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A54665	Villare cantianum, or, Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the parishes, burroughs, villages and other respective mannors included in the county of Kent : and the original and intermedial possessors of them ... / by Thomas Philipott ... : to which is added an historical catalogue of the high-sheriffs of Kent, collected by John Phillipot, Esq., father to the authour.	Philipot, John, 1589?-1645.; Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1989; ESTC R35386	623,091	417

he had Issue Nicholas Manston who matched with Eleanor only Daughter of Edmund Haut Esq and had Issue Julian his Sole Heir who was matched to Thomas St. Nicholas of Thorn in the Parish of Minster in Thanett which Seat accrued to his Grandfather by the Heir of Sir John Goshall This Thomas St. Nicholas dyed in the year 1474 and by his last Will recorded in the Prerogative at Canterbury he disposes his Body to be buryed before the Image of St. Nicholas in the Chancel of Thorn at Minster and Roger St. Nicholas was his Son and Heir who determined in a Daughter and Heir called Elizabeth matched to John Dynley of Worcestershire Whose Successor about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth conveyed his Right in Manston Powcies which likewise was annexed to the revenue of St. Nicholas by the Heir of Goshall and Thorne in Minster to Sir John Roper afterwards created Baron of Tenham by King James whose great Grandchild the Lord Christopher Roper does still enjoy Manston and Thorne but Powcies is lately passed away by Sale to Edward Monins of Waldershare Baronet Vpper-court is a third place in St. Laurence which may exact our Notice because it augmented the demeasn for many Generations of the illustrious Family of Crioll of whom I have spoken before in Sarre and remained parcel of their Inheritance until the latter end of Henry the sixth and then it was passed away by Sir Thomas Crioll to John White Esquire and he dyed possest of it in the ninth year of Edward the fourth but before the latter end of Henry the seventh the possession of this place had deserted this Name and was cast by Sale into the Revenue of Bere and was constant to their Signory untill almost the times which bordered upon our Fathers Remembrance and then it was by Sale conveyed to Johnson in which Family it is at this instant resident Nether-court is the last Seat in St. Laurence which calls for our remembrance It was in Times of an elder Inscription wrapt up in the Inheritance of the ancient and knightly Family of Goshall of Goshall in Ash and continued in their possession untill the reign of Henry the fourth and then this Family going out in a Daughter and Heir she by espousing St. Nicholas made it come to acknowledge the Signory of that Family and was permanent in their Name untill the latter end of Henry the seventh and then a Vicissitude proportionate to the former made it parcel of the Demeasn of John Dynley of the County of Worcester Esquire who matched with Elizabeth Sole Heir to Roger St. Nicholas and remained united to their Interest untill the Beginning of the reign of Q. Eliz. and then the right this Family held in it was by Sale transplanted into Maycott from whom not long after the same Devolution brought it to Lucas where after some small aboad the Title discarded that Name and came by purchase to own John Anthony for proprietary and he in our Fathers Memory passed it away to Mr .... Johnson in whose descendants the Jurisdiction and possession of this Mansion remains still concentered Minster is an eminent Mannor which anciently belonged to the Abby of St. Augustins being fenced in and invested with several Franchises and signal Immunities and when King Canutus translated the Body of St. Mildred to Canterbury and deposited it in a peculiar Shrine in the Chappel of St. Augustin's Abby a Draught of which is represented to the Readers View in Mr. Somners Survey of Canterbury this Mannor with all those Appendages which like so many Limbs made up the Body of that demeasn which supported the Cloister of St. Mildred as namely the Mannors of St. Johns and St. Peters and St. Laurence was translated by that Prince likewise and linked by his Confirmation to the Abby of St. Augustins But how both Minster and those other Mannors abovesaid came originally to be the ecclesiastical patrimony shall be now my task to discover Egbert or Egbright the third Christian King of Kent after Ethelbert had by a tacit Consent or Connivance permitted one Thunner to paddle in the Blood of his two Kinsmen or as William of Malmesbury will have it his Brothers called Ethelbert and Etheldred persons of a pregnant hope who like two early Stars as soon as they began to glitter and shine fell suddenly into Umbrage and were hid and eclipsed with their own Ruines he to assoil his hands from those stains this murder might seem to have bespattered them with and to make some Recompence or Expiation for so barbarous and clandestine an Assassination made an Herodian-oath that he would give Domneva Mother of these slaughtered Innocents whatsoever she would demand of him and she biassed and warped by the Advice of the Monkish Counsellors of those times asked of him as much Ground to endow an Abby with as a tame Deer which she had nourished could Run over at a Breath to which the King had immediately consented had not one Timor opposed this design saying It was too great a Boon for her to ask or for him to grant upon which the earth opened says Thorne the fabulous Chronicler of St. Augustins and swallowed him up and became both his Grave and Executioner and the place where he sunk in was as the abovesaid Author asserts untill the reign of Richard the second which was the time he lived in called Timors-leap Well The King amazed with this stupendious Accident assented to her Demand and the Deer being let loose ran forty eight Ploughlands over before it desisted And thus Domneva by the Aid and Concurrence of the King erected within the precincts of Minster a Monastery for veiled Nuns over which she constituted Mildred the first Abbesse who was Daughter to Wolfchere King of Mercia and she gathered to her Assistance an Assembly of seventy Virgins who being defirous to renounce the World were here vailed for Nuns by Theodorus then Arch-bishop of Canterbury And it seems this Mildred was a Virgin of that austere regular and inculpable Life in the Vogue and verdict of those cloudy times that her name is registred in the Calender of English Saints and had that Title attributed to her both whilst her Body lay at Minster and after its translation to St. Austins He that will survey the Bed-roll of her Miracles recorded at large one of which was that when the Danes in the reign of King Etheldred harrassed this Island and put this Cloister at Minster into a heap of flame and ruines her Body remained entire amidst the Embraces and Scorchings of that devouring and ravenous Element let him read Thorne lately printed and the Book called Nova Legenda Angliae and when he hath done he will find that wise-men will laugh not in Applause but in Contempt of such religious Romances But I return to Minster which as I said before being transplanted into the patrimony of St. Augustins by Canutus Hugh the Abbot of that Cloister to rescue this Town from that decay

cast into the Revenue of Denny by whose Daughter and Heir it is lately become the Demeasn of Mr. Robert Filmer second Son of Sir Robert Filmer of Sutton not long since deceased Winchcombe is an ancient Seat likewise in Crundall which ever since the Reign of Edward the second hath acknowledged the Carters as appears by private Evidences for its uninterrupted Proprietaries and is still in the Tenure and possession of that Name and Family Cuckston anciently written Cuckleston lies in the Hundred of Totlingtrough and was given to the Church of Rochester by Ethelwolfe Son of King Egbert See Textus Roffensis first Monarch of the English Saxons this King Ethelwolfe after his decease which happened to be about the year 857. was for his several and exemplary acts of Charitie and pious Munificence towards the Church of which Cuckston till these unhappy times ravished it away stood a visible Monument Recorded in the Register of Saints VVhornes-Place in this Parish was erected by Sir VVilliam VVhorne who was Lord Maior of London in the year 1487. upon which though he setled his Name he could not so fasten it to his Family but that the next Age by Purchase brought it over to Vane where the Title had not long fixt but the vicissitude of Sale alienated it to Barnewell who about the beginning of Queen Elizabeth sold it to Nicholas Lewson of the County of Stafford Esq whose Grandchild Sir Richard Lewson desirous to settle himself in his own County where a vaste Estate lay spread which had been transmitted to him from his Ancestors passed away this by Sale to John Marsham Esquire originally extracted from the Marshams of Norfolk where many years before they had flourished under no contemptible Estimate D. D. D. D. DArent in the Hundred of Acstane is very often written North-Darent it belonged in the Conquerours time to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury as the Record called Doomsday Book instructs me and was exchanged for the Mannor of Lambeth by Hubert Walter Arch-Bishop Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice with Gilbert Glanvill Bishop of Rochester in the year of our Lord 197. which exchange was afterwards confirmed by Richard the first Saint Margaret-Hills now united to this Parish had formerly a Church which being decayed and the Congregation diminished it was by Cardinall Pole in the year 1557. incorporated into Darent It was anciently and is so still distinguished by the Name St. Margaret-Hills which additionall Character it borrowed from a Family originally called Hells and then by Tradition and Vulgar corruption afterwards stiled Hills a Family which had large Possessions both here at Dertford and at Ash likewise by Sandwich John de Hells had a Charter of Free-warren to his Mannors of Hells and his Estate at Dertford in the seventeenth year of Edward the first and from this John de Hells did Sir Edmund Hills descend and he about the beginning of Edward the sixth alienated this Mannor to Lane whose Son Henry Lane went out in a Daughter and Heir called Martha who matched to Edw. Rolt descended from the Roults of Bedford-shire in Right of which Alliance Mr. Thomas Rolt his Grandchild is now invested in the Possession of this Place Dartford gives name to that Hundred wherein it is situated and before the Foundation of the Nunnerie was a Mannor which was wrapt up in the Demeasne of the Crown there was a Family called Tingewike which had it in Lease for when King Edward the third Pat. An. primi Edw. tertii Memb. 6. granted the Royalties of the Mannor of Dartford to Edmund of Woodstock Earl of Kent paying as a Rent-Service of 30. l. per annum it is mentioned in the Patent that he should hold them all in as ample a manner as Alice Tingewike formerly had done upon his decease it reverts to the Crown and the same King Edward in the year 1355. and in the fiftieth year of his Reign erects here a Nunnerie whose lady-Lady-Abbess and the Nuns of the Covent were for the most part in succeeding times elected into this Cloister out of the noblest Families of the Nation Upon the suppression King Henry the eighth converted the House into a Palace for his own habitation and under that notion it continued till K. James by exchange passed it away to Robert E. of Salisbury who conveyed it to Sir Edw. Darcy whose Grandchild Edward Darcy Esquire descended from the noble Family of Darcy of Yorke-shire at this instant possesses the Fee-Simple of it The Mannor of Temple in this Parish was involved in that Revenue which was marshal'd under the Jurisdiction of the Knights Templers as the very Name doth seem to insinuate and upon the totall disannulling this order here in England was by a Statute made in the seventeenth year of Edward the second setled on the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem where it was fixed and constant untill the disbanding of that Order likewise in this Nation by King Henry the eighth and then it was annexed to the Patrimony of the Crown and rested there untill K. James exchanged it with Robert E. of Salisbury who sold it to Edw. Darcy Esq whose Grandchild Edw. Darcy Esq hath lately conveyed it by Sale to his Brother in Law Mr. Will. Gough The Mannor of Charles is Seated in this Parish and was a Branch of that Estate which fell under the Signorie of the ancient Family of Charles from whom it assumed its appellation Of this Family was Edw. Charles who was Captain and Admiral of the Fleet from the Thames-Mouth North-ward as appears Pat. 34. Edw. 1. after this Family had left the Possession of this place which was about the beginning of Richard the second Nicholas de Brember was planted in the Proprietie but he was scarce warm in his new atchieved Purchase but he fell under the guilt of high Treason only for being too fast in his Loyaltie and Faith to his Prince and too loose in his fidelity to his Country for there it seems that blind distinction had its first rise and growth which like some Alembeck distil'd and dropped the Power of the King distinguished apart from his Person upon the forfeiture of his Life and Estate together which was in the tenth year of Rich. the second It was by that Prince suddenly after conveyed by grant to Adam Bamme Lord Maior of London in which Family after it had for many Ages been seated it was as appears by an exemplification now in the hands of Mr. Took of Dartford transmitted by Sale to Death who about the latter end of K. James passed it away to Goldsmith of Marshals-Court in Creyford who some few years since sold all his Concernment in it to Mr. Tooks branched out from the ancient Family of the Tooks of Bere in West-Clive though since this Name setled at Dartford it hath by Depravation been called Tuke Horsemans-Place is a Mansion of good account likewise in Dartford in the sixteenth year of Edward the second I find it owned one Thomas

conveyed it by Grant to Sir Walter Henley and he in the thirty fourth year of Henry the eighth transmitted it by his Deed to Sir John Baker whose Successor Sir John Baker even in those Times which entrenched on our Remembrance passed it away to Mr ....... Cleyton of London Bewper is the second place of account in this Parish It was in elder Times an Appendage or Fragment of that Demeasn which did contribute to the Support of the Abby of Feversham and upon the Suppression of that Cloister or Seminary by Henry the eighth it was in the thirty fifth year of that Princes Reign granted to Sir Thomas Moil who not long after passed it away to Robert Prat. And his Son Master Franci Prat primo Elizabethae by Fine conveyed it to Mr Edward Bathurst who not many years after transplanted his Interest here by Sale into Sir Richard Baker Ancestor to Sir Jo. Baker of Sisinghurst Baronet who now by paternal Succession is entituled to the instant Signory of it Wallinghurst and Buckhurst are two petty Mannors which belonged to the Abby of Feversham but upon the Suppression of that Covent they were pared off and by Grant from Henry the eighth in the twenty ninth year of his Reign were enstated upon Thomas Lord Cromwell Earl of Essex But long he was not endowed with them for in the thirty second year of that Prince's Government he was bespattered and blasted with an Accusation of high Treason which the Subtlety of his Adversaries had woven so closely together that he was entangled in it and being attainted forfeited both his Life and Estate to the Fury I cannot say Justice of an incensed Prince Amongst the Ruines of his Patrimony these two places were comprehended and upon his Shipwrack it returned to the Crown And then King Henry the eighth by a new Grant in the same year they escheated passed them away to Sir John Baker of Sisingherst in Cranebroke from whom they are now come down to Sir John Baker Baronet his Successor Upper Peasridge was involved in that spatious Inheritance which fell under the Dominion of the Lord Badelesmer of whom I shall speak more at Leeds and when he by his Disloyalty had forfeited both Life and Fortune to the Crown this was enwrapt in the Escheat But was restored in the second year of Edward the third to Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer this Mans Son and he in the twelfth year of that Prince held it at his Death Rot. Esc Num. 44. But Giles his only Son dying without Issue his great Estate was split into parcells and this with some more of his Demeasne was allotted to Mawd his Sister and Coheir who was matched to John Vere Earl of Oxford and he in her Right was possest of it at his Death which was in the thirty fourth year of Edward the third Rot. Esc Num. 84. And in this Family did it reside untill the Beginning of Henry the fourth and then it was passed away by Sale to St. Leger to whose Patrimony it remained annexed untill the Government of Philip and Mary and then an Alienation like the former brought it over to Lone descended from the Lones of Lancashire where there is yet a House of the Name and being thus fixt in this Family the Possession continues still united to it Fordwich in the Hundred of West-Gate was given to the Abbot and Monks of St. Austins as the Annalls of that Convent testifie by King Edward the Confessor and was given ad Vestitum for Reparation of their Apparell And there is a Tradition that Hemp-Hall which was an Appendage to this Mannor did pay a quit-Rent in Hemp but certainly it must be then for the use of those secular persons which related as Officers and Servants to this Cloister for the Monks themselves being under the Rule of Bennet harrowed their Skin with Shirts of Hair and slept vestiti in their Apparell the more to tame and controle the Mutinies and Disorders of the Flesh But to advance After this Mannor which the Piety of former Ages had planted in the Revenue of the Church had for a large Decursion of Time owned no other Proprietary it was by the Dissolution in the twenty ninth of Henry the eighth emptied into the Income of the Crown where it lay untill Edward the sixth in the seventh year of his Reign granted it to Sir Thomas Cheyney and he not long after alienated his Concernment in it to John Johnson from whom it came over by Purchase to Paramour who passed it away to the Lady Elizabeth Finch Widow of Sir Moile Finch whose Son Thomas Finch Earl of Winchelsey almost in our Memory passed it away to John Finch Baron of Fordwich late Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England in the year 1640 and in him does the instant Signory of it reside Folkstone does contribute a Name to the Hundred in which it is situated The Mannor it self with the Mannor of Walton was given to the Nunnery by Eadbald King of Kent which it seems was of that Repute in those Times that Eanswide his Daughter was there vailed a Nun under the Rule of St. Bennet and Ermenred and Ercombert his Sons changed their hopes of a Crown into those of one more celestiall and folded up all their Earthly Glories in a Monastick Cowle which they assumed at this place under the Discipline of St. Bennet But this Cloister was some Ages after partly by the Fury of the Danes and partly by the Impressions of the Sea reduced into a heap of Ruines so that in the Reign of William the Conquerour William de Muneville laid the Foundations of a new Priory in another place of the Town which was much augmented afterwards by William de Averenches who had married his only Daughter But it seems upon the former Devastation of this religious Seminary the Mannor had returned to the Crown for in the year one thousand thirty and eight Canutus restored to Christ-church in Canterbury as the Records of that Covent do intimate this Mannor of Folkston which Athelstan Son of King Edward in the year nine hundred twenty and eight had formerly granted to them for the health of his Fathers Soul and to the Honor of Vlfhelme Arch-priest of Canterbury but with this Restriction he limits and bounds this his Concession that this Mannor thus returned to the Church should never be alienated by the Arch-bishop without the Consent of the King and the Covent of Christ-church who it appears joyned with William the Conquerour and the Archbishop of Canterbury and fastned it again to this Priory where it remained untill it was torn away by the Suppression in the Time of Henry the eighth and annexed to the Crown Afterwards that Prince in the thirtieth year of his Reign transplanted his Interest in it and Walton by Grant into Edward Lord Clinton and he the same year passed them away to Thomas Lord Cromwell Earl of Essex who being attainted in the thirty second year of the abovesaid Prince

de Luda for Proprietarie between whom and Thomas de Sandwich Abbot of Lessnes there was a Composition about that time touching the passage of a Current of Water But this Family before the end of Edward the third had deserted the Possession and then by old Court-Rolls and other Evidences I find it in the Tenure of John Horsman who it is probable new built this Mansion and on the old Foundation established this new-Name and he had Issue Thomas Horseman who about the beginning of Henry the sixth dying without Issue gave it to his Widow Margaret Horseman re-married to Shardelow and she upon her decease in the ninteenth year of Henry the sixth bequeathed it to her Kinsman Thomas Brown whose Daughter and Sole Heir Katherine annexed it to the Patrimony of Robert Blague one of the Barons of the Exchequer and he had Issue by her Barnabie Blague who in the thirty third of Henry the eighth conveyed it by Sale to Mr. John Bere who much adorned and augmented the ancient Shell or Structure of this Seat in the thirtieth year of that Princes Reign but left his Acquists thus increased and improved to Ann his Sole Heir matched to Mr. Christopher Twislton descended from Twislton Castle in the County of Lancaster whose Successor Sir Jo. Twislton Knight and Baronet is now by descendant Right Possessor of it At Stanpit in this Parish there was a Chappell founded by one Thomas de Dertford and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin for one Priest to celebrate divine Offices for the Soul of the Founder In this Parish there was likewise a perpetual Salary established by one Thomas Martin to pray for the Soul of the Founder and Light-lands which were given by John Grovehurst Denton in the Hundred of Shamell was given to the Church of Rochester by a Noble man called Brichric and Efswith his Wife but it seems there had been some Invasion made upon the Original grant for as the Book called Textus Roffensis informs me it was restored to that Cathedral by William the Conquerour and was in after-times when Henry the eighth upon the Ruines of the Priory of St. Andrews raised the Dean and Chapter of Rochester by royal Concession united to their Demeasn Denton in the Hundred of Eastry with the appendant Mannor of Tapington now by Contraction called Tapton were in Times of very ancient Inscription both couched in the patrimony of Yerd and though several datelesse Deeds represent this Family to have been possessors of both these places as high as the reign of K. Jo. and H. the third yet the first of this Name whom Record discovers to us to have been eminent was John de Yerd who held the Mannors of Denton and Tapington by that Service which they call ad Wardam Castri Doveriensis and paid a respective Supply for them in the twentieth year of Edward the third at making the Black-Prince Knight and from this man did the possession of both these places flow down to Jo. Yerd Esq who was Sheriff of Kent in the nineteenth of Hen. the sixth and he had Issue John Yerd who conveyed Tapington to Jo. Fogge Esq and he again by a Fine levyed in the fifteenth year of Edw. the fourth passed away his Interest in it to Richard Haut and he determined in a Female Heir called Margery Haut matched to William Isaack who annexed Tapton to his Demeasn and in his descendant line the propriety remained untill that Age which was enclosed within the Circle of our Grand-fathers remembrance and then it was alienated to Bois But Denton with some part of the revenue of Tapington continued longer in the Yerd until Jo. Yerd the last Heir male of this Family going to London fell sick in Southwark and dyed without Issue and was enterr'd in St. Margarets-church afterwards converted to the Court of Marshalseys so that Langley of Knowlton in right of a former Match with the Heir General of this Family was entituled to the possession of Denton and the Demeasn of Tapton but Edward Langley the last of this Name dying Childlesse in the reign of Henry the eighth in relation to a former Match of the Heir General with Peyton Sir Robert Peyton of Cambridgeshire became Heir to his Estate in Kent whose Successor Sir Robert Peyton passed away all his Interest here to Bois Bois by Sale demised Tapington to Verier who almost in our Remembrance conveyed it to Mersh the instant proprietary But Denton was by Bois alienated to Rogers who in those Times our Fathers lived in translated his right into Swan who not many years since sold it to Sir Anth. Percival of Dover and he not long since transplanted it by Sale into Phinees Andrews of Hartfordshire Esq Wigmere is a third Mannor in this Parish there was a Family of this Name in East-Kent for in divers old Evidences which I have seen there is mention of Will. de Wigmere and divers others of this Name but for many Ages it acknowledged the Signory of Brent and so continued till the Beginning of Q. Eliz. and then Tho. Brent dying without Issue Margaret married to Jo. Dering of Surrenden Dering became his Heir in Right of which match the Family of Dering is entituled to the instant possession Madekin lies partly in Denton and partly in Barham and owned a Family of that Sirname as appears by the Evidences now in the hands of Mr. Oxenden and continued by a thread of several descents fastned to this Name but about the beginning of Henry the sixth the Succession of the Title was disordered and by Sale translated into Sednor where the possession for many years dwelt till at last upon some Acquists in Brenchley they withdrew themselves thither and passed away their Interest here to Brook in whom after it had continued three descents the Fate of Sale cast it into the Inheritance of Brooker and by Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir of that Family it not long after descended to Sir Henry Oxenden whose Grandchild Henry Oxenden Esquire now possesseth the Signory of it Davington in the Hundred of Feversham was given to the Cloister of Black-Nuns which was founded there by Fulke de Newenham and dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen In the thirty ninth of Henry the third that Prince confirmed them their Lands and invested them with severall priviledges as appears Chart. 39. Hen. tertii Memb. 5. In the seventeenth of Edward the third the King sent his Writ to the Sheriff of Kent to be certified of the Estate and Revenue which belonged to this Nunnery for the Abbess and Nuns petitioned for relief in regard their Income was not sufficient to support them and Jo. de Vielston then Sheriff of Kent returned per Sacramentum proborum legalium Hominum that they had not a competent Demeasn for Subsistence that whereas formerly there were twenty six Nuns now there were but fourteen and that those could not live upon the revenue of the Covent but had the Charity of their Friends to supply them Thus

of Kent the eighth ninth tenth eleventh twelfth thirteenth and fourteenth years of Henry the second Sir Richard de Lucy was Lord chief Justice and Protector of England in the Raign of the above mentioned Prince of whom I have more largely discoursed at Lesnes in Erith * Ex veteri Rot. penes Edo Dering Mil. Baonettum defunctum Aymer de Lucy was with Richard the first in Palestine at the Seige of Acon and in Memory of some Signal Service manifested there in that holy Quarrel added the Crosse Crosselets unto his Paternal Coat which was before only three Pisces Lucii that is Pike Fish Geffrey de Lucy was frequently summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron in the Raign of Edward the first as the Rols of Summons which relate to that King's Time now preserved in the Tower sufficiently inform us This Geffrey with his two Brothers Aymery and Thomas de Lucy were engaged with Edward the first at the Seige of Carlaverock in Scotland in the twenty eighth year of his Raign and there received the Order of Knighthood They were Sons to Geffrey de Lucy who was constituted High Admiral of England in the Time of Henry the third as appears Pat. 8. Hen. 3. Memb. 4. William and Anthony Lucy both of this Family were frequently summoned to sit in Parliament as Barons in the Raign of Edw. the third In the sixth year of Edward the third Geffrey de Lucy who held Lucy's at his Death which was in the twentieth year of that Monarch had a Charter of Free-warren to this Mannor which priviledge was renued and confirmed by Henry the sixth to Sir Walter Lucy in the 27. year of his Raign in which year he dyed and left his estate here to his Son Sir Jeffery Lucy who with his Sole Daughter and Heir Mawd Lucy transmitted this Mannor to her Husband Sir William Vaux of the County of North-Hampton whose Son Thomas Vaux alienated it about the twenty seventh year of the Raign of Henry the eighth to Sir Roger Cholmeley a younger Branch of the Cholmeleys of Cholmeley in Cheshire from which Family in our Grand-fathers Memory it was by Sale passed away to Sead and from Sead by as quick a vicissitude it came over by purchase to Osborne by whom not many years since it was sold to Pagitt of London Tracies is a second place in this Parish which comes within this List it was in elder Times the Inheritance of a Family of that Appellation John de Tracy was Teste to an old Deed of Richard de Lucy which I have seen wherein he demises some Land to William de Frogenhall the Deed is without Date but by the Antiquity of the Character seems to commence from the Raign of Henry the third Whether these Tracies were extracted from the Tracies of Devon and Gloucestershire or not I cannot positively determine because these of Kent bore a different Coat from the other as appears by all old Ordinaries Vid. Argent two Bends between nine Escollops Gules After the Tracies had left the possession of this place which was about the Beginning of Henry the fourth the Colepepers of Bedgebury were by purchase seised of the Fee-simple of it but staid not long in the Fruition of it for in the Raign of Henry the sixth the Cliffords of Bobbing Court not far distant from whom by Sale in the Raign of Henry the eighth it fell under the Signory of Thomas Linacre Priest Frogenhall in this Parish likewise was a Branch of that wide Demeasne which lay diffused in this Territory and did acknowledge it self to be of the possession of the Ancient Family of Frogenhall whose Seat was in Frogenhall in Tenham but whether this were the Land which I mentioned to be by Deed transmitted to William de Frogenhall in the time of Henry the third by Sir Richard de Lucy I cannot positively determine though it was probable it was and that afterwards as was usuall in those Times to perpetuate the Memory of the Possessor William de Frogenhall fixed his own Name upon it And in this Family did the Possession continue till Thomas Frogenhall concluded in three Co-heirs of which Elizabeth was one who matched with John Northwood of Milton and so linked it to the Inheritance of that Family where it had not long remained when a semblable Fatality brought this Family likewise to expire in Daughters and Co-heirs so that this place came by Joane one of them to be the Fee-simple of Sir John Norton but was not long resident in this Family for he about the Beginning of Henry the eighth conveyed it to Thomas Linacre Priest above mentioned who dying in the seventeenth year of the above-recited Prince gave both Tracies and Frogenhall for ever to augment the Revenue of All-souls Colledge in Oxford The Mannor of Newington it self belonged as an Ancient Manuscript now in my Custody informs me to a Nunnery which was erected here in this Parish but by whom it was founded or endowed is unknown only this Manuscript I mentioned before rehearses a direful Tragedy which it cites as is pretended out of Thorn the Chronicler of St. Augustins and other old Manuscripts It was this Divers of the Nuns being warped with a malitious Desire of Revenge took the advantage of the Night and strangled the Lady Abbesse who was the Object of their Fury and passionate Animosities in her Bed and after to conceal so execrable an Assassination threw her Body into a Pitt which afterwards contracted the traditional Appellation of Nun-pitt but this barbarous offence being not long after miraculously discovered the Manuscript does not intimate how King Henry the third in whose Time this Tragedy was acted seised this Mannor into his Hands and having by Consent of the Church transmitted the Nuns who were culpable to the secular power by Death to make expiation for this Crime he sent the Guiltless Nuns into Shepey and after filled their Cloister with seven secular Canons four of which not long after as if some secret Impiety had lurked in the Wals of the Covent murdered one of the Fraternity upon which the King seises this Mannor again into his Hands which he had before given back to the support of this new instituted Seminary two parts of which laying in the Hamlet of Thetham by the two guiltlesse Canons with the approbation of Henry the third were assigned to the Abby of St. Augustins though some Writings more Ancient affirm them to be given under the Notion of two Prebendaries to that Covent by William the Conqueror and the other five parts of this Mannor were by the abovesaid Henry the third granted to his Lord Chief Justice Sir Richard de Lucy whose Son Almericus de Lucy saies the Manuscript did in the year 1278. exchange them with the Monks of St. Augustins And thus was this Mannor fastned to the Patrimony of the Church and so continued till the General Dissolution in the Time of Henry the eighth disunited it and linked it