256. 
Aldington,  41,  47,  52.  249,  260,  273. 
Aldyng,  334-5  ;  tsee  Yalding. 
Aldyntou,    249  ;     next    Hethe,    249  ; 

next  tSmeeth.  273. 
Alen,  George,  292. 
Alesse,  Juo.  (1526),  164. 
Aleyn,  Godfrey,  244  ;    Jno.,  244,  376  ; 

Juliana,  376. 
AUard,  Robt.,  274,  305  ;  see  Alard. 
Allen,  John,  380  ;  Parnell,  380. 
AUenson,    Rev.     Gilbert,    388 ;    Rev. 

James,  388. 
AUeyan,  Anne,  177  ;  Jno.,  177. 
Allin,  Sam.,  Brief  for,  212. 
Alsatia,  Brief  for  the  Reformed  Church 

of  Strasburg  in,  183,  207. 
Ammory,  Roger  D',  330. 
Andreu,  Hy.,  186,  194-5,  197,  203. 
Andrews,  Jno.,  179. 
Anglesea,  Prior  of,  341. 
Antoninus    Pius,    Coin   of,   found    at 

Wingham,  139. 
Apeltre,  247  ;  see  Appledore. 


Appledore,  47,  53,  96,  323-4 ;  Church, 
91-97  ;  Rood-screen,  371-3  ;  Chapel 
at  Home's  Place,  363-7. 

Appleton,  120. 

Arblastier,  Thos.  le,  328. 

Archipole,  Ricd.,  of  Strood,  291. 

Architecture,  Examples  of,  Pre- 
Norraan,  107,  109,  281  ;  Norman, 
104,  109,  111,  168,  281,  282  ;  Tran- 
sition, 158,  283  ;  Early  English, 
109,  158,  283-4  ;  Decorated,  19,  91, 
109.  159,  284-5,  371  ;  Perpendicular, 
28,  91,  109,  285-8,  376-8. 

Argier,  Brief  for  redeeming  captives 
in,  118. 

Aron,  Jno.,  Brief  for,  214. 

Ash,  225,  238-9;  Church  and  lights 
therein,  223  ;  called  Peters  Ash, 
226  ;  near  Sandwich,  132,  134,  252; 
near  Wrotham,  223-4,  235-6,  240; 
Registers,  235  ;  South,  226-7. 

Ashburnham,  Ann,  366  ;  Thomas,  366. 

Asherinden,  East,  49.  50. 

Ashford,  26.  100.  347,359;  Brief  for, 
208  ;  Rood-lofts.  371. 

Asketyn,  Hamo,  193  ;  Ricd.,  197. 

Asshenton,  Richard,  318,  320-1. 

Assize-butt  at  Tenterden,  45. 

Astley.  Bridget.  361  ;  John,  361. 

atte  Berton,  Matilda,  254  ;  Robert, 
254. 

atte  Brome,  Robt.,  Canon  of  Wingham, 
li. 

atte  Celer,  Isabella.  279  ;  John,  279  ; 
Warin,  279. 

atte  Childryn,  William,  280. 

atte  Churche,  Robert  (1387-8),  178. 

atte  Crouche,  Margeria,  255  ;  Thomas, 
255. 

Ate  Doune,  John,  198,  372  ;  Robert, 
198  ;  Roger,  187,  198. 

ate  Dune,  Gilbert,  198;  Thomas,  198. 

ate  Forde,  Allan,  195-197 ;  Henry, 
197, 


390 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


Atfc  Forstnll.  Wiu.,  I'.iO. 

ate  Gate,  William.  l'.)2. 

Attcu^nrc,  Adam.  248  ;  Alianora,  218. 

al<e  JIalle,  Clement,  279  ;  John,  272  ; 

i\Iari;vi'ia,  272. 
Atkinson,    Kicd.    (Rector   of     Wood- 

clnircb),  .'5oo. 
atte  Knollc.  Agnes,  249  ;  John.  249, 
at  Le,  Thomas  (1429),  121. 
atte  Loft,  John,  278. 
ate  Melle,  203  ;  Stephen,  186,  194. 
atte  Mcutbc,  Arualdus,  275-6,  278-9  ; 

Johanna.  275-6,  279. 
atteNobright,  Katerina,  276  ;  Htephcn, 

276. 
atte  Noke,  Alice,  243  ;  Simon,  243. 
Ate  Pirye,  Emma,  196  ;  Hied,  de,  205  ; 

William  de,  205. 
ate  Rye,  Walter.  192. 
Ate  Sindane.  Ricd..  193,  203. 
atte  Sole,  Constance,  241  ;  Ricd.,  261. 
ate  Stapele,  202  ;  Thomas,  192. 
atte  Ware.  Adam,    271-2;    Margeria, 

271-2  ;  Walter.  271-2. 
Atwater,  ....  allied  to  Hales,  62. 
at  Well.  James.  372  ;  Thomas,  320. 
ate  Welle,  John,  192. 
Ate  Wode,  Bartholomew,  385  ;  Peter, 

192,  205  ;  Stephen,  196, 205. 
Atwood,  Revd.  Samuel,  227. 
Aucher,  Sir  Anthony,  325,  381.  387  ; 

Hatton,  381;  Heni'y,246;  Nicholas, 

246  ;  Rev.  Robert,  381  ;  Sir  Thomas 

Fitz,  311. 
Audeley.  Hugh  de,  Earl  of  Gloucester, 

330-2,  334  ;  Sir  Thomas,  342. 
Augustine  Canons,  of  Beaulieu,  169  ; 

of  Tonbridge,  326-43. 
Aunsel,  Johanna,  278  ;  Robert,  278. 
Austen,  119;  Elizabeth,  120;  James, 

160  ;    John  of  Bexley,  78,  80,  82  ; 

John,  of  Adisham,  165  ;  Eicd.,  120, 

165 ;      Robt.,     120 ;      Thos.,     165 ; 

Valentine,  160  :  Wm..  64. 
Austin,  George,  289  ;  Harry  G.,  289. 
Awdley,  Thomas  (allied  to  Harlacken- 

den),  361. 
Aylesford,  242  ;  Priory,  223. 
Aylesmersh,  Johanna  de,  252. 

Ba,  or  Baa,  Thos.  de,  119  ;  Walter  de, 

119. 
Baa    or    Bay    Chancel     in     Ickham 

Church,  118. 
Babbynge.  Henry  de,  272. 
Bacheler,  Isabella,  263  ;  John,  263. 
Backhouse,   Rev.  Dr.  William  (1771- 

1776),  133. 
Badelesmere,  202,  242  ;  Wm.  de.  192. 
Bagnal,  Helen  (Lady  Hales).  64. 
Bainton,  .John  (1705),  Brief  for,  212. 
Bakchild,  243,  255. 


Baker,  John.  301,  320  ;  Sir  John,  49, 
165  ;  Sarah  (allied  to  Barrett).  124. 

Bakere,  Andrew  le,  255  ;  Emma  le 
264  ;  Johanna,  265  ;  John,  264 
Loretta,  255  ;  Michael  le,  245 
Robert  le,  264  ;  Roger  le,  265. 

Balcanquell,  Dr.  Walter  (161S),  166. 

Baldok,  Lccia,  192,  200  ;  Simon,  186, 
188,  190,  192,  195,  197,  200. 

Bancroft,  John,  Bishop  of  Oxford, 
289,  356. 

Banquell,  Thomas  de,  259. 

Banwell  Rood-loft,  370. 

Baraere  (Bargai-),  173. 

Barber,  Hugh  le,  267  ;  John,  193-5, 
203  ;  William  le,  194,  203. 

Barbour,  John  le,  193-195,  257  ;  Roger 
le,  257  ;  Thomas,  223  ;  William, 
223. 

Barfreston,  see  Berefreyston  and 
Brerefreyston. 

Bargar,  173  ;  Mrs.  Angell,  174. 

Bargrave,  Ansela,  174  :  Charles,  384  ; 
Isaac  (the  ^Dean),  173  ;  John,  173  ; 
Rev.  John,  174;  Robt.,  174. 

Barham,  132  ;  Brief  for,  183;  Down, 
181  ;  Kcr  Berham. 

Barham,  Wm.,  of  Teuterden,  79. 

Barkley  Hundred,  .42. 

Barming,  East,  see  Estbarblenge. 

Barnes,  Wm.,  319,  321,  323. 

Barueuile,  Jno.  de,  261. 

Barnfield  Hundred,  42,  198 ;  sec 
Bernefeld. 

Baron,  Revd.  Thos.  (1535-47),  129. 

Barr,  Ann.  240  ;  Robert  (1716).  240. 

Barrett,  Arms,  123  ;  Anne,  123-4 
Eliz.  (ob.  1798),  124;  George  (ob 
1709),  124  ;  Paul  (nat.  1656),  124 
Sir  Paul  (1633-86),  116-7,  122-3-4 
Sarah,  123-4  ;  Thomas  (1552),  316 
320  ;  Thomas  (nat.  et  ob.  1723) 
124  ;  Thomas  (ob.  1757),  123-4 
Thomas  (ob.  1803),  124. 

Barrow,  Wm.,  of  Borden,  378-9, 

Barry,  Johanna,  250  ;  Ralph,  250. 

Barton,  Rev.  Henry,  382,  388  ;  Rev. 
John,  382,  388. 

Barun,  Johanna,  274  ;  Robt.,  274. 

Basing,  Sir  John  de,  200  ;  Solomon 
de,  200. 

Basinge,  John  de,  188,  200  ;  Thomas 
de,  186,  190,  191-2,  200;  William 
de.  200. 

Basinges.  De,  247  ;  Adam,  200  ;  Ed- 
mund. 248  ;  Margaret,  200,  247  ; 
Ralph,  247;  Reginald,  248;  Thomas, 
248  ;  William,  247-8. 

Batecok,  Alicia,  192.  195,  199  ;  Elena, 
199;  Roger,  188,  199;  Thos,,  195-6, 
199. 

Batlescomb,  Andrew  de,  188,  199, 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


391 


BatsoTi,  William,  318. 

Battely.  Archdeacon,  159,  167. 

Battle,  Abbot  of,  47. 

Baudethouii,  Wm.,  278. 

Bawle,  Vincent,  .302. 

Bayham  Abbey,  140,  148. 

Baynard.  Jnhn,  227. 

Beach e,  Walter.  296. 

Beake,  Robt.,  118. 

Bealde.Mabilla,195,197,200;  Richard, 

195-7,  200;  Thomas,   198-5-7,  200; 

Walter.  186,  188-9,  190-2,  195,  200  ; 

Wolmer  le,  186.  188. 
Beale,  Robt.,  100. 
Bealiug,  Mary  (Lady  Hales),  64. 
Beamstone  in  Westwell,  51. 
Bean,    Rev.  Charles   (1720-31),  132; 

Lucy,  132. 
Beards  in  Ightham,  230-1. 
Beauchief,  146. 
Beaulieu  Priory,  169,  170. 
Beaumundestone  Manor,  51. 
Beckett,  Eliz.  (1712-61).  76. 
Bedel,  John,  280  ;  Thomas,  280. 
Bedfordshire.  Briefs  for  places  in,  181, 

183,  208-9.' 
Bedgebury,  in  Goudhnrst,  16. 
Beck,  Johanna,  274  ;  Stephen  le,  274. 
Beere,  Thomas,  95. 
Beigham  (Bayham)  Abbey,  341, 
Beke,  John,  125. 
Belamy,  John,  242  ;  Peter,  242. 
Belknap,  Sir  Robt.  (1380),  5. 
Bellavievve,  79. 
Bell,  John  (1528),  367. 
Bells,  93,  101,  111,  114,  160,  171,  345, 

378. 
Benenden,  3,  39,  65,  323-4  ;  Brief  for 

the  Church,  182. 
Benet,  John,  254. 
Beneyt,   Henrv,  258  ;    Johanna,  258  ; 

Jno.,  259  ;  William,  258. 
Bengbery,  Manor  of,  256. 
Benge,  Wm.  (1437).  Brass  of,  355. 
Benger,  Ricd.  (1526-45),  355. 
Bentele.  Anabilla,  248  ;    William  de, 

248. 
Benynden,  William  de,  265. 
Benyndene,  Roger  de,  46. 
Beracre,  170;  Dionisiade,  170  ;  Ricd. 

de,  170. 
Bereford,  Ricd.,  201  ;  Wm.  de,    189, 

190,  201. 
Berefreyston,  257,  269  ;  see  Barfreston. 
Bereham,  270,  274  ;  see  Barham. 
Beresford.  Ann,  122  ;  Michael,  122. 
Berham,  245  ;  .?i"<;  Barham. 
Berkeley,     Elizabeth,     379 ;     Thos., 

379. 
Berkshire,  Briefs   for  places  in,  183, 

206,  208.  217-20. 
Berkyng,  278. 


Bernefeld,   W.,  187  ;  Wm.  de,  188-9, 

191,  198. 
Beriiers,  Wm.,  316,  325. 
Berttilot,  Simon,  254. 
Bertha.  Queen,  104,  108,  112. 
P.ery,  .Mice,  268  ;  John  de,  268. 
I'eliiersdeii,  41. 
Bctles.saugre,  Manor  and  Church   of, 

269. 
Betteshanger(J.Boys),  Rector  of,  174, 

269. 
Beverley,  Provost  of  (J.  Maunsell),  45. 
Bevvn,  Walter,  259. 
Bexley,  78,  199,  278. 
Bexter,  Reginald,  Brief  for,  206. 
Biddenden,  26,  39,  53,  65, 323-4, 355-7, 

371-2. 
Bifrons,   xlvii,    169,   173-6  ;    Chapel, 

180. 
Bil,  Robert,  192  ;  W.,  188  ;  see  Bille. 
Bille,  Doctor,  325. 
Billyng,  Ricd.,  304. 
Bilsington,  244,  247. 
Binbury,  see  Bengbery. 
Bird,  Rev.  Richard,  356. 
Birling,  see  Byerlynges. 
Birston,  Thos.  de,  2.57. 
Bishopsbourne,    270  ;  Church,   xlvii  ; 

Rectors,  132.    166;  Rectory,  xlviii ; 

Rood-loft,  372. 
Bisshop,  Alice,  248  ;  John,  248. 
Bisshopesgate,  257. 
Bisshoppeston,  279. 
Blackbourne  Hundred,  42, 
Blacke,  William,  297. 
Blackheath,  Rebels  at,  5. 
Blackmansbury  (Bridge  Place),  181. 
Blackmore  Priory,  Essex,  341. 
Blake,     Johanna,   264  ;      Thos.,  264  ; 

Thos,  le,  264. 
Blakebroke,  Thos.  de,  330. 
Blakeman,  Wm.,  186. 
Blakenam,  Nicholas  de,  329. 
Blakstan,  Wm.  de,  245. 
Bland,  Jno,.  Rector  of  Adisham  (1542- 

55),  160,  165. 
Blankpayn,  Wm.  (1386-90),  127. 
Blobbere,  Celestris,  197,  201  ;  Henry, 

186,     192  ;    Henry    le,    188,    201  ; 

Lawrence  le,  201  ;  Robt.  le,  201. 
Blodwell,  David  (1456),  164. 
Boan,  Elizth.,  95  ;  Thos.  95. 
Bobbing,  189,  245,  249,  251,  272-3. 
Bocher,  Wm.,  351, 
Boclande.  190. 
Bocton.  Malherbe,  268,271. 
Boctoue,  67,  247. 
Boctun,  Alulphi,  252,  280. 
Bodegesham,  330  ;  see  Bodesham. 
Boden,  John,  295. 
Bodesham,  341  ;  see  Bodegesham, 
Bodleian  Library,  327,  332. 


392 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


Bokelond,  Cecilia,  243  ;  Salomon  dc, 

248. 
Boklond,  Johanna,  269  ;  John  de,  2C'J. 
liokUinde.  I'lr^,  248  ;  <Uiurch,  2G1». 
Boktnn  iinikT  the  Blcan.  25(5,  280. 
Boldo,  Jnc).  (14;il).  U>:i. 
Bulyngor.  Peter  le.  2i'u. 
Bouho,  John,  277  ;   Ricd.,  277. 
Bouington,    117,    277;     Gauoury    at 

Wingham,  li. 
Bonnard,  Barnard,  820. 
Bonny  Cravat  Inn,  Woodchurch,  352. 
Borden,    378-'J ;     Roger,     Vicar     of, 

242-4  ;  ISutton,  Manor  in,  201. 
Boreman,  Tlios.,  292. 
Boresile,  41-2,    44  ;  see    BourwarBile, 

Burwarsile. 
Borne,  Ricd.  (1477),  33. 
Bothmeshelle,  Wm.  de,  259. 
Botun,  John,  248. 
Boudon,  Jolianna,  254,  267  ;  John  de, 

254,  267. 
Bonghan,  Rev.  Edward,  356. 
Boughton,  Alulph,   190,   252,  280  ;  see 

Oluesbocton. 
Boughton  Blean,  199,  256,  280,  371. 
Boughton  Malherbe,  33,  41.  66-7,  83, 

lis,  168,  268,  271. 
Boughton,  Sir  Edward,  304  ;  Nicholas, 

304. 
Boulogne,  Siege  of,  8. 
Bourgchier,    Archbp.,    121,   127,    164, 

178. 
Bourne,  Henry  de,  270  ;  John  de,  170, 

270  ;  Thomas,  170. 
Bourwarsile  boro,  Tenterden,  45. 
Boweman,  John,  303. 
Bowes,    Mr.  (Master    of    the    Rolls), 

321. 
Bowie,  John,  178. 

Bowley,  near  Lenham,  64-5,  75-6,  83-4. 
Bowtell,    Dr.   John,    175.   179,  180  ; 

Olive,  180. 
Boxle,  Agnes,  241  ;  John  de,241,  246  ; 

William  de,  251. 
Boxley,  265  ;  Abbey,  375,  380,  385-6  ; 

Barn,  18. 
Boycote,     Agnes,     277-8  ;   John    de, 

277-8. 
Bovs,  Anne,   116,   124,  130  ;  Edward, 

117;    John    (ob.  1661),    116,   130; 

John,  381,  383  ;  Colonel  John  (ob. 

1710),  116  ;  John,  Dean  of  Canter- 
bury,    174,    289;    Sir  John,     117; 

Mary  (Lady  Head).  117  ;  Sir  Wm. 

(1657-1744),  116-7.  124. 
Bovwyk,  Thos.  de,  256. 
Brabazon,  Roger  le.  186,  188,  199. 
Braborne,  Thos.  (1410),  121. 
Brabourne,  260  ;  Court  Lodge,  177. 
Bradested,  243. 
Bradwell  Priory,  340. 


P.raems,  Sir  Arnold,  179,  180-1  ;  Mar- 
garet, 179;  Walter,  179. 
Branding,  113,  118,  120. 

P>ranii)toM,  Alice,  259  ;  Wm.  de,  259. 

P.ra.-ted,  228  ;  see  P.rade.sted. 

Hrcdeherst.  Hredhurst,  258. 

Hiegge,  258,  270. 

Preniar,  Nycholas,  319. 

Brembel,  John,  195,  203;  Robt.,191, 
1 95,  203. 

Brenchley,  239,  241,  296,327,  330,  335, 
338,  340,  342  ;  Brief  for  the  Church, 
213. 

Brenlc,  Gilbert  de,  192,  195,  197,  199, 
250 ;  Henry  de,  199 ;  Jacob  de, 
188,  190-1,  193,  197, 199  ;  Lawrence, 
199  ;  Magera  de,  196,  199  ;  Nico- 
las de,  186,  188, 191,  192,  194,  199  ; 
Thomas  de,  192,  195,  197,  199. 

Brcnley,  199. 

Brenzett,  Rood-loft,  367,  372. 

Brerei'reyston,  Church  of,  269, 

Bret,  Agnes,  274  ;  Alice,  242  ;  Nicholas 
le.  274  ;  Richard  le,  242. 

Breton,  John  le.  243  ;  Maria,  261-2, 
272  ;  Walter,  261-2,  272. 

Bretoun,  see  Breton. 

Breynchesle,  241  ;  see  Brenchley. 

Bridge,  173-5,  179-81,  183,  258,  270; 
Church,  178  ;  Place,  181. 

Bridgman,  Sir  Orlando,  233. 

Briefs,  upon  which  collections  were 
made  in  the  churches  of  :  Bridge, 
183-4 ;  Craubrook.  206-222  ;  Ick- 
ham,  118  ;   Patricksbourne,  181. 

Brigett,  John,  298. 

Brightelmeston,  254,  259. 

Brinley,  Sii"  Lawrence  de,  199 ;  see 
Brenle. 

Brinnyston  in  Faversham,  202, 

Brionne  Castle,  327. 

Brissendene.  41. 

Bristol,  Public  penance  at,  100. 

Bristow,  Walter  (1480),  178. 

Britall,  William  de  (1322),  126. 

Brixworth  Church,  Saxon  tower  of, 
110. 

Broctone.  Adam  de,  196. 

Brodele,  Wm.  (1351),  127, 

Brodhelle,  191-2. 

Brokedale,  Mabel,  205  :  Michael  de, 
1 97  ;  Robert  de,  205. 

Brokkescumbe,  Adam  de,  268  ;  Ce- 
cilia, 268. 

Bromly,  230. 

Bromston,  Roger  de,  196  ;  s^e  Bronston. 

Bronston,  John  de,  197,  202  ;  Roger 
de.  196,  202. 

Brook,  near  Wye,  xlii,  41,  47,  49,  53. 

Brooke,  Revd.  Edward,  357  ;  Sir 
George,  Lord  Cobham,  325. 

Brookland,  145  ;  Vicar  of,  356.     • 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


393 


Broomfield,  378. 

Brotherhood  of  our  Lady,  at  Tenter- 
den,  52. 

Browke,  Lady  (1550),  225. 

BrowQ,  Robert,  351. 

Browne.  John,  351  ;  Margaret,  351  ; 
Rcvd.  Robert,  380,  386  ;  Revd.  Wil- 
liam, 385. 

Broyle  Pluce,  Sussex,  122. 

Brutone,  Henry  de,  205-0  ;  Margeria, 
205-6. 

Brydges,  Charlotte  Cath.,  124  ;  Ed- 
ward (allied  to  Head),  117  ;  Ferdi- 
nand S.  Head.  12-1  ;  Sir  Samuel 
Esjerton,  117,124;  Thomas  Barrett, 
124  ;  William  E.  Barrett,  124. 

Bryght.  John,  819. 

Buckinshamshire,  Briefs  for  places  in, 
18:5,  207.  209,  215,  218,220-1. 

Buckland,  199. 

Buffglesden.  41. 

Buifinch.  Nicholas  (1483),  121,  127. 

Bull.  Thomas,  319,  321. 

Bulstrode,  Ann  (allied  to  Hales),  64. 

Burbank,  Dr.  (Archdeacon  of  Car- 
lisle), 341. 

Burg,  Lathe  of,  39. 

Burges,  Frances  Ann  (allied  to  Head), 
117. 

Burghersh,  Bartholomew.  198  ;  Sir 
Robert  de.  189.   198. 

Burn.  Eglina,  209.  270  ;  George,  270  ; 
Henry  de,  209,  270  ;  John,  270  ; 
Ralph  de  la,  44. 

Burston,  Cicely,  301  ;  Richard,  361. 

Burt,  Roger,  120. 

Burtenchar,  Jane,  220. 

Burwai'sile  (Boresisle),  Waren  de,  44. 

Bury  St.  Edmunds,  107. 

Butler,  Susan,  of  Tenterden,  59, 

Buttetourt,  Roger,  274. 

Byerlynges,  198. 

Byng,  John,  319. 

Byrche,  Elizabeth,  124 ;  Rev.  VVm. 
Dejovas,  124. 

Bywyndlc,  Isabella.  275  ;  William  de, 
275. 

Cade,  Jack,  60,  169,  358. 

Caf  ur,  Henry  le,  329. 

Calais,  Guldeford,  Marshal  of,  7. 

Calceto  (De)  Priory,  341. 

Calehill,  74,  300, 

Callis  Court,  Thanet,  300. 

Calthrop, 'Bertram,  154. 

Caluel.  Hamo.  246. 

Cambridge,    359  ;    Emmuel    College, 

1.32,  388. 
Cambridgeshire.  100  ;  Brief s  for  places 

in,   181-4,  206,  208-10,  212,    214-5. 

220. 
Campania,  John  de,  204. 


Camvell  Priory,  340. 

Cantebrigg,   Agnes,   249 ;    Hugh    de, 

249. 
Canterbury,  43,  47,  60,  62-3,  74,  78, 

100,  113-4,  117,  130-3,  14.5,  149,  159, 

101,  104-8,  171,  174-5,  181,  187, 
189,  190-1.  241,  244,  247,  254-.5, 
257-8,  261,  207,  272,  298,  31.3,  321, 
334-5  ;  Archdeacons  of,  1,  109,  117, 
129,  130,  131,  1.33,  105;  Chamber- 
lain of  the  City,  321  ;  Church  goods 
seized  (1552),  316-21  ;  Corporation 
of,  315;  Walls  of,  318. 

Canterbury  Cathedral  (Christ  Church), 

55,  159,  174  ;  Chronological  Con- 
spectus of  its  architecture,  281-9 ; 

Crypt,  xxxiii. 
Canterbury,  Christ  Church.  140,  157, 

281-9,  366  ;  Deans  of.  40,  98,  132-3, 

168,    173-4  ;   Prebendaries   of,    129- 

133,  166-8,  356-7,  174  ;  Prior  of,  43, 

47-9,  52. 
Canterbury,    Roman   coffin   found  at, 

35. 
Cantuaria,  Godeleva,   202  ;    Wm.  de, 

192,  202. 
Capel,  331. 
Capeli,  Juliana,  62. 
Capella,  Gilbert  de,  204  ;  Juliana  de, 

204  ;    Peter  de,  ^195,  204  ;    Thomas 

de,  271. 
Caremer,  John,  242  ;  Lucia,  242. 
Carew,   Martha,    64-5 ;    Sir  Matthew, 

65. 
Carleton,  John  le,  Rector  of  Notstede, 

205. 
Carlisle,  Archdeacon  of,  341. 
Carpenter,    Amicia,    246  ;    Robert   le, 

203  ;  Wm.  le,  188,  203,  240. 
Carr,   Revd.  Jas.   Haslewood  (1881), 

168. 
Carrier,  Thos.,  227. 
Carter,   Ann,    102  ;    Elizabeth,    357  ; 

George,   102  ;    Martha,    102 ;    Rev. 

Dr.  Nich.,  357 ,  Sarah,  102  ;  Wm., 

102. 
Cartyll,  Wm.,  316,  318-9. 
Case,  Manor  of,  275. 
Castweasle  boro  in  Tenterden,  42. 
Casaubon,    Isaac,   130-1  ;    Dr.   Meric, 

(1671),  117,  131. 
Cattesfeld.  John  de,  246. 
Caumuill,  Alice,  257  ;  Thos.  de.  257. 
Caun.  George,  340  ;  Thomas,  340. 
Causton,  Robt.  de,  330. 
Cawnton,  Elizabeth,  62. 
Cawstone,  Robt.,  298. 
Celrer.  Thomas,  193. 
Cerue,  John  de,  275. 
Chafford,  154. 

Chaldane,  Agatha,  241 ;  John  de,  241. 
Chalk  Chui-ch,  Brief  for,  218. 


394 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


Chalko,  in  A.sli.  224. 
Clialloiicr,  Tectn,  22G. 
Challock  Rood-screoii.  370-1. 
Challoiicr,   Jane.    l")l  ;     Mary,     1.^4  ; 

Thos.,  ir>4. 
Chalmer,  Kobt.  (ir.20).  105. 
Cham,  John  do,  187,  204. 
Champencys,  Joan,  240  ;  Wni.  (1400), 

240. 
Chantries,  52,  120. 
Chapman,  Jacob  le,  188. 
Charemau,  Adam,  277  ;  Johanna,  277  ; 

John,  277  ;  Hied.,  277. 
Charing,  265,   267-8  ;    Archiepiscopal 

Manor   House  at,  83  ;    Church,  33, 

268  ;  Pett  Place,  142-3. 
Charles.  Elizabeth.  24;) ;  John,  249. 
Chart,  Great,  41.  252  ;  Briefs  lor,  181, 

183,  208  ;  Rectors  of,  130,  166. 
Chart,  Little,  sec  Cherd. 
Chart  next  Sutton  Valence,  77. 
Chartham,  251,  257  ;  Rectors  of,  131, 

164,  106,  354-5. 
Chatham.  228.  260  ;  Hales  of,  76. 
Chaundeler,  Clement  le,  242  ;  Isabella, 

242. 
Chelecumb,    Walter    de    (ob.    1284), 

126. 
Chelesfeld,   246  ;  Ricd.   de,  243,    249, 

267  ;  Master  Wm.  de,  261. 
Chelsea  Church,  14. 
Chelsfield,  145. 
Cheney.  Alex.,  169  ;    Sir  John.   169  ; 

Lord,    379 ;    Robt.     de,     170  ;    Sir 

Thomas,   179 ;    Wm.  de,   169  ;  Wil- 
liam, 374,  376. 
Chepperegge  Dene,  41,  47. 
Chepstede,^Mabilla.  259  ;  Michael  de, 

259  ;  William  de,  198. 
Cherd,  Little,  Rector  of,  259. 
Cherlesfeld,  Stephen,  121. 
Cherringe  (Charing),  Robert  de,  44. 
Cherryngge,  see  Charing. 
Cheshire,    Briefs  for   places    in,    182, 

207,212,  214-221. 
Cheuenyng,  Johanna,  254  ;  Wm.  de, 

2.54. 
Chevening,    234-5,     239,     254,    206  ; 

Rector  of,  357. 
Childemelle,  Johanna.  241  ;  John  de, 

241. 
Children,  Wm.,  50. 
Chilham,    63,    202,    387;    Henry   de, 

241  ;   Johanna.   241  ;    Nicholas   de, 

338  ;  Richard  de,  199. 
Chillenden,  117. 
Chilston,  64-7,  75-6. 
Chinalor,  Robt.,  195. 
Chippenham.  332. 
Chipstede.  John  (1400).  240. 
Chirk,  106. 
Chislehurst  Rood-screen,  871. 


Chistelet,  276,  279-80. 
Christ  Church,  Canterbury,  see  Can- 
terbury. 
Church  Goods,  A.D.  1377,  338  ;    A.D. 

1552,  290-325. 
Chute,  miilip,  367. 
Cirencester,  Abbot  of,  335. 
Clare,  Earl  de.  328  ;  Gilbert  de,  327  ; 

Ricd.  de,  328  ;    Roger,  328  ;  Simon 

de,  333. 
Clarke,    John.    345 ;    Richard,     345  ; 

William,  304. 
Clement,  Adam,  338  ;  Vincent,  S.  T.  P. 

(1444),  1.  163. 
Clerk,  John  (1459),  178  ;  Sir  Francis, 

381. 
Gierke,  George,  295  ;  Rev.  John,  386. 
Clerkson,  John,  320. 
ClifE-at-Hoo,     Brief    for,     181,    208; 

Rector  of,  129  ;  Rood-screen,  371. 
Clifford,  Henry  (1587),  301. 
Clifton,  John,  341. 
Clinch,   George,   on   Wrought    Flints 

found  at  West  Wickham,  85-90. 
Cloppehom,  Wm.  de,  243. 
Clyfton,  Wm..  305. 
Clyue,  270.  278. 

Cobham,  274  ;   Church,  103,  371. 
Cobham,   Sir    George    Brooke,   Lord. 

325  ;  Henry  de.  331  ;    Henry,  first 

Lord,  163  ;    John  de,  249 ;  Ralph, 

249:     Reginald    de    (1390),     163; 

Thomas  de,  163. 
Codeham,  279  ;  Rector  of,  272. 
Codham.  246. 

Codynton,  John  (1369),  162. 
Cogger,  Wm.,  223. 
Cok7  Edmund,  243  ;  Isabella,  243. 
Cokersand  Abbey,  146. 
Cokks,   Robt.    (of    Southwark,    1552). 

304. 
Cokyn,  Alexanc'er,  241. 
Colbraund,  Hamo,  256,  358. 
Colchester,  Essex   Committee  (1643) 

at,  359. 
Coldecote,  Herts,  76. 
Coleby,  Jas.  (1644),  179, 
Colepeper,   Alice,   300  ;    Sii'   Cheney, 

58  ;  John,  276  ;  Sir  John,  58  ;  first 

Lord,  361  ;  Margeria.  276  ;  Paulina, 

361  ;    Philippa.   361  ;  Richard,  276, 

.360;    Thomas,  276,  322,  331,  361; 

Walter,  276. 
Colepepyr.  Thomas  (1553),  322-3. 
Colier,  Alice,  263. 
Coliere.    Adam.    243  ;     Elena,     243  ; 

John  le,  243. 
Collard,  Ricd.,  295. 
Collins,  Commissary,  165. 
Columbariis.  Alice  de,  201  ;  Stephen, 

201  :  Thomas.  201. 
Colyn,  Michael.  243. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


395 


Combe  S.  Nicholas,  Rood-screen,  370. 

Oombewelle,  Prior  of,  333. 

Combs.  Robt.,  97. 

Concrete,  Icherus  de  (Papal  Nuncio), 

.335. 
Coneyire  (in  Teynham),  205 ;  William, 

196. 
Constantine,  a  coin  (minimus)  of,  139. 
Conyngbam,    Lady    Elizabeth,     180  ; 
Lord  Francis,    180  ;  Lady  Harriet, 
180;   1st,  Marquess,  172;    1st  Mar- 
chioness, 172-3  ;  2nd  Marquess,  169, 
173,    180 ;    2nd    Marchioness,    173 ; 
3rd  Marquess,  xlvii,  171,  180. 
Cooper,    Ann,    101  ;     Hannah,    101 ; 

John,  101. 
Cope.  Henry.  192  ;  Jane,  360. 
Copeton,  202  ;  Thos.  de,  186,  193. 
Copyn,  Walter,  193,  199,  205. 
Corall,  Nicholas,  178. 
Coruewell,  Christofer,  319,  321. 
Cornhelle,  John  de,  262. 
Cornwall.  Margaret,  Countess  of  (1329), 

334. 
Cornwallis,  Archbp.,   133  ;  Earl,  133. 
168  ;  Rev.  the  Hon.  Jas.,  133,  168  ; 
Marquess,  133. 
Corueyser,  Mabilla,  2i8-9  ;    Thos.  le, 

248-9. 
Cosnan,   Bethia,   382,    388;    Colonel, 

382. 
Coteman,  Hugh,  280 ;  Johanna,  280  ; 

Robert,  280. 
Cotes,  Wm.  de,  331. 
Cothorp,  Jno.  (1372),  127. 
Cotland,  Thos.,  319. 
Cotyer,  Wm.,  223. 

Couebrok,  Agnes,  254  ;  Thos.  de,  254. 
Coupere,  Bartholomew  le,  251  ;  John 

le,  264  ;  Margeria,  264  ;  Sara,  251. 
Courtail,  John  (1775).  357. 
Courtenay.   Archbp.,    127,    163,   354  ; 

Ricd.,  Bishop  of  Norwich,  1. 
Courthope,  Thomas,  355. 
Coveney,  Ricd.,  295-6. 
Cowdcn,  153-6  ;  Rood-screen,  371. 
Cowling,  Rector  of,  163. 
Cowper,    Earl,    135 ;    Henry    (1491), 

164  ;  Michael,  296. 
Cox,  Sophia,  76. 
Crake,  John,  367. 
Crambrook,   John,   Abbot  of   Boxley, 

380,  386. 
Cranbrook,  33,  40,  42,  51,  53,  57,  59, 
165,   313,    323-5,    343  ;    Briefs    on 
which  collections  were  made  in  the 
Parish  of,  206-222. 
Craumer,  Archbishop,  129,  142,  178-9 ; 
Archdeacon,  Edmund,  1,  129,  130  ; 
Thomas,  130. 
Cray,  St.  Mary,  250,  266,  279. 
Craye,  Juliana,  280  ;  Roger  de,  280. 


Cressebrok,  Robt.  de,  192,  195. 

Croyford,  249. 

Criel  (Criol),  Bertram  de,  144  ;  John, 

144  ;  Nich.  de,  193-4,  198,  264.  _ 
Criour,  Johanna,  245  ;  Robt.  le,  245. 
Crippenden,  153-6. 
Crispe.  John,  of  Ques,  360. 
Crittenden,  153. 
Crittcor,  Anne,  94  ;  Mary,  94  ;  Oliver, 

359  ;  Wm.,  94. 
Cromwell,    Jno.,   341  ;    Oliver,    359  ; 

Thomas,  49,  341. 
Crosswell,  Samuel,  97. 
Croswell,  Francis,  95, 96  ;  Rev.  Francis, 

96  ;  Jane,  95-6  ;  Samuel,  95,  96. 
Croughton,  Mrs.,  48. 
Crowlonde,   Agnes,   276  ;    Walter   de. 

276. 
Crowmer  or  Cromer,  Christiana,  64-5, 

78  ;  Sir  James,  64-5,  78. 
Cruce,  Reg.  de,  328. 
Cruceroys,  Prior  of,  329. 
Crumpton,  Anne,  379  ;    Sir  Thos.,  379. 
Crundal,  382.  387. 
Crust,  Phoebe,  96 ;  Wm.,  96. 
Cruys,  Patrick  (1455),  178. 
Cudham,  see  Codeham. 
Cull,  Revd.  Francis,  387. 
Cumberland,  Briefs  for  places  in,  184, 

211,  216,219. 
Cumberland,     Martha,     387  ;     Revd. 

Robt.,  387. 
Cundy,  Adam,  277  ;  Constance,  277. 
Curfew  Bell  at  Ickham,  125. 
Curteis,  Family  of,  48. 
Curteys,  Robt.,  265. 
Cuxton  Rood-screen,  371. 
Cylegraue,  Robt.  de,  247. 

Dade,   Mrs.   Bridget,  383  ;  Dr.  John, 

383. 
Dagh.  205  ;  Alan,  192,  202  ;    Alfred, 

186  ;    Galfridus,    191,    202 ;    Hamo, 

186,  192,    195,   202;    Thomas,    193, 

195-6,  202. 
Daines,  Robt.,  118. 
Dale  Abbey,  148-9. 
Dalechampe,  Rev.  Robt.,  167. 
Dall,  Wm.  (1550),  225. 
Damage,  Wm.,  193. 
Dandulo  (Philip),  Brief  for,  207. 
Dane,  Isabella,  268-9  ;  Johanna,  243  ; 

Stephen    de    la,    198.    249,    268-9; 

Thomas,  297  ;  Wm.,  372  ;  Wm.  de, 

243. 
Dane-John  at  Canterbury,  63. 
Dapar.  Wm.,  162. 
Dapur,  Wm.  (1386),  354. 
Dardes,  Wm.  (1471),  178. 
Darell,  Lucy  (Lady    Hales).  64,  74  ; 

Henry,  74. 
1  Darenth,  239,  274  ;  Brief  for,  213. 


396 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


Dartfonl,   145,   2i9,   26r>,   279,   290-9, 

302  ;  l^rief  for  Priscilla  Fielder  of, 

207. 
Daubrichecourt,  Sir  Eustace,  li. 
Danlard.    Margeria,    257-8;    Walter, 

257-8. 
Davcnlry  Priory,  340. 
Davington,  05,  199. 
Day.  Anne,  95  ;  John,  95. 
Deacon,  Wm.  (1557),  1G6. 
Deal.  2;i9,  270  ;  Chapel,  357  ;  Rectors 

of.   133,    357;  Roman    coins  found 

at,  3(J8-9. 
Deale,  Chrystopher,  305. 
Deai'son,  Roman  interment  at,  134. 
Decorated  Architecture,  Examples  of, 

19,  20,  28.  91-2,  109,  1.59,  284-5,  347, 

370-1.  375. 
Delawarr.     14.     15;      Barbara,     IG ; 

Eleanor,  6  ;  Thomas,  Lord.  6,  IG. 
Delce,  Thos.  de,  2G9,  270. 
Delebrogsre,  252. 
Detncherche,  2G4. 
Diinbcj'tj,  39. 

Dene,  Johanna,  252  ;  John  de,  252. 
Denison,  Archdeacon,  157. 
Denne,   Daniel.    177;  Elizabeth.  177  ; 

John,  177  ;  Richard,  125  ;  Thomas, 

177. 
Dennemannesbroke,  331. 
Denney,  Robt.,  301. 
Dennis,   John,   of   Ickham,    120 ;    his 

chantry  in  Ickham  Church,  120-1. 
Dentlyngg',  259. 

Denton  Court  (by  Canterbury),  124. 
Denton,  near  Gravesend,  224. 
Derby,  Jno.  de,  252. 
Derbyshire,  Briefs  for  places  in,  215. 

217,  219,  222. 
Bering,  Jas.,  of  Lyminge,  3G6. 
Deringgeston,  274. 
Dertefonl,  249,  265,  279,  290-9. 
Detling,  sre  Dentlyngg'. 
Deuery,  John,  258. 
Devonshire,  Briefs  for  pl.ices  in,  182-3, 

209-11,  214,  217,  220,  222. 
Deyuile,  John,  241 ;  Leticia.  241. 
Dickins.  Rev.  W.  W.  (1818-1862),  168. 
Dickson,  Rev.  R.  Henry,  372-3,  387-8, 

382-3  ;  Rev.  T.  B.,  382,  388. 
Digges.  John,  245.  366  :  Juliana.  366  ; 

Roger  (1340),  162, 354  ;  Thomas,  245. 
Digon.  Ricd..  195. 
Ditchers  in  Ightham.  230-1. 
Dixon,  Robert,  84. 
Dod,  Galfrid.  199  ;  Johanna,  199,  254  ; 

John,    199;    Robert.    186,    188-193, 

195,  199,  254,  268,  275  ;  Roger,  199  ; 

Thomas,  188-9,  199,  254,  268,  275. 
Doddes,  Gregory,  27. 
Dodenash,  Prior  of,  341. 
Dodinton,  251,  270. 


Dogrell,  Wm.,  319,  321. 

Dog-whipper.  for  Churches,  24,  25, 
384. 

Dokyn,  John,  192. 

Donet,  Stephen,  271. 

Dorchester  Abbc}',  148. 

Dormitories  of  Monasteries,  149. 

Dornewell,  Christofer,  318. 

Dorsetshire,  Briefs  for  places  in,  183-4, 
206,  210,  216,  218. 

Douue,  279 ;  see  Downe. 

Doust,  Robert  le,  242. 

Dovedene,  41. 

Dover,  143  ;  Brief  for  Kath.  Daukes 
at,  207  ;  St.  Mary's,  181. 

Dover  Castle,  42,  46  ;  Constables  of, 
7,  196,  198. 

Dover,  Prior  of  St.  Martin's,  94  ; 
Thornden,  Bishop  Suffragan  of,  160, 
166. 

Dovor,  142,  188-192,  194.  196,  278; 
Gilbert  de,  202 ;  Henry  de,  257 ; 
John  de,  257  ;  Matild'  de,  192,  195  ; 
Nicholas  de,  202;  William  de,  195. 

Dowker.  Geo..  F.G.S.,  on  a  Roman 
Villa  at  Wingham,  134-139. 

Dowle,  Andrew  (1579),  356. 

Dowman,  Mrs.  (half-sister  of  Sir  Ed. 
Hales).  79. 

Downe  Church,  198 ;  Court,  198  : 
Hamon  de  la,  198;  Isabella,  198; 
John,  198  ;  Lawrence,  198  ;  Mar- 
gery, 198  ;  Richard  de,  198  ;  Robert 
de  la,  198;  Roger,  198;  Thomas, 
198. 

Draper,  Margaret  (allied  to  Harlaken- 
den),  360. 

Drayner,  of  Smarden,  27. 

Drent.  274. 

Drew,  Littleton,  Rector  of  (Robt.  de 
London),  262. 

Drew.  Walter,  262-4. 

Dreyland,  John,  188 ;  Ricd.,  195  ;  see 
Dryland. 

Drof-men,  40  ;  Drof-ways,  40. 

Dryden,  Sir  Henry,  36. 

Dryl.and,  Constance,  200  ;  Jas.,  200  ; 
John,  200-1  ;  Matthew,  201  ;  Regi- 
nald, 200 ;  Ricd..  200-1  ;  Robt, 
200  ;  Wm.,  201  ;  Wyuand  de.  200. 

Dudingburie,  327. 

Dudley,  Elizabeth,  366  ;  Lord  Guide- 
ford,  3,  8-12  ;  Lord  de  Lisle  and,  15. 

Dudley,  see  Northumberland,  Duke 
of, 

Dumborne,  41-2,  55-6. 

Dun,  Alice,  263  ;  Thos.,  263. 

Dunes  Abbey  in  Flanders,  375,  385. 

Dunre,  Margeria.  254-5  ;  Walter  de, 
254-5. 

Dunstable,  Chapter  of  Austin  Canons 
at,  335. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


397 


Durham,  168  ;  Bishop  of,  168  ;  Briefs 
for  places  in,  213-5,220;  Dean  of, 
166. 

Duttou,  John,  179. 

Dygge,  R(ic;er,  1G2,  354. 

Dyue,  Ricd.,  34 1 . 

Dyuely,  TLios.,  84. 

Dyttou,  Johanna,  245  ;  Ralph  de,  245. 

Eadbakl,  King  of  Kent,  157. 
Eades,  John.  38(;. 

Ealdinge,  2(i0,  330,  332  ;  nee  Yalding. 
Ealdyug,  Benedict  de,  333. 
Eastbriclge  Hospital,  178. 
Eastchurch  in  Shepey,  370-88  ;  Church, 

374-88  ;  Rood-screen,  372-3  ;  Vicars 

of,  38o-S. 
Easter  Sepulchre,  21,  23,  377. 
Eastling,  200. 
Eastry,  sec  Estri,  Estrye. 
Easwole,      Clemencia,    257  ;     Ralph, 

257  ;  Wm.,  257. 
Eaton,  Sir  Peter,  143  ;  Revd.   Robert, 

387. 
Ebbe.  see  Ebony. 
Ebony,  54,  77,  265. 
Edelmesbrigg  (Edenbridge),  242. 
Edeubi'idge,  153-4. 

Ediall,  Hy.,  Archdeacon  of  Rochester,  1. 
Edinburgh  and    Scotland,    Briefs   for 

places  in.  213,  215,  222. 
Edisham  (Adisham),  Manor,  157. 
Edolph,  Simon,  142-3,  151. 
Edridge,  Rev.  H.  P..  99. 
Edward  I.,  33. 

Edward  VI.,  12  ;  poisoned,  9-11. 
Egerton,  268,  271  ;  Church,  32-3  ;    see 

Eggerindenn. 
Egerton.    Rev.    William     (allied     to 

Head).  117. 
Eggerindenn',  Johanna,   255 ;    Roger 

de,  255. 
Egglestou  Abbey,  146. 
Eiarton,  see  Egerton. 
Elarndine,  41,  49. 
Eldershurst,  41. 
Elding.  329  :  see  Yalding. 
Eldrid.John,  181. 
Elham,  255-6,  270  ;  Rood-loft,  372. 
Elizabeth,  Queen,  10,  16.  33. 
Ellis,  Margaret,  360  ;  Guy,  360. 
Elmley,  247  ;  Ferry.  72. 
Elmstead,  64,  251,  255. 
Elton,  Jas.  Fredk.,  77. 
Elwood.  341. 

Ely,  133,  164  ;  Geoffrey  de.  279. 
Elys,  John,  264  ;   Wm.,  247,  264. 
Emery,  Ricd.  (1721),  100. 
Enamel  in  Smardou  Church,  28. 
English. Early,  Architecture,  Examples 

of,  107,  109,   114-5,   144,   151,   158, 

167,  283-4,  345-9. 


Ent.  Sarah  (Lady  Head  and  Barrett, 
ob.  1711),  116, 117,  123  ;  Sir  George, 
116,  123. 

Envbrok',  Alianora,  278  ;  Thomas  de, 
278. 

Erchebaud,  Martin,  270-1. 

Erith  Rood-screen,  371. 

Essex,  Adam  do  (Rector  of  Smarden), 
19  ;  Briefs  for  places  in,  183.  207-8, 
21.3,  215-6,  221-2  ;  Earl  of,  49.  142  ; 
Earls  Colne,  359. 

Essh'  next  Sandwich,  252,  257. 

Estbarblenge.  252. 

Estgrenewvch',  246,  304. 

Esthallc,  279  ;  Thos.  de,  252. 

Estmallyng,  242,  259,  272. 

Estou,  Walter  (1456),  164. 

Estri,  244. 

Estrye,  244. 

Eiaples,  369. 

Ethelbert,  King  of  Kent,  103. 108,  111, 
157. 

Evelyn,  Elizabeth,  64  ;  Sir  John,  64, 
66  ;  of  Sayes  Court,  66,  67. 

Everard,  Edmund,  199  ;  Henry,  341  ; 
Johanna,  199:  John,  189,  199  ; 
Margaret.  199  ;  Stephen,  199;  Tho- 
mas, 186,  188,  190-1,  198-9, 

Everdon,  Thos.  (1400),  355. 

Everinge,  Henry  de,  204  ;  Thomas  de, 
186,  204. 

Evyngton,  Christofer,  320. 

Excommunicated  persons  (1620-36), 
99,  100, 

Eygthorne,  Manor  of,  267. 

Eylesham  (where  linen  v..".s  woven), 
338. 

Eyllesford,  242  ;  see  Aylesford. 

Eylmerstone  (Elmstone),  270. 

Evnsford.  126,  127,  272. 

Eytherst,  John  (1447),  33. 

Evthorne  Church,  171,  note. 

Eyton.  Adam  de  (1303),  177  ;  Wm. 
de  (1317),  177. 

Fadyane,  John,  291. 

Fairlawn  in  Shipbourne,  237. 

Falco,  Hermann,  11. 

Falkes,  Alys,  111  ;  Brass  of  Ste- 
phen, 111. 

Fane,  Henry,  342-3  ;  John,  372 ;  Sir 
Kauff,  325  ;  Thos.,  341. 

Farleigh,  East,  239  ;  West,  296, 

Farnebergh',  279. 

Farningham,  259,  274,  279  ;  Rood- 
screen,  371. 

Faukham,  239,  240;  Church,  274; 
Sara,  274  ;  Wm.  de,  274. 

Fauuce,  Sir  R.  (allied  to  Head),  116. 

Faussett,  Rev.  Bryan,  175;  T.  God- 
frey, 157. 

Faversham,   65,  247,   254,    268,    275, 


398 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


360,  384,  386  ;  Abbot  of,  186 ; 
Chantry  priest.  325 ;  Rood-screen, 
:i72  ;  Vicar  ot,  11)2,  204,  386. 

Favcrsbani,  Municipal  Archives  of, 
A.D.  1304-24.  185-205. 

P'aversliam,  Nicholas  dc,  334  ;  Tho- 
mas de,  331. 

Faj'crman,  John,  114, 

Fcar-Uod  (a  woman's  Christian 
name),  236. 

Fcldcrhmd  boro  in  Worth,  IDS). 

Ferercs.  Wm.  de,  328. 

Ferthyng',  Robt.,  258. 

Feure,  Jordan  le,  241  ;  Thomas,  241. 

Feyre,  John,  376. 

Fidgc.  Oliver,  100. 

Fio-e.  John  (1662-3),  179. 

Finch,  Sir  John,  Baron  Fordwich, 
111;  iSir  Nathaniel,  117;  Wm. 
(1641),  356. 

Finchdeue,  41,  49. 

Fire,  Frequent  losses  by  ;  src  Briefs. 

Firmingers  in  l2;htham,  230-1. 

Fitz-Aucher.  l^ii^Thos.  (1241),  311. 

Flemish  clothworkers,  33,  53. 

Flete,  Wm.  (1460),  178. 

Flints,  Wrought,  found  at  West  Wick- 
ham,  85-90. 

Fodryngehe,  Peter  de  (1307).  177. 

Fogge,  Arms,  171. 

Fogges,  17. 

Foghelere,  Ricd.  le,  188. 

Folkestan,  255. 

Folkestone,  143,  255  ;  Thos.  Barrett, 
ex-Prior  of,  316. 

Forbisseur,  Adam,  192. 

Ford,  Mary,  63  ;  Stephen,  of  Tenter- 
den,  63. 

Fordwich,  63,  79  ;  Baron  of,  111. 

Forester,  Henry  le,  247  ;  Sibilla,  247. 

Forster,  Chas.  (1709),  387  ;  Rev.  Dr. 
Ricd.  (1702),  381-2,  387 ;  Thomas 
le,  191. 

Fort,  Widow,  192. 

Forvndon,  or  Farndon,  Walter  de 
(1376).  127. 

Foster,  Richard,  296. 

Fotherby,  Dean  (of  Canterbury),  166, 
289;  Elizabeth,  117;  Sir  John, 
117  ;  Martin,  166. 

Fountayne,  Ricd.,  179. 

Foxle,  John  de,  275  ;  Thomas,  275. 

Franceys,  Jugeriuus,  Vicar  of  River, 
Abbot  of  St.  Radegund's,  142. 

Frankelyu,  Alice.  129  ;  John,  Rector 
of  Ickhara  (1499),  129  ;  Robt.,  129. 

Fraunces,  Jane,  111  ;  Michael,  111. 

Fremle,  James  (1550),  225. 

Fremoult,  Philadelphia,  97  ;  Samuel, 
97. 

French,  Ann,  229,  231,  233  ;  Francis, 
229,  233. 


French  Protestants,  Briefs  for,  182-4, 

210-2. 
Frcnche,    John,   318,    320 ;     Stephen 

(1508),  26  ;  Thomas,  316,  318. 
Frend,  Wm.  de  (Canon  of  Tunbridge). 

332. 
Frcndesbcry,  Emma,  273  ;  Walter,  273. 
Frensh',  Robt.  le,  273. 
Frensthopc,  Gcollrey  de  (1323),  385. 
Frcnyngham,  t<ce  Farningham. 
Frescoes.  Mural,  in  Smarden  Church, 

20.  30. 
Freseli,  Hugh,  367. 
Frid  Manor,  in  Bcthersden,  41,  49. 
Friudsbury,  228. 
Frinstcd,  Rood-screen,  371. 
Frithindenne,  Cecilia,  253  ;  Henrj'  de, 

253. 
Frittenden,  39,  323-4. 
Fromond,  John,  266,    339;    Thomas, 

266. 
Fryth,  Thomas,  318-9. 
Fuhet,  Hugh,  328. 
Fulham,  Thos.  de,  267. 
Fuller,  John,  318,  320  ;  Philip,  228. 
Furley,   Robt.,    F.S.A.,     143,   350;  on 

the    Early    History  of    Tenterden, 

37-60. 
Fuss,  Ricd.,  95. 
Fyuchdene,  Wm.  de.  Chief  Justice  of 

the  Common  Pleas,  49. 
Fynchyngfield,  John  de,  338. 
Fyneghe,  Wm.,  188. 
Fyneux,  "my  lord,"  319. 
Fyshe,  Nicholas,  316.  318. 
Fyssher,  John  (1550-1),  179, 

Galiot,  Simon,  253. 
Gamone,  Joan,  376. 
Gardyner,  Johanna,  258  ;  William  le, 

258. 
Gatesden.  41,49.  50-1  ;  Thomas  de.50. 
Gatton',  Agnes,  261  ;  James  de.  261. 
Gavelkind,  83,  279. 
Gaveston,  Piers  de,  47-8. 
Geekie,  Jane  (allied    to  Head),   117, 

133  ;  Rev.  Dr.  Wm.,  116,357. 
Gegge.  Robert  le,  253. 
Gelcleforde  (Et.  Guldeford  parish),  4, 
Georgies  in  Ightham,  229,  231. 
Gerard,   John,  251,  255  ;  Lucia,  255  : 

Stephen,  251.       ' 
German,  Martin,  246. 
German  Protestant  Church,  Brief  for, 

183.  207. 
Gerneys,    Johanna,    278-9 ;     Martin, 

278-9. 
Gilberd,  Edmund,  311  ;  Henry,  311. 
Gilder,  Rev.  Ed.,  xlvi,  115,  125,  133. 
Gilham,  Thomas,  234. 
Gillingham,  256,  258  ;  Church  screen, 

371  ;  Vicar  of,  133, 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


399 


Gipps.  Geo.,  of  Howlets,  115. 
Giraud,  Francis  F.,  0:1  Municipal  Ar- 
chives of  Faversliam,  185-2U5. 
Girdler,  John,  355. 
Glanvylc,  Mabilia,  201  ;  Stephen,  186, 

188,  190-1,  201. 
Gloucester,  Earl  of,  3:50. 
Gloucestershire,  Briefs  for  places   in, 

183,  209,  213,215-9. 
Gloucestre,  John  de,   278  ;  Margcria, 

278  ;  Richard  do.  278. 
Glover.  Susan,  359 ;  William,  359. 
Glynne.  Sir  Stephen,  113,346. 
Gnat,  Felicia,  262  ;  Roger  le,  262. 
Gobet,  John  (1380),  177. 
Godard,  John,  192. 
Goddard,  Alexander,  372. 
Goddeu,  41,  49,  50-1,  58. 
Godden  (coachman  to  Sir  E.  Hales), 

72. 
Godefray.  John,  247  ;  William,  247. 
Godefrcy,  John.  260  ;  William,  260. 
Godeneston,  275. 
Godmersham,     Church     tower,     145  ; 

Rood-screen,  371. 
Godwin,  Earl,  48. 
Godwya,     Agues,      275-6  ;     Paganus. 

275-6. 
Godwyne,  Agnes,  260  ;  Jno.,  260. 
Godybour,  Alice,  255-6  ;  Henry,  255  ; 

Jno.,  255. 
Godvn,  Thomas,  248. 
Goldfinch.  200  ;  Robert,  192,  196. 
Goldfynch.  Tristram  le,  188. 
GoldhuU,  La,  in  Haudlo,  266. 
Goldwyne,  Galfrid,  201  ;  Gilbert,  201  ; 

John,  188.  193,  195-6,  201:  Walter, 

201. 
Goldyng',  Godeleua,  271-2  ;  Thomas, 

271-2. 
Goodneston,  117,  275  ;  Rector  of,  121. 
Goodnestone,  134. 
Goodwin  Sands,  52. 
Gooseborne,  91. 
Gore,   Gerard,  64,    66  ;    Nicholas  de, 

347,  .354. 
Goshall,  in  Ash,  134. 
Gossage,  John  (1671),  226. 
Goudhurst  Rood-screen,  372. 
Goudwyne,  Wm.,  I(i2. 
Gowtherst  (Goudhurst),  323-4. 
Graudison,  Otto  de,  240. 
Gratwicke,  Anne  (1671),  226  ;  Ricd., 

226;   Thomas  (1711),  227. 
Graue,  John  de,  277. 
Graunsden,  John,    of   East    Mailing, 

228. 
Gravene,  280  ;  Manor  of,  254. 
Gravene,  John  de,  202.  254  ,  Julyana, 

192,  202  ;  Ricd..    193,     195-6,   202, 

226  ;    Ricd.  de,  254,  275  ;  Thomas, 

275. 


Gravesend,  Briefs  for,  207,  215,  222. 

Green,  Rev.  John  (1708),  167  ;  Susan 
(allied  to  Barrett),  124;  Thomas, 
124. 

Greenfield,  Wm.  (1302),  141. 

Greenstreet,  Jas.,  on  Wills  and  Re- 
cords of  the  HodsoU  Family,  223-40, 

Greenwich,  244  ;  Assizes,  165. 

Grelev,  Amicia  de,  260-1. 

Gren^Grain  Island).  264. 

Grene,  John  (15.38),  178-9. 

Grenhamme,  Philip  do,  192. 

Gresham,  John,  341. 

Gretle,  Robt.  de,  331. 

Grey,  Lady  Jane.  3,  9,  12,  13. 

Grigsby,  John,  95. 

Grippindeune  (Crippenden)  Manor, 
153. 

Grofherst,  Johanna,  244;  Wm.  de,  244. 

Grofhirst,  Henry  de,  253  ;  Ricd.,  253. 

Gromer,  John,  196. 

Grove,  John  (of  Tunstall,  1651),  79. 

Grubbe,  Johanna,  271 ;  Peter,  271. 

Grysby,  John  (1436),  385. 

Guislebert,  Ricd.  Fitz,  327. 

Guldeford.  East,  in  Sussex,  3. 

Guldeford,  Family  of,  1-17,  32,  58; 
Edward  ( Lord  Warden).  5,  49,  55. 
367  ;  Edward  (1444),-5,  6  ;  Edward 
(ob.  1678),  16  ;  George  (1525),  5, 
15 ;  Henry,  K.G.  (ob.  1532),  6 ; 
Henry  (1600),  16  ;  Jane,  Duchess 
of  Northumberland,  6-15,  49  ;  John 
(Comptroller  of  Household,  Ed.  IV.), 
5;  John  (1.556),  15.  322-3,  360; 
Mary,  360;  Ricd.  (1186),  4;  Ricd., 
367  ;  Ricd.,  KG.,  5  ;  Robt.  (1685), 
16  ;  Thos,  (1575),  16 ;  Willm.  (1388), 
4,  5. 

Gunsley  Scholarship  to  University 
College,  Oxford,  from  Maidstone 
School,  167. 

Guston.  John  de,  252  ;  Mabilia,  252. 

Gwve,  William  (1554),  355. 

Gybson,  Ricd.,  297. 

Gylemyn.  Wm.,  244. 

Gyulph,  Wm.,  192. 

Hackington,  Rood-screen,  370,  373. 

Haddon,  Alexander.  227. 

Hadlow  (Hallo),  228-9,  240,  327  ; 
Registers,  236. 

Hafl:endene,  41  ;  Quarter,  41. 

Hakinton.  254.267,  271. 

Halden,  High,  25,  44.  55,  62,  323-4  ; 
in  Rolvenden,  3,  5,  6. 

Halden,  Joaiie.  5  ;  John  de,  5. 

Haldeue  (in  Tenterden),  41. 

Hales  Family,  49  ;  Coventry  branch 
of,  62  ;  Tunstall  branch,  64. 

Hales  Place,  Canterbury,  74-5  :  Ten- 
terden, 49,  61,  63. 


400 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


Hales,  Rev.  R,  Cox,  49  ;  Brief  Notes 
on  the  Hales  Family,  01-84. 

Hales,  Sir  Ciiristopher,  lA  (Master  of 
the  Rolls),  Cl-2  ;  2ud  (of  Coventry), 
62. 

Hales,  Sir  Edward,  1st  (ob.  1654),  58, 
63-5,  67,  70,  7r)-84,  35<),  860  ;  2ud, 
64,  68-71,  8U-4  ;  3rd  (Karl  of  Tcn- 
tenlen),  64,  71-4,  80,  381  ;  4ih  (ob. 
1802),  64  ;  5th  (ob.  182'.)),  64. 

Hales,  Edward,  of  Tenterden,  62-3, 
75;  of  Chilham,  63;  of  Ohilston, 
64,  66-7,  78. 

Hales,  Sir  James,  of  Dungeon,  62,  311. 

Hales,  Sir  John,  1st  (Baron  of  Ex- 
chequer), 62-3  ;  2nd  (of  Tunstall, 
kniuht),  64-5,  78-83  ;  3rd  (Baronet, 
ob.l744),  64,  74  ;  4th  (of  Coventry, 
1660),  63. 

Hales,  Sir  Nicholas,  61-2. 

Hales,  Sir  Rubcrt,  1st  (1381),  61-2; 
2nd  (1660),  63. 

Hales,  Sir  Thomas  (1695).  67  ;  Tho- 
mas, of  Henley,  62  ;  Thomas,  of 
Romford,  62  ;  Thomas,  of  Thaning- 
ton,  62-3. 

Hales.  Lady,  Ann  (Wootton),  64,  80-2; 
Barbara  (Webb),  64  ;  Christiana 
(Crowmei-),  64-5,  78-80,  82  ;  De- 
borah (Harlakenden),  64,  82-3  ; 
Frances  (Windebank),  64 ;  Helen 
(Bagnal),  64;  Lucy  (Darell),  64; 
Martha  (Carew),  64-5  ;  Mary  (Beal- 
ine),  64. 

Hale^s,  Bartholomevt^,  62  ;  Betty,  67  ; 
Charles,  64,  80-2  ;  Christiana,  64, 
66,  78  ;  Deborah,  64,  60,  78  ;  Eliza- 
beth {nee  Johnson),  63-4,  66,  76 ; 
Felicite,  64,  74  ;  Henry,  of  Tenter- 
den, 62 ;  Humphry,  62  ;  John 
(Alderman),  62  ;  John  (Mayor  of 
Tenterden),  54,  63 ;  John,  of  Chil- 
stou,  76  ;  John  (son  of  2nd  Sir  Ed.), 
64,  80-1  ;  Mildred,  62  ;  Richard,  of 
Chilston  (1029-72),  70  ;  Richard,  of 
Hunsdon,  64,  70  ;  Saml.,  of  Chil- 
ston, 04-5,  75,  78-9,  83-4  ;  Saml.,  of 
Coldecote,  70  ;  Stephen,  62-3  ;  Wil- 
liam (father  of  1st  Sir  Edward), 
63-4,  75  ;  William,  of  Bowley  and 
Chilston,  64-5,  75-6. 

Halghesto.  see  Halstow. 

Hall,  Geo.,  305  ;  John,  102  ;  Mary, 
102 ;  Peter,  57  ;  Ricd.,  299,  801 ; 
Roht.  de.  260  ;  Wm.,  299,  301. 

Hailing,  334. 

Halstow,  Lower,  258. 

Ham,  Rectors  of,  354-7. 

Hnmrae,  Alice,  333  ;  Sir  John  de, 
333. 

Hamon,  Agnes,  242  ;  William,  242. 

Hampoller,  Clement,  258. 


Hampshire,  Briefs  for  places  in, 
182-4,207,  209-12,  215-9. 

Hampton,  Martin  de,  116,  126. 

Handsex,  Johanna,  263 ;  William, 
268. 

Hanyn,  Elena,  203;  Peter,  193-4, 
208. 

Harbledown,  Rector  of,  174. 

Uardres,  Elizabeth,  260 ;  Justice, 
165;  Peter.  118;  Sir  Ricd.,  381; 
Thomas;  360;  Sir  William,  8. 

Harcwell,  Juhn  do,  330. 

Harlackenden  Family  of  Woodchurch, 
.358-361. 

Harlackenden,  Elizabeth,  352  ;  Mar- 
gaiet,  352  ;  Martin  and  Deborah, 
64-5,  350  ;  Roger,  850-1 ;  Thomas, 
349,  352;  William,  351. 

Harlestone,  Samuel  (1568),  130. 

Harley,  Wm.  (Eastchurch,  1651),  386. 

Harman,  Mary,  96  ;  Ricd.,  96. 

Harneden,  John.  26. 

Haruell  (Hernchill),  280. 

Harnhulle  (Heruehill),  275. 

Harper,  Sir  George,  295  ;  Margeiy, 
99. 

Harpsfield,  Archdeacon,  165. 

Harrietsham,  Rector,  357  ;  Rood- 
screen,  371  ;  see  Herietsham. 

Harry,  Elizabeth,  62. 

Hartlip,  Rood-loft,  372  ;  see  Hertlepe. 

Harty,  Rood-screen,  871. 

Harvey,  Dr.  Henry  (1554),  130. 

Hasard,  Wm.,  263. 

Haslewood,  Rev.  Fras.,  on  Small- 
hvthe  Church.  362 ;  on  Smarden 
Church,  18-34. 

Hastiuges,  John  de,  268,  271  ;  Juliana, 
268,  271. 

Hastings,  Cinque  Port  of,  li  ;  Colle- 
giate Church  of,  lii. 

Hatch,  Joseph  (bellfounder),  378  ; 
Bells  by.  93,  345. 

Hauckvn,  Joan,  376  ;  John,  376. 

Haudlo,  266  ;  John  de,  209  ;  Matilda, 
269. 

Hauekyn,  Johanna,  244 ;  Stephen, 
244  ;  Thos.,  244. 

Haulo,  Elizth.,  259-60  ;  Simon,  259-60. 

Hautcyn,  Leticia,  272  ;  Ricd.,  272. 

Hawlshurst,  323-4  ;  Brief  for,  209. 

Hawkins,  John  (1493),  355. 

Hayrouu,  John,  260  ;  Juliana,  206. 

Head,  Ann,  116;  Ann  (Mrs.  Egerton), 
117;  Anne  Gabriel,  117;  Arch- 
deacon Sir  John  (1701-69),  110-7, 
128,  180,  132-8,  857  ;  Sir  Edmund, 
110  ;  Elizth.,  116  ;  Elizth.  Campbell, 
117;  Frances.  116-7:  Francis 
(1641-78).  116,  124;  Francis  Mcn- 
des,  117;  Sir  Francis  (1670-1710), 
116-7,   123,    182  ;  Sir   Francis  (ob. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


401 


1768),  117  ;  Sir  Francis  Bond  Head. 

Bart.(1838),ir7;  Geo.,116-7;  Henry, 

llG-7  ;  James,    117;    James  Roper 

Mendes,  117  ;  Jane  (ob.  1717),  ll(j ; 

Jemima  (Mrs.  Brydgcs),  117  ;  John, 

lir,  ;  :\Iargt.,   116-7;  Mary  Wilhel- 

mina.  117;  Merrick,  116;  Ricd.,  of 

Rainliani,  116  ;  >Sir  Ricd.  (ob.  1G89), 

116-7,123-130;  Sir  Ricd.  (l(;9-t-1721), 

116-7,    130;     Samuel,     117  ;  Sarah. 

116-7,  124.  132  ;  Thomasine.  117. 
Hcadcorn,  xxxix,  278  ;  Church,  xli  ; 

Rood-screen,  371. 
Headen,  Ricd.  de,  276. 
Heare,  Lawrence  le,  188.  192  ;   Walter 

le,  199. 
Hedecrou,  278  ;  see  Headcorn. 
Hegbam,    170,     278;    Jas.    de,     170; 

Johanna,  256  ;  John,  256  ;  Raulina, 

256-7,  262  ;  Roger  de,  256-7  ;  Wm. 

de,  170. 
Hesfhtresbury,  Wm..  Rector  of  Ickham 

(1354),  li,  121,  127. 
Hempsted  in  Benenden,  3,  5,   15-17, 

58,  322  ;  Manor  of,  5. 
Hendon,  in  "Woodchurch,  359. 
Heuhurst,  348. 
Henley,  62  ;  Thos..  295. 
Henry  VIII.,  9—11. 
Uerbaldoune,  Manor  of,  257, 
Herberd,    Robt.,    Rector    of    Bocton 

Alulphi,  280. 
Herdyngton,  Rector  of,  278. 
Hereford,  Deanery  of.  163  ;  Prebend 

of,  128,  133,  163. 
Herefordshire.   Briefs  for  places    in, 

182,  212,  221. 
Herendene    in    Tenterden.    52  :     sre 

Heronden. 
Hereward,  John,  252. 
Hereword,  Hy.,  188,  200  ;  Ricd..  200  ; 

Thos..  200  ;  Wm.,  200. 
Herietesham,  245-6,  251,  271. 
Herlackenden,  Martin,  83. 
Herlakyndenn,  Amanda,  249  ;   Moises 

de,  249  ;  Wm.  de,  249. 
Herlyngge,  Peter  de,  250. 
Heme,  279-80  ;  Rood-screen,  370-1. 
Hernehill,  202,  275,  280  ;  Rood-screen, 

370. 
Heronden.   41-8,   348  ;  Martha,   64-5, 

78  ;  Stephen,  65.  78. 
Hert,   Ricd.   le.   202;   Robt.   le,    192, 

195,  202. 
Hertford.  Gilbert  de  Clare.  327  ;  Ricd. 

de   Clare.   Earl   of,   326,  328,   331, 

336  ;  Roger  de  Clare,  327-8. 
Hertfordshire,   Briefs  for  places    in, 

182-3,  209-10,  220. 
Hertlepe,  244. 
Hertlepcshelle.  Agnes,  242,  244,  255 ; 

John  de,  242,  244,  251,  255, 

VOL.    XIV. 


Ilcrtpol.  Gooffry  de,  187. 

Hervy,  John  (1488),  127-8. 

Heryuge,  Nicholas,  338. 

Hcse,  279. 

Hethc,  191-2  ;  Bishop  Hamo  de,  326, 
334-5  ;  John,  320. 

Heued  (/.^.,  Head),  Alice,  244  ;  John, 
244. 

Heure,  243. 

Hever,  243  ;  Castle,  55. 

Hewe,  John,  223. 

Hewette,  Geoffrey  de  la,  246 ;  Jo- 
hanna, 246. 

Hey,  Elizth.,  382.  387  ;  Rev.  Dr. 
Thos.  (Eastchurch,  1755),  382,  388. 

Heyman,  Sir  Henry  .  55  ;  Margaret, 
75-6  ;  Ralph,  75. 

Heyward,  Agnes,  250  ;  Alice,  273  ; 
John,  273  ;  John  le.  250  :  Roger, 
273. 

Hibbene  (Ebony),  47. 

Hide,  Wm.,  325. 

Higden,  John,  341. 

Higham,  325  ;  Ferrers,  385  ;  Hermi- 
tage in,  117. 

Hilton,  Clifton,  79,  84  ;  S.  Musgrave, 
113,  115. 

Hirst,  Hamo  de,  254  ;  Matilda,  254. 

Hitbe,  Simon  de  (1349),  177. 

Ho.  Juliana.  259  ;  Wm.  de,  259. 

Hoad  Court  (Harbledown),  116. 

Hoath  in  Appledore,  94. 

Hobbes,  Anthony,  229,  232. 

Hock,  Peter,  96. 

Hodsoll  of  Fairlawn,  226,  237. 

Hodsoll   Wills    (by    J.    Greenstreet), 
223-9  ;  Edmund',  of  St.  Mary  Cray 
(1711),  227  ;  Elizabeth,  of  Stansted 
(1671),   226  ;    Henry,   of   Fairlawn 
(1699),    226  ;    John    (1424),     223 
John,  of  Wt.  Mailing  (1556),  225 
Captain  James  (1710).   226  ;  Max 
field,     of    Wrotham     (1710),    228 
Thomas,     of     Ash     (1537),     224 
Thomas,  of   Ightham   (16G5),  226 
William',  of  Rochester  (1455),  224 
William,  of  Ash  (1499),  224  ;  Wil- 
liam, of  Denton  (1550),  224  ;  Wil- 
liam, of  Ash  (1616),  225. 

Hodsoll.  Alice  (1556),  225;  Anne 
(1671)  226. (1710)  227, (1741)  236, 
240;  Christian  (1537),  224  :  Dorothy, 
230;  Elizabeth  (1556)  225,  (1671) 
226.  (1711)  227.  (born  1790)  240; 
Ellen.  226  ;  Ellenor  (1616),  225, 
236;  Frances  (1791),  229;  Hannah, 
228;  Hellena,  227-8:  Hester  (1616), 
225,  236  ;  Isabel  (1499)  224,  (1755) 
237.  240;  Jane,  227-9.  231;  Joan 
(1455)  224,  (1556)  225  ;  Katherine, 
237  ;  Margaret  (1424)  223,  (1556) 
225,  (1671)  226,  (1733)  236  ;  Martha, 

B  D 


402 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


230.  2'13  ;  Mary,  226-8,  210;  Wini- 
fred. 237. 
Hodsoll,    Clement    de    (1310),    240  ; 
Easton  (1788),  228;  Edmund  (1007) 

238,  (dead  in  1710)  227,  (ob.  1711) 
22G-7,  (ob.  1736)  237.  24U  ;  Francis 
(ob.  172!)),  22(5.  22!),  233-4. 

Hod:^oll,    Henry  '  (1616)    225,   (16Gi5- 

1700)  226.  221),  2:!0-l,  (born  1673) 

226,  (1788)  228.  240. 
Hodsoll,  Hewe  (1616),  22.5. 
Hodsoll,  James  (ob.  1710)  226,  (1710) 

227. 
Hodsoll,  John  (UOO)  24:0,  (ob.  1424) 

223, (1499)  224,   (1556)  225,  (born 

1658)  227,  (166.-i-9)  226,  229,  233-4, 

(1719)  228.  (1788)  228. 
Hodsoll,    Mauudy    (1665),   226,    229, 

236. 
Hodsoll,   Maxfield  (1665)  226,  228-9, 

233-6,  (1710)  228-9,   (1712-35)  228, 

239,  240,  (1788)  228. 

Hodsoll,  Heubeu  (1711-91),  236-7, 
240;  Roger  de  (1346),  240;  Stephen, 
2.S0-1. 

Hodsoll,  Thomas  (1346)  240,    (1455) 

224,  (1499)  224,  (1537)  224,  (1550) 

225,  (1665)  226,  227,  229,  230-1, 
234-5,  (born  1684)  226. 

Hodsoll,  Urbane  (ob.  1745),  237,  240. 

Hodsoll,  William  (1424)  223,  (1455) 
224, (1499)  224, (1550)  224,  (1556) 
225,  (ob.  1616)  225,  (ob.  1649)  229, 
(ob.  1663)  225,  (born  1642)  226, 
(born  1671)  226,  (ob.  1699)  a  gold- 
smith 227,  (ob.  1711)  226,  229, 
(1658-68)  230-2,  (1791)  229. 

Hodson,  Jno.  (bell-fomider),  93. 

Hogges,  Edith,  263  ;  Hy.,  263. 

Hokimere,  Wm.  de,  187. 

Hokstede.  Sir  Eoland  de,  333. 

Holdene,  Ricd.  de,  833. 

Holegh',  Gilbert  de,  251  ;  John,  251. 

Hollands,  Wm.,  Brief  for,  208. 

Hollingborne  Hill,  379-80. 

Hollys,  of  Sandwich,  319. 

Holwood  Park,  Kestou,  90. 

Holyrode  (near  Fawkham),  274. 

Homan.  John,  186. 

Honeywood.  John,  62  ;  Margt.,  62, 
75  ;  Sir  Thos.,  64. 

Honiton,  Robt.  de  (1305),  204. 

Hoo  St.  Werburga,  252. 

Hooker,  Richard  (The  Judicious), 
xlvii  ;  his  Monument,  xlviii. 

Hope  All  Saints,  358. 

Hope,  John,  311. 

Hope,  W.  H.  St.  John,  on  the  Pras- 
monstratensian  Abbey  of  St.  Rade- 
gund,  140-152. 

Hopkyns,  John,  319-20. 

Hopper,  Thomas,  25-27. 


Horkeslcy  Priory,  341. 

Horle,   James   de,    Rector    of    T.ittle 

Chart,  259-60. 
Horne.Renet,  367  ;  Edmund.  366  ;  Ger- 

vasc,366  ;  Henry,  366-7  ;  James, 366; 

John,  93-4. 366  ;  Juliana,  366;  Kathe- 

rine,  367  ;  Margaret,  94,  3(i()  ;  Mary, 

63  ;  Jlattlicw  de,  365  ;  Richard,  366  ; 

Robert,  366  ;  Robt.,  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester, 63  ;  Roger,  366-7  ;  William, 

363,  365-6. 
Home's  Bridge,  Romnc}'  IMarsh,  365. 
Home's  Place,  Applcdore,  94  ;  Chapel, 

363-7. 
Horsele,  Ricd.,  201  ;  Walter  de,  189, 

201. 
Horsherst,  334. 

Horsmonden  Church  Screen,  371. 
Horsmundcu',  253. 
Horton,  189. 
Hospitallers,  Knights,  of  St.  John  of 

Jerusalem,  327-9. 
H(;the  in  Patricksbourne,  169. 
Hothfcld,  252,  255. 
Hoton,  Ricd.  de.  330. 
Houkynge,    Agnes.    280 ;    Robt.    de, 

280. 
Housney,  41. 
Hovenden,  Marye,  298. 
Howe,  Thos.  de  (1323),  126. 
Howley,  Archbishop,  349.  357  :  Mrs., 

115. 
Hughes,  Henry  (Woodchurch,  1689), 

357  ;    Henry  (Woodchurch,    1704), 

357. 
Hughes-Hallet,Rev.  Charles(1813-46), 

180. 
Hundred,  Court,  43  ;  Law,  43  ;  Penny, 

42. 
Hundreds,  Seven,  42,  50,  53-4,  58. 
Hungary,  Briefs  for  Reformed  Church 

in,  209,  222. 
Hungekyn,  Johanna,  245  ;  John,  245. 
Huntingdon,  Archdeacon  of,  163.     " 
Huntingdonshire,  Briefs  for  places  in. 

184.  208,  211-2.  215-6,  218. 
Hunt  on,  257,  296  ;  Rector  of,  175. 
Huntyngfeld'.   Johanna,    273 ;    John, 

273  ;  Walter  de,  273. 
Huutyngton',  257  ;  .we  Hunton. 
Hurel.  Adam,  267  ;  Gerarda,  267. 
Husk,  Margeria,  275  :  Thomas  de,  275. 
Huxley,  Thos.  (1684),  356-7. 
Hyltoii,  Wm.,  290. 
Hyndly,  George,  78. 

Ickham,  Rectors  of,  126  ;  Rectory,  xl, 

xli  ;  Roman  Villa.  139. 
Ickham  Church,  xli,  113-133  ;  Chancel, 

115-8  ;  Chantry  in,  120  ;  Clock,  113  ; 

Dimensions,  125  ;   Memorials  of  the 

Barretts     of     Lee    Priory,    123-4  ; 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


403 


Monument  of    Sir    W.    Southland, 

122  ;  Nave,  11 4-5  ;  Peilisree  of  the 

Head  Family.   116-7;    .Spire,   113; 

Tower    and    Bells,     113-4;     North 

Transept,   120-2 ;    South    Transept, 

118-20. 
Ifeld',  Kicd.  de,  2G5 ;  Sara.  265. 
Igglesden.  41. 
Iglitham,  226,   228-9.   2.30,   233,    235, 

239-40.  356,    371  ;    Brief  for,   206  ; 

Chapel  at  the  Mote,  363  ;  Registers, 

236. 
Indulgence,  An,  granted,  336. 
Lie,  Elias.252;  Isabella,  247;  Richard, 

247  ;  William,  252. 
Inventories  of  Parish  Church  Goods 

in  Kent,  A.D.  1552,  290-325. 
Irchester.  Roman  CofBn  at.  36. 
Isaak,  John  (1450),  169. 
IsHp,  Archbishop,  127,  177. 
Ispannia,  Thos.  de.  274. 
Isslep'.  Ricd.  de.  267. 
Ivy  Hatch,  in  Ightham,  226,  229.  232. 
Ivychurch.    126,    242;    Church,    371; 

Rector,  354. 
Iwade,  245  ;  Rood-screen,  371. 

Jacob,    Alderman   E.   J.   (of   Canter- 
bury), 384  ;  Edward  (of  Faversham). 

384. 
James  II.,  16. 
James,  Martin,  Remembrancer  of  the 

Court  of  Exchequer.  33. 
Jane  (Grey),  Queen,  13. 
Jefferson.  Revd.  J.,  of  Appledore,  96. 
Jeffery,  Elizth.,  118  ;  Thos..  296. 
Jeifery.  Major-General,  181. 
Jeffreys,    Chief    Justice,    381,    387  ; 

Dr.  James  (East church,  1684),  381. 

387. 
Jenkins,   Rev.   Canon   R.   C,  xl,   49, 

143  ;  on  the  Family  of  Guldeford, 

1-17. 
Jobson,  Sir  Francis.  317,  322,  325. 
Johnson,    Elizth,,   63,    75,    79  ;     Mr,, 

Vicar  of  Appledore,  94  :  Paul,  63, 

75,  79. 
Jordan.  Alice,  249-50  :  John.  249-50  : 

Thos!,  275, 
Jour,  Beatrix,  272  ;  Jno.,  272, 
Joygnour,  John  le,  274  ;  Juliana.  274. 
Judd,  Sir  Andrew,  343. 
Judelyn,  Ricd,,  257, 
Juliers,  Marquess  of,  li. 
Julyan.  Thomas,  311, 
Jutebergh,  Philip  de.  186. 
Juxon.  Archbishop,  131.  161.  289. 

Katerman.  Christofer,  297. 
Kemeseye.  Walter  de.  277. 
Kemcsyug',  Wm.  de,  279-80. 
Kemp,  Archbishop,  1,  305,  386, 


Kcmpe,  Nicholas,  243. 

Kemsing.   239;    Church   and    Lights 

therein,  223. 
Ken,  Beatrix,  272  ;  John  le,  272. 
Keuardington,  247,  323-4,  359,  366-7. 
Kenchill  in  Tenterden,  48-9,  58, 
Kendale,  Sir  Robt.  de,  196,  198, 
Kenerton,  323-4  ;  see  Kenardington, 
Kenilworth,  331  ;  Prior  of,  335, 
Kent,    Damage   done   by  hailstorms 

(1764),  218, 
Kent,  John,  Earl  of  (son  of  Edmund 

of  Woodstock),  li. 
Kenwrick,  Elizabeth,  76,  79  ;  R.,  76. 
Kenyugtone,  John  de,  338. 
Kenynton,  273. 
Kcrvyle,  John  (1427),  121. 
Keston.  British  Oppidura  in  Holwood 

Park,  90  ;  Foxhill,  85. 
King,  John,  57  ;  Robert,  57. 
Kingsdown,  by  Wrotham,  239.  259. 
Kingsley.    Ann   (ob.    1711,    allied    to 

Head),  116;  Wm.  (1616-47),  Arch- 
deacon of  Canter burv.  116,  130-1, 
Kingstone,  124,  270  ;  Rector  of.  166. 
Kirwen.  James,  295. 
Knell  dam  (Isle  of  Oxney),  100. 
Knight,  Jno,,  of  Cowden,  155, 
Knokewcre,  266. 
Knole,  55,  363. 
Knowler,  Admiral  Charles,  118  ;  Mrs. 

Elizth..  118  ;  John,  118. 
Knyght,  John  le,  277-8. 
Kyndegett,  Wm..  178. 
Kyng',"Margt.,  266  ;  Thos.,  266. 
Kyngesdoune  next  Frenyngham,  259. 
Kyngesfeld',  Matilda.  247  :  Peter  de, 

247. 
Kyngeslande,  Roger,  305. 
Kynguslonde,  John  de,  253  ;  Wm.  de, 

'253. 
Kynton,  Ricd.  de  (Woodchurch,  1323), 

354. 
Kyrkeby,  William,  141. 

Labourer's  Will  (1499),  224. 

Lady  Woottou's  Green,  xlv. 

Lake,  James,  26. 

Lalleford,  Robt.  de,  268. 

Lamberhurst  Church,  371. 

Lambeth,  179,  343. 

Lancashire.  Briefs  for  places  in,  213- 

21. 
Lancaster,  Earl  of,  330. 
Lanfranc,  Archbishop,  109,  327. 
Langdon  (West),  Abbey,  140. 
Langeleye,  Wm.  de,  247,  265. 
Langere,  Gilbert.  266  ;  Margeria,  266  ; 

Matilda,  266.  ' 
Langham.  Archbishop,  363,  385, 
Lanthony,  Prior  of,  335, 
Lapyn,  Johanna,  271  ;  Robert,  271. 

D  D  2 


404 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


Latham,  TTy.  (1555),  130. 

Lattyr,  Wm.  (llOH).  178. 

Lavender,  Kobt.  (1474),  372. 

Laysdowne,  Brief  for,  181. 

Led,  Jatlary,  12."). 

Lodes.  Prior  of,  383-4. 

LcdiK  (Leeds),  204. 

Lee  Place,  Godstone,  6(). 

Lee  Priory,  Ickhani,  121-4,  130-2. 

Lee,  Revd.  Samuel,  118. 

Leeds  Castle,  Chapel  at,  303. 

Leeds  Rood-screen,  370-1,  373. 

Lcenham,    John   de,  275  ;    Margaret, 

275. 
Leffe,    Dr.   John    (Biddendeu.  15.50), 

356. 
Legal,  Hy.,  251  ;  Juliana,  251. 
Lesh,  Ricd.  de  la,  121. 
Lcibourn',  Elizabeth,  260  ;   Hy.,  260  ; 

Juliana,  2G0. 
Leicester,    Abbot    of,    335  ;     Robert 

Dudley,  Earl  of,  8,  13. 
Leicestershire.   Briefs  for   places    in, 

214-6,  218-21. 
Leigh  Church  and  Vicarage,  326,  334, 

336-8.  341  ;  Green,  49. 
Leiffh,  Jane  (allied  to  Head),  117. 
Len,  Johanna,  268  :  William  le,  268. 
Lenham,  83,  243,  251,  366  ;  John  de, 

253. 
Lenham,  Est,  Manor  of,  259. 
Leotard,  or  Luidhard,  Bishop,  Chaplain 

to  Queen  Bertha,  108,  il2. 
Leper's  Window,  110. 
Lesens  {1  Lesnes),  267. 
Lesnes,  267,  277  ;  Abbey,  34L 
Lessenden  in  Biddenden,  357. 
Leuesham,  275. 
Leueshothe,  Manor  of,  253. 
Levingston,  John,  181. 
Lewes,  Jno.  de,  254,  258-9. 
Leyburn,   Juliana,   270-1  ;    Wm.    de, 

270-1. 
Leye,  La,  245. 

Leysdown,  181,  376,  381-3,  387. 
Lide,  274. 
Lidsiug,  258. 
Light,  John,  49,  50. 
Light's-Notingden,  49,  50. 
Lill,  Dr.  (allied  to  Head),  117. 
Limen  (or  Rother),  38  ;  Lathe  of,  39. 
Limowart  Lathe,  41. 
Lincoln,   163  ;    Dean  of  (1349),  326  ; 

John,  Bishop  of  (1530),  342. 
Lincolnshire,    Briefs    for    places    in, 

183-4,  207,  210,  213-18,  221. 
Litletaunere,  Alice,  259  ;  John  le,  259. 
Littlebourne,  129,  252,  270,  277. 
Littlemore  Priory,  341. 
Livesey,    Ann,    379  ;    Edward,    380 ; 

Gabriel,  379-80;  .John,  380  ;  Martha, 

380  ;    Sir   Michael,   380-1  ;    Ralph, 


380; 
380. 


Robt.,     379-80  ;      William, 


Londenoys,  Mary  (allied  to  Harlaken- 

den),  360. 
London,  57,  59.  68,  154-6,  162,  166-7, 

187-8.  190-1,  195,  245,  250.  274,  280, 

317,  321,  333,   .336,  342,   354,  384; 

Briefs    for    places    in,    182-3,   206, 

208-11,  213-4,  222  ;  Archdeacon  of, 

12S;  Lord  Mavor  of.   154;   Sheriff 

of  (1360),  120." 
London,   Robt.  de,  262,  264  ;  Symon 

dc,  305. 
Longefeld,  334. 
Longticld  Rood-screen.  371. 
Loose,  239  ;  Court,  240. 
Losenham   Abbey    of    White    Friars, 

xlii,    309 ;     Inventory    of    Church 

Goods     made     at    its    dissolution, 

311-2. 
Loterych,  John,  268  ;  Thos.,  268. 
Loudesdon,  274. 
Loughton,  Jno.  (1466).  178. 
Love,  Jno.  ( Woodchurch.  1685-8),  357  ; 

Wm.,  232. 
Loys,  Hy.,  311-2. 
Lucas,  John,  272. 
Lucy,    Geoffrey    de,   268  ;    Katerina, 

268. 
Luda,  Thos.  de.  265. 
Luddenham,  65,  199,  275. 
Lukedale  Chantry,  163. 
Lunt,  Wm.,  95. 
Luton,  Jno.,  341. 
Lydd.  83,  128,  132,  164,  166,  177,  253, 

274,  351,  355. 
Lyde,  253  ;  see  Lydd. 
Lydesynge,  258. 

Lye,  John  a,  319  ;  Wm.  (1386),  163. 
Lygo,  Mary,  76. 
Lymiuge,  366. 
Lympne,  144. 
Lynch,   Ethelreda,    388 ;    Dr.    John, 

Dean  of  Canterbury,  117.  123,  132, 

168  ;  John,  Rector  of  Adisham,  168  ; 

Sir  Wm.,  168. 
Lyndefeld,  Magr.  Jno.  (1424),  224. 
Lyudfield,  154. 
Lyster,  Christopher,  296. 
Lytekyn,  Rosa,  277  ;  Wm..  277. 
Lytherland.    Matthew   (Woodchurch, 

1402-4),  355. 
Lytlebourne,  277. 

Mabb,  Mary,  78. 

Mackallar,    Rev.  John  (1667-99),  171, 

179-81. 
Maddies,  Mr.  Thos.,  129. 
Magham,    John    de,  Vicar  of  Leigh, 

338. 
Maidenstone.   John    de    (Eastchurch, 

1352),  385. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


405 


Maidstone,  34,  47,  70,  73,  165,  167-8, 

239,  342-3,  371  ;  All  Saints',    371  ; 

College  of   All  Saints',  32o  ;    Gaol, 

367  ;  see  Maydenstau. 
Makehayt,  Juo.,  265  ;  Mavgt.,  265. 
Makenhauede.  Jaket  de,  202  ;  John  de, 

192,  202  ;  Stephen  de,  202  ;  William 

de,  198,  202. 
Mailing,  East,  228,  242,  259,  272. 
Mailing,  Soutli,  Canon  of,  164. 
Mailing,  West,  225  ;  Brief  for,  222. 
Mailing,  Rural  Dean  of.  334. 
Mallyng,    Wra.    de,    334;     Prior    of 

Tonbridge,  340. 
Malmevns,   Alice,  274  ;   Edith,   278  ; 

Nicholas,     274  ;       Eichard,      278 ; 

Robert,  254. 
Maneys  of  Biddenden,  49. 
Mann,  Sir  William,  381. 
Manne,  Robt.,  37(5. 
Mansel,  Madame,  of  Ickham,  118. 
Mantel,  John,  55  ;  William,  50. 
Mantell,  Thomas,  367  ;  Sir  Walter,  367. 
Mapelescomp',  262. 
Marc,  William  de  la,  328. 
Marden,  239,  296,  323-4. 
Mareschal,  Adam  le.   273  ;  Johanna, 

198,    277  ;  John  le.  246.  273,  277  ; 

Margeria,  273  ;  Walter^   186-9,  190, 

194,  198. 
Mareys,  Margaret,  246  ;  Richard  de, 

246. 
Marfeild,  231. 
Markley,  Edward.  341. 
Marlar,  Wm.  (1464),33. 
Marley,  Lord  Wootton  of,  78. 
Marny,  Johanna,  269  ;  John  de,  269. 
Marsh.  Robert  (1554).  130. 
Marshall,  Mr.  (Architect),  114,  172. 
Marshall,  Revd.  Wm.,  Endowed  Ten- 

terden  Grammar  School,  55. 
Martin,  Arms  of,  1 54. 
Martin.  David,  388  ;  Jno.,  154  ;  Mary. 

388  ;'  Bishop  Ricd.    (1492-8),    128  ; 

Ricd.  (1552),    305  ;    Ricd.    (14.50), 

153-4  ;  Thos.,  154  ;  Thos.,  Vicar  of 

Stone,  100. 
Martyu,  Thomas.  142  :  William,  242. 
Mary,   Queen.  10,   11,  13,  26  ;  her  re- 
sponsibility     for     Parish      Church 

Goods    seized    by    King    Edward's 

Commissioners,  313-325. 
Mas,  Ricd..  192. 
Master,  Robt.,  299,  301. 
Maundy  (1657-69)  ;    Anne,  231-234  ; 

Edward,  234  ;  Gyles.  233-4  ;  Henry, 

of  Sundridge,  230-1. 
Maunsell,  John,  Provost  of  Beverley, 

45-6. 
Mayde,  Thomas.  192. 
Maydenstan,  241,  243,  246,  249,  251-2, 

259,  264-5,  273,  275  ;  see  Maidstone. 


Maye,  George,  316.  318. 

Mayhamme,  50. 

JIaynwaryng,  Henry,  298. 

IWedcalf,  Richard,  290. 

Meleford,  Jno.  de,  338. 

Mellere,  Stephen  le,  188. 

Melton  (Milton  Chapel),  255. 

Melton  Constable,  361. 

Mendes,  Moses  (allied  to  Head),  117. 

Mendon,  Robt.  (1436),  178. 

Menstre,  see  Minster. 

Meopham,  239  ;  Simon  de.  Archbishop 

of  Canterbury,  33,  44,  334. 
Mepham,  Archbishop,  33,  44,  334. 
Mercator,  Andrew,  188  ;  Jacob,  190, 
Merchalis,  Diouis,  198. 
Mere,  John,  376. 

Mereworth,  260,  276  ;  Church,  327. 
Meriott,  Mrs.,  sister  of  Sir  E.  Hales,  79. 
Merrick,  Elizth.  (Lady  Head),  116. 
Mershiield,  Jno.  (Eastchurch,    1453), 

386. 
Merstham,  Surrey,  126,  133,  288. 
Merston,  Wm.,  Rector  of,  333. 
Merton,  243  ;  Priory,  170,  177-9,  335. 
Metyngham,    John    de,    261  ;  Lucia, 

261. 
Meusden,  41. 

Middelhope,  Wm.  de,  262-4. 
Middelton,  245,  248,259,  273. 
Middlesex,  Briefs  for  places  in,  181-4, 

206-10,  215,  218,  220-1. 
Miles,  Ranulph,  244. 
Milkhouse    Chapel,    Cranbrook,    313, 

325. 
Milles,  Wm.    (Eastchurch,    1689-90), 

381,  387. 
Mills,  Christopher,  22  ;  Mr.,  165, 
Milstede,  270. 
Milton  (Sittingbourne),  239,  248,  360, 

386  ;  see  Middelton. 
Minster,  Shepey,  201,  259,  371,  375-6, 

384,  388. 
Minster  in  Thanet,  131-3. 
Molash,  202,  242  ;  see  Molesse. 
Mole,   Henry    (Eastchurch,    1400-24), 

385. 
Molesse,   242  :    Hamo  de,    192,  202  ; 

Stephen  de,  186. 
Mon,  IMaster  Jhou,  304. 
Mongeham,   270;  Great,  167;  Little, 

167. 
Monkton,  131. 

Montanus,  Prayer  of  Arias,  15, 
Monte,  Robt.  de,  327. 
Montfort,  Hugh  de,  42. 
Montreal  (Canada),  Brief  for  fire  at, 

219. 
Mouyngham,  270. 
Moore.  Archbishop,  133. 
Morcok',    John.   276 ;     Ralph,     276 ; 

Ricd.,  276  ;  William,  276. 


106 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


]\Iordou',  Nicholas  dc,  275. 

More,  John  de  la,  202. 

Morgan,  Philip  (Rishop  of  Ely,  1423),  1. 

Morgue,  41,  49,  .")0-l,  oS-D. 

Moriston,  248. 

Morlain court,  Dc,  (54  ;  Madame,  74. 

Jlorlinicr.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 

Uobt.,  lij. 
Morton,    Archdeacon    Thos.,    1  ;  Car- 
dinal Archbishop,  128-9.   1G4,  178, 

3.15  ;  John  Thos.,  156. 
Mott,  John.  320. 
Mottcne,  Henry  dc,  273. 
Moulin.    Ann,    1(;7 ;     Dr.    Peter    du 

(1670),  160,  167. 
Mounsh',  Agnes,  252  ;  John  le,  252. 
Moyes,  Mr.,  of  Ickham,  118. 
Moyle,  Katherine.     307  ;    Sir    Thos., 

165  ;  Sir  Walter,  51,  367. 
Munck,  Henry  (1665),  226. 
Muuk,  JefEery,  97  ;  Margaret,  97. 
Munn,   Joseph,   48;    Stephen  (1684), 

356-7. 
Muriel,   Revd.   E.   M.,    on  Appledore 

Church,  91-97 ;    on   Stone  Church, 

98-102. 
Murimouth,  Adam,  256. 
Murimuth,  Alice,  255  ;  Ricd.,  255. 
Murston,    199,    239,   248;    Rood-loft, 

371-2. 
Mus,  Ricd.  le,  329. 

Musewell,  Isabella,  271  ;  Jno.  de,  271. 
Myldemay,  Thos.,  316,  321,  323,  325. 
Myllen,  Robt.,  298. 
Myllyng,  Thomas  (1519),  355. 

Nasard,  Henry,  258  ;  Isabella,  258. 

Natindou,  247. 

Natterhouse,  Rev.  Joseph  (1787),  96. 

Natyndou  next  Canterloury,  272. 

Nethercourt,  Thauet,  75. 

Netlestede,  247. 

Nettlestead,  Briefs  for,  182,  208. 

Nettlested,  296. 

Neville.  Dean  (of  Canterbury),  289  ; 

Sir  Edward,  343  ;  Walter  de,  269. 
Newchurch,  164,  242. 
Newehethe,  La,  272. 
Newendeu,  35,  48,  246,  309,  311,323, 

325;  Brief  for,  217. 
Newenton,  Master  Edmund  de,  245. 
Newentou  next  Sidyngburn  and  Mid- 

delton,  249,  255,  259,  264,  268  ;  sec 

Newington. 
Newhouse  (Lincolnshire)  Abbey,  140. 
Newington  near  Hythe,  198. 
Newington      (Sittiugbourne),        239, 

242-5,  249,  251,  383^';  Church,  371. 
Newman,  Mr.  Geo.,  381  ;  Lyonell,  290. 
Newnham,  251. 
Newstead  Abbey,  148. 
Newyngton  (for  Newenden),  311. 


Nichalao,  John  dc  Sancto,  269. 

Nicholls,  John,  3S7. 

Nichols,  Revd.  Charles,  167. 

Noble.  Stephen  le,  252. 

Noles  or  Nowell,  Wm.  (1546),  179. 

Nonington,  134,  244.  254,  259. 

Norbcrtines,  or  White  Canons,  140. 

Norden,  John,  29'.l,  301. 

Norfolk,  Briefs  for  places  in,  181-4, 
206-9,  211-3,  218-9;  Diocese  of, 
•3.33  ;  Duke  of,  15,  342. 

Norgrove,  Leonard,  319. 

Norman,  ncc  Architecture. 

Norman  Architecture,  Examples  of, 
104,  109,  111,  113,  158,  170-1,281-3  ; 
Fonts,  111,  160.  346. 

Norman,  Architecture  earlier  than, 
105-6,  109,  281 ;  Font,  109-111. 

Norreys.  Alice,  263  ;  John,  263. 

Northamptonshire,  183-4,  210,  215-6, 
218-9,  222. 

Northbourn'.  41,  50,  243,  269. 

Northeren,  Gilbert  le,  187,  204. 

Northfleet,  163 ;  Brief  for,  213  ; 
Rood-screen,  370. 

Northflete,  248-9,  265,  276. 

Northumberland,  Briefs  for  places  in, 
182,  184,  211-.3,  218-9. 

Northumberland,  Jane  Guldeford, 
Duchess  of,  3,  6-15  ;  John  Dudley, 
Duke  of,  7,  9-12  ;  Sons  of,  Am- 
brose, 8,  13  ;  Charles,  8  ;  Guldeford, 
9  ;  Henry,  8  ;  John,  8  ;  Robert,  8, 
13  ;  Mary,  daughter  of,  8.  13. 

Northwode,  Henry  de,  256-7,  267; 
Johanna,  256;  John  de,  189,  198, 
201,  256  ;  Sir  John  de,  376  ;  Roger 
de,  205,  256-7  ;  Sir  Roger,  375,  385. 

North  wood,  Elizabeth  (allied  to  Har- 
lakenden),  360  ;  Hugh,  360. 

Norton,  199  ;  next  Newenham,  251. 

Norton,  Robt.  de  (1323),  126  ;  Robt. 
de  (Woodchurch,  1314-5),  354; 
Thomas,  26. 

Norwich,  Archdeacon  of,  162  ;  Bishop 
of,  167,  334. 

Norwich,  Geo.  Goring,  Earl  of,  71  ; 
Ricd.  de  (1349),  162. 

Note,  192  ;  John,  187  ;  Philip,  195, 
201  ;  Ralph,  201. 

Notingdeu  (Lights),  49,  50. 

Notstede  (Nurstead),  Rector  of,  265. 

Nott,  Revd.  Dr.  Geo.  (Woodchurch, 
1813-41),  348,  357. 

Nottinghamshire,  Briefs  for  places  in, 
210,  214-9. 

Nowell,  or  Noles,  Wm.  (1546),  179.  . 

Nudds,  Wm.  (Eastchurch,  1436),  385; 

Nyeweton,  187. 

Care,  see  Owre. 
Ocolte,  279. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


407 


Odiarne,  Mary,  102. 

Offhani,  ChurcL  of,   145,  245  ;  Manor 

of,  245. 
OflEord,   John  de,    Deau  of    Lincoln, 

326,  33G. 
Ofne,    Annora    de,    256 ;  John,   256  ; 

Walter  de,  256. 
Okyntore,  Wm.  de,  189. 
Olantigh,  175. 
Oliff,  Thomas,  296. 
Oliver,   Rcvd.  Dr.  John    (1645),  160, 

166-7. 
Oluesbocton  (Boughton  Alulph),  190. 
Olyuer,  Cecilia,  266  ;  John,  266. 
Ore,  John  de,  259  ;  Margt.,  259  ;  Wil- 
liam, 259. 
Organs,  Value  of,  iu  A.D.,  1553,  320-1. 
Orlaston,  280,  358. 
Orlaustou,  275. 
Orlaweston,  249. 
Orpington,  229,231,  250,  356  ;  Church. 

145,  163. 
Orpyngton,  250,  279. 
Orre,  Roger,  186-S,  190,  198. 
Osborne,  Stephen.  o8?.-4. 
Oseney  Abbev,  329. 
Ospringe,  188'.  201,  250;   Church,  387. 
Osterman,  Walter  le,  198,  201. 
Ostreman,  Matilda,  201  ;  Walter,  186. 

190, 192,  201. 
Oteringgedene  (Otterdeu),  270. 
Oteryngdene.  Stephen  de,  247,  260. 
Otford,  239,  342-3  ;  Brief  for,  182. 
Ouerelonde,  270. 
Ovyng,  John  (1378).  162-3. 
Owen,  John,  93  ;  Eicd.,  60. 
Owxe,  65. 

Oxenden,  John,  160  ;  Master,  311. 
Oxford,    72,    132,      160,    164,    166-8, 

332-3,  342-3,  .355-6. 
Oxford      University,     Chancellor     of 

(1371),  121,  127. 
Oxfordshire,    Briefs    for    places    in, 

182-4,  207-8,  210-2,  214,  218,  220. 
Oxley,  Elizth.  (1673),  76. 
Oxsted,  153. 
Oxtegh',  Matilda,    252  ;  Stephen  de. 

252. 
Oxunbrege,  Jerram,  298. 
Oystreman,  Thos.,  186. 

Paget.  Lord  (1553),  14. 

Palatinate,  Brief  for    Protestants   in 

the  (1709).  213. 
Palmer,  1  ;  Bethia,  382  ;  Herbert,  382, 

387-8  ;    Sir  Henry,  381,  387  ;  Mrs. 

(married    Sir    E.   Hales),  64 ;    Sir 

Thomas,  381-2.  388. 
Palmer    (bell-founders).     John,    114, 

171  ;  Thomas,  160. 
Palmer.  Eev.  John,  168  ;  Dr.  Richard, 

168. 


Pankas,  John,  296. 

Paramore,  John,  of  Ickham,  118. 

Parker,  Archbishop,  130,  356  ;  John, 

131,    275  ;    John  Henry,   C.B.,   lii, 

349;  Richard   (1616).  225  ;  Robert, 

304  ;  Revd.  Samuel  (1671),  131-2. 
Parmenter,John  (1472),  164;  Wm.,  301. 
Parsons,  Rev.  Philip   {Mommtcnts   in 

100     C/iurcIie.'i   of  E.  Kent),    113  ; 

Lieut.  Thos.,  383. 
Partriche,  Sir  Miles,  51. 
Partridge,  Edward,  179;  William,  179. 
Passcley,  Ednumd  de,   189.  191,  201, 

244,  2G0;  Margaret.  260-1;  Robert 

de,  201. 
Passemer,  Agnes,  265  ;  Wm.,  265. 
Passenger,  Capt.  Wm.,  227. 
Patinden,  Cecilia,  248  ;  Wm.  de,  248. 
Patricksbourne,   189,    241,  258,  270; 

Church,  xlvii,  170-180;  Courtlodge, 

177;  Vicars,  177,  180. 
Pavy,  Alice,  263  ;  Henry,   262  ;  John, 

263 ;  Margaret,  262. 
Payforer,     Fulk,    251  ;  Juliana,    251  ; 

Richard,  251. 
Payler,  Rev.  Wm.  (1813),  180. 
Payne,  Ambrose  (Canon  of  Wingham 

in  1511),  lii  ;  John,  341. 
Peapymbery,  276  ;  see  Pembury. 
Peasmarsh  (Isle  of  Oxney),  100. 
Pecham,  260. 
Peckham,  Arms,  94  ;  Archbishop  of, 

162  :  Sir  Edmund,  Lord  Treasurer 

(1552),  315,  317,  322, 
Peckham,    83  ;  East,  168,    296,  371  ; 

Brief  for,  183,  209. 
Pedding,  Canoury    at    Wingham,   li, 

162,  165. 
Peddyng,  Constance,  257-8  ;  John  de, 

257-8. 
Peers,  Nycholas,  305. 
Peke,  Thomas,  381. 
Pekham,  Peter  de.  259, 
Pell,  John,  26. 
Pellande,  Edward,  26. 
Pembury,  see  Pepingbury. 
Penances  jierformed  in  Churches,  100 

380. 
Penenden,  42  ;  Heath,  54,  327. 
Peneshurst.  Stephen  de,  46. 
Penshurst,  162.  245,  261,  354. 
Penyton,  Adam  de  (1321),  354. 
Pepingbury,  242,  276.  325,  331. 
Perche.  Geoflry,  Earl  of,  140;  Maude, 

Countess  of,  140, 
Pere,  Johanna,  261  ,  Robert  le,  261. 
Ferfusorium  at  Smarden  Church,  23. 
Peritay,  William,  264. 
Perker,  Reginald  le,  192. 
Perot,  Thomas,  244. 
Perpendicular    Architecture,    28,   91, 

92,98,114,  119,285-8,347. 


408 


GENEllAL    INDEX. 


Ferret,  William  de,  275. 

Perry  Court.  Preston  by  FavcrHham, 
205. 

Peseiulcnne,  Juliana,  2()5  ;  William 
de,  2G5. 

Pcsyudenne,  Laurcucia  de,  280  ;  Ro- 
bert de,  280. 

Peterborough  Cathedral,  347. 

Peters,  Elizabeth  (allied  to  Barrett), 
124. 

Petham,  83,  268,  269,  279. 

Petit  (1555),  165;  Elena,  249,  251. 
264  ;  John,  170,  249,  251,  255,  264. 

I'etmau,  Robert.  118. 

Petre,  1st  Lord,  16  ;  Hon.  Thos..  16. 

Pett,  Thomas  (1564),  356. 

Pette  Church  (?  in  Charing),  255. 

Pette,  Adam  del,  243  ;  Aliauora,  243  ; 
John,  243,  255. 

Petyt,  Elena,  249,  251  ;  John,  249,251. 

Peuerel,  Auicia,  242  ;  John.  242. 

Peyton,  Sir  Edward,  380  ;'  Sir  Thos., 
381. 

Philipot,  John,  359. 

Phillipes,  Joane  (allied  to  Harlaken- 
den),  360. 

Pierce,  Brief  for  Daniel,  206. 

Pike  of  Tonbridge,  343. 

Pilbrow,  Mr.,  35,  36. 

Pin,  Robert,  192. 

Pirye,  205  ;  see  ate  Pirye. 

Pitlesden,  41,  48  ;  Family,  55. 

Plaxtol,  237. 

Pluckley,  Rector  of,  174. 

Plumstede,  226, 267,  280, 

Poeock,  John  (Rector  of  Eastchurcb, 
1427),  385. 

Poghley  Priory,  Berks,  341. 

Pointz,  Sir  Robert,  58, 

Pole,  Archbishop,  166. 

Polle,  Edmund,  269. 

Policy,  David,  228  ;  Jane,  228. 

Poore,  Richard  (1681),  181. 

Pope,  Alice,  269  ;  John,  269. 

Popindane,  Robert  de,  193. 

Portsmouth,  177. 

Poteman.  Richard.  193. 

Poteuel,  Elena,  252  ;  John,  252. 

Potter,  Dorothy,  154  ;  Thomas  (1611), 
154. 

Potyn,  Simon,  260-2,  272, 

Poucyn,  Thomas,  270. 

Pouenesshe,  Johanna,  266  ;  Philip,  266. 

Poynings,  Thomas  de,  144. 

Prjemonstratensiau  Canons,  140  ;  their 
Abbeys,  140,  146.  148. 

Pre,  John,  261  ;  William  del,  261. 

Pr^montre,  140. 

Preston,  William  (1467),  178. 

Preston  by  Faversham,  65. 

Preston  by  Wingham,  266 ;  Rood- 
screen,  371. 


Prestone  dene  in  Tenterden,  41. 

Prideux,  John,  93. 

Prion,  John  (Rector  of  Woodchurch, 
1400).  354. 

Priket,  John,  254,  26S-9. 

Prophet,  John  (1386),  Dean  of  York 
(1416),  1,  163. 

Protestants  (Briefs  authorising  collec- 
tions for),  of  Berg,  213  ;  of  France 
182,  184,  210,  211,  212  ;  of  Hun 
gary,  209  ;  of  Ireland,  182-4,  211-2 
of  the  Palatinate,  213  ;  of  Poland 
214;  of  Piedmont,  219;  of  Savoy, 
219  ;  of  Strasburgh,  207  ;  of  West- 
phalia, 218. 

Proude,  Jane,  daughter  of  Thomas 
(wife  of  Harlackenden),  361. 

Prowde,  Colonel,  289  ;  William, 
305. 

Prude,  see  Prowde  and  Proude, 

Pryket,  John.  254,  268-9. 

Puduer,  Humphry,  124,  289  ;  Kathe- 
riue  (allied  to  Barrett),  124. 

Pullethorne,  Johanna.  261  ;  Richard 
de,  261. 

Pulpitum,  146-7, 

Pulter,  Anthony,  302. 

Purde,  William,  329. 

Pustrell,  John,  294. 

Pyat,  William  (Vicar  of  Ickham,  1568), 
130. 

Pycas,  John,  248-9. 

Pynewiggell,  Henry,  248. 

Pypelpenne,  Richard  de,  266. 

Queenborough,  380. 
Queen  Camel,  Rood-loft  at,  370, 
Quested,  John  (of  Smarden),  25. 
Quex.  in  Thanet,  360. 
Quyntyn,  Robert,  333. 

Radcliffe,  Rev.  Dr.  Houstonne  (1788), 
133. 

Radingate,  Allan  de  (1250),  19. 

Kainham,  376  ;  Church  screen,  371. 

Rale,  John  de,  245  ;  Robergia,  245. 

Ramsey,  John  (Rector  of  Woodchurch, 
1540).  355  ;  Malcolm  (Vicar  of 
Patricksbourue,  1494),  178. 

Randolph,  Rev.  Herbert  (Rector  of 
Woodchurch,  1730-55),  357. 

Ravenstone  Priory,  340. 

Rawson,  Robert  (1589),  179. 

Raypese,  Thomas.  141. 

Reade.  Robert  (Vicar  of  Eastchurch, 
1352),  385  ;  William,  Provost  of 
Wingham  and  Bishop  of  Chi- 
chester, 1. 

Reading  in  Ebony,  41,  42,  44, 

Reading  Hill,  Tenterden,  38. 

Reculure,  sec  Reculver. 

Reculver,  xliv,  272,  279,  280,  368. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


409 


Rede,  Edith,  262-3  ;  Gilbert  le,  250  ; 
Juliana,  250  ;  Kogcr  Ic,  262-3. 

Keding,  Vill  of,  44. 

Eedmau,  Richard,  Bishop  of  St. 
Asaph,  141. 

Redwood,  Christopher  (allied  to  Har- 
lackendeu),  361. 

Regis,  Rovd.  Balthazar  (1717),  167. 

Registers,  Parish,  55. 

Remenale,  Hamo  de,  255. 

Ratling  Prebend,  in  Wiugham  Colle- 
giate Church,  164-5. 

Reuere.  William  le.  242. 

Reyeresshe.  266  ;  see  Ryarsh. 

Reyhamme,  Roger  de.  250. 

Reynham,  James  de,  264  ;  Robert,  264. 

Reynolds,  Archbishop,  1,  126,  177,354, 
375. 

Ricard,  Richard,  22. 

Richard  III..  5. 

Richard,  John,  340  ;  Walter,  264. 

Richards,  Gabriel,  345  ;  Sir  Peter,  58. 

Richardson,  Conrade,  303-4 ;  Henry, 
93  ;   Richard, 387. 

Richborough, 134,368. 

Ridgeway  dene,  in  Tenterden,  41. 

Ridley,  Bishop  (the  Reformer),  13. 

Rievaulx  Abbey,  148. 

Rigden,  John,  298;  Margaret,  384. 

Ringwood  (Hants),  Brass  at,  163. 

EiphuU,  William  de,  376. 

Ripton,  in  Ashford,  50. 

River,  near  Dover,  141-2. 

Rivers,  Sir  George,  154  ;  Sir  John, 
154. 

Roalf,  Margeria,  258  ;  Nicholas,  258. 

Roberts,  John,  78.  341  ;  Lady  (1670), 
208  ;  Thomas,  319,  322-3. 

Robertson,  Canon  Scott,  xli-xlix  ;  on 
Old  Canons'  Houses  at  Wingham, 
1 ;  on  Ickham  Church,  113-33  ;  on 
Crippenden  and  the  Tichbournes, 
153-6  ;  ou  the  Rectors  of  Adisham, 
162-8  ;  on  Patricksbourne  Church, 
169-180  :  Chronological  Conspectus 
of  the  Architecture  of  Canterbury 
Cathedral,  281-9  ;  on  Rectors  of 
Woodchurch,  354-7 ;  on  Home's 
Chapel  in  Appledore,  363-7  ;  on 
Rood-screens  in  Kent,  370-3;  on 
All  Saints'  Church,  Eastchurch,  in 
Shepey,  374-88  ;  on  the  Harlacken- 
den  Pedigree,  358-61. 

Robery,  Gilbert  de,  188,  199. 

Robinson,  Mary,  allied  to  Brydges. 
124. 

Rochester.  43,  72,  116,  130,  166, 
199,  224,  242,  260-1,  272,  326,  328, 
333-5,  337-8,  385,  388. 
Rochester,  Archdeacons  of,  334,  335  ; 
Cathedra],  145,  147 ;  Canon  of, 
328  ;  Dean  of,  328. 


Rochester.  Bishops  of  :  Hamo  de 
Hethe,  326,  334  ;  John  de  Shepey, 
337  ;   Walter  (1148-82),  328. 

Rodewelle,  Adam  de,  189. 

Eodmershara,  Rood-screen,  371. 

Rogers,  Elizabeth,  allied  to  Harlack- 
enden, 361. 

Roggers,  Philip  (1390),  127. 

Rokesle,  Alice,  267  ;  John  de,  267  ; 
Sir  Richard  de,  48,  267  ;  Thomas 
de,  267. 

Rokyn,  Roland,  341. 

Rokynge,  247,  269.  270. 

Rolfe,  W.  H.,  368-9. 

Rolvenden,  32,  42,  250,  323,  325.  367  ; 
Brief  for,  217 ;  Church,  6  ;  Halden 
in,  3,  5. 

Roman,  Altar  at  Stone  in  Oxney, 
101  ;  Bath  at  Wingham,  135  ; 
Carved  Pillars  in  Canterbury,  282 
note ;  Coffins  of  lead,  xl,  35,  36  ; 
Coins  in  Sandhills  at  Deal,  368-9  ; 
Foundations  of  St.  Pancras  Chapel 
at  Canterbury,  103-7  ;  Urn  at  Ten- 
terden. 38  ;  Villas  at  Ickham,  139, 
and  Wingham,  134-9. 

Romden  in  Smarden,  32,  33. 

Romenal,  256,  261,  268,  274. 

Romene,  261. 

R&mney,  358,  365  ;  Marsh,  53,  365  ; 
New,  122,  145,  366;  Old,  201, 
371. 

Rood-lofts,  372;  at  Shoreham,  370; 
Smarden,  26  ;  Wingham,  311  ; 
Woodchurch,  347. 

Rood-screens,  in  Kent,  347,  371-3  ; 
Appledore.  91. 

Rooke,  Sir  Wm.,  381,  387. 

Roper,  Honble.  Harry  and  John, 
allied  to  Head,  117 ;  Susan,  ob. 
1587,  allied  to  Harlackenden, 
361. 

Ropere,  Osbert  le,  192. 

Rother,  River,  38,  55. 

Rotherham,  Thomas,  Provost  of  Wing- 
ham and  Archbishop  of  York,  1. 

Rou,  William  le,  193-4,  203. 

Routledge,  Canon  C.  F.,  on  St.  Pan- 
eras,  Canterbury,  103-107 ;  on  St. 
Martin's  Church.  Canterbury,  108- 
12. 

Ronton,  William  de,  264. 

Ruckinge  Church,  20,  176. 

Ruffin.  Captain  John,  383  ;  Nicholas, 
383  ;  Thomas,  383. 

Ruluendenne,  250. 

Russell,  Alice,  95  ;  Anne,  95  ;  Jane, 
95 ;  John,  1st  Earl,  158 ;  Lydia, 
95  ;  Richard,  95  ;  Thomas,  95. 

Rutland,  Briefs  for  places  in,  215-6. 

Ry,  Matilda,  241  :  Robeit  de,  241, 

Rye,  4,  53,  54,  58. 


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GENERAL    INDEX. 


Ryarsh,  22G,  23i),  260  ;  Brief  for  John 
Casycr of, 207 ;  Rood-screen, 37 1 , 373. 
R.ys,  Peter,  '2{]i\.  272. 
Rysyug,  Nicholas  de,  273. 

St.  Albano,  Adam,  278  :   John,  278  ; 

Katherinc,     278 ;     Nicliolas,     278  ; 

Kicliiird.  278. 
St.    Alb;ins   Al)bcy,    117;     Brief    for 

Repair  o(  the  Church  in  1682,  210. 
St.  Asai)h,  Bishop  of,  100. 
St.  Auorustine,  108  ;  Abbey  and  Abbot 

of,  4r.,  46,  HO  ;  Lathe  of,  39. 
St.  Christopher  (in  a  window),  93. 
St.  Clere's  in  Ightham,  356. 
St.  David's  (Ric.  Martin).  Bishop  of, 

128. 
St.  Frideswide's,  Oxford,  33-1,  3-11. 
St.  Gregory's  Priory,  Canterbury,  164  ; 

Prior  of,  334-5. 
St.  John,  Ainadeus,  Provost  of  Wing- 
ham,  1. 
St.    John  of  Jerusalem,  Hospital   of, 

327.  32*J  ;  Manor  in  Cowden,  153. 
St.  John's  Parish  (Margate)  in  Thanct, 

270. 
St.  Katherine,  93,  365. 
St.  Lawrence  Vill  in  Thanet,  270. 
St.  Leger,  Sir  Anthony.  119. 
St.  Margaret's  at  Cliff"  246  ;  Briefs  for, 

182.  209, 214. 
St.  Martin's  at  Dover,  Prior  of,  94. 
St.    Martin's   Church   at   Canterbury, 

108,  112. 
St.  Mary  Church,  247  ;  Brief  for,  214  ; 

next  Romenal,  268. 
St.  Mary  Cray,  227.  228,  238,  250,  266, 

279,  356.  371. 
St.  Nicholas  at  Wade,   Thanet,  250, 

371. 
St.  Pan  eras,  Canterbury,  xlii,  103-7. 
St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  51,  128. 162,  164, 

332  ;  Briefs  for.  181,  183,  209. 
St.  Quintin,  Wm.  de,  329. 
St.  Kadegund's  Abbey,  140-152. 
St.  Sexburg  in  Shepey,  Abbess  of.  376. 
Sale.  Walter  de  la,  252. 
Salisbury    Cathedral,    121,    127.    128, 

132,  163,  166,  335. 
Salter,  Richard,  Brief  for,  213. 
Saltkendine  dene  in  Tenterden,  41. 
Saltwood,  Rector  of,  130. 
Sancroft,  Archbishop,  356. 
Sanders,  John  (1355),  376. 
Sandhurst,  323  ^  Rood-loft  at,  372. 
Sandwell  Priory,  340. 
Sandwich,  134,  189,  194,  244,  339,  368. 
Saunder,  William,  319. 
Saundherst,  323. 
Saundir,  William  (1456),  164. 
Saundreston,  Church  of  St.  Nicholas, 

275. 


Saundyrs,  Wm.,  of  Elham  (1464),  372. 
Sauser,  Robert  le,  252  ;  Rocsia,  252. 
Savage,  Hev.  CuijieiJer,  100;  Rev.  John 

(Woudchurch,  1386),  354. 
Sawl)ridge,  Elizabeth,  175. 
Saxbie,  Dorothy,  155  ;  John,  155. 
Saxon,  Beads.  Ill  ;  Burial-places,  xl, 

xlvii,  134,  160. 
Say.  Agnes  de.  169  ;  Geoffrey  de,  169, 

170,   26i;,  272-3;  Idonia.  266,272; 

Johanna,  269  ;  Juliana,  376  ;  Ralph, 

273  ;    Roger.    272  ;    Thomas,   269  ; 

William  de,  169. 
Sayer,  Alice,  247  ;  George,  143  ;  John, 

143,  247. 
Scaldewell,  John  (1380),  177. 
Scarregge,  William,  192. 
Schrinkling,   Matilda,    244  ;    Thomas, 

244. 
Schreiber,  Charles  John,  346-8  ;  Mrs., 

345. 
Scott  Arms,  93-4,  365. 
Scott,    Benj.    J..     363 ;    Christopher, 

320  ;  Robert,  319,  351  ;  Simon,  261. 
Scott,  Sir  G.  Gilbert,  171-2,  289,  363, 

365. 
Scray,  Lathe  of,  39,  321,  325. 
Seal,  Soan  Street  in,  226  ;  Mary  Wood 

of,  228. 
Seath  (of  Milton),  Alice,  who  married 

Harlackenden,  360  ;  John,  360. 
Sechford,  Andrew  de,  250  ;  Sara,  250. 
Sedley,  Sir  John,  356. 
Seen,  63. 

Segrave,  Sir  John  de,  48. 
Selbrittenden,  42. 
Selegrave,   Robert  de.   253,  262  ;  see 

also  Cylegraue  and  Silgrave. 
Selling,  256,  258  ;    Rhodes  Court  in, 

200. 
Selling,  John  de,  186  ;  Nicholas,  204  ; 

Ralph,  204  ;  Richard.  204  ;  Simon, 

204. 
Sellyng,  256,  258. 
Seman,   Alicia,    191,   202  ;    Geoffrey, 

262  ;  John,  192-3,  202 ;  Osbert,  202  ; 

Peter,  202  ;  Simon,  203. 
Sendeheavede,  Thomas  de,  192, 
Sergant,  John  (1420),  121. 
Seriant,  John,  192-3  ;  Mareeria,  276  ; 

Martin.  276. 
Serlys,  Thomas,  305. 
Sesaltre,  268. 
Sethyng,  Robert,  319. 
Setur,  Hugh  (Woodchurch,  1406),  355. 
Seven  Hundreds,  42,  46. 
Sevenoaks,  239.  266,  275,  279. 
Severley,  John,  Provost  of  Wingham 

(1359),  127. 
Seyntc  Marie  Cherche,  247. 
Shaddocksherst,  256,  358. 
Shakers  Sect  (1723),  95. 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


411 


Shamelesforde,   Ada,   251  ;    Benedict, 

251  ;  Margeria,  2ol ;  Thomas,  251. 
yhanecimtewellc,  274. 
Sbap  Abbey,  148. 
Sharp,     Elizabeth,     95  ;     John,     95  ; 

Thomas,  95  ;  William,  258. 
Sharpe,  John,  298. 
Sharstede,  Kobert  do,  251, 
Shawe,  John  (1542),  179. 
Shearman,  Will  of  a,  226. 
Sheawere,  Adam,  192. 
Sheerness,  72. 

Sheldon.  270  ;  Archbishop,  131,  289. 
Shelley,  Elizabeth,  16  ;  John,  16. 
Shelvinge,   IJeatrix,  250  ;  Thomas  de, 

250  ;  William,  250. 
Sheme,  Richard  (1355),  375,  385. 
Shene  Priory,  341. 
Shepey,     205,     370-384;     John      de. 

Bishop  of  Rochester,  326,  337. 
Shepherde    (founder    of    Smallhythe 

Chnrch),  57. 
Shereue,  Adam.  263  ;  Alice,  263. 
Sherrard,  Rev.  Hope,  131. 
Sherrington,    Walter,    Chancellor    of 

Duchy  of  Lancaster,  51,  297. 
S.ii^iy,  John  (1525),  366. 
Shipbourne,  226,  233,  239,  341. 
Shipman.  Adam,  186,   187,   192,  194, 

201  ;  Peter,  201. 
Shipton,  Henry  de  (1321),  330  ;  James 

(1659),  179. 
Shipway,  Court  of,  54,  186. 
Shipway,  Lathe  of,  39. 
Shirlaud  (Eastchurch),  374-6  ;  Kathe- 

rine,  375,  385  ;    Robert  de,  375,  385. 
Shirley  Moor,  53. 
Shoppesole,   Amy,   247 ;    Thomas  de, 

247. 
Shoreham,  264  ;  Rood-loft,  370. 
Shorne,  361  ;  Walter  de,  269. 
Shoulden,  see  Sheldon. 
Shropshire,  Briefs  for  places  in,  182-4, 

207-9,  21],  216-21. 
Shrubcote  boro,  in  Tenterden,  42. 
Sibbertswold  Manor,  199. 
Siberddeswyld  Manor,  267. 
Sidney,  Sir  Henry,  8  ;  Sir  Philip,  7,  8, 

13. 
Sidon,  Bishop  of,  164,  355. 
Sigebert,  King  of  West  Saxons,  38. 
Silgrave,  203 ;  John,  203  ;  Robert  de, 

193-5,  203  ;  sec  also  Selegrave  and 

Cylegrave. 
Simmonds,  John  (Brief  for),  207. 
Simond,  John,  276. 
Simons,  Revd.  Nicholas,  133. 
Sindane,  205. 
Sissinghurst,  33,  49,  58. 
Sittingbourne,  239.  242,  248,  255,  258, 

372. 
Skeets  of  Tenterden,  53,  59,  95. 


Skinners'  Company,  156,  343. 

Skyppe,  William,  340. 

Slaves,  Briefs  for  collecting  money  to 

redeem,  181,  182,  208-9. 
Sleyhelle.  Alice,  256  ;  David  de,  256  ; 

John, 256. 
Slingsby,  Sir  Arthur,  174. 
Smaleide,  Henry  de,  45. 
Smalhide,  50. 

Smallhythe.  50,  55-7,  60.  362. 
Smallhythe  Church,  57,  362,  371-3. 
Small  Light,  50. 
Smarden     Church,    18-34  ;     Account 

book,  A.D.  1536,  22 ;  Drain  in  East- 
wall,  23;    Frescoes,   20,    30;    Low 

side  window,    22,    24 ;    Reredos   in 

Nave,  25  ;  Rood-loft.  26,  27,  372. 
Smeeth,  260,  273  ;  William,  346,  351. 
Smith,  C.   Roach,   107  ;  on  a  Roman 

Coffin  found   at   Canterbury,  35-6 ; 

on  a  Hoard  of  Roman  Coins  at  Deal, 

368-9. 
Smith,  S.  (allied  to  Hales),  76  ;  Rev. 

William  (1679),  160,  166. 
Smithsby,  Marsaret  (allied  to  Head), 

117  ;  Jamcs,^117. 
Smocham,  327. 
Smyth,   Dionisia,    273  ;  Thomas,  273, 

301,  316,  318  ;  William,  341. 
Snakston,  Andrew  de,  273  ;  Johanna, 

273. 
Snape  Priory,  341. 
Snave,  280. 

Snee,  Susan  (ob.  1779),  76. 
Snellyng,  Alice,  274  ;  Thomas,  274. 
Snergate,  Rector  of,  270. 
Snodelond  Manor,  273. 
Society  for   the    Propagation   of   the 

Gospel,  Brief  for,  222. 
Solbury,  Robert  de  (1324-51),  126. 
Somerset,    Duke    of.    9,    313  ;    Lady 

Elizabeth,  16;  Thomas  de,  265-6; 

Thomas,  333. 
Somerset  House,  51. 
Somersetshire,    Briefs  for   places  in, 

206-7,  213-8. 
Somervile,  Sir  William,  180. 
Somery,  Felicia,  271. 
Sompting,  Saxon  Church  tower,  110. 
Sondes,  Ann,  379  ;  Sir  Michael,  379. 
Sonuingwell,  John,  94. 
Sore  Old,  363. 
Sorel,  Theobald,  328. 
Sotherden  of  Smarden.  25. 
Sotheybye,  Thomas,  305. 
Southfleet,  357. 
Southland  of  Ickham,  Thomas,  122  ; 

Sir  William,  122. 
Southwark,   304  ;  Briefs   for   fires  in, 

182-4.  210-2. 
Spaine,  Richard  (1685).  181. 
Spaylard,  Elias  (1355),  376. 


412 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


^Speklhurst,  245,  279. 

Spelt horst,  245. 

Spice,  cliiistopher,  Brief  for,  2(i7. 

Spiliuan,  Thomas  (15.>3),  3H),  'MH. 

Bpringate,    Mary,    122  ;      Sir    'I'Ikis., 

122. 
Stafford,    Archbishop,     163  ;     Italph, 

Baron  dc,  326,  33(1,  33'J. 
Staffordshire.    Briefs    for    places    in, 

182-4,  210-1,  214-22. 
Stalesfield,    247-8,    2G2,    26.")  ;     Rood- 
screen,  371. 
Stanesgate  Priory,  341. 
Stanley.  Dean,    112;  Mary  (allied  to 

Barrett),  124  ;  Thomas,  124. 
Stanstcd,    226-7,   235,  238-9  ;  Baker's 

house.    226  ;     Church     and    lights 

therein,  223. 
Stanygrave,  Johanna,  251-2  ;  Robert, 

251-2. 
Stapele,  202. 
Staple  next  Wingham,  132,  134,  243, 

257,  371. 
Btaplehurst,  180,  252,  323-4. 
Staple  Inn,  Middlesex,  65,  78. 
Stapleton,  Clement,  Vicar  of  Willes- 

boro,  299,  301. 
Steinraan,  G.  S.,  358-9. 
Stephens,  Henry,  131  ;  Robert,  131. 
Sterre,  John  de,  267  :    Nicholaa.  267  ; 

Nicholas,  267  ;  Robert,  267  ;  Roger, 

267  ;  Thomas,  267. 
Stevenson,  Rev.  Dr.  John  (1846-74), 

180;  Thomas,  383. 
Stodmarsh,  165, 
Stokebery.  241. 
Stokes,  Nicholas,  295. 
Stone  by  Dartford,  239,  274  ;  Inven- 
tory of  Church  Goods  (1552),  290. 
Stone   by   Faversham,   199  ;   Church, 

372. 
Stone  in  Oxney,  35,  247,  265  ;  Church, 

98-102,  378. 
Stone,  Semannus  de,  245,  248  ;  Master 

Walter  de,  264-5. 
Stonedean,  Walter  (1519),  355. 
Stonhard,    Alice,    278  ;    Henry,   278 ; 

Rosa,  278. 
Stopes-done,  Diouisia  de,  192,  202. 
Stopyndeue.    Henry,    of    Faversham, 

202. 
Stopyndon,  John  (Master  of  the  Rolls, 

1438-46),  1. 
Storce,  Robert  de.  328, 
Stoughton,  Thomas  (1591),  111, 
Stourton,  Arthur,  315,  317,  322. 
Stovvting,  177. 
StradeshelleChurch  (Norwich  diocese), 

327,  333-4. 
Strasburgh,  Brief  for  Reformed  Church 

in,  183,  207. 
Stratford,  Archbishop.  285,  326. 


Streatfeild,  Sophia,  153  ;  Thomas,  153. 
Stienchden,  in  Tcnlcrden,  41. 
Stringer,  Elizabeth  and  Thomas,  allied 

to  ilarlackenden,  3(>1. 
Strood,   H((spital,   334  ;   Inventory  of 

Church  (ioods  (1552),  290-1. 
Strood,  Walter,  192. 
Stroutard    (Strutard),   Alianora,    256, 

275  ;  John,  256,  275. 
Stulloc,  Alice,  248  ;  Henry,  248. 
Stuppiugton,  202. 
Sturey,   Geoffry  de,   198  ;  Henry  de, 

198;  Richard  de,   198;  Robert  de, 

187,   189,  190-1,   198;   Sir  Thomas, 

198. 
Sturreye,  380  ;  Henry,  243.  266,  274. 
Sudbury,  Archbishop,  61,  285.  354. 
Suffolk,  Duke  of,  14,  342. 
Suffolk,   Briefs  for  places  in,   183-4, 

206,  210-1,  214-5. 

Sullebiry,  Matilda,  246  ;  Thomas  de, 

246. 
Sundridge,  230,  239  ;  Rector  of,  132. 
Surrendeu,  39,  262. 
Surrev.    178  ;    Briefs  for    places    in, 

ISlU,  206-13,  216-7,  221-2. 
Sussex,  122  ;  Briefs  for  places  in,  184, 

207,  211,  214-8,  220,222. 
Suthbere,  Henry  de.  246-7  ;  John  de, 

246-7. 
Suthflete,  274  ;  see  Southfleet. 
Suthleghe,  251. 

Sutor,  Philip,  192;  Thomas,  192. 
Sutte,  Reginald,  192. 
Sutton,   Agatha,   259  ;    Bartholomew 

de,    192 ;  John,   259  ;    William   de, 

259. 
Sutton  at  Hone,  329,  385  ;  Inventory 

of  Church  Goods  (1552),  292. 
Swainson,  Rev.  Professor,  C.A.,  382. 
Swan,  Anne,  131  ;  Revd.  John  (1648), 

131. 
Swann,  Fred.  Dashwood,  124. 
Swannyscombe,  294. 
Swanscombe,    Church    Screen,    371  ; 

Inventory  of  Church  Goods,  294. 
Swanton,  Manor,  256  ;  Wm.  de,  268. 
Swingtield,    278,    388  ;    Inventory   of 

Church  Goods,  295. 
Swyft,  Andrew,  260  ;  Margeria,  249  ; 

Richard.  249. 
Swynfeld,  see  Swingfield. 
Svdney,    Sir    Henry,   8  ;    Sir   Philip, 

7,  8. 
Sydnor,  Paul,  325. 
Sykes,  George,  387. 
Symou,  Richard,  295. 
Symond,  John,  340. 
Symondson's  Map  of  Romney  Marsh, 

50. 
Symuud,  William,  278. 
Sympson.  Christopher,  171. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


413 


Syndale  in  Ospringre,  203. 
iSywate,  William,  243. 

Tancray,  Alice,  269  ;  John,  2G9. 
Tannator,  203  ;  John,  203  ;  Laurence, 

193,  203  ;  Eobert,  203  ;  Wm..  203. 
Tanynton,  245,  255. 
Tarbutt,  Wm.,  53  ;  on  Briefs  for  which 

collections  were  made  in  Cranbrook, 

20G-222. 
Tarver,  E.  J.,  372. 
Taylor,  John  (1552).  298. 
Taylor  (of  Bifi-ons),  Dr.  Brooke,  175  ; 

Sir  Brook.  176;  Capt.  Bridges  \V.. 

176  :    Edward,     M.P.,    176  ;     Rev; 

Edward.  176,  ISO  ;  Revd.  Herbert. 

175-6,180;  Sir  Herbert,  176  ;  John, 

175,    180  ;    Margaret.    175  ;    Mary. 

175  ;  Olive,  175  ;  Jlrs.  Olive,  175.^ 
Taylur,    John    le,    195;    Richard   le, 

195. 
Tempest,    Sir   Nicholas,    175  ;    Olive, 

175. 
Tenham.  162,  205,  270. 
Tentcrden,   Early  History  of,  37-60; 

Church,  45  ;  Chantry,  49  ;  Earl  of, 

64,  74  ;  Mayor,  77  ;  Parish  Registers, 

55  ;  Steeple,  52. 
Tenterden,  61-5,  74,  75,  77,  79,  95, 166. 
Tentwarden  (Tenterden),  40. 
Tenwardine,  Alex,  de,  44  ;  Thomas  de, 

45. 
Terry.  Beatrix,  257  ;  Robert,  257. 
Terryng,  Robert  de  (1315-21),  Rector 

of  Woodchurch,  354. 
Teston,  Inventory  of  Church  Goods  in 

1552.  295. 
Tetricus,  Coins  of.  368-9. 
Teudeley.  242.  276,  385,  342. 
Teynham  {see  Tenham).  the  first  Lord, 

117.361. 
Thanet,  Isle  of,  75,  250,  269.  270. 
Thanington,  63,  145,  245.  255. 
Theinwarden  (Tenterden),  40. 
Thevegate  Manor,  Smeeth,  260. 
Thoby  Priory,  341. 
Thompson,  Henry, allied  toHarlacken- 

den. 360. 
Thomson,  Anthony.  16  ;  Clare,  16. 
Thonebregge  (Tonbridge),  276.  327. 
Thornbury,  William,  Vicar  of  East- 
church    (1453).    886  ;    John,    386  ; 

Richard.  386. 
Thorndon,  Richard.  Bishop  of  Dover, 

180,  166. 
Thornham  Manor,  256. 
Thornhurst.   Dorothy,  Lady.  289  :  Sir 

Thomas,  289. 
Thorpe,  Rev.  Geo.  (1688),  132. 
Throckmorton.  Anne,  16;   Sir  Arthur, 

78  ;  Mary,  78  ;  Sir  Robert,  16. 
Throwley  Rood-screen,  372. 


Tichbourne's  Arms,  154 ;  House  at 
Crippeuden  in  Cowden,  153-6. 

Tichbourne,  Anne,  155 ;  Benjamin, 
155;  Dorothy,  153,  155;  Friswid, 
155  ;  Frances,  155-6  ;  George,  155  ; 
Johanna,  155-6  :  John,  153-6  ;  Mar- 
garet,   154  ;  Mary,    154-5  ;    Martin, 

155  ;  Morice,  154  ;   Richard,  153-6  ; 
Robert.  154-6,  380  ;  Sir  Robert.  154. 

156  ;  Thomas,  155. 
Tickford  Priory,  840. 

Tighe,  Martha,  102 ;  Robert,  101 ; 
Sarah,  102  ;  Stephen,  101-2. 

Tilton,  John  de,  187. 

Tinctor,  Robert,  188. 

Tindall,  Rev.  R.  Abbey,  154. 

Tiptree,  Essex,  841. 

Titchfield  Abbey,  146. 

Tofts,  George,  320-1. 

Tonbridge  Priory  (by  J.  F.  Wadmore), 
326-43:  Dress"  of  Novices,  838  :  Fire, 
836  ;  Weekly  Fare,  329  ;  Dissolu- 
tion. 340-2  ;  Priors  of,  340  note. 

Tonbridge,  40,  43,  239.  326-48 ;  Castle, 
327,  380  ;  Church,  327-9.  372  ;  levga 
or  lowy.  327  ;  see  Thonebregge, 
Tonebrugg,  and  Tunbridge. 

Tonebrugg,  245. 

Tonge  Rood-screen,  370,  372. 

Tonyford,  Isabella,  279-80  ;  Thomas 
de,  279-80. 

Toppesfeld,  John  de.  274. 

Tor  Alan,  269. 

Torre  Abbey,  148. 

Torryng,  Wm.  de,  272. 

Totnes,  Rood-screen,  370. 

Touker,  John  (1401),  178. 

Townley,  Richard  (1525),  125. 

Trapps,"  Michael,  of  Ickhara.  114. 

Trendeloue,  Edith,  263  ;  Robert,  263. 

Trendil  le,  223. 

Trent  Rood-loft,  370. 

Trental  of  St.  Gregory,  223. 

Triple,  John  de,  253. 

Trollop. Margaret,  allied  to  Harlacken- 
den,  361. 

Tronere,  Beatrix,  248  ;  William,  248. 

Trulegh,  253. 

Tudeley,  296,  3.35.  338,  342  ;  Brief 
for.  219  ;  see  Teudeley. 

Tufton,  Sir  John,  381. 

Tunbridge.  40,  48. 

Tunbridge  Wells,  Brief  for  fire  at,  184. 

Tunstall.  62. 65,  74,  77-8,  354  ;  Church, 
66, 77  ;  Ufton  in,  359,  361  ;  Viscount, 
74. 

Tunstall.  William  de  (Rector),  354. 

Turk,  Richard  (Prior  of  the  Knights 
Hospitallers),  328. 

Turkish  Slavery,  Briefs  for  redeeming 
captives  from,  118,  182,  208,  209. 

Twisdene  in  Tenterden.  41. 


414 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


Twitlmm,      Prebend     at     Wingbam, 

Twyl'ord  ITiindird.  2!t(). 

Twynhain  I'rioiy,  .'ili/i. 

Twysden.  Juliii,  ;^ll-2  ;  Thomas.  :?(ir>. 

Tygbelere,  Klicia,  2-17  ;  John  Ic,  217. 

Tylden,  John,  '>d. 

Tyler's  (Wat)  Rebellion,  GO,  SGG. 

Tylman,  'J'honias,  ;50.>. 

Tvpeiidoii,  Robert.  351. 

Typpis,  Thomas  (1535),  12!). 

Tyrell,William( Rector  of  Woodchurch, 

1404),  355. 
Tytyudeu,  JIargcria.  243  ;  William  de, 

243. 

Ufton  in  Tunstall,  3."9,  3G1.  375.  388. 
Ulcombe,   271,    277-8.    378,    Church, 

164,  355. 
Ulster,  Lionel.  Earl  of.  83i». 
Upchurch,    244,    256,   270;    Pottery, 

139  ;  Screen  in  the  Church.  371. 
Upmanton,  Alice.  19!)  ;  John  de,  188-9, 

199  ;    Stephen   de,    192,    199,   258 ; 

Thomas   de,    186,   199;  Walter  de, 

186-7,  199. 
Upton.  199  ;  Thomas  de  (1288),  159, 

162. 
Ussher,  Richard,  143-4. 

Valerian,  Coins  of,  368. 

Valoignes.  Henry  de,   50,    251 ;  Mar- 

geria,  251  ;  Warretius  de.  198. 
Vannere,  Johanna,  250  ;    Michael  le, 

250. 
Vandois  Protestants,  Brief  for,  219. 
Veel,   Johanna,   253  ;    John   le,    253 ; 

Winant,  253. 
Veille,  Ricd.  la,  269. 
Venell,  Dorothy,  99. 
Verdon,  Laurence  (1428),  121. 
Veruard,  John.  290. 
Villiers,   Rev.  H.    Montagu,  168  ;    on 

Adisham    Church,    167-161  ;    Lady 

Victoria.  158. 
Vincent,  Ricd.  (1432-73),  127. 
Vine,  Rev.  Francis  Thos.,  180-1. 
Vineyard,  134-5. 
Viuian.  Hamo,  279  ;  Henry,  279 ;  John, 

279  ;  Ricd.,  279  ;  Thos.,  279  ;  Wil- 
liam, 279. 
Vlcombe,  277-8, 
Vlecumbe.  271. 
Vpchirche,  244,  256,  270. 
Vpmanton,  Stephen  de,  258. 
Vpmonyngham,  261. 
Vppehelle,  Walter,  273  ;  William,  273, 

Wade,  John,  194, 
Wademan,  John,  296. 
Wadmore,   J.   F..   1,  153,    155-6 ;    on 
Tonbridge  Priory,  326-343. 


Wake,    Archbishop,    100,    132.    168; 

Mary,  175. 
Wiikcrild.    John,   2G5  ;    Osbcrt,    265  ; 

Wm.,  265. 
Walhadc,  Hugh  de,  328. 
Walcott,  Rev.  Mackenzie  E.  C,  309. 
Waldwarshare.  243,  259. 
Waleys,   Geoffrey  de,    153;    Juliana, 

216. 
Waller.  Wm..  341-2. 
Wallingford  Priory,  341. 
Wallis.  153-4  ;  Arms,  154. 
Waljjole,  Horace,  124. 
Walsh,  Walter  (1470),  178. 
Walshc,  Ricd.  le,  273. 
'\V\alsingham,  Sir  Edmund.  3G7. 
Waltham,  268. 

Wahvyn.  Revd.  Francis  (1756),  167-8. 
Ward,  Gilbert  (1631).  156. 
Warde,  Wm.  (1322),  192. 
Wardelby,  Robt.  de.  191,  201. 
Warden,' 381,  383. 
Warden,  Seynt  Jamys  of,  376. 
Wardone.  385. 
Warehorne,  358  ;  Briefs  for.  207,  220 ; 

Inventory  of  Chui'ch  Goods,  297;  see 

Werehorne. 
Warham,    Agnes,    119 ;     Archbishop, 

55-6,    92,    94,    114,    119,    125,    129, 

164-5,  342,  350,  355,  358,  367,  372, 

380,    386  ;     Archdeacon    Wm.,    1  ; 

Hugh,  119. 
Warmington.  Ricd.  de  (1370),  162. 
Warne,  Lewyn,  329. 
Warner,   John,  Bishop  of   Rochester, 

289. 
Warrom,Robt.  (Eastchurch,  1400),  385. 
Warwick,  129  ;  Ambrose  Dudley,  Earl 

of,  8,  13. 
Warwickshire,   Briefs  for  places    in. 

182-4,212,214-7,219,221. 
Warvu,  Emma,  263  ;  John,  263. 
Waterhouse,  Sir  Edward,  83,  350,  360  : 

Lady,  83. 
Wateringbury,   260,    296;    Brief  for, 

207. 
Waters,  John,  102. 
Wateuyle,  Robt.,  277. 
Watno,  Elizabeth  (allied  to  Harlaken- 

den).  360. 
Watson,  George,  294  ;  Wm..  318-9. 
Wayfer,  Katherine,  263  ;  Ricd.,  263  ; 

Wm.,  263. 
Weald,  Parishes  in  the,  321-325. 
Wealde,  Laurence  de  la,  334. 
Wealdissh',    Agnes,    241  ;    Simon    le, 

241. 
Webb,  Barbara,  daughter  of  Sir  John, 

64. 
Webb,  Rev.  Thos.,  380-1,  (Eastchurch, 

1580)  386, 
Webbe,  Geo.,  320. 


GENEUAL    INDEX. 


115 


Weldysh',  Robt.  de,  250  ;  Wm.,  250. 
Weliwer,  Agues,  258  ;  John,  258. 
Well    (Ickham),    12.5,    270;    Chapel, 

121),  129  ;  Court,  118. 
Waller,  Mary.  95. 
Welles,  Tho.,  Bishop  of  Sidon  (1523), 

Ifil,  355  ;  Wm.  de,  21i. 
Wellesworth,  Claricia.  333  ;  t^ir  Eoger, 

333. 
Wells,  Rev.  F.  B.,  357  ;  ou  All  Saints, 

AVoodehurch,  314-352. 
Wells,  133  ;  Johu,  311-2  ;  Robt.,  297. 
Welmeston',  Bertinus  de,  257. 
Welsh  Briefs,  183,  211,  213,  215-21. 
Wen,  John  de,  ISG. 
Wenderton,    Cecilia,    277  ;   Wm.    de. 

277. 
Wengham,  254.  257,  277. 
WereW-ue,  247.  270,  275. 
Werhorne,  249. 
Westbere,   279-80  :  Brief  for  fire  at, 

181,  208. 
Westerham,  76,  122,  154,  249,  277. 
Westgate  next  Canterbury,  267. 
Westgrenewych,   245,   250,   2G9,   272, 

274. 
Westminster  Abbey,  149,  168. 
Westmorland,  Brief  for,  221. 
Westwell,  41,  51,  252,  255,  366  ;  In- 
ventory of  Church  Goods,  298. 
Wetelestone.  327. 
Whetenhall,  341  ;  Deborah.  83,  3G0  : 

Thomas.  83,  360  :  Wm..  342. 
White,  Rev.  John  (1594),   179  ;   Rev. 

Thos  (1667),  378,  386  ;   Wm.,  294. 
Whitgift,  Archbishop.  166. 
Whitstable  Bay,  383. 
Whittlesey,  Archbishop,  1,  lii.  127. 
Whyte.  Wm..  371. 
Wickenden.  Thos.,  155. 
Wickham   Breux,  129,  261,  270,  382, 

388. 
Wickham,  West,  Inventory  of  Church 

Goods,  298-9  ;  Manor  and  Church, 

273 ;    Rood-screen,  371  ;    Wrought 

Flints  found  at,  85-90. 
Widmarpol,  Durandns  de,  260,  268. 
Wilkinson,  Robt.  (Eastchurch,  1660-1), 

381,  386. 
Willesborowe,   Inventory    of    Church 

Goods,  299. 
Willes,  Joan  (allied  to  Harlakendeu), 

360. 
Willey,  Elizth.  (allied  to  Head),  116. 
Williams,  David  (1491),  164. 
Willopp  Manor,  79. 
Wilmington.  228,  249,  279  ;  Inventory 

of  Church  Goods.  302. 
Wilner,  Jno.  (bell  founder),  378. 
Wilmyntone,  Wm.  de,  270. 
Wiltshire,  Briefs  for  places  in,  183-4, 

208,210-1,217-9. 


Wimble,  Wm.  (1712),  228. 

Wimelingwold,  Canons  of,  127,  163. 

Winchelsea,  Archbishop,  47,  52,  177, 
375. 

Winchester.  Archdeacon,  163  ;  Cathe- 
dral, 147.' 

Wincoll,  Robt.,  361. 

Windebauk,  Frances,  64. 

Windsor,  Canon  of.  167  ;  Dean  of, 
133,  168,  342. 

Wingham,  36,  134,  139,  162-5,  354; 
Court,  134  ;  Rood-screen.  371-2  ; 
Well,  135,  1.39. 

Wingham  College,  1,  li,  309.  388  ; 
Canons  of,  116, 121, 12G-8,  163,  1-lii ; 
Canons'  old  houses.  1-lii  ;  Inventory 
of  its  Chm-ch  goods.  309-311  ;  Pro- 
vosts of,  1,  126->,  129. 

Wingham,  Henry  de,  45-6  ;  John  de. 
186,  195. 

Wiseman,  John,  316,  321,  323,  325. 

With,  Henry,  245. 

Withersdeu,  Thos.,  351. 

Wittersham,  Level,  58  ;  Inventory  of 
Church  Goods,  301  ;  Rector  of,  96. 

Wiwarlet  lathe  in  the  Weald,  41. 

Wodden,  Ricd.  (1671).  226  ;  Susan,  227. 

Wode,  205  ;  Thos.  de,  205. 

Wodenesbergh',  244. 

Wodwarf  (now  Paul's  wharf),  St. 
Benedict  of,  335. 

Wokesbriffg,  Ricd.,  204. 

Wolbald,  John.  93  ;  Thomas,  94. 

Woldham,  279  ;  Inventory  of  Church 
Goods.  303. 

Wolsey,  Cardinal,  340-3. 

Wolsey's  College,  Oxford,  333,  340. 

Wolwyche,  see  Woolwich. 

Wombevvell,  Master  (1499),  224. 

Womeusvvold,  134  ;  see  Wimelingwold. 

Wood,  Henry,  99  ;  Marv  (of  Seale), 
228,  237  ;  Thomas,  95.' 

Woodchurch.  44,  52,  62-3.  74,  83.  126, 
128,  162,  164,  .32.3-4  ;  Church,  344- 
53. 

Woodcock,  R.,  387-8. 

Woodgate,  Obadiah,  383. 

Woodman,  Peter,  94. 

Woodroofe,  J.,  388. 

Woodward,  Robt.  (1500-23).  164. 

Woolrich,  Anthonv,  381,  (Ea.stchurch, 
1682-4),  387  ;  Rev.  H.,  387. 

Woolwich,  278  ;  Brief  for,  213  ;  In- 
ventory of  Church  Goods,  304. 

Worcestershire,  Briefs  for  places  in, 
183,  206.  215-9,  221. 

Word,  199  ;  John,  118. 

Worthestede(where  worsted  was  made), 
338. 

Woteringebury,  260  ;  Vicar  of,  260. 

Wotton,  Anne,  64,  68,  78-83  ;  Edward, 
295-6  ;  Thos.,  Lord,  78.  81. 


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GENEKAL    INDEX. 


Wouldham  Roorl-screcn,  371. 

Won  1  ton,  John.  2(j. 

VVred',  Alice,  204  :  Walter  le,  2G4. 

Wrenek,  Ricd.  le,  2G4  ;   VVillclma,  2G4. 

Wright,  Rev.  J.  A..  12.5,  133. 

Wri^htson,  Rev.  Thomas  (allied  to 
Ilarlakenden),  3(51. 

Wronghe,  John  le,  193,  203  ;  Robt., 
2(13. 

Wrotham,  133,  16()-8,  228,  232,  239-40, 
334  ;  Rector  and  Curate,  238  ;  Rood- 
screen.  371. 

Wryghtrichcshamme,  280. 

Wy,  191,  273  ;  Hugh  de,  40. 

Wyatt.  Jas.,  124  ;  Sir  Thomas,  29."). 

Wyatt's  Rebellion,  14,  31.5,  318. 

Wybarn,  Robt..  372. 

Wychelinge,  2.51. 

Wydmerpol,  Duraudus  de,  200,  208. 

Wye,  39,  41  ;  Inventory  of  Church 
Goods,  305. 

Wygan.  John,  301. 

Wygge,'Wm.  (1372),  177. 

Wyghtricheshamme,  271  ;  Isabellfi, 
271  ;  James.  271  ;  Riwl.  de,  271. 

Wyghtuccheshamme,  205. 

Wyk,  Matilda,  267  ;   Philip  de,  267. 

Wyke,  Matilda,  258-9  ;  Philip  de, 
*258-9  ;  William  de,  254. 

Wykes  Priory,  341. 

Wykbam,  Brewose,  201 ;  see  Wick- 
ham. 

Wylmyngton,  302  ;  see  Wilmington. 


Wylton.   Wm.   de,  375,  (Eastchurch. 

1279-1.323)  385. 
Wynibeldon.  John  (1421),  121. 
Wynu'lyngwclde,  254. 
Wvmond,    Klcna,    280;    Ilamo,    280; 

John,  280. 
Wynchclse,  240  ;   Mast.  John  de,  270  ; 

Simon,  270. 
Wynetere,   Alice,   264-5 ;    Robert   Ic, 

264-5. 
Wyun,  Bishop  (St.  Asaph),  100. 
Wynter,  Johanna,  280  ;  John.  280. 
Wyse,  Walter  le.  250. 
Wvseman,  John.  321.  323.  325. 
Wytefcld,  Wm.  do,  189. 
Wytriccheshamme,  265. 
Wyuelesbergh,  247. 

Yalding,    296,   327,  329,    338,  341-2; 

Brief   for,    182,    212  ;    see    Aldyug. 

Ealding.  Elding. 
Yates,  Robt..  303. 
Yedeley,  John,  223. 
Ycrdherst,  Laurence  (1460),  178. 
Ylger,  Robt.,  245-6. 
Yoklete,  205. 
Yorkshire.  194,  163  ;  Briefs  for  places 

in,  182-4,  206-7,  210-2,  215-22. 
Young,  Rev.  Alexander  (1729).  382, 

387;  Ann,   100;    Robt.,  84;  Thos., 

100  ;  Sir  William,  175. 
Yue,  Nicolas,  186,  188,  191  ;  Stephen, 

192. 


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