from Snoth or Sneath which in Saxon signifies portion Knolton the Town on the Knoll of an Hill Lamberhurst The wood of Lambert Langdon East and West the long down or hill Langley the long pasture Lang Port long Town or Port. Laybourne the Pasture Bourn Aqua in Palude Lee i. e. Leigh in old English Lega in old Lat. a sheltry place Leeds written Leods Castle The Peoples Castle that is something belonging to the people Lenham a Station called by the Romans Duro-Lenum the water of Lenum Leigh by Tunbridge under the hill Leigh by Greenwich under the shelter Leisdown the Pasture Down Leveland written in Saxon Leofland that is Terra Dilecta Lewisham the watery Town Lydd from the Saxon Lida denoting the Shore Lyme called by the Romans Limen that is Portus for they landed here at there second attempt Lyminge written Limening The Pasture by Limen Lingsted the place where Fern grows Ling in Saxon denoting Fern. Linton or Lington The Ferny Town Little Pourne to distinguish from Beaks-Bourne and the other Towns of that Termination upon the Bourn Longfield from the long extent of it Lose written in ancient Saxon Hlose which signifies Lot being indeed allotted by Donation to the Priory of Christ-church Luddenham written anciently Loudenham Luddesdown anciently Leodsdun the peoples hill from the Leod the People Lillingston written Lollingston from the Purling stream running by it Maidston written anciently Medwegston that is Medways Town Malling defined by Mr. Lambert to come from the rising of water springs there called Meolling Maplescombe that is the valley of Maple trees Marden vide ante inter Hundredor nomina Margate in Thanet written Meregate that is the way to the Sea from Mere the Sea and Gate a way or passage St. Margarets near Dartford St. Margarets near Rochester St. Margarets Atte Cliffe near Dover St. Marey On Crey River St. Maries in the Hundred of How Marsham the Town in the way to the Mersh St. Martines by Canterbury Mepeham written in Saxon Meopen-Ham that is the solitary Village Mereworth the fortified place derived from Worth a Fortress and Mere a Fence or Boundary Mersham the same as Marsham Mers-ton an Obscure place above Frendbury the Name is taken from its nearness to the Mersh Midley that is in the middle of the pasture a Parish and Church decayed and now sine Cura Milsted the place near some Mill. Milton quasi Midleton the Town near the mid County Milton juxta Gravesend in the mid way between the two Mannors of Parock and Gravesend Milton by Canterbury that is from a Mill there placed Minster both in Shepey and Thanet have their Names from the Monasteries that were there Moldash a mould on which Ashen Trees take growth Mongeham magna parva i.e. Monks ham Monkton in Thanet the Monks Town Moreston that is the Town by the Moor. Mottingham the Town proudly seated it is derived from Mod in Saxon Proud or lofty Nackington or Nattington the Town on the Neck of the Lawnd Nettlested that is the place where Nettles grow Newenham in the way between Ospringe and Hollingborne so called in respect of some old Station thereby it may be now not known Newchurch in Romney Marsh later built then the neighbour Churches Newenden a new planted Town by Anderida an old Roman Station and City Newington by Sittingborne so called because risen up since the Romans Colony and Station near Key-Coll-hill that is Caesars Colony in this Parish Newington near Hyth in like respect as the former because of some old Station of the Romans at Castel-hill where and near the shorn Cliffe Roman Coine hath been found saith Leland Nokeholt that is a Corner in the wood in old English Noke is a Corner Nonington belonging to Nuns North-Bourne that is The North Brook Norton in respect of situation in opposition to Sutton that is Southton Nutsted that is Nucum locus The Nut-Country Offaham as derived from some Donation of K. Offa. Orgars wick in Romney Marsh Wicke signifies in old English a way and sometimes vicus and Orgarus some Saxon Owner Orlanston sive Orlaston from Over contracted into Orelanston that is the Town above the Mersh Orpinton is much changed in the present Orthography for Dorpendun was the old name partly British and Saxon signifying the head of the water rising under the Hill there Ospringe so called from that small Ouse or Brook springing there Ostenhanger the Viscount Strangfords house so called from the Eastern situation Oast is East and hanger represented a hill of easie assent Otteham from the growth of Oates there Ottford that is the River where Otters Breed Ottringdun The hill and pasture fit for the sowing of Oates Oure by Davington so named from its situation over the Brook betwixt it and Feversham contracted into Ore Oxney The Oxens Island Padlesworth The Court seated in a Ground infested with Frogs from Padle in Saxon a Frog Pauls Crey from the Churches Dedication and the River Crey on which it stands Patricks Bourne from the Churches Dedication Peckham East and West written Pekenham that is the Town on the Peak or Top of the Hill Penshurst the head of the wood Brit. Sax. Pepenbury commonly Penbury from its position being the Head of the Bury Petham the Town lying low in a pet or pit Fluckley the Pasture made by grubbing up the wood Plumsted the place where plenty of plums grew Preston juxta Wingham the Priest-Town Preston in Ayle-ford a Mansion of the Friers Queenborough A Town incorporated and a Castel builded by King Edward the third for Queen Philippa Daughter to the Earl of Henault Radigunds Abbey aliàs Broadsole a Monastery founded near a broad soal or pond Rayneham the Town over the Reys or Water-tydes and inlets for passage as St. Mary Over Rey in Southwark Reculver is that Regulbium mentioned by Pancirollus in his Notitia Provinciarum one of the Stations of the Count of the Saxon Shore River in the valley near Dover so called of the River Richborough called Ricksborough in old Deeds that is the Kingdomes Borough from Rick a Kingdome and Burgh a Borough or fenced place in Saxon. Rydlingswould The Down where there was pasture for Horse Ridley the Horse pasture Reyesh the Ashen water Rey is a little Rill Rippeley the Pasture bank River-hill by Sevenoke full of Ripes and Springs Rochester Roffanceaster in the Romans time built by one Roffe saith Bede Rodemarsham the Roadway into the Marsh Rokeing The pasture frequented with Rooks. Rolvenden contracted into Romden and Rounden so named from the rowling Valley Romeney the Romans water that before the inclosure of Romney Marsh was Navigable up to the Foot of Limen-hill and Stutfall Castle Saltwood so called of its bordering on the Salt Sea Sandhurst that is the wood on the Sandy Soyle Sandwiche Wiche is a turning River in a Sandy soile Seale written Zeal and Dela Zeal because the Pilgrims used here to lodge who went to visit St. Thomas Beckets Shrine at Canterbury Selling from
but the Name it self doth tacitly insinuate that this Mansion formerly gave Seat and Denomination to the Family of Buckhurst in times of a lower step that is in the Reign of Henry the seventh I find it in the Tenure of Drayner but how it devolved to this Family I cannot discover It is enough that it continued united to their Dimeasn untill the beginning of Q. Elizabeth and then it was conveyed to Alexander Coachman in whose Descendant the Signorie and Interest of it hath ever since been constantly resident Cranebroke had the Grant of a Market to be observed weekly there on the Saturday in the eighteenth year of Edward the first as appears Cart. Edw. 1. Num. 92. I had almost forgot to tell you that there is a place in this Parish called Holden which with Hawkeridge hath for some Centuries of years acknowledged the Holdens for its Proprietaries and are still united to the Patrimony of this Name and Family which for such a vast Succession of time hath been planted at Cranebroke There was a Chappell at a place called Milkhouse in the Eastern part of this Parish founded and endowed by John Lawless about the latter end of Henry the seventh which upon the generall Dissolation of Chantries and all other Religious Fraternities by Henry the eighth was by that Prince about the latter end of his Rule granted to Sir John Baker of Sisingherst not far distant whose Revenue is yet in the possession of Sir John Baker his Successor There was another Chappell founded at Sisingherst as the Evidences of that place do insinuate by John de Saxenhurst which was reedified by the late Sir John Baker and by a Deed delivered to John Bancroft Bishop of Oxford devoted to the Service of God and dedicated as it was before to St. John the Evangelist After the reception of this Instrument which was in the year 1637. it was by the same Bishop Consecrated first by a Prayer at the entrance of the Chappell then by others made at the Seats Pulpit and Communion Table the effect of all which was that God would accept of it for a House and likewise of the Prayers and Devotions that in that Oratorie were offered up by the faithful People of God to his Honour and Service Charing in the Hundred of Calehill is in Saxon written Cering and by that Name King Kenulf in the year 799. made Restitution of it to Christ Church in Canterbury at the humble request of Arch-Bishop Athelard for King Offa had taken it away from that Church in the time of Arch-Bishop Janibert and being thus regained to the See it continued so till the great Exchange made in the twenty ninth year of Henry the eighth with that Prince by Arch-Bishop Cranmer the Fee-simple was planted in the Crown In the time of the Conquest in the Notitia of the Arch-Bishop and Cathedrals Lands because they held it in ancient Demeasn that is they had possest it long before the Conquest and a Mannor-house or Palace there it was called Proprium Manerium Archiepiscopi In the time of Edward the Confessor it went for eight Sullings or Plough-Lands but in the twentieth year of William the Conquerour it was rated in Domsday Book at seven Sullings because one Plough-Land was laid into his Demeasn The Church dedicated to St. Peter and Paul was anciently famous by a traditional relation which I am not much moved with for it wants the stamp of venerable Authority which did affirm that the Block on which St. John the Baptists Head was cut off was brought into England in the Reign of Richard the first and kept in this Church The first place of secular Interest which doth occurre is Pett the Evidences of this place now in the hands of Sir Robert Honywood do mention the Petts to be in Ages of a very high Assent that is about the Reign of Henry the third and Edward the first Proprietaries of it but publick Records reach no farther than Newcourt Lord of the Mannor of Newcourt not far distant Jeffrey de Newcourt Son of Walter de Newcourt paid respective Aid in the twentieth year of Edward the third for his Lands at Newcourt and Pett After the Newcourts were gone out the Hatches were by Purchase planted at Pett and Newcourt they were called so from their abode near some Gate or passage for one of them who was Possessor of these two places was written Hugh at Hatch from this Family by Sale about the latter end of Henry the seventh the right of Pett and Newcourt devolved to William Warham and in some Copies of Fines which I have seen by a false Transcription written William VVarren and this man sold them both again in the entrance of the Reign of Henry the eighth to Robert Atwater who determining in Mary Atwater his Sole Heir She by matching with Robert Honywood Esquire of Henewood in Postling wound up the Interest of these two places Pett and Newcourt into the Demeasn of that Family so that they now own Sir Robert Honywood his great Grandchild the Sole Proprietary of them Stilley is another little Mannor lying within Charing and was anciently enwrapt in the Revenue of Frene John de Frene who flourished in the Reign of Henry the third is mentioned in Testa de Nevill a Book collected in the twentieth year of that Prince to have paid Aid at the Marriage of the Kings Sider for Lands which he possest at Charing after in the twentieth year of Edward the third there is a recital in the Book of Aid of Sir Thomas de Brockhull Son of Sir William de Brockhull who paid an Auxiliary supply at the making of the Black Prince Knight for his Lands which he held at Saltwood Calehill Charing and other places in this County but after this the Possession was not long resident in this Family for Henry Brockhull this mans second Son to whom these Mannors of Stilley and Newland were assigned for livelyhood about the twelfth year of Henry the fourth transmitted them by Sale to John Darell Esquire Son of Sir William Darell who was extracted out of the right ancient and Knightly Family of the Darells of Sesay from whom Sir John Darell of Calehill and Lord of this Mannor of Stilley is originally and lineally issued out Wickins is another Mannor circumscribed within the Limits of this Parish it was originally the Patrimony of Brent a Family well endowed in this Track and certainly was as ancient a Seat of this Family as any which lay involved in their Revenue for John Brent Son of Robert de Brent of Charing paid respective Aid for Lands which he held here in the twentieth year of Edward the third and William Brent who was Son of Hugh Brent of Charing made his Will the twenty seventh year of Henry the sixth and disposed of this place to his Son Hugh Brent and this Hugh had Issue William Brent who composed his Testament in the tenth year of Henry the seventh and this William was great
first from Chelsfield it passed away to Otho Lord Grandison who paid respective Aid for this Mannor by the sixth part of a Knights Fee at the making the Black Prince Knight in the twentieth year of Edward the third but there it had but a frail abode for Sir Thomas de Grandison this mans Son conveyed it over by Sale to Richard Lord Poynings whose Daughter and Heir Eleanor matched to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland and in his Line was the Right of it for some Descents interwoven till in the Reign of Henry the seventh it was by Sale resigned up to James Walsingham Esquire whose Son Sir Edmund Walsingham alienated it to Giles in the Reign of Edward the sixth which Giles descended from Giles of Lords in Shelvich where for many years before they had been planted and from Giles about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth it came over by purchase to Captain Henry Lee of London who going out in Sisters and Coheirs it is now come by two of them to Serjeant John Clerk of Huntington-shire the principal Possessor and Mr. Thomas Norton of London Ferneborough is but a Chappel of Ease devoted to the honour of St. Giles but belongs to the mother-Mother-Church of Chelsfield which is dedicated to St. James as appears by the Records of the Church of Rochester It was a principal Seat of the Lord Grandison who made this the Head of their Barony William de Grandison held it at his death which was in the ninth year of Edward the third * Otho de Grandison obtained a the grant of Market to Ferneborough in the eighteenth of Edw. the first which was renewed to Hen. Earl of Lancaster in the eighteenth year of Edward the third and the grant of a Fair added at the Feast of S. Giles the Eve and Eight dayes following Otho Lord Grandison this mans Son obtained a Charter of Free Warren to it in the eighteenth year of Edward the third but long after this it did not remain linked to the Inheritance of this Family for in the Reign of Richard the second I find Fleming invested in the Possession whose Tenure was very transitory for not long after by Purchase it was brought into the Demeasn of Petley from whom by as swift a Fatalitie it went away to Peche of Lullingston which Family determined in Sir John Peche in the Reign of Henry the seventh who dying Issueless Elizabeth his Sister and heir brought this and a spatious Inheritance to her husband John Hart Esquire from whom M. William Hart now of Lullingston Esquire is lineally extracted and in right of this Alliance is at this present entituled to the Possession and Signorie of Ferneborough There is a third Mannor in this Parish called Godington which was anciently the Habitation of a Family which was represented to the world under that Name Simon de Godington paid respective Aid for his Mannor of Godington at the making the Black Prince Knight in the twentieth year of Edward the third as the Book of Aid informs us and after this Family expired at this place Richard Lord Poynings became Lord of the Signorie of it from whom with Eleanor his Daughter and Heir it went over to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland but did not long fix in that Family for for almost two hundred years last past the Possession hath been constantly united to the Name of Haddon a Family of principal Account in this Track as may appear by their Arms viz. A Leg couped and wounded which are Registered in the old Rolls and Ordinaries of Kentish Armorie alwayes with this addition Haddon of Kent and sometimes of Godington in Kent Hewat is another small Mannor in Cheslfield One Jeffrey de Hewat was possest of it in the Time of Henry the third ut apparet ex Charta sine Data which was for many Descents the Petleys of Down originally from whom it devolved to a Cadet of that Family who planted himself at Moulsoe in this Parish and there is a Deed in the hands of Mr. Thomas Petley of Vielston of John Coldigate of Coldigate a Farm in Halsted which bears Date from the eleventh year of Henry the fourth to which one William Petley of Chelsfield is Teste After it had been resident for sundry Generations in this Branch of Petley which sprouted out from those of Down the Title in that Age which ushered in this was by Sale from Edward Petley transferred to Mr. Thomas Petley of Vilston in Shorham another Branch shot out from the principal Stem of the Petleys at Down and he left it to his second Son Mr. Ralph Petley of Riverhead in Sevenoke not long since deceased whose Heir who is Proprietary of this place is at this instant in his Minoritie Northsted is situated likewise in Chelsfield and in the reign of Edward the third confessed a Family called Francis for its Proprietaries Simon Francis held it at his death which was in the thirty second year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 33. and acquired it by Purchase of Otho de Grandison who held this and Chelsfield as appears by the Book of Aid in the twentieth year of the former Prince but about the beginning of Henry the fourth this Family had surrendred the possession of this Mannor to Vuedall or Udall a Noble Familie and Masters of much Land both in Surrey Sussex and Hant-shire Sir John de Vuedall was one of the Knights who was with Edward the first at the Siege of Carlaverock Sir Peter D'Vuedall sat as Baron in Parliament the eighth and ninth of Edward the second Nicholas Vuedall was Constable of Windsor under Edward the third John Vuedall was Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey the second fourth and seventh years of Henry the fifth and again the first fifth and twelfth year of Henry the sixth William Vuedall was Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey the eighth of Henry the sixth and he in the sixth year of that Princes Government conveyed it to John Shelley of Bexley whose Successor William Shelley about the latter end of Henry the eighth passed it away to Mr. John Leonard of Chevening whose great Grand-child Henry Lord Dacres not many years since conveyed it to the Lady Wolrich who upon her decease setled it on her Kinsman Mr. ....... Skeggs of the County of Huntington Chelsfield had a Market obtained by Otho de Grandison in the eighteenth year of Edw. the first to be held there weekly on the Monday and a Fair to be observed there yearly by the space of three dayes at the Feast of Saint James Choriton in the Hundred of Folk-stone was the Inheritance of an ancient Family called Scotton Robert Scotton who was Sheriff of Kent the seventh eighth ninth and tenth years of Edward the first lived here and held his Shrievalty at this place and was of eminent Rank in this Track for he was Lieutenant of Dover Castle under the Prince abovesaid and held this Mannor under the Estimate of a whole Knights Fee of the Lord of
Inheritance of that Family and rested there until the first year of Henry the eighth and then it was passed away by Sale from Sir John Fogg Knight to Ralph Banister In Times of a lower Descent that is about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth I find it by Court-rols possest by Tucker who about the latter end of that Princess alienated his Concernment in it to Smith who in our Fathers Remembrance transplanted the Title by Sale into Doctour Fotherbie Dean of Cantorbury whose Son Mr. Charles Fotherbie continues now Proprietary of it Secondly Grove-place offers it self up to our Notice as being the Habitation of a Knightly Family called Grove who in old Deeds are sometimes written at Grove and sealed as appears by the Labells-affixed to their Evidences with three Escollops upon a Cheveron In the reign of Henry the sixth I find it devolved by Descent to Sir John Grove who was a great Benefactor to the Church of St. Peters in Sandwich where he lies buried with the Arms above-mentioned upon his Shield but not long after this Family determined in a Daughter and Heir who linked this Seat to the Inheritance of St. Nicholas who about the latter end of Edward the fourth conveyed it to Quilter in which Name it was resident until the latter end of Henry the eighth and then it was passed away to Linch and hath remained ever since incorporated into the Revenue of that Family so that at present it is come down to Mr. John Linch a Noble Confessor for the Interest of the Church and Protestant Religion There is a Family in this Parish called Omer which as appears by old Court-rols Tombs Deeds and other Evidences have been constantly resident almost four Hundred years Seasalter in the Hundred of Whitstaple did belong to the Priory of Christ-church but by whom it was given the Records of that Covent are silent only I find that it was part of that Revenue which supported their Diet and Table and likewise I discover that Pope Gregory the ninth in the tenth year of his Papacy by his Bull appropriated the Parsonage to the Priory above-mentioned and likewise was granted for the better improving their Lively-hood and Subsistence If you will see under what Notion it passed in the twentieth year of William the Conqueror Doomesday Book will inform you that it was valued upon the Terrier at two Carucats of Land and upon the Appraisment was rated at five pound This Mannor upon the Resignation of that Estate which related to the Convent abovesaid into the Hands of Henry the eighth was setled by that Prince on the newly erected Dean and Chapiter of Christ-church and there it remained until these calamitous Times Ellenden in this Parish belonged to the Abby of Feversham and was as the Lieger Book of that Covent informs me given to the Monks of that Cloister by John Ellenden and here it was incorporated and fixed until the publick Dissolution unhinged and unrooted it and planted it in the Crown and afterwards King Henry the eighth in the thirty fifth year of his Government granted it to Mr. Thomas Arden miserably afterwards assassinated by his Wife at Feversham and he the same year conveyed it to John Nedeham from whom it came over to his Son and Heir John Nedeham Gentleman and he in the thirty second year of Queen Elizabeth alienated it to Mr. Michael Beresford of Westerham who not long after passed it away to Sir George Newman Doctour of the Civil Law and Knighted in the sixteenth year of King James and from him by successive Right it is now descended to his Son and Heir George Newman of Rochester Esquire Seale in the Hundred of Codsheath was a Mannor which belonged to the Crown until the first year of King John and then it was passed away by Grant to Baldwin de Betun Earl of Albemard and Hawis his Daughter and Heir by matching with William Mareschall Earl of Pembroke incorporated it into his Demeasne but Gilbert Mareschall this mans Successor deceasing without Issue Roger de Bigod Earl of Norfolk in Right of Mawde his Mother who was Sister and Heir General to the abovesaid Gilbert was setled in the possession of this Mannor and he in the eleventh year of Edward the first by Gift or Donation transmits it to Otho Lord Grandison a man certainly of great power in those Times for as it appears Pat. 4. Edwardi primi he had a certain Agreement woven of sundry Articles and made between Henry the third and the King of Castile deposited in his Custody in the fourth year of Edward the first And in the fifth year of that Prince as appears Pat. 5. in seedulâ he had the Government of Jersey assigned to his Care during Life After this Family of Grandison went out which was about the Beginning of Richard the second for Thomas de Grandison dyed possest of Seale in the forty ninth year of Edward the third Parte prima Num. 62 the noble Family of Brian of Holoway in Devon was invested in the Possession and Sir William Brian or Briene for so he is styled on his Tomb dyed possest of it in the year 1395 and lyes buryed in Seale Church mailed in Armor with a Huntsmans Horn at his Head upon which the Conjecture of the Country is that he was a great Hunter when the Truth is it was placed there to signifie or denote the Tenure of some part of his Land which was in Cornage But to return the next Family which succeeded Brian in the Inheritance of Seale was the ancient Family of Fiennes and this as I find by some Court-rolls was in the reign of Henry the fourth and James Fiennes second Son of William Fiennes Esquire was the first of March in the twenty fifth of Henry the sixth summoned to the Parliament at Bury as Baron of Say and Seale but this place after this newly atchieved Honor continued not long in this Name for William Lord Say in the second year of Edward the fourth passed it away to Geffrey Boleyne Grand-father to Sir Thomas Boleyne who was made Knight of the Garter and Treasurer of the Kings House in the fifteenth created Viscount Rochford in the seventeenth and lastly raised to the Earldome of Wiltshire and Ormond in the twenty first of Henry the eighth but his infortunate Son George Viscount Rochford being beheaded and leaving no Issue it devolved to Queen Elizabeth in Right of Queen Anne her Mother one of the Sisters and Coheirs and she in the first year of her reign passes it by Grant to her Kinsman Henry Cary whose Grandchild Henry Cary Earl of Dover alienated it by Sale to Richard Sackvill Earl of Dorset who passed it away in our Fathers Memory to Richard Smith vulgarly called Dog Smith and he not many years since deceasing without Issue bequeathed the Fee-simple of it to St Thomas Hospital in Southwarke Hall-place in Seale is a second place of Account It was in the thirty sixth year of Edward the third as an
with his Hand supported that Prince when he first went out of his Ship to Land in Sussex afterwards when in the twentieth of that King's Government there was an universal Survey taken of each Mans particular Demeasn thoroughout the Nation who was of any Account or Eminence which we call Dooms-day Book there is a recital of the above mentioned Robert de St. Leger to have held Lands at Ulcomb which the Evidences of this Family do inform us were taken from a Pagan Dane whom he before had conquered and who inhabited at this place Guy de St. Leger as Mr. Fuller discovers to us in his Ecclesiastical History was appointed by William the Conquerour to be an Assistant Knight to Adelmere one of the Monks of Ely Raefe de St. Leger is registred in the Roll of those Kentish Gentlemen who accompanied Richard the first to the Siege of Acon and as the Inscription on his Leaden Shroud in the Vault of this Church does signifie was engaged in the Holy Quarrel fifteen years Another Rafe St. Leger and Hugh St. Leger were Recognitores magnae Assisae in the second year of K. John Sir Rafe de St. Leger Sir Jo. de St. Leger and Sir Tho. St. Leger were with Edw. the first at the Siege of Carlaverock in the twenty eighth year of his Reign and for their signal Atchievements there received the Order of Knighthood Indeed in times subsequent to this there was scarse almost any noble and generous undertaking but the Annals of our English History represent a St. Leger concerned and interessed in it And for their Collateral Alliances by which they became knit in Consanguinitie to several illustrious Families none in that particular have been more Successeful then themselves Sir Thomas St. Leger second Brother to Sir Rafe St. Leger married Anne Dutchesse of Exeter Sister to King Edward the fourth and so became twisted into the Family of that Prince by a Nearness of Alliance as he had before been taken into his Bosome by a union of Friendship by whom he had only Ann his Daughter and Heir who was wedded to Sir George Manners L. Rosse from whom the Earls of Rutland are in a direct Line branched out Sir James St. Leger this mans Brother matched with Anne one of the Co-heirs of Thomas Boteler Earl of Ormond from whom the St. Legers of the County of Devon were extracted out of which Stem was Sir William St. Leger who was Lord President of Munster in Ireland one thousand six hundred forty and two Sir Anthony St. Leger Father of Sir Warham was Lord Deputy of Ireland which place he managed with much of Prudence and Magnanimity his second Son Sir Anthony St. Leger Father to Sir Anthony St. Leger now of Wierton House in Boughton Monchensie died Master of the Rolls in Ireland which Office he discharged with a great deal of Faith and no less integrity Thus have I in Landskip pourtraied this noble Family which in an undivided Chain of Descent was setled at Ulcomb from the Conquerour's Time even till of late and then Sir Anthony St. Leger alienated his right in it which was grown reverend by a prescription of so many Ages to Serjeant Clerk of Rochester Father to Mr. Francis Clerk descended from Henry Clerk who was second Brother to Sir John Clerk who took the Duke of Longuevil prisoner at the Battle fought between Bomy and Spours The Church of Ulcomb belonged to christ-Christ-Church in Canterbury and being Snatched away was restored by K. Edmund in the year 941. And about 430 years since was made a Collegiate Church by Stephen Langton Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Head thereof was called Arch-presbyter Boycot is another Mannor in Ulcomb which afforded both Seat and Sirname to a Family of that Denomination as appears by several old Deeds some of which are without Date which remember Stephen de Boycot John de Boycot and Alexander Boycot which last flourished here in the Reign of Edward the third and Richard the second and from him did it by paternal Delegation devolve to John Boycot and he had Issue John Boycot and Stephen Boycot one which sold his Proportion which accrued to him by the custome of Gavelkind to Richard Hovenden and the other by the like alienation transmitted his Interest in it to William Adam from whom it came over by Donation to Thomas Glover as is specified in the Deed of Sale by which the above-mentioned person in the first year of Henry the seventh alienates it to Richard Hovenden After Hovenden was crumbled away it came by purchase to be the possession of Clerk of Wood-Church the last of which Name which was entituled to the Inheritance was Humphrey Clerk Esquire who in the ninteenth of Q. Elizabeth alienated it to Thomas Sands and he in the twentieth year of the abovesaid Princess conveyed it to the Lady Elizabeth Berkley whose Grand-child Mr. ....... Berkley Esquire is now proprietarie of it Kingsnoth is the last Mannor in Vlcomb It was part of that Demeasn which related to the Abby of Feversham and continued united to its patrimony until the publick Dissolution filed it off and then it became the Interest of the Crown until Henry the eighth in the thirty second of his reign granted it to Sir Anthony St. Leger Knight of the Garter Lord Deputy of Ireland and one of his Privy Councel whose Son Sir Warham St. Leger in the tenth year of Q. Elizabeth conveyed it to William Isley Esquire who not long after passed it away to Anthony Sampson who in the twenty first year of Q. Elizabeth alienated it to James Austin and he in the year 1599 sold it to Robert Cranmer who dying without Issue Male Anne his Daughter and Heir brought it along with her to her Husband Sir Arthur Harris of Crixey in Essex who upon his Decease gave it to his second Son Mr. John Harris and his Son and Heir Mr. Cranmer Harris of Lincolns Inne enjoys the instant Inheritance of it Vp-Church in the Hundred of Milton was in elder Times in the Register of those Lands Mannors and Hereditaments which owned the dominion of the illustrious Family of Leybourn Rog. de Leybourn in the fiftieth year of H. the third had a Grant to hold his Lands at Hartlip Reinham and Up-Church by the fourth part of a Knights Fee and from him did the Clew of successive Descent in a continued Track transport it to his Great Grand-child Juliana de Leybourne Widow of John de Hastings not Father of Laurence de Hastings E. of Pembroke as some have erroneously printed but his Kinsman and next of William de Clinton Earl of Huntington whom she survived and died possest of this Mannor in the forty third year of Edward the third and as the inquisition after her Decease informs us without any Issue or kindred who might supersede the Interest of the Crown by pretending a direct or Collateral Title to her Estate so that King Edward the third by escheat became invested in this Mannor
Saxon Owner Chilham Some have distilled something of Julius Caesar's name conjecturing it to have been called Juliham for Julius-ham Indeed there he lost Julius Laberius Durus Camp-Master or Field Marshal Chillenden so called from the cold place it stands in Chiselhurst from the growth of wood so called Chistelet in the infancy of Christianity was given to the Church of Canterbury by the Name of Cistelet that is the chosen lot or portion Cliffe from the situation upon the Cliffe in the Hundred of Hoo famous for a Synod held there Cobeham Hall and Cobeham Town anciently Coptham that is the Head-Village from the Saxon Copt an Head Coldred a village that standeth high and Bleak in East Kent and may brooke the name of Cold-rode Cosmus Bleane The Churches Dedication is to St. Cosmus and Damian Cowden from that sort of Beast called Cows which are in other places called Keyne Coudham The Cold-ham near Baston Down Cowling The Cow's pasture Crayford in old Deeds Crecanford from the Ford or River Crecan which gives name to St. Mary Crey Pauls Crey North Crey and Footes Crey from one Votes that held it in the Conqueror's time Cucston in Doomsday Book written Cocleston Coclecoe is an old priviledge to be free from answering in a place forrain to where he inhabits Crundall The Dale under a high-Crown'd hill Darent named so from the River on which it stands Dartford contracted from Darentford on which it standeth Davington or Devington extracted from Dew which imports Dew or Moisture Ing a Meadow and Ton a Town Deale sometime written Dale shews the situation to be in a plain valley Denton the Town in a Descending place Deptford that is the Deep Ford. Detling that is lying deep under a high hill Dimchurch written anciently Demchurch that is the Church upon the Dam. Ditton from Dike which in old time was written Dyghton and from thence the contract Ditton Dodington The Town on the Sedgy Lawnd from Dod that signifies the Sedge on the Bank of a River or rather from Duda some Saxon Owner Dover by the Romans called Dubris from the British word Dufir which signifies steep Downe a small Town high situated Eastbridge that is from its Easterne standing in the Marsh East-Church in Shepey from the like Situation Eastwell from the low situation in a bottome pag. 354. Edenbridge that is from the Bridge and River Eden Eden so called quasi Aqua i.e. Ey Saxonicè vallis i. e. Den The Riveror water in the Den or Valley Egarton a Parish bleakly sharply situated Eigtham called so from the eight Hams or Boroughs contained within it pag. 140. Elmesley The Elmey pasture Elmested denominated from Elmested locus Elmeston The Town among Elmes Elham or Helham quia inter Colles locatur Eltham Eldham the old Town Eseling quia in Orienti parte jacet Estling Ewell the watery bottome Eythorne olim scribitur Eigthorne The eighth Thorn Fairefield in the Marsh de bello Campo East and West Farleigh were written Ferneleigh from Ferne Ferne and leigh a Shelter or Covert Farneburgh from the Soil about it yielding Fearne and Brakes Farmyngham The ancient name is Fremingham from the stream running through it as Fremington in Devon from a small stream running through it into Tawe Faulkeham and Falkeham villa populi Fleet both North and South that is from the Thames that sometime came up Fordwich that is the crooked turning river Frensted and vulgarly Wrensted Freons-sted the Freemans place Frittenden derived from Frith a Chace and Den a valley Frensbery anciently Freons-Berig the Freeman's Court. Gillingham derived from some Gill or Rivolet passing through it and emptying it self into the Medway Godmersham Land given to God and that Church bounded by Meres Goodneston that is a good fertile Town and Country Gowdhurst anciently and properly writtten Goodhurst The good Wood. Graveney expounded by the ensuing Town Gravesend quasi Grevesend the Limits of the Liberty The other expressing a moist and watery place of like Liberty Grainey Isle from Corn Greyn so called Greenwich the turning of the River through the Green Meadows Grome the Bridge over a small stream called Grome and by it a Mansion house so called Guston that is Goston where Goss and Furres did grow Hadlow from Heafod contracted into Head and Low importing the small Head or knob Cumulus in Latin Hakington now called St. Stephens the land proportioned into Hages Haga in Saxon denoting a Circle High Halden written anciently Healden that is the Healthful Valley Halling written Healling Heathful Meadow Halsted that is Hail or Healthy place Halstow written Haly stow Holy place High Halistow Holy place given to provide Service Books for Christ-Church in the Saxons time Ham by Sandwich Signifie small Homes or dwellings Ham by Warhorne Signifie small Homes or dwellings Harbledown that is The Hill of pasture and Herbage Upper and Nether Hardres are derived from Erd the earth and Reys little Rils or Brooks Haretsham written Heretsham the Lords Town Hartie Island lying in the Form of a Hart Insula Cordis vel Cordialis or rather from Herets-Ey in Saxon the Lords water Hartley Herets-ley the Lords pasture Hartlip Labium Cordis Hastingleigh is derived from two Saxon words Heastan which signifies the Highest and Leah campus or Locus Hawkhurst that is Hawkeswodd where Hawkes had Eyeries Hawking that is Hawks Meadow Hawtes Bourne The Hawtes after Shelving owed Bourne Hearne so called from the Breeding of Hernes there Bede translates Herne by Casa as if Herne signified a House Hearnehill distinguished from the former by the situation under Boughton hill Hedcorne famous for the best and chief Corn and biggest Poultry Heys yielding plenty of Hay Hever deduced from two Saxon words Hey water and Over signifying some passage over the water Higham that is Highly seated Hinxell that is Hynds-hill Hythe that is Portus a Haven for Ships to arrive in Hollingbourne the Bourn rising in the hole Hoo from Hough in Saxon high Hope in Romney Marsh Ecclesia spei Horsmanden The Horsmans Valley Horton Kirkby that is by the Church Horton by Chartham Horton Monkes the Durty Town from Hore which imports any Filth Hoathfield that is Heathfield Hougham The high Town Hucking anciently Houge-Ing the high Lawnd Hunton or Huntington The Town to hunt in from the Saxon word Huntan Ifield written Eyfeld that is the watry Field Ightham See Eigtham Ickham anciently Yeockham the Town of arable Land from Yeock an Acre of Land Ivychurch written anciently Eyvey Church that is the Church by the water Iwade vulgarly originally Eywade The passage over the water Kempsing from some Camp or Fortress Kenardington from Kein-Erd-ington no Earth in the Town from the Moorish Situation It is probable likewise it might derive its Name from one Cyneward a Saxon Owner Kennington from Cinningston the Kings Town Keston Keysers Town by Baston the old Roman Colonie Kingsdown by Farningham Kingdowne by Milsted The Kings Hill Kingston by Barham The Kings Town Kingsnoth the Kings portion