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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

together by an uninterrupted Link of Descent brought down to the days of Henry the eighth and then I find by a Roll of the Nethersolls in the Hands of Mr. Nethersoll of Canterbury not long since deceased that it was the Inheritance of one John Nethersoll Esquire one that retained to the Court of Henry the eighth and a person whom that Prince did by especial Indulgence license even in his presence for some distemper in his Head occasioned by some accidental Circumstances indutum esse Pileo to be covered with a Cap which certainly both in elder and modern times was a symptome either of Honour or Liberty For the snatching off the Cap or Pileus of Tarquinius Priscus by an Eagle and the placing it on his Head again was by the Augurs interpreted as a presage of his future possessing the Roman Diadem When slaves received their manumission they were said to be ad Pileum vocati their liberty was demonstrated to be compleated by putting on a Cap. The Gladiators anciently for their magnanimity or personal Courage exprest in mutual Conflicts between themselves in publick Theaters were rewarded as a Guerdon of their Victory vel Palmâ Rude seu Pilo The Lacones being made free Denisons of Sparta more to exemplifie their atchieved Liberty never went into the Field against the Common Enemy but Pileati Amongst the Africans the placing of the Pileus or Cap upon the top of a Spear was a tacit citation or summons to Liberty and an Intimation to shake off the Fetters of Tyranny Erasmus in his Chiliads calls the Cap spectatae virtutis Insigne and from this he conjectures that the putting on of Caps on the Heads of Judges Doctors and Masters of Art when they were invested with the above mentioned Degrees derived its first Original which custome is still in Force in our publick Comitia or Commencements at the two Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and likewise in our Courts of Judicature at the Creation or Investiture of Serjeants at Law But to return into that Track from whence this Discourse hath made me straggle As the Seat was anciently folded up in the Revenue of Nethersoll so it is still mauger all the vicissitudes of Chance wrapped up in that Propriety which relates to the Descendants of this Name and Family Wingham gives Name to the whole Hundred where it is placed and was in elder Times one of those eminent Mannors which augmented the Revenue of the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and being by an unjust Detention ravished away it was by the indulgent Piety of K. Edmund restored in the year 941. If you will see how it was rated in the Time of the Conquerour Dooms-day Book will give you this Prospect of it Wingham says that Record est Manerium Archiep. T. E. R. defendebat se pro XL Sullings nunc pro XXX valet C lb. I find nothing memorable of this Mannor after this but that it was enchanged in the twenty ninth year of Henry the eighth by Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for other Lands with the Crown and continued with the Royal Demeasn until the middle of K. James and then it was conveyed by Sale to the City of London which City not many years since passed it away to the instant Owner Sir William Couper Knight and Baronet Wingham had the Grant of a Market procured to it in the seventh year of Henry the third by the mediation of Stephen Langton Arch-Bishop of Canterbury The Colledge of Wingham was founded by John de Peckham Arch-Bishop of Canterbury in the year 1278 to be a Colledge or Seminary of Secular Priests the Head of which Fraternity was called Praepositus This upon the suppression being with its whole Revenue invested in the Crown K. Henry the eighth granted the Colledge to Sir Henry Palmer descended from an ancient Family of that Sirname in Sussex Ancestor to Sir Henry Palmer Baronet now proprietary of it Wenderton is an ancient Seat in this Parish eminent for its excellent Air Situation and prospect which for many hundreds of years had owners of that Sirname one of whom called John Wenderton is famous in Fox's Martyrologie for the pennance imposed upon him by William Courtney Arch-Bishop of Canterbury at his Castle of Saltwood in the year 1390 for being refractory in the Discharge of some Services which were due to his Mannor of Wingham The last of this Name which enjoyed this Seat was John Wenderton who in the first year of Henry the eighth passed it away to William Warham Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and he upon his Decease which was about the year 1533 gave it to his Brother Hugh Warham and his Successor Hugh Warham about the beginning of K. James transplanted his right in it by Sale into William Manwood Esquire and he about the beginning of K. Charles conveyed it to Vincent Denne Gentleman who left it to his Nephew Mr. Thomas Denne of Grays Inne who dying without Issue settled it by Will on his Brother John Denne of the Inner Temple Esquire who likewise deceased without Issue and bequeathed it to his four Maiden Sisters Roger Lukyn Gentleman who matched with one of them purchased the Remainder of the other three and so is become now sole Proprietary of it Twitham in this Parish gave Seat and Sirname to an eminent Family in this Track Alan de Twitham is recorded in the Register of those remarkable Kentish Gentlemen who supported the Cause and Quarrel of Richard the first at the Seige of Acon and having continued many Descents Possessors of this Mannor the Name at last determined in a Female Heir called Isabel who by matching with Richard Oxenden united Twitham to the Demeasn of that Family where the Title hath ever since made so constant and uninterrupted an abode that it is still the Inheritance of Mr. Henry Oxenden of Brook place Brook place is the last place of estimate in this Parish which in elder Times was wrapped up in the Inheritance of Wenderton and having continued many Descents interlinked with this Family the Name and Title found one Sepulcher together for Jane Wenderton the Heir General of the Family by matching with Richard Oxenden Gentleman fixed it in his Inheritance and he much enhaunsed this ancient Seat with Additional Improvements and from him the Right of Descent hath now made it the Patrimony of Mr. Henry Oxenden Whitstaple gives Name to the whole Hundred which surrounds it and was a Branch of that ample Patrimony which encreased the Revenue of Alex. de Baliol E. of Atholl and he held this and a place called Grafton in this Parish as likewise a wood called Northwood not farre distant in the Reign of Henry the third and left it to his Son and Heir John Earl of Athol who having with an unsuccessful zeal endeavoured to support the sinking Interest of the Kingdome of Scotland against the violent Eruptions of Edw. the first which like an impetuous Inundation sought to bear down all the Glory of that Nation into

in the Whole in Dooms-day Book at Thirty eight Pound Ten Shillings and Three-pence There was an ancient Tradition that that Altar-Tomb which was placed at the East-end of the little Chappel which belonged to Eastry Court was the Sepulchre wherein the Reliques of the two Princes mentioned before to have been murdered were enshrined nay it went farther and did affirm that there was a Light hovered constantly about that Tomb as if the Clearnesse of the Innocence of those who slumbered under that Repository could not have been manifested better then by the Beams of such a perpetuate Itradation Shrickling is a Mannor in this Parish which had always the same Possessors with Knowlton Thomas Perrot held it the fourth of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 31. By whose Daughter and Heir it devolved to Langley and from Langley by the Heir General to Peyton only I find Sir Edward Ringley Knight Marshall of Callis and Bayliff of Sandwich both by Water and Land lived at Estry in the Reign of Henry the eighth and enjoyed this Mannor in Right of his Wife Elizabeth Widow of Edward Langley Esquire Heronden in this Parish was the Seat of a Family known by that Sirname who bare for his Coat Armour a Heron with one Tallon erected and gaping for Breath One of this Family lay buryed neer the Chancel in the Time of Robert Glover Somerset-Herald with his Pourtraicture and Coat of Arms in Brasse affixed to the Tombstone both which by the rude Hand of some sacrilegious Person are now torn away yet is the Coat-still extant in very old Rolls and Registers in the Heralds Office where the Family is called Heronden of Heronden Nor is the Name lesse ancient as appears by Deeds which commence from the Time of Henry the third which related then to this House and Name In the Reign of Richard the second this Family determined in a Female Heir who was matched to Boteler of Botelers Fleet in Ash and she annexed this Place to the Patrimony of this Family in which Name the Title of this Place hath been ever since successively laid up Ewell in the Hundred of Bewsborough was a principal Mansion of the Knights Templers to which much Land was united both in this Track and in Romney Mersh where they held the Mannors of Hony-Child and East-Bridge as appears by the Book called Liber de Terris Templariorum collected in the year 1130 and kept in the Exchequer They were founded in the year 1118 in manner following Cetrain Knights obliged themselves by Vow in the Hands of the Hands of the Patriarch of Jerusalem to serve Christ after the mannor of Regular Cannons in Chastiry and Obedience renouncing their own Wills for ever they likewise professed to defend the Crosse and Sepulcher of our Saviour from the Eruptions of Infidels and to secure the high-ways for the Indempnity of Pilgrims from the Ambushes of Free-booters that they might more freely visit the place of our Saviours Agony and Crucifixion They were called Templers either from their Vow to defend the Temple or else from those Lodgings which were assigned them neer that place by Baldwin the fourth King of Jerusalem This order in the second year of Edward the second was totally supprest throughout Christendome The Crimes alledged against them were Pride Covetousnesse for did and unaturall Uncleannesse and lastly private Collusions and Treaties with Infidels which tended to the Subversion of the Christian Cause in Palestine all which they solemnly renownced at their Death which best interprets their Innocence to future Times for certainly it was impossible that an Order which had tyed themselves up upon their Institution within the Limitations of so strict a Vow could universally at one Time and in all places of the World where they were established degenerate into those black horrid and prodigious Crimes wherewith their Enemies bespattered them But indeed those who have fathomed the Cause of this their totall Abolition find that they were warping with some Compliance too eagerly to a Combination with the Emperour who was then in Contest with the Pope about vindicating his temporal power in Italy and else-where from the unjust enchroachments made upon it by that See Which his Holyness descrying wrapt them up in those pretended Crimes as the Roman Persecutors did the ancient Christians in the skins of Beasts that they might more easily be devoured Upon this their Dissolution their House here at Temple Ewell was given to the Knights of St. John Baptist of Jerusalem an Order rather restored then instituted by one Girardus whose Vow was almost coincident in all the Ingredients of it with that of the Knights Templers And in their Demeasne did this place lye wound up untill the finall Dissolution in the Reign of Henry the eighth and then being linked to the Revenue of the Crown it was fixed there untill the sixth year of Edward the sixth and then it was granted to William Cavendish Esquire and he the same year conveyed it to Christopher Sackvill and Winefrid his Wife who about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth alienated it to John D●niell who about the latter end of that Princesse dying without Issue-male his Estate here devolved to his two Daughters and Coheirs matched to Mab and Wiseman who both concurred and by joynt Consent alienated the Propriety of this place about the beginning of King James to Mr ..... Angell of London whose Son Mr ...... Angell of Crowherst in Surrey is now entituled to the Fee-simple of it Borestall Banks in this Parish was as high as any Evidences do lead us to discover part of the ancient Patrimony of the illustrious Family of Diggs of Diggs-Court in Barham John de Digge of this Family was Alderman of Canterbury in the year 1258 and was a great Benefactor to the Franciscans who were newly seated at Canterbury and purchased for their Support an Island called Binnewith in that City and from this John de Digge did descend Roger de Digge who paid respective Aid at the making the Black Prince Knight for his Lands at Berham and other places in the twentieth year of Edward the third and dyed seised of this Mannor in the third year of Richard the second Rot Esc Num. 19. John Diggs his Successor was Sheriff of Kent in the second year of Henry the fourth and John Diggs was Sheriff of this County the fourth of Edward the fourth and this Mans Son who also bore his Name was Sheriff of Kent in the eleventh year of Henry the seventh Briefly after it had for many Descents owned the Interest of this Family it was in the tenth year of Queen Elizabeth conveyed away by Sale to Stokes in which Family the Possession was permanent untill of very late Time and then it was alienated to Captain Temple of Dover F. F. F. F. EAst-Farleigh lyes in the Hundred of Maidston and was given to the Prior and Monks of Christ-church in Canterbury by Ediva the Queen Mother of the two Kings Eadred and Edmund in the year

surrender his Soul to God Sheriffs of Kent under the Scepter of K. Charles Sir Thomas Hamon of Brasted Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the first year of K. Charles Sir Isaac Sidley of great Chart Knight and Baronet was Sheriff of Kent in the second year of K. Charles Basel Dixwel of Folkstone Esquire afterwards Knighted was Sheriff of Kent in third year of K. Charles Sir Edward Engham of Goodneston Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the fourth year of K. Charles and had a Dispensation under the Kings Hand and Signet to inhabit within the County and City of Canterbury during his year of Shrievalty and to find a meet Person to attend at the Assises in his Place in regard of his indisposition of Body Sir William Champion of Combwel in Goudherst Knight was Sheriff of Kent the fifth year of K. Charles Jo. Brown of Singleton in Great Chart Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the sixth year of K. Charles and kept his Shrievalty at Hinxhill Court Sir Robert Lewknor of Acris Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the seventh year of K. Charles Nicholas Miller of Horsnels Crouch in Wrotham Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the eighth year of K. Charles Sir Thomas Stiles of Watringbury Knight and Baronet was Sheriff of Kent in the ninth year of K. Charles Sir John Baker of Sisinghurst in Cranbroke Baronet was Sheriff of Kent the tenth year of K. Charles Edward Chowt of Surrenden in Bethersden Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the eleventh year of K. Charles and kept his Shrievalty at Hinxhill Sir William Colepeper of Preston in Alresford Baronet was Sheriff of Kent in the twelfth of K. Charles Sir George Sonds of Lecze Court in Shelvich Knight of the Bath was Sheriff of Kent in the thirteenth of K. Charles Sir Thomas Henley of Coursehorne in Cranbroke Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the fourteenth year of K. Charles Sir Edward Masters of East Langdon Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the fifteenth year of K. Charles David Polhill of Otford Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the sixteenth year of K. Charles James Hugison of Lingsted Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the seventeenth year of K. Charles Sir William Brockman of Bithborough in Newington Belhouse Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the eighteenth year of K. Charles but being called to manage this Office by that King when he was in Arms at Oxford he was thought by the Parliament then sitting to be a Person in that Juncture of Affairs not fitting to have the Manegerie of a Place of so great Concernment and was accordingly supplanted Sir Iohn Honywood of Evington Court in Elmested Knight was chosen by the Parliament then sitting to serve the Sheriff of Kent part of the eighteenth year of King Charles and continued in that Office the nineteenth year and twentieth year of the abovesaid Princes Reign Sir Iohn Rayney of Wrotham Baronet was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty first year of K. Charles Sir Iohn Henden of Biddenden Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty second year of K. Charles Sir Stephen Scot of Hays by Bromley Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty third year of K. Charles George Selby of the Moat in Ightham Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty fourth year of K. Charles In which year that Noble but infortunate Monarch was put to Death Sheriffs of Kent since the Death of K. Charles Henry Crispe of Quekes in Birchington Esq was Sheriff of Kent part of the year 1649 and part of the year 1650 but in Respect of age and indisposition of Body his place was supplied by Sir Nicholas Crispe Son and Heir George Curtis of Chart by Sutton Esquire was Sheriff of Kent part of the year 1650 and part of the year 1651. He was chosen to serve upon the Decease of William Draper of Crayford Esquire who was named to serve but died not long after his Nomination but by reason of Age and the Craziness of his Constitution his Son Norton Curtis Esquire discharged the Office for him Thomas Floyd of Gore Court in Otham Esquire was Sheriff of Kent part of the year 1651 and part of the year 1652. Bernard Hide of Bore Place in Chiddingstone Esquire was Sheriff of Kent part of the year 1652 and part of the year 1653. The right Honourable Sir Iohn Tufton Earl of Thanet was Sheriff of Kent part of the year 1653 and part of the year 1654. Sir Humphry Tufton of the Moat by Maidston Knight was Sheriff of Kent part of the year 1654 and part of the year 1655. Sir Michael Livesey Baronet of East Church in Shepey was Sheriff of Kent the Remainder of the year 1655 and part of the year 1656. Sir Michael Livesey Baronet was again Sheriff of Kent the residue of the year 1656 and a part of the year 1657. Charles Bolles of Rochester Esquire is now Sheriff of Kent 1658. Having a in succinct Register represented to the Reader an Historal View of those who were successively Sheriffs of this County as high as the Light of Publick Record will guide us to discover I shall now in a narrow Landskip give him a Prospect of those who in elder Times were styled Conservatores Pacis from whence our modern Justices of the Peace may have seemed to have extracted their Original Institution They were first established by Edward the third and then invested and fortified with an Authority and Power of a very wide Latitude but suitable indeed to an Office of so much concernment and importance as they were intrusted with the main End of their Place in the first Foundation of it was as appears Pat. de Anno primo Edwar. tertii Pars prima Memb. septima in Dorse to array and train the Inhabitants of each respective County where the Scene of their Power was laid that so they might be put into a Capacity to repress all homebred Insurrections within and secure the Nation from the Eruptions of forraigne Invaders from without and it is further evident Pat. de Anno duodecimo Edwar. tertii Memb. 16. in Dorso and again Pat. de Anno decimo Edw. tertii Pars secunda Memb. 35. in Dorso They were authorised by two Commissions to reduce all Vagabonds and Wanderers to dissipate all mutinous and riotous Conventions and to suppress all Thieves and Outlaws and all other Persons disaffected to the Peace established and to vindicate and assert the two Statutes of North-Hampton and Winchester in all the Ends and Consequences of them both which Laws direct an Inspection into the Premises The Catalogue or Register of those who were Conservatores Pacis for the County of Kent does here ensue Pat. 1. Edwar. 3. prima Pars Memb. septima in Dorso Bartholomeus de Burgherst   Johannes de Ifield Pat. 3. Edwar. 3. Par. prima Memb. 16. in Dorso Bartholomeus Burhurst   Johannes de Cobham Joannes de Ifield Pat. 5. Edwar. 3. Par. prima Memb. 24. in Dorso Johannes de Cobham   Johannes

that Cloister by Henry the eighth was by his liberal Concession made Parcel of his Inheritance and remained so until the Reign of Q. Mary and then being attainted and convicted of High Treason in the second year of that Princess his Estate here fell back to the Crown and continued there untill K. James in the Beginning of his Reign passed away Shawsted and Windlehill to the City of London and they again by their Trustees invested the Propriety of them by Sale in Sir William Garaway of London Father to Sir Henry Garaway Knight in whose Descendants the Title of them is still resident Place House in this Parish is secondly to be remembred which was anciently part of the Demeasn of the illustrious Family of the Pimps of Pimps Court in the Parish of Loose near Maidston and Philip de Pimp was one of those Men at Arms which the Prior of Rochester was to furnish out for the Guard of the Seacoast at Genlade or Yenlade in the Hundred of Hoo in the eleventh year of Edward the third In Times of a more modern Inscription I find Thomas Pimpe the elder to be Buried in Alhollows in Hoo and that he made his Will the twenty seventh of August as appears by the Repertorie of Rochester Diocess and in the fourteenth of Edward the fourth William and John were his Sons Elizabeth unmaried Margery Lady Prioress of Malling and Alice a Nun there Sir William Hampton about that Time bought much Land of him He I mean this Sir William was Lord Maior of London in the Time of Edw●rd the fourth but whether this Place was part of this Purchase or not there is no Light from any publick Intelligence can illustate it certain I am that the Coppingers imediately almost after this Time became possessors of the Place and the Proprietie is now by Female Right of a Daughter and Heir of a Branch of these Coppingers resolved into Sir Harbotle Grimston of Essex Alresford anciently written Aiglesford hath Places of considerable Animadversion within the Limits and Boundaries of it The Priory or rather now the Skeleton of it was founded by Richard Lord Grey of Codnor Anno Dom. 1240 in the twenty fifth of Henry the third for Carmelite or White Friers in Honour of the Virgin Mary the Mother of this Lord was Isolda Daughter and Coheir of Hugh Bardolph Lord of Hoo in Kent from whom he inherited fair Possessions in this County And many of his Posterity in Relation to that Particular were buried in the Conventual Church of this Monastery Upon the suppression it was granted with the Royalty of it by Henry the eighth to Sir Thomas Wiat from whom it descended to his Son Sir Thomas Wiat upon whose Defection this being with other Lands escheated to the Crown Queen Elizabeth granted it to Mr. J. Sidley and he bequeathed to his Brother Sir Will. Sidley and from that Name it was lately passed by Sale unto Sir Peter Ricaut whose Heir 1657 conveyed it by the same Vicissitude to Mr. Caleb Banks of Maidston Tottington and Eccles two Mannors in this Parish Richard Sonne of Malger de Rokesley gave Tiths of Tottington to the Priory of Rochester See Textus Roffensis anciently belonged to the Family of Rokesley of whose Heir General it came to of Poynings and Richard Lord Poynings the eleventh of Rich. the second held the Mannor of Tottington which with Eccles one of his Ancestors in the Time of King Henry the sixth gave in frank Marriage with his Daughter to J. Palmer of the Courtlodge in Snodland Esquire whose Posterity after they had held them some space of Time sold them to Warcup descended from the Warcups of Cumberland in which Name the Tenure was not long resident for by Sale it was alienated to Sidley of Southfleet and his Successor suddenly after by the like Fatalitie invested Ricaut in Eccles and Madox in Tottington Cosington is a Seat of much Eminence in this Parish and gave Residence and Sir-name to a Knightly Familie of the same And King Edward the first rewarded Sir Stephen de Cosenton whom he had made Banneret in the twenty eighth of his Reign for his signal Service at Carlaverock in Scotland with a Charter of Free Warren to all his Lands at Cosenton Acris and South-Burton vulgarly called South-Blabden in Elham in Kent The Mannor it self holdeth by Knights Service of the Barony of Rosse of Horton Kirbie from whom they received it by ancient Feoffement and bear in similitude of their Lords the Rosses the same Charge in their Arms viz. Azure three Roses Or. The Arms of Rosse being Or three Roses Gules But when in the Beginning of Hen. the eighths Government the Fatality of Time had concluded this Family in three Daughters and Coheirs married to Duke Hamon and Wood this Mannor of Cosenton accrued by Co-partition to Duke in which Name it hath ever since resided There was a Free Chappel belonging to this Mansion founded as private Evidences advertise me by Sir Stephen de Cosenton which is now crumbled into so desolate an Heap of Rubbish that we can hardly trace out its Ruines even amidst its Ruines There was another Free Chappel in his Parish annexed to Tottington by Richard Lord Poynings in the eleventh year of Rich. the second which hath been so dismantled by the impressions of Time and the fury of the Elements that there is very little Testimony or Evidence remaining that this Oratorie ever had a Being Preston in this Parish of Alresford is a Seat of that venerable Antiquity and hath for so many Descents been incorporated into the Demeasn of Colepeper that it is questionable which is the ancient Cradle or Seminary of this Family either Bayhall in Pepenbury or Preston in Alresford Sir Thomas Colepeper as the old Evidences and Muniments of this Name instruct me was of this Family and was Governour of Winchelsey under Edward the second by whom he was beheaded for defending that Town in behalf of the Barons then combined in an hostile League against him Walter de Colepeper flourished under Edward the first and Edward the second and seal'd with a Bend engrailed which is still the paternal Coat-Armour of this Family which I the rather mention because these Deeds are the first of that Nature which I have seen since Sealing with Coats of Arms grew customary in this Nation and argues him to be a Man of eminence in this County as did that spreading Revenue likewise of which he died possest not onely here but at Farleigh Peckham Wrotham and divers other places in the first year of Edward the third John Colepeper was a Judge in the Reign of Henry the sixth and concluded in a Daughter and Heir who by matching with Harrington added a considerable Supplement to the paternal Revenue of that noble Family I shall not more dilate my self in this Discourse it is enough that I inform the Reader that this ancient Seat which hath been for so many Centuries of years under the

was transplanted by Sale into John Norden who in our ●●●●dfathers memory demised it to Pordage Predecessor to Mr ........ Pordage of R●●●ersham who is now entitled to the Fee-simple of it Mere-Court is a third place of Account in this Parish calle● 〈◊〉 from its Situation near the Sea which our Saxon Ancestors called Mere and is c●●●●marily used in that sense for any wast heap of Waters as Lakes and Pools that are 〈◊〉 all sides lockt in by the Land by the Dutch to this day But I cannot find that it ev●● had any Possessors that extracted their Sirname from hence for in the Raign of Edward the third I find Arnold de Savage held it and so did his Grandchild Eleanor Savage who was matched to William Clifford and he by this Alliance became invested in the Possession and in this Family did the Title lie couched untill the beginning of Henry the seventh and then I can track no farther Evidence of their Possession of this place In the Raign of Edward the sixth I find it to be invested in the Name of Croft and remained tied to the Patrimony of that Family untill David Crofts died in the twenty second year of Queen Elizabeth and left it to Jo. Croft Helen and Margaret his Daughters and they upon the death of their Brother who was an Ideot becomming Joynt-heirs to this place in the forty second year of Q. Elizabeth passed it away to Mr. Stephen Hulks who bequeathed it to his Son and Heir Mr. Jo. Hulks and he upon his Decease which was not many years since gave it to his second Son Mr. Charles Hulks who now is in Fruition of it N. N. N. N. NAtindon in the Hundreds of Bridge Petham and Whitstaple is an obscure Village not far remote from Canterbury and only calls for some Remembrance in this respect that the Mannor of Staplegate is situated within the Limits of it which was the Seat of an eminent Family which bore that Sirname who were Lords not onely of this Place but of much other Land in Romney Mersh and had certainly this Denomination ingrafted originally upon them because they collected the Kings profits and Customes arising out of the Staple of Wooll fixed at Staplegate in Canterbury The first of this Family whom I find eminent is Edmund Staplegate who paid respective Aid for his Mannor of Bilsington and his other Lands in Kent in the twentieth year of Edward the third at making the Black Prince Knight and he was Father to Edmund Staplegate who at the Coronation of Richard the second held that signall Contest before John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster then High Steward at that solemn Inthronization with Richard Earl of Arundell about the Office of Chief Butler as I have before mentioned in Bilsington But to return to that Discourse from whence this emergent Controversie did divert me Edmund Staplegate in the thirteenth year of Richard the second enjoyed this Mannor at his Death but after his Deeease the Title was not long liv'd in this Name for in the Raign of Henry the fifth and Henry the sixth as appears by the Testimony of ancient Court Rolls it was in the Possession of Leichfield who was Master of much Land about Tilmanston and Betshanger and in the twenty second year of Ed. the fourth it was by Roger Lichfield passed away by Sale to William Haut Esquire Father to Sir William Haut in whom the male-line determined so that by Elizabeth his Daughter and Coheir it came to be the Inheritance of Sir Thomas Colepeper of Bedgebury who about the first year of Edward the sixth alienated it to Philip Chowte Esquire and from him the like Fate bore off the Title to Sir Anthony Aucher and he about the latter end of Edward the sixth disposed of his Right in it to Sir James Hales of the Dungeon Ancestor to Sir James Hales of the same place who not many years since demised the Premises to Mr. Smith of High-Gate upon whose late Decease the Title like a Pythagorean-Soul is transmigrated into his Heir Nettlested in the Hundred of Twyford was the ancient Seat of the noble and ancient Family of Pimpe William de Pimpe paid respective Aid for this Mannor and other Lands which lay not far distant from this place which he held by a whole Knights Fee at the making the Black Prince Knight the twentieth of Edward the third Reginald Pimpe was his Son and Heir and served out the Office of high Sheriff of Kent for him in the forty ninth year of Edward the third in which year he dyed It is probable that this William was knighted because there is a Tombe in Nettlested Church with this Inscription affixed to his Tombe-stone Hic jacet Domina Margareta de Cobham quondam Vxor Willielmi Pimpe Militis quae obiit 4 Septembris 1337. From whence it may be probably collected that the above recited William Pimpe though he is not mentioned as a Knight in the Register of the Sheriffs yet afterwards for some exemplary Services by him performed and managed might be invested with the Order of Knighthood From this Man in the continued Succession of a direct Line See more of Pimp in my Discourse of Sea-watches did Reginald Pimpe descend who determined in Ann Pimpe who was his Sole Heir and so this ancient Family which had under a venerable Character of Antiquity for so many Ages flourished at this place as the Monuments in the Church not yet dismantled do sufficiently evince was about the latterend of Henry the seventh extinguished and Nettlested fell under the Patrimony of John Scott of Scotts Hall from whom Edw. Scot Esquire is lineally extracted and in Relation to this Alliance is the instant Proprietary of Nettlested Lomewood is a second place of Account in Nettlested it belonged formerly to a Cloister of black Cannons in Oxford dedicated to St. Friswith which being suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey in the year 1525 when he intended to erect the magnificent Fabrick of the Colledge of Christ-church this Mannor was resigned up to the Crown and was by King Henry the eighth in the twenty seventh year of his raign granted to Sir Edward Nevill who gave it in Martiage with his Daughter Katharine Nevill espoused to John Roydon Esquire of Roydon-Hall in great Peckham and he determining in Elizabeth Roydon his Sole Heir she by matching with Roger Twisden Esquire planted it in his Revenue and from him hath the Interest of Descent transported it along to his Grandchild Sir Roger Twisden of Roydon Hall Knight and Baronet Newenden in the Hundred of Selbrittenden was erected in the place where the old Roman City of Anderida was situated and was called by the Britons Caer Andred very aptly by Leland styled in Latine Noviodunum from the Saxon Nywandun in English by Corruption called Newenden which in the original imports as much as The new Hill in the Valley This was that Station and City of the Romans mentioned in the Banner of the Count or Lord