enfranchise villaines sondrie other things whiche bycause they be to long to be rehearsed at large and lye not fitly in the way of my purpose I will omit and descend to the Wardeins of the Portes reciting in a short Catalogue the names of so many of them as I haue found to gouern sithence the arriuall of King William the Conquerour And although it be no doubt but that the Portes were vnder the gouernement of some before the tyme of the conquest also yet bycause King William was the first so farre as I haue read that made the office perpetuall and gaue it the title whiche it now beareth the name Wardein I meane whiche came from Normandie and was not at all knowen to the Saxons I thinke best to begin at his time Againe for asmuche as the Constableship of the Castle of Douer and this office haue ben alwayes inseperably matched together and for that I shal haue fitte place to speake of that hereafter when I shall come to Douer I will respit the rehersall of bothe their originalles til then and here in the meane season set down the race of the Wardeins by name only Iohn Fynes created by William the Conquerour Wardein of the Portes and Constable of Douer by gifte of inheritance Iames Fines his Sonne whiche dyed ot Folkston Iohn Fynes his Sonne Walkelm who deliuered it to King Stephan and immediatly after his death abandoned the charge and fled into Normandie Allen Fynes restored by King Henrie the second Iames Fynes his Eldest Sonne Mathew Clere as it should séeme by Mat. Par. Williā Petite who imprisoned Godfrey the Archbyshop of Yorke in Douer castle as vnder that title shal appeare William of Wrotham Hubert of Burgh the Earle of Kent who being deposed Bartram of Cryol succéeded Richard Gray appointed by the Barons that warred against King Henrie the third who was depriued of his office by Hugh Bigot bicause he let in the Popes legate by the Kings licence and against the minde of the Nobles Henrie Braybrooke Edward the first in the lyfe of his father who made Henrie Cobham his deputie whose Sonne Heire called Iohn founded Cobham College Roger Leyborne in the tyme of King Edward the first Stephan Penchester in the tyme of Edward the first Syr Robert Asheton Hugh Spenser the younger in the tyme of Edward the second Edmund of Woodstock the Earle of Kent Reginald Cobham in the time of Edward the third Bartholmew Burwhasse or Burgehersh one of the first companions of the ordre of the Garter Iohn Beauchampe the Earle of Warwike Syr Robert Herle in the latter ende of King Edward the third Edmund the Earle of Cambridge Syr Simon Barley whome Thomas of Woodstocke beheaded Lord Henrie Cobham the Sonne of Reginald Cobhā Syr Iohn Enros Syr Thomas Beaumont Edward the Duke of Aumarle and Yorke whom King Henrie the fourth remoued and substituted in place Syr Thomas Erpingham for a season but afterward he gaue the office to Prince Edward his Sonne who when he was King in possession bestowed it vpon Humfrey the Duke of Gloucester Iames Fines Lord Saye whom Iacke Cade beheaded Edmond the Duke of Somerset Humfrey the Duke of Buckingham Simon Mountford vnder King Henrie the sixt Richard Neuel the Earle of Warwike William the Earle of Arundel Richard the Duke of Gloucester called afterward King Richard the third Sir William Scotte Henrie the Duke of Yorke Iames Fines the Lord Saye Henrie in his Fathers lyfe afterward the eight King of that name Arthur Plantagenet Vicount Lisle Bastard Sonne to King Edward the fourth Sir Edward Poynings Henrie the younge Earle of Richemond Sir Edward Guldeford George Boleyn Vicount Rocheford Sir Thomas Cheynie Treasurour of the houshold Sir Wiliam Cobham Lord Cobham Thus much of the v. Portes in general Now of Sandwiche the first of them in the order of my iourney and then orderly of so many of the residue as lye within the Shyre that I haue presently in hand Sandwiche is called in Latine Sabulouicum or Portus Rutupinus in Saxon Sondƿic that is to say the Sandie Towne because the coast therabout aboundeth withe Sande THis Towne as it appeareth by the report of Leland and as it may séeme also by the name it selfe being méere Saxon began by the Saxons after the fall of poore Richeborowe which was in price while the honour of the Britons stood vpright and was eyther abated dy the furie of the Saxons when they wonne that coast from them or els came to ruine by the alteration and vicissitude of the Sea whiche peraduenture choked the hauen thereof with light sande as it hathe since that time done this at Sandwiche also King Canutus gaue as some write to Christes church in Canterbury Sainct Bartholmews arme if happely it were not a chaungeling for Kings great men were oftentymes after that sort deluded though they in the meane time bought such reliques dearely and thought that kinde of gifte moste princely he gaue also a riche Pall a Crowne of Golde and this hauen of Sandwiche together with the royaltie of the water on eache side so farre as a shippe being on flote at the full Sea a man might caste a shorte hatchet out of the vessell vnto the Banke The place it selfe grewe in tyme to be wel peopled and of worthynesse to be one of those Portes that foūd fauour of priuilege in consideration of their seruice at the Sea for it appeareth by the booke of Domesday that this was the estate of Sandwiche It laye in a hundreth belonginge to it selfe it did to the King suche like seruice by tenure as Douer did It was of the possessiōs of Christes Churche as I haue shewed and was appointed for the apparell of the Monkes of that house to the whiche it yealded fourtie thousand herrings besides certaine money and had in it thrée hundreth and seuen houses inhabited And I finde not but that the Towne continued in the like plight long after the Conquest being somewhat amended also by the Staple whiche King Edward the first for a season remoued thither euen vntil the time of King Henrie the sixt in whose dayes Peter Brice the Steward of Normandie landed at Sandwiche and with fire and sworde wasted the Towne in manner to ashes and slewe the inhabitants almoste to the last man Since whiche time partly by the smarte of that wounde but chiefly by the aboundaunce of the light Sande wherewith the Sea hath glutted the hauen it is declined to great decay and were like to fall to extreme ruine were it not that nowe presently it is somewhat relieued by the repaire of suche as haue abandoned their Countrie for the fréedome of their consciences whose aboade howe long it will bée the Lorde onely knoweth for whose cause they suffer banishment There was in this Towne before the generall suppression a house of Carmelites whereof I read none other good thing saue that it brought foorthe one learned man called
Cranwell * Crumpton * Carrell * Iohn Cobham Cuttes D. * Syr William Damsell * Thomas Darrell * Robert Deane * Dalyson Richard Déering Delahay Iames Dalton * George Darrel Iohn Delapynd Gaius Dixon William Drayner * Digges * Thomas Duke E. Daniell Euering Vincent Engham Ralfe Edolf Fraunces Eglesfield F. Syr Thomas Fane Thomas Fane George Fogge. * Henry Fane Thomas Fyneux Symond Fifeld Thomas Farby Alexander Fisher Thomas Fluyd Robert Fylmer Iohn Franklyn Moyle Fynche * Thomas Fisher * Ralfe Fynche G. * The Lady Golding Syr Thomas Guldeford Edmund Gay George Goldwell Thomas Gréeke William Gybs Henry Gylman Thomas Godden * Richard Garthe * Barnabe Gooche * Norton Gréene H. Syr George Howard * Syr Perceuall Hart. Syr Iames Hales William Hamon Richard Hardes Roger Herleckenden * Christopher Harflete * Honywood * Iohn Heyton Thomas Honywood Henry Haddes Iohn Harper Martyn Herleckenden * Edward Hales * Richard Heron. Ralf Hayman Abacuk Harman Thomas Hamon William Holmden * George Harte I. * Syr Humfry Iylbert Iohn Iden William Isley Paul Ihonson * Martyn Iames. K. Syr Thomas Kempe * Richard Knatchbull L. * William Louelace Serieant at the Lawe * Thomas Louelace Iohn Lennard Richard Lone Anthonie Light. Thomas Lewson William Lewknor Lée * William Lambade M. * Roger Manwood Iustice of the common place George Multon Edward Monings Iohn Moyle William Midleton Walter Meyny Anthony Meyny William Mount. * Edward Martyn Moore N. Syr Henry Neuill Lorde Aburgeuenny * Alexander Neuill Valentine Norton * Thomas Neuill * Thomas Neuill O. Henry Oxenden Iohn Orwell P. * Thomas Potter * Payne William Partridge Ciriac Petit. Henry Petit. William Petit. William Pordage Richard Parkar * Iames Peckam * Iohn Pet. * Palmer R. * Syr Iohn Ryuers * Thomas Randall Walter Roberts * Iohn Roberts William Roper Robert Rudstone Richard Rogers Robert Rychers William Raynes S. * Syr Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter Lord Deputie of Ireland and Lord President of Wales Syr Warham Seintleger Syr Thomas Scot. Anthony Sandes Iohn and Edw. Sibyll Vincent S. Nicholas Iohn Sidley Christopher Samson William Swanne William Swanne Thomas Stoughton * Charles Scot. * Frauncis Sandbache * Reynold Scot. * Somers * Frauncis Shakerley * William Sydney T. Iohn Tuftone Thomas Tourney Roger Twisden Morice Tichebourne Iohn Twyne Thomas Tuttesham William Tylghman * Iames Tebolde Iohn Tebolde * Robert Thomas * Frauncis Thynn * Richard Tomeyo W. Syr Thomas WalsinghaÌ„ Thomas Wootton * Thomas Watton * Thomas Whetenhall * Ralfe Weldon * George Wyat. * Thomas Wale Thomas Willoughby Frauncis Wilford Iohn Wybarne Richard Waller Iohn Wylkyns Thomas Waren William Weston Dauy Wylkyns Robert Walker * Edward Wyat. * Robert Wyseman The names of the Kentish writers drawne for the most part out of the Centuries of Maister Iohn Bale Androgeus Comes Ethelbertus Rex Lotharius Rex Eadricus Rex Wightredus Rex Heddius Stephanus Tobias Cantianus Neotus Aldulphius Serlo Fridegodus Haimo Folchardus Obsernus Eadmerus Aernulphus Elmerus Odo Cantianus Alexander Cantuariensis Eadmundus Gryme Radulfus Roffensis Richardus Pluto Richardus Douerensis Sampson Durouermus Radulfus Maidston Geruasius Dorobernensis Solitarius Presbyter Nigellus Wireker Alexander Theologus Simon Stokius Ioannes Cantianus Haimo de Feuersham Thomas Spottus Simon Mepham Petrus de Ikham Guilielmus Pagham Ioannes Tanetos Thomas Chillenden Guilielmus Starnfield Thomas Pontius Simon de Feuersham Martinus de Clyuo Thomas de Stureia Reginaldus Cantuariensis Radulphus Strodus Thinredus Douerius Guilielmus Thorne Richardus Maidston Guilielmus Gillingham Ioannes Wrotham Ioannes Oldcastle Dominus Cobham Ioannes Langdene Guilielmus Whyte Guilielmus Beckley Ioannes Capgraue Guilielmus Stapilhart Ioannes Fisher Ioannes Frithe Simon Fishe Thomas Wiat Senior Leonardus Digs Ioannes Ponetus Richardus Turnerus Elizabetha Regina Hytherto almost altogether out of Maister Bale to the whiche these may bee added that haue written since Ioannes Colpeper Thomas Digs Thomas Harman Edouardus Deering Thomas Potter Reginaldus Scot. Alexander Neuille Georgius Harte Guilielmus Darrel Thomas Twyne Hitherto of Kent in particularitie and by way of Table Whereof some part is drawne out of credible Records part is spoken of mine owne knowledge and part is fetched from other men by information For the first forte I holde my selfe sufficiently warranted but in the other twaine if either by want of memorie I haue not taken all or by too muche credulitie haue mistaken any I pray pardon for it and desire the Reader either to correct or supplie it by his owne discretion and iudgement Now a fewe wordes of the Welshe Hystorie and then to the diuision of the Shyre Countrie it selfe ¶ A short counsell as touching the Bryttishe hystorie ALbeit that I am iustly occasioned before I make myne entrie to speake largely for confirmation of the credite of oure Bryttishe or Welshe hystorie the faith wherof is by William Petite and Polidore Virgile called into question for as muche as I shal be enforced to vse it as a ground worke of my whole frame and building yet for that I mynde not in any part of this my labour to handle with many wordes matters in controuersie being otherwise sufficiently charged with things more incident to my purpose and no lesse fit to be knowne And bycause also that matter hath alreadie founde more learned and diligent patrones I will with fewe wordes passe it ouer contenting my selfe if I shall haue added to other mens heapes one small proofe or twaine whiche by chaunce I gleaned after them and referring suche as desire more aboundant testimonies to the reading of Iohn Leland and Syr Iohn ap Rese two learned men that haue plentifully written therein The state of the matter is this whether Geffrey of Monmouthe be the authour of the Bryttish storie as William Newborow and Polydore charge him or the translatour thereof onely out of the Bryttishe as him selfe in his booke professeth Whereof must néedes ensue That if the worke be his owne it hath no more credite then he him selfe being the author coulde bring vnto it But if he did only translate that whiche Walter the Archdeacon of Oxforde brought out of NormaÌ„die and deliuered vnto him Then doth not the estimation depende vpon Geffray but vpon some other whâ—â—soeuer he were that first wrate it Now that it may appeare vnto you that he was only the interpreter of that whiche came out of Normandie I will call to witnesse Henrie the Archdeacon of Huntington who liued in the time of king Henrie the first and was somwhat before William Petites dayes who as him self confesseth was borne in the beginning of the reigne of king Stephan about whiche time Geffray of Monmouthe was on liue also This Henrie besides a learned hystorie of the realme wrate thrée seuerall treatises whiche I haue séene One intituled De miraculis Angliae An other De serie ReguÌ„ potentissimorum And the thirde De origine Regum Brytannorum In this latter he sayth playnly That at such time as he trauayled towardes Rome he founde in an auncient Librarie of the Abbay
of the number of 329 16 peucata Leucata 341 7 burgHEr burHEs 342 10 the word which the which worde 344 17 reiected eiected 358 27 caelcE aelcE 361 23 other uche other suche 362 15 Hi ƿHrto Hi þErto  18 ƿE Hit þE Hit 366 25 three estales three estates 370 1 vaginacae vagniacae  3 ƿyrHam ƿyrtHam 391 32 in feodo in feoda 392 10 in feodo in feoda 396  in the mar that call call that 399 11 shall entree shall enter  12 condtion condition  33 exemplfied exemplified 400 29 and in case not and not in case  30 is iustified is iustised 406 25 seiset seisei 407 24 may waine her may waiue her Saxones ANGLIAE HEPTARCHIA ¶ The exposition of this Map of the English Heptarchie or seauen Kingdomes TO the ende that it may be vnderstoode what is ment by the tearmes of Eastsaxons Westsaxons Mercia Northumberland and such other of which there is common mention in the Treatise folowing I haue thought good to prefixe a chard of the seauen sundry Kingdomes into the whiche this Realme was sometime diuided But yet for the better and more plaine explication of the matter it shall bee good first to know that all these Nations following haue had to doe within this our Countrie The Brittons the Romanes the Scottes and Pictes the Saxons the Danes and the Normanes The Bryttons after the Samothees and Albionees whiche be of no great fame in our history were the most auncient Inhabitantes of this land and possessed it in peace vntil Iulius Caesar the Romane Emperour inuaded them for so muche may a man gather of Horace his wordes where he sayeth Intactus aut Brytannus Sacra vt descenderet catenatus via c. These therefore weare by Iulius Caesar subdued to the Romane Empyre and their country made a tributarie Prouince in whiche case it continued many yeares togeather vntyll at the length they being greiuously vexed with the Pictes and Scottes their neighbours on the North and being vtterly voide of all hope of aide to bee had from the Romanes their patrons who also at the same time weare sore afflicted with the inuasion of the Hunnes and Vandales like barbarous nations they weare enforced to séeke for further helpe And therefore sent into Germanie from whence they receaued hyred Souldiours of the Nations called Saxons Iutes and Angles vnder the conduicte of Hengist and Horsa two naturall brethren and both verie valiant Captaines These Sctos as them selues do write weare a people of Scythia that came first into Spaine then into Ireland and from thence to the North part of Britaine our Iland where they yet inhabit They were called Scots or Scyttes of Scyttan which is to shoote The Pictes also came from the same place after them and occupied the parts where VVestmorland and Galoway now be And they were called Pictes either for that they vsed to paynte their bodies to the ende to séeme the more terrible or els of the word◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth a Champion by reason of their great courage and hardinesse The Saxons Iutes Angles weare the Germains that came ouer as we haue saide in aide of the Britons of which the first sorte inhabited Saxonie the seconde were of Gotland and therfore called Gutes or Gottes The thirde weare of Angria or Anglia a country adioyning to Saxonie of which the Duke of Saxonie is Lorde till this day and beareth the name therof in his stile or title of honour and of these last we all be called Angli English men These Germaines for a season serued against the Scots and Picts But afterwarde entised by the pleasure of this countrey and the fraude of the enemies they ioyned handes with them and all at once set vpon the Britons that brought them in and so driuing them into Fraunce Wales and Cornwall possessed their dwelling places and diuided the countrye amongst themselues Howbeit they also wāted not their plague For after that they had long warred one vpon another for the enlarging of their particular kingdomes and had at the last so beaten the one the other that the whole was by the Westsaxons reduced into one entier Monarchie sodainly the Danes a people of Norway Denmarke came vpon them and after much mischiefe done in the ende tooke the crowne quite and cleane from them But they were expulsed after thirtie yeares trouble and the Englishe and Saxon Nation restoared to the royall dignitie which yet they enioyed not many yeares after For straight vpon the death of Edward the Confessor William of Normandy whose people at the first came from Norway also and were therfore called Normans demaunded the Crowne and wan it of Harold in the Fielde whose posteritie holdeth it tyll this day Thus muche of the Nations that haue had interest in this Realme Now to our purpose that is to the diuision of the same into the sundrye kingdomes vnder the Saxons And although by reason of the continuall contention that was amongst them for enlarging their bounds there can no certaine limits of their kingdomes be appointed yet wee wil go as neare the trouth as wee can and folow the best approued authours that haue written thereof The first Kingdome therefore was called the Kingdome of the Westsaxons bicause it was in the West parte of the Realme and it comprehended the whole Shires of Southampton Berk Wilton Dorset and Somerset besides some partes of Surrey Gloucester and Deuonshyre As for the residue of Deuonshyre and whole Cornwall the Britons reteyned it whose language is not there as yet forgotten The seconde was the Southsaxon Kingdome so termed bicause it lay South and conteined whole Sussex and the remaine of Surrey The thirde was the Kentish Kingdome and had for the most part the same boundes that the Shyre of Kent yet hath although at some tyme and by the prowes of some King it was extended muche further The Kingdome of Estsex or of the Estsaxons was the fourth which was named of the situation also and included the whole Shires of Estsex and Midlesex with some portion of Hartfordshyre The fifte was of the East Angles or East Englishmen consisting of the I le of Elye and the Shyres of Norfolke Suffolke and Cambridge The Kingdome of Mercia or Mearclande had the sixt place which was so called of the Saxon woords Mearc signifiyng a bounde limit or marke as wee yet speake and that bicause it lay in the midst of this our Iland as vpon the whiche al the residue of the Kingdomes did bounde and weare bordered In this Kingdome weare wholy these Shyres Lincolne Northampton Rutlande Huntingdon Bedford Buckingham Oxford Chester Derby Notingham Stafforde And partly Hereford Hartford Warwick Shropshire and Gloucestershire Northumberlande so called because it laye North from the Riuer Humber was the seauenth Kingdome and it enuironned Yorkshire Durham Northumberlande Cumberlande and Westmerlande wholy and so muche of Lancashire besides as was not in Mercia This
Fraunchiles Of the Duchie Of the Archebishop Of the Bishop of Rochester Of the Deane of Canterbury Of Otforde Of Wye Of Asheford Of Wrotham Of Elfham Of Osprenge Knightes fées in olde time 254. and Di. whereof .27 belonged to the Archebishop eyght to the Bishop of Rochester and the rest to the King. Forrestes and Parkes South Frythe for Northe Frythe .3 parkes Otforde two Knoll Gromebridge Panthyrst disparked Penshirst Brasted dis Henden dis Heuer dis Bropam dis Wrotham dis Ightam dis Cage dis Postern dis Sutton dis Langley dis Cooling Byrling Cobham Alington dis Merewood dis Grenewiche Eltham 3. Ashowre Southparke Lullingstone Calehyl Léedes S. Augustines Bedgebury Westenhanger Halden Haniswell Hungershall Lye dis Folkston dis Shorland Stonehyrst dis Stowting Saltwood Posting At Ashford Sissingherst Glassenbury Oxenhoth .2 dis Hilles of name Shooters hyll Red hyll Gads hyll Cockshoot hyll Shorne hyll Northdownes Boxley hyll Boughton hyll Byrling hyll Ryuer hyll Raynam downe Myll hyll Baram downe South downes Ryuers Thamis Rauenshorne Cray Darent Medwey Rother Lymen Bewl Genlade Wantsume Stowre Bridges at Depeford vpoÌ„ Rauens Lewsham vpoÌ„ Rauens Crayforde vpon Cray EatoÌ„ bridge vpon Medwey TuÌ„bridge 5 vpon Medwey BraÌ„tbridge vpon Medwey Twyford vpon Medwey Yalding vpon Medwey Teston vpon Medwey Farley vpon Medwey Maydstone vpon Medwey Ailesford vpon Medwey Rochester vpon Medwey Shorham vpoÌ„ DareÌ„t Ainsford vpoÌ„ DareÌ„t FarninghaÌ„ vpoÌ„ DareÌ„t Dartford vpoÌ„ DareÌ„t Chaford Lamberhirst Bewl Hetcorne Newendene Ashford Canterburie Cities Canterburie Rochester Markets vpon Tuesday at Wrotham Wednisday at Douor Sandwiche Canterbury Grauesend S. Mary Cray Thursday at Maydstone Fryday at Sandwyche Canterburie Rochester Tunbridge Saturday at Rumney Hythe Douer Sandwyche Feuersham Mylton Asheford Cranebrooke Lenham Mallyng Sennock Dartford Fayres at Ashford 27. Iuly being S. Ruffines day Bromley 1. Februarie being S. Bridgets day and the .25 of Iuly being Saint Iames day Brastede on Thursday in Rogation wéeke Charte the great 25. Marche being the Anunciation of the blessed virgine Marie Charing 23. April being S. Georges day 13. October being S Edwards day 18. Octob. being S. Lukes day Caunterbury the tuesday in Whitsou wéeke 27. Iuly being the seauen fléepers day 29. Sept. being S. Michaels day and. 29. Decem. being S. Thomas Beckets day Cranbrook 29. May being S. Corones day and. 24. Iune being Midsomer day Chilham 25. Iuly being S. Iames day Charlton 18. Octob. being S. Lukes day Clyffe 17. September being S. Lamberts day Douer 25. Iuly being S. Iames day 24. August being S. Bartilmews day and. 11. Nouemb. being S. Martines day Feuersham 14. February being S. Valentines day and. 1. August being Lammas day Folkstone 27. Iune being S. Crescents day Grauesend 25. Ianuary being S. Paules day and 13. October being S. Edwards day Hertesham 24. Iune being Midsomer day Hedcorne 28. Iune being S. Leos day Hide 17. Nouemb. being S. Hughes day Lenham 27. May being S. Béedes day and. 21. September being S. Mathews day Lydde 11. Iuly being S. Benets day Maidstone 1. May being Phillip and Iacobs day 9. Iune being S. Edmundes day 6. October being S. Faithes day 2. Feâ— being the Purification or Candlemas day Meteworth 10. August being S. Laurence day Malling 21. September being S. Mathews day 1. August being Lammas day 6. Nouember being S. Lennards day S. Margarets neare Dartford 20. Iul. being S. Margarets day Northfleete the Tuesday in Easter wéeke Otford 24. August being S. Bartilmews day Pluckley 5. Decemb. being S. Nycholas euen Rochester 19. May being S. Dunstanes day and. 30. Nouember being S. Andrews day Romney 1. August being Lammas day Reculuer 7. Septemb. being the Natiuitie of the blessed virgine Marie Sâ—ttingborne 21. Sept. being S. Mathews day Strowde 10. August being S. Laurences day Sandwiche 23. Nouam being S. Clements day Sandhyrst 7. Decem. being the euen of the Conception Sennock 6. Decemb. being S. Nycholas day and 29. Iune being S. Peters day Tunbridge Ashwednesday 24. Iune being Midsomer day 18. Octob. being S. Lukes day Tenterdene 26. Aprill being S. Cletes day Wye 13. Marche being S. Theodores day Wrotham 23. April being S. Georges day Boroughes Canterburie Rochester Maydstone and the ports townes Castels at Canterburie Rochester Douer and the Castell at the Key Léedes Tunbridge Mylton Grauesend 2. Quynborow Cooling Sandowne Dele Walmer Saltwood Alington Shorham Ainsford Tong. Layborne Vpnore Honourable houses belonging to the Prince at Grenewiche Eltham Dartford Otford Knoll S. Augustines Douer castell Dele castell To the Archbishop Canterburie Wingham Forde To the Byshop of Rocchester Broomley Rochester Halling To men of honour Berling Cobham Cooling Penshyrst Shorland Houses of poore people with prouision of liuing at Grenewiche Orpington Lullingstone Shorhant Senuock Rochester Great Chart. Canterburie Sandwiche Douer Houses of poore people without prouision Dartford Whitdiche Chestnut wood Religious houses that sometime were and their yearely values Wingham 84 li. by yeare Mynster Wye Colledge 93. li. Horton Priory 95. li. Bilsington Priory 81. li. Newendene Folkstone 41. li. Douor Pryor 170. li. Meason dieu Hospitall there 59. li. Bradsoll Abbay of S. Radigundes 98. li. Westlangdon 56. li. Boxley 204. li. Léedes Pryory 362. li. Combwell 80. li. Feuersham 200. li. Aninton Pryory there Maydstone col 159. li. Shepey 129. li. Motenden 60. li. Christes Churche In Canterbury S. Augustines In Canterbury s Sepulcres 29. li. In Canterbury S. Gregories In Canterbury S. Tho. hos 23. li. In Canterbury S. Iames hos 32. li. In Canterbury S. Nicholas hosp 109. li. In Canterbury S. Maries without Cant. Rochester pryorie 486. li. Cobham col 28. li. Strood 52. li. Malling Abbay 218. li. Higham pryorie Tunbridge pryory Ailcfford Dartford 380. Grenewiche Meason dieu at Osprenge Lesnes Ab. Schooles at Canterburie Rochester Sandwiche Cranbrooke Great Charte Bydendene Tunbridge Maydstone Sennock ¶ The names of suche of the Nobilitie and Gentrie as the Heralds recorded in their visitation 1574. To the whiche I haue added suche as I called to mynde and haue set a starre before ech of them that they may be knowne from the rest A. * Syr Christopher Allen. * Asheley * Richard Agall William Acher Christopher Abdy Richard Austyn * Robart Alcock Iames Austyn B. Syr Richard Baker Nicholas Barham Serieant at the lawe * Edward Boyes * Boughton * Iohn Barnes * Humfrey Bridges * Bonham Ralfe Bosseuile Robert Byng Danyell Bettenham Thomas Brent Iohn Boys Frauncis Bourne Henry Brochull Iohn Barham * Iames Barham William Browne Iohn Barowe Nicholas Béere Thomas Blechenden William Bedingfeld Michaell Berifford * Ierome Bret. * Bam. * Nicholas Ballard C. * Sir William Cobham Lord CobhaÌ„ and wardein of the fiue Portes Syr Henry Crispe Syr Thomas Cotton * Syr Rowland Clarke * Syr AlexaÌ„der Colpeper Syr Henry Cobham George Catlyn * Barthram Calthrop * Chowne William Cromer George Clifford Humfrey Clarke William Clarke Robert Colwell William Cheyney William Claybrook William Crispe William Cayser * Iustinian Champneys * Giles Crowe * Thomas Colpeper *
retent doth reteine no seruice deuers sey sauuet nequedent as autres Seigneurages fees fermes to himselfe but saueth neuerthelesse to the other Lords their fees e les rentes dont les auant diz tenemenz de Gauylekende fermes and the rentes wherewith the aforesaide tenementes of ensi rendus auaunt furent charges per ceux ou Gauelkind so rendred were before charged by him or theim per celuy que le charger poent ou poeyt which might charge them Eclament auxi que si And they claime also that if any nul tenant en Gauylekende reteine sa rent e son seruice del tenant in Gauelkind reteine withholde his rent and his seruices of the tenement tenement quil tient de son Seign querge le Seign per whiche he holdeth of his Lorde let the Lorde seeke by the agard de sa court de treys semeynes en treys semeynes truue award of his courte from .3 weekes to .3 weekes to find some distresse destreâ—se sur cel tenement tant que a la quart court a totefet vpon that tenement vntill the fourth court alwayes with per tesmoynage Et si dedens cel temps ne trusse destresse on ce witnesses And if within that time he can find no distresse in theÌ„ tenement per queux il puisse son tenant iustiser tenement whereby he may haue iustice of his tenant Donc a la Then at the quart court seit fourth court let it be agard awarded quil pregne cel tenement en that he shall take that tenement into sa mein en noum de destress his hand in the name of a distresse ausi come boef ou vache as if it were an oxe or a cow e le tiene vn an and let him keepe it a yeare e vn iour en sa mein sance meyn and a daye in his hande without manuring ouerir dens quel terme it within which terme si le tenant vent e rend ses if the tenaunt come and paye his arrerages arrerages e feit renables amendes de la detenue and make reasonable amendes for the withholding a donc eit e ioise son tenement sicom ses auncestors e Then let him haue and enioye his tenement as his auncetors and ly auant le tyndront Et sil ne vent deuant lan he before held it And if he do not come before the yeare e le tour and the day passe donc auge le Seign al prochein Counte suiant oue resmoynage paste then let the Lord goe to the next countie court with the witnesses de sa court e face la pronuncier cel proces pur of his owne courte pronounce there this processe to haue tesmoynage auer further witnesse Et per agard de sa court apres ceo Counte And by the award of his court after that couÌ„tie tenue entra e meynouera en celes terres e tenemenz courte holden he shal enter manure in those lands tenemeÌ„ts sicome en son demeyne Et si le tenant vent apres e voillâ— as in his demeanes owne And if the tenant come afterwarde and will ces tenemenz reauer e tener sicome il fist deuaunt face rehaue his tenements hold them as he did before let him make gree al Seigneur sicome il est auncyenement dist agreement with the Lord according as it is aunciently sayde NegHe syþe selde and neg He syþ gelde and fif pond for þe Æ¿ere er He bicome Healder Aussi il cleyment que nul home deit serment sur liure fere Also they claime that no maÌ„ ought to make an othe vpon a booke per destress ne per poer de Seigneur neither by distresse nor by the power of the Lord ne de Baylif nor his bailyfe encountre sa volunte saunz bref le Roy sinon pur feaute against his wil without the writ of the King vnlesse it be for fealtie fere a son Seigneur meske per deuaunt Coronner ou auter to be done to his Lord but only before the Coroner or suche other minister le Roy qui Real poer eyont de enquerer de minister of the King as hathe Royall power to enquire of trespas fet encountre la Coronne nostre Seigneur le Roy. trespasse committed against the crowne of our Lord the king Ecleyment And auxi que checun Kenteys put autre assonier en they clayme also that euerie Kentishe man may essoine an other la court le Roy en Counte en hundreth e en la either in the Kings court or in the countie or in the huÌ„dreth or in the court son Seigneur la ou assoigne gist aussi bien de commune Court of his Lord where essoine lieth the aswel in case of coÌ„muÌ„e sute come de play Estre ceo il cleyment per especial fet le Roy sute as of plea. Moreouer they claime by an especiall deed of king Henrie pere le Roy Edward que ore est que dieu Garde que Henry the 3 father of King E. which now is whoÌ„ god saue that of de tenementz que sont tenus en Gauylekende ne scit prise battaille the tenements which are holden in Gauelkind ther shal no battail ne graund assise per xij chiuallers sicome aillours be ioyned nor graund Assise taken by .xii. Knights as it is vsed in est prise en le reaume ceo est a sauoir la ou tenaÌ„t e le demauÌ„dant other places of the realme this is to weet where the tenant demauÌ„dant teneÌ„t per Gauylekende mes en lu de ces grandes assises holde by Gauelkinde But in place of these ground assises seieÌ„t prises Iurees per xii homes tenaÌ„tz en GauylekeÌ„d Issi let Iuries be taken by .xii. men being tenants in Gauelkind so the que quatre tenaÌ„tz de GauylekeÌ„d elisent .xij. tenaÌ„tz de Gauyle foure tenants of Gauelkinde choose .xii. tenants of Gauelkinde to kende iurours E la chartre le Roy de ceste especiaute est en la be Iurors And the chartre of the King of this especialtie is in the garde Sire Iohan de Norwode le tour S. Elphegh en CaÌ„terbyre custodie of Sir Ihon of Norwood the day of S. Alphey in Canterburie le an le Roy Edward le Fiz le Roy Henrie .xxi. the yere of King Edward the sonne of king Henrie the xxi Ces sont les vsages de Gauilekend e de Gauylekendeys en KeÌ„t These be the vsages of Gauelkind of Gauelkinde men in Kent que furent deuaunt le conquest e en le Conquest e totes houres whiche were before the conquest and at the Conquest and euer teskes en ca since till now The names of such persons as procured their possessions to be altered from the nature of Gauelkinde by acte of Parleament made .31 H. 8. Cap. 3. Thomas Lord Cromwell Thomas Lord Burghe George Lord Cobham Andrew Lord Windsore Syr Thomas Cheyne Syr Christopher Hales S. Thomas Willoughbie S. Anthonie Seintleger S. Edward Wootton S. Edward Bowton S. Roger Cholmley
S. Iohn Champneys Iohn Baker Esquier Reignold Scot. Iohn Guldeford Thomas Kempe Edward Thwaites William Roper Anthonie Sandes Edwarde Isaac Perciuall Harte Edward Monyns William Whetnall Iohn Fogg Edmund Fetiplace Thomas Hardres William Waller Thomas Wilforde Thomas Moyle Thomas Harlakenden Geffrey Lee. Iames Hales Henrie Hussey Thomas Roydon ¶ The names of suche as be likewise prouided for E. 6. Ca. Syr Robert Southwell S. Iames Hales S. Walter Hendley S. George Harper S. Henrie Isley S. George Blage. Thomas Colepeper of Bedgebirie Iohn Colepeper of Ailesforde William Twisden Tho. Darrell of Scotney Robert Rudston Thomas Roberts Stephan Darrell Richard Couarte Christopher Blower Thomas Hendley Thomas Harman Thomas Louelace Thomas Colepeper The names of suche as be specified in the acte made for the like cause 5. Elizabeth Cap. Thomas Browne of Westbecheworthe in Surrey George Browne It were right woorthie the labour to learne the particulars and certeintie if it may be of all suche possessions as these men had at the times of these seuerall Statutes for that also wil be seruiceable in time to come Alexander Neuil Norwicus Sir Thomas Moore Knight in the hystorie of King Richard the thirde Mathewe Parker Archebishop of Canterbury in his Preface to the Booke de rebus gestis Aelfredi Regis The Brytaines The Scots pictes The SaxoÌ„s Iutes and Angles The Normans The seuen kingdomes Three sorts of Lawes in olde time The Lawes of our time These thinges be all handeled in the induction to the Topographical Dictionarie The author determined to haue written this treatise in latine Scituation of Kent Kent why so named The Aire The Soyle The Corne The Poulse The Pasture The woods fruits The Cattel Deere and Conyes No mynes The fishe The people Socage and Knightes seruice The Gentlemen The yeomeÌ„ The Artificers The first in habitation of England The errour of those whiche say that the Brytons weare Indigenae That is to say Ryders and to Ride An. mundi 2219. An. ante Christum 1142. Kent the first inhabited part of England Foure Kings in Kent But one King in Kent The first wasseling cuppe The issue of an vngodly mariage The Kings of Kent Ethelbert the King of Kent Eadric the King of Kent First name of Englishmen Beginning of Shires Lathes Hundreds Tythings Bosholder Tithingman Kent keepeth her olde customes Gauelkyn Meeting 〈◊〉 Swanescombe The Lathe of S. Augustines The Lathe of Scray or Sherwinhope The Late of Aylesford The Lathe of Sutton at Hone. Geffray of Monmouth Polydore The order of this description Flamines turned into Bishops LondoÌ„ spoiled of the Archebishopricke The increase of the Archebishopricke ConttentioÌ„ for the Primacie The Archebishoppes place in the generall counsell Wrastling for the primacie The end of the strife for the supremacie The ordre of this description of Kent No snakes in Tanet For Seax in their language signifieth a sword or axe or hatchet The occasion of the building of Minster Abbay For it was called Roma of Ruma a pappe or dugge S. Mildredâ— miracles Ippedsflete Stonor Earle Godwine and his sonnes The cause of Goodwyn Sandes The death of Earle Godwyne 1. Cursed bread The visions of Edward the confessour Epimenides did slepe 75 yeares 1. Loue Ly. or game for the whetstone Richeborow was sometime a Citie Sandwiche is not Rutupi The antiquitie of the Portes Whiche be the Fiue Portes â—â—iâ—â— wâ—re â—â—led 〈◊〉 â—lde 〈◊〉 ContentioÌ„ betweene Yarmouth and the fiue Portes Winchelsey first builded The good seruice of the .5 ports Muris ligneis querendam salutem The priuiledges of the 5. Ports The names of the Wardeins of the Fiue Portes Reliques of great price The auncient estate of Sandwiche Sandwiche spoyled brent The schole at Sandwiche The whole hystorie of the Danishe doings in England The continuance of the Danes in England The Danes all slaine in one night Saint Martins drunkeÌ„ feast Sweyn the Dane Hoctuesday Prouision of armour A Courtlie Sycophant A right popishe miracle King Henrie the 8. fortifieth his Realme Sandowne walmere The towne of Douer Godwine resisteth the King. Douer Castell Iuuenal in the ende of his 4. Satyre Odo the Earle of Kent Fynes the first Constable of Douer Castell and the beginning of Castlegard Estimatioâ— of Douer Castell Hubert of Brough a noble captaine Reparation of Douer Castell S. Martines in Douer ContentioÌ„ betweene the Râ—ligious persons for trifles Longchamp the lustie bishop of Ely. Religious houses in Douer The order of the Templers when it began The Pope and king Iohn fall our for Stephan Langton The Golden Bull. S. Eanswide and her miracles A popishe policie Folkestone spoiled The Hundred The Manor The Pontifical iusice of William Courtney the Archbishop Ostenhangar The Cause of the decay of Hauens in Kent Hyde miserably scourged The shortest passage betweene England Fraunce Thomas Becket grauÌ„teth a petition after his death Lord Wardein of the Portes Shipwey sometime a Hauâ—n towne The HaueÌ„ Limene the Towne Lymne The Riuer Limen now Rother Apledore The holy Maide of Kent Chap. 12. Butler the CoronatioÌ„ Pryorie at Bylsington Thomas Becket The Popes authoritie was abolished in England in the time of King Henrie the second Rumney Marâ—he The three steppes of Kent The order of this description The Danes doe spoile Fraunce England at one time The course of the Ryuer Lymen nowe Rother The first Carmelites in England Kent why so called The Weald was sometime a wildernesse This Benerth is the seruice which the tenaÌ„t doth with his Carte Ploughe The boundes of the Weald Fermes why so termed Townes named of the Riuers The College The Palaicâ— The Schole The Riuer of Medway and wherof it tooke the name The Riuer Aile or Eile The name of Harlot whereof it beganne Odo the Earle of Kent The auncient manner of the triall of right The Cleargie haue in croched vpon the Prince in the punishment of adulterie Abbaies do beget one another The vngrations Rood of Grace S. RuÌ„wald and his miracles For none might enter into the Temple of Ceres in Eleusis but such as were innocent The Natiuitie of S. Rumwald Kemsley Downe The Popish manner of preaching Popish purgatorie is deriued out of Poetrie Doncaster in the North CouÌ„trie The English shepe and wooll King Henry the eight fortfieth his Realme Monkes do contend with the King forceably The names of Townes framed out of the mouthes of Riuers The corruption of our English speach The Riuer called WaÌ„tsume The order of this description The decay of the olde Englishe tongue The Archebishops were well housed Prouision of armourâ— The names of Lathes and of Wapentakes The Priuileges of high waies The order of this description S. Gregories in Canterburi first builded Reliques King Iohn yealdeth to the Pope The Barons warre The Popes reuenue in England A ParleameÌ„t without the Cleargie The traiterous behauiour of Robert of Winchelsey the Archebishop Polidore was the Popes creature King Edward the first claymeth supremacie ouer the Clergie The olde and newe manner of wrecke