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A54665	Villare cantianum, or, Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the parishes, burroughs, villages and other respective mannors included in the county of Kent : and the original and intermedial possessors of them ... / by Thomas Philipott ... : to which is added an historical catalogue of the high-sheriffs of Kent, collected by John Phillipot, Esq., father to the authour.	Philipot, John, 1589?-1645.; Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1989; ESTC R35386	623,091	417

her Brother is now entered upon it Brabourne is the second place of Account The first whom I find possest it was Baldwin de Betun Earl of Albemarle Falcatius de Brent who so vigorously asserted the Cause and Quarrel of King John against his Barons and afterwards merited very much of his Son Henry the third at the Battle of Lincolne where a considerable part of those Forces which Lewis the Dolphin of France had transported into England to support the Confederacie of the Seditious Barons was dissipated and discomfited But afterwards all National Animosities being charmed into Slumber by a general Peace he desiring still to improve the Flame of War since from that he expected both Heat and Light seised on the Castle of Bedford which was not wrung from him without the Expence of much Blood and Treasure to expiate which Crime his Estate here and else where was in the fifth year of Henry the third forfeited to the Crown as being the Price of so great an Insolence And then the abovesaid Monarch granted it wholly to Baldwin de Betun Earl of Albemarle and Hawis his Daughter and Co-heir brought it to her Husband William Mareschall Earl of Pembroke but Gilbert Mareschall this mans Successor dying without Issue Roger de Bigod Earl of Norfolk in Right of Mawde his Mother who was his Sister and Heir entered upon it and he in the eleventh year of Edward the first gives it to Otho Lord Grandison After this Family was worn out I find by an ancient Court-roll one Walter de Pevenley or Pemley possest of it in the reign of Edward the third and he it is possible erected the House which in old Deeds is written Pevenley or Pemley-court But before the beginning of Henry the sixth this Family was extinguished and gone and then the Ashe's were the succeeding Proprietaries a Family which before were Lords of much Land in this Track and in ancient Deeds were written de Fraxino from their Habitation near some place planted with those Trees and it is probable derived their Descent from Thomas de Esse who was one of the Recognitores Magnae Assisae in the fourth year of King John as appears by the Pipe-rols of that Time and certainly to this Name did a considerable part of the Fabrick of the House owe its first Original as appears by the Coat in divers of the Windows videlicet Azure three Cheverons Argent In fine after this Seat and Mannor had for many years been resident in this Family it was about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth alienated to Sir ...... Boswell whose Grand-child dying without Issue his Sister the Lady Margaret Boswell is now become the Heir General of this place Rumpsted and in very old Evidences written Rumpshot was the Inheritance of a Family which was known by that Sirname It is superfluous to inform the World how many by old Deeds are represented to have been possessors of this place amongst whom Sir William de Rumpsted is most eminent who flourished here in the reign of Edward the third and as the constant and successive Tradition of the Inhabitants of this Parish is was Foster-father to William de Sevenoke who was found a desolate and forlorn Orphan in the hollow Body of an Oake and received both Reception and Education from the Charity and Benevolence of the above-mentioned Person In whose Lineage the propriety of this place did not long after settle for by an old Court-roll I find it in the reign of Henry the sixth in the Tenure of Nisell but this Family not long after determining in a Female Heir she by matching with Bere brought it to acknowledge it self to be of the Interest of this Family but staid not long in the Name for about the beginning of Henry the eighth it was made by purchase the possession of Peckham from whom not many years after by the same fatality it went away to Bedell Nicholas Bedell in the third and fourth of Philip and Mary demised it to John Stacy of Hollenden and John Stacy in the fourth and fifth of Philip and Mary conveyes it to Richard Lone and his Successor Mr. Richard Lone hath very lately by Sale transmitted his Interest here to Thomas Lambert formerly of West-Combe in Greenwich Esquire Knoll is the last place of Account in Sevenoke It had in Times of elder Inscription the same Owners with Brabourne and Seale not far distant as namely Falcatius de brent Baldwin de Betun Earl of Albemarle William Mareschall Earl of Pembroke and Roger de Bigod Earl of Norfolk who in the eleventh year of Edward the first granted it with Seale and much other Land which devolved to him in Right of Mawde his Mother who was Sister and Heir to her Brother Gilbert le Mareschall Earl of Pembroke to Otho de Grandison and in his Descendants did it continue until the beginning of Richard the second and then it was conveyed by Sir Thomas Grandison to Geffrey de Say yet I do not find that the possession of this place was entirely planted in Grandison for an Inquisition taken after the Death of Reginald de Cobham in the thirty fifth year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 62. Parte primâ represents him to have had some share or concernment in it yet how ever it were thus broken into parcels the Inheritance of this Mannor was wholly after this placed in Geffrey de Say as appears by some Court-rols which commence from the reign of Richard the second but he determining in Daughters and Co-heirs Joan one of them upon the Division of his Estate brought this as an Addition to the Patrimony of her Husband Sir William Fiennes and in this Family when the possession had had a Respite until the reign of Edward the fourth it was by Sir William Fiennes passed away by Sale to Thomas Bourchier Arch-bishop of Canterbury who added much of Pompe and Magnificence by a new Supplement or Superstructure to the ancient Pile or Fabrick and dying bequeathed it to the See of Canterbury as a convenient Pallace for his Successors but when William Warham Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the reign of Henry the eighth saw that the Grandeur of this Mansion was looked upon both with an Eye of Emulation and Envy by the Laity of those Times he to allay that Murmure and Regret in the twelfth year of the abovesaid Prince exchanged it with the Crown and here it rested until Edward the sixth in the second year of his reign granted it to Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset Protector of the Realm in the Minority of that Prince Who being convicted of Felony in the fourth year of that King it escheated back to the Crown and then it was in that year by a new Grant setled on John Dudley Duke of Northumberland but he being intoxicated with the Fumes of Ambition broke out into such treasonable and seditious practises against the Right and Title of Queen Mary that they could not be explated but with the Losse of his

seventeenth year of Edward the second as appears Rot. Esc Num. 75. And leaving no lawfull Issue this upon the partition of his Estate increased the Revenue of John Comin Earl of Badzenoth in Scotland who had married Joan one of his two Sisters and Coheirs But long it remained not here for he deceased without any Issue-male so that Joan his sole Daughter matched to David de Strabolgie Earl of Atholl became his Heir and he in her Right was found to be invested in the Possession in the first year of Edw. the third as is manifest Rot. Esc Num. 85. And from him did it devolve by Descent to his Son and Heir David de Strabolgie who in the seventh year of Edward the third by Deed setled it on his Kinsman Sir Henry de Hills which Katharine his Widow and Countesse confirms the twentieth year of that Prince Gilbert de Hills lieth buryed in Godmersham Church and as appears by his Pourtraicture in his Armour was a person of Eminence in that Age wherein he flourished and from him and Sir Henry de Hills did issue forth many eminent and worthy Successors who were Proprietaries of this Mannor untill that Age which fell within the Precincts of our Crandfathers Memory and then it went away by Sale to Scot a Cadet or younger Sprig of the Scotts of Scotts-Hall the Heir General of which Family was Mrs. Dorothy Scott who being lately matched to Mr. Daniell Gotherson he in her Right is now though not without a signal Contention at Law with some collateral Pretenders to the Title peaceably planted in the Possession of it Godmersham as the Records of Christ-church inform mee had the Grant of a Market to be observed weekly on the Tuesday and a Fair yearly upon the Thursday and Friday in Whitson Week by the Prior of Christ-church in the Reign of Edward the third Goudherst in the Hundred of Marden with the inherent Mannor of Bedgebury were the ancient Patrimony of a Family of no cheap Account in this Track which as it chose one of these Mannors for its Seat so did it derive its Sirname from thence likewise and was called Bedgbury and certainly were of a very high Ascent in their Extraction For in a Deed without Date one John de Bedgebury demises some parcels of Land to William de Comden of Comden House in this Parish and the Seal affixed to this Deed is a Cavalier on Horseback armed like one of the Knights Templers which argues that he lived before the Suppression of that Order and assumed that Impresse out of his particular Affection to them or else which was customary in those Times out of some signall and solemn vow to maintain the Temple of our Saviour from the Assaults and barbarous Impressions of Infidels which these persons were by their Oath and first Institution oblieged vigorously to defend also John de Bedgebury this man's Successor paid respective Aid for his Lands at Goudherst and likewise for his Mannor of Bedgebury at making the Black Prince Knight in the twentieth year of Edward the third and left these above recited Mannors to his Son John de Bedgebury who dying without Issue his Sister became his Sole Inheritrix who by matching with Thomas Colepeper of Bayhall in Pepenbury Sheriff of Kent in the eighteenth year of Richard the second fastned the Propriety of these places to the Interest of this Family where they continued undivided but in the thirty eighth year of Henry the eighth Court Shingley was by Thomas Colepeper alienated to Stephen Darell but Goudherst and Bedgebury were not plucked away from this Family by this Alienation but continued united to their Estate so that at this Day they own Thomas Colepeper Esquire for their Proprietary Combwell was a Priory of Black Canons under the Rule of St. Augustin and was founded by Sir Robert de Thurnham and dedicated to the Honor of St. Mary Magdalen Their Revenue lay scattered in Marden Stapleherst and Goudherst in which last there was an obscure Cell or Convent of Nuns which had their principal Subsistence by their Charity whose Ruines are yet visible though their Revenue was so narrow that no Record informs us where it was situated Upon the Dissolution in the Reign of Henry the eighth this devolving to the Crown that Prince in the thirty fourth year of his Government granted it to Sir John Gage one of the Justices of the Peace both for Sussex and Kent and his Successor conveyed it to Colepeper who immediately after passed it away to William Campion Esquire Ancestor to Sir William Campion who was offered up a Sacrifice to the Cause and Quarrel of the last King at Colchester in the year one thousand fix hundred forty eight and in his Heirs is the Interest of this Mannor at this instant resident Finchcocks is a third place of note in this Parish made more eminent in that it was the Mansion of a Family of that Sirname whom although I find invested in the Possession of this place ever since the fortieth year of Henry the third yet do I not discover that any of the Family was illustrious by any important undertaking or famous by any eminent Office The next Family which stept into the Possession was Horden of Horden and he became Proprietary of it by Purchase about the Beginning of Henry the sixth one of which Family was Edward Horden Esquire who was Knight of the Greencloth to Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth who dyed without Issue-male and left his Estate to be shared between two Daughters and Coheirs Elizabeth matched to Mr. Paul Bathurst descended from Bathurst Street in Nordiam and Mary espoused to Mr. Delves of Fletchings who in her Right carried away Horden where certainly the above-recited Family had flourished under a noble Estimate for Edward Horden the last of this Name was issued out from William Chichley second Brother to Henry Chichley Arch-bishop of Canterbury and for some considerable Service performed to the Crown had the Augmentation of a Regal Diadem upon a Canton added to his paternal Coat by Queen Elizabeth But to proceed Finchcocks by the above-mentioned match devolved to be the Possession of Bathurst and so owns it self at this Day to be the Estate of this Name and Family Patenden is another place which gave Seat and Sirname to a Family of no vulgar Repute in this County and was seated in its Possession as appears by original Deeds and other old Records as high as the Reign of Edward the first and where in the twenty ninth year of Henry the sixth there was issued out a Commission to Gervas Clifton Esquire then Sheriff of the County to return all those who did portare Arma antiqua Amongst the Register and Catalogue of those who were then returned Patenden is recorded who was Lord of this place and from him did the Propriety of this place by Descent glide down to his Successor who in those Times we style our Fathers passed it away by Sale

and desired the people to express their Joy because on that Day by the efficacious prayers of the Church Richard the first formerly King of England and many others were ransomed from the Flame and Torment of Purgatory In Sedingbourn Church there was a Monument of Sir Richard Lovelace inlayed richly with Brasse who was an eminent Souldier in his Time and Marshal of Calais under Henry the eighth with his Pourtraiture affixed in Brass which the Injuries of Time and the Impiety of Sacrilegious Mechanicks have utterly dismantled and defaced Selling in the Hundred of Boughton did in Ages of the highest Discovery acknowledge the Signory of the Putots and William de Putot was in Possession of it at his Death which happened in the thirteenth year of Henry the third After the Putots the Lords Badelesmer were invested in the possession Guncelin de Badelesmer was possest of it in the twenty ninth year of Edward the first Rot. Esc Num. 50. and left it with a spatious Inheritance to his Son Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer who having involved himself in a ruinous Combination with some others of the mutinous Nobility against Edward the second lost both his Life and Estate in that unsuccesful Defection but this Mannor was restored to his Son in the second year of King Edward the third and was known by the Name of Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer but did not long enjoy his new acquired Inheritance for in the twelfth year of the above-mentioned Prince he died without Issue and left his Estate to be shared between four Sisters and Co-heirs whereof Margaret the eldest was espoused to Sir John Tiptoft and he in her Right entered upon the possession of this place and died possest of it in the thirty third year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 39. from whom the Title came down to John Tiptoft created Earl of Worcester in the year 1450. and invested afterwards with the Office and Dignity of Lord Treasurer and Lord Constable of England but asserting too eagerly the Cause and Quarrel of the House of Yorke he was crushed and overwhelmed with that weight with which the Partisans of the Lancastrian Faction did endevour to sink and oppresse the Supporters of that Family and was offered up a Victime to the successful Fury of Richard Earl of Warwick who being an Apostate of the House of Yorke was the principal Engine upon whom the Designs and Interess of the Lancastrian Party then moved Upon the untimely Death and attaint of this Earl which was in the year 1570. this Mannor was annexed to the Revenue of the Crown and though Edward Tiptoft this mans Son was the next year after his Fathers unhappy Exit restored by Edward the fourth both in Blood and Dignity yet I do not discover any Restitution made of Selling so that it rested in the Crown until Edward the sixth in the fourth year of his reign granted it to Sir Anthony St. Leger who immediatly after passed it away to Sir Anthony Sonds of Throuley one of the Justices of the Peace of this County and Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to this Prince and his Father Henry the eighth from whom it is now come down by Paternal efflux of the Title to Sir George Sonds Knight of the Bath who is entituled to the present possession of it Oven-court in this Parish anciently gave both Seat and Sirname to a Family which was known by that Denomination but whether they were extracted from the Owens of Wales and contracted this Name of Oven by vulgar Acceptation no Record does manifest certain it is they were as appears by old Rentals and other Muniments possessors of this place as high as the reign of Henry the third The next Family which after this was worn out did step into the possession was Drilond of Cookes-ditch in Feversham a Name of generous Extraction for in the reign of Edward the third John the Son of Stephen de Drilond demises some Land at Crouchfeild in Feversham by a Deed bearing Date from the twenty fifth year of that Prince to William de Makenade and in that Instrument he writes himself Knight After Drilond was extinguished which was about the beginning of Edward the fourth the Foggs became Proprietaries of it and remained for divers years Lords of the Fee until at last the alternate Devolution of Purchase brought it to be the Inheritance of Crouch where it did not long fix for in the year 1588. Giles Crouch alienated it to Michael Sonds Esquire afterwards Knighted from which Family in our Fathers Memory it was conveyed by Sale to Franklin from whom the same Devolution hath brought it now to Lambe who holds the instant Signory of it Before I passe from Selling I must inform the Reader that the greatest Honour which this Town acquired was that it was the Cradle of William Selling bred up amongst the Monks of Christ-church who obtained Licence from the Chapter of that Covent to travel into Italy and prosecute his Studies at Bononia where he arrived to that perfection of Knowledge that he was advanced to be Prior of Christ-church and was after sent by Henry the seventh in whose Eyes his Worth was very visible as his Embassador to the Pope Those incomparable Books which were placed in the Library which related to the Covent by his Care and Munificence amongst which was Tullies invaluable Tractate de Republica not long after his Death by an Accidental Fire found an unhappy Sepulchre in their own Ashes He died as full of Fame as of Years in the year of Grace 1494. And hath his Epitaph registred by the industrious Pen of Mr. Somner in his Survey of Canterbury Smerden in the Hundreds of Calchill Blackborne and Barckley did Anciently relate to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and was part of that Revenue which did keep up the Grandeur and Magnificence of that Sea rescuing it from all cheapness and contempt which induced John then Arch-bishop of Canterbury this being so eminent a part of the Spiritual Patrimony to obtain a Grant of a Market to be observed here weekly on the Monday as appears Pat. 6. Edwardi tertii Num. 47. But the principal place which was alwayes of secular Interess within this Parish is Romden which was the Patrimony of an Ancient Family called Hengherst and in more modern Times Henherst who were entituled to large Demeasnes at Woodchurch Stapleherst Yalding and other places in this County but made no long aboad here at Romden for William Son of Osbert de Hengherst so he cals himself in his Deed without Date demised it to John de Calch and in this Family it continued until the latter end of Richard the second and who after Calch succeeded in the Inheritance because I can collect no farther Knowledge from original Evidences I confess I am ignorant so that I am forced to leap over divers Kings reigns into that of King Henry the eighth and then in the twenty fourth year of that Prince I find that John the Son of Stephen

him off cartied with it so deformed an Aspect in those times which were wholly consecrated and offered up to a superstitious Adoration of his memory and contracted so black a Character on those who were interessed in his extra-judicial ruine that Randal Fitz-Vrse fled into Ireland and there altered his Name to Mac-Mahon which in Irish imports as much as the Son of the Bear upon his recess Robert de Barham his Kinsman entred on his Estate here at Terstan and from him did it descend by paternal Devolution to his great Grand-child John de Berham who was by Henry prior of Christ-Church created publick Notary of the Diocess of Canterbury in the year 1309 an Office of as much Eminence as it was of Trust and Concernment and which the abovesaid Henry received by Commission to invest any with whom he should discover to be fortified with Abilities proportionate to so illustrious an employment from Bassianus de Alliate Count Palatine of Millaine and he again was impowered and commissionated to grant it to any whom he should judge meet to receive it by Authority delegated and transmitted to him originally from the Emperour and it is probable that it was the above mentioned John de Berham or his Son who paid an Auxiliarie supply for his Lands at Terstan as appears by the Book of Aid at the making the Black Prince Knight in the twentieth year of Edward the third and in that Roll kept in the Exchequer wherein there is mention of all those of this County who paid respective Aid in the fourth year of Henry the fourth at the Marriage of Blanch that Monarch's Daughter there is a Recital of Nicholas Berham who contributed a supply for his Lands at Terston and from him by an un-interrupted Line of succession was the Title of this place conducted down to Thomas Berham Esquire who determined in a Daughter and Heir called Anne Berham who by her intermarriage with Sir Oliver Boteler descended from an ancient Family of that Name in the County of Bedford made this Seat which had been so many centuries of years in the Tenure of this Family alter its Proprietary and become the Patrimony of another Name Sir Oliver Boteler had Issue Sir William Boteler Knight and Baronet who fell a Sacrifice to the late King's Quarrel whilst he vigorously asserted his Cause and Interest at Cropredy Bridge but left Issue the instant Proprietary Sir Oliver Boteler Baronet whose Ancestors in Bedford hire were descended from Thomas Pincerna who flourished in the reign of King John and did Seal with a Covered Cup with this Inscription as appears by the old Deeds of this Family encircling the Seal Sigillum Thomae Pincernae and it is possible was chief Butler to the abovesaid Prince from which eminent Office of his his Successors assumed the Sirname of Boteler Tenham contributes and affords a Name to that Hundred where it is placed but is of more Eminence and repute since it was given to Christ-Church in Canterbury at the Intreaty of Athelard by Cenulfe K. of the Mercians by the Estimate of twelve Plough-Lands for the like Proportion of Land in Ballance to the exchange in Creges Emeline that is the Isse of Elmely by Crogdepe that is the water which parts the Royaltie of Swale between Tenham and Feversham And in the Patrimony of the Church did it lie wrapt up till the suppression of all Frieries Abbies and other Religious Convents by Henry the eighth and then Thomas Cranmer finding that the spreading Demeasn of the Church was in danger to be torn off by the tallons of Avarice and Rapine he to mortifie the growing Appetite of Sacrilegious Cormorants in the first of December and in the twenty ninth year of that Prince's Government exchanged it with the Crown and thenceforth it was accounted a Limb of the Royal Revenue until King James by grant invested Sir Iohn Roper in it and presently after created him Baron Roper of Tenham in Gratitude it seems for that Service he performed in being the first who openly proclaimed him King in the County of Kent and by successive Derivation from him does his great Grand-child Christopher now Lord Roper of Tenham not onely possess the Dignitie but the Royaltie of this Mannor likewise There is another Seat in this Parish called Frogenhall which in elder Times had the repute of a Mannor though since by Disuse that Character is almost shrunk away from it That it was a Mansion of the Frogenhals is most evident for Richard Frogenhall was seised of it at his Death which was in the thirty third year of Edward the third and Thomas Frogenhall was his Son and Heir who resigned up his Interest in it with Anne his Daughter and Heir to Thomas Quadring and not long after by the same Mutation was the Interest of it by this man with his Daughter and Heir Joan Quadring given up to Richard Dryland Esquire who likewise not many years after going out in a Daughter and Heir called Katharine she by being wedded to Reginald Norton Esquire by that Conjugal Union knit Frogenhall to the Interest of that Family where after it had been some Ages fixt it was by purchase brought to be the Inheritance of Greene who upon what Exigent or Occasion I know not in the Conveyance is called Greene alias Norton but in this Name it made no permanent Residence for even in our Memory from Greene by Sale the Title and Right of it was translated into Clerke Tenham had the Grant of a Market procured to it on the Tuesday and a Fair to continue yearly three dayes at the Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Boniface Arch-bishop of Canterbury as appears Pat. 44. Henrici tertii Memb. 37. Tenterden in the Hundred of Tenterden had its denomination as some vulgar Phansies conjecture from the tenderness of the Soile adjacent to it but indeed it was in elder and more true Orthography written Theinwarden that is the Thanes or Theins Ward or Guard in the Valley for it was very probable it was subservient to that Signory or Dominion which the Governour of Andredswaldt so called by the Saxons but Anderida by the Romans did exercise and pretend to in this Track of the County Now if you will question where this Castle of Anderida or Andredswaldt was placed I answer it was upon Reding-hill not far removed from this place a Fortress in those Times of eminent Value and Reputation though since by the multiplied Onsets of Time upon it it lies forgotten in its own neglected Ruines yet though this be languished away both in Fame and Fabrick Tenterden has sundry Seats in it which may make it eminent enough First Heronden resigns it self up to an Inquisition though now it be scattered into severall parcels yet anciently it was collected as into one Name so into one possession likewise and the ancient Ordinaries in the Heralds Office do assign a Coat to this Name something proportionate to it that is an Heron rising upon its

it was by a Revolution of the same Nature and Semblance transplanted into Sonds from which purchase Sir George So●●s Knight of the Bath now derives his Right and Inheritance in the Mannor and Signory of Town-place VVilderton in Throuley was eminent formerly for being marshalled under the Revenue of Giles Lord Badelesmer Father to Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer who by his opposing of Edward the second at Leeds Castle forseited this and his Life together to the offended Justice of that Prince but when his Sons Barth and Giles Lord Badelesmer were by Edward the third restored to their former Dignity and likewise to a principal part of his Estate this was folded up in that Restitution for when these above-mentioned Brothers deceased without any lawfull Issue their Sisters were found to be their Coheirs and Margery one of them being married to William Lord Rosse brought this to a piece of his Revenue from whom by Sale it went into the possession of Lewknor of Bodshead in Challock And when this Family was devested of it the Inheritance was by purchase setled in Evering descended from the Everings of Everings-court in Alkham by Dover where after it had some years found a continued Residence the Name and Title dissolved together for Edward Evering left only Mary Evering his Sole Heir who matching with John Upton Gentleman that Alliance fixed Wilderton in the Possession of that Name and part of it was in some years subsequent to this Match sold away to Arnold Terrey of this Parish but the Residue is yet constant to the Interess of Mr. Vpton of Feversham a person in whom the Scholler and Gentleman are so evenly mixt as to a Composition of Perfection that it is yet a Question which of them is the most predominant There was a religious House in Throuley which was a Cell to St. Bertins at St. Omer in Flanders but when Henry the fifth perceived the ill Consequences of having Fraternities and other religious Cells and Covents in this Nation which had in a manner their dependances upon other States contrary peradventure in Interess and Affection to this he suppressed this and many other of the like Condition and out of their Ruines and Revenue he erected the magnificent Monastery at Shene whose first Foundation entitles it self to his Piety and Munificence Thurnham in the Hundred of Eyhorne was the Patrimony of an ancient and Knightly Family of that Sirname made more eminent by the production of Sir Robert de Thurnham a person of considerable Account in the reign of Richard the first which Prince he accompanied to the holy War having before his designing himself to that Quarrel disposed his Estate to pious Uses whereof this at Thurnham was setled on the Colledge of Lingfield in Surrey and having thus disroabed himself of his secular Inheritance he with much Vigor and Alacritie assumed the Crusado or Vow to rescue the Sepulcher of our Saviour out of the possession of Infidels which resolution he so nobly prosecuted that he offered up his Life as an Oblation to the Justice of that cause which he had before so generously asserted After his Decease this remained cloistered up in the patrimony of the Colledge of Lingfield untill the general suppression and then growing parcel of the royal Revenue it lay there until King Edward the sixth granted it to Sir Edward Wotton whose Anceftor Sir Nicholas Wotton was invested long before in some part of this Mannor which did acrue to him in the reign of Henry the fourth by Joan Sole Heir of Robert Corbie and from this Sir Edward above mentioned was it entirely transmitted to his great Grand-child Thomas Lord Wotton who having setled it in Marriage on his eldest Daughter Katherin Wotton matched to Henry Lord Stanhop she by Sale hath lately given up her right to Mr. ..... Godden of London Binbery is an eminent Mannor in this Parish which as high as the Testimony of any either publick or private Evidences can instruct me did own the Signory of Northwood Roger de Northwood held it at his Death which was in the thirty fifth year of Edward the third and so did his Successor Roger Northwood in the last year of Henry the fifth But after this I do not find it long constant to the Interest of this Family for about the beginning of Henry the sixth I find by some ancient Court-rolls that it was passed away to Iohn Thwaits and he in the eighth year of that Prince conveyed his right in it to William Gascoigne in which Family the Title continued until the beginning of Edward the fourth and then it was transplanted by Sale into Cut or Cuts and in this Name the Interest of this place was constantly lodged until the beginning of King James and then it was demised to Sir Samuel Lennard of West-Wickham whose Son Sir Stephen Lennard is at this instant by paternal Right invested in the possession of it There was a Dysastrous Accident happen'd here at Binbery and it was this as the Tragedy is represented to us out of the old Evidences of the Lord Wotton The Lady Northwood in the Time of Edward the third standing on the precipice or hanger of a Hill to see a Fox digged out which had earthed himself there the Foundation being loose and Sandy sunk under her and the hanging Hill shot down so much earth upon her that she was stifled to Death with the unequal pressure e're they could disengage her from that weight which crushed her into this early Ruine Upon the Brow of the Hill not far removed from this place are the Ruines of an ancient Fortress called Godward Castle which Mr. Darell in his Tract De Costellis Cantii conjectures might borrow its Name from Godar dus a Saxou whereas it is more probable it did extract its etymology from the goodness and eminence of its situation as those Intrenchments at Stowting derive their Denomination from their tenable force and fortitude and certainly this is adequate to reason and its own elevated position it being so setled that it did not onely secure the way which led from the Roman Colony at Newington by Rainham but it is possible was a speculatory station much in use amongst the Romans to survey the Approaches of enemies in the Valley below Aldington Septuans in Thurnhem was the Cradle of an ancient Family of that Sirname * Ex Rot. penes Ed. Dering Mil. Baronettum defunctum Robert de Septuans is inserted in the Register of those noted Kentish persons who were engaged with Richard the first at the Siege of Acon * See Rot. Pipe de Scutagio Wallia Rob. de Septuans his Son was embarqued with Henry the third in his expedition against the Welch in the forty second year of his Reign Sir Rob. de Septuans was his Son and Heir who was honoured with that Dignity by Edward the first for his exemplary Service performed at the Siege of Carlaverock in the twenty eighth year of that Prince and he