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MEMORIALS OF THE ROYAL VlLLE
and Parish of Eastry,

IN THE COUNTY OF KENT.

by

William Francis Shaw, M.A.,
Gonville and Cams College, Cambridge,
Vicar of Eaftry.

" Walk about Sion and go round about her : tell the Towers thereof.
Mark ye well her Bulwarks, confider her Palaces : that ye may tell it to
the generation following." — Psa. xlviii. 12, 13.

LONDON:
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.

MDCCCLXX.

TO
HIS GRACE
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND MOST REVEREND
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL,
LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY,
PATRON OF THE VICARAGE OF EASTRY,
Cfot'ss Wolumtis
(BY HIS GRACE'S KIND PERMISSION)
MOST RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED.

Preface,

THE following pages, commenced for my own information, fhortly
after coming to Eaftry, and continued as the occupation of
leifure hours, were not originally intended for publication. But the
indulgent approval of my friends, and the ftrongly exprefled wifh of fome
of them, that the information thus collected mould be made more readily
acceffible, and rendered more permanent than it was poffible for it to be
in MS., have induced me to place it in the hands of the printer.
I may briefly fay then that, in the enfuing chapters, I have endeavoured
to gather together fuch particulars relating to the Parifh of Eaftry, as are
of general intereft, or as may be ufeful for reference in time to come.
And, in fo doing, I have largely availed myfelf of the MS. collections of
William Boteler, Efqre., the contemporary of Hafted, the Kentifh hif-
torian, who derived a large portion of his information about Eaftry, from
the fame fource. Thefe collections, contained in three volumes diftin-
guifhed by the letters A, B, C, have been moft kindly placed at my diipofal
by the Mifles Boteler, of Brook Street ; to whom my beft thanks are due
both for this act of kindnefs and alfo for much other valuable affift an ce,
rendered to me in the progrefs of the work. Mr. Boteler's information
has been brought down to our own times, and has been fupplemented in
not a few particulars, as for example, in the defcriptions of the Frefcoes,
and of the Dominical Circle, which are taken from two papers on thefe
fubjects by Wefton Styleman Walford, Efqre., F.S.A. ; to whom I am

ii PREFACE.
much indebted for his kind and ready permiffion to infert them. To Wil
liam White, Efqre., F.S.A., I offer my warm thanks for having read
through the chapter on " The Church" and given me feveral valuable
fuggeftions ; as alfo to Lieut.-Col. Rae, of Walton Houfe, for information
concerning the Bells and Bellfounders.
Chapter VI. on " The Reclors, Vicars, Chaplains, and &trates," gives the
refult of a diligent fearch amongft the Regifters in the Archiepifcopal
Library at Lambeth Palace ; where I have experienced great kindnefs and
courtefy from all the officials, elpecially from S. W. Kerfhaw, Efqre., M.A.,
the Librarian, to whom I return my moft fincere acknowledgments. To
the fkilful pencil of Mifs Grimaldi, of Hernden Houfe, I am indebted for
the very accurate delineation of the Roman and Saxon remains ; to
Arthur Baker, Efqre., for his drawing of the interior of the Church ; to
my friend and namefake, the Rev. William Stokes Shaw, M.A., for the
Chronological Table of Events, &c. ; and to other friends, for information
and affiftance, hints and fuggeftions, without which these " Memorials "
would have been more incomplete than they are. In an undertaking of
this kind, carried on from time to time, amidft many interruptions and the
neceffary preffure of parochial engagements, it would be hardly poffible
that fome miftakes fhould not have crept in, or fome omiffions have been
overlooked. For thefe I crave a kindly indulgence.
Such, however, as it is, I now fend forth this volume in the words of
Geoffry Whitney : —
'.' Per ufe with heede, then frendlie iudge and blaming rafhe refraine
So maifl thou reade vnto thy good and /halt requite my paine." W. F. S.
Eaftry Vicarage, 19 Aug., 1870.

CJje Contents*

Preface ....
The Contents
Lift of Illuftrations
Lift of Subfcribers
The Early History of Eastry
The Bounds; or, a Perambulation of the Parish
The Church ; Dominical Circle, Frescoes, &c.
The Monuments in the Church and Churchyard
The Tower and Bells .
The Rectors, Vicars, -Chaplains, and Curates
The Clerks and Sextons
VIII. The Registers ....
IX. The Schools .
The Parochial Charities
Appendix .....
Chronological table of Events
Index .....

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ii.iii.
iv.I. II.
III.
IVV.
VI.
VII.

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Hist of JHUistrattons.

i. The Church from the South -eaft
2. The centre medallion Frefco — a lily — the emblem of the B. V.
Mary, Patron Saint of the Church
3 & 4. Antiquities found at Eaftry
5. The Interior of the Church
6. The Dominical Circle ....
7. The Frefcoes over the Chancel Arch
8. The Ground Plan of the Church
9. The Tower from the Weft
10. The Vicarage .....
11. The Clerk's Houfe.
12. The Schools .....
13. The Houfes of Goddard's Charity .
14. Mr. Greville's Almfhoufes .

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Alford, The Very Reverend Henry, D.D. ; The Deanery, Canterbury.
Bateman, The Reverend Canon, M.A.,R.D. ; The Vicarage, Margate.
Bellamy, The Reverend J. W., B.D. ; Sellindge Vicarage, Hythe.
Blifs, The Reverend J. W., B.A. ; BetteJJianger Reclory, Sandwich.
Boteler, Captain J. H., R.N. ; Cranford, Hounflow.
Boteler, Mifs C. G. ; Eaftry.
Boteler, Mifs Catherine ; Eaftry.
Boteler, The Mifles ; Dover.
Bradnack, S. W., Efq. ; Sutherland Houfe, Surbiton.
Brooke, Mifs ; Walmer.
Brooke, F. C, Efq. ; Ufford, Szffolk.
Campbell-Colquhoun, A. C, Efq., J.P. ; Chartwell, Weflerham.
Camden, William, Efq. ; Anderida, Midhurfl. 2 Copies.
Cafberd-Boteler, W. J., Efq. ; Taplow, Co. Bucks.
Caftle, Robert, Efq. ; Eaftry.
Chichefter, The Rev. A. Manners, B.A. ; St. Mary's Vicarage, Sand
wich.
Coleman, George, Efq. ; Eaftry.
Croafdill, Mrs. ; Weftgate Houfe, Canterbttry.
Deane, J. Parker, Efq., D.C.L. ; Weftbourne Terrace, London.
Devifon, Mr. R. ; Eaftry.
Drew, The Rev. ProfefTor, M.A. ; King's College, London.
Fitzwalter, Lord ; Goodneftone Park.
Furley, Robert, Efq., AfJiford.
Gardner, George, Efq. ; Eaftry Court. 2 Copies.
Gloflbp, Mifs ; Lfleworth.
Grimaldi, Mrs. ; Hernden Houfe, Eaftry.
Harnett, John, Gent. ; Eaftry.
Harvey, John James, Efq., J.P. ; Eaftry.
Harvey, R. Springett, Efq. ,-25, Nottingham Place, London.
Hatfeild, Charles, Efq. ; Hartfdown, near Margate.

vi LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS.
Hilton, S. Mufgrave, Efq., late High Sheriff; Bramling Wingham.
Hoile, Mr. Valentine ; St. Bartholomew's, Sandwich.
Holmes, The Rev. J. R., M.A. ; Bio Norton Rectory, Co. Norfolk.
Hughes, William, Efq. ; Margate.
Iggulden, J., Efq. ; Deal.
James, Sir Walter C, Bart. ; Bettejhanger.
Jenkyns, The Rev. Charles, B.A. ; Tuckingmill, Cornwall.
Jenky ns, Francis, Efq. ; Sidmouth, Devon.
Kemplay, Mifs ; Leeds, Co. York.
King, Mifs ; Gower Street, London.
Knocker, Edward, Efq. ; Dover.
Lake, Benj. G., Efq. ; Taywell, Goudhurjl.
Latham, Mrs. A. P. ; Richmond, Co. Surrey.
Leggatt, R S, Efq., M.R.C.S. ; Eaftry,
Mann, Mifs ; Eaftry.
Maugham, The Rev. H. M., M.A. ; Weft Farleigh.
Morley, James H., Efq. ; Blackheath.
Mufgrave, The Venerable Archdeacon, D.D. ; Halifax, Co. York.
Parkes, Mrs. ; Sydney Cottage, near Southampton.
Pearce, Mifs ; Eaftry.
Rae, Lieut-Col. James A. ; Eaftry. 3 Copies.
Reid, James, Efq. ; Bridge Street, Canterbury.
Rice, Edward, Efq., J.P. ; Dane Court, Sandwich.
Sayer, Commander G, R.N., J.P. .- Eaftry.
Shaw, William Flamank, Efq. ; Bodmin, Cornwall. 2 Copies.
Shaw, The Rev. William S., M.A. ; Beechen Cliff Villa, Bath.
Shaw, The Rev. John, M.A. ; St. Margaret's, Weftminfter.
Smallfield, Mr. J. S. ; Little Queen Street, Holborn.
Smith, The Rev. Sydney, M.A. ; Worth Vicarage.
Solly, Edward, Efq. ; Sandecotes, Co. Dorfet.
Spong, Mifs ; Rochefter.
Taylor, Mrs. Jackfon ; The Grove, Garlinge, near Margate.
Toker, Mifs ; Eaftry, 2 Copies.
Turner, Mrs. Charles ; Eaftry. 2 Copies.
Vickers, The Rev. V. S. ; Debiting.
Weft, F. G , Efq. ; H or ham Hall, Thaxted, Effex.
Winn, Charles, Efq. ; Noftel Priory, Wakefield.

Cije Carlg ftfetorg of ©astrg.

CHAP. I.

" If man be cut off from the knowledge of the pafi, he becomes indifferent to the
future, and thenceforward finks into the rudenefs and ferocity of the fenfual life. —
Isaac Taylor.

EASTRY is the name of a parifh in the hundred of Eaftry, and Lathe
of S. Auguftine, in the county of Kent.
Speaking ecclefiaftically it is in the rural deanery of Sandwich, and in
the archdeaconry and diocefe of Canterbury.
The name Eaftry — which has been varioufly fpelled Eftre, Eftree,
Eftrei, Eftrey, Eftry, Eftrye, Eaftrie, Eaftire, Eafterige, Eaftereye,
Eafterye, Eaftry e — was originally given, fo Lambarde tells us, to our
town and parifh, in order to diftinguifh them from Weflrye, commonly
called Rye, near Winchelfea, in Suffex. But others derive the word from
the Saxon, and interpret it as meaning below the side water.
The village, which is fituated on riling ground, two and a half miles
from the ancient town and port of Sandwich, five from Deal, nine
from Dover, and twelve from Canterbury — was, in olden time, a place
of confiderable importance and repute.
Long before the coming of the Saxons, the Danes, or the Normans,
5t »

2 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
into Britain; when Thanet was ftill an ifland, and fhips and galleys
coming from France failed paft Sandwich and Reculver into the Thames
and thence to London ; when the country was moftly covered with denfe
forefts, which afforded fhelter to bears, wolves, wild cats, and foxes, and amid
whofe leafy glades the red deer and the wild ox roamed at will ; when
the beacon light ftill burnt in the Roman pharos at Dover (Dubris) ;
already was there at Eaftry a "clearing" amidft the foreft, where had
fprung up a little fettlement of huts, through which ran, ftraight as an
arrow, that Roman road, which may even now be traced, almoft unin
terruptedly from Woodnefborough well nigh to the caftle at Dover.
Whether the early inhabitants of this place were attracted hither by
the medicinal properties and healing virtues of that mineral fpring, in
after days dedicated to S. Ivo, which cannot now be traced, and of which
the tradition has alone come down to us in books, it is impoffible to fay.
At all events, whatever value the Britons and the Romano-Britifh inha
bitants may have fet upon this S. Ivo's well, the Romans muft have been
well acquainted with the woody eminences and pure invigorating air of
Eaftry. And we may well fuppofe that the officers of the legions ftationed at
the camp at Richborough (Rutupi^e) often came hither to fpend a day
away from the noife and buftle of the camp, or ftopped here to refrefh
themfelves as they travelled down along the paved military road to
Dover. But, be this as it may, the fact of there having been a Roman fettle
ment here is proved by the Roman graves, containing human bones,
weapons, and ornaments, which have been difcovered, from time to time,
in that triangle of ground, in the parifh, which is formed by the Lynch,
" the Five Bells," and Buttfole Pond. The firft recorded difcovery of
thefe remains took place a.d. 1792, and the account of it will be beft

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 3
given in Mr. Boteler's own words: "In March laft (1792), in digging
a cellar in the garden of a cottage belonging to me, eaftward of the
highway leading from Eaftry Crofs to Butfole, I difcovered the ancient
burying ground of this neighbourhood. I caufed feveral graves to be
opened, and found, with the fkeletons, fibulas, beads, knives, umbones of
fhields, &c, in one an elegant glafs veffel. From other fkeletons that
have been dug up in the gardens nearer the Crofs, I am of opinion that
they extended on this fide the road up to the Crofs, now covered
pretty much with houfes. I mean at a future time to purfue the difcovery.
The tumuli that formerly covered them have long fince been levelled by
the plough. The graves were very thick, in rows parallel to each other,
in a direction from eaft to weft " {Botel. MSS., vol. Cp. 164).
Since Mr. Boteler's day other fimilar remains have been brought to
light at different times ; and, about the year 1 860 or 1 861, in the making
of some alterations in and around Southbank, fkeletons were difcovered
lying in clay in the bed of chalk.
Several ofthe objects difcovered by Mr. Boteler, in a.d. 1792, as well as
other fimilar remains — Roman and Saxon — found on the fame property,
and near the fame fpot, are reprefented in the accompanying plates. They
may be defcribed as follows :
Nos. 1 and 2. Coarfe brown earthen pots with more or lefs of narrow
moulding about them.
Nos. 3, 4 and 5. Portions of feveral Saxon veffels made of thin glafs
of greeniih colour : each veffel or vafe having apparently had feveral
handles, which are twifted. Vafes fimilar to the above are figured in the
Archczologia Cantiana, vol. vi.
No. 6. A bronze fibula or brooch — full fize.
No. 7. A fmaller bronze fibula — full fize.

4 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
No. 8. A fibula of filver gilt, with inlays of red and blue enamel — full
fize. No. 9. A firing of beads of various kinds.
No. 10. A firing of amber beads — much worn.
No. 1 1. A firing of pearls and bugles.
No. 12. A large glafs bead of conical fhape, with internal pattern of
twilled glafs.
"Almoft all the beads, particularly the larger ones of amber, &c, and
the fmall ones, bugles, &c, round the neck, found in a grave, the bones
full large for a woman, though probably one."*
There were alfo knives, umbones of fhields, circular pieces of brafs,
and fome other fragments difcovered — fome of which I have been unable
to identify, whilft others, though capable of being identified, are never-
thelefs in fuch a decayed and crumbling condition as to be beyond the
reach of the limner's art.
In Anglo-Saxon times Eaftry would appear to have been a place
of fome fize and much importance. Indeed, the fact that the kings
of Kent had a palace, and held their court here, would naturally caufe
a considerable population to affemble in the neighbourhood of the
court, and increafe the prosperity of the town.
During the reign of Ethelbert the 5th King of Kent, Chriftianity,
which had been driven into the remote wilds and faftneffes of Wales and
Cornwall, was revived by the miffion of S. Auguftine, the monk.
In a.d. 664 Egbert, the fon of Erconbyrht, feventh king of Kent, fuc
ceeded to his father's kingdom, and took up his refidence at the royal palace
at Eaftry. This palace was probably fituated on much the fame fpot as that
now occupied by Eaftry Court.
* A memorandum in Mr. Boteler's handwriting.

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MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 5
At this place, and at this time, there lived two young noblemen, named
Ethelbert and Etheldred, coufins of the king, who lived in the palace, ate
at his table, and were brought up with him. Thefe noble youths were
adorned with many virtues, and became noted for their learning, their
feats of activity and ftrength, and their court-like manners, " fo that they
gave to all well-difpofed perfons and louers of vertue, great expectation
that they would become at the length worthie of much eflimation and
honour : and, on the other fide, they drew vpon them the feare, mifliking
and bitter hatred of the naughtie, wicked and malicious fort."* Now,
there was among the royal houfehold " a certain man of fin and fon of
perdition, a limb of Satan and of the houfe of the devil," -f- who moved
by that envy which the wicked ever feel towards the good, fought
occafion againft them, and ceafed not to accufe them untruly to the
king, as alfo of other matters, fo efpecially of ambitious defigns upon
his throne and kingdom. One day Thunner, for fuch was his name,
fuggefted to the king that he fhould either banifh the young princes from
his dominions, or be content to wink at the matter, fhould any of his
friends make away with them. The king, though in words he repudiated
the idea, feems, neverthelefs, by his manner, to have been not wholly
averfe to the fuggeftion. At all events, Thunner [or Thunur, as Simeon
of Durham has it, and which he explains to mean "Thunder] watched
his opportunity, flew the young men, " and buried their bodies in the
king's hal vnder the cloth of his eftate." % But " murder will out," and
this was not long concealed, " for in the dead of night there appeared
* Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent, ed. 1596: Eaftrie.
f Simeon of Durham : in Stevenfon's Church Hiftorians of England, vol. iii
part 2.
% Lambarde.

6 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
 a glittering pillar of light fhining over the hall of the
king's palace."* The ftrange illumination firft aroufed the houfehold, and
then affrighted them. The fhrieks of the fervants awakened the king, who,
as foon as he faw the myfterious light, " was touched with the confcience of
the murther, whereunto hee had a little before in hart contented. "-J- Calling
in hafte for Thunner, he ftraightly examined him as to what had become of
the royal youths Ethelbert and Etheldred, and on learning the fad truth, he
became moft forrowful, charging himfelf with the whole crime of their
death. Forthwith he fent for Deodatus, the good archbifhop, that he might
learn from him how he might expiate his guilt. The archbifhop advifed
him to incoffin the bodies and fend them to be buried in Chrift Church,
Canterbury ; but, when they attempted to go thither, no force availed to
move the hearfe. They next bethought them of S. Auguftine's, but ftill
the hearfe could not be moved. But when, at laft they agreed to lead
it to the monaftry of Watrine, then it moved as lightly as if nothing at
all had been within it.
Philipott, in his Villare Cantianum, p. 148, fays, " there was an ancient
tradition that that altar-tomb, which was placed at the eaft end of the
little chappel, which belonged to Eaftry Court, was the fepulchre wherein
the reliques of the two princes (mentioned before, to have been mur
dered) were enfhrined : nay, it went farther, and did affirm that there was
a light hovered conftantly about that tomb, as if the clearneffe of the
innocence of thofe who numbered under that repository could not have
been manifefted better then [fie] by the beams of fuch a perpetuated
irradiation." To thofe who wifh for a detailed account of the murder of Ethelbert
and Etheldred I would recommend the chronicle of Simeon of Durham,
* Simeon of Durham : in Stevenfon. -f- Lambarde.

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and Lambarde, who profeffes to quote William of Malmsbury and Matthew
of Wefiminfier. After much fearch I have, however, been unable to
verify his references, and think that he may allude to Simeon of Durham.
My apology for having dwelt at fuch length upon this event is, that in
many writers, e.g., Lambarde, the whole hiftory of our parifh is fummed
up in the narration of this fingular occurrence. It fhows, at leaft, what
a ftrong hold the flory had upon the popular mind.
The prosperity, and confequent importance of Eaftry, would feem to
have reached their zenith in the early Anglo-Saxon times, when the kings
of Kent resided here. For after the confolidation of the feveral indepen
dent kingdoms into one monarchy under Egbert, in a.d. 827, Eaftry gra
dually ceafed to be the residence of royalty until, in a.d. 979, the reigning
fovereign beftowed his palace at Eaftry, and the manor pertaining to it,
upon the monks of Chrift Church. And fo it came to pafs, that the
court being no longer held here, and the town being lefs reforted to
than formerly, its population diminifhed, and its profperity and renown
decreafed. The Archbifhops of Canterbury would appear to have become pof
feffed of Eaftry in very early times, for, in a.d. 811, we find Arch
bifhop Wilfrid exchanging the ville of Eaftria for Burne or Bourne,
fince called Bifhopfbourne, from this circumftance.*
Again, in a.d. 844, in the time of Archbifhop Ceolnoth, Duke
Ofwolf gave fome lands in Eaftrie to the prior and convent of Chrift
Church, Canterbury ;t but thefe lands may have been in the hundred of
Eaftry, and not in the ville or parifh.
In a.d. 979 King Ethelred increafed the church's eftates here by giving
* Dugdale, Monafl. Angl., vol. i., p. 96.
f Dugdale, Monaft. Angl., vol. i., p. 89.

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Sandwich for the clothing of the monks (" ad veftitum monachorum ")
and Eftrey " ad cibum monachorum ;" that is fay, for the maintenance of
the kitchen. The following is the charter by which the king confirmed
his gift :
" Anno dominice incarnationis dcccclxxix Ego iEgelredus rex gratia dei
totius britannie monarcha pro falute anime mee concedo ecclefie chrifti in
dorobernia terras juris mei s. sandwich et eftree ad opus monachorum
in eadem ecclefia deo fervientium, liberas ab omni feculari fervitio et
fifcali tributo, exceptis expeditione, pontium et caftrorum conflructione.
Quisquis hanc meam largifluam munificentiam violare prefumpferit cum
reprobis in die judicii a finiftris chrifti collocatus accipiat fententiam
dampnationis cum diabolo et angelis ejus."''
Tranflation of the foregoing :
" In the year of our Lord's incarnation 979, I, Ethelred, King,
Monarch of all Britain, for the fafety of my foul, give to Chrift's
Church, Canterbury, the Lands of my Right, to wit, in Sandwich and Eftree
to the ufe ofthe monks ferving God in the fame church free from all fecular
fervice and fifcal tribute ; [military] expeditions, and the conftruction of
bridges and camps, only excepted. Whoever fhall prefume to violate this
my bountiful munificence let him be placed with the wicked at the Day
of Judgment at the left hand of Chrift, and receive the fentence of dam
nation with the Devil and his angels."
Concerning the original of the foregoing charter of King Ethelred,
{Botel. MSS.,vol. A., p. 44) remarks : "This very curious deed is preferved
in the archives of the library of the College of S. John the Baptift, at the
beginning of a collection of very ancient manufcripts in Latin (fhelf 2, No.
* The above, although given in Dugdale, Monaft. Angl, vol. i. p. in, is, neverthe-
lefs here extrafted from Mr. Boteler's MSS., as being apparently more accurate.

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40) : it is written in two colurn as, the Latin on one fide and a Saxon
version on the other, with the figure of King iEgelred prefixed.
A facfimile engraving was made of it, 1754, at the expenfe of Richard
Rawlinfon, LL.D., F.R.S., and A.S."
We now come to Norman times.
Philipott, in his Villare Cantianum (p. 148) fays: " In the time of
Edward the Confeffor this mannor was held by the monks of Chrift-
Church under the Notion of Seven Plough-Lands, nor was it reprefented
under a leffe Bulke in the reign of William the Conquerour, and was rated
in the Whole in Doomfday Book, at Thirty-Eight pounds Ten fhillings and
Threepence." Neverthelefs, Doomfday Book expreflly flates that the archbifhop himfelf
held Eftrei : but this would appear to refer to the Rectory, and not to the
Manor. But before proceeding to give the extract, which relates to our
own parifh, it may not be wholly uninteresting to fome of my readers
to have a fhort account of that very ancient, remarkable, and valuable
record — the Doomfday Book. It contains the refults of a furvey made
by order of King William, the Norman, about the year a.d. 1086.
For the execution of this furvey, the king's justiciaries were to go into
every county and " enquire into the name of the place, who held it in the
time of King Edward, who was the prefent poffeffor, how many hides
in the manor, how many carrucates in demesne, how many homagers,
how many villans, how many cotarii, how many fervi, what free men, how
1
many tenants in focage, what quantity of wood, how much meadow and
pafture, what mills and fifhponds, how much added or taken away, what
the grofs value in King Edward's time, what the prefent value, and how
much each free man or foch man had or has. All this was to be triply
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eflimated : firft as the eftate was held in the time of the ConfefTor ; then
as it was beflowed by King William ; and thirdly, as its valuation flood
at the formation of the furvey."
The following defcription of Eaftry occurs in Doomfday Book under
the general heading " Terra Monachm Archiepi," i.e., " The Land of
the Monks of the Archbifhop."
(i) In Latin : with the original contractions.
" In Left de Eftreia. In Eftrei Hvnd. Ipfe archieps. ten. Eftrei. P. vii.
folins fe defd. Tra. e  In dnio funt. iii. car. et lxxii uilfi
cu .xxii. bord. hnt. xxiiii. car. Ibi .i. molin et dimid de xxx folid, et .iii.
falina? de .iiii. folid. et xviii. ac pti Silua .x. pore."*
(ii) Tranflation of the above.
" In the Lathe of Eaftry. In Eaftry Hundred. The archbifhop himfelf
holds Eaftry. It was taxed at 7 fulings.f The [arable] land is
. In the demefne there are 3 carucates % and 72 villeins with 22
borderers§ having 24 carucates. There is one mill and a half of 30 fhil-
lings, and 3 fait pits of 4 fhillings and 1 8 acres of meadow. Wood for
[the pannage of] 10 hogs."
* See Domefday Book of Kent — photozincographic facfimile, p. ix. : alfo Halted,
vol. iv. ¦f Concerning the word fiding or fwollyng, Du Cange ftates that it was a Kentifh
term for carruca, a carucate or plough land.
| Dr. Deering, in his Hiftorical Account of Nottingham (Introd. p. 8, note b),
thus explains the term carucate : " Carucat with the Normans is the fame as family
manfe or hide of the Saxons, it is at a medium computed 100 acres, fix fcore to the
100, of arable land, together with pafture and meadow, with barns, ftables, and dwel
lings, for fuch a number of men and beafts as were neceffary to manage fo much land.
But as fome foil is lighter and fome ftiffer, fo the quantity may be more or lefs, and
therefore by it is generally underftood, as much land as, with one plough and beafts
fufficient, could be tilled in one year."
§ Borderers or borders, our modern " boarders," were bondfmen, whofe food
was provided for them by their lord : hence the term.

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From the above flatement we may make a rough guefs at the popula
tion of Eaftry in the thofe days. For taking the number of villeins and
borders ; and multiplying by 3 (inftead of 5, in order to allow of fome
being unmarried) to arrive at the grofs population, i.e., men, women, and
children, we have the following refult, viz. :
Villani or villeins = 72
Bordarii or borders = 22
Male population = 94
And 94 X 3 = 282 ; or, in round numbers, 300, which we fhall not
be far wrong in accepting as the number of our population in or about
the year a.d. 1086. For further and more recent particulars respecting
the population of our parifh, fee under " The Bounds."
A hundred years later, viz., in the time of Thomas a Becket (a.d.
1 1 62-1 174) Eaftry again comes into notice; for the Court Lodge be
longing to the prior and convent of Chrift Church was a very favourite
refort of that bold and unflinching Archbifhop of the Church, and martyr
in her caufe. Hither he came in his flight from Northampton, in a.d.
1 1 64, and here he remained concealed for eight days, until, on the 1 oth
November, he embarked in a fifhing boat at Sandwich, and landed the
fame evening at Gravelines.* In this houfe, now called Eaftry Court, tra
dition affirms that there was a small fecret chamber, communicating with
the parifh church, in fuch a way that the archbifhop was able to attend
the celebration of the Holy Eucharift, and to give the final benediction at

* " At Lincoln he took the difguife of a monk, dropped down the Witham to a
hermitage in the fens belonging to the Ciftercians of Sempringham ; thence by crofs
roads and chiefly by night, he found his way to Eftrey about five miles from Deal, a
Manor belonging to Chrift Church in Canterbury. He remained there a week. On
All Souls' Day he went on board a boat juft before morning, and by the evening
he reached the coaft of Flanders." (Milman's Lat. Chriftianity, vol. v., p. 64).

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the conclufion of the liturgy, unknown to the congregation, or at leaft
unrecognifed by them.
On his return to England, in a.d. i 170, he landed at Sandwich, where
the common people of the neighbourhood, including doubtlefs many of
the inhabitants of our own parifh, received him with great joy.
About the year a.d. i i 80 the parfonage of Eaftry was given to the
monks of Chrifl Church, for the ufe and maintenance of the Almonry, by
Archbifhop Richard (a.d. 1174-1185) ; but was taken away from them
by his fucceffor Baldwin (a.d. i i 85-1 193) in a very few years after. For
165 years the parfonage, thus unjuftly wrefledfrom the prior and convent,
continued in the poffeffion of the archbifhops until a.d. 1365, when Arch
bifhop Simon Iflip (a.d. 1349- 1366) reftored it to the monks on receiving
from them theadvowfons of three churches, viz., S. Dunftans, S. Pancras,
and All Saints, in Bread Street, London ; but he dying the very next
year the arrangement of the whole was finally fettled by Archbifhop
Simon Langham (a.d. 1 366-1 368), in a.d. 1367. For this Inftitution
and Endowment of the Vicarage, see Appendix.
In a.d. 1275 Ofwald de Eaftria, whom we may fuppofe from his name
to have been a native of our parifh, was appointed abbot of the monaf-
tery of Faverfham by the Archbifhop of Canterbury (Kilwardby, a.d.
1273-1279).* In a.d. 1285 Henry de Eaftria, a native of this our parifh, was elected
to the high office of prior of the convent of Chrifl Church, Canterbti-ry,
and proved himfelf in every way fitted for that arduous and refponfible
pofition. He was a man of Angular prudence, well learned in Holy Scripture,
and moft diligent in the management of the affairs of the Church, to which
* Taken from the Regifters or other MSS. at Lambeth, though there is no refer
ence to the exact paffage in my note book.

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he was a confiderable benefactor. He difcharged the convent of a debt of
3000 marks = ,£2000 : a fiim much larger in thofe days than in our own.
He alfo caufed all, or nearly all, the domeftic chapels on the manors
belonging to the prior and convent to be rebuilt, as alfo the butteries. The
remains of the domeftic chapel at Eaftry Court may ftill be feen. But
its ufe has long fince been changed from things spiritual to things temporal,
for it is now a part of the kitchen !
At Canterbury, Henry de Eaftria fpent nearly ^900 in repairing the
choir and chapter houfe {Dugdale, Monaft. Anglican., vol. i., p. 112). He
alfo built or repaired many parts of the priory. He caufed an exact
account to be taken of the lands, income, treafures, veftments, plate and
ornaments of the church, and was himfelf a very great benefadlor to it in
plate, jewels, veftments, and books. To thofe who are curious in fuch
matters, and wifh for further information respecting our prior, I may men
tion two MSS., one in the Britifh Mufeum (Cottonian Library, Galba
E. 4), and the other in the library at Lambeth Palace (MS. No. 582,
art. 157), which relate to Henry of Eaftry, but are fomewhat beyond the
limit of thefe pages. This good man at length fell afleep in Chrift, at the
time of the celebration of the Holy Eucharift, being of the advanced age
of 92 years.
Some time before a.d. 1290, another native of this parifh, viz., Sir
Robert de Efire was rector of the parifh of Henley-upon-Thames. And
it was during his incumbency that " Edmund Earl of Cornwall gave to
God, the bleffed Mary, and to the church of Henley, and to Sir Robt. de
Eftre, the rector, two acres of land at Henley Park, and two acres near
the river" {Burn's Hift. of Henley, pp. 132, 134). He feems to have
refigned the rectory of Henley in a.d. 1290, but I have not been able to
difcover anything respecting his fubfequent hiftory.
In a.d. 1289 a furvey was made by a bailiff and 12 lawful men ap-

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pointed by the commiffioners of fewers of all the lands in the Hundreds of
Eaftry and Cornilo lying in peril of the fea, in order that an affeffment
might be raifed to repair the banks, &c, of thofe lands. The following
were the lands particularifed in the Hundred of Eaftry :—

The prior and convent of Chrift Church, Canterbury
The tenants of Halklyng
The tenants of Worth
Likewife towards Henelyng
The field called Herynglond
The field adjoining to Herynglond on the north
In one marfh called Gareftoft
In the marfh called Stapynberghe
In the marfh called Preftmed*
In the marfh from Hamme Bridge to the curtilage of Jn0 Feyking
Sir Bertram Frauncrey and his tenants
John Fitz Bernard
Nicholas de Sandwyche
The heirs of Simon de Ercheflo
Thos. Edwards and his partners at Sanddowne
The heirs of Henry de Schenebroke

ccccni lx

xc iii x
xv
xxv
cviii XV J
lviii xl
lxxxix 1
cxxxiv vi
mclvi

Total number of acres
Total of the afTefTment xxiv1. js. viijd.f
In a.d. i 317 the prior of Chrifl Church obtained a grant of "free
warren " in all his demefne lands in the manor of Eaftry.
In the xviii year of King Edward, the Third after the Conqueft, (a.d.
1343-4), a deedj granting \os. to the Almonry of Chrifl Church from
lands in Eaftry, executed by Joanna Jofep is witneffedby "Thom. Taylor
— ... Prykke — Nich. Sompe — Ed. Holkebon — Will. Godwyn — Hen.
Guodwyne — Joh. atte Wood — Joh. Baily — Tho. Peke — Sam. Holkebon
— and others," who would feem to have been inhabitants of this parifh.
* Preftmed apparently = Prieft's Mead. f Botel. MSS. A. p. 57.
% From the Chartce Mifcellan. at Lambeth ; vol. v. No. 28.

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Some of the above names flourifhed in this neighbourhood for many cen
turies, and fome of them are borne even to this day.
In a.d. 1356, a dispute having arifen between William de Ctifynton,
rector of this parifh, and Richard de Monyngham, vicar of .5. Mary's,
Sandwich, the bounds and limits of our parifh were carefully fought out
and afcertained by Richard Cook, Thomas Wade, Adam Prikke, William
Godewyn, William Goft, John Clerk, and Thomas Rulbone. A tranfla-
tion of the document, which fets forth the bounds of the parifh of Eaftry
is given hereafter under " The Botmds."
In a valuation of the fpiritualities and temporalities of the priory of
Chrifl Church, Canterbury made about a.d. 1384, we find the church of
Eaftry — i.e., the rectorial portion of it — appropriated to the alms of the
faid priory and valued at £§ 3 6s. Sd*
On the xxi December, a.d. 1392, (in the time of Archbifhop Court
ney) a general ordination was celebrated in the parifh church of Croydon
when we find,f amongft the lift of fubdeacons, the name of a native of
this parifh, viz. : —
Thomas Gerard de pochia de Eaftry Cantuarieii dioc ad titulum prioris
et conventu de lewesj ledes ordinis fancti Auguftini Cant. dioc.
. Again, on the xxvi of March, a.d. i 393, Thomas Gerard was ordained
deacon in the parifh church of Croydon, on the title of the Prior and
Convent of Ledes Priory. And on the xxxi May, a.d. i 393, in the parifh
church of " Maydefton," the fame Thomas Gerard was advanced to the
holy order of priefthood.
In a.d. 1400, amongft other temporalities of the prior and convent of
* Dugdale, Monaft. Angl, vol. i., p. 89. f Reg. Courtney, f. 181.
| This word lewes is underlined with a dotted line, in the original, by a later
hand.

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Chrift Church, we find a valuation of " The Manor of Eftrey with the
appurtenances41 ^"65. 03s. ood."
The following rental of the manor of Eaftry, extracted from records in
Chrift Church, Canterbury, is taken from the Boteler MSS., vol. A. p.
159 ; and is interefting as giving us the names of fome of the inhabitants
of Eaftry, and the neighbourhood, in and about the year a.d. 1445.
Rentale dominii de Eaftry anno dom. 1445.
Rentale de Eaftry.
Imprimis de Wiito Stevedey vet. pz [videlicet pretio ?] lxjs iijdq.
de Wiflo Byllyngton modo Joh. Boteler ijs xd
de hered Rofeti hey ijs viijd
de Thoma Tomlyn Bocher xiijd q.
de hered Johis Bartelot pro j acra terre vd
de Robto Bartelot

de Johe Odle senr
Thoma att Welle
Johanna Barfeld
Henrico Bakar Smyth
Rico att Worde
Johe Swayne
hered Laurencii Cundy
Thoma Benet
Johe Bokelonde
Willo Dykes
Rico Pyfyng
Johe Wolwych
xvs xd ob. q. Johe ffrenne
xxixs ixd ob. q. Rogod ffrenne
Thoma Palmer
De Willo ffurner
hered Carpintarii
Colyn frenfhman
Thoma Lorchon

xya
y}9 j gallin. jdob.
iiijs vd ob. q.
viijd ys
iiijs vd j gallin.
viijs vijd jd
vb ob.
xvjs j gallin. iiijd q.

xixs vijd ob. q.
xvjd ob.
xxd ob. q.
vjd

* Dugd., Monaft. Angl, vol. i. p. 88.

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Thoma Godyn iiijs q.
viijd Matylda Thachar nil.
Jacobo Holkebon iiijs xd
Johe Dene iiijs vjd iij gallin,
her. Whytpefe jd ob.
Stepho Dene ijd
Thoma Chyrche ixd
Johe Boteler de Sandwico pro terris Garwynton xvijs ijd
Willo. Dene ijd
Rico Byrcholte ijs
Walto. Langle pro terris juxta Northcourte vijs iiijd
xijs eodem Walto.
Johe Whytfton iiijs jd
Robto Dene vjd
Tho. Tomly xiijd q.
Summa — ix lib. vjs xd ob. q.
Summ. gallin. vj, prec. — xviijd
Feldyrland.
De Edwardo Setvans pro terris fuis xxxiij5
De Ric. Coke de Sandewyco pro terris nuper Thome Kempe ijs vjd
eodem pro terris propriis vjs xjd
Willo Symnet de Sandewico vjs vijd
Johe Dunmowe de Sandewico xxiijd
Thoma Boye de Sandewico vijd ob. ixd q. di. qr.
Willo Bryan pro terris fuis apud Statyngbergh (nil.)
Willo Fenell draper de Sandewico vjs iijd
Rico Symnet Folfthawe de Sandewico viijd ob.
Simone Ruddock de Sandewico iiij5
Thoma Leueryk de Sandewico xxjd
Thoma Weftclyve de Sandewico iijs ijd
Robto Whyte de Sandewico ijs vjd
Thoma Langle de Sandewico Taylor iiijs ixd ob.
Valentina Hepys de Sandewico ijs vd
Willo Edwards de Sandewico brewer vjd

;d

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Henrico Broke bocher de Sandewico 1X
Henrico Baker de Sandewico VJ
Johe Terry de Sandewico bocher v
Wifto Grygory de Sandewico grocer ijs vj
Willo Chylton de Cantuar xv
Johe Cartar de Sandewico brewer x
Cecilia Sanders de Sa. m°. Synnet vjd ob.
Hofpitale Sci Barthi juxta Sandewic xvjs
Thoma Broke de Sandew. draper ijs ixd ob. q.
under p°. vj acr. & j virgat. terre ijs vijd q.
p°. hered. Nichi Dene de Sandewico xvd
Johe Grene de Sandewico marchant xxxix5 ijd
Robto Dyer de Sandewico (nil)
Johe Gerard de Sandewico bocher xxjd ob.
Joh. Gyffard de Sa. fpicer j
Joh. Plmar de Sa. draper vijs iiijd ob. q.
Thoma Bolle de Sa. brewer iijs iiijd
Robto Dreylond pro terris fuis juxta
Sand. m°. Ric Cok viijs
Rogo Clytherowe armigero xxijs
Summa viij,ib — xvijs — iiijd q. di. q.
Ultra xs refolut. Clytherowe ad cur. s. de Poldre pro Monketon keye Sandewic.

Gore.
De Will Baxe xd De Rob. Dane yjd q.
Thoma Roger pro terra Elwyn xiiijd ob. q.
Henr. Walter pro terris Joh. Bafele v4
Worth — de Cantaria Thoma Elys lxvij5 iijd Summa vjlib- xixs ob. di. q.
Opdowne Summa viijs ijd ob. gallin ij prec. vj ovor. xxv. j ob.

Henry the VI, in the 28th year of his reign (a.d. 1450) confirmed to
the prior the right of " free warren " in the lands of his manor at Eaftry,

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 19
and alfo granted a market to be held at Eaftry weekly on a Tuefday, and
likewife an annual fair to be held on the Feaft of S. Matthew the Apoftle and
Evangelift. The weekly market has fallen into difufe, for how long time I
cannot fay; but the fair is ftill held on old S. Matthew's day (Oct. 2nd), in the
field oppofite Southbank, and called the Fair Field, from ancient date. This
is now-a-days chiefly a cattle fair, and is very far from being fuch an
advantage as it was when the right was originally granted.
In a.d. 1488 {Reg. Morton, f. 49 b) we find under the heading of the
" Tenths of the Prior and Chapter of Chrift Church, Canterbury',' the
following returns relating to our parifh : —
" Ecclia de Eaftry in decanam de Sandwich tax xliiju. vjs. viijd."
And a little further on in the fame regifter (f. 56 b) a return for the
Deanery of Sandwich, which feems to relate to a fubfidy granted to the
king, and which I extract in fo far as it relates to Eaftry : —
'< Vicar de Eaftry x11
Decima xl*."
From Stevens' Monafticon (vol. i. p. 345) we find that, in the year a.d.
1494, another native of our parifh namedj Robert Eftrie was appointed
Cuftos or guardian of Canterbury College, Oxford.
In the records of a Vifttation of the clergy and people of the deanery
of Sandwich, held in the great chancel of S. Peter's, Sandwich, on the
17th September, a.d. 151 1, by the moft Reverend Father in Chrift his
Grace William, by Divine permiffion Archbifhop of Canterbury, we find
the following particulars relating to our parifh, under the two headings
of (i) " The Chapel of Worth," and (ii) " The Church of Eafier "—i.e.,
Eaftry. " Capella de Worth. Comptu [i.e., compertum] eft, That Richard

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Broke w'holdeth from the churche xls for a chaleis that was bequethed
by oon John Burton.
" Itm that oon Thomas Aleyn of feint Barthilmewes w'drawith A cowe
that was bequethed to the Churche by oon H. Patryke the piffhe preefl.
" Itm that oon patryke fforft and Thomas Aldon w'drawith from the
fame churche A cowe that was geven to A lampe afore the Roode ppetu-
ally." {Reg. Warham, f. xlviii.)
(ii.) "Ecclefia de Eafier [i.e., Eaftry]. Compertum eft, That the
Roodeloft lakketh great repacon.
" Itm the churche nedith greate reparacions.
" Itm that they lak books and fpially of the new fefts, as the Tranffigu-
racion of or lord, as of the name of Ihu.
" Itm that oon William Gilham, otherwife callid William Breten, kepith
evill and very fufpect Rule with diufe women and fpially w' oon Marian
Johnfon. " Itm that Robert ffrende and oon Julyan his wife are openly talked of
that they ar' not lawfully conioyned togid in matrymony for a certeyn
goftly caufe." {Reg. Warham, fol. xlviii., b.)
Again, on the 1 2th Jany., 1 5 1 2, in the Cathedral Church, at Canter
bury, before Mafter Robert Woodward, Lord Commiffary, "appeared
Richd. Broke, of Sandwich, and denied the fubtraction of any legacy of John
Burton  And fo the Lord Commiffary difmiffed the
aforefaid Richard Broke. Alfo at the aforefaid day and place appeared
Thomas Aleyn, brother of the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew near
Sandwich, and faith that he hath not withheld a cow bequeathed to the
faid Chapel. And forthwith the Churchwardens [Iconomi] of the faid
Chapel took upon themfelves to prove it; and the Lord Commiffary

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 21
appointed the viii day of the month of May next [for the hearing of the
caufe.] And coming on the viii day of May, the aforefaid Church
wardens, in the prefence of the aforefaid Thomas Aleyn produced Henry
Adam in witnefs, and Alice Callwell, who having been fworn and
examined, and their depofitions having been examined, the Lord Commif
fary adjudges and pronounces that Thomas Aleyn do deliver to the
Churchwardens of the aforefaid Chapel one cow or the value thereof
before the Feaft of the Nativity of S. John Baptift next enfuing under
penalty of excommunication. Alfo the aforefaid Churchwardens fay that
patrick frofle and Thomas Adam have compounded with them." {Reg. War
ham, fol. lxvi.)
" On the xvii day of the month of January the aforefaid year (viz.,
1 5 1 2) appeared the Churchwardens of Eftry, and they were ordered by
the Lord Commiffary to repair the Roodelofte there before the Feaft of the
Nativity of our Lord next enfuing under penalty of excommunication.
It is alfo notified to the faid Churchwardens that they fufficiently repair the
Nave of the faid Church before the Feaft of the Affumption of the B.
Virgin Mary next (Auguft 1 5th), under penalty of excommunication.
" It is alfo notified to the aforefaid Churchwardens that they provide
books for the new Feftivals before the feaft of the Nativity of Saint John
Baptift next under penalty of excommunication.
"Alfo the faid Churchwardens fay that William Gylhfh als Breten
hath departed beyond fea, and doth not intend to return.
" Alfo at the faid place and day appeared Robert frenne [notice the
corruption of the word Friend] and confeffes that he and Juliana his wife
are within the degrees of confanguinity. And the Lord Commiffary divorced
\htrx\A {Reg. Wareh., f. lxvij.)
In a lift of the Procurations of the monasteries and other religious

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places, and of the Deaneries within the diocefe of Canterbury, made about
this time (15 12) occur the following, under the heading Decanatus
Sandwici, which I infert as relating to our fubject :
Ecclia de Eftry xxis viijd
Vicaria eiufdem vs
From a return made in the 26th year of Hen. VIII (a.d. 1535) of the
value of all Manors, Lands, Revenues, Penfions, and other Emoluments of
Chrift Church, Canterbury, we gather that the Rectory and Manor of
Eaftry were respectively valued as under :
Eftrye Rectoria £%9- 8. io|
Eftrye Manerium 69. 16. 1 1 " di. q.
{Dugdale Monaft. Angl., vol. i., p. 119).
In a valuation of benefices in the Deanery of Sandwich, made the fame
year (1535), is the following entry reflecting our parifh:
Ecclia de Eaftry cum capella de Worthe eidem ecclie annex' appro-
priat' priori ecclie Xpi Cantuar.' Estry.
Richard Champney vycar there receyveth yerely of |  \
the pryour of Cryftchurche in Caunterbury f / c "
In tythes pedyall and parfonall oblacons and other | ... . I X13^ xjs ix<i
fpruall pfetts yerely i J v J J
In p xa — £ xxxix5 ij ob.
Thereof to be allowed of the forfeid pencyon and )
paied to the clerke yerely I ( Valor Ecclefiafticus.)
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the Manor of Eaftry came into the poffeffion of the king, who, however,
did not long retain it; but in the 33rd year of his reign gave it to his
newly-created Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, in whofe poffeffion it ftill
remains. (See Patent Rolls, Hen. viii., No. xxxiii., fkin 20, at Record Office.)
The advowfon of the Vicarage, though granted to the Dean and
Chapter at the fame time as the Rectory and Manor, appears to have
paffed fhortly after to the Archbifhops of Canterbury, the prefent patrons
of the benefice.
In the year 1650 a furvey was made by order of Parliament of
all the property belonging to the Rectory of Eaftry. The feveral par
ticulars of this inquiry I give below from the Parliamentary Surveys,
vol. xix., p. 30, at Lambeth. Rectoria de Eastry.
Sr Tho. Smith At the Parfonage or Rectory of Eaftrey in the county of Kent,
Sr Jo : Scott confiftinge of a ffaire parfonage houfe conteyneinge a Hall twoe
Sr Rich : Smith parlours a Kitchen a Buttery a Milkhowfe a Lawther [Larder]
knight a Brewhoufe A maulthoufe with Eight Chambers ouer them
Three Barnes two Stables with a Granary over them three Sellers one pidgeon loft
three pudder [fodder ?] howfes with other howfes One Garden, One Orchard, One

-xls : = : =

little bowlinge Greene, one Courte yarde and one greate yard
Together with the Tythes of Corne and other profitts to the faid Parfonage
belonginge wee Eftimate to be worth Omnibus Annis : ccccIs : = : =
Memorandum the late Deane and Chapter of the Cathedrall and Metropoliticall
Church of Chrift Canterbury by their Indenture dated the Twentyeth day of
January 16 15 have Demifed unto Sr. Thomas Smith Sr John Scott and Sr Richard
Smith, All that the Rectory or Parfonage of Eaftry in the County of Kent with
all howfes Barnes Stables, and buildinges Gleabe lands Tythes Oblacons, Obven-
cons, Emoluments, Profitts and Comodityes whatfoeuer with all and lingular their
Appurtennces to the faid Rectory belonginge fcituate lyeinge and beeinge in Eaftry
and Tilmanftone aforefaid together with Authoritye to keepe Courts there, and to

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receiue the profitts of the faid Courts, Except and referued all Tymber, Woods
and vnderwoods growinge vpon the pmiffes. To haue & to hold from the
makeinge of the faid Indenture for and dureinge the Tearme of the Naturall
liues of Sr Richard Sonds of Leeds Courte in the Countye of Kent Knight,
George Sonds Efqre oldeft Sonne of Sr Richard Sonds, and Anthony Sonds his third
Redd : lxxxix'5 : vs Sonne, and for and duringe the life of the longeft liuer of
and eueryfeauenth them, paying therefor yearly to the faid Deane and Chapter
yeare — 2oold ffor lxxxixld : and vs att Chriftmas and Midfbmer by even porcons
entertainment 4ld or within viii days next after the faid ffeafts and alfoe payinge
yr the laft 7th yeere euery Seauenth yeare ouer and aboue the faid rent the fume
Ifuppofethis yeare of 20old in the Treafury howfe of the Said Church att the
1650 to be a 7th faid ffeafts by euen and equall porcons, But are worth vpon
yeare. Improuement ouer and aboue the faid Rent referued per
ann. ccclixld : xiiijs : iiijd
The Leffees in all thinges to repayre maynetaine and vpholde the Howfes and
buildinges demifed togeather with the Chauncells of the parrifhe Church of Eaftry
and word and all the ffences and Inclofures belonginge to the Gleabe landes and in
the end of the Tearme foe to leaue the fame.
There is only Sr George Sands aliue and in beeinge.
The prefent Rent of lxxxixld : vs : Is thus apporconed viz :
To bee Sould with the Lands 09ld :15s: ood
To remayne vpon the Tythes 79 : 10 : 00

In toto 89 : 05 : 00
I conceiue this beinge a 7th yeare the fhare of the Lands in the 2oold now due
will bee about xxvId. And there beinge One life in beeinge in the faid Leafe I judge
the Commonwealths Intereft in the Lands proporcon may be vail in grofle
attlld. Groffe Vail : And then there will remayne to be payde qy : whether laft
LId : / this yeare for the Tythes proporcon of 200,d were paid
the faid 200Id: I75ld: and foe every euery 7 yeares agoe
7th year i75Id duringe the life in beeinge.
Novembr. 16th 1650 Will : Webb.
And now to recapitulate fomewhat. From even a very curfory glance

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at the foregoing extracts, we cannot fail to be ftruck with the number
of men whom our parifh gave to the fervice of the Church at the clofe
of the xiii century, fome of whom rofe even to confiderable eminence ;
thus, in a.d. 1 275 there is Ofwald de Eaftria, Abbot of the Monastery
of Faverfham, in 1284 Anfelm de Eaftria, Rector of our own parifh,
in 1285 Henry de Eaftria, Prior of Chrift Church, Canterbury, and
in 1290 Robert de Eaftria, Rector of Henley-upon-Thames. The
value of the Manor would appear to have increafed as follows : in
a.d. 1086 it was worth .£38. 10. 3 per annum; in a.d. 1400 it had
rifen in value to £65. 03. 00; and in 1535 it was eftimated at
£69. 16. 11. The Reclory, in a.d. 1384, was worth ^53. 6. 8 per
annum; in a.d. 1535 it had rifen to .£89. 1. io^; whilft in a.d. 1650,
little more than 100 years after, it had increafed fo much as to be efti
mated at ,£410 a-year.
The Vicarage, in a.d. 1535, was valued at ,£19. 11. 9 in the King's
Book. Camden, in a.d. 1586, gives ^17. 11. 9 as its value; but pro
bably this would be a flip of the pen for ^19. 11. 9, i.e., the eftimated
worth of the benefice, in the year 1535, as taken from the King's Book.
For Hafted fays that, in a.d. 1588, it was worth £bo, and in a.d. 1640
^100, a-year ; alfo that at both periods there were 335 communicants in
the parifh.
The Boteler MSS. contain an extract from " Sr George Sondes, his plain
narrative to the World of all paffages upon the Death of his two Sonnes.
London : Printed in the year 1655. This is given below, and may ferve as
an example of the hard dealing of the Cromwellian Parliament : —
Fol. 27. "The laft year 1654 upon fuit of the Trustees in the
Exchequer for arrears of Rent due to the Church, I was there denied
the Benefit of the general Pardon, which as I confeived took off thefe

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arrears. And it was likewife decreed that I fhould pay for them io$£s
as Rent for the Parfonage of Eaftry, for that year 1643, when the
Parliament farmed it out for 41 o£s, and received all the money for it:
I had not one Penny Benefit by it, they had it all, and yet I muft pay
that rent."
Hafted mentions a Sir Michael Sondes, then of Eaftry, Kent, who
afterwards refided at Throwley, and died a.d. 16 17,

" The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himfelf in many ways,
Left one good cuftom fhould corrupt the world!'
Morte D'Arthur.

Cjje 3Sounirs; or, a Promdmlatjon
of tlje Parjs^

CHAP. II.
" Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have fet!' — Prov. xxii. 28.
THE prefent divifion of our country into parifhes had its origin in
the time of Archbifhop Theodore (a.d. 668 — 690), when wealthy
perfons were encouraged to build churches on their eftates, by the promife
of the patronage of their own foundations, and other advantages. Thus
originally parifhes were frequently co-extenfive with the eftates ofthe founders
of their refpective churches. And this may account for the fact that
many parifhes have feparate and detached portions, lying far away from
the main body, in the midft of other parifhes. In this way Tickneffe
(properly Tickenhurft) is detached from Northbourne, and numerous
other examples will readily fuggeft themfelves to my readers.
It feems fomewhat uncertain, however, whether, in the cafe of our own
parifh, the foundation of the church and the boundaries of the parifh
were thus clofely connected the one with the other.
The earlieft notice of the Bounds of the parifh of Eaftry which I have
yet met with, is taken from a MS. amongft the Court Rolls of the

28 MEMORIALS OF E AS TRY.
Almery or Priory Manor of Eaftry, formerly in the poffeffion of Mrs.
Rammell. The account there given is as follows :
" This bowndes and Lymites of the pifhe of Eaftrye that be here
reherfed weare fought out by Ry chard Cok Adam Pricke Thomas Ward
William Goft William Goodwyne John Clarke Thomas Rulbone growen
before Mr. John Generli Dene of my Lord Symon Ifplyp audyens at the
tyme beinge Archbifhoppe of Canterburye the xth Daye of Jullye the
yeare of our Lord m ccc lvj for a plee Revyfed by one Richard vicar of
S'. Marye Chourche in Sandwiche for tythes of a place in the faid pifhe
of Eftrye in the * plee the vicar was call/ in witnes thereof the fayd
Archbifhopp hath put thereto Sealle of Offyce as it appeareth one the
fame plee  This Boundes begyn in a place called
the Stand ward the * is in pte of the Nor the weft of the pifhe of
Eafterye and fro the place forefayde extende the boundes and Lymites of
the fayd pifhe of Eafterye by a broode wey called weines wey extendinge
toward the Sowthe to a place called weines Devidinge the pyfhe of Eafte
rye one the eaft part froo the weye of woodinfboroughte toward the
wefte. And froo the weye forefayde called wenis extende the boundes
and Lymmites of the pifhe of Eafterye by a wey called lyfte toward the
eafle goinge forthe to a place called the Bellet devidinge the pyfhe of
Eafterye one the northe fyde froo the pyfhe of woodnefborought toward
the Sought, and froo the fayd place called the Belet extende the boundes
and lymmites by the fame weye toward the fouthweft, So goinge forthe to a
place called Bocklond devidinge the parifhe of Eaftery one the fouth efte
fro the pyfhe of Woodnefboroughte on the northe wefte pte fro the
fayd place called Bockelond* extende the boundes and limmites by the
* Now Buckland.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 29
Kingfwey toward the wefte foe goinge forthe to a place called grene-
hedgger* devidinge the pyfhe of Eafterye one the fouthe fyde froo the
pyfhe of woodnefborought toward the north and froo the fyde way called
grenehedgger extende the Boundes and Limmites by a ftreet or way -j-
toward the fouth, fo goinge forthe to a croffe called mathewes croffej
devidinge the pyfhe of Eafterye toward the eaft froo the pyfhe of Wood-
nefboroughte toward the weft and froo the fayd mathewes croffe extende
the boundes and Limmites of the fayd pyfhe of Eafterye by a way or a
ftreet called Broodeftreete§ toward the wefte fo goinge forthe to the hedd
of a hegge northe called Denehegge|| devidinge the pyfhe of Eafterye
one the fouth fyde froo the pyfhe of Woodnefboroughte one the northe
fyde and froo the forefayde northe hedd of the fayd denhedgge extende
the bounds & limmites of the pyfhe of Eafterye by the fame hegge
againfle the fouthe-wefle foe the hegge makeing ane end by a grene waye
devided or a landfchare unto a place called Redis^J devidinge the pyfhe
of Eafterye one the foutheaft from the pyfhe of woodnefborought and
knowlton toward the northweft and foorthe to a place called Redis
extende the bounds & limmites of the pyfhe of Eaftery by a way called
Pilholt toward the Eaft fo goenge fourth to a place called hoddyngef-
* Part of this green hedge has been grubbed up, but a confiderable portion ftill
remains. \ This is the road to Woodnesborough Church from Poifon Crofs, and the boun
dary line is in the middle of the road.
X Now Poifon Crofs.
§ Part of the Canterbury road.
|| Moft of this hedge has now difappeared — it runs from the Canterbury road
towards Harnden Hill.
^[ Redis = Ridges, a term not uncommonly ufed. The Redis or Ridges here men
tioned muft be near the Cottages on Harnden Hill.

30 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
downe* devydinge the pifhe of Eflry one the north part from the pifhe of
Nonington toward the Sowth ptie, And fro the feid place called hod-
dingefdowne extend the bownds and lymytts of the pifhe of Eftry to
another greene wave towards the eaft, fo goenge fourth to a hill called
Gavlitefdowne fo devydinge the pifhe of Eftry on the Northfyde from
the pifhe of Nonington and Tylmanftone towards the Sowthfyde, and
fro the feid Gaveletifdowne extend the bownds and lymytts of the pifhe
of Eftry by a greene footewaye agaynft the North, fo goenge fourth to a
corner one the Northfyde of a feilde called danefeildt devydinge the
pifhe of Eftry one the weft fyde from the pifhe of Tylmanflon one the
eaft fyde, And from the feid Sowth corner of the feid Daneffeild extend
the bowndes and lymyttes by a devyded greene waye toward the head eaft
devydinge the pifhe of Eftry toward the Northfyd from the pifhe of
Tylmanftone toward the Sowth, And the fame waye making an ende the
bowndes and Lymytts by an other greene waye from the hedd eaft, toward
the Northeaft So goenge fourth to a myll called Bettesfhanger Myll,^
And the feid greene waye endinge by a highwaye§ be half the hamlett or
the villadge called updowne unto the highway that leadeth fro Eftry unto
Northborne devydinge the pifhe of Eftry one the Northweft part, fro
the pifhe of Bettefhanger toward the Sowtheaft, And fro the feid waye
that leadeth fro Eftry toward Northborne extend the bownds and Lymytts
* The down oppofite Shingleton Down.
-f- A field not far from Dane Court.
X Bettefhanger Mill was ftill in exiftence in the laft century : but has now for
many years difappeared. It flood in much the fame place as the prefent Lodge at
Bettefhanger. § This " highwaye '' is the road which leads from near Buttfole to Northbourne,
and paffes the lodge gates of Updown Houfe.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 31
by a greene* way towards the north, So goenge fourth to a place called the
Parfonyffeild-j- of hame devydinge the pifhe of Eftry one the weft
parte fro the pifhe of Bettifhanger and hamme towards the eaft, And
from the feid Parfoniffeild of hamme extend the bownds and Lymytts
by a broad wayej towards the North, So goenge fourth to a place
called hamebridge§ devydinge the pifhe of Eftry toward the weft
from the pifhe of hamme towards the Eaft, And fro the feid hamme
bridge! extend the bowndes and lymytts by a great water towardes
the eaft, So goenge fourth to a place called hawkelinge devydinge
the parryfhe of Eftry towards the North from the parryfhe of hame
towards the Sowth, And from the place called hawklinge extend the
bowndes and lymytts of Eftry lynially towards the Eaft, unto a place called
Spruckelham, And fro the feid place called Spruckelham fo rightfourth to a
place callyd langhauke, And fro the feid place called langhauke unto the
coaft of the Sea devydinge the pifhe of Eftry towards the north fro the
pifhes of hamme and Northborne toward the Sowthfyde, And from the feid
coaft of the Sea, extend the bownds and lymytts of the pifhe of Eftry by
the fame coaft of the Sea toward the northweft, So goenge fourth and
fhettinge in the parryfhe of Eftry toward the Sowth weft unto a place
called the nafe, And from the feid place called the Nafe extend the
bownds and lymytts towards the Sowtheaft, fo goenge fourth by
* This " green way " is ftill in exiftence, though it is in great danger of being
obliterated owing to the conftant encroachments of the plough.
f There is a field here which ftill belongs to the Reef or of Ham.
X This is the road that runs from the corner of Fred. George Terry's garden
paft the back of Ham Houfe and Ham Church.
§ The further bridge next Word Mill.
|| From this point the bounds, as here defcribed, are thofe of Word, and not the
bounds of the prefent parifh of Eaftry.

32 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
a ftreame callyd Geftlinge unto a place callyd the Sclufe fhettinge in
the pifhe of Eftry toward the north eaft fro the pifhe of S'. Cle
ments in Sandwich toward the Sowthweft parte, And fro the feid
Sclufe extend the bowndes and Lymyttes towards the Sowth So goenge
fourth by a Dyke called Erchiflodick devydinge the pifhe of Eftry
toward the Eaft from the feid pifhe of S£. Clements one the weft fyde
unto a place called hovelinge, And fro the feid place called hovelinge
extend the bownds and lymytts toward the northweft, So goenge
fourth by a dyke called the delfe devydinge the pifhe of Eaftry toward
the Sowthweft from the pifhe of S. Clements toward the northweft unto the
Sowth corner of the Hofpitall of Sl. Bartholomewe, And from the feid
Sowth corner ofthe feid hofpitall extend the bownds and lymytts ofthe pifhe
of Eftry toward the North, So goenge fourth by a runninge water called the
delph unto a place callyd the Stonebridge devydinge the pifhe of Eftry
toward the weft from the pifhe of S\ Clements towards the eaft parte,
And fro the feid Stonebridge extend the bowndes and lymytts toward the
Sowth weft, So goenge fourth by the kinges highwaie to the Sowth hedd
of a lyttle dyke or a vorowe lyenge of length * the lands of John Terrey
toward the eaft parte of the feid lands devydinge and fhettinge in the
pifhe of Eftry toward the Sowtheaft fro the pifhe of S'. Maries in
Sandwich one the north weft parte, And fro the feid Sowth hedd
of the feid Dyke or vorowe extend the bowndes and lymytts by
the fame dyke or vorowe toward the north, So goenge fourth to a corner
of a feild called Polder land* towards the northeast fhettinge in the
pifhe of Eftry toward the Eaft, And from the feid corner that ys north-
eaft of the feid Polder lande extend the bownds and lymytts toward the
weft parte, So goenge right fourth by a lyttle dyke or a vorowe lyenge of
* Now " Felderland," but commonly pronounced " Fenderland."

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 33
length * the north of the feid feild called Polderfield unto the *highwaye
that leadeth from Sandwich toward Canterbury and by the weft hed of the
feid dyke or vorowe extend the bowndes and lymytts by the feid highway
toward the Sowth, So goenge fourth a clofeinge in the pifhe of Eftry one
the eaft fyde from the pifhe of woodnefborowe toward the weft to a place
callyd the Standard. 23° Julii 1585."
[Botel. MS. A., pp. 104, 105, 106.]
Thus much as to the bounds of our parifh in a.d. 1356. Since that
time, however, the parifh of Worth or Word has been cut off from the
mother parifh of Eaftry, fo that Eaftry is now fmaller in extent than in
the time of Archbifhop Iflip. In his time, at the time when the vicar
age of Eaftry was endowed, and for many generations afterwards, the
church at Word (dedicated to S. Peter and S. Paul) was merely a cha-
pelry attached to the mother Church at Eaftry, in the fame manner as
Shrinkling, or Shiagleton ; but with this difference, that whereas, the
vicar of Eaftry was to "find one Chaplain in the Chapel of Worth de
pending upon the faid Church of Eaftry to celebrate divine Service every
day, at leaft as far as it may be done with convenience," and there to
" officiate in divine Things according to ufual Cuftom ;" the prior and
convent of Chrift Church, Canterbury, were held and bound to the
" maintenance of one Chaplain in the Chapel of Shrynglynges depending
upon the faid Church, provided the Rectors were held in times paft to
the fame" (fee Endowment of the Vicarage).
In courfe of time the Church of Word acquired certain parochial
* " The Sandwich Road," as Eaftry folk call it.

34 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
rights; but whether it ever actually became a feparate parijh until it was
legally feparated from Eaftry in a.d. 1854, feems very doubtful. From
certain memoranda that I have come acrofs in one of the parifh books,
the queftion feems to have been raifed fometime between a.d. 1686, and
a.d. 1688, as to whether at that time Word was or was not a feparate
parifh : fome perfons— apparently the inhabitants of Word — afferting that
it was fuch, and " Charles Bargrave, Churchwarden, and Sollomon Har
vey and Thomas Adams,' Overfeers of the Poor," of our parifh, main
taining as ftrenuoufly that it was not, and giving as their reafon " that
the Instrument of Inftitution and Induction gives [sic] to the Minifter or
Clerk of Eaftry runns only to Eaftry Cum Capella de Woorth and he is
Inducted only into Eaftry." The parifh of Worth was conftituted
a Vicarage by an Order in Council which appeared in the London Gazette
of December 6th, 1867.
But to return to the perambulation of the parifh. The ancient and
proper time for the perambulation of parifhes — or " beating of the
bounds," as it is often called, from the cuftom in former days of beating boys
at certain points, in order to imprefs the boundaries, marks, and limits of
the parifh the better on their memories — is fome day in Rogation week, i.e.,
the week in which Afcenfion Day or Holy Thurfday falls. For when, at
the Reformation, all other religious proceffions were abolifhed, the peram
bulation of parifhes in this week was ftill retained.
The following extracts from the oldeft* account book of the church
wardens, which is now extant, furnifh us with a complete lift, as far as
it goes, of the dates at which our parifh has been perambulated : —
* Mr. Boteler fpeaks of the tradition that there had once been two other and more
ancient books. Thefe however, had difappeared even in his time.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.

£ s. d.

1 1689 Pd upon the perambulacon o. 5. o"
c 1690 Spent at the perambulacon o. 7. 11"
c 1692 Spent when wee went the Boundes of the parifh o. 11. 4"
' 1 696 pd to goody Samfon mony fpent for going ye bounds of ye
parifh 1. o. o"
'1703 May 5th pd att Goodman Sampfons when we went ye bounds o. 9. o"
c 1 7 19 Spent att the five Bells when went the Bounds ofthe parifh 1. 2. 6"
' 1 7 1 9 pd John Cock more wh which was fpent when we went the
Bounds of the Parifh o. 15. o"
'1722 Spent when we went the Bounds of the Parifh o. 13. o"
c 1743 May 12 Spent going the Bounds of the Parifh o. 16. 10"
' 174.7 May 29 Spent going the Bounds of the Parifh o. 16. 6"
c 1762 May 20 Spent at theFive Bells going theBounds of the Parifh 1. 19. o"
c 1782 May 15 Paid at the Bull going the Bounds of the Parifh 1. 16. o"
' 1 80 1 Expences at the Five Bells (28th May) going the Boundary
of the Parifh 3. 2. io|"
" 1 8 14 June 11 paid Eaftes Bill for Dinners, &c, for going bounds
of parifh* 9. 14. i\"
1833 May 14. This day & year the bounds were walked by the Vicar,
Churchwardens & others.
1856 Mar. 31. This day & year the Vicar, Curate, Churchwardens, Parifh
Clerk and others walked the bounds of the Parish beginning at Hay Hill.
1868, Sept. 24. At nine o'clock in the morning of this day and year,
there met, at the boundary stone on Hay Hill, near the Crofs Roads, a
number of the parifhioners, including the Vicar, Lieut.- Col. Rae, Mr.
G. Turner (The Lynch and New Coll., Oxon), Mr. Churchwarden
Terry, Mr. William Wilfon (Guardian, Shingleton Farm), Mr. James
Cobus (Overfeer), and Meffrs. Jofeph Bowman (Parifh Clerk), R. Moat,
Junr., J. Bufhell (Kent Cy Confty), G. Foord (of" Five Bells"), J. May-
* In this year Mrs. Pettman gave £2 2s. towards the expenfes of the Perambu
lation.

36 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
nard (Kent C* ConfV), E. Dunn, and W. Devefon, Jos. Manfer, E. Pay,
G. Dungey, Chas. Dungey, E. Culver, E. Moat, W. Thompfon, J. Fitz
gerald, J. Foord, S. Hopper, A. Soames, G. Lawrence, John Manfer, and J.
Spickett. At 9.15 they started, Bowman — who had "beaten the bounds "
on two previous occafions (viz., in 1833 and 1856), and who had been
round ftill more recently with the Ordnance Survey — taking the lead, and
the reft following ; Lieut.- Col. Rae, Meffrs. Terry and Wilfon, and the
Vicar, being mounted, the others being on foot. On the borders of the
parifh of Bettefhanger the Eaftry party were met by Walter James, Efqr.,
and the Rector of Bettefhanger (Rev. J. W. Blifs), who accompanied
them as far their own bounds extended. Arrived at Shingleton Down
the Old Hundredth Pfalm was fung, according to a cuftom obferved on
previous occafions. Thence proceeding onwards they were met by the
reprefentatives of Nonnington, the only other parifh befides Bettefhanger,
which fent its officers to the boundaries in time to meet the Eaftry party.
On Harnden Hill a halt was made, juft outfide the cottages of Cox and
Friend, for luncheon — which, confuting of bread and cheefe and bitter
beer, was partaken of by all prefent, and thoroughly appreciated. After a
reft of half an hour the party again ftarted, and in due time came into
the Canterbury Road. Going on from thence Poifon Crofs (anciently
Matthews' Croffe) was reached, and the party proceeded halfway up the
hill which leads to Woodnefborough Church. Then turning to the right
acrofs the fields, under a high-banked hedge, and following the various turns
and windings of the boundary line, after fome time the Sandwich road
was crofed. Next the brooks, feparating Eaftry from Ham, were reached
and jumped by fome, though more jumped in ! the foothold being very
bad for leaping on either bank. Henceforward the bounds kept to the

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 37
road, and fo going on the markftone on Hay Hill was reached
about 3 o'clock, after a very pleafant, but fomewhat tiring, walk of
more than 14 miles.
The parifh of Eaftry, confifting of the borough of Eaftry, the borough
of Heronden and part of the borough of Felderland, is about two and a
half miles from north to south, and not more than one and a half mile
from eaft to weft.
It contains, according to the Tythe Commutation Deed, 2664 ftatute
acres, by far the greater portion of which is arable land, the extent
of meadow or pafture being but fmall, and of hop gardens very
much lefs.
The greater portion of the land in the parifh is claimed over by the
Manors of Eaftry, Adifham, the Almonry, Dane Court, North Court,
and South Court. Of thefe the principal are the Manors of Eaftry and
Adifham, which are divided, the one from the other, by the high road
leading from Woodnefborough by Gore to Elham.
The population of Eaftry has, of courfe, varied in different ages ; but
there is good reafon for fuppofing that during the time of the Roman
occupation, in the Romano- Britifh period, and afterwards in Anglo-Saxon
times, prior to the year a.d. 900, the ville of Eaftry had more inhabitants
than at the time of the Norman invasion.
From the information given in Doomfday Book (fee p. 1 1 ) we may gather
that the population of Eaftry, in or about the year a.d. 1086 was 300
In a.d. 1774 the population was 656
„ „ 1 80 1 „ „ (including workhoufe) was . 852
» „ 1811 „ „ . . . • 9°9
» >> 1821 „ .... 1062
„ „ 1831 „ „ .... 1245

38 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
In a.d. 1 841 the population of Eaftry (with the Union) was 1629
>> »j i°5* » jj »> jj jj jj >j *^97
„ „ 1 00 1 „ „ „ „ „ „ „ 1505
[In this year the population of the parifh proper was 1 175, and of the
Union Workhoufe 330].
In a.d. 1 87 1
Since the beginning of this century about 90 new houfes have been
built in Eaftry.
The foil of Eaftry, northward of the ftreet, is very good, fouthward it
is poorer land, being in places very near the chalk. Upon the whole it
may average about 30.5. an acre ; which fhows a confiderable improve
ment in the land fince Mr. Boteler's time ( 1 774), when on the average
it was worth only 15s. an acre.
The rents as affeffed to the poor amount to ^7994. 6s. 6d.
And now, having perambulated the parifh, afcertained its boundaries
and markflones, measured its broad acres, examined its foil, numbered its
people, and fummed up its rental, let us enter it by the road from Sand
wich, and view its different localities fomewhat more in detail.
The firft object that meets our view, as we begin to approach Eaftry by
the Sandwich Road, is an ancient Yew-tree Handing at the corner of the
road, that leads off on the left to Felderland. It has probably feen the
travellers of many centuries. Bifhops and abbots and plain parifh priefts,
barons and knights and fquires, merchants and burghers and artizans,
country maidens and ladies of high degree, all in their day and genera
tion have paffed by the old Palm tree, for fo is the Yew-tree called in this
neighbourhood. Paffing onwards through the turnpike, we come on the right
to a large and handfome houfe, called Statenborough, the residence

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 39
of Commander George Sayer, R.N., J.P., to whom the ancient eftate of
Stapenberghe, now Statenborough, belongs. This is at prefent the prin
cipal eftate in the parifh, including Gore, the lands of which are laid to
it: the whole confifling of about 141 acres. The land is in general good.
" From the title deeds it appears, in 1391, a fmall piece of land was
conveyed to Wm. Cook of Stapynberghe, and part of the premifes at this
day is called Cookfborough. In 141 9 a part belonged to the family of
Atte Halle. In 1437 John Frynne & Thos. Terrey of Eaftry convey 16
acres feparate, at or near Stapenbergh, which they had of Ingram Atte
Halle fon & heir of Jno. Atte Halle of Dovorre, to Wm. Bryan of Can
terbury who, from divers other conveyances, feems at this time to have been
in poffeffion of a considerable part of the eftate. To whom or at what time
Mr. Bryan's property was alienated, does not appear : but, in 1484, the
whole belonged to J™. Kennett of Canterbury, Gent. In 1534 Thos. Ken-
nett of Canterbury Priest (capellanus) fon of the above Jno. conveyed his
whole property here — the quantity not fpecified — to Chrift11. Hales Efqr,
the King's Attorney- General, afterwards Sir Chriftian, Knight ; whofe
daughter Margaret, the wife of Ralph Dodmore of Lincoln's Inn, Gent.,
jointly with her Hufband in 1557 conveyed the Eftate, fpecified in the
Deed as containing 120 acres, under the general name of Statynborough
to Saffrey Paramor of Eaftry Yeoman. In this Family it continued in
lineal fucceffion from Father to Son, and was the place of refidence of
each, till Jofhua Paramor jointly with his mother Mary fold it in 171 3,
fadly encumbered with mortgages to his Coufin Cap'. Jno. Paramor of
Sandwich, who rebuilt the Houfe and refided here. Cap'. Paramor died
1737 and bequeathed it to his only fon Jn°. Paramor Efqr. who dying
1 75 1 without iffue, bequeathed this, amongft other eftates, to Mary eldeft
daughter of his fifter Mary deceafed, the wife of Tho\ Fuller of Sand-

40 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
wich Efqr. ; but fhe dying fingle and under age, the whole fell after the
death of Mr. Paramor's widow in 1759 to his 3 nieces Jane, then Jane
Hawker widow, afterwards the wife of John Dilnot Esqr., the daughter
of his fifter Jane Hayward deceafed ; and Jane & Sarah Fuller two other
daughters of his fifter Mary before mentioned. On a divifion of the
feveral eftates in 1761 this was allotted to Jane and Sarah Fuller, & on
a further divifion betwixt the two fillers in 1774, this with Gore formed
a part of the fhare that fell to Jane then the wife of W. Boys of Sand
wich Efqre,"* — author of " Co Hellions for a Hiflory of Sandwich."
Mrs. Boys eventually fold the eftate of Statenborough to Mr. George,
who in his turn difpofed of it to Mr. Moulding, after whofe deceafe it
was fold by his widow to Mr. Greville, from whom it defcended to his
grandfon Col. Fulke Greville (now Lord Greville). In 1846 Com
mander George Sayer, R.N., purchafed the eftate of Col. Greville.
Captain Sayer is in the commiffion of the peace, and bears for his
arms : —
Proceeding onwards we come to Little Statenborough, or Statenborough
Cottage, likewife the property of Capt. Sayer, who, about the year 1 847,
purchafed the houfe and a few acres of land adjoining it of Col. Greville,
whofe grandfather, Mr. Greville, had acquired it of Mr. Upton. G.
Coleman, Efq., is the prefent occupier. Statenborough is claimed over by
the Manors of Dane Court, North Court, and South Court, Tilmanftone.
Great Walton, fituated on the Sandwich Road between Statenborough
and Eaftry Street, next meets us. It is a nice old-fafhioned houfe, with
trimly-kept greenfward, pond, gardens, and outhoufes adjoining, and about
70 acres of land — 30 being in Eaftry, and 40 in Woodnefborough ; the
* Botel. MSS.

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land and houfe in Eaftry are affeffed at ,£84 in all. This farm was
formerly much larger than it is at prefent, and was for fome generations
in the family of Geering,* by one of whom it was divided towards the
latter part of the feventeenth century. After the divifion Great Walton
became the property of Mr. Wm. Sharp who, in 1694, conveyed it to
Jofeph Neame of Word, yeoman, from whofe defcendant, Mrs. Elizth.
Neame, the eftate was conveyed, in 1773, to Mr. John Nelfon and wife
of Sandwich. Mr. Nelfon died in 1789, and by his laft will bequeathed
it to the children of Mr. Wm. Caftle of Sandwich (the fon of his wife
by a former hufband), whofe fon, Mr. Thos. Caftle, fold fome of the
lands belonging to it. His fon, Robert Caftle, Efqre., is the prefent owner
of the eftate, the lands belonging to which he lets, but occupies the houfe.
He bears for his arms :
Little Walton, lying betwixt Great Walton and Eaftry Street, is a farm
confifting of about 1 00 acres, 49 of which lie in Eaftry, the reft in Wood-
nefborough. The lands, which are very straggling, were for many
generations the property of a family of the name of Nutt. John Nutt,
of Putney, Gent., was the owner in 171 6 (Botel. MSS.J. In 1733
Wm. Nutt was in poffeffion of the eftate, and in 1740 James Amey, but
whether in right of himfelf or his wife, feems doubtful. The eftate was
afterwards in litigation. In 1749 two females claimed poffeffion by law
of the name of Wollaftone : and on a divifion between them, this
amongft other eftates became the property of the one who was married to
Taylor White, of Hertfordfhire, Efqre. In 1824 James White, Efqre., fold
the property to Bargrave Wyborn, Efqre., in whofe family it ftill remains.
Walton Houfe, fituated between Great Walton and Eaftry Street, and
* The whole farm was in the poffeffion of the Geerings in A.D. 1623.

42 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
oppofite Little Walton, is a large houfe, with about eight acres of land
attached to it, originally built by Mr. George about the year 1805. In
1 807 the property was purchafed by Mr. White, who, in 1821, fold it to
Henry Warrell, Efqre. In Nov., 1830, Mr. Warrell granted a leafe of
the houfe and land to James Rae, Efqre., who eventually purchafed the
fame in Sept., 1834, and in whofe family it ftill remains, being the resi
dence of James A. Rae, Efqre., Lieut.-Col. of the Cinque Ports'
Volunteer Artillery. They bear for their arms : Vert — three flags in pale
courant, argent. For a creft : a flag at gaze proper.
A little further on there are two good houfes on oppofite fides of the
Sandwich Road. The one on the right hand, a modern houfe, running
back to the Woodnefborough Lane, being the property of R. S. Leggatt,
Efqre., M.R.C.S. ; the other, called Laurefton Houfe, being the property
of Mr. Matfon, but the residence of Mifs Toker, who has much improved
the houfe, and laid out the grounds with tafte and effect. Attached to
this houfe, and in front of it, is a pleafant meadow containing 4a. ir. 32p.
Both Laurefton and Walton Houfes have garden entrances into the
foot-path which runs from the Schools to Statenborough. Part of this
path is fometimes called the Lover's Walk from its being fo quiet and
fecluded ; and the upper portion of it, nearer the Schools, is occafionally
ufed as a rope walk.
After paffing Laurefton Houfe we come to Eaftry Street, or as it is now
entitled the High Street. This is the principal part of the village, and
from hence branch off Church Street, Brook Street, what was formerly
called Reaper's Row (which is properly a continuation of High Street,
and leads paft the Fairfield to Buttfole), Mill Lane, Gore Lane, and the
Roads to Sandwich and Woodnefborough.
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MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 43
On the left fide ofthe ftreet there is a place called the Square, fome cottages
being built in that form; and a little further on is a foot-path leading directly
to the Schools and Church, called Church Lane or Collarmaker's Alley.
On the fouth of this lane is a meffuage, now the property of Mr. Wanftall,
of Nonington, from which arifes the yearly rent charge of 1 2s. payable to
the vicar and churchwardens for the benefit of the poor of Eaftry, under
the laft will and teftament of Richard Thompfon, of Minfter, in Thanet,
who died 1673. For further particulars respecting this houfe fee under
" The Parochial Charities." This houfe is now in the occupation of
Edward Godden, grocer, and is ufed as a baker-and-grocer's fhop. South
ward of this is a houfe formerly called " the Nunneries," but for what
reafon I know not ; there are no ruins of any kind near the place, nor
was there ever any fuch religious eftablifhment in Eaftry. It formerly
confifted of two cottages in three dwellings, defcribed in a deed of 1567,
as being at a place called "le Nunnerye." In 1609 they were purchafed
by Paramor, of Statenborough, then called " the Nunnerys," and by this
name they were bequeathed by John Paramor, of Statenboro', gent., his
defcendant, in 1735, to his fon John Paramor, Efq., who fold it to John
Matthews, of Eaftry, collarmaker {Botel. MSS., vol. A., p. 65). It was
rebuilt in great part by the above-named John Matthews, and is a neat houfe
in two dwellings, occupied respectively by Jofeph Bowman, parifh clerk, and
Thomas Cullen. The property now belongs to John Court, of Eaftry, milk
man. Southward of this houfe is a meadow called The Playing Clofe,
which has certainly been ufed as a place of recreation for upwards of the
laft two hundred years, fince, in a rental of the year 1633, it is called
" the play clofe." Still there is not the flighteft foundation for the idea, once
prevalent, that this " playing clofe " formerly belonged to Goddard's Cha
rity. So early as a.d. 1567 it was private property, and belonged then to

44 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Roger Churche: in 1606 it was the property of John Robins, Junr.,
yeoman ; in 1 640 it belonged to Edward Parboe, gent., and then formed
part, as it did until recently, of the Street Farm over the way, once the
property of the Petmans, but now divided up and fold. In 1868 this
clofe was purchafed by John Iggulden, of Deal, Efqre., and now forms
part of his Eaftry Houfe eftate.
Adjoining the " playing clofe " fouthward is the old Schoolhoufe,
left by Mrs. Chriftian Goddard, 1574, for the ufe of the parifh clerk of
Eaftry for ever, on condition of his instructing one boy (see " The Schools").
This is now in the occupation of Thomas Young.
Next to the old Schoolhoufe is the Bull Inn. This has probably
been the name and site of the village inn for fome centuries. As early as
a.d. 1573 it is mentioned; and, in 1633, it is fpoken of as "adjoining
Goddard's Houfe for the Clerk, in Eaftry Street :" whilst the church
wardens' accounts often make mention of money " fpent at the Bull."
In a.d. 1573 Richard Huffam paid quit rent to the manor of Eaftry for
the Bull. John Whitfeild, and after him Edmonde Baker, had been the
previous owners. And again, in a.d. 1633, Thomas Huffam paid for
the Bull. It is now the property of Meffrs. Liney and Evenden
brewers. It may not be uninterefting if we give the names of the fucceffive
Hosts of the Bull.
1693, William Hall.
1702, Thomas Adams.
1725, Ingram Durban.
1763, William Culler — then his widow.
1 77 1, John Solley.

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1 79 1, Richard Ruffell.
1806, John Eaftes.
1 8 1 6, John Ferrier.
1855, Charles Lepine.
i860, Edward Manfer.
This lift is complete as far as it goes back.
On the right hand fide of the ftreet oppofite to Collarmakers' Alley is
a houfe and forge the property of the Drayfon family, and now in the
occupation of Wm. Twyman, blackfmith. The houfe is comparatively new,
having been built in 1861 ; but, on or about this fpot, there has been a
forge for many centuries, where fucceffive generations of Drayfons have
worked as fmiths. Will Drayfon figns the " Sefs made the 14th day of
October, Anno Domene 1685," and there are frequent entries in the
churchwardens' accounts of that period of payments made to the Dray
fons " for iron work " or " fmith's work." By the fide of the forge
there is a field path, which leads either to the Mills or to Gore.
A little higher up the ftreet, and oppofite the playing clofe, is Eaftry
Houfe, the property of J. Iggulden, of Deal, Efqre., in right of his
wife, the daughter of J. Hatfeild, Efqre., who, in or about the year 1832,
bought it of the Petman family, in whofe poffeffion it had been for fome
generations, being part of that old farm originally called Swayne's, which
is now entirely divided up. This houfe is now in the occupation of Mr.
John Netherfole.
Proceeding onwards paft the poft-office (foon to be made alfo a tele
graph-office), a few more fteps bring us to The Crofs. This is the name
given to that flightly open fpace where Brook Street and Mill Lane,
High Street, Reaper's Row, and Church Street, meet together, and
where, doubtlefs, in days gone by, there flood the Village Crofs. In the

46 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
old churchwardens' accounts frequent mention is made of thatching and
other repairs done to " the Crofs Houfe " at the expenfe of the parifh.
Hitherto I have been unable to identify this, and am rather inclined to
think that it has difappeared, unlefs the Vicarage Cottage formerly bore
that name. " The Crofs houfe " is not to be confounded with the houfe
of " the Crofs Farm," formerly the property of the Kite, and now of the
Boteler, family: nor yet with "the Clerke's houfe" above-mentioned in
the High Street, nor with " the Sexton's houfe," which formerly was the
end houfe of the Goddard's Charity, nearest and oppofite to the vicarage.
At the end of the High Street nearest to " the Crofs " there is a pond
which fupplies the neighbouring farmers and others with water for their
cattle, and which rarely runs quite dry. Whilft on or about the fpot
now occupied by Mifs Bayly's draper's fhop, formerly flood the parifh
flocks — the terror of evil doers. Thefe were afterwards removed to a
pofition nearly oppofite the church gates, beneath two elms growing in
the clofe adjoining the boys' fchool. Latterly they were little ufed, and
about a.d. 1828 they difappeared.

Proceeding from " the Crofs " towards the church, we pafs on the
right a cottage formerly ufed as the barber's fhop, and once belonging to
the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, but which was made over to the
Vicarage in or about the year 1853.
Two fteps more bring us to the Vicarage, a large and comfortable
houfe, which dates from the year 1 821, when the old Vicarage was pulled
down and rebuilt by the Rev. G. Randolph, then vicar. But the
foundations of the houfe are ancient, and they may perhaps have formed
part of the original building affigned for the ufe of the vicar in a.d.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 47
1367, and confirmed to him in a.d. 1368, when an agreement was come
to between the Prior and Convent of Chrift Church, Canterbury, on the
one fide, and " Sir " Thomas, Vicar of Eaftry, on the other, " that the
faid Sir Thomas, the Vicar, fhall have to his own proper ufe the hall,
chambers, and kitchen, of his Vicarage aforefaid, which belonged and
pertained to the Almoner and his office of old, and alfo the other build
ings erected upon his lite, together with a garden and 
thence arising (the dovecote and certain wafte places, fituate below the
clofe of the faid vicarage, being referved to the Almoner and his Rector
in perpetuity)." It was then agreed that "the fame Almoner fhould,
moreover, make and keep in fufficient repair a certain wall between him
felf and the Vicar aforefaid, beginning from the king's highway on the
fouth fide of the faid Vicarage, and extending to a certain liable of the
faid Almonry of the Rector over againft the north part  "
The wall here referred has been pulled down, in order that a piece of
ground, which formed part of the farm yard of the Almonry, or Parfonage
as it is now called, might be added to the Vicarage. The piece of ground
here fpoken of is now ufed as a kitchen garden. But with regard to the
wall which has difappeared ; it commenced clofe to the gate which
leads to the kitchen door, paffed the back door of the Vicarage, and ex
tended to the ftables of the Parfonage. Thefe ftables ftill exist, having pro
bably been renewed from time to time on the old fite. The Vicarage is
furrounded on all fides by a narrow ftrip of garden, that portion which
lies eaft of the houfe being the largeft, and having a confiderable fall. The
view from the dining-room window towards the Lynch bank is very pretty.
The garden contains two magnificent, and fome fmaller, yew-trees, a
handfome ilex, and a very ancient claranut-tree, long paft its prime

48 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
—which has probably flood here for fome centuries — befides numerous
walnuts. The Vicarage is bounded on the weft by Church Street, on the fouth
by Brook Street, on the eaft by the garden of the Parfonage, and on the
north by the yard and ftables of the fame.
Immediately oppofite the Vicarage gates are the five dwellings of God
dard's Charity (see " The Parochial Charities"). Originally left to the
churchwardens for the ufe of the poor, in a.d. i 574, they would feem to
have undergone comparatively little alteration, although they were formerly
thatched and plaiftered, &c, from time to time, at the expenfe of the
parifh. Unfortunately there is now no fund available for keeping them
in repair. The end houfe nearest the road was for many years appro
priated to the ufe of the fexton.
Adjoining the Vicarage is the houfe now called the Parsonage,
but formerly the Almonry or Aumbry. This houfe ftands on, and forms
part of the Rectorial property which once belonged to the Priory of
Chrift Church, being appropriated to the ufe of the Almonry. After
the Reformation it formed part of the endowments of the Dean and
Chapter of Canterbury, but it is now in the hands of the Ecclefiaftical
Commiffioners. The great tythes of the parifhes of Eaftry and Worth, which belong
to the Rectory of Eaftry, were formerly let, as well as the lands, to cer
tain leffees. Now, however, the Ecclefiaftical Commiffioners keep thefe in
their own hands, but let the lands. The lands belonging to the Rectory, or
as it is commonly called " Parfonage," confift of 52a, 2r. 33p. of glebe in
Eaftry.; 1 5a. 3r. op. in Tilmanftone ; oa. 2r. 24p. in Worth ; in all
69a. or. 17P. To this Parfonage belongs a fmall manor called the Manor

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 49
of the Priory or Almonry, which receives quitrents from the houfes and
land in the ftreet, contained within Eaftry Street and Church Street, reaching
down almoft to Little Walton. It receives alfo from the houfes built on the
wafte in Reaper's Row or (as that part of the ftreet is now more commonly
called on each fide of the way), the Fair Field, and from a trifling quan
tity of land at or near Brook Street. The receipts of the whole are very
inconfiderable, as will be feen from the following rentals of 1573 and
1633, which I here extract from the Botel. MSS., on account of the
information they give refpedting the inhabitants of Eaftry in thofe days.
" A Rentall conteyning as well the Rents of dyvers Tenfits, Lands, be
longing to the Awmery or Parfonage of Eftrie, knowledged by the Tenfits
there in fundry Corts tempore nuper Regis H. viiivi and laftlie in cur :
tent: ultimo die Septembris anno xxxm0 ejufdem nuper Regis As alfo a
Terror [Terrier] of all the Glebe lands belonging or aperteyning to the
faid pfonage with the Rents as well in money as in Corne toguether with
the Renouacions of their names ever as the fame is now anfwered and
paid to me Willus Partheriche ffermor there hoc anno regni Elizabeth
xvm0 et anno 1573, viz. :
" Rents of the tennts belonging to the faid Awmerie." The abbre
viated fubftance of which is as follows : — £ s. d.
The poor houfe Chryftian Goddarde widow holds a Tenement &
Garden, late her father Thomas Parkers, lying
in the Street over ag51 the Vicarage at the pay
ment yearly of 12
Same Chryftian holds likewife a piece of land in
Walton containing one rood two perches late ye
faid Thos. Parkers at 1 1^
Same Chryftian holds likewife a garden contain
ing 16 perches at 1^
H

5°

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nowe Rich. Auften Heires of James Parker hold a Meffuage, Gar-
Rich. Lawrance den & Dove houfe late Jn0. Parkers lying over
farmer againft the Parfonage Gate Henry Vincent
farmer at
nowe Rich Huffam Edmonde Baker — a tenement w'h a garden con-
taing 21 perches late Jn0. Whitfields in the
high Street
Willm Friende— a Kitchen wth half a ftable
conts 8 perches being parcell of the Lords
tenement at the corner houfe leading from the
Crofs to the Churchwardes
nowe John Robins Roger Church's widow — a crofte contg 5 roods ;
to a clofe belonging to the Awmery Eaft, to the
Highway weft
Said widow likewife for two acres in Walton
nowe John Whitfeild. .... . Pyfing — holds two tenements
w'h their gardens conts 35 Perches in right of
his wife Thos. Whitfeilds widow <
Said .... Pyfing likewife for \ an
acre in Walton (
Said .... Pyfing likewife for 3
Roods in Walton c
Said .... Pyfing likewife for a gar
den containing 1 Rood & 14 Perches
called Howtings 17
William Parromor — a tenem'. & garden plotte
late Silvefter Goulds in the Street leading to
., - ¦ the Church
Now Wm Parromor John Harrys in right of his wife the widow
of Jn°. Paramor, pays for a tenem1 w'h a
garden contg ^ an acre 14 perches wherein the
faid John dwelt alfo one acre in Walton, alfo
an ^ acre late Silvefter Gold's, alfo a garden
-v.-. there containing 10 perches
Saufferaie Parromor pays for a tenement and gar
den contain8 22 perches late Wm. Stones &

2 11

1 2

3 4
1

2 9

1 6|

4 9i

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5i

John Arrowes lying in the high Sreet adjoin
ing to a tenem* in the occupation of Tho5.
Friend being Rob'. Paramors
Now Thos. Frynd Roger Frende holds a Tenem' and a garden con
tains 23 perches which is now a Stable & lies
over againft his houfe in the High Street, & wch
he lately bought of Rob'. Frende formerly one
Fydyans

Almery Manerfn
in Eaftry

Thos. Horffield

Richd. Stacy

Jn°. Kite
Abraham Stuppel
Morris

Total of the Rents

Stephen Thomfon Tenem' & garden in Eaftry
Heirs of Andrew Whitfeild, Tenem' & garden
at the lower end of Eaftry Street
Thomas Freind Tenem' & garden at ye fame place

2I

1 7

" A Rentell made yfc 20th day of Auguft 1633 of all the
Quittrents of money due to the faid Mannor yeerly/' s. d.
Imprimis Mich1. Auften Houfe & garden in
Eaftry Street 2 2
Heirs of Wm. Friend late Gilbert Wright for a
houfe & garden on the Eaftfide of Eaftry
Street 1 2
Heirs of Mr. Hammon for the butchers fhop in
Eaftry 6
Thos. Huffam for the Bull in Eaftry 1 2
Heirs of Arnold modo Mr. Nicolls for a Houfe
& certain Lands in Brook Street in Eaftry 3 4
Heirs of Roger Church modo Mr. Parbo for an
acre of land in Eaftry called the Play clofe 3 4
Jofua Parromer Tenem' & garden oppofite the
Smiths forge 4
Jofua Parromer nuper Thomas Berry jure uxoris
ejus for another Tenem' & garden at the fame
place

4 3

71

Sum

J4 Sh

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After much inquiry I can learn little or nothing about the payment of
thefe quit rents in modern times, and they would feem to have lapfed,
owing probably to their very fmall amount.
The prefent Parfonage, which is a clean and comfortable looking, red
brick houfe was built in a.d. 1825, on much the fame fite as the old
houfe, defcribed by Mr. Boteler in the following terms : " The Parfonage
Houfe is large and ancient. In it, as well as in Eaftry Court, is a fpacious
Hall. In the old Parlour window, now a lumber-room, is a fhield of
arms in painted glafs, containing Parthericke impaling Quarterly ift and
4th Gu. within a border fa. fpotted with Bezants a demy Lion argent,
for the family of Line according to Harris — 2nd and 3rd Ar. 3 Mullets
fable, for Hamerton." In a.d. 1573 Wm. Parthericke farmed the Aumbry
lands and lived in the houfe. He defcribes himfelf, as we have feen, as
Willus Parthericke ffermor there. From the parifh regifters it appears that
he buried his wife Alice in a.d. i 570 ; but he must have married in no
long time after, as a fon Edward was born to him in a.d. 1573. The
feveral tenants of the parfonage, after Parthericke, would feem to
have belonged to the families here named in fucceffion. Argent — Denne
— Fuller — Rammell — George — Singleton. The prefent tenant is Mr.
George Terry.
Preceding onwards a few fteps we reach the Church, which will be
more particularly defcribed hereafter. And now, leaving the Church on
our right hand, and the Schools at fome little distance on our left, we enter
the gates of Eastry Court, once the ancient feat of the Kings of Kent,
the fcene of the murder of the young princes Ethelbert and Etheldred,
the favourite refort of Archbifhop Becket, and his hiding place for fome
days after his flight from Northampton, and now a large farm belonging
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their eftates by the Ecclefiastical Commiffioners in a.d. 1868, chofe to
keep this in their own hands. The lands formerly attached to the Court
confifted of 587a. or. 29p., which were all in Eaftry, excepting fome
272 acres in Worth. At prefent, however, there are only 416a. ir. i9p.
attached to the Court, the reft having been fold. About 21 acres of this
are pafture and brook, the reft arable.
The houfe, which is large, and probably at one time covered the three
fides of a fquare, ftill gives evidence of great antiquity, although from time
to time it has undoubtedly undergone much repair and great alterations.
Mr. Boteler fays that in his time could be feen " in the fouth wall the
letters T.A.N, in flint in large capitals— the initials of Thomas and Ann
Nevinfon." Mr. Ifaac Bargrave new fronted the houfe, and his fon, alfo
named Isaac (who was born in 1721, bred to the profeffion ofthe law and
practifed for fome years in London with considerable fuccefs), put the
whole in complete repair about the year a.d. 1786. . In doing this he
pulled down a confiderable part of the ancient building, confifting of ftone
walls of confiderable ftrength and thicknefs, and brought to light fome
ancient Gothic doorways of ftone.
The chapel, mentioned by Philipott, and which had been reftored by
Henry de Eaftria when Prior, is at the eaft end of the houfe, and for
many years paft has been ufed as a kitchen. The eaft window confifting
of three compartments, may ftill be traced, although the fpaces between
the mullions are bricked up, and the whole is overgrown with creepers.
At the north-weft angle of the houfe, juft under the roof, there is a fmall
chamber wholly dark, there being no window in it, although there is an
ample fireplace. The approach to it is fomewhat intricate, and were the
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would not even be fufpected. It is not unlikely that this fecret chamber
may have been ufed as a hiding place in former times, perhaps during the
Civil Wars ; fince it does not appear to be fufficiently old to have formed
Becket's place of concealment. In the cellar there is a fubterranean paffage,
fuppofed (and with every probability) to lead to the Church. This,
however, has been bricked up for fome years, as it was considered danger
ous. George Gardner, Efqre., the prefent tenant, has thoroughly repaired
and confiderably improved the houfe, buildings, and garden, which laft
he has laid out with much tafte and fkill. From the garden a doorway
leads into the churchyard, whence the inhabitants of the Court formerly
gained access to the Church by the north door, now clofed up. The
fucceffive leffees of Eaftry Court, from the 34th year of Henry viii.,
when Chriflopher Nevinfon, LL.D.,* was leflee, have belonged to the
families of: —
Nevinfon till a.d. 1 6 17 — Palmer in a.d. 1641 — Bargrave from a.d.
1647 to A.D. 1805 — Bridger till a.d. 1859. —
The Nevinfons, originally of Bridgend,\ in Wetherell, co. Cumberland,
refided for many years at Eaftry Cozirt, and many of them lie buried in
the Church. They bore for their arms, Argent, a chevron between 3 eagles
difplayed azure.
The Bargraves who, for more than 150 years, lived at Eaftry Court,
were originally of Bridge, and afterwards of Patrixbourne. Their ancef-
tor, Dr. Ifaac Bargrave, Dean of Canterbury (a.d. 1625 — ¦A-r>' I^43),
was the younger brother of John Bargrave who built Bifrons. Their
arms were — Or, on a pale gules a fword, the blade argent pomelled or, on a
* See Hafted, vol. iv., p. 217, note k.
f Hafted, vol. iv., p. 217, note k, where he gives much information refpe&ing the
families of Nevinfon and Bargrave. For Arms and Pedigree of the Bargraves fee alfo
Arch. Cant., vol. iv., p. 252.

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chief vert 3 bezants. A Court Leet and Court Baron are fuppofed to be
held every year for the Manor of Eaftry Court, which claims over the
greater portion of the Parifh of Eaftry, part of the Parifhes of Word,
Ripple, and Ewell, a great quantity of land in the Borough of Ged-
dinge in the Parifh of Wotton ; the Borough of Barnfole in the
Parifh of Staple ; the Borough of Craythorne in the Parifh of Til-
manftone ; the Denne of Toppenden in the Parifh of Witterfham ; the
Denne of Bromeland in the Parifh of Stone ; the Dennes of Sarrenden and of
Great Walkherft, in the Parifh of Benenden ; and the Dennes of Little Hen-
fell, of Pipifden, of Foxhole, and of Congeherft, all in the Parifh of Hawk-
herft. The value of the quit rents, or rents of affize, paid to the lords of the
Manor in a.d. 1693, amounted to £56 18s. g%d. At the end of a rental
made in that year by John Coppin, gent., steward of the manor, and fworn
by the homage then and there prefent, viz., William Drayfon, Benj. Kite,
William ffalkner, John Blowne, Michael Auften, Richard Woodwarr,
Thomas Elgar, Thomas Pettit, and Thomas Stace,* occurs the following ;
" Memorand that uppon the death of every Tenant there is due by the
cuftome of this Mannor to the Lords for a Releife the moytie of their
quittrents. And uppon every alienacon of lands holden of this Mannor
whereby an eftate of freehold paffeth there is due to the Lords the moytie
of the quittrent of the lands foe aliened in the name of a releife. John
Coppin, Steward."f
The Manor Pound is fituated at the end of the Eaftry Court barns and
ftables, juft oppofite the Schools, and on the right hand of Church Lane,
as you go down towards the ftreet.
But let us now retrace our fteps as far as the Crofs, and turn down
Brook Street, which is the fteepeft hill in Eaftry, and prefents a very
* Botel. MSS., vol. A., p. 200. f BoteL MSS-> vol-> A- P- 2I4-

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pleafing appearance as you look down towards the Lynch Bank, through
the avenue of limes, birches, and other trees, which overhang the road
on either fide.
Halfway down the hill on the right hand fide, we come to a neat
little cottage embowered in trees called Firbank, which has been con-
ftructed out of two fmall cottages with confiderable ingenuity and much
tafte by the Miffes Wray, who hold a leafe of it from the Boteler family.
The Rev. H. N. Bernard, chaplain of Eaftry union, is the prefent occupant.
A little lower down on the fame fide of the way is Brook Houfe, a
handfome old-fafhioned building of brick, Handing on a little plateau of
greenfward, from which the ground falls rapidly away towards the Lynch.
It is furrounded on all fides by trees and fhrubs, fingly and in plantations,
which bear evident marks of great care, pains, and fkill having been
bellowed upon their culture, and which make this one of the lovelieft
and moft picturefque fpots in Eaftry. This is now, and has been for
many generations the residence of the Boteler family, the defcendants of
the Botelers or Butlers of Butler's Fleet in Afh, and related to the family
of the fame name formerly of Graveney in this county, but long extinct.
They have in their poffeffion the original grant of arms, made to their
anceftor Richard Boteler of Sandwich, in a.d. 1470, by Thomas Holm,
Norroy ; which is fuppofed to be the earliest grant of arms to a
private individual now extant, and was exhibited a few years ago at a
meeting of the Society of Antiquaries. The name Boteler was at
one time written Botiller, and again the name was often pronounced
Butler. It is probably with fome reference to the name that they bear
for their arms Argent, on 3 efcutcheons fable, three covered cups or. The
Brook Street property, confifting of about 22 acres of arable and pasture
land, now let to Baker, farmer, formerly belonged to Nicholas Richardfon,

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of Sandwich, jurate, who, in a.d. 1612, fold it to Sir Roger Nevinfon
of Eaftry, Knt. Sir Roger died in a.d. 1625, and the year following his
widow Mary married William Argent, Efqre., then of Eaftry Parfonage, but
afterwards of Broxbourne, co. Hertford. In a.d. 1639 Argent, in con
junction with his wife Mary — who Angularly enough figns herfelf Mary
Nevinfon — conveyed the eftate to Joftiua Paramor, of Eaftry, whofe fon,
Jofhua, in Jany., a.d. 1682, conveyed it to Richard Boteler, of Eaftry,
Gent., youngeft fon of Thomas Boteler, Gent., of Hardenden, deceafed.
Richard Boteler died in May the fame year inteftate, leaving an only fon
Thomas, who, in a.d. 1710, pulled down the old houfe and built the
prefent handfome and commodious ftructure. Thomas Boteler died in
a.d. 1737, leaving by will the eftate to his eldeft fon Thomas for life,
with remainder in tail male. In a.d. 1768, Thomas Boteler alfo died,
leaving one fon Richard, and four daughters, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, and
Catherine. But Richard, dying in a.d. 1773 unmarried and inteftate, the
eftate came to his four fillers; who, in 1774, in conjunction with their
hufbands, conveyed the property to their coufin, William Boteler, Efqre.,
the antiquary, to whofe MSS. collections for the Parifh and Hundred of
Eaftry I am fo largely indebted, and of which Hafted alfo has made much
ufe in his History of Kent. From the above-named Mr. William Boteler
the property has defcended regularly to Richard Boteler, Efqre., the
prefent poffeffor.
At the bottom of the hill is the Lynch, a good old houfe, with bay
windows looking out upon a neatly kept lawn, on which are fome fine
trees. It is conveniently fheltered from the Eaft and South Eaft winds
by the Lynch Bank, which rifes immediately above it. The land belong
ing to this property is but fmall in extent, confifting only of fome 14
acres. The eftate formerly belonged to Roger Whitehead, from whom it

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paffed to Morgan Lodge, Gent., who, in a.d. 1695, demifed it to Richard
Knight. In a.d. 1 7 1 6 Knight fold the property to Thomas Fuller, gent.,
who built the prefent houfe and refided there himfelf. On his death it
came into the poffeffion of his daughter Mary, a fingle lady, who, dying
in a.d. 1783, bequeathed it by will to her nephews Thomas and Edward
Rammell. But Edward Rammell, dying in a.d. 1785, his brother Thomas
became the fole poffeffor. He enlarged • the houfe, and refided there for
fome years. Upon his death the property came to his fifter Elizabeth
Rammell, the founder of the Charity of that name ftill exifting in the
parifh. She was an intelligent, but fomewhat eccentric person. On one
occafion, during her occupancy of the Lynch, the houfe was broken into by
burglars, who would feem to have carefully laid their plans before hand.
Towards the morning of a dark and windy night, they rode into Eaftry,
and difmounting near the top of the Lynch Bank, faftened their horfes to
the trees. Thence they proceeded on foot to the houfe, where they found
Mrs. Rammell, who always fat up late, in the act of doling the fhutters
of the lower room before retiring to reft. The fervants, it muft be men
tioned, were fleeping in a detached portion of the houfe, beyond the
reach of any alarm. Anticipating Mrs. Rammell's intention of putting
down the bar, they ran a pike through the window and fo prevented it,
at the fame time flightly wounding her on the arm. She raifed no alarm,
and the thieves at once effected an entrance. Setting a guard over her, they
ranfacked the houfe, and difcovered a considerable fum of money, which
they carried off, together with a quantity of valuable plate. Some of the
plate the robbers brought back before they flarted with their plunder, and
other articles were found on the Lynch Bank. A large black cheft contain
ing crowbars, mafks, &c, was feen next morning floating in Butfole pond,
and this the robbers muft have been obliged to leave behind them, probably
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tracked acrofs the country to Maidflone, the purfuers being aided in dif-
tinguifhing the tracks by finding that one ofthe robbers' horfes had on a fhoe
of peculiar fhape. The robbers were eventually fecured, and one of them
named Webb was even hung for the part he had taken in robbing the Lynch.
The Lynch is now the property of the Boteler family, and is in the
occupation of Mrs. Chas. Turner.
Paffing the feveral cottages at Puddle-dock and Farthing-gate, and afcend-
ing the hill, we come to Little Hay, a fmall farm of about 20 acres,
formerly the property of a family named Auften. John and Robert
Auften fold the eftate to Lewis, Lord Rockingham, from whom it
defcended to the Earl of Guilford, who, by his will dated 1779, directed it
to be fold. In 1802 R. Tournay Bargrave, Efqre., purchafed the property,
but fold it again in 1809 to Mr. Richard Half or d, Junr. — thence it paffed
to Mr. Solomon Wood in 18 17 — then to Mrs. Anna Hills, who, in 1851,
fold the property to W. Boteler, Efqre.
Proceeding onwards from Little Hay, we foon reach the ftone which
marks the boundary of our parifh in this direction, whence a green way
runs to Updown, where the boundary of the parifh paffes through the porch
of Updown Houfe, the residence of W. H. James, Efqre., J. P.
And now turning to the left, along the road leading to Ham and Word,
a few fteps bring us to Great Hay, a farm containing about 80 acres,
once the property of Robert Marfh, and then, in a.d. 1693, of Richard
May, Gent. In a.d. 1722 the heirs of Richard May alienated it to Mrs.
Ann Payne, who brought it in marriage to  Dowdefwell, of
London, and furviving him, left it by will to her nephew' Edward Stratton,
of London, Efqre., whofe widow afterwards married J ohn Brickenden, M.D.,
Efqre., one of the phyficians to the Weftminfter Infirmary. Mrs. Sarah
Brickenden, after the death of her hufband, fold the eftate, which fhortly
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Once more let us retrace our fteps to the Crofs. Here, on the left
hand of the road leading to Butfole, has flood for many generations an
inn called " The Five Bells." The following is a lift of " mine hofts "
from the year 1693 : —
1693, Michael Sampfon.
1707, John Cock.
1733, William Vidgeon.
1769, Daniel Vidgeon.
1 77 1, William Pittock, Junr.
1806, Widow Pittock.
1822, John Wilfon.
Widow Wilfon.
1848, Edward Fagg.
1853, Jofeph Silver.
1856, Elias Culver.
1866, George Foord.
Further down the ftreet, on the oppofite fide of the way, there was
formerly a fmall farm, once the property of the Idley family. At the
beginning of this century it formed part of the poffeffions of Mrs.
Elizabeth Rammell, of the Lynch, and is now the property of Mrs.
Benjamin Moat, widow. The houfe, which is old and fubftantial-looking,
is now in three cottages — of the land fome has been fold, and fome is
cultivated as gardens.
Adjoining this property on the fame fide of the way is the Fairfield,
where, fince a.d. 1450, there has been held annually on .£. Matthew's
Day (fince the change of flyle it has been held on Old S. Matthew's Day)
a ftatute fair. The chief bufinefs done at this fair is now in cattle and
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"Zion Chapel," erected in 1824; and a little lower down we come to
Southbank, a neat cottage refidence, ftanding in a pretty little garden
and fhrubbery, and commanding a very pleafing view towards Bettefhanger
and Updown. It forms part of the Boteler property, and is now in the
occupation of Mrs. Voules. At the bottom of the hill, paft the turn
pike, we come to Butfole Pond, a large pond formerly on the left
hand of the road, but altered to its prefent pofition during the con-
ftrudtion of the Dover, Walderfhare, and Sandwich turnpike road. It
derives its name of Butfole, firft from the circumftance that in the
days of archery, when every Englifh man and boy was expected to be
expert in the ufe of the bow, the archery butts were erected near this
fpot, on a portion of land now belonging to the Boteler property and
ftill called the Butts ; and, fecondly, from an old Eaftry family named
Sole (mentioned by Hafted, vol. iv., p. 224, note s.). Or may it have
been Butts hole, the hole or pit near the butts ? I leave this for the
folution of my readers.
Turning to the right along the valley we come to Wendeftone,
Wenftone, or Wenfon, a hamlet of two houfes, one of which is a fmall
farm of about 50 acres, formerly belonging to one Nicholas Freefby,
afterwards to the Rammell family, then to the Petmans — now Henniker.
Afcending the hill, and crofting the down, we come to Shrinkling,
commonly called Shingleton, a farm confifting of about 237 acres
in Eaftry, and 200 in Nonnington ; great part of it being very light
and chalky land. It is in the Borough of Harnden, and from the
moft remote times it has always accompanied the Knowlton eftate. In
Shingleton wood, near the fouth eaft corner, were formerly to be traced
the foundations of the chapel referred to in the Endowment of the
Vicarage of Eaftry (fee " Appendix"). Mr. Boteler thus writes of it in April,

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a.d. 1784 : — " Upon a diligent fearch I have difcovered the foundation of
the Chapel of Shryngelyngg juft within the wood  It ftands
eaft and weft, is in length withinfide 38 feet — in breadth 19 feet, walls
uniformly 2 feet in thicknefs." " Upon clearing away the earth the plaf-
tering withinfide is ftill to be feen. The building was of the fame fize
throughout without any diftinction of Nave or Chancel." Thefe foun
dations of the chapel are now grown over with grafs, and no trace of
them is to be feen ; but numerous wells — indicating the exifience of a
confiderable hamlet here in days gone by — have, from time to time, been
difcovered in the wood. The Chapel of Shrinkling had fallen into decay
previous to the diffolution of the Priory of Chrift Church {temp. Hen. viii.)
Probably on the lands becoming attached to the Knowlton eftate, the
Chapel was difufed by the Lords of the Manor of Knowlton, as having
their own parifh church clofe at hand. Shingleton farm, on which is the
Wood called Pilholt, is now the property of Admiral D'Aeth, of Knowlton
Cottrt, and is in the occupation of Mr. William Wilfon, farmer.
About a mile northward from Shingleton is the diftrict now commonly
called Harnden, or Hernden, but anciently written Hardenden, or
Heronden. Concerning the name, Mr. Boteler fays, — " I cannot find any
authority for Philipotts naming this place Heronden. That this hamlet,
as in other places, gave a furname to the principal family refiding there, and
that the Boteler family became poffeffed of it by marriage with the female
heir of that name, is exceedingly probable : but I have never, in writings
of any antiquity, met with it written Heronden, but conftantly Harden
den, Hardindenne, &c." {MS. C. pp. 157, 158.) Neverthelefs, would not
the arms of this family, Argent a heron with one talon erecl, gaping for
breath fable, feem to have fome reference to the name Heronden ? Hafted
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and that in the time of Robert Glover, Somerfet Herald, his portrait and
coat of arms in brafs remained fixed to his tombftone. This monument,
it is believed, ftill remains near the chancel, viz., towards the fouth end of
the crofs aifle, and nearly in the Chapel of .S". John Baptift. The brafs,
however, has long fince difappeared. The diftrict of Heronden, containing
fome 330 acres, is in the upper half hundred of Eaftry, and pays quitrent
to the Manor of Adifham. It now confifts of three farms, the Upper,
Middle, and Lower.
This property anciently belonged to the family of the fame name ; and
fo far back as a.d. 1228, we find one Roberhis de Hardin dene owning
land here. From the Hardindens the eftate paffed, probably by marriage, to
the Boteler s ; who, however, did not acquire it all at one time, but would
appear to have added to the original eftate by feveral fmall purchafes, until
at length the whole diftrict of Heronden belonged to their family. For
an account ofthe Botelers fee Brook Houfe, where I have fpoken of them
more at length. It continued with the Botelers for many generations, until
Jonathan Boteler, the eldeft fon of Richard Boteler, dying unmarried in
a.d. 1626, the whole property came to his only furviving brother Thomas
Boteler, of Rowling, who upon this removed to Heronden, and in no long
time after fold that part of the eftate now called the Middle Farm to
Henry Parnell, from whom it came into the poffeffion of the family of
Reynolds, who, about the middle ofthe laft century, fold it to John Dekewer,
of Hackney, Efqre., whence to Frampton — now Mr. Stephen Clark, yeo
man. It confifts of about 116 acres, and is now in the occupation of the
prefent proprietor.
Another part of the ancient Heronden eftate, now called the Lower
Farm, after being heavily mortgaged, was fold by Thomas Boteler to .
. . . Capell, from whom it paffed into the family of Johnfon. In

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a.d. 1693, it was in the poffeffion of Thomas J ohnfon, Gent. Daniel
Kelley (eldeft fon of John Kelley, who bought the Upper Farm, of whom
hereafter) purchafed this farm of Edward J ohnfon, and by will, dated 1 1
Sept., 1724, bequeathed it to his fecond fon Richard, who, dying in
1768, the property came to his two fons Richard and William. William
died at Harnden, and was buried in Eaftry Church ; Richard died at Can
terbury, and was buried at S. Stephen's, near Canterbury. He left this
property, together with his other eftates, to his widow, on whofe death it
came to their only child, Elizabeth Clariffa Kelley (now Croafdill).
The Kelleys appear to have been a refpectable old family originally de-
fcended from the Irifh family of O' Kelley. They have monuments in
the Churches of Eaftry, S. Mary's Sandwich, and S. Lawrence; and in
Southwell and York Min Iters there were formerly memorials of this
family in the windows. They bore for their arms : Argent two lions ram
pant combatant gules, holding in their paws a caftle in chief vert.
The remaining portion of the Heronden eftate, — now in the occupa
tion of Mrs. Grimaldi, and commonly called Harnden, or Hernden
Houfe, — confifting of about 106 acres, remained in the poffeffion of
Thomas Boteler above-mentioned until the time of his death in 1650. But
being, by his will, directed to be fold for the purpofe of making a provi-
fion for his wife Johan (Joan), and five furviving children, it was accord
ingly conveyed, in 1657, to J°hn Kelley, of Afh. In 1669 John Kelley
bequeathed the eftate to his fon Daniel, after charging it with £\o per
annum to his eldeft fon John, and ^"20 per annum to his fecond fon Jeremy.
Daniel Kelley died poffeffed of it in 1733, and by his laft will bequeathed
it to his eldeft fon Daniel, who, dying in 1751, left the property to his fon
William, who, in 1766, pulled down the ancient manfion and erected the
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bury, on much the fame fite, and a few years after, viz., in 1784, alienated
it to John Harvey, Efq., Captain in the Navy, who occafionally refided
at it, and who, dying June 30th, of the wounds he received in an engage
ment with the French fleet, on ift June, was buried in this church, July
5th, a.d. 1794.
Captain Harvey was of that ancient family which, as early as Edward
IV.'s reign, were poffeffed of the Manor of Barfield, now Great and
Little Barville in the parifh of Tilmanftone, and which has given fo many
of its fons to the fervice of our country. The family were afterwards of
Eythorne, then of Dane Court, in Tilmanftone, and afterwards of Barfrefton.
" Capt. John Harvey," fays Hafted, " was born at Elmington, in the
neighbouring Parifh of Eythorne in 1741 ; his singular courage and
attention to his duty marked his conduct throughout life, and never fhone
more conspicuous than in the memorable engagement of June 1, above-
mentioned, in which, being commander of the Brunfwick, of 74 guns,
he fuftained the fire of three French line-of-battle fhips, and destruction
feemed to menace him on every fide ; but in this terrible conflict, by his
intrepid bravery his fhip fingly funk one fuperior in force, and left two
others abfolute wrecks upon the water ; which individual conduct may
truly be admitted to have contributed very materially to that victory,
upon which the fate of his country in a great meafure depended, and will
ever render. his memory dear to it." By Capt. Harvey's will the Harnden
eftate was devifed to his wife Judith for her life, with remainder to his
eldeft fon Henry Wife Harvey, from whom a portion of it has defcended
regularly to his great grandfon John James Harvey, Efqre., J.P.
The Harveys bear for their arms, Argent, on a chevron gules, three
crefcents or, between three lion's gambs erafed fable, armed of the fecond.
Referring again to the eftate of Harnden, Mr. Boteler fays : — " In
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1289 I find a part of Harnden lands were called Woghope. Richard de
Woghope was then the principal poffeffor — perhaps this family by extend
ing its poffeffions, might affume the general name of Harden den.
Woghope, I think, I have fince feen written Woodhope. Lands in the
fouth part of Harnden Bottom are called Woodhope now." In the laft
century there was found in thefe grounds, ftuck on the tooth of a harrow,
a gold fignet ring, which weighs 19 pennyweights, and has the Boteler
arms, and the motto do not for to repent engraven upon it. This is ftill
in the poffeffion of the family, who have been kind enough to fhow it
me. And now proceeding about a mile northwards acrofs the fields we
come to Selveftone, Selftone, or as it is now called Selfon. This diftrict
contains Upper Selfon, Lower Selfon, Wells, and Gore, all in the Manor of
Adifham. Upper Selfon, confifting of about no acres, all in Eaftry
parifh, formerly belonged to the family of Harftete, from whom it was
purchafed by Mr. Richard Harvey, of Weft Studdall, who refided here
and died poffeffed of it a.d. 1675. His fon Thomas refided here like-
wife, and dying poffeffed of it, a.d. 1696, bequeathed it to his fon Robert
Harvey, who, in a.d. 1733, fold it to Sir Robert Ftirnefe, Bart., from whom
it has defcended with the other eftates, and is now the property of the
Earl of Guilford, and in the occupation of Mr. Belfey, farmer.
Lower Selfon confifts of two farms, one of which, containing about
70 acres, was formerly in the poffeffion of the Whitfields, a family of
yeomen of property in this neighbourhood, from whom it came into the
Manwood family, then to that of Hardres. Thence it paffed to . . .
Laflett, who in turn fold it to W. F. Woollafton, Efqre, the prefent pro
prietor. The other farm, containing about 60 acres, was for many generations

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in the poffeffion of the family of Philpot. It is now the property of Mr.
Beal, yeoman, who refides there.
Wells, a farm of about 70 acres, was formerly the property of the
Friends and Whitfields, from whom it paffed to the Terry s — then Gibbs.
This alfo is now the property of W. F. Woollafton, Efqre.
Gore, a fmall farm confifting of a meffuage and 2 1 acres, belonged, in
1 576, to the family of Ower. In a.d. 1 5 94 Richard Ower -fettled it on his fon
Boys Ower, who by will, in 1623, bequeathed it to his three fons, Edward,
Matthew, and Thomas. Edward and Matthew, the two furvivors, in 1641,
conveyed the premifes to Richard Harvey, of Selfon, gent., whofe grandfon
Robert, with others ofthe family, conveyed it in 1735, to John Paramor,
Junr., of Sandwich, and afterwards of Statenborough, gent., from whom it
paffed to Wm. Boys, Efqre. It now forms part of the Statenborough
eftate. The large farm at Gore, now called Gore Farm, formerly belonged to
Thos. Friend. The houfe was built in the laft century. This is now the
property of Mr. George Terry, of the Parfonage.
And now, retracing our fteps to the High Street, we come into
Woodnefborough Lane, where, in the garden of John Foord, bricklayer,
there is the entrance to a moft ingenioufly conftructed Cavern or grotto,
dug out of the chalk by the father of the prefent Foord, and containing
numerous paffages, cells, and other ramifications, which extend for a con
fiderable diftance under the adjoining lands. It is fometimes lighted up
with candles on the Fair day, or fome other like occafion, when it prefents
a very fairy-like appearance. It is really well worth a vifit.
The Union Workhoufe, of which I have as yet made no mention,
ftands in Mill Lane. It was originally erected in a.d. 1794, for the
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68 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Lydden, W alder Oiare, Knowlton, Bettefhanger,' Swingfield, Denton, Woo t ton,
and Chillenden {Hafted., vol. iv. p. 224). The prefent Union was built in
1 835-6, on the fyftem known as Sir Francis Head's, and was firft occupied
in 1836. The following 31 parifhes are thofe now included in the Union,
viz. : — Afh, Barfreftone, Bettefhanger, Chillenden, Deal, Eaftry, Elmftone,
Eythorne, Goodneftone, Ham, Knowlton, Great Mongeham, Little Monge-
ham, Nonington, Northbourne, Prefton, Ripple, S. Bartholomew S. Cle
ment S. Mary and S. Peter, Sandwich, Sholden, Staple, Stourmouth, Sutton,
Tilmanftone, Walderfitare, Walmer, Wingham, Woodnefborough, and Worth.
The following are the names of thofe who have filled the office of Mafter
of the Workhoufe up to the prefent date, viz. : — Meffrs. Watts, Lafflet,
King, Walker, Fiftier, Rigden, and Hetherington. The ufual number of
inmates is from about 250 to 300 ; but there are now more than 400.
On the oppofite fide of the road Hands the Wefleyan Methodist Chapel,
erected in 1821, and clofe adjoining are the fix cottages of the
Greville' s Charity, of which a more particular account, as well of the
paft and prefent occupants, as of the original foundation, will be found
under " The Parochial Charities."
At the corner of Mill Lane, juft where you come once more to
the Crofs, flands the houfe and buildings of the Crofs Farm. This
belonged for many generations to the Botelers of Hardenden. In a.d.
1630 Thomas Boteler, Gent, fold the premifes, confifting of a meffuage
and about 50 acres, to James Franklyn, of Maidftone, Gent., and Arthur
Franklyn, of Badlefnere, Gent., who, in 1638, conveyed it to Richard
Marfh, of Maidftone, Gent., who, in 1654, conveyed it to Thomas Kite, of
Dover, mariner, in whofe family it remained for many generations, until
it was at length repurchafed by the Boteler family.
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pulled down, which was acquired by the faid Thomas Kite, of Eaftry
aforefaid, in the year 1680, paffed with the reft of the property to his
defcendants, and at length came into the poffeffion of the Botelers in the
year 1837. The Crofs Farm now contains about 74 acres, and is in the
occupation of Baker, farmer.
And now let us retrace our fteps as far as the turnpike on the Sandwich
Road, and turn down the lane which leads to Felderland (commonly
called Fenderland) and Worth.
A little diftance along this road, on the left fide of the way,
we come to a comfortable-looking old-fafhioned houfe, with high-
walled garden, and a few acres of land attached to it. This was formerly the
property of the Philpot family — then it came to the Dares. On the death
of Mrs. Dare, Felderland was purchafed by Mr. Henry Matfon, of Sand
wich, banker, who added about 8 acres of land to it ; and, on his death in
1 8 1 5, it was fold to Mr. John Hoile, of Sandwich, brewer, who even
tually conveyed the property to Mr. John Harnett, the prefent owner and
occupier, in the year 1850. There are now about n acres of land be
longing to Felderland. So in and out, and round about,
Through mead and copfe, by park and pale,
Paft grange and hall, andftede and mote,
By bank and dyke, der hill and dale,
On foot, on horfe, they take their courfe,
Until the day begins to fail. — YE Pilgrimage.

Wtyz CJjurtf), Bommtcal Ctrcle,
fvmot&, ©rnammte, Set.

CHAP. III.

" This is none other but the Houfe of God, and this is the Gate of Heaven"
GEN. xxviii. 17.
THE CHURCH, which is fituated in a fomewhat commanding
pofition on rifing ground, is dedicated to vS\ Mary the B. Virgin.
It confifts of a fine Chancel, a Nave with north and fouth aifles, a fouth
Porch, and weft Tower, with the aifles prolonged on either fide of if.
The Tower and weft doorway would appear to be the moft ancient por
tions of the prefent church : for that there have been a fucceffion of
churches on the fame fite admits of little doubt. The earliest of thefe
was probably built by one of the Saxon kings of Kent, whilft as yet
their palace was at Eaftry Court. Thus we may fairly claim for our
Church a royal foundation.
From the narrow zigzag moulding round the femicircular arch of the
weft door, and certain diaper patterns cut in the ftones of the tympanum of
the fame doorway, as well as from the folid piers which fupport the tower
arch, we may judge the lower part of the tower to date from the end of
trie Xlth or beginning of the Xllth century.

Interior of Eastry Church

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 71
The ground outfide the weft door has been flightly raifed in recent
times, and you now defcend into the tower by five ftone fteps. The
extenfion of the fouth aifle, which is now curtained off and ufed as a
veftry, is only acceffible from the tower : the former entrance into it from
the fouth aifle being blocked up by a huge buttrefs, which the fettlement
of the fouth piers of the tower rendered neceffary for the fafety of this
portion of the church. Mr. White fuggefts that " this fettlement may
have been caufed, and the buttrefs required, by the breaking through of
the arch for this extenfion ;" but Mr. W. S. Walford thinks that the
extenfion was added to hide the buttrefs. The corresponding extenfion
of the north aifle is of later date, and formerly had a floor dividing it
into two ftories, the upper one being ufed as a Parvife or Priest's Cham
ber. Mr. White thinks the fouth extenfion may have been added as a Bap-
tiftery, and the north as a Galilee with a Parvife over it. The organ now
Hands in this north extenfion ; as alfo a fhort flight of wooden fteps
giving accefs to the tower ftaircafe at the northeaft exterior angle of thai:
ftructure. This door of the tower ftaircafe was evidently at one time
outfide the church. At the northeaft interior angle of the tower this
ftaircafe projects into the church, and above the arches it is carried acrofs
the angle upon a deeply receffed arch and corbel table, with very intereft-
ing detail.
South of the organ ftands the font, new in 1869. It confifts of a
bowl of Caen ftone carved, fupported by four pillars of red granite placed
at the corners, with a central fhaft of light grey Purbeck.
The Nave, with its clereftory, is of the early Englifh period, and is
divided from the aifles by " an arcade of fix." The four pillars on either
fide are circular with moulded capitals, one only excepted, viz., the fecond
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72 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
dating from the early part of the XlVth century. On the fouthweft
face of this pillar, immediately below the moulding of the capital, is the
dominical circle defcribed hereafter.
Above the arcades are five clereftory windows, with rounded trefoil
heads, placed over the spandrils of the arches : thofe on the fouth fide
being filled with modern " quarry " glafs. The lower and fide windows
of the nave, which are in three lights, with pointed trefoil heads, each
window being under a femicircular arch, are all of the late Decorated
period, with the exception of the two moft westerly ones in the north
aifle, which are Perpendicular. Many of thefe windows are filled with
modern ftained glafs, and the different dates at which they have been put
in will be found in the Appendix. The eaft end of the fouth aifle was
formerly a chapel with its own feparate altar dedicated to S. John the
Baptift ; and its pifcina ftill remains, although the ftone fhelf within it,
which ferved for a credence, has difappeared. At prefent the pulpit and
prayer-defk form a " two-decker " on the fouth fide of the chancel arch,
but it is hoped that in time thefe may be renewed and reftored to their
proper pofition, viz., the pulpit on the fouth fide of the arch, and the prayer-
defk as one of the flails, of which there were formerly eighteen in the
Chancel of this Church. Thefe were probably arranged in the fame way
as thofe in S. Clement's, Sandwich, that is to fay, feven on either fide of
the Chancel, and two " return " flails at the ends towards the weft.
The Rood-loft and fcreen, which at the Archbifhop's vifitation in a.d.
i 5 i 2, " lacked great reparation," have long fince difappeared, but indica
tions of them ftill remain, and their pofition may be traced. In this
loft hung the rood or large crucifix with a light conftantly burning
before it, and from hence the Gofpel and Epiftle were fometimes read,
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MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 73
line with the centre of the chancel arch, which is pointed with a chamfered
foffit. The arcades extend flightly beyond the line of the eaft wall of the
nave, which is finifhed with a fquare quoin intercepting the curve of
this arch. The eaft end of the north aifle was formerly the chapel of
the B. Trinity, and contains a credence and pifcina, 2. ftone corbel appa
rently for fupporting an image, and an Eafier fepulchre.
In the wall, on either fide above the chancel arch, are two fomewhat
unufual openings cut right through from the nave to the chancel, and
apparently intended to take away from the bare appearance of the large
blank wall above the arch. On the fide towards the nave thefe
openings are quartrefoil in shape, on the chancel fide they are fquare with
rounded trefoil heads.
Immediately above the arch are two rows of feven medallion Frescoes,
which will be defcribed hereafter.
The Chancel — which inclines considerably towards the north, and is,
therefore, not in a line with the nave — is raifed one ftep above it, and is
moftly paved with graveftones. It is a good fpecimen of fimple Early
Englifh ; all the windows, with one exception, belonging to that flyle.
On the north fide there are five lancet windows, and on the fouth four
lancets, and one two-light Decorated window, which was probably altered
from a lancet- in order to allow of the window-fill being ufed for the
fedilia. The lancets on the fouth fide are filled with fingle figures in
ftained glafs reprefenting respectively S. Peter, S. John the Apoftle and
Evangelift, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and the B. V. Mary
(reading from weft to eaft). The Sanctuary is raifed two fteps above the
reft of the chancel, and is feparated from it by a maffive oaken bar resting
on iron ftandards. In this High Chancel there are, Angularly enough,
no traces of a pifcina, though both the chapels in the nave have them. The
L

74 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
niche in the fouth wall which, meafuring 3ft. iin. by 2ft iin., was at one
time fuppofed to have been a credence and pifcina, has recently been exa
mined, and is now believed to have contained a paxbread* or a lift of bene
factors to the church, or perhaps a crucifix. Similar niches may ftill be feen
in the Churches of S. Clement's, Sandwich, v9. Mary Magdalene, Holloway,
Bath, and elfewhere. It is, I think, too fhallow to have contained an image.
On the fouth fide of the chancel there is a low and narrow prieft's door.
The prefent altar has been twice enlarged, and now meafures feven feet
in length, two feet and-a-half in width, and three feet and-a-quarter in
height. Under the High Altar — the Altar of Jesus, as it was called — there for
merly exifted a crypt, which was ufed as the Chapel of S. Mary the
Virgin, or " the Ladye Chapel." This is referred to in ancient wills and
other documents, fometimes as being in the church, and fometimes in the
churchyard : but the double defcription may eafily be accounted for, by the
fa<ft of its being in the church, and yet, perhaps, approached from the
churchyard, and not from the interior of the church like the other
chapels. The window (?) of this Chapel of S. Mary in the crypt, may
ftill be traced on the fouth fide of the exterior portion of the chancel wall.
It is almoft unneceffary to ftate that the crypt has long fince been filled in.
The eaft wall of the chancel is pierced with a triplet of lancet windows
(with fhafts and trifoliated excoinfon arches) which have been filled with
ftained glafs by the parifhioners and others within the laft few years (fee
Appendix). The fubjects of thefe three windows are as follows : 
* Ufed for conveying the " kifs of peace," and frequently made of filver or fome
other precious material. See Arch. Cant. vol. iv., pp. 226, 230, for mention of a filver
paxbread bequeathed, A.D. 141 7, by John Wotton, Mafter of the Collegiate Church of
All Saints, Maidftone, to the Altar of S. Thomas the Martyr.

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NORTH. middle. south.
(i) The Baptifm of our B- (i) The Refurrecfion. (i) The raifing of the
Lord. son of the widow of Nain.
(ii) The Crucifixion. (ii) 0ur R Lord,s agony
(ii) Our Saviour talking in the garden The difd.
with the woman of Samaria ,..„ „,, . . . . . nl« {Wnmn- An Ano-^1
.. (iii) The Adoration of the Ples lleePing- An Angel
at trie well. Maei from heaven appearing to
ftrengthen Him.
On the north fide of the altar, clofe to the eaft wall, there is an
aumbry, or locker, for the fafe keeping of the holy veffels, &c.
A little further to the weft, outfide the Sanctuary, there hangs, on an
iron crook driven into the north wall, an old helmet, which is furmounted
by the Nevinfon creft, viz., a wolf paffant ar.,pellettee, collared, lined, and
ringed or. Tradition ftates that the helmet was formerly accompanied by
a lance and pennon belonging to the fame ancient family many of whom
lie buried here (fee " The Monuments"). Mr. Boteler gives the following
traditional verfes concerning one of this family, as being current in Eaftry in
his day : — O brave Sir Roger Nevinfon
That with his fword did cut in fun-
Der tkefhoulder of Sir Harry
Becaufe he wouldn't his fifter marry.
And afks, Are thefe lines mere waggery, or can they have relation to any
tranfadtion previous to the marriage of his fifter Anne to Sir Henry
Crifpe ?
The following defcription of the Dominical Circle, which is on
the fouth-weft face of the odlagonal pillar, is taken from the Archaeological
Journal, and is by Wefton Styleman Walford, Efqre., a gentleman
who has often examined and carefully ftudied the various features of our
church.

76 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
" Mr. W. S. Walford exhibited a rubbing from a carving on a pillar
in Eaftry Church. It is a little more than five feet from the floor,
and at a convenient height confequently for inlpection, on the fouth-
weft face of an octagonal pillar (being the fecond pillar from the weft)
between the nave and the fouth aifle. It confifts (fee fketch) of three
concentric circles an inch apart, the outer one being eleven inches in
diameter. The inner and middle circles are divided by radii into 28
equal parts, and in each of the compartments fo formed between thefe
two circles is one of the firft feven letters of the alphabet, and above
every fourth is another of thefe letters in a compartment formed
between the middle and outer circles by the radii being there carried
through to the outer circle. In this manner the letters A, B, C, D,
E, F- G, are arranged fo that each of them occurs five times: but
the order of them is the reverfe of alphabetical, the letters between
the outer and middle circles being to be read immediately before
thofe over which they respectively ftand. Such is the order in which
the Dominical letters fucceed each other, the two letters one above the
other correfponding with thofe of the biffextile or leap years.
" As after every 28 years, which is the period of the folar cycle, the
Dominical letters occur again in the fame manner, that cycle has been
aptly reprefented by a circle divided into 28 parts. The refult was a table
whereby, if the two Dominical letters for any leap year were given, the
Dominical letter for any other year before or after it might be
readily found, according to the then ftate and understanding of the
Calendar. " The pillars of the church having been fcraped a few years ago, this
carving, which had been covered over, was brought to light again. The
lines and letters appear now but flightly incifed, the confequence probably

DOMINICAL CIRCLE IN EASTRY CHURCH.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 77
of the fcraping : but they may all be made out. Mr. Walford could not
learn that it had been explained before fince its difcovery, and, as far as
he has been able to afcertain, it is an unique example of fuch a table.
The church is a very good Specimen of plain early Englifh architecture,
but the pillar on which this carving exifts has the appearance of being
fomewhat more recent in ftyle than the others, as if, from fome caufe it
had been renewed, though it is hardly later than the early part of the
fourteenth century ; and, fince the letters are what are generally termed
Lombardic capitals, there is great reafon to think the carving, if not
contemporaneous was executed but a few years after the pillar itfelf." —
Archceological J ottrnal, vol. ix., p. 389.
The feven Medallion Frescoes, immediately over the chancel arch,
are defcribed by Mr. Walford in the following terms : —
" About 5 years ago I had occafion to call attention very briefly to the
Church at Eaftry, Kent, when I brought to the notice of the Inftitute a
table for finding the Sunday letter, which is incifed on one of the piers,
and of which a woodcut was given in the ix vol. of the Journal. On a
recent vifit I found fome remains of early mural painting had been dif
covered there in July laft. Only a fmall part was made out and that
alone continues any longer vifible ; yet, as it is of an unufual kind, I think
fome account of it may not be unacceptable.
" I would firft mention that, unlefs the tower be an exception, the
church is fubftantially Early Englifh throughout, though feveral windows
have been fince inferted, fome of them very recently, being restorations
effected with more than ordinary care. Befides the tower it confifts of a
nave with aifles and a chancel. At the eaft end of the latter is a triplet
of lancet windows with fhafts and trifolated excoinfon (or hood) arches,
and at the fides are fingle lancets, with the exception of the moft easterly

78 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
on the fouth fide, which is now a modern window of 2 lights, and the
original was probably of the fame kind. The . chancel arch is pointed
with a chamfered foffit. The lower and fide windows of the nave were
of 3 lights with pointed trefoil heads, each window being under a
femicircular excoinfon arch. Thofe of the clerestory are fingle lights with
rounded trefoil heads. The piers between the nave and aifles are round, with
moulded capitals and bafes, except one, which is octagonal. If the tower
be as fome have fuppofed ' tranfitional,' it is the oldeft portion of the
building. It is remarkable for having a ' lean to ' on each of the 2 fides —
i.e., on the fouth and north, forming a peculiar weft ' facade/ which
fhould feem to have been no part of the original defign ; but to have
been occafioned by an early 'fettlement ' of the Tower, for the fouth
' lean to ' conceals a large unfightly buttrefs, and the other was in all
probability built to match it. More might be faid of the details of this
interefting church, if the prefent were a proper occafion ; but to proceed
to the recently-difcovered remains of painting.
" The chancel arch is, as has been flated, pointed, and on the weft fide of
the wall above there was for many years fome rough wood- work, that had
once fupported canvafs, on which the io Commandments were painted.
In July laft workmen were employed in taking this down and preparing
the whole weft fide of the wall for the reception of a coat of plaifter
and whitewafh ; when, after clearing away the wood-work, they came to
fome plaifter on which were flars on a blue ground ; and, on removing
this they difcovered confiderable traces of earlier painting, for the moft
part too much obliterated to be made out ; but immediately above the
arch were 14 circular 'medallions,' nearly 18 in. in diameter, arranged in
two horizontal lines of 7 each, with fubjects in them : the 4th medallion
in each row being exactly over the point of the arch ; the lower one

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 79*
indeed, was not a complete medallion in confequence of the point of the
each interrupting it. The medallions are contiguous both horizontally
and perpendicularly, and in the intervening Spaces are fmaller fexfoils or
flowers of 6 petals. The whole had been enclofed in a rectangular paral
lelogram now obliterated, which like a frame feparated them from the
reft of the paintings. The face of the wall above the arch now appears
flufh, but the lower part was for fome little diftance thicker than the
upper ; it then fell back into a gentle Hope, above which it prefented
another perpendicular face. [In the recent reftoration of the nave roof
this feature has been once more brought out. W. F. S., 1869. J This
break in the furface of the wall muft have made it unfuitable for any large
fubject. There were, however, traces of painting on both portions ; but
the rows of medallions are on the lower portion of the wall only.
" The fubjects in the upper row taken in order are as follows : —
" 1. A Lion, paffant, to the finifter.
" 2. A Griffin (a figure with the forequarters derived from an Eagle, and
the hinder from a Lion), alfo paffant, but to the dexter ; fo that No. 1
and 2 face each other.
" 3. Two birds, back to back, their wings clofed, their heads turned
backwards, fo that their beaks almoft meet. Between them are fome
traces of an object which was too much obliterated to be confidently
made out, but probably a bunch of grapes on an erect flem*
" 4. A conventional Flower or Floral device not refembling any real
flower ; but fuch as is fometimes found on tiles and glafs of the 1 3 th century,
confifting of an upright flem with a trefoil head, from which flem iffue two
pairs of oppofite fhoots, terminating in irregular petals ; the upper (being
* See Arch. Cant, vol. iv., p. 63, for a notice of tiles with a fomewhat fimilar
pattern, found in the undercroft of S. Auguftine's, Canterbury.

80 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
alfo the larger) flant upwards and then turn from the Item downwards,
while the lower pair flant upwards and then turn towards the flem.
" 5. Two Birds, as No. 3, the intervening object alfo obliterated.
"6. A Lion as No. 1.
" 7. A Griffin as No. 2.
" The fubjects of the lower row are lefs clear, yet they appear to
be the fame as thofe in the upper row, but rather differently arranged
thus : — [Thefe were afterwards covered again with whitewafh.]
" 1 . Obfcure, but probably a Griffin paffant, to the finifter.
" 2. A Lion paffant, to the dexter.
" 3. Two Birds as in the upper row, the intervening object wanting.
" 4. This fubject is almoft gone, but what remains is not inconfiftent
with the fuppofition of its having been a conventional flower, and in all pro
bability it refembled No. 4 in the upper row.
" 5. Two Birds, as in the upper row, the intervening object alfo
wanting. " 6. Very obfcure, but probably a Griffin paffant to the finifter.
" 7. Alfo obfcure, but probably a Lion paffant to the dexter.
" The colours are chiefly black or very dark brown, red, yellow, and a
yellowifh red ; the ground is buff. The medallions are formed of a thin
dark circular outline, and two concentric circles of border lines, refpectively
dark and either red or yellow, leaving a fpace in each of about 1 3 inches
in diameter clear for the feveral fubjects, the outlines of which appear to
have been drawn very boldly, with a full brufh and a free hand, like what
are often feen in painted glafs of the 1 3 th century. The colours feem
funk into the ground, as if like frefcoes, they were laid on wet plaifter :
but it is poffible that the rubbing they have fuffered, from time to time,
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and the reds have loft much of their original colour, and are a good deal
blackened. It is remarkable that the object between the two birds fhould
in every inftance have almoft difappeared : in one it fhould feem to have
been erafed, but this may be the effect of an accident or careleffnefs in
removing the plaifter that overlaid it.
" Two Birds with a vafe, cup, grapes, or a vine between them, are found
in the 1 2th and 1 3th centuries affociated with Chriftian fymbols in fuch
a manner as to leave no reafonable doubt of their having had a fymbolic
meaning of a facred character. On the old Font in Winchefter Cathe
dral they are to be feen at the top in two of the corners, with a vafe
between them, out of which they appear to be drinking, and a Crofs is
iffuing from it. They occur alfo on one fide no lefs than three times, in
as many circular medallions : in the middle one they have grapes between
them which they are pecking. In each of the other two medallions they
are back to back with their heads reverfed, and what may have been
intended for grapes, between or rather above them, which they difregard.
All thefe are Doves.
" A fepulchral flab at Bifhopfton, Suffex, has on it within three circular
medallions, formed of a cable moulding, a Crofs, an Agnus Dei, and two
Birds (very fimilar in form and attitude to thofe at Eaftry) with a vafe
between them, into which their beaks are inferted. Such Birds are not
unfrequently to be feen on tiles of the 13th century, and alfo occa-
fionally on feals with a vafe or plant between them ; in moft cafes probably
a mere ornament, though derived from examples that were fignificant.
The device is Italian and may be traced back to the early Mofaics, as
in the Church of St. Appolonus Novus, at Ravenna, which is considered
to be of the 6th century, and even to the Chriftian memorials in the cata
combs at Rome, where two birds occur, as fhewn by Aringhi and others, not
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82 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
only with a vafe x>r vine, but alfo fometimes with a Crofs, and fometimes
with a Chriftian monogram between them, leaving no doubt of their having
had a religious meaning. On a tomb, faid to be that of the Emperor
Honorius, is a vafe between 2 Birds, apparently about to drink out of it;
and at one preferved at Ravenna, faid to have been erected by Theodoric
King of the Visigoths, is a crofs between 2 Birds with other Chriftian fculp-
ture ; and alfo on a Sarcophagus at St. Stephen's, Bologna. Like fome other
Chriftian fymbols in the Catacombs, this was, in all probability, derived
from a Pagan device ; but with fome modification, to give it a Chriftian
fignification. On one tomb there, no doubt a Pagan memorial, are 2
Birds looking at an altar between them, on which was a fmall fire.
To enter fully into this curious fubject would far exceed the limits of a
paper appropriate to the prefent occafion. Affuming, as I think we
fafely may, that the Birds in Eaftry Church formed part of a Chriftian
fymbol, it is highly probable from what remains that the object between
them was a bunch of grapes on an upright flem, a form, however unna
tural, yet fometimes met with. I am aware that a wheat ear is fpoken
of as fymbolifing the Body of the Saviour, and that a bafket with appa
rently fruit or little cakes between 2 Birds, is to be found amongft the
devices in the Catacombs ; ftill grapes appear to me belt to agree with
the firft traces of the object in this inftance. In the earlieft examples
the Birds were moft likely intended for Doves : though in later times no
particular kind of bird was uniformly reprefented. The more prevalent
opinion I believe is that they fymbolized the Faithful, and the vine, cup,
or grapes, the Blood of the Saviour. Some have fuppofed them to
fignify the Jewifh and Chriftian churches looking to, or fharing in, the
benefits purchafed by the Saviour's Paffion and Death. This feems a
little too imaginative. I have, however, heard of or feen an example

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 83
that I cannot now find, in which one of the Birds fronts the cup or
bunch of grapes, and the other is back to it, but with the head reverfed
fo as to reach it with the beak.. The fymbol, if at all, would more eafily
admit of fuch an explanation. Dr. Milner fuppofed the Doves on the
Winchefter Font, with the vafe between them, were emblematic of the
Holy Spirit breathing into phials containing the two kinds of facred
chrifm ufed in Baptifm. But the early examples fhew the improbability of
this : add to which that the Holy Spirit was not likely to be reprefented
by two Doves. Now, if the Birds in queftion at Eaftry were a Chrftian
fymbol, it is highly probable that the fubjects of the other medallions
were fo too.
" The Floral device, which will be obferved, is in the middle of each
row, and thus had fome degree of importance given to it, may be an
emblem of the B. Virgin, who was often fymbolifed by a lily, and not
unfrequently by fome conventional form of flower, having little or
no refemblance to a lily, as is exemplified on many feals of the 12th
and 13th centuries.
" The Lion may have referred to the Saviour who, as the Lion of the
tribe of Judah, is fometimes fo reprefented. It is thus that the Lion
has been understood on the old Font at Winchefter before mentioned ;
on one fide of which are 3 circular medallions, and in the middle one is
a Lion, and in each of the others a Dove.
"To the Griffin it is more difficult to affign a fignification. It is
rarely found amongft Chriftian symbols. It has been not unfrequently,
and even by fome mediaeval writers, confounded with the Dragon, which
had, not the hind quarters of a Lion, but the tail of a Serpent, and generally
meant the Evil one, or at an earlier period Paganifm. I have men
tioned that both the Lion and the Griffin are paffant — a peaceful

84 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
attitude— and the former has no preference of place. (The Lion is
fometimes found fighting with a Dragon.) A Griffin and a Lion both
alfo paffant confronting each other, and without any indication of hoftility,
occur on the old Font in Lincoln Cathedral, which is about contempo
rary with that at Winchefter, judging from an engraving ofthe former in
Simpfon's Ancient Fonts. The other fculptures on it are not given fo as
to enable me to judge of their import. A writer in the Vetufia Monumenta
fpeaks of there being three Griffins upon it. A Lion and a Griffin both
paffant and each in a circle, were two of the three animal fubjects often
repeated in the pavement of Tiles in the Chapter Houfe at Salifbury.
The other was the two Birds, but with a flower or plant between them.
That pavement may be referred to the latter part of the 13th century.
The Griffin is found too on early feals as a perfonal device, where it is
hardly to be fuppofed to have had any difcreditable fignification, and it
afterwards, we all know, became heraldic. Being compofed of part of
an Eagle and part of a Lion, it is likely to have been emblematic of the
moft honourable and admirable qualities attributed to each, and affociated
as it is on this occafion, we may reafonably prefume it had fome religious
or facred meaning, though what that was has not been difcovered.
What has been faid of the Church, and the flyle of the painting, has
indicated the date that I am difpofed to affign to thefe pictorial remains.
They muft belong to the latter half of the 13th century, and can
hardly be later than the beginning ofthe reign of Edward ill. Thofe
on the upper portion of the wall would feem to have been of a fubfequent
period if, as I understood was the fact, there were fome fragments of black
letter infcriptions on them. They may have been of the fame date as the
ftars on a dark ground upon the plaifter that overlaid the medallions that
I have defcribed. Should it appear to any one that thefe medallions

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 85
may have reprefented part of a pavement, I would obferve that they
appear too large for any fubject fuitable for the fpace, and befide
that there were only two rows, and they were inclofed in a rectangular
parallelogram, and there was not the flighteft attempt at anything like
perfpective in the drawing.
" I may add that thefe remains have been left free from whitewafh
and I have reafon to hope they will be preferved. W. S. W."
( Archceological Journal, vol. xv., p. 79).
Much intereft attaches to the Ornaments of the Church, fince they
often ferve to give us an infight into the manners, cuftoms, rites, forms,
ceremonies, and religious obfervances of our forefathers. It can never,
therefore, ceafe to be a matter for deep regret that the Inventories of
Church Goods and Ornaments — ordered to be made by Edward VI. in
the firft and fixth years of his reign, and many of which are now pre
ferved in the Public Record Office, Fetter Lane — feem to been loft, and
are now wanting, as far as our own Parifh is concerned, and, indeed, for
many other Parifhes in Eaft Kent. Had thefe Inventories been in exifi
ence — as I fondly believed they were, until affifted by the officials, I had
twice fearched through the bundle of Inventories relating to Parifhes in
Kent, and fo convinced myfelf of their abfence — we fhould have been
able to folve not a few minor queftions relating to the Church, as
for inftance, how many Bells there were here in Ante- Reformation
times, what became of the plate, &c, at the Reformation, what images
there were in the Roodloft, &c, &c.
By the word Ornament we are to underftand Veftments, Books,
Croffes, Cloths, Chalices, Patens, Relics, and even Organs and Bells. The
following is lift of fome of the principal Ornaments, &c, now belonging

86 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
to our church, with the names of the pious donors and date of pre-
fentation. Paten, Chalice, and Flagon, of filver prefented to the Church by
Vicar Creffener in a.d. 171 8. There is no device, engraving
nor infcription either on the Paten, or the Chalice; but the Flagon,
which is very handfome and maffive, bears the words Deo Servatori
deeply graved on the fide within a floriated border, and at the bottom
"Eaftry, 171 8."
Two Alms Bafins, the bowls of wood, covered with crimfon velvet
on the infide, the feet or pedeftals of filver. These were prefented to the
Church by Vicar Randolph, and bear the following infcription : — Deo et
Ecclesia Christi a.d. mdcccxxxv.
Two Altar Chairs of wrought oak, plain and fubftantial, given to the
Church for the ufe of the Clergy by the late Mrs. Charles Wood (for
merly Jofephine W. M. Moore) in 1849.
An Organ prefented to the Church by R. Springett Harvey, Efq.,
in 1 85 1.
An Eight-day Clock given to the Parifh by the fame generous bene
factor in 1853.
An Alms' difti of beaten brafs, 18 in. in diameter, burnifhed and lac
quered, with jewelled centre, prefented to the Church by the Miffes
Boteler, of Brook Houfe, in 1868.
A double Leclern of oak, handfomely carved, prefented to the Church
by the Rev. V. S. Vickers, in Advent, 1868.
Two Alms' bags of crimfon velvet embroidered, prefented by Mifs
Hatfeild, Eafier, 1869.
Two Altar Candlefticks of wrought brafs, enamelled and engraved, 25
in. in height, given to the Church by the Miffes Boteler, of Brook

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 87
Houfe, in 1869, and firft ufed at Evenfong on Eafier day of that
year. A fet of 3 Altar Service Books — viz., a folio containing all the offices
entire, faid at the Altar, and two quartos containing reflectively the
Gofpels and Epiftles only. Thefe are bound in dark blue morocco with
fimple gilt clafps ; and have been illuminated by Mrs. Knapp and Mifs
Voules, of Southbank, in this parifh.
DIMENSIONS OF THE CHURCH.

Height of the Tower from the ground at weft door to the top of
the coping
Length of each fide of Tower, at top within the walls
Length of interior Tower area below
Width „ „ „ „
Depth of Tower area below ftep of weft door
Thicknefs of piers feparating Tower from Nave
Length of Nave
Width „ „
Height of Nave from floor line to top of wall plate
Height of Nave from top of wall plate to point of rafters
Total height of Nave from floor line to point of rafters
Height of Chancel arch from floor to point of arch
Thicknefs of arch between Nave and Chancel
Length of Chancel
Width of Chancel
Height of Chancel from floor line to top of wall plate
„ „ from top of wall plate to under part of ceiling
at centre
Total „ from floor line to ceiling
Size of Prieft's door : — Height Width
„ West door : — Height Width
„ North door : — Height

Feet. Inches.

66

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24

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18

6

18

9

2

5

4

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77

10

40

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30

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16

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46

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18

6

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19

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Size of North door : — Width
„ South door : — Height Width
Total length of Church internally
Extreme length on the outfide, including both the Tower, and
Chancel, Buttreffes
Extreme width externally

References to the Ground Plan of the Church.
A The Weft Door.
BB Buttreffes forming the fides of the weft porch, traces of which may be feen,
but which is not yet reftored.
C Extenfion of the north aifle containing a flight of wooden flairs, giving accefs
to the Tower ftaircafe at c.
D Extenfion of the fouth aifle, now the Veftry.
E North door, now clofed up.
F South Porch, from which there is a defcent into the Church by fteps.
G Chapel of the Holy Trinity.
H Chapel of S. John the Baptift.
/ Prieft's door.
a The Organ.
b The Font.
c Entrance to newel ftaircafe.
d Holy water ftoup infide fouth door.
e Pifcina in Chapel of S. John Baptift.
/ Pulpit.
g Pifcina and credence in Chapel of the Holy Trinity.
h Eafter Sepulchre in Chapel of the Holy Trinity.
i Niche in wall, fuppofed to have contained a lift of benefadtors or crucifix.
k Sill of window formerly ufed for fedilia.
/ Aumbry.
m Traces of a door or window, formerly communicating with the Ladye Chapel
and now blocked up.
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0 Graveftone belonging to Heronden family.
p Holy-water ftoup outfide the weft door.
1 The Bargrave and Bridger vault.
2 The Bargrave vault.
3 The Hatfeild vault.
4 The Greville or Statenborough vault.
5 The Boteler vault.
6 The Dare vault.
7 Capt. John Harvey's vault.
8 The Springett and Harvey vault.

In ma ffive ftrength it proudly flood,
Some three miles off the Eaftern flood :
Reared unto God in days of old,
By fires new gatltered to the Fold
Of Chrift His Church : a goodly pile,
With Porch and Nave, and Tower and Aisle ;
A noble Chancel too, and flails
For eighteen monks againft the walls.
Its Altar High, of JESUS yclept,
Stood over Mary's in the crypt,
Enriched with gems and hangings rare,
Rood,fconces, tapers, chalice fair,
And all things that required be
To celebrate God's Mystery. — YE PILGRIMAGE.

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CHAP IV.
" And they raifed over him a great heap of ftlones unto this day!'— Joshua vii. 26.
INSCRIPTIONS ON THE TABLETS AND GRAVESTONES
IN THE CHURCH:
Supplied from the Boteler MSS., where they are now illegible.
in the chancel.

Sacred to the Memory of
John Broadley, Gent.
Many years Surgeon at Dover,
Who died July the 4th 1784, Aged 79.
A Man of the higheft Honour and liberality of Sentiment ;
of the Stridteft Integrity,
And moft approved ability in his Profeffion,
of General Knowledge,
And particularly diftinguifhed for his Tafte in the polite Arts.
Frances his Wife,
Daughter of Ifaac and Chriftian Bargrave,
in Teftimony of her Affection
And in grateful Remembrance of his Merit,
has caufed this Monument
to be erected.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 91
In the Family Vault near this Tablet
Are depofited the Mortal remains of
William Bridger
of Eaftry Court in this Parifh Efquire
Who expired the 19th January 1855
Aged 81 years ;
Leaving an afHicled Widow
And Four Daughters
To lament their Irreparable loss.
His Piety was fincere and unobtrufive :
His Amiable and upright Character
Endeared him to a large circle of Friends.
Alfo of Chriftian Tournay his Widow
Daughter of
Robert Tournay Bargrave,
of Eaftry Court, Efquire,
Who departed this life 9th September 1858
Aged 75 years.
" Them which fleep in Jefus will God bring with him."
Ist Theff 4 : 14

Near this place
Lie the remains of Charles Bargrave, Efqr,
Who died Novr 17 13 Aged 62 ;
Elizabeth his Wife who died Decr 1732.
Dame Frances Leigh, RelicT:
of Sir Francis Leigh of Hawley in this County,
Who died Feb. 1726 Aged 60 ;
Ifaac Bargrave Efq', Eldeft Son
of the faid Charles and Elizabeth,
Who died March 1727 Aged
Chriftian RelicT: of the faid Ifaac Bargrave,
And Daughter of the aforefaid
Sir Francis Leigh and Frances his Wife,

92 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Who died OcV 1772, Aged 74 ;
Ifaac Bargrave Efq1, Only Son of the aforefaid
Ifaac and Chriftian,
Who died 24th of May 1800, Aged 77.
Sarah his Wife, Daughter of George Lynch, M.D.
Who died the 16th of April 1787 Aged 63.
Chriftian Wife of
Robert Tournay Bargrave Efqr,
And Daughter of the Revd. Claudius Clare
And Chriftian his Wife
Who died the 23rd of September 1806 Aged 55.
Robert Tournay Bargrave, Efq1
Who died the 19th May 1825 Aged 68 Years.
Bargrave the only Son of
William and Chriftian Bridger,
Who died the 13th Aug\ 1822, Aged 9 Years,

{A Coat of Arms.)
Near the remains of her Hufband
is interred
Frances Broadley.
A found underftandingAnd
a retentive Memory
were Faculties
for which fhe was diftinguifhed.
And
from Chriftian principles and motives,
fhe was
Religious and Charitable.
This Teftimony
of Efteem and Affection
is recorded by
Her Brother Ifaac Bargrave.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 93
{A Coat of Arms!)
Here is interred all that was Mortal of
Mrs. Chriftian Kirk.
A Woman from a religious principle and hope,
Patient and refigned during a long Illnefs
Which removed her out of this World
28th Feby 1796, in the 78 Year of her Age.
She was the elder and laft furviving daughter
of Ifaac and Chriftian Bargrave.
The Revd. Claudius Clare
was her firft Hufband.
Her fecond Robert Kirk, Efqr,
A Captain in the Royal Navy.
Who from his affectionate regard and
Concern for an excellent Wife
Infcribes this Memorial.
Where alfo are depofited the remains of the
Above Captain Robert Kirk who died
the 20th of May 1802, Aged 70.

{On a Brafs Plate.)
To the Glory of God. in Memory
of John Fuller Spong, B.A. of Caius
Colli Came and Curate of this Parifh
Who died Oct" 13th 1844, Aged 25
Thefe four Windows are erected by his only Surviving Sifter.

Edward Boys M.D.
And Elizabeth, his Wife
Placed this Memorial
of their beloved Infant
Edward George Boys
Born 1 5th January
Died 15th July 1801.

94 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
under the chancel arch.
(A Coat of Arms.)
Sacred to the memory of
The Revd. Ralph Drake Backhoufe, M. A.
late fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge,
1 2 Years Vicar of Eaftry with Worth,
And Rural Dean.
He departed this life December 24th 1853,
Aged 52 Years,
Leaving a Widow and Seven Children
To lament his Irreparable lofs.
This Tablet
Is erected by them, as a record of
Their deep Sorrow for their bereavement
And their warm Attachment
To A beloved Hufband and Father.
My hope hath been in thee, O Lord: I have
faid thou art my God. Pfalm xxxi. V. 1 6.
ON THE FLOOR OF THE CHANCEL.
On a flab of grey ftone, now almoft obliterated.
(A Coat of Arms.)
Here lyeth interred the Bodie of Jofva Paramovr Gent, he was buried Aprill
2d 1650 aged 60 Yeares.
An honeft, holie, harmleffe Life he led,
and then Death brought him to this Grave his Bed
Heere fleepes his Bodie and his Soules at reft
Where Joyes & Pleafures crowne him ever bleft.
(A Coat of Arms.)
On a Plum Pudding Stone abutting to the above Eastward were cut a
coat of arms, very much defaced in Mr. Boteler's time but now wholly
obliterated.

Southward of the above is a fmall oval piece of marble bearing this
infcription : —

E. G. B.
1801.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 95
On a ftone adjoining to the above northward is the following infcription on
a brafs Plate : —
Here lyeth intoombed the body of Sr Roger Nevifon, Knight, who deceafed
the 25th Day of Ivly in ye Yeere of ovr Saviovrs Incarnation 1625.

On a ftone adjoining the above northward are the effigies of a man in armour
and a woman, alfo the following infcription on Brafs Plates : —
(Coat of Arms.)
Here lyeth the Bodie of Thomas Nevynfon of Eftrye Efquier who died ye
xxvii Day of July 1590 beynge att the tyme of his Death Provoft Marshall and
Scoutmafter of ye Eft Partes of Kent & Captayne of ye lyghte Horfes of the
lathe of S'. Auguftines, who had to Wife Anne the Daughter of Richarde
Tebolde, Efquier deceafed by whom he had Iffue fix Sonnes and four Daughters.
Under the infcription have been brafs plates for the Sons and Daugh
ters, now torn away.

On a grey Stone by the fide northward of the foregoing, almoft oblite
rated : —
Here lieth buried Anne Theobald, the Wife of Thomas Nevinfon and Edward
Fagge, Efquires, the Mother of thirteene Children by them both, Happy both in
her Choice and Iffue but in her Death, the End of mortal Happinefs, moft happy.
She died the 21st of November 1594.

Heading the Graveftone of Sir Roger Nevinfon is one of black marble,
on which were formerly the Portraitures of a man and woman in Brafs,
together with other plates. All now torn away and loft.
This was probably to the memory of Lady Mary Nevinfon, wife of
Sir Roger, by whom fhe had iffue 7 Sons and 6 Daughters.
Againft the north wall, near the eaft end of the chancel, is affixed an

96 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Helmet of iron with the Nevinfon Creft, from which formerly depended
a Banner. The helmet remains ; the lance and pennon have been loft.

THE FOLLOWING ARE IN THE NORTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH: —
(A Coat of Arms.)
Near this place are interred the remains of
Margaret Wife of the Rev. Dr. Pennington
Rector of Tunftal in this County
And Daughter of the Rev. Dr. Carter, late of Deal.
She was Born October 17th 1725,
and died February 18th 1798.
In grateful remembrance of the beft of Wives
and the beft of Mothers, and impreffed with a deep fenfe
of her many Virtues her Husband and only furviving Children
Thomas and Montague have caufed this Tablet to be erected.
( This Tablet was removed from the South fide of the Chancel to its prefent
pofition in a.d. 1865 J

(A Coat of Arms.)
In memory of
William Dare Efqr
late of Fenderland
in this Parifh
Who died the 7th September 1770
Aged 35 Years
Alfo of Eleanor his Wife,
Who died January the 6th 1806
Aged 73 Years.
And of Mary Read Sifter of
the above Eleanor who died
April the 27th 1812, Aged 75 Years.
(This Tablet was removed from the South aifle of the Chttrch in a.d. 1865.J

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 97
(A Coat of Arms.)
In a Vault
In the middle Aifle of this Church
Are depofited the remains
of
Captain John Harvey
late Commander
Of His Majefty's Ship the Brunfwick,
who,
After glorioufly fupporting the honor
of the Britifh Navy,
On the Memorable firft of June
MDCCXCIV,
Under Earl Howe,
Died at Portfmouth on the 30th of the fame Month,
in confequence of the wounds he received
in the engagement,
Aged 53 Years.
The Houfe of Commons
To perpetuate his moft gallant conduct,
On that Day of Victory
Unanimoufly voted A Monument to his Memory
In Weftminfter Abbey.
His untimely Death only
Prevented his being honored in the Flag Promotions
Which took place on that occafion.
In him his afflicted Family and numerous Friends
Have fuftained an Irreparable lofs
His public Character being only equalled
By his private Virtues.
Alfo of Judith his Wife
Daughter of Henry Wife Efq of Sandwich ;
She departed this life On the 4th of September 181 7,
in the 75 Year of her Age.
This Monumental tribute to departed worth o

98 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Equally displayed in both their Parents,
Is affectionately raifed and infcribed by their furviving children,
Henry Wife, John, Edward, Mary, Fanny, & Sarah.
(This Momiment was removed from the Southfide of the Chancel in a.d.
1865.)

(A Coat of Arms.)
In memory of Mr. Richard Kelley, late of this Parifh who died the 5th of
May 1768, aged 89 Years & is interred near this Place. Alfo of Mary his
Wife who died the 6th of Decr 1775 aged 72 years.
I left this World in good old age
with all its giddy Train
By honeft Deeds when on its Stage
A better World to gain.

Near this Place
lie interred the remains of
William Kelley,
Son of Richard Kelley,
late of this Parifh ;
He died 18th July 1799
Aged 59 Years.

At the bottom of a Stained Glafs Window is the following : —
In Memory of Thomas Caftle
Born 3rd May 1790 Died 29th April i860.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 99
(A Coat of Arms.)
Juxta Sepultus Eft
Gulielmus Boteler Armiger, S. A. S.
Hujufce Parochiae, quae eadem illi Natalis erat,
Ab Adolefcentia Ad Provectiorem ufque iEtatem incola
Vir Uteris humanioribus deditus
Hiftoriae et Topographiae Cantii Peritiflimus :
In Magiftratu, Caeterifque Muneribus Publicis Fungendis,
Firmus et Sedulus :
In Privata Vita,
Summi in fuos Amoris ;
Integerrimae Erga Omnes Fidei :
Cantuariae Mortuus eft iv Die Septembris,
a.d. mdcccxviii. Aetlxxiii.
Uxores Duxit, Priorem, Saram, Thomae Fuller, Armigeri Filiam : Alteram,
Mariam, Johannis Harvey, Armigeri, et Regi e Navarchis, Filiam ; ex ilia
Filius Unicus, Gulielmus Fuller, ex hac fex Filii, Ricardus, Henricus, Johannis
Harvey, Thomas, Edwardus, Robertus, Quinque Filias, Maria, Eliza, Julia,
Agnes, Bertha ; Sufcepti, aliis Immatura Morte Abreptis, Patri Superfuerunt.
Maria, uxor Altera,
Mortua eft xxiv. Die Octobris
a.d. MDccclii. Aet. lxxxix.
Et Juxta Sepulta.

On a Brafs Plate.
In Memory of William Fuller Boteler, Q^C.
who died 23rd Octr 1845 Aged 68 Years.

On a Brafs Plate.
In Memory of William Boteler Son of the Above
William Fuller Boteler Born 23rd October 18 10
Died 6th July 1867. " Remember me O my God for good."

100 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
(A Coat of Arms.)
Near this place are interred the remains of Sarah the Wife of William
Boteler, of this Parifh, and Daughter of Thomas Fuller Efq, late of Staten
borough. She Died January 9th 1777 Aged 29.
Leaving Iffue (alas) one Son,
William Fuller Boteler.
How dire the purchafe, how fevere the coft,
The Fruit was faved the Parent tree was loft.
This Monumental fhrine, thefe plaintive lays
This laft fad debt, A weeping Husband pays :
Not that thy praifes, Virtuous fair, require
The breathing Marble, or the vocal lyre ;
But as a fmall, a juft return for love
Tender, unfeigned, and ratify'd above.

(A Coat of Arms.)
To the Memory of Thomas Boteler, Efq Commander, R.N.
Fifth Son of the late W. Boteler of Eaftry Efqr
Who having loft the greater part of his Officers and Men In H.M.S. Hecla
while on a furvey of the weftern Coaft of Africa,
Fell himfelf a Victim to that Peftilential climate
Amidft difficulties, which even to the laft
His high fenfe of duty impelled him to refift
With unfhaken conftancy, fortitude and Perfeverance.
He Died off the Old Calabar River 28th Nov' 1829, Aged 32.

This Tablet is erected to the Memory of
Lieut*- Colonel Richard Boteler,
of H.M. Corps of Royal engineers,
who after many Years of fervice at home,
And in Africa, South America, Spain, Portugal and Canada,
And laft as commanding engineer at Halifax in Nova Scotia,
Perifhed at Sea in H. M. Packet Calypfo

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 101
On his paffage to England on leave of Abfence,
In the beginning of the Year 1833, at the age of 46 Years.
And Alfo to the Memory of
The Revd. Edward Boteler M.A.
Sometime fellow of Sidney Suffex College, Cambridge
And afterwards Vicar of the Parifh of St. Clement, Sandwich,
Who departed this life Auguft 9th 1831 Aged 32 Years,
And is Buried
In the Vault beneath.

In the Vault beneath
Are depofited the remains of
Charlotte Boteler,
The Wife of William Fuller Boteler Efqr. Q.C.
She died Novr the 18th 1839. Aged 57 years.
Her Husband hath caufed this Tablet to be erected,
To record her deep Piety towards God,
And her great goodnefs as a Wife,
A Mother, and in all other relations of life.
And to teftify his Grief for the lofs
Of his affectionate, and faithful, Confort and Friend
Through a period of upwards of thirty Years.
This Tablet is alfo Sacred to the Memory of
Anne Boteler
Their Youngeft Daughter
A Child carefully trained by her Mother
In her own fteps of Piety and Virtue,
And of A rare union of Strength and
Simplicity of Character :
She died in Go wer Street in the County of Middlefex,
May the Ist 1839. At the Age of 19 Years.

102 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
THE FOLLOWING ARE IN THE SOUTH AISLE OF THE CHURCH :
Sacred to the Memory of
Captn. James Remington,
of the H.E.I. Companys 12th Reg', of Bengal N. Infantry,
Eldeft Son of David R. Remington, Efqr.,
of the City of London,
And Martha his Wife.
He died at Cawnpore in the Eaft Indies
September 16th 1842 Aged 34 Years.
The Officers of the 1 2th Reg1. Deeply Regretting
The lofs of an affectionate Companion and Friend
Have caufed this Tablet to be erected, as a record
At once of their Sorrow and of the high Eftimation
In which he was held by them for his many
Manly and Generous Qualities.

Thomas Pettman
Born 1733,
Died 1 809 ;
Defervedly Efteemed
For his many Chriftian Virtues.
This Tablet is erected
As A Memorial of Affection
By his Son.
Alfo William Son ofthe Above Born 1768, Died 1830.
Elizabeth his Wife Born 1766, Died 18 19.
Alfo 3 Sons & 1 Daughter of the above Will"1 & Elizth Pettman
By Thomas Born 1790 Died 1853 ; Edward Born 1796 Died 185 1
William Born 1798 Died 18 18 ; Sufan Born 1791 Died 1818.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 103
In A Vault in the Church Yard
At the Weftern entrance to this Church
are depofited the remains of Sarah
The Wife of Mr. Thomas Pettman of this Parifh,
Who died the 30th of July 1797, Aged 64.
Alfo Thomas, Son of the Above named
Thomas and Sarah Pettman,
Who died the 12th of March 1783 Aged 21 Years.
Alfo of Sarah Sufannah,
Daughter of the Above named
Thomas and Sarah Pettman,
And Wife of Mr. Edward Cowley,
Who died the 25th of July 1792, Aged 27 Years,
With her infant Child.
Alfo of Elizabeth,
Daughter of the Above named
Thomas and Sarah Pettman,
Who died the 2nd of July 1799, Aged 31 Years.
Alfo of Philip, Son of the Above named
Thomas and Sarah Pettman,
Who died in his Infancy.

(A Coat of Arms.)
In Memory
of Thomas Boteler,
late of this Parifh, Gentn, who died
the 24 Sepr 1 768, aged 54 Years.
Alfo of Richard Son of the above faid
Thomas Boteler by Elizabeth his Wife
who died the 29th of Jany. 1773,
aged 33 Years.
Alfo of 7 other Children,
5 of Whom lie buried at Eythorn, who all
Died in their Infancy.

104 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Alfo of Elizabeth Wife of the abovefaid
Mr. Thomas Boteler,
and Daughter of Salmon Morrice, Efqr.
of great Betfhanger.
She died the 6th of Auguft 1775,
aged 65 Years.
This Monument was erected in the Year
1774 by their furviving children (viz)
Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, & Catherine.

(A Crest.)
Sacred to the Memory of
The Revd. Philip Brandon Backhoufe, M.A.
Chaplain on the Hon. E.I.C. Bengal Eftablifhment,
Formerly Vicar of St Mary's Sandwich,
Tenth Son of the late
Revd. J. B. Backhoufe, M.A. Rector of Deal.
He died at Agra in the Eaft Indies, after A few
Hours' fevere fuffering on the 30th March 1841,
Aged 3 3 Years.
His afflicted Widow has caufed this Tablet to be
erected as A tribute of her affectionate regard
For his Memory, and to teftify her deep forrow
for her bereavement,
" Go ye into all the World and Preach
the Gofpel to every Creature."
Mark 16 Verfe 15.

(A Coat of Arms.)
M. S.
Revdi. Drue-Aftly Creffener A.M.
Hujus Ecclefias, per annos xlviii, Vicarii
Viri fane
Plurimis nominibus Memorandi ;
Nulla Literarum Studia
Non libavit ;

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 105
Theologias fuse, facrifque Paginis
Penitus Incubuit,
Ecclefias Anglicanae, Fideique Catholics
Propugnator Impavidus
C celebs, Parcius Forfan, fed Honefte Parcius
Vitam inftituit :
Non ut Inutiles Coacervaret Opes,
Sed ut benificentias, ut pietatis officiis
Largiori manu administraret.
Deo Servatori, infuper, Arifque ejus
Tam in hac, Quam in altera Ilia
Ecclefia de Worth,
Vafa Argentea Dicavit.
Et
Quod Omnium longe Palmarium eft,
Doctrinam Chrifti
Vitae Integerrimae Sanctimonia.
Morumque Simplicitate Primitiva
Exornavit.
Ob'. Sept. xxvii. a.d. mdccxlvi Aetat lxxxii.

(A Coat of Arms.)
Here lieth interred the Body of Jane Daughter of John Paramor of this
Parifh Gent, and Jane his Wife, and Wife of John Hayward of Sandwich Gent.
who departed this life the 18th of April a.d. 1720 Aged 24 years. Alfo the
Body of the faid Jane, Wife of the faid John Paramor, who departed this life the
3rd Day of May 1732 Aged 57 Years. Here lieth the Body of John Paramor
of this Parifh Gent, who departed this life the 25 day of April Anno Domi 1737
Aged 65 Years.
This Monument was removed from the South fide of the Church a.d.
1865.

106 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
( The following is on a Brafs Plate beneath a memorial window)
Sacred to the Affectionate Remembrance
of A good Sifter, Wife and Mother,
Thomafina Fanny Kenrick,
Wife of John Bridges Kenrick Efqr.
Died Feby 22nd 1859.
The gift of her Sifter C. M. Jofephine Toker.

(A Coat of Arms.)
In the Vault near this Place,
lie the remains of
Anne Maude Harvey
Youngeft Daughter of
The Revd. Richard Harvey,
and Catherine his Wife.
She died 10th March 1850,
Aged 81 Years.
Alfo thofe of her Sifter,
Frances Ann Elizabeth Harvey
who died 4th June 1852.
Aged 88 Years.
To the Memory of
Mrs. Ann Harvey
Daughter of Solomon Harvey Gent,
formerly of this Parifh
who departed this life the 1 2th of April, 1 75 1,
Aged 64 Years.
Mary, the Widow of Mr. Henry Ellis,
and youngeft Daughter of the faid Solomon Harvey,
Died in London the 8th of Auguft 1776
Aged 73 Years.
And was Buried in the Church of
Allhallows Staining, She left Iffue
One Son William Ellis A.M. Rector of that Parifh.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 107
(A Coat of Arms.)
In the Family Vault near this place lieth the Body of
John Springett Harvey
A Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple and for feveral
years one of the Mafters in Ordinary, and Accountant General of the high Court of
Chancery. Who departed this life the Is' Day of Auguft 1833,
In the 80 Year of his Age ;
Leaving iffue by Matilda his Wife (Daughter of Mr. William Burton Rayner,
and Widow of the Revd. John Lightfoot) one Son Richard Springett Harvey.
In the fame Vault lieth the Body of the Above named
Matilda Harvey
Who departed this life the 28th Day of December 1835
In the 76 Year of her Age.

The porch and part of this South aifle were rebuilt and the Church was
repewed, At the expence of the Above named Richard Springett Harvey
| During the Years 1854-7.
In Acknowledgement of which two Stained glafs Windows were put up in this
aifle by fubfcription of the Inhabitants in June, 1857.

(A Coat of Arms.)
In Memory
of Thomas Fuller, Gent, of Eaftry,
who died 24th June 1748, Aged 79 Years ;
and Mary his Wife (Daughter of
Richard & Elizabeth Terry) who
died 1 6 November 1 748, aged 7 8 Years ;
They left four Children, John, Thomas,
Mary, and Elizabeth.
Alfo of their two Sons, John Fuller,
Gent, of Eaftry, who died 1 2th October
1760, aged 64 Years ; & Thomas Fuller Efq1,

108 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
of Statenborough, who died 17 May,
1773 aged 67 Years : and of Mary Fuller
a Daughter of the laft mentioned
Thomas, who died 28 March 1754
Aged 18 Years.
Alfo of Mary Fuller of Eaftry
Daughter of the firft mentioned
Thomas Fuller, who died 1 1 July
1783 aged 86 years.
(This Monument was removed from the South fide of the Chancel in a.d.
1865.)

On the Pillar adjoining to the foregoing in Marble :-
(A Coat of Arms.)
Near this Place in a Vault
lieth the Body of Catherine,
Wife of John Springett,
Citizen & Apothecary,
of London.
She died the 16th December 1762
Aged 74 Years.
Alfo of her Grandfon,
Richard Maud Harvey, Son of
The Revd. Richard Harvey
Vicar of this Parifh,
He died 26th Decr. 1758, aged 4 Months.
Alfo of the faid
John Springett.
He died Jany 13th 1770
Aged 73 Years.
( This was erecled in a.d. 1763.)

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 109
On the adjoining Pillar eafiward, and oppofite to the lafi-mentioned, a fimilar
neat marble monument. (A Coat of Arms.)
To the Memory of
The Revd. Richard Harvey,
Who was
14 Years Vicar of this Parifh.
He died 6th March 1772,
JEtat: 42
Alfo of Catherine his Wife,
only Daughter of John Springett.
She died 25th May 1809,
in the 85 Year of her Age.
They left Iffue 2 Sons & 4 Daughters
John Springett, Richard, Mary,
Sarah, Frances Ann Elizabeth & Ann Maude.

THE FOLLOWING ARE ON THE NORTH WALL OF THE NAVE.
(A Coat of Arms.)
Sacred to the Memory
of Edward George, of Statenborough Houfe
in this Parifh, Efqr.
Who departed this life April 19th 18 10
Aged 69 Years.
His duty to the Almighty was exemplified
by the fortitude, and pious Refignation,
With which he fuftained a long
and fevere Illnefs.
To his Neighbour he ever conducted himfelf
with the ftricteft honour,
and was on all occafions
The Poor Man's friend.
To record his Virtues and her affection,

1 1 o MEMORIALS OF EA S TR Y.
His Grateful Widow erects
This Monument.
Alfo of Mary George, relict of the
Above mentioned Edward George,
Who departed this life April 28th 1820
Aged 50 Years.

(A Coat of Arms.)
Sacred to the Memory of
James Hatfeild Efqr, late of this Parifh, who died 10th Jany 1842, Aged 62
Years. He was the eldeft Son of John Hatfeild, Efquire, late of Norwich,
Banker, and has left Surviving A Widow and Daughter, who as a fmall tribute of
Affection for one of the beft of Hufbands and kindeft of Fathers, have caufed
this Tablet to be erected. Alfo Sarah, Widow of the above-
named James Hatfeild, Efq1,
who Departed this life the 13th
of February 1846 Aged 75 Years.

THE FOLLOWING ARE ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE NAVE.
(A Coat of Arms.)
Robert Bargrave Efqr. of this Parifh died 17"1 DeC. 1779, Aged 84. Elizabeth
his Wife Daughter of Sr Francis Leigh of Hawley in this County, died 2nd July
1737 Aged 32. Robert Bargrave their only Son, Proctor in Doctors Commons
died 14th Feby 1774, Aged 39.
Whofe fole Surviving Daughter Rebecca, Wife of
James Wyborn of Sholden, hath caufed this Tablet to be Erected.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 1 1 1
{A Coat of Arms!)
In the Vault,
With the remains of his Father
Captain John Harvey, R.N.,
and of his Mother Judith,
are depofited thofe of their eldeft Son
Henry Wife Harvey,
of Harnden, Efquire, in this Parifh,
Who died 13th May 1852, aged 83 Years ;
Alfo the remains of Margaret his Wife,
Who died 14"1 June 1847, Aged 76 Years ;
And thofe of their five Daughters ;
Catherine died 2 3rd June 1 808, an Infant.
Elizabeth,
The Wife of Captain George Hilton R.N.
Died 25th February 18 19, Aged 26.
Margaret died 28th December 18 19, Aged 16.
Mary died 8th September 1820, Aged 24.
Fanny died 8th April 1824 Aged 23.

In the Vault beneath,
Are depofited the remains of
Sarah,
Relict of the late
James Leigh Joynes, Efq1,
of Gravefend in this County,
And third Daughter of the late
Revd. Richard Harvey
(Vicar of this Parifh),
And Catherine his Wife.
Obiit 27th October 1843
Aged 84 Years.

1 1 2 MEMORIALS OF EASTR Y.
THE FOLLOWING ARE ON STONES IN THE FLOOR OF THE CHURCH
BEGINNING AT THE WEST.
On a Grave Stone near the weft door on entering the Nave : —
Near this place lies the body of Richard Keble, of this Parifh, Yeoman, died
2ift of Auguft 1740 Aged 61 Years. Alfo Mary relict of the above died 28th
Auguft 1765 aged 82 Years. Alfo Mary their Daughter wife of Thomas Pett
man of this Parifh died 25"1 December 1735 aged 27 Years leaving Iffue Thomas
and Sufanna. Alfo Thomas Keble of this Parifh Yeoman Son of the above
died 23rd April 1763 aged 48 Years: alfo Martha Relict ofthe above died
2nd March 1787 aged 73 Years : Alfo 2 Children, Richard died 12th Auguft 1756
aged 5 Years, Edward died the 9th March 1773 aged 19 Years : Thomas and Mary
Survive them. Near this place lies the Body of the Above
Thomas Keble of this Parifh Yeoman
Died 1 5th October 1798, Aged 49 years.
Alfo Ann, Relict of the above died 1 Ith March 1802 Aged 54 Years ; Alfo 2
Sons Bunce, died 11th December 1792, Aged 4 Years; Thos. Herman died
12th Dec'. 1792 Aged 1 1 Years. Left Surviving John, Ann, Mary and Richard,

Here lieth the Body of
Richard Keble, late of this Parifh,
Died 20th Feby 1816,
Aged 30 Years.
Alfo on the Right, lieth the Body of
Ann Mary Keble, late of this Parifh ;
Died 20th October 182 1
Aged 40 Years:
Alfo on the Right lieth
The Body of John Keble,
late of this Parifh, Yeoman ;
Died 22nd December 1832
Aged 53 Years.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 113
The entrance of
The Family Vault
of Captain John Harvey.

On a Grave-fione in the middle Aifle -. —
Here lyeth the Body of Ralph Rennalls of this Parifh Yeoman Who departed
this Life the 28th day of Feby 1661 Aged 73 Years.

In the fame aifle Eaftward adjoining to the above : —
Here lyeth the Body of John Kelley Gent, who departed this life the 1 8th Day
of January in the Year of our Lord 1669 Aged 80 Years ; and alfo of Daniel
Kelley, Gent, his Son who departed this Life the firft of June in the Year of our
Lord 1733, in the 87 Year of his age.

In the Pafjage from the Body of the Chtirch to the Chancel on a Grave-
ftone of black marble : —
The Body of Anne, the Wife of John Auften & Daughter of William Nayler
and Anne Finnit, being aged 68 Yeare, Dyed Feby 19"1 1656, lyeth here waiting
for the Resurrection of the juft.

In the Crofs Aile, at the Eaft End of the Body of the Church, are three
adjoining Grave/tones with Coats of Arms and Infcriptions on Brafs Plates : —
Here lyeth buried the body of William Boteler Efq1'.
Who dyed the 22nd of May A°. 16 14 JEtat. fuse 50
Chriftus mihi Vita : mors mihi lucrum.

ii4 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
On a Gravefione of Black Marble : —
Here lieth the Body of Thomas Boteler late of this Parifh Gent, only Son of
Richard and Sufan Boteler", Gent, who departed this life May 12th 1737 aged 61
leaving Iffue by Elizabeth his Wife, who alfo furvived him,
three Sons and three Daughters.
Likewife the Body of Elizabeth Wife of the above Thomas Boteler and
Daughter of Ralph & Elizabeth Philpott who died 14th June
1 749 Aged 6 1 Years.

On an adjoining Gravefione : —
Here lyeth the Body of Richard Boteler Gent, who departed this life the 22nd of
May 1682 Aged 52 Years. Here lieth the Body of Sufan Boteler Wife of the
above Richard Boteler, Gent, and Daughter of Saphire & Margaret Paramor, of
this Parifh, Gent, who departed this Life Sep' the 11th 1724 Aged 82 Years.

In the Crofs aifle above-mentioned there are three other gravestones
belonging to the Boteler family befides thofe already mentioned. On
thefe there were formerly brafs plates with Arms and Inscriptions, now
torn away and loft. One of thefe has fince been recovered from another
Church, where it had been turned over and ufed for fome other family.
It has the following infcription : —

ARMIGERI QVI MORTEM OBIJT TRICESSIMO
RTIJ ANNO DOM* 1580. ET RICHARDI BOTELER
RI FILIJ EIVS QVI MORTEM OBIJT TRICESSIMO
VARIJ ANNO DOM X 1 60O. ET RELIQVIT QVIN*
LIOS ET DVAS FILIAS SVPERSTITES.

from which it will be feen that a portion of the plate and of the infcription
are loft. Concerning thefe memorials of his family Mr. Boteler fays :—

MEMORIALS OF EASTR Y. 115
" Some of them with arms retained their places within memory, and
becoming loofe, were afterwards thrown careleffly with fome others in a
hole under the ftaircafe of the Tower, where they remained till a knavifh
fexton thought proper to fell them to a brazier at Sandwich for old brafs.
I have no difficulty in affigning them to the memory of Henry Boteler
who died anno 1580. Richard, his fon (the brother of William mentioned
above), who died anno 1600, & Thomas, his grandfon, who died 1651.
All of whom were in poffeffion of and lived at Heronden. Henry was
the firft of this family who was buried at Eaftry, their more ancient
burying-place for many preceeding generations being in S. Peter's Church,
Sandwich." At the fouth end of this aifle there is another gravefione (marked o in
the plan), which, from its coffin-like fhape, is doubtlefs of confiderable
antiquity. Mr. Boteler fays concerning it : "I have no doubt but that it
is the ftone mentioned by Philpot that had formerly the Arms and Por
traiture of one of the Family of Heronden affixed to it, though from time
to time its furface is fo fealed off as not to leave a trace of it. There is
no other in the Church will admit of the conjecture ; its fituation near
the chancel anfwers his defcription ; befides the Botelers, in whom this
family ended, appropriating this aifle to their burying-place, strongly
favours the opinion ; from the extinction of this family the ftone cannot
be of later date than the time of Richard II. [a.d. i 377-1 399], probably
riot much earlier."
There are in the Church the following vaults — viz. :
In the Chancel : — The vault numbered 1 in the plan, being for the
Bargrave family, in which alfo many of the Bridgers have been interred.
There is alfo a vault on the oppofite fide belonging to the Paramours,
which is not fhewn on the plan, as the entrance is unknown, becaufe the

n6 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
timber that fupported the ftones of the entrance of this vault giving way,
it was bricked up in a.d. 1788.
In the Church: — Mr. Robert Bargrave's vault numbered 2 in the
plan. No. 3 being the Hatfeild vault.
No. 4. The Greville or Statenborough vault-— very large.
No. 5. The Boteler vault.
No. 6. A very fmall one made in a.d. 1770 for the interment of W.
Dare, Efq.
No. 7. Capt. John Harvey's vault.
No. 8. A vault for the families of Springett and Harvey.

INSCRIPTIONS ON GRAVESTONES IN THE
CHURCHYARD.

We now come to the Churchyard.
In the year 1847 a piece of ground was taken from the Hammel
Clofe, by the permiffion of the Dean and Chapter, added to the Church
yard, and confecrated by the Archbifhop. This new ground is already
nearly filled.
Oppofite the South Porch there is an ancient yew tree which, amongft
the old inhabitants of Eaftry, goes by the name of " the Palm tree " — it
was so called in Mr. Boteler's time— and has in all probability borne this
name fince the day in which it was planted. The origin of the name
would appear to be, that in ante- Reformation times branches of yew were
ufed inftead of palm branches in the services of the Church on the Sunday

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 1 1 7
next before Eafter, commonly called Palm Sunday. In the fame way, in
other parts of the country, branches of willow, with the catkins on them,
are called " palm," and were probably ufed as a fubftitute for the real
Eastern palm tree in former days.
There are in the Churchyard the following vaults : —
1. A vault belonging to the family of Petman near the weftern
entrance of the Church, under the gravel-path, on the fouth of the main
path to the weft door. This is of confiderable fize, and was enlarged
fome 50 years ago.
2. A vault holding fome 8 or 10 coffins, belonging to the Baker family,
commonly called Sharpe's vault, at the extreme north-weft corner of the
Churchyard, adjoining Eaftry Court.
3. A vault belong to the family of Rae, of Walton Houfe, made to
contain 9 bodies. This was made in a.d. 1843, and is on the north fide
of the Church.
4. The Sayer vault, on the fouth fide of the Church, and eaft of the
fouth porch, conftructed in 1851 to hold fome 9 bodies.
5. A large vault belonging to the family of Rammell, lying on the fouth
fide of the Church, to the weft of the Chancel door.
6. The Fuller vault, which has not been opened within memory,
lying on the fouth fide of the Church, eaft of the Chancel door.

Mary Wife of John Matfon, and only Child of Stephen Goldfinch d. 22nd May
1 701 Aged 29. Stephen Goldfinch d. Nov. 18th 1722 Aged 83.

James Harvey d. 18th January 1820 Aged 90.
Efther Wife of the above d. 24th Jany. 1819 Aged 84.

n8 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Mary Wife of John Elgar d. Nov' 12th 1796 Aged 67.

William Smeeth, 28 Years the faithful Baliff of Henry Wife Harvey Efq. of
Harnden, in this Parifh, By every branch of whofe Family he was much refpected
He died on the 15th of February 1831. Aged 62 Y's.
He proved this truth in the path he trod,
An honeft Mans the nobleft work of God.

Mary Ann Wife of Morris Upton d. 8 April 1796 Aged 27. Alfo 2 Children
d. in their Infancy, Viz John and Mary.
All you that come my grave to fee
As I am now fo muft you be
Prepare to die make no delay
I in my prime was fnatch'd away
In love I liv'd in peace I died
When God thought fit for to divide.
Alfo the above named Morris Upton
Died 20th October 1832 Aged 67.

Sufan Wife of Robert Mann, d. 27 Auguft 1861 Aged 24.

Elizabeth Wife of John Moat d. 10th July 1793 Aged 36.
Alfo the above said John Moat d. 5 June 1794 Aged 39.

Sarah Wife of Robert Gardener D. 27th Nov' 1830 Aged 28.

Thomas Mann Eldeft fon of Thomas & Elizabeth Mann, d. 28th June 1839
Aged 20 Ys. In love he lived in Peace he died
In hope with God he fhall abide.
Alfo Thomas George Eldeft Son of James and Lucy Mann of Sandwich
Grandfon of the above Thomas & Elizabeth Mann
Died 6th January 1861 Aged 8 Yrs.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 119
Betty Wife of Thomas Mann d. Nov' 3rd 1864 Aged 68.
She is not dead but fleepeth
In hopes of a Joyful Refurrection.
Alfo the above-named Thomas Mann
Died 1 6th May 1869 Aged 77.

William Son of John & Mary Moat
Died 22nd December 1821 Aged 10 Y'5.
Alfo Mary Ann, their Daughter D. 3rd May 1829, A. 1 Yr. 8 Mhs.

Robert Mann Son of Thomas & Betty Mann
Died 3rd December 1826 Aged 1 Y' & 9 Months.
Robert Thomas Richard Eldeft Son of Robert and Sarah Mann D. 18th April
1867 Aged 19 Months. Ere fin could blight or forrow fade
Death came with friendly care
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed
And bade it bloffom there.

Lawrence Marfh D. 23rd February 181 2 Aged 69
Alfo Mary Wife of the above Lawrence Marfh
Died April 30th 1861 Aged 68.

Jane Daughter of Thomas & Charlotte Foord
Died July 2nd 1825 Aged 17
Henceforth be every tender tear fuppreft
And let us weep for Joy that fhe is bleft
From grief to blifs from Earth to Heaven removed
Her memory honour'd as her life beloved.

Charlotte Seath, Relict of the late Thomas Foord
Born 9th Nov' 1777 Died 17 May 1850.

i2o MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Thomas Foord D. 20th June 1809 Aged 45.

Simon Cock D. 27th July 18 14 Aged 75
Alfo Sarah his Wife D. 21st May 18 19 Aged 80.

Sarah Moat Wife of Henry Branfert
Died 28th March 1793 Aged 32.
Ann Moat D. 15th January 1835 Aged 63.

Jane Daughter of Richard & Jane Marbrooke
Died 18th Auguft 1808 Aged 16.

Richard Marbrook D. 8th Feby 1830 Aged 75.

Thomas Fillis D. Feby 20th 1802 Aged 70
Alfo Sarah his Wife D. 4th Feby 1801 Aged 67.

John Phillis D. 13th March 1836 Aged 66
Alfo Charlotte Wife of the above John Phillis
Died ift July 1850 Aged 84
This ftone was erected by their Son
Mr. James Phillis, of Adelaide, Auftralia.

Ann Wife of John Pittock D. April 8th 1 780 Aged 38
Alfo the above John Pittock D, Oct' 5th 1834 Agd 87
Alfo Ann, his Second Wife D. Oct' 31s 1835 A- 84-

William Pittock D. 7th Nov'. 1775 Aged 76
Alfo Elizabeth his Wife D. ift June 1774 Aged 80.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 121
Ann Wife of Will01 Pittock D. Feby 26th 1806 Aged 77
Alfo the above W. Pittock D. Auguft 18th 181 1 Aged 88.

William Pittock D. March 12th 1841 Aged 45,
Alfo Sufanna Wife of the Above D. March 29th 1845 A. 52.

John Devefon D. March 29th 1853 Aged 77
He left Surviving Elizabeth his Wife and 13 Children
Viz. 10 Sons and 3 Daughters
Remembrance long will feel a pang fevere
And o'er this Grave Affection drop a tear.
Alfo Sufannah Downard Daughter of the Above
Died February 10th 1856. Aged 38.
Alfo Elizabeth Wife of the Above John Devefon
Died April 26th 1859. Aged 81.

William Belfey D. September 15th 1803. Aged 79
Dorcas Wife of the above William Belfey,
Died April 4th 1798 Aged 78.

Sufanna Wife of John Simmons D. 13th October 1780 Aged 62. Alfo the
above faid John Simmons D. Sep' 23rd 1800 Aged 77.

Richard Fagg D. 22nd April 1727 Aged 55.

Edward Fagg D. Dec' 6th 1780 Aged 61
Elizabeth his Wife D. 11th Auguft 1778 Aged 57.

Sarah Wife of Richard Fagg D. 22nd Dec' 1799 Aged 50
Alfo the Above Richard Fagg D. 20th March 18 10 Aged 64
Alfo three Children died in Infancy.

122 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Ralph Pittock D. Nov' 25th 181 3. Aged 57.

Harriet Daughter of Willm & Mary Ann Pittock
Died 15th July 1809 Aged 14 Months.
Alfo William their Son Died 11th Feby 18 10
in early Infancy.

Stephen Church D. Jany 16th 1798 Aged 60
Alfo Mary Wife of the Above Stephen Church
Died October 19th 1832 Aged 83
Likewife James Son of the Above Stephen & Mary
Church Died July 9th 1797 Aged 21.

Jane Arnold D. June 20th 1824 Aged 83
Alfo William Arnold Hufband of the Above
Died 8 June 1825 Aged 85.

William Ledner D. 26th Feby 1795 Aged 85
Alfo Sarah, his Wife D. 16th Nov1. 1798 Aged 82.

James Hudson D. 25th Auguft 18 19 Aged 65
Alfo Mary Wife of the Above D. Sep' 11th 1846 Aged 90
Alfo William Son of the Above D. Dec' 6th 1846 Aged 50.

Jane Daughter of Michael and Mary Cock
Died 10th November 1794 Aged 25.

Richard Soames D. 29th May 1805 Aged 53
Alfo Sarah Wife of the Above D. 8th Aug' 1832 Aged 80.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 123
Richard Soames D. 6th November 1850 Aged 72.

Dilnot Sladden of the City of Canterbury, Solicitor,
Son of Ifaac Sladden of Selfon in this Parifh
Died 25th June 1839 Aged 25.

Elizabeth Wife of Ifaac Sladden D. 2nd March 18 16.
Aged 34. Alfo the Above named Ifaac Sladden
Died 25th March 1861 Aged 79.

Thomas Kelfey, Gent. D. 29th Auguft 1829 Aged 85.
Alfo Mrs. Catherine Kelfey, Widow of the Above
Died 20th July 1836, Aged 86.

{On a flat ftone railed round!)
Thomas Caftle D. 29th April i860 Aged 69
Alfo Caroline & Charlotte D. in their Infancy May 182 1.

James Hudfon D. Sep' 24th 1755 Aged 48
Mary Wife of the Above D. Nov' 22nd 1780. Aged 77.

Thomas Beer D. March 3rd 1804 Aged 79
Alfo Mary Wife of the Above Thomas Beer
Died 25th May 1822. Aged 88.

James Hudfon D. January 14th 18 16 Aged 84.

Thomas Morris D. 7th Auguft 1835 Aged 59.

124 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
This Stone is erected in Memory of Ann Rewell by the Members of a family
refident in this Parifh to record their Affectionate and Grateful fenfe of her long
and faithful Service, and to fhew that integrity and Diligence make the Poffeffor
respected in life and lamented in Death.
She Died 18th Auguft 1829 Aged 66.

Alfo Sarah Mills D. 2nd Auguft 1862 Aged 62.

Ann Wife of Stephen Court, Clerk, and Daughter of
William Aynott D. 28th Auguft 1826 Aged 85.

Stephen Court 55 Years Clerk of this Parifh
Died 6th June 1830. Aged 86.

William Aynott D. 26th July 1775 Aged 70
William Son of the Above D. 1748 Aged 15
Alfo Elizabeth Daughter of the Above faid William Aynott
Died 29th January 1 774 Aged 39.

Elizabeth Aynott D. 30th April 181 1 Aged 97.

Edward Terry D. Feby 28"1 1849 Aged 71
Alfo Elizabeth Wife of the Above D. Feby 15th 1834 Aged 55
Alfo Elizabeth Daughter of the Above D. June 20th 1838 Aged 17
Alfo Edward Hacklinge Son of the Above Died
January 30th 1816 Aged 3 Y's.
Alfo 2 Children who Died in their Infancy.
William Terry Son of George Terry. D. March 3rd 1849
Aged 10 Weeks.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 125
John Barton late of Worth. D. 20th Jany 1763 Aged 44
Alfo Ann his Wife D. 29th June 1 768 Aged 45.

James Fells D. 3rd March 1849 Aged 65.

Thomas Fells D. July 8th 1793 Aged 47
Alfo Ann Wife of the Above D. Jany 13th 1835 Aged 79
Likewife Thomas Son of the Above D. Oct' 14th 1835 Aged 55.

John Tanton D. 31** December 1794 Aged 69.

Jeffe Betts D. 2ift February 1829 Aged 42.

Ann Thompfon Daughter of Thomas Adams of Updown
Died 9th October 1757 Aged 69.

Thomas Adams late of Updown D. 8th July 1730 A. 69.

Elizabeth Wife of Mr. John Solly D. 24th Jany 1805 Aged 71
Alfo the Above faid John Solly D. Feby 4th 181 1 Aged 76.

Elizabeth Wife of Richard Ruffell D. 12th May
1 798 Aged 38, Alfo the Above faid
Richard Ruffell D. 15th October 1816 Aged 63.

1 2 6 MEMORIALS OF EA S TR Y.
Elizabeth Wife of Richard Sladden D. 17th June
1806 Aged 26, Alfo James Son of the Above
Died 20th July 1 806 Aged 1 5 Months.

Ann Wife of Charles Pott D. 23rd Sep' 1806 Aged 23
Alfo John Son of the Above D. 17th March 1808 A. 18 Months
Alfo the Above Charles Pott D. 29th Aug', 1818 Agd 33.

To the Memory of 3 Beloved Infants of James and Mary Buddie of this
Parifh who died at the refpective Ages of Ten, Nine, and 20 Weeks, William D.
8th Jany 1834 William George D. 10th Dec' 1842, and Sarah Ann, D. 13th April
1845. I take thefe tender lambs faid He
And lay them on my breaft
Protection they fhall find in Me
In Me be ever bleft.

Harriet Wife of William Solley D. 29th February 1832 Aged 32 Yr:
Alfo the Above named William Solley D. 9th Feby 1847 Aged 48
Alfo 2 Children William & Harriet Elizabeth.

William Hammond D. 20th Feby 1840 Aged 87
Alfo Mary Wife of the Above D. 13th Oct' 1836 Agd 83.

William Coller D. October 15th 1767 Aged 39
Alfo Elizabeth his Wife D. April 29th 1773 Aged 59.
Alfo Mary their Daughter D. July 25th 1769 Aged 26.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 127
William Silver D. December 20th 1841 Aged 54
Alfo Ann Daughter of the Above Died
June 26th 1808 Aged 5 Months.

Jofeph Silver D. 28th Feby 1801 Aged 56
He left furviving Mary his Wife and
Nine Children, who in grateful
remembrance of the beft of Hufbands
And beft of Fathers, have caufed
this ftone to be placed here.
Alfo Mary Wife of the Above D. Sep' 6th 18 16 Aged 68.

Thomas Pettman D. 9th May 1762 Aged 60
Alfo Sarah his Wife D. 1 7th Auguft 1 800 Aged 90
Alfo Sarah Daughter of the Above faid Thomas
and Sarah Pettman D. 18th June 1761 Aged 16 Y's.
And Six other Children who died in their Infancy.

Mr. Richard Pettman of the Town & Port of
Sandwich, D. 18 th January 18 10 Aged 71.
Alfo Ann Pettman Wife of the Above
Died 26th February 1821 Aged 87.

Richard Wallraven D. December 6th 1800 Aged 67
Alfo Ann Wife of the Above D. Oct' 1 i'h 1789 Aged 66.

David Lawrence D. 6th Sep" 1798 Aged 68
Alfo Elizabeth Wife of the Above D. 14 Nov1 1806 Aged 73.

Robert Atkins D. 24th Sep' 1807 Aged 2 Y' & 8 Months.

1 2 8 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Sarah Wife of Robert Atkins D. 27nd Oct'. 1811 Aged 51.

George Hancock D. Jany 12th 1808 Aged 76
Alfo Mary his Wife D. Dec' 28th 1795 Aged 63.

Stephen Marfh D. May. 23rd 1842 Aged 55
Alfo Elizabeth Wife of the Above D. June 25th 1823
Aged 33, Alfo Pleafant Marfh, his 2nd Wife
Died July 26th 1829 Aged 35.

Margaret Wife of John Stapley Efq, late
An Officer of H. M. Ordnance, Dover, who
Quitted this Mortal life 28th April 1848
Aged 65 Years (Afleep in Jefus).
Alfo Sufannah Vandeput Daughter of the Above
Died 17th June 1848, Aged 32 Y's. Alfo John
Stapley Husband of the Above Margaret Stapley
Died 9th October 1850 Aged 69.

George Marfh of Deal, D. 15th July 1825 Aged 43
Alfo Ann Marfh Wife of the Above D. 6th April
i860 Aged 78.

Jane Fells, Daughter of Thomas & Ann Fells
Died 11th November 1838 Aged 47. Alfo Lydia
Daughter of the Above D. Dec' 5th 1843 Aged 57.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 129
Mr. Ifaac Sladden, late of Gore in this Parifh
Died 23rd September 1807 Aged 40. Alfo Ann
Wife of the Above Ifaac Sladden D. 27th June 181 1, A. 43
Alfo 3 Children who Died Young.

Thomas Staines Sladden late of Gore in this Parifh
Died 16th October 1831, Aged 40. He left Surviving
Hefter his Wife with 8 Children, 4 Sons & 4 Daugs.

Solomon Harvey, Gen'. D. 9 November 1733 Aged 77
Alfo Catherine his Wife D. 15th March 1740 Aged 79
Alfo their Son Solomon Harvey, A.B.
Died 22nd April 17 13 Aged 23.
This was erected by their beloved Daughter, Anno 1742.
Thomas Harvey D. 27th July 1696 Aged 63
Alfo Mrs. Sarah Barnard Daughter of the faid
Thomas Harvey, And late Wife of Mr. William
Barnard Citizen of London, D. 25th July 1696 Aged 32.
Alfo Ann, Wife of the above named Thomas
Harvey. Died 25th September 17 16 Aged 85.

{Marble Slab railed round!)
Roberta Wife of Commander George Sayer, R.N.
Died 2nd October 1851 Aged 48.

{Stone Tomb railed round!)
Richard Shockledge Leggatt, D. 13th March 1853 Agd 67.

130 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
{ Tomb railed round!)
Thomas Rammell D. Dec'. 16th 1759. Aged 56
Elizabeth his Wife & Daughter of Thos. & Mary Fuller
Died March 4th 1781 Aged 72
Alfo Mary, John, & Jane, who D. in their Infancy
Alfo Sufan D. January 5th 1770 Aged 18
Edward D. May 6th 1785 Aged 38
Mary, D. Nov'. 13th 1789 Aged 41
Thomas, D. October n'h 1799 Aged 59
Alfo Mrs. Elizabeth being the laft of the Iffue
of the Above Thomas & Elizabeth, Died
September 15th 1821 Aged 78.

Ann Wife of Edward Rammell of Deal
Died 1 i'h April 1785 Aged 71
Thomas Son of the Above faid D. 1 Ith Feby 1791 A. 30.

Bartholomew Spain D. 11th Feby 1822 Aged 42
Alfo Mary Wife of the Above D. 5th March 1862 Agd 76
When in the Solemn hour of Death
I Waited thy decree
This was the Prayer of my laft breath
O Lord remember me.

Hannah Daughter of Bartholomew & Elizabeth Spain
D. 25th November 181 1 Aged 25.

Richard Son of Bartholomew & Elizabeth Spain
Died 2ift September 181 1 Aged 28.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 131
Frances Daughter of Bartholomew & Elizabeth Spain
D. 2 ift February 1806 Aged 18.

Bartholomew Spain D. 15th June 18 13 Aged 68.
Alfo Elizabeth Wife of the Above D. 12 May 181 7. Ag.67.

H, 1 701. T. Hi 724.

R. H. 1708. K. H. 1728.

{Mr. Sharp's Vault flat ftone!)

John Pott D. 24th January 1805, Aged 60
Alo 4 Children of the Above who D. in their Infancy
Harriet Manger Pott Daughter of the Above
D. 13th Auguft 1 8 14 Aged 22
Elizabeth Pott, Relict of the Above, D. 29th Feby 1832
Aged 85.

Ann Wife of John Pott D. 14th May 177 1 Aged 64
Alfo the Above John Pott D. 7 May 1775 Aged 60.

Mary Wife of John Woodruff D. 10th Sep' 1727 Aged 57
John Woodruff D. 4th June 1737 Aged 71
Alfo 2 Children who D. in their Infancy.

Gibeon Son of Thomas and Sufan Rammell
D. ift Auguft 1724 Aged 15.

T32 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Sufan Wife of Thomas Rammell D. 12th May
1749 Aged 74.

Thomas Rammell D. 13th March 1725 Aged 52.

Lydia Wife of Edward Emanuel Keble
Born 6th Nov' 1779 D. 18th May 1859.
Alfo the Above named Edward Emanuel Keble
late of Sandwich D. 3rd March 1867 Aged 83
Ann Relict of Edward Keble D. 14 May
1773 Aged 47.

Thomas Keble D. 14th February 1793 Aged 44
Martha Wife of the Above D. 15th Sep' 1785 Aged 32
Alfo 2 Sons Edward & George who D. in their Infancy
Harriet Daughter of the Above D. 11th March 1809 Aged 30.

Sarah Wife of John Hammond D. Nov' ift 1821 Aged 86.

Robert Simmons D. Jany 22nd 1809, Aged 84
Mary Wife of the Above D. October 29th 1809. Aged 84.

Joyce Wife of Samuel Fells D. Jany 23d 1807 Aged 66
Alfo the Above named Samuel Fells D. Auguft 13th
1807 Aged 66.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 133
William Moat D. Feby 19th 18 14 Aged 92
Elizabeth Wife of the Above D. June 25th 1813 Aged 84
Alfo Richard Son of the Above D. April 8th 1826 A. 75
Sarah Wife of Wm. Drayfon and Daughter of the
Above Will"1. & Eliz'\ Moat, D. Aug'. io'h 1853 Aged 85.

Margaret Wife of Thomas Hart of the City of
Canterbury, Wine Merchant. D. 5th Dec' 181 3, Aged 53.

Jofeph Belfey D. 10th October 1801 Aged 72
Sarah Belfey, his Wife D. 20th May 1806 Aged 68.

William Thomas Wood D. 2ift Dec' 1786 Aged 23
Alfo 2 Sons Jofeph and Thomas.

Jofeph Belfey D. June 9th 1789 Aged 18.

Mary Wellard D. 13 Nov1 1808 Aged 64.

Elizabeth Wife of William Drayfon D.June 13th 1816 Aged 57 Alfo their
Son Thomas D. Oct' 18th 1803 Aged 1 Year.

Frances Wife of William Cooke D. 1 Ith October 18 18 Aged 40. Alfo John Hall,
Father of the Above D. 1 9th April 1820 Aged 60.
Alfo Sarah Wife of the Above D. 7th May 1836 Aged 77.

134 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Chriftopher Hall D. 4th Auguft 1762 Aged 77
Ann Wife of the Above D. 3rd May 1765 Aged 78.

S. R. Died 7th April 1825 Aged 9 Months.

{Mr. Rae's Vault railed round. )

Sufanna Wife of Thomas Bufhell, k Daughter of Henry & Pleafant Bufhell D.
d February 1838 Aged 22.
Juft as the blaft cuts off the blooming flower
She here reclines by Deaths refiftlefs power
Learn reader here and with it onward pafs
This leffon (hard to learn) all flefh is grafs.

Henry Bufhell D. 24th April 1835 Aged 69
Alfo Pleafant Wife of the Above D. April 19th 1846 Aged 65
Alfo Mary Daughter of the Above named
D. 22nd October 1850 Aged 31.

John Ferrier D. Feby 15th 1847 Aged 66
George Second Son of the Above D. 11th April 1829 Infant
Alfo Emma Jane & Caroline, Twin Daughters
of the Above D. in their Infancy.

Maria Wife of William Famarifs, D. 10th March 1842 Aged 62. Alfo the
Above named William Famarifs D. 26th April 1867 Aged 89.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 135
( Tomb railed rottnd.)
Richard Singleton B. 9th Jany 1 799 D. 1 Ith April 1840.

( Tomb railed rotmd!)
John Allen Will™. Wade Efq. Died
19th September 1851 Aged 39.

Elizabeth Wife of James Leake D. Jany 27th
1814 Aged 52.

John Wilfon D. December 30th 1840 Aged 52
Maria Daughter of the Above D. Jany 13th 1832 Ag. 7 Months
John Son of the Above D. Auguft 5th 1841 Aged 18 Y's.

Robert Netherfole D. 6th May 1770 Aged 66
Mary Netherfole Wife of the Above D. 9th Sepf
1 77 1 Aged 63, John Netherfole Son of the Above
D. 14th June 1767 Aged 24.

Edward Page D. 28th December 1861 Aged 59
Alfo 2 Children of the Above
George D. 22nd March 1837 Aged 7 Y'
Mary Ann, D. 9th Feby 1838 Aged 4 Y'.

( Tomb.)
Margaret Daughter of Saphire Paramor
Died 18th July 172 1 Aged 74.

136 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
{ Tomb!)
Saphire Paramor of Statenborough in this Parifh, Gent.
Died September 27th 1693 Aged 77.

{Tomb.)
Jofhua Paramor of Statenborough in this Parifh
D. June 4th 1 705 Aged 66 Alfo Mary Wife of the
Above D. Dec' 4th 1727 Aged 70. Margaret Paramor
Daughter of the Above D. March 38* 8764 Aged 67.

Eliza Wife of Richard Harvey, Gent, and
Daughter of Mr. Saphire Paramor D. 6th Auguft 1688 Ag. 35.

Thomas Harvey, eldeft Son of Captain Richard Harvey
Died 30th October 1696 Aged 19.
Wifdom and Innocency Both were joyn'd
And both in blooming Youth had fully form'd his Mind
When he to God his fpotlefs Soul refign'd.
He faw A temping world with fin draw nigh
And fearing more to live than Criminals to Dye
He timely chofe a bleft Eternity.

Thomas Kite D. 22nd December 1795 Aged 36
Alfo Thomas Kite Son of the Above D. March 18th 1796 Aged 6 Y'
And 2 Children who Died in their Infancy
Alfo Mrs. Sarah Kite Wife of the Above
Died 14th September 1826 Aged 64.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 137
Arthur Son of Thomas & Mary Sutton D. May 28th 1835 Aged 5 Years Alfo
Hefter Daughter ofthe Above D. Dec' 11th 184 1 Aged 13. Alfo Harriett
Daughter of the Above D. April 6th 1842 Aged 23.

Mary Wife of Mr. Thomas Sutton of Sandwich
D. 7th May 1850 Aged 58. Alfo the Above named
Mr. Thomas Sutton D. 4th October 1866 Aged 71.

John Wood D. 20* October 1824 Aged 36.

( Tomb railed round.)
Jane Wife of Ephraim Prior D. March 29th 1849 Aged 2 i
All you that come my grave to fee
Remember Death will conquer thee
As you are now fo once wa3 I
Therefore I pray prepare to Die.

Edward Fagg D. December 8th 185 1 Aged 38.
He left furviving Amy his Wife.
Farewell farewell yet not a long adieu
For I if faithful foon may be with you
In bliffful regions where no fin no pain
Nor parting pangs fhall funder us again.

Mary Jane Hoile D. 4th Feby 1850 Aged 31
Alfo Sarah Strotten Mother of the Above
D. 27th Dec1 1 85 1 Aged 67.

James Standen D. 1* April i860 Aged 74
Ann Daughter of the Above D. 30th March 1826 Ag. 4 Y's & 6 Months.
Sarah Wife of Henry Standen Son of the Above
D. 19th February 1862 Aged 38.

1 3 8 MEMORIALS OF EA S TR Y.
William Nower D. 18th Jany 1858 Aged 61.
Ann Nower Wife of the Above D. 9th April
1858 Aged 58.

Hannah Wife of Francis Hopper. D. Sep' 13th 1856 Ag 27.

John Farrier D. 13th Feby 1858 Aged 77.

Henry Kittams D. 5th Sep' 1855 Aged 53.

Ann Wife of John Setterfield D. 30th Jany 1861 Aged 66
When in the Solemn hour of Death
I waited thy decree
This was the Prayer of my laft breath
O Lord remember me.

Sufannah Wife of Thomas Young D. Dec' 8th 1862 Agd 56
Affliction fore long time fhe bore
With pain fhe was oppreft
Till God did pleafe to give her eafe
And take her Soul to reft.

(Tomb railed round.)
Sarah only Daughter of John & Sufannah
Bowes, Born 30th May 1830, D. 18th Feby 1853
Alfo John Bowes Father of the Above named
Sarah, Born 28th Jany 1792 D. 4th Dec' 1865.

( Tomb.) "
Thomafine Fanny Wife of John Bridges
Kenrick D. 22nd Feby 1859.
Clara Florence their Daughter D. 7 May 1859 Aged 7.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 139
Cranmer Kenrick Born 19th Jany 1849, D. 11th July i860.

William Horton D. 19th Feby 1867 Aged 38
Alfo Ellen, Agnes, and Lizzie Daughters of the
Above who Died in their Infancy.

(Tomb.)
Agnes Daughter of William and Mary
Boteler Died October 8th 1857 Aged 57.

Eliz: Corney Romanis, D. 26 Aug' 1855 Aged 41.

Elizabeth Barbara Wyver D. 23rd Jany 1862 Aged 62.

(Tomb railed round. )
Henry Upton D. 4th Auguft 1850 Aged 64.
Henry Matfon Son of Henry & Mary Upton,
Died 26th Feby i860 Aged 33.
Mary Upton D. ift Nov' 1863 Aged 70.

( Marble flab railed round.)
Elizabeth Wife of Captain George Hilton R.N. and Daughter of Henry Wife
Harvey, of Hearnden, Born in Sandwich 2nd October 1792 Died in Canterbury
25th Feby 1 8 19 Buried in Eaftry Church. Alfo Eliza the only Child of the
Above Born in Canterbury 15th May 181 7, Died in Bruffels 26th July 1856.
Buried beneath this Tablet.

(Flatflone railed round.)
Margaret Ann Maria Wife of Robert Gordon Duglafs Efq. Lieut. R.N.
Daughter of Henry Wife Harvey of Middle Deal. Died 17th May 1858,
Aged 28.

140 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
( Tomb.)
Sarah Daughter of William Fuller
Boteler and Charlotte his Wife D. 19th May 1857 Ag 42.

( Tomb.)
William Boteler Born October 23rd 18 10
Died July 6th 1867.
Olliff Julia Wyborn. D. 15th April 1864 Aged 9 Yri

(Marble Tomb!)
Stacey Grimaldi was born Oct' 1 8th 1 790, in the Parifh of St. James London.
And died March 28th 1863. At Hernden Houfe Eaftry, leaving A Widow,
Their Six Sons and three Daughters.
'c Bleffed are the dead who die in the Lord"
To the beloved and Honoured Memory of Stacey Grimaldi Efq. F.S.A. of Maize
Hill, Greenwich, • Kent, Third in lineal Defcent from Alexander Marquefs Gri
maldi of Genoa, Who fettled in England a.d. 1683. Stacey Beaufort Grimaldi
Eldeft Son of the above, Born in York St. London 30th September 1826, Died
in Otago New Zealand unmarried 23rd Oct' 1866.

Mary Elizabeth, Wife of Henry Famarifs of Wells Farm in this Parifh D.
ift Dec1 1855 Agd 25.
Alfo Elizabeth Daughter of the Above died in her Infancy.

Jane Martha Daughter of Mark and Mary Kingfland D. 9th Auguft 1853
Aged 18 Yrs.
Mark Kingfland late of Wells Farm in this Parifh D. ift March 1853 Aged
54. Alfo Mary Wife of the Above D. 18th April 1852 Aged 43 Y's Left Surviv
ing 7 Children Viz Mark William, Mary Elizabeth, William Thomas, Jane
Martha, Court, Emily, & James.

William Charles Monks Courtney born May 8th 1865 : d. April 29th 1869.
" Perfected for ever."

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 141
Arthur-Mand, Carus-Wilfon Born March 16th
1857 Died October 15th 1859.
" He fhall gather the Lambs with his Arms."

,th

Mary Wife of James Buddie, D. July 1 7"
1850. Aged 45. Leaving 3 Sons & 3 Daughters
She was a good and tender Mother
A true and faithful Wife.
Alfo Sufannah Daughter of the Above
D. Sep1 24th 1852 Aged 22 Yrs.
Alfo James Husband of the Above D. Oct 6th
1864 Aged 75.

(Tomb railed ronnd.)
Commander Charles Hougham Baker R.N.
late of this Parifh D. 29th March 1854 Agd 42
much Beloved and refpected.
The Lord gave & the Lord hath taken away
Bleffed be the name of the Lord.

Richard Devefon D. 12th Auguft 1864 Aged 64.

Phineas Gilham 20th Feby 1850 Aged 52 Y".
Alfo Mary Gilham Wife of the Above D. 20th September 1868 Aged 75.
" Bleffed are the Dead which die in the Lord."

( Tomb railed round.)
Here lieth the Mortal remains of the late
Rev. Ralph Drake Backhoufe, M.A.
1 2 Years Vicar of Eaftry with Worth
And 29 Years A Zealous Minifter of God's Word
Born 6th January 1801, Died 24th Dec' 1853.
" And their Works do follow them."

142 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
7 MONUMENTS IN THE CHURCHYARD,
(From the Boteler MSS.)
i5t.
At the Northfide of the Church in the angle formed by the Chancel.
Virtus poft funera vivit
Here lieth buried Margaret the eldeft Daughter of Jofhua and Sufan Paramore,
and Wife to Bartholomew Fletcher of Kent Gent. She was born Auguft 2ift
1614 married September 18th 1632, and Died July 10th 1633.
Sir Transit Gloria Mundi
a Jewel rare
In Earth its place fhall appeare
(When Graves be open'd Day of doome)
Earre to furpaffe of this tombe
Strive then Spectator
To views fo riche or rare a diamond.

Here lyeth entomb'd the Body of Ann Bonner, late Wife of Wm. Bonner of
Lee, in Effex Mariner, by whom fhe had Iffue one Daughter. She was the
Daughter of Jofhua and Sufan Paramor of Eftry in Eft Kent She drew her firft
Breth April 26* in the Year 1625 and drew her laft Breth the 4th of May in the
Year 1644 To Mourn or joy I ftand in equal plight
Thy Loffe deere friend to mourning doth invite
Thy Loffe oh no my Loffe of fuch a Friend
Muft needs coft teares but yet thy happie end
Made friends at thy death both glad and forry
Sad tb recount theire Loffe glad for thy glory.

O ¦

Here lieth interred the Body of Sam1. Paramor Gent, who departed this life ye
22nd of April 1679 Aged 29 Years
The Memory of the Juft is bleffed. Prov :
Look envious Eyes & fee what's done
Low here is writ upon this Stone
An Epitaph which doth prefent
A line or two of difconfent
For here doth lie of natures Store

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A young Man and a Paramour
Lord this is thy moft bleft decree
To bring us one by one to thee.

4th-

Here lyeth the Body of Margaret the Wife of Saphyr Paramor of Staten
borough Gent, who departed this life the 23rd of Auguft 1679 Aged 60 Years.

5th-

Here lyeth interred the Body of Saphire Paramor of Statenborough Gent. He
was buried 27 Sep' A.D. 1693 Aged 77 Years
Waiting for the Resurrection of the Juft.

6th.
Here lieth interred the Body of Jofhua Paramor of Statenborough in this
Parifh Gent, who departed this life June 4th A.D. 1705 Aged 66 Years.
Leaving Iffue 3 Sons & 4 Daughters, by Mary his Wife Daughter of Mr.
Ralph°Philpott of Word.
Alfo Mary the Wife ofthe aforefaid Jofhua Paramor died Dec' 4th 1727 Aged
70 Years. Alfo Margaret Daughter of the abovefaid Jofhua & Mary died March
3ift 1764 Aged 67 Years.

f\

Here lieth interred the Body of Marg'. ye Daughter of Saphir Paramor of this
Parifh Gent, who departed this life the 18th of July A.D. 1721 Aged 74 Years.

On an altar Monument near the middle of the Churchyard on the North
Wefl fide of the foot-path.
Here lieth the Bodyes of Thomas Fawlchner, and William Fawlchner, Which
Thomas dyed 22nd day of Aprill 16 William dyed yc of October 1616.
(The Infcription is almoft obliterated) Eaftry Regifter ;
Burials 28 April 16 10 Thomas Fawlchner Paterfamilias 11 Oc' 16 16
Wm. Fawlchner Pat.

144 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Richard Prett Died Dec' 20th 1 749. Aged 50.
Jane his Wife Died 2nd Oct' 1753. Aged 56.
Death is the fate of all you fee
And will ere long your Portion be.
Happy are they in Chrift that die
To live with him eternally.

William Parker died 5 Feby 1782. Aged 86
Elizabeth his Wife died 1 Ith April 1778 Aged 86.

Ann Barton ;
Wife of James Beal,
Born 22nd Auguft 1806,
Died 6th April, 1855.
Alfo
Sufannah Philpott,
Wife of Alfred T. Wright,
And Daughter of the above
D. i2thJany.
1869, Aged 23.
Mary Beal.
D. March 4th 1857,
Aged 76 Years.
Jofeph Patten Baker,
Born 26th July, 18 13,
Died 11th Nov'. 1869.
. . . . From the ruined fiirine hefiept,
And in the moon athwart the place of tombs,
Where lay the mighty bones of a7icient men,
Old knights, and over them the fea wind fang
Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam ....
Mort D'Arthur.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 144*
My attention has been called by the Rev. W. S. Shaw, to fome in-
fcriptions and monuments not now difcoverable, which were communi
cated in 1790 to Parfons' Monuments of Kent, by the Rev. Montague
Pennington. They were as follows : —
" I. On a flat ftone partly within the [altar] rails, which are fo placed over it that
part of the inscription is illegible, is —
Hie jacet quod fuit mortale Richardi Foggi arm. qui ex uxore XIV
liberorum pater fuit, etc. Obiit aet. 74. 1580.
" II. On the wall fouth of the table, on a brafs plate about 20 inches fquare
in perfect prefervation, are the effigies of a man and woman kneeling
with uplifted hands, behind him the fon, behind her three daughters in
fame attitude. The fon has a fword by his fide. Beneath the figures is
this infcription : Pofuit Richardo Fogg armigero, viro fuo amantiffimo
chariffimoque benigne de fuis, benigniffime de pauperibus, bene de omnibus
merito, uxor Anna hoc grati animi monumentum * * * * # Vixit et
afcendit quinquagenarius aftra, nunc anima ccelos contigit ante fide. Tres
natse, natufque unus poft fata fuperftes virtutes patrias quas imitentur
habent.
Arms above the figures. Party per pale baron and femme ift On a fefs between
three annulets as many mullets pierced. 2nd, quarterly  in the finifter
quarter a crefcent, over all a bend vairy.
" III. A flatftone without the [altar] rails to the memory of Jane daughter of R.
Kingsford rector of Upminfter in Effex and Jane his wife daughter of Richd.
Fogge late of this Parifh Efquire She married Edward Jacob of Canter
bury furgeon, and left iffue 8 children. Ob. March 16. 1719. astat. 33.
" IV. Alfo the faid Edward Jacob and Mary, daughter of John Chelker of New
Romney gent, his 2nd wife: he died Feb. 9, 1756, aged 76, fhe Oct. 10th,
1727, aged 33.
" V. In the body of the Church : Here lieth Ralph Smith junior of Tilman
ftone who died Aug. 16, 1655.
" VI. Here lieth the body of Ralph Smith of Eaftry who died June nth, 1664.
" VII. Ralph Smith of Thornton, Sep. 16 — .
" VIII. On the fide of the chancel a handfome mural monument to M. Hatton,
Efqre., of Dane Court in this parifh, Aug. 1, 1776.
Arms. Party per pale. Azure a chevron between 3 garbs or, for Hatton. 2nd
gules three lilies proper couped, for Lilly. On a wreath of the colours a
hind at gaze or.
" IX. Another on fame fide with fluted pillars. Thomas Michael Turney, late
Student of Brafenofe. ift Feb. 1770, aged 19."
In the Chancel Eaft Window were thefe arms in different compart
ments : —

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" i . (The bafe broken) in chief azure 3 lions rampant or.
" 2. Gules a crofs argent.
" 3. Azure three bendletts argent The efcutcheon imperfect. In the other
chancel windows are feveral figures much defaced."

Whilft thefe pages have been paffing through the prefs, a handfome Latin Crofs
has been erected over the Rae Vault, ftanding on three fteps, the higheft of
which bears the following infcriptions cut on its feveral faces, viz: —
On the Weft face— " In memory of
James Rae
Of Douglas Ayrfhire, N.B.
and of Walton Houfe, Eaftry.
Died February 28th, 1843,
Aged 49 years."

On the South face-

On the Eaft face-

On the North face-

"In Memory of
Katherine Mary
Second daughter of James Rae
and Elizabeth Sophia his wife.
Died November 8th, 1842
Aged Eleven years."

" In Memory of
Rofa Margaret
Wife of the Revd. J. R. Holmes,
Rector of Bio- Norton, Norfolk,
Youngeft daughter of James Rae.
Died November 7th, 1869.
Aged 32 years."

" In Memory of
Mary
Widow of William Gordon,
of Glenlivet, Banfffhire, N.B.
only daughter of Thomas Jemmitt
of Borham Wood, Herts.
Died July 16th, 1854
Aged 89 years."

Ci)e Cotoer anti Brfte*

H

CHAP. V.
" What mufic is there that compared may be
With well-tuned bells' enchanting melody ?
Breaking with their fweet founds the willing air,
They in the liftening ear the foul enfnare!'
Lines inscribed in the Belfry of S. Peter's Church, Shaftesbury.
AVING carefully examined the Church, let us now afcend the
Tower.

We fhall not go far before we come on the left to a door- way, long
fince blocked up, which probably led either to the triforium, or to the
outfide of the roof of the nave, of an earlier church. A few fteps more
bring us to the Ringing chamber, where the ringers ufually affemble
on Tuefday (formerly Thurfday) nights to practife, and where hangs
a copy of the Rules of the Eaftry ringers, given hereafter. Imme
diately above this is the Clock chamber, which contains " the works "
of a very good and ferviceable eight-day clock by Meffrs. More &
Son, Clerkenwell, given to the parifh by R. Springett Harvey, Efqre.,
in the year 1853 ; at which time Mr. Harvey alfo gave a telefcope for the
ufe of the clerk, or other perfon appointed to wind up the clock, in order
that he might notice the exact time at which the time ball falls at Deal

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MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.

and regulate the clock thereby. Local time, which is ftill kept al Eaftry, is 5
minutes falter than Greenwich time. But, had our parifh been to the Weft of
Greenwich inftead of to the Eaft of it, the probability is that " railway time "
would have been adopted long ago. In this chamber is kept the parifh
flag — a large S. George's enfign, purchafed in 1869, out of part of the
proceeds of Penny Readings.
A few fteps more bring us to the Bell chamber, which, however, we had
better pafs by for the prefent, and haften to the top of the Tower. Arrived

here we find the whole village, as it were, mapped out at our feet ; whilft on
a clear day a very fine diftant view may be obtained, embracing portions of
the towns of Sandwich, Ramfgate, and Deal — Ramfgate Harbour, the
Goodwin Sands, Walmer Caftle, Walderfhare Tower, Goodneftone, Knowl
ton, and Walderfhare Parks, the grounds of Bettefhanger and of Updown
Houfe, and the Tower or other portions of 17 or 18 parifh churches,

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 147
including thofe of Afh ; Staple ; WoodnesborOugh ; Minfter ; S. Clements,
and S. Peter's, Sandwich ; S. Lawrence, Thanet ; S. George's, and Holy
Trinity, Ramfgate ; S. Andrew's, Deal ; Upper Deal ; Shoulden ; Word ;
Great Mongeham ; Tilmanftone ; and fome others.
The view is fo good on a clear fummer's day, when the fun is not too
hot (for then there would probably be a confiderable haze), that I think
any of my readers who fhould be induced to venture to the top of the
Tower would readily confefs that they were amply repaid for all the toil
and trouble of the afcent.
Carefully locking the door at the top of the Tower, let us now defcend
a few fteps to the Bell chamber, and take a peep at the Bells. At prefent
the Eaftry peal confifts of five Bells. And the probability is that the
Church has poffeffed this fame number for at leaft the laft hundred and fifty
years — the more recent dates upon fome of the Bells, being merely the
dates of re-cafting. Mr. Boteler, in his MSS., fpeaks of the Eaftry Bells
as being " wretchedly unmufical " even in his day, and as time went on
they probably did not much improve. At length, however, in the year
1 864, through the exertions of Lieut-Col. Rae, who is himfelf an amateur
ringer, and takes a warm intereft in the bells and bellringing, they
were tuned and put into a ftate of thorough repair by Meffrs. Mears
& Son.
The following are the mottoes emboffed upon the feveral Bells, toge
ther with their refpective weights : —
ist. cc Robert mat matre me 1584" Weighs 7 cwt.
2nd. " Balanites Clarfce fram fttit Campanam 1609." Weighs 8 cwt
WILLIAM IDLEY Z THOMAS WHITFYLDE CHVRCHWARDENS."
3rd. "HENRy WILTNAR MADE ME 1629." Weighs Io| CWt
4th. " MR. RAMMELL CHURCHWARDEN RICHARD PHELPS MADE ME 1 734." Weighs
14 CWt.
5th. " THOmAS KITE WILLIAm FILPOT CHURCH WARDEnS ROBERT CATLIn FECIT 1 740."
Weighs 18 cwt.

148 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Mot flourifhed in London from 1570 to 1603, and died in White -
chapel. Clarke was a Chertfey founder. His lettering is fimilar to that
of the Eldridges, of Chertfey. Henry Wilnar was a Kentifh founder.
His foundry was at Borden, near Faverfham, and the father and fon
flourifhed from 1600 to 1670. Richard Phelps belonged to the White-
chapel Foundry — the prefent firm of Mears and Stainback — and died in
1738. Cat Iin belonged to the Reading Foundry.
From very early times Bells have been ufed for the purpofe of calling
the faithful to the fervices of the church, of affembling the clergy, of
lamenting the dead, and of honouring feftivals.
And to the man whofe foul is capable of appreciating the grand mufic
of good bells, there is fomething indefcribably thrilling in the deep
fonorous voice of the tenor or great bell, as its folemn tones of fadnefs, or
of warning, come through "the liftening air!" Whilst the joyous
abandon with which a merry peal bursts forth is perfectly infectious.
Of all nations the Ruffians have, perhaps, the keeneft appreciation of
good bells (fee C. Piazzi Smyth's Three Cities in Ruffid), yet, ftrange to
fay neither with them, nor elfewhere on the Continent where they have
fine bells, are they rung in a peal, but one bell rings at one time, another
at another, without method, fo that the only effect to a stranger is a per
petual tinkling ! Ringing in peals — and especially change ringing— feems
almoft entirely peculiar to this country, and fome writers have even gone
fo far as to attribute the title " merrie England" to this national cuftom.
In the olden times a day never paffed without the bell being rung once
or twice, and perfons very frequently left money or goods by will to pay for
the bell being fo rung. Thus there was the matins or early morning bell, to
call the people together for common prayer before going forth to their work
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where the original purpofe and intention of it has been loft fight of and
forgotten. Again, there was the Bell for Evenfong ; and later on the
Curfew Bell, warning people to put out all lights and fires for the night.
A precaution moft neceffary when the cottage and the hall were alike moftly
built of wood and thatched with ftraw. This cuftom is faid to have been
firft infiituted by William the Norman, but probably the true expla
nation is, that he made obligatory that which, there feems good reafon for
fuppofing, was practifed even before his time in the convents of the north.
The ancient and goodly cuftom of ringing the Curfew Bell, at 8 o'clock
every evening, continued in our own parifh till the year 1824, when
unhappily it was fuffered to fall into difufe, and the annual payment of
1 Ss. heretofore made to the fexton " for ringing the eight o'clock bell "
was difcontinued.
Again, on Sundays and holy days, at the celebration of the Holy
Eucharift, when the prieft came to the words, Sanclus, Sanclus, Sanclus,
Dominus Deus Sabaoth (Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hofts), a bell
was rung, called the Sanclus or Saunce Bell, from the fact of its being rung
at the time thofe words were uttered.
At the Reformation of the Englifh Church this cuftom was difcon
tinued, and inftead thereof a bell was rung after the Nicene Creed and
before the fermon, to fummon the people to hear the Word of God
preached and explained to them. This cuftom is now rarely met with ;
but the writer remembers, as a boy going into a country church in
Somerfetfhire, among the Men dips, where this Sermon Bell was ftill
retained and had in ufe. The rope hung down in the body of the
church — for the bell itfelf was not hung in the Tower, but probably
juft over the chancel arch — and the clerk left his defk and tolled it
for a few minutes before the pfalm was fung which preceeded the

150 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
fermon. This is the only inftance of the ufe of the Sermon Bell in a
parifh church, which I remember to have met with, though poffibly
other inftances may occur to fome of my readers. Again — when any
man was grievoufly fick and nigh unto death, it was anciently the
cuftom to ring a bell called the Pafftng Bell, to intimate to the neigh
bours that his fpirit was paffing out of this world, and to ftir them
up to pray for the foul of their brother that, if it pleafed God, his
end might be peaceful and without pain, and that he might be num
bered with Chrift's faints in glory everlasting. And by the way in
which the bell was tolled the people could learn the fex, and in fome
parifhes the age alfo, of the perfon thus paffing away. Then immediately
the breath had left the body of the fick perfon, this Paffing Bell was
changed to a knell. But nowadays the real Paffing Bell is forgotten and
difufed (though the after-knell is often improperly called the paffing bell
by fome), and the bell is tolled only when the man is dead, and our prayers
can no longer avail him in this world. In our own parifh, when any perfon's
death is intimated by the tolling ofthe bell, the fex of the deceafed is fignified
by the bell's being made to strike three times 3 for a man or boy, and three
times 2 for a woman or girl. In fome parifhes a bell is always rung at
feven o'clock on Sunday mornings and another at eight o'clock. Thefe were
probably to call the people to early celebrations of the Holy Com
munion. At Eaftry the bell is now rung at 9 o'clock only, but formerly,
and until within the laft few years, it was rung at feven, eight, and nine ;
whilft in other parifhes — though this cuftom is fomewhat rarer —
they ftill keep up the practice of ringing the Angelus Bell on Sundays at
one o'clock or thereabouts. This bell is fo called becaufe the Angel
Gabriel is faid to have faluted the B. V- Mary at that hour with the
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Angelus Bell was, I find, rung in our own parifh until quite recently.
On Sundays the bells are chimed, and not rung before the fervices, thus
caufing lefs fatigue to the ringers, and enabling them to come to church.
Having thus touched upon the manner and times of ringing the bells,
and thinking it may intereft fome of my readers, and poffibly caufe the
adoption of fuch-like rules in other parifhes, I fhall now proceed to
give— "The Rules and Regulations to be observed by the Com
pany of Ringers belonging to the Church of S. Mary,
Eastry.
The ringers, being officers of the church, fhall confift only of Church
men, parifhioners by preference, fuch as are known for their good character,
and as are desirous by their conduct to bring no disrepute upon the office
which they fill, or the church to which they belong. The belfry, being
part of the church, is to be considered as a place where decorum and
propriety are to be ftrictly obferved.
2. The number of the company fhall not exceed 12, and it fhall be
the conftant endeavour of the Company to keep up to this number as far
as poffible. Extra, or " trial hands,'' may be allowed to the number of four.
Any perfon who may be thought desirable for a " trial hand " fhall firft
be fuggefted to the vicar and churchwardens for their approval, and then
taught his art on the practice nights. He fhall then, if able to raife a
bell, and to do his work fairly in an ordinary peal, upon the occafion of a
vacancy in the number of ringers be elected by a majority to fupply the
vacant place. No fuch " trial hand " previous to election fhall have any
voice in the arrangements, or be fubject to the fines hereafter ftated, or
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152 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
his aid is required and given on the occafion of a gratuity being received.
He fhall then take his fhare. He fhall, however, be fubject to all the other
rules of the company.
The company fhall alfo admit honorary members upon an admiffion fee of
2s. bd., and an annual payment of^i. is. Such honorary members fhall
not fhare in the receipts of the company, nor be anfwerable to the fines,
but fhall have all the other privileges of members and be fubject to all the
other regulations.
3. A foreman and one vice-foreman (to act in his abfence) fhall be
annually chofen by a majority. It fhall be the duty of the foreman to fee
that all thefe rules are carried out ; to be refponfible for order and pro
priety in the belfry ; to give notice to all the ringers on the various ringing
occafions, and at the end of the year to place before the company its
pecuniary condition.
4. A treafurer fhall be annually elected by a majority. His duty fhall
be to keep in a book provided for that purpofe all the accounts of the
company ; to receive the various fubfcriptions, donations, and fees which
may be given from time to time ; to register all the fines which lie
againft each member, and at the end of the year to prepare for the
foreman a full flatement shewing the apportionment belonging to each.
5. The flated days for ringing fhall be: Chriftmas Day, Eafier Day,
Whitfun Day, Old Year's Eve, New Year's Morning ; the Queen's Birth
day ; on the occafion of the visits of the Archbifhop ; and at the funeral
of any member, when the bells fhall be muffled. The time for ringing
on other days fhall be regulated by the convenience of the ringers and
the approval of the vicar and churchwardens.
6. The praclifirg time fhall be on Thurfday evening in each week
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in addition to, or in lieu of this, they can do fo; all other rules in fuch cafe
equally holding good.
7. The ufe of the bells is to be exclufively for ecclefiaftical and national
purpofes, and always fubjedt (as provided by law) to the approval of the
vicar. 8. The rates for ringing at weddings, and fuch like occafions, fhall be
as follows: — For one hour, a fee of 10^.
„ two hours „ ios.
If a higher fee be given, then more time fhall be given at the difcretion
of the Ringers. It fhall be the duty of the foreman to take means to
afcertain whether parties concerned wifh the bells to be rung on fuch
occafions, and to acquaint them with the rates of charges. And if the
ringers think fit at any time to ring without any arrangement with parties
no fee fhall be expected.
9. All monies received for the company in the fhape of fubfcriptions,
donations, or fees, fhall be put down by the treafurer to the common
fund. This fhall be equally divided amongft all the members at the end
of the year, and then each fhare fhall be fubjected to deductions in refpect
of fines, which fhall be carried over to the common fund for the next
year, or otherwife dealt with as a majority fhall think fit.
1 o. With refpect to fines, &c. : —
(1.) A ringer who has abfented himfelf from practifing continuoufly
for 3 months (unlefs it have been on account of ficknefs) fhall have
his name ftruck off the lift of the company. He fhall be fubject to fines
up to the time of his leaving, and fhall be entitled to fuch a fhare of
monies as would belong to him up to the time of his laft attendance. In
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the cafe of a bond fide abfence from the parifh 6 months' law fhall be
permitted in order to allow for a poffible return.
(2.) On occafions of Ringing when a fee is given: —
(a.) Every ringer who, after due notice, is abfent (unlefs from
ficknefs) fhall forfeit his fhare of the gratuity.
(b.) If he be abfent through ficknefs he fhall receive half a
fhare. (c.) If he be not in the belfry within 1 5 minutes of the time of
meeting announced by the foreman, he fhall forfeit id.
(d.) If he leave the belfry before all is over, unlefs the majority
give him permiffion, he fhall forfeit id.
(e.) If the bells be rung more than once in the day, and he be not
prefent on all occafions, he fhall forfeit (in refpect of the gratuity)
proportionately. (f.) If on ringing occafions a ringer refufe to ring on account of
the fmallnefs of the fee offered (unlefs it be under 1 os.), and for want
of him the 5 bells cannot be rung, he fhall forfeit all that would
have been given to the company.
(3.) On Praclifing Occafions : —
(a.) Any member who is 1 5 minutes after time, or is abfent alto
gether (except through ficknefs), or leaves the belfry before the
bells are down (except with permiffion of the foreman) fhall forfeit 1 d.
(b.) On fuch occafions no ringing is to commence after 8 p.m.,
nor to continue after 9 p.m. (except on the night of the old year)
on pain of a forfeit of 2d. to each ringer.
11. (1.) The bells are to be rung only in the ufual and proper mode
of ringing. (2.) No one is to be allowed to touch them except ringers and trial
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(3.) No damage is to be done to the bells or to the machinery con
nected with them. Any one chargeable with this is to be held refponfible
by the foreman, and to be reported by him to the vicar and churchwardens.
(4.) None but ringers and trial hands are to be allowed in the belfry
except with the fpecial permiffion of the foreman. And it is to be under-
flood that it is a place for work and not for lounging.
12. On occafions of ringing the foreman may provide refrefhment to
the amount of 1 pint of beer for each man engaged at each time of
meeting : the expenfe of which fhall be put down to the common fund.
On praclifing occafions the foreman may allow members to fupply them
felves to a fimilar extent. No Jmoking is at any time to be allowed in
the belfry. Any improper behaviour is to be reproved by the foreman, and
if confidered neceffary, to be charged with a fine not exceeding 2s. 6d., and
to be reported to the vicar and churchwardens. Any one guilty of grofs
mifcondudt, or open defiance of any of thefe rules fhall by vote of the
majority and the fanction of the vicar and churchwardens, be turned out
of the company.
13. Any dispute which cannot fatisfactorily be arranged by the mem
bers of the company fhall be referred to the vicar and churchwardens, and
their decifion fhall be confidered final.
14. A member who fhall be confidered by the majority unable to
perform his work properly through phyfical infirmity or other fimilar
caufe, fhall retire from the company.
15. On the occafion of the election of any frefh member, thefe rules
fhall be formally read through to him by the foreman, in the prefence of
the other members, and fuch member fhall, in a book provided for the
purpofe, declare in writing his full affent to them.

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1 6. The company fhall meet on fome day at the clofe of each year
for the annual fettlement of their affairs.
17. Thefe rules, which were drawn up by thofe whofe names are
appended, and which received the approval of the vicar and church
wardens for the time being, were made the rules of the Eaftry Company
of Ringers on the 29th of March 1864. If at any time it appears
defirable to make additions to them, or alterations in them, fuch may be
done by a vote ofthe majority and the approval ofthe vicar and church
wardens.

But ere you enter, yon bold tower furvey,
Tall and entire and venerably grey.
* -» * *
But ours yetfiands, and has its bells renown' d,
For fize magnificent andfolemn sound.
The Borough.

Cije 3totot% Attars, CJjaplams, an*
Curates.

CHAP. VI.
" They may reft from their labours, and their works do follow them." Rev. xiv. 13.
1
THE following lift of clergy, who have at different times had the
cure of fouls in this parifh, is chiefly extracted from the ancient
diocefan registers in the Archiepifcopal Library at Lambeth, and the
references in the notes are to the feveral volumes which are lettered with
the names of the fucceffive archbifhops. There are alfo in the muniment
room of the library very copious and valuable indices to all thefe registers,
compiled by Dr. Ducarel, librarian of Lambeth in the laft century. The
earlieft register in the Lambeth collection — viz., that of Archbifhop
Peckham — who was advanced to the primacy in a.d. 1278 — begins in
June a.d. 1279. All the earlier regifters are faid to have been carried
to Rome by Archbifhop Kilwardby, the immediate predeceffor of Arch
bifhop Peckham, when he refigned the archbifhopric on being made Car
dinal and Bifhop of Portua. I have been informed that thefe Regifters
are no longer in the Vatican Library, but are fuppofed to have been
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the occupation of Paris, application was made to the late Duke of
Wellington, for their reftoration to the Vatican, but without fuccefs.
The title " Sir," which occurs occafionally in the following lift (and
which is = Lat. dominus), was commonly employed towards parifh priefts
in olden time, not in virtue of their prieftly office, but of the degree of
B.A. taken at the univerfity. Thofe who had taken a fuperior degree were
addreffed as " Mafter." The dates in the text are corrected to the new
flyle : the old ftyle remaining in the notes unaltered, as taken from the
regifters : — The Rectors.
ante a.d. 1280 John Bacon,1 Prefbyter.
1284 Anfelm de Eaftria,2 Prefbyter and Cleric.
1 3 1 o Mafter Robert de Mallynggs,3 Prefbyter.
13 — William de Scottowe:4 died before a.d. 1355.
1355 Sir William de Cufynton or Cofyngton :4 died before 1361.
1 36 1 Sir Stephen de Grauele,5 Prefbyter.
1 John Bacon or Bakon (for the name is fpelt both ways), prieft and reftor of
the Church of Eaftry, was fo oppreffed by the cares and refponfibilities of his cure,
that he refigned the recfory 8 Id. April A.D. 1280; but feems to have accepted it again,
as he was inftituted to it by the archbifhop, with his own ring (fuo annulo), a fhort
time after. — Reg. Pecham. f. 48 b.
2 Ibid. f. 55.
3 Reg. Winch, f. 49.
4 Reg. Ifilep. f. 270, ftates that Cufynton was collated to the re&ory of Eaftry,
then vacant by the death of William de Scottowe, his predeceffor.
5 Beg. Iftep. f. 287, tells us that Dominus Stephen de Gravele, prefbyter of the parifh
church of Eaftry, was prefented to the reftory of the faid church vacant by the death
of the laft reftor William de Cufynton. We find from the deed of endowment of
the vicarage, which is dated Aug. A.D. 1367, that the reftory of Eaftry was then vacant
by the ceffion of the recfor, which muft have been Stephen de Grauele. Sir Stephen
was, therefore, the laft reclor of Eaftry.

6
99 b.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 159
The Vicars.
1367 Thomas Molot,6 Prefbyter.
1370 Sir John Holenden.7
1 373 Sir John Clerk =8 exchanged with his fucceffor.
1376 John Kyngs:s exchanged with his fucceffor.
1377 William Buke,10 Prefbyter.
Thomas Goldyngton :" exchanged with his fucceffor.
1404 Philip Hamon:11 exchanged with his fucceffor.
1414 Galfrid Adam:12 exchanged with his fucceffor.
141 6 John Ruton or Roy ton :13 exchanged with his fucceffor.
141 7 John Putteney:14 refigned.
1 42 1 Thomas Newman, B.A.15
Molot was of the Convent of Stone, and diocefe of Lichfield. — Reg. Langh. f.

? Holenden was of Tonbrigge (Tunbridge). — Reg. Whit. f. 80 b.
8 Clerk was of Alwakely. — Regifil. Whit. f. 93 b.
9 On the 8th July, A.D. 1376, John Kyngs, vicar of Brokefbone, dio. London,
exchanged' with John Clerk, vicar of Eaftry. — Reg. Sudb. f. 114
IO William Buke, Prefbyter, chaplain of the perpetual Chantry of the B. Virgin
Mary, in the parifh church of Heme, exchanged with John Kyng. — Reg. Sudb. f. 123 b.
11 On the ift April, A.D. 1404, Thomas Goldynton, vicar of Eaftry, exchanged
with Philip Hamon, vicar of Benynden (Benenden) : Goldyngton, muft, therefore,
have been inftituted fome time previoufly, and there feems good reafon for fuppofing
that he was the fucceffor of William Buke, though in what year remains unknown.
12 July 30th, A.D. 1414, Galfrid Adam, redtor of ffrenftede (Frinfted), exchanged
with Philip Hamon. — Reg. Chick f. 60.
*3 Twenty-fecond October, A.D. 1416, Galfrid Adam exchanged with John Ruton,
reftor of Boclon Malherbe (Boughton Malherbe). — Beg. Chich. f. 77 b.
'+ On the 15th Oclober, A.D. 1417, John Royton exchanged with John Putteney,
vicar of Salhurft, diocefe Chichefter. — Reg. Chich. f. 89 b.
15 Seventeenth December, A.D. 142 1, Thomas Newman, Bachelor of Arts, was
collated to the vicarage of Eaftry vacant by the refignation of John Putteney, the laft
vicar. — Beg. Chich. f. 128 a.

160 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
1426 John Water or Watier :l6 died.
1435 William Watier.1'
1436 Sir John Barbour.18
1437 Thomas Wyles or Wylys:19 exchanged with his fucceffor.
1440 Thomas Lawke.20
1 45 1 Sir Robert Deaken or Dekyn : T exchanged with his
fucceffor.
1455 Sir John Craller.2
in 1479 *Sir William Craller :3 died a.d. 1487.
1487 *Mafter Afchowe :3 died a.d. 1507.
1 5 17 Richard Maifter, S.T.B.4
1534 Master Richard Champyon, M.A. :s died a.d. 1542.
16 Thirty-firft Oct.., A.D. 1426, John Water, chaplain, was collated to the vicarage
of Eaftry then vacant. — Beg. Chich. f. 165 b.
17 Nineteenth Oct., A.D. 1435, William Watier was collated to the vicarage of
Eaftry vacant by the death of John Watier, laft vicar. — Reg. Chich. f. 208 b, 209 a.
18 Sixteenth July, A.D. 1436 John Barbour, chaplain, was collated to the vicarage
of Eaftry then vacant. Reg. Chich. f. 211.
•9 Thirty-firft Aug., A.D. 1437, Thomas Wylys, chaplain, was collated to the
vicarage of Eaftry. — Beg. Chich. f. 217 b.
2° Twenty-eighth April, A.D. 1440, Thomas Wylys, vicar of Eaftry, exchanged
with Thomas Lawke, rector of Bedfelde, dio. Norwich. Reg. Chich. f. 223 b.
1 Fourth February, A.D. 1450, Thomas Deaken, prefbyter, was collated to the
vicarage of Eaftry. — Beg. Staff, f. 108 a.
Twenty-fecond April, A.D. 1456, Robert Dekyn, vicar of Eaftry, exchanged with
John Craller, rector of Hattleport, dio. Lincoln. — Beg. Bourch. f. 60 b.
3 Wills in the Prerogative Court, Canterbury. — From the Botel. MSS.
* Twenty-feventh July, A.D. 15 17, Richard Maifter was collated to the vicarage of
Eaftry then vacant by the death of the laft incumbent, whofe name is wanting. — Beg.
Warh. f. 363 b.
s Nineteenth April, A.D. 1534, Richard Champyon was collated to the vicarage
of Eaftry. — Beg. Cranm. f. 355 — and as to death Botel. MSS.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 161
1542 Sir John Orgravar :6 ftill Vicar in a.d. i 55 i.
1553 Thomas Sawyer.7
15— Mafter Robert Hill, M.A. :8 refigned.
1558 John Lawfon.9
1 56 1 *Peter Lymiter :10 died a.d. 1581.
1 58 1 John Seller, S.T.P.:11 exchanged with his fucceffor.
1590 *Samuel Nicols, M.A. : died a.d, 1639.
1639 Thomas Blechynden.
1653 Nicholas Brett,™ Minifter.
1 66 1 *John Whifton : died a.d. 1694.
1695 *Thomas Sherlock, M.A. : died a.d. 1698.
1698 *Drue Aftly Creffener, M.A. : died a.d. 1746.
6 Beg. Cranm. f. 389.
7 He had the Queen's letters of prefentation. — Hafted. vol. iv., p. 230.
In Beg. Pol, f. 76, Robert Hill is fpoken of as the predeceffor of John Lawfon.
9 John Lawfon, prefbyter, was collated to the vicarage of Eaftry 31ft January
1557, o.s.— Beg. Pol. f. 76.
10 The date of Peter's Lymiter's collation is from a lift of inftitutions to benefices
now in the Public Record Office : his death is recorded in the parifh regifter. Hafted,
vol. iv., p. 230, gives the names of three vicars, here between Lawfon and Seller — viz.,
" Walter Herbert, 1 571; Peter Leniker, 1^,74 ; and Thomas Lymiter. .... obiit.
1582." I am forty to differ from fo eminent an authority, but a careful inveftigation
of the regifters at Lambeth, and of other documents, convinces me that he has fallen
into error here, and has inferted the names of two men (Walter Herbert and Thomas
Lymiter) who never were vicars of Eaftry.
11 Hafted. vol. iv., p. 230, gives 1582 as the date of Seller's inftitution, but Beg.
Giind„ f. 546 b, ftates that, on the 13th February, 1580 (o.s.), John Seller, Cleric,
M.A., was collated to the vicarage of Eaftry, with the chapel of Worth annexed to
the fame, vacant by the natural death of Peter Lymiter.
12 Brett's name appears in the parifh regifter of this date (1653), and alfo in 1654
and 1655. He was probably the intruding minifter in the time of the Common
wealth. There was a Thomas Brett, minifter of Shoulden, and rector of Bettef
hanger, who was buried at Shoulden A.D. 1681 — he might have been fome relation to
our Brett. z

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1747 Culpeper Savage, M.A. :13 died a.d. 1753.
1753 Samuel Herring : exchanged with his fucceffor.
1757 *Richard Harvey, B.A. : died a.d. 1772.
1772 Richard Harvey, M.A. :14 died a.d. 1820.
1 82 1 George Randolph, M.A. : preferred a.d. 1 841 : alive in 1870.
1 841 *Ralph Drake Backhoufe, M.A. : died a.d. 1853.
1854 Charles Carus- Wilfon, M.A. : preferred a.d. 1867: alivein 1870.
1867 William Francis Shaw, M.A.

BRIEF NOTICES OF SOME OF THE RECTORS AND VICARS.
William de Cusynton : a.d. 1355 — 1 361. In the time of this
rector a difpute arofe between the prior and convent of Chrift Church,
Canterbury, and William de Cufynton, on the one part, and Sir Richard
de Monyngham, perpetual vicar of the Church of the B. V. Mary,
Sandwich, on the other, with regard to a certain piece of land called
Pottokefdown (now Puttockfdown). The vicar of S. Mary's claimed
that this land belonged to his parifh, and accordingly feized the
tythes of the fame. But the prior and convent, in conjunction with the
rector of Eaftry, brought an action againft the vicar of S. Mary's in the
Archbifhop's Court at Canterbury, when the vicar was caft, and a defi
nitive fentence was pronounced againft him a.d. 1356. The land was
J3 He refigned the vicarage of Sutton Valence on being collated to this
vicarage, which by a difpenfation he was permitted to hold with Stone in Oxney
{Hafted). h This R. Harvey was the nephew of his predeceffor, and alfo vicar of S.
Laurence, in Thanet, which he refigned in 1793 {Hafted).
* The names in, the above lift which have asterifks are thofe of the vicars which
have been buried here.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 163
declared to be within the parifh of Eaftry (i.e., within that part of it
which now forms the parifh of Word), and the vicar was ordered to
make restitution of the tythes or their value, as well as to pay all cofts.
In the fentence pronounced by Mafter John Euerleye, attditor caufarum
Archiepifcopi, occurs this paflage : " Willelmus de Cufington induclus fuit
in corporalem poffeffionem ecclefie de Eftry ante fefium affumpcionis beate
Marie Virginis proximo preteritum-!'* which fixes the time of Cufynton's
induction pretty clearly. For, as the fentence was pronounced in Feb.
a.d. 1356 (o.s.), and the Feaft of the Affumption of our Lady was on
the 15th Auguft, a.d. 1356, he muft have been inducted fome time in
the previous foring or fummer.
It is very lingular to notice what a ftrange hankering the good people
of S. Mary's, Sandwich, feem to have had for the above-mentioned piece
of land called Puttockfdown, and how generation after generation they
claimed it to be within the boundary of their own parifh. As late as
a.d. 1676, we find the Rev. Afahel King, vicar, and the parifhioners of
S. Mary's, affembled in veftry, afferting their right to levy a rate on this
land, as part of the parifh of S. Mary's, and even voting money for any
fuit that might be inftituted to try the cafe.t
Stephen de Grauele : a.d. i 361 — a.d. 1367. From Boys' Hifiory
of Sandwich (vol. i., p. 350), we learn that Stephen de Gravele was infti
tuted to the rectory of S. Peter's, Sandwich, by Archbifhop Simon Iflip
on the vi. Ides of September, a.d. 1350. This, however, he muft have
refigned fome few years afterwards, fince in the year a.d. i 361, when he
was appointed to the rectory of Eaftry, he is defcribed as " Prefbyter of
the parifh Church of Eaftry," by which we may perhaps underftand
* See Botel. MSS., vol. A.
¦f- From the veftry minute book of S. Mary's, Sandwich, -kindly brought under
my notice by the Rev. A. M. Chichefter, vicar.

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that he was one of the chaplains or chantry priefts attached to the church.
William Craller : a.d. 1487. It is often very curious to notice
the various and varying ways in which furnames were frequently fpelt in
former time. The general found of the name was caught, and
expreffed in various ways, whilft ofttimes the final fyllable was cut off.
Thus it happens that Vicar Craller was often called CralV or Craule :
Afchowe was pronounced Afch' or Afhe ; and Orgravar became Orgratf
or Orgrave.
Amongft the wills proved in the Confiftory Court of Canterbury, in
a.d. 1487 (fee Chap. XII hereafter) is that of "DA Will"1. Craller pencio-
narius Ecclie poch de , Efirie" who directs that he fhall be buried in the
chancel of Eaftry Church. Now, as he is elfewhere mentioned as being
vicar of Eaftry in a.d. 1479, he had probably refigned it, on a penfion at
the time of his death.
Thomas Aschowe : a.d. — a.d. i 507. In the will of the pre
ceeding Sir William Craller, which is dated 14 Mar. 1487, mention is
made of" Thos. Afhow" as " ppetual vicar of the faid Church" of Eaftry.
And the will of John Whitefelde of Eaftry — which directs that he be
buried in the church, and is dated 21ft Jany. 1507 — mentions "Mafter
Thos. Afhe, vicar of Eaftry." Again, the will of Jane Afchowe, of S.
Bartholomew's, near Sandwich, in 1524, directs that fhe be buried in the
chancel of Eaftry Church, near her deceafed uncle, Sir Thomas Afchowe,
and that a ftone be laid upon her faid uncle. All traces of this ftone
have long fince difappeared.
Richard Champyon : a.d. 1534— 1542. He calls* himfelf in his
will Prieft, and Prebendary of Chrift Church, Canterbury. He leaves to his
efpecial friend Dr. Drom, S. Augufiine's Works ; to Dr. Rydlye the preacher,
* Botel. MSS.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 165
6". Ambrofe, or fome other like work. Alfo to Dr. Rydlye, the preben
dary — afterwards Bp. of London, and Martyr — Complutens Editio, other-
wife called the Spanifh Byble, "or fuch like kynd of old amytye and
friendfhip." Which two laft he appoints fupervisors to his will. He died
in a.d. 1542, but there is no record of his having been buried here.
John Orgravar or Orgraver immediately fucceeded vicar Champyon in
a.d. 1 542 ; though how long his vicarate lafted is flightly uncertain,
feeing that his name does not occur after a.d. 1551 : we may, however,
conclude that he held the benefice till a.d. 1553. But whether he
then vacated it by death or otherwife is unknown.
Thomas Sawyer, whofe name occurs in a.d. 1553, had the Queen's
letters of prefentation.* This would feem to have arifen from the See of
Canterbury being vacant at the time.
Peter Lymiter: a.d. 1561 — a.d. 1581. A lift of inftitutions to
benefices belonging to the Augmentation Office, and now in the Public
Record Office, Fetter Lane, flates that Lymiter was collated to this
vicarage in the third year of Queen Elizabeth, and we learn the date at
which his vicariate ended, from the parifh regifter, which contains the fol
lowing entry of his burial : —
" 1580 Peter Lymiter Vicar of Eaftrie."
ffebr. 6
His will was proved in the Confiftory Court of Canterbury the 1 ith Feb.
a.d. 1 58 1 (new style). In it he directed that his body fhould be buried
in the Chancel of Eaftry Church ; but whether there were ever any
monument, brafs, or ftone, erected to his memory I know not : at all
events, there is none now in exifience.
John Seller: a.d. 1581 — a.d. 1590, appears to be the only doctor
* Hafted. vol. iv., p. 230.

1 66 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
on our lift for he was S.T.P., or Sanclse Theologian Profeffor = Doctor of
Divinity. Three children were born to him at Eaftry — viz., Anne in
a.d. 1583, another Elizabeth in a.d. 1584, and a fon Thomas in a.d.
1586. He feems to have exchanged this benefice in a.d. 1590 with
Samuel Nicols for Little Mongeham, to which Nicols was prefented in
a.d. 1588.
Samuel Nicols: a.d. 1590 — a.d. 1639. On the 16 May a.d.
1588, we find Samuel Nicols was prefented to the rectory of Little Monge
ham, and in a.d. 1590 he became vicar of Eaftry, probably by an exchange
with his predeceffor. He feems to have been poffeffed of fome freehold
property in the parifh, for mention is made of fome of his land as adjoin
ing the glebe, in the Terrier which I have called No. I. The parifh
regifters furnifh us with feveral notices of his family, which tend to throw
fome light upon his domeftic life. Thus, in a.d. 1592, fome two years
after his collation, we find he had a daughter born to him, who was
baptized on the 9th October in that year by the name of Sufan ; and
who, on 19th September, a.d. 1609, was united to Jofhua Paramour
in holy matrimony at the early age of 17 ! But two years before this
joyous event — viz., on the 12th April, a.d. 1607, was buried "Margaret
Nicolls, wife of Samuel Nicols." And in a.d. 1639 the fcene clofed,
for there was buried in that year, after an incumbency of nearly 50 years,
" ffebru Mr. Samuell Nicols
21 Vicar of Eaftry."
It was during the vicariate of Nicols that the Regifters were newly copied
out by order of Convocation in a.d. 1598*. Two of the Terriers alfo —
one being the earliest relating to our parifh that is extant — were made
during his incumbency, and will be found with the others in the
Appendix.
* For further information reflecting this fee " The Registers" poft.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 167
John Whiston : a.d. 1661 — a.d. 1694. We get at the date of
Vicar Whifton's appointment to this benefice by the following note in his
handwriting, which occurs in our earlieft regifter of burials under the
year a.d. 1661 : " The wife of John Adams, f firfi that I John Whifion
buried after I was Vicar, May 20." On the ift Jany., 1683, was buried
" Mrs. Sufan Whifion," probably the wife of our vicar ; but whatever the
relationfhip betwixt them, he did not long furvive her, for on the 1 7th
October, 1694, his mortal remains were committed to the earth.
Thomas Sherlock, a.d. 1694 — a.d. 1698, feems to have been of
Corpus C. College, Cambridge, and to have taken his M.A. degree in
1679. Like fo many of his predeceffors and fucceffors in this parifh, he
died at his poft, and was buried in his own church. Vicar Creffener, in
a quaint and amufing entry in the oldeft regifter book, afferts that he was
ill-ufed and badly treated by his people, and that too in fuch a way as to
fhorten his life. But may not grief for the lofs of Mrs. Mary Sherlock,
who was buried here 30 March, a.d. 1697, have contributed in fome
degree to haften his end ? The following is the brief entry in the regifter
.respecting his burial : "Mr. Thomas Sherlock Vick. June 2> a.d. 1698."
Drue-Astly Cressener : a.d. 1698 — a.d. 1746, was by no means
an ordinary man. Endowed with much learning and indomitable
energy, he was alfo bleffed with fo good a conftitution that he was vicar
of our parifh for well nigh 50 years. His long vicariate, which faw four
fovereigns on the throne, flands forth in remarkable contrail to the fhort
incumbencies and rapid fucceffion of our vicars in the early part of the
XVth century. He was a member of Pembroke Coll. Oxford, where he
graduated in a.d. 1682.
At one time in his life Creffener was apparently on fomewhat bad
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opinion of them, as the following lingular entry in the oldeft regifter
certifies :— " Aftley Creffener Vicar Inducted by ye Revd. Mr. Tho : Man-
der December ii. 1698 among the Savages of Eaftry, who uf'd my
Good Predeceffour almoft as 111 as my Self, but Death in a little Time
gave him a Happy Deliverance." An entry in the churchwardens'
accounts under the year a.d. 1708, may perhaps throw fome light — in
the abfence of all certain information on the point — on the caufe of the
mifunderftanding between the vicar and his parifhioners. It would
appear to have arifen from fome difpute about the election of church
wardens : which difpute waxing hot was carried into court, when the
parifh was defeated, and had to bear the cofts of the action.
The following is the entry referred to : —
" 1708. 22 Ap11. pd. to Mr. Peter Gleane Proctor his Bill on Account of
Court and other Charges on the Difpute between Mr. Creffener
and the Parifhonrs in electing Churchwardens on the 5 th Inftant,
which upon hearing att y* Court of Canterbury on the 1 3th Inftant
before Doctor Rob1. Wood he ordered that the faid Bill fhould
be allowed and paid by the Parifhoneners [fie] . . 283"
Again, in the " Difpurfmts. " of " Mr. Tho : ffullar " as church
warden for the years 1708 and 1709, occurs the following: —
" Spent att the Vifitacon when the Parifhonrs mett att Court and had
the Difpute about Chufing Churchwardens . . 2190"
Vicar Creffener prefented to the church a paten, chalice, and hand-
fome flagon of filver, which are ftill ufed in the celebration of the Holy
Eucharift. There is no infcription either on the paten or chalice, but
the flagon has the words " Deo Servatori " deeply graven on the fides
within a floriated border, and at the bottom "Eaftry 17 18." He be
queathed alfo a fum of money to be laid out in ornamenting the church,
which is faid by tradition to have been employed in ceiling the chancel.

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What other alterations may have taken place at this time it is not eafy to
fay : though there feems good reafon for fuppofing it was about this date
that " the 1 8 flails for the ufe of the monks " in ante- Reformat! on
times, which formerly existed in the chancel difappeared. It is much to
be wifhed that thefe flails could be reftored again to their ancient pofition
in the chancel.
Creffener alfo left £$ to be be diftributed amongft the poor of Eaftry
and £5 for thofe of Worth. Thefe fums were duly diftributed amongft
the poor of Eaftry and Worth by Vicar Savage on ift Jany., a.d. 1748.
After a life of much activity and of diligent attention to the feveral
duties of his holy office, Creffener at length fell afleep, and was buried on
the 27th September, a.d. 1764, in the 82nd year of his age. He was
buried in the chancel, where was placed a handfome monument to his
memory, which now ftands againft the wall of the fouth aifle. An oil
portrait of Vicar Creffener in gown and bands — faid by tradition to have
been an admirable likenefs — formerly hung in the veftry of the church.
The canvass is ftill in exifience (1869), but as the colours are fall
crumbling to pieces, and fall off on being touched, its value as a portrait
is destroyed beyond all chance of restoration !
George Randolph, a.d. 1821 — a.d. 1841, on coming to the
parifh found only one fervice here and one at Worth every Sunday. This
he fpeedily altered for the better by engaging the fervices of a curate, and
having two full fervices at each church every Lord's day. He alfo may
be regarded as the founder of the National School fyftem in this parifh,
for he collected a fum of money and built our firft National Schools in the
year 1 840 : which buildings have fince been pulled down to make way
for the prefent more commodious structure. Again, in the early days of
his vicariate, he pulled down the old vicarage houfe, and rebuilt it —
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much to the advantage of his fucceffors. After 20 years' labour in our
parifh, he was preferred to Coulfdon, in Surrey, a.d. 1841.
But I cannot finifh thefe brief notices of our rectors and vicars without a
few words respecting the laft vicar of Eaftry cum Worth.
Ralph Drake Backhouse, a.d. 1 841— 1854, was educated at
the Rochester Cathedral School, whence in due time he proceeded to
Clare College, Cambridge. In a.d. 1823 he graduated as fifth Junior
Optime, and was fhortly after elected fellow of his college. In a.d. 1824
he was ordained deacon and licenfed to the curacy of Little Chart. He
afterwards became curate of Walmer, and upon the death of the incum
bent (the Rev. E. Owen), was prefented to that benefice by Archbp.
Howley, at the requeft of the parifhioners. Here he laboured earnestly
for fome years, until in a.d. 1 841 he was collated to the vicarage of Eaftry
cum Worth by Archbp. Howley. On the removal of the Rev. C. Lane
to Wrotham, he was appointed Rural Dean of the Sandwich Deanery.
For 23 years he was alfo the evening lecturer at S. George's Chapel,
Deal. During his incumbency the parifh church of Eaftry was much
improved, and thofe restorations were commenced which have fince pro-
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our church one of the fineft in the neighbourhood. In his time alfo the
church was firft opened for weekly fervice during Lent, and an extra
evening fervice eftablifhed on the laft Sunday in the month when the
Holy Communion is celebrated. He alfo ftarted the evening fchools
— introduced an organ in place of violins — greatly improved the fin gin g
and chaunting — and, in a.d. i 847, enlarged the churchyard. For fome
years Mr. Backhoufe was chaplain of the Eaftry Union, where he
was much beloved by the poor and afflicted. He was a good
fcholar, an able and eloquent preacher, a moft zealous and devoted parifh
prieft, and in manner and bearing a thorough Chriftian gentleman. His
performance of three full fervices every Sunday for many years, and his
other varied and heavy duties, at length brought on premature illnefs,
which caufed his death on the 24th December, a.d. 1853. He was
followed to the grave by a large number of the neighbouring clergy, and
his body was interred in the churchyard, in a fpot of ground felected by
himfelf, being that on which the archbifhop flood when confecrating the
portion of land added to the churchyard in a.d. i 847. His death was
univerfally regretted, and he is ftill affectionately remembered by many in
the parifh. The Chaplains.
In former times there was ufually more than one prieft attached to each
church. The chief being called either rector or vicar, according to the
nature of his benefice, and the other priefts, either ferving under him, in
the Mother Church, or in chapelries in diftant parts of the parifh, as was
the cafe here when the vicar was bound to keep a chaplain for Word, or
elfe occupying a fomewhat more independent pofition as the chaplain of
a chantry chapel within the walls of the church. Such chantries being
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of the founders and their relations. In our own church there were three
Chantry chapels — viz., thofe of the B. Virgin Mary, commonly called
"our Lady," of the Bleffed Trinity, and of S. John the Baptift ; confe-
quently there muft have been many priefts attached to the church. Thefe
chantry priefts were fupported by the offerings of the faithful in various
ways — e.g., by oblations and obventions, by payments for maffes and obits,
by bequefts and benefactions. And it would appear that the priefts
belonging to the chantries in Eaftry Church had fome 1 8 acres of land
in the parifh appropriated to their ufe and fupport, which were known so
late as 1693 by the name of "the Chantry Lands!' The following very
imperfect lift is all that I have been able, as yet, to difcover : —
Chaplains and Chantry Ppiests.
ante a.d. 1 361 Stephen de Grauele, prefbyter, afterwards rector : in
1 391 John FitzRobert, clericus : ante 1426 John Watier, chaplain, after
wards vicar: ante 1436 John Barbour, chaplain, afterwards vicar: ante
1437 Thomas Wyles, chaplain, afterwards vicar: in 1538 William
Kene, chaplain. The Curates.
By the term " curate " is now generally underftood "the minifter whether
prefbyter or deacon, who is employed under the fpiritual rector or vicar,
as affiftant to him in the fame church or elfe in a chapel of eafe within
the fame parifh belonging to the Mother Church."* Formerly, however,
it meant all prefbyters or deacons who had the cure of fouls, and in this
wide and general fenfe it is ufed in the Book of Common Prayer when we
pray for " all bifhops and curates." In the prefent cafe, however, we ufe
the word in its common modern acceptation.
* Hook's Church Dictionary, p. 289.

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The earlier portion of the fubjoinedlift is neceffarily fomewhat incom
plete. Curates in Charge and Assistant Curates.
Ante a.d. 151 1 H. Patryke,* parifh prieft of Word : in 1557 Thomas
Bennett, clericus ac curatus: 1687 Parfon Denne: 1743 Parfon Omer:
1752 Samuel Fenner Warren : 1776 . . . Adkins : 1777 N. Nifbet, and
ftill in 1781 : 1783 Thomas Pennington, D.D., and in 1798: 1800
Philip Le Geyt : 1804 Henry Thomfon : 1809 Henry Plumptre, rector
of Claypole and curate of Eaftry: 18 17 George Fielding, M.A. :
1 82 1 James Peto, LL.B. : 1837 Edward John Randolph, B.A. : 1840
Frederick Thomas Scott,M.A. : 1840 Henry Mapleton, Junr., B.A. : 1843
John Fuller Spong, B.A. : 1 844 James Layton, B.A. : 1 845 Wm. Maundy
Harvey Elwyn, M.A. : 1847 John Francis Baynham, B.A. : 1854 John
Buttanfhaw, M.A. : i860 Thomas Hy. Papillon, B.A. : 1861 Henry
Beaufort Grimaldi, B.A. : 1 863 John Erfkine Campbell-Colquhoun, B.A. :
1865 Guftavus Bofanquet, B.A. : 1867 Valentine Shillito Vickers.
* Reg. Wareham, f. 48.
A good man there was of religioun
That was a pour e P erf one of a toun ;
But riche he was of holy thought and werke,
He was alfo a lerned man, a clerk,
That Chrifles gofpel trewely wolde preche
His parifhens devoutly wolde he teche.
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

CJje Clerfes anir Jfcjrtims.

CHAP. VII.

" / had rather be a doorkeeper in the houfe of my God, than to dwell in the tents
of wickednefs." — Psa. lxxxiv. 10.
IN FORMER times the clerks and fextons were generally fuch as
had taken minor Orders, that is to fay Holy Orders below the rank
of Subdeacon. And then afterwards the names were retained as the dif-
tinguifhing titles of thefe officers of the Church, even when it was no
longer customary for them to be ordained by the laying on of the hands
of the Bifhop. ' >
The word clerk properly meant one well fkilftd to read and write — a
fcholar. It was thus commonly applied to the clergy, who were gene
rally able to read and write, in days when thefe were very rare accomplifh-
ments. The parifh clerk is appointed to his office by the vicar: and he may
be duly licenfed thereto in the Ecclefiaftical Courts. In which cafe the
office is a freehold, from which he cannot be removed except for fome
grave fault, fuch as immorality or neglect of duty. I have gleaned from
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A List of the Clerks.
In a.d. 1573 . . Carrington: 1633 John Carrington : 1653 William
Kingfland: 16 . . Thomas Wrake : ante 1684 Samuel Terry, buried 28
Feb., 1703: 1703 James Keble, to 1724 probably, he was buried 20
Oct., 1738.
In 1725 and 1726 appears this entry in the churchwardens' accounts
for thofe years : —
" Pd. the Widow Walfgrave for dark's wages 1 5s."
1728 Hezekiah Stace, buried 6 Sept., 1745 : 1745 William Aynott,
buried 30 July 1775, aged 70 years : 1775 Stephen Court; he married
Aynott's daughter: 1830 Jofeph Bowman.
In the oldeft regifter occur the following entries reflecting Kingf
land : —
" 1590 March William Kingfland pifh Clarke was baptized at Ickham
this yeare & month."
"The 22nd day of September 1653 William Kingfland of Eaftry . .
. . was by the Maior part of the pifhioners . . * elected and chofen
to be the pifh regifter, &c."
He took the oaths of his office before Peter Peke, Efqre., on the 23rd
of November following, and he figns his name for the laft time in the
regifter book under the year 1660.
Further on in the fame regifter is a notice of Wrake's baptifm inferted
irregularly : —
"Aprill the 12 1635 was
Thomas Wrake pifh Clarke of this pifh baptized."
Both in the cafe of Wrake and in that of Kingfland there would
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which occafioned both thefe entries. That concerning Kingfland being
efpecially lingular, as the facrament would feem to have been performed at
Ickham, not that he was brought here from another parifh for that pur
pofe. A glance at the lift of clerks will fhew that the duties of their
office have not been at all prejudicial to their longevity, at least
during the laft 120 years. For fince the year 1745 up to the pre
fent time there have been only three parifh clerks !
Mrs. Chriftian Goddard, of Eaftry, widow of Oliver Goddard, be
queathed by her will in a.d. 1574, a tenement and garden in Eaftry

THE CLERK'S HOUSE.

Street, to the churchwardens " to hold to the ufe of the clerk of Eaftry
for ever, fo that the fame clerk for the time being do teach and inftruct in
learning one of the poorest men's children of the parifh being a man child
from time to time for ever." Further information reflecting this houfe will
be found under " The Schools" and "The Parochial Charities!' It is now
unfortunately in a fad ftate of dilapidation, and has been held adverfely
for many years, as againft the churchwardens, by Thomas Young, who
was once for a fhort time fchoolmafter, and who has long refufed to give
up poffeffion of the premifes.

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The Sextons.
The title facriflan or fexton was given to that officer of the church
who had charge of the holy veffels, plate, veftments, relics, lamps, &c.
His duties now-a-days, as well as his refponfibilities, are fomewhat lefs
than formerly. But he ftill exercifes a general care of the church and
churchyard, cleans the church himfelf or by his deputy, rings the bells,
and digs the graves. The fexton is elected by the parifhioners, and the
office is tenable for life, fubject to fufpenfion or removal, for mifeonduct
or immorality, by the ecclefiaftical authorities. The following is a
List of the Sextons.
Ante 1589 James Andrew, "the fexten," buried the 8 July 1589:
. . . . William Renward, buried 23 Jany., 1644-5 : J^45 George Stup-
pell, " houfeholder, the fexton," buried 12 Oct., 1661 : 1661 James
Stupell, buried, "an ancient man," 9 May, 171 1 : 1708 John Smith, to
Jany., 1719-20: 1720 Nicholas Cook, buried 29 June 1745: 1745
Michael Cock, buried 3 July, 1767: 1767 Stephen Danton, to 1785 :
1785 Michael Cock, buried 12 Feb., 1805, aged 67: 1805 James Hud
fon, buried 14 Jan., 18 16, aged 84 : 1816 John Moat, buried 24 July,
1867 agec* 83 '• 1834 Richard Moat.
In the Churchwardens' accounts for the year 1785 there is this
entry •. — " To expenfes at choofing a fexton .... 6d."
The fexton thus chofen was Michael Cock.
Stephen Danton feems to have left the parifh in or about the year 1785,
as I can find no mention of his burial either in that or in fubfequent years.
Goodman Cock lived in the firft of the five houfes of Goddard's Charity
B B

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— viz., the one neareft the road, now occupied by Widow Bullock. For
the parifh feems to have early appropriated this as " the Sexton's Houfe,"
and in the churchwardens' accounts we find numerous entries of various
fums paid, from time to time, for " clay," " fand," and " ftraw," as well
as for " thatching " and " glazing," for this houfe.

What is a church ? Our honefl Sexton tells
' Tis a tall building, with a Tower and Bells ;
Where Priefi and Clerk with joint exertion flrive
To keep the ardour of their flock alive.
Thefe for the living ; bttt when life be fled,
I toll myfelf the requiem for the dead. — The Borough.

CHAP. VIII.
" And I found a Regifter of the genealogy of them . ." — NEHEM. vii. 5 .
THERE have been various opinions as to the precife period when
parifh regifters were first kept in England [see Burn's Parifh
Regifters, p. 4 : a very valuable and interefting book well worth reading.]
But Dr. Prideaux feems on the whole to be correct when he fays in his
Directions to Churchwardens : " Parifh Regifters were firft ordered by the
Lord Vicegerent Cromwell in the 30th year of King Hen. VIII. (a.d.
1538), and from thence all parifh regifters have their beginning."
Our own regifters begin in September, a.d. 1559, the firft year of
Queen Elizabeth, who iffued an injunction in that year for the better
keeping of parifh regifters. The oldeft book has the baptifms, burials,
and marriages, entered in feparate columns on the fame page. That por
tion of it, however, which is prior to 1598 is, like many regifters in other
parifhes, only a copy of the older regifters : howbeit a correcl and reliable
copy, fince the entries are attefted at the foot of each page by the words
Concordat cum originali, followed by the signatures of Samuel Nicols
[vicar] ; Nicholas Squyer, Wm. ffaulkner [churchwardens]. The title-

180 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
page of the book explains this copying, and is as follows :¦ — " A reiefter
booke for the parifh of Eaftrie of Marrages, Chriftennings, and burialls
begonne in the yeare of or. Lord 1 559 : and now this yeare 1598 newlie
written according to a conftitutio made in covocatio begonne att Lon do
the 25 of October 1597 by the Archbifhoppe, Bifhopps and the Clergie
of the Province of Canterburie."
For the original conftitution referred to in the foregoing extract fee
Burn's Pariffi Regifters, pp. 23, 24. The regifter is defective in the
burials and marriages from 1645 to September 1653 : the few that are
entered, having apparently been put in afterwards from memory.
In other refpects, however, few parifh regifters have been fo well kept
as our own.
I may here mention that the old regifter book of Worth, which pro
bably went back to the fame period as our own, viz., 1 559, was destroyed by
one Richard Read, the clerk there, who judging it to be out of date, and
being a tailor by trade, cut the parchment into flips for meafures !
In the year a.d. 1653 an act was paffed directing Registrars to be chofen
in every parifh, to be approved of and fworn by a juftice of the peace.
[See Burn's Parifh Regifters, p. 29.] The following is the entry in our
own regifter concerning the due appointment of one of thefe officers for the
parifh of Eaftry: "The 22th day of September 1653 William Kingfland
of Eaftry in the County of Kent was by the Maior part of the pifhioners
of the faid pifh elected and chofen to be the pifh regifter of Eaftry afore
faid for the regiftring of all marriages, births of children and burialls of
all forts of people. And to Act and doe in all things therein according to
an Act of Parliament in that cafe made and provided witnes our hands
J' Nicholas Brett minifter James Bunce Roger Goulder Saphir Para
mor William Vigin Michael Aauften Churchwardens John Auften his X
marke Ri: Harvy.

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" I doe approue of the faid William Kingfland to bee Regifter of the
Parifh of Eaftry abouefaid according to the election abouefaid. And the
faid William Kingfland hath taken his oath before me, According to the
Acte of Parlieament in that cafe made and prouided. Witnes my hand
heereunto fubfcribed this Three & Twenty day of November 1653. —
Pet. Peke."
In the year 1666, being the 18th Chas. II., an act was paffed directing
that no perfon fhould be buried in any garment that was not wholly
compofed of wool under a penalty of five pounds. And fubfequently
another act was paffed in 1678 (30 Chas. II., cap.3) which required
every minifter to take an affidavit of the relatives of the deceafed
perfon, at the time of interment, fhewing that the ftatute had been duly
complied with. Thefe acts were framed with a view to the encou
ragement of the woollen trade : and they were eventually repealed by the
54 George III., cap. 108, fee. 1.
Of courfe, when a penalty of £$ was attached to the being buried in
linen, and the fhrouds of all but the very wealthy were made of woollen,
it became a mark of diftinction to be buried in cloth of the forbidden
material, and fo we find that the regifter gives us, from time to time, the
names of certain perfons who, from family cuftom, wealth, or other
motives, were thus interred.
The following entries are extracted from the Eaftry regifters, either on
account of their Angularity, their ftrange omiffion of important particu
lars, or from throwing fome light on matters of local intereft.
Aug. 20 1562 Jone Bakar a chryfomer daughter of Wm. Bakar buryed.
May 11 1563 Jone Cornelius chryfomer the fon of John Cornelius gent.
buryed. June 3 1564 ffrifwyth Rogers chryfomer buryed.
feb. 28 1564 John Wicka fon of Tho. Wicka buryed.

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ffeb. 27. 1566 John Cornelius gent, an houfeholder buryed.
Januar. 15. 1567 A certayne ftranger whofe name was not knowne buryed.
ffebr. 4. 1572 Willam Horne the fonne of Thomas Horne of ffelderland
baptifed. Sept. 12. 1575 ffryfwyth Nevinfon wife of Thomas Nevinfon gent, buryed.
Jan. 30. 1575 John Church and Sammell ffreind maryed.
Julie 4. 1577 Sammell Bagen a mayde fervant buryed.
Jan. 19. 1577 Robert a fervant of Wm. Richards buryed.
July 23. 1577 George Taylorr and Avis Smyth maryed.
deceb. 18. 1579 Holt a poore ma who dyed in John Hatchers barn buryed.
Aprill 15. 1 58 1 Richard Mounte a Tyler buryed.
noveb. 5. 1582 an old woma not know what she was buryed.
ffeb. 21. 1584 ffather ffagge a fhepherd buryed.
march 16. 1584 the fonne of Markes Whittfeild buried.
Julie 4. 1585 Willia Corell & Godley Peene maryed.
deceb. 21. 1587 Thomas Hauke & Phemina ffynch maryed.
Sept. 26. 1588 a poore wayfayring ma his name & dwelling not known buryed.
At the bottom of the page under the year 1590 appears this entry in a
later handwriting : March William Kingfland pifh Clarke was Baptifed
at Ickham this yeare & month.
March 24. 1 591 a poore Italian whofe name was not known buryed.
decbr. 6. 1592 John Chandler & Remembrance Wright maryed.
June 27. 1592 martha alien chryfomer buryed.
Auguft 6. 1594 Nicholas Squire & Silvefter Lowd maryed.
Septeb. 29. 1597 Nayler of S'. Nicholas in Thanet buryed.
Jan. 3. 1598 a flemifh child buryed.
Jan. 25. 1600 Ofwal Brompton fervant to Mr. Richard Boteler buryed.
Oct. 8. 1 60 1 a poore boy found dead in the fields buryed.
ffebr. 15. 1 60 1 Peter Clarke paterfamilias buryed.
Oct. 1. 1604 John a ftranger whofe name was not known buryed.
maye 2. 1 607 Elizabeth Cleeve daughter of Sr. Chriftopher Cleeve Knight buryed.
May 29. 1610 Chriftia Pyfing a poor old mayd buryed.
Jannar 1. 161 1 Wm. Boyes gent. & Sara Sea gent, maryed.
January 26. 16 16 Mocket fonne of John Mocket baptifed.
ffebr. 1 . 1 6 1 9 Cicilie ffrofte virgin buryed.

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Julie 26. 162 1 Georg Gibbo fon of George Gibbo chryfor buryed.
Aprill the 12. 1635 was Thomas Wrake pifli Clarke [thefe words have been
partially erafed] of this pifh baptized.
Julie 4. 1635 Margaret Gill an Innocent buryed.
deceb. 29. 1635 Sara a mayd fervant buryed.
Jan. 6. 1639 Jeremie Mafterfon & Marie Friend at Wordnefborrow by Licence
maried. Jan. 24. 1643 Marke ffreind aged 90 yeeres buried.
In 1645 there are only three entries of burials, in 1646 only one, in
1 647 there are fix ; but, in 1 648 none ! There are none in 1 649,only one
in 1650, five in 1651, one in 1652, and none in 1653 up to the time of
Kingfland's appointment as " Parifh Regifier." This muft have arifen from
the regifter being kept fomewhat careleffly during the " troublous times" ;
though, as I have faid before, our regifter may compare on the whole very
well with thofe of other parifhes.
During all the above-mentioned years the baptifms feem to have been
entered pretty regularly ; but there are no marriage entries in 1647, 1648,
1650, 1 65 1, nor in 1653 previous to Kingfland's appointment.
The firft page of Kingfland's entries is headed as follows : " A regifter
of births and Chriftnings of children, alfo of Marriages and burialls, in the
pifh of Eaftry fince the Nine and Twentith day of September in the yeere
of our Lord Chrift One Thoufand Sixe Hundred ffifty and Three, fetting
downe the births of as many as I could be enformed of according to the
Act of Parliament in that behalfe lately made and according to my
Oath wh I took wth that provifo."
From Kingfland's time the baptifms, marriages, and burials are in dif-
tind: parts of the book. Before that they were entered in three separate
columns in each page.
The following are extracted from the baptifmal regifter :
1672 Elizabeth ye daughter of Thomas Giles & Angelet his wife 10th
of December.

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1673 Vinfton Barbor aged about 20 yeares baptifed the 26th of March.
1677 of Thomas Tedeman Efqr & Ann his wife November ye 11th.
1677 the daughter of Thomas Stacy & Jane his wife November ye 19th.
Thefe two laft are curious as fhowing how the baptifmal name was
forgotten to be inferted.
1 71 3 17. May Ann daughtr of a Traveller her name not known.
From the marriage regifter : —
The dates in the dexter column being thofe of the publications of
banns, and in the finifter of the folemnization of the marriage itfelf.
1654 July 2. 9. 16 Edward Harnett and Katherine Paramor mar- July 18
ried by Mr. Maior [the Mayor] of Sandwich and
afterward by Mr. Bret.
1655 Mr. Jofhua Paramor and Mary Gurney mar-
publications ried by Mr. Maior of Sandwich and afterward Aprill 1 7
Aprill 1. 8. & 15 by Mr. Bret at Eaftry.
The regifter flates that there were no marriages in 1659, 1660, or
1661. 1662 and Ann fforftall both of Thanet Octob : 12
Here the name of the bridegroom is Angularly omitted ! And there
are many fimilar omiffions either of the Chriftian name or furname juft
about this time.
From the regifter of burials : —
1665 The wife of Samuel Churchman ffebru : 18.
1667 Stephen Anfell an aged man about 95 yeares Aprill 16.
From Lady-day, 1678, to Lady-day, 1679, there was buried only one
perfon. Indeed, any one carefully examining the regifter about this
period, cannot fail to be struck with the fact that nearly every entry is
that of the burial either of " an ancient man," " an ancient woman," " a
pore old man," " fenex," " an aged man," or of " an infant," " a young
child," " a child." Thereby fhewing moft unmiftakably the low aver
age of deaths, and the healthinefs of our parifh.

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In this regifter occurs the fingular entry in Mr. Creffener's handwriting
already noticed in the fketch of his life.
In 1779, Sept. 25, was buried Thomas Nifbett. Oppofite the entry of
his burial in the regifter there are fome marks, apparently a fentence in
cipher, which I have not been able to make out.

The year revolves and I again explore
The fimple annals of my Parifh poor :
What infant members in my flock appear;
What pairs I bleff'd in the departing year ;
And who, of old or young, or nymphs orfwains,
Are loft to life its pleafure and its pains. The Parish Register.

c c

Cije ^djoote.

CHAP. IX.
" Train up a child in the way he fhould go and when he is old he will not depart
from it!'' — Prov. xxii. 6.
IN the year 1 574 " Chriftian Goddard, of Eaftry, widow of Oliver
Goddard," bequeathed to the churchwardens of Eaftry and their
fucceffors a tenement and garden in Eaftry Street " to hold to the ufe of the
clerk of Eaftry for ever, fo that the fame clerk for the time being do
teach and inftruct in learning one of the poorest men's children of the
parifh, being a man child, from time to time for ever."
In courfe of time, however, the fchoolmafter was expected to teach
four children gratis. But this may have arifen in the following way —
fince in the abfence of all certain evidence we are left open to conjecture :
— there being no funds left for the neceffary repair of the fchool houfe,
and the clerk himfelf being unable to bear the expenfe of keeping it wind
and weather tight, the parifh would feem to have interpofed, and agreed to
keep the building in repair on condition of the clerk's inftructing four
children inftead of one. This fuppofition is borne out by the fact that, in
the churchwardens' accounts for 1689, and thenceforward paffim, occur
fuch entries as the following relating to this houfe : —

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c< Paid to Thomas Bigg for ffoure dayes worke the Clarkes houfe and
about the Bells . . . . . .068
For Lats andNailes and Rafters about the Clerkes houfe . .016"
And in Mr. Boteler's time [see Botel. MSS., vol. A, p. 64] all remem
brance of the original bequeft of Mrs. Goddard had apparently died out,
whilft yet the clerk's obligation to teach four children had been handed
down by tradition. Again, in the year 1728, firft appears the entry of
1 2s. 6d. under the head of " Schoolmaster's Salary," which I have traced
as far as the year 1805 continuoufly. A few years further on we find
that this 1 2s. 6d. was a half yearly payment = £ 1 $s. a-year. Perhaps
the parifh may have agreed to give the fchoolmafter for the time being
this falary, befides keeping the houfe in repair, in confideration of his
teaching three children over and above the one mentioned by Mrs. God
dard in her will.
The fchool-room in the clerk's houfe, convenient and well adapted
for its purpofe as it was once regarded, was, however, doomed to be fuper-
feded and fall into difufe.
Through the exertions of the Rev. George Randolph, then vicar, new
fchools were built in the year 1840, capable of holding 170 children, at a
coft of ^325, including a grant of £y$ from the Canterbury Diocefan
Education Society. Thefe fchools, which confifted of two rooms, one for
girls and one for boys, with a gallery room attached, were built on much
about the fame fite as the prefent fchools ; and were formally opened on
Tuefday the 29th of September, 1 840, in the prefence of many of the
fubfcribers, who expreffed themfelves as highly pleafed and gratified with
the arrangements of the building.
The rooms of this School were, however, of low pitch, were heated
only by a fingle ftove, placed at the angle where the girls' and boys'
fchools met, and were floored with brick.

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Thus as time went on it was felt that thefe fchools were neither fuffi-
ciently airy nor warm, comfortable nor commodious. And, therefore,
like as the fchools of 1 840 fuperfeded the old long room in the clerk's
houfe of 1574, fo thefe too in their turn gave place to the prefent hand-
fome and commodious structure, which combines a picturefque appear
ance with a thorough adaptation of every part to its particular ufe.
By the laudable and painstaking efforts of the Revd. Charles Carus-
Wilfon, then vicar, fubfcriptions, amounting to upwards of £950, were raifed
for building new fchools; and, on the 5th November, 1859, thefe fchools
were opened for the reception of children.

THE NEW SCHOOLS.

The prefent fchools contain what the former did not — viz., a feparate
infant fchool, in addition to the boys' and girls' fchools and claff-room-
They are alfo admirably adapted for all kinds of parochial meetings,
lectures, &c, inafmuch as, by means of folding and Hiding doors, all three
fchoolrooms can be thrown into one.
The bell which daily— with the exception of Saturday— fummons the
youth of both fexes to fchool, is hung outfide the boys' fchool. It
is an ancient one, is fuppofed to have been an old fhip's bell, and bears

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the following infcription embofled round the crown ; the letters are nearly
an inch in height : —
* Htie: o xuhbxh o oaBaxH
where we fee that the R in GRACIA has been turned upfide down in
cafting. Between the AVE and the MARIA, as alfo between the MARIA
and GRACIA, is the medallion of a king's head, though of what king
I have been unable to difcover.
The fchools, when built in 1840, were intended for the four parifhes of
Eaftry, Worth, Ham, and Bettefhanger, and accordingly the vicars of
Eaftry and Worth, and the rectors of Ham and Bettefhanger, are named
truftees in the truft deed. Thefe, however, affociate with themfelves
feveral resident fubfcribers to the fchools for the purpofe of forming a
committee of management.
The fchools are in connection with the National Society, and are united
to the Diocefan Board of Education. They are fupported partly by
voluntary fubfcriptions and contributions, and partly by the Government
grant. The dimenfions of the feveral fchool-rooms are as under : —
Boys' School-room: length, 36 feet; breadth, 18 feet ; height 24 feet;
Girls' School-room.: length 26 feet; breadth, 18 feet; height 24 feet;
Clafs-room: length, 14 feet; breadth, 14 feet; height, 22 feet; Infants'
School-room: length, 19 feet; breadth, 25 feet; height, 24 feet.
At fchool I knew him — a fharp-witted youth,
Grave, thoughtful, and referved among his mates,
Turning the hours of fport and food to labour ;
Starving his body to inform his mind.
Old Play.

Clje parorijtal Chanties.

CHAP. X.
" He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord ; and look, what he
layeth out, it fhall be paid him again!' — Prov. xix. 17.
OUR parifh is tolerably rich in the provifion which has been
made from time to time by pious donors for the relief and affift -
ance of the poor.
But here, as elfewhere, fome charities have lapfed and been loft ; fome
times through a want of care on the part of thofe whofe duty it was to
attend to fuch matters, in days gone by ; at others through circumftances
which no care and trouble on their part have availed to overcome.
Elware Charity for Church repair.
1499. This year Thomas Elware, of Eaftry, left to Roger Frynne (his
executor), his heirs and assigns for ever, his tenement at Selfon, with
all the lands belonging, on condition that he fhould pay yearly to the
churchwadens of Eaftry 3^. 4^. towards the repairs of the faid church.
(See poft.) This fum may perhaps be confidered equivalent to ios. in
thefe days.

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191

This beqwft has unhappily been loft, and there is now no fund available
for church repair, beyond fuch fmall fum as the churchwardens may deem
fit to give to this object from the voluntary church rate.

Goddard's Charity.
1 574. This year the will (for which fee poft) of " Chryftian God-
darde, late of Eaftrye, widow," was proved in the Confiftory Court of
Canterbury, before Thomas Dickes, registrar. By this will fhe left to
the churchwardens of Eaftry, and their fucceffors churchwardens of
Eaftry for the time being, one tenement and a garden, with the appurte-

goddard's charity.
nances in Eaftry, over againft the vicarage, to hold for the ufe of Joan Frauncs,
her fervant, during her natural life, and after her death to the ufe of the
poor people of Eaftry for ever.
This tenement oppofite the vicarage is now in five dwellings, which
ftand endways to the ftreet, and are occupied refpectively by widows
Bullock, Burton, Grayham, Wm. Fagg, and Spain. The appointment
to thefe cottages refts entirely with the churchwardens, who ufually

192 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
charge the occupants a fmall yearly rent — ift, as an acknowledgment of their
tenancy ; and 2nd, to help fomewhat towards the neceffary repairs of the
buildings. Mrs. Goddard alfo left another tenement with a garden in
Eaftry Street, for the ufe of " the clarke of Eaftrye " on certain conditions,
which have been already more particularly mentioned under " The Parifh
Clerks!' This houfe adjoins the Bull Inn and is now in the occupation
of Thomas Young. Like the laft, this appointment refts with the church
wardens, but they are tied down to appoint a certain perfon — viz., the
Parifh clerk, the right of appointing whom refts with the vicar.
Appleton's Charity.
1593. In ^s vear Thomas Appleton, of Eaftry, yeoman, left £$ for
the perpetual benefit of the poor of Eaftry, to be either laid out in lands,
or the intereft in clothes, &c, to be bellowed at the difcretion of fix of
the principal inhabitants of Eaftry. The profits, whether intereft or
otherwife, were to be received 14 days before Chriftmas by the church
wardens for the time being, and afterwards diftributed amongft the
poor. Boteler's Charity.
1 6 1 7. Katherine Boteler, of Eaftry, widow, by her will, proved 1 6 1 7,
gave to the churchwardens of Eaftry the fumof 30^. to be diftributed amongft
the poor people there, and alfo the like fum to remain in flock for the ufe
of the parifh.
This is now loft. It may, however, for aught we know, have been
applied to fome purpofe, now forgotten, by a vote of the veftry.
Thompson's Charity.
1673. Richard Thompfon, of Minfter in Thanet, by his will dated

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1673,* bequeathed a meffuage in Eaftry to his fon Stephen fubject, to the
following charity, viz. that 24 poor people, at three feveral times in the
year, Christmas, Eafier, and Whitfuntide,, fhould receive a twopenny loaf
each. The annual value of this rent charge is 1 2s. ; it arifes from a houfe
in Eaftry Street, (now the property of Mr. Wanftall, of Nonington, and
in the occupation of Edward Godden, baker and grocer), abutting on
Collarmakers' Alley, and is administered by the Vicar and Churchwardens
for the time being. Freind's Bequest.
171 5. Anne Freind, of Eaftry, fpinfter, by will proved in 171 5, gave
to the poor of our parifh £5 ; and to the overfeers of it and their fucceffors
for ever, three acres and one rood of arable land, at or near a place called
Deadman's Gap, in Eaftry, then in the occupation of Daniel Kelley, and
held of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.
The faid overfeers were to renew the leafe from time to time, and to
let or otherwife employ the fame to the beft advantage : in truft that the
yearly rents and profits fhould be equally paid and diftributed on Chrift -
mas Day yearly, among fuch induftrious poor people of the parifh, as
did not receive alms thereof.
This is now loft — indeed, it could hardly be otherwife from the nature
of the holding, and the fmall extent of the land in which an intereft was
thus bequeathed. Rammell's Charity.
1 82 1. This year " Mrs." Elizabeth Rammell, of Eaftry, fpinfter, be-
* Mr. Boteler thinks this date muft be incorrect, as no mention is made of this
charge on the eftate in a conveyance of 1656 (? 1676), but it is mentioned in one of
1682.— Boteler MSS., A., p. 65.
D D

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queathed to the churchwardens and overfeers of the parifh of Eaftry, and
their fucceffors, the fum of ^300 of lawful money, to be inverted in their
names in truft for the poor, and the intereft of the faid .£300 to be dif
tributed and difpofed of on the 4th of January in each year, " in bread
clothes, or money, and in fuch proportions as they in their difcretion fhall
think proper, unto and amongft fuch of the poor parifhioners of the faid
parifh refiding therein, as fhall not have received alms or relief from the
faid parifh for the fpace of one year previoufly." This .£300 was duly
in veiled, and purchafed ^311 $s. Sd. of New 3 per Cent. Confols.
Fector's Charity.
1 82 1. The late John Minet Fector, of Dover, Efq., left the fum of
£50 (fecured on the Sandwich, Walderfhare, and Dover, Turnpike Road,)
to the Rev. George Randolph, Vicar of Eaftry, and his fucceffors, vicars
of Eaftry for the time being, " to be applied in aid of any fubfcription
fund or otherwife for the education of the poor, or for the benefit of the
poor, in any other manner at the difcretion of the vicar, or the officiating
or other minifter for the time being of the aforefaid parifh of Eaftry."
This produces £ 1 1 os. a-year, and may be difpofed of by the vicar at his
difcretion, but is generally added to the fchool funds.
Hill's Charity.
1829. Mary Hills, of the parifh of Afh, next Sandwich, widow, be
queathed to the vicar, churchwardens, and overfeers of the poor of the
parifh of Eaftry, an4 their fucceffors, the fum of ^250 of lawful money,
upon truft to inveft the fame in fome of the Government or Parliamentary
flocks or funds of this Kingdom, and upon the 14th day of January in
every year to diftribute and divide the " dividends, intereft, and income,

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195

either in bread, clothes, or money, and in fuch proportions as they in their
difcretion fhall think proper, into and amongft fuch of the poor and indi
gent widows of the faid parifh of Eaftry as fhall be confidered the moft
deferving, and who endeavour to fupport themfelves without the aid and
aftiftance of parochial relief." This was duly inverted, and purchafed
^255 Confols. Greville's Charity.

1835. At a veftry meeting held on Thurfday, September the 1 8th, 1 834
at which were prefent — Mr. Boteler, in the chair, Meffrs. Harvey, Rae,
Bridger, Leggatt, Caftle, Manfer, Hatfeild, Church, Solley, Jullion,
Smith, Hy. Sladden, Ifaac Sladden, Upton, Sutton, John Moat, Senr., and
Grayham — Mr. Leggatt made a communication to the parifh from Wm.
Fulke Greville, Efqr., proposing to build certain almfhoufes for aged and
infirm parifhioners ; men and women of good character, and to endow
each with a yearly penfion, all at his own expenfe ; provided that the
parifh would procure land upon which to erect the faid houfes.
Thishandfome offer was at once accepted — 100 perches of land on the
north fide of Mill Lane, were purchafed by the parifh of Mr. Kite for

196 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
^ioo — a quick hedge, "three feet within the boundary of the Charity
Land " was planted to divide the Charity Land from Mr. Kite's land— a
field gate and fmall entrance gate to the almfhoufes and land were erected
— the fence next Mill Lane repaired — the land divided out for gardens
and allotted to the feveral alms-houfes refpedlively — and the houfes them
felves built and ready for occupation by the 7th of April, 1835. On this
day the truftees met and placed the almfmen and almfwomen in their
refpective houfes in due form. They received their firft quarter's penfion
on the 7th July following. The almfhoufes thus built and endowed by Mr.
Greville are fix in number, and ftand endways to the Mill Lane ; the
numbers commencing with the houfe neareft the road, which is numbered
1 . They are each endowed with a penfion of £ 1 o a-year ; which
fumsarife from the intereft of _£20oo 3 per Cent. Confolidated Bank Annui
ties conveyed by Mr. Greville to the truftees for that purpofe. There are
alfo two outdoor penfions of ^10 each. The truftees appoint a receiver,
who receives the money from the Sandwich Bank, pays the pensioners,
keeps the accounts, and makes the entries in the book of record ; he alfo
takes the chair at all meetings of the truftees.
The following are the
" Directions and Rules for the eftablifhment and good Government of
the Alms Houfes erected and endowed by William Fulke Greville
Efqr. in the Parifh of Eaftry, in the County of Kent.
ift. That the Vicar, Churchwardens, and Overfeers of the Poor of the
Parifh of Eaftry for the time being, be perpetual Truftees of the
Alms Houfes, and that five other fubftantial Inhabitants of the parifh
be from time to time nominated truftees to act in all matters relat
ing to the fame with the perpetual truftees.
2nd. That Meffrs. Wm. Fuller Boteler, Henry Wife Harvey, Richd.

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Shocklidge Leggatt, Wm. Bridger and James Rae, be the firft nomi
nated truftees to act with the perpetual truftees of the almfhoufes.
3rd. That when any of the truftees now or hereafter to be nominated
to act with the perpetual truftees of the almfhoufes fhall die or
remove from the parifh, and ceafe to have any houfe or lands in the
fame, or fhall decline to act, or become incapable of acting in the
truft, one or more fubftantial inhabitants of the parifh fhall be
nominated by the perpetual truftees and other furviving or continuing
truftees of the almfhoufes, to be a new truftee or new truftees in the
ftead of the truftee or truftees, fo dying, removing, declining, or
becoming incapable of acting, to act with them in all matters relating
to the almfhoufes.
4th. That the land purchafed for the fite of the almfhoufes fhall be
conveyed to the truftees nominated to act with the perpetual truftees
and their heirs, and the fum of ^2000 3 per Cent. Confolidated Bank
Annuities intended for the endowment of the almfhoufes fhall be
transferred into the names of the fame truftees, or any four of them,
and whenever the truftees, in whom the charity eftate, flocks, funds
and property, fhall be veiled reflectively, fhall be reduced to lefs than
three in number, fuch eftate, flocks, funds, and property, fhall be
conveyed, and transferred fo as that the fame may become veiled in
the whole number of truftees nominated to act with the perpetual
truftees for the time being, or (as to the Bank Annuities) any four
of them.
5th. That the government of the almfhoufes, and the management of
the charity eftate, flocks, funds, and property, and the difpofitions of
the revenues thereof, fhall be under the care of the perpetual
truftees, and nominated truftees, for the time being, fubject to the

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rules and regulations herein contained, and any future rules and regu
lations to be made as hereinafter mentioned, and all acts done by
the truftees, and orders made by them, fhall be done and made at an
ordinary meeting of the truftees, of which one fhall be held at the
almfhoufes at 1 2 o'clock at noon on the firft Tuefday in January,
April, July, and October, in every year, or at a fpecial meeting of the
truftees to be called from time to time, by notice in writing figned by
any two truftees defiring the fame, and left at the dwelling houfe of
each of the other truftees who fhall at the time be refident in the
parifh, not lefs than four days before the day of meeting. At which
ordinary or fpecial meeting four of the truftees at leaft fhall be
prefent, and the majority of voices of the truftees prefent at the
meeting, fhall be binding upon the other truftees prefent ; and, in
cafe of an equality of votes upon any queftion, the chairman of the
meeting fhall have a fecond or calling vote ; and all acts done and
orders made at every fuch meeting fhall be entered in a book kept
for the purpofe and figned by the chairman of the meeting.
6 th. That as foon as the almfhoufes fhall be erected and fit for habitation
fix poor perfons, men or women, fhall be appointed, each to inhabit
one of the almfhoufes for life, fubject to forfeiture or removal from
his or her place as hereinafter mentioned. And as and when vacan
cies fhall afterwards happen in the almfhoufes, by death or otherwife,
fuch vacancies fhall be filled up in every cafe within fix calendar
months after the fame fhall happen, provided that if at any time
money fhall be wanted for the neceffary fubftantial repairs of the
almfhoufes, the truftees may in their difcretion keep one vacancy, or
at moft two vacancies, not filled up, until they have in their hands a
fufficient fum of money for doing fuch repairs.

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7th. That Mr. Greville fhall have the appointment of the almfmen and
almfwomen in the firft inftance, and in all cafes of vacancies which
fhall happen during his life, and after his deceafe the truftees of the
almfhoufes fhall, from time to time, appoint the almfmen and almf
women to the fame as vacancies fhall occur.
8th. That the perfons appointed almfmen and almfwomen be parifhioners,
who have been inhabitants of the parifh of Eaftry for not lefs than
five years immediately preceding the time of their appointment, and
who are not lefs than 50 years of age at the time of their appoint
ment, and no perfon fhall be appointed to an almfhoufe unlefs it
fhall appear to the truftees that he or fhe is of good moral and
religious character.
9th. That no almfman or almfwoman have any relation or other perfon
to inhabit with him or her, in his or her almfhoufe, except fuch
almfman or almfwoman as fhall be married at the time of his or her
appointment, who may have his wife or her hufhand to live with him
or her, and except in any cafe the truftees fhall give permiffion in
writing to any almfman or almfwoman to have one or more relation
or relations or other perfon or perfons by name to live with him or
her, and in cafe any almfman or almfwoman shall marry after being
appointed to any almfhoufe, or in cafe any almfman or almfwoman
fhall have any relation or other perfon to inhabit in his or her
almfhoufe contrary to the directions hereinbefore contained, the
truftees of the almfhoufes may, if they in their difcretion think fit,
remove fuch almfman or almfwoman from his or her almfhoufe and
appoint another perfon to the fame in his or her ftead.
1 oth. That in any cafe any almiman or almfwoman appointed to the faid
almfhoufes, fhall be guilty of any mifconduct which the truftees deem

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it neceffary to notice in fuch manner, fuch almfman or almfwoman
fhall be in the firft and fecond inftances admonifhed by the truftees,
and if fuch almfman or almfwoman fhall, after being fo twice admo
nifhed, be again guilty of fuch mifconduct, fuch almfman or almf
woman, fhall be removed from his or her almfhoufe, and another
perfon fhall be appointed to the fame in his or her ftead.
i ith. That the dividend of the faid fum of ^2000 3 per Cent. Confoli-
dated Bank Annuities be applied in payment to each of the almfmen
and almfwomen of a yearly flipend of ^"io by four equal quarterly
payments of £2 ios. each to be made on the days of the ordinary
meetings of the truftees.
1 2th. That the furplus, if any, of the money propofed to be raifed for the
purchafe of the lite of the almfhoufes, and the dividends of the faid
^2000 3 per Cent. Confolidated Bank Annuities which fhall become
due before the firft appointment of almfmen or almfwomen, and the
amount of any ftipends which may become due during any vacan
cies of almfhoufes, fhall be retained by the faid truftees of the
almfhoufes, and improved at intereft as a fund to provide for the
repairs of the almfhoufes, infurance againft fire, and any incidental
expenfes which may arife in the management of the charity.
13th. That the almfmen and almfwomen do keep in repair the glafs
windows, plaftering, whitewafhing, and other fmall internal repairs
of their refpective almfhoufes which the truftees fhall from time to
time direct, and do no wilful damage in or to their refpective almf
houfes, and in cafe of default of any almfman or almfwoman in the
above behalf the truftees fhall and may apply the whole, if neceffary,
or any part of his or her flipend in doing fuch laft mentioned repairs
and making good fuch damage.

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14th. That the truftees of the almfhoufes fhall and may from time to
time make any additional rules or orders for the good government
of the almfhoufes, fo as that fuch new rules and orders, if made in
the lifetime of the faid Wm. Fulke Greville be made with his con-
fent, or if made after his death do not alter, and are not at variance
with, the foregoing original directions and rules or any other directions
and rules made during the lifetime of the faid Wm. Fulke Greville
for the good government of the almfhoufes."
Further rules and regulations with the dates of their enactment
numbered continuoufly : —
1 5th. " That the truftees do examine into the ftate of the almfhoufes
at the quarterly meeting in October annually." Made Jan. 5th,
1836.
1 6th. " That the receiver's accounts fhould be paffed annually at the
quarterly meeting in October." Ap. 4th, 1843.
17th* "That on no occafion of filling up any vacancy in the almfhoufes
fhould any vote by proxy on the part of the truftees be received."
July 6, 1847.
1 8th. " That on the occafion of filling up any vacancy in the almf
houfes votes by proxy on the part of the truftees may be received."
July ift, 1859.
Out Pensioners of Greville's Charity.
" Wm Fulke Greville, Efq., having been pleafed to transfer the fum of
^"666 135. Afd. 3 per Cent. Confolidated Bank Annuities (in addition to
the fum of ^"2000 previoufly granted) into the names of Meffrs. W.
* This was altered by the fucceeding rule No. 18, and, therefore, is not now in
force. t E E

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Fuller Boteler, Henry Wife Harvey, Richard Shockledge Leggatt, Wm.
Bridger, and James Rae, the truftees of his almfhoufes.
The dividends of this fum of ,£666 13^. \d. are to form a yearly
flipend of £ 1 o each for two aged perfons refiding out of the almfhoufes,
who, as vacancies happen in the houfes, are to be admitted thereto in
their turn, and new objects, to enjoy the ftipends out of the almfhoufes,
are to be nominated in their flead ; but it is not to be imperative upon
the truftees to place the outpenfioners in the houfes as vacancies happen,
whenever for fpecial reafons it appears to them more expedient to nomi
nate objects to the houfes who have not been outpenfioners in preference.
All the rules and orders relating to the objects of the charity placed in
the almfhoufes as regards their qualification, nomination, removal, conduct,
or otherwife, which admit of being applied to the outpenfioners, are to
be applicable and to be applied to them."

Table of all the Charities now existing in the Parish :
fhewing the date of their foundation, perfons who appoint, value, &c. : —

Date of inftitution.

Truftees.

Property.

Purpofe for which available.

1574-

1673.

Goddard's Charity.

The churchwar
dens.

Five cottages oppofite
the Vicarage : a
and garden in Eaftry
Street.

The cottages are for the
houfe habitation of poor people.
The houfe and garden in yc
ftreet are for the Parifh
clerk.

Vicar & church
wardens.

Thompson's Charity
An annual rent charge
of 1 2s. on houfe occu
pied by Godden, the
baker.

For giving a twopenny loaf
to 24 poor people at Chrift-
mas, Eafter, and Whitfun-
tide.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.

203

Date of inftitution.

1821.

1821.

1829.

I835-

Truftees.

Churchwardensand Overfeers.

Vicar.

Rammell's Charity.
^¦311 5 j. 8d. New 3
per Cent. Confols : di
vidend of fame.

Property.

Fector's Charity.
Sandwich, Walderfhare,
and Dover Turnpike p
Road Bond for ,£50.

Hill's Charity,
Vicar, church- ^25 5 Confols: divi-
wardens, anddends only available
overfeers.

Vicar, church
wardens and 5
other residents

Property for which available.

To be diftributed in bread,
clothes, or money, to poor
people who have not
ceived parifh relief.

re-

For the education of the
oor or for the benefit of
the poor in any other way.

To be diftributed in bread,
clothes, or money, amongft
fuch of the poor widows as
endeavour to keep them
felves without parifh relief.

Greville's Charity,
Six cottages with gar
dens and 100 perches
fubftantialland: and^2666 13^.4^.
3 per Cent. Confoli-
dated Bank Stock,

The houfes to be occupied
of by poor people who fhall
receive £ 1 o a-year each:
and two perfons to receive
£ 1 o a-year without houfes.

Twelve rooms contiguous flood and fix were near ;
There men were placed, and fiber matrons here ;
There were behind fmall ufeful gardens made ;
Benches before and trees to give themfhade. — The Borough.

appotlrt^

I HAVE endeavoured to gather together under this general head
ing fuch documents and information, as being of no great
intereft to the ordinary reader, are neverthelefs valuable for reference.
In this way fome things may be preferved which otherwife, through
lapfe of time, would have been overlooked, loft fight of, and then
forgotten ; whilft other things may be here plainly fet forth, which are
not eafily acceffible.
Church Restoration, with dates, taken from the veftry minute
book. "Repairs and alterations made in the church by Richard Springett
Harvey, Efqr., except where othewife mentioned : —
Nov. 1 85 1. An organ was put up in the gallery at the weft end ofthe
nave. The gallery was painted by fubfcription of the inhabitants.
Sep. 1852. A fmall fide gate at the weft end of the Churchyard was
put up ; and the path from it to the fmall porch made good. The
way from the large weftern gates to the weft door was paved and
lined on the fouth fide with curb-ftones.
Jany. 1853. A new clock was put into the tower: the old clock
being quite worn out.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 205
Augft. and Septr. 1853. The "lean-to" on the north fide,* and alfo
that on the fouth fide of the tower were entirely rebuilt; the latter
being converted into a veftry. Formerly the veftry was at the western
end of the fouth aifle of the nave. The ground floor of the tower
was newly paved with tiles. The arches under the tower were brought
out to view and repaired. The tower flairs were partially repaired.
The yellow wafh over the weft door on the outfide of the tower was
removed; the flint work made good; and the diaper work over the
door (i.e., in the tympanum) " picked " out and repaired. The western
doorway was repaired and widened about three inches, and five new
ftone fteps were put in the place of the old ones leading down into
the tower.f Three new pews were put up under the gallery. To
wards thefe repairs the parifh raifed about £54. by voluntary fubfcrip-
tion; the total coft being about ^"230.
May- July, 1854. The wall of the fouth aifle, from the tower eaft-
wards — as far as to the window on the eaft of the porch inclufive — and
the fouth porch itfelf were entirely rebuilt. Two windows were inferted
in this wall ; that on the eaft fide of the porch being put in by Capt.
Robert Boteler. The whole of the lead roof of the fouth aifle was made
good. The " fhoots " were removed from the tower and replaced by
pipes. June- Aug. 1855. The main part of the nave and aifles — that is from
the moft western pillars to the moft eastern pillars exclufive — was repewed
and refloored. The lower parts of the pillars were made good and the
* This " lean-to " was formerly in two ftories, and the " upper chamber " is tra
ditionally faid to have been ufed as a fchool. This has now entirely difappeared, as
the roof of this " lean-to " was made to come much lower againft the tower.
t The floor of the tower is 29 inches below the level of the ground at the weft
door.

206 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
hatpags removed. The old high pews attached to the north and fouth
walls were removed, and the paffages in the north and fouth aifles were
placed nearer the walls, and increafed in width to allow of a line of feats
along them. The centre aifle was narrowed 1 8 inches for the fake of
accommodation. Ten oil lamps were provided for evening fervices. The
footpath through the churchyard from the fouth porch to the gate at the
eaft end was widened and underdrained. A ftained glafs window was
put in the north aifle by Wm. Boteler, Efqre, to the memory of his
father. 1856. The Chancel was entirely repaired by the rectors — viz., the
Ecclefiaftical Commiffioners ;* i.e., all the windows were reglazed and
their ftone work renewed where neceffary. The centre light of the eaft
window was reftored from its debafed form of a double light with circular
heads, to its full and proper form. The north fide of the roof was
thoroughly repaired, the fouth fide of it having been repaired a few years
before. Four new pews were put up in the chancel. All this was done
by the Ecclefiaftical Commiffioners.
May, 1857. The wooden floor — which extended to within four feet of
the north and fouth wall ofthe chancel — and the wooden railings enclofing
it on three fides, the oakj panelling on the eaft wall — on which were
written the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord's Prayer — and
* This was probably the refult of a vifit from the archdeacon, which is thus
recorded in the veftry book: — "May 3, 1850. Vifited and ordered the north and
fouth fide of the chancel roofs to be ripped and relaid — a window in the fouth fide of
the church to be generally repaired once every year 
(Signed) James Croft, Archdeacon."
X In the year 1731, the churchwardens feem to have made a kind of tour, with the
purpofe of infpecting the " altar pieces " at Knowlton, Nunnington, Wingham, Ickham,
Afh, &c.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 207
alfo that on the north and fouth walls, were removed. A floor of Port
land ftone was laid down extending acrofs the chancel ; a light railing
was inferted in front of it, and the whole fpace of wall under the eaft
window was faced with Caen ftone, on which were engraved the Com
mandments (in 1 209 letters) : The Holy Table alfo was enlarged ; a new
crimfon cloth covering, new cufhions, new haffocks and carpet, and new books
of Offices, were provided. The wall of the fouth aifle from the window on
the eaft of the fouth porch (exclufive) to the eaftern corner was repaired.
The fouth-eaft corner, and eaft extremity of the fouth aifle, were entirely
rebuilt, and in the latter, a new window was inferted.
June, 1857. Two new windows were inferted in the fouth aifle
towards its eaft end, and fitted with ftained glafs (from Powell's, of
Whitefriars, London,) by fubfcription of the inhabitants, as a teftimonial
to R. S. Harvey, Efqre., for the kind and benenevolent intereft which he
had taken in their Church.
Auguft 1857. The pulpit was removed, from its pofition on the north
fide of the moft eaftern pillar of the fouth aifle, to the weft front of the
fouth pier of the chancel arch. The reading defk was removed from the
fide of the pulpit to the front of it, and the vicarage pew from behind
the reading defk to a pofition alongfide of it and the pulpit, facing the centre
aifle. The pulpit, reading defk, and vicarage pew, as newly arranged, occupy
exactly the fame fpace of ground as they did formerly. A new Bible and
Prayer-Book (quarto) were placed in the reading defk by Mr. Harvey, to
whom the churchwardens prefented the old folio Bible. The remaining
high pews in the fouth-eaft corner of the fouth aifle were taken down
and new ones put in their places. The clerestory window, fecond from
the chancel arch on the north fide, was entirely renewed.
May-June 1858. The other four clereftory windows on the north

208 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
fide were alfo renewed, and the three moft weftern windows in the north
aifle were reftored to their previous form, with plain glafs. The whole of
the lead roof of the north aifle was made good, and ftone coping fubftituted"
for the former brick parapet. A ftained glafs window was put in at the
eaft end of the north aifle by W. Boteler, Efq., to the memory of his two
lifters Sarah and Ann Boteler.
Sep. 1858. A new gate was put up at the eaft end of the church
yard. 1857. There was removed fome modern panelling on the weft fide of
the wall above the chancel arch. Behind it and underneath many coat
ings of whitewafh was difcovered much painting in frefco. The whole
wall appeared to have been originally blue fludded with gold stars. On
a later coat of plaifter were the circles containing the early Chriftian
symbols, which at prefent are to be feen above the arch. There were many
other circles with fimilar defigns, which were covered over again on
account of their very indifferent condition, as well as being mere repeti
tions of thofe preferved.
A ftained glafs window was put in the centre of the north aifle to the
memory of Mr. Caftle.
1 861. A ftained glafs window was put in at the eaft end of the fouth
aifle to the memory of the late Rev. R. D. Backhoufe by Mifs E. C.
Boteler. A ftained glafs window was put in the centre of the fouth aifle to the
memory of the late Mrs. Kenrick by Mifs Toker.
The remaining block of old pews at the north-eaft corner of the nave,
which had remained unaltered at the time of the general repewing
of the church, was taken down and the fpace fitted as the reft of the
church.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 209
1862, Christmas. Stoves were introduced into the church; the expenfe
of them being undertaken by the Rev. Ch. Carus- Wilfon.
1863. The gallery at the weft end of the nave (which had been put
in 1 842, and which completely blocked up the eaft arch of the tower)
was taken down and the arch thrown open. The arches under the tower
on the north and fouth fides were alfo thrown open, and the organ (removed
from the gallery) was placed under the former. The fpace at the fouth-
weft end of the nave (hitherto unpewed) was fitted with pews for the
choir, and the fpace on the oppofite fide at the north-weft end of the
nave, which had hitherto been indifferently pewed was made to correfpond
with the reft of the church. The weft door was enclofed with a wooden
framework, fcreened with a curtain ; the fteps were projected fomewhat into
the church, and the veftry was feparated from the tower by a curtain. The
arch at the western end of the north aifle was opened out into the
"lean-to," and new wooden flairs made to the belfry. The arch at the
western end of the fouth aifle was cleared out, fo far as was confidered
fafe. The funds for thefe alterations were provided by the Rev. C.
Carus- Wilfon.
Stained glafs windows and new stonework were put into the fouth
clerestory, partly by Mr. R. S. Harvey, partly by the Rev. C. Carus-
Wilfon, and partly by other means.
The parifhioners by fubfcription put ftained glafs (furnifhed by Meffrs.
Ward and Hughes) into the eaft window. New stonework being partly
provided by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.
1866. Mifs Spong put ftained glafs (furnished by Meffrs. Hughes)
into the four early Englifh windows on the fouth fide of the chancel.
1868. A handfome almfdifh of beaten brafs with jewelled centre was
prefented to the church by the Miffes Boteler. F F

210 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Advent, 1868. A double oak lectern was prefented to the church by
the Rev. V. S. Vickers, then curate.
Eafier, 1869. Two handfome maffive altar candlefticks of beaten
brafs, jewelled and enamelled, 25 inches in height, were prefented to the
church by the Miffes Boteler for the purpofe of lighting the chancel,
and more efpecially the precincts of the Holy Table at the evening
fervices. Aug. 1869. The Holy Table was enlarged to a proportion more in
keeping with the fize and grandeur of the church. Two almfbags, of crim
fon velvet, embroidered, were prefented to the church by Mifs Hatfeild."
Aug. to October. The Roof of the Nave, erected in 1687, being very
much out of repair was taken down, the brick parapet above the clerestory
windows removed, and an open high pitch roof, of beft Memel pine and
tiled, fubftituted for it, under the direction of Wm. White, Efq., F.S.A.,
architect. The roof is as nearly as poffible a reftoration of the ancient roof
prior to 1687, and the marks of the water-table, &c, on the eaft face of
the tower, indicating the pitch of the older roof, were carefully noted and
followed. The plaifter was removed from the face ofthe eaft gable of the Nave, and
from the weft front ofthe Tower, which were then frefh " pointed." A new
weft door, of oak with hammered ironwork, was prefented by Mr. G. Terry,
parifh churchwarden. The old Font, being much battered, containing no
interesting features, and being incapable of reftoration, was replaced by a
new one, and a drain was duly dug for carrying off the water. A set of
three Altar fervice books, each bound in dark blue morocco, with two gilt
clafps, was provided out of funds placed at the vicar's difpofal.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 211

Wants.

And now, whilft on the fubject of additions and improvements to the
Church, it may perhaps be well to mention fome things that are abfolutely
neceffary, and others that would greatly add to the glory and beauty of our
Church, fhould any pioufly difpofed perfons fee fit to prefent them, or aid
in their being carried out. Among the former may be mentioned,
a new pulpit and reading defk ; a new great Bible* in two parts for the two
faces of the lectern, and a brafs altar defk for the heavy Communion Office
book. Amongft the latter, ftained glafs windows in the Chancel in place
of the prefent yellow blinds ; the roofs of the aifles to be made to corre-
fpond with the roof of the nave internally ; the ceiling of the chancel to
be divided into panels, with ribs and boffes, and picked out with colour ;
fome more oak chairs or fedilia within the fandluary ; a reredos at the back of
the Altar ; the floor ofthe fanctuary laid with encaustic tiles ; the walls ofthe
church cemented fo as to prevent the neceffity of whitewafh, and ornamented
with diaper or other patterns in frefco ; a large frefco over the chancel arch
above the medallions ; the tower area laid with encauftic tiles, and the old
and very lingular Weft Porch reftored according to the traces ftill re
maining. Such are fome of the restorations which I would here fuggeft as calcu
lated to render our Church more fitting for the celebration of Divine
fervice, and more worthy of His Prefence, Whofe Houfe it is.
* Whilft thefe pages were paffing through the prefs, a friend kindly promifed
to prefent us with this.

212 . MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Terriers.
The 87 Canon of the Canons of 1603 runs thus: — "We ordain that the
archbifhops and all bifhops, within their feveral diocefes, fhall procure (as much
as in them lieth) that a true note and terrier of all the glebes, lands, meadows,
gardens, orchards, houfes, flocks, implements, tenements, and portions of
tithes, lying out of their parifhes (which belong to any parfonage, or vicarage,
or rural prebend), be taken by the view of honeft men in every parifh, by
the appointment of the bifhop (whereof the minifter to be one), and be laid
up in the bifhop's registry, and there to be for a perpetual memory thereof."
The following terriers are extracted from the archives of the Confifto-
rial Court of Canterbury : — I.
" A Terrie of all the Gleabe lands and Tenements belonginge to the Pfonage
of Eftrie made by us whofe names are heereunder written.
" Imprimis. A clofe called the Buts Clofe contayneinge thirteene acres and
a halfe and eight perches abuttinge one the Eaft uppon the Kings highway
Weft and South the Land ptayneinge to Chrift Church North to a Clofe of
Mr. Jaleys Weft are Dane Twelve Acres Eft Weft North and South Chrift
Church. " Horfe Acre. Sixe Acres abuttinge one the South to the Lands of Henry
Parramour North William Faulkner Eaft Chrift Church Weft to the Tenants
commo way.
" One Acre and a halfe called the Horfefayer abuttinge one the Eaft South
and Weft to the Land of Thomas Hufham North to Sr Roger Newinfonn.
" One halfe Acre layeinge at the Mill abuttinge Eaft and Weft to the High
way North Kerby South Edmnd Parker.
" Upper Crofs Fower Acres thirtie fix perches North the Heyres of Wil
lia Nutt Eft South and Weft Chrift Church.
" Skinners Gore Five Acres abuttinge on the South uppon the Lands of
Edmnd Parker Eaft and Weft Chrift Church Weft Tenants common way.
One Acre one rod laying to Horfe Acres Bufh abutinge one Willia Friends
Land one the North Weft Tenants common highway South the Heyres of
Willia Nut Eft Chrift Church One Acre and a halfe layinge at Colket abut
tinge one the North and South to the Lands of Jonathan Boteler Weft to the
Comon way Eaft to the Heyers of Matthewe Meares One Acre at Horfe

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 213
Acre Eaft Chrift Church South Mr. Jonathan Boteler Weft the corhon Tenants
way North uppon the Land of William Parker.
Three rods at Felderland South and West William Hilde North Kings
Highway and Eaft abuttinge upon the Land of William Dranton.
Six Acres at Hoyfelfewood Field abuttinge on the Kings Highway uppon
the South North and Weft Chrift Church and uppon the Lands of Mr.
Samuell Nicols one the Eaft One Acre and a halfe at the Buts buttinge one
the South uppon the Lands of John Pittocke Eaft Chrift Church Weft the
Highway North Thomas Huffam.
Two Acres more or leffe in the occupacon of William Paramour Halfe one
Acre in the occupacon of William Salter One Acre layenge before the Ambry
Gate. Two rodes in the occupacon of Thomas Arnolde Churchway North and Eft
South Richard Auftin Weft upon the Land of Edward Parker. One Acre three
rods amonge the Lands of Robart Gyles.
Two acres of Land in the occupacon of William Paramor abuttinge uppon
Chrift Church Land one the North and upon the fayd William Paramour Land
Eft Weft and South.
Sixteene Acres layeinge in the p of Tillmefton in the occupation of Stephen
Saffery. One Tenement layeinge in Eftry Street in the occupacon of William
Hougham. One Tenement or Howfe layeng in Eftrie Street in the occupacon of Thomas
Houghm. Thomas Hilde
XI
his mke.
William Falkener Churchwarden.
Thomas Robins XI his mark.
Thom Friend Sydmen.
Jofua Paramor."
This terrier was probably made in or about the year a.d. 1598, fince
William ffaulkner was churchwarden in that year, which was the 8 th
year of the vicariate of Samuel Nicolls.

214 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
II.
" A Terrier of the Tenements Gardens and Gleabe Lands belonging to the
Ambry or Parfonage and Vicaredge of Eaftry lying in the pifhes of Eaftry
Word and Tilmanftone wch faid Parfonage wth the Tenements and Gleabe Lands
Sr George Sondes Knight of the Bath houldeth by Leafe from the Deane and
Chapiter of Chrift Church in Canterbury the faid Terrier being made and fubfcribed
the fowre and twentith day of Auguft Anno Dmni 1637 by Mr. Samuel Nicols
Vicar of the faid pifh and Mr. Jofhua Parramore and Thomas Marfh Church-
Wardens of the fame as followeth : —
" Imprimis the Parfonage Houfes and two Acres of Land lying in the Plane and
Gardens abutting to the Kings Highwaies and the Vicaredge Land towards
the South and Weft and to the Churchyard and Eaftry Court Land toward the
North and to the Lands of Mr. Jofhua Parramore towards the Eaft.
" Item the Vicaredge Houfes and halfe an Acre and 20 pches of Land abutting to
the Kings Highwaies and to the Lands of a Houfe belonging to the Parfonage in
the occupacon of Henry Richardfon South and Weft and to the Lands belonging
to the Parfonage North and Eaft.
" Ite A Dwelling Houfe and a Garden nere the Croffe in Eaftry Streete lying to
the Kings Streete South and Weft and to the Vicars Garden and Land North and
Eaft. Ite One other Houfe and Garden in Eaftry Streete lying to the Streete Weft
and to the Land of Thomas Boteler North To the Landes of the Heires of
William Freind Eaft and to the Landes of Richard Stacy South.
" Ite nine peeces of Gleabe Land feverally lying in Eaftry aforefaid containing in
the whole fifty acres a halfe and one roode.
" 1 . Whereof one peece is called the Faire Feild and conteineth xxij one roode
and xxix pches and lyeth to the Kings way leading towards Tilmanftone Eaft To
the Landes of the Heires of William North to Mr. Fowlers Land North and Weft
To the Lands of Mr. Samuell Nicols late John Falkeners and to the Lands of
Eaftry Court Weft and South.
" 2. Two other peeces thereof lying at a place called Skeymers* Gore and con-
taine nine Acre a halfe and xi pches lying together to the Lands of Mr. Nutt
and to the way leading to deadman gap North & Weft To Mr. Foules Land Eaft
and South To the Faier Feild Weft and North To the Lands of Mr. Parks
South & Weft.f
* Skinners Gore, now Gore, f There is no 3 in the copy from which this is taken.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 215
" 4. Ite one other peece thereof containing one Acre one roode and xiiij pches
to the Landes of Mr. Jofua Parramore late Mr. Huffam North Eaft & South
To the way leading towards Tilmanftone Weft and North To the Lands of the
Heires of Sr Roger Newinfon Eaft and South and to the Lands of the heires of
Wm. Smith and Simon Mount Weft.
" 5. Ite one other peece thereof containing one acre one roode and xxvij pches and
lyeth to the Highway Weft To the Lands of Mr. Jofua Parramore late Mr.
Huffams toward the North To the Landes of Richard Pittocke South and to
Eaftry [ ? Court] Land called Bramble Hill Banke towards the Eaft.
" 6. Item one other peece thereof containing fixe acres and fixe pches lying to the
way leading to deadman gap Weft and North To the Landes of Mr. Samuell
Nicols late John Falkeners North and Eaft To the Landes of the Heires of Wil
liam Parramore South and Weft and lyeth at or neere a place there called com
monly by the name of Calcott toward the Landes called the Elderne Stumpe.
" 7. Ite one other peece thereof lyeth towards deadman gap and conteineth one
acre and xxviij pches and abutteth to the faid way leading to deadman gap Weft
and North To the Lands of Mr. Nutt North and Eaft To the Lands of Thomas
Freind Weft and South.
" 8. Ite one other peece thereof containing one acre one roode and xxij pches
and lyeth nere unto deadman gap to the faid way Weft and North To the Land
of Mr. Boteler North and South.
" 9. Ite one other peece thereof lyeth in Hafell Wood Feild and conteineth fixe
Acres and xxij pches and abutteth to the way leading to Northborne South and
Weft To Eaftry [Court] Land North and Weft To the Lands of Thomas
Marfh late Mr. Nicols Eaft and South.
" Ite one peece of Land conteining one acre and xxiiij pches lying in Eaftry over
againft the Church planted wth fruite trees for an Orchard and abutteth to the Kings
waies North and Eaft To the Lands late Mr. Huffams now Thomas Botelers and
the Lands of Michaell Auften South and to the Lands of Mr. Parks and the
Clarkes* Garden Weft.
" Ite one little peece of Land conteining halfe an Acre and xxiij pches lieth at
thElder Land in Word pifh inclofed into the Orchard of John Hille late William
Hille and abutteth to the Landes of the faid John Hille South and Weft and to
* This refers to the garden given to the clerks of Eaftry by Mrs. Chriftiana God
dard. For further information concerning which see CHAPTER VII.

216 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
the Highway leading to Word Streete North and to the Lands of the heires of
Stephen Danton Eaft.
" Ite fower peeces of Land lying in Tilmanfton Conteyning in all together
fifteene Acres and three roodes.
" i . Whereof one peece conteineth by eftimacon nine Acres and lyeth to the
Kings way and to Pryers Clofe South and Weft and to the Lands of Sr Thomas
Palmer Knight South & Weft To the Kings way North and Eaft To the
Gleabe Land of the Church of Tilmanftone Weft and North to the Landes of
John Dove and the Lands of John Denne North and Eaft.
" 2. Ite one other peel thereof conteining one acre and a halfe lyeth to the Kings
way South To the landes Thomas Croft Eaft To the Lands of John Denne North
and Weft.
" 3. Ite one other peece thereof containeth two Acres and one roode and lyeth to
the land of Sr Thomas Palmer South and Eaft To the lands of William Jenkin
Weft and South To the Lands of the faid Sr Thomas Palmer Weft and to the
Gleabes aforefaid Eaft and North.
" 4. Ite one other pcell thereof containeth three acres and lyeth to the Lands of
Sr Thomas Palmer Weft South and North To the Landes of the Parfonage of Til
manftone North and Eaft To the Lands of William Jenkens Eaft and South To
the laft mentioned pcell of Gleabe Land South and Weft.
Samuel Nicols Vic. ibide.
Jofua Paramor
Tho : T Marfll
his marke."

Churchwardens.

III.
u To the Moft Reverend Father in God William by divine Providence Lord
Archbifhop of Canterbury.
" We the Vicar and Churchwardens of the Parifh of Eaftry in the County of
Kent do hereby certify That the whole Quantity of Glebe Land in the faid Parifh
belonging to the faid Vicarage amounts to about one rood & thirty perches lying
together & furrounded by two Roads and the Rectorial property — There is a
Glebe Houfe Coach-houfe and Stabling upon the faid Glebe & no other Build
ings — The living is united to that of Worth — the adjoining Parifh — in which
there is about Sixty Perches of Glebe Land but no Building thereon — The Emo-

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 217
luments are derived from fmall Tithes & fees. There is alfo an Augmentation of
^"20 per annum paid to the Vicar of Eaftry with Worth £5 6.y. 8d. of which is
paid by the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury & the remaining fum of ^14 13s. 4^.
is paid by the Leffee of the Rectorial Property.
" Witnefs our hands this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord eight
hundred & thirty three. George Randolph Vicar of Eaftry with Worth.
XT TT c Churchwardens of Eaftry."
Henry Upton )

ENDOWMENT OF THE VICARAGE OF EASTRY, a.d. 1367.
[Ex. Regift. Langh., fol. 12915, 130.]
" Univerfis Sandte Matris Ecclefie filiis ad quos prefentes littere pervenerint,
Simon, etc., falutem in Domino fempiternam. Ex parte religioforum virorum
prioris et capituli ecclefie noftre Cantuarienfis nobis extitit intimatum quod reco-
lende memorie Simon ultimus Cantuarienfis archiepifcopus defunctus immediatus
predeceffor nofter ecclefias parochiales de Eaftry et Monketon cum capellis eifdem
annexis ac juribus et pertinentiis fuis univerfis noftre Cantuarienfis dioecefios
dudum didtis religiofis viris priori et capitulo ecclefie predicte et elemofinarie ipfo-
rum canonice appropriatas, quas quidem Baldewynus predeceffor nofter qui vir
erat magne potencie prout fibi placuit aliquamdiu integraliter occupavit, ac qui
collaciones di&arum ecclefiarum fibi retinuit, et medietatem fructuum utriufque
ecclefie dictis rehgiofis viris pro elemofinaria predicta reliquit reliquam vero medie
tatem eciam utriufque ecclefie fuis clericis per eundem in dictis ecclefiis inftitutis
aflignavit minus jufte ad petitionem religioforum virorum predictorum ex caufis
juftis et legitimis per ipum judicialiter approbatis omnibus et fingulis quorum inte-
reffe poterit in ea parte primitus evocatis ac ceteris que de jure requirebantur eciam
concurrentibus ad ipfos religiofos viros pertinuiffe et pertinere debere, dictos reli-
giofos viros reftituendos et reducendos fore ad jus et poffeflionem quod et quam
in dictis ecclefiis habuerunt tempore dicti Baldewini et ante, ipfofque in jure et
poffeffione hujufmodi tuendos fore fententialiter et deffinitive pronunciavit decrevit
et declaravit, ac ipfos quantum in eo fuit ad ftatum priftinum reduxit et reftituit
G G

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per decretum, refervando fibi et fuccefforibus fuis libera facultate vicarias et por-
ciones ipfis congruentes, cum redtores ipfarum ecclefiarum eifdem cefferint, vel ipfi
decefferint, taxandi, ftatuendi et ordinandi. Ita quod cedentibus vel decedentibus
rectoribus di&arum ecclefiarum qui tunc fuerint liceret dictis priori et capitulo per
fe feu alios vel alium eorum nomine ecclefias antedictas de Eaftri et Monketon cum
capellis fuis et poffeffionem corporalem earundem libere ingredi reintrare et read-
quirere, ac eas et earum poffeffionem pro fuo perpetuo in ufus proprios et elemofi-
narie predicte retinere, quodque religiofi viri fubfequenter et poft premiffa di&as
ecclefias de Eaftri et Monketon cum capellis fuis et earum poffeffionem corporalem
per ceffionem rectoris de Eastri et per mortem rectoris de Monketon qui tunc
fuerant nuper vacantes et vacuas adepti nacti funt in prefenti et ingrefli, nullaque
vicaria adhuc creata feu ordinata in eifdem, fupplicarunt nobis prefati religiofi viri
quatenus attentis premiffis et juxta ea ad creacionem et ordinacionem vicariarum
hujufmodi juxta valorem fructuum et proventuum illarum medietatum quas
rectores feculares qui pro temporibus retroactis fuerunt in eifdem percipere confue-
verunt procedere curaremus.
Nos igitur peticionem dictorum religioforum virorum diligenter confiderantes et
invenientes dictum patrem defunctum circa premiffa prout prefati religiofi viri
nobis intimarunt rite et legitime proceffiffe ac ipfas ecclefias de Eaftri et Monketon
cum capellis et pertinentiis fuis univerfis ad ipfos religiofos viros et elemofinariam
fuam predictam pertinuiffe et pertinere debere fententialiter et deffmitive pronun-
ciaffe et declaraffe, necnon ipfos religiofos viros ad ftatum priftinum quern hactenus
habuerunt in eifdem quatenus in eo fuit modo et forma premiffis reduxiffe, gefta
habitus et fa<5ta per dictum reverendum patrem defunctum circa premiffa multum
exquifite pie et devote exercita plurimum commendantes ac quantum in nobis eft ea
omnia et fingula ex noftra certa fcientia approbantes et confirmantes omnibus et
fingulis quorum intereft vel intereffe poterit in ea parte primitus evocatis, caufe
cognicione et juris ordine que de jure requirebantur circa premiffa legitime obfer-
vatis, vicariam perpetuam in ecclefia fupradicta de Eaftri prefatis religiofis viris ut
premittitur reftituta ordinamus facimus et creamus per prefentes ; porcionemque
vicarii et vicarie ecclefie fupradicte de Eaftri ordinamus facimus et limitamus fub-
fcripto modo confiftere debere in perpetuum ; videlicet, quod vicarius, qui pro
tempore fuerit in eadem, habebit aulem cum duabus cameris coquinam et unum
curtilagium pro ftatu fuo competenter, cum claufura fufficienti, infra manfum por-
cionis quam nuper elemofinarius habuit in eadem in prefenti extantes fitas et edifi-
catas, fumptibus vicarii hujufmodi continue in futurum reparandas necnon

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oblationes, legata, et obvenciones quascumque ac decimas lane, agnorum, vitulo-
rum, butiri, lactis, cafei, lini, canabi, aucarum, anatum, porcellorum, ovorum, cere,
mellis, pomorum, pirorum, columbellorum, pifcariar um , aucupacionum, venacionum,
negociatoriorum,molendinorum, feni-,herbagii,filve cedue, et aliorum quorumcunque
ad ipfam ecclefiam de Eaftri feu capellas quafcumque ab eadem dependentes quali-
tercumque provenientes, decimas eciam minores de maneris de Leden dictorum
prioris et capituli quociens et quando datur ad firmam ac quinque marcas bone et
legalis monete ad fefta fandtorum Michaelis et Pafche per equales porciones a
priore et capitulo predictis annuatim perpetuo in futurum fideliter vicario qui pro
tempore fuerit in eadem perfolvendas ; que quidem oblaciones, legata, preventus
et decime prout per inquisitionem fuper valore annuo eorundem legitime captam
fufficienter fumus informati una cum dictis quinque marcis annuatim ut premittitur
percipiendis ad viginti libras bone monete communibus annisffe extendunt porcio-
nem tamen fuam hujufmodi in dictis oblacionibus, legatis, decimis et quinque
marcis predictis ut permittitur confiftentem propter cafus fortuitos qui contingere
poterunt in futuro ad decern libras argenti duntaxat limitamus et taxamus juxta
quarum decern librarum argenti taxam vicarius qui pro tempore fuerit in eadem,
decimam in futuro ipfam ecclefiam contingentem pro porcione fua duntaxat folvet
fubibit et agnofcet, invenietque dictus vicarius unum capellanum in capella de
Worthe ab eadem ecclefia de Eaftri dependente fingulis diebus fi et quatenus
cofhode poterit celebraturum qui earn ofEciabit in divinis prout hactenus eft fieri
confuetum, inveniet eciam cereos proceffionales fuperpellicia, ligabit eciam libros
invencionem rectoris concernentes librofque hujusmodi inventos fuo periculo cuf-
todiet necnon omnia alia onera infra dictas ecclefiam et capellam per rectorem loci
eonfueta fuis fumptibus fubibit et expenfis, hoc excepto, quod prefati religiofi viri
cancellos dictarum ecclefie et capelle in omnibus fuis membris et particulis repara-
bunt et fi diruti fuerint reedificabunt fuis fumptibus et expenfis, ipfofque re
ligiofos et non vicarium qui pro tempore fuerit ad inventionem unius capel-
lani in capelia de Shrynglynges a dicta ecclefia dependente fi ad hoc rectores
tenebantur in antea teneri volumus et obligari : folvent infuper dicti prior
et conventus annuatim terminis fupradictis vicario memorato quadraginta
folidos fterlingorum pro fupportacione oneris clerici parochialis ibidem in-
veniendi, quas quidem ecclefie de Eaftrie predicte reftitutionem et reductionem
vicarie ordinacionem, ipfiufque vicarii porcionis limitacionem in eadem et onerum
impofitiones antedi&as ipfos et eorum quemlibet ut premittitur concernentes
ac omnia alia et fingula hujufmodi reftitucionem et reductionem ordinaciones
limitaciones ac impoficiones contingentia vocatis primitus in forma juris in hac

220 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
parte vocandis ceterisque folempniis in omnibus per nos obfervatis cum plena
caufe cognicione firma ftabilia et cunctis temporibus futuris firmiter obfervanda
fore debere dictamque porcionem fufficientem et congruam effe vicario hujus modi
pro omni tempore futuro de communi affenfu et confenfu capituli noftri pronun-
ciamus, diffinimus et declaramus per prefentes. In cujus rei testimonium figilium
noftrum fecimus hiis apponi. Datum apud la Fford nostre dicecef : ° non : Augufti
Anno Domini milleffimo cccm0 sexagefimo septimo et noftre tranflacionis primo."
The tranflation of the foregoing Ordination or Endowment of the
Vicarage of Eaftry runs as follows : —
" To all the fons of Holy Mother Church to whom thefe prefent letters fhall
come Simon, &c, fendeth Health in the Lord everlasting. It has been intimated
to us on the behalf of thofe Religious perfons, the Prior and Chapter of our Church
at Canterbury, that Simon of venerable memory the laft Archbifhop of Canter
bury deceafed our immediate predeceffor, the Parifh Churches of Eaftry and
Monkton with the Chapels annexed to the fame of our Diocefe of Canterbury and
all the rights thereto appertaining, long fince canonically appropriated to the faid
Religious Perfons the Prior and Chapter of the faid Church and the Almonry
ufed by them (which one Baldewyn our Predeceffor who was a man of great
Power without Juftice wholly occupied for fome time as he thought fit, and who
retained to himfelf the Collations of the faid Churches and left the half of the
Fruits of both to the faid Religious for the Almonry aforefaid and affigned the
remainder to his own Clerks inftituted by himfelf in the faid Churches) at the
petition of the faid Religious, for juft and lawful reafons judicially approved by
himfelf (all and every Perfons who might be interefted in that matter being firft
cited, and all other lawful Obfervances concurring) did fententially and definitively
pronounce, decree, and declare, that they had belonged and ought to belong to the
faid Religious Perfons, and that the faid Religious should be reftored and brought
back to the Right and Poffeffion which they had in the faid Churches, at and before
the time ofthe faid Baldewyn, and that they fhould be maintained in the poffeffion of
the fame, and did reduce and reftore them as far as it depended upon him to their
former Eftate by his decree, referving to himfelf and his fucceffors the free power
of ordering, eftablifhing and ordaining the Vicarages and parts appertaining to
them whenfoever the Rectors of fuch Churches fhould quit them or fhould them
felves be dead : fo that upon the Refignation or Deceafe of the Rectors of the
aforefaid Churches for the time being, it might be lawful for the aforefaid Prior

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 221
and Chapter by themfelves or others or any other in their name freely to enter,
re-enter and re-acquire the aforefaid Churches of Eaftry and Monkton, with their
Chapels, and to have the corporal Poffeffion of them for their own ufe, and that
of the Almonry aforefaid for ever : and that the faid Religious confequently
and after the Premiffes have now obtained acquired and entered into the faid
Churches of Eaftry and Monkton with their chapels as well as the corporal poffef
fion of them, being vacant by the ceffion of the Rector of Eaftry and the death
of the Rector of Monkton who were at that time being ; and no Vicarage being
as yet created or ordained in the fame, the aforefaid Religious have fupplicated us
that attending to the Premiffes we fhould take care to proceed to the Creation and
Ordination of fuch like Vicarages according to the value of the Fruits and Profits
of thofe medieties which the fecular Rectors who have been in times past were
accuftomed to receive. We therefore, diligently confidering the Petitions of the
faid Religious and finding that the faid Father deceafed, according as the faid
Religious have intimated to us, did rightly and lawfully proceed, and that he fen-
tentially and definitively pronounced and declared that the faid Churches of
Eaftry and Monkton, with the Chapels and Appurtenances, did belong and
ought to belong to the faid Religious and their Almonry aforefaid, and alfo
that as far as he might or could, after the manner and form aforefaid, he
reftored the faid Religious Perfons to- their former Eftate which they aforetimes
held in the faid Parifhes, very much commending whatever has been tranf-
acted and done by the faid Reverend Father deceafed concerning the Premiffes,
as done with great Piety and Devotion, and as far as lies in us, from our certain
knowledge, approving and confirming all and every of thefe Acts and Things (all and
every Perfons who may and might be interefted in the fame being firft cited
and the caufe, cognition, and order of juftice which were required about the
premiffes being duly obferved) do ordain, make and create by thefe prefents a
perpetual Vicarage in the above-mentioned Church of Eaftry, reftored as is before
related to the aforefaid Religious : And we ordain, make, and limit that the Por
tion of the Vicar and aforefaid vicarial Church of Eaftry ought to confift for
ever in the manner underwritten, that is to fay, that the Vicar, who for the time
fhall be in the fame, fhall have the Hall with two Chambers, the Kitchen and one
Curtilage fufficient for him with a fufficient Clofe beneath the dwelling Houfe of
that portion which the Almoner lately had, now being fituated and built in the
fame, to be repaired continually for the future at the Cofts of the faid Vicar, and
alfo fhall have the Oblations, Legacies, and Revenues whatfoever, and the Tenths

222 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
of Wool, Lambs, Calves, Butter, Milk, Cheefe, Flax, Hemp, Geefe, Ducks,
Pigs, Eggs, Wax, Honey, Apples, Pears, Pidgeons, Fifh for fale, Fowling, Hunt
ing, Merchandifes, Grift, Hay or Grafs, Herbage, Felled Wood, and of other
things whatfoever to the faid Church of Eaftry, or the Chapels whatfoever depend
ing upon the fame, howfoever arifing, as alfo the fmaller Tenths of the faid Prior
and Chapter's Manor of Leden, as often as and whenfoever it may be let out to
farm. And moreover that five marks of good and lawful money fhall be paid
faithfully by equal portions at the Feafts of Saint Michael and Eafter yearly for
ever, by the Prior and Chapter aforefaid to the Vicar who for the time fhall hold
the fame, which Oblations, Legacies, Profits and Tenths, as we have been fuffi-
ciently informed by Inquifition duly made into the yearly value of the fame,
together with the faid five Marks to be received yearly as above-mentioned, do
amount to Twenty Pounds of good money per year. Neverthelefs we limit and
reftrain the Portion of the faid Vicar (confifting in the faid Oblations, Revenues,
Legacies, Tenths with the five Marks aforefaid) as is premifed by Reafon of the
Cafualties which may happen in future time, to Ten pounds of Money only,
according to which rate of Ten pounds the Vicar for the time being fhall only
pay, anfwer, and acknowledge as his part of the Tithe for the time to come apper
taining to the Church. And the faid Vicar fhall find one Chaplain in the Chapel
of Worth depending upon the faid Church of Eaftry, to celebrate Divine Service,
every Day, at leaft as far as it may be done with convenience ; and who fhall there
officiate in Divine Things according to ufual Cuftom. He fhall alfo find waxen
candles for Proceffions, and Surplices, he fhall bind the Books relating to the
Rectors income, and whatever Books of this kind may be found he fhall keep at
his oWn Peril : and alfo fhall undergo and perform all other Burdens, at his own
expenfe, relating to the faid Church and Chapel that were accuftomed to be borne
by the Rector of the Place ; excepting only that the faid Religious Perfons fhall
repair the Chancels of the faid Church and Chapel, in all their Members and
Parts, and if they fhould fall to ruin fhall rebuild them at their own cofts and
expenfe. And we will that the faid Religious, and not the Vicar for the Time
being, fhall be held and bound to the maintenance of one Chaplain in the Chapel
of Shrynglynges* depending upon the faid Church, provided the Rectors were held
* In a copy of this Tranflation of the Ordination of the Vicarage in the poffef
fion of the Vicar, there is the following note in Mr. Boteler's handwriting : — " Eaftry
April 1784. Upon a diligent fearch I have difcovered the foundation of the Chapel
of Shryngelynges juft within the wood, now called Shingleton Wood at the South Eaft

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 223
in Times paft to the fame. Moreover the faid Prior and Convent fhall pay yearly
at the times aforefaid to the Vicar above-mentioned 40^. for the finding and main
taining of a Parifh Clerk there. All which Reftitution and Reduction of the faid
Church of Eaftry, Ordination of the Vicarage and Limitation of the Vicar's Part
in the fame, and the aforefaid impofitions of Burdens relating to them and any of
them as is premifed, and all and Angular appertaining to fuch Reftitution and
Reduction, Ordinations, Limitations and Impofitions, we, firft having cited accord
ing to form of law, all that in this affair ought to be cited, and all other legal
Forms being in all refpects fully obferved by us, and having a full knowledge of
the caufe, with the common affent and confent of our Chapter, do pronounce,
determine, and declare by thefe Prefents to be firm, ftable, and fuch as ought con-
ftantly to be obferved in all future Times ; and that the faid Portion is fufficient
and proper for the faid Vicar in all fucceeding times. In Teftimony whereof we
have caufed our seal to be affixed to thefe prefents. Given at La Ford in our
Diocefe the fecond of the Nones of Auguft in the year of our Lord 1 367 and of
our Tranflation the ift."
In or about the year 1745, the queftion having arifen whether the
Rector or the Vicar, of Eaftry was entitled to the Tythe of Canary,
Clover, and other feeds, a cafe was drawn up and fubmitted to counfel,
when the following opinion* was given : —
" I have read over a copy of yc Endowment of yc Vicaridge of Eaftry and ye
queftion upon it being whether ye Rector or ye Vicar is intitled to ye Tyth of
Canary feed Clover feed and other feeds I am of opinion that by reafon of ye
general words ad aliorum quorumcunque ad ipfam Ecclefiam de Eaftry feu
Capellas quafcunque ab eadem dependentes qualitercunque provenientes and ye
ufage for the Vicar to take ye Tith of Canary feed and other feeds that y? Vicar is
intitled to ye Tith of Canary feed Clover feed and other feeds, Canary feed
Clover feed and other feeds being unquftionably fmall Tithes and not great
Tiths. " J. Knowler
" 26 October 1745."
end." The fact that it was only difcoverable " after diligent fearch" nearly a 100
years ago, fhews us how long it muft have been difufed and ruined.
* In the poffeffion of the Vicar.

224 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Inventories of the XVII Century.
The following Inventories of Goods, extracted from the MSS. notes of
William Boteler, Efqre., of Brook Street, in this Parifh, give us a Very
good idea of the furniture and wardrobe of a private gentleman of Eaft
Kent in the beginning of the xvii century : —
" A true inventory of the goods & chattels of Richard Boteler,* gent, late
of Eaftrie deceafed made & prized the xix day of March in the year of or Lord
Chrifte one thoufand fix hundreth & ofthe Raigne of or Souaigne Lady Elizabeth
the Queen's matie yc now is the xliij by John Golder, Richard Auften Nicholas
Squire & John Caftell the writer hereof all of Eaftry.
Imprimis his Girdle his purfe & reddy money . . . iiij1'
Ite his apparel one Saten doblett One filke rafh doblett wth filu buttons
One fuftian doblett One payer of velvett breeches three payer
of broadcloth breeches Two clokes One cloth gownef Two
hatts lyned wth velvett Two cloth Jerkins Three Devonfhiere &
cotten night weftcotes Two payer of Jerfey ftockings & fower
payer of cloth ftockings Two ryding hoodes fix fhirts eight
bandesf . . . . . . . x
" Ite in the litle chamber whear he died called the middle chamber
One joynde ftanding bedd One fether bedd one bowlfter one
payer of blancketts One rugg covertledd five curtens wth curten
rodds One Truckle bedd One cheft One liuery cubberd One
chayer wth other lumber there prized at iiij x
" Ite in the beft chamber called the great chamber One fayer ftanding
Bedfteddle one fether bedd one blanckett one covertleed five fey
curtaines & curtaine rodds one Truckle bedftedle w"1 a quilt bedd
* Richard Boteler, of Eaftry, Gent., whofe will was proved 27 Ap., 1601, wills to
be buried in Eaftry Church, as does alfo Katherine Boteler his widow, whofe will
proved 29 July, 1617. William Boteler, of Rochefter, will proved n May, 1615, in
London. t In former days the gown and bands were no mark of an ecclefiaftic, for the
gown was worn by every one, from the rank of sovereign to that of tradesman, as the
outer garment ; gradations in rank being marked by the material of which the gown
was made, and the way in which it was " faced " or trimmed.

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One payer of millen [?] fuftian underclothes two cheftes one table
% a carpett thereon half a dowfon of high joynd ftooles fower
low joynd cufhian ftooles two chayers One court cubberd One
joynd box One payer of ftanding cob yrons Three window cur-
taines % the hanging about the chamber prized at . . x1'
Ite in the chambr our the litle Hall one ftanding bedfteddle one fether
bedd theron a payer of blancketts one Covertleed five curtaines
of cloth one truckle bedftedle one flockbedd one payre of
blancketts and one covertleed thereon one cypres cheft one joynd
box * hangings to the faid chamber prized at . . . iij1'
Ite in the maydes chamber one bourded beddfteddle % a flock bedd
theron one covertleed one blanckett one cheft two childrens
cradles * other lumber ther ..... xxs
Ite in the litle chamber one ftanding beddftedle one fether bedd a
payer of blancketts one Covertleede one Court cubberd one
truckle beddftedle prized at . . . . iij1'
It in Jonathan Botelers chambr fower cheftes % certain furniture for
the warrs viz two corfletts one Jack two mufketts fur One
Horfemans piec fur one cafe of daggs two caliurs fur * fwords
and daggers prized at ..... iiij1'
It in the great parlor One table half a dowfin of high joind ftooles
fower cufhion ftooles one court cubberd one chayer two table
carpetts Two cubberd carpetts halfe a dowfin of cufhions fower
window cufhions viz. two of filke and filur and two of filke only
one payer of cob irons or brand yrons prized at . . iiij11
Ite in the lower chamber behinde the entrie one ftanding beddftedle
one fetherbedd a payer of blancketts two covertleeds one cub
berd * other Lumber ther prized at . . . . . iiij1' x
Ite in the folkes chambr three boarded bedfteddles Two flock bedds
one mattrefs * covertleeds and blancketts furnifhed prized at . xls
Ite in the chambr our the buntting houfe two boarded beddftedles, one
flock bed one blanckett one undercloth and one covertleed
prized at ...... xxs
Ite. in the litle Hall one Table fower joyned ftooles and one payer of
cobbyrons prized at . . . . . . xiijs iiijd
Ite in the great hall Two tables one cubberd one fourme a payer of
h h

226 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
cob yrons a payer of yron rackes one Jack to turn a fpitt % other
lumber ther prized at . . . . . xls
Ite in the Buttry of the beft pewter one dowfin of platters one dowfin
of Pewter difhes one dowfin of fruite difhes, one dowfin of
plates, half a dowfin of porrindgers half a dowfin of fawcers
two bafens and an ewer fower pewter candleftickes two doufin
of wearing pewter five chamber potts .... iij1' xiijs iiijd
Ite in the faid Buttry one cheft one payer cubberd * other lumber
ther prized at . . . . . . vjs viijd
Ite in the Kitchin feaven brafs kettells thre brafs potts one brafs pann
a warming pann two chafing difhes fower ftuppuetts five brafs
candlefticks five fpitts two greedyrons one Trivett * other lumber
ther prized at . . . . . .iij1'
Ite in the mylke houfe A Bryne ftock a table two dowfin of bowles
and Truggs three milk keelers two charnes a Muftard quearne *
other lumber ther prized at . . . . xxs
Ite in the buntting houfe one Bunting hutch Two kneding fhowles a
a meale tubb % other lumber ther prized at
Ite in the cheefe howfe One cheefe preffe % his furniture two payer of
Ripps five payells * other lumber prized at
Ite in the Brewhowfe Two great brueng tonnes one Corlefatt Two
furnaces fower Tubbs % other lumber ther prized at
Ite in the well howfe 8 Bucketts and two roppes % other lumber ther
prized at ...... .
Ite in the Wheat loft iij quarters of Wheat five quarters of Otes
Ite forty payer of fheetes twelve table clothes ix dowfin of table nap
kins viij payer of pillow coates fix payer of pillowes One dowfin
of hand towells prized at .... .
Item in his ftuddy dius and sundry books prized at
Ite one filu and gilt fait one filu pcell gilt cupp and one filii cupp
prized at ..... .
Ite xiiij horfe beafts one wagon and wagon harneffe three plowes three
courts fower harrowes * all furniture belonging prized at
Ite one couple of working bullocks prized at vj1'
Ite vij kine iij towyering beafts and fower twelve monthings prised at xxijIixiijsiiijd
Ite vj fcore old weathers ewes and young fheep prifed at . . xxxvj1

VJS

viijd

xiij

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It xxij hoggs prized at . . . . . vj1' xiijs iiijd
Ite xviijteene hennes capons and cocks xvij Duckes and drakes five
Geefe and ganders prized at . . . . xxs
Ite xxtie quarters of Wheat by eftimac in the Barne to threfh prized at xlvj1'
Ite Hey fodwar and otes in the Barnes and upp liable prized at . x1'
Ite lxx acres of wheat fowen in the fields prifyed at . . . cxl1'
Ite xxxvij acres of Tares and Peafe prifzed at xxxvij1'
Ite xij acres of Oates prized at xxs the acre . . . xij1'
Ite certain wood in wope [ ?] felled % all fluff and lumber before for
gotten by the prizers prized at ... . iij1'
Sum Totle ccccc1' xs
" A treue Invetory of the goods and Chattels of Mtris- Katherin Butder Gentell
woman of Eaftry late deceafed made & prized the xixth of January and in the
year of our Lord Chrift one thoufand fyx hundreth and feauenteene by Thomas
Whytfeld, Thomas Hugbon, and Alexander Mockett.
Imprimis her Purfe and girdell . . . . . vu
Item all her weareinge apparell ..... xvij1'
Item in the Greate Hall two tables one Cup boorde one forme a payer
of Cobirons a payer of Iron rackes one Jacke to turne fpytt *
other lumber . . . . . . . xls
Item the greate Parler one greate table & halfe a duzen of high
Joyned ftooles, two Cufhen ftooles one Courte Cubbard one greate
chayer one fquare table two table Carpets two Cubbard carpets
halfe one duzen of cufhens fowre window cufhens one payer of
cobirons one fire fhovell one payer of tongs k one payer of
bellowes . . . . . . . vu
Item in the littell Hall one table to joyned ftooles . . . xijs
Item in the Kitchen two tables one dreffer borde one brafs pann one
warmeing pann one Chaffinge difh, two gridirons one fire fhovell
one payer of bellowes one payer of tongs one fire forke of Iron,
fower fpytts feaven Kettells fowr brafs potts three brafs ftupens
one payer of potthangers fyxe brafs candellfticks % other lumber vu
Item in the Buttery two Baffons one Eward fyx pewter Candellfticks
fower dozen and a halfe of pewter platters greate & fmall
five pewter plates three dozen & a halfe of fmall pewter, fower
porringers of pewter one Voyder of pewter one dozen and a

228 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
halfe of weareing pewter one dozen bf fpoones thre falts one
pewter pott & viij Chamber potts . . . . v1' xiijs
Item in the fame Buttery beforefayd one Chift one heare Cubard three
driping panns one frying pann * other lumber . . . xxvijs
Item in the Milke houfs one brineftocke two dozen of trugs ix bowles
three milke keelers'one Charne & one table . . . xxs
Item in the Buntingehoufs one boultinge '" one Kneadinge trofe & one
meale tub . . . . . . . v
Item in the Cheafe houfs one Cheafeprefs % his ffurniture one payer
of ripps five payles and one fope boule . . . xxs
Item in the Brewhoufs two brewinge tonns one Coole backe two for-
niffes fower tubes % other lumber .... vj11 xiiij5
Item in the fame Wellhoufs two bucketts one rope one water ftocke . xxs
Item in the Laderhoufs one brineftock one table * other lumber . vjs viijd
Item in the great chamber on ftandinge beadfteadell one featherbead
one blankett one coverlyd five faye curtaynes * foe many roods
of Iron two pillows and one boulefter one truckell beadftedle %
a quilt bead one payer of millan* [?] fuftian under clothes two
Chiftes one table * one carpett halfe a dozen of high joyned
ftooles fower low joyned cuffhen ftooles two chayers one court
cubbard one joyned box one payer of Cobbiarns three window
curtaynes and one window cufhen . . . .xij1'
Item in the midell Chamber one ftandinge beadfteadell one feather-
bead one boulfter one payer of Blanketts one coverlyd one
truckellbead one Chift one flocke bead * a blankett a coverlyd
& boulfter & a prefs . . . . . . vj1' xiijs
Item in the Chamber over the littell Hall one ftandinge beadfteadell
one feather bead one payer of blanketts one coverlyd five cur
taynes of claoth one truckell bead one fypersf Chift one box *
cartayne hanginges about the chamber . . . v1' xiijs
Item in the Maydes chamber two borded beadfteadells one old feather-
bead one boulfter one blankett two Chiftes & one cradell . liijs iiijd
Item in the buckeinge chamber one playne beadfteadle * a featherbead
and one boulfter one payer of blanketts one coverlyd * curtaynes
* What is this word " millan ?" does it mean Milan ?
¦f- " Sypers " = " cypres," ante, for cyprefs.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 229
to the bead two Chiftes and one Courte Cubbard . . iiij1' xiijs
Item in the Chamber wheare Mr. Buttlers lyeth one ftandinge bead-
fteadle % a feather bead one boulfter one pillow one payer of
blanketts one Coverlyd * curtaynes & roods to the bead be-
longeinge one Courte Cubbard two Chiftes '£ certayne furniture
for the warrs . . . . . xu
Item in the lower Chamber one ftandinge beadfteadle % a flock bead
one boulfter a payer blanketts and one truckell bead . . xxvjs viijd
Item in the greate Chamber xxi payer of Sheets fyx payer of pil-
lowbes fyx cubbard claothes one large fheete to cover the bead
xij table claothes, table napkins xij dozen viij towells . . xx1'
Item in the fame greate Chamber one duble falte of fylver to fylver
bowles one dozen of fylver fpoones .... ix1' xs
Item in the buckinge chamber five payer of fheetes one payer cover
lyd two pillowes xvj payer of fheets ordinaryly goeinge about
the Houfs feaven table claothes one dozen of Napkins x towells
and fyx pillow coots . . . . . . xj1' vs
Item in the Servants Chamber fower borded beadfteadles % fower
flocke beads fower boulfters fower coverlyds and fower
blanketts ....... iiij"
Item in the Chamber behinde the Chymney two beadfteadles '" two
flocke beads to boulfters to coverlyds to blanketts one old cub
bard and an old paynted claoth . . . - Iiij s
Item in the Chamber over the great Hall one payer of Stowcards one
payer of wollen cards two wollen whiles two linen whiles one
oaft cloath * other lumber ..... xxiijs
Item in the littell clofett two payer of fcales * the wayghts belonginge
to them an old payer of tables tenn cufhens '" other lumber . xls
Item in the fyller five hodgfheads fower barrells to put beire in and one
virkin . . . . . . . xxs
Item in the Studdye divers bookes . . . . xls
Item in the Kytchen loft one fery one bufhell one mould to make can-
dell mould one bridell a fadell a pillan & pillian claoth * all
other fluff & lumber before gotten by the prizers . . xls
The mark of Thomas Whyttfield.
Thomas Hugbone.
Alexander Mockett. Sm Cxlix" xiiijs ixd

230 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
It may be interesting to compare the following inventory of the effects
of a poor widow, in the neighbouring town of Sandwich, taken only
three years before the firft of the foregoing, with thofe of the gentry of
our parifh, given above. I am indebted to the kindnefs of the Rev. H.
M. Maugham, late curate in charge of S. Peter's, for permiffion to make
this extract from the veftry books of that parifh : —
" The Goodes of fravnceis walker a wydow in the paryfhe of S'. Peters was
Prayfeyd the xviijth daye of Julye A0, dom 1597 by Chryftoffer Clarke myghell
Allyxander Samwell hooke and Thomas Godffrye.
ffirfte one littyll olde table of ij bordes . . . . iiijd
one olde littill fforme ...... viijd
one bafket beade [bed] ...... xxd
one olde Coverlet — xxd the childe had it to wrape it in.
one lyttyll olde Defke ...... iiijd
vj ftone potes and crockes . . . . . . vjd
ij woodden Dyfheis iij wodden platters iiij olde Trenchers . . iiijd
one Olde Hamper . . . . . . . ij
one olde wyckear chere — ijd the chylde had yt.
Twoo lyttyll old Tobes j olde peale j peare of olde bellos . . iijd

;d »

Su . . iiijs — j
The fummation 4s. id. probably reprefents the money value of the
goods adtually fold, the others being given to "the child " here men
tioned.

Extracts from Wills

Proved in the Confiftory Court of Canterbury (taken from the Boteler
MSS., vol. A.) :—
1 45 1 . In the firft volume of Wills regiftered in the Archbifbop's Court
at Canterbury (folio 52), is recorded the will of Wm. Bryan, of

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 231
Canterbury, in which he directs his Feoffees to fell his Tenement
in Eaftry with its appurtenances, formerly belonging to Adam
Carpenter, immediately after his Death, and with the money
arifing therefrom to provide a Chaplain to fay maffes in Eaftry Church
for the Space of one year for the health of his foul, &c, &c. The
Priefts to have ten marks (= iy. \d. x 10 = £6 ios. \d. which
X 12, on account of the difference in value of money, would
bring it to ^"78 of our prefent money) for his flipend. The refidue
of the money arifing from the fale he directs to be applied to the
reparation of Eaftry Church. He gives to Margaret, his wife, his
tenement in Eaftry called Stapinbreghe, with all the lands and '
appurtenances for the term of 5 years, and after the expiration of
the fame directs his Feoffees to fell the eftate, and with the money
arifing from the fame to provide a Prieft to celebrate in Eaftry
Church religious rites for his foul, the fouls of his anceftors, and
all the faithful deceafed for the fpace of two years, for which he is
to receive xx marks. From the money likewife arifing from the
fale he bequeaths to the repairs of Eaftry Church 405. (this would
be equivalent in value to about ^24 of our money). Alfo that a
Prieft fhall be provided to celebrate in S. Andrew's Church, Can
terbury, for the fpace of three years, to have ten marks each year
for his flipend, but not to be allowed to celebrate anywhere elfe
during that term ; gives alfo to his wife Margaret ^20 from the
fame money. Gives alfo from the fame to the Church of Faver-
fham, 1 3^. 4^. — to the Church of Worth, 1 3^-. \d. — to the Church
of Chiflet, 135-. 4A. — to the Church of Woodnefborough, ly. ^d.
— to the reparation of the road leading from Eaftry to Sandwich
x marks. The refidue of the money he gives to his wife Mar-

232 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
garet, to whom likewife he bequeaths all his Lands and Tenements
in the Parifh of Chiflet to her and her heirs for ever.
Dated at Canterbury, 6 Oct., 1451.
1464. William Sutton to be buried in Eaftry Church.
Will proved, 1 2 Sep., 1 464.
1484. Richard Atchurch, of Eaftry — wife Agnes — fons Thomas and
John — daughter Alice. To his fon John his tenement fometyme
called Brooke Place wth one acre of land at Wendefton [Venfon]
called Brookeaker in the faid Parifh. Wendefton in ye Lordfhip
of Mafter Langeleygh. Dated 4 Sep. 1484.
1487 Extract from the will of Johannes Broker de Eaftry, given in
Arch. Cant. vol. vi., p. 289: "Corpus meum fepeliend' in
cimiterio beati Marie de Eaftrie. Lego Alicie uxori mee. Joh'i
Broker filio meo. Alicie uxori mee et Thome at Welle quos
facio executores etc."
1487. Dns* Wm. Craller "pencionarius Ecclie poch deEftrie" dire&sto
be buried in ye Chancel of E. Church — Thos. Afhow ppetual
Vicar of ye faid Church.
Will dated 14 March, 1487. Proved 9 June, 1488.
1489. Thos. Frynne of Walton in Eaftry to be buried in Eaftry Church.
Will proved 27 Oct., 1489.
1492. Thomas Oore of Eaftry directs his body to be buried in Eaftry
Church near his father.
Will dated 31 Jany., 1491. Proved 21 May, 1492.
1497. Peter Darby of Eaftry — to be buried in the body of Eaftry Church
" before ye Autar of St. John the Baptift" — to wife Julian his place
* Dns. = Dominus, i.e., " Sir," the usual title of parifh priefts in thofe days.

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 233
called Godderds in Parifh of Eaftry — his place in Eaftry towards
the Butts call'd the nether place wth all lands belonging— Place
called Woohope at Heronden— all thefe to her for life— remainder
of all the aforefaid Premes to fon Thos. and his heirs for ever.
Dated 16 Octob. 1496. Proved 26 May, 1497.
1497. J0*111 Frynne fenr. of Walton— to be buried in Body of Eaftry
Church.
1499. Thos. Elware of Eaftry— to Roger Frynne his executor his Tene
ment at Selvefton [Selfon] wth all the lands belonging which he
late bought of Harry Baxe fenr. to faid Roger his Heirs and
affigns for ever on condition he pays yearly to Churchwardens of
Eaftry y. \d. towards the repairs of ye faid Church.
Dated 5th Aug. 1499. Proved 2nd Decr. following.
1 504. Julian Rogers of Eaftry — to be buried in the faid Church near her
late Hufband Peter Darby.
1507. Will. Andrew of Eaftry— mentions our Lady's Chapel in Eaftry
Churchyard. Dated 25 Nov. 1507.
Mem. In another will, of prior date, mention is made of our Lady's
Chapel in Eaftry Church.
1 507. John Whitefelde of Eaftry — to be buried in the Church — men
tions Mafter Thos. Afhe Vicar of Eaftry. Dated 21 Jany., 1507.
1524. Jane Afchowe of St. Bartholomew's near Sandwich — to be buried
in the Chancel of Eaftry Church near her deceafed uncle Sr.
Thos. Afchowe — wills a ftone to be laid upon her faid uncle.
1529. Wm. Paramour of Eaftry — to be buried in the Churchyard there
—wife Catherine daur. Conftance — fons Saffery [Sapphire], Robert,
Henry, and Thomas — Witnefs M. Robert Cooper Doctor of
Mufick. Will dated Octr. 24, 1529.
1 1

234 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
1532. John Owre of Eaftry — to be buried in Eaftree Church.
1 540. Willm. Benger of Herenden in Eaftry — wife Joan — Sons Wm.
and Oliver.
1 541. Willm. Owre of Eaftry wills, &c, to be buried in the Aisle of
Eaftry Church where his father and mother John and Eliz. lie —
wife Joan— fons Richard, William, John, Thos., Alexandr. and
Stephen — Brother Thos. Hamond of Nonnington — devifes Lands
in Eaftry Woodh. Word Sholden and Deale — to fon Richard prin
cipal Meffuage in which he dwelt wth the lands, &c, in Eaftry
and Woodnefbro' called Gore, and alfo his Lands called Statten-
borough in Worde and other Lands in thofe Parifhes and in Shol
den and Deale. — Gives his Meffuage called Siflifton [Selvefton or
Selfon] wth all its Lands & Appurts. in Eaftry to fon Willm. &
his Heirs for ever. — Wills his Meff: or Place called Syllefton
wth its Lands and Apps. in Eaftry and Woodnefbro'- to Son John
(wch he lately purchafed of Thos. Mayhewe of Lincolnfhire Efqre.)
Proved 15 Dec. 1541.
1543. Richd. Champyon Prieft and Prebendary of Canty, (of Chr.
Ch.) Wills, &c, inter alia — to Niece Margery Champion his
Stuff at Eaftry —fpeaks of his Parifh of Eaftry.
Proved 20 June, 1543.
1 55 1. Christopher Nevynfon of Adefham Dr. of Civil Law — born at
Wederell in Cumberland — wife Ann — Son Thos. — Daur. Jane —
Uncle Richard — Cozens Alexr. and John (Brothers) — cozn. Ste
phen of Cambridge A.M. — Brothers Rogers, John and Richard
— Cozns. James & Thomas — To Servt. Robt. Stamp Leafe of
Henford after his mother Monings death; to Son Thos. his leafe of
Hedcorn Parfonage, Leafes of ye Parfonage of Adefham and
Chapel of Staple, his Leafe of Keyt Marfh parcel of the Manor

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 235
of Wingham Barton, his Leafe of Parfonage of Goldftanton, his
Leafe of Bonington, his Leafe of Parfonage of Goodneflone,
his Leafe of Parfonage of Nonington & his Leafe of the
Portion of Well in yc Parifh of Adefham his Leafe of
the Manor Place at Wingham & of the Lands belonging to it —
and of the Scite of the Manor of Eaftry wth the Lands belonging
to it — his Leafe of the Manor of Ratlynge — the Marfh in Wing
ham Valley — his Leafe of the Lands belonging to St. Stephens
Chapel in New Romney in Romney Marfh belonging to Magd :
College in Oxford — his Leafe of the Scite of the Manor of
Tenham & of the Lands belonging — Wills to Brother John
Nevyfon his Leafe of Tyknes [Tickenfhurft] in Northbourn — to
his brother Richd. his Leafe of Mayo in Heron & to his Brother
Roger & to Umphrey & Roland his Sons his Leafe of Maifon
Dieu Broke in Romney Marfh in Parifh of Rokinge.. — Alfo to fon
Thos. garden at Sandwich, 2 acres of Land at Stelling & all the
Tythes of Nonington & the late Chapel Wemingfwold and the
Parifh of Goodneflone near Wingham.
Pr. 12 Sep. 1 55 1. Jno. Orgraver a witnefs.
1553. Willm. Wollet of Eftrye — wife Alice — to his son Robt. all his
Lands in Romney Marfh, &c. &c. Pro : 9 June — 5th Edw. VI.
1566. John Paramour of Eaftry — his wife — fon John, Drs. Willmill &
Martha. Pr. Mar. 1566.
1568. Thos. Whitfield the Elder of Eftry— Dr. Elizabeth wife of Henry
Pyfinge — Dr. Phillippa — Dr. Barborough — Son Wm. — wife Alys
— to Son John his Meff: at Selfton wherein he then dwelt with
the lands in fee of Adefham, Lands in Streetinge, &c. — to fon
Marke his Tenement called Nether Knowle in Eaftry Street and
other lands. Pr. 22 Nov., 1568.

236 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
1574. Chriftian Goddard of Eaftry, widow of Oliver Goddard wills,
&c. to her Cozen Jno. Fynche of Feverfham and Elizth. his
wife all her Lands in the Town and Port of Sandwich and her Marfh
Land in Romney and Walland Marfhes for Life, Remainder to
their 3 daurs. Mary, Frances and Martha all in Tail general re
mainder to Anthy. and William Sons of faid John and Elizth.
and their Heirs for ever. She wills to the Churchwardens of
Eaftry and their fucceffors one Tenement wth a Garden and appur
tenances in Eaftry aforefaid over againft the vicarage to the ufe of
the Poor people there for ever. To the faid Churchwardens like-
wife one other Tenement and a Garden in Eaftry Street to hold
to the ufe of the Clark of Eaftry for ever fo that the fame Clark
for the time being do teach and instruct in' Learning one of the
poorest Mens children of the Parifh being a Man child from time
to time for ever. She wills to Anne Fynche widow the late wife
of Thos. Manwood of Sandwch. deceafed all her Lands and
Tenements unbequeathed in Eaftry, Ham, and Worth, and her
heirs for ever, dying without Iffue remainder to Anthy. and
Wm. Fynche aforefaid for ever. Pr. 11 March, 1574.
1580. Peter Lenniter Vicar of Eaftry wills to be buried in Chancel of
fd. Church. Pr. nth Feb., 1580.
1580. Henry Boteler, of Hardenden, Gent. Wills his Body to be buried
in Eaftry Church— to repair of the Church ios. — to the Poor of
Eaftry 20^. many other Legacies &c. — Wife Elizth. — Son Richd.
— Urfula Green his Sifter's Daughter -Sibell Symes and Dorothy
Web his Wife's Sifters — Sifter Elizth. Lee wife of Jno. Lee jurat
of Sandw.— Sifter Margt. Salftanftol Wife of Jno. Said.— Sarah
their Dr. and Elizth. Green another Dr. — Directs his Perfonals to

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 237
be inventoried by Mr. Thos. Boys Mr. Vincent Boys & Mr. Thos.
Nevynfon — His new built Houfe at Harnden — To Son Richd. all
the Lands &c. which he had by his ift wife mother of fd. Richd.
in St. Clements Sandwh. and in Eaftry* and other eftates in
Sandwh. — to him likewife in Tail male the Manfion Houfe at
Hardenden and Lands belonging in Eaftry and Northbn. — Re
mainder to fon Wm. remainder to fon John — to faid Richd. Barn,
Dovehoufe, Lands, &c. in Word wth like remainders — to Son Wm'
and Male iffue Houfe & Manor of Poulton in Woodnefbro' alfo his
new Houfe in St. Marys Sandwh., alfo 14 a in Woodh. on north
fide of the caufey [caufeway]. To Son John and male iffue
Houfe, &c, and Lands at Hacklinge in Word : alfo feveral Houfes
in Sandh. particularly principal meffuage in Strand Street : alfo 9
a of Land on Sth. fide the caufey Woodh. — to fon Willm. a Houfe
at Sandh. occupied by his Brother Jno. Saltanftole — to fon Richd.
two fmall pieces of P allure on Sth. fide the caufey. Pr. 4 Aug., 1580.
1585. Richd. Auften of Eaftry Yeoman wills to be bur. in Eaftry Church
Dr. Mary — Dr. Margt. wife of Jno. Dod — Dr. Elizth. married —
fon John — wife Alice — his Houfe at Harnden — Jno. Hilde of Den
C — to fon Vincent (his Exor.) his Tents, and Lands in Quyledge
of Harnden in fee of Adifham — fon Jno. — to fon Richard his Lands
at Tykenhurft in Northbourne but wth this condition that they
fhall be Vincent's provided he pays Richd. ^"ioo for them.
Pr. 17 July, 1585.
1 59 1. Saphire Paramour of Stattenborow, Yeoman, to be buried in y6
Ch. Yard — to the Poor of Eaftry 40^. — to the Churchwardens
* This refers to the farm at the corner of the Mill Lane.

238 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
Poors Fund 40s. — Son in law Walter Nower — wife Jone Exr. —
witneffes Saml. Nichols Vicar, Wm. Paramr. Pr. 1 5 9 1 .
1593. Thomas Appleton of Eaftry yeoman — gives £$ for the perpetual
benefit of the Poor of Eaftry to be either laid out in Lands or the
Intereft in Cloaths &c. to be bellowed at the difcretion of 6 of
the principal Inhabitants, the Profits to be received yearly by the
Church Wardens — bequeaths in the fame manner £5 to Wood
nefbro' — ^5 to Goodneflone and £5 to Mynfter. He wills to
Thos. eldeft fon of his brother John, for 10 years, his Poffeffion
for divers Years to come in certain Lands call'd Hardiles in Parifh
Woodnefboro', he paying to the Queen 3^. \d. annually and the
fd. yearly fums of £$ at the terms Hated in his will. Mentions
his two Daurs. — Whereas he was indebted to Danl. Wollet
Gent. ^"430 for a Purchafe, wills that faid Thos. and John
Appleton fhall fatisfy him for it by fufficient fecurities fo as to
procure his full releafe, in confideration, of which he gives to faid
Thos. and his Heirs for ever his Leafe of Manor and Parfonage
of Woodnefbo' and all his goods and furniture in faid Manor and
Parfonage Houfe, all Corn, &c, in the Barnes Granarys, &c, &c.
Pr. 13 Nov., 1593.
1 60 1 . Richd. Boteler of Eaftry Gent, to be buried in Eaftry Church —
Daurs. Elizth. and Katharine — 2nd fon Henry — Matthew 3rd
Son — Thos. 4th fon — Richard youngeft fon — to poor of Eaftry
40.?. — wife Catharine Exr. — To eldeft fon Jonathan all the lands
he purchafed of Vincent Auften in Eaftry or elfewhere — alfo 9
acres of Marfh Land in Woodnefborough that came to him by
the death of Brother Jno. — alfo his houfe at Chilham — alfo cer
tain Houfes in Sandwich that came to him by his Brother John's
death — alfo his now Dwelling Houfe Lands &c. in Eaftry [He-

MEMORIALS OF EASTRY. 239
ronden] and Northbourn in fee, alfo Houfe Lands Barn and Stables
in Eaftry Street [ye corner farm in ye Street, now in the occupa
tion of Mr. W. Pittock] — To fon Henry 12 acres of Garden Land
in St. Clements, Sandwich — to his fons Mathw. Thos. and Richd.
Houfes in Sandwich and Lands near them. Pr. 27 Ap. 1601.
1 607. John Whitfeild of Eaftry yeoman — Daughter Elizth. wife of John
Mantill — Sons Richd. Michael, John, Andrew — Daurs. Margt.
Alice, Kath., Dorothy, Fortune and Elizabeth — wife Amy — Son
Thos. Exor — to fon Andrew a tenement in Eaftry Street — to
fon Michl. 2 a nearly of Brook Land at Hacklinge and the Old
Orchard of \ an acre lying at Eaftry at Selftone againft the Street
gate of his (the" Testators) Dwelling Houfe — to Son Thos. his
dwelling Houfe or Mancyon at Selfton wth the Lands &c. unbe-
queathed in Eaftry in the fee of Adifham, and all lands in Street-
ing and Woodh. and 14 acres of Marfh Land in Word call'd
Butler's Marfhe — wife to have her living and dwelling in the
Parlor at the South Hedd of the Houfe and chamber over the
fame wth fundry allowances, &c. Pr. 1607.
1607. Chriftopher Fynche of Faverfham (inter alia) wills to fon Thos.
his tenement or Meff. called Copers wth its Lands and Appurte
nances in Eaftry — to his 3 fons Thos. Richd. and Mark one
Tenemt. or Meff: Barnes Buildings and Apps. and 42 a in Eaftry
and Ham, and a Tenemt. or Parcel of Land in the Occ. of Sr.
Roger Nevinfon Knt. and another Tenemt. or Parcel of Land in
Eaftry for ever — his wife Margt. — his lands at a place in Eaftry
call'd Butts. 1607.
1 6 1 1 . Nicholas Squier of Eaftry Yeoman, to be bur. in Eaftry Church
— 4 Daurs. 2 Sons. Pr. 3 Feb., 161 1.
1 61 3. Jane Appleton of Eaftry Widow — Dr. Mary wife of Thos. Kingf-

240 MEMORIALS OF EASTRY.
ford— Dr. Bettris [Beatrice] wife of Nichs. Towne — fons John
and Thos. Hild— to fon John Hild her tent, and Lands in Eaftry
or Word near a place called Felderland, remainder to fon Wm.,
remainder to fon Thos. — wills her Tent, in Eaftry Street to Elizth.
Appleton her Daur. — her other lands in Eaftry. Pr. Odtr. 1 613.
1 6 1 6. Willm. Man of Canterbury Efqre. (inter alia) wills 1 9 a. in Eaftry
which he purchafed of Sr. Peter Manwood. Pr. 17 May, 1616.
161 7. Katherine Boteler of Eaftry widow wills &c. to be buried in
Eaftry Church near the grave of her deceafed Hufband Richd.
Boteler — youngeft fon Thos. — God-daughter Katherine Rigden
daur. of Richd. Rigden of Chilham and Elizth. his wife, daughter
to Teftatrix. God-daur. Katherine Whitfield one of the Daurs.
of Thos. Whitfield of Eaftry and Katherine his wife the daur.
likewife of the Teftx. —Brothers Henry and Peter Hawker— fifter
Mildred Steele widow — Jane Idley widow — to Ch. Wardens of
Eaftry 50^. to remain in a Stock for the ufe of the poor — to the
Poor of the faid Parifh 50^. likewife Eldeft fon Jonathan Exor.
Pr. 29 July 1 6 17.

241

Cijronofoifffarf Cafiie of ©bntte.

Murder of Ethelbert and Etheldred at Eaftry Court
Palace and Manor at Eaftry given to Chrift Church, Canterbury
Thomas a Becket concealed at Eaftry Court
A Survey of Lands in Eaftry Hundred made for repair of banks
Bounds of Parifh fought out, in confequence of difpute .
The Vicarage of Eaftry conftituted and endowed
Henry VI. granted a yearly Fair and weekly Market at Eaftry
Parifh Regifters firft ordered to be kept
The Eaftry Regifters were commenced .
Eaftry Regifters newly copied out by order of Convocation
Survey made of the Rectorial property by order of Parliament
The Veftry of S. Mary, Sandwich reafferted their right to Put
tockfdown. .....
The Roof of the Nave rebuilt, the "pitch" being lowered
Difpute between Mr. Creffener and the Parifhioners
Communion Plate given to the Church by Vicar Creffener
The foundations of the old Chapel of Shrinkling difcovered
The Vicarage rebuilt by Mr. Randolph .
The Chapelry of Worth feparated from Eaftry
The Parifh of Worth conftituted a Vicarage
The Roof of the Nave of the Church reftored
Buttfole pond cleared out after long drought

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Anselm, of Eaftry, p. 25.
Appleton's Charity, p. 192.
Assessment for repair of banks, p. 14 ; of Parifh to the poor, p. 38.
Aumbry ; or, Parfonage, pp. 48, 49, 52 ; in Church, p. 75.
Becket, Thomas a, pp. n, 12.
Bells, Church, pp. 145 — 151 ; School Bell, pp. 188, 189.
Bellringers, Rules of, pp. 151 — 157.
Boroughs, names of, in Eaftry, p. 37.
Boteler Charity, p. 192.
Bounds of Parifh, in 1356, pp. 28 — 33 ; walking of, pp. 35 — 37.
Brook Street, pp. 55, 56.
Bull Inn, the, pp. 44, 45, 51.
Buttsole, pp. 61, 241.
Cavern in Woodnefborough lane, p. 67.
Chantries, pp. 171, 172 ; names of Chaplains of, p. 173.
Chapels, of Worth, p. 33 ; of Shrinkling, p. 222 ; in Church, p. 172.
Charities, Parochial, pp. 190 — 204.
Christ Church, Canterbury, pp. 7, 8, 13, 16, 23, 25.
Church, defcription of, pp. 70 — 75 ; dimenfions of, p. 87; reftorations effected
in, pp. 204 — 2 1 1 .
Clerks, Parifh ; lift of, p. 175 ; houfe belonging to, p. 176.
Cross, the, pp. 45, 46 ; Farm, pp. 46, 68, 69.
Curates, pp. 172, 173.
Dispute between Rector of Eaftry and Vicar of S. Mary's Sandwich, pp. 15, 163.
Dominical Circle, pp. 75 — 77.
Doomsday Book, pp. 9, 10, 11.
Easter Sepulchre, p. 73.
Eastry, name, p. 1 ; extent of, p. 37 ; manor of, pp. 7, 16, 18, 37 ; Henry of,
PP- 12, 13, 25.

INDEX. 243
Eastry Court, pp. 4, 5, 6, 1 1, 52, 55.
Eastry House, pp. 44, 45.
Elware Charity, p. 190.
Ethelbert and Etheldred, murder of, pp. 5, 6.
Fair, pp. 19, 60 ; F. field, p. 60.
Fector's Charity, p. 194.
Felderland, p. 69.
Firbank, p. 56.
Five Bells Inn, p. 1, 60.
Font, pp. 71, 210.
Freind's bequeft, p. 193.
Free- warren, pp. 14, 18.
Gerard, Thomas, p. 15, 25.
Goddard's Charity, pp. 43, 44,48, 191.
Gore, pp. 66, 67.
Greville's Charity, pp. 195 — 203.
Ground plan of Church, reference to, pp. 88, 89.
Harnden or Heronden, pp. 63, 64, 65.
Harvey, Capt. John, account of, p. 65.
Hay, Great and Little, p. 59.
Hill's Charity, p. 194.
Inventories, of Church goods, p. 85, 86 ; private, pp. 224 — 230.
Laureston House, p. 42.
Lynch the, pp. 56, 57, 58.
Manor of Eaftry, pp. 7, 16, 18, 37 ; of ye Aumbry, pp. 49 — 51.
Market, weekly, granted, p. 19.
Medallion Frescoes, defcribed, pp. 77 — 85 ; finding of, p. 208.
Monumental infcriptions, in Church, pp. 90 — 116 ; in Churchyard, pp. 117 — 145.
Nunneries, the, p. 43.
Palm or yew tree, pp. 38, 116.
Parliamentary Survey of Rectory, pp. 23, 26.
Playing Close, pp. 43, 44, 51.
Population of Eaftry, pp. 11, 37, 38.
Quitrents, pp. 49— 5 1, 55.
Rectors, lift of, pp. 158 — 162.
Registers, pp. 179 — 186...

244 INDEX.
Remains, ancient, pp. 2, 3, 4.
Schools, pp. 186 — 190; School Bell, p. 189.
Selson, p. 66.
Sextons, lift of, p. 177.
Shrinkling or Shingleton, pp. 33, 61, 62,
Soil of Eaftry, p. 38.
Sondes, Sir George, pp. 25, 26.
Soutabank, p. 6 1 .
St. Ivo's Well, p. 2.
Statenborough, pp. 39, 40.
Stocks, the, p. 46.
Streets, names of, p. 42.
Terriers, pp. 2 1 2 — 2 1 7.
Theodore, Archbifhop, p. 27.
Tower, view from, p. 146.
Tythes, commutation of, p. 37.
Union workhoufe, pp. 67, 68.
Updown, p. 59.
Value of Manor, Rectory, and Vicarage, at different times, p. 25.
Vaults in Church, pp. 1 1 5, 1 16 ; in Churchyard, p. 117.
Vicars, lift of, pp. 159 ; longer notices of some, pp. 162— 171.
Visitation of Deanery of Sandwich in a.d. 151 2, pp. 19, 20, 21.
Vicarage houfe, pp. 46, 47, 48 ; endowment of, pp. 217 — 223.
Walton, Great, pp. 40, 41 ; Little, p. 41 ; Houfe, pp. 41, 42.
Wants, p. 2 1 1
Wells farm, p. 67.
Wenson, p. 61.
Wills, extracts from relating to Eaftry, pp. 230 — 240.
Windows, fubjects of, in Church, pp. 73, 75.
Witnesses, names of, to a deed in 1343, p. 14.
Word or Worth, pp. 33, 34. dTmis.

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