County for in the Pipe-Rols relating to the Raign of King John I discover that Robert de Malavill was one of the Recognitores magnae Assisae in the fourth year of that Prince and then again in the seventh year of his Rule he was dignified with that eminent Place of Trust and he had Issue William de Malavil who was in the enjoyment of this Mannor at his Death which was in the Raign of Henry the third as appears by an escheat Roll marked with the number 56. And in this Family did the Right and Title of it lie involved untill the latter End of Edward the third and then the noted Family of Bures stept by Purchase into the Possession and John Bures as appears to me by an old Deed held it in the fourth year of Richard the second he was Son of William Bures who paid respective Aid for part of a Knights-fee which lay in Bromley in the twentieth year of Edward the third at making the Black Prince Knight and William Bures Son of John lies entombed in Halsted Church pourtraied at length in Brass and mail'd in Armor upon a fair Grave-stone being Marble with this Inscription Hic jacet Willielmus Bures Armigeri Dominus Manerii de Halsted qui obiit 1454. And this was he who was Sheriff of Kent in the eleventh year of Henry the sixth But after his Death it was not long in the Fruition of this Name for about the Beginning of Edward the fourth I find it in the Hands of Thomas Bourchier descended from the Bourchiers of Essex and he about the Latter End of that Prince passed it away to Stephen Petley Esquire who lies buried in Halsted Church And in this Family was the Title fixed untill the Beginning of King James and then the Fatality of Sale did alternate the Possession and annexed it to the Inheritance of Sir Thomas Watson who dying without Issue-male his only Daughter and Heir was espoused to Sir William Pope afterwards created Earl of Downe in Ireland by King James and so in her Right this Mannor became the Inheritance of his Son the Right Honourable William Earl of Downe who not many years since passed it away to Mr. Edward Ash whose Widow Mrs. ........ Ash holds it at this instant in Right of Dower Halstow in the Hundred of Milton hath nothing memorable in it but Berkesore alias Basser-court which was as high as any print of Antiquity can direct me to discover the Patrimony of the Church for King Stephen devoted it to find a supply of perpetual Lights before the Chest or Shrine ante Capsam those are the words of the Record of Anselme the eminent Arch-bishop of Canterbury and it hath been many years past held by the Darrels of Cale-hill as Lessees and is still by that Right enjoyed by Sir John Darrell of the same place The Church of Halstow as the Records of Christ-church instruct us was given by Boniface Arch-bishop of Canterbury to buy Books for the Chaunter of that Covent Hamme in the Hundred of Eastry was as the Records of Christ-church in Canterbury inform me given to the Prior and Monks of that Covent in the year 934. by one Eylfleda but how it was rated in the Conqueror's Time when if not all yet at least the principal part of this County was surveyed the Pages of Doomesday Book are silent In brief the Moity of this Mannor for one Half of it was alwaies under the Jurisdiction of Lay-proprietaries being by the Donation abovesaid made parcel of the Spiritual Patrimony remained treasured up in the Revenue of the Church as in an unviolable Exchequer until both the Covent of Christ-church and all its Demeasne was surrendered into the Hands of Henry the eighth and that Prince in the thirty fifth year of his Raign granted that part of it which belonged to the Priory of Christ-church to Sir Thomas Moile who not long after passed it away to Sir Robert Oxenbridge Knight from which Family in our Grand-fathers memory it went away by Sale to Bois of Betshanger The other Moity of Hamme belonged to the Criolls of Walmer of which Family I shall speak more at that Place Simon de Crioll as I discover by old Deeds held it in the Raign of King John and Henry the third and transmitted it to his Son Nicolas de Crioll who held it at his Death which was in the one and thirtieth of Edward the first and from him did it by the steps of several Generations descend to Sir Thomas Crioll who was slain at the second Battle of Sr. Albans tamely and in cold Blood that is he was beheaded by Queen Margaret wife to King Henry the sixth in the thirty eighth of that Prince's Raign because he had been an eager Partisan of the House of Yorke and being thus infortunately cut off left that great Estate he was possest of in this County to two Daughters and Co-heirs one of which was matched for his second wife to John Fogg of Repton Esq Son and Heir of Sir William Fogg and he had Issue by her Thomas Fogg Serjeant Porter of Callis Esquire a Place of eminent Trust and Concernment in those Times And he ended in two Daughters and Co-heirs Anne first matched to Mr. William Scott Brother of Sir Reginald and secondly to Mr. Henry Isham and Alice first wedded to Edward Scott of the Moat in Sussex Esquire and after to Sir Robert Oxenbridge of the County of South-hampton but the Moity of this Mannor of Hamme upon the dividing the Estate into equal Portions fell to be the Inheritance of Edward Scott in Right of Alice his wife and his Descendant in our Grand-fathers Remembrance alienated all his Interest and Concernment here to Bois of Betshanger whose Successor Mr. John Bois of Betshanger Esquire is now entirely possest of this Mannor as namely of that Moity which came over to this Family by Purchase from Oxenbridge as well as of that which devolved to this Name by Purchase from Scott Harbledowne in the Hundred of Westgate though at present but an obscure Village and not of much Eminence was in Time of more ancient Date famous for three memorable Places First for an old Chappel situated upon the Margin of that Precipice which overlooks that way which leads to Canterbury In which Oratory as Tradition informs us was preserved the Slipper of Thomas Becket taken from one of his Feet after his being destroyed at his own Church at Canterbury and which as Report insinuates was bespattered with his Blood this being curiously enchased with Diamonds so much did those Times dote on this then reputed Saint and Martyr was let down for Passengers who travelled to Canterbury to offer up their Orizons at his Shrine to adore with a kiss nor was it returned but full fraighted and laden with the Benevolences of devoted Pilgrims The second was Polres which anciently had and still keeps the Repute of a Mannor John de Polre Son of John de Polre payd respective Aid for it in
Burwash-court from whom it is now devolved by Descent to his Successor Mr. ...... Boughton The Abbot of St. Augustines to adde more eminence to this Mannor not only obtained a Charter of Free-warren to Plumsted in the thirty sixth year of Henry the third but likewise by Grant procured a Market to be held here weekly on the Tuesday and a Fair yearly three Dayes at St. Nicolas videlicet the Eve the Day and Day after both which were allowed before the Judges Itinerant in the seventh year of Edward the first Plumsted had anciently Laws and Ordinances for the better securing the Mounds and Banks of the Mersh against the Eruptions and Inundations of the Thames which almost were of the same Resemblance and Complexion with those of Romney Mersh A Scale of several Statutes are delivered to us by Rastall in his Abridgement which concerned the Inning and preserving of Plumsted Level The first was enacted in the twenty second year of Henry the eighth Cap. 3. and was printed The second was made in the fourteenth year of Queen Elizabeth and was never printed The third was ratified in the twenty third of Queen Elizabeth Cap. 13. and printed The fourth and last was confirmed in the twenty seventh year of Queen Elizabeth Cap. 27. and likewise printed Burwash-court is an eminent Seat in this Parish made more illustrious by being wrapped up in the Revenue of the Noble Family of Burgherst or Burwash Bartholomew de Burgherst died possest of it in the twenty eighth year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 38. And left it to his Son Bartholomew Lord Burwash who in the forty third year of the above-said Prince coveyed it with much other Land to Sir Walter de Paveley Knight of the Garter in which Family it continued until the raign of Richard the second and then it was alienated to VVilliam Chichley Alderman of London who left it to his Son John Chichley by whose Daughter and Heir Agnes it came to be possest by John Tattershal of VVell-hall in Eltham who about the beginning of Henry the sixth conveyed it to Boughton in the Descendants of which Family it had a permanent aboad untill that Age that our Remembrance had an Aspect on and then it was passed away to Mr. Rowland VVilson of London and he upon his late Decease gave it to his Daughter and her Heirs who was first matched to Doctour ...... Crisp and now secondly to Colonel ...... Row of Hackney R. R. R. R. RAdigunds vulgarly called the Abby of St. Radigunds leads up the Van of this Register It was founded by Hugh the first Abbot who was before a Monk in the Priory of Christ-church in the raign of King Stephen as the Book of Christ-church and the Return into the Court of Augmentation made in the twenty ninth year of Henry the eighth do both inform me Their Rule was derived from Austin Bishop of Hippo their Habit Black whence they are sometimes styled Black-Canons and sometimes Canons of St. Austins The Revenue which appertained to this Cloister lay not fat divided from this place as namely at Alkham Sotemore Combe Hawking Padlesworth and Pising where they had a Mannor as appears by an Inquisition taken in the thirty fifth year of Edward the first Rot. Esc Num. 147. This upon the Dissolution lapsing with all its Revenue to the Crown King Henry the eighth exchanged Pising with Thomas Cranmer Arch-bishop of Canterbury but the Mannor of St. Radigunds it self remained annexed to the Royal Revenue until Queen Elizabeth in the thirty second year of her raign granted it to Simon Edolph Esquire descended from the Edolphs of Romney Mersh where they were very ancient in whose Successor Sir ...... Edolph the propriety of this place is still resident Raculver in the Hundred of VVhitstaple had a Monastery founded here for Monks to live under the Rule of St. Bennet But the Mannor it self was given with all its Train of Appendages as namely Pasture Glebe Mersh-land and the adjacent Shore and estimated at twenty five Mansions or Cottages bis denis senisque estimatum Cassatis those are the words of the Record by King Eadredus in the year nine hundred forty and eight to the Sea of Canterbury in the presence of his Queen Edgiva and Arch-bishop Odo and if you will descry what Estimate it had in the Time of the Conqueror Doomes-day Book will afford you a discovery Raculf Tempore Edwardi Regis se defendebat pro VIII Sullings est appretiatum XL. lb. II. lb. V. s. tres Minutes that was a Coin I believe equivalent to our now English Pence minus Though the Church be now full of Solitude and languished into Decay yet when Leland made his Perambulation it was in a more splendid Equipage If you please to hear him he thus describes it The old Building of the Abby Church continues says he having two goodly spiring Steeples In the entring into the Quire is one of the fairest and most ancient Crosses that ever I saw nine Foot in height it standeth like a fair Columne The Basis is a great stone it is not wrought the second Stone being round hath curiously wrought and and painted the Images of our Saviour Christ Peter Paul John and James Christ saith Ego sum Alpha Omega Peter saith Tu es Christus Filius Dei vivi The sayings of the other three were painted Majusculis Literis Romanis but now obliterated The second Stone is of the Passion The third Stone contains the Twelve Apostles The fourth hath the Image of our Saviour hanging and fastned with four Nails sub pedibus sustentaculum The highest part of the Pillar hath the Figure of a Crosse In the Church is a very ancient Book of the Evangelies in Majusculis Literis Romanis and in the Borders thereof is a Crystal Stone thus inscribed Claudia Atepiccus In the North-side of the Church is the Figure of a Bishop painted under an Arch In digging about the Church they find old Buckles and Rings The whole Print of the Monastery appears by the old Wall And the Vicarage was made of the Ruines of the Monastery There is a neglected Chappel out of the Church-yard where some say was a Paroch-Church before the Abby was suppressed and given to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury Thus far he But the greatest Honor which in elder Times did accrew to this Village was that King Ethelbert after he had founded the Abby of St. Austins removed his Residence from Canterbury and fixed his Pallace at this place which his Successors the Kings of Kent enobled by their presence but when this Kingdome was swallowed up in that of Mercia and Mercia afterwards in that of the West Saxons Reculver had the Grant of a Market procured to it on the Thursday by William Arch-B of Canterbury in the 7th of Edw. the second this Mansion of theirs found a Sepulcher likewise in their Ruines so that now we can trace it out no where but in Annals and
the twentieth year of Edward the third and when after some expiration of Time this Family began to find the common Sepulcher which wairs upon all Humane Glory Decay and Oblivion the Martins a Name of generous extraction in this Track stept in and by Purchase became Lords of the Fee and held it till the Name being contracted into Anne Sole Daughter and Heir of Jo. Martin by marriage with Roger Brent it was knit to the Patrimony of that Family and so for some years remained undissolved till the Union by Sale was broken and not long since passed over to Sir Thomas Bind where at present the Possession is wound up with the other Demeasne of that Family The Mannor of Beverley is a third place of Note in Harbledowne It was the Sear of the ancient Family of Beverley before they removed to Tancrey Island in Fordwich and having remained Proprietaries of it many Generations by Efflux and Descent it was guided down to William Beverley Esquite from whom the Title ebbed away and in whom the Name determined for he deceasing without Issue Male Beatrix was his only Daughter and Heir who was matched to Thomas Norton Esquire by which Alliance the Title of this place became inter-woven with his Inheritance and continued clasped up in it until the middle of the Raign of Queen Elizabeth and then it was conveyed to Merseday in which Family it had a setled Residence until some sew years since the Mutation of Sale brought it to one Mr. ....... Richardson for its Proprietary Lanfranck Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the year 1071. Founded an Hospital at Harbledowne for Lepers employed afterwards to the Use of aged people William Wittlesey Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the year 1371. founded a Chauntry here and dedicated it to the Honor of St. Nicholas which Foundation in the year 1402. Was by Arch-bishop Arundell fully ratified and confirmed Nether-Hardres in the Hundred of Bridge and Petham is eminent for two Places situated within the Precincts and Ambuts of it The first is Hepington which certainly was anciently the Chichs of the Dungeon in Canterbury for I have seen a Record wherein Nicolas Mesingham releases his Right in this and divers other Lands confining on Canterbury to Tho. Chich. But let it be granted it was theirs certainly the Title was very volatile and incertain for I find the Foggs when they expired to be next in Possession of it which was as high as the entrance into the Raign of Hen. the fourth And here for some Ages the Title fixt it self till at length the Fatality of Time passed it over by Sale to Hales one of whose Successors has lately sold the Mansion House to Sir Thomas Godfrey but still preserves the Propriety of the Mannor it self in his Name Lindeshore but vulgarly called Linsore is the second Place that Objects it self to a Consideration In the eighth of Edward the third an Original Fine represents it to be Thomas de Garwinton's and here many years the Possession was resident till Joan his Niece became by Reason her Nephew Thomas Garwinton Grand-child to this Thomas de Garwinton died without Issue the Heir General of this Family and she being married to Richard Haut a Cadet of the Hauts of Hautsborne alias Bishops-Bourne made this part of their Demeasne but this Name not long after concluding in Margery Haut Sole Daughter and Heir to Richard Haut she being made the wife of William Isaack of Blackmansbery in Bridge involved this in her Husbands Revenue to which after it had been some time united it was by Sale from this Family carried over to John Brent Esquire and this Name some narrow Distance of Time after resolving into a Daughter and Heir called Margaret who was married to John Dering this became part of his Estate and so continued till his Successor not long since sold it to Young of Canterbury Vpper or High Hardres call it which you please is placed in the Hundreds of Bridge Petham and Lovingborough and gave name to a Family which certainly was of Saxon-extraction being compounded of two Saxon words Erd which signifies Earth and Reys which signifies Rivulets or small Drils of water And more to establish this Opinion the Record of Doomes-day Book informs us that Rodbertus de Hardres held half a Sulling or Ploughed-land in Liminge in the twentieth year of William the Conqueror this man was Ancestor to Philip de Hardres who was one of the Recognitores magnae Assisae in the Raign of King John and his Son Philip de Hardres was a man of that Eminence under the Government of Henry the third that he matched with Grace Daughter and Heir of Stephen de Harengod and I have seen an old Deed which bears the form of a Latine Will wherein this Stephen settles his Mannor of Elmested and other Lands in this Track upon this Philip de Hardres which Deed though not dated certainly relates to the Time of his Decease which was in the one and fortieth of Henry the third Rot. Esc Num. 23. But though this Mannor gave Sirname to Hardres yet I find some others had an Interest in it or at least some part of it before it absolutely and solely came to confesse the Signory of this Name Oliver de Bohun obtained a Charter of Free-warren to his Lands at High Hardres in the first year of Edward the first which was renued to Nicolas de Hadlow or Hallow who had not long before purchased the Inheritance of the above said Family at this place in the one and twentieth year of the above mentioned Prince but about the latter end of Richard the second I find this Family quite dislodged from this place and the Sole Demeasne and Propriety wrapped up in the Family of Hardres one of whom by Name Henry Hardres was one of the Justices of the Peace for this County in the Time of Henry the fourth and Henry the fifth and from him is descended Sir Richard Hardres now Lord of this Mannor who by a Title riveted and incorporated into him by a Chain of many uninterrupted Descents does now claim the Signory of it Southcourt is another little Mannor in Upper Hardres which in elder Times was entituled to the Propriety of Garwinton a Family of signal Estimate and deep Root in this Track for in an old Pedigree of Isaac I discover that Thomas and William de Garwinton were in the List of those Kentish Gentlemen that accompanied Henry the third in his Expedition into Gascony in the thirty seventh year of his Raign which Design by the ill Conduct of his Affairs and worse Managery of his Arms was very ruinous and full of dysaster to that Prince But this Family about the eleventh year of Henry the sixth as I have shewed in Bekesbourne being extinguished without Issue the Heir General brought this Mannor to be possest by Haut from whom some two Descents after the same Fatality brought it to be enjoyed by Isaac in whom the Propriety was resident until
situation on the Salt Sea Wingham from its position between two Rivolets that incompass the Eastern part of it like wings Corniloe that is The Corney Hill loe that is Cumulus Bewsborough now called Bewfield and Whitfield from the French word Beau for white and fair Longport that is Long Town by Canterbury toward Sandwich Folkestone that is a Town Populous and full of Folk so was this for in it there were four Churches a Monastery and some out-Chappels Lovingboroe however different in Orthography This name be now from Lyminge it must be found there or no where else And because Opinion without proof is but discourse and descant Harken to the Evidence at Lyminge which Edmerus a Monk of Christ-Church in Canterbury calls Lovingborough and the Records of that Church Nonnesborough was the first house of vailed Virgins in England called Nunnes and though the name of Lyminge was forlet and forlorn and Nuneborough passed currant and in short space one liquid being changed into another N. into L. Loneburgh and that by a second mutation in Lovingborough you have the disquisition and true result Stowting so called from some old Fortresses and Roman ramperes there Heane in British signifieth old Birchholt Franchise or Barony is by that addition known from a former Hundred where the name is Etymologized Street that is A place where the Romans Praetorian way lay from Lyme to Cant. now called Sonestreets began in place of which we call the viaregia Worth signifies a place made strong and Teneable by fortifying Ham that is Home Capitale Messuagium Langport ut ante St. Martine A place of Account heretofore by Romeney New Church that is of later foundation Aloe bridge written antiently Alulphs bridg that is the Bridge of Alulphus some Saxon. Oxney the Oxens water Ackridg that is The Ridg of Okes which in old English are called Akes Addesham from the old English and that is the old ham and so is this in Records Addington of like Radix onely Ham implies an open place as Ton an inclosed one from Tinan the Saxon word to hedg and inviron Alkham written Healkham the Town in a Corner from Healk in Saxon a Corner Allington is derived from the River Aigle contracted into Ayl Aldington here antiquity gives the Name for Aud we say Ald and now call it it Allington Allhallows from the Churches Dedication which some call All Saints but the first is in the Hundred of Hoo the second in Shepey Apuldore written in Saxon Records Apuldre that is the Town fruitful in Apples Ash from that kind of Tree Ashhurst a wood of Ashes Aylesford from the Ayl River so called after past Maidstone which imparteth its name to Aynesford originally written Anglesford The English mens Ford. Badelesemere that is in old Eng. the Circuite of Bad unfertile Pasture Badchild written in Saxon Bekenceld the chill or unhealthy water Bapchild in Saxon Beckchill the unhealthy chill water a small stream they called a Becks and Chill implieth cold and Aguish Berfreiston the Friers Court-Town Bereham derived from Bere a Court and Ham a Village Barming woody Pasture or rather Berme-Ing the moist pasture Berme importing moisture Becksbourne for distinction from the other Bornes taking its Name from the Family of Beke that held part sometime call'd Livingebourn from Arch-Bishop Livinus that built a Pallace here for himself and his Successors Beausfield from the fair open prospect which it hath to Sea and Land Bekenham from the Beke or small stream arising there Belsington The fair Prospect or rather the Town by the watry pasture from Eyle in Saxon importing watry Benenden from the Saxon word Binan within or two-fold The Parish hath several Dennes in it Bethersden written anciently Beatrixden that is Beatrix's Valley Betshanger originally Vitalshanger from one Vitalis owner of it near the conquest hanger because seated on the hanging hill Berested I find it near the Conquest to be of the possession of the Crevequers of Leeds and I might deduce it from Bury or Bere old English for the Lords Court or dwelling and then it fignifies the place where the Court is as Berewick is the way to the Court if you consider the Soil you may call it Barren Sted Bexley contracted from Bekesley Beke signifies a stream and Ley pasture Bicnor and Bicknore from Becn and Nor Becn signifies a sign or symboll and Nor the North from whence the Saxon word Beacnan to beckon or give some sign Becn signum seu symbolum Becnan signum dare Bidborough that is by the Borough of Tunbridge called Southborough the Saxon th being turned into d. Biddenden in old English Bithanden by the Denns for so is the situation of it in the weld of Kent Birchington The Town where the Birch grew Berling that is The Court lying on the Pasture Bishop borne the Borne belonging to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Blackmanstone written Bleachmanstone that is Man 's bleak Town Bobbing it is probable is deduced from an old Dutch word called Boban which signifies to extend or stretch it self out and Ing a Meadow Bocton that is the Town held by Book or Charter Boughton and Malherbe ill Pasturage Bocton that is Boughton Aloulph from Alulphus a Saxon owner of it Bonington the Town bounded with the Lawnds from the Saxon word Bonna importing the bound Borden from the Breed of wild Bores on the Chesnut hills thereby Burham the Ham by or in the Borough Burmarsh written anciently Burghmersh the Marsh by the Borough Borefield The Bores field Boughton Montchelsey from Montchensy the old Lord of Swanscomb was Lord of this place also Boxley that is the Pastures full of Box trees Brabourne from Bradebourne East and West the Broad Bourne Bradhurst that is the Broad Wood. Bradsted vel locus latus Bredgare the broad way Brenset from the brakish and brinish water Brooke from its being seated near some Brook Brookeland that is Land by the Brook or water Course Bromefield where the Fields are troubled with Broome Buckland that is Bockland Boc is a Book or Charter by which Land was granted Canterbury written Canterberig The Kentish-Men's Berg or Fortress Capell that is de Capello Chart-ham that is the Town held by Charter Great and Little Chart written anciently Cert which in Saxon signifies a Charter Chalk de Calce Challoke that is De Quercis Nudatis Charleton that is Ceorlton in Saxon The Grange or lusty Husband-mans Town from this Radix Churle cometh Charing written anciently Cering extracted from the Saxon word Cerran to turn there being divers wents and wandrings at this place Chellesfield The Chill and cold place Chepsted that is the Market place Locus nundinarius Cheriton that is from the growth of Cheries there Chevening from its lying under that great hill which runneth to Guldeford in Surrey which our Ancestors called Chevins Chidding stone in Sax. Ced-ingston that is the Town on the Brow of the Lawnd Ced in Saxon importing the Brow or Descent Or it is possible from Cedwine some
Sydley Baronet who now is entituled to the Right and Propriety of it Hastingleigh in the Hundred of Bircholt did anciently confesse the noble Family of Haut to be its Proprietaries and was in their Possession untill the beginning of Henry the fourth and then Edward Haut passed it away to Robert Poynings of Ostenhanger and in the Revenue of this Family was enwrapt untill the Decease of Sir Edward Poynings in the twelfth year of Henry the eighth and he dying without any Issue of his Body lawfully begotten and there being none that could justly entitle himself by Right of Blood or Alliance to his Possessions it devolved by Escheat to the Crown and K. Edward the sixth in the last year of his reign by Royal Concession invested the Right of this Mannor in the City of London and there it is still resident Hawkherst in the Hundred of Barnefield was granted by William the Conquerour to the Mannor of Wye which with all its Appendages was to hold of the Abby of Battle and remains though that Abby be supprest a Member or Limb of that Court to this Day Congerherst in this Parish was a Mansion that formerly gave Seat and Sirname to a Family so called and which in a Successive Series did relate to this Name untill Mildred Congerherst Sole Daughter and Heir of Thomas Congerherst matching with Thomas Scott made this the Propriety of that Family to which it is still united The Royalty and Rents of Haukherst upon the Suppression of the Abby of Battle were in the thirty third year of Henry the eighth granted to * He was likewise Privy-counsellor to those three Princes and one of the Executors of Henry the eighths Will. Sir John Baker Attorney Generall and Chancellor of the Exchequer to that Prince King Edward the sixth and Queen Mary but Differences and Clashings breaking out between the Descendant of Sir John Baker and the Heir of the Lord Hunsdon Lord of Wye touching claims to bury all future Animosities in Amity and mutual Compliance Sir Henry Baker in the seventeenth year of King James conveyed it to Henry Cary Lord Hunsdon now Earl of Dover who some years since passed it away to Sir Thomas Finch Father to Heneage Earl of Winchelsey now Lord of the Fee Haukherst had a Market anciently now shrunk into Disuse on the Tuesday and a yearly Fair three Days viz. the Vigil the Day of St. Lawrence and the Day subsequent to it both procured by the Abbot of Battle as the original patent instructs me in the fifth year of Edward the first Hawking in the Hundred of Folkstone contains two little Mannors within its Verge which must not be passed over in Silence The first is Bilchester which belonged to the Knights Templers but upon their Suppression in the second year of Edward the second it escheated to the Crown and remained there untill new provision was made by the Statute called Statutum de Terris Templariorum passed in the seventeenth year of the abovesaid Prince to enstate it on the Knights Hospitalers and make it part of their Revenue and accordingly was united to their Patrimony nor was any hand so bold as to tear it off untill the generall Suppression of this Order in the Raign of Henry the eighth did invest it in the Crown and that Prince in the thirty third year of his Reign granted it to Sir Anthony Aucher in Lease and he not long after assigned it to Thomas Sommersall by whom it was made over to Richard Simonds but the Fee-simple continued in the Crown untill the year 1648. The second is Fleggs Court which was folded up in that Demeasne which related to the Abby of St. Radigunds and upon the Suppression of that Cloister was exchanged by Henry the eighth in the twenty ninth year of his Reign for other Lands with Thomas Cranmer Arch-bishop of Canterbury and so remained free from violation untill these Times wrapt it up in the Demeasne of that See Hedcorne in the Hundred of Eyhorne containd within its Limits First Modenden vulgarly called Mottenden where was a Monastery for Monks of the Order of Crouched Friers and founded by Sir Ric. de Rokesley the Head of which Covent was called Minister and in the cloudy Times of Popery was much resorted unto by the enchanted Vulgar by reason of some special Priviledges they were endowed with as of granting of pardons and others of the like Nature all which met with their Sepulcher in the Ruine of this Abbey and that fatall and destructive Wound it received in its finall Dissolution from the Hand of Henry the eighth which Prince upon its escheating to the Crown granted it in the thirty sixth year of his Government to Sir Anthony Aucher And he in the second year of Edward the sixth passed it away to Sir Walter Henley by whose Daughter and Coheir it came to Thomas Colepeper of Bedgebury Esquire who in the sixth year of Edward the sixth conveyed it to Christopher Sackvill Esquire from which Family in our Grand-fathers Remembrance it came over by Sale to Franklin and his Successor George Franklin dying without Issue bequeathed it by Testament to his Kinsman Sir William Sydley whose Grand-child Sir Charles Sydley Baronet is intituled to the instant Fee-simple of it Kents Chauntry is a second Place of Account in Headcorne called so because here was a Chauntry founded by one John Kent in the sixth year of Edward the fourth and a large Demeasne settled upon it to support the Chauntry Priest that was to officiate there all which upon the suppression was in the two and thirtieth year of Henry the eighth granted to Sir Anthony St. Leger whose Son Sir Warham St. Leger about the Beginning of Queen Elizabeth passed it away by Sale to Beresford of Westernham from which Family in our Memory it went away to South-land and he very lately hath alienated it to Mr. ...... Belcher now Minister of Gods Word at Ulcombe Kelsham is a third Seat in this Parish which may challenge our Consideration because it was the Residence formerly though now transformed into a Farm-house of Gentlemen known by this Sirname who might have been ranged and marshalled amongst the prime Gentlemen of this County and bare for their Coat Armour Sable a Fesse engrailed Argent between three Garbes Or. One of them stood depicted in coloured Glasse in the Church windows with his Arms upon his Tabard but by the Assaults of Age and other wild and sacrilegious Impressions is now utterly defaced and demolished nor is the Family in any better condition that having many years since deserted the Possession of this Place for about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth it was conveyed to Johnson from whom very lately it is come over by Purchase to Stringer Rishford is a fourth Mannor circumscribed within the Bounds of Headcorne which in the twentieth year of Edward the third was possest by a Family called Pend who as it appears by the Book of Aid paid a respective supply for
it at making the Black Prince Knight And here is much Land in this Parish which bears the Name of Pend a probable Argument of the Antiquity of it in this Track nor did it yeild to Time or desert the Possession of this Place but was constant in the Tenure of it until that Age we call our Grand-fathers and then it was alienated to a Family called Dominie alias Fullaker the last of which Name at this Place was Christopher Dominie alias Fullaker who not many years since passed it away to Mr. John Hulks of Newenham whose Son and Heir Mr. Stephen Hulks does now possesse the Signory of it Herietsham in the Hundred of Eyhorne was anciently a Limb of that Estate which was entituled to the Possession of the Noble Family of Crescy Hugh de Crescy died seised of the Mannor in the forty seventh year of King Henry the third and his Grand-mother Margery was Daughter of William de Cheyney of Patricksbourne Cheyney as appears Claus 52. Henrici tertii Memb. 6. in Dorso But he deceased without Issue and so his Brother Stephen de Crescy became his Heir and Lord of Herietsham and in this Family it continued until the latter end of Edward the second and then the Possession of this Place went from Crescy into Northwood as is manifest by the Book of Aid where Roger de Northwood is represented to have held this Mannor and have paid a proportionate Aid for it at making the Black Prince Knight in the twentieth of Edward the third and he deceased seised of it in the thirty fifth year of that King's Raign And in this Name it remained fixed until the Beginning of Henry the fifth and then it was transplanted into the Interest of a Family called Adam who had large Possessions in Essex and bore for their Paternal Coat vert a Plain Crosse Or and John Adam held it at his Death which was in the ninteenth year of Henry the sixth and left it to his Son John Adam after whom I do not find any more of the Family possest of it for in the Raign of Edward the fourth I discover by some Court Rols that James Peckham of Yaldham Esquire was Lord of the Fee and Reginald Peckham his Son that was Sheriff of Kent in the last year of Henry the seventh kept his Shrivalty at Herietsham but after this it was of no long continuance in this Family for in the fifteenth year of Henry the eighth Reginald Peckham passes it away by Sale to Edward Scott Esquire and he not long after transmits it by the same conveyance to John Hales one of the Barons of the Exchequer and from him one Moiety of it went away by Sale in the twenty eighth of Henry the eighth to John Norton Esquire and the other not long after to Sir Anthony St. Leger Norton conveyed his proportion to Ashburnham of Sussex and both St. Leger and Ashburnham in the Time almost of our Fathers Remembrance by a concurrent Sale demised their joint Right in it to Sir John Steed whose Successor Doctour ...... Steed Doctour of the Civil Law is the instant Proprietary of Herietsham East Farbon and Bentley are two little Mannors in this Parish which belonged to the Priory of Leeds and upon the suppression were made parcel of the Revenue of the Crown and remained there until King Edward the sixth in the fourth year of his Raign granted them to Sir Anthony St. Leger whose great Grand-child Sir Warham St. Leger about the Beginning of King James passed them away to Mr. ........ Steed Father to Doctour Steed who upon the Decease of his Nephew Cromer Steed without Issue Male as Reversioner in Entail is now settled in the Possession of these two Mannors West Farbon sometimes in old Deeds called little Herietsham lies likewise in this Parish and was granted in the two and fiftieth year of Henry the third to William de Valentia Earl of Pembrooke But after him I track no more of the Family at this place For in the twentieth year of Edward the third at making the Black Prince Knight it was held by John Pennington and in the fourth year of Henry the fourth when Blanch that Prince's Daughter was married it acknowledged it self to be under the Signory of the above mentioned Family and continued divers years after united to their Interest But in the Raign of Henry the eighth I find them quite vanished from the Possession and a Family called Hede or Head entituled to the Inheritance and in this Name did it make its abode until the Raign of Edward the sixth and then it was conveyed by Sale to St. Leger where it rested until the Beginning of King James and then it was alienated by Sir Warham St. Leger to Mr. Benedict Barneham who left four Daughters and Co-heirs matched to Audley Constable Doble and Soame who equally shared his Estate and this upon the distinguishing of it into just Proportions augmented the Revenue of Constable Harbilton is another ancient Mannor in Herietsham It was in the twentieth year of Edward the third the Inheritance of Thomas de Malmains for at that Time as appears by the Book of Aid he paid a subsidiary supply for this and other Lands at making the Black Prince Knight After this Family was mouldred away which was before the End of Richard the second I find the Family of Maris was settled in the Inheritance William Maris who was Esquire first to Henry the fifth and after to Cardinal Kempe was Possessor of it and so was his Son William Maris Esquire who was Sheriff of Kent in the one and twentieth year of Henry the sixth After this Family I find the Moils about the latter end of the former Prince's Government to have stept into the Inheritance the first of which was Walter Moile who was Justice of the Peace for this County in the Raign both of Henry the sixth and Edward the fourth and left this and a spatious Patrimony besides to his Heir John Moile Esquire whose Son Robert Moile about the Beginning of Henry the eighth alienated it to Geffrey St. Leger Esquire from whom the Title for many years streamed into this Family until in that Time which fell under our Grand-fathers cognizance it was passed away by Sale to Steed Ancestor to Doctour Steed who is the instant Possessor of it Marley and Hopme Mill and in other Copies written Holme Hill did with their Income support the Chaunter of the Canons of Pauls to whose office they were annexed A Place certainly in elder Times of important Account for in the Records of Christ-church from whence Pitseus hath collected his Inventory of the English Writers there is mention of one Joannes de Teneth a Man as exemplary for his Piety as he was eminent for his Learning who was Chaunter to that Covent but this Office being entombed in the Ruines of those Canons of Paul in the General suppression the Revenue which upheld it was fixed in the Crown until King Edward the sixth