was Sheriff of Kent in the nineteenth year of Henry the eighth William Kempe of Oslantis Esquire who afterwards was invested with the Order of Knight hood was Sheriff of Kent in the twentieth year of Henry the eighth He was second Son of Sir Thomas Kempe and after his elder Brother Christopher Kempe deceased without Issue succeeded in the Patrimony He married Eleanor Daughter and Heir of Robert Brown Esquire third Son of Sir Thomas Brown of Bechworth Castle Sir Edward Wotton of Boughton Malherbe Knight who matched with Dorothy one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir Robert Reade Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty first of Henry the eighth William Waller of Gromebridge in Spelherst Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the twenty second of Henry the eighth Sir Richard Clement of the Moat in Ightham was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty third of Henry the eighth Sir William Finch of the Moat in the Parish of St. Martins in Canterbury was Sheriff of Kent the twenty fourth year of Henry the eighth Thomas Roberts of Glastonbury in Cranbroke Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the twenty fifth of Henry the eighth Sir Thomas Poynings of Ostenhanger Knight afterwards created Lord Poynings in the thirtieth year of Henry the eighth was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty sixth year of Henry the eighth He married Katharine Daughter and Coheir of John Lord Marney but deceased without Issue in the thirty seventh year of the abovesaid Prince Sir Edward Wotton of Boughton Malherbe was again Sheriff of Kent the twenty seventh of Henry the eighth Sir Thomas Wiat of Allington Castle was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty eighth year of Henry the eighth He married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Thomas Brooke Lord Cobham by whom he had Issue Sir Thomas Wiat afterwards beheaded Sir William Haut of Hautsbourn was again Sheriff of Kent the twenty ninth year of Henry the eighth Sir William Sidney of Pencehurst Knight Banneret Tutor to Prince Edward afterwards Edward the sixth was Sheriff of Kent in the thirtieth year of Henry the eighth He was Son and Heir of Nicholas Sidney Esquire who married Anne Daughter of Sir Will. Brandon Knight slain at Bosworâ—h Field Aunt to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk This Nicholas was Son and Heir of William Sidney Esquire by Thomaâ—…in his Wife Daughter and Heir of John Barrington Esquire descended from the right ancient and Knightly Family of Barrington of Barrington Hall in Essex Sir Anthony St. Leger of Ulcomb Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty first year of Henry the eighth Anthony Sonds of Throuley Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty second of Henry the eighth Reginald Scot of Scots Hall Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty third year of Henry the eighth Sir Henry Isley of Sondridge and of Farningham was Sheriff of Kent the thirty fourth of Henry the eighth Sir Humphry Stile of Langley Park in Bekenham Knight Son and Heir of John Stile Alderman of London and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Sir Guy Wolston Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty fifth of Henry the eighth Sir John Fogge of Repton was Sheriff of Kent the thirty sixth year of Henry the eighth Sir Percival Hart of Lullingston Knight was Sheriff of Kent the thirty seventh year of Henry the eighth Henry Crispe of Quekes in Birchington in the Isle of Thanet Esquire who received the Order of Knighthood before his Death was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty eighth year of Henry the eighth in which year this Prince shrunk to Ashes Sheriffs of Kent in the Time of K. Edward the Sixth William Sidley of Scadbery in Southfleet Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the first of Edward the sixth Sir George Harpur of Sutton Valence was sheriff of Kent in the second year of Edward the sixth Thomas Colepeper of Bedgebury Son and Heir of Sir Alexander Colepeper was Sheriff of Kent in the third year of K. Edward the sixth Sir Thomas Wiat of Allington Castle Son and Heir of Sir Thomas Wiat and Grandchild of Sir Henry Wiat was Sheriff of Kent in the fourth year of K. Edward the sixth Sir Henry Isley of Sundridge was Sheriff of Kent in the fifth year of K. Edward the sixth Sir John Guldford of Hemsted in Benenden was Sheriff of Kent the sixth year of K. Edward the sixth After this year this Pious young Monarch was not long Liv'd for all his early blooming Glories were shortly after blasted by a too sudden Death Sheriffs of Kent under Queen Mary Sir Robert Southwell of Merworth Knight afterwards Master of the Rolls was Sheriff of Kent in the first year of Queen Mary He held Merworth where he lies buried in Right of his Wife Margaret Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Thomas Nevill Speaker of the Parliament in the time of Henry the eighth and one of his Privy Councel and third Son to George Nevill Baron Aburgavenny William Roper of Well Hall in Eltham was Sheriff of Kent in the first and second year of Philip and Mary Sir Thomas Kempe of Ollantie near Wye was Sheriff of Kent in the second and third year of Philip and Mary part of the year was supplied for him by Thomas Moile Esquire George Vane of Badsell Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the third and fourth year of Philip and Mary Thomas Wotton of Boughton Malherbe Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the fourth and fifth year of Philip and Mary In which year Callis was lost which Blow sat so heavy upon her Heartstrings that the Cordage not able to undergo the Pressure was crackt with the Burden which was lodged upon it Sheriffs of Kent under Queen Elizabeth Thomas Wotton of Bonghton Malherbe continued in that Office part of the first year of Q. Elizabeth and the remainder of the year was supplied by Nicholas Crispe Esquire who kept his Shrivealty at Grimgill in Whitestaple but more properly Greenshields from a Family so called who were once Proprietaries of it Warham St. Leger of Ulcomb Esquire afterwards Knighted in the year 1565 was Sheriff of Kent in the second year of Queen Elizabeth John Tufton of Hothfield in Kent Esquire Son and Heir of Nicholas Tufton Esquire who was possest of Tufton in Nordiam in Sussex was Sheriff of Kent the third year of Queen Elizabeth Richard Baker of Sisingherst in Cranbroke Esquire Son and Heir of Sir John Baker Chancellor of the Exchequer and one of the Privy Councel to Q. Mary was Sheriff of Kent in the fourth year of Q. Elizabeth Sir Thomas Walsingham of Scadbery in Chiselhurst Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the fifth year of Q. Elizabeth Sir Thomas Kempe of Ollantie Knight that was Sheriff before in the third year of Q. Mary served in that Office again in the sixth year of Q. Elizabeth John Mayney of Biddenden Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the seventh year of Q. Elizabeth but died before his year was out and the rest of the Time
was supplied by William Isley of Sundridge Esquire This our Sheriff married Margaret Daughter and Heir of Ralph Johnson of Ticehurst Son to Alderman Johnson of London which Ralph matched with Dorothy one of the two Daughters and Coheirs of Thomas Morton of Lechlade in the County of Glocester Esquire John Sidley of Southfleet Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the eighth year of Queen Elizabeth William Cromer of Tunstal Esquire Son and Heir of James Cromer Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the ninth year of Queen Elizabeth John Brown of Reynolds and as ordinarily styled Brown's Place in Horton Kerbie was Sheriff of Kent the tenth of Q. Elizabeth Edward Isaack of Patricksbourne Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the eleventh of Q. Elizabeth John Lennard of Chevining Esquire Son and Heir of John Lennard of the same place Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the twelfth year of Q. Elizabeth Walter Mayney of Spilsil in Staplehurst Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the thirteenth of Q. Elizabeth Sir Thomas Vane of Badsel Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the fourteenth year of Q. Elizabeth Thomas Willoughby of Boreplace in Chiddingstone Esquire Grandchild of Sir Thomas Willoughby of the same Place Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was Sheriff of Kent in the fifteenth year of Q. Elizabeth Sir James Hales of the Dungeon without the Walls of Canterbury was Sheriff of Kent in the sixteenth year of Q. Elizabeth John Tufton of Hothfield Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the seventeenth year of Q. Elizabeth Sir Thomas Scot of Scots Hall was Sheriff of Kent in the eighteenth year of Queen Elizabeth Edward Bois of Fredville in Nonington Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the nineteenth of Q. Elizabeth Thomas Wotton of Boughton Malherbe Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the twentieth of Q. Elizabeth Thomas Vane of Badsel in Tudeley Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty first year of Q. Elizabeth Thomas Sonds of Throuley Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty second year of Q. Elizabeth Sir George Hart of Lullingstone Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty third year of Q. Elizabeth Sir Richard Baker of Sisingherst Knight was Sheriff of Kent the twenty fourth of Q. Elizabeth Justinian Champneis of Hall Place in Bexley Esquire Son of Sir John Champneis Lord Maior of London was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty fifth year of Q. Elizabeth Michael Sands of Town Place in Throuley Esquire afterwards Knighted was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty sixth year of Q. Elizabeth William Cromer of Tunstal Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty seventh year of Q. Elizabeth Sir Iames Hales of the Dungeon in Canterbury was Sheriff of Kent the twenty eighth of Q. Elizabeth Iohn Phineux of Haw Court in Herne was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty ninth year of Q. Elizabeth Richard Hardres of Hardres Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirtieth year of Q. Elizabeth William Sidley of Southfleet Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty first year of Q. Elizabeth Thomas Willoughby of Bore Place in Chiddingstone Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty second year of Q. Elizabeth Sampson Lennard of Chevening Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty third year of Q. Elizabeth Robert Bing of Wrotham Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty fourth year of Q. Elizabeth Michael Sonds of Throuley Esquire wrs Sheriff of Kent in the thirty fifth year of Q. Elizabeth Sir Edward Wotton of Boughton Malherbe Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty sixth year of Q. Elizabeth Thomas Palmer of Wingham Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty seventh year of Q. Elizabeth Sir Moile Finch of Eastwell Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty eighth year of Q. Elizabeth Thomas Kempe of Ollantie in Wye Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty ninth year of Q. Elizabeth Martin Barnham of Hollingbourne Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the fortieth year of Q. Elizabeth Roger Twistden of Fortune Hall in great Peckham Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the forty first year of Q. Elizabeth John Smith of Ostenhanger in Stanford Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the forty second year of Q. Elizabeth Thomas Scot of Scots Hall Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the forty third year of Q. Elizabeth Sir Peter Manhood of St. Stephens near Canterbury Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the forty fourth year of Q. Elizabeth In which year that Religious Prudent and victorious Princess resigned up her Noble Soul to that God who first infused it Sheriffs of Kent in the Time of King James Sir Peter Manwood of St. Stephens continued Sheriff of Kent the first year of K. James Sir James Cromer of Tunstal Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the second year of K. James Sir Thomas Baker Knight second Son of Sir Richard Baker of Sisingherst Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the third year of K. James and kept his Shrievalty at Sisingherst Sir Moile Finch of Eastwell Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the fourth year of King James Sir Norton Knatchbull of Mersham Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the fifth year of K. James Sir Robert Edolph of Hinxhill Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the sixth year of K. James Sir Edward Hales of Wood Church Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the seventh year of K. James Sir William Withens of Southend in Eltham was Sheriff of Kent in the eighth year of K. James Sir Nicholas Gilborne of Charing Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the ninth year of K. James Sir Maximilian Dalison of Halling near Rochester Knight was Sheriff of Kent the tenth of K. James Sir William Steed of Steed-Hill in Haretshat was Sheriff of Kent the eleventh year of K. James Sir Anthony Aucher of Hautsbourne Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the twelfth year of K. James Sir Edward Filmer of East Sutton Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the thirteenth year of K. James Sir Edwin Sandies of Northbourne Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the fourteenth year of K. James William Beswick of Spelmonden in Horsemonden Esquire was Sheriff of Kent the fifteenth year of K. James Gabriel Livesey of Hollingbourne Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the sixteenth year of K. James Sir Thomas Norton of Bobbing and Northwood in Milton Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the seventeenth of K. James Edward Scot of Scots Hall Esquire afterwards made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Charles was Sheriff of Kent the eighteenth of K. James Sir John Sidley of the Friers in Alresford Baronet was Sheriff of Kent in the nineteenth year of K. James Sir Thomas Roberts of Glastenbury in Cranbroke Knight and Baronet was Sheriff of Kent in the twentieth year of K. James Sir George Fane of Burston in Hunton Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty first year of K. James Sir John Heyward of Hollingbourne Knight was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty second year of K. James In which year this Monarch cast off his humane Frailty to
lies entombed under an Arch in the Southwall with his pourtraicture insculped in a Marble in Minster Church whose Tomb is become the Scene of much Falshood and popular errour the vulgar having digged out of his Vault many wild Legends and Romances as namely that he buryed a Priest alive that he swam on his horse two miles thorough the Sea to the King who was then neer this Island on Shipboard to purchase his pardon and having obtained it swam back to the Shore where being arrived he cut off the head of his said Horse because it was affirmed he had acted this by Magick and that riding on hunting a twelvemoneth after his horse stumbled and threw him on the Scull of his former Horse which blow so bruised him that from that Contusion he contracted an inward impostumation of which he dyed and in memory of which an Horse Head is placed at his Feet which fictitious Story is rent into the disunion of so many absurd circumstances that I shall represent to the Reader the Foundation on which this fabulous Natrative was formerly established which is no more but this Sir Robert de Shurland above-mentioned being Lord Warden of the Cinque-ports and a man of eminent Authority under Edward the first obtained Grant of priviledge by Charter to have wrack of Sea upon his Lands confining on the Sea Shore neere Shurland now the extent of this Royaltie is evermore esteemed to reach as far into the Water upon a low ebb as a man can ride in and touch any thing with the point of his Launce and so you have the explication of this marvel and the couching either of whole Creatures or part of them at the Feet of worthy personages is most frequent both now and in elder Times that these inanimate Representations might be the Symbols or Hieroglyphicks to intimate to posterity those Virtues which were resident in them when alive But to proceed the abovementioned Sir Robert de Shurland having improved his Reputation with many noble and worthy Actions left That only to perpetuate his Name to posterity having no Issue-male to continue it for he left only one Daughter and Heir matched to W. de Cheyney of Patricksbourn Cheyney who was son and heir to Sir Alexander de Cheyney who is in the Inventory or List of those Knights Bannerets who were ennobled with that Dignity by E. the first at the Siege of Carlaverock in the twenty eighth year of his reign and in Right of this Match dyed possest of it in the eighth year of E. the third Rot. Esc Num. 58. And from him did it come down to his great Grandchild Sir John Cheyney who was Knight of the Garter and frequently Knight of this Shire in sundry Parliaments under the Government of Henry the fourth in the first year of whose reign as our Chronicles inform us he was sent Embassador to several forreign Princes to represent to them the Reasons or Motives which induced him to assume the English Diadem and in the first and second year of that Prince he was chosen Speaker of Parliament Sir William Cheyney another of this Family of Shurland was first a Judge and secondly Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in the reign of Henry the fifth but the greatest Honour this Mannor atchieved was when it came to be possest by Sir Thomas Cheyney who was Knight of the Garter Lord Warden of the Cinque-ports Constable of Quinborough Castle and one of the Privy Councel to Henry the eighth and he had Issue Sir Henry Cheyney created Henry Lord Cheyney of Tuddington by Queen Elizabeth who having exchanged this Mannor of Shurland with that Princesse it remained with the patrimony of the Crown untill the second year of King James and then it was by royal Concession from that Prince made the Inheritance of Philip Earl of Montgomery and after of Pembroke upon whose late decease it is now come to confesse the Signory of his second Son Mr. James Herbert Kingsborough is another Mannor in this Parish whose Name tacitly intimates to us that it was involved formerly in the Revenue of the Crown and was the place which the Inhabitants frequented not only for the holding of a Court for the choice and election of the Constables of the Island but likewise here assembled to nominate and appoint those Wardens or Bailiffs that were to take Cognisance or Charge of the passage called King ferry which divides the Island and the main Land of me County this Mannor after it had for many Generations layn folded up in the royal Demeasne was by Queen Elizabeth granted to Mr. Henry Cary who about the Beginning of K. James passed it away to Swaleman whose Descendant is still entituled to the propriety of it Leisdon next offers it selfe up to our view which was parcel of that estate which acknowledged the noble and ancient Family of Grey or Rotherfield in Sussex for its ancient Owners The first which made this Family eminent was John de Grey who was frequently summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron in the reign of Edward the third and dyed possest of this Mannor in the thirty third year of that Prince Rot. Esc Num. 38. And so did Robert Grey his Successor in the second year of Henry the fourth After his Exit I do not find it long constant to the Signory of this Name for about the Beginning of Henry the sixth it was alienated to Lovell and by virtue of this purchase Sir William Lovell held it at his Death which was in the twenty third year of Henry the sixth After this Family had abandoned the possession the Cheyneys of Shurland were by purchase planted in the Inheritance and remained setled in the Fee-simple of it untill Sir Henry Lord Cheyney exchanged it with Queen Elizabeth Nuts called so vulgarly but in the ancient Court-rolls named Notts as being the Inheritance of a Family called Nott is a little Mannor in Leisdon which after it had for many descents acknowledged no other proprietaries but this Family about the Beginning of Edward the fourth was rent from them by purchase and transplanted into Bartholomew a Family which were Owners anciently of much Land about Lingsted Throuley and other places in that Track and continued Masters of this Lordship untill the reign of Henry the eighth and then it was conveyed to Sir Thomas Cheyney whose Son Sir Henry Cheyney about the Beginning of Queen Elizabeth passed it away to Sampson a Family which had been possessors of Sampson-court not far distant many hundred years and were descended from William Sampson who was frequently summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron in the reign of Edward the first From Sampson it was again in our Fathers Memory carried off to Oâ—borne in the Descendants of which Family the right is still fixed Werdon is the last place of Account in this Island It was in times of an elder Inscription involved in the Inheritance of Savage of Bobbing and in the twenty third year of Edward
originall and he having thus improved it transmitted his Right in it by sale some few yeers since to Mr. Philip Warwick Chiddingston in the Hundred of Somerden hath the Addition of Cohbam as being the Inheritance of the Lords Cobham of Sterborough Castle Henry de Cobham had in the ninth year of King John a Charter for all his Lands in Kent of which these at Chiddingston with the two little Mannors of Reynsley and Tihurst In Ages of a lower Step Reginald Lord Cobham who was summoned to Parliament as Lord Cobham of Sterborough in the twenty second year of Edward the third died possest of them in the thirty fifth year of that Prince Parte prima Rot. Esc Num. 62. And here the Right continued till in Thomas Lord Cobham this mans great Grandchild the Male Line failed and resolved into Ann Cobham who was matched to Edward Borough Lord of Gainsborough in the County of Lincoln whose Grandchild Thomas Lord Borough some fifty years since passed away his Right in Chiddingstone Reynsley and Tihurst which had devolved to him by his Grandmother to Stretfield whose Son deceasing without Issue Male they became the Inheritance of four Daughters and Coheirs matched to Dillingham Shetterden Powell and Taylor only Reynsley before his Death was sold to Mr. Christopher Knight whose Heir does now possesse it Burwash Court in this Parish was the Patrimony of the Lords Burgherst by vulgar Depravation of the Name called Burwash Stephen de Burwash had a Charter of Free-warren to all his Lands in Kent in the first year of Edward the second Robert de Burgherst or Burwarsh possest it at his Death which was in the thirty third year of Edward the first Rot. Esc Num. 41. and his Son Bartholomew Lord Burwash in the forty third year of Edward the third by Deed passes away much of his Land in Warwick-shire and Kent to Walter de Paveley and Matilda his Wife in which this lay involved from Paveley it came down by Purchase to John de Bore Trivet and Vaux whose Successors conveyed Burwash to John Alphew in the Reign of Henry the sixth Alphews Coheirs were marryed to ....... Brograve and Sir Robert Read Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the Time of Henry the seventh who in his Wifes Right carried away Burwash as parcell of her Dower but this man determining likewise in Daughters and Coheirs Katharine one of them was wedded to Sir Thomas Willoughby second Son to Christopher Willoughbie of Eresbie which Sir Thomas was likewise Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Eliza. was matched to Sir Tho. Totihurst and a third was married to Th. Wotton Esquire Sir Thomas Willoughbie Esquire Son and Heir of Sir Tho. who joyned in a Fine with his two Uncles even now mentioned in the sixth year of Edw. the sixth and so by a mutuall Concurrence with them their united Concernment in Burwash was passed away to Mr. John and Mr. Robert Seyliard of Delaware in whose Name and Revenue the Title and Propriety of this place hath ever since kept so permanent an Aboad that it is still the Inheritance of Mr. John Seyliard now of Delaware Esquire Bore Place with the Mannor of Milbroke and Boresell was formerly the Inheritance as high as Henry the third of a Family which assumed its Sirname from hence and was called Bore and likewise took in to his Arms a Bore for his Cognisance in this Family the Right of these places successively dwelt till John Bore in the Time of Henry the sixth transplanted his Interest in them by Sale into John Alphew by whose Coheir they came over to her Husband Sir Robert Read and from him they went away by Katharine one of his Coheirs to Sir Thomas Willoughbie whose great Grandchild Percivall Willoughbie who having matched with Bridget one of the four Coheirs of Sir Percival Willoughbie of Notinghamshire devested himself of his Title to both these places to improve his Interest in that County and not many years since alienated them to Mr. Bernard Hide of London Esquire one of the Commissioners of the Custome House to the late King Charles whose Grandchild Mr. Bernard Hide is upon his Fathers late Decease now enterred into their Possession of Milbroke and Boreplace But Boresell now vulgarly called Bowsell was sold to Edmund Thomas of Whitley neer Sevenoke who is now in the enjoyment of it Chilham in the Hundred of Felborough was by William the Conquerour as the Pages of Doomsday Book instruct us assigned to Fulbert de Dover under the Notion of a whole Knights Fee for his Assistance and Association to John de Fiennes in the Guard of Dover Castle which eminent employment thus imposed upon him did induce him to wave his originall Sirname of Lucy and assume one derived from his Office yet Richard de Lucy this mans Son did it seems take up again his primitive Sirname for when King John by his Charter in the sixteenth year of his Reign Cart. 24. Num. 37. restores to Rose de Dover called in the Latin Record Rohesia the Castle of Chilham with all its Appendages he calls it there the Land which was her Grandfather Richard de Lucy's Inheritance This Rose de Dover was sometimes written in old Deeds de Lucy in Relation to which she sealed with three Pikes * Fishes called Lucii in Latin she matched with Richard base Son to King John by whom she had two Daughters and Coheirs Lora married to William de Marmion and Isabell espoused to David de Strabolgie Earl of Athol who in her Right became Lord of the Castle and Mannor of Chilham and transmitted it to his Son John Earl of Atholl who for his frequent Acts of Hostility and Rebellion against Edward the first in his Contest with the Scots being by the Fate of War made Captive was at Canterbury hanged on a Gibbet fifty Foot high that he might be as eminent in his Punishment as he was before conspicuous in his Crimes and being cut down halfe alive had his Head struck off and his Trunk cast into the Fire a Savage Manner of Punishment and hardly heard of before amongst us upon his Shipwrack and Confiscation of Estate it rested in the Demeasne of the Crown till King Edward the second in the fifth year of his Reign as appears Parte prima Pat. Edwardi secundi granted the Castle and Mannor of Chilham to Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer who quickly after lost it by his Perfidiousnesse and Disloyalty to that Prince so that it returned to the Crown and the abovesaid Prince as is evident by Pat. 15. 16. Edwardi secundi restores the Castle and Mannor with all the Goods and Chattels in it which belonged to Bartholomew Badelesmer to David de Strabolgie Grandchild to the first David for Life only which upon his Expiration was again united to the Royal Revenue and in the third year of King Edward the thirds Government it was by Patent granted to Bartholomew Badelesmer Son to the abovesaid Lord Bartholomew and
of Edw. the second and Edw. the third whose great Grandchild Will. Garwinton dying without Issue Joan his Kinswoman matched to Richard Haut was in the ninth year of Henry the fourth found to be his Heir not only to this place but to much other Land in this Territory and she had Issue Richard Haut who concluded in a Female Heir whose Name was Margery who by matching with William Isaack linked this Mannor to his Revenue Thus farre this Manuscript Who were the Possessors since the Court-Rolls which do not ascend very high now in the Custody of Mr. Hugben discover The first Family which they recite is Hales and it remained in the Inheritance of that Name till towards the end of Queen Elizabeth and then it was by Sale transported over to Manwood who some few years after disposed of his Interest in it by the same Alienation to Sir Rob. Lewknor upon whose Decease it devolved to his Son Mr. Hamon Lewknor Esquire who hath upon his Death during the Minority of his Son left the Possession to be enjoyed by his Widow Bowick is a sixth place which must now come within the pale of this Discourse It was in Times of elder Inscription the Seat of the Lads who in diverse of their ancient Muniments and Evidences writ de Lad. Now if you will know where that place is seated I answer it is situated in Chart by Sutton where there is an ancient Farme which formerly had the Repute of a Mannor and is at this instant as it was in Ages of a higher Step known by the Name of Lads and was till almost our Grandfathers Memory in the Tenure of that Family after Lad was departed from the Possession of this Place the Nethersolls by Purchase were about the Beginning of Henry the seventh incorporated into the Possession and staid in it some few years and then alienated their Interest here to Aucher who about the latter end of Henry the eighth resigned the Title by Sale to Wroth in which Family it was resident until some few years since it was passed away to Elgar Oxroad is a seventh Mannor in Elham In a very old Court-Roll now in the hands of Mr. Shetterden of Eltham one John de Oxroad is represented to be the Possessor and in others of a more modern Complexion which bear date from Henry the fourth and so downwards untill the beginning of Henry the eighth the Hinckleys are discovered to us to be the Proprietaries of it and then this Name was extinguished in a Daughter and Heir for Isabell was the only Child of Thomas Hinckley who by espousing Joan Bene carried this place into the Possession of that Family where it was constantly fixed untill of late years the Title was by Sale transplanted into Mr. Daniell Shetterden of Eltham descended from the Shetterdens of Shetterden in great Chart which Land they have possest for diverse hundreds of years Ladwood is an eighth Mannor in this Parish written in old Evidences Ladswood from whence we may spin out a more then probable Conjecture that before the erecting the house by Rolfe it was a Wood belonging to Lad of Bowick but for some hundreds of years that is fince the latter end of Edward the third it hath constantly related to the Family of Rolfe a Name which Mr. Thinne conjectures in a Pedigree which he collected of this Family was contracted from the ancient German Name Rodolphus and Mr. Lambert in his Kentish Perambulation mentions one Rolph a Saxon who added much to the Castle of Rochester from whom it is not altogether improbable this Family which hath been so ancient at Elham might extract their first original Clavertie is the last place in this Parish which may exact our mention it did belong before the Suppression to the Knights Hospitallers and was one of those places in this Track which was a Commaundry to the more general Seminary of this Order planted at Edwell Upon the Dissolution of this Order here in England by Henry the eighth who condemned their Disorder and Luxury only to improve his own like the Lapwing who cries most when she is farthest off from her Nest this was added to the Demeasne of the Crown and King Edward the sixth granted it to Peter Heyman Esquire who was one of the Gentlemen off his Bedchamber and great Grandfather to Sir Henry Hamon Baronet who was the late Proprietarie of this Mannor of Claverty a person to whom if I should not affirm my self signally and extraordinarily engaged I deserved to be represented to Posterity under the darkest Complexion of Ingratitude Eightam Hamon de Crevequer held Eigtham in the Reign of K. John and then Sim. de Crioll in the Reign of Henry the third as appears by old Evidences vulgarly but corruptly and falsely called Ightam lies in the Hundred of Wrotham and hath that Denomination imposed upon it from the eight Hams or Boroughs which lie within the Verge of it The first is Eightham it self the second is Redwell the third is Ivie-Hatch the fourth is Barrow Green the fifth is St. Cleres the sixth is the Moat the seventh is Beaulies and the eighth and last is Oldborough which puts in its Claim to be of Roman originall for when Leland visited Kent which was about the beginning of Henry the eighth there was some Remains of an ancient Fortification and it is probable that this being the way which led to the great Roman Colonie at Noviomagum now called Woodcot in Surrey was at this place fortified upon all emergent occasions to secure their Retreat from any hostile Eruption The Mannor of Eightam it self was the Possession of William de Inge one of the Judges in the Reign of Edward the second this William de Inge was by his Country and Parentage of the County of Bedford and had Issue William de Inge who matched with Margery Daughter of Henry Grapenell and dyed seised in the fifteenth of Edward the second of this Mannor of Eightham his Daughter and Heir Joan was wedded to Eudo Lord Zouch of Harringworth and William le Zouch of Harringworth dyed possest of it in the fifteenth year of Richard the second Rot. Esc Num. 64. And in this Name was the Propriety of this place for sundry Generations successively resident untill the beginning of Henry the seventh and then it was alienated to Sir Robert Read Serjeant at Law and Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas who not long after going out in four Daughters and Coheirs Dorothy matched to Sir Edw. Wotton Margaret married to Sir John Harecourt of Elnall in the County of Stafford Katharine wedded to Sir Thomas Willoughbie Lord Chief Justice of the Common pleas and Eliz. espoused to Tho. Totihurst Esq they divided his Inheritance and this Mannor upon the Distinction of it into parcells this was added to the Revenue of Willoughby from which Family in our Grandfathers Remembrance it passed away by Sale to Jam. descended from Jacob van Hastrecht who was anciently seated in Cleve
I find that in the seventh year of that King's Raign the said Lord Cobham sold the abovesaid Mannor to Sir Robert Reade then Serjeant at Law but after Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas who concluding in three Daughters and Coheirs Dorothy matched to Sir Edward Wotten of Boughton Malherbe Katharin wedded to Sir Thomas Willoughbie second Son of Christopher Willoughbie Lord Willoughbie of Eresbye and Margaret married to Sir Iohn Harcourt of Elnal in the County of Stafford this Mannor of St. Maries in her right descending to this Family the abovesaid Sir Iohn and the Lady Margaret his Wise did in the thirtieth year of Henry the eighth exchange the said Mannor of St. Mary Hall with Iohn Wiseman Gentleman for the Priory of Ronton in the County of Stafford since which Time the said Mannor hath continued in the Name of Wiseman and is at this instant in the Possession of Sir Thomas Wiseman of Riven Hall in the County of Essex Knight Newland is a Mannor Situated in St. Maries which was as high as can be traced by any Track of Evidence the Inheritance of Somer vulgarly now called Somers Richard le Somer made his Will as appears by the Records of Rochester in the year of Grace 1347 and died seised of this Place Lands in Halstow Higham Leigh and elsewhere and from him did it come down by the Channel of Descent to John Somer who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Raign of Henry the sixth who was a great Benefactor to the Priory of Christ-Church in whose Cloister the Armes of this Family remain insculped in Stone as a Memorial of his Beneficence the last of this Family who held this place was Sir William Somer who was thrice employed as publick Embassador to forraign States by Queen Elizabeth and he deceased without Issue Male so that his two Daughters matched to Sir Alexander Temple and Sir James Cromer became his Coheirs but this Mannor of Newland upon the Petition was united to the Demeasn of Temple whose Heir hath lately passed it away to the Treasurers of the Chest for sick and mained Seamen at Chetham Mershham in the Hundred of Chart and Longbridge was given by Siward and Mawde his Wife to the Monks of St. Augustins for support of their Diet which Concession of their's was afterwards confirmed as appears by the Book of Christ-Church by the Royal Authority of Edward the Confessor and so remained wrapped up in the Demeasn of the Church till the Dissolution of that Covent and then it fell into the Revenue of the Crown and King Henry the eighth in the thirty third year of his Raign settled it on the newly erected Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Quatherington in this Parish vulgarly called Quarington was the ancient Residence of the Blechendens till William Blechenden by marriage with Agnes Daughter and Coheir of ....... Godfrey of Aldington became in her Right Master of Simnells in that Parish and so left his Habitation at Mersham to enjoy his new Acquists at Aldington certainly they were very anciently Seated if not at this place yet in this Parish for I have seen the draught of a Pedigree knit together by Clarenceux Cooke wherein they are brought down from Nicholas de Blechenden who flourished here at Mersham in the Raign of Edward the first though I confesse the Evidences of Quarington reach no higher then Will. Blechenden who is made in the Pedigree to be Grandchild to the abovesaid Nicholas and who flourished in the Raign of Richard the second after the Blechendens the Cleggates of Canterbury became in our Grandfathers Memory to be Lords of the Fee but not long after alienated their Right in it to Eastday of Saltwood from whom the like Current of Succession wâ—fted it over to Knatchbull from whom the Right descended to Sir Norton Knatchbull a Person who for his Favour and Love to Learning and Antiquitie in Times when they are both fallen under such Cheapness and Contempt cannot be mentioned without an Epithete equivalent to so just a merit Mepeham in the Hundred of Totingtrough was given to the Monks of Canterbury for their supply of Dyet by Ediva the Queen Mother of the two Kings Edmund and Eadred as appears by the Book of Christ-Church in the year of Grace 861. Upon the suppression of that Fraternitie it increased by its Addition the Revenue of the Crown but it was suddenly after in the twenty ninth year of Henry the eighth restored to the Church and so continued till these infortunate Times chained it to the Patrimony of the See of Canterbury whose Arch-Bishops it seems had a speciall Regard to this place for William Courtney one of them re-builded the Church which by the Onsets of Time was shrunk into Dilapidation and Rubbish and erected likewise some Alms Houses here for the support and maintainance of the poor of this Parish The Mannor of Dodmore lies within the Circuit of Mepeham and was as high as the Beam of any Deed can discover to me the Possession of the noble and Knightly Family of Huntingfield Sir Peter Huntingfield by his Deed sans Date does demise it to his kinsman Walter Huntingfield and he by Deed likewise without any Date affixed to it passed it away to John Smith and he in the forty seventh year of Edward the third conveyed his Right in it by Sale to Richard Ideleigh from whom the Ideleighs of Easture in Chilham and Rollingin at Goodneston in East-Kent originally branched out But here the private Muniments of this place by whose Light I have walked break off so that I must make a Gap in my Intelligence and skip into the Raign of Henry the eighth In the ninth year of whose Government I find by the Court-Rolls of this place one Thomas Cavendish Esq to be possest of it from whom about the second year of Edward the sixth it went away to Henry Taylor afterwards within the Circuit of thirty years it was the Possession of John Giffard then of Walter Powre of Brenchley and after him of Henry Collins who in the year 1604. demised his Interest in it to Walter Kipping Gentleman of Kippings-Cross in Tuydley where they were resident before about five hundred year and now it is made by Dorothy Kipping his Daughter and Coheir part of the Patrimony of my Worthy and Ingenuous Friend Edward Darrell Esquire Dean-Court is likewise Seated within the Verge of Mepeham It was in elder times a Branch of that wide and opulent Estate which was marshal'd under the Signory of Twitham Alan de Twitham is enrolled in the Catalogue of those Kentish Gentlemen who were with Richard the first at the Seige of Acon Bethram de Twitham held it at his Death which was in the third year of Edward the third after Alanus de Twitham died seised of it in the twenty fifth year of the above-said Kings Raign and his Son Theobald de Twitham after him enjoyed it at his Death which was in the fourth year of Richard the second
Alexander de Cheney Grand-child to the above-said Alexander Rotulus Pipae de scutagio Walliae An. 42. Henrici tertii is enrolled in the List of those eminent Kentish Persons who in the forty second year of Henry the third accompanied that Prince when he marched from Chester to suppress the emotions of the Welsh Sir Alexander de Cheyney this mans Son was with King Edward the first in his victorious and triumphant Expedition against the Scots in the twenty eighth year of his Raign as appears by the Rolls of those Kentish Gentlemen who were embarked in that succesful Design with that Prince and from this Alexander did the possession of this place by an undisordered and even Thread of Descent through all the Mazes of Time transmit it self to Henry Lord Cheyney and he having by his excess and exorbitancy embezelled an Estate of vast Extent and Grandeur amongst the Rest passed this away in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth to William Partrich Esquire whose Grandchild Sir Edward Partrich in that Age which was within the Verge of our Remembrance alienated it to Mr. Arnold Brams Howletts in this Parish with Hode in Patricksbourn also were the Ancient Demeasne of Izaack and there is a Chancel in the Church which formerly bore the the Name of Izaacks Chancel John Izaack in the twentieth year of Edward the third as appears by the Book of Aide paid an auxiliary supply for his Lands at Patriksbourn at the investing the Black Prince with Knighthood John Isaack his Son lies entombed in Patricksbourn Church with this Inscription upon his Grave-stone Orate pro Animabus Joannis Izaack Armigeri Ceciliae uxoris eius qui obiit ...... Anno Domini 1443. Thomas Izaack as the private Annals of this Family do discover to us had a Command in France under the Duke of Bedford where he performed exemplary Service against the French The last of this Family at this place was Edward Izaack Esquire who determined in two Daughters and Coheirs Mary who was matched to Thomas Apylton of Waldenfield in Suffolk and another first wedded to ...... Sydley and after to Sir Henry Palmer to whose Son she gave Howletts as being upon the Division of her Fathers Estate made her Inheritance from whom Sir Henry Palmer now of St. Martins-hill in Canterbury is descended who hath lately alienated Howletts to Sir Robert Hales Knight and Baronet Peckham in the Hundreds of Twyford and Littlefeild is distinguished from the other first by its Bulk and Dimension this being called commonly great Peckham and then secondly by its Situation being styled in Records East-Peckham It was given to the Church of the Trinity that is Christ-church in Canterbury by Queen Edgiva to the Monks of that Covent ad Cibum for a support of their Diet and Alimony in the year of Grace nine hundred forty and one and if you will see how it was rated in the great Register of Domes-day Book take here a View of it Peckham saies that Record Tempore Edwardi Regis se defendebat pro VI. Sullings and so forth Peckham in the Time of Edward the King that is the Confessor went for seven Plough-Lands and defends it self now that is in the Time of the Conqueror after the same Estimate and was rated upon the Appraisement formerly at twelve lb. but now is stated at eight And thus regulated was it for many Ages fastned to the Patrimony of the Church until the Dissolution in the raign of Henry the eighth unloosned the Cement in the twenty ninth year of that Prince who afterwards about the thirty sixth year of his Raign grants this and divers other parcels of the Church-Demeasne to Sir Thomas Wiatt who not long after by Livery and Seisin passes away his Right in it to George Moulton Esquire but because there was a Fine and Recovery wanting the Sale was imperfect so that he had it only in Abeiance as the Law styles it or in Expectance so that the Crown in the second of Queen Mary upon the Defection and Attaint of Sir Thomas Wiat finding this in the Tenure of Moulton seised upon it as parcel of Wiats Estate because it had not been before legally conveyed And here it rested till Queen Elizabeth in the second year of her raign granted it to Anthony Weldon Esquire one of the Justices of Peace for this County under the raign of Queen Mary at which Time he became eminent by his vigorous opposing Sir Thomas Wiat in that Design he was then embarked in and in this Family though not without some Struglings and Conflicts at Law about the Title does the Propriety of this Mannor at this instant reside There is an eminent Seat in this Parish called Roydon-Hall which was before called Fortune but was of no great Account until about the beginning of Henry the sixth and then Roydon of Suffolk came into this County and seated himself here and erected this Pile upon which he fixed his own Name which it hath been known by ever since though it hath changed its Possessor for this Family was extinguished in a Daughter and Heir called Elizabeth who was the only surviving Issue of Thomas Roydon Esquire who by matching with William Twisden Esquire made it the Inheritance of William Twisden Esquire Great Grand-father to Sir Roger Twisden Knight and Baronet who obtained a Charter of Free-warren from the late King to reduce a certain proportion of Ground into a Parke which is that the House is surrounded with at present though the House owe much of its Magnificence and Splendor to the Care and Expence of his Grand-father Roger Twisden Esquire and his Father Sir William Twisden Knight and Baronet Alban vulgarly called Auburne is another place of eminent Consideration in East-Peckham This with Black-pits in this Parish was anciently the Inheritance of a Family called Pollard for John the Son of John Pollard in the thirty forth year of Edward the first demises it to Alban de Wandesworth who it is probable erected some Mansion House upon it from whence Posterity took the Advantage to adopt it into his Sirname and from him did it devolve by successive Right to his Grandchild William de Wandesworth who dying without Issue gave it to his Widow Mabell Wandesworth who was remarried to Richard Ryner and they both by a joint Concurrence in the second year of Richard the second passed Albans and Black-pits away to John Mew yet I find a Family called Onley interessed in some part of both these Mannors which was purchased of William de Wandeshine in the raign of Henry the third and in this Family was the Title lodged untill the second year of Richard the second and then Joan Only in whom the Name and Possession both concluded alienated her Proportion to the abovesaid John Mew nor was some parcell of both these Mannors free from the claim of a Family called Goldsmith for in the ninth year of Richard the second Richard Goldsmith does devest himself of all Concernment in it
Henry the fourth Robert Tame paid respective Aid for it at the Marriage of Blanch that Kings Daughter After Tame was worn out the Sidleys possest it and John Sidley Esquire who was Auditor to Henry the seventh added much to this House as well as to his Estate and from him is it now descended to Sir Charles Sidley Baronet whom it owns for present Lord of the Fee Ripple in the Hundred of Cornile was a Mannor which alwayes related to the Abby of St. Austins and was in the Surrender of this Abby into the Hands of Henry eighth in the twenty ninth year of that Prince found to be involved in the Demeasne of that Covent from whom it went over to the Crown and remained there until Queen Elizabeth in the thirty second year of her Government passed it away to Sir John Hall who not long after alienated his Interest here to Gokin in which Family the Propriety hath ever since continued But Watling was originally of secular Concernment and was wound up in the Patrimony of the Lord Leybourn Thomas de Leybourn enjoyed it at his Decease which was in the thirty fifth year of Edward the first Rot. Esc Num. 10. From whom it went along with the Residue of his Estate to his Son Sir Roger de Leybourn with whom the Male-Line sunk into his Sepulcher and Juliana de Leybourn was his Sole Heir and she was first matched to Iohn de Hastings and afterwards to William de Clinton Earl of Huntington but had no Issue by neither nor was there any which could by a Claim of collateral Affinity stave off the Claim and pretences of the Crown unto her Estate so that upon her Decease which was in the forty third year of Edward the third that Prince seised upon her Inheritance as an Escheat and his Granchild Richard the second granted this to the Abby of Chidrens Langley upon whose suppression it devolved with all its perquisites to the Crown and Henry the eighth granted it in the thirty fifth year of his raign to Sir Thomas Moile one of the Justices at that Time of this County from whom by Amy his Daughter and Coheir it was cemented into the Patrimony of Sir Thomas Kempe but it was not long after unsodered for in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth it was sold to William Sherley of Sussex who in our Grand-fathers Remembrance alienated it to Crayford of Mongeham whose Successor not without an eager contest commenced with one Durbon and Kidder by his Predecessor who pretended an Interest in it conveyed to them by an antecedent Judgement acknowledged by the above-said Shirley is now setled in the Possession of it River in the Hundred of Bewsborough contains two remarkable places within the Boundaries of it The first is Kersoney which was the Inheritance of a Family called Paganell or more vulgarly Paynell Isolda Wife of John Paynell held it at her Death which was in the seventeenth year of Edward the second In Times of a lower Descent I find it in the Tenure of Phineux the last of which Name at this Place was Sir John Phineux Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the raign of Henry the seventh and he determining in Daughters and Co-heirs Jane one of them by matching with John Roper of St. Dunstans Esquire made it the Patrimony of that Family from whom in our Grand-fathers Remembrance it was passed away to Best Ancestor to Mr. ...... Best of Canterbury Esquire who is the instant Proprietary of it The second is Archers-Court which gave both Seat and Sirname to a Family so called one Nicolas Archer held it in the first year of Edward the second and so did Thomas le Archer in the third year of Edward the third and left it to his Son William Archer who paid respective Aide for his Lands here at River and at Atterton and Coperland in the twentieth year of Edward the third at the making the Black Prince Knight From Archer it came to a Family called Baudrede and continued divers years in this Name until in the first year of Edward the fourth it was conveyed by Sale with Coperland to Thomas Doilie Esquire Afterwards in the raign of Henry the eighth it was exchanged with the Crown and that Prince in the thirty sixth year of his managing the English Scepter granted it to Sir James Hales in whose Family it remained until almost that Time which we entitle to our Fathers Remembrance and then a part of it was passed away by Sale to Lee but the other parcel continued constant to the Interest of Hales until not many years since not only that proportion which was in the possession of Lee but likewise that other above-mentioned were both alienated by their respective Proprietaries to Sir Hardres Waller Rodmersham in the Hundred of Milton was the Inheritance of a Family whose Sirname was Pine John de la Pine enjoyed it in the twentieth year of Henry the third as appears by private Evidences and so did James de la Pine his Grandchild who deceased in the thirty seventh year of Edward the third and left it to his Son and Heir James de la Pine a Child of nine years old at his Fathers Exit and he preserved it untill the latter end of Richard the second and then it was transmitted by Sale to Podach now called vulgarly Pordage descended originally from John de Podach who flourished as appears by an ancient Pedigree relating to this Family in the raign of Henry the third and held Lands in the County of Devon which bore his Name and was called Podach and from this above-mentioned Iohn is Mr. Tho. Pordage aliàs Podach now of Rodmersham by a multiplyed Efflux of many Descents lineally extracted and bears now the Fesse in his Coat Armour plain whereas by ancient Monuments and Seals affixed to old Evidences it is manifest his Ancestors bore it Checque Upon what Grounds the modern Alteration is establisht I confesse I know not it is enough that the Dignity of the Family is yet supported by that ancient Inheritance which they have for so many Ages and yet do possesse here at Rodmersham Pitstock in Rodmersham is a little Mannor which augmented the Revenue of the Nuns of Minster in Shepey but when that ruinous Tempest broke forth in the raign of Henry the eighth which like an Hurricano tore up by the Roots the Ecclesiastical Patrimony this was supplanted and thrown into the Demeasne of the Crown and then the abovesaid Prince in the twenty ninth year of his Rule granted it to Sir Thomas Cheyney and his Son Henry Lord Cheyney about the thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeth alienated it to Samuel Thornhill Esquire who upon his Decease gave it to his second Son Sir Iohn Thornhill from whom by descendant Right it is now come over to his Son and Heir Charles Thornhill Esquire Newburgh is partly situated in Rodmersham and partly in Lingsted and anciently had the Estimate of a Mannor and gave Name to a Family that
Rogers alienates it by Sale to Stephen Drayner and it is probable Rogers purchased it of Norton which Family as appears by the Feudaries Book held much Land here at Smerden and at or near Romden But to return In Drayner the Interest of this place was fixed until the seventeenth of Queen Elizabeth and then William Drayner passed it away by Sale to Sir Roger Manwood and he in the eighteenth year of that Princess alienates it again to Martin James Esquire Remembrancer of the Exchecquer and from him by the Devolution of successive and paternal Right it is now come down to acknowledge the Propriety of Mr. .... James Snergate in the Hundred of Aloe bridge celebrates the Memory of an Ancient Family styled Alarar Gervas Alarar was Captain and Admiral of the Fleet of Ships set forth and furnished by the Cinque-ports in the fourteenth year of Edward the first and Gervas Alarar was his Grand-child whose Widow Agnes Alarar was in possession of it at her Death which was in the forty second year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 1. But before the end of Henry the fourth this Family was shrunk into an Expiration and then Walter Moile who was a Judge in the reign of Henry the sixth succeeded in the Possession and he by a Fine levied in the thirtieth year of Henry the sixth demises it to Hugh Brent from whom about the latter end of Edward the fourth it was conveyed to Cheyney and in this Name it was fixed until Henry Lord Cheyney in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth alienated it to Henry Nevill Lord Aburgavenny who in the twenty ninth year of Queen Elizabeth dying without Issue-male Mary Nevill was found to be his Sole Inheritrix and she by matching with Sir Thomas Vane knit this Mannor to his Patrimony and his Son Francis Vane created Earl of Westmerland in the twenty second of King James alienated it in our Fathers Memory to Jackman who not long after sold it to Sir Edward Henden one of the Barons of the Exchecquer who upon his Decease gave it to his Nephew Sir John Henden whose Son and Heir Edward Henden Esquire now enjoyes the Signory of it Smeth in the Hundred of Bircholt hath in the Limits of it Scots-hall which is now and hath been for divers Descents the Inheritance of eminent Gentlemen of that Sirname whom I dare aver upon probable Grounds were originally called Balioll. William Balioll second Brother to Alexander de Balioll frequently writ his Name William de Balioll le Scot and it is probable that upon the Tragedy of John Earl of Atholl who was made prisoner by Edward the first and barbarously executed in the year 1307. whilst he endevoured more nobly then successfully to defend the gasping Liberty of Scotland against the Eruptions of that Prince this Family to decline the Fury of that Monarch who was a man of violent passions altered the Name of Balioll to that of their Extraction and Country and assumed for the future the Name of Scot. That the Sirname of this Family was originally Balioll I farther upon these Reasons assert First the ancient Arms of Balioll Colledge in Oxford which was founded by John Balioll and dedicated to St. Katharine was a Katharin-Wheele being still part of the paternal Coat of this Family Secondly David de Strabogie who was Son and Heir to the infortunate Earl abovesaid astonished with an Example of so much Terror altered his Name from Balioll to Strabogie which was a Signory which accrued to him in Right of his Wife who was Daughter and Heir to John Comin Earl of Badzenoth and Strabogie and by this Name King Edward the second omitting that of Balioll restored Chilham-castle to him for Life in the fifteenth year of his reign Thirdly the Earls of Bucleugh and the Barons of Burley in Scotland who derive themselves originally from Balioll are known at this instant by no other Sirname but Scot and bear with some inconsiderable Difference those very Arms which are at present the paternal Coat of this Family of Scots-hall Having thus traced out the Name I shall now represent a Scale of those eminent Persons who have either directly or collaterally been extracted from Scots-hall Sir William Scot who was knighted the tenth of Edward the third was Lord Chief Justice and Knight Marshal of England in the reign of that Prince Sir Robert Scot was Lieutenant of the Tower in the year 1424. Sir John Scot was Comptroller of the House one of the Privy Councel to Edward the fourth and Marshal of Calais Thomas Scot who was first Bishop of Rochester next of Lincolne Provost of Beverley Arch-bishop of York Lord Chancellor of England and Privy Councellor to King Edward the fourth altered his Name from Scot to Rotheram as being the place of his Education and Nativity but it is probable originally issued out from this Family Sir William Scot who was Son to Sir John above-mentioned was Lord Warden of the Cinque-ports Sir John Scot his Son was knighted by the Prince of Castile for signal Service performed by him against the Duke of Gueldres Sir Reginald Scot was Captain of the Castle of Callis Sir Thomas Scot was Commander in Chief of the Kentish Forces who assembled upon the plains by Northbourn to oppose the Spanish Invasion in the year 1588. All of which were either directly or collaterally Predecessors being of the same Family to Edward Scot now Proprietary of Scots-hall Esquire who was Son and Heir of Sir Edward Scot who was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of K. Charles Thevegate is a second Mannor in this Parish which was in elder Times the Inheritance of Gentlemen of no mean Account in this Track Robert de Passeley or Passelew for they are promiscuously so written was Treasurer of England under Peter de Rivallis in the reign of Henry the third as Mat. Paris in the Life of that Prince does record Edmund de Passeley was with Edward the second at Borough-Bridge in the seventeenth year as the Pipe-roll of that Time discovers and probably was instrumental in the Defeat given there to the Nobility then in Arms against that Prince and from him this Mannor did descend to John Passeley Esquire who in the reign of Edward the fourth determined in Elizabeth his sole Heir matched to Reginald Pimp Esquire who likewise had the Fate to conclude in a Female Inheritrix called Ann who was wedded to Sir John Scot of Scots-hall and Shee united Thevegate to the Revenue of that Family and from him is the Right of it by Descent transportted to his Successor Edward Scot of Scots-hall Esquire Smeth had the Grant of a Market procured to it by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury in the tenth year of Edward the third Shepebourn in the Hundred of Wrotham was the Patrimony of an ancient Family called Bavent whose principal Estate lay in Sussex and Surrey Adam de Bavent in the twelfth year of Edward the first obtained a Charter of Free-warren to his Mannor
Sheriff of Kent in the thirty fourth year of Henry the eighth and again in the fifth year of Edward the sixth but being unhappily entangled in the dysastrous Attempt of Sir Thomas Wiat was upon the frustrating of that Designe and the Dissipation and Discomfiture of those Forces who were to support it in the second year of Queen Mary convicted and attainted of high Treason and executed at Sevenoke upon whose Tragedy this Mannor with all its Appendages escheated to the Crown but was the same year restored to his Son William Isley Esquire who was Sheriff of Kent part of the seventh year of Queen Elizabeth after whose decease the Title of this place which had so many Centuries of years like an Inmate dwelt in this Name and Family ebbed away to another Proprietary for in our Fathers Memory it was alienated by Sale to Brooker who not many years since passed it away to Mr. John Hide second Son to Mr. Bernard Hide one of the Commissioners of the Custome-house to his late Majestie Brook-place in Sundrich so called from its contiguous Situation neer some Drill of Water did acknowledge for many discents the Signory of Isley the last of whom who dyed possest of it was William Isley Esquire who held it at his Decease which was in the fourth year of Edward the fourth Rot. Esc Num. 34. After whose Exit it came to John Isley Esquire who not long after passed it away to John Alphew and he determinig in two Daughters and Coheirs one of them by matching with Sir Robert Read Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the reign of Henry the seventh linked it to his Patrimony but he likewise went out in four Daughters and Coheirs Katharine one of which was matched to Sir Thomas Willoughbie Lord Chief Justice likewise of the Common Pleas and so he in her right was possest of this place from whom it came down to his Successor Thomas Willoughbie Esquire who about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth conveyed it by Sale to Mr. Hoskins of Oxted in Surrey descended from an ancient Family of that Name in Hereford-shire whose Successor Mr. Charles Hoskins being lately deceased the Fee-simple rests now in his Son and Heir Hethenden or Henden is another Mannor in Sundrich which was folded up in the Demeasn of the powerful and illustrious Family of the Clares who were Earls of Gloucester and Lords of Tunbridge by whose Heir general it devolved to Audley and this Family by the same Fatality languishing into a Female Inheritrix she by matching with Stafford cast this Mannor into his Revenue and in this Name was the Propriety resident untill Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham was infortunately attainted in the thirteenth year of Henry the eighth it was by escheat annexed to the Demeasn of the Crown and made its aboad there untill King Henry the eighth in the thirty fifth year of his reign granted it to Sir John Gresham and he dyed possest of it in the first year of Queen Elizabeth after whose Decease it remained constant to the Interess of this Family until the latter end of Queen Elizabeth and then it was alienated to Sir Thomas Hoskins of Oxsted in Surrey in the Descendants of which Family the Signory and Propriety is at this instant remaining The Roman Fosse or Way which extended or stretched out it self from Oldborough in Igtham to Baston in Heys and afterwards to Woodcot in Surrey did cut thorough this Parish for not many years since in digging near Come-banke a Seat so called which did formerly relate to the Isleys and is situated in Sundrich were discovered many Roman Urns of an antick Shape and Figure from whence we may probably collect thus much that there was formerly erected some Fortresse at or near Combe-banke its Situation being fitted for such a Design by the Roman Generals to secure their forces in their March to Noviomagum or Woodcot against any Impression or Eruption of the Britons Sturrey in the Hundred of Blengate was a Mannor by a Prescription of many Generations wrapt up in the Patrimony of Apulderfeild a Family whom we shall have occasion often to mention thoroughout the Body of this Survey and here it continued till this Name met with its Tomb in a Daughter and Heir known by the Name of Elizabeth who was wedded to Sir John Phineux and although he likewise concluded in a Female Heir matched to John Roper Esquire who drew along with her a great portion of the Estate yet this still remained fixt in this Name and Family even till our Fathers Memory and then John Phineux Esquire died and left this and other vast possessions to his Daughter and Sole Heir Elizabeth Phineux who brought them over to her Husband Sir John Smith eldest Son of Sir Thomas Smith and Grand-father to Philip Smith Viscount Strangford who by Right planted in him by so worthy a Predecessor does entitle himself to the Interess and possession of it Mayton in this Parish though now of no great Importance yet formerly gave both Seat and Sirname to a Family that passed under that Appellation from whom by Sale the Inheritance was transplanted into Diggs where for some Descents without any Interval it made its abode till it was by Leonard Diggs Grand-father to Sir Dudley Diggs sold to Goodhugh by whose Daughter and Heir it became the Demeasne of Baggs which Name likewise going out here into a Daughter and Heir she by matching not long since to Farmer has made it to own him for its instant proprietary Sutton by Walmer lies in the Hundred of Cornilo and was the Inheritance of a good old Family called Stroude Peradventure it assumed its Denomination from the Shore not far distant and was sometimes in the Saxon Denomination called Strond and as often Stroude John de Stroude held it as the Book of Aide denotes in the reign of Edward the first and when this Family was worn out the next who were invested in the possession were the Criols and Nicholas Criol or Keriel held it at his death which was in the third year of Richard the second whose Grand-child Sir Thomas Keriel being an active Champion of the Cause and Quarrel of Edward the fourth against the House of Lancaster was slain in the second Battle of St. Albans where the Title of both Parties was put to the bloody decision of a Field who leaving only two Daughters and Co-heirs one matching with John Fogge Esquire incorporated this into his Revenue from whom by purchase the Right was setled in Whitlock where it tarried not long but was by the like devolution transplanted into Maycot from which Name the same Fate of Sale carried it into the possession of Stokes who in our memory by the like alienation transmitted his Interess here to Meryweather Sutton commonly called East-Sutton lies in the Hundted of Eyhorne and was formerly the Braybrookes Henry de Braybrooke one of the Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports had Lands here and in this Track as the
Villare Cantianum OR KENT SURVEYED and ILLUSTRATED Being an exact DESCRIPTION of all the Parishes Burroughs Villages and other respective Mannors Included in the County of KENT And the Original and Intermedial Possessors of them even until these Times Drawn out of Charters Escheat-Rolls Fines and other Publick Evidences but especially out of Gentlemens Private Deeds and Muniments By THOMAS PHILIPOTT Esq formerly of Clare-Hall in Cambridge TO WHICH IS ADDED An Historical Catalogue of the High-Sheriffs of KENT Collected by JOHN PHILIPOTT Esq Father to the Authour LONDON Printed by William Godbid and are to be sold at his House over against the Anchor Inne in Little Brittain M.DC.LIX To the Nobility and Gentry of KENT My Lords and Gentlemen I Have at last demolishd those difficulties which intercepted this Work in that progress it endevoured to make to offer it self up both to yours and the publick view Yet I do not deny in a Peice made rugged with so many knots several Mistakes and Omissions must through Inadvertency and Mis-information have slip'd in some of which had their first extraction from the Presse and some their birth from my Pen All which I have collected into a Table of Addenda which is immediately subsequent to the Preface whither the Reader may retire to disperse all scruples Secondly I have not added any Numerical Alphabet to direct the Reader since the Book is so Alphabetically digested that the Work is a Directory Beam or Ray to it self To which I have annex'd as an Appendage a particular Description of all the circumambient Kentish Islands Thirdly I have not so tyed my self up to those severer Discourses which I have extracted from either publick or private Record but that I have embroider'd this Peice with Discourses of a softer complexion as at Bilsington I have unfolded the Causes of the Depravation of the ancient Clergy both in Doctrine and Manners at Birling I have discovered the nature of that Tenure Antiquity call'd Tenure per Baroniam at Ewell I have unravell'd the first Institution of the Knights Templers and the probable causes of their total extirpation at Newington Lucies I have discours'd largely of Vrne Enterment at Rodmersham no less of the Institution of the Knights Hospitallers at Werth I have treated of the Antiquity of Seals at Wymings Would of the Ancient Dignity of the Pileus and have at several other places enterlac'd this Work with collateral Discourses of the same tincture Whatsoever this Peice may appear in the whole Frame and Bulk of it I do assure you it was not born without your Influence it is ready to die at your Command and cannot live but by your Acceptance But I know you have both Art and Candor and as I cannot but hope but that a merciful Interpretation will be emergent from the first so I cannot doubt but the last will give so noble an Allay to your Justice that if it cannot totally absolve yet it may at least excuse My Lords and Gentlemen The humblest of your Servants THOMAS PHILIPOTT A Table of ADDENDA or OMISSIONS Courteous Reader I Here represent to thy View those Mistakes and Omissions I mean the most material ones which I promised to rectifie in my Epistle those which follow are to be pardoned by thy Charity or at least supplied by thy Candor And first Page 7. Line 36. for Beanors read Beacons p. 8. l. 9. add had l. 10. for this r. these l. 11. expunge to it In the List of the Lieutenants of Dover Castle p. 14. after Sir Henry Heyman add Col. Algernon Sidney p. 18. l. 42. for in Hundredo r. in isto Hundredo p. 20. l. 19. add of l. 44 46. for Robert VValler r. Robert VValleran p. 21. l. 5. for Smerdlin r. Swerdlin p. 39. l. 44. for required r. repaired In Tottington and Eccless at Alresford p. 47. l. 27. for of his Heir r. by his Heir l. 29. for Ancestors r. Successors In Nevills Fleet at Ash p. 51. l. 23. for Ark r. Ash In Fleet at Ash p. 53. l. 16. add whom Following an old Pedigree of Poynings I have at Easthall in Aynsford p. 45. at Tottington in Alresford p. 47. Northcrey p. 108. Horsmonden 190. printed that Tho. de Poynings matched with Joan Sole Heir of Sir Richard de Rokesley upon perusal of the Pipe-roll of the seventeenth of Edward the second I find that this Sir Richard died and left two Daughters his Co-heirs Agnes the eldest was wedded to Tho. de Poynings and Joan the youngest was matched to Hugh de Pateshul In Badelesmer p. 56. l. 33. acknowledge r. acknowledgement l. 37. his only Son r. his onely Brother In Digges Court p. 60. l. 7. an Appendage to it r. an Appendage to this Name In the Description of Hartanger p. 60. l. 31. this must be all added passed it away to Richard Merywether in whose Descendant Line the Title flowed with so even and undisordered a Chanel that it is still wrapped up in this Name and Family In Brabourne p. 69. l. 26. following an old Glossary of Sidrach Petits I have rendered 40 Ambras Brasii forty Plates of Brass upon a second Review I find that Ambras in old Record is the contracted word for Amphoras and Brasium signifies Malt so it must be rendered forty Measures of Malt. In my desciption of Brabourne I likewise have omitted the Mannor of Combe of which I now give this Account Combe was anciently the Habitation of Gentlemen of that Sirname of considerable repute in this Track for Rich. de Cumbe and Simon de Cumbe his Son were assistants to Sir Jo. de Northwood when he was Sheriff of Kent the twentieth of Edward the first the last of this Name was Will. de Cumbe who dying without Issue Male in the reign of Rich. the second his Sole Inheritrix brought it to be possest by her Husband John Scot of Scots Hall from whom it is now devolved to Edward Scot Esquire In Beausfield p. 67. l. 1. for Henry the ninth r. Henry the eighth l. 2. for Henry the fourth r. Edw. the third and then add this and then it came to be enjoyed by Malmains and was resident in this Family until Tho. Malmains dying without Issue Male his onely Female Heir brought it to swell the Patrimony of John Monins Esquire In my Description of Bireholt in Brabourne p. 70. l. 3. and an old Arbor Radicalis r. and as it appears by an old Arbor Radicalis In my Description of Bokingfold in Brenchley p. 73. l. 46 47. for but he being infortunately attainted in the fourth year of the abovesaid Prince as being one of the Partisans of the Duke of Somerset r. but he being infortunately attainted in the first year of Q. Mary as being one of the Partisans of Jo. Dudley Duke of Northumberland and the same Mistake is to be rectified in my Description of Bokenfold at Goudherst where p. 173. l. 26 27. for John Seymour Duke of Somerset r. Jo. Dudley Duke
with so much Debaucherie and let loose into so great excess Yet 't is remarkable that the cadets or younger slips issued out from some of those stems who by their own vitious exorbitancie have crumbled into an inreparable decay by being inoculated upon other Families have by this transplantation contracted newsap and verdure and again sprouted out and florish'd For Families are like the River of Arethusa they sometimes sink in one place or County and again rise in another I shall now take the County of Kent under Survey or Prospect and represent to the publique view those several Antiquities which in my search I found to lie wrapt up either in common Records or shut up in the private Muniments Escripts and Registers of particular Families from whom I have endevour'd to pluck off the veil that they may for the future stand as an Alphabet to point out those Families that are yet in being that are totally exinguish'd or that lye entomb'd in other Names and Extractions which by Mariage have swallowed up the Heir generall In the pursuit of which I confess I have not cloister'd my self up in the nice restraints of any precise or particular Method because that flood both of private and publique inteligence which like a Torrent broke in upon me swept away whatsoever my busie fancy had built upon the sands of any curious or Methodical invention But 't is here as in some Rivers who though they wander in a crooked and irregular chanell yet are they the same Streames still as long as they hold correspondence with their first Fountain and original I shall remit all to the Justice and Candor of the Reader with the first he may arraigne and censure with the last absolve and excuse Thomas Philipott VILLARE CANTIANVM OR KENT Surveyed and Illustrated KENT in Latine Cantium hath its derivation from Cant which imports a piece of Land thrust into a Nook or Angle and certainly the situation hath an Aspect upon the Name and makes its etymologie authentick It is divided into five Laths viz. St. Augustins Shepway Scray Aylesford and Sutton at Hone and these again are subdivided into their several Bailywicks as namely St. Augustins comprehends Bredge which contains these Hundreds 1 Ringesloe 2 Blengate 3 Whitstaple 4 West-gate 5 Downhamford 6 Preston 7 Bredge Petham 8 Kinghamford and Eastrie which contains these 1 Wingham 2 Eastrie 3 Corniloe 4 Bewesborough Shepway is divided into Stowting and that into these Hundreds 1 Folkstone 2 Lovingberg 3 Stowting 4 Heane and Shepway into these 1 Bircholt Franchise 2 Streat 3 Worth 4 Newchuch 5 Ham 6 Langport 7 St. Martins 8 Aloes Bridge 9 Oxney Scray is distinguished into Milton Comprehends 1 Mylton 2 Tenham Scray 1 Feversham 2 Becton under Blean 3 Felborough Chart and Longbridg 1 Wye 2 Birch-Holt Barony 3 Chart and Long-bridge 4 Cale-hill Seven Hundreds 1 Blackbourn 2 Tenderden 3 Barkley 4 Cranbrook 5 Rolvenden 6 Selbrightenden 7 Great Bernfeild Alresford is resolv'd into Eyhorn is divided into 1 Eyhorn 2 Maidstone 3 Gillingham and 4 Chetham Hoo 1 Hoo 2 Shamell 3 Toltingtrough 4 Larkfield 5 Wrotham and Twyford 1 Twyford 2 Littlefield 3 Lowy of Tunbridge 4 Brenchly Hormonden 5 Marden 6 Little Bernfield 7 Wallingston Sutton at Hone does only comprehend the Bailywick of Sutton at Hone and that layes claim to these HUNDREDS 1 Axstane 2 Little and Lesnes 3 Blackheath 4 Bromely and Bekenham 5 Dartford and Wilmington 6 Rooksley 7 Codsheath 8 Somerden 9 Westram These Hundreds were parcel'd out into such a proportion or number of Boroughs Villages or Tythings containing ten Housholders whereof as the Saxon Laws and Customes informe us if any one should commit an unlawful Act the other nine were to attach and bring him to Reason If he fled thirty one dayes were enjoyn'd him to appear if in the mean time apprehended he was forc'd to restore the Damage done otherwise the Free-borough-head that is to say the Tythingman was to take with him two of the same Village and out of three other Villages next adjoyning as many that is the Tythingman and two other of the Principal men and before the Officers of that Hundred purge himself and the Village of the fact restoring the Damage done with the Goods of the Malefactor which if they sufficed not to satisfie the Free-borough or Tythingman must make up the rest and besides take an oath to be no way accessary to the Fact and to produce the offender if by any means they could recover him or know where he were Besides every Lord and Master stood Borough for all his Family whereof if any servant were cal'd in question the Master was to see him answer it in the HUNDRED where he was accus'd if he fled the Master was to resigne such goods as he had to the King If himself were accus'd to be aiding or privy to his Servants flight he was to clear himself by five men otherwise to forfeit all his Goods to the King and his man to be Outlawed These Links thus intermutually fastned made formerly so strong a chain to hold the whole frame of the State together in Peace and order as all the mingled policies upon Earth all the inter-leagued Societies of Men cannot represent a straiter Form of combination As touching the other Customes of Kent they have been so fully discuss'd by Mr. Lambert in his Kentish Perambulation that I shall not much insist in the discovery of them only I shall something winnow the word Gavelkind because from that it is pretended the Tenure it self is derived First it is suggested that the word Gavelkind is amass'd together of three Saxon Monosyllables that is to say Goef ele Kent but how this Custome should be originally established on three Syllables by the corruption of Time thus crouded and shut up in one word is altogether ambiguous and mysterious For if we shall unvail the word of its Saxon Habit and put it into an English dress it will signifie thus much Give all Child and how much nonsense lurks in that expression I think is easily discernable Indeed the phrase should be if we would attempt to spin any thing of advantage out of it Goef ele Kendern Give all Children But how much of incongruitie and non-coherence lies wrapt up even in this I beleeve is obvious enough yet admit there were none how four Syllables all of different vowels in their termination should at length by the depravation of Language be all confusedly shuffled and stiv'd into this one word Gavelkind will certainly appear to the most easie apprehension disputable enough For my own particular I 'm convinc'd with submission to cleerer speculations that this word Gavelkind is derived from the Saxon word Gabel which in the Latin we render Census and put into English signifies some Rent-Service or Tribute issuable from such and such Land on which it is fixt as a solemn evidence of some homage due to the Prince or supreme Magistrate for that
original In Ages of a lower step these Comites were frequently call'd Reguli In Cantia saith Malmsbury Omnis justitia laborabat sub cujusdam Gorongiregimine qui tamen sicut omnes Reguli insulae Vortigerno substernebantur Afterwards when Hengist had establish'd his Kentish Kingdome the Title of Earl began to commence in Otho and Ebusa Brothers to the abovesaid Hengist as the same Malmesbury observes in his Tract de Gestis Regum Cap. 3. And the Title of Earl was anciently expressed by the word Comes amongst the Saxons for to King Ethelberts Charter for the foundation of the Abby of St. Augustins cited by Reynerus there are these subscriptions Ego Hamigilus Dux laudavi and then Ego Ocea Comes consensi Ego Graphio Comes benedixi and there is an old Epitaph quoted by Mr. Selden in his Titles of Honour the substance of which is this that Alwain which was Founder of Ramsey-Abby was Comes Aldermannus totius Angliae but in decursion of Time this word Eolderman being used by others besides those to whom it was proper and analogical it began to languish into disuse and the Title of Thane and Earl was assumed which last hath remained in force untill this day Now the relief of a Thane who was certainly an Earl by office rather then Title if he were of the first rank that is had the custody of some County under the King which he paid to the Crown was four Horses two sadled and two unsadled two Swords and four Spears and as many Shields And if he were of the second rank he paid two Horses one sadled and one unsadled one Sword two Lances as many Shields and fifty Marks in Silver sometimes if he were a Thane of an inferior rank he paid eight-pound and frequently three-pound The relief which an Earl paid constantly to the Crown after the Norman Conquest was as Mr. Selden in his Titles of Honour does demonstrate out of severall Records was an Hundred pound Now the benefit which did accrue to the Count or Earl besides a Barren and naked Title to support the dignity of his Person in its due Magnificence and Splendor was the third penny arising out of the Profits of the County Algar Earl of Mercland as Dooms-day Book informs us had the third penny of the County of Oxford and the Borough of Stafford under Edward the Confessor And Mawde the Empresse when she created Milo Earl of Hereford assigned to him for the support of his Honor the third penny of that County Many examples of the like condition are discoverable in Mr. Selden's Titles of Honour whither I refer the Reader And as they had the third penny so they had frequently the Castle of the County annexed to their Title but when by experience the Kings of England were instructed how fatally pernicious it was to have so many local powers concurrent with theirs that by the strength of their retreat and the number of confederates and Partisans seem'd even to out-poise the Royal Authority it was by a Statute made in the 13 th year of Richard the 2 d. for the future interdicted and prohibited Now if you will enquire when Earls or Counts from being absolute became Feudal Sr. Henry Spelman in his Glossarie will tell you that it was Tempore Othonum sub excessu Merovinae stirpis in Galliâ that is about the year onet housand Now as concerning the Ensigns of Investiture with which the Earl was created it was anciently only with the Cincture of a Sword but about the latter end of Edward the first the Coronet began to be in use for Aymer de Vallence Earl of Pembrook who died in the 16 th year of Edward the 2 d. had one as appears by an instrument of William de Lavenham cited by Mr. Selden in his Titles of Honour by which he acknowledges the receit of it from Sr. Henry Stacheden in the 12 th year of Edward the 2 d. Richard Earl of Arundel died in the 49 th year of Edward the 3 d. and by his last Will dated the fifth of December gives his Noblest and Richest Coronet to his Son the Lord Richard Fitz-allan his second to the Lady Joan his eldest and the 3 d. he bequeaths to the Lady Alice his youngest Daughter What the Counts Palatine were I shall now demonstrate they were taken immediately à Palatio from whence they assum'd their name and were customarily such as had the nearest relation to the Prince either by friendship or Affinity and to whose care and administration he did entrust such or such a Province and the more to improve and enable them in the discharge of their Duty did unite some privileges and Franchises to their office as erecting Courts of Judicature appointing Judges to sit in them and determine by signal decision upon causes both Criminal and Civil and others of the like nature that were of that luxutiant latitude that they had the Stamp and Character of something which resembled Regality fixt upon them He that will discover by example more of this honorary Title may read Mr. Seldens Titles of Honor whither to decline all superfluity of discourse I refer to the Reader I have now done with the Title I shall now proceed to unwind the Register of those who were Earls of Kent subsequent to Earl Godwin 1067 1 Odo Bishop of Baieux halfe Brother to William the Conquerer Lord chief Justice and Lord Treasurer of England 1141 2 William de Ipre 1227 3 Hubert de Burg Lord Chief Justice of England 1321 4 Edmund de woodstock Son to King Edward the first 1330 5 Edmund Plantaginet 1333 6 John Plantaget  7 Thomas Holland Earl of Kent in right of Joan his wife who was Daughter of Edmund of Woodstock 1360 8 Thomas Holland 1397 9 Thomas Holland Duke of Surry 1400 10 Thomas Holland Lord High Admiral of England 1461 11 Will. Nevill Lord Fauconbridge 1464 12 Edmund Grey Lord Ruthin Lord Treasurer of England created Earl of Kent by King Edward the 4 th  13 George Grey  14 Richard Grey  15 Reginald Grey  16 Henry Grey  17 Charles Grey  18 Henry Grey  19 Anthony Grey Clerk Parson of Burbage in the County of Leicester Grandchild of Anthony 3 d. Son of George Earl of Kent above mentioned  20 Henry Grey  21 Anthony Grey Earl of Kent now living 1658. but in his Minority Having represented in Prospect the Comites and Consules the Earls and Consuls which were originally to manage those Provinces subordinate to the Romane Government I shall now take cognisance of those which were anciently styl'd Vice Comites Proconsules and had care of the Provincial revenue in relation to which they were term'd Questores Provinciarum and the jurisdiction of some Causes only as our Sheriffs have of divers Actions Viscontiel and inquiry of Causes Criminal but not determination of them In the Saxon times they were sometimes call'd Ealdormen and in Latine Vice Comites which was applyed
Richard de Capell this Man's Successor dyed possest of Capell Court in Werehorn and this here in the fifteenth year of Richard the second But after this Man's decease it did not long remain annexed to the Name for this Family expiring in a Female Heir shee by matching with Harlackenden of the Borough of Harlackenden in Woodchurch united it to the Patrimony of this Family and here it rested untill the Beginning of King James and then Deborah Sole Daughter and Heir of Walter Harlackenden a Branch of the abovesaid Stem by espousing Sir Edward Hales late of Tunstall deceased entwined it with his Demeasne upon whose Death it devolved to his Grandchild Sir Edward Hales now of Tunstall Baronet Cheyneys Court is a second place of Account in this Parish and had this Name imposed upon it because it lay folded up in the Revenue of that Name of that Family Alexander de Cheyney who flourished in the Raign of Henry the third and Edward the first in the ninth of which Prince's raign he was one of that Catalogue as appears by Kirkbie's Inquest kept in the Exchequer who was embarked in that successefull War which was commenced by that Monarch against the Welsh and dyed possest of this Mannor in the twenty fourth year of his Government After whose Decease it was constantly resident in this Family untill Henry Lord Cheyney Son of Sir Thomas Cheyney about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth passed it away by Sale to Mr. Richard Knatchbull whose Heir Generall Sir Norton Knatchbull Knight and Baronet extracted originally from thâ— Knatchbulls of Limne where I find the Name by Deeds very ancient is now in the Possession of the Demeasne but the Mannor was conveyed by Sale to Sir Walter Roberts More Court is a third place in Ivie Church which must not find its enterrement in Silence because it was the ancient Seat of the Moores now Barons of Mellifont in Ireland before they were transplanted into More-place in Benenden by matching with the Heir generall of Sir William Brenchley Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench under Henry the sixth and this is evident by a Fine levyed between John the Son of Thomas de Iden and John de More of Ivie-church so he is named in the Record by which the said John passes away Land to John de More of Rolvenden in the year of Grace 1280. And in this Family for many Generations was it constant and permanent untill the latter end of Henry the seventh and then the common Vicissitude of Purchase which like a Moath or Canker frets into ancient Titles brought it to be the Possession of Taylor and here it was settled untill in the second year of Edward the sixth as by an Exemplification now in the Hands of Thomas Taylor Esq is evident it was divided between William and John Taylor Gentlemen and they immediately after by a joint and mutuall Concurrence alienated their Interest here to Peter Godfrey Gentleman Great Grand-father to Sir Thomas Godfrey now of Hepington in Nether Hardres who is the instant Proprietary of it Iwade in the Hundred of Milton is a small Parish situated no great distance from the Swale which exposes it self to the injurious Impression of many Fogs and other sullen Vapours which exhale from the adjacent Marishes so that the Air becomming by these Mists contagious and unheathfull we must expect that it cannot be very populous nor contain many places in it considerable in their Account The only place of Note being Colshill-hall a place in its Name proportionate to its Position though formerly it had Owners of its own Appellation for in a Deed of William de Codshill who held Land at Middleton Bobbing and elsewhere and which bears Date from about the fiftieth of Henry the third I find one John de Colsted a Witnesse But in Times of no great distance from that Prince's Raign I find the Alefs or Alephs possest of it and to this Family does the ancient Shell or Fabrick of the House owe the principal part of its Structure especially that which by its Antiquity obliges the Eye to so much Regard and Veneration as is evident by the Hall which in diverse places is diaper'd with an A. and then a Leafe a Rebus which treasures up the Relique of the Name remaining unwritten And appears to be exceeding ancient by the Character calculated for the Raign of Edward the third From whose Time untill the Beginning of the Raign of Queen Elizabeth it continued knit to this Name of Alef and then Thomas Aleph the last of this Name being extinguished in a Daughter and Heir called Margaret matched to John Monins Esquire this by that Alliance became the Inheritance of that Name but made no long aboad in their Revenue for in our Grand-fathers memory it went away by Sale from Monins to Lewin and Lewin not many years since concluding in a Female Inheritrix she by being affianced to Rogers branched out from Rogers of Brianson in the West linked it to the Inheritance of that Family where it had as brief a Residence for Rogers not long since dying without Issue-male Elizabeth his only Heir by her espousalls with Charles Cavendish Lord Mansfield hath now interwoven it with the Propriety and Income relating to that eminent and illustrious Family K. K. K. K. KEmsing in the Hundred of Codsheath is a Parish which in Respect of its Circuit and Dimension is but despicable but in Relation to those Persons who in elder Times were Possessors of it it is not inferiour in its value to scarce any Parish in this Hundred The first that I find to be its Proprietary was Falcatius de Brent and he is mentioned in the Red-book kept in the Exchequer to have held it in the Raign of Henry the second and was Castellan likewise of Kemsing-Castle a place then of important Concernment though now it 's Skelleton it self be shrunk into such a desolate and neglected Masse of Rubbish that it would be now as difficult to trace it out or find it as it was formerly to conquer it And this Mans Son was that Falcatius de Brent so famous in our Chronicles for those wild Disorders and Sallies arising from those Boilings and Evaporations which were cast out by the Calentures of Youth rather then from any vitious Habit contracted from severall Acts of Excesse and riveted into his Soul Yet it seems these Excursions of his did so disgust King Henry the third that he made the Forfeiture of his Estate here pay the price of his Vanities Indeed that name his Misfortunes rather then his Treasons seem to Challenge And then that Prince in the sixth year of his Reign granted it with the Mannor of Sauters in Sutton at Hone to Baldwin de Betun Earl of Albemarle in Right of his Wife Hawis Daughter and Heir of William le Grosse Earl of Albemarle and Lord of Holdernesse And this Baldwin had by her two Daughters and Coheirs Hawis the eldest of them was married to
de Nevill in the twentieth year of Henry the third at the Marriage of Isabell that Prince's Sister Thomas Fitz Bernard Son to Ralph above-mentioned enjoyed it at his Death which was in the sixth year of Edward the second Rot. Esc Num. 31. And from him it descended to John Fitz Bernard who in the thirty sixth year of Edward the third dyed without Issue upon whose Decease the four Daughters of Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer matched to Rosse Vere Mortimer and Tiptoft entered upon the Possession 〈◊〉 Heirs to their Mother who was Sister and Heir to this John Fitz Bernard and upon the Breaking the Estate into Parcells upon the Partition this was united to the Demeasne of Wiliam Rosse of Hamlake in Right of his Wife Margaret who was Coheir likewise to her two Brothers Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer and Giles Lord Badelesmer who both dyed without Issue and John Rosse this Man's Son was in the Possession of it at his Death which was in the seventeenth year of Richard the second Rot. Esc Num. 49. And from him did it glide down to his infortunate Grandchild Thomas Lord Rosse who was attainted and beheaded at New-Castle in the fourth year of Edward the fourth whilst he endevoured to support the sinking House of Lancaster upon whose Shipwrack this was annexed to the Revenue of the Crown and in the eighteenth year of his Reign Edward the fourth restores it for Life to Margaret Wife of Roger Lord Wentworth who was Widow of Thomas Lord Rosse but after his Deeease it returned to the Crown and slept in its Revenue untill King Henry the eighth passed it away by Grant to John Wilkinson from which Name about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth it was conveyed to Richard Lovelace who dying without Issue-male Margaret matched to Henry Cooke of Lanham Esq became his Heir and in her Right is now entered upon Northcourt and Southcourt which make up the Mannor of Kingsdown Hever is another Mannor in Kingsdown which was parcell of the Demeasne of the ancient Family of Hever of Hever Castle in this County William de Hever had a Charter of Free-warren to his Lands here and at Hever in the ninth year of Edward the first which was renued to Thomas de Hever in the fourth year of Edward the third but he did not long enjoy it for he dying without Issue Joan his Sister and Coheir matched to Reginald Lord Cobham became Heir to his Estate at this place and he in her Right dyed possest of it in the thirty fifth year of Edward the third But before the latter end of Richard the second this Family was worn out and then the Family of Vrban succeeded by purchase in the Possession John Vrban held it at his Death which was in the eighth year of Henry the fifth Rot. Esc Num. 75. And left it to his Sister and Heir Emma Penhale and she enjoyed it at her Decease which was in the fifth year of Hen. the sixth Rot. Esc Num. 43. But it was not long after this in the Tenure of this Name for Richard Lovelace by his last Will in the year 1465 which was made in the fifth of Edward the fourth ordains that his Feoffees make an Estate of this Mannor of Hever which he purchased of Penhale to Katharine his Daughter and if she dye without Issue as she did then he wills that it descend to John Lovelace his Son and Heir and from this John did it by an uninterrupted Series of Descent devolve to Rich. Lovelace and from him did it go away by Margaret his Sole Daughter and Heir to Henry Cook of Lanham in Suffolk Esquire in which Name it is at this instant resident Chipsted is a third Mannor in Kingsdown which indisputably gave Seat and Sirname to a Family so called For I find Adam de Chipsted dyed possest of it at his Death which was in the forty first year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 16. And after this Family was extinguished the Mowbrays were planted in the Possession and continued in the Inheritance from the latter end of Richard the second untill the Beginning of Henry the sixth and then it was passed away by Sale to John Martin Justice of the Common-pleas whose Son John Martin in the thirty third year of Henry the sixth alienates it to Thomas Underdown of Dertford and he not long after gives it to Richard Thetcher of Warbulton in Sussex and he in the nineteenth year of Edward the fourth sold it to William Atwood and his Son Robert Atwood in the thirteenth year of Henry the eighth demises one moiety of it to Nicholas Taylor and the other Moiety in the twenty second year of the abovesaid Prince to Sibill of Littlemoat in Eynsford William Taylor and William Atwood in the first year of Queen Mary passe away their Proportion of it to Sir John Champneys and his Son Justinian Champneys not long after alienates his Interest in it to Lovelace and by the Heir Generall of that Family it is now devolved to Mr. Henry Cook abovementioned the other Moiety by Ann Sole Heir of Lancelot Sibill came to be possest by Mr. John Hope in which Name it did not long remain for in our Memory it was by Sale demised to Mr. Hodsoll of Hodsoll in Ash and he is now in the enjoyment of it Woodland is the last Mannor in this Parish and was anciently a Chappell of Ease to Kingsdowne till in the year 1557. it was by Reginald Fole then Cardinal and Arch-bishop of Canterbury united to Wrotham But the Mannor is still circumscribed within the Precincts of Kingsdown It was formerly a Branch of that Revenue which owned the Title and Jurisdiction of that powerful Baron Hamon de Crevequer and he died possest of it in the forty seventh year of Henry the third Rot. Esc Num. 33. But after him I find not much more of this Family at this Place for in the ninth year of Edward the third John Son of John St. Clere enjoyed it as appears by the Inquisition taken after his Death Rot. Esc Num. 48. Afterwards I discover Thomas St. Clere to be possest of it at his Death in the fourth year of Henry the fourth and so was Margaret St. Clere Widdow of Philip in the first year of Henry the sixth and Thomas St. Clere held it in the twelfth year of Edward the fourth and from his Descendant about the latter end of Henry the seventh it passed away by Sale to Pett of Pett-house in Sevenoke and John Pett his Successor sold Woodland in the seventeenth year of Queen Elizabeth to William Rowe of London by the Daughter and Heir of which Family even in our fathers Memory it came over to the instant Possessor Jenny of Norfolke Kingsdown in the Hundred of Milton was given by Hubert de Burgh to his newly erected Maison le Dieu in Dover which was to be a Retreat for the Knights Templers when they visired Temple Ewell and other Lands they enjoyed in this Track but
this Mannor to his Patrimony and he the better to inforce and perpetuate the Memory of this Alliance and the Estate which devolved to him by so fortunate a Conjunction inverted his Sirname and writ it for the future Clerc alias Woodchurch in which Name the Propriety of this Place continued until the latter end of Q. Elizabeth and then it was alienated to Taylor of Shadoxherst in which Name the Interest of it had not long continued but that it was in our Remembrance by Sale conveyed to Whitwick West-Halks is a third Mannor in Kingsnoth which in elder Times was ennobled for affording a Residence to a Family of this Sirname who bore in ancient Seals a Fesse between three Hawks or Falcons and sometimes one a Family of no contemptible Estimate or shallow Antiquity in this Track as appears by old Escripts Pedigrees and other venerable Muniments which represent this Family under the Character of Gentlemen for above three hundred years Sampson de Halk died about the year 1360 and held not onely this place Ex Autographis penes Dom. Tho. Taylor but much other Land about Petham and other Parishes in that Track but about the latter end of Henry the sixth this Family had demised the Propriety of this place to Taylor of great Chart in which Name it was constantly fixed untill the latter end of Henry the seaventh and then it was sold to Clerc who about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth passed it away to Robert Honywood of Charing Esquire who upon his Decease settled it by his last Will on his second Son by his second Wife Col. ....... Honywood now the instant Lord of the Fee Knowlton in the Hundred of Eastrye was parcel of the Patrimony of the noble Family of St. Leger Hugh St. Leger who was one of the Recognitores magnae Assisae in the Raign of King John held this Mannor in the fourth year of the Raign of that Prince and left it to his Son John St. Leger who in the twelfth year of Henry the third exchanged it for other Lands with Reginald de Cornhill and he in the twenty fifth year of the abovesaid Prince passed it away by Sale as the Book of Christ-Church informs me to the Prior and Monks of that Covent but it seems not long after they exchanged it with Thomas Perot for he in the fourth year of Edward the third died possest of it as appears by his Office Rot. Esc Num. 31. and left onely a Female Heir who carried it along with her to Langley descended out of the County of Warwick and being thus chained by this Match to the Interest of this Family it remained for many Descents fastned to it and was productive in several Ages of Men of no vulgar Account William de Langley Son of William Langley was Sheriff of Kent the twenty first twenty third twenty fourth and twenty fifth years of Edward the third William Langley of Knolton was Sheriff of Kent in the fourth year of Henry the fifth and likewise Justice of the Peace for this County under that Prince John Langley Esquire was Sheriff of Kent in the twentieth year of Henry the seventh and had Issue Edward Langley Esquire who matched with Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas Peyton of Peyton Hall in the County of Cambridge descended from Peytonus de Vfford but he dying without Issue about the latter end of Henry the eighth his Wive's Brother Sir Robert Peyton by Reason of a former Match in the Raign of Henry the fifth between Peyton and a Daughter of Langley entered upon it as Heir General at Law and he not desirous to desert Cambridgeshire to transplant himself into Kent assigned Knowlton for Livelyhood to his second Son Sir John Peyton Grand-father to Sir Thomas Peyton the Primier Baronet of this County who as lineally extracted from him does enjoy the Propriety of it See more of this Family of Peyton in my Discourse of Werd L. L. L. L. LAmberherst lies in the Hundred of Little Bernefield and was sometimes written Lamberts-hurst from Lambert a Saxon Owner in old English this Name imports as much as bright or holy and glorious Lamp as Herebert is bright Lord. Part of this Parish is in Kent and the other part in Sussex distinguished by a small Stream which rises nere Cowden and glides through this Town towards Medway The Lordship of Lamberhurst it self with the Mannor of Woodroff belonged to the Monastery of Roberts Bridge and after the Dissolution were by Henry the eighth granted in the thirteenth of his Reign to Sir William Sidney Tutor to King Edward the sixth when he was Prince whose Successor Robert Sidney Earl of Leicester sold Lamberherst in our Fathers Memory to Mr. Porter and Woodroff to Sir Edw. Henden one of the Barons of the Exchequer who bequeathed it to his Nephew Sir John Henden lately deceased Hodleigh in this Parish was part of that Demeasne which related to the Colledge of Lingfield in Surrey which upon the Suppression was by Henry the eighth granted to Thomas Cardan from which Family it passed away to Edward Filmer Esquire Ancestor to Sir Edward Filmer eldest Son to Sir Robert Filmer lately deceased to whose Demeasne the Propriety of it is at present united The Abby of Begham in this Parish was founded by Ela de Sackvill and Sir Robert de Thurneham a man of principal Account in the time of Henry the third This Priory was suppressed by Cardinal Wolsey and filled with Cannons Praemonstratenses or white Cannons called so from their Habit. The Mannor which belonged to it was by royal Concession From Q. Elizabeth it passed away to Anthony Brown Viscount Montague who not long after alienated the Fee-simple to Alderman Barneham of London who gave it to Benedict a second Son and he dying without Issne-male one of his Daughters and Coheirs married with Dobell of Sussex and so carried it into the Inheritance of that Family where the Possession has ever since been setled Scotney in this Parish which hath borrowed that Appellation from its locall Situation and the over-shooting of the Water was the Residence of a Family distinguished by that Sirname and Denomination for one Walter de Scotney in Times of high Ascent was Proprietary of this Place but added not much Reputation to this Mansion for as Edmund de Hadenham a Chronicler of great Antiquity attests he in the year 1259 administred poyson by tacit Stratagem to the Earl of Gloucester and his Brother to destroy them of which the last dyed and the first escaped not without Danger of Life But to goe on After this Family was mouldered away at this place which was about the midst of Edward the third the eminent Family of Ashburnham of Ashburnham in Sussex were entituled to the Signiory of it Roger Ashburnham who was one of the Conservators of the Peace for this County of Sussex in the first year of Richard the second had here a castellated Mansion did sometimes inhabit at this place and was
Master or Conservator of her Jewells whose Son Sir Jo. Astley upon his Decease bequeathed it to his Nephew Sir Norton Knatchbull Knight and Baronet who is the instant Proprietarie of it Champions-Court is the second place of Account in this Parish It was in elder Times the Mansion and Demeasne of a generous Family whose Sirname was Campania and was certainly a Family of eminence in elder Times Robert de Campania is inserted in the Register of those Kentish Gentlemen who accompanied Richard the first to the Seige of Acon John de Campania his Grandchild obtained the Grant of a Market to Newenham weekly on the Thursday and a Fair yearly to continue the Vigil the Day of St. Peter and Paul and the Day after and was one of those Knights of Kent who was embarked in the Seige of Carlaverock in Scotland with Edward the first in the twenty eighth year of his Raign In Times of a younger Aspect the Name by Depravation and vulgar Use languished into Champion and so continued till it expired in Daughters and Coheirs one of which was Katharine Champion who by matching with Robert Corbett descended from the Corbetts of Morton Corbett in the County of Salop upon the Division of Champions Estate united this to his Revenue where it had not long rested but the same vicissitude brought this Name to determine in female Coheirs likewise two of which called Joan and Elizabeth were espoused to Samuell Slap and Ralph Hart. Samuell Slap had Issue Joan Slap who dyed childlesse and so this Mannor was cast into the Possession of Richard Hart Son of Ralph Hart the Successor of Richard Hart in our Fathers Memory alienated his Interest in it to Sir Henry Spiller and he not many years since conveyed all his Right and Title to it by Sale to Mr. Weckerlin descended from the Weckerlins a Family of good Ranke and Account in Upper Germany A third place of Note in Newenham is Sholand whih was in the Raign of H. the third as an old datelesse Deed discovers to us the Patrimony of Adam de Stomynton and after this Name went out the Bournes of Sharsted in Dodington not far removed from this place were about the twentieth year of Edward the third possest of this Lordship from them by purchase the Propriety was carried over to Chevin descended from the Chevins of Chevins-court in Marden and Thomas Chevin of this place married Thomasin Coheir of Champion of Champions Court in this Parish From Chevin the Interest of Sholand did descend by Sale to Maycott and from them by the same Fate to Adye a Family of Note and very much Antiquity as to the Name in this Track whose Right it had not long acknowledged but by the same Devolution the Title was invested in Steere from whom by Purchase it came over to Sayers descended from those of York-shire who in that Age our Fathers lived in sold his Concernment in it to Mr. Hugison of Dover in whose Heirs the Propriety of this place is at this instant resident Newington-Belhouse lies in the Hundred of Folkston and was in the Raign of King John and Henry the third the Possession of Hubert de Burgo Lord Chief Justice of England and from him it descended to his Son John de Burgo who in the fifty fifth year of Henry the third passed it away by Sale to Thomas de Belhouse by the Name of Newington juxta Hieth And probably this may be a Reason why this Family after they had adopted this Mannor into their own Name assumed a Coat which had some Affinitie with that of Hubert de Burgo videlicet Or upon a Bend Gules three Lozinges Argent and Gules which I suppose was done to preserve the Memory of him of whom it was first purchased But to proceed Sir Thomas de Belhouse great Grandchild of the above-mentioned paid respective Aid for this Mannor by the Name of Newington-Belhouse in the twentieth year of Edward the third at making the Black Prince Knight and died possest of it in the forty eighth year of that Princes Raign from whom a descendant Right brought it down to his Heir John de Belhouse who enjoyed it so narrow a space of Time that it is left upon Record that he died seised of it in the forty ninth year of Edward the third and Robert Knevit a younger Son of Sir John Knevit Lord Chancellor of England who had married the Heir Generall of this Family was found to be his Heir and it was this Robert or else probably his Son who in the seventh year of Henry the fourth had a Patent of Confirmation of Liberty of Free-warren to his Lands at Newington formerly granted to Thomas de Belhouse After the Line of the Knevits was extinguished at this place which was about the beginning of Henry the eighth this Mannor devolved to the Cloptons for Edmund Knevit of Stanwaymagna in Essex had three Sisters who were Coheirs to him and their Father Edward Knevit Esquire Thomasin the eldest was matched to Sir William Clopton of Kentwell in Suffolk for his second Wife and Katharine the second Sister was married to John Clopton Esq eldest Son of the above-said Sir William and Dorothy the third was matched to Thomas Carnaby but these desiring to Contract all their Patrimony within the Verge of Suffolk alienared this Mannor in the twenty seventh year of King Henry the eighth with much of their Land in the Mersh to Thomas Lord Cromwell who being attainted in the thirty second year of Henry the eighth this Mannor escheated to the Crown and lay couched in its Revenue untill the first year of Queen Mary and then it was granted to Edward Lord Clinton who in the last year of the above-said Princesse conveyed it with all its perquisites to Henry Herdson whose Grandchild Francis Herdson almost in that Age we entitle to our Fathers Remembrance alienated it to Mr. Henry Brockman Grandfather to the instant Proprietarie James Brockman Esquire Sene and Bithborough were two ancient Seats which related to the Knightly Family of Valoigns of whom I shall speak more in my Discourse of Petham but before the latter end of Edward the third this Family was extinguished and then one of the two Daughters and Coheirs upon the Distinction of the Estate parcells brought these two places to be the Inheritance of Sir Francis Fogge who lies buried Cross-legg'd in Cheriton-Church with the Arms of Fogge and Valoigns empal'd upon his Tombe and from him did the Propriety and Title in an uninterupted Channell stream down to George Fogge Esquire who alienated Sene in our Grandfathers Memory to Honywood and Bithborough to Mr. Henry Brockman who added much to the ancient Building so that it is now become the Seat of that Family Bertrams in Newington is so called because it was parcell of the Estate of Bertram de Crioll who died possest of it in the twenty third year of Edward the first and left it to Joan his Heir espoused to Sir Richard de
he because he was originally extracted from a place in Yorkshire called Wombwell erected a House here which he adopted into his own Name and styled it Wombwell Hall which with Dernedale remained involved in the Possession of this Family untill some few years the Title was by Sale transplanted into Mr. ......... Adye Esquire Counsellor at Law Son and Heir to Mr. ........ Adye of Dodington Shinglewell is another place in Northfleet which may deservedly be taken Notice of because Hever is situated within the precincts of it which was the Seminary or Seedplot of the ancient Family of Hever and though Hever Castle by reason of its Grandeur and Magnificence was their capitall Mansion yet this was the original Fountain or Cradle from whence the Family primitively issued forth W. de Hever was a person of note and was engaged with R. the first at the Seige of Acon In the seventh year of the raign of King Iohn as appears by the Pipe-rolls of that Time Hugh de Hever and Walter de Hever were Recognitores magnae Assisae a place if we calculate it for the Meridian of those Times of a very great Latitude of Power Trust and Concernment for they were looked upon in all Causes either of Criminal or Civill Aspect as the representative Body of the County and from them it is possible our present Grand Juries may seem to extract their first Institution Richard de Hever is found in the Kentish Register of those who accompanied Edward the first in the nineteenth year of his raign to New Castle where he summoned the Pretenders to the Scottish Scepter to give an Account of the Justice of their Title to that Diadem Thomas de Hever obtained a Market to Shinglewell and two Fairs one at Michaelmas which was to continue five Dayes and the second at the Feast of St. Lawrence which was to continue three as appears Chart. 4. Edw. 3. Num. 9. After this Family was worn out the Cobhams by a Right derived from Reginald de Cobham who married Joane one of the Coheirs of William de Hever were invested in the Fee and from them it passed away by Sale about the beginning of Henry the sixth to Rykeld where the Possession was of no long Date for Rose Sole Heir of John Rykeld by matching with John Limsey united this Mannor of Hever to his Patrimony and in this Name was the Title resident until the midst of the raign of Henry the eighth and then it was alienated to Rainsford and from this Name the like Devolution about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth carried it away to Garth who almost in our Fathers Memory conveyed it by Sale to Mr. ...... Child from whom it is lately come over by purchase to be the Inheritance of Mr. ...... Fortree of Greenwich Norton in the Hundred of Feversham was as high as I can track the Inheritance of that Family whose Sirname was de Campania and whose Principal Seat was at Champions Court in Newenham John de Campania had a Charter of Free-warren granted by Royal Indulgence to his Mannor of Norton in the thirty first year of Edward the first and when this Name had deserted the Possession the Title of this place came to own the Signory of John Boteler of Graveney Esquire who flourished in the raign of Henry the fourth but it is manifest was not very stable in this Name for by Boteler this mans Sole Heir it was incorporated into the Patrimony of John Martin her Husband afterwards Judge of the Common Pleas and in this Family was it resident till the raign of Henry the seventh and then it was conveyed away by Sale to Finch issued out from the Finches of Groveherst in Milton But the same Fatality which brought it over to Martin carried it away from the Name of Finch for this Family in our Grand-fathers Memory determining in a Daughter and Heir she by matching with Sonds of Sonds Place at Darking in Surrey linked Norton to the Demeasne of that Family where after the Possession had some Time been lodged it went away by Sale about the latter end of the raign of Queen Elizabeth to Mr. Thomas Mills Esquire who upon his Decease which was in the entrance of the raign of King Charles by some Addition of Estate still to support the Name and improve the Luster of the Family gave it to his Cozen Mills of Sussex who in Right of that Testamentary Donation is the instant Possessor of Norton Provenders is an Ancient Seat in this Parish once the Mansion of a Family of that Sirname which though it be long since worn out at this place yet it is still under a Character of no despicable Account in being in Wiltshire where for several Ages last past they have successively setled I have seen a Deed without Date which about the raign of Henry the third fixes the possession of this place in John de Provender and this agrees with Sidrach Petits Inquisition who in his curious Survey of several Kentish Mannors taken in the twenty eighth year of King Henry the eighth represents this place about the Time of Henry the third to be in the Tenure of the above-said John de Provender After the Provenders the Quadrins were Possessors and then successively the Goldwells of Goldwell which was in the raign of Richard the second were Proprietaties of Provenders and remained many years invested in the Signory of it till the common Devolution of Purchase translated the right of it to Dry-land a Family of much Splendor and no lesse Estate in this Track one of which Name in the raign of Henry the eighth passed away his Interest in it by Sale to Robert Atwater Esquire Justice of Peace of this County in that Age and he transmitted it by Sale to Sir James Hales Son of Sir John Hales from which Family in the Time of Queen Elizabeth it went over by Sale to Sayer in which Family after the Propriety some few years had rested it was almost within the Limits of our Remembrance sold to Mr. Hugison of Dover in Right of which Purchase after the Decease of her Mother it is to devolve to Mrs. Jane Hugison descended from a second Son of this Family and lately matched to * She is lately deceased without Issue surviving so that her Estate here is to return to Mr. Hugison of Lingsted Mr. ...... Roberts of Canterbury Esquire Nutsted in the Hundred of Acstane was in elder Times couched in the Patrimony of a Family called Gravesend which was of no cheap or obscure Account in this Track for Sir Stephen de Gravesend is in the Register or Inventory of those Knights which accompanied Edward the first in his prosperous Expedition into Scotland when by a succesful Reduction he in the twenty eighth year of his faign subdued the strong Fortress of Carlaverock in Scotland Richard de Gravesend Bishop of London the more to improve the Grandeur of Nursted which then was entituled to his Name and Family obtained a
by a Chain of Descent to his Grand-child Sir Charles Sydley Baronet the present Lord of the Fee Pole vulgarly called Poole is another Mannor in Southfleet And was in elder Times the Inheritance of a Family called Berese for I find by a fine levyed in the thirty seventh year of Henry the third that Richard de Berese fells this Mannor under the Notion of a Carucate of Land to Reginald de Cobham of Roundall in Shorne and from him did it by a continued Thread of Succession devolve to John Cobham Esquire in whom the Male-line of that Name ended and he dyed seised of it in the ninth year of Henry the fourth Rot. Esc Num. 10. And lett it to Joan his Sole Inheritrix who by Reginald Braybrook her third and last Husband had Issue Joan her only Daughter and Heir who brought this Mannor and a liberal Revenue besides to her Husband Thomas Brook of the County of Somerset Esquire Grand-father to Thomas Lord Brook who about the Beginning of Henry the seventh passed it away to Sir Henry Wiat one of the Privy Councel to that Monarch from whom it descended to his noble but infortunate Grandchild Sir Tho. Wiat who in the second year of Q. Mary forfeited this and his Life together so that from thenceforth it was clasped up in the Income of the Crown untill Queen Elizabeth in the twenty fifth year of her reign restored it to his Widow the Lady Joan Wiatt and George Wiat Esquire his Son and Heir father to Sir Francis Wiat who upon his Decease left it to his Widow Dowager the Lady ..... Wiatt who is now in possession of it Scadbery in Southfleet hath been for some Centuries of years the possession of the Family of Sidleys who were in Times of very high Ascent seated in Romney Mersh for there are some Lands there which at this Day they call by the Name of Sidleys and Sidleys Mersh In this Mansion there is a Room whose sides are covered with Wainscot and on one of the Plates or Pains which appears to be exceeding ancient the Arms of Sidley are carved in embost-work viz A Fesse wavee between three Goats heads erased and these Letters underneath W. and S. with the year of our Lord affixed in Figures whose Date commences from 1337. And although the Structure of this House hath like a Snail shifted its ancient Shell yet in all its Mutations and Vicissitudes which must certainly have very much disordered the Fabrick when it was cast into a new mould and frame and ravelled and discomposed the Materials yet this Panel of Wainscot hath been like a Relique religiously preserved to justifie not only the Antiquity of this Seat but of the Family of Sydley also which is presumed to have been resident at this place before the above-mentioned Calculation from whom Sir Charles Sidley Baronet claims the Original of his Title to this Mansion and his Extraction or pedigree likewise untwisted into many Descents and now at last wound up in him Shouldon in the Hundred of Deal hath two remarkable places which are situated within the Limits of it First Hull presents it self to our View it was formerly under the Signory of the illustrious-Family of Ratling or Retling in Nonington Thomas de Retling paid respective Aid for this and divers other Lands of ancient Inheritance in the twentieth year of Edward the third at the making the Black Prince Knight and left it to his Son Sir Richard de Retling whose Widow the Lady Sarah Retling and afterwards Wife of John de St. Laurence died possest of it in the tenth year of Richard the second and left it to John Spicer who had married Joan Daughter and Heir to her first Husband but he concluding in a Daughter and Heir by this his first Wife called Cicely who was Heir to her mother Joan Spicer shee by matching with Iohn Isaack knit it to the Propriety of that Family But before the twenty first of Henry the sixth he had fixed the Inheritance in Iohn Bresland in whom it was not long resident for he suddenly after altered his right and about the Beginning of Edward the fourth put it over by Sale to Phineux of Swink-field whose Successor Robert Phineux by as quick and early a Vicissitude placed the possession about the Beginning of Henry the eighth in George Monins Esquire whose Successor in that Age which was circumscribed within the Pale of our Fathers Remembrance passed it away to Crayford of Great Mongeham Secondly Cotmanton puts in its Claim for some memorial likewise even in this respect that it was the Demeasne of the noble Family of Crioll or Keriell who were of some considerable Repute in this Track as appearsby by the Book styled Testa de Nevill kept in the Exchequer where they are represented in the twentieth year of Henry the third to have held Land in this Skirt of the County and in Ages of a modern Aspect that is in the twentieth year of Edward the third I find Iohn de Criol gave a pecuniary supply at the making the Black Prince Knight but before the end of Edward the third he was departed from the possession of this place which by Sale was resigned up to Roger Digge and he dyed in the possession of it in the third year of Ric. the second Rot. Esc Num 19. And in this Family it continued untill the reign of Henry the seventh and then it was alienated to Barton descended from the ancient Family of Barton of Barton-hall in the County of Lancaster from whom the like Mutation about the latter end of H. the eighth carried it off to the Family of Brown and from them it passed away by Sale into the Possession of Richardson upon whose going out the Family of Smith by a Devolution like the former not many years since stept into the Inheritance of it Sundrich in the Hundred of Codsheath was the Possession as high as any Light collected from Antiquity can waft us to a Discovery of an Ancient Family called in Latine-Records de Insula and in English Isley Iohn de Insula obtained a Charter of Free-warren to his Lands at Sundrich in the eleventh year of Edward the second and he had Issue Iohn Isley who married Joan Daughter to Sir Ralph de Fremingham and by her had Issue Roger Isley Esquire who in Right of his mother became Heir to his Uncle Iohn Fremingham Esquire who deceased without Issue in the twelfth year of Henry the fourth and this Roger Isley had Issue William Isley Esquire who was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty fifth year of Henry the sixth and he had Issue John Isley Esquire who was Justice of the Peace and Sheriff of Kent in the fourteenth year of Edward the fourth and deceased in the year 1484 as appears by an Inscription affixed to his Monument yet extant notwithstanding the late general Shipwrack of the Remains of Antiquity in Sundrich-church and he had Issue Thomas Isley Esquire Father of Sir Henry Isley who was
as a Limb of the Estate thus acquired who in the fiftieth year of his reign setled it on the Abby of St. Mary Grace on Tower-hill of his Foundation and Endowment and having remained treasured up in the Revenue of that Cloister untill the general suppression it was then plucked off and by King Henry the eighth granted in the thirty first of his Reign to Thomas Green Esquire whose Descendant in our Fathers memory passed away his Concernment in it to Apsley Ham Sharpenash and West-court are three little Mannors situated within the Circuit of this Parish and were parcel of that Patrimony which related to the Abby of St. Augustins which upon the Dissolution of that Fraternity the vast Demeasn which appertained to it being more hainous in the Eyes of Henry the eighth than those Crimes and Offences though peradventure of a Complexion dark enough which were charged upon the Covent He I mean the Prince abovesaid ravished them away from the patrimony of the Church to incorporate and interweave them with the Revenue of the Crown where their Title and proprietie was not long lodged for K. Hen. the eighth conveyed them by Grant to Will. Hach descended from Hach of Aller in Devon who not long after passed them away to Tho. Green Esq written in his Deeds alià Norton where after the possession of them had some years continued the Interest of all these Mannors was by the Mutation of Sale transported into Aldersey Ancestor to Captain Terry Aldersey of Swanton Court in Bredgar now Lord of the Fee and Signory of these above recited places W. W. W. W. WAldershare in the Hundred of Eastry was in elder Times the Seat of an eminent Family called Malmains John de Malmains is recorded in an Ancient Roll of those Gentlentemen which entred England with William the Conquerour and engaged with him at the Battle of Battle John de Malmains as Mr. Fuller in his Ecclesiastical History does represent to us was Standard Bearer to the Norman Footmen and was joyned by William the Conquerour as an Assistant Knight to Otho one of the Monks of Ely Henry Malmains is registred in the Bed-roll of those Kentish Gentlemen who assisted Richard the first at the Siege of Acon See more of this Family of Malmains in the Catalogue of Sheriffs John de Malmains is registred in the Pipe rolls amongst those who were Recognitores Magnae Assisae in the reign of K. John a place of that Latitude of Trust and Authority that those who managed it were frequently selected out of the chiefest Knights and most eminent Gentlemen of the County Sir Nicholas de Malmains was engaged with Edward the first at the Siege of Carlaverock in Scotland in the twenty eighth of his reign and for his worthy undertaking there received the Dignity of Knighthood and from him did Waldershare descend to Nicholas de Malmains who died possest of this and much other Land in the twenty third year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 160. and from him descended Henry Malmains his Grand-child who dying about the beginning of Henry the fourth without Issue Male left his Estate here at Waldershare to Agnes his sole Daughter and Heir matched to Thomas Goldwell of Great Chart yet had this Henry a Kinsman called Thomas Malmains Son of John Malmains who had a considerable share of this Mannor of Waldershare which by his Heir General devolved to John Monins Esquire who about the beginning of Henry the sixth purchased all that Demeasn and Interest which Tho. Goldwell was entituled to here and so became sole Lord of Waldershare This John Monins was descended from John Monins who in the twentieth year of Edw. the third held Lands at Swink-field as appeats by the Book of Aid by the Title of Esquire and was allied to William Monings or Monins for in old Records they are written so promiscuously who was several times Knight of the Shire for Norfolk as appears by the Record in the Tower whose Title is De Expensis Militum in the time of Richard the second and John Monins this Mans Son was a person of so eminent Notice in this County that he obtained an Indulgence under the Seal of Sixtus the fourth bearing Date 1474 to carry along with him a Priest and a portable Altar for celebration of divine Offices in his necessary Journeyings and John Monins this Man's Grand-child and Son of Robert compounds with Tho. Hobbys in the twentieth year of Hen. the seventh for ten Marks as part of his Fine to be excused from being made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Henry his Son Prince of Wales Edward Monins Esq was Justice of the Peace for Kent the latter part of the reign of Henry the eighth and he was Ancestor to Sir William Monins who was made Knight and Baronet the twenty ninth day of June in the ninth year of K. James by the Name of Sir William Monings of Waldershare and from him is not onely this Title but likewise the signory of this Mannor now devolved by paternal right to his Son and Heir Edward Monins Baronet Walmer is a Member of Sandwich and so in no Hundred It was one of those principal Seats which owned the jurisdiction and signory of the noble and spreading Family of Crioll written frequently likewise Keriel The first whom I find to be possest of it was Matilda de Criol Widow of Simon de Crioll and she in right of Dower was in possession of it at her Death which was in the fifty second of Henry the third Rot. Esc Num. 34. The next of this Name whom the Beams of publick Record represent to me to be possessor of it was Nicholas de Crioll who enjoyed it at his Death which was in the thirty first of Edward the first Rot. Esc Num. 39. In Ages of a nearer Approach unto us Iohn de Crioll in the forty ninth year of Edward the third died seised of it and so did William Keriell in the first year of Henry the fifth Rot. Esc Num. 21. and left it to his Son Sir John Crioll of Sarre in Thanet who as an old Pedigree of this Family informs me was in eminent Command under Henry the fifth in his successful Expedition into France having the Conduct of several Kentish Squadrons at the Battle of Agincourt and died laden more with Honour then with Years in the ninth year of Henry the sixth and left Sir Thomas Crioll or Keriell Knight of the Gatter Heir both of his Estate and Virtues of whom because our Chronicles speak so much I shall not be silent He was Governor of Gourney in Normandy in the ninth year of Henry the sixth under John Duke of Bedford the Regent not farre from which Place he defeated the Earl of Britaine and in that discomfiture slew six Hundred and took two Hundred Prisoners In the fourteenth year of Henry the sixth the Duke of Burgundy infested Crotoy with a Siege which being successefully raised by the Lord Talbot Sir Thomas Keriell