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A72509	A perambulation of Kent conteining the description, hystorie, and customes of that shyre. Collected and written (for the most part) in the yeare. 1570. by William Lambard of Lincolnes Inne Gent. and nowe increased by the addition of some things which the authour him selfe hath obserued since that time.	Lambarde, William, 1536-1601.	1576 (1576)	STC 15175.5; ESTC S124785	236,811	471

confesseth of the Kentish poultrie Parkes of fallow Déere and games of gray Conyes it maynteyneth many the one for pleasure and the other for profit as it may wel appeare by this that within memorie almost the one halfe of the first sorte be disparked and the number of warreyns continueth if it do not increase dayly As for red Déere and blacke Conyes it nourisheth them not as hauing no great walkes of wast grounde for the one and not tarying the tyme to rayse the gaine by the other for blacke conyes are kept partly for their skins which haue their season in Winter and Kent by the nearnesse to London hath so quicke market of yong Rabbets that it killeth this game chiefly in Summer There is no Mineral or other profit digged out of the belly of the earth here saue only that in certeine places they haue Mynes of Iron quarreys of pauing stone and pits of fat Marle The Sea and fresh waters yéelde good and wholesome fishes competently but yet neyther so muche in quantitie nor suche in varietie as some other coastes of the Realme do afoorde And here let vs for a season leaue the Sea and the Soyle and cast our eyes vpon the men The people of this countrie consisteth chieflly as in other countries also of the Gentrie and the yeomanrie of which the first be for the most parte 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gouernours and the other altogether 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gouerned whose possessions also were at the first distinguished by the names of knight fee and Gauelkinde that former being propre to the warriour and this latter to the husbandman But as nothing is more inconstant thē the estate that wee haue in lands and liuing if at the least I may call that an estate whiche neuer standeth Euen so long since these tenures haue ben so indifferētly mixed confounded in the hands of eche sorte that there is not now any note of differēce to be gathered by them The gentlemen be not héere throughout of so auncient stockes as else where especially in the partes nearer to London from whiche citie as it were from a certeine riche and wealthy séedplot Courtiers Lawyers Marchants be cōtinually translated do become new plants amongst them Yet be their reuenues greater then any where else whiche thing groweth not so muche by the quantitie of their possession or by the fertilitie of their soyle as by the benefit of the situation of the countrie it selfe whiche hath al that good neighbourhood that Marc. Cato and other olde authors in husbandrie require to a wel placed graunge that is to say the Sea the Riuer a populous citie and a well traded highway by the cōmodities wherof the superfluous fruites of the grounde be dearly sold and consequently the land may yéeld a greater rent These gentlemen be also for the most parte acquainted with good letters and especially trayned in the knowledge of the lawes They vse to manure some large portion of their owne territories as well for the maintenance of their families as also for their better increase in wealth So that they be well employed both in the publique seruice and in their own particular do vse hanking hunting and other disports rather for their recreation then for an occupation or pastime The yeomanrie or commmon people for so they be called of the Saxon word gemen which signifieth common is no where more free and ioily then in this shyre for besides that they them selues say in a clayme made by them in the time of King Edwarde the first that the cōmunaltie of Kent was neuer vanquished by the Conquerour but yéelded it selfe by composition And besides that Geruasius affirmeth that the forward in al battels belongeth to them by a certein préeminence in right of their manhood It is agréed by all men that there were neuer any bondmē or villaines as the law calleth thē in Kent Neither be they here so muche bounden to the gentrie by Copyhold or custumarie tenures as the inhabitantes of the westerne countries of the Realme be nor at all indaūgered by the féeble holde of tenant right which is but a discent of a tenancie at wil as the cōmon people in the Northren parts be for Copyhold tenure is rare in Kent and tenant right not heard of at al But in place of these the custome of Gauelkind preuayling euery where in manner euery man is a freeholder and hath some part of his own to liue vpon And in this their estate they please them selues and ioy excéedingly in so much as a man may find sundry yeomē although otherwise for wealth comparable with many of the gentle sort that will not yet for all that chaūge their condition nor desire to be apparayled with the titles of Gentrie Neither is this any cause of disdain or of alienation of the good myndes of the one sort from the other for no where else in al this realme is the commō people more willingly gouerned To be short they be most commonly ciuil iust bountiful so that the estate of the old franklyns yeomen of England eyther yet liueth in Kent or else it is quite dead departed out of the realme for altogether As touching the artificers of this shire they be either such as labour in the artes that be handmaidens to husbandry or els workers in stone Iron woodfuel or else makers of coloured woollē clothes in which last feat they excell as from whome is drawne both sufficient stoare to furnishe the weare of the best sort of our owne nation at home and great plentie also to be trāsported to other forreine countries abroad Thus muche I had summarily to say of the condition of the countrie and countrie men Nowe therfore God assisting myne enterprise I will goe in hande with the hystorie Wée read in the first booke of Moses that after suche time as the order of nature was destroyed by the generall floude and repaired again by the mercy of almighty God the whole earth was ouerspred in processe of time by the propagation of mankinde that came of the loines of Sem Cham and Iaphet By which authoritie we are throughly certified that all the nations of the worlde must of necessitie deriue their Pedegrées from the cuntrie of Chaldee or some place nighe vnto it where the Arke of Noah rested And therfore I will not here eyther doubt or debate to and fro as Caesar Cornel. tacit Polydore and others doe whether the first inhabitantes of this Ilande were Aliunde aduecti and aduenae that is translated and brought out of some other countrie to dwell here or no Or yet affirme as the same Caesar doth that some or as Diodor. Siculus writeth that all the Britanes weare indigenae the naturall borne people of that countrie and that ab origine euen from the first beginning for to take the one way of these or the other would but leade vs to

whiche buylding be yet apparent to the eye There is extant also a faire paued cawsey some myles of length leading from Canterbury toward the same Porte and they of the Towne enioye the Priuileges of the Fiue Portes and doe reserue a brasen Horne and a Mace as ensignes of Castle Garde and administration of Iustice in olde time exercised there Finally they affirme that the water forsaking them by litle and litle decay and solitude came at the length vpon the place For whereas at the first ships were accustomed to discharge at Lymne the Sea afterwarde either hindered by the sandes or not helped by the fresh water shortned his fludde and caused the Merchaunts to vnlade at Westhithe Neither did it yet ascend so highe any long season but by continuall decreasings withdrew it self at the length compelled them to lay their wares on land at this Hithe whiche nowe standeth in déede but yet without any great benefit of the Sea for asmuche as at this day the water floweth not to the Towne by halfe a myle and more These coniectures reports be resonable but yet as I am sure that they be vtterly at variaunce with that opinion whiche Leland would plante of the present course of the Riuer of Rother as wee will shewe in Newendene when wee shall come to the place so am I in doubt also what meanes may be found to reconcile them with the relations of Asserus Meneuensis Henrie Huntingdon our olde Saxon Chronicles al which séeme to affirme that Apledore stoode vpon the water Lymen whiche if it be so then I sée not the places considered howe this Towne of Lymne could euer be situated vpō the same Riuer Their woordes in effect be these In the yeare after Christ 893. the great armie of the Danes lefte the East part of Fraunce and came to Boloigne from thence with 250. vessels sayled into the mouthe of the Riuer Lymen in Kent whiche floweth from the great woode that is called Andred Thence they towed vp their boates foure miles into that wood from the mouthe of the Riuer where they found a Castle halfe built and a fewe Countrie men in it all whiche together with the Village they destroyed and fortified at a place called Apultree By which it may in deed at the first face séeme that the Riuer Lymen led from Apledore to the Sea came not by Lymne but yet that I may say somewhat for Talbot these woordes do not necessarily enforce so muche for that they be not that they towed their ships vp to Apledore but foure miles to the woode and builded at Apledore whiche they might well doe although they had come in at Hithe To the whiche sense also the woordes of Asserus Meneuensis whiche liued in that verie time do giue somewhat the more place and libertie whē he saith They towed vp their ships foure miles into the wood where they threwe downe a certaine Castle halfe built in whiche a fewe Churles of the Countrie were placed the Towne also they raised an other stronger in a place called Apledore For these words an other in a place strōger called Apledore séem to importe that Apledore was not the Towne foure miles within the Riuers mouthe whiche they pulled downe but some other Whiche as for the distance it might happely be Lymne that we haue in hand so bicause there is no apparant memoriall of any suche course of the Riuer I will not affirme it to haue béene the same but referre the decision of the whole controuersie to the learned and inquisitiue reader that will bestowe his labour to trie and trace out the very trueth Courtopstrete commonly but truly Court at Strete THe enemie of mankinde and Prince of darkenesse Sathan the Deuill perceiuing that the glorious and bright shining beames of Gods holy truthe and gladsome Gospell had pearced the mistie thicke cloudes of ignorance shewed not onelie to the people of Germanie but to the inhatants of this Islande also the true way of their deliueraunce from damnable errour idolatrie and Popishe superstition And fearing that if he did not nowe bestir him busily he was in peril to lose infinite numbers of his subiects and consequently no small parte of that his spirituall kingdome practized most carefully in all places with Monkes Friars Priestes Nonnes and the whole rablement of his Religious armie for the holding of simple soules in wonted obedience and the vpholding of his vsurped Empire in the accustomed glory opinion and reuerence And for this purpose amongst sundry fleightes set to shewe in sundry places about the latter end and declination of that his reigne one was wrought by the Holy maide of Kent in a Chappel at this towne in deuise as malicious in déede as mischeuous and in discouerie as notorious as any other whatsoeuer But bycause the midst and end of this Pageant is yet fresh in the knowledge of many on liuing manifested to al men in bookes abroade And for that the beginning thereof is knowne to verie fewe and likely in time to be hid from all if it be not by some way or other continued in mynde I will laboure only to bewray the same and in suche sorte as the mainteiners thereof them selues haue committed it to writing For not long since it chaunced me to sée a litle Pamphlet conteining foure and twentie leaues penned I wote not by what doltishe dreamer printed by Robert Redman Intituled A marueilous woorke of late done at Court of Streete in Kent and published as it pretendeth to the deuout people of that time for their spirituall consolation in whiche I founde the very first beginning to haue beene as followeth About the time of Easter in the seuentéenthe yeare of the Reigne of King Henrie the eight it happened a certaine maiden named Elizabethe Barton then seruaunt to one Thomas Kob of the Parishe of Aldington twelue myles distant from Canterbury to be touched with a great infirmitie in her body whiche did ascend at diuers times vp into her throte and swelled greatly during the time whereof she séemed to be in grieuous paine in so muche as a man would haue thought that she had suffred the panges of deathe it selfe vntill the disease descended and fell downe into the bodie againe Thus she continued by fittes the space of seuen monethes and more and at the laste in the Moneth of Nouember at whiche time also a yong Childe of her Maisters lay desperatly sicke in a cradle by her she being vexed with the former disease asked with great pangs and groning whether the Childe were yet departed this life or noe And when the women that attended vpon them bothe in their sickenesse aunswered no she replied that it should anone whiche woord was no sooner vttered but the childe fetched a great sighe and withall the soule departed out of the body This her diuination and foretelling was the first matter that moued her hearers to admiration But after this in sundry

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 argumēts 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 accōpted 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. Th●●ebrugge corruptly for tonebrycge that is the Bridge ouer Tone but if it be truly written tunbrycge thē 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 holdē 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