waxe grow as well in the bush of haire that it had on the head as also in the length and stature of the members and bodie it selfe By meanes whereof it came to passe that whereas the fruites of the Benefice weare hardly able to susteine the Incumbent nowe by the benefite of this inuention which was in papistrie Nouum genus aucupij the Parson there was not onely furnished by the offering to liue plentifully but also well ayded towarde the makinge of a Hoorde or increase of Wealthe and Riches But as Ephialtes and Octus the Sonnes of Neptune who as the Poets feigne waxed nine inches euerie moneth being heaued vp with opinion and conceits ceipt of their owne length and hantines assaulted heauen intending to haue pulled the Gods out of their places and were therefore shot through slayne with the arrowes of the Gods Euen so when Popish Idolatrie was growne to the full height and measure so that it spared not to rob God of his due honour and most violently to pull him as it were out of his seate then this growing Idole and all his fellowes were so deadly wounded with the heauenly arrowes of the woorde of God Qui non dabit gloriam suam sculptilibus that soone after they gaue vp the ghost and least vs. Betwéene this Towne and Depeforde which is the whole bredthe of the Shyre on the west ende I finde nothing committed to hystorie and therefore let vs hast and take our next way thither ¶ Depeforde in Latine Vadum profundum and in auncient Euidences West Greenewiche THis towne being a frontier betwene Kent and Surrey was of none estimation at all vntil that King Henrie the eight aduised for the better preseruation of the Royall Fléete to erect a Storehouse and to create certaine officers there these he incorporated by the name of the Maister and Wardeines of the Holie Trinitie for the building kéeping and conducting of the Nauie Royall There was lately reedefied a fayre Bridge also ouer the Brooke called Rauensbourne whiche ryseth not farre of in the Heath aboue Bromley ¶ Greenewiche in Latine Viridis finus in Saxon grenapic that is to say the Greene Towne In auncient euidences Eastgreenewiche for difference sake from Depforde which in olde Instruments is called westgreenewiche IN the time of the turmoyled Kinge Ethelred the whole fléete of the Danish army lay at roade two or thrée yeares together before Greenewich And the Souldiours for the moste parte were incamped vpon the hill aboue the towne now called Black-health Duringe this time they pearced this whole Countrie sacked and spoyled the Citie of Canterburie and brought frō thence to their ships Aelphey the Archbishop And here a Dane called Thrum whom the Archebishop had confirmed in Christianitie the daie before strake him on the head behinde and slewe him because he woulde not condiscend to redéeme his lyfe with thrée thousande poundes which the people of the Citie Diocesse were contented to haue geuen for his raunsome Neither would the rest of the Souldiours suffer his bodie to be committed to the earth after the maner of Christian decencie till such time saieth William of Malmsb as they perceiued that a dead stick being annointed with his bloud waxed gréene againe and began the next day to blossom But referring the credite of that and suche other vnfruitfull miracles wherwith our auncient monkish stoaries doe swarme to the iudgement of the godly and discréete Readers most assured it is that aboute the same time such was the storme and furie of the Danish insatiable rauine waste spoyle and oppression with in this Realme besides that of two and thirtie Shyres into which number the whole was then diuided they herried and ransacked sixtéene so that the people being miserably vexed the Kinge himselfe to auoyde the rage first sent ouer the Seas his wyfe and children afterward compounded and gaue them a yerely tribute and lastly for verie feare forsooke the Realme and fled into Normandie himselfe also They receiued besides daylie victuall fourtie eight thousande poundes in ready coyne of the subiectes of this Realme whilest their King Swein lyued twentie one thousand after his death vnder his sonne Canutus vpon the payment whereof they made a corporall oth to serue the King as his feodaries against al strangers and to liue as fréendes and allies without endamaging his subiectes But how litle they perfourmed promise the harms that daily folowed in sundry parts and the exalting of Canutus their owne countrieman to the honour of the Crowne were sufficient witnesses In memorie of this Campe certeine places within this parishe are at this day called Combes namely Estcombe Westcombe and Midlecombe almoste forgotten For Comb and Compe in Saxon being somewhat declined from Campus in Latine signifieth a field or Campe for an Armie to soiourne in And in memorie of this Archebishop Aelpheg the parish Church at Greenewiche being at the first dedicated to his honour remaineth knowne by his name euen till this present day Thus much of the antiquitie of the place concerning the latter hystorie I reade that it was soone after the conquest parcel of the possessions of the Bishop of Lysieux in Fraunce and that it bare seruice to Odo then Bishop of Baieux and Earle of Kent After that the Manor belonged to the Abbat of Gaunt in Flaunders till such time as Kinge Henrie the fift seising into his handes by occasion of warre the landes of the Priors Aliens bestowed it togeather with the manor of Lewsham and many other lands also vpon the Priorie of the Chartrehouse Monks of Shene whiche he had then newly erected to this it remayned vntill the time of the reigne of Kinge Henrie the eight who annexed it to the Crowne whervnto it now presently belongeth The Obseruant Friers that sometime lyued at Greenewiche as Iohn Rosse writeth came thither about the latter end of the reign of king Edward the fourth at whose handes they obteined a Chauntrie with a litle Chapel of the holy crosse a place yet extant in the towne And as Lilley saith Kinge Henrie the seuenth buylded for them that house adioyning to the Palaice which is there yet to be séene But now least I may séeme to haue saide much of small matters and to haue forgotten the principall ornament of the towne I must before I end with Greenewiche say somewhat of the Princes Palaice there Humfrey therefore the Duke of Gloucester Protectour of the Realme a man no lesse renowmed for approued vertue and wisdome then honoured for his high estate and parentage was the first that layde the foundations of the faire building in the towne and towre in the Parke and called it his Manor of pleasance After him Kinge Edward the fourthe bestowed some cost to enlarge the woorke Henrie the seuenthe folowed and beautified the house with the addition of the brick front toward the water side but King Henrie the eight as he excéeded all his progenitours
composition betwéene them the which he published vnder his broade seale to this effect first that eache of them should fréely and without empeachement of the other beare vp his crosse in the others Prouince but yet so that he of Yorke and his successours for euer in signe of subiection should within two monethes after their inthronization either bring or sende to Canterbury the Image of an Archebishop bearing a crosse or some other Iewell wrought in fine golde to the value of fourtie poundes and offer it openly there vpon Sainct Thomas Beckets shryne then that in all Synodes of the clergie and assemblies where the King should happen to be present he of Canterbury should haue the right hand and the other the lefte finally that in broade streetes and highe wayes their crossebearers should go togeather but that in narrowe lanes and in the entries of doores and gates the crossier of Canterbury should go before and the other followe and come behinde So that as you sée the Bishoppes of Canterbury euermore preuayling by fauour and obstinacie they of Yorke were driuen in the end to giue ouer in the plain field for very dispaire wanhope and weerinesse But heare by the way I woulde faine for my learning knowe of these godly Fathers or rather since themselues can not now make answer of some of their vngodly fauourers whether this their Helena this crosse for the bearing whereof they contended so long and so bitterly that a man might doubt with the Poet Peceat vter Cruce dignius whether I say it were exalted as the signe of that Crosse whereon Christ triumphed ouer the Diuel or els but for a flagge and antsigne of their owne pride whereby they sought to triumphe and insult the one ouer the other And againe if it were Christes crosse then why they did forbid it to bee aduaunced at any time by any person or in any place Or if it were but their owne then why they did and yet doe commaund vs simple soules not only with greate humilitie but with diuine honour also to prostrate our selues and to adore it I am sure they may be ashamed to affirme it to bee the one I thinke they wil be ashamed to confesse it to be the other I wil ceasse therfore to vrge it any further wil prosecute the Catalogue of the Archebishoppes of this See since the arriual of Augustine In the which the first seuen be of that number which Pope Gregorie sent hither out of Italie The next twentie thrée and Stigande were Saxons all the residue Normanes Englishmen And bycause there is some variance as touching the times of their continuance and sitting I purpose to shew vnder one view the opinion of two sundrie authours so farre foorth as they haue spoken therof that is to say William of Malmesbury and an auncient Chronicler of Couentrie whose name I haue not hytherto learned and in the residue to follow our owne late and receaued writers The beginnings of their gouernements after the Annales of Canterbury The yeres of their Continuance in gouernment after the opinion of An. Do.  Wil. Malm. Chro. Couen 599. Augustine whome our Louanistes call the Englishe Apostle 16. 16. 612. Laurence 5. 5. 617. Mellite 5. 5. 624. Iustus 3. 9. 626. Honorius 26. 20. 653. Deusdedit or Deodat the first Saxon. 10. 9.  Wighard whiche dyed at Rome before his consecration   668. Theodore a Graecian borne and the last of those that came out of Italie 22. 22. 691. Brightwald 37. 38. 731. Tatwine 3. 4. 737. Nothelinus or Iocelin 5. 7. 741. Cuthbert the first that was buryed in Christeschurche and that obteined churchyards for England 17. 17. 759. Bregwine 3. 3. 774. Lanbright or Ianbright in his time the See was translated to Lichefield 17. 17. 790. Aethelwardus he recouered the See to Canterbury againe  23.  Wulfredus or Wifred 28. 28. 830. Fegeldus or Swithredus thrée monethes 831. Celnothus or Eilnothus 41. 41. 890. Etheredus or Etheldredus 18. 18.  Pleimundus one of the learned men that instructed king Alfred 34. 34. 925. Athelmus 12. 13. 947. Wulfhenius or Wulfhelmus 13. 14. 956. Odo or Odosegodus 5. 20. 958. Elfsius or Elfsinus or Elsinus whiche dyed before his consecration in his iourney towardes Rome in reuenge as they say bicause he came in by Simonie and sporned at the Tumbe of his predecessor    Brithelmus was elected but king Edgar reiected him   970. Dunstanus the famous Iuggler  26. 989. Ethelgarus 1. 1. 991. Siricius by his aduice King Etheldred gaue to the Danes a great summe of money 5. 5. 996. Alfricus   1004. Aelfegus hee was slaine by the Danes 6. 6. 1012. Liuingus or Ethelstanus 7. 7.  Eilwardus   1020. Egelnothus 18. 18. 1038. Eadsius or Edsinus who for siknes cōmitted the charge to Siwardus the Abbat of Abingdon after Bishoppe of Rochester whiche neuerthelesse vouchesafed not to finde him necessaries 11. 11. 1050. Robertus Gemeticensis the first Norman aduaunced by King Edward the confessor 12. 12. 1053. Stigandus deposed by the conquerour 17. 17. 1072. Lanfrancus in his time the Bishoppes Sees were first remoued from villages to Cities 19. 19 1093. Anselmus in his time lawe was first made to diuorce Priestes from their wiues 16. 16. 1114. Radulphus Roffensis surnamed Nugax  9. 1122. Willimus de Corueil he crowned Stephan against his fayth giuē to Maude the Empresse  15. 1138. Theobaldus he was endowed firste with the title of Legatus Natus by Pope Innocent the second  23. 1162. Thomas Becket the first Englisheman after the Conquest  8. Robertus the Abbat of Bec was elected but he refused it   1173. Richardus the Pryor of Douer  9. 1183. Baldwinus the bishop of Worcester he dyed in the expedition that king Richard the first made into Syria was before at great contention with the Monkes  7. Reginaldus he dyed before consecration   1193. Hubertus  13. 1205. Stephanus de Langton the cause of the trouble of king Iohn  21. 1228. Gualterus de Euesham elected but refused bothe by the King and Pope for the insufficiencie of learning   1229. Richardus Magnus  8. 1233. Iohannes the Sub-prior of Christs churche was elected after the Pope had refused one Ralph Neuel but this Iohn resigned in whose place Iohn Blund was chosen but that election also was repealed   1234. Edmundus de Abingdon the one twentie Bishop of Cant. that the Popes had canonized He departed the realme died for anger of a repulse  7. 1244. Bonifacius vncle to Elenor the wife of Henrie the thirde  16. 1270. Willelmus de Chillenden elected but he resigned to the Pope who chose Kilwardby   1272. Robertus Kilwardby Friar preacher  6. 1278. Iohannes Burnel Bishop of Bathe elected but the Pope refused him and appoynted Friar Peckam   1279. Iohannes de Peckam a friar Minor born in Sussex  13. 1292.
muche more in storie then I haue already opened whiche happeneth the rather as I thinke for that many priuate persons within the Shyre of Kent were of long time not onely bounde by their tenures of Castlegarde to be ready in person for the defence but also stoode charged in purse with the reparation of the same Onely I reade in Iohn Rosse that King Edwarde the fourth to his great expence whiche others recken to haue béene ten thousande poundes amended it throughout Hauing therefore none other memorable thing touching the Castell it self I will leaue it and passe to the Religious houses Lucius the first christened King of the Britons builded a Churche within Douer Castell to the name and seruice of Christe endowing it with the tolle or custome of the hauen there And Eabaldus the sonne of Ethelbert the firste christened King of the Saxons erected a College within the walles of the same whiche Wyghtred a successour of his remoued into the towne stored with two and twentie Chanons and dedicated it to the name of S Martine This house was afterward new builded by King Henrie the seconde or rather by William Corbeil the Archebishop in his time stuffed by Theobalde his successour with Benedicte Monkes and called the Pryorie of S. Martines though commonly afterward it obtained the name of a newe worke at Douer Betwéene this house and Christes Churche in Canterbury to the whiche King Henrie the seconde had giuen it there arose as it chaūced vsually amongst houses of Religion muche contention for certaine superiorities of iurisdiction and for voice and suffrage in the election of the Archebishop For on the one side the Pryor and Couent of Douer claymed to haue interest in the choice of the Archebishop whiche the Pryor of Christes Churche would not agree vnto And on the other side the Pryor of Christes Churche pretended to haue such a soueraintie ouer S. Martines that he would not onely visite the house but also admit Monkes and Nouices at his pleasure whiche the other coulde not beare So that they fell to suing prouoking and brawling the ordinarie and onely meanes by which Monkes vsed to trie their controuersies and ceassed not appealing and pleading at Rome tyll they had bothe wearyed them selues and wasted their money Howbeit as it commonly falleth out that where respect of money and reward guydeth the iudgement and sentence there the mightie preuaile and the poore goe to wracke So the Monkes of Canterbury hauing to giue more and the Pope and his ministers being ready to take al poore Douer was oppressed and their Pryor in the ende constrained to submission And here bycause I am falne into mention of controuersie betwéene ecclesiastical persons of whiche sorte our hystories haue plentie I will touche in fewe wordes the euill intreatie that William Longchampe the iolly Bishop of Elye and Chaunceller of al England vsed toward Godfrey the Kings brother and Bishop of Yorke electe within this Pryorie King Richard the first being persuaded by the Pope and his Clergie to make an expedition for the recouerie of the holy lande partely for the performaunce of that whiche the King his father had purposed to doe in person and partly for satisfaction of his owne vowe which he made when he tooke the crosse as they called it vpon him set to port sayle his Kingly rights iurisdictions and prerogatiues his crowne landes fermes customes and offices and whatsoeuer he had beside to rayse money withall and so committing the whole gouernement of his Realme to William the Bishop of Ely his Chancellour he committed him selfe and his company to the winde and Seas This Prelate hauing nowe by the Kings commission the power of a Viceroy and besides the Popes gifte the authoritie of a Legate and Vicar and consequently the exercise of both the swordes so ruled and reigned ouer the Clergie Laitie in the kings absence that the one sort founde him more then a Pope the other felt him more then a King and they bothe endured him an intollerable Tyrant for he not only ouer ruled the Nobilitie and outfaced the Clergie spoyling bothe the one and the other of their liuings and promotions for maintenaunce of his owne ryot pompe and excesse But also oppressed the common people deuouring and consuming wheresoeuer he became the victuall of the countrey with the troupes and traines of men and horses being in number a thousand or fiftéene hundreth that continually followed him Amongst other his practises hauing gotten into his handes the reuenues of the Archebishopricke of Yorke whereof Godfrey the Kings brother was then elected Bishop and busie at Rome for to obtaine his consecration and fearing that by his returne he might be defrauded of so swéete a morsell he first laboured earnestly to hinder him in his suite at Rome and when he sawe no successe of that attempt he determined to make him sure when soeuer he should returne home And for that purpose he tooke order with one Clere then Sheriffe of Kent and Constable of the castel of Douer to whom he had giuen his sister in marriage that he should haue a diligent eye to his arriuall and that so soone as the Archebishop did set foote on lande he shoulde strip him of all his ornaments and commit him to safe custodie within the Castell Whiche thing was done accordingly for the Archebishop was no sooner arriued and entered the Churche to offer to Sainct Martine sacrifice for his safe passage as the Gentiles that escaped shipwracke were wont to doe to Neptune But Clere and his companie came in vpon him and doing the Chancellours commaundement violently haled him and his Chaplaines to prison Hereat Iohn then the Kings brother but afterward King taking iust offence and adioyning to him for reuenge the vttermost aide of the Bishops and Barons his friendes and alies raised a great power and in short time so strengthened the Chancellour that he not only agreed to release Godfrey but was fayne him selfe also abandoning his late pompe and glorie to get him to Douer and lye with his brother Clere as a poore priuate and despoyled person Howbeit not thus able to endure long the note of infamie and confusion whereinto he was falne he determined within him self to make an escape and by shift of the place to shroud his shame in some corner beyond the Seas And therfore shaueing his face and attyring him selfe like a woman he tooke a péece of linnen vnder his arme and a yard in his hand minding by that disguising to haue taken vessell amongst other passingers vnknown so to haue gotten ouer But he was not at the first in al his authoritie more vnlike a good man thē he was now in this poore apparel vnlike an honest womā and therefore being at the verie first discouered he was by certaine rude fellowes openly vncased well boxed about the eares and sent to the nexte Iustice who conueyed hym to Iohn his great enemie And thus was all the gaye glorie
make demaunde of his right to the Crowne of Fraunce first quieted Scotland by force then entered amitie with his neighbours of Holland Seland and Brabant and lastly fortifying at this place for defence of the Thamise made expedition by Sea and lande againste the Frenche King and moued warre that had long continuaunce wherin neuerthelesse after sundry discomfitures giuen before Sluse Cressey Calaice and Poitiers he was in the ende right honourably satisfied During this building William of Wickam surnamed Perot a man not so plentifully endowed with good learning as aboundantly stored with Ecclesiasticall liuing for he had nine hundreth poundes of yearely reuenue fourtéene yeares together and was afterwarde by degrées aduaunced to the kéeping firste of the priuie and then of the broade Seale was Surueyour of the kings workes whiche is the very cause as I coniecture that some haue ascribed to him the thanke of the building it selfe This platforme was repayred by King Henrie the eight at suche time as he raised Blockhouses along the Sea coastes for the causes already rehearsed in Dele Of Quinborowe Leland sayth thus Castrum Regius editum recipit Burgus fulmina dira insulanos Tutos seruat ab impetu vel omni A Castle highe and thundring shot At Quinbrought is nowe plaste Whiche keepeth safe the Ilanders From euery spoyle and waste The name is fallen as you sée by deprauation of speache from Kingesborowe to Quinborowe howbeit the Etymologie is yet conserued both in our ancient hystories in the style of the Court or Lawday there I may adde that in memorie of the first name the Ferrie or passage from the I le to the maine lande is yet called The Kings ferrie also Feuersham in Saxon fafresHam AS it is very likely that the Towne of Feuersham receiued the chiefe nourishment of her increase from the Religious house So there is no doubt but that the place was somewhat of price long time before the building of that Abbay there For it is to be séene that King Ethelstane helde a Parleament and enacted certeine lawes at Feuersham about sixe hundreth and fortie yeares agoe at which time I thinke it was some Manor house belonging to the Prince the rather for that afterwarde King William the Conquerour to whose handes at length it came amongst other thinges gaue the aduowson of the Church to the Abbay of S. Augustines and the Manor it self to a Normane in recompence of seruice But what time king Stephan had in purpose to build the Abbay he recouered the Manor againe by exchaunge made with one William de Ipre the founder of Boxley for Lillychurch and raysing there a stately Monasterie the temporalties whereof did amount to a hundred fiftie fiue poundes he stored it with Cluniake Monkes This house was firste honoured with the buriall of Adelicia the Quéene his wife Then with the Sepulture of Eustachius his only sonne and shortly after him selfe also was there interred by them I reade none other thing worthy remembraunce touching this place Saue that in the reigne of King Iohn there brake out a great controuersie betwéene him and the Monkes of S. Augustines touching the right of the Patronage of the Churche of Feuersham For notwithstanding that King William the Conquerour had giuen it to the Abbay as appeareth before yet there wanted not some of whiche number Hubert the Archebishop was one that whispered King Iohn in the eare that the right of the Aduouson was deuoluted vnto him which thing he beléeuing presented a Clarke to the Churche and besides commaunded by his writ that his presentée should be admitted The Abbat on the other side withstoode him for the more sure enioying of his possession not onely eiected the Kings Clarke but also sent thither diuers of his Monkers to kéepe the Church by strong hand When the King vnderstoode of that he commaunded the Sheriffe of the Shyre to leuie the power of his countie and to restore his presentée Which commaundement the officer endeuoured to put in execution accordingly But suche was the courage of these holy hoorsons that before the Shefiffe coulde bring it to passe he was driuen to winne the Churche by assault in the which he hurt and wounded diuers of them and drewe and haled the reste out of the doores by the haire and héeles Nowe it chaunced that at the same time Iohn the Cardinall of Sainct Stephans the Popes Legate into Scotland passed through this Realme to whome as he soiourned at Canterbury the Monks made their mone and he againe both incouraged them to sende their Pryor to Rome for remedie furnished them with his own Letters in commendation of their cause In whiche amongst other things he tolde the holy father Innocentius plainly that if he would suffer Monkes to be thus intreated the Apostolique authoritie wold soone after be set at nought not only in England but in al other countries also Here vpon the Pope sent out his commission for the vnderstanding of the matter but the Monks being now better aduised tooke a shorter way and sending to the King two hundreth marks in a purse and a faire Palfrey for his owne sadle they bothe obteyned at his handes resâ—itution of their right also wan him to become from thencefoorth their good Lord and Patrone But here I praye you consider with me whether these men be more likely to haue béen brought vp in the Schole of Christe and Paule his Apostle who teach Ne resistatis malo vincatis bono malum Or rather to haue drawne their diuinitie out of Terence Comedie where the counsell is Malumus nos prospicere quam hunc vlcisci accepta iniuria yea and out of the worste point of all Tullies Philosophie where he permitteth Lacessitis iniuria inferre vim iniuriam seing they be so ready not of euen ground onely but before hande not to aunswere but to offer force and violence euen to Kings and Princes themselues I wis they might haue taken a better lesson out of Terence him selfe who aduiseth wise men Consilio omnia prius experiri quam armis and therefore I pitie their beating so muche the lesse But by this and suche other Monkishe partes of theirs you may sée Quid otium cibus faciat alienus Genlade and Gladmouthe BEda hathe mention of a water in Kent running by Reculuers whiche he calleth Genlade This name was afterward sounded Yenlade by the same misrule that geard is nowe Yard geoc Yoke gyld Yeeld gemen Yeomen and suche other Henrie of Huntingdon also reporteth that King Edward the Sonne of Alfred builded at Gladmouth This place I coniecture to haue stoode at the mouthe of that Riuer and thereof to haue béene called first Genlademouthe and afâ—erward by contraction and corruption of speach Glademouthe For to compound the name of a Towne out of the mouthe of a Riuer adioining was most familiar with our auncestours as the name Exmouthe was framed out of the Riuer Ex Dartmouthe of the water
ƿaes Haile Hlaford cynyng wessail Lord King that is to say be merie Lord King wyth which her daliance the King was so delighted that he not onely vouchesafed to pledge her but desired also to perfourm it in the right manner of her owne countrey And therefore he answered as he was taught vnto her againe drinc Haeile drinke merely Which when she had done himselfe tooke the cuppe and pledged her so hartely that from thenceforth he could neuer be in rest vntil he had obtained her to wife litle weighing eyther howe déeply he had endaungered his conscience in matching him selfe with a heathen wooman or how greatly he had hazarded his Crowne by ioyning handes with so mightie a forein Nation At the time of this mariage Hengist labouring by all meanes to bring in his owne Countrie men begged of the King the territories of Kent Essex Midlesex and Suffolke then knowen by other names pretending in woord that he would in consideration thereof kéep out Aurel. Ambrose a competitor of the crowne whose arriual King Vortiger much feared But meaning in déede to make thereby a key to let into the Realme multitudes of Germanes for furtherance of his ambitious desire and purpose which thing in processe of time he brought to passe not onely creating himselfe and his posteritie Kings of a large quarter but also thereby shewing the way and entrie howe others of his nation might follow and doe the like And thus Kent being once againe as I saide reduced into a Kingdome continued in that estate by the space of thrée hundreth thrée score and eight yeares or thereabouts in the handes of fiftéene successours as the moste credible authours do reporte Some others adde Edbert and Alric and so make seuentéene in all whose names doe followe 1. Hengist the first Germane 2. Oesc 3. Occa. 4. Hermenric or Ermenric 5. Ethelbert the first christened 6. Eadbald 7. Erconbert the first that commaunded the obseruation of Lent in this shire 8. Egbert 9. Lothar 10. Eadric After his death Nidred and Wibbard vsurped by the space of seuen yeares and therfore are not registred in the Catalogue of the lawfull Kings 11. Wightred he built Sainct Martines at Douer 12. Edbert added by some 13. Ethelbert 14. Alric added also by some 15. Eadbert Pren or Edelbert Pren. 16. Cuthred 17. Baldred Now although it might here séeme conuenient before I passed any further to disclose suche memorable things as haue chaunced during the reignes of al these forenamed Kings yet for asmuche as my purpose specially is to write a Topographie or description of places and no Chronographie or storie of times although I must now and then vse bothe since the one can not fully be perfourmed without enterlacing the other and for that also I shal haue iust occasion hereafter in the particulars of this Shyre to disclose many of the same I will at this present and that by way of digression only make report of one or two occurrents that happened vnder Ethelbert Eadric two Kings of this countrey This Ethelbert besides that he mightely enlarged the boundes of his owne Kingdome extending the same euen to the riuer of Humber was also the first King amongst the Saxons inhabiting this land that promoted the kingdome of Christ as to whome it pleased almighty God to break the bread of his holy woord and gospel through the ministerie and preaching of Augustine the Moncke that was sent from Rome by Pope Gregorie surnamed the great amongst the Saxons I saide least any man should thinke that eyther the faith of Christe was not heare at all or not so purely preached before the comming of that Augustine For it is past all doubt by the stoaries of all Countries and by the testimonie of Beda him selfe being a Saxon that the Britons embraced the religion of Christ within this Iland many hundreth yeares before Gregories time whether in purer sorte then he sent it hither or no let them iudge that knowe that he was called worthely Pater Caeremoniarum and that may yet sée in Beda and others what trūpery crept into the church of God in his time and by his permission Eadric the other King succéeded in Kent after Lotharius who because he rather reigned by luste then ruled by lawe incurred the hatred of his people and was inuaded by Ceadwalla King of Westsex and Mull his brother whiche entring the countrie and finding no resistance herryed it from the one end to the other not thus contented Ceadwalla in reuenge of his brother Muls death whome the countrie people had cruelly slaine in a house that he had taken for his succour entred this countrie the second time and sleying the people spoiled it without all pitie And yet not satisfied with all this he suffered the quarrell to discend to Ina his successour who ceased not to vnquiet the people of this Shyre till they agréed to pay him 30000. Markes in golde for his desired amendes These be the matters that I had to note in the reignes of these two Kings as for the rest I passe them ouer to their fit titles as things rather perteining to some peculiar places then incident to the body of the whole Shire and will now prosecute the residue In the time of this Baldred that standeth last in the table of the Kings Kent was vnited by King Egbert who last of all chaunged the name of the people and called them Englishmen vnto the Westsaxon Kingdome which in the ende became Ladie and maistres of al the rest of the kingdomes also and it was from thenceforth wholy gouerned after the Westsaxon law as in the Mappe of the tripartite lawes of this Realme hathe appeared vntil suche time as King Alfred first diuided the whole Realme into particular Shires vpon this occasion following The Danes bothe in his time and before had flocked by sea to the coastes of this land in great numbers some times wasting and spoiling with sword and fire wheresoeuer they might arriue and sometymes taking with them greate booties to their Ships without doing any further harme which thing continuing for many yeares togeather caused the husbandmen to abandon their tillage and gaue occasion and hardinesse to euill disposed persons to fall to the like pillage and robberie The whiche the better to cloke their mischief withall feigned them selues to bee Danishe Pirates and would some time come on land in one part and some time in an other driuing great spoyles as the Danes had done to theire shippes before theim The good king Alfred therefore that had merueilously traueiled in repulsing the barbarous Danes espying this outrage and thinking it no lesse the parte of a politique Prince to roote out the noisome subiect then to hold out the forein enemie by aduice of his counsail and by the example of Moses which followed the counsaile of Ietro his father in law diuided the whole Realme into certein parts or Sections being two and thirtie in number as
speake of the fall you shall heare out of William Thorne one that made an appendix to the hystorie of Thomas Spot both Monkes of Saint Augustines the occasion of the first fabulous beginning of this Abbay Certain seruaunts or officers saith he of Egbright the third King of Kent after Ethelbert had done great iniurie to a noble woman called Domneua the mother of Saint Mildred in recompence of whiche wrongs the King made an Herodian othe and promised vpon his honour to giue her whatsoeuer she would aske him The woman instructed belike by some Menkishe counselour begged of him so muche ground to build an Abbay vpon as a tame déere that she nourished would runne ouer at a breathe Hereto the King had consented forthwith sauing that one Tymor a counseler of his standing by blamed him of great inconsideration for that he woulde vpon the vncertaine course of a Deare departe to his certaine losse with any part of so good a soyle but the earth sayth William Thorne immediatly opened and swalowed him aliue in memorie whereof the place till his time was called Tymor sleape Well the King and this Gentlewoman procéeded in their bargaine the Hynde was put foorth and it ranne the quantitie of fourtie and eight ploughlands before it returned And thus Domneua by the help of the King builded at Mynster within that precinct a Monasterie of Nonnes vpon suche like discretion you may be sure as Ramsey Abbay was pitched euen where a Bull by chaunce scraped with his foote and as Rome it selfe for whose fauour these follies be deuised was edified where the she Woulfe gaue Romulus and Remus sucke Ouer this Abbay Mildred of whome we spake the daughter of Meruaile that was sonne to Penda King of midle England became the Lady and Abbasse who bicause she was of noble linage and had gotten together seuentie women all whiche Theodorus the seuenth Bishop veiled for Nonnes she easily obteyned to be registred in our Englishe Kalender to be worshipped for a Saint both at Tanet while her body lay there and at S. Augustines after that it was translated And no maruell at all for if you will beléeue the authour of the worke called Noua Legenda Angliae your self wil easily vouchsafe her the honour This woman sayth he was so mightily defended with diuine power that lying in a hote ouē thrée houres together she suffered not of the flame She was also endued with suche godlyke vertue that comming out of Fraunce the very stone whereon she first stepped at Ippedsflete in this Isle receiued the impression of her foote and reteined it for euer hauing besides this propertie that whether so euer you remoued the same it woulde within short time and without helpe of mans hande returne to the former place againe And finally she was so diligently garded with Gods Angel attending vpon her that when the diuell finding her at prayers had put out the candel that was before her the Angel forthwith lighted it for her againe And this no doubte was the cause that the Religious persons of S. Augustines and of S. Gregories at Cāterbury fell at great dissention for her eche affirming that after the spoyle of Tanet her bones were remoued to their Monasterie the one clayming by King Canutus as we sayd before and the other deriuing from Archebishop Lanfranc who as they affirmed at the dotation of their house bestowed vpon it amongest other things of great price the translated reliques of Mildred and Edburgaes bodyes Howsoeuer that were they bothe made marchandize of her myracles and the Monkes of S Augustines perceiuing that by the dissolution of the Monasterie and the absence of the Saintes their towne of Minster in Tanet was falne to decay of verie conscience and for pities sake by the meane of Hughe their Abbat procured at the handes of King Henrie the first the graunt of a Market to be holden there whiche I wote not whether it inioyeth to this day or no. Thus much of the Isle and Mynster Abbay Now a worde or two touching Ippedsflete wherof I spake before and of Stonor another place within the Isle and then I will leaue Tanet and procéede in my iourney This Ippedsflete is the place wher Hengist and Hors◠the Saxon captaines came first on lande and it is of diuers Chronicles diuersly termed some calling it Ippinesflete others Heoppinesflete and others Wippedsflete These of the last sorte write that it tooke the name of one Wipped a noble man amongest the Saxons who onely was slaine on that parte when Aurel. Ambrose the leader of the Britons lost twelue of his principall chiefteins in one conflict In déede the name soundeth the place where Wipped or Ipped swymmed whiche I coulde haue agréed to be the same that is at this day called Wapflete in Essex the rather for that Ralph Higdē writeth that the Britons neuer inuaded Kent after the battayle at Craforde whiche was before this ouerthrowe that I last spake of Howbeit since the writer of our holy Legend layeth it in Tanet I am contented to subscribe In this Isle lyeth Stonor sometime a hauen towne also for in the reigne of William Rufus there arose a suite in lawe betwéene the Londoners and the Abbat of S Augustines then owner of the place as touching the right of the hauen of Stonor wherein by the fauourable aide of the Prince the Monkes as Thomas Spot their own Chronicler reporteth preuayled and the Citizens had the ouerthrowe Not long after whiche time they obteined of King Henrie the first a fayre to be holden yerely at this towne fiue dayes together before and after the feast of the translation of S. Augustine Nowe woulde I foorthwith leade you from the Isle of Tanet to the ruines of Richeborow sauing that the Goodwine is before myne eye whereof I pray you first hearken what I haue to say The Goodwine or Goodvvine Sandes THere liued in the time of King Edwarde commonly called the Confessour a noble mā named Godwine whose daughter Edgithe the same King by great instance of his nobilitie being otherwise of him selfe disposed to haue liued sole tooke vnto his wife By reason whereof not onely this Godwine him selfe being at the first but a Cowheards sonne and afterward aduaunced to honour by King Canutus whose sister by fraude he obteined to wife became of great power and authoritie within this Realme but his sonnes also being fiue in nomber were by the kings gyfte aduaunced to large liuelyhoodes and honourable possessions For Goodwine was Earle of Kent Sussex Hamshire Dorsetshire Deuonshire and Cornwal His eldest sonne Swane had Oxfordshire Barkeshire Gloucestershire Herefordshire and Somerset Harold helde Essex Norfolk Suffolke Cambridgeshire Huntingdonshire Tosti had Northumberland And Gurte Leoswine possessed other places c. But as it is hard in great prosperitie to kéepe due temperance for Superbia est vitium rebus solenne secundis So this man and his sonnes being puffed vp with the pryde of
the Kings fauour their owne power pollicie and possession contemned all other and forgate them selues abusing the simplicitie of the King by euill counsel treading vnder foote the nobilitie by great disdaine and oppressing the common people by insatiable rauine extortion and tirannie So that immediatly and at once they pulled vpon their heades the heauie displeasure of the Prince the immortall hatred of the noble men and the bitter execration and curse of the common sort Whereupon the king for a season banished them the nobles neuer after liked them and the poore people not onely railed vpon them while they liued but also by deuised tales as the manner is laboured to make them hatefull to all posteritie after their death And amongst other things touching Godwyne him selfe they feygned that he was choked at Winchester or Windsore as others say for liers can not lightly agrée with a morsel of bread and that this his land in Kent sonke sodainly into the Sea. Neyther were these things continued in memory by the mouths of the vnlearned people only but committed to writing also by the hands and pens of Monkes Frears and others of the learned sort So that in course of time the matter was past all peraduenture and the things belieued for vndoubted veritie But whatsoeuer hath bene heretofore thought of these matters hauing now iust occasion offered mee to treate of the thing I wil not spare to speake that which I haue red in some credible writers and whiche I doe thinke méete to be beléeued of all indifferent readers Siluester Giraldus in his Itinerarie of Wales and many others doe write that about the end of the reigne of King William Rufus or the beginning of Henrie the first there was a sodaine and mightie inundation of the Sea by the which a great part of Flaunders and of the lowe countries thereabout was drenched and lost so that many of the inhabitants being thereby expulsed from their seates came ouer into England and made suite to the same King Henrie for some place of dwelling within his dominion The King pitying their calamitie and séeing that they might bee profitable to his Realme by instructing his people in the art of clothing wherein at that time they chiefly excelled first placed them about Carlile in the North countrie and afterwarde vpon cause remoued them to Rosse and Hauerford in Wales Now at the same tyme that this happened in Flaunders the like harme was done in sundry places bothe of England and Scotland also as Hector Boethius the Scottishe hystoriographer moste plainly writeth affirming that amongst other this place being sometyme of the possession of the Earle Godwine was then first violently ouerwhelmed with a light sande wherewith it not onely remayneth couered euer since but is become withall Nauium gurges vorago a most dreadfull gulfe and shippe swalower This thing as I cannot but marueil how it hath escaped the penns of our own countrie writers the rather for that some of them liuing about that time haue mention of that harme in the lowe countrie so I sticke not to accept it for assured trueth considering either the auctority of the writer him selfe being a diligent and learned man or the circumstances of the thing that he hathe left written beeing in it selfe both reasonable likely And thus I might wel make an end but because I haue alredy takē occasiō to accuse thē of forgerie which affirme Godwine to haue bene choked at the bourde I trust it shal be no great offence though beside purpose yet for declaration of the trueth to rehearse shortly what some credible storiers haue reported of that matter also And to the end that the trueth may appeare by collation of the diuers reportes I will first shewe what the common opinion and tale of his death is and then afterward what these other men write concerning the same Ealred the Abbat of Ryuauxe who tooke paynes to pen the hystorie of the same King Edwardes whole life and of whom all others as I thinke learned this tale saith that while the King and Godwyne sate at the table accompanied with others of the Nobilitie it chaunced the Cupbearer as he brought wyne to the bourd to slip with the one foote and yet by good strength of his other legge to recouer him self without falling whiche thing the Earle earnestly marking sayde pleasantly that There one brother had wel helped another mary quoth the King so might me mine ne haddest thou bene Earle Godwine casting in his dishe the murder of his brother Alfred which was done to death at Elie by the counsell of Godwine as hereafter in fitte place for it shall appeare Hereat the Earle was sore moued and thinking it more then time to make his purgation tooke a morsell of bread into his hand and praying with great and vehement obtestation that it might choke him if he by any meanes caused the slaughter or consēted thereto he put the bread into his mouth and was immediatly strangled therewithall Some write that this bread was before accursed by Wulstane the holy Bishop of Worcester after a certain manner then vsed called Corsned as in the table to the Saxons lawes is to be séene But this Ealred affirmeth that after the woords spoken by the Earle the King him selfe blessed the bread with the signe of the crosse And therfore these men agrée aswel together as blessing and cursing be one like to another But letting that and them passe heare I beséech you what Alfred of Beuerley a learned man that liued in the time of King Henry the first somewhat before this Abbat Ealred saith touching this matter Godwinus graui morbo ex improuiso percussus ac Regi ad mensam Wyntoniae assidens mutus in ipsa sede declinauit ac postea in camerā Regis a filijs deportatus moritur Quidam autem dicunt c. Godwine being sodainly strickē with a grieuous disease as he sate at the table with the King at Winchester fel down from his stoole and was carried by his sonnes into the Kings chamber where he dyed but some say that he was choked c. And to the same effect writeth Marianus the Scot. Simeon also the Chaunter of Durham whiche liued about the time of this Alfred or rather before him treating of this matter hath these wordes Godwinus graui morbo percussus in ipsa sede declinauit post horas quinque moritur Godwyne being taken with a grieuous disease dropped down from the place where he sate and dyed within fiue houres after Thus these men reporte another manner of his death the one vsing no mention at all of any accursed breade and the other reciting it but as a tale And for the more plaine detection of the deceipt of this Abbat he that wil read the second booke of William Malmes De Regibus shall finde that the occasion and introduction of this matter I meane the slipping of the Kings Cupbearer and the speache that procéeded
of her fits following althoughe she seemed to the beholders to lye as still as a deade body not mouing any part at all as well in the traunces themselues as after the pangs passed also she told plainly of diuers things done at the Church and other places where she was not present whiche neuerthelesse she séemed by signes procéeding from her most liuely to beholde as it were with her eye She tolde also of heauen hell and purgatorie and of the ioyes and sorrowes that sundry departed soules had and suffered there She spake frankly againste the corruption of manners and euill life She exhorted repaire to the Churche hearing of Masse confession to Priestes prayer to our Lady and Sainctes and to be short made in all pointes confession and confirmation of the Popish Créede and Catechisme and that so deuoutly and discretely in the opinioÌ„ of mine authour that he thought it not possible for her to speake in that manner But amongst other things this one was euer much in her mouthe that She woulde goe home and that she had béene at home whereas to the vnderstanding of the standers by she had neuer béene from home nor from the place where she laye wherevpon being in a tyme of another traunce demaunded where That home was she aunswered Where she sawe and hearde the ioyes of heauen where S. Michael wayed soules where Sainct Peter carried the keyes and where she her selfe had the companie of our Lady at Court of Strete and had hartely besought her to heale her disease who also had commaunded her to offer vnto her a Taper in her Chappell there and to declare boldly to all Christian people that our Lady of Court of Strete had receiued her from the verie point of death and that her pleasure was that it shoulde be rong for a miracle Whiche wordes when her Maister heard he sayde that there were no Belles at that Chappell wherevnto the Mayden answered nothing but the voice that spake in her procéeded saying Our blessed Lady wil shew moe miracles there shortly for if any departe this life soudainly or by mischance in deadly sinne if he be vowed to our Lady heartely he shal be restored to life againe to receiue shrift and housell and after to depart this worlde with Gods blessing Besides this she tolde them what meate the Heremite of that Chappell of our Lady at Court of Strete had to his supper and many other things concerning him whereat they maruailed greatly And from that time forwarde she resolued with her selfe to goe to Court of Strete and there to pray and offer to our Lady whiche also she did accordingly And was there delayde of her cure for a certaine season but yet in the meane time put in assured hope of recouerie During whiche meane while the fame of this marueylous Mayden was so spread abroade that it came to the eares of Warham the Archebishop of Canterbury who directed thither Doctour Bocking Master Hadleighe and Barnes thrée Monkes of Christes Churche in Canterbury father Lewes and his fellowe two obseruants his Officiall of Canterbury and the Parson of Aldington with commission to examine the matter and to infourme him of the truthe These men opposed her of the chiefe pointes of the Popishe beliefe and finding her sounde therein not only waded no further in the discouerie of the fraud but gaue it great countenaunce and ioyned with her in setting foorth of the same So that at her nexte voyage to oure Lady of Court of Strete she entered the Chappell with Aue Regina Caelorum in pricksong accoÌ„panied with these Commissioners many Ladies Gentlemen and Gentlewomen of the best degrée and thrée thousande persons besides of the common sort of people There fell she eftsones into a marueilous passion before the Image of our Lady muche like a body diseased of the falling Euill in the whiche she vttered sundrye metricall and ryming speaches tending to the worship of our Lady of Court of Strete whose Chappell there she wished to be better mainteined and to be furnished with a dayly singing Priest tending also to her owne bestowing in some Religious house for suche sayde she was our Ladies pleasure and to the aduauncement of the credite of suche feyned miracles as myne authour reporteth This done and vnderstoode to the Archebishop she was by him appointed to S. Sepulcres a house of Nonnes in Canterbury where she laboured sundry times of her disease and continued her wonted working of wonderous myracles resorting ofteÌ„ by way of trauÌ„ce onely to our Lady of Court of Strete who also ceassed not to shewe her selfe mightie in operation there lighting candels without fire moystning womens breastes that before were drye and wanted mylke restoring all sortes of sicke to perfect healthe reducing the deade to life againe and finally doing all good to al suche as were measured and vowed as the manner was vnto her at Court of Strete Thus Elizabeth Barton was aduaunced from the condition of a base seruaunt to the estate of a glorious Nonne The Heremite of Court of Strete was enriched by dayly offring S. Sepulchres got the possession of a Holy Mayden God was blasphemed the holy Virgine his mother mishonoured the silly people were miserably mocked The Bishops Priestes and Monkes in the meane time with closed eyes wincking and the Deuill and his lymmes with open mouthe laughing at it And thus the matter stoode sundry yeares together vntill at length the question was moued about King Henries marriage at which time this holy Mayden not conteining her selfe within her former boundes of hypocrisie stepped into this matter also and feyned that she vnderstoode by reuelation that if the King procéeded to the diuorce he shoulde not be King of this Realme one moneth after Wherevpon her doings were once againe examined not by men giuen ouer to beléeue illusions but by suche as had the prudent power of prouing spirites and in the ende her dissimulation was deciphered her Popishe comforters were bewrayed the deceiued people were well satisfied these daungerous deceiuers were worthely executed and the Deuill their Maister was quite and cleane confounded The circumstances of all whiche doing I doe of purpose omit knowing that it is in the statute of .25 yeare of King Henrie the eight and eche where else in manner to be read and thinking my selfe to haue perfourmed promise in that I haue disclosed the first attemptes and will nowe therefore make towardes Rumney Bylsington AFter the deceasse of King Edwarde the thirde and against the day of the Coronation of King Richarde the seconde whiche succeeded him Iohn the King of Castile and Lions Duke of Lancaster and Earle bothe of Leycester and Linolne clayming in the right of his Earldome of Leyceâ—er to be highe Seneschall or Steward at that solemâ—itie and thereby to haue the authoritie of hearing and determining of the claimes of al such as by their tenure pretended to haue any office or fée at the Kings inthronization amongst other suites receiued a
abiured should not be molested while they be in the highe wayes may euidently appeare I finde in Hystorie that this Watlingstreete hath heretofore not onely serued for the frée passage of the people but that it hath béen at times also a marke and bounder betwéene some Kings for the limits of their iurisdictions and authoritie For so it was betwéene Edmund and Anlaf Alfred and Guthrum and others But bycause these matters reache further then this Shyre extendeth I will reserue them to fit place and shew you in the meane while what I count note worthy on both sides of this way till I come to the Diocesse of Rochester Lyminge ON the South side of Watlingstreete and vnder the Downes Lyminge is the first that offereth it selfe concerning the which I haue found a note or twaine that make more for the antiquitie then for the estimation of the place for I reade in the Annales of S. Augustines of Canterbury that Eadbald the sonne of King Ethelbert the firste Christened King of Kent gaue it to Edburge his sister who foorthwith clocked together a sorte of simple women whiche vnder her wing there tooke vpon them the Popishe veile of widowhood But that order in time waxed colde and therefore Lanfranc the Archebishop at suche time as he builded Sainct Gregories in Canterbury as we haue touched in Tanet before reckoning it no small ornamēt of his dotation to bestowe some renouned Relique that might procure estimation to his worke translated the olde bones of Edburge from Lyminge to Sainct Gregories and verefied in Papistrie the olde Maxime of Philosophie Corruptio vnius generatio alterius Baramdowne in the Saxon BarHamdune That is to say the hill where the Bores do abide AS this place is of it selfe very fit by reason of the flat leuel and playnesse therof to array an heast of men vpon So haue we testimonie of thrée great armies that haue mustred at it The one vnder the conduict of Iulius Caesar who landing at Dele as we haue before shewed surueyed his hoast at Baramdowne and marching from thence against the Britons so daunted their forces that he compelled them to become tributarie No lesse infortunate but muche more infamous to this countrie was the time of the seconde muster whiche happened in the reigne of King Iohn who hearing that Philip the king of Fraunce had by incitation of the Pope as hath already appeared in Douer prepared a great army to inuade him and that he was ready at Calaice to take shipping determined to incounter him vpon the Sea and if that assay succéeded not then to giue him a battaile on the lande also For whiche seruice he rigged vp his shippes of warre and sent to the Sea the Earle of Salisburie whome he ordeined Admirall and calling together fit men from al the parts of the Realme he found by view taken at this place an armie of sixtie thousande men to incounter his enemies besides a sufficient number of able and armed souldiours to defende the lande withal Now whilest he thus awaited at Baramdown to heare further of his aduersaries comming Pandulph the Popes Legate sent vnto him two Knightes of the order of the Temple by whose mouthe he earnestly desired the King to graunt him audience The King assented and the Legate came vnto him and sayde in summe as followeth Beholde O Prince the King of Fraunce is in armes against thée not as against a priuate enemie to him self alone but as an open and common aduersarie bothe to the Catholike Church to the Popes holynesse to whole Christendome and to God him self Neyther commeth he vpon opinion of his owne power and strength but is armed with great confidence of Gods fauourable ayde accompanied with the consent of many great Princes furnished with the presence of suche as thou haste banished out of thy Realme and assured by the faythful promises of sundry of thyne owne Nobilitie whiche nowe are present in person with thée Consider therefore in what daunger thou standest and spare not to submit thée while space is leaste if thou persist there be no place left of further fauour The King hearing this and being vpon causes knowne to him selfe more distrustfull of Traitours at home then fearefull of enemies abroade agréed to serue the time and taking the Legate to Douer with him sealed the Golden Bull of submission whereby Englande was once againe made a tributarie Prouince to the Citie of Rome and that in so muche the more vile condition then it was before as an vsurped Ierarchie is inferiour to a noble lawfull and renoumed Monarchie For it is truely sayd Dignitate domini minus turpis est conditio serui Now when the Frenche King on the other side of the Seas had worde hereof he retired with his armie in a great choler partely for that he was thus deluded but chiefly bycause he had lost his Nauie whiche the Earle of Salisbury had set on fire in the hauen at Calaice Simon Mountfort the Earle of Leycester that was elected by the Barons of this Realme general of that armie which they raysed against King Henrie the thirde arrayed thirdly a very great hoast of men here at suche time as he feared the arriuall of Eleonar the Quéene who being daughter to the Earle of Prouince and then lefte in Fraunce behinde the King and the Earle whiche also had béen bothe there a litle before to receiue the Frenche Kings rewarde touching their controuersie ceassed not by all possible meanes to sollicite the King of Fraunce and to incite other her friendes and allies to ayde King Henrie against the Nobilitie But whether it were that presently they could not for their owne affaires or that at al they durst not knowing that their comming was awayted they serued not her desire by meanes whereof the Lordes waxed strong and soone after gaue the King a battayle in Sussex wherein they bothe tooke him and his brother Richard and his eldest sonne prisoners But as touching the originall procéeding and euent of these warres I willingly spare to speake muche in this place knowing that I shall haue opportunitie often hereafter to discourse them Nowe therefore let vs consider a few other places and then haste vs to Canterbury Charteham AFter suche time as King Iohn had made him selfe the Popes tenant of the Crown and Realme of England as euen now I tolde you the Clergie of this countrie was so oppressed with Romishe exactions that they were become not onely vnable but thereby vnwilling also to relieue the necessitie of the Prince with any prest of money as in times paste they had accustomed to do Wherat the King on the one side taking offence pressed them many times very hard not ceasing till he had wroong somewhat from them And on the other side appealing to their holy fathers ayde procured by their great coste many sharp prohibitions and proud menacies against him So that sundry times in the reigne of King Henrie the thirde this Balle
King for many pointes of great enormitie and especially for the treason whiche he had imagined with certaine Earles and Noble men to the end that they should displace the King from the seate of his Kingdome and place his sonne Edward in his throne and cast the Father into perpetuall prison and when he could not deny the things obiected against him being stroken with an incredible feare and falling downe prostrate vpon the earth at the Kings feete that he might deserue to obtaine his fauour with weeping and wayling he submitted himselfe wholly to the Kings pleasure thus was that proude most hateful man to God brought lowe and humbled the whiche defiled throughout all England with the breath of his mouthe like an harlot the state of the Priesthode and Clergie and exercised intollerable tyrannie ouer the people and he whiche before writing vnto the King refused in his letters for pride to call him his Lord nowe being humbled both acknowledgethe and calleth him his Lord and King being made obedient and to serue him with great deuotion but yet against his will. Againe when as in the same yeare he was cited to appeare at Rome vpon complaint that he had wastfully spoyled the goods of his Churche and came to the Court to sue for licence to passe ouer the Seas the King as soone as he came to his presence and had moued his suite caused the presence chamber dore to be set wide open willed the standers by to giue eare and spake a loude to the Bishop in this manner as the same author reporteth Licentiam transfretandi quam a nobis postulare venisti libenter tibi concedimus reuertendi autem licentiam nullam damus memores doli ac proditionis quas in Parlemento Lincolniae cum Baronibus nostris in Regiam machinatus es Maiestatem cuius rei litera signo tuo sigillata testis est testimonium perhibet contra te euidenter Sed propter amorē beati Thomae Martyris Ecclesiae cui praees reuerentiam vindictam hucusque distulimus reseruantes eam Papae qui nostras iniurias vlciscetur vtpote speramus A protectione vero nostra te prorsus excludimus omnem gratiam negantes miserecordiam quia re vera semper immisericors fuisti Cumque Wintoniensis Episcopus pro eo intercederet Archiepiscopum Dominum suum esse diceret Rex affirmauit se omnium Praelatorum regni Regem Dominum esse principalem Wee willingly graunt you licence to passe ouer the Seas according as you are come to desire but to retourne again we giue you no licence at al being mindfull of the deceit and treason whiche you did practise with our Barons against our Kingly Maiestie in the Parleament at Lincolne of the whiche thing your letter signed with your owne seale is a witnes and euidētly giueth testimonie against you Howbeit for the loue of Saint Thomas the Martyr and for the reuerence of the Church ouer the which you are set we haue hither to differred the reuēge reseruing it to the Pope which as we hope wil make reuenge of our iniuries But we vtterly exclude you frō our protectiō denying you all grace mercy because in dede you haue alwais ben an vnmerciful mā And whē as the Bishop of Winchester made intercession for him said that the Archbishop was his Lord the King affirmed that he himself was the King and cheif Lord of al the Prelats of the Realm This I haue exemplified the more at large bothe to the end that you may sée how great a traitour to his Prince howe vnmercifull a tyrant to the Common people and howe foule a blemishe to the Ecclesiasticall order this Bishop was quite contrary to that which M. Polydore affirmeth of him and also that you may vnderstand what authoritie King Edward the first in plaine termes chalenged ouer his Cleargie not such as Anselme offered King William Rufus when he tooke Canterbury of his gifte saying Summo pontifici debeo obedientiam tibi consilium I owe my obedience to the highe Bishop and my counsel to you But suche as a true subiect oweth to his Liege King and lawful souereigne and suche as differeth no more from that which we at this day attribute to our Prince then Principalis Dominus and supremus Gubernator do varie in sunder And yet beholde the madnes of the time after the deathe of this Bishop the common people forsoothe resorted to his tumbe and would néedes haue made a Sainct of him had not the Sepulchre béen defaced and their follie staied by publique ordinance Chilham Castle in Saxon Cyleham that is the colde dwelling IN the allotment of Landes for the defence of Douer Castle whereof we haue before spoken Chilham fell to Fulbert of Douer who in consideration thereof vndertooke to finde at his owne charge fiftéene able Souldiours whereof thrée should warde in the Castle euery moneth by the space of 20. wéeks in the yeare I suspect that it came afterwardes to the possession of the Archebishop For I remember that I once read that King Iohn came thither to treate with Stephan Langton the Archebishop for reconciliation to be had betweene them Wye the word in Brittish signifieth an Egge WHat time king William the Conquerour endowed his Abbay of Battel in Sussex he gaue thervnto amongst other his Manour of Wye conteining at that time seuen hydes or ploughe landes and being before that time of the Demeasnes of the Crowne The Chronicles of Battell Abbay affirme that there were sometimes two and twentie Hundrethes subiect to the iurisdiction of this Towne whiche if it be true then as farre as I can reache by coniecture the territorie of Wye was the very same in compasse that nowe the Last of Screy or Sherwinhope describeth that is to say the fift part of this whole Shyre consisting of two and twentie Hundrethes in number The same King graunted to his Monks of Battel wrek of the Sea falling vpon Dengemarishe a portion of Wye and willed further by his Chart of donation that if any fish called a Craspeis that is Crasse pisse a great or royall fishe as whales or suche other which by the Lawe of Prerogatiue perteined to the King himselfe should happen to be taken there that the Monkes should haue it wholly And if it fortuned to arriue in any other mans land lying betwene Horsmede and Withburn that yet the Monkes should enioy the whole tongue and two third partes of the rest of the body Nowe in the Reigne of King Henrie his Sonne it fortuned that a shippe laden with the Kings owne goods was wrecked within the precinct of this libertie which his Officers would haue taken and saued to his vse but Geffray then Abbat of Battell withstoode them that so stoutly that the matter by complaint came to the Kings owne hearing who to make knowen how muche he valued his fathers graunt yéelded the matter wholy into the Abbats owne courtesie The same Storie
Sainct Augustines and fearing that he shoulde be deceiued of the bodye of Bregwine as Aldhun his predecessour had béene beguiled of Cuthberts before he came appoynted with armed men determining to take it awaye by force if he might not by faire meanes obtaine it But the craftie Monkes of Christes Church had buried the body before he came so that he was driuen to depart home frustrate of his desire and to séeke his amendes by action in the lawe Notwithstanding bycause they perceiued hereby that he was a man of good courage and therfore very méete in their opinion to be their Captaine they shortly after chose him Archebishop in hope that he woulde haue mainteined their quarrell but he neuerthelesse tooke suche order that he was buried in S. Augustines with the rest of his predecessours Thus you sée howe soone after the foundation these houses were at dissention and for howe small trifles they were ready to put on armes and to moue greate and trouble some tragedies Neyther doe I finde that euer they agréeed after but were eyther at continuall brawling within them selues eyther suing before the King or appealing to the Pope and that for matters of more stomacke then importaunce As for example whether the Abbat of Sainct Augustines should be consecrate or blessed in his owne Churche or in the others whether he ought to ring his belles to seruice before the other had rong theirs whether he and his tenaunts ought suite to the Bishops Courte and suche like wherein it can not be doubted but that they consumed inestimable treasure for maintenaunce of their moste peuishe and Popishe pryde and wilfulnesse If any man delight to knowe the particulars let him reade the writing of Thorne and Spot their own Chroniclers as for my selfe I thinke it too long to haue sayde thus muche in generall and therefore will haste me to the rest After the death of Ethelbert Eadbaldus his sonne at the instance of Laurence the Archebishop builded a faire Churche in this Monasterie whiche he called Sainct Maries In whiche place many yeares after if at the leaste you will beléeue Thomas Spot Sainct Dunstane sensibly hearde and sawe our Lady Sainct Adryan and a sorte of Angels singing and dauncing together After Eadbaldus King Canute the great Monarch of this Realme Egilsine the Abbat the fled for feare of the Conquerour Scotlandus whome the same King put in Egelsins place Hugo de Floriaco that was of kinred to king William Rufus by him made Abbat were the persons that chiefly increased the building some bestowing Churches and Chapels some Dorters and dyning places and others other sortes of edefices The Saincts whose deade bodies and reliques brought to this church great veneration and gaine were these specially Adryan Albin Iohn c. religious persons Eadbald Lothar Mul Wightred sometimes Kings S. Sexburg S. Myldred of Thanet whose body was giuen then by King Canute And Sainct Augustine their founder him self Of this last man to let slip a many of others this one myracle they reporte that at suche time as the Danes entred Kent and spoyling this Citie ransacked almoste euery corner thereof this house of Sainct Augustines onely of all other was neuer touched By reason say they that when a Dane had taken holde of Sainct Augustines Pall or cloake wherewith his tumbe was couered it stacke so fast to his fingers that by no meanes possible he coulde lose it till he came and yealded himself to the Monkes and made sorrowfull confession of his faulte Much like to this it is written that at the ouerthrow of Carthage the hande of one that woulde haue spoyled the God Apollo of his Mantel was founde amongst the fragments This our good felowe was not so cunning belike as Dionysius for he tooke a goldeÌ„ cloke â—rom Iupiter and had no hurt at all thereby But eyther this our Pall was weaued Ex auro Tholosano or els which I rather beléeue this Canterbury tale was forged A rabula Romano Besides all these the Monkes séeing howe litle their reliques were estéemed in comparison of Thomas Beckets and beleeuing as the Romanes somtimes did of Dea Pessenuntia that their house should be highly aduaunced if they might get thither so glorious a God as he was they made a foule shift for a péece of him also There was a Monk of Christs Church called Roger who had in charge to kéepe the Altar where Becket was slaine This man they chose to their Abbat in hope sayth mine authour that he woulde bring somewhat with him in whiche doing they were not altogether deceiued For he conueyed to them a greate part of Thomas his bloude that was shed and a péece of his Crowne that was pared off But here by the way marke I beséeche you the grose iugling that these slow bellyed syres vsed to delude the worlde withal Erasmus in his Colloquies writeth that the whole face of S. Thomas being sumptuously set in golde was religiously kept within a Chapell beyonde the highe altar and that they tolde him the rest of the body lay in a shryne of golde and of great Maiestie which they shewed besides But the truth is that at suche time as the late godly and most Christian Archebishop Cranmer and the wise and noble counseler Cromwell were at Canterbury in commission for defacing of this Shryne they fouÌ„d an entier body and complete in all his partes within the same as some yet on liue and then present can testifie so that eyther this their great God was a bishop Biceps and lacked but one head more to make him Cerberus or Chimaera or else whiche is most certaine these Monks were marueylous and monstruous magnifiers of suche deceiuable trumperie and wanted nothing at all to make them Cretenses or Cecropes But to my purpose againe as touching the priuileges possessions estimation and maiestie of this house it were too muche to recite the one halfe and therefore I will onely let you knowe that of auncient time the Abbat had allowance of a Coynage or Mynte within him selfe by graunt of King Ethelstane That he had place in the general couÌ„sell by gift of the Pope Leo That the house had fiue Couents conteining in all sixtie fiue Monkes And finally that besides iurisdiction ouer a whole Last of thirtéene Hundreds it had possession of liuelyhoode to the value of eight hundreth and eight pounds by yeare Nowe besides these two great houses there were in Canterbury some other also of lesse note As S. Gregories a Churche of Chanons belonging to the Hospital that Lanfranc built whiche was fired in the time of King Stephan and valued in the Recordes at thirtie poundes by the yeare The Hospital of S. Laurence edified by Hughe the Abbat of S. Augustines for his sicke Monkes and rated at twentie poundes yearely S. Iames Hospital erected by Eleonor the wife of King Henrie the thirde S. Sepulchres a house of Nonnes prepared belike to serue the
not to pursue ouer fiercely thine enemie that hath already tourned his back towardes thée least thou compell him to make vertue of that necessitie and he turning his face againe put thee in d unger to be ouercome thy selfe which before haddest in thine owne hande assuraunce to ouerthrowe him In which behalfe it was well sayde of one Hosti fugienti pons aureus faciendus If thine enemie will flye make him a bridge of Golde Neuerthelesse for as much as this aduice procéeded not from Eadric of any care that he had to preserue King Edmonds power out of perill but rather of feare least the whole army of Canutus should be ouerrunne and destroyed he is iustly taxed for this and other his treasons by our auncient historians who also make report of the worthy rewarde that in the ende he receiued for all his trecherie For this was hee as William Malmsb writeth though some others ascribe it to his sonne that afterwardes when these two Kings had by composition diuided the Realme betwene them most villanously murthered King Edmonde at Oxford and was therfore done to death by King Canutus who in that one act shewed singular argumeÌ„ts both of rare iustice and of a right noble harte Of iustice for that he would not winke at the faulte of him by whose meanes hee obteyned the Monarchie of the whole Realme of great Nobilitie of minde in that he plainly declared himselfe to estéeme more of his owne honour then of another mans Crowne and Scepter to haue digested quietly that impatiencie of a partener in kingdome which great Alexander thought as intollerable as two sunnes in the world at once and which Romulus could in no wise brooke since he woulde not suffer one kingdome to content him and Remus whom one belly had conteyned before There was sometime at Eilefford a house of Carmelite Friers of the time of the foundation or name of the founder whereof I haue not yet learned any thing Mallinge in Saxon Mealing of Mealuing that is the Lowe place flourishing with meale or Corne for so it is euery where accoÌ„pted THis Towne the name whereof hauing his termination in ing betokeneth plainely that it is situate along the water euen as Yalding Berming Halling and others thereby was first giuen to Burhricus the Bishop of Rochester by King Edmund the Brother of Athelstane vnder the name of thrée Plough landes in Mealinges About one hundreth and fiftie yeares after whiche time Gundulphus a successour in that See as you haue read before hauing amplified the buildings and multiplied that number of the Monkes in his owne Citie raised an Abbay of women here also which being dedicate to the name of the Blessed Virgin during all his life he gouerned himself and lying at the point of death he commended to the charge of one Auice a chosen woman to whome notwithstanding he would not deliuer the Pastorall staffe before she had promised Canonicall Obedience fidelitie and subiection to the Sée of Rochester and protested by othe that there should neither Abbasse nor Nonne be from thenceforthe receaued into the house without the consent and priuitie of him and his successours Now whether this Rus propinquum and politique prouision were made of a blinde zeale that the man had to aduaunce superstition or of a vain glorie to increase authoritie in his succession or els of a foresight that the Monkes whiche were for the moste part called Monachi of Sole liuing by the same rule that Montes haue their name of remouing might haue a conuenient place to resort vnto and where they might Caute at the least quenche the heates kindled of their good cheare and idlenesse God knoweth and I wil not iudge But well I wote that this was a very common practise in Papistrie for as Saint Augustines had Sepulchres Saint Albans Sopewell Shene Sion the Knightes of the Rodes the Nonnes of Clerkenwel all adioyning or subiect to suche obedience so Sempringham and some other of that sort had both Male and Female within one house and wall togeather the world being in the meane while borne in hand that they were no men but Images as Phryne said sometime of Xenocrates This house was valued in the Recordes at two hundreth and eightéene pounds of yerely reuenewe Tunbridge called of Mat. Par. Thâ—â—ebrugge corruptly for tonebrycge that is the Bridge ouer Tone but if it be truly written tunbrycge theÌ„ it signifieth the towne of Bridges as in deed it hath many ALthough I find no mention of Tunbridge in that copie of Domesdaye booke whiche I haue séene concerning the description of this Shyre yet read I in history that there was a castle at Tunbridge sone after the conqueste if not euen at the same time when that booke was compiled For omitting that which Hector Boetius writeth concerning a battell at Tunbridge wherin the Conquerour as he saith should preuaile against Harold bicause it is euidently false and vntrue vnlesse he mean it of the continuance of the chase after the fight euen to Tunbridge I haue read that at suche time as Odo ioyning with others of the Nobilitie made defection from William Rufus to Robert his elder brother the King besieged at Tunbridge one Gilbert then kéeper of the Castle and compelled him to yéelde it Happely this Odo being the Kings Vncle and of great authoritie within the Shyre as we haue before shewed had erected this Castle giuen the charge to Gilbert but howsoeuer that were certaine it is that the Castle was long time holdeÌ„ of the Archbishops of Canterbury and continued many yeares togeather in the possession of the Earles of Clare afterwards called of Gloucester For in the dayes of King Henrie the second Thomas the Archbishop required homage of Roger then Earle of Gloucester for his Castle of Tunbridge who knowing the King to be halfe angrie with the Archebishop and wholly on his owne side shaped him a short answere affirming stoutly that it was none of his but the Kings owne as a Lay Fée Falcasius a hyred Souldiour that was enterteined by King Iohn during the warres with his Nobilitie toke by force this Castle from the Earle of Gloucester and kept it for a season to the Kings behoofe King Henrie the third also after the death of Gilbert the Earle of Gloucester scised the Wardship of his Heire and committed the custody of this Castle to Hubert of Burghe But Richard the Archebishop surnamed the great being offended therat came to the King in great haste and made his claime by reason that the Earle Gilbert died in his homage the King gaue answer that the whole Earledome was holden of him that hee might lawfully committe the custodie of the Landes to whome soeuer it liked himselfe Hereat the Bishop waxed warme and tolde the King plainly that since he could not haue right within the Realme he would not spare to séeke it abrode forthwith hasted him to the holy Father at Rome where he
49. 303 Boroughes in Kent Page 52. Brittishe Hystorie Page 59 Flamines turned into Bishops Page 62 Barons and Citizens Page 94. 101. Bull of Golde Page 134. 218. Thomas Becket Tharchbishop looke Thomas c. Bilsington Page 154 Beacons Page 160 Boxeley Page 181. Baramdowne Page 217 Barons warre Page 219. 298 Buriall of the dead Page 244 Bishop of Saint Martines Page 250 Bartilmew Badelsmere Page 262 Bishops of Rochester named Page 271 Benerth Page 169 Blackheath Page 340 Blacksmithes rebellion Page 340 Saint Bartilmew and his offring Page 375. Anthonie Becke an edifying Bishop Page 384 C Iulius Caesar Page 1 Customes of Kent Page 22. 388 Cities in Kent Page 50. 91 Castles in Kent Page 52 Crosse of the Archebishop Page 67 Cursed bread Page 87 Cinque Portes Page 93 CoÌ„stableship of Douer castle Page 102 Contentions betweene religious persons Page 67. 128 237. 251. 269. 290. 301. Courtopstreete Page 148 Carmelite Fryars Page 166. 324 Contempt of Good Counsell worthily punished Page 168 Cranmer the Archebishop Page 186 Lord Cromwell Page 186 Charteham Page 220 Chilham Page 227 Canterbury Page 231 Thomas Colpeper Page 262 Feast of Saint Cuthbert Page 270 Crueltie against Strangers Page 7 278 284. Conquest of England Page 283 Chetham Page 286 Crayford and Cray Riuer Page 345 Cliffe at Hoo. Page 352 D Domesday booke Page 93 Danes and their whole Hystorie Page 107. 162. 322. 337. Dele Page 117 Douer 119 the Castle Page 121 Doncastre Page 195 Drinking and Carowsing Page 280 Depeford Page 335 Dartford DareÌ„t riuer Page 346. 349 E Ethelbert the king Page 18 Eadric the king Page 19 King Edward the confessor Page 89 Eastrie Page 114 Saint Eanswyde Page 136 King Edward the first claimeth supremacie ouer the Clergie Page 226. Saint Edith and her offering Page 372 Elizabeth our Queene Page 58. 275. Eslingham Page 292 Edmond Ironside Page 323 Erasmus Roterodam Page 255 377 Edric the Earle an infamous traitor Page 323 An Earle Butler to the Archebishop Page 331. Earithe Page 343 Eltham Page 384 F Fifteene and tenthe of Kent Page 25 Fraunchises Page 48 Forestes and Parkes in Kent Page 48 Faires in Kent Page 51 Flamines turned into Bishops Page 62 Folkstone Page 136 Farley Page 172 Fermes why so called Page 172 Feuersham Page 202 Frendsbury Page 290 Fernham Page 322 G Gentlemen of Kent by name Page 54 Geffray of Mounmouth Page 59 Goodwine Sandes Page 84 Godwyne the Earle Page 84. 86. 120 Genlade and Gladmouthe Page 205 Gillingham Page 274 Gauelkinde Page 22. 388. Grenewiche Page 336 Grauesend Page 349 Gentlemen and gentrie of olde time Page 363 H Heptarchie of England Page 1. 3 Hundrethes how they began Page 21 Hilles of name in Kent Page 49 Houses of honor in Kent Page 53. 211 Hospitals in Kent Page 53 King Henrie the eight Page 117. 200 Hubert of Borough Page 162 Hyde hauen Page 141. Hauens why they decay Page 141. Hydeland Page 1â—2 Holy Maide of Kent Page 149 Harlot whereof so called Page 178 Highe waies Page 213 Hakington Page 251 Harbaldowne Page 254 Harold the king Page 284 Horsmundene Page 288 Horstede Page 289 Halling Page 317 Hengist and Horsa two Capitaines Page 15. 289. 345 Saint Hildeferthe Page 354 Husbandrie Page 368 King Henrie the second Page 239. 377 Holmesdale Page 382 I Iutes Page 2 Inglishmen Page 2 Ingland first inhabited Page 12 Inglishmen first named Page 20 Indigenae what they be Page 12 Ippedfleete Page 82 Ightam Page 197 Inglishe speeche corrupted Page 205 decayed Page 209 King Iohn of Ingland Page 133 203. 217 Iacke Cade Page 340. 384 Iacke Strawe Page 340. 348 K SeueÌ„ Kingdomes in InglaÌ„d Page 1. 3 Kent how situated 7. why so named 7. 167. Her gentrie 10. 5. Her Yeomanrie 10. 65. Fertilitie 8. 9. Artificers 11. First inhabited part of al Ingland 14 hath many Kings 14. 317. One King. 15. 345. her kings names 17. she kepeth her olde Customes 22. particularly set down 25. hath three steps Page 158. Knightes fees Page 48 Kemsley downe Page 190 Kentish tailes Page 315 Kemsing Page 372 Knolle Page 377 Knightes seruice Page 9 368. 389 L Lawes of Ingland Page 5 Lathes howe they began Page 21. 212. London spoiled of the Archebishopricke Page 63 Lymne and Lymene Page 145 Lymen a Riuer Page 146. 165 Lyming Page 216 Leedes Page 260 Ladie of Chetham Page 286 Liuerie of seisine Page 317 Lord Dane and Lourdan Page 111 Lowy of Tunbridge Page 329. Lesnes Page 342 M Marriage Page 16. 299. 405 Markets in Kent Page 50 Minster Abbay Page 80. Saint Myldred Page 81 Myracles Page 81. 116. 136. 152. 268. 336. Saint Martines night Page 210 Saint Martines Page 128 Maidston Page 174 Medway a Riuer Page 176 Mylton Page 190 Minster Page 198 Monkes contend forceably against the king Page 203 Mottindene Page 230 Maude the Empresse Page 260 Malling Page 325 Mepham Page 355 Merchandize Page 368 N Nor â—ans Page 3 Neshe Page 160 Newendene Page 165 Names of townes fetched from Riuers adioyning Page 174 205 Norwood Page 258 Naming of men Page 258 Nauie See Ships Names of Townes in Eng. Page 325 O Order of this description Page 62. 77 161. 207. 215. 273 353. 386. Odo the Earle of Kent Page 123. 178. 297. Order of Templers Page 132 Orpington Page 345 Otford Page 374 P Pictes Page 2 Parkes see Forestes Polydore Virgill Page 60. 222. 316. 355 Portes see Cinque Portes Pope 133. 217. 220 abolished Page 157 Passage ouer the Sea. Page 143 Piccendene Hothe Page 178 Purgatorie Page 192 Parleament without the Clergie Page 221. Priestes wiues see Marriage Priestes vnlearned Page 352 Papisme and Paganisme agree in many points of religioÌ„ Page 373 Portreue whereof it commeth Page 349. Partition of lands .409 of goods Page 408. Q Quinborow Page 200 R Riuers in Kent Page 49. Religious houses in Kent Page 53. and their values Page 230 Rome whereof named Page 81 Reliques Page 82. 105. 216. 247. 255 Richeborowe Page 90 Rutupi Page 90 Rother a Riuer Page 146. 165 Rumney 156. and the Marsh Page 158 Roode of grace Page 182 Saint Rumwald Page 186. 188. Reculuer Page 207 Robert Wynchelsey the Archebishop Page 222 Religous houses valued Page 230 Sir Roger Laybourne Page 263 Bishops of Rochester named Page 271 Roode of Gillingham Page 286 Rochester Page 293 354 Rochester bridge Page 303 Sir Robert Knolles Page 313 Rauensborne a riuer Page 335 Reue whereof it cometh Page 350 Reigate Castle Page 382 S Scots Page 2 Saxons Page 2. 79 Samothees Page 12 Shyres how they began Page 20. 337 Swanscombe Page 23. 354 Schooles in Kent Page 54. 233. 383 Stonor Page 83 Sandwiche Page 91. 105 Ships Page 97. 112. 274. 335 Sandowne Page 118 Stephan Langton Tharchebishop .. Page 133. 197 Saintes in the Papacie Page 137 Saltwood Page 139 Shypwey Page 144 Seawatche Page 160 Stone Page 164 Sittingbourne Page 191 Shepey Page 198 Sheepe of England Page 198 Stouremouthe Page 208 Saint Stephans Page 251 King Stephan Page 260 See of Canterbury looke in Archebishopricke See of Rochester Page 266 Shorham Deantie Page 267 Sees of Bishops translated from villages Page 271 Crueltie against Straungers Page 7 278. 284. Seruingmen Page 282 Strowde Page 290. 315 Sealing and signing Page 318 Socage tenure Page 9. 391 Sherif whereof it commeth Page 350 Sennocke Page 383 T Tithings howe they began Page 21 Tanet Page 78 Order of the Templers Page 132 Thomas Becket Tharchebishop Page 143 239 248. 255. 374. 377 Triall of right Page 178. 343 Tong Gastle Page 195 Tenham Page 197 Decay of Townes Page 236 Townes named see names Tunbridge Page 327 Theeues how suppressed Page 21 Torneament Page 347 Testament or last will. Page 356 W Wasseling cuppe Page 1â— Wryters of Kent by name Page 58 Winchelsey Page 94. 96 Lord Wardeins of the Portes by name Page 102 Walmere Page 118 William LongchaÌ„p the Bishop of Ely. Page 129 William Courtney Tharchebishop Page 139 Westenbangar Page 140 William Warham the Archebishop Page 151 Weald of Kent Page 167 Woole of England Page 198 Wantsume a riuer Page 97. 207 Wingham Page 211 Wapentakes Page 212 Wrotham Page 370 Wyngham Page 380 Watches at the Sea Page 160 Watling streete Page 213 Wye Page 228 Wrecke at the Sea. Page 228 Saint William of Rochester Page 301 Vniuersitie at Canterbury Page 233 Whoredome punished Page 180 Vagaboundes Page 21 Wager of Lawe Page 344 Y Yarmouthe Page 95 Yeoman whereof so called Page 10 Yeomanrie of Kent Page 10 Yenlade see Genlade Jmprinted at London for Rafe Newbery dwelling in Fleetestreate a litle aboue the Conduite Anno Domini 1576.