Sheriff before in the twenty third was now again Sheriff in the twenty eighth year of Henry the sixth Gervas Clifton that had served this Office in the eighteenth year of this Kings Reign was called again to discharge in the twenty ninth of K. Henry the sixth Robert Horne of Hornes Place in Apuldore was Sheriff of Kent the thirtieth year of Henry the sixth Thomas Ballard of Horton near Canterbury was Sheriff of Kent the thirty first year of Henry the sixth John Fogge of Repton in Ashford Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the thirty second year of Henry the sixth Sir Iohn Cheyney of Shurland and Patricksbourn Cheyney was Sheriff of Kent the thirty third year of K. Henry the sixth Philip Belknap of the Moate in Canterbury was Sheriff of Kent the twenty fourth year of Henry the sixth Alexander Iden of Westwell who slew Iack Cade and married the Widow of Will. Cromer slain before by that Rebell was Sheriff of Kent the thirty fifth year of Henry the sixth John Guldford of Halden Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the thirty sixth year of Henry the sixth This Man flourished under the Scepter of Henry the sixth Edward the fourth under whom he was Sheriff and likewise Comptroller of his House-hold Richard the third at whose Coronation he was Knighted and lastly that of Henry the seventh by whom he was admitted as his Monument in the Middle Isle of the Body of Christ Church in Canterbury does attest into his Privy Councell Sir Gervas Clifton who formerly in the eighteenth and twenty ninth years of this Prince had managed this Place was again summoned to execute it in the thirty seventh year of Henry the sixth Sir Thomas Brown of Bechworth Castle in Surrey was again Sheriff of Kent in the thirty eighth year of Henry the sixth John Scot of Scots-Hall Esquire was Sheriff of Kent part of the year above mentioned He was afterwards Knighted by K. Edward the fourth and by him called to be of his Privy Councell Deputy of Callis and Comptroller of his House-hold Sheriffs of Kent under K. Edward the fourth John Isaack of Howlets in Patricksbourne was Sheriff of Kent the first year of King Edward the fourth Sir William Peche of Lullingston Knight was Sheriff of Kent the third and fourth years of Edward the fourth and had likewise the Custody of the Castle of Canterbury annexed to his Office as this Record does inform me Rex concessit Willielmo Peche Milititotum Comit. Cantii una cum Castro Cantuariensi ac constituit eum Vicecomitem Cantii ac ei concessit 40 libras Annuas quousque ei dederit 40 libras Annuas in speciali Taellio Haeredibus Masculis Pat. 2. Edw. quarti Parte secunda John Diggs of Diggs Court in Barham was Sheriff of Kent the fourth year or Edw. the fourth Alexander Clifford of Bobbing Court Son of Lewis Clifford Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the fifth year of K. Edward the fourth Sir William Haut of Hautsbourn Son of William Haut and Elizabeth his Wife Sister to Richard Woodvill Earl Rivers and Aunt to Elizabeth Woodvill Queen of England and Wife to K. Edward the fourth was Sheriff of Kent the sixth year of that Prince Sir Iohn Colepeper of Pepenbury and Bedgebury was Sheriff of Kent the seventh year of Edward the fourth Ralph St. Leger of Ulcomb Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the eighth year of Edward the fourth Henry Ferrers of Chilesmore and Tamworth in the County of Warwick was Sheriff of the County of Kent in the ninth year of Edward the fourth He married Mawde one of the Coheirs of William Hextall of Hextall Place in great Peckham John Brumston of Preston near Feversham Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the tenth year of Edward the fourth This year the King likewise by his Letters Patents committed to his Custody the City of Canterbury Richard Colepeper of Oxenhoath in Little Peckham was Sheriff of Kent the eleventh year of Edward the fourth James Peckham of Yaldham in Wrotham was Sheriff of Kent the twelfth year of Edward the fourth Sir John Fogge of Repton in Ashford sometime Comptroller of the House to Edward the fourth was Sheriff of Kent the thirteenth year of that Prince John Isley of Sundridge Cousin and Heir Generall of William Isley who was Sheriff of this County the twenty fifth of Henry the sixth was Sheriff of Kent the fourteenth year of Edward the fourth Sir William Haut of Hautsbourn formerly mentioned was again Sheriff the fifteenth year of Edward the fourth John Green who lived at Scadbery in Chiselhurst in Right of his Wife Constance Widow of Sir Thomas Walsingham was Sheriff of Kent the sixteenth of Edward the fourth William Cheyney of Shurland Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the seventeenth year of Edward the fourth Richard Haut of the Moat in Ightham younger Brother to Sir William was Sheriff of Kent the eighteenth of Edward the fourth Richard Lee of great Delceâ— in Rochester was Sheriff of Kent the ninteenth year of Edward the fourth Sir John Fogge of Repton formerly mentioned was again Sheriff of Kent the twentieth year of Edward the fourth Sir George Brown of Bechworth Castle Son of Sir Thomas Brown was Sheriff of Kent the twenty first of Edward the fourth Richard Haut of the Moat in Ightham who served the Office of Sheriff of Kent the eighteenth of Edward the fourth was after he had been three years from the place according to the Statute made Sheriff of Kent again the twenty second year of Edward the fourth in which year this worthy Prince cast off the Luggage of humane Frailty by paying the last Debt he owed to Nature Sheriffs of Kent under Richard the Third Sir William Haut of Hautsbourn that had been Sheriff twice before in the Time of K. Edward the fourth was made Sheriff of Kent again in the first year of K. Richard the third from Michaelmass the twenty second of Edward the fourth to the ninth of April and then to the twenty third which day K. Edward the fifth fell an Oblation to the Avarice and Ambition of his usurping Uncle who cast trains no less for his Life then for his Crown and then again to the twenty fifth of June and from the twenty sixth of June untill the Michaelmass following Sir Henry Forrers supplied the place of Sheriff for him John Bamme Esquire of the Mannor of Grench in Gillingham descended from Adam Bamme Lord Maior of London was Sheriff of Kent in the second year of Richard the third Sir Robert Brackenbury of the Moate in Ightham was Sheriff of Kent the third year of Richard the third Will. Cheyney Esquire of Shurland was Sheriff of Kent the last year of Rich. the third Sheriffs of Kent under Henry the Seventh William Cheyney of Shurland Esquire Sheriff of Kent the seventh year of Edward the fourth and last of Richard the third continued in that Office the first year of K. Henry the seventh John Pimpe of Pimpes Court in Farleigh and Lose Esquire was Sheriff
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 Dâ—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
old German practise is also asserted by Tacitus And that it was customary amongst the Danes Several Urns discovered in Jutland and Sleswick not many years since do easily evince which contained not only Bones but many other Substances in them as Knives peeces of Iron Brass and Wood and one of Norway a Brass guilded Jews-harp When this Custome of Burning of the Dead languished into Disuse is incertain but that it began to vanish upon the Dawning of Christianity as Vapors and Mists scatter before a Morning Sun is without Controversie but when the Light of it did more vigorously reflect like a Meridian Beam on all the gloomy Corners and Recesses of Paganism and Infidelity then this Use of Urn-Burial was wholly superseded and found a Tomb it self in the more sober and severer practise of Christianity And thus much shall be said concerning these Urns digged up at Newington The Mannor of Levenoke in this Parish ought in the last place to be taken Notice of but the Deeds being dispersed into the Hands of those who are Strangers both to this County and my Design I cannot give the Reader that satisfaction in this particular that I aime at Only thus much I can inform him that by an old Court Roll in the Hands of Mr. Staninough of this Parish lately deceased I discovered that in the Raign of Edward the third and Richard the second it was the possession of John Beau Fitz and it is probable by the Heir General of this Name it devolved to Arnold of Rochester and more to fortifie this some ancient Country people at my being there did assure me they had it by Traditional Intelligence from their Predecessors That that Knight purchased it of one Arnold but of that there is no certainty only this is positive that about the latter end of Henry the eighth that Knight enjoyed it and in this Name it remained until almost our Memory and then it was conveyed to Gouldsmith and he alienated it to Barrow whose Descendant having morgaged it to Mr. ...... Alston of London he very lately hath transplanted all his Right by Sale into Mr. ........ Lisle of Middlesex now deceased Nockholt in the Hundred of Ruxley was a Branch which was incorporated into the Revenue of the Lord Say William de Say died possest of it in the twenty third year of Edward the third and from this man was it transmitted to his Grand-child Geffrey Say who concluded in a Sole Daughter and Heir called Elizabeth who was married to William Fiennes Esquire and so in her Right was Nockholt united to the possession of this Noble Family from this man was Richard Fiennes descended who enjoyed this Mannor successively from him and married Joane the Sole Female heir of Thomas Lord Dacre of Hurstmonceaux in Sussex who was extracted from Edward Lord Dacre who was summoned to Parliament by the Title of Lord Dacre of Hurstmonceaux in the Raign of Edward the second and in her Right was this man summoned to Parliament by the Name of Richard Fiennes Lord Dacres in the Government of Henry the sixth And here did both the Barony of Dacre and the Inheritance of Nockholt continue till Gregory Fiennes Lord Dacres deceased in the thirty sixth year of Queen Elizabeth and left by Testament Margaret his Sister matched to Sampson Lennard Esquire he having no Issue Heir to his large possessions amongst which this Mannor was involved from Sampson Lennard who was created Lord Dacres in the second year of King James it is now come down by Successive Inheritance to be the instant Patrimony of his Grand-child Francis Lord Dacres the present Baron of Hurstmonceaux There are two other Mannors in this Parish but of small importance called Brampton and Shelleys-court or at Ockholt both which had Owners who engrafted their own Sirname upon them There is a recital in the Book of Aide of one John de Brampton who held Land at Nockholt and Ditton in the Raign of Edward the first From this Family Brampton came by a Female Heir to be the Inheritance of Petley who about the latter end of Henry the sixth conveyed it to Oliver alias Quintin and hath been for almost two Hundred years as appears by the Evidences now in the Hands of Mr. Robert Oliver of the Grange in the Parish of Leybourn in the Tenure and Possession of that Name and Family Shelleys Court called in the Evidences likewise at Ockholt was as high as the Raign of Edward the third as the originall Deeds now in the Hands of Mr. Rob. Austin of Bexley inform me the Inheritance of Shelley and remained united to the Possession of that Family till the Government of Queen Mary and then by Sale the whole Demise was passed away by Sir John Champneys Lord Maior of London by William Shelley the last of this Name at this place from whom it devolved to his Son Sir Justinian Champneys who left it to his Son Mr. Richard Champneys Esquire and he almost in the Remembrance of that Age we live in alienated his Concernment in it to the present Possessor Mr. Gooday of Suffolk Nonington in the Hundred of Wingham and Eastry hath diverse places in it of considerable Repute The first is Fredville called in old Deeds Froidville from its bleak and eminent Situation Times of an elder Inscription represent it to have been the Possession of Colkin vulgarly called Cokin who it is probable erected the ancient Fabrick and brought it into the Shape and Order of an Habitation this Family was originally extracted from Canterbury where they had a Lane which bore their Name being called Colkins Lane and likewise had the Inheritance or Propriety of Worth-gate in that City William Colkin founded an Hospital neer Eastbridge which celebrated his Name to Posterity and was called Colkin's Hospital he flourished in the Time of K. John and was a liberal Benefactor to the Hospitals of St. Nicholas St. Katharine and St. Thomas of Eastbridge in Canterbury as is recorded by Mr. William Somner in his Survey of that City Page 116. But to proceed John Colkin dyed possest of Fredvill the tenth of Edward the third and in his Posterity was the Title resident untill the latter end of Richard the second and then it was conveyed to Thomas Charleton and he by a Fine levyed the second of Henry the second transplants his Interest into John Quadring in whose Name it made its aboad untill Joan Quadring the Heir General of Thomas Quadring this man's Successor carried the Title along with her to her Husband Richard Dryland and he about the latter end of Edward the fourth alienated it to John Nethersole who by Fine levyed in the second year of Richard the third conveyed it to William Bois Esquire descended from I. de Bosco or de Bois so written in some old Copies of the Battle Abby Roll and in others R. de Bosco or de Bois who entered into England with William the Conquerour which William had Issue Thomas Bois who dying in the
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
posterity Potts Court in Babchild vulgarly called Petts Court was parcel of the Demeasn of the Priory of Dertford as appears by an Inquisition taken in the eleventh year of Edw. the fourth Rot. Esc Num. 69. and continued united to it untill the suppression in the Reign of Henry the eighth and then it was cast into the Revenue of the Crown where it lay untill Edward the sixth in the last year of his Reign granted it to Sir Thomas Cheyney whose Son Henry Lord Cheyney about the thirteenth year of Q. Eliz. passed it away to Samuel Thornhil Esquire in whose Descendant Line the Propriety of it is yet continuing Morris Court is a third place of Note in Babchild in elder Times it gave Seat and Sirname to a Family of that Denomination as appears by the ancient Muniments of this Seat but before the latter End of Henry the fourth this Family was vanished and then I find the Enghams setled by Purchase in the Inheritance and John Engham as appears by ancient Court Rolls held it in the Reign of Henry the fifth and Henry the sixth and after him did the Title by successive Inheritance transmit it self to his Posterity even untill those Times which grew near our Grand Fathers remembrance and then it was by Sale translated into Wolgate whose Ancestors had their Habitation at Wolgate Green in Throuley and after it had for some years acknowledged this Family for Proprietaries it was conveyed to Tilghman descended from the Tilghmans of Snodland from which Name it was again by as sudden a transmission alienated to Carselock of Feversham allied to John Carselock the last Abbot of the Priory there at the suppression of it and this Name being lately here by Defailance of Issue totally extinguished the Heirs of this Family as Knowler and others so designed by Testament do now possess it Badelesmer in the Hundred of Feversham was the Seat of that Family which for the great sway and influence they had once in this County although they have their Existence now only in Annals and History deserve a serious Remembrance Giles Lord Badelesmer as the Annals of St. Augustins instruct me was slain in the year 1258. in a Battell against the Welsh whilst he by endevouring to unite them to the English Scepter attempted to assault their Liberty and they as vigorously asserted it Guncelin de Badelesmer dyed possest of this Mannor in the twenty ninth year of Edward the first as appears Rot. Esc Num. 50. and lies buryed in Badelesmer Church with his Portraiture crosseleg'd cut in Wood and so much left of his Name as discovers to us that it is He who lyes there enterred and although there hath such a vast Interval or Decursion of Time intervened since his Sepulture yet neither hath Time nor our modern Zeal more fierce and ravenous then that so defaced it but that the Effigies insculped crosseleg'd is yet obvious visible and this I believe wil sufficiently refute the opinion of the vulgar who believe this Figure on the Tomb-stone to be the representation of some Giant and this Guncelin had Issue Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer that opulent and powerfull Baron of Kent who was witnesse to the Charter of Edward the second by which he confirms the Franchises and Priviledges of the City of London in the twelfth year of his Reign and there subscribes himself Steward of the Kings Hostell and was certainly a very eminent Person for in the year 1316 when Sir Richard de Rodney was invested with Knighthood by the abovesaid Prince the Ceremony of putting on his Spurs was performed by Maurice de Berkley and Bartholomew de Badelesmer but he had not been long swoln to this vast Dimension of power but their arose a Tempest which blasted all his blooming Glories for Isabel Wife and Queen to Edward the second having by severall good Offices performed between her Husband and his disobliged Barons so becalmed and softned all their Animosities that they became intombed in a mutuall Pacification was so inflamed at her denyall of Lodging and Accomodation in Leeds Castle by Thomas Colepeper the Castellan under Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer that she egged and pushed on the King to a Revenge which was done so effectually that the Death of the Castellan was the Expiation of so infortunate an Insolence and the Losse of the Head of the Lord Badelesmer taken Prisoner not long after neer Pontfrait and the forfeiture of his Estate paid the price of his Ambition and thus this magnificent Baron who like a streight and procere Elme grew tall in Title and like its luxuriant Branches did spread wide in the extent of his Power and Revenue was by this Storm supplanted and his Patrimony broken to peices being gathered up by escheat into the Royall Demeasne and in this Shipwrack did this Family lye involved untill the second year of Edward the third and then the indulgent Munificence of that Prince boy'd it up out of those Ruines wherein it appeared almost to have been sunk and by Patent restored him to his Estate here and elsewhere and he in a thankfull acknowledge to Heaven for this Restitution according to the Piety of those Times erected here a House for Black Canons or Canons of St. Augustins as the Record pat 13. Edw. 3. Memb. 6. doth amply testifie and dyed in the twelfth year of Edward the third and left his Estate to his only Son Giles Lord Badelesmere who dying without Issue his four Sisters Margery first marryed to William Rosse Lord Hamlake and then remarryed to Tho. Arundell Margaret matched to Sir John Tiptoft Elizabeth first wedded to William Bohun Earl of Northampton and afterwards to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Mawde espoused to John Vere Earl of Oxford became his Coheirs and that Land here at Badelesmer which was not before setled on the Monastery upon the partition was knit to the Patrimony of Vere and he dyed possest of it in the thirty fourth year of Edward the third and left it with the Title of Baron Badelesmer to his Successors one of which was Jo. Earl of Oxford who was attainted in the twelfth year of Edw. the fourth for supporting the House of Lancaster at the Battle of Barnet but was restored both in Blood and Estate but he never was possest of this Mannor for I find that upon the Suppression of this Cloister at Badelesmer it escheated to the Crown and then Henry the eighth granted it to Sir Robert Southwell and he in the second year of Edward the sixth alienated it to Sir Anth. Aucher and he upon his decease gave it to his Son Jo. Aucher who dying without Issue male Ann his sole Inheritrix brought it with her to her Husband Sir Humphrey Gilbert who about the middle of Queen Elizabeth alienated it to Sir Michael Sonds and from him is the instant Signorie devolved to Sir George Sonds Knight of the Bath There is another Mannor in this Parish of Badelesmer called Goddisland and gave Seat and Sirname
Denne who deceasing without Issue Male Margaret his only Daughter and Heir brought it over to her husband Edw. Hougham after whose death it is to devolve to two Daughters who are the surviving Issue of that Wife namely Elizabeth matched to Mr. Edward Rose of Chistlet and Ann wedded to Mr. John Betentham now of Canterbury The Dungeon is another Mannor in Canterbury It was formerly belonging to an ancient Family called Chich Ernaldus de Chich was a man of principal note under Henry the second Richard the first and K. John and the Aldermanry of Burgate in Canterbury did in elder times appertain to this Family Thoma Chich was was Bailiff of Canterbury 1259. and again in the year 1271. was a principal Benefactor to the Church of S. Mary Bredin in Canterbury whose Name in an old Character together with his Effigies are set up in the west Window as his Coat is likewise in Stone-work in the Chancell John Chich was Bailiff of Canterbury in the twenty third and again in the twenty sixth year of Edward the third in the year 1320. Robert Malling then Commissary of Canterbury gave Sentence upon clear Evidence by ancient muniments and otherwise that the Hospital of St. Laurence in Canterbury should not only receive the Tithes of the Mannor of the Dungeon but likewise of 300. Acres adjacient to it but this was not without the Tye or Tribute of some Remuneration for in Autumne John Chich who was then Lord of the Dungeon was to receive for his Servants five loaves of Bread two Pitchers and an half of Beer and half a Cheese of four pence and he himself was to receive unum par Cirocecarum ferinarum one pair of Holyday Gloves and one pound of Wax in Candles and for his Servants three pair of Gloves Thomas Chich this mans Son was Sheriff of Kent in the forty fourth year of Edward the third and held his Shrivealtie at the Dungeon but in Valantine Chich this mans great Grandchild not only the male line but likewise the possession of this place failed for he about the beginning of Edward the fourth passed it away to Roger Brent Esq and he died seised of it as appears by his Will recorded at Canterbury in the year 1486. But in this Family it was not long after this resident for in the beginning of Henry the eighth by an old Court Roll I find one John Butler of Heronden in Eastrye possest of it and he conveyed it to Sir John Hales Chief Baron of the Exchequer and when Leland visited Kent which was in the thirtieth year of Henry the eighth he lived here and from him is it now come down to his Successor Sir James Hales the instant Proprietarie of it The Moate alias Wyke is a third Mannor within the precincts of Canterbury and had owners of that Sirname For I read in Testa de Nevill that Stephen de VVyke possest it in the twentyeth year of Henry the third and paid respective Aid for it at the marriage of Isabel that Princes Sister and in the Book of Aid where there is an Enumeration of the ancient owners there is a Recital of Stephen de Wyke William le Taylour John Tancrey and Richard Betts who had an Interest in it but before the beginning of Richard the second all these Families were mouldred away and vanished For in that Kings Reign I find it by the Court Rolls of this place in the hands of Sir Richard de Hoo and Richard Skippe and they about the latter end of Richard the second by deed conveyed it to Simon Spencer and he some few years after alienated it to John Standford Gentleman who suddenly after Passed it away to Richard Smith in whose hands it had not long continued when the same Devolution brought it over to John Eastfield Esquire Son of Sir William Eastfield who was Knight of the Bath and Lord Maior of London in the year 1438. and from him it was by Sale carried off to William Rogers and he by a Fine levied in the thirty third year of Henry the sixth demises and sells it to Philip Belknap of Canterbury Esquire Maior of that City in the year 1458. and Sheriff of Kent in the thirty fourth year of Henry the sixth he married Elizabeth Daughter of John Woodhouse Esq by whom he had Issue Alice his only Daughter and Heir who was matched to Henry Finch of Nitherfield Esq Father of Sir William Finch Banneret who in his Mothers right was invested in the possession of the Moâ—t and from him is it now by Successive right devolved to the Right Honourable John Lord Finch created Baron of Fordwich by the late K. Charles when he was Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England St. Dunstans in Canterbury was the Ancient Seat of the noble Family of Roper VVilliam Rosper or de Rubra Spathâ for so the Name is written in old Dateless Evidences and Elnith his Wife the Daughter and Heir of Edward de Apuldore flourished in the Reign of Henry the third and were great Benefactors to the Priorie of Saint Martins in Dover Iohn de Rubrâ Spathâ or Rosper did eminent Service in Scotland under Edward the third for which that Prince rewards him and William Clifford as appears by a Deed recorded in the Earl of Dorsets Pedigree about the twenty ninth year of his Reign with the third part of those Forfeitures that were due from the Jews then inhabiting in London for the Violation of some Penal Statutes enected against them Edmund Son of Ralph Roper was an eminent Man in the Reign of Henry the fourth and Henry the fifth under whom he was Justice of the Peace for this County and died the third year of Henry the sixth 1433 and lies buried in this Church of St. Dunstans John Roper his Son and John VVestcliffe as the Records of this Family instruct me were Correctors and Surveyours of the Customes of the Cinque Ports in the ninteenth year of Henry the seventh Jo. Roper his Grandchild was Attorney General to Henry the eighth and Prothonotary of the Kings Bench as appears by the Inscription on his Monument in St. Dunstans Church 1524 and VVill. Roper who was Sheriff of Kent the first and second year of Philip and Mary and matched with Margaret Daughter of Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England who as the Inscription on her Monument was Graecis Latinisque Literis Doctissima succeeded his Father in the Office of Prothonotary of the Kings Bench which he discharged with much of Fidelity and Care fifty four years and left it to his Sor Thomas Roper Esquire 1577 in which year he died and from this Thomas is this Mannor of St. Dunstans which for so many Centuries of years hath constantly confessed the Signorie of this Name now descended to his great Grandchild Mr. Edward Roper Esquire Capell in the Hundred of Folkstone was parcel of that Estate which celebrated the Family of Averenches to have been its Proprieraries which continued no longer in the
was transplanted by Sale into John Norden who in our â—â—â—â—dfathers memory demised it to Pordage Predecessor to Mr ........ Pordage of Râ—â—â—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 câ—â—â—â—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 evâ—â— 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
was represented to the World under that Notion as appears by very old Deeds without Date in the Hands of Mr. Bartholomew May too tedious here to recite In the twenty fourth year of Edward the first Isabell Wife of Henry de Apulderfield held it at her Death and in the Copy of the Inquisition Roll it is called Manerium de Newburgh but in Ages of a more modern Complexion it fell from its former Reputation and by Disuse shrunk into Neglect and Contempt and is now only eminent in that it was involved in that Estate that by Elizabeth Coheir of Sir William Apulderfield devolved to Sir John Phineux who finding his Sepulcher in Female Coheirs Jane one of them brought it over to her Husband John Roper Esquire and from him by paternal Efflux is the Title now wafted along to the right honorable Christopher Roper Baron of Tenham removed by no wide Distance from this place St. Johns is the last Mannor in Rodmersham to be taken Notice of though the First in its Degree of Eminence because it was a principal place belonging to the Knights Hospitallers An Order that was established and instituted by Gerardus but fenced in and empaled with New Orders and Rules by Raimundus a Podio lest debauched and softned by secular Interest in Decursion of Time they might have sallied out into some Disorder and Excesse At their first Installment they were to be eighteen years of Age at least and none who were without the Verge of that Time were capable of this Order they were to be neither of Jewish nor Turkish Extraction lest they might seem tacitly to wrap up those principles in their Blood which by their Vow they were engaged to destroy Their Pedigree or Genealogie was to be wholly Christian and that of no coorse but of a more refined Temperament for their Birth or Parentage was to be noble and that not to be sullied with the impure Tincture of Bastardy Yet even this Restriction had a gentler sense quilted into it for if they were the Natural Sons of Princes their Birth was enobled and the Rigor of the Rule was by so eminent a Descent softned and allayed and they made capable of this Order Then they were by a general Obligation to defend the Sepulchre of Christ to protect Pilgrims against the Eruptions of Infidels in their visits made to the Holy Land to foment no Clandestine Animosities by engaging in private Duells amongst themselves which were blasted with the Black Character of Illegality and if the Princes of Christedome were entangled in intestine Dissentions amongst themselves they were to shroud themselves under an impartial Neutrality lest they might destroy that Christianity which by Oath they were obliged to assert if they should embark in any impious Sidings or partial Combinations Lastly they were abstracted by their Vow of Poverty Chastity and Obedience from all secular Employments or Negotiations lest the Fumes of Temporal Interest might cloud their Eyes in their prospect towards the Sepulchre in order to which they were not to exercise any Mercantile Affairs or the Designs of Usury they were if possible to receive the Sacrament thrice every year and if not interrupted to hear Masse once a day I have now done with the Ingredients which made up their Vow I shall now come to the form of their Installment As for the Method of their Investiture it was cast into this Mould They had a Sword delivered to them intimating they should fight with Magnanimity and this was guarded with a Crosse Hilt to declare that they were in all Encounters to vindicate and maintain the Crosse and Sepulchre of our Saviour Then they were struck thrice over the Shoulders with that Sword they were invested with to insinuate that they should sustain all Contumelies and Indignities for the Cause and Defence of Christian Religion Then fourthly this Sword was wiped to instruct them that their Lives were to be assoiled from the Spot of all open and scandalous Impieties Fifthly they had guilt Spurs placed upon their Heels to shew first that all temporal Improvement of Wealth was to be cast behind the Designs of Piety and Religion or secondly to demonstrate that Riches were but the Glosse or Parjet but Honor and Vertue was the Solid Body designed by the Spur it self that was to support and sustain it Sixthly they had a lighted Taper put into their Hands by that to discover that by an eminent Integritie and exemplar Piety like the Irradiation of that Luminary they were to make themselves conspicuous to those who were involved in the Mists and Umbrages of a dark and gloomy Infidelity Lastly after these Formalities performed they were obliged to repair to Masse where I leave them Their Customary Habit was a black Cloak being the best Ensigne or Symptome of a solemne external Sorrow and on this was a Crosse potent between four Crosses Patee designing the five wounds of our Saviour they wore constantly when they appeared in publique a red Belt intimating they were at all times ready to bleed in Defence of the Crosse and Sepulcher and on that was fixed a white Crosse to manifest the Purity and Innocence of that Cause and Religion which was contended for This Order was first brought into England in the year of Grace 1100 by Jordan de Briset in some old Deeds written Brinset Lord of Well-hall at Eltham in Kent and Muriell his Wife who founded a House for them at Clerkenwell and dedicated it to St. John which afterwards became the Head of their Alberge here in England to which this Mannor continued united as parcell of their Demeasne untill the Dissolution in the Reign of Henry the eighth like a general Deluge swept it away and transported it into the Revenue of the Crown and that Prince by Royal Concession made it the Estate of William Pordage Esquire in whose Descendant Thomas Pordage Esquire the present Inheritance of it remains at this instant placed Rochester is a City which in elder Times was as eminent for its Antiquity as it was for its Strength and Grandeur and had not those violent Impressions which the rough hand of War formerly defaced it with demolished its Bulke and discomposed its Beauty it peradventure might have been registred at this day in the Inventory of the principal Cities of this Nation It was governed by a Port Reve until King Edw. the fourth in the second year of his Reign raised it into a higher Dignity and decreed by his royal Grant that it should thenceforth be governed by a Maior and twelve Aldermen and to this Monarch does this City owe much of its present Felicity a Prince certainly he was full of Complacence and Benignity of a munificent Mind and an obliging accostable Nature guilty onely of some humane Frailties common to all and adorned with many signal Virtues scarce resident in any one who did not voluntarily sail into that Sea of Blood which was let loose in the Civil War commenced between Him and the
Rot. Esc Num. 25. The next Family in Succession after this which was entituled to the Possession as is evident by the original Deeds now in the Hands of Lea was Molineux derived from those of Sefton in Lancashire but he remained so inconsiderable a Space in the Inheritance that like Cato in the Theater he only stept into it that he might go out again for about the Beginning of Edward the third as appears by the testimony of an ancient Court-roll Benedict de Fulsham was invested in the Patrimony of it in the thirtieth year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 20. And from him did it streame down in the Channel of successive Interest to his Descendant Richard Fulsham who likewise was in the Enjoyment of it at his Decease which was in the fifth year of Henry the fifth Rot Esc Num. 17. But after his Exit I find no farther mention of any of this Family to have been possest of this place for in the ninth year of Henry the fifth Reginald Love died seised of it and transmitted it to his Successor who held it untill the latter end of Henry the sixth and then the Revolution of Purchase brought it to be the Demeasne of William Venour and it was found to be his Possession at his Death which was in the first year of Edward the fourth Rot. Esc Num. 24. But after his Departure the Title was very unsetled and inconstant for within the Circle of some Moneths after it was by Sale from this Name rolled into the Tenure of Markham descended from the ancient Stem of the Markhams of Nottingham-shire where after a very transitory aboad it was by the same Fatality carried into the Possession of Tate who about the first year of Edward the fourth passed it away to Sir Richard Lea Lord Maior of London descended from an ancient Family of that Name in the County of Worcester and his Son was Sheriff of Kent in the nineteenth year of Edward the fourth and held his Shrievalty at his new acquired Mannor of Much Delce and from him by an even thread of Descent has the Title and Propriety been conducted down to Richard Lea Esquire who is the instant Proprietary of it Horsted borrows its Name from Horsa Brother to Hengist the Founder of the Saxon Kingdome here in Kent who fell by the Sword of the Britons at Alresford as an expiatory Sacrifice to ballance the Losse of Cartigerne Brother to Vortimer General of the Confederate British Forces who was offered up in that signal Encounter as an Holocaust to the Saxon Fury and there is something which even at this Day lies wrapt up in the Name that induces us to believe that Horsa after his slaughter recieved the Rites of his Funeral at this place and in our Grandfathers Memory there were the scattered Remains of diverse huge Massie Stones which Storms and other Impressions of Time have now altogether demolished and these certainly were in elder Times composed into the Figure of a Monument to shroud the Ashes of this Horsa as those at Cits Cothouse above Alresford were framed into the same Proportionate Mould to secure the Dust or at least to point out to Posterity the Memory of Cartigern The Mannor it self was enwraped in the Patrimony of the noble and ancient Family of Apulderfield William de Apulderfield obtained a Charter of Free-warren to his Lands at Horsted in the thirty eighth year of Henry the eighth In Times of a lower Descent I discover it in the Possession of Warren for John Son of Edmund Warren held it at his Death which was in the twelfth year of Edward the third After Warren had quitted the Inheritance I find the Fulshams by Purchase to be entituled to the Fee-simple of it and Benedict de Fulsham enjoyed in at his Decease which was in the thirtieth year of Edward the third and paid relief for this and Much Delce under the Notion of the fourth part of a Knights Fee at making the Black Prince Knight in the twentieth year of the above-said Prince After this Family was worn out it had successively the same Possessors with Much Delce so that it came with that Mannor by Purchase from Tate to Sir Richard Lea Knight and from him is the Title by successive Descent transported to Rtchard Lea Esquire the present Possessor Snodherst is another Mannor which lies partly spread into Chetham and partly into the Limits of Rochester was as high as I can trace any Record a Branch of that Demeasn which fell under the Dominion of Badelesmer and though Bartholomew Lord Badēlesmer had by his perfidious Disloyalty forfeited it in the Reign of Edward the second yet was it in the second year of Edward the third restored to his Son Bartholomew Badelesmer who in the twelfth year of that Prince dyed without Issue and left it to his Brother Giles Badelesmer who likewise deceasing without Issue Sir John Tiptoft in Right of Margery his Wife one of his Sisters and Coheirs entered upon the Inheritance of it but before the twentieth of Edward the third had alienated it to Benedict de Fulsham for he in that year as appears by the Book of Aid paid respective relief for it at the making the Black Prince Knight After Fulshams were extinguished at this place it had the Fate to own the Jurisdiction and Interest of those who were the Successive Proprietaries of Much Delce so that it is now knit to the present Inheritance of Richard Lea Esquire Little Delce is the last Mannor which is circumscribed within the Precincts of this City It was in Ages of a very high Calculation the Possession of the noble illustrious and ancient Family of Sherington written in old Deeds Pipe-rolls and other Evidences Serington and sometimes Scherington but most frequently Sherington whose original and principal Seat was at Sherington-hall at Cranworth in Norfolk though they had other Mannors which bore their Name which anciently were folded up in their Demeasne as namely Sherington in the County of Buckingham Sherington in Sussex Sherington in the County of Hereford and Sherington in Lancashire yet as I take it in their Possession But to proceed Odo de Serington or Sherington for the Names are Synonyma or coincident held this Mannor in the thirty first year of Henry the first and was enterred in the Cathedral of Rochester and when Robert Glover Somerset Herald collected his Miscellany of Church-notes in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth there were some Reliques of his Monument offered up to the Survey of a curious and Inquisitive Eye which now the Sacrilegious Barbarity of impious Mechanicks and the injurious Hand of Time together have wholly dismantled After Sherington was worn out I find a Family called Pugeis invested in the Inheritance and there is mention in the ninth year of Edward the first in Kirkbies Inquest a Book kept in the Exchequet of one Richard Pugeis who then held it but before the latter end of Edward the third this Family had deserted the